Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 137 "Death"

At the points in time when Solomon enters the mausoleum to begin his ascension ceremony, Truman arrives at the "Abyss of Storms," ​​and the "God of War" marches towards the "Dark Heaven," other major events occur that could significantly influence the course of the world.

Southern Continent.

Compared to the northern continent, which is considered the center of the world, the development of human civilization in the southern continent is much slower.

This area is covered in dense jungles and teeming with poisonous insects, making it unsuitable for large-scale human reclamation and logging. Human settlements are mostly tribal.

Of course, during that migration from the Eastern Continent, the Southern Continent also received a large number of immigrants, and its civilization developed greatly.

In this land detached from the struggle, the most prevalent beliefs are death and the end of the world.

They belong to the "Doomsday" witch and Salinger, who has already called himself the "Grim Reaper."

Of course, in the less-noticed peripheral areas, legends of spirit gods still circulate.

Centered on legends of the underworld, the Death Cult claims that death allows one to enter the underworld and begin a new life, blurring the line between life and death and greatly reducing people's fear of death. This has led to the Death Cult gaining a large number of followers.

In that true underworld, Salinger used his underworld authority to spy on the increasingly intense divine war on the northern continent, knowing that the opportunity he had been waiting for had arrived.

"I need a death that is decisive and grand enough."

This is the ritual by which the "Grim Reaper" becomes a god.

The path of "Death God" begins with collecting corpses, digging graves, and communicating with spirits, and gradually progresses to managing the dead and spirits, becoming the emperor of death.

But in the end, even "Death" dies once, and only in this way can he truly merge with the concept of "death" and become "Death".

Such a ritual to become a god is simple, but extremely dangerous. One can die if one is not careful. The requirements for killing oneself and one's power are extremely high.

If it were truly such an enemy, after killing Him, one could only deliver the final blow, ensuring His eternal annihilation.

Salinger had been collecting materials for many years, but He only dared to try now.

In this ritual, Salinger chose to kill the "Doomsday Witch" Chick.

He couldn't possibly completely trust Chick, and He dared to let Chick kill Him because He could help Chick truly become the "Primal Witch".

Salinger travels across the southern continent, while the "Doomsday Witch" Chick brings forth apocalyptic punishment with malice.

Chick opened his eyes, his pupils were deep black, and his hair fluttered, becoming as thick as small snakes, with a slippery and sinister outer layer, and covered with mysterious patterns.

Some of these hairs had black and white eyes embedded at their tips, while others had snake-like heads with slightly open mouths, flicking their tongues.

This is Chick's semi-out-of-control state, which is close to that of a true "Primordial Witch".

Chick looked at Salinger, his intense desire to destroy everything in front of him burning down.

Salinger's face turned extremely pale. Even though he knew it was necessary for the ritual, he was still afraid of dying!

The world within Chick's sight began to turn grayish-white, and this grayish-white color seemed to have a life force, spreading in all directions and turning the world within sight grayish-white.

"Die!" The earth began to shake violently, and a muffled thud came from deep within. This was an earthquake targeting Salinger, and the power of the entire continent was being applied to Him.

Red meteors appeared in the sky, trailing fiery tails, accelerating wildly as they plummeted toward the small figure.

But the disasters that followed were far more than that. Blizzards, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other natural calamities broke out at the same time, and the world seemed to be on the verge of destruction.

These disasters only broke out in the area where Salinger lived, because of the deterrent presence of a certain extremely humane being, Salinger did not even dare to take too many burial items with him in this death.

Of course, one important reason is that Salinger also needs these believers to anchor their own will.

To become the "Grim Reaper," one's requirements regarding believers cannot be limited to the dead; the faith of the living is equally important to the "Grim Reaper."

After all, "Death" is the one who is in charge of "death" by the living, and the faith of the living can anchor Him to Himself.

The disaster occurred in only one place, but even so, the commotion there sparked panic throughout the entire southern continent.

"Is this the 'end of the world' that God is propagating?!"

Under the "apocalypse," almost all of humanity has fallen into chaos.

This is also the reason why Death chose to hold the ceremony at this time. At this moment, the gods and angels of the Northern Continent are deeply involved in the war and cannot attend to this place for a short period of time.

Otherwise, such a commotion would definitely not be kept secret, and the "God of War" and the "Goddess of Night" would surely come to stop it.

Salinger, who offered no resistance whatsoever, also began to turn gray, his reason and cognition being destroyed by the power of "doomsday".

In the ritual of becoming a god for the "Grim Reaper," the first thing the "Grim Reaper" must resist is his own instinct as a living being.

laugh!

In the blizzard, Chik coldly watched Salinger, whose body was covered in gray and white, as if the hair flying behind him had turned into javelins that pierced his body.

These strands of hair themselves brought about a collapse-like destruction, the entire gray-white world was collapsing, shattering, and disappearing!

Salinger's body suddenly turned ashen, as if he had become a stone statue. The power of everything collapsing, along with all his hair, pierced the statue and completely destroyed it.

boom!

Salinger's true demise was marked by his death.

The entire continent was also violently shaken at this time, resulting in a considerable number of deaths.

These creatures, who died almost simultaneously with Salinger, became his burial offerings, gradually shaping Salinger's initial understanding of the concept of death.

In that deeper level of death, Salinger's last vestige of self-awareness, protected by the ritual of deification, pierced through the invisible barrier and fell into a rushing river.

"The River of Eternal Darkness?!" Salinger was immediately jolted awake by his in-depth research into the River of Eternal Darkness, finding himself in that dark river.

Salinger quickly deduced his predicament: "To merge with the concept of 'death' means to approach this long river that symbolizes the ultimate end of death?"

"Screech!" Salinger's self-awareness tried to escape, but when he turned his head, he saw a huge shadow in front of the swaying, illusory river.

It was a giant bird whose feet were already stuck in the river.

The giant bird's body was covered with pale flames and feathers woven with mysterious patterns, but it was no longer intact. Its body had begun to rot, oozing pale yellow pus.

"Screech!" The giant bird suddenly opened its eyes, which seemed to be cast in bronze, and within them were countless layers of illusory doors.

A burst of bronze light enveloped Salinger, threatening to drag him into the river.

Even if the god who controls "death" dies, he will surely leave behind enough backup plans!

(End of this chapter)