Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 208 The Gravedigger of the Black Emperor

As a familiar hazy feeling accompanied by a lot of background noise flashed by, Roger's figure appeared in a valley near the coast somewhere in South Wales.

This valley is covered by a large broad-leaved forest belt, with lush vegetation and shrubs of various colors on the ground, which make a crackling sound when stepped on.

Through the gaps in the jungle, Roger could see the extremely thick dark clouds above his head, and in the south, the sound of extremely dense thunderstorms was heard one after another.

"It's here...but it seems a little off."

Roger took a deep breath. This was South Wales.

According to the previous agreement between Roger and Klein, if the latter and his group arrived in South Wales first, they would have to wait temporarily in a small town called Wyndham, with a population of only a few hundred, northwest of the Black Emperor's tomb.

If Roger still doesn't show up after dark, Klein and Sharon will need to lead the rest of the group to the Black Emperor's mausoleum and wait for an opportunity to enter when the Witch Cult falls into decline.

But that would add a lot of complications and might even make the task impossible to complete.

After all, there are quite a few official extraordinary people around the tomb of the "Black Emperor".

Fortunately, Roger arrived in time, but because he didn't know enough about South Wales, he was teleported to the mountains not far from the town of Wyndham.

On the other hand, the reason Roger came to the vicinity of Wyndham Town was because there must be high-sequence experts fighting in the center of the battle.

Whether it is the "Tyrant" path or the "Witch" path, once divinity is obtained, it can cause extremely terrible disasters.

Thunderstorms, tsunamis, plagues, avalanches...

No matter which one it is, it is extremely dangerous for Roger who has just experienced a fierce battle.

The intensive and continuous thunderstorms in the south at the moment also confirm that a high-level battle is breaking out there.

This was also the reason why Roger asked Klein and the others to wait for a while—as soon as Panatia and Mr. A began their actions in Backlund, the outbreak in South Wales was bound to begin as well.

The reason why he was so sure about this matter was because it involved a very simple logic:

For the Church of the Storm, which had already suffered a loss in Ahowa County, the information they obtained from Roger would definitely be given a relatively high level of confidentiality. In other words, they were blitzing the "Witch Sect" stronghold in South Wales County under the condition of information asymmetry, so this operation must be successful.

For the "Witch Sect", the matter is just as simple, that is, the Storm Church has hit them in the face. Whether it is to help Panatia delay time or out of self-defense considerations to protect secrets, they will definitely fight against the Storm Church.

However, this type of operation suffered from a lack of intelligence, and the witches who were not good at long-distance support were likely to be at a disadvantage in South Wales.

In the end, their choices were either to die in battle or to find a way to escape. As for the possibility of defeating the well-prepared Storm Church, it was almost negligible.

In Roger's estimation, the battle would last until dark, so it would be an ideal choice for them to approach the tomb of the "Black Emperor" while the Storm Church was cleaning up the mess.

As for whether the Storm Church would hinder them at that time, although he was not absolutely sure, Roger was at least 80% sure that their top leaders would turn a blind eye.

Although Roger committed blasphemous acts when he left Backlund, he had already told the "Lord of the Storm" that a disaster was about to happen in Backlund through a ritual before Mr. A and the "Nightingale of Despair" Panatia took action.

If the Lord of Storms hadn't reacted immediately, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Backlund's population would have been killed and sacrificed.

If the Witch Cult's ambush of the Mandated Punishers was merely a matter between the Church and the evil organization, then the massacre that directly threatened the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary people was a real threat to the "anchor" and foundation of faith of the Lord of Storms.

Therefore, the Sequence 0 "Tyrant" was extremely furious upon learning of this incident. This rage was strong enough to make him ignore the noisy sound emitted by Roger's ritual magic, which was annoying to the gods, as well as the subsequent blasphemous behavior.

On the other hand, He even owed Roger a big favor.

In any case, George III's mausoleum could no longer be preserved.

As long as this condition is met, no matter who comes in to take advantage of the situation, it will only be icing on the cake, not to mention that Roger took the initiative to take on this troublesome matter.

"But you still have to hold on tight..."

Seeing that the last ray of sunset in the sky was about to disappear, Roger did not dare to delay.

With the help of the "Apostle of Desire"'s ability and the various seals on his body, he finally arrived at the town of Wyndham at the fastest speed.

By this time, it was completely dark. Roger could see from afar Klein holding Bandit and talking with the "zombie" Maric, who had two enormous bags at his feet, sitting on a roadside bench. Sam and Cecilia paced around, occasionally looking at the lightning and thunder behind the mountains, looking extremely nervous.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Roger, wearing the "parasitic gloves", appear.

"Is the matter resolved?" Klein asked immediately.

"nailed it."

Roger nodded slightly, then turned to look at his cousins and said:
"I killed Butis and recovered a Level 0 Sealed Artifact from the Abraham family."

Sam and Cecilia were slightly stunned, and their first reaction was that they had misheard.

But when Roger revealed Butis's "Mystic Mage" extraordinary characteristics, the two boys and girls really realized what was happening.

Their eyes were red as they came up to hug Roger.

The three of them whispered for a while, and then all smiled.

Klein looked at this scene and felt happy for Roger.

He knew that one of Roger's important purposes in lurking in the Aurora Society was to kill the two traitors who betrayed the Abraham family and take back the extraordinary characteristics and seals in their hands.

So far, Roger has reached an important milestone.

After discussing Butis's affairs, Roger raised his head and looked at Klein again:
"Where have all the people in Wyndham gone?"

"There was no one here when we arrived. They must have been evacuated by the Church of Storms... Even the small restaurant was closed."

Fortunately, they had eaten something while on the steam train, so they didn't feel hungry now.

"Let's go. I think the battle over there should be over."

Roger took a look at the lightning behind the mountain, whose frequency of landing had obviously decreased a lot, and then said this.

"correct."

Klein suddenly grabbed Roger and took out a few mask-like objects from his bag.

In addition to those for adults, there is even a very small mask that looks like it is for small animals.

"Face mask?"

Roger blurted out in surprise.

"Yes, because I thought there might be residual occult pathogens on the battlefield, I passed by a labor supply store on the way and bought some... This thing can prevent inhaled pathogens, you know what I mean.

"While on the train, Cecilia helped me add two layers of cotton gauze on the back. This should make it more secure."

Klein nodded.

In the Kingdom of Loen, masks were invented only in recent years and were mainly used in the field of labor protection. Their protective effect was very limited and they were very expensive.

Considering that the effects of airborne pathogens on the human body were discovered by the scientific community not long ago, most people in this era still do not have a full understanding of airborne pathogens, so products like medical masks are still not fully popularized.

But Klein obviously knew this, so he made some improvements to the labor protection mask to improve its effectiveness.

Although it may not be very effective against high-sequence "occult pathogens", an extra layer of protection is still an extra layer of security.

"You're quite thoughtful."

Roger praised Klein generously, and then, along with everyone except the "ghost" Miss Sharon and Bandit, put on masks as instructed by the detective.

Because there might be demigod-level occult pathogens at the scene, even the "zombie" Maric reluctantly put on a mask under Roger's persuasion.

"That's good, let's go."

Roger glanced at everyone present with satisfaction and spoke.

Because it had rained, the road up the mountain was not easy to walk on.

Leaving aside the "Alien" duo, Roger who possesses the "Parasite Gloves," and Klein who can use "Fire Leap," Sam and Cecilia, who are still at the Sequence 9 and Sequence 8 levels, have a particularly difficult time.

In the end, it was Maric who directly picked up Cecilia, and Roger also used the flesh and blood magic of the "Rose Bishop" to wrap up Sam, lifting and dragging him away, so that they would not fall too far behind.

After walking for about 20 minutes, the rain on the mountain became noticeably lighter, and even the number of thunderstorms decreased.

But Roger and his companions gradually began to see a series of shocking scenes:
The mountain landscape that had remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years was forcibly changed by some great force. A large number of mountains and strata were peeled off. The soil that should have been brown was now covered with charred marks and even vitrified in some parts.

Trees tens of meters high were cut in half and uprooted, while those trees and vegetation that did not survive were covered with an extremely thick layer of frost that exuded a creepy smell.

Not only that, in those mountain valleys where the wind hardly reaches, even after it rained, there are still clusters of miasma of various colors that look so poisonous that they are difficult to control.

Roger even had a feeling that even with his Sequence 5 "Shepherd" body, if he inhaled the miasma for more than two seconds, his body would begin to decay and collapse.

Everyone was extremely surprised by these scenes. Even Sharon, who had seen a lot of the world, couldn't help but look sideways.

"Tsk tsk, is this a demigod-level battle... How terrifying."

Roger looked at the giant trees split by lightning, then looked at Miss Sharon. Suddenly, a rather nonsensical thought popped up in his mind:
"They say ghosts are afraid of trees struck by lightning, but Sharon doesn't seem too scared...

"Oh, no, Ms. Sharon is not a ghost."

Bandit glanced at Roger, who inexplicably smiled, shook his tail, and began to use his "wind-raising" ability to cooperate with Miss Sharon to disperse the thick miasma below.

Even so, it was still very difficult for them to move. In the end, Roger used the "duckling" to control the nearby stones and forcibly built a shortcut upwards, which prevented everyone from continuing to fight against the annoying miasma.

The closer he got to the hinterland, the more Roger could smell a very pungent and strong smell of blood.

That wasn't just one person's blood, but the scent of hundreds, even thousands of people's blood pooled together! Even Bandit, who was wearing a mask but had a keen sense of smell, sneezed repeatedly and seemed quite uncomfortable.

After walking for a while, the lightning almost stopped, and Roger and others began to hear human conversations.

Maric, who was walking in front, made a "bend over" gesture, and the people behind him understood and began to bend over and move forward.

Soon, they saw a fire not far away through a gap in the mountain wall.

There were two Mandated Punishers wearing Storm Church uniforms, and another female Night Watcher, who were cleaning up the battlefield.

The others were fine, but when Roger and Klein saw the female Nighthawk clearly, they were both stunned.

That was Klein's former teammate, the former "psychic" who had been transferred to Backlund by the Sanctuary before the Ince Zangwill incident, and now the "Necromancer":
Daley Simone!
At this time, she was obviously assisting the two "Manufactured Punishers" in communicating with the spirits, trying to help the two major churches restore the original situation.

"Dai Li, you're a woman, why don't you find a good man to marry as soon as possible? Why do you get involved in these dangerous things all the time?
"Forget about you, even I feel sick seeing this. I'm probably going to have nightmares for the next few days."

A tall Mandated Punisher in his late 40s frowned as he looked at the corpses scattered on the ground and the pyramid-like building in the distance whose top stone had collapsed. He then glanced at the capable Ms. Daly and began to complain.

Upon hearing this, Daly immediately opened her eyes and frowned.
"Brick, just get to work, why all the nonsense.

"Don't think that just because we have some friendship, you can use your Storm Church's moral standards to dictate my private life.

"If you do this again, I can complain directly to your deacon."

Hearing Daly's words, the Mandated Punisher named Brick immediately became nervous and said with a wry smile:
"Just kidding, just kidding, don't take it seriously."

Then the tall man gazed into the distance again:

"Come to think of it, if it weren't for that newly selected member of your Nighthawks, called something like Len... oh yeah, Leonard's red gloves reacted quickly and detected the occult pathogen on the outskirts of the battlefield in time, we would all have died here."

Klein frowned upon hearing this conversation.

“Not only Ms. Daly, but Leonard is here too?
"Also, he joined the Red Gloves?"

He subconsciously used his "Faceless Man" ability to change his appearance and slightly increase his height by two centimeters.

Fortunately, the clothes Klein bought were relatively loose, so even after all this trouble, it didn't look too out of place.

Roger patted him on the shoulder, and then used his "Troublemaker" ability to control three extraordinary people from the Church of the Righteous God, including Daly.

Combining his intuitive feedback with the content of their previous conversation, Roger was able to determine that these people were all mid-sequence Beyonders.

After making sure there was no one around, Klein flipped another coin. After confirming it landed on heads, the six people and the cat walked outside and quickly hid behind another mountain.

As a result, Roger saw the dark pyramid-shaped building whose upper part had collapsed and from which black blood was constantly flowing out, the stench of which could be smelled even here.

That was the one used in the deification ceremony of George III, the "Black Emperor"!
With the cover of the mountain, several people quickly passed through the top of the valley and soon arrived at the real core of the battlefield, which was near the tomb of the "Black Emperor".

It was an area of several hundred meters in radius, and the ground had a dark, reflective texture, as if it had been plowed over and over again by fire and thunder.

Even the bodies lying on the ground, whether official Beyonders, members of the Witch Cult, or obviously ordinary people, were mostly carbonized, and some limbs had even sublimated instantly under the high temperature, leaving only a few marks to indicate that there had once been a piece of human tissue here.

There were over a hundred Mandated Punishers and twenty to thirty Nighthawks busying around, among whom was Leonard Mitchell.

The "Singer of God" Ace Snake was floating in the air, looking at the pyramid-shaped building below with a serious expression.

The "Witch Sect" originally had two demigods on duty here, but in the end he used the power of a "0" level seal from the "Lord of Storms" Church to kill the warriors.

But even so, one of the two demigod "witches" managed to escape.

This is not the point of the problem now - the point of the problem is that he finally understood what the Witch Cult was doing.

"It's a bit difficult... Never mind, let's go back and consult His Holiness the Pope first."

Ace Snake sighed slightly, glanced at a location halfway up the mountain, shook his head, turned around and directed the work of the "Manufactured Punishers" below, and ordered them to gradually withdraw after basically clearing the core of the battlefield.

"The capstone of the upper part has been destroyed, and the passage leading inward can be seen..."

At this moment, Sharon, who had been silent and staring at the pyramid, suddenly spoke.

Roger turned his head and saw a look of relief on her face.

"what does that mean?"

he asked.

"This means that we no longer need to waste time breaking through the outer restrictions of this mausoleum. From the perspective of mysticism, this place is already in an 'open' state.

"The air flow is also smooth, which meets the conditions for detonation.

"We just need to follow the tunnel down and place explosives along the way.

"The explosives I brought are easy to install, and the locations aren't complicated. I have a rough idea of what they are... Unless there are some special restrictions somewhere inside, there should be no problem completing the blast."

Sharon replied.

Roger nodded slightly.

On the other hand, he could sense that the main structure of this mausoleum was relatively new, which meant that there was a high probability that those troublesome Quaternary seals did not exist inside.

"Ms. Sharon, just go ahead and do it. If there are any restrictions, I will help you open them."

He promised.

Sharon nodded:

"There's another question. How do we get past the demigod's surveillance and into the pyramid?"

What Sharon said was indeed a problem. Even if the top leaders of the Church of Storms had some understanding, they would not allow Roger and his group of suspicious people to directly enter the tomb of the "Black Emperor".

"It's okay, I'll take you in."

Roger nodded slightly, looked up at Maric, and took the extremely heavy bag from him.

He held the other bag in his right hand.

"Miss Sharon, please."

Roger smiled and extended his left hand towards Sharon. Sharon hesitated for a moment, then walked forward and gently held his hand.

As a ray of light that seemed to come from the starry sky flashed by, Roger and Sharon's figures instantly disappeared from the spot.

The next moment, Roger and Sharon appeared deep in the corridor inside the black pyramid.

"We only have three minutes. Once you install one, I'll take you to the next one."

After hearing Roger's words, Sharon, who was still immersed in shock, came to her senses and nodded quickly.

She took out explosives from Roger's bag, quickly placed them on both sides of the wall, and then pointed in another direction.

Along the way, the two saw large numbers of countless corpses.

Their clothing was basically in the style of the Rossde Islands and the surrounding areas of the Southern Continent. It was obvious at first glance that they were the poor slaves and civilians that Alger, the "Hanged Man" had mentioned earlier, who were abducted and trafficked to Loen from the surrounding islands of the Southern Continent.

Even Sharon felt a little sad because of this, but she did not stop her actions as she was used to seeing life and death.

Every time they arrived at a place, Sharon would make a "done" gesture to Roger, and Roger would take her to the next point.

The two of them had unimpeded access to areas that were accessible or normally inaccessible.

At nearly three minutes, Sharon finished installing the last explosive device.

"nailed it."

She nodded, seeming a little tired from the high tension.

Upon hearing this, Roger took Sharon away without a second thought and returned to where they started.

Then, Roger glanced at the "Singer of God" who turned and flew away, and nodded to Cecilia.

"Put this ring on your finger and say the word 'fire' three times in any spiritual language."

Sharon handed Cecilia a fiery red ring, a special seal that she had obtained at great expense in order to complete this blasting mission.

Cecilia nodded, took the fiery red ring from Sharon, and thanked her softly.

Then, encouraged by the gazes of Roger, Klein, Sam, Sharon, and Maric, the pale-skinned, long-haired girl looked toward the black pyramid below and chanted in ancient Hermetic language:

"fire."

"fire."

"fire."

The next moment, inside the black imperial mausoleum under the boundless darkness, a light brighter than the flames outside burst out.

Amidst loud roars and the shocked gazes of a group of official extraordinary people, the black pyramid was cut in half and then fell apart.

The tomb of the "Black Emperor" collapsed.

(End of this chapter)