Mystery: The New Black Emperor Descends

Chapter 753 The Fall of the "Hidden Sage"

As a "dream weaver," Audrey easily sent Hobert into the dream world.

In fact, given Hobart's current level, entering a dream world would be quite easy for Him. He only needs to "distort" the state and thoughts of someone nearby, causing them to fall asleep instantly and have a dream. He can then use that person's dream to "jump into" the dream world.

But Hobert now wants to strengthen his humanity and interact more with those around him, especially the two queens, so he asks Audrey for help.

Audrey was happy to see that she could help Hobert, who was in a "high sequence," and this feedback was a "positive feedback" that also helped Hobert maintain his humanity.

After entering the bizarre and fantastical dream world, Hobart shouted, "Fabuti!"

With a shout, many discordant and colorful parts of the dream suddenly stopped, then quickly disappeared like a mouse seeing a cat.

These places are all hidden dangers in the dream world. Some are unknown fears, some are extraordinary distortions and madness manifested in dreams, and some are projections of the spirits of terrifying beings in dreams.

They generally do not actively affect other people's dreams, but if someone accidentally encounters them in their dream, most of the time they will have a nightmare, and occasionally it will cause some disastrous consequences.

Hobert merely shouted something; he didn't use any extraordinary abilities.

These things fled simply because Hobart's terrifying layers made these "dangerous parts of the dream" aware of the danger, so they quickly hid.

A second or two later, the dream in front of Hobert was covered by thick grass, and then not far in front of him, a Gothic hall rose up from the ground, and Fabti’s human figure, a tall and thin middle-aged man, stood in front of the hall.

His condition is worse than before, and even in the dream world, he dares not leave the great hall.

Hobert stretched out his right hand, and a small mirror appeared in his hand. He tossed it gently towards Fabuti, and the next second, the mirror was in Fabuti's hand: "I have built a hidden space for you in the 'Mirror World'."

Hopper said, "If the people sent by the 'Mother Tree of Desire' find you, hide in that secret space."

"If you hide a little longer, I'll help you eliminate the 'Dark Side of the Universe'."

"I believe you have already found clues to the 'Shadow World.' Now that the seal on the Western Continent has loosened, quickly become an Outer God and join the battle against the Outer Gods!"

Fabti stroked the mirror in his hand and let out a long sigh of relief: "Thank you."

In the past few days, some "strangers" have appeared in front of the main hall. It is estimated that it will not be long before the followers of the "Mother Tree of Desire" will be able to find Him using the "dark side of the universe".

"I didn't help you for nothing," Hobart added. "In the future, you will take all the demons to live on another planet."

"I know that even if you are not here, humanity has an evil side, but at the same time, humanity also has a beautiful side. Your existence will make that fragmented beautiful side even more pale and powerless."

Fabti agreed almost without hesitation: "No problem!"

As He spoke, He gave Hobert a clump of His blood, which would allow Hobert to more easily find the "Dark Side of the Universe" and, of course, easily locate the "Demon King".

This is yet another statement from Fabti. From the moment Hobert appeared in the dream, He knew He had made the right bet.

……

September has arrived in the blink of an eye.

On a mountain peak at the edge of the Starry Plateau, Hobert glanced at the vast plains in the distance, the Pass River Valley, a fertile land.

There is a not-very-large river that flows through the valley at the foot of Hobart. This section of the river is very steep and only a few dozen kilometers long, but the elevation difference is several hundred meters.

In the valley behind Hobart, a dam is under construction.

That is the world's first hydroelectric power station. At this time, only half of the dam has been built, and it is expected to be completed in the second half of next year.

The construction team will then divert the river in front of Hobart so that it flows into the completed dam.

A number of thermal power plants have already been built during the previous wave of infrastructure construction.

However, with the widespread use of electric motors, electricity is now mostly used in factories. Currently, only town-level administrative units in Atlantis have access to electricity, while most rural areas still use candles or oil lamps.

Hobert sat on a rock, watching the people working on the construction site for more than ten minutes at a time.

He did not intend to speed up the construction of this hydroelectric power station, because this hydroelectric power station brought together many engineers and elites from the power sector in the country. They still needed to accumulate experience through this hydroelectric power station, and then build hydroelectric power stations all around the vast Xingxing Plateau!

Hobart did not intend to interfere with these construction projects, as they were important but not urgent, and he could leave them to his bureaucracy to handle.

After watching for a while, Hobert finally got up, and the next second, he was already in the raging sea amidst thunder and rain.

This is the area outside the safe passages in the raging sea, a dangerous area that many demigods dare not venture into.

Hobert slightly raised his hand, and the dark clouds that had lingered in the air for over a thousand years dissipated, allowing sunlight to shine once again onto the deep blue sea.

He "altered" the environment of the real world here, restoring the boundary between the real world and the underworld that had collapsed when the Underworld Emperor fell.

This is the fundamental reason why the raging sea is "raging".

As Hobart moved forward, "altering" the natural laws of the raging sea, he took out a small glass bottle from the "Land of Chaos".

Inside this glass bottle is a flowing stream of information, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting.

Bernadette completed her ascension ceremony after sealing her father in the tomb of Roselle on the mysterious island.

During the promotion process, the "Hidden Sage" tried to infiltrate Bernadette's body with a stream of information, but Hobart "intercepted" it.

Hobart kept this information stream belonging to the "Hidden Sage" so that he could find the "Hidden Sage" when the time was right.

The reason He sought revenge against the "Primal Witch" first, and then went to find the "Hidden Sage," is because the "Hidden Sage" and the "Wilderness of Knowledge" seem to have some connection.

Therefore, this seemingly uniquely activated evil god, lacking the characteristics of a "knowledge emperor," can at times possess the level of a deity.

In certain specific circumstances, this is even more difficult to deal with than a real god.

Like the "Primal Witch," the "Hidden Sage" must have realized that Hobert would eventually come to settle accounts with him for everything that had happened before. Therefore, according to Hobert's "connections," this evil god hid in the depths of the raging sea.

Because He has no physical form, the raging weather of the raging sea does not cause Him any real harm!

Using the connection of that information stream, Hobart ventured deeper and deeper into the raging sea. Behind him, a vast expanse of sea had returned to normal.

These sea areas have several scattered islands, which have not seen the sun for more than a thousand years. They look craggy and only some plants that rely on spiritual nourishment and extraordinary plants survive.

Meanwhile, those islands had long since become a paradise for monsters, some of which were extraordinary creatures, and others were extraordinary beings who had lost control and taken advantage of certain opportunities to escape here.

Hobart searched slowly forward, and finally, in the clouds ahead, he found a rolling stream of information.

But that is not the true form of the "Hidden Sage," but rather an "information cluster" used by the "Hidden Sage" to mislead others.

Hobert smiled slightly. Of course, he knew that evil gods of this level were not easy to find.

If the first plan doesn't work, He has another plan.

Hobert held a glass bottle in one hand and took out a completely black eye from the "Land of Chaos" in the other. It was the eye he obtained during the operation to save Old Neil, and it was also the foundation of the "Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord's" existence.

Hobart had previously tried to find the origin of this eye, but instead encountered the "wilderness of knowledge," which instantly overwhelmed his mind with a massive amount of information!

At that time, Hobart realized that the "Hidden Sages" were probably using some extraordinary individuals through the "Hidden Seekers" pathway to explore or search for the "Wilderness of Knowledge."

It is very likely that shortly after that, the "Hidden Sage" established a "connection" with the "Wilderness of Knowledge," and the "Hidden Sage" gained god-level power.

Three years later, Hobart once again infused his spirituality into his black eye and went to seek out the "wilderness of knowledge." Suddenly, the dark clouds in the distance turned fiery red, and a phantom, fiery red giant eye appeared in the clouds.

As the giant eye appeared, a mirage-like, illusory scene unfolded there.

The main subject is an endless wilderness, in which stands a tall tower. At the top of the tower is a fiery red eyeball, gazing down upon this land.

Suddenly, the eyeball seemed to sense Hobart's gaze and looked at him.

Hobert's body suddenly expanded, quickly revealing a handsome black cloak and exquisite armor, making him look like an emperor on the battlefield.

Behind Him appeared a magical fairyland, shrouded in mist, with high platforms, pavilions, and flowing water floating in mid-air.

Within the pavilion, there is a faintly visible ancient bell, which seems to be an eye that looks down on everything.

With each breath Hobart took, he influenced the rules of the surrounding sea. Around him, some rules were severely distorted, while others became ironclad laws that no god could alter.

Protected by the "Land of Chaos" and the state of mythical creatures, Hobart met the giant eye without any pressure.

Hobart soon realized that the scene before him was not the real "wilderness of knowledge," but merely a projection of that source in the real world.

Although the seal on the Western Continent has been lifted, these source substances are clearly not truly "liberated".

However, for Hobart, even a phantom image is enough!

He immediately allowed his spirit to "touch" the phantom, and at the same time, the glass bottle in his right hand shattered, releasing the information flow belonging to the "Hidden Sage".

With the power of the giant eye in the "wilderness of knowledge" and the flow of information in his hands, Hobert's vision rapidly traversed the real world, seeing through the dark clouds of the raging sea and the mist of the fog sea.

Finally, in the dark depths of the Misty Sea, they found a surging torrent of information.

Seawater, sea fish, seabed plants, rocks, and silt, all transformed into fantastical messages by that torrent of information, and entered into the information flow itself.

This massive flood of information was abruptly averted by Hobart's gaze from afar.

Hobart seemed to see the tension and fear in the other person!

The next second, Hobart "altered" his location and appeared in front of the information deluge.

In its mythical state as a "half-disordered being," the immense twisting force churned the surrounding seawater and seabed into a jumbled mess, and the surging power "shattered" the seawater, separating hydrogen, oxygen, and salt.

From the surface of the Misty Sea, it appears as an enormous vortex, seemingly capable of swallowing the sky.

Seabirds flying in the sky were instantly sucked into the whirlpool, leaving no trace of their bodies.

The surrounding islands, as fragile as piled-up sand, were crushed from top to bottom.

The Hidden Sage was initially stunned by Hobart's mythical creature state. By the time He came to his senses, a portion of the information torrent had been torn into fragmented numbers and symbols.

At this point, Hobart's attack was not only physical, but also carried an abstract meaning.

Instead of fighting back, the "Hidden Sage" transformed itself into small vortexes along the twisting force, and quickly used the power of the twisting to "throw" the strings of characters away, which then reformed into a torrent of information not far away.

He had no intention of fighting Hobart, and the surrounding space immediately became illusory as He prepared to hide in the vast torrent of cosmic information.

To high-sequence extraordinary individuals who follow the "Hidden Ones" pathway, the entire universe is composed of strands of information, with some symbols representing air and others representing seawater.

These symbols represent the most essential knowledge and are also the basic units of abstraction. The seawater and air are constantly radiating the light of knowledge, but people ignore them.

Add some numbers, and it becomes vast expanses of air and vast expanses of seawater.

Similarly, a planet is essentially a giant sphere of information, while the universe is a boundless ocean of information.

They always believed that as long as they found the source of each piece of information in the universe, they could control the operation of the entire universe.

But the information in this universe seems to be infinite, and even the "Hidden Sage" cannot make sense of it.

However, the "Hidden Sage" can escape by entering the "Ocean of Information," where He will exist in every rock, every inch of soil, and every drop of seawater in the surrounding space.

This is equivalent to Him merging one of His own messages with the messages that make up the stone, and another message with the messages that make up the soil. In this way, He introduces messages into the surrounding things.

At that time, He will become "everywhere"!

Hobart, of course, would not let the "Hidden Sage" succeed, and all the information around him suddenly became "chaotic," like a string of gibberish.

The Hidden Sage was stunned. Normally, He wouldn't have paid any attention to the "garbled code" in front of Him, but at this moment He realized that if He "jumped into" this "garbled code", He would immediately lose himself and become out of control because He had become garbled code.

He then steeled himself and used a series of information streams to create a man wearing a simple robe, with pointed and high-set ears, a relatively soft facial contour, and holding a long spear of electric light in his hand!

The "Hidden Sage" reappeared the "Elf King" Suniasolem, a "reappearance" at the level of a god. In an instant, the vast sea seemed to have welcomed its own monarch. The wind howled, the waves rolled, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and lightning flashed and thunder roared!

The enormous whirlpool Hobart created at sea was immediately taken over by the "Hidden Sage," and the torrent formed by the whirlpool, capable of washing stones into sand, began to wash over Hobart.

Giant, pale white bolts of lightning, like thick pythons, fell from the sky, pierced the water, and struck Hobart with pinpoint accuracy.

But when these attacks reached Hobert's body, they suddenly became "chaotic," the power that formed the torrent completely disappeared, and the thick, silvery-white lightning instantly vanished before Hobert.

It was as if Hobart had an extraordinary insulator in front of him, which would block all extraordinary attacks.

Boom!

The seawater suddenly surged, forming a massive tsunami on the seabed.

The tsunami was surging and powerful, resembling an apocalyptic scene.

This tsunami was indestructible, and in an abstract sense as well.

With a wave of his hand, Hobart "changed" the direction of the tsunami.

Boom!

The surging tsunami shot upwards, and huge currents of water surged into the air.

……

On Lasha Island in the Misty Sea, in the Emerald Palace.

Bernadette emerged from her palace and gazed at the southern sea, lost in thought.

He could sense that a very high-level battle was taking place there, stirring up the spirituality of the entire Misty Sea.

"Captain!" Suddenly, Bernadette heard the voice of the second mate of the Dawn, but the second mate was not in the Emerald Palace, but in the distant port.

The second mate shouted in a panic, "Captain! The harbor has suddenly dried up! The 'Dawn' has run aground in the harbor!"

Bernadette gave a soft "hmm," her eyes becoming deep and unfathomable, as if looking into an unknown space.

He saw vast expanses of ocean surging into the air. At that moment, heaven and earth seemed to be reversed; the sky became the seabed, and the sea surface became the sky.

In the middle, there is a waterfall that seems to stretch to the horizon!

The rules of nature break down there; the water no longer flows from high to low, but instead begins to flow from low to high.

Immediately afterwards, Bernadette prophesied: A huge torrent of water fell back into the sea, creating a high wave that capsized ships and swept across islands. People trembled in the face of this great disaster, losing even the courage and the will to pray!

Upon seeing these images, Bernadette immediately ordered, "Prepare for a massive tsunami!"

……

The tsunami surged into the sky, its invincible, abstract attack crashing against the clouds and air high above.

Just as the "Hidden Sage" was struggling to seize control of the tsunami, a black longsword pierced his chest.

He was slightly taken aback. Although he did not turn around, he "saw" another Hobert appear behind him.

This Hobert also has the form of a mythical creature, except that there is no projection of the "Land of Chaos" behind him.

That was Hobart's Stand. Hobart didn't use his Stand right away this time, precisely to launch a surprise attack on the enemy.

Struck by the "Sword of Order Killing," the image of the "Elf King" immediately collapsed, transforming back into a stream of information. Within this stream of information, a massive amount of "garbled code" appeared, and the surging torrent of information showed signs of collapse.

At that moment, amidst the torrent of information, a colorful iris-like structure appeared, completely isolating all the garbled text and allowing normal information to form a new torrent.

However, the information deluge was now only half the size it had been at the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, the iris disappeared, and the garbled text scattered in all directions.

The sudden change in information about the surrounding environment caused a massive chaos that swept across the entire world. The "parameters" of some sea fish's bodies were impacted, changing a few characters and numbers. As a result, a sea fish that was originally the size of a palm suddenly became the size of a whale, but its head remained only the size of a palm.

The information flow that makes up the island was impacted, and a few characters and numbers changed. The island's area immediately expanded more than a hundred times, forming a huge island that was suspended in mid-air.

The information flow that makes up seawater is being disrupted...

In short, it seemed to Hobart that everything in front of him had been "infected with a virus," and everything had become sluggish and chaotic.

However, the "Hidden Sage" was also driven to the brink of despair by Hobart and his stand-in.

……

Far away in the "Raging Sea," Cattleya suddenly felt something spiritually.

She quickly went up to the deck, and almost as soon as she arrived, she heard the crew members exclaim in surprise.

It turns out that Captain Nina has suddenly become an iron woman!

Seeing the horrified expression frozen on Nina's face, Gadriya quickly understood the root of the problem: the mystical symbols that made up Nina's body had suddenly been disrupted by a symbol that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Nina's body instantly transformed from flesh and blood into steel.

For Cattleya, who has already advanced to the adjacent path sequence 3 "Mystic Scholar", this is not a problem that is too difficult to solve.

Her hands became ethereal, found the distorted occult symbol, and corrected it into the correct occult character.

Nina immediately returned to normal: "Storm above! Did I just turn into an iron man?"

Caldelia remained silent, her eyes swirling with streams of information. She saw that "information distortion" was occurring in many parts of the world around her, and that she was on the edge of this "information distortion," which was why strange and bizarre things were happening.

The exact location at the center of this "information confusion" is still unknown.

Suddenly, Cattleya's heart was filled with fear and confusion. The unforgettable murmur echoed in her ears, giving her a splitting headache and almost causing her to lose control!

The murmur came from the "Hidden Sage," and Cattleya never expected that she could still hear the voice even after jumping to an adjacent path.

Fortunately, the murmur was fleeting, and Cattleya's spirituality uncontrollably deciphered it: The Hidden Sage... is crying for help!

This reminded her of a topic they had discussed at a tarot reading.

Cattleya was immediately plunged into a deep shock!

……

The "Hidden Sage" was blocked by Hobert's original body and his substitute, and the streams of information flowing through his body instantly turned into "bricks" made up of rolling information.

These "information bricks" immediately formed an impenetrable wall!

This wall is an abstract wall; there is only one wall, yet it blocks the clones of Hobert's main body from different directions!

The Stand, wielding the "Sword of Slaughter," attempted to break through the "Information Wall," but was unable to do so for the time being!

Hobart immediately realized that this "information wall" contained the power of the "wilderness of knowledge"!

The Hidden Sage uses the power of the Wilderness of Knowledge with great restraint, because the more He uses it, the easier it is for Him to lose His self, and His consciousness will gradually be replaced by the Wilderness of Knowledge.

But now there's no time to worry about that; escaping is the priority.

When the "information wall" is no longer so tight and is broken through by the stand-in, the main body of the "Hidden Sage" has already escaped into the information flow of the surrounding things.

As long as Hobart doesn't intercept even one of these countless streams of information, the "Hidden Sage" will not die.

Hobert took a deep breath, made a fist, and instantly appeared in mid-air.

It wasn't that Hobart's location had changed, but rather that half of the Misty Sea had "disappeared," vanishing without a trace from the air hundreds of meters above to the ground hundreds of meters below.

At this moment, a fierce wind was howling above Hobert's head. About one-tenth of the air in the unsealed areas of this world had been suddenly sucked out, and air from other areas flowed into this region, forming a violent gale.

Beneath Hobart's feet lay surging, rolling lava, rocks, and groundwater.

It's as if He just peeled back the skin of the earth and saw the "flesh and blood" beneath.

The outer gods in the starry sky saw that the Earth was no longer a sphere, and a huge crater appeared in the misty sea.

Actually, the air, seawater, and so on didn't disappear; rather, Hobart rolled them into a small ball the size of a palm.

The outside of this small ball is a layer of blue seawater, while the inside consists of solid parts such as rocks.

On this "small ball," a terrified face is reflected. The face suddenly bulges out, trying to escape the ball, but is "pressed" back by Hobart.

The terrified face belonged to the "Hidden Sage," who had hidden himself in the information torrent that formed this planet. Hobert then "cobbled together" all the regions that contained the "Hidden Sage."

Hobert acted quickly, so he only needed to "gather" half of the Misty Sea.

At this moment, the stand-in came over, and the "Sword of Slaughter" in his hand shrank to the size of a dagger, piercing into the "small ball" in the original's palm.

The faces on the small ball darted around in terror, trying their best to hold on.

So the double pulled out the "murder dagger" and stabbed it again from a different angle, then stabbed it three or four times.

By the fifth time, everything inside the ball had become the smallest unit that forms all physical objects.

The "Hidden Sage" also transformed from a torrent of information into clusters of information, then into strings of information, and finally into individual characters and numbers painstakingly pieced together.

At this moment, Hobert's true form intervened again, "changing" the "Hidden Sage" in an abstract sense into the smallest unit, and "utilizing" the law of extraordinary properties to instantly extract the extraordinary properties.

As the "Hidden Sage" becomes the "smallest unit" in both a physical and abstract sense, its uniqueness also departs from the "Hidden Sage".

Amidst waves of resentment, the "Hidden Sage" fell!

(End of this chapter)