Chapter 675 A brief exploration
Angel didn't make a choice immediately.
The most urgent thing at the moment is to avoid the "Disaster Giant" who is a Sequence 1 and is obviously out of control. He is constantly spreading disasters in the surroundings and will lose control if you get close to him because of the difference in status. This "Conqueror" of the Sauron family is wandering around like a lost person because he does not have the same attraction as Syrio.
Although He could cross dozens of meters in one step and was slowly attracted by the exuded "Iron-Blooded Knight" characteristics, He still had a tendency to approach Angel, but as long as He was careful to avoid it, He would not be caught up immediately.
During this time, I can analyze the difference between the two silver mirrors, or even pray for help from the Goddess or the Fool, or find another exit... Angel made up his mind, left behind Syrio Soran, who was only a ball of solidified metal and stained blood, and took the iron doll, two ancient silver mirrors, and the eye-shaped mirror with a dull surface and exhausted power, and quickly ran in the opposite direction of the "Disaster Giant".
Because of what she had seen in the unusual "mirror world" before, she did not try to approach the magnificent city in the distance, but instead headed towards the outer edge of the wilderness. She soon left the road paved with light black stone slabs and went deep into a truly dark and lonely place.
The area was shrouded in a constant blackness, but a faint light seeped through. Combined with Angel's darkvision, she could discern objects roughly a hundred meters away. Thus, a series of grayish-white pillars gradually appeared within her field of vision. They were approximately three meters wide, anchored to the ground by slightly wider bases, and pointed skyward, reaching high into the sky, high enough that even darkvision couldn't clearly discern them.
These stone pillars are distributed in a random pattern, most of them are intact or have only cracks, and a few have collapsed, forming difficult-to-cross roadblocks.
Angel used the silk thread to pull his body, quickly passed through the stone pillars, and fell into the darkness.
In the slightly brighter area behind him, the huge "Disaster Giant" was still spewing flames and thunder, and his figure was looming, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
But as they continued to move forward, soon even the giant and his "natural disaster" were blocked by more and more stone pillars and disappeared into the dark distance.
"It seems like I won't be caught up by Him for the time being... But is there something more dangerous in this area that's keeping even Sequence 1 Conquerors away?"
Angel made this speculation when he thought of the nameless island he explored with Klein and The Hanged Man ten days ago.
She became more vigilant, slowed down, and stopped using invisible threads and "lightness" to fly at low altitude, so as to avoid running into some traps.
But as she continued to go deeper, she soon discovered that the stone pillars that blocked her view became sparse, the deep darkness gradually faded away, and the sky above her head, which had no edge and looked like translucent glass, became bright.
Then she stepped onto the road paved with light black flagstones, and the collapsed palace surrounded by black and red appeared before her again.
Angel returned to the edge of the wilderness, close to "Trier of the Fourth Epoch".
This... I got lost, circled around in the "forest" of stone pillars, and returned to my previous location?
She turned her head and looked behind her, and found that towering stone pillars were still standing at the edge of her sight, as if she had not walked out of them just now, but just turned her head on the black stone paved ground and faced the magnificent city.
The only difference was that the "Disaster Giant" had appeared on the other side of him, and the distance was much farther. Otherwise, Angel would really think that he had been standing still for the past few minutes.
After thinking for a moment, she turned back and went into the forest of gray-white stone pillars again.
A few minutes later, Angel appeared at the edge of the "Stone Forest" with a puzzled look on his face.
Not only did she return to the wilderness near the city while concentrating on assessing her surroundings and marking the path she had taken with invisible threads, but she also circled around to the other side of the "Disaster Giant", even to within a kilometer!
"I can't try this again. If I get lost again, I might even bump into the 'Calamity Giant' when I walk out of the stone forest, becoming one of his puppets or part of the sustenance of the natural disaster..."
Angel shook his head and didn't dare to go deeper into the Stone Pillar Forest again.
And on her second attempt, she felt a familiar force. This invisible force enveloped the periphery of the stone pillar forest and distorted the outer space in a way she did not understand, forcing anyone who tried to leave to eventually return to the inner side of the stone forest, even if they walked in a straight line.
Like a pot with vertical edges, no matter how hard the water droplets struggle, they will eventually roll to the bottom. And this pot is the seal of "Trier of the Fourth Epoch"...
Thinking of this, Angel finally determined the source of the familiar feeling of power. It was the angel who came to No. 13 Market Avenue not long ago. The ability exerted by Benoit Gustave made Syrio Soren almost become a two-dimensional picture, losing any ability to resist.
This ability to modify the laws of physics and spatial properties, and to make people go back in time without realizing it, was at least one level higher than Bonova's. Angel guessed that it was at least the work of a Sequence 1 Beyonder.
Angel and Klein had previously determined, based on the potion formulas recorded on several Blasphemous Cards they had seen, that each path's Sequence 0 required two Sequence 1 Beyonder properties, and the uniqueness of that path in order to achieve godhood, that a path could only have a maximum of three Sequence 1s.
Moreover, when there is Sequence 0, that is, the true God, at the top of this path, it is impossible for other Sequence 1s to exist at the same time!
Therefore, Bonova, as an angel of the Orthodox Church, is stronger than him. The one who can distort space to form a seal is most likely the true God, and is the god worshipped by one of the "Eternal Sun" Church and the "God of Steam and Machinery" Church, which are preaching in Intis and headquartered in Trier.
Angel believed that it was impossible for him, a Sequence 4, to break through the seal set by a true god. Moreover, the out-of-control Sequence 1 "Disaster Titan" had been wandering around the edge of Trier in the Quaternary Epoch for hundreds of years and had not been able to leave, which just proved the reliability of the seal.
Since I can't break through the real world, I might as well try the "mirror world"...
Angel first glanced at the "Disaster Giant" in the distance to confirm that he was not rushing towards this side, and then he condensed the ice mirror and stepped directly into the strange mirror world associated with the "Quaternary Trier".
Just like her last attempt, in the mirror world here, all the illusory and dark passages all pointed in the direction of the magnificent city. From a distance, it looked like countless radiating lines extending from a single point. Looking at it for too long even made Angel shudder.
Even the new mirror passage behind her turned a sharp angle and led directly to "Quaternary Trier", causing Angel to slowly drift in that direction.
Barely stabilizing her body, she looked towards the location of the gray-white stone pillar forest in the real world and found a faint golden light flickering at the edge of the area where there was no passage and only the darkness of the mirror world itself.
It was like sunlight projected onto glass, with a fixed surface, yet not real enough. This light formed a wall in the "mirror world" that extended infinitely up, down, left, and right, just like...
Just like the lid of the iron pot that sealed Trier in the Quaternary Period... Angel chuckled and did not try to approach the "wall" that exuded a faint majesty and a burning sensation like flames. Instead, he stepped directly out of the mirror surface formed by the ice mirror and returned to the ground paved with black stone slabs.
With just a glance, she had already recognized the person, or rather, the god, who created the seal of the mirror world based on the scorching breath and the color of the sunlight.
He is the eternal light, the embodiment of order, the god of contract, the guardian of commerce, and the "eternal scorching sun."
"If I hadn't used the eternal blazing sun power within Klein's 'Sun Flame Talisman' in Tingen to create the 'Shattered Light Ray' that killed the offspring of the evil god, I might not have recognized the source of this power... Oh, that little bit of power was enough to kill the unborn offspring of the 'True Creator,' and the mirror world that sealed this place must be a hundred, a thousand times more powerful..."
Muttering to herself, Angel completely gave up the idea of leaving "Fourth Epoch Trier" from the outskirts of the wilderness. She looked at the city in the distance again, and a thought arose in her heart to go in and take a look to find a way out.
No, this wasn't my own thought, but rather that inexplicable attraction. If I were spiritually drained and acting on instinct alone, I might stumble into that city and something bad might happen... Thanks to the vigilance that had been arranged by "0-08" and that had sprouted after his conversation with "Adam" in Bayam, Angel quickly detected the abnormality in his thinking and stopped it before it could be transformed into action.
However, that mysterious power is either a residual characteristic of the "Witch" high-level Beyonder, or it's related to the strange power in me. After I'm promoted, perhaps I'll have the opportunity to go deep into the city and find out... Hmm, I don't know how many years it will take. The "Immortal" promotion ceremony alone will probably take up most of my life...
Thinking of this, Angel sighed. Even though she had digested a lot of potions in several battles after being promoted to "Despair" and summarized some role-playing rules, she did not hold out any hope of being promoted again in the short term, so she did not even bother to collect auxiliary materials for potions.
Putting these thoughts aside, she took out the two silver mirrors that had a simple shape but different appearances of old and new.
The wilderness was impassable, and there was a city of unknown danger inside. The extremely dangerous "Disaster Titans" were wandering around. Perhaps the only way to leave was through this silver mirror... Angel pondered, his gaze shifting to the mirror he had brought from Backlund.
Compared to the silver mirror held by Syrio, whose destination was uncertain but who was definitely waiting for him, she undoubtedly preferred the other side. At least Arrodes had been attached to this mirror, which meant it was not very dangerous.
The only problem lies with Arrodes. He once said that this mirror is "the door to Trier in the Fourth Epoch" and can be activated with a special key.
Now I am standing in the wilderness outside the city. If I enter this mirror, will I appear directly inside the city? According to my speculation, this is basically equivalent to suicide, and maybe the mysterious resurrection power cannot save me... Thinking of this, Angel looked at the silver mirror used by Syrio again, and suddenly felt that the "man in the mirror" was not a big danger.
One is the confirmed threat of the "Man in the Mirror," and the other is an unknown risk that could send me directly into the Trier area of the Fourth Epoch...
Her eyes wandered between the two mirrors, wavering.
In the dim light from the sky that seeped into the area, she suddenly discovered a complex symbol on the surface of the silver mirror from Backlund. The symbol seemed to be drawn in blood, a deep red, but it sank into the interior of the mirror, as if it was painted by someone inside the mirror.
What surprised Angel the most was that it was 80% similar to the human sacrifice runes he had used as reference when making the "disaster" and "betrayal" spells, with only a slight difference in details.
It is a brand new rune that can mobilize higher levels of power!
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