Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 132 "The Primordial Beginning"

Truman destroyed the Witch Cult headquarters, but also lost all trace of Chick, making him impossible to track down.

"Which source substance is it? The City of Calamity?" Truman could only scratch his head, helpless.

At this stage, only the source matter can leave him helpless.

Just as Truman gave up his pursuit, the turbulent waves in a certain dark space gradually subsided.

"I told you not to mess with Dream!" A chilling voice rang out, sending shivers down one's spine.

"I am not a ghost you command." Chick's true form rose from an altar of bones.

It is not a "city of calamity", but a "river of eternal darkness".

The River of Eternal Darkness, which had been turbulent due to the dreamlike prying, gradually calmed down, and Salinger opened his pair of deathly gray eyes, staring intently at Chik.

After the Creator's death, the "River of Eternal Darkness" in the depths of the underworld multiplied in size, even granting Salinger a certain level of authority, enabling him to do things that even the Phoenix Ancestor of the Second Era could not do.

This includes, but is not limited to, the exploration of the dreamlike realm.

"He is mine!" Chick didn't care about Salinger's gaze at all, and even acted more frantically than Salinger.

"I don't want my collaborator to be a madman." Salinger even regretted using the uniqueness of the witch as a bargaining chip.

"You haven't seen me at my craziest." Chick used whatever was available, crafting a dreamlike statue from the remains of the bone altar, a mythical creature form He had seen in "Dream".

The dreamlike statue, crafted from bones, is pale and lifeless, utterly eerie, yet possesses a certain mystique and sacredness.

"Adam contacted you," Salinger suddenly asked.

"Yes." Chick was fixing the details of the dream statue, and when asked, he did not deny it.

Adam discovered the Witch Cult almost as soon as it was founded. He observed it from the sidelines until he discovered the Dream Faith and then took the initiative to show himself and find Chick.

"What does He want to do?" Salinger was deeply wary of this firstborn son of the Creator.

Having experienced the power of the Creator, He is probably one of the angels most intolerant of the Creator's resurrection and return.

Therefore, both Adam's "resurrection" and the "return" carried out by the true Creator were met with hostility from Salinger.

There are many angels like Salinger, and in this respect, their interests are even aligned with those of the Outer Gods.

—After the Creator returns, they will lose all opportunities.

"It's related to fantasy, you don't need to know about it." Chick bluntly refused to share information.

"..." Salinger narrowed his eyes and fell silent.

Much later, Chik finally finished polishing the dreamlike statue in his hand and looked at Salinger.

"When do you plan to begin your initiation ceremony?"

"The time when the gods can no longer care about me will come soon."

The start of Solomon's war of nation-building had already drawn in all the forces of the church, and once this war reached its climax, all the gods might get involved, which would be the best time to hold the ceremony of deification.

"I too will become the 'Primordial'!" Chik enshrined the dream statue.

……

Unable to find Chick under the protection of the River of Eternal Darkness, Truman could only turn to the Dream Duke's Mansion.

Meanwhile, the Witch of Despair in the Duke of Dreams' mansion had completely lost control due to Chick's previous madness, turning into a swarm of vengeful spirits and indescribable tentacles.

Truman broke apart the tentacles and extracted the demigod-like properties from them.

"Teacher," Bethel approached.

"How was it?" Truman asked, inquiring about what had happened while he was gone.

"It was an assassination orchestrated by the Imaginary Angels. Amon killed Zoroaster, but fortunately, the Black Emperor managed to reclaim the 'Time Worm' ability," Bethel explained briefly.

"That's it?" Truman instinctively felt there was something fishy going on. Why would Adam go to such lengths to get rid of a "Time Worm"?

"Adam..." Truman tapped the white jade table lightly, lost in thought, but under the circumstances, he couldn't contradict himself and take the initiative to investigate.

"We don't need to worry about Him; we just need to achieve our own goals."

Truman was referring to the founding war of the Solomon Empire.

Both he and Sasriel supported Solomon's establishment of a nation, so it was an unstoppable event.

As the wheels of time roll ever onward, with so many angels, and even kings of angels like Bethel and Solomon who are only one ritual away from becoming gods, they are invincible as long as the true god does not appear.

And Bethel's name resounded throughout the world during this war of nation-building.

Previously, He would have been a dream student, an angel of the Creator, but now He is Mr. "Door"!

"Gate" is Sequence Zero of the pathway to which Bethel belongs; using this title is enough to demonstrate His power.

He has been called the angel most likely to become a god.

Of course, in some people's eyes, this has already reached its end, and He certainly won't be able to take that step before the end of the world arrives.

The fact that Bethel has managed to stay in control until now is a result of both divine protection and its own strong will.

As the Solomon Wars raged, a small country in a remote part of the northern continent had to make its own choice.

The Hornach Mountains, the land of night.

This country is small, consisting of several small city-states scattered around the Hornach Mountains.

The local people believe in "Mother Heaven," and believe that death is not the end, and that their deceased relatives will protect them in the darkness.

And atop the Hornach Mountains lies a true "city of the dead".

Many people who accidentally stumbled into that city witnessed their loved ones continuing their lives there!

The boundary between life and death becomes exceptionally blurred here, and the distance between them is only between the mountaintop and the foot of the mountain, which can be easily crossed on foot.

In the eyes of ordinary people, life and death are the greatest miracles, which makes the people of the Night Kingdom extremely devout and provides the two angels on the mountain with enough "anchors" to generate humanity.

"Sister, I'm going down the mountain," Antigonus said to a beautiful woman standing in the darkness.

Antigonus had fully transformed into human form, with dark eyes and tufts of coarse, short black hair on his cheeks, possessing both the characteristics of old age and youth.

"With the protection of dreams, we can stay away from struggle forever." The "Mother of Heaven" emerged from the darkness, with a beautiful face and stable humanity. She looked at Antigonus with concern, unwilling to let him descend the mountain.

"But I'm already a 'Mysterious Servant' now." Once you reach Sequence One, you can't just stop whenever you want.

"Mother of Heaven" fell silent.

"And I also need to retrieve the relics of the Father God."

Antigonus looked at the stone tablet inscribed with the word "Honakis," which was shimmering with a dreamlike phosphorescence.

(End of this chapter)