Secret: The Witch's House Traitor

It's lonely up there...

"Do I need to prepare a gift for my 'brother-in-law'?"

Bernadette also didn't like the restrictions that the awareness of personal status brought to normal interactions.

She was led out of the dark mausoleum, and the golden sunlight shining in her blue eyes was so dazzling.

"Don't call her that in front of Cosinamu."

"There are so many elves. The Elf King and Queen need to maintain their image in formal occasions."

"If you think of Cohinam as your sister... forget it... this relationship is too complicated..."

"When you have the chance to meet, just ignore my existence and get along normally."

Lin Nuo really doesn't want to care about these messy relationships.

If you really want to count, the Goddess of Night, Mother of Sky, and An Banyu should also call the Elf King uncle.

If the relationship with Tianzun is taken into account, he can even be considered a brother to God. If the identity of Tianzun's original incarnation is taken into account, he will also regard the Fallen Mother Goddess, the Son of Chaos and the Mother Tree of Desire as his children.

Now the Outer Gods outside are all born from the Mother Goddess, Tianzun is the original personality, rounding it off, aren't the Outer Gods outside all his unfilial children? Seeing their old father die, they all want to come and lick the loot, right?

"Aren't you, the Red Priest, in a hurry to take care of some serious business?"

"The war is not over yet."

Bernadette smiled as she watched Lin Nuo, who had taken out a lounge chair and started basking in the sun after boarding the Dawn.

"I am Sequence 0. My will can respond to every place I want to influence."

"In that case, why should I rush here and there?"

"I'll just lie here in the sun and enjoy the sea breeze with you. It won't affect my other tasks."

Lin Nuo didn't care at all about what was happening on the continent at this moment.

He has long been familiar with multi-threaded operations.

"What does the world look like to you?"

Bernadette also moved a lounge chair and lazily enjoyed the sunshine and sea breeze, relaxing herself.

“It’s hard to say…”

"The world is multifaceted. The order is gradually collapsing... The smoke of gunpowder is rising everywhere... The fate is rolling forward... The history is constantly extending... The storm is never-ending... The barrier is gradually weakening... The gaze from the starry sky..."

Lin Nuo closed his eyes, and various feelings emerged.

The world in his eyes is constantly changing, and the world is undergoing various changes...

......

Is the war over?

Wars between countries have basically stopped.

But the war did not stop, because one after another "rebels" appeared as if they had made an appointment.

Some of the more famous ones are... House of Abraham, House of Tamara, House of Jacob, House of Zoroaster, House of Eggers...

These families led some "rebellious" soldiers to capture cities one after another with great force.

The snowball kept getting bigger and bigger, with members of certain 'side branches' of the Orthodox Church and the 'royal families' of various countries joining in one after another.

"Justice" Audrey could see daily newspaper reports about the loss of several cities.

Although the battle lines were repeatedly defeated, the news was still well-informed, and the atmosphere in Backlund was not as tense as before.

The military's reactions were rather strange, with a group of soldiers rebelling from time to time, but the mood of the Ministry of Defense remained stable, and it even did not stop the activities promised when George III was still alive, namely to improve labor laws, promote more reasonable systems, and continue to govern factory areas.

The Kingdom of Loen was falling, but at the same time, everything was calm. This was very similar to the usual weather in Backlund. Although it was often foggy and rainy in the city, the weather in the suburbs outside the city was always good.

"Justice" Audrey could probably understand what happened.

Before, Earl Hall always looked worried, but after knowing that there were Abraham's members in the resistance army, Earl Hall's expression relaxed instead. The Earl acted as if nothing had happened. He no longer asked his eldest son to surrender to the Steam Church or the Kingdom of Intis. He just took care of his own affairs as usual and even ignored the loss of assets in the occupied areas, which was in sharp contrast to the other nobles who were jumping up and down.

“Is the war among humans just a drama in the eyes of God?”

Audrey felt a little sad. This war, which had been waged over George III's deification and now ended strangely quickly, really gave Audrey a dramatic outcome.

Although Earl Hall was relatively stable, it did not mean that the other nobles were relatively stable. Whether the assets and wealth in the occupied areas could be preserved was a concern for all the nobles. Backlund was calm, and the Augustus royal family itself was not in a hurry. This strange situation seemed to give everyone a feeling that everything was changing, but nothing had changed. Even their communication with the occupied areas had not been cut off.

"I hope Mr. Lover can give me some inside information at the next Tarot Club."

Audrey said this to herself. She couldn't bear to see her uncles and aunts who had taken care of her since she was a child get hurt in this strange storm. She also didn't want their family's legitimate property to be destroyed because of the war. If they lost these, many people would not be able to continue their lives...

Chapter 542: Phoenix, Cultivating Essence

The underworld, the city of the dead, Calderón.

The Black Emperor returned to His immortal tomb.

Although the palace made of bones seemed barbaric and rough compared to Roselle's mausoleum built against the mountain with the Civil Code inscribed on it, this was a mausoleum transformed from the kingdom of an ancient god. The Black Emperor, who occupied this place, would certainly not engrave various dogmas that bound mortals in the kingdom of the dead.

Originally, during the war between gods, this mausoleum had been half destroyed. Now, after being repaired by countless undead creatures from the underworld, it has been restored to its original size. In the deepest palace, Soran and Einhorn have both left, one returned to the Soran family in Intis, and the other returned to the Einhorn family in Feysac.

Neither the Black Emperor nor the Red Priest wanted to interfere in the specific evolution of these countries.

The gods all agreed that, with the exception of the Republic of Intis, the rest of the countries in the northern continent would jointly form a united empire.

If there were no obstacles, the wheel of time would pass more gently.

If there are some guys who try to trip you up, just run them over.

Whether it is Augustus, Castilla, or Einhorn, these angel families are very sensible.

After the fall of Pasu Island, the headquarters of the Church of the Storm, the demigods of the Church of the Storm surrendered very quickly, so quickly that it almost became a peaceful evolution without any fighting. The Storm Path was unable to resist the superiors. All the angels of the church fell, and some of the saints fell. The remaining surviving demigods gathered the power of the Church of the Storm very smoothly.

The low- and mid-sequence extraordinary people and clergy who are not extraordinary people in the basic Storm Church do not care who the Lord of the Storm is.

Whether the Storm Lord is called Leodro or Coshinum...

What does it matter whether the Storm Lord is a man or a woman to ordinary believers...

Anyway, Beyonders of the Tyrant Path will easily obey the absolute superior...

When the Black Emperor arrived, two angels were waiting here, respectfully bowing to the Lord of the Underworld.

These two are Archons of Death, one is the leader of the royal faction of the Spirit Cult, Sia Palenque Eggers, and the other is the leader of the artificial death faction, Haitel.

"Greetings to you, His Majesty the Black Emperor of the Underworld."

"Greetings to you, His Majesty the Black Emperor of the Underworld."

After the two bowed to the Black Emperor, Haitel took a half step back, and the "Pale Queen" took off the metallic pale crown she was wearing and presented the sealed item made from the characteristics of the Pale Emperor, which was in the Sequence 1 of the Death Path.

Of these two people, Haitel is an angel who was personally subdued by Lin Nuo, and the "Pale Queen" has a closer relationship with the Church of Evernight, but now she has also "voluntarily" donated the last Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic of the Eggers family.

The "Pale Queen's" 'voluntary' is still relatively 'voluntary'.

At least after the Black Emperor unified the country, there was no such concept as colonies.

Mr. Azik Eggers is currently still in the land of East Bailang, watching over the other forces.

The liberation of Tobairo was much faster than the renovation of several countries in the Northern Continent.

The Black Emperor nodded slightly, and with a wave of His hand, the pale crown began to twist and deform. This Level 0 Sealed Artifact was directly shattered into pure Beyonder Characteristics. The reconstructed pale Beyonder Characteristics then flew into a huge bird egg placed in the center of the hall.

Click~click~

There were cracking sounds...

The power of the underworld continued to gather towards the bird eggs.

As the god of order, the Black Emperor could feel that his rule over the underworld had been affected to a certain extent.

But instead of stopping it, He allowed it to happen.

After the Pale Queen and Haitel felt the oppressive feeling coming from the bird egg, they naturally thought of the phoenix and the ancient god in the legend, the first god of death, the ancestor of the phoenix, Graygari.

His Majesty the Black Emperor recovered the last copy of Death Sequence One just to revive this ancient god of the Second Era?

It seems that the conflict between the pan-human camp and the non-human camp in the Second Era is not so absolute.

This ancient god of death must have provided a lot of help to the Elf King, so the Elf King chose to resurrect this former ancient god after he ascended to the throne again.

Boo!

The cry of the phoenix came from the egg.

In the underground area of the City of the Dead, in the illusory, straight, colorless tributary of eternal darkness, the wandering Mark of the Underworld Emperor of Death looked upward and let out an unwilling roar.

It turned around and tried to catch the phoenix sinking to the bottom, but the phoenix's death mark changed. A light like a bronze door flashed, and the phoenix's consciousness was directly transferred. The ancient god finally completed his resurrection through the backup plan made in earlier years.

Since the "Phoenix Ancestor" Gray Carrie was resurrected as the Sequence 1 Pale Emperor, rather than the Sequence 0 Death God (Eternal Sleeper), she "lost" one of the privileges of the Death God, the unique Death Mark.

This can't be considered a loss.

In other words, the Phoenix Progenitor took the initiative to give up this death mark, choosing to be resurrected "cleanly" by relying on his own resurrection skills, and gave up this death mark that had been parasitized by the spirit and assimilated by eternal darkness for so long.

After the consciousness of the Phoenix Ancestor left, this "body" that had been parasitic and assimilated by the spirit for so long fell directly into Lin Nuo's control. The Phoenix's abnormal eyes, like bronze doors, glowed with green light, and this light enveloped the death mark of the Hades.

The death mark of the "Underworld Emperor" was blocked by the light, and the arm that was stretched out to grab the "Phoenix" stopped in mid-air. The "Phoenix" took this opportunity to float from the bottom of the Everlasting Darkness Branch to the surface of the Everlasting Darkness Branch. On the way, it also saw Leodero wandering aimlessly at the bottom of the river.

The death mark of the "Phoenix" is at the level of a true god, a mix of the Death Path and the Gate Path and the death mark of an ancient god. Now, this phoenix, which should have sunk to the bottom of the Eternal Darkness tributary with most of its body corroded, has pure white feathers without even a speck of oil stains.

He is not the god of death, but he has the privileges of the god of death. He floats on the surface of the river of Eternal Darkness. The breath of Eternal Darkness constantly tries to erode this "body", but is blocked by the supernatural power.

The supernatural is the product of the synthesis and processing of the breath of Sefirah Castle and the breath of Eternal Darkness. The body of the Phoenix is a death mark left by the ancient gods mixed with the Gate Path and the Death Path. It has a very high adaptability. Although it does not have extraordinary characteristics, its strength exceeds that of the Angel King in the River of Eternal Darkness.

The Death Mark of "King of Hell" looked at the huge phoenix with bronze doors repeatedly overlapping in its eyes. He roared intimidatingly and finally stopped attacking. Instead, he took the initiative to distance himself from the phoenix.

Although the sanity of the "King of Hell" was greatly affected, he still had a way to resurrect in the Eternal Darkness Branch. The instinct of the "King of Hell" also repeatedly reminded him that he could not suppress this phoenix, and that he was not someone to be trifled with. At least he should try to avoid conflicts.

Step by step...

The "King of Hell" took the initiative to go around to the side away from the "Phoenix", and after the "King of Hell" gave up, the "Phoenix"'s eyes lit up even more. It spread its huge wings, and white feathers fluttered everywhere, each feather carrying a spiritual aura.

This seems to be a signal.

As white feathers fell, as if a switch was turned on, the flowers of the other shore began to bloom, and white feathers grew in the bodies of the death marks.

The magical seeds sown by the "Elf King" thousands of years ago have finally formed a spectacular sea of flowers on the Everlasting Darkness tributary after thousands of years of gestation.

These "Higanbana" flowers and the marks of death eroded by the spirit are now the foundation of the "Phoenix" and the nourishment for the "Phoenix" to cultivate its source of essence.

Boo!

There was another long cry.

The "Phoenix" is no longer satisfied with the progress from sinking in the water to floating on the water. It spreads its wings and wants to fly high, to truly fly, to fly away from death, and to fly away from the constraints of the eternal darkness.

The other side...

The Death Mark of "King of Hell" turned his head and looked at the scene blankly. There was no expression on his dull face. Subconsciously, he didn't think that doing this would have any result. He had tried it with great desire, but all he got in return was failure again and again.

This is the River of Eternal Darkness, the end of everything, the destination of all things. Once you fall into it, not even the gods can escape and can only sink into eternity. Even if death itself falls here unintentionally, it will be imprisoned. The concept of death may not be eliminated, but people can only drift on this river that symbolizes the end point.

This is the River of Eternal Darkness. No living person can escape here alive, and it is even more impossible for the dead to resist the most fundamental rules of the River of Eternal Darkness.

However, the "Phoenix" did not get discouraged or give up at all, and still flapped its wings hard to fly into the sky.

The supernatural creatures that took root in the River of Eternal Darkness began to provide power to the "Phoenix". In this area affected and eroded by the supernatural, the "Phoenix" was almost "in harmony with the Tao". It was able to mobilize the power of the tributaries of Eternal Darkness and even suppress it in some aspects.

The pair of eyes that were highly related to the gate path projected an illusory light gate stained with dark green. Gray mist continued to flow in, and together with the power of the Eternal Dark tributary, through spiritual coordination, it became the power and authority that the "Phoenix" could use.

"I am a wanderer on the river of eternal darkness!"

"I am also an immortal from the River of Eternal Darkness!"

The "Phoenix" suddenly spoke in human language. He used this supernatural power that originally belonged to deceiving ghosts. This supernatural power was driven by the power of two source substances. His body gradually became lighter. Even though this was a mark of death, he still seemed like a living thing, full of various feelings.

The "Phoenix" flew up, and flew up amidst another roar of the Hades. It flew very high and very fast, as if venting the frustration and madness in its heart.

He is not a living person now, as the living cannot escape from the River of Eternal Darkness. He is not a dead person now, as the dead can only remain muddled in the River of Eternal Darkness.

He is a death brand, the death brand of the phoenix, a part of Linno's spirit, the part of his spirit that once remained in the River of Eternal Darkness.

He obtained some of the authority of the River of Everlasting Darkness and was able to fly freely. He was able to be inside and outside the River of Everlasting Darkness at the same time, and to control both the states of death and the living.

He successfully influenced the River of Everlasting Darkness, deceived the rules of the River of Everlasting Darkness, and usurped part of the authority of the Source through spiritual power.

A stream of light flew over.

The eyes that looked like bronze gates emitted light that illuminated the flying light. It was a pale metal mask. The mask paused slightly after sensing the "Emperor of the Underworld" below, but was still captured by the phoenix hovering upstream of the River of Eternal Darkness.