Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 320 319 The Demon of Knowledge
The flames in the hands of the Underworld Emperor Salinger, a symbol of death and destruction, instantly ignited everything around him.

Whether it was Nikolai's figure, the surrounding buildings, or the "mad knowledge" that confronted Him, everything spontaneously combusted when the illusory and invisible flames ignited in Salinger's hands.

The "Hermit" was bathed in illusory and invisible flames, gradually taking on a human form, but as the flames continued to burn it, it rapidly shrank and withered away.

Most of the knowledge was ignited, then vanished, and dissipated.

The remaining, unignited parts passed through the illusory, formless flames, forming a new torrent of information. Instead of attacking Salinger, they concealed themselves, dissipated into the material world, and avoided the burning of the illusory flames in Salinger's hands.

The "Hermit" has hidden himself in a world that illusory flames cannot reach.

The Underworld Emperor Salinger narrowed his eyes.

The deity looked at the remaining "mad knowledge" that was ignited by flames and seemed powerless to resist. With a flick of his wrist, the illusory and invisible flames exploded directly around the ignited "mad knowledge," and the scattered ignited knowledge once again set everything around it ablaze.

Everything that came into contact with this thing, whether it was the walls, the floor, or the exquisite decorations, turned into dust invisible to the naked eye and completely disappeared into the material world.

The fire also damaged the surrounding buildings.

Unaware of the situation, the descendants and retinue of the Grim Reaper were fleeing outwards, while the Saints of Sequence 4 and Sequence 3 remained in place to observe. The Angels of Sequence 2 and Sequence 1 had already noticed the anomaly.

War of Gods!

This is a divine war that has started ahead of schedule, with other Sequence 0s appearing in the depths of the underworld!
This realization forced them to consider whether they needed to support His Majesty, but this level was beyond their ability to participate in the battle. Moreover, His Majesty was already the God of Death, a dual-path True God of the Red Priest path. If His Majesty was also no match for him, they would have no chance of defeating him.

"It doesn't seem to be any of the Seven Gods of the Northern Continent."

"Let's look again. His Majesty hasn't let us pass."

Death's retinue and descendants settled down, awaiting the changes to come.

The things ignited by the flames of destruction are not easily extinguished, but they will extinguish themselves after burning to a certain extent and are taken back by the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

Otherwise, the entire underworld would be completely engulfed in flames symbolizing "death" and "destruction," and cease to exist.

The combination of the Red Priestess and the Grim Reaper brings madness while also opening up a new path for this former "God of the Dead".

"Equivalent to a weaker version of Cataclysm and Eternal Darkness."

As a tool to buy time by being pulled out of the fog of history, Nikolai had to stop his attempt to steal the power of "conquest," "war," and "death" from the other side.

Before the flames of nothingness could reach him, the "mistake" figure quickly concealed itself, while simultaneously dispatching a large number of Time Worms to search for parasitic targets in the surrounding area.

Putting everything else aside, the underworld has no shortage of corpses and souls.

Nikolai discovered that beneath their feet, many things that had never been there before had appeared.

Needless to say, one Nicholas after another appeared before Hades Salinger, who was standing at the entrance of the collapsed palace.

The Time Worms parasitized the undead army that had been revived and surged forth due to Salinger's arrival, emerging from the ground ahead of time and transforming into figures wearing black silk top hats and black tailcoats.

Once again, the knowledge of madness surged forth. When the "Hermit," who had returned from his hidden state, reappeared before the Underworld Emperor Salinger, he had taken on a human form, but it was still quite blurry, presenting an unnatural texture as if pieced together from countless things.

He looked at the Underworld King before him and stretched out his hand.

The deluge of information has reappeared.

This time, the knowledge involved was more complex and terrifying than when they first faced Salinger. This torrent of information, carrying countless contaminants symbolizing "destiny," rushed headlong toward the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

Tang was about to try to use this opportunity to corrupt the Underworld Emperor Salinger with the "predestination".

The inevitable fate of death, the inevitable fate of being swept away by the goddess of night and her arrangements, will vanish into the empty, dim, soundless, textureless void, where even time and death itself will dissipate, drowning in the river of eternal darkness.

The Underworld Emperor Salinger smiled slightly, his eyes, both calm and mad, sweeping over the various Nicholas around him, finally settling on the "Hermit" who had reappeared:
"Why do you think I'll fall for the same trick a second time?"

Having said that, the illusory and invisible flames ignited once more, and the earth trembled slightly. The Hermit's eyelids twitched slightly, and He saw rotting skeleton soldiers, feathered serpents burning with pale flames, and vengeful spirits emerging from the ground in front of the Underworld Emperor Salinger and around His feet.

Nicholas's parasitism could not replace such a massive army of undead. Therefore, undead creatures summoned by the Underworld Emperor Salinger crawled out of the ground, layer upon layer, endlessly.

These undead armies are both Salinger's most loyal servants and the Red Priest's puppet soldiers, sharing, to a certain extent, the abilities and spirituality of the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

"The Death Path is good at summoning monsters, and the Red Priest can turn monsters into puppet soldiers directly. Tsk tsk, what a disgusting setup." Tang in Euclid's space couldn't help but sigh.

The undead army that emerged from the earth quickly and resolutely stood in front of their loyal emperor. A wave of mad knowledge, carrying "destiny," slammed into these creatures. They absorbed the mad knowledge and were then ignited by the illusory and invisible flames that suddenly swelled within them.

Knowledge is being ignited, and knowledge is disappearing.

Faced with the pinnacle of the knowledge pathway sequence, the best approach of all is to completely destroy the insane knowledge upon which the opponent relies, preventing them from using this knowledge for any purpose.

Unfortunately, this is something I'm very good at.

Nikolai's clones were also ignited, with nearly two-thirds of them burning. The remaining third of his clones, while dodging the undead puppets that roared at them, pressed down on their black silk hats and aimed at the position of Hades Salinger, making a stealing motion.

A hint of blood red appeared in the black eyes of the Underworld Emperor Salinger, before quickly turning into a cold and crazed iron black.

Nikolai stole nothing this time.

Salinger controlled his own spirit and everything around him, including his own authority. The degree of control he exerted over his authority was greater than the effect of Nicholas's attempt to steal it. Nicholas's second blasphemous attempt to usurp the authority of the true God ended in failure.

"Tsk." As expected, compared to the Lord of Storms and the others, this person's authority is not so easy to steal.

This is not only because of the special nature of the Red Priest's path, but also because the other party is a dual-path True God, whose level is even higher than that of ordinary True Gods.

Nikolai's remaining one-third clone was then half-covered and devoured by the surging undead creatures, before finally dissipating completely in the illusory and invisible flames.

He had no choice but to disappear once again, waiting for an opportunity to find loopholes and deliberately create new "errors".

In this battle involving the level of true gods, Nikolai, who was merely a historical image without any extraordinary characteristics or uniqueness, knew very well that he was only playing a supporting role. The one who was truly responsible for stalling for time and leaving Tang with a gap in observation was the "Hermit" who received support from the power of the Wilderness of Knowledge.

After the frenzied knowledge was stopped, the "Hermit," rekindled, vanished once more.

This time, however, He did not sacrifice a large amount of knowledge to serve as the burning material, transforming Himself into a small cluster of information to escape the fate of being burned. Instead, He underwent a transformation.

The frenzied accumulation of knowledge, the new knowledge that was born and emerged, instantly transformed into an outer robe, striking the "hermit" who only had a human form.

On that outer robe, a torrent of information, solidified like rainwater, was moist, silent, and indescribable, hidden and unseen.

The outer robe enveloped the "hermit's" body, causing the violent, ethereal flames to dissipate instantly.

The "hermit" then recombines once more, transforming into clusters of dreamlike, ethereal things, like the thick morning mist in the mountains.

The thick fog suddenly expanded in an instant before the army of undead puppets reached Him, instantly engulfing them all, including the Underworld Emperor Salinger.

A "hermit" is a sage who conceals knowledge, and a hidden expert with the authority to conceal.

These transformed, mad forms of knowledge turned into a thick fog, obscuring the view of everything. Upon contact with the Void Flame ignited by the Underworld Emperor Salinger, it instantly enveloped the flame, forming an amber-like substance. Then, the Void Flame, along with the amber shell, slowly vanished into the thick fog.

After completing a preliminary analysis of the flames in the hands of the Underworld Emperor Salinger, the "Hermit" used the special nature of his authority to envelop the flames of burning knowledge with some useless and insane knowledge, so that they would disappear as a whole into the material world, concealing the symbolism of "destruction" and "death".

In the thick fog, the figure of the "Hermit" once again coalesced, and the knowledge that had been burned and hidden reappeared on the "Hermit" once more.

"Mystery reappears, enigmatic giant."

The Demon of Knowledge, the Mad Mystery—!
Behind the "Hermit," in the thick fog, a gigantic monster, comparable to a castle, with massive limbs and a buzzing, semi-circular head, appeared, its body radiating various eerie and distorted halos. This monster, constructed with "knowledge" at its core, was a formidable entity.

The enormous monster opened its mouth, which could be described as a gaping maw, and raised its fist, which was about half the size of a room, towards the direction of the Underworld Emperor Salinger, before slamming it down.

The vision of the Underworld Emperor Salinger seemed unaffected by the dense fog. He looked at the monster, and invisible flames once again scorched the castle-like monster.

The mad knowledge that made up the form of the Mystic Troll was rapidly "dead," destroyed, and ruined under the scorching flames of nothingness, but even more mad knowledge emerged from the Mystic Troll's body.

For the "hermit," information can be copied and recalculated.

"Having mastered the core of the crazy knowledge, those at the top of the knowledge pathway can re-evolve knowledge through knowledge once again."

Even profound knowledge is deduced from basic theoretical foundations. As long as the theoretical foundations exist, knowledge for the "hermit" is something that can be continuously calculated and deduced again.

The "recluse" who holds the core of knowledge can freely and continuously generate more and more outrageous knowledge.

He is the embodiment of the concept of knowledge!

The Hermit, standing beneath the Mystic Giant, gazed with eyes gleaming with a brilliant light at the Underworld Emperor Salinger, who was also looking at him.

The earth trembled slightly, and the flames created by Salinger were constantly being concealed by the thick fog. The puppets of the undead legion in the hands of the Red Priest were being crammed with frenzied knowledge under the hammer blows of the arcane giant.

The attack, damaged by the burning knowledge, failed to hit Salinger, but instead affected the undead army that crawled out of the ground.

They either exploded directly, twisted and writhed into monsters, or became replication points of information, assimilated into part of the "Hermits".

The Hermit and the Underworld Emperor Salinger gaze at each other from afar.

The Hermit reached out and aimed at Salinger, who was still looking at Him indifferently.

He attempted to completely conceal the authority of Hades, Salinger, regarding "death," "war," and "conquest."

From the Sequence 9 Corpse Collector to the Sequence 0 Grim Reaper, from the Sequence 9 Hunter to the Sequence 0 Red Priest, from low to high, from simple to difficult, step by step, He concealed all the abilities brought by His extraordinary characteristics, His divinity, and the part of Him that came into contact with the Source.

However, hiding a half-ancient person is extremely difficult.

He stretched out his hand, and a surge of frenzied knowledge flowed forth. But before the "Hermit" could make a move, Salinger was blocked by another god standing in front of him.

"It looks lively here."

A languid, slightly hoarse female voice rang out from the thick fog.

The Hermit looked up and saw a figure in a white bone dress appear in the thick fog. Her eyes shimmered and she stood between the Underworld Emperor Salinger and the Hermit, blocking their gazes from meeting.

In Euclidean space, Tang narrowed his eyes.

This witch had thick, black hair that cascaded down like a waterfall, and a pair of deep blue, gem-like eyes. Her gaze toward the "hermit" held a mixture of scrutiny and judgment, which ultimately transformed into a deep smile.

The Primal Witch Chik has arrived!
(End of this chapter)