Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 327 326 The Destined One
There are three types of protection around the Death God's Mausoleum in the Raging Sea.

The first is a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness, which originates from the seabed. That tributary is filled with the death imprints of the people who once served the Underworld Emperor Salinger. These undead, who have been dead for countless years, serve their emperor in endless cycles of life and death, launching indiscriminate attacks on any "tomb raiders" who trespass into the area of ​​the mausoleum.

Secondly, influenced by the power of "death," the distance from which the inverted pyramid mausoleum was killed kept it inaccessible.

The first and second combinations, unless paired with a high-sequence Gate Path Extraordinary, could potentially result in even the Solar Path, a sequence path naturally countering the undead, being destroyed on the surface of the Raging Sea and becoming a vengeful spirit loyal to the Emperor.

The third scenario involves the invaders arriving at the inverted pyramid mausoleum after the first and second attempts, where they will face the pyramid itself.

Tang, carrying Owen, bypassed the first and second Euclidean spaces and arrived at the distant area at the point of death.

The Euclidean space has already merged with this place, and these things cannot stop him.

Having distanced themselves from the spirits and the sea surface covered with the mangled remains of Owen's nailed-to-the-ground corpses, Don and Owen soon came into view of the inverted pyramid mausoleum, which appeared tiny from afar but whose true size became apparent only upon closer inspection.

The massive inverted pyramid, with the sky as its base, extends downwards layer by layer, gradually shrinking in size. The dark gold bricks emit a faint glow under the dark, lightless sky.

This light does not bring a sense of security; instead, it gives people a strange and terrifying feeling, as if a person who died unjustly has stained the stone bricks with their blood before death, and in the dark environment, they are roaring angrily at everyone, telling their grievances.

"Next, we'll truly be stepping into Death Salinger's scheme... If you feel unwell, I'll send you out."

To be honest, Tang didn't really want to bring Irving along on this trip.

He wasn't an extraordinary being on the Grim Reaper path. Even though entering this area symbolized him as a "sacrifice," even if Salinger tried to resurrect him through the bloodline connection, Salinger would only get two resounding slaps, just like Zun Zun Bao.

Even Zun Zun Bao had to obediently accept the slaps from the "time traveler," let alone the Grim Reaper Salinger, who was from a completely different path.
If he intends to rely on his seniority, then he'll cause trouble.

But not for Owen. The Death Path's power imbalance is too severe. The closer one gets to the uniqueness of the Death Path, the greater the impact on Owen, the Pale Emperor of Sequence 1...

Ah, but it's alright. Let him come if he wants. The Pale Emperor of Sequence 1 is a fairly powerful angel. He won't die so easily or be possessed by Salinger.

Besides, there's him too.

He could easily defeat the dual-path Salinger before, and even after Salinger died, he could still steal people right in front of him?

With that ability, they would have defeated the Seven Gods in the Pale Calamity long ago.

"It's okay, I'll tell you if I can't handle it."

Irving scratched the back of his head and said.

"Okay, if you can handle it, then there's no problem."

Tang nodded and looked at the top of the inverted pyramid, that is, the very tip of the bottom.

"Let's dismantle it layer by layer, although going straight to the top isn't impossible..."

However, you might also gain some extraordinary features and interesting items along the way, since this is Salinger's mausoleum, and there must be plenty of good things inside.

Tang didn't use Euclidean space to see what the good stuff was beforehand. After all, everyone wants to enjoy the process of opening blind boxes, right?

“Okay.” Irving nodded.

Tang manipulated the spacetime before him, and the surface of the pyramid, which had been imbued with some extraordinary ability and refused entry to outsiders, rippled slightly. The dark golden stone bricks, exuding an ominous and deathly aura, were silently swallowed by some dazzling things, opening a door of light in front of Tang and Owen.

For the actual manipulators of Euclidean space, the constant transformation between dimensions makes Tang equivalent to a high-ranking figure in the "gate" pathway.

Tang went in first, followed closely by Irving.

Upon entering the pyramid mausoleum, the first thing you see is a spiral staircase leading upwards.

There were no lights in the mausoleum, so Tang took out two kerosene lamps from the mists of history and gave one to Owen.

The bricks and stones here also emitted an uncomfortable glare under the light of the lantern. As the two walked uphill, after moving about twenty or thirty meters, the view suddenly expanded considerably.

"It looks like a burial chamber?"

This is a huge tomb chamber, with many neatly arranged coffins placed inside, each bearing the coat of arms of the Byron Empire and decorated with feathered serpents.

The surrounding walls are carved with many exquisite murals, which, at a glance, seem to depict the greatness of the Byron Empire, the Underworld Emperor Salinger, and the prosperity of the entire country... and so on.

There seem to be quite a few burial objects here, most of which appear to be sealed items of high quality.

"According to the funeral customs of the Byron Empire in the Fourth Age, this level of furnishing indicates that the people buried here were of high status."

During that period, the middle and upper levels of the Byron Empire were basically filled by extraordinary individuals of the mid-to-high sequence from the Death God pathway.

Tang stood outside a certain boundary, not easily stepping into this seemingly lifeless tomb chamber.

Don't be fooled by its seemingly harmless appearance; in reality...

"Those bodies placed in coffins must have been alive."

Irving glanced at the coffins and said to Tang.

"That's normal. For Death, death is never the end of life. The states of 'living' and 'dying' are always relative."

After examining the corpses in the coffins, Tang noticed that many of them were already rotten, with oily yellow feathers growing from the rotten parts.

Many of these corpses still possessed power derived from extraordinary characteristics.

"The highest is Sequence 4, which is the Undead, two of them. The rest are mid-sequences. There are no bottom-sequences."

Demigods only deserve to lie in the outermost coffin.

As for the sealed artifacts here, well, there are a few extraordinary items at Sequence 4 level.

After completing the most basic intelligence gathering, Tang Xiangqian took a step forward.

As he crossed a certain boundary, corpses—rotten, half-rotten, and even with feathers growing out of them—either opened their eyelids or their eyeballs slid, all looking in Tang's direction.

There is a blood connection, but he is not an extraordinary being of the Death Path...

Before they could react, their bodies suddenly slammed open the coffin lid, and strands of spiritual energy surged, rapidly pulling them to the ceiling of the tomb. The corpses tried to struggle, but their struggles quickly diminished. The rapid transformation of a mysterious servant who had digested the potion into a golem was something that corpses of their level could not withstand.

So, before long, these corpses, whose bodies were constantly growing feathers, eventually turned into dried, bacon hanging from the ceiling, their bodies swaying back and forth.

"Living apart from the world, ascending to immortality."

Tang shook his head as he watched the feathers, covered in a yellow, oily sheen, drift down from the corpses.

A normal Death God who is an extraordinary being should have white fur in their mythical creature form, right?

These are all contaminated.

After quickly eliminating these small karami by pseudomorphism, Tang snapped his fingers.

The newly created puppets that were being hung up trembled a few times. Then, balls of light emanated from their chests, slid down, and landed in Tang's other palm, which was not holding the lantern.

The extraordinary characteristics of a demigod are better than nothing, I suppose.

After recovering the extraordinary properties, Tang also collected the extraordinary items buried with him, and then continued walking towards the corridor at the end of the tomb chamber, preparing to go to the next floor.

Owen glanced at the "Mystic Puppets" hanging in mid-air, swaying precariously, rapidly dying under the power of the entire mausoleum after losing their extraordinary characteristics, then looked at Tang, who was preparing to go down to the next level, and shook his head with some pity.

"You all, good luck to you."

After thinking it over, Irving also walked forward.

The locusts' passage is nothing more than this.

"I feel like you're cursing at me..."

"No." Owen shook his head quickly.

-

"I also saw some strange scenes in the future."

The Republic of Intis, capital city: Trier.

Tang, a "historical image" pulled out of the fog of history by Nikolai, rested his chin on his hand and looked around listlessly.

This is Trier, which is equivalent to the East Side of Backlund, a poor area. The vast majority of people living here are from low-income families with poor living conditions. It is also the home of many people who have no opportunity or ability and can only become homeless.

Of course, under the Eternal Sun, with the assistance of the God of Craftsmen, the Intis government, and Miskatonic, the minimum guarantee system was in effect in Intis. Living was not necessarily a good thing, but dying was not so easy.

"Is it related to the Fourth Pillar?" Nikolai's light brown eyes flickered slightly as he asked softly.

"Yes, as you know, the fourth pillar requires two pathways of calamity and three pathways of eternity. In other words, it must have the uniqueness of each of the five pathways and a unique characteristic of each to become the fourth pillar."

Tang waved his hand. "Although we don't yet know whether the formation of this fourth pillar is simply a matter of collecting all the symbols to advance, or whether it requires a specific ceremony and a special opportunity to complete, in my expectation, it can only be used as a last resort."

In other words, it's a bluff used to intimidate people when negotiating with those old guys, with the belief that "we'll drag all the Great Old Ones and their pillars down with us."

He doesn't yet have the idea of ​​letting the world perish along with him.

"No one wants the fourth pillar to be born. We don't want it, and neither do the Fallen Mother Goddess and the Tree of Desire."

“But before, when I finished digesting the Mysterious Servant potion, I mentioned that I had a dream that was supposed to be related to the birth of the Fourth Pillar… Nikolai, do you remember?”

“I remember it vividly, Don.” Nikolai leaned against the wall covered with unknown plants, watching the crowds passing by outside the alley. “The clones and puppets are all over the Trier region… I’m bringing this up here suddenly because of that ‘destined person’ I saw before…”

The Sequence 8 of the "Supreme One" pathway, the potion is called "The Chosen One," which can also be referred to as "The Protagonist."

Everyone is the protagonist of their own life. From a small event to an entire era, everyone is enacting their own story.

Those in this sequence who are extraordinary can use spiritual power to drive events forward, determine who is the protagonist of a certain event, and thus advance the plot, gaining extraordinary luck and adventures...

After all, the existence of the "protagonist's halo" has a somewhat predetermined feel to it.

Of course, the "destined one" that Nikolai and Don are referring to now is not the title of the potion in Sequence 8 of the "Supreme One" pathway. This "destined one" refers to the protagonist of the book "Lord of Mysteries", which is the protagonist of the current era.

Klein Moretti.

"But in other people, I sensed a 'destined person' who was beyond my control... I've only seen this in Tao Tao and Ke Miao before, and they weren't recipients of the grace, so there's probably only one possibility..."

Logically speaking, the existence of "destined people" is either due to the influence of the novel "Lord of Mysteries," resulting in the automatic evolution of the traces left on the "Supreme One," thus giving them the aura of "destined people," or it is due to Tang bestowing blessings through a corresponding sequence of means. Basically, there are no wild "destined people."

Tang said slowly.

"In other words, the protagonists of the next era."

Nikolai's gaze fell on a little boy who had suddenly turned into the alley and looked a bit disheveled.

"When I was dealing with Salinger and Chik, I used the authority of the 'Supreme One' to look into the future of the Primal Witch."

Tang smiled. "Isn't it interesting? In one possible future scenario, I see Chick and Alistair Tudor both being eaten, and this has a strong connection to the birth of the Fourth Pillar..."

It's as if someone in the future, at some point, merged Cheek and Alistair Tudor.

A Frankenstein's monster—spiritual, physical, physical, mental, and spiritual.

"Hmm, and it feels like this possibility, like what I saw in Triss Chick, carries a kind of irresistible, disgusting yet tempting sense of destiny, making you want to take a bite..."

The little boy got closer and closer to Nikolai. He looked at Nikolai, who was standing against the wall, with some wariness, tightened his grip on the bag he was holding, and prepared to walk around this strange adult with a dusty face.

And behind him...

"Don't run, you little brat!"

(End of this chapter)