Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 311 Three Years to Become a God, Five Years to Become a God
After dinner, Azik returned to his room, ready to continue processing the accumulated reports.

It was Azik's idea to ask the guards to describe the surrounding scene and write a written report. Before, neither the guard captain nor the guards had the leisure to do so. But since they were going to practice grammar now, this was a good idea.

Just as Azik turned the page, he suddenly felt something and looked up at the ceiling.

Suddenly, dark red liquid oozed out from the wooden ceiling and dripped down the gap in the ceiling to Azik's feet. Strangely, it did not splash everywhere, but formed a puddle with slight ripples on the floor.

Then, a human figure formed by blood slowly stood up from the puddle, and the blurred facial features vaguely showed that it was Cecilia.

"It just so happens that after reading those official documents, I also want to talk to you."

Azik was not surprised by the arrival of this angel from the demonic path, and now was indeed a good opportunity to have a frank talk.

"Well, to make a long story short, my current abilities are very different from those in my heyday. Now I am taking advantage of the little girl's sleep to occupy her body and use her abilities."

Cecilia looked around warily, then sat down at Azik's table. The blood that made up her body, under the restraint of her extraordinary power, would not leave blood stains on the places it touched.

"Actually, how long we can chat depends largely on you."

Azik put the document in his hand aside, took off the black-framed glasses on his nose, and pressed them on the document.

"Tell me how you got here first. I also know a little about what happened in Backlund." Azik's eyes were sharp, and Cecilia felt a little guilty. "The role you played in this incident is related to whether we can continue the conversation."

Cecilia hesitated for a while, but still dejectedly repeated what she had said to Sophie. However, since she was reporting to the real angel after all, she deleted the lines that boasted about her own power in her original statement and kept a very humble attitude.

"In other words, although you did not stop Matafarri's ritual, you did not actually participate in it, causing casualties in Backlund?"

After listening to Cecilia's explanation, Azik pondered for a while and confirmed with Cecilia.

Although Azik's heart is very kind, he is a true angel after all. When he was the "Archon of Death", he sent a large number of creatures on earth to the underworld. Among the undead creatures he currently commands, at least half were killed by him personally.

Therefore, He did not blame Cecilia. Given Matafarri's character, if he knew that his plan could not be implemented, he would definitely make a big noise to attract the Mother Tree of Desire.

At that time, not only would the Mother Tree of Desire directly harvest two Sequence 2 Angels of the Demon Path, but after devouring Matafarli, it would also be possible for Her to influence the hidden hand left by Matafarli here and change Matafarli's descent into Her own.

——Even if the gods' blockade is tight, the Mother Tree of Desire can still release the polluted Matafari. Before this, there was already the example of Sua, and another one is completely feasible.

It is self-evident which one would cause greater damage: an angel who is slightly contaminated by the Outer Gods but still retains his sanity, or an angel who has completely become a favorite of the Outer Gods.

Hearing Azik's words, Cecilia breathed a sigh of relief and nodded desperately.

"In that case, we should be able to continue our discussion." Azik smiled gently, "This request will be effective while you remain in this world."

Cecilia nodded again to show that she had no objection.

Azik's meaning was very clear. As long as Cecilia stayed quiet during this period, didn't make trouble, and didn't create extraordinary disasters, he didn't mind turning a blind eye to Cecilia's existence, and might even provide some assistance.

"Tell me what you think about this matter first." Azik leaned back in his chair. "I fell into a deep sleep during the most critical period of time, so I don't know much about recent events."

When fighting with Matafarri, due to the unique fighting style of the Blood Duke, Cecilia devoured part of Matafarri's body and also obtained some information about the Northern Continent that Matafarri obtained through Smith. In terms of the level of information mastery, compared with Azik who could only rely on Klein's letters to understand the situation, they both have their own advantages.

"Let me make it clear first, the level of detail I know is just that." Cecilia evaded the question subconsciously for a moment, then began to analyze: "According to the information I have, Matafari has at least two partners outside. One is the 'Mercury Snake' of the Destiny Path, and the other is the angel Hermes of the Audience Path."

"However, the ones who showed up now are the Church of Knowledge and the Iron Cross. There must be some bond or opportunity that brought these people and these forces together."

"To put it simply, these people must have a common goal, and it is necessary to clarify this first."

Cecilia hesitated for a moment. "Matafarli's subordinates are neither high nor low, and we don't know much about them, so this is just my guess: Is a new Old Day about to be born?"

"what?"

Azik was a little surprised. He didn't expect the angel to suddenly bring up the old days.

"Look, a matter involving more than four angels and the true God must be significant enough. They can't be out here for team building, right?"

Cecilia said as a matter of course, "Is it that the Omniscient and Omnipotent One has awakened? ... No, then there would be no True Gods of the Five Families. But from the state of the Mother Tree, it doesn't look like it has already controlled most of the Essence."

"Considering the recent overall contraction of the Church of the God of War, and the results of the war between Loen, Feysac Intis and other countries... Is the Goddess of Night going to become 'Eternal Darkness'? But this will not harm the Church of Knowledge, and there is no need to rob the anchors of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom on a large scale. If anyone is short of an anchor, they can just find one from Feysac, right?"

“I might know something about this.”

Seeing Cecilia was lost in speculation, Azik touched his nose and smiled sheepishly, "It's the Fool... No, one of my students."

"Your...student?" Cecilia subconsciously repeated the other party's words. She felt that although she understood the meaning of every word in the other party's words, she couldn't accept it when they were put together.

"Yes, when I was a teacher in the history department of Khoyi University, He... No, he was just an ordinary person and my student at that time."

Azik's words were full of pride. "Although my strength had not fully recovered at that time and I could not help him much, he still relied on his own strength to become half of the Old One, and he is facing the most difficult challenge to maintain his humanity."

"How long have you been a 'history faculty member'? Hundreds of years?"

When Cecilia asked this question, she felt that she had asked a stupid question, but she didn't dare to believe it from the bottom of her heart until she heard the answer from Azik himself.

"It took him less than four years to go from an ordinary person to a half-'secret'."

As if he could see what Cecilia was concerned about, Azik answered directly, "To be honest, after I woke up from my deep sleep and saw the letter he sent me via the messenger, it took me a long time to calm down."

The bloody puppet controlled by Cecilia was silent for a long time, and Azik heard the sound of a teacup being broken from upstairs.

After a long while, she finally said, "Besides these, I only have one piece of information."

Hearing Cecilia's words, Azik perked up and asked more quickly, "Oh, what is that?"

"Think about it carefully. He was unable to escape from the desperate situation, so it obviously couldn't be a physical object. And there was no need to sacrifice so many lives for an angelic attribute. So the thing He gave away could only be knowledge."

The blood clots that served as Cecilia's facial features twisted slightly, as if trying to express helplessness. However, since she was currently only at the level of Sequence 5, and had retained some blood magic abilities with her own knowledge and a drop of blood, it was obviously impossible for the blood clone she created to perform such delicate operations. After trying several times, she had to give up.

At first, Cecilia didn't tell anyone because she only had contact with Adele and others. Even if she tried to tell her the news, she wouldn't get any benefits that she would care about. Moreover, this knowledge involved the origin of the Blood Duke's ability. If the news thrown by Azik hadn't shocked Cecilia so much, she wouldn't have told it so easily.

——As the child of the demon lord Fabuti, although Cecilia has lost most of her power, she still retains a lot of self-esteem. If you want her to show you her unique skills, you must at least be higher in sequence or status than her.

Azik's original identity was the child of the god of death, which was similar to Cecilia's. Although he has retained most of his power and is stronger than Cecilia, Cecilia is still more or less dissatisfied.

But now add a “Fool” teacher to the mix… Sorry, I spoke a little loudly just now.

Cecilia put these messy thoughts behind her and said to Azik: "One of the abilities of the Blood Duke is the mutual transformation between body and soul. We can make any part of ourselves have all the functions of a complete individual, whether it is soul memory or flesh and blood body, and regardless of the degree of integrity retained or the number of extraordinary characteristics contained."

“That is to say, even if the spirit is severely injured, the body is completely destroyed, and the Beyonder characteristics are extracted and taken away, the Blood Duke can still allow himself to survive in the form of a drop of blood or a fragment of the soul. He can find a new host or absorb the fragments of the original body.”

"However, I think neither Hermes, the Mercury Serpent, nor the God of Knowledge and Wisdom need this method of reshaping their bodies, so they must have other uses for this knowledge."

Cecilia said reluctantly. Obviously, she felt uncomfortable exposing her ability because it was her only way to escape when Azik was about to attack her. After telling Azik, it meant that she would no longer have any secrets in front of Azik.

"Well... this point still needs to be studied."

Azik pondered for a while and nodded. "Then, can you tell me the detailed principle of this ability? Since Matafarli can package this knowledge and send it to Hermes, then you..."

Before Azik could finish, Cecilia, who was made of blood, waved her hands and said, "Just because He can do it doesn't mean I can do it, at least I can't do it now."

Seeing Azik's somewhat dissatisfied expression, Cecilia quickly explained: "This method is to record all the information of the original individual on a part of the original individual, which can be the soul or the body. However, even according to my previous experience, if I want to achieve this separation method, I must at least wait until the saint level to perform a single peeling without damaging my existence."

"At least, the remaining demonic extraordinary characteristics of Matafari's men in this little girl's body are definitely not enough for me to complete a separation."

Cecilia stared at Azik, the empty eye sockets made of coagulated blood looked a little creepy.

"...I understand. You can set the conditions."

Azik thought about it for a moment and said to Cecilia readily.

The initiative is now in His hands, and Cecilia can't cause any trouble.

"It's simple. Help me regain my strength. To do this, I need the extraordinary characteristics of a demigod-level demon."

Cecilia seemed to have been thinking about it for a long time, and blurted out without hesitation, "I don't know how long it will take to collect it myself with this body."

"Even I can't conjure up the demigod characteristics of the demonic path for you out of thin air."

Azik frowned, "You'd better have a definite goal."

"Of course." The corners of Cecia's blood puppet's mouth cracked exaggeratedly, revealing an excited smile, "The flagship of the 'Undying King' Agaritu, the 'Death Announcement', corresponds to the characteristics of the Devil Path Sequence 3 'Whisperer'."

"Oh?" Azik raised an eyebrow, "You have done a lot of research."

"Of course, that boat was the means of self-rescue I had tried before. Unfortunately, the restrictions of the Mother Tree of Desire were too great, so I was unable to leave on it. Instead, it was a lower-sequence ship that drifted here on its own and was occupied by that idiot Agaritu."

When this matter was mentioned, fire seemed to come out of the empty eye sockets of Cecilia's blood puppet, but she did not dare to lose her temper in front of Azik.

"Okay then, but there are additional conditions. Once you become a demigod, you will leave this little girl's body and accept my surveillance."

Azik nodded slightly. "As for the matter of Agaritu, I will help you solve it if there is a chance. Before that, you must first swear to The Fool. You should be very clear about the meaning of His name now."

(End of this chapter)