Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Backlund, North District, underground of Saint Samuel Church.

Leonard, who had just held a case discussion meeting with the Mandated Punisher, the Mechanical Heart, and members of MI9, returned to the office and sat down.

Although they didn't know why the airship troops of the Feysac Empire suddenly turned around, they were relieved. At least it meant that Backlund would not continue to be bombed, and the casualties and chaos would not continue to expand.

At this moment, the slightly old voice of Pales Zoroast echoed in his mind:

"They have found the exact location of Jacob's family treasure."

"Ah?" Leonard was stunned for a moment and couldn't react.

But he soon remembered that he had some interactions with Ash Black and Dwayne Dantes not long ago. It was at a dinner party hosted by a congressman. He and Mobet Zoroast attended the dinner party in order to seek promotion.

The goal of both parties is the same, which is to find and hunt the demigod who 'stole' the path.

Leonard was not familiar with either of them. Although he suspected that Dwayne Dantès was Klein Moretti, he had no evidence. On the other hand, Mobet Zoroaster obviously knew both of them and had a close relationship with them.

And in the end, that demigod was also successfully hunted by Ash Black.

I thought the matter was over, but the other party took the initiative to contact Mobet. The Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 4 could not be given to him, but the other party gave Mobet an information.

That was the hunted demigod, a descendant of Jacob’s family.

In the Fourth Age, there were five major angel families in the Tudor Dynasty, namely the Abraham, Amon, Antigonus, Tamara and Jacob families. The ancestor of the Jacob family was also an angel of the 'thief' path!
Before the Fifth Epoch, Amon, the Angel King, had only one Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic and uniqueness.

The other two Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics are in Pales Zoroast and the ancestor of the Jacob family.

But at the end of the Fourth Age, Amon started hunting these two angels. The ancestor of Jacob's family disappeared and was most likely hunted down by Amon. Pales was also severely injured and had to move around to avoid Amon's pursuit.

The destruction of their ancestors undoubtedly caused heavy damage to the two angel families, even worse than that of Abraham's family.

Although it is difficult for the Abraham family to produce mid- to high-sequence extraordinary people, at least they still have a complete inheritance.

But the Zoroaster family and the Jacob family have almost completely disappeared.

And from the memory of that demigod, we can learn that the other party is the last descendant of his branch of Jacob's family!
The reason why she came to Backlund was to find a treasure of the Jacob family.

That was a treasure left behind by an angel from Jacob’s family. If the other party could find that treasure, there would be hope of being promoted to Sequence 3 or even higher.

As for Pales Zoroast, if he could obtain the extraordinary characteristics of the treasure, he would also be able to recover some of his strength. Therefore, he was determined to obtain this treasure as well.

But the old man was obviously very cautious. He did not explore it himself, nor did he stop Leonard and Mobet from exploring it. Instead, he asked Leonard to sell the information to the Hermits of Destiny, and let the people of the Hermits of Destiny serve as cannon fodder to explore the treasure.

Leonard finally reacted, but he felt something was wrong. He frowned and asked:

"Why would they act so suddenly? Is this some kind of trap?"

Pales Zoroast chuckled:
"Although the location of the treasure is secret, if we rashly explore it, it will be easy for the official Beyonders to find out, and then we will lose both our money and our lives. And now, the war launched by Feysac has made the official Beyonders busy and they have no time to pay attention to them. This is undoubtedly a perfect opportunity. Of course, they will choose this time to explore the treasure."

"As for traps, how could a treasure left by a 'thief' angel be without traps? But have you forgotten that I am also an angel of the 'thief' path?"

Leonard heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the old man's explanation, and then asked awkwardly:
"That……"

Pales guessed what he wanted to say and sneered:

"Don't worry, in addition to the extraordinary characteristics, I also got you a sealed object."

"That's good."

Leonard breathed a sigh of relief, even though the Church of Evernight also had many sealed objects.

But those things cannot be used casually, and even if they are borrowed, there are strict time limits.

For Leonard, who is eager to improve his strength, it is crucial to have a '1' level seal of his own.

And this treasure is a great opportunity.

"You'd better get out of here."

The old voice of Pales Zoroast sounded again:
"The Church of Darkness will most likely send an angel to Backlund. It will take me some time to digest that Beyonder characteristic, so it may cause some commotion."

"it is good."

Leonard frowned, still feeling a little strange, but nodded in agreement. He stood up calmly, rubbed his forehead, left St. Samuel's Church, and returned to 7 Pinster Street.

As he passed the porch, he suddenly saw someone sitting on the sofa.

The man was wearing a classical black robe and a pointed hat. He rested his right foot on his left leg and was reading a newspaper leisurely.

As if he noticed Leonard coming in, the man raised his head, adjusted the monocle on his right eye, and smiled playfully.

Amon!

Amon the Blasphemer!
At this moment, Leonard's thoughts were almost completely frozen, his brain was blank, and only a few thoughts could move.

At this moment, Amon's lips moved and he uttered mutterings that were completely at the divine level.

In Leonard's mind, voices echoed one after another, as if coming from countless Amons:

"Surprise? Accident?"

"After realizing that I couldn't obtain Sefirah Castle in a short period of time, I shifted my focus to you."

"Oh, yes, Pales, I forgot to tell you that for a long time in the late Fourth Epoch, I was pretending to be the ancestor of the Jacob family. I secretly devoured Him a long time ago, and then watched His descendants panic and find a way to add a secret treasure to the place where Tudor became the 'Blood Emperor'..."

"I didn't deal with these guys because I had a hunch that this treasure would be very useful. I have an avatar that has been sleeping there for more than a thousand years, patiently waiting for someone to open the treasure..."

"In order to truly determine your whereabouts, I watched those guys destroy the traps and take away the items. I watched your clone steal the characteristics and seals from them. I watched Him swallow and digest them carefully. Now, my patience has finally paid off..." "Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you, don't you think all this is a coincidence?"

"coincide?"

A thought subconsciously popped up in Leonard's mind - '0-08'.

He said something was wrong because it was all such a coincidence!

The war just happened to break out, and the Destiny Hermits just happened to take this opportunity to explore the treasure, and they just happened to be discovered by Pales. Just then, an angel descended on Backlund, and Pales just happened to be worried about being discovered, so he asked him to go home first!

And most importantly, the occurrence of these things is quite reasonable - the outbreak of war has made it difficult for the official Beyonders to deal with everything, so the Destiny Hermits will explore the treasure. This development is almost a matter of course.

It was also because of the outbreak of war that the angels of the Church of Evernight descended, in order to prevent the angels of Feysac from taking desperate actions.

In other words, these coincidences are almost all inevitable, which is why it is difficult for people to notice the "coincidences"!
The wriggling pain in various parts of his body brought Leonard back to reality. His spirit was polluted by the divine whispers of Amon, and the tearing of his soul caused his body to undergo uncontrollable changes. His head began to expand and contract, and tufts of short black hair grew on his face. His ribs and waist were wriggling with bulges of flesh and blood, as if new limbs were about to form.

Just a few mumblings made Leonard almost lose control. He was in great pain and had no ability to resist at all.

This is the Son of the Creator, this is the King of Angels.

At the same time, changes occurred at 7 Pinster Street. Black stone pillars rose up one after another.
It supports a majestic and magnificent church.

Every pillar, every arch, and every dome of the church was inlaid with bones of different races. They were crowded together in a dense and chaotic manner, staring at Leonard, who seemed to be a tiny figure in the center of the hall, with their empty eyes, as if they were conducting a trial.

Amon stood in front of the cross hundreds of meters high in the depths of the church, smiling at Leonard who was bent over with a distorted expression, and said:
"Isn't this church of bones pretty good? I just stole it not long ago, and He doesn't need it now anyway. This way, if they want to find out that there is something wrong here, it will take at least 30 seconds for the gods to descend, which is enough."

He originally wanted to steal Sefirah Castle. After all, Sefirah Castle’s level was far above the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics and uniqueness.

But unfortunately, Amon knew very well that it was almost impossible to steal the Sefirah Castle from a Sequence 2 Miracle Master.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the extraordinary abilities of the angels of the 'thief' path are extremely strange, they can parasitize, split themselves, and steal fate. But for Amon, the angels of the 'fortune teller' path are one of his hated enemies.

It’s not because the angels of the ‘Fortune Teller’ path are so powerful, but because they are very good at running!

Their real bodies can hide in the historical gaps at any time, and can also move through a large number of historical gaps. As long as the history they know is hidden enough, even gods cannot do anything to them.

Even if they are pulled out from the cracks in history by chance, they still have one last trick -

suicide.

As long as they commit suicide, the extraordinary characteristics contained in their destroyed bodies can unknowingly enter the pores of history and combine with the projections of the "Spirit Worms" from the past, giving them substance, and then they can emerge from the mist of history and reconstruct their bodies in the real world and be resurrected.

This is what is called "resurrection from the dead", a miracle that is essentially a deep utilization of past power.

But just like the resurrection of the Black Emperor, this kind of "resurrection from the dead" cannot be stopped even by the gods.

In other words, even if Amon managed to force Klein into a desperate situation, the other party could just commit suicide and run away.

Even if Amon really stole Sefirah Castle from Klein, he would not be able to move in. After all, Sefirah Castle had been contaminated by fire, and if he dared to go in, he would only be burned to ashes.

So Amon decisively gave up the Sefirah Castle and turned his attention to the last Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic.

Only by obtaining the last Beyonder characteristic of Sequence 1 and becoming a True God of Sequence 0, would he be qualified to seize the ownership of Sefirah Castle!

For this reason, Amon made a decisive choice. He had no intention of doing anything to Klein from the beginning to the end. He just used a clone to delay time with the other party.

During this period, His true body had quietly sneaked into Backlund, looking for Pales Zoroast!
And just as he thought, Pales knew nothing about this, and he even naively thought that he could take this opportunity to restore his strength.
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"Eh."

Klein sighed softly and silently prayed for his poet classmate in his heart. Since Amon was not with him, he must have gone to find Pales.

In this case, the poet, as Pales's parasite, must be in a very dangerous situation.

After so much time has passed, Amon might have succeeded.

The only thing Klein could do was to pass the message to Ember through Sefirah Castle, hoping that Ember would be able to stop it in time.

Even if we can't stop it, it's good to be able to save Leonard.

As for himself——

Klein walked to Amon's side and stood at the edge of the deep ravine. He looked at the gray-white building below in silence.

Amon stood there motionless, smiling and asked:

"Before you turn me into a secret doll, can you let me say one last word?"

Klein said casually:

“You can speak freely.”

While Amon was stalling for time, Klein was certainly not idle either.

He had already controlled all of the opponent's spiritual threads, and the clone in front of him was already his quasi-secret puppet and posed no threat to him.

Amon's fingers moved slightly, as if he wanted to raise his hand to straighten his monocle. But his body had already become Klein's secret puppet, and he couldn't make any movements. He could only show a helpless expression and said:
“You have both Zaratul and Antigonus’ Beyonder characteristics. Your current situation is similar to mine, both of you are missing the last Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic. What if I tell you that this last Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic is in the God-Forsaken Land?”

Klein's expression remained unchanged as he stared at Amon calmly, with an expression that said, 'keep talking, I'm listening.'

"When you came to this world, Kotal obtained a curtain. That 'curtain' contained the last Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic of the 'Fool' pathway."

"Oh, by the way, Kotal is a dark wolf, the only dark wolf left in the world."

Amon raised the corner of his mouth slightly:

"After so much time, you have already grown into a Sequence 2 Angel. Do you think He has completed the ritual to be promoted to the 'Secret Servant'?"