Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 352 Fusion of Source Power

The reason for this idea is largely because Roger once inadvertently infiltrated the "Source Castle" with the power of the "Original Core", and the power between the two sides was kept in a considerable balance.

However, Roger knew very little about the "Original Core" at that time. He not only did not know the name of the "Original Core", but also could not enter the stone platform in the center of the "Original Core" because he did not possess divinity.

Therefore, Roger was never sure what role the "Original Core" played when it invaded the "Source Castle," except for protecting Fors, who was troubled by the "Full Moon Talk," and saving him at the critical moment when the "Living Star Chart" almost went out of control.

Driven by curiosity, the idea, once it took shape in Roger's mind, quickly became uncontrollable.

Seemingly sensing Roger's emotional fluctuations, the astral projection above the Chaos Sea began to sway slightly, as if responding to his impulse and desire.

"No."

Suddenly, Roger slapped himself to bring himself back to his senses.

Only then did he realize that the shimmering astral landscape did not exist at all, and seemed to be a hallucination he had just seen in his impulsiveness.

Something is very, very wrong.

Roger realized that the impulse he had just felt was most likely the result of the mutual attraction and aggregation tendency of the source matter from adjacent pathways. If the "Primal Heavenly Core" had not been still sealed, he probably would have fallen into its trap.

Let's analyze it carefully.

Roger glanced at the tributary of the "Chaotic Sea" in front of him, then took two steps back and approached the fluid shadow wall that seemed to have a physical presence.

"Now we need to figure out two things. First, is there a connection between this tributary of the 'Chaotic Sea' and the main body of the 'Chaotic Sea'?"

"If the two are connected, my act of directly injecting the pollution of the 'Primal Core' into the 'Chaos Sea' could very likely cause the 'Chaos Sea' itself to mutate. Both Adam and the 'True Creator' could fall into abnormality or even rage as a result."

Having read the original work and combined it with his current understanding of the "Forsaken Land" map, Roger roughly knew the location of the "Chaos Sea," which was the coordinates of the original Chernobyl nuclear facility.

If the two were too close, Roger would never dare to act rashly, but fortunately, they are currently quite far apart, which makes Roger feel a little more at ease.

The essence of this concern is that, although Amon has confirmed that this is a tributary of the "Chaos Sea" that was actively separated by the "Ancient Sun God", Roger is unsure whether it is a leak point of the "Chaos Sea" itself, similar to the throne of Honesty and the abandoned castle in the Dryer Forest, or whether the communication with the "Chaos Sea" has been completely cut off and can only be regarded as a split of it.

"By the way, there is a way to confirm this."

Roger suddenly remembered the promise he had made with Adam, which was that Adam hoped Roger would become the "Black Knight" to obtain the divinity of the "Hanged Man" and inject the corruption of the "Key to the Gate" into the "Chaos Sea" in an extremely small amount, thereby suppressing the spiritual imprint of the "Primordial God" and helping Adam become the "Lord of the Stars".

Considering the connection between the "True Creator" and the "Chaos Sea," if the two are connected, then there should also be a very small amount of "Key of the Gate" contamination in this tributary of the "Chaos Sea."

"If that's the case, then things will be easier."

Roger already knew that in this universe, normally, Extraordinary beings would not get any results from praying to the "Key to the Gate," but if they prayed through a medium that had been contaminated by the power of the "Key to the Gate," it would be a completely different story.

In other words, if Roger prays to the tributary of the "Chaotic Sea" before him and can receive a normal response, it means that the "Key to the Gate" is indeed contaminated here.

In that way, Roger could be very confident that his act of fusing the power of the "Original Core" with the tributary of the "Chaos Sea" would have a very limited impact on the "Chaos Sea" itself.

The prayer doesn't even need to be complete. Considering that Roger himself is the bearer of the corrupted power of the "Key to the Gate," he only needs to recite a few keywords from the extremely long series of names of the "Key to the Gate."

With that thought in mind, Roger took a stone from the bank of a tributary of the Chaos Sea that had been imbued with its power and placed it not far in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, he used his own spirituality to build a simple spiritual wall, locked onto the stone, and began to silently recite the name of that great being in his heart:
"...King of the Endless Void, Star Shifter, Solid Foundation, Master of Earthquakes, Terrifying Conqueror..."

However, when Roger finished reciting the long string of names that symbolized origin and powerful authority, he received no response. Only his own "Key to the Gate" showed obvious signs of agitation.

"...It can be basically confirmed that there is no influence of the 'Key to the Gate' power in this tributary."

Roger bit his lip, ended the brief summoning ritual, and then began to think about the second question.

"...It seems my previous guess was correct. Adam led me here because he knew I could use this tributary of the 'Chaotic Sea'."

"Given that the 'Chaotic Sea' has already been polluted, if Adam were to actually contain it, it's hard to say whether this tributary would return to Adam's body due to the aggregation effect."

"You know, this tributary is unpolluted. If it were, it could create a lot of variables for Adam to become the Old Day."

"Now Adam has his motive. The only problem is that Amon said this would be very beneficial for me to become stronger, but I don't know what kind of benefit it would be?"

Roger can only think of two directions at the moment. The first is that he can use a portion of the power of the "Lord of the Stars" by using a tributary of this "Chaotic Sea". Although it will certainly be extremely limited, it may improve his status and his original extraordinary power to a certain extent.

The second possibility is that this could greatly help him fully digest the "Living Star Chart" potion.

"Perhaps both directions are possible..."

After some thought, Roger was fairly certain that Adam did indeed want him to do something to this tributary of the "Chaotic Sea".

However, we'll only know what will happen after we try it.

Thinking of this, Roger no longer hesitated, but sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and came to the stone platform in the center of the "Original Core".

When he looked up at the spiritual sky of the "Primal Core", he found that his current location overlapped with a colorful lake-like object, clearly indicating that he had arrived at the location of a tributary of the "Chaos Sea".

Another thing that pleased him was that Roger could see some of the network-like radiation from this tributary of the "Chaotic Sea." Most of the radiation could only be considered as limited contamination, with only one radiation line pointing towards the "Fog City."

This made Roger think that the Chaos Sea tributary beneath Fog City, which was prone to riots from time to time, might be an extension of the underground tributary of Midnight City.

Besides this, what's really amazing is that although Roger can't currently determine the exact location, shape, and state of the tributary of the "Chaos Sea" beneath "Mist City" through the spiritual sky guidance of the "Primal Heavenly Core," he does know that the seawater of this tributary seems to have taken a detour not far from Silver City, where "Sun" Derrick Berg is located.

Although this level of distance and connection was not enough to affect "Silver City," in any case, these three human survivor city-states, which had gradually begun to believe in the "Living Star Chart" under Roger's arrangement, seemed to be connected by various coincidences through the spreading network of this tributary of the "Chaos Sea."

Under a very strange feeling, Roger began to release the aura of the "Primal Core" into the colorful tributary of the "Chaotic Sea" where he was located.

Roger originally thought that, given the Chaos Sea's nature as something between illusion and reality, his attempt would take some time to achieve. However, to his surprise, the fusion was completed much faster than he had imagined.

In the spiritual sky of the "Primordial Core," in the half of the sky symbolizing the astral realm, a point of multicolored black suddenly appeared. Although this point of black was not large, it caused mysterious ripples to spread across half of the "starry sky."

At the same time, within the map of the spirit world, the circular area symbolizing the tributary of the "Chaos Sea" was also tinged with a hint of rust.

Many strange symbols and emblems began to appear before Roger's eyes, making him feel as if his brain was about to burst. For a moment, he even fell onto the stone platform and began to roll around.

Meanwhile, among the three light bridges that still remained pure white on the four spokes of the central stone platform of the "Primal Core," one light bridge was suddenly dyed the same color as the seawater of the "Chaos Sea."

Just then, the central area, which sealed the five extraordinary characteristics and "Amra's Guidance", suddenly emitted a rainbow-colored glow. As soon as this glow appeared, Roger felt his tendency to lose control and go berserk significantly weaken.

After a while, Roger, his eyes bloodshot, managed to calm himself down. He rubbed his still throbbing temples and struggled to sit up.

As he felt the changes happening to his body, he looked up at the seal on the central stone platform of the "Original Core".

"The seal has weakened again... It must have been used to suppress my tendency to lose control when I fused with the power of the 'Chaos Sea'. This seal has worked again."

Roger was still somewhat shaken.

Based on his experience of the aura of the "Original Core" merging with the gray mist of the "Source Castle", he originally thought that the fusion of the "Original Core" and the "Chaos Sea" would also be as calm and stable as the former.

Based on this, Roger believed that the "Original Core" would help him block a significant portion of the pollution from the "Chaotic Sea" during this fusion process.

However, he did not expect that even the initial fusion would cause the "Primal Heavenly Core" and the "Chaotic Sea" tributary to react violently to each other, like sodium meeting water.

This seems to be because the "Chaotic Sea" and the "Source Castle" have different natures. Compared to the "Source Castle's" power, which leans towards the unpredictable and mysterious, the "Chaotic Sea" seems to be more violent.

In fact, this can be seen from the difference in the powers held by the "Three Mysterious Paths" and the "Five Omniscient and Omnipotent Paths". Among the "Three Mysterious Paths", whether it is the power of "fooling" that the "Fool" is good at, the power of "opening the door" and the symbol of "door" held by the "Door" Path, or the ability to exploit the loopholes that already exist in things that the "Mistake" Path governs, none of them are the kind of intense and violent type.

In contrast, among the five paths of omniscience and omnipotence, both the "Tyrant" and the "Sun" paths possess certain characteristics of rage or fierceness, while the "Hanged Man" path is unique in its tendency toward depravity and madness among the twenty-two divine paths.

Furthermore, the "Chaos Sea" was originally a symbol of the power of the "Lord of the Stars," and the "Original Celestial Core," which could bring the stars back to their places and trigger the destruction of civilizations and life, also intensified the inherent dangers of the "Chaos Sea," causing them to resonate with each other.

It was precisely because of this characteristic of the latter that Roger almost went mad. Fortunately, the seal of the "Key to the Gate" was powerful enough to allow him to successfully fuse the power of the two.

"Although I know a lot of theory, it seems that I still lack experience in the practical aspects of 'source matter' and I need to be more cautious in the future."

Roger took a deep breath, glanced at the two bridges of light, one fiery red and the other black, and then exited the "Original Core".

Upon returning to reality, Roger immediately saw the tributaries of the "Chaotic Sea" begin to churn, and the astral projection in the sky also began to change.

At the very top center of this starry sky, a spoke-shaped, rust-colored celestial body appeared, unlike anything seen before. This celestial body was emitting wave after wave of rust-colored halos, and under the influence of these halos, the positions of those absurd stars that were originally in their fixed orbits and seemed to be painted with illusory oil paints began to gradually change, as if they were being disturbed by some kind of gravitational force, moving slowly but steadily.

Roger also closed his eyes and quietly felt the changes happening to him.

First, Roger's power in all aspects related to the "Astral Plane" was strengthened once again, not in terms of fate, but with a greater emphasis on material authority.

Needless to say, Roger's physical attributes and regenerative abilities have increased by about 30% to 40%, which allows him to use the full power of two extraordinary souls at once. Although this causes his spiritual energy to deplete very quickly, it undoubtedly greatly enhances his overall combat power in the short term.

On the other hand, Roger's abilities in "Spirit and Flesh Blade," "Flesh Magic," and "Shadow Manipulation" have also been enhanced. Now Roger can not only create a demigod-level flesh puppet, but even his "Fallen Shadow" has become stronger and more controllable than before. He can even fully unleash "Demon Slayer" and maintain it for a considerable period of time without merging it with Roger's flesh and blood.

Compared to the ordinary "Black Knight" who has fully digested the potion, Roger can now even use the "Shadow Stand," which was originally only available to the "Three-Headed Sanctuary." This seems to be a direct delegation of authority from a tributary of the "Chaos Sea," greatly increasing Roger's combat power.

The Chaos Sea also provides certain enhancements to the abilities of the "Living Star Chart". The most prominent of these is that the power of "Star Punishment" and "Gravity" has increased by about 30%. Furthermore, Roger can now split the meteorite summoned by "Star Punishment" into several smaller meteorites, thereby increasing the attack range while reducing the attack power.

In terms of "music," Roger's occult music has gained influence, the required "performance" time has been shortened, the duration of the effect has been extended, and the number of teammates who can benefit from it has also increased. However, the improvement in authority in this area is not as significant as the improvement in direct offensive abilities.

Moreover, the tributary power of the "Chaos Sea" merged with the authority of the "Primal Core," granting Roger two new abilities.

Firstly, unlike before when he could only survive briefly in the starry sky thanks to his powerful demigod physique, Roger can now exist in the starry sky for a long time without perishing. As long as he doesn't encounter extreme conditions such as black holes, gamma-ray bursts, or neutron stars, even in extremely cold regions, he can maintain his existence in the universe.

This was extremely crucial for Roger, because the ascension ritual of the "Black Prophet" required Roger to survive alone for at least two weeks in a cosmic void at least 1000 million light-years away, without any luminous stars, without contact with any other intelligent life. After completely overcoming the fear of darkness and the unknown, he could take a potion to achieve ascension.

Coincidentally, the "Guidance of Amra" contains a coordinate system roughly located in the direction of Boötes, a region with almost no galaxies or stars, and the nearest star is more than tens of millions of light-years away from its center.

If you were inside, you could only see a very distant and blurry light, and nothing else. It could be considered a near-absolutely dark world.

Although Roger did not yet know the nature of this ascension ceremony, he was very clear that in a space without stars, extreme cold was an absolute consequence, so survival would become a huge problem.

He had considered many shortcuts, but they all seemed flawed. The ability he had now gained to survive in outer space for extended periods undoubtedly gave him the capital to face the challenges head-on.

On the other hand, Roger could use his "identity manipulation" ability to simulate the mystical identity of the "Lord of the Stars" for a short period of time.

He tried to simulate it and found that not only did the tributaries of the "Chaotic Sea" churn and surge toward him again, but the light emitted by the star corresponding to the "Hell Star" quickly spread throughout the limited astral projection.

At the same time, Roger sensed at least four wills, almost at infinity, vaguely pointing at him, but quickly looking away, seemingly out of fear and worry about something.

In the next instant, Roger's "Living Star Chart" potion underwent a significant digestion.

However, this digestion did not continue until it was fully digested as Roger had predicted; instead, it stalled within a very short time.

Even so, Roger has already digested more than half of the "Living Star Chart" potion, which has given him a long-lost sense of exhilaration.

As the "identity alteration" nearly exhausted Roger's energy, he was forced to stop playing the role.

"What a pleasant surprise! I think I understand what Adam meant by my opportunity to become stronger."

The "Chaos Sea" tributary's power boost to Roger was only one aspect; more importantly, it allowed him to quickly digest the "Living Star Chart" potion by leveraging the mystical significance of his "Lord of the Stars" identity.

After all, as the rule repository at the bottom of the starry sky, the "Lord of the Astral Realm" who has mastered it in a mystical sense can indeed be called a top-level "living star chart".

On the other hand, this simulation did not allow Roger to fully digest the potion, also because it had many limitations.

First, the simulation lasts for a very short time, less than half a minute. Second, due to the limitations of Roger's own demigod status, the simulation cannot actually elevate Roger's own strength to the level of "Lord of the Stars," or even approach the level of angels. Instead, it emphasizes the mystical aspects more.

On the other hand, the accuracy, effectiveness, and quality of this simulation are also affected by the number of Roger's followers.

This quantity doesn't mean that the number of followers Roger has will grant him a corresponding boost; rather, it comes with very stringent conditions.

Only those who simultaneously believe in the "Lord of the Stars" and the "Living Star Chart," and who identify with the connection between the "Living Star Chart" and the "Lord of the Stars," can become the anchor supporting Roger's "identity alteration" under such circumstances.

In other words, currently, only "New Fog City" on the entire planet can fulfill this requirement. As for "Silver City" and "Underground Midnight City," Roger's work to spread his faith is still in its early stages.

Roger suspected that it was the existing anchor from "New Fog City" that facilitated the concentrated digestion of his wave of "Living Star Chart" potions.

"Fortunately, the faith-spreading work in the 'Underground Midnight City' is now on the right track. As long as I can find a way to get the 'Silver City' to worship the 'He Xing' as well, I will definitely be able to digest the 'Living Star Chart' potion in a very short time... I may not even need all of them to have a firm faith, just the majority of them to believe in me."

Roger was initially worried about the digestion period of the "Living Star Chart" potion. Without fully summarizing the rules of the role, he was unsure when he would be able to digest the "Living Star Chart" potion, relying solely on the faith of the "Hercules School" and the "Forsaken Land" in the "Hercules" and the unknown depth of their faith in the "Hercules."

After all, under normal circumstances, it would take ten or even decades of acting and refining the rules of acting to fully digest a Sequence 4 potion. Even if Roger did not truly contain the tributary of the "Chaos Sea" but only interacted with a part of the power of the "Primal Core", it would greatly amplify the feedback brought by faith itself and help him digest the potion.

"Although this is largely in line with my previous thinking, it is still different with this extra layer of protection."

For Roger, the next steps were relatively simple: on the one hand, he would continue to promote the spread of faith in the "Forsaken Lands," and on the other hand, he could begin preparing the materials needed for the "Black Prophet" potion.

In any case, compared to the potion of the "Living Star Chart," the auxiliary materials for the potion of the "Black Prophet" seem even more bizarre.

In addition to needing three different active substances closely associated with mythical creatures related to the spirit world or the starry sky in a mystical sense, he also needs to collect a beam of starlight that has traveled through interstellar space for more than 50 billion years, as well as 10 grams of a strange material called "the trail of the star wanderer".

Roger already had a certain foundation in the first type of auxiliary materials.

For him, the simplest approach would be to collect one "Star Worm", one "Time Worm", and one "Spirit Worm".

All three of these entities perfectly meet the requirements for the potion. In his past experiences, Roger had already obtained a "Star Worm" from Christopher Iman, a "traveler" who had to some extent integrated the extraordinary characteristics of a "mystic" but ultimately lost control. As for the "Spirit Worm," he could wait until Klein ascended to become a demigod and try to obtain it from him.

As for the "Time Worm," it's relatively troublesome. Roger needs to find a way to exchange one for a "Time Worm" from Amon or Palles Zoroaster, but he's not quite sure what the price will be.

As for the so-called starlight that has traveled through interstellar space for more than 50 billion years, Roger also has some direction to consider.

He knew that the longer starlight travels in space, the harder it is to capture. Considering the speed of light itself, starlight that has traveled for more than 50 billion years often comes from stars 50 billion light-years away. Moreover, due to the Doppler effect, this starlight is often infrared light and cannot be seen directly with the naked eye.

This means that Roger doesn't need to travel very far in space, actually reaching 50 billion light-years away, but he needs to find a way to discard the starlight from nearby stars as much as possible and preserve the starlight from more distant stars.

In addition, storing starlight is also a major problem. If Roger cannot find a suitable container to freeze the starlight, then he will have to simultaneously prepare potions while receiving the starlight.

As for the so-called "Star Wanderer," Roger had absolutely no clue. He could only guess from its name that it was a comet-like celestial body or a similar celestial being. Furthermore, judging from the fact that its trail could be described using units of mass in the potion recipe, it should be an entity that could eject dust from its trail.

Regardless, the materials for the "Black Prophet's" potion will likely take Roger some time to prepare.

Fortunately, he already knew the potion recipe in advance, so he could start preparing now.

"Speaking of which, I think I haven't fully explored the power of this tributary of the 'Chaotic Sea' yet... no, I should say I've only explored a little bit of it."

"Perhaps when I have more anchors, or when I progress in digesting the potion, I should be able to discover some other uses."

Roger took a deep breath, and as he slowly retreated, the previously turbulent flow of the chaotic sea gradually began to calm down.

Once Roger's body was completely submerged in the fluid shadow that seemed to have a physical presence, the cave returned to its previous tranquility.

At this very moment, on a dark mountain range outside "Midnight City".

A young man with silver hair, eyes closed and head bowed, appeared there without warning. He was handsome with gentle features and had an otherworldly air about him.

Physically, he appeared quite tall and thin, with silver hair reaching his vest. He was dressed in a simple and plain linen robe, with layers of radiant wings on his back. He was none other than the "Angel of Fate," Urolius.

Behind Him were a large number of writhed monsters with rapidly disappearing illusory ropes attached to their bodies, which had already been destroyed. Judging from the state of the scene, these monsters were likely killed by Ouroles.

He seems to have come here because of the change in the "Chaotic Sea".

At this moment, Urelius's expression appeared exceptionally complex and was constantly changing.

Sometimes confused, sometimes conflicted, sometimes angry, sometimes indifferent, it was as if a multitude of emotions were impacting Him, plunging Him into a somewhat extreme state.

The next moment, Urolius lifted his left foot and walked forward.

But before His feet could even touch the ground, Urolius's figure suddenly stopped, as if he had crashed into some kind of invisible wall.

His ever-changing expressions froze instantly. A moment later, Urolius slowly withdrew his left foot and glanced at the bright lightning that had just flashed across the sky.

After letting out a soft sigh, a somewhat melancholy Urolius's figure once again returned to the darkness and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)