Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 319 318 Dual Path True God
"I've never seen you here before. Who are you?"

Azik Eggers lifted his eyelids, looked at Tang who was smiling and staring at him, and said without any emotion, "You and I are connected by blood, but you are not His Majesty's other children, my brother, or a descendant of my brother."

For angels, this bloodline connection can be detected through mystical means, let alone for descendants of the Death Path, which involves bloodline suppression.

However, Tang is not a Death God, so even the Underworld Emperor Salinger does not suppress Tang in terms of pathway. Azik Eggers can only sense the bloodline connection, but cannot do anything through that.

"Well, how should I put it? I'm your dear son, hehe, surprising, isn't it?"

Azik Eggers: ...?
What nonsense is this person spouting?
System: 'Host, how old are you?' Why are you being so cheeky?
Tang adjusted his control over the part of Azik Eggers that had been transformed into a magical entity, releasing the manipulation of some of the spiritual threads on Azik Eggers' body, allowing the other party to move, but preventing him from doing most of the things that would be harmful to him.

This is an ability that combines the power of the Mysterious Servant with the power of the Supreme Being; Tang called it Partial Mysticization.

Unlike ordinary puppet masters, a puppet master's puppetization targets the entirety of the puppetized object. This entirety only exists in two states: puppetized and non-puppetized. There is no situation where a part of the body or part of the spirit is puppetized.

If it is a secret pair, it is a secret pair; if it is not a secret pair, it is not a secret pair. It is impossible for the lungs to be in a secret pair state but the whole body is not in a secret pair state.

However, for extraordinary beings who follow the path of the Supreme Being, there are still parts that can be separated between the spirit and the body, which exist as a "whole".

"The extraordinary ability resulting from the fusion of the observer and the mysterious servant enables the mysterious servant to control only a portion of the object's spirit and flesh without completely mummifying the object."

After partially etherealizing Azik Eggers and securing only basic control over him, Tang halted the etherealization process.

In this way, even if he removes this part of the mysticization, as long as Azik Eggers does not truly die, the organs and spirit that are dead due to the removal of the mysticization can still be repaired by the angels.

As Azik Eggers felt his taut, rusty brain gradually return to normal, he glanced at Tang, who seemed harmless, and then looked towards the doorway.

A young man wearing a black silk top hat and a matching tailcoat had appeared there sometime earlier.

Mr. "Mistake" Nicola Flamel politely tipped his hat to Azik Eggers, then turned his head and smiled, as if he were looking at the outside world through the closed door.

Even if this person is just an image from a gap in history, it's not something he can easily deal with.

He can't win, and it's very likely that he'll be completely turned into a puppet or parasitized if he makes any move.

Azik Eggers quickly made a judgment and did not act rashly after the spiritual thread was released.

What arrived was a mysterious attendant from the Diviner's Path and a historical pore image of a Time Worm from an adjacent Path, both being beings at the pinnacle of the sequence.

Azik Eggers glanced at Tang, who was looking at him amiably and calling himself his child, but who had tried to kill him the moment they met, and lowered his eyelids slightly.

"I don't have children."

"Well, that doesn't prevent what will inevitably happen in the future... But Your Excellency, just as you don't know me now and want to kill me, I don't trust you much either."

After all, Tang was not entirely comfortable with doing nothing about Azik Eggers, the ruler of the Byron Empire, who was in a state of death as a governor and influenced by the high-ranking official, the source of his direct bloodline, the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

Otherwise, he might have had a "resurrection" experience, but being betrayed or something like that is better left unsaid...

Tang glanced at Azik Eggers, who was looking at him, and then looked around at the surroundings.

This time, he wasn't looking at the interior decoration and architectural features, but rather observing the outside situation through these walls.

The empty sky, the upside-down River Styx, and the thick aura of death make this place truly unsuitable for those who are not of the Death God path or undead creatures.

As for this place, it should be the palace area where the Grim Reaper's followers and descendants reside. It should not be far from the palace of the Grim Reaper, the lowest level of this place, and the palace of the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

“After all, he is the deceased regent of the Byron Empire, so it is normal for Salinger to monitor and keep an eye on this area.”

By using both "mistakes" and "fooling" to deceive the rules here and to fool the gazes that might fall on them at any moment, Tang did not intend for Salinger to realize that Azik Eggers was in trouble and that an outsider had entered the place.

However, this is not a long-term solution.

"The time for Euclidean space to synchronize with the tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness is limited. Once the synchronization is complete, the special spacetime node opened by the River of Eternal Darkness will also disappear. We don't know when it will come again."

After all, this was an unexpected change brought about by the source material. However, he could try to replicate it later, but he couldn't guarantee that he would succeed.

After all, it involves source matter, something that his puppets can't be easily manipulated.

Therefore, Tang planned to take this opportunity to test the Hades Emperor Salinger.

Let's see what other major threats this nominal grandfather has, which could help him further suppress Salinger for the Goddess of Night and safely recover the unique path to death.

"Oh, right, about my question earlier..." Tang reached into the mists of history, chatting casually with his father who didn't even recognize him yet: "Salinger is already a 'Red Priest,' isn't he?"

Azik Eggers showed no expression, only nodding rather coldly, appearing quite calm and sensible. "Yes, Your Majesty is now a Red Priest."

At this point, Azik Eggers paused abruptly and said softly to Tang, who claimed to be his child, "Today is the day that the Primal One comes to see His Majesty."

Original? The original witch?
The Tangla Historical Aperture Image paused slightly, then, under Azik Eggers' gaze, forcefully pulled something directly from the historical fog into the real world.

It was a hazy, illusory light, its face indistinct, its countenance impossible to look at directly, as if it did not exist in this world.

At the same time, Nikolai, who was standing at the door, narrowed his eyes.

He adjusted his black silk hat and turned to look at Tang. "Salinger is looking this way. He must have noticed something's wrong here."

Wow, that was fast!

As expected, against a dual-path true god, the "error" created by Nicholas, who was only Sequence 1 and merely a historical pore image, could not completely deceive Hades Salinger.

Tang wasn't ready for his first meeting with his grandfather yet; oh dear, he was still so impolite. Emerging from the mists of history are clusters of living knowledge, distorted and bearing the most insane hues in the world.

As Nicholas's figure disappeared by the door, a massive, frenzied surge of knowledge, accompanied by countless ideas capable of instantly shutting down the brain, rushed out like a tidal wave from the door that had been opened at some unknown time and was engraved with the feathered serpent symbol.

Outside the door, a middle-aged man, dressed in a dark black robe, with a hard, unyielding face and expressionless expression, appeared at some unknown time. His iron-gray eyes gazed at the illusory, transparent, hazy, and frenzied wave composed of countless pieces of knowledge.

He confronted the "knowledge-driven expulsion" created by Tang.

Hades, Salinger.

Dual-path sequence 0, the half-mad Grim Reaper of the Byron Empire.

"In other words, this is the period after the Four Emperors' War and before the Pale Disaster, when Salinger is still negotiating with Cheek."

Tang, who transformed himself into an unobservable state, dragged the unresponsive Azik Eggers into Euclidean space, leaving behind a historical pore image of the hermit, using mad knowledge to delay his observation time and create conditions for Nicholas.

Nikolai reappeared in the corner of the room after he left the doorway.

Mr. "Mistake" twirled his black silk top hat, and in the brief moment of stunned blankness in Salinger's brain caused by the influx of frenzied knowledge, he reached out and grabbed.

The master thief pulled a dark, ethereal mass from Salinger.

"Oh no, this is terrible."

Nikolai watched with regret as his arm, along with the entire historical pore image, became ethereal and indistinct.

He stole death from this god, and then became assimilated by death.

Nikolai's figure vanished once again, replaced by a transparent insect with twelve segments, which took his place in the fate of being assimilated by death and returned to the mists of history.

As a true god with both the Death God and Red Priest pathways, he is not so easy to deal with.

Having already used the characteristics of death and the power of conquest to quickly break free from the influence of mad knowledge in a short time, the Underworld Emperor squinted at the strange thing that had also disappeared without him noticing.

"A hermit?"

He turned his head slightly and looked at Nicholas, who had reappeared in the corner.

"The Time Insect?"

He chuckled, his voice seemingly brimming with boundless malice and insane desire. "What an interesting combination."

The deity who ruled the Byron Empire during the Quaternary period slightly twisted his neck, and then, from beneath his deep black robe, he extended a not-so-strong, bronze-skinned arm.

In the hand of this deity, a wisp of illusory, waveless flame, revealing twisted, destructive energy and accompanied by the aura of the end of all things, suddenly rose up.

"The fourth pillar requires the collection of one Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristic and uniqueness from each of the three paths of eternity and the two paths of war. Although these five paths can jump between each other, they also imply some special conditions."

In cases where a forced jump occurs despite not meeting the jump path rules, the resulting abilities are equally unpredictable and terrifying.

Aside from Arista Tudor being a true madman who defied the possibility of going out of control and jumped from the Black Emperor pathway to the Red Priest pathway to become a true god, the fact that Hades Salinger, who was only a Sequence 0 Death God, forcibly accommodated a Sequence 0 Red Priest and thereby attempted to gain some control over the River of Eternal Darkness is indeed quite strange when you think about it now.

After all, He is already Sequence 0, so there's no need for Him to take such a big risk to do something like this, right?
Tang continued to squat in the Euclidean space, observing the Underworld Emperor Salinger. In the real world, at the moment the illusory flames appeared, the hidden "Hermit" historical pore image reappeared in the same spot.

The Hermit looked at the flame in Salinger's hand.

Tang squinted, also gazing at the flame from within Euclidean space.

As a qualified master of puppetry, he would not easily let himself step into a trap.

Once again, a surge of insane knowledge emerged. The Hermit, through his unique authority, had deciphered the characteristics of the flames in Salinger's hands. His twisted body, composed of insane knowledge, began to gradually become humanoid, taking on a human form.

"System, I'll graft you over later. You can then directly contact your main system and obtain power from it."

Tang quickly communicated with his system, and then he directly grafted the system onto the "Hermit" in the real world.

Without extraordinary characteristics or unique support, the "hermit" of historical gap images is unlikely to be able to suppress Salinger. Instead, the system will act as a bridge, using Euclidean space to cross time and space, and take some power, symbols and authority from the wilderness of knowledge to replenish itself and maintain the position and authority of Sequence 0.

After making the necessary arrangements, Tang quickly borrowed the authority of the Euclidean space to draw power from the future.

This time, it's not about borrowing the mysterious servant's own abilities, but about borrowing directly from something on a higher level.

He will borrow the power of the Sequence 0 of "The Supreme One".

Magicians don't perform unprepared acts. Given the high probability of encountering a situation involving the Primal, which is equivalent to a Sequence 0 and a half-Old One, Tang will not let his guard down.

Of course, he could simply leave, remaining in Euclidean space until the tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness had fully merged with Euclidean space. Then he could return directly to his current spacetime node, but…

This is a great opportunity, isn't it?

"There are some Quaternary questions I'd also like to know the answers to, especially those involving Chick..."

That deep mirror world that he found somewhat strange, a world that Euclidean space could not project into.

Moreover, Tang felt there was an inexplicable relationship between Alistair Tudor, Salinger, and Chick.

What exactly is the relationship between these three men... oh no, I mean, these two men and one woman?

(End of this chapter)