"You can smell the Artificial Death God from here."
Standing by the shore and looking at the relatively calm sea in the distance, Xu Yue seemed to sniff the air.
Ahead lay the Sunia Sea, a region with comparatively gentler winds and waves, as well as the main location of the Rosted Islands.
However, the adjacent Violent Sea had an entirely different climate.
After seeing The Hidden Sage suddenly gain self-awareness, the Spirit Church had also begun considering granting vitality to the Death God's Uniqueness, allowing the Death God to revive in another sense.
The Artificial Death God plan was now the mainstream faction within the Spirit Church.
The Death God's Uniqueness lay in the Violent Sea, and the Artificial Death God plan had already shown preliminary results.
But in truth, although the Death God had left behind contingencies, his true means of resurrection was his child—Instructor Azik, the Death Arbiter.
Half of Azik's soul had been torn away by the Death God, who used a Sealed Artifact to replace that lost half. This was also why Azik kept losing his memories and restarting.
In the past, Azik had indeed lived up to the title Death Arbiter. He had likewise regarded mortals as ants and spent his years in the company of death.
Yet through his repeatedly restarted lives, he had instead accumulated a great deal of humanity. This was also one of the reasons Evernight could later so easily seize the Death God's Uniqueness.
The contingency left behind by the Death God had itself gone wrong.
By this point in time, Roy King, the teacher of Darkwill—the Apothecary who attended the Eye of Wisdom Beyonder gathering—and a council member of the School of Life's Fate Council, had already been imprisoned in the Governor-General's Mansion on the Rosted Islands.
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