In the imperial capital under the cover of night, dark clouds began to press down gloomily.
There were faint flashes of blazing electric arcs, wandering in the dim clouds.
“Finally succeeded.”
"The sacred object passed down by our ancestors has actually answered our prayers once again."
Inside the dilapidated house, several people looked excited.
They all wore off-white robes with a twisted snake emblem engraved on the collar.
Different from other cults that are full of confidence and vow to overthrow the imperial capital and spread the will of the evil god they serve to every corner of the continent.
From the very beginning, these people did not have much hope for the coming of their Lord.
Because as early as a thousand years ago, in the Third Age before the Holy Calendar was even created, they could no longer hear the voice of the Lord they served.
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No matter how much prayers are made to the holy relics left behind, even the most powerful patriarch with the purest faith cannot get a response from the Lord.
A religious group whose god cannot perform miracles and cannot respond to the expectations of its believers will naturally not be able to develop for long.
Thus, slowly, the once prosperous angel family "Mercury Blood", which once became the secret rulers of several human empires in the Third Age, gradually declined and died.
In the end, only this small branch remained.
As time passed, the Tertiary Period ended and the Quaternary Period began.
Because they were too weak and had little power, even the Dawn Church had determined that the once glorious angel family, Mercury Blood, had long been destroyed and did not include it in the list of heretical cults.
The reason why they appeared in the imperial capital this time was not to conspire with other evil cults.
And simply because of the few remaining connections of the family in the past, he accidentally got the news that those evil cults were planning to cause trouble in the imperial capital.
So, with the idea of trying everything possible, I came to the imperial capital to join in the fun.
Because the time is too long, this small group of angel family descendants have even forgotten the process of the prayer ceremony.
They could only rely on their impressions and make some blind guesses. At first, they imitated the Dawn Church by making the sign of the cross and pouring holy water, and then they learned to perform sacrifices in the cult's way.
It's a pity that they don't have the strength to find living sacrifices such as humans at the moment. They can't even afford cattle and sheep because of their lack of money. In the end, they can only kill a few chickens and ducks and bleed them to make up the number.
However, I didn't expect that this random attempt, like one without a head, would actually get a response.
A certain moment.
Above the dark clouds, thousands of bolts of lightning were falling.
Then, above the dilapidated house, the silvery-white plasma gathered into a hazy shadow.
It was a pure white creature that looked like a snake.
“I never expected that the Lord recorded in the ancient family books would actually come to the world again.”
When the people below saw the illusory snake that looked like mercury, they couldn't help but burst into tears.
After hundreds of years of persistence, their family has also wavered before.
I have thought about whether to change my allegiance, or simply find another backer, and become a follower of other cults or the Seven Gods of the Dawn.
They have also wondered whether the lord their family served had long since perished, or was lost in the depths of the astral realm and could never return, or perhaps his power and divinity were usurped by other gods in a secret war between gods and used as a wedding dress.
But, it seems now.
All of this makes sense.
The Lord has not abandoned them; this is just a long test that will span a thousand years.
And now, He has answered the call once again.
And the difficult situation of his family, which was so poor that they couldn't even buy cattle and sheep as sacrifices, would naturally no longer exist.
This is the true God walking on earth again.
As devout believers who remained faithful to the Lord even in the most desperate times, they would naturally receive the Lord's most merciful reward, and restoring the former glory of the Mercury Blood Angel Family would be a piece of cake.
But in the midst of the fanatical fantasies and hopes at this moment, no one noticed.
A young man with black hair and black eyes, wearing a black robe with red clouds, quietly blended into the crowd without anyone noticing.
"Is this the last one?"
"Compared to the previous ones, this one doesn't seem that good."
On Char's shoulder, the little snow ferret yawned lazily, and the blood-red magatama and silver moonlight in its eyes slowly dissipated.
Considering that Gin is now a legendary being, using illusion to reduce Char's presence among a group of extraordinary people who are not even at the fourth level can be regarded as using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Xia looked at the little snake with its pupils tightly closed and mercury blood flowing in its illusory and transparent body, his eyes filled with thought.
After ten years in the Garden of Eden, he is no longer the second-ring Beastmaster who knew little about the supernatural world.
After Silvia's tutoring and a decade of reading nearly all the ancient books Yui had copied from the White Tower and the Imperial Library, Char's knowledge of the occult surpassed that of most of the legends in the Western Continent today.
But even so, he didn't recognize what the thing in front of him was.
I just vaguely scanned this place with my spiritual power and sensed a hint of divine aura.
So, after finishing the work on the other side, Xia Ya rushed over.
However, Char could feel it clearly.
The little mercury snake in front of him seemed a little different from the evil god incarnations that had descended upon him that he had dealt with before.
There was no violent fluctuation of divine power, but rather it was relatively peaceful.
What’s more important is that the creature in front of him does not look like a descended body condensed by the power of faith and divine power, but rather more like a real entity.
This is a mythical creature that actually walks the earth.
This is the first mythical creature to descend to the main material plane since the Fourth Epoch. Even during the chaotic period of the previous disaster land, those mythical creatures only descended as half of their bodies and incarnations of faith, and had never personally taken action.
And it seemed as if he had noticed Char's surprise.
The illusory little mercury snake slowly opened its eyes under Char's gaze.
Those were a pair of light brown snake eyes, revealing a cold and supreme divinity.
"Is this the place where I will be reborn, led by fate?"
The lofty divine fluctuations rippled in the void, mixed with the language of ancient times.
It was some kind of ancient variant that was a mixture of the ancient Abyss language and the High Elf language. Naturally, it was incomprehensible to the remnants of the Angel Family around them.
However, Yui's "Spark Source" skill had already been trained by Char during the ten years of doing nothing in the Garden of Eden to the level of surpassing "Transcendence" and directly upgraded to a super-level skill. Now it can be called a super artificial intelligence.
With the help of the massive amount of ancient language research data and records stored in the database, the ancient language was quickly translated by Yui as soon as it was spoken, and passed on to Char through the soul contract.
"I never thought that the Angel Family I founded would become so destitute."
"But it is also true. I have been in the astral realm for thousands of years without receiving any response to my prayers, and the angel family has not yet been wiped out. This is already considered lucky."
The little snake with mercury blood flowing in its blood slowly scanned the surroundings with its snake pupils, looking at the remnants of the Angel Family who were looking at it fanatically.
In His eyes, mercury slowly flowed, outlining the shape of an Ouroboros.
Then, spots of light floated out from the bodies of the remnants of the angel family and gathered into a silver-white annual ring. One illusory scene after another flowed on the annual ring.
That is the wheel of fortune on their bodies, engraved with the destiny trajectories that these humans have experienced in their lives. The wheel of fortune is reflected in the eyes of the illusory little snake, and then it is read completely.
"I see. Ashes, Dusk, Oathbreakers, Faceless Men, etc., have all descended here to overthrow the empire called Foresta?"
"This scale of God's descent density... means that the Fourth Epoch is coming to an end and entering its final stage."
"It is indeed my destiny that I was reborn at this time and seek an opportunity to recover in troubled times."
He uttered a lofty whisper, and by reading the wheels of destiny of these humans, he quickly understood the basic background of the era of his resurrection.
"However, with so many gods from the abyss descending to the world, why is there no sign of any news at all?"
The pair of dark yellow snake eyes looked toward the distant, peaceful, quiet and harmonious imperial capital complex under the night sky, and there was a hint of confusion in the ancient muttering.
My purpose is not to show off my power or spread my faith, so naturally the fuss won't be big.
But as an ancient existence among the true gods, He is naturally very clear about the morals of the evil gods on the side of the abyss. Because they have been in the abyss for a long time and have been assimilated by the will of the abyss, most of them have a little abnormal brain.
During the chaotic period of the Third Age, the Advent Ceremony would easily destroy an entire human city. Now that multiple gods are descending at the same time, how could the noise be so small?
But then, His gaze paused slightly.
Then, it fell on an inconspicuous black-haired boy in the corner of the crowd of descendants of the angel family.
He clearly sensed that his authority to observe the Wheel of Fortune encountered resistance from the other party.
Do you have any holy relics?
Although he had just been reborn, the person who observed fate still existed, and the mystery of ordinary holy relics could not conceal his fate at all.
Only those ancient holy relics that also came from the First Age could achieve this level.
This immediately aroused His interest.
If He could obtain a holy relic from the First Age from His believers and then absorb the mystery within it, His resurrection would undoubtedly be accelerated.
The dark yellow snake pupils shrank slightly, and the flow of mercury suddenly accelerated, completely releasing the authority to observe fate.
Some spots of light emanated from the black-haired boy's body, but no image was formed.
Hiss - it seems that the mystery of the holy relic on him is far more powerful than I imagined.
Perhaps it comes not only from the First Age, but even earlier... from the beginning of the plane when even intelligent life did not exist.
And if he could completely devour that mystery, he would even have the opportunity to completely skip the process of slowly accumulating strength and recovering, and directly ascend to the throne of God at its peak.
Thinking of this, a bit of hot light flashed in the pupils of the little mercury snake.
The roar came from the depths of the illusory spiritual world, and the speed at which the light spots on the black-haired boy spread out also increased a bit.
Finally, it turned into a hazy silver wheel.
It was different from the previous Wheel of Fortune that was condensed casually on the bodies of the remnants of the angel family and then easily turned and observed.
The wheel of fortune for this black-haired young man was very faint. Even when he exerted his power with all his strength, he could only observe a very incomplete and hazy corner of it.
The further away from the present time, the more difficult it is to predict fate.
And at this moment, even though he was giving it his all, the wheel of fortune only turned slightly.
Compared with decades of human age, this range of rotation was only a few dozen minutes ago, a fate that had not even been achieved in an hour.
Who is he?
The little mercury snake finally discovered something was wrong.
However, immediately afterwards.
The illusory scene gathered on the Wheel of Fortune made him stand still.
That was the fate trajectory engraved on the wheel of fortune of the black-haired boy dozens of minutes ago, and it could also be understood as the real past that happened half an hour ago.
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Reflected on the illusory Wheel of Fortune is a silent night sky.
It is located between the astral plane and the main material plane, outside the main material plane, but has never truly entered the vast astral plane.
It can also be called the "outside world".
Because they don't want the aftermath of the fight to affect the present world, many powerful people above the legendary level will choose this place as the battlefield to fight each other.
And at this moment, inside the outside world.
There are several phantom shadows of mythical creatures standing slowly, some are twisted, some are hideous, some are calm and suppressed.
There are shadowy figures bound to bronze crosses, demonic wolves with their hair bathed in the glow of dusk, and human figures whose figures keep changing and whose true appearance cannot be seen clearly.
The mercury snake's dark yellow pupils shrank slightly.
He recognized the shadows of these mythical creatures—Dusk, Oathbreaker, Faceless Man…
They were the abyss evil gods who were mentioned in the Wheel of Fortune of the remnants of the angel family that He had read before and who were going to perform the advent ceremony.
From this point of view, they have clearly completed their descent.
Moreover, judging from the degree of their descent, although they are not complete gods, they are all above the peak of legend, and are even close to the incarnation of demigods.
Especially the demon wolf named Dusk. It seemed that part of his divinity and authority had been usurped before. Although only half of his body came down at this moment, he seemed to have risked everything.
It was a divine body that was created by using a legendary cult leader as a one-time carrier and infusing a massive amount of faith power. It had truly reached the status of a demigod.
However--
Above the starry sky, opposite those several mythical creatures, there was only one person.
He has black hair and black eyes, wears a black robe, and holds a scarlet staff in his hand.
Looking at the scarlet staff, the little mercury snake's mind couldn't help but recall some distant memories from several epochs ago.
Black Tower.
A spellcaster holding a staff.
wizard.
Those are not very pleasant memories.
This black-haired boy is actually a spellcaster. Is he a wizard from the Black Tower?
He turned his consciousness again and set his gaze on the illusory image of the Wheel of Fortune.
"From the perspective of efficiency, using a nuclear explosion to deal with you would be the easiest way to save effort."
In the picture, above the starry sky.
The black-haired and black-eyed boy shook his head slightly.
"But Silver finally advanced with great difficulty, and Red is also clamoring for actual combat."
"After all, they have been kept cooped up for ten years. The pets' small requests still need to be met... There is a saying that goes, if you don't keep the minks cooped up during the day, the minks will keep you cooped up at night."
"By the way, let's test the power of the newly developed pet combination skills."
As he spoke, he gently placed his hand on the crimson staff.
Since he is a wizard from the Black Tower, is he going to cast a forbidden spell?
However, the forbidden spell released by the staff can be effective against the descended body of the demigod level...
However, this thought just arose.
The next moment, the mercury snake's dark yellow pupils suddenly froze.
Because, right after.
The wooden staff that looked like a magic wand suddenly broke into pieces.
The blade within it was revealed, shining like silver yet surrounded by black flames.
"This combination of silver and red..."
“Let’s call it——‘Ryujin Jakka’. ”
The black-haired boy looked at the long sword in his hand and couldn't help but let out a teasing laugh.
Then--
Swing the knife.
Cut out.
"Everything in the universe is reduced to ashes."
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boom--
The incomplete silver wheel of fate shattered.
The illusory light curtain also disappeared.
Even if one has the power to observe fate and unleashes it on the other person with all his strength, he can only trace back a corner of fate that lasts less than an hour.
However, even so, it is enough.
The last image on the light curtain was the black flame that burned the entire sky.
Also, under that slash, the bodies of many evil gods were reduced to ashes.
then.
In an instant.
He understood why those evil gods had launched their advent with great fanfare, attempting to overthrow the entire imperial capital—
But at this moment the city is safe and peaceful.
Also, why is it that with my authority to observe fate, I can only observe a broken corner of the young man's wheel of fate?
It wasn't because he was a lucky guy who happened to obtain an ancient holy relic from the First Age.
But it’s because this thing itself is a complete monster.
And myself——
Just after he was reborn, he was still in a state of no ability to fight back and fell under the opponent's nose.
Fate, you misled me!
"Wow, he actually has the power to read other people's fate? This is incredible, he is a charlatan who plays with metaphysics and prophecy."
"Besides, I think you seem to be quite different from those crazy evil gods I just killed who wanted to kill my whole family as soon as they met. You seem to be quite sober."
"So, let's have a deeper discussion?"
The approachable voice sounded in His ears.
The young man with black hair and black eyes appeared silently behind the mercury snake at some point.
He was reaching out his hand and touching His snake's head with a kind look on his face.
It is obvious that the bodies of mythical creatures have long been exempt from processes such as metabolism, and they only have the functions of eating and excreting when consuming and excreting extraordinary characteristics or divine authority.
Besides, snakes are cold-blooded animals and do not have organs such as sweat glands at all.
But at this moment, the little mercury snake clearly felt a drop of cold sweat sliding down his forehead.
"Gu, kill me."
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