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

Chapter 358 Drag the opponent to a lower level

On the boundless wilderness, a flash of lightning illuminated the young man's face.

He looked up at the sky, his moving lips uttering no sound, but the Dark Wolf could clearly discern several words from his lip movements:

I've got you!

Klein's lips curled up uncontrollably. This was his hidden plan—as long as the Dark Wolf was "contaminated" by the Primal Flame, it would never be able to escape his pursuit.

This perfectly illustrates the famous saying:

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you!

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Inside the ancient castle, in the dark hall where no candles were lit, the mountain-sized demon wolf stood up and immediately severed all connections between itself and the outside world. Although the ritual was nearing completion and it would soon advance to Sequence 1, its experience told it that it could not afford to take any chances!

The land of the Forsaken is vast, and there will be many more opportunities to hold ceremonies.

Even if it doesn't work out this time, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

But you only have one life!

The reason He has survived to this day is because He never takes risks!

In just a few seconds, He can completely sever His connection with His surroundings, preventing Him from being tracked by others. At that point, He can escape the crisis simply by making a self-declaration and self-realization to travel to a distant place.

He has been doing this for thousands of years.

However, the Dark Wolf had a premonition that the crisis it faced this time might be even more dangerous than that of Amon, since Amon could not corrupt it without it realizing it!

But the flames could.

He had only glanced at it through the light of prayer, yet He was unknowingly corrupted.

What's even more terrifying is that even now, He still hasn't figured out what exactly happened before, or what methods the other party used to corrupt Him.

The only saving grace was that a historical projection remained between Him and the prayer, and only that historical projection was corrupted; otherwise, the other party would probably have already descended upon Him by now…

The moment the Dark Wolf had this thought, a rising flame was suddenly reflected in its pupils.

Immediately afterwards, the figure of the young man who was praying to him was also outlined in the rising flames!

In the dark hall, the eight-legged Dark Wolf Kotal, supporting its body, faced off against Klein, whose outline was painted with flames.

The first meeting between the "God of Wishes" who survived the Second Age and the "Fool" of the Fifth Age was undoubtedly a historic moment. But faced with this historic meeting, the Dark Wolf Kotal showed no reluctance and immediately prepared to leave using a "miracle".

However, just as He made His wish to teleport away and was about to fulfill it, an invisible force stopped Him—a force also called a miracle! The Dark Wolf wished to teleport to a distant place, while Klein wished to prevent the Dark Wolf from fulfilling its wish!

This is actually a common problem for most extraordinary paths—the greatest enemy is never the extraordinary individuals of other paths, but the extraordinary individuals of the same path and at the same level.

For example, in high-sequence battles via the "spectator" pathway, if both sides are at the same level, various methods are unlikely to produce real results:

One can infiltrate the island of consciousness to conduct deep hypnosis; another can guard the gates of the mental body, preventing any external consciousness from entering; one can spread a mental plague, using the vast ocean of the collective unconscious to imperceptibly erode the enemy; and the other can soothe oneself, treat psychological illnesses, and maintain mental health...

Therefore, battles between 'spectator' saints of the same sequence will inevitably lead to extremes in the end—that is, both sides will hypnotize themselves, 'transform into dragons,' and engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with each other's claws and tails.

However, since most extraordinary individuals who use the 'spectator' pathway are not good at direct combat, although 'dragonization' gives them great strength and physique, their fighting style is more like street thugs fighting.

The same applies to the 'diviner' path.

When both sides in a battle are miracle workers, their first reaction will inevitably be to exchange wishes and miracles.

In theory, Klein, who had only been a miracle worker for less than a week, would have a hard time fighting against the Dark Wolf.

Since "wish" is a standard divine power, "miracle workers" naturally have some limitations when exercising divine power at the Sequence 2 level.

For newly promoted "Miracle Workers," they can only fulfill their own desires by fulfilling the desires of others. Only by fulfilling smaller desires can they gradually achieve larger ones.

The nature of this extraordinary ability is somewhat like using an anchor, belonging to the collective type. It utilizes the similar desires of different spiritual beings to help me create miracles, and it seems to be related to the ocean of the collective unconscious.

In other words, a "miracle worker" must first collect and fulfill all sorts of wishes before they can turn the corresponding situation into reality by making a wish to themselves during battle. Moreover, at the beginning, the wishes that a "miracle worker" can fulfill are very small. They must accumulate them step by step in order to create a "miracle." They cannot just do whatever they want.

For example, if the Dark Wolf Cortal attempts to change its location by making a wish, it must have fulfilled many similar wishes from others, ranging from simple to difficult.

For example, you could help someone teleport from home to school, or from home to the office, or help someone move others from the top of the stairs to the bottom of the stairs. As long as the desire to "move" is designed, this "miracle" can be gradually enhanced.

Under these circumstances, the miracles that the 'God of Wishes,' who has lived for thousands of years, can accomplish are theoretically far greater than those of Klein. This is because countless creatures have had their wishes granted by the Dark Wolf over these millennia.

Claire has only been a miracle worker for less than a week, so how many people can have their wishes granted by him?

The answer is five million.

Yes!

Although he has only been a miracle worker for a short time, Klein has already fulfilled the wishes of more than five million people!

When Fursac's airships reached the skies above Bebecland, whether they were thugs from the East End, middle-class people from Hillston, wealthy people from the West End, nobles from Queens, or even extraordinary individuals from various churches, at least for that moment, their desires were the same—to stop the Fursac people.

Klein wasn't aware of any of this at the time; he was simply driven by instinct to stop the Fursaks and also to kill his enemies.

But his actions were undoubtedly successful; he successfully repelled the Fursak airship force and prevented their air raid. In effect, he fulfilled the wishes of the people, the wishes of over five million people throughout Backlund.

This resulted in Klein, who had just become a "miracle worker," having a very limited time and lack of experience, being able to perform very few miracles.

And because of his 'achievement' of seeing the wishes of five million people, Klein has an exceptional talent for 'stopping others'!

As a result, although Klein himself cannot accomplish many miracles, as long as he is alive, the Dark Wolf will not be able to fulfill any of his wishes!

Since neither side can fulfill their wishes, they are naturally back to square one. And without the power of a 'miracle,' both sides will inevitably rely on their other extraordinary abilities—such as summoning historical rift projections.

Klein had already anticipated this situation, so before the Dark Wolf could react, he had already extended both hands simultaneously—

With his left hand, he dragged a figure out of the void—it was Mr. Azik, with his bronze skin and gentle features.

He held a metal cigarette box in his right hand and snapped it open.

Inside the cigarette box lay a Rune coin, its surface flashing with light, revealing Renette Tinicol, dressed in a somber, elaborate long dress and carrying four blond, red-eyed heads.

Although Miss Messenger is partially disabled, she is still much better than the historical projection.

More importantly, the messenger is a spirit being, whose essence is "spirit," so she can descend upon the Forsaken Land by entering above the gray fog!

As soon as she appeared, Renette Tinicol immediately understood the situation.

One of the golden-haired, red-eyed heads He was holding spat out a rectangular, diamond-like talisman, while the other three heads uttered a word each in Ancient Hermes, Giants' Language, and Elvish:

"Yesterday!"

The rectangular, diamond-like rune was instantly engulfed by the transparent flames and merged with the void.

Renée Tinicul's body swelled, and four blond, red-eyed heads flew up simultaneously, landing on her empty neck and overlapping. In an instant, the messenger had transformed into a giant rag doll, almost bursting open the Dark Wolf Castle!

Faced with Klein's actions, the Dark Wolf never attempted to counter him by summoning historical projections in the same way, which immediately made Klein realize that his strategy was correct!

When it comes to the application of miracles, Klein knows very well that he is no match for the Dark Wolf. But fortunately, he doesn't need to compete with the Dark Wolf in using miracles; he only needs to prevent it from performing miracles.

When 'miracles' cannot be used, summoning historical projections of other angels becomes the best option for 'miracle workers'.

The problem is that the prerequisite for summoning a historical projection of an 'angel' is that the 'miracle worker' himself is familiar enough with the angel being summoned.

One reason is that the more familiar you are with the summoned object, the higher the success rate.

On the other hand, it's because the summoned historical projection has the option of 'betrayal'!

The reason is quite simple: although the historical projections are summoned by "ancient scholars," the summoned objects, as angels, mostly possess various extraordinary abilities that allow them to perceive this "summoning" and, through certain means, gain control of these historical projections.

Therefore, for ancient scholars and miracle workers, summoning familiar angels was the best option.

They would not summon unfamiliar or even hostile angels unless absolutely necessary, as that would only bring danger.

For example, when Zarathustra clashes head-on with the Embers, he always summons a historical projection of "Emperor Roselle" first, because he believes he is familiar enough with Roselle. However, when he is forced to summon unfamiliar or even hostile angels due to insufficient power, unsurprisingly, something goes wrong—

Amon seized control of the historical projection immediately and chose to betray Zarathustra in order to claim uniqueness. As a result, Zarathustra was betrayed and killed, without even a chance to escape.

Therefore, although Klein had enough power to summon multiple angel projections, he would always first summon Mr. Azik's historical projection, and then see if it was necessary to summon Miss Messenger and Will Onsetin's historical projections, because he was familiar enough with Mr. Azik and the relationship between the two was close and friendly enough.

While Miss Messenger and Will Onsett both have many secrets, at least for now they are on Klein's side, so there's no need to worry about betrayal.

So, what summoning options are available for the Dark Wolf, the "God of Wishes"?

The answer is, not a single one!

During the Second Age, giants, elves, and vampires formed a pan-human alliance to oppose a non-human alliance composed of dragons, phoenixes, and other alien species. As for the demon wolves, they had no allies and were regarded as a common enemy by both sides, just like the demons.

This means that the angels that Cortal can summon are limited to the wolf race.

However, according to the information Klein had, even among the wolf clan, Kotal's interpersonal relationships were extremely poor!

There are only five angels in the wolf race, including Cortal himself.

Of the other four angels, the half-Fool, the cub of the Destroyer Wolf, harbors extreme hatred for Cortal. The other is the half-Fool's sister, whose relationship with Cortal isn't bad, making her a potential target for summoning. However, if that one is summoned now, the one who arrives might not be the one Cortal desires.

The remaining two angels are the god of the dead and the goddess of misfortune.

Although the former has fallen, he was, after all, a former god of death, and Cortal is not qualified to summon a historical projection of a god.

As for the latter, even if the other party were willing to respond to the summons, Cortal wouldn't dare to summon them, after all, Klein felt that Cortal probably didn't want to seek death...

Even the angels of the wolf race couldn't be summoned, let alone angels of other races.

Having spent thousands of years hiding in the land abandoned by God, the only angel Cottal could come into contact with was Amon.

Summoning Amon now wouldn't be a problem in terms of success rate, but what choice Amon would make was anyone's guess. As long as Cortal retained a shred of reason, he wouldn't make such a self-destructive choice.

As a result, Cortal is unable to use miracles or summon other angelic projections from historical gaps.

This "miracle worker" who has lived for over two thousand years was at a complete disadvantage when facing Klein, who had been promoted to Sequence 2 for less than a week!

Just then.

Accompanied by a faint, ethereal blue light, a 'door' slowly appeared in the hall.

click!

The door slowly opened, and a middle-aged man with an ordinary, stern face walked out. He had a pair of deep blue eyes that seemed to ripple with layers of light.

It was Bethel, the "Guardian Angel" under the command of the "Fool"!

With the four archangels surrounding Cortal alone, this was like a dragon charging in – how could he possibly lose?!

(End of this chapter)