Lord of the Mysteries: The New Black Emperor

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"Mountain God" Megali was in a state similar to what Rex had guessed. Because Rex couldn't get close to the "worm cocoon" back then and couldn't see what was inside, he guessed that "Mountain God" should be formed by Megali's spiritual residue.

However, he wasn't sure if "Mountain God" existed as an evil spirit, or simply as a spiritual residue that had been preserved until now with Beyonder characteristics as its "foundation."

But from Rex's description in his notes, he could confirm that "Mountain God" was not a Sealed Artifact, because It seemed to possess a certain amount of intelligence, not just simple, mechanical responses like Sealed Artifacts.

At the level of Angels, their spiritual bodies and mental bodies have undergone qualitative changes. Even if they die, their spiritual bodies and mental bodies will take a long time to completely dissipate.

This process easily turns them into evil spirits. If the corpse or Beyonder characteristics are not dealt with in time, there is almost a 100% chance of turning into an evil spirit.

Moreover, this seal originated from the power of the Underworld. In such an environment, the probability of forming an evil spirit will greatly increase.

Thinking of this, Hobert went to look for other things inside the "worm cocoon."

It was empty inside. Hobert didn't see a corpse, but only a mass of thick, ink-like liquid suspended in mid-air.

It kept twisting its shape, and there seemed to be circles of invisible ripples spreading around it, as if it was constantly tampering with the surrounding environment.

Around the viscous liquid, there was a circle of bright, light blue liquid that was as smooth as silk, but this circle of light blue liquid didn't change shape with the viscous liquid.

Hobert's spirituality judged that it was the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy"!

This made him breathe a sigh of relief, which meant that Megali's evil spirit didn't exist with Beyonder characteristics as its "foundation."

In that case, it wasn't an evil spirit at the Angel level.

Hobert went to look for Megali's corpse again, but couldn't find it. He only saw a faint, light blue human-shaped trace below the Beyonder characteristics.

This was a bit strange. In theory, the corpse of an Angel-level being should be difficult to decay.

Hobert still remembered the corpses of Medici and the others he had seen before. Even after more than two thousand years, their corpses seemed to have some kind of living characteristic.

At this time, Hobert looked at the outer circle of the Beyonder characteristics again, that circle of bright, light blue. This circle of light blue liquid was obviously not integrated with the Beyonder characteristics. Could this be what Megali used to contaminate the Underworld Emperor?

Was it this thing that caused the corpse of an Angel to decay?

Hobert realized that he had better not touch that Beyonder characteristic. It would be best to directly sacrifice it to the "Nation of Disorder". If not, then find a helper to snatch it out.

Finally, Hobert glanced at the evil spirit in front of him. It was also staring at Hobert. From its will-o'-the-wisp-like eyes, he couldn't see any emotion.

Because of the Underworld Emperor's seal, Hobert calmly thought about a relatively safe tactic.

Then he retreated to the other side of the cave and first sent the Black Hound Spirit Beast to the real world from the "Nation of Disorder."

This was Hobert's helper. In dealing with undead creatures, the Black Hound Spirit Beast, wielding a thin sword, could play a huge role.

Hobert returned to the real world and confirmed the state of the evil spirit again. The symbol representing the Death Domain appeared on his hand again, which was equivalent to his authority to Release the seal in front of him.

He waved the thin sword in his other hand, and the "worm cocoon" supported by the power of the Underworld faded and disappeared in front of Hobert in two or three seconds.

"Distort!" Almost at the instant the seal disappeared, Hobert "distorted" the position of the "Duke of Entropy's" Beyonder characteristic, trying to keep it as far away from the evil spirit as possible.

However, Hobert's "distortion" ended the moment it covered the Sealed Artifact. The "Beyonder characteristic" was only moved a very small distance.

Hobert immediately threw the thin sword in his hand to the Black Hound Spirit Beast next to him. Obviously, Hobert's ability had been prematurely ended by the evil spirit's "Exploit" ability.

Hobert often did this, which was a very unexpected operation.

As the seal disappeared, a gloomy cold wind swept through the entire cave, and the power of the evil spirit spread to the entire cave.

This evil spirit obviously had a lot of intelligence, at least much stronger than the "Great Sage". The Black Hound Spirit Beast still seemed to have some sanity, but the "Great Sage" and the "Bull Devil Monarch" almost mechanically used their abilities.

After the Black Hound Spirit Beast got the thin sword, the sword once again emitted a pale white light in its hand, and the newly freed evil spirit unconsciously retreated.

For undead creatures, the Black Hound Spirit Beast at this time possessed a great sense of oppression, which came from the double blessing of the "Ferryman" and the Underworld on it.

But the evil spirit only retreated. It "bestowed" the sense of oppression and mental shock it received to a stalactite.

This was the most difficult part of the "Black Emperor" pathway. Although they obviously lacked the ability to quickly kill enemies, don't even think about hurting them in a short time.

The Black Hound Spirit Beast was extremely special. It not only had the "Ferryman" personality and ability, but also had been blessed by the ancient Death God, and now it had the blessing of the thin sword, which had an almost overwhelming advantage against ordinary undead creatures.

In theory, undead creatures below the Angel level would completely lose the desire to resist in front of the Black Hound Spirit Beast.

However, when encountering an evil spirit on the "Lawyer" pathway, the power of the evil spirit was only obviously weakened.

On the other side, after giving the thin sword to the Black Hound Spirit Beast, Hobert immediately injected spirituality into the "0-70" Creation Bracelet, "Magnifying" its ability to make spirituality very abundant.

Through more than a month of feeding, Hobert was now the owner of the Creation Bracelet.

As the spirituality rapidly became rich, for a time, the spirituality in the cave was abundant to the visible range, as if the surroundings were filled with a layer of faint mist.

This was spirituality, and also vitality, equivalent to the power of "life", which made the gloomy feeling of the entire cave disappear immediately.

But the inside of the original "worm cocoon" was the domain of the evil spirit, and it was still very gloomy there, but at this time, the undead aura there and the temperament of "life" were rapidly offsetting each other.

Hobert's operation was to destroy the foundation of the evil spirit's existence in the real world.

At this time, the evil spirit suddenly let out a scream, and Hobert's spirit body felt obvious vibrations. The Black Hound Spirit Beast blocked most of the attacks of the "Shriek" with its sword.

The evil spirit took this opportunity to reach out towards the opposite direction of the "Duke of Entropy's" Beyonder characteristic, and then pointed at Hobert with the other hand.

Hobert's belly immediately grew larger, as if a life had been conceived in that instant.

The Black Hound Spirit Beast should have also suffered a similar attack, but it was special and could not possibly conceive a new life in its body.

This was why Hobert initially chose to keep the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy" as far away from the evil spirit as possible, and then consider defeating the evil spirit.

Because there was a very strong connection between Megali's evil spirit and the Beyonder characteristic, any "Connection" could use some Angel-level abilities.

The "Black Emperor" pathway did not have the ability to make people "big-bellied". Hobert's bulging belly was obviously a negative effect of the Creation Bracelet.

The "Exploit" at Sequence 3 level could only make the negative effects of the target Sealed Artifact more powerful, or shorten the safe use time of the Sealed Artifact.

And the "Exploit" at the Angel level could obviously completely treat the negative effects of the Sealed Artifact used by the target as its own means of attack.

Hobert used "disorder" to bring the life in his belly to the outside world, and immediately used the Creation Bracelet to turn it into a wisp of spirituality, which quickly dissipated.

At the same time, Hobert ordered the Black Hound Spirit Beast to snatch the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy".

The evil spirit distorted the surging spirituality in its domain, allowing them to attack the Black Hound Spirit Beast, which was also an undead creature.

It was just that the Black Hound Spirit Beast had the blessing of the ancient Death God, so such attacks had no effect.

But this slowed down the Black Hound Spirit Beast's pace, and it was unable to step into the evil spirit's domain for a while.

The Black Hound Spirit Beast waved its thin sword, and pale white flames ignited in the evil spirit's domain, and the evil spirit's power was being rapidly lost as fuel.

But the evil spirit waved its hand at Hobert again, once again "utilizing" the ability of the Creation Bracelet. A patch of soybeans suddenly grew in its domain, quickly forming bean pods.

These bean pods opened their mouths, revealing the fangs inside, looking very ferocious.

The evil spirit "bestowed all the "Ferryman Lantern Fire" on its body to them.

At this time, Hobert immediately "tampered" with the effect achieved by the evil spirit's Beyonder power, and the "Ferryman Lantern Fire" burned back to the evil spirit's body.

The evil spirit immediately used the Angel-level "disorder" through "Connection". The target attacked by the "Ferryman Lantern Fire" was "chaotic" conceptually. Not only was the evil spirit's domain attacked, but Hobert, the Black Hound Spirit Beast, and the stalactites around them were all ignited with "Ferryman Lantern Fire".

Hobert immediately felt his whole body tremble with spirituality. His thoughts seemed to stop, his body became stiff, and he seemed to be about to return to eternal tranquility.

The Black Hound Spirit Beast immediately withdrew the ability of the "Ferryman Lantern Fire". Hobert, who was sweating profusely, finally breathed a sigh of relief. His spirit body had been severely damaged, becoming somewhat afraid of everything, and seemed to be a little neurotic because of weakness.

Hobert realized that if he continued to fight like this, even if he eliminated the evil spirit, he might suffer no small damage himself.

Just as he was preparing to simply enter the "Nation of Disorder" to solve this evil spirit, he suddenly discovered an opportunity.

Just now, the evil spirit "utilized" the Creation Bracelet to grow a patch of monsters with the shape of soybeans. After these monsters opened their bean pods, in addition to revealing the fangs inside, the black beans inside also popped out.

These beans grew the legs and wings of arthropods. Some flew, some crawled, everywhere.

Among them, a flying little monster flew mindlessly to not far from the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy".

If it were normal, the flying direction and height of this "flying bean" would have been tampered with by the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy".

But now, this Beyonder characteristic is being "connected" and "utilized" by the evil spirit, and its influence on the surroundings has weakened.

This is an opportunity!

Hobert took out a piece of "Order Crystal" and "distorted" the concept and position of the "Order Crystal" and that "Flying Bean".

The evil spirit once again used its "Exploit" ability to prematurely end Hobert's "distortion" ability.

But this time it failed, because what was "distorted" over was the "Order Crystal". Apart from Hobert, perhaps only beings at the level of the King of Angels or higher could affect it.

So the "Order Crystal" appeared next to the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy", and Hobert immediately deformed the "Order Crystal", wrapping the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy".

As the "Order Crystal", which was shaped like a sphere, landed, the evil spirit immediately lost the angelic power to "connect".

Hobert breathed a sigh of relief and immediately "magnified" the black dog spirit beast's influence on the evil spirit.

At the same time, he used the Creation Bracelet to seize control of those bean-shaped monsters, making them absorb the surrounding power belonging to the undead domain with all their might.

The evil spirit's power was immediately suppressed and weakened.

Just as it was about to "bestow" some of this suppression and weakening away, the black dog spirit beast took the opportunity to open its mouth and let out a silent roar.

This was an attack of the "Undead Language", causing the already obviously faded and very weak evil spirit to freeze.

Hobert immediately followed up, taking advantage of this excellent opportunity to "distort" the foundation of the evil spirit's existence, as well as the concept and position of a stalactite at his feet.

In fact, he didn't know what the foundation of the evil spirit's existence was, but as long as Hobert had the concept, he could "distort" it.

When the evil spirit "utilized" the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy" just now, it possessed a certain angelic level, so Hobert's type of "distortion" was easy to fail. Now, there was finally a chance to strike at the root.

The stalactite at Hobert's feet disappeared, and a black badge appeared in the stalactite's place. That should be the basis of the evil spirit's existence.

Hobert immediately threw a piece of "Order Crystal" over, covering the badge.

The evil spirit lost the foundation for its existence in this world, and its torso became hollow, with a huge cavity appearing.

The black dog spirit beast opened its mouth again and let out an attack of the "Undead Language". The evil spirit in front of it quickly faded, dissipating like a wisp of black smoke.

"Heh heh heh—" A woman's cold laughter echoed in the cave.

Although only a laugh was heard, Hobert seemed to feel her mockery of the orthodox churches and her indifference to this world.

That should be Megali's mental residue. More than a thousand years have passed, and her hatred for the orthodox churches has not diminished.

Hobert sacrificed two spoils to himself and searched again. There was nothing here except stalactites.

So he withdrew the power of the black dog spirit beast and used "Travel" to leave the cave. When he left, he realized that the cave was actually in the sea, but there was only a small opening on the island.

No wonder the demigods of Loen didn't discover this place back then. In addition to the fact that the seal at the level of the Underworld Emperor was difficult to detect, it was also because this cave was not on the island at all.

Back at the Governor's Mansion, Hobert plunged into the study and locked himself inside.

Then, after building a "Spiritual Wall", he immediately came to the "Nation of Disorder".

Sitting on the "Iron Throne", Hobert first opened the spherical "Order Crystal", revealing the Beyonder characteristic inside, which resembled a viscous liquid.

Hobert didn't hold it in his hand, but let it float in front of him.

The bright light blue circle was still very conspicuous. Hobert suddenly felt that the aura of the light blue ring was very familiar. He turned his head and looked at the long box transformed from an "Order Crystal" on a stone platform.

Hobert reached out, grabbed the black box in his hand, opened the lid, and inside was the "Rotting Meteor".

Holding this cylindrical Sealed Artifact in his hand, he then used his "Connection" ability to beckon towards the light blue liquid ring surrounding the Beyonder characteristic. Sure enough, this bright light blue liquid quickly floated over, wrapped around the "Rotting Meteor", and disappeared from Hobert's eyes as if it had been absorbed.

This cylindrical Sealed Artifact became brighter than before, and its attacks and abilities seemed to have improved!

Hobert put the "Rotting Meteor" back in its original place, closed the lid again, and put it back on the previous stone platform.

Obviously! The trap prepared to pollute the Underworld Emperor back then and the "Rotting Meteor" came from the same source, which, according to Hobert's previous speculation, was an Outer God related to the three pathways of "Twilight Giant", "Darkness", and "Death".

No wonder it was easier to pollute the Underworld Emperor, while the corruption Megali received was not significant.

Just like the "Mother Goddess of Depravity" is more likely to pollute Beyonders of the "Mother" and "Moon" pathways.

Then the question arises, did the God of Combat or the Evernight Goddess ever want to use something from the Outer Gods to pollute the Underworld Emperor?

Isn't this helping the Outer Gods invade Earth?

Unless it's a matter of life and death, they shouldn't use such means, right?

Or have the God of Combat or the Evernight Goddess already been polluted by the Outer Gods?

Hobert shook his head. In his impression, neither of these two gods had been affected by the cosmos, but at the level of gods, what he knew was only their performance in those major events. He wasn't actually very clear about the specific situation.

Taking a deep breath, Hobert didn't continue to think about it, because there were too few clues known.

Now, he could only pay more attention to some of the performances of the God of Combat or the Evernight Goddess, and first find out who wanted to pollute the Underworld Emperor back then.

Then Hobert thought of another question: Did Adam give me the "Rotting Meteor" really just to help me seal it? Or is there also a purpose of letting me remove the corruption of the Beyonder characteristic and investigate what arrangements that Outer God has on Earth?

Heh heh!

Hobert almost laughed. Adam shouldn't be so selfless. Even if he had such a purpose, Hobert didn't intend to go and seek death.

Then he thought again that when Hervin Rambis "sent" the "Rotting Meteor", Hobert realized that he had been arranged as soon as he came to the "Nation of Disorder".

But this time, he didn't have a similar feeling, maybe it was just a simple coincidence.

Coincidence!

Now, when Hobert thought of this word, it was as if Adam was sitting opposite him.

He slapped his forehead: I am definitely a severe sufferer of "Spectator Phobia Syndrome".

Finally, Hobert thought: "But even if Adam sent the 'Rotting Meteor' with no other purpose, he should have been able to perceive when he was planning to send it that this thing is of greater use to me.

"The key is that the Beyonder characteristic of the 'Manipulator' is obviously the reward paid by Adam.

"If he thinks that giving the 'Rotting Meteor' is me taking a big advantage, then he wouldn't do such a thing as giving a reward."

Breathing a sigh of relief, Hobert decided to put these things aside, just as he had thought before: He couldn't just foolishly go and ask, right?

Excuse me, Brother Adam, why did you send me the 'Rotting Meteor'? Are you treating me like a junk collector?

And Brother God of Combat, are you a reinforcement invited by the Outer Gods?

The reason for calling him brother is because Hobert felt that he should at least be of the same generation as the Giant King. Considering that he had already become a god, he only called him brother to give him a higher seniority.

It is estimated that if he really asked that way, it would be hard to say whether he could get the answer he wanted, but he would definitely get two big slaps in the face.

Hobert smiled and looked at the Beyonder characteristic of the "Duke of Entropy" again.

This time the Beyonder characteristic was normal.

Hobert took the characteristic in his hand and immediately heard the cold laughter of "Heh heh heh".

There is still Megali's mental residue in the Beyonder material!

Hobert realized that if this Beyonder characteristic was used, it would probably hate the orthodox churches for a long time and be more willing to be close to members of the Solomon family.

Hobert immediately crushed the Beyonder characteristic, but no matter how much it was crushed, a Beyonder characteristic at the Sequence 2 level would always have some mental residue of "predecessors".

These mental residues have long been mixed with the divinity in the characteristic, making it difficult to completely extract them.

At this time, Hobert suddenly thought that Megali hated the orthodox churches so much, was it influenced by the mental residue of her husband?

He immediately went to the Beyonder characteristic side and rummaged through it. Among them, there was only one more "Frenzied Mage" characteristic, and the characteristics of other sequences were relatively normal.

For Hobert, it is very easy to confirm whether the mental residue of the predecessor's predecessor of the Beyonder characteristic is strong.

If it has not been crushed, then the mental residue must be very strong. In that case, there should be at least two "Frenzied Mage" characteristics in this characteristic of "Duke of Entropy".

One is for Megali's advancement, and the other is for her husband.

Now there is only one, which indicates that it was crushed back then, and the mental residue of that Solomon family member was not very strong.

Furthermore, it can be proved that it was Megali herself who had always hated the orthodox churches.

Hobert then took the badge that supported Megali's evil spirit's existence, and as a result, he heard the cold laughter of "Heh heh heh—" again.

He was stunned, there was even Megali's mental residue on this!

This guy's mental residue is too much!

However, after a little thought, Hobert probably understood that the seal of the Underworld Emperor should have allowed Megali's spirit body to be well preserved.

In other words, her mental residue must be relatively strong, not only forming an evil spirit, but also having a considerable amount of residue in the Beyonder characteristic and badge.

Then Hobert suddenly froze: "The Creator" isn't there another angel again?

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