After weighing the bird-shaped gold ornament in his hand, Klein quickly returned to reality, casually chose an open space, set up an altar, and held a sacrificial ceremony.
He had no intention of delving into the other secrets hidden in Calderon, the City of the Dead, or the " River of Eternal Darkness " and the blurry figures wandering within it, for the time being. He had more important things to do, and a crucial question he wanted to ask the " Evernight Goddess."
He quickly performed the ritual, combining the candlelight with Spirituality materials to form a " Door of Sacrifice and Bestowal."
Without hesitation, Klein released the bird-shaped gold ornament into the wind, letting it pass through the slowly opening mysterious door and disappear into the boundless darkness.
The next second, he keenly realized that he had been forcibly dragged into a dream.
At the center of the dream was a Gothic palace that seemed to blend into the surrounding darkness; it was exquisitely detailed, its colors muted, yet still magnificent.
Klein walked through clumps of night-blooming jasmine and deep-sleeping flowers and entered the palace.
In the deepest part of the hall, the " Evernight Goddess " sat on an old-fashioned high-backed chair, still wearing that layered but not complicated dark dress.
The shimmering lights on the long dress reflected the brilliance of the palace dome, walls, and columns, creating a tranquil and dreamlike Starry Sky.
The " Evernight Goddess," whose face seemed veiled by layers of thin gauze, slowly stood up, holding the bird-shaped gold ornament, and walked down the steps to stand before Klein.
His voice rose like a serenade:
"Is there anything you want to ask?"
Klein politely removed his top hat and bowed slightly, saying:
"I want to know if the grayish-white mist shrouding the ' River of Eternal Darkness ' is related to that ' Lord of Mysteries '."
That is, " Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings ".
Although the head of the " Evernight Goddess " was not clearly visible, Klein could intuitively feel that it seemed to be smiling:
"Yes, and it's not just the ' River of Eternal Darkness ' that's shrouded in gray mist; the city behind that door in Bansy Harbor and the entire Western Continent are also enveloped in gray mist."
Klein hesitated for a moment and said:
"Is this a kind of seal?"
The " Evernight Goddess " dream projection nodded and said:
"Yes, apart from the ' Sefirah Castle ' and the ' Chaos Sea,' all other Sefirah was sealed in the Western Continent by that ' Lord of Mysteries.'"
The " River of Eternal Darkness," the " Brood Hive," the " City of Calamity," the " Shadow World," the " Nation of Disorder," the " Wilderness of Knowledge," and the " Key of Light " were all sealed in the Western Continent by the " Celestial Worthy "? Isn't that going too far? What a grand gesture... No wonder the city behind that door in Bansy Harbor is like the former Demon City... Did the " City of Calamity " influence the real-world city, as well as Bansy, and then, to some extent, cause certain changes because of them? Klein was both enlightened and amazed.
When he saw the scene behind the door in Bansy, he suspected that it was related to the Western Continent. Based on the clue that Bansy was the location of the Medici Family, the " Red Angel," he suspected that the scene behind the door was a reflection of the Sefirah of the " City of Calamity."
After a moment of silence, Klein did not hide his feelings and sighed frankly:
"The power of that ' Lord of Mysteries ' is beyond my imagination..."
How could such a Pillar of the universe Great Old One fallen so silently?
The dream projection of the " Evernight Goddess " shook her head:
"It wasn't that there was no sound."
"Based on some current clues, it can be inferred that He perished along with that ' God Almighty ' from ancient times."
"The remains of that ' God Almighty ' formed the first ' Blasphemy Slate ' in the ' Chaos Sea,' and next to the slab lies the Uniqueness of the ' Marauder's ' path."
In other words, in the middle of the First Era, the " Lord of Mysteries " and that " God Almighty " engaged in an exceptionally fierce yet relatively quiet battle, ultimately both perishing? Could this explain why the Ancient The Sun God, upon emerging from the Chaos Sea," possessed or Grazing the Uniqueness " Marauder " pathway—a pathway torn from the " Lord of Mysteries " by the ancient " God Almighty "...? Klein, lost in thought, asked with slight doubt:
Why would they want to kill each other? They are both Pillar of society, and from completely different paths; there shouldn't be any conflict between them that cannot be resolved through a life-or-death struggle.
The dream projection of the " Evernight Goddess " spoke softly and soothingly:
"Aggregation is instinctive."
The higher the level, the stronger the instinct.
"The ' Lord of Mysteries ' and the ' God Almighty ' from ancient times have an uncontrollable tendency to reunite, becoming the embodiment of the entire universe—the instinct of the Original Creator."
The more powerful, the more insane? Beyond cunning, strength, terror, and Wisdom, does " Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings " have this other side? Klein pondered for a moment and said:
"Are the ' Lord of Mysteries ' and the ' God Almighty ' from ancient times essentially different facets of the Original Creator?"
The dream projection of the " Evernight Goddess " spoke in a Placate voice:
"Using different personalities of the same being as a metaphor might be more accurate."
"The Original Creator is the originator and the ender of the universe, the day and the Evernight, the Holy Light and the Abyss of Depravity, the embodiment of all contradictory concepts and symbols."
Therefore, He has an uncontrollable tendency to split, and once split, He will generate a strong tendency to reunite.
"In history older than the era in which we once lived, the slumbering the Original Creator had already naturally split into multiple personalities. These personalities were also in a slumbering state, but they began to indirectly influence the world by using the authority and Beyonder Characteristic they controlled, making many preparations for the true split after the Original Creator awoke."
"Among them, the most powerful and active are ' God Almighty ' and ' Lord of Mysteries,' the latter having another title in the Western Continent."
"In the early to middle period of the First Era, they must have acquired additional, multiple Sefirah through different means, which made their instinct to aggregate even stronger, to the point that they could not control themselves and took action against each other."
According to the research of the ' Ancient The Sun God,' the Pillar is the highest level at which one's own state can be stabilized. If the Great Old One exceeds this limit, even if it only contains an additional portion of other Sefirah, it will inevitably be controlled by the instinct of aggregation and will be irreversible.
"No one knows the specifics of that battle, not even the Seven Lights of the Spirit World. All we know is that after that, the two Pillar of the Great Old One completely disappeared, and the remaining Sefirah outside of the Chaos Sea and the Sefirah Castle was sealed by the power of the Sefirah Castle in the Western Continent, in the region once ruled by the Lord of Mysteries."
"This arrangement leads to a problem: before the ' Lord of Mysteries ' and ' God Almighty ' reappear and break the seal on the Western Continent, no Sequence 0 in this world can become Great Old One and fight against the Outer Deity."
"As the Apocalypse draw ever closer, this problem compels all true gods to cultivate a ' Lord of Mysteries ' or a ' God Almighty,' and there is a high probability that the previous ' Lord of Mysteries ' and ' God Almighty ' will awaken within them."
So... therefore, sealing the remaining Sefirah was intentionally done by the " Celestial Worthy " to prevent future Sequence 0 True Gods from deliberately avoiding their own paths and stifling the birth of a new " Lord of Mysteries "? And as long as a new " Lord of Mysteries " is born, there is a high probability that He will be resurrected and fully awakened... Isn't that too insidious and outrageous? To some extent, such an arrangement is not afraid of being known at all. The more beings who know, the more inclined they will be to support a " Lord of Mysteries " as soon as possible, lest they have no more years left to control their respective Sefirah and become the Great Old One... The more Klein thought about it, the more he felt that the " Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings " was extremely terrifying.
This made him sigh inwardly:
"As expected of Pillar of the Great Old One who could have brought the ' Deng Shen ' to this state..."
Klein then asked:
"Then why not support a ' Lord of Mysteries ' in the Fourth Age?"
He already knew the answer to this question, because as time went on, the will of " Celestial Worthy " and " God Almighty," as the different personalities of the Original Creator, was also constantly weakening. The closer to the Apocalypse, the weaker their respective wills became, and the more likely later beings were to resist and suppress them, so as not to lose themselves directly.
The fact that Adam waited until recently to be promoted to " Visionary " proves this point.
The dream projection of the " Evernight Goddess " carried a hint of a smile:
"At that time, neither Amon nor Bethel were willing; they both wanted to make all sorts of preparations and try again when the Apocalypse was near."
" Salinger intended to indirectly utilize the ' River of Eternal Darkness ' to merge the Uniqueness of the ' Red Priest ' and create a new path of the Great Old One. Then, He went mad, unable to control His desire for the convergence of the ' Twilight ' and 'Darkness' pathways."
" Death " was forced into a corner. On one hand, the Apocalypse was only a little over a thousand years away, and on the other hand, the " River of Eternal Darkness " was sealed by the Pillar " Celestial Worthy " and could not be controlled... It's too insidious and too much! Klein couldn't help but criticize " Celestial Worthy " in his mind again.
At this moment, the dream projection of the " Evernight Goddess " continued:
"As time goes by, the seal on the Western Continent is gradually weakening. Those Sefirah, either instinctively or consciously, use their Uniqueness and High-Sequence Beyonder Characteristic within their symbolic range to indirectly erode them and influence the outside world."
"The first to exude power was the ' River of Eternal Darkness,' which formed a tributary in the outside world through Gregrace in the Second Epoch. Later, in the Fourth Epoch, more Sefirah began to appear on the Northern Continent and the islands of the Five Seas."
"This is a crucial factor hidden behind many of the anomalies of the Quaternary Period."
The Fourth Epoch still exerts its influence indirectly through various Sefirah separated by seals... No wonder Adam said my understanding of the Fourth Epoch's history wasn't deep enough... So it seems that the reason Bansy Harbor retains Elf customs, besides being Elf settlement, has other factors... Klein for a few seconds, then smiled and said:
I think I understand.
"Is this why you've been helping me all this time?"