Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 398 The Relics of the "Radiant Angel"
Roger, in his azure flame form, pursued Jakes with an overwhelming pressure that seemed capable of tearing through space. The deafening roar of the sonic boom echoed throughout the entire bunker of the "Rose School," causing many "Rose School" Extraordinaries who were approaching the battle to painfully cover their ears.

"Take this shot from your grandpa."

At that moment, a long, icy spear wreathed in black flames appeared in Roger's hand. He used "gravity" to increase the spear's gravitational acceleration to a terrifying level, and at the same time hurled it towards Jax, who was flying backwards below.

Under the combined effect of gravity and Roger's current power boost, the spear also created a sonic boom and arrived at Jax's face in a matter of milliseconds.

Jacks' expression turned serious. He raised his left hand in the direction from which the icy spear had flown and opened his mouth wide once more.

With a "bang," Roger's icy spear shattered into tiny ice crystals, and even the black flames suddenly dissipated in mid-air.

Meanwhile, Roger's three abilities—"Frost Lance," "Cursed Black Flame," and "Flame Transformation"—all became unusable.

"Is this the ability that can nullify my extraordinary methods?"

Upon seeing this, Roger quickly began to think. This effect had something in common with the "Transformation Curse" that Jax had used before; both could disable the opponent's extraordinary abilities to a certain extent.

"It seems that the 'Silent Disciples' possess the authority of 'silence' in a certain sense. This 'silence' can prohibit certain extraordinary abilities of the opponent for a period of time, and it can be applied not only to the opponent but also to extraordinary abilities that have already been released."

“This is somewhat similar to the ‘prohibition’ of the ‘Law Master’, but it is not an ability of the order side, but a mysterious side, close to the ability of the image of ‘binding’.”

Roger quickly identified one of Jax's core abilities, and it must be said that this ability was indeed very troublesome.

"Just in time to conduct an experiment..."

With that in mind, Roger used "Gravity" on Jax again.

This time, Roger distorted "gravity" using "Dark Annihilation," giving it some characteristics of the "invisible hand."

With a "bang," Jacks suddenly sank, and a handprint-shaped dent appeared on the alloy floor centered on him.

However, Jax did not dodge, because he had already quickly entered a wraith form just before landing, thus escaping Roger's attack by leaving the material world.

However, just as he looked up at the sky again, preparing to unleash a curse on Roger, the latter suddenly appeared behind Jax.

Jacks reacted quickly, raising his right hand forward and instantly controlling Roger's trench coat, pulling Roger forward and sending him flying, before crashing heavily into the metal wall beside him.

To Jakes' surprise once again, the scene he had envisioned—Roger falling from the metal wall and being severely injured—did not occur.

At this moment, Roger's figure began to become elusive. Having absorbed Avina Colpes's soul, he, like Jax, entered a "vengeful spirit" state, thus avoiding the damage from the previous attack.

The next second, Roger opened his mouth wide at Jacks, as if emitting a silent shriek.

"?"

When Jax saw Roger in this state, he immediately had a very bad feeling. He subconsciously wanted to use "Mirror Jump" to get out of Roger's attack range, but he was surprised to find that he could not use this ability at this moment!

With a "bang," Jacks transformed into a black pig, his eyes widening in terror as he grunted.

"Hmm, as expected, stolen abilities cannot be reproduced using 'Mystic Manifestation'."

Roger had already made his judgment at this moment. He seemed to have done nothing before, but in fact, the moment he landed, he used "Secret Presentation" to reproduce "Steal" which he had used many times before, thus temporarily taking over Jax's two abilities, "Curse of Shapeshifting" and "Spell Silence".

At the same time, he used "Dark Annihilation" to temporarily cut off Jax's perception of his own supernatural abilities, preventing him from immediately realizing that he had temporarily lost the abilities of "Transformation Curse" and "Spell Silence".

Now, however, he has been controlled by his own abilities and has lost the ability to resist Roger.

Roger glanced at Lindsay Louis, who was fighting fiercely with "Devil" McKinley and had a slight advantage, then activated the "Dreamweaver" ability again and entered the depths of Jax's mind to interrogate him.

However, to Roger's surprise, Jax's mental body was actually in the shape of a black cocoon. This cocoon seemed to contain some important information in order to avoid hypnosis and interrogation of the soul.

"..."

Roger hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not make up his mind to cut open the cocoon, because he judged that it was likely another trap, and the means to set this trap was likely from one of the angels of the "Rose School".

"They're really cautious..."

However, while Roger was still pondering how to extract the most information from Jax, the cocoon in front of him suddenly burst open with a "poof".

A great deal of black water flowed out, and a baby with a completely dried body and a head of white hair crawled out from it.

This appearance contrasts sharply with his physique, implying a unique sense of the bizarre and the eerie.

"Adam?"

Roger immediately realized that Adam might be using his authority in the realm of the mind to provide him with support, but he also realized another problem: this forced breaking of the black cocoon might damage Jax's soul.

Having realized this, Roger also understood that he had to seize every second to extract as much information as possible from Jax.

"What's inside that pointed building? How do we open its door?"

Roger asked.

"An angel's relic... Biometric identification using my and McKinley's blood, the password is 768765."

"This door can only be opened from the outside once a day; the rest of the time it can only be opened from the inside."

The baby version of Jacks answered in a hoarse, distorted voice.

"An angel? Which path does it take to become an angel? What sequence is it?"

Roger frowned and asked again.

"She was a fallen 'brilliant angel'."

really……

Jax's words corroborated Roger's earlier speculation that "Superstar Overlord" seemed to be providing some assistance to the "Rose School," and that "Radiant Angel" was the name of "Superstar Overlord" pathway sequence 2.

"What use are those relics?"

"It can provide a near-inexhaustible source of energy, and His followers, through prayer to Him, pass on certain special technologies to us."

"With the support of this knowledge and energy, we have built a special weapon."

"This weapon allows the 'Mother Tree of Desire' to slowly project its power into the real world through the 'Abyss' to complete a partial descent, which is one of the attempts we have been making."

"Once this weapon is completed and activated, the entire Southern Continent will be banished into an unfathomable darkness, which will not only bring devastating disaster, but will also affect the astral plane."

Upon hearing Jax's words, Roger was startled and quickly asked:

What stage has the development of this weapon reached?

“Very slowly.”

Jacks spoke in a hoarse voice:
"Because the 'Dark Side of the Universe' has been maintaining a part of its consciousness by relying on the extraordinary properties of a Sequence 1 item, the control of the 'Abyss' has never completely fallen into the hands of the 'Mother Tree of Desire,' which has led to its mystical presence being frequently disturbed and the weapon's effects becoming extremely unstable."

"Unfortunately, we have been searching for that extraordinary characteristic of the 'divine abomination', but we have not found it, and we do not know where the 'dark side of the universe' has hidden it."

"Recently, the 'Abyss' has undergone some changes. The 'Mother Tree of Desire' has been guiding us to collect high-sequence sealed artifacts from the 'criminal' pathway and sacrifice them into the 'Abyss' through that weapon, but this has brought us considerable trouble."

The extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1... refer to the characteristics of that "divine abomination"?
Roger paused, recalling the contents of the murals on "Blackwing Reef." If he remembered correctly, the extraordinary characteristics of that "divine abomination" should have been problematic. He wondered who had helped Fabuti remove the pollution it contained, thus making it a safe haven.

"It seems there are more people involved in this than I thought... It's possible that Mr. 'Door' or Osekus was behind it, or that they joined forces. I'll have to find a way to ask Adam or Amon for information on this later."

Roger took a deep breath. Seeing that Jax's condition was somewhat unstable, he continued to ask:

"What is the relationship between the tree in Trier that contains the power of the 'Mother Tree of Desire' and the weapon you are currently creating?"

"If one plan succeeds, the other will follow suit, but at present, the 'Shadow Tree' plan has a better chance of winning."

As soon as Jacks finished speaking, his figure began to flash rapidly.

"One last question: Is the alliance between the Demon Family and you related to these two plans?"

"...is...the abyss...and its affiliation...is affected by...the number of believers......"

"so……"

Before Jacks could finish saying "so," his body suddenly disintegrated, turning into translucent amniotic fluid.

Fortunately, at this moment, Roger had already figured out all the questions he needed to understand, including the one that Jax hadn't finished saying—the "Demon Family" was probably helping the "Mother Tree of Desire" to fight for ownership of the "Abyss," and the "Abyss" originally belonged to the "Mother Tree of Desire" in a mystical sense, but because Fabti still held the symbol of the "Dark Side of the Universe" and the "Father of Demons," He hadn't been able to completely control the "Abyss."

The reason the "Demon Family" did these things in Trier is because the "Shadow Tree" and the "Abyss" have occult similarities. If the "Blood Cult" followers there were to fully convert to the faith of the "Mother Tree of Desire," He could use the occult similarities to gain maximum control over the "Abyss" and then use the weapon of the "Rose School" to trigger a catastrophe on Earth.

This information was something Roger hadn't been able to extract from Avina Colpes before. From this perspective, the "Rose School" seems to be playing the same information cocoon game as the "Devil Family."

Next, Roger only needs to extract some of Jax's blood, use the password he gave him to open the door, take away the seal formed by the extraordinary characteristics of the "Radiant Angel," and at the same time try to find out the whereabouts of the weapon from McKinley and see if he can destroy it.

After regaining his composure, Roger left the collapsing unconscious world belonging to Jax and returned to reality.

He immediately extracted Jax's blood, then quietly waited for its extraordinary properties to be extracted before finally recycling it.

The only drawback is that Jax's soul cannot be enslaved; otherwise, Roger could have directly replaced Aviana's soul.

He turned to look at Lindsay, who had completely entered a metal puppet state and was pinning the battered McKinley to the ground with a longsword burning with a bright white and blue flame. Roger could sense that Lindsay had borrowed a portion of his team's power into himself through the mystical connection between the "Iron Knight" and his own team.

On the other hand, because the "Iron Knight" does not feel fear and has a much stronger will than ordinary extraordinary beings, he was able to win the battle against McKinley, who had a higher level of potion digestion.

"Lindsay, don't kill her."

Roger shook his head, went to McKinley's side, fully unleashed "Demon Slayer," and held it to her neck:
Where is the weapon hidden here?

Upon hearing this question, McKinley's expression immediately turned grim. She knew that this information must have been leaked to Roger by Jax, and that her teammate was already dead.

Seeing that McKinley remained silent, Roger shook his head. He then used the power of the "Dream Weaver" to completely hypnotize McKinley and then asked her about the location of the weapon.

According to McKinley, the weapon that allows the "Mother Tree of Desire" to partially descend into the heavens is buried deep within this bunker. It is a giant statue of the "Mother Tree of Desire" created using special means, and Herbert Harris is being held in a nearby secret chamber that seals off the spirit world.

Having figured this out, Roger maintained his control over McKinley, took some of her sulfur-smelling blood, and then went to the door of the pointed building in front of him.

"Got it, it's here."

Roger quickly found a metal tabletop with box-like sampling decorations and a full-screen display showing different numbers.

Roger dripped the blood of Jacks and McKinley into the door, then entered the password. A moment later, the sound of hydraulic transmission came from behind the door, and the door slowly opened to both sides.

"Good heavens, what kind of Zentradi technology is this?"

Roger was stunned by what he saw as soon as he opened the door. Before him stood a silver metal device, much simpler than a tokamak, spinning at high speed. In its center floated a luminous metal sphere, seemingly bound by some kind of magnetic field. This was the sealed artifact formed from the extraordinary properties of the "Radiant Angel." Since this sequence had access to the power of fusion, combined with technology from other planets, it wasn't unimaginable that the "Rose School" could create such a thing.

However, at the same time, Roger also noticed that the "Radiant Angel" seal seemed to be subject to some kind of restriction. It could only provide energy within a certain range, and it had to rely on the instrument in front of him to collect the energy.

This dampened Roger's burning passion for nuclear fusion technology. He shook his head slightly and then looked at "The Devil" McKinley.

"If I remove this sealed artifact, will it prevent me from entering deeper dimensions?"

"meeting."

McKinley answered:
"In fact, the door to the deeper levels closed automatically at the same time this door was opened. This is a protective mechanism to prevent spies from sabotaging the energy supply here during important ritual magic."

"I see."

Roger nodded slightly. Moreover, he could even clearly sense that the spirit world inside the room was sealed off, which meant that it was impossible to enter from the outside using the "door" method. In this respect, the "Rose School" had gone to great lengths.

"Captain, what do we do now?"

Hearing McKinley's answer, Lindsay asked somewhat dejectedly:
"It's alright, didn't you notice that this door can be opened from the inside?"

Roger smiled slightly:
"I'll leave a flesh puppet here and tell it to open this door after a while. Before that, we'll investigate that so-called 'statue' and come back after we've completely resolved the problems there."

"clear."

Hearing Roger say that, Lindsay relaxed a little.

Then, he saw Roger split off some flesh from his body and then mold that flesh into a smaller version of Roger.

Most importantly, it possesses a certain degree of self-awareness, an independent personality created by Roger with the help of the "Manipulator" to ensure that this flesh-and-blood puppet can still freely carry out Roger's orders even when its mystical connection with Roger is severed.

“Pray to me every half hour, and if I tell you it’s okay to open the door, then open the door, understand?”

Roger spoke to his flesh and blood puppet, then added at the end:
"Please note that you should not pronounce my name aloud; just say it silently in your heart."

"clear."

The flesh puppet nodded, indicating that it understood Roger's intentions.

Considering that the spirit world was sealed off in this room and that the connection with the outside world was negligible, Roger thought of having the flesh puppet pray directly to the "Primal Heavenly Core," so that he could maintain communication with it no matter what.

After arranging everything, Roger and Lindsay left the room containing the "Radiant Angel's" relics and then looked at the tactical squad that had gathered at the door.

With the assistance of the two demigods, Roger and Lindsay, they had killed most of the "Rose School" Beyonders in the bunker, and also captured several mid-sequence beings.

As a price, two of Lindsay's Sequence 7 Extraordinaries were killed, and another Sequence 6 Extraordinary was seriously injured.

This immediately saddened Lindsay. He asked Roger to properly collect the remains of his fallen men and then gave the Sequence 6 Extraordinary a potion to stabilize his vital signs.

Seeing this, Roger did not rush to leave. Instead, he waited for Lindsay to finish settling the affairs of his team members and comforting his remaining men before walking with Lindsay down a slope leading deeper into the bunker.

After a while, they finally saw an elevator, which was not pulled by cables, but rather seemed to be pulled by magnetic force.

This scene left Roger speechless once again. Although he already knew that the "Rose School" had been cultivating the Southern Continent for thousands of years to build this bunker, he never expected that they would have such an exaggerated technological reserve.

In fact, this is very counterintuitive, because Roger had always felt that the "Rose School" of hedonism was crazy and evil, and these stereotypes were in stark contrast to the technology in front of him.

"There are two possibilities. One is that this bunker was built on a pre-existing ruin... The other possibility is that the 'Rose School' may have cultivated some technical talents through some special means, or that they may have directly cooperated with some local forces."

"Of course, there is also the possibility that both factors are involved. For example, there may have been a ruin here originally, and the 'Rose School' may have cultivated or found some extraordinary individuals who are skilled in engineering through special means."

Because of the bunker's unique nature, Roger was unable to use his "premonition" to reconstruct the full picture of the situation, and the matter only seemed to become more perplexing.

"Well, once we get underground and see those so-called weapons, we might be able to figure out a lot of things."

Roger composed himself, cleared several traps from the road, and then called Lindsay and his three Sequence 5 Extraordinary subordinates to descend with him.

As for the rest of the people, they were left outside to keep watch. Roger also left a flesh puppet here that had his name on it, just in case.

After Roger obtained the elevator's summoning code from McKinley and entered it, he soon saw an elevator, resembling a silver shuttle, rise up from below.

As the doors opened, the lights inside the elevator also turned on.

"go in."

Roger gave a shout and led McKinley, Lindsay, and three others in single file, and the six of them fell downwards together.

After about half a minute, Roger felt the weightlessness in the elevator significantly decrease, and then the elevator doors opened again.

A metal walkway appeared before Roger, illuminated by white lights, but otherwise there were no guards.

Roger and Lindsay exchanged a quick word before Roger went to the front again.

He soon saw another downward path, which was very dark and had no lights on.

Lindsay immediately summoned several flames emitting a blazing white light around herself and the others, which once again illuminated the path ahead.

Roger nodded slightly, signaling them to continue. After walking for a while longer, they finally saw lights again.

"Captain, someone is speaking."

Lindsay spoke to Roger through the telepathic communication channel.

"Ah."

Roger nodded. He realized that this must be where Herbert Harris was being held, and the so-called weapon must be in the deepest part of the place.

“There is a team of 8 people, all of whom are between sequence 6 and sequence 5.”

Roger, relying on his perception of the nearby sentient beings, spoke up to remind them.

Lindsay nodded, and he led his tactical squad members forward quickly.

Roger heard a series of thuds before he even saw the Guardians.

He knew this was the result of Lindsay and his team's actions. For them, assassination and sneak attacks were now a piece of cake, posing no challenge whatsoever.

Sure enough, Roger soon saw the guards lying scattered on the ground, and the mental form of a "vengeful spirit" had disappeared, clearly having been eliminated at a specific point by a method that could purify the dead.

Roger turned to look at the heavy metal door beside him. He could sense a familiar aura behind it. If he had to put it into words, it was indeed very similar to the extraordinary creatures that had once existed in "Midnight City" and were manipulated by the "Celestial Venerable".

"McKinley, how do I open this door?"

Roger looked at McKinley, who was being hypnotized, again and asked.

"Only Lord Baranka or Lord Siea have the ability to open this door."

McKinley was referring to two angels from the "Rose School" and the "Hedonists," and then she added:
"The energy source that keeps this door closed is connected to the outside."

"So that means that as long as I can take that angel relic, this door will open easily?"

Roger thought for a moment and asked again.

When Roger asked the question, McKinley nodded slightly, confirming his guess.

"Then let's not rush it."

Roger shook his head. He already had a pretty good grasp of Herbert Harris's situation, and that could be dealt with later. Right now, the more important thing was the so-called "idol."

"By the way, is there anything we should be careful about before entering the place where the 'statues' are kept?"

Roger asked another question.

"They must be believers."

McKinley's answer was brief, but Roger still understood what she meant.

In short, this mechanism is similar to the one Roger encountered in the facility where Avina was. There is a mechanism to detect whether the person entering is a follower of the "Mother Tree of Desire" or otherwise will be subject to His countermeasures.

"Captain, what do we do now?"

Lindsay asked.

"It doesn't matter, I have a solution."

Roger shook his head. He created a flesh puppet, gave it a false personality that believed in the 'Abyss', and then injected a little of McKinley's blood into the puppet.

Immediately afterwards, he activated "identity manipulation," confusing the flesh puppet's identity with McKinley's.

That wasn't the end of it. After dealing with this puppet, he created another one. This puppet's consciousness was connected to the previous one, but they shared the same vision and mind.

The function of this second puppet is to recount to Roger what the first puppet saw, and this recounting follows a specific, abstract language that only Roger can understand.

In this way, Lindsay and others would not be able to understand its meaning, nor would they be contaminated, while Roger could use "Dark Annihilation" to directly restore the corresponding description to the corresponding scene.

Because there were three layers of protection, and Roger was essentially interpreting his own words, he didn't actually see the so-called "idol" directly, but rather something distorted by "Dark Annihilation".

With the addition of the "Original Motion Core," it's like having four layers of protection simultaneously, which makes Roger feel much more relaxed.

He ordered the puppet that remained in place to direct the "Mother Tree of Desire" believer puppet to walk downwards, while the former began to describe the scene below in a special, stream-of-consciousness style.

Roger simultaneously activated the "Dark Annihilation" perspective and "saw" the scene below.

Suddenly, a wide-open space appeared before the puppet of the "Mother Tree of Desire" believers. Looking up, it saw many things that looked like energy supply devices emitting a dazzling blue light, and below them was a huge, slippery, and oily statue of the "Mother Tree of Desire".

The statue appeared to be made of metal, but unlike the statues Roger had seen before, it seemed to possess certain characteristics of a living being. Its female face clearly had the expression of a living person, and the gold coins and scales on its body also emitted a luster as if they were alive.

As for the male face, its eyes were still closed. Roger guessed that this was probably because the symbol of the "Father of Demons" of the "Mother Tree of Desire" had not yet been completely taken back, which was why the male's state had not been activated.

At the roots of this "Mother Tree of Desire" lies a dark shadow, exuding an aura of depravity, corruption, and death. From there emanates a naked aura belonging to the "Abyss" and some indescribable, even more evil.

The moment Roger's flesh puppet entered, the woman's face looked over.

There seemed to be a hint of doubt in His expression, but as Roger's flesh puppet bowed down, His expression returned to calm.

As the flesh and blood puppet bowed down, its eyes darted around, looking about.

It's looking for a way to either "shut down" or "destroy" the idol!
(End of this chapter)