Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 389 Battlefield

"die!"

The "Death Archon's" trial contained a hint of shock and anger at the fact that the student had almost died on his territory, as well as concern about the "Mother Tree of Desire's" ability to influence the underworld.

How could an angel who has lived for thousands of years not know about these unspeakable existences?

Under the will of the "Death Archon," the aura of death in the entire underworld suddenly surged, and the army of the dead buried deep in the underworld also ignited with pale white flames.

Under the influence of this deathly aura, the countless blood-red tentacles were stained with strands of black, and their movements became slightly sluggish.

The next instant, Azik arrived beside Klein and pulled him to his side.

In Klein's perception, it was as if the sky had fallen.

The entire world's space was compressed to the extreme, like a mirror squeezed to its limit, covered with terrifying cracks, and finally collapsed into a spatial storm.

This was supposed to be the signature skill of the "Gate" pathway, but Azik was also able to use it in the Underworld.

"Ah!" A terrifying shriek pierced through the spatial storm, causing Klein and Azik to be momentarily disoriented.

"Watch out!" Azik woke up first, his face grim, and he used a teleportation to dodge the next attack with Klein.

Just as they stood up, the phantom of a blood tree slowly appeared.

The spatial storm, which seemed to represent the collapse of the entire underworld, only destroyed the outward appearance of the mutated undead army; it was powerless against its true nature.

This power is too powerful to be completely eradicated by the deathly aura and spatial collapse of the underworld.

"This thing is troublesome..." Azik looked at the blood tree growing in the void. If he wasn't careful, it would corrupt him.

"We can draw upon the power of dreams!" Klein peeked out from behind Azik, looking at the blood tree entangled with the aura of death in the void.

In his understanding, the only power capable of affecting such a thing was dream phosphorescence.

Azik stopped his outstretched hand, glanced at Klein, and prepared to postpone his idea—to release the illusory river hidden deep in the underworld, so that the two sides could annihilate each other in their struggle.

He also knew that a deadly weapon was hidden in the deepest part of the underworld.

However, His idea also has a very big hidden danger, that is, He Himself may also suffer from the pollution brought by that illusory river water, which is very risky.

"What do you want to do?" Mr. Azik asked.

"Give me a little time, just one minute!" Klein said firmly.

"Alright!" Azik stirred up the deathly aura of the underworld, creating rings of confinement around the blood tree.

The powers of "death" and "eternal sleep" are also well-suited for sealing, not to mention the establishment of the underworld involved the authority of the "gateway".

Countless crimson tentacles danced on the Blood Tree, corrupting and transforming the aura of death into their own. However, the aura of death in the entire Underworld was simply too overwhelming, after all, it was the stronghold of the two Grim Reapers.

"Okay!" Klein looked up at the dreamlike traces above the underworld, his mind immersed in that causal perspective, grasping the causal thread between himself and those dreamlike traces.

One of the special skills of the "Causal Affinity" is to forcibly establish causality with unfamiliar things.

Moreover, these dreamlike traces and the dreamlike phosphorescence within Klein's body share the same source, so they're not unfamiliar.

Klein's consciousness entered that dreamlike trace and captured a familiar aura.

That aura had just passed through Klein's body, helping him to remove the pollution from the "Mother Tree of Desire".

And now Klein has once again stirred up the lingering aura of the "Spear of Destiny".

"Oh, the supreme dream..."

Klein hurried to pray, this time using the prayer from the Gift Ritual, but he made a modification to the last line.

"...I beseech you to unleash the power of the 'Spear of Destiny' and eradicate all evil from the world!"

hum!

The dazzling, dreamlike trace began to shimmer, and a light far more powerful than the one Klein had just encountered shot out from it.

With a hiss... Klein only saw a blurry trajectory rising from the void, traversing space, breaking through all obstacles, and nailing itself to the trunk of the blood tree.

The process was so fast that even Azik could hardly see it clearly, only feeling that all the seals he had set up around the Blood Tree had been pierced.

The two looked at the blood-red tentacles that were still thrashing wildly. A dazzling, dreamlike phosphorescent pattern covered the blood-red color. They gradually withered and disappeared.

The dreamlike phosphorescent light, resembling a "spear of fate," pierced deeply into the tree trunk. Dreamlike patterns spread outwards from it, reaching every part of the blood tree. In just a few breaths, the blood tree was covered by the dreamlike phosphorescent light.

Click!

The Blood Tree groaned in despair, its very foundation destroyed by the dreamlike phosphorescence.

"The Spear of Destiny is indeed powerful," Mr. Azik exclaimed, looking at the collapsing blood tree.

"That's really impressive..." Klein's eyes were glazed over.

"What's wrong?" Azik sensed something was wrong and put his hand on Klein's shoulder.

Boom... At the same time, Azik's eyes also became dazed. The two of them seemed to be pulled into an illusory world, where they saw the earth-shattering light that pierced through the underworld and the spirit world more than a thousand years ago.

"Who is that?" Klein looked at the end of the "Spear of Destiny".

“‘Night King’ Ternsost,” Mr. Azik said with a complicated expression. This was an angel even older than himself, who ascended to the throne in the Fourth Age.

"The ultimate target of the Spear of Destiny that pierces the underworld is that 'Night Emperor'?" Klein's eyes widened, trying to see more clearly.

Then he saw... knowledge.

"Ugh!" Klein cried out in pain, but thankfully he didn't faint like before.

Why does this scene give me a feeling of "Hidden Emperor"... Klein's spiritual intuition is already ridiculously strong. The first thing that comes to mind when this knowledge enters his mind is the "Hidden Emperor" he saw in the information image.

"Don't look around." Azik stepped forward, blocking Klein's view with a hint of exasperation, and scolded, "How did you develop such a bad habit?"

"Sorry..." Klein didn't have time to process the information he had received. He looked away, turned around, and looked at the source of the "Spear of Destiny".

"What is that?" Klein's mind raced, and he abruptly lowered his head.

"It's my father..." Mr. Azik's words carried an emotion that Klein could not comprehend.

"'The Underworld Emperor'? So this is it?" Klein awkwardly changed the subject.

"This is the battlefield that ended the Fourth Epoch," Azik affirmed Klein's idea.

(End of this chapter)