Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 414 It’s all here
On the river, the war between the Silver Knights and the Army of the Dead continues.

The army of the dead has an absolute numerical advantage, but most of them are not even extraordinary people, and can hardly be used as cannon fodder.

In comparison, although the Silver Knights were not superior in numbers, even if they were all added together, they were less than one ten-thousandth of the army of the dead. But each Silver Knight had the strength equivalent to that of a demigod, and each of them had participated in the Dragon Hunting War and had at least a thousand years of rich combat experience!

This makes it as easy for the Silver Knight to fight against the army of the dead as cutting melons and vegetables.

Indeed, there are a large number of shadows left behind by the "undead" when they died in the army of the dead. For example, Azik Eggers alone contributed more than thirty "shadows", and each shadow has the strength of a demigod.

And all these 'shadows' left behind by the dead 'undead', add up to nearly 10,000 people, which is equal to the number of Silver Knights.

However, these "shadows" only have the strength of demigods, but do not have the self-awareness of their original bodies. They are just puppets controlled by the River of Everlasting Darkness. They can only use their extraordinary abilities mechanically and rigidly, and cannot cause effective damage to the Silver Knights. Their only role is to slow down the Silver Knights' pace of conquest.

But on the other hand, isn't this also the case that the River of Eternal Darkness is being held back by the Silver Knight?

Hundreds of millions of dead were forced to fight a bloody battle with less than 10,000 silver knights, and the "God of Death" Salinger was also restrained by Midir soaring in the sky. This "war" has fallen into a white-hot stage, and no one can withdraw in a short time.

In this process, a large number of dead were ruthlessly killed by the Silver Knights.

But at the same time, many silver knights were submerged by the surging waves, swept into the depths of the river and sank to the bottom of the river.

No one realized that anything was wrong, not even the River of Eternal Darkness.

After all, with the army of the dead clearly at a disadvantage, it wouldn't be excessive for him to personally take action to balance the situation, right?
No matter whether the River of Eternal Darkness felt it was excessive or not, Embers hidden among the Silver Knights, who had been swept to the bottom of the river, did not feel it was excessive.

On the contrary, he felt that the River of Everdarkness was very sensible.

He is really very sensible.

In fact, Ember's original purpose was very simple - to use the bird-shaped golden ornament given by Irina to hold a drop of water from the River of Everlasting Darkness.

For the Goddess of Night, who has already begun to accommodate the uniqueness of the 'God of Death' path and the 'God of War' path, it is a fantasy to directly accommodate the source material at this stage. So she does not ask for the entire River of Everlasting Darkness, but only needs a drop of water from the River of Everlasting Darkness.

Of course, just a drop of river water cannot allow her to contain the River of Eternal Darkness, but it can serve as a medium to prepare for containing the source material in advance.

In fact, what the Goddess of Night did was somewhat inappropriate.

Not the way, but the order.

Because for Sequence 0, if they want to contain the Essence and become the Old One, there are three ways:

The optimal order is to first become the sequence 0 of a path, then control and integrate the source material, and finally accommodate the other uniqueness.

Becoming a dual-path true god, controlling and fusing the source essence, and then accommodating the remaining uniqueness is an order that is neither good nor bad.

Waiting until the last step to fuse the source essence is the worst option.

And now the choice of the Goddess of Night is the third one, which is the worst way.

But if you really want to count, taking any of these three paths will make no difference to the Goddess of Night.

Because although these three routes are not wrong, they were figured out by the ancient sun god after all.Theoretically speaking, the idea put forward by the ancient sun god is also completely correct. The best sequence is to first become Sequence 0 and then integrate the source essence, and finally accommodate other uniquenesses. This can enhance self-awareness to the greatest extent, so that Better fight against the original will and increase the success rate of things.

But the problem is that this theory is based on the premise that there is no external interference!

For the native gods, this theory is completely correct, because they cannot change the awakening of the original will no matter what method they use, so the order of accommodation is crucial to them.

But the Night Goddess is not a local.

For Him who possesses the Primordial Fire, no matter which choice he makes, there is no essential difference, because he does not need to worry about being "possessed" by the Primordial Fire.

In this case, it is a better choice to accommodate the uniqueness of other paths first.

Because these uniqueness can be directly transformed into the strength of the Goddess of Night, and the process of accommodating it will be smoother than accommodating the source. And when the Goddess of Night fully masters the three paths of Night, God of Death, and God of War, the process of accommodating the source in the future will also be smoother.

Therefore, the Goddess of Night does not need the entire River of Eternal Darkness for the time being. She can come and get it in person in the future.

Now all she needs is a drop of river water.

However, this is just the wishful thinking of the Goddess of Night.

The Goddess of Night felt that she only needed one drop of water from the River of Everlasting Darkness, and the River of Everlasting Darkness thought the same.

So when Yu Jin reached the end of the stairs, the River of Everlasting Darkness took the initiative to roll up the waves to submerge him. It seemed like a warning and an attack, but in fact, wasn't it a kind of surrender? If Yu Jin's goal was just to get a drop of water from the River of Everlasting Darkness, he could have taken a drop of water from the "wave" at that time and left in style.

As for the 'God of Death' Salinger, as long as Yu Jin does not try to step into the River of Everlasting Darkness, his obstruction will be meaningless, because this 'God of Death' cannot escape from the River of Everlasting Darkness at all.

It's a pity that Ember's thoughts were more "pure" and more "greedy" than Everdark River had imagined.

Because in Yu Jin's opinion, it is not easy for him to travel so far, so why not just solve all the problems at once?

Anyway, we are all here, and it is not easy for everyone. It would be better for everyone if it ends sooner! - Don’t you agree, River of Eternal Darkness?

With this thought in mind, Yu Jin took the initiative to sink to the bottom of the river, entering the depths of the River of Everlasting Darkness, looking for the 'source' of this river.

Every river has a source, and the source substance is no exception.

For example, Sefirah Castle is like this. Above the gray fog where the Tarot Club convenes is just Sefirah Castle's own kingdom of God. The strange light gate above the gray and white clouds is the core and the real Sefirah Castle!
The same is true for the River of Eternal Darkness. The 'river' He shows is just His own Kingdom of God, and its core is hidden in the depths of the river.

Yu Jin risked his life to sink to the bottom of the river, with the purpose of swimming upstream and finding the 'source' of the river!
The River of Everlasting Darkness obviously did not expect Ember to be so crazy. Although his activation level was already very high, he still could not understand overly complicated things, such as the current situation -

For the living, no living person can enter the River of Eternal Darkness. This is the underlying rule of this world.

Once the dead get close to the River of Everlasting Darkness, they will automatically become its puppets. This is also the underlying rule of the world. So no matter how you calculate it, the River of Everlasting Darkness is actually invincible.

The living cannot enter, and the dead pose no threat.

He wins anyway.

There are exceptions to everything.

For example, other source substances are at the same level as the River of Eternal Darkness, which means that these source substances can resist this rule to a certain extent.

Therefore, if Klein or the true Creator were here, they could completely rely on the power of 'Source Castle' or 'Chaos Sea' to temporarily enter the River of Everlasting Darkness, and would not be turned into the dead wandering the riverside forever by the River of Everlasting Darkness.

Embers is also an exception.

He is the immortal, the living.

He too is an ember, the dead.

He is the first fire, the first life, the first death, and the end of immortality.

Most importantly, this is a power system that is completely different from this world.

This resulted in two consequences:

As a dead person, he can sneak into the River of Everdarkness without being discovered, because to the River of Everdarkness he is just one of the completely dead.

But as a deceased person who does not belong to this world, He will not be accepted by the River of Eternal Darkness, nor will He be controlled by the River of Eternal Darkness.

That's why he could continue to swim upstream in the river, looking for the 'source' of the river.

But the River of Eternal Darkness is ultimately a living source of energy, not a completely dead substance.

Therefore, He soon discovered that these silver knights who were swept to the bottom of the river were still "alive". Although they were struggling in pain at the bottom of the river, they were still alive and did not melt like ice like the other dead.

Among these silver knights who were swept to the bottom of the river, there was even an inconspicuous silver knight who was swimming upstream!

Although the River of Everlasting Darkness believed that these Silver Knights were just flying around like headless flies, the direction in which the Silver Knight was moving made the Activated Source feel uneasy, because that was where His "core" was!
Although he didn't think an ordinary Silver Knight could threaten him, he had to stop the other party from moving forward!
The illusory river water suddenly shook violently, causing ripples on the surface of the river, one wave after another, like a rushing river, ready to wash the Silver Knight at the bottom of the river to the end of the river.

But the Silver Knight remained unaffected, and slowly and steadily went upstream against the surging waves.

Until a huge shadow appeared in front of him.

It was a giant bird that was completely submerged in the 'River of Everlasting Darkness' and suspended in the water.

The body of this giant bird is covered with feathers woven with pale flames and mysterious patterns, but a lot of it has been melted away by the 'River of Everlasting Darkness', exposing part of its dark, rotten skin that is oozing with yellowish pus.

The eyes of the giant bird seem to be made of bronze, with layers of illusory doors hidden inside.

It was none other than Calderon's creator, the ancient god of death who opened up the underworld, and the ancestor of the phoenix, Gray Carrie!

A bronze light burst out from Graygari's eyes, instantly covering the Silver Knight who was determined to go against the flow, trying to drag him in.

Obviously, the River of Eternal Darkness will not allow anyone to continue approaching its core!

But just as the Silver Knight was about to disappear, a loud dragon roar resounded through the sky.

The giant dragon was hovering in the sky, but its huge body was already covered with wounds.

His wings are broken. Those wings that should have covered the sky and shocked people’s hearts are so broken that people even doubt whether He can continue to fly with these broken wings, and suspect that He will fall from the sky in the next moment because of the heavy weight.

His body was also broken, with dense scars making his skin look bumpy, without a single flat spot. Brown and gold marks were all over his body, and it was unknown whether they were from his dried blood or from the moss that had parasitized on his body during his countless years of sleep.

His two heads were raised proudly, roaring towards the sky. However, since the two heads were on the same side, they looked a little unbalanced, extremely uncoordinated, and lacking in beauty.

But if you look closely, you will find two shocking scars on the other side - those are his other two heads. He used to have four heads and was the undisputed king of the dragon clan, until his two heads were chopped off by the Barbarian King.

His tail was broken, and the smooth wound at the end showed that his tail had been cut off. The Barbarian King who cut off his tail did not do so to obtain the weapon of the dragon clan's cut tail, but simply used it as a symbol of humiliation for the Dragon King's defeat.

But no matter what, he is still the Dragon King, the Dragon King 'Pratonsanks' who hovers in the sky and controls storms and lightning!
Roar!
Amid the loud dragon roar, scarlet lightning pierced the sky and instantly penetrated into the River of Eternal Darkness, attempting to pierce the Phoenix Progenitor hidden in the river.

Although this did not have any practical effect, it successfully diverted the attention of Gray Carrie, the 'Phoenix Ancestor'.

When the Phoenix Ancestor Gray Carrie raised the huge bronze eye with layers of illusory doors and looked at the enemy in the sky, she suddenly found that the Broken Dragon King in the sky had disappeared!

Until the bottom of the River of Eternal Darkness, waves suddenly appeared beneath the calm water flow!
The broken Dragon King had already escaped into the cracks of time and space, and suddenly rushed out from the bottom of the river, hooking the head and body of the Phoenix with his claws wrapped in thunderclouds. Amid the Dragon King's loud roar, he pulled the Phoenix out from the bottom of the river!
Below the river is the home of the River of Everlasting Darkness, the home of the Phoenix Ancestor.

But the sky has always been the Dragon King’s home ground!
Although Platonsanks cannot defeat the Barbarian King, cannot kill the gods, cannot destroy the golden tree, and cannot do anything about the Supreme Will, but as the mighty Dragon King, how could he not be able to defeat a bird like you?
Platonsanks bit Graycarrie's neck with one bite, and opened his other head to open his huge mouth, spewing out golden dragon breath that was strong enough to pierce through the sky, completely swallowing the head of the Phoenix ancestor!

At the bottom of the river, the Silver Knight returned to normal and continued to move towards his set goal.

In other places, the silver knights who were originally moving in other directions like headless flies changed direction one after another - they would follow the silver knight and continue upstream until they found the core position.

Roar!
The River of Everlasting Darkness felt threatened, and the 'God of Death' Salinger roared, causing the water level of the river to rise rapidly.

The originally calm riverbed suddenly became turbulent, and the illusory river suddenly became sharper than a knife. He no longer just wanted to stop these silver knights, but to kill them!
Only by crushing these silver knights can His core be protected from being threatened!
however.

Just as the 'God of Death' Salinger roared, a giant with flames burning all over his body fell from the sky and pressed his head down hard!

(End of this chapter)