Mystery: The Undead Don't Die from Linking the Fire

Chapter 329 The Seven Great Gods Serve Me Alone

An open space on the outskirts of Backlund.

Klein had already prepared the altar in advance, and inscribed it with corresponding symbolic symbols, magical symbols, and strange patterns—these came from the symbols behind the chair of the 'Magician' above the gray fog, and Klein's divination results above the gray fog also confirmed that these symbols were correct.

Just then, a rustling sound came from the woods in the distance.

Klein keenly glanced over and saw a short woman leading a young man whose hands were tied behind his back as they walked towards them.

"German Sparrow?"

The short woman stopped a short distance away, looking at Klein, who stood beside the prepared altar, looking like a cult leader, with some suspicion.

Klein, now in the form of 'German Sparrow', spoke in a low, hoarse voice:

"it's me."

Based on their experience at the tarot reading session, and having already recognized each other's physical appearance and voice, both parties quickly confirmed each other's identities.

"The World" by Gehrman Sparrow, and "The Trial" by Hugh Deercha.

Thanks to the Hall family's help, Hugh now works for MI9 and has already reached the rank of colonel. If she can successfully advance to Rank 4, she could even be promoted to major general and deputy director of MI9.

Hugh kicked the young man, whose hands were tied behind his back, in the inside of his knee, causing him to kneel on the ground with a painful scream. He coldly said:

"This is the person you wanted, Francis Jaeger, the 'Fallen Angel' of the 'Criminal' pathway Sequence 8. In order to become an Extraordinary, he did not hesitate to eat his own parents alive, commit robbery, rape, murder, and kidnapping. He has committed numerous crimes, including dozens of murders in Backlund in just one month. Even if he is torn to pieces, he deserves to die."

Gehrman Sparrow chuckled darkly:

"I need someone like him."

Hugh frowned slightly, said nothing more, and turned to leave.

Seeing the guard leave, the young man immediately felt relieved and approached Klein with a fawning smile:

"Mr. Gehrman, what can I do for you?"

Klein gave him a deep look and chuckled softly:

Do you know me?

"certainly."

Francis Yeager, with an expression of reverence, said with excitement:

"You might not know it, but the mad adventurer has always been an idol for people like us!"

"I definitely don't want to be an idol of someone like you!"

Klein silently cursed inwardly, but remained outwardly calm, saying:

"I need your help with something."

"Please say so," Francis said with a fawning smile.

"Do you see that altar?"

Klein pointed to the altar in front of him, a 'kind and approachable' smile on his face:

"I need you to perform a ritual for me to summon a being and offer him a deal. You shouldn't refuse, right?"

Francis Yeager swallowed hard and quickly shook his head, saying:

"No, it won't happen..."

Would he dare say yes in front of this mad adventurer?

"very good."

Klein smiled with satisfaction as he personally untied Francis's bandages, patting him on the shoulder at the same time:

"If you perform well enough, I might consider letting you join the organization."

Upon hearing this, Francis Yeager was immediately energized and excitedly swore an oath of loyalty.

Is the organization to which the Mad Adventurers belong something that just anyone can join?

Even the colonel of MI9 is ​​a member of this organization. Who knows if there are other high-ranking officials in official organizations who are actually members of this organization? If MI9 has traitors from this organization, who knows if the seven major Christian churches have them too?

If such an organization existed, how terrifying it would be!

Joining such an organization is absolutely a dream come true for criminals like Francis!

Seeing Francis, who was now brimming with energy, Klein still wore a 'kind' smile and told him the details of the ceremony.

They even had him rehearse the scene beforehand, just in case nothing unexpected happened.

At the same time, Klein's vision flashed, and several figures appeared out of thin air on the open ground in front of him.

It was the embers and the offerings he had prepared!

Klein immediately stepped forward, carrying the three prepared offerings one by one onto the altar and placing them in the correct positions. He then looked at Francis and coldly urged him:

"Let's begin."

Francis was visibly nervous, but he still followed the steps they had just rehearsed, looked at the only candle on the altar, and lit it.

Klein took a few steps back and asked in a low voice:

"Is that old man Antigonus?"

There were three people on the altar: the young man was the "Sage of Mystery," the woman was the "Parasit" from the sewers, and the old man's identity was obvious—the ancestor of the Antigonus family!

"No."

Embers calmly shook his head:

"His name is Zarathustra."

"Zarathus?" Klein's expression was somewhat subtle. Ember was clearly looking for the ancestor of the Antigonus family, so how did it suddenly become Zarathus?

Did Zarathustra offer himself up?

That's very possible.

Zarathustra is certainly also coveting the extraordinary and unique qualities of that half-Fool, and given his lack of understanding of Ember, it's not impossible that he might appear before Ember with a get-rich-quick mentality...

Klein silently mourned for Zarathustra for a few seconds. Even those "tricksters" were well hidden, yet you, a Sequence 1 angel, had a shorter lifespan than those "tricksters." Shouldn't you reflect on your own problems?

But it doesn't matter, since Zarathustra has no chance to reflect on his actions.

At the same time, Francis on the altar took a few steps back and solemnly chanted in Giant's tongue:

"The Great Gate of All Gates";

"The guide to the endless starry sky;"

"The key to all the mysterious worlds."

"I beg for your response, I beg you to come into this world..."

Before he finished speaking, three loud bangs came from inside the altar.

The three demigod-level monsters corresponding to "Trickster," "Arcanist," and "Parasite" were as if gripped by an invisible hand. With only a slight struggle, they exploded, turning into clumps of flesh and blood that flickered with different colored light spots.

These flesh and blood seemed to possess their own life force, and under the guidance of some indescribable power, they gathered in mid-air, outlining one evil and filthy symbol after another.

Countless symbols combined together, slowly forming a gate that looked as if flesh and blood were still writhing, a gate over five meters high.

The gate stood on the altar, its interior shrouded in darkness, its destination unknown.

The candle representing Mr. Door suddenly flared up, illuminating the entire "Flesh and Blood Door" and the darkness.

In the darkness, there were countless spheres of faint starlight, which upon closer inspection resembled strange insects with contorted bodies.

The orbs of light rose rapidly and formed a giant arm, an arm that would have been quite difficult to pass through even the 'Gate of Flesh and Blood'.

The arm, clearly not human, pressed against the altar and forcefully pushed outwards, causing the entire "Gate of Flesh and Blood," and even the entire forest and city, to shake as if an earthquake had struck.

Francis watched this scene in horror, instinctively wanting to flee the altar, but his vision suddenly blurred halfway.

Snapped!

Something fell off his face and into the grass.

Francis instinctively looked down and saw an eyeball with bulging blood vessels rolling there.

Snap, snap, snap—his nose, his ears, his remaining eye, along with the muscles in his body, fell off piece by piece, each exuding a faint starlight.

"Help me..."

Francis looked at the two people below the altar, stretched out his hand with difficulty, his lips moved but he could not make a sound.

Pfft!

His body collapsed, his flesh and blood completely disintegrating.

At this moment, the arm finally squeezed through the "Flesh Gate" and began to try to pull out the rest of the arm.

Rumble!

In the darkness behind the door, thick bolts of lightning formed a storm and fell, only to be swallowed up by a sudden surge of blood-red water.

Finally, a colossal figure composed entirely of 'orbs of light' passed through the 'Gate of Flesh and Blood'.

The next second, those 'orbs of light' began to collapse and layer, seemingly undergoing a qualitative reorganization, and dark rifts from the void appeared one after another in the surrounding forest.

These gaps swallowed up different parts of the trees, making them look bizarre.

At the same time, a hurricane of unknown origin blew out from the crevice, sweeping in all directions, as if causing an earthquake throughout the world!

On the carriage returning to Backlund, Hugh, who was heading back to the city, suddenly heard the sound of doors opening one after another.

Every door in this city, in different places and locations, opened by itself at this moment.

"This..." Hugh couldn't help but turn his head to look at the suburban forest that seemed to be the source of the anomaly.

That was the direction she had just left in.

What exactly are Mr. World and Mr. Lover doing?

Clang!

The moment the door opened, Audrey Hall, sitting at her dressing table in the Earl Hall's luxurious villa, looked on with surprise. Outside in the hallway, her maids were rushing around in a panic. Susie, the golden retriever, burst into the room, looking at Audrey with the same unease.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In cities like Backlund, Trier, and San Mirón, everything that could be called a door was opened.

-

In Wintershire, within the tranquil church considered a sanctuary, a magnificent church rises from the ground.

Every pillar, every arch, and every dome of this church is inlaid with the bones of different races. They are densely packed together in an extremely chaotic manner, staring into the hall with empty eyes, surrounding a cross that is hundreds of meters long.

Before the cross, a blurry figure stood there, seemingly watching everything with pity.

On the walls, windows, and doors of the church, transparent and distorted faces emerged, as if countless souls were sealed inside, making it impossible for extraordinary beings to sense the existence of the spirit world and the astral world!

This is a church of bones, but instead of being gloomy, it is full of sanctity.

Regardless of whether it is sinister or holy, the presence of such a church of bones in a tranquil church is undoubtedly blasphemy, a desecration of the goddess of night!

The moment the Church of Bones appeared, darkness completely enveloped it.

A deep darkness spread from the stained-glass windows high up in the Church of Bones, shrouding the church inside and out in darkness, without a single ray of light. And in that deep darkness, the figure of a woman with ordinary features, dark eyes, wearing a simple robe, a bark belt, long black hair, and bare feet was outlined.

It is none other than the Hidden Servant, Ariana!

Ariana's gaze almost instantly locked onto the priest sitting on the first pew in the church, who seemed unsurprised by her arrival. In fact, Adam wouldn't have wanted to provoke the goddess of night unless absolutely necessary.

But now that the embers have summoned the 'gate', they must speed things up.

At least one other person must be freed from the Church of the Night.

But this would undoubtedly be opposed by the goddess of night, so she needed the assistance of another true god.

If anyone blocks the Goddess of Night, he will only have to face a single Sequence 2 hidden servant...

Adam looked away and turned to his right.

There, the figure of another woman was unknowingly outlined in the darkness.

That was Irina, the Pope of the Church of the Night.

Two secret servants of Sequence 2.

-

Outside Backlund.

At the "Gate of Flesh and Blood," layers of collapsing and coalescing, seeking qualitative change, seemed to form a figure constructed from layers upon layers of gates. This figure wore a robe of blood-red tides, and its shape was constantly twisting and changing, reflecting different planets and different regions.

Just then, a blinding ray of sunlight pierced the night, falling from the star realm and melting everything it encountered along the way.

Beyond this ray of sunlight, an impenetrable darkness surged in, attempting to engulf Mr. 'Door' Bertia Abraham, who was seeking advancement to Sequence 0.

The earth where the altar stood shook violently, cracking open a huge fissure, threatening to send the "Gate of Flesh and Blood" and Bertram Abraham plummeting into the depths of the earth to confront the "Chaotic Sea," which seemed to encompass all colors and all possibilities.

Immediately afterwards, a faint light shone through the void, enveloping the forest and attempting to restore the trees, soil, and altar to their most basic microscopic structures.

And through the only sliver of light that peeked through, a pair of brass-colored eyes emerged.

They gazed at the 'Gate of Flesh and Blood' and Bertram, trying to imprint their images into their pupils.

Mr. Door let out a low growl, causing the blood-red robe he was wearing to flutter.

The robe connected with the eerie tide surging behind the "Gate of Flesh and Blood," spreading crimson moonlight in all directions.

Upon touching the moonlight, the impenetrable darkness gathered on its own, stretching out limbs and a head, transforming into a shadowy female human.

It has acquired its own life and consciousness, and is no longer driven by the user.

Without exception, the blinding sunlight transformed into a young man clad in fiery armor; the trembling earth sprouted eyes and closed its mouth; eerie features emerged from a barrier formed by the hazy light; and around the brass-colored eyes, eyelashes sprouted and transformed into wings.

"Good heavens, all seven gods are here..."

Klein silently took a step back; it was clear that Ember's act of summoning Mr. "The Gate" was not discussed with the Seven Gods beforehand.

So when Mr. Door returned to reality, the Seven Gods immediately took action without hesitation, trying to stop Mr. Door's arrival.

This is not surprising.

The "Door" who returned from the "Outer Heavens" was inherently highly corrupted; even a single glance from an ordinary extraordinary being would cause them to collapse. If Klein hadn't been protected by the Primordial Flame and the Source Castle, he wouldn't have been able to stand here, and thus wouldn't have been able to witness all of this.

Even though he was protected from the contamination, what he was seeing still made his scalp tingle.

Fortunately, this may not be a bad thing—at least his ritual conditions have been met.

(End of this chapter)