Silver City, Berg's house.

Looking at the blood-stained scalp with short black hair, Derrick suddenly thought of what it looked like just now. It was a beautiful and tempting "mushroom". He almost couldn't control himself and swallowed it into his stomach.

The dum fruit that Dak wanted to treat himself to, which made a crisp sound when bitten, turned out to be pieces of bloody human fingers with slightly pale skin!

At this moment, Derrick's stomach began to ache violently, and the sour liquid rushed to his throat.

He resisted the urge to vomit and sang a line of lyrics quickly in his hoarse voice:

“God, may your kingdom come here, the enemies will be scattered, and believers will rejoice!”

The song exuded a sense of warmth and holiness. Derrick felt that all the discomfort in his body was relieved, and his spirit became full and lively.

His courage, his strength, and his agility were all significantly enhanced in this song.

This is the extraordinary ability of Sequence 9 “The Singer”.

Dark stared at his former teammate who was singing in a low voice. His expression became more gloomy, and his words sounded less and less human:

"What is that thing on you...

"What is that on you?

"What is that on you?"

Suddenly, Dak's clothes were stretched out in strips, as if there was a nest of poisonous snakes underneath, which were constantly moving and wriggling.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! One by one, bloody strips of flesh penetrated the black tights, with the rough skin covered with hair on the surface.

The strips of meat danced outward, making Dak look like a bloody soft-haired hedgehog!

In a flash, the strips of meat rushed towards Derrick who was standing there.

Derrick was also a patrol member who had seen many monsters, so he was not too panicked when faced with this situation.

He twisted his waist, raised his arm, and swung down the "Hurricane Axe" that he had already held in his palm.

puff!

The Hurricane Axe struck a few bloody strips of meat, cutting them directly in half and causing them to fall to the ground.

However, because it was now "night" in the City of Silver, this attack failed to bring lightning. Instead, more bloody strips of flesh rushed in madly, wrapping around the Hurricane Axe in circles, refusing to let go.

Seeing that he couldn't withdraw his weapon, Derrick's eyes suddenly lit up with pure light, as if two small suns had descended into the room, and his other hand was already clenched in front of his mouth and nose, as if he was praying.

Silently, a bright beam of light burning with flames fell from nowhere and hit the tangled bloody strips of flesh.

Dak let out an unbearable scream, and many bloody strips of flesh fell to the ground, charred and broken.

They struggled and jumped as if they had life.

The spirituality contained within these bloody strips of flesh, which was no longer under the control of the original owner, gradually merged with the natural power leveraged by the sacrificial ritual spells, gathering into an increasingly high reddish "wave".

This "wave" was cast into the dim candlelight, causing it to suddenly expand and grow, forming an illusory and mysterious door.

Derrick had already drawn a secret symbol of "The Fool" on that candle!

This is preparation done in advance.

All of this constitutes a sacrificial ceremony with simple steps but complete elements!

Crack!

As the seat shattered, Dak pounced on Derrick with his bloody flesh waving in the air. There was no fear or tension in his eyes, only the purest and most ardent desire.

At this time, Klein above the gray fog responded.

With an unreal creaking sound, the illusory door with many strange patterns cracked open.

Behind the gap was a deep darkness, in which were countless transparent shadows of indescribable shapes.

The heights of these shadows are covered with seven pure lights of different colors that seem to contain infinite knowledge.

And above those rays of light was endless gray-white fog, and an ancient palace overlooking the gray fog.

Suddenly, a shadow jumped out from the dark corner and immediately covered Dak who was closest to it.

All the bloody strips of meat that Dak was waving around were wrapped in the dark and sticky "liquid", and he became like a cat that had entered an opaque bag.

The shadow did not stop, but quickly extended across the ground, rushing towards Derrick who had dodged to another location, and shouted loudly:

"Stop! What are you doing!?"

As a monitor, his original plan was to observe the changes first, record the corresponding anomalies, and then take action to stop the two strange parties when the situation became uncontrollable.

But when he saw a crack in the illusory door covered with strange symbols and signs, he was shocked by the deep, mysterious, lofty and majestic scene inside. He intuitively thought that this was related to the terrifying evil god, so he had to notify and act hastily, trying to forcibly interrupt Derrick's attempt to sacrifice to that existence.

However, Derrick had already determined his location and had chosen an area far away from him. Therefore, in order to control the young man possessed by the mysterious man Amon, the monitor "Shadow" could only bypass or control Dak Riggins first.

And his choice was the latter, because Dak was obviously abnormal and leaving the back to him would be an absolutely stupid move.

Seizing this opportunity, Derrick pulled out the iron box from his secret pocket and threw it hard at the illusory door created by the candlelight and at the crack that presented the magical scene.

As the iron box disappeared there, the door covered with strange symbols and logos closed with a "clang" and then disappeared quickly.

At this time, Derrick remembered Mr. Hanged Man's instructions, deliberately twisted the muscles on his face, and faced the "shadow" with a ferocious look.

Before the "shadow" covered him, he suddenly coughed violently, covered his mouth with his hands, and fell to the ground due to coughing.

The dark shadow spread over and completely enveloped him.

The room returned to silence, but two huge black "silkworm pupae" appeared on the ground.

After a while, the dark and sticky liquid shrank back and condensed into a shadow again.

As the "chrysalis" disappeared, Derrick and Dak reappeared.

The former fell there and fell into a coma, but a strange little insect with twelve transparent rings fell from his hand. The latter had turned into a mass of flesh and blood, wriggling and roaring, about to launch an attack.

Faced with this situation, the monitor had to allocate some of his strength and once again used the shadow-like black "**" to wrap up Dark Riggins, who had transformed into a monster.

Looking at the pale fingers scattered on the ground and the blood-stained scalp with short black hair, the monitor involuntarily took a breath and used his extraordinary ability to manipulate the shadows outside to form tidal waves, thereby notifying the "Chief" in the round tower again.

After doing this, he carefully examined Derrick's condition and saw the strange translucent little bug.

"This... Amon's clone hidden in Derrick's body died?" The monitor whispered in surprise.

He recalled Dark's strangeness, the terrible mutation, and the "mushrooms" and "doom fruit" that seemed to have no problems at all, and had a vague guess:

Amon might be a mortal enemy of the mastermind behind the pollution of Dak. In order to destroy the other party's plot, he would not hesitate even to lose a clone. Derrick went to the training ground to observe the exploration team and reported them to the "Chief". These two things were attempts made by Amon without exposing himself.

The mastermind behind the pollution of Dak also vaguely discovered Derrick's strangeness, so he sent Dak to control him, and the bloody scalp and fingers were the props to achieve his goal.

Thinking of this, the monitor suddenly agreed with the Chief's concerns: the final doomsday or a greater disaster is really coming, so Silver City has been encountering strange things one after another, and has been encountering secret existences hiding in the depths of darkness, and no one knows what they are.

…………

Round Tower, inside the chief's room.

The "shadow" described what had happened in detail.

Colin Iliad, who had gray hair and a scar on his face, listened quietly and nodded slightly:

“Derrick or Amon did make preparations in advance.

"The candles engraved with symbolic symbols, the evil object that could expose Dak's problem, the whispered prayers made under the pretext of pouring water, and the final sacrificial ceremony to send the object away all show that the whole thing is developing according to his plan.

"Two questions. First, who does the hidden symbol on the candle point to? Amon's real body or the spirit behind him? Second, why would Amon rather not have this clone and expose the abnormality of the exploration team? Is he and the one behind the curtain mortal enemies? Then why did he stay quietly in the City of Silver for forty-two years?

"Could it be that he predicted this event in advance, so he deliberately met the previous exploration team and let his clones reside in their bodies to destroy the plot of the one behind the veil? This is the reason for the forty-two years of waiting?"

Hearing the chief's question, the "shadow" monitor suddenly realized and said:

“Maybe it’s true!

"Mr. Chief, think about it. Why did Amon wait patiently for forty-two years, but suddenly let Yudel lose control after Yudel was locked up next to him? Because the time in the prophecy is about to come, he is eager to change a parasitic object that can move freely to destroy the plot of the one behind the curtain!"

"Indeed... We only thought that there was something wrong with Derrick, and didn't consider the timing." Silver City's "Chief" Colin responded thoughtfully.

The "Shadow" monitor immediately said:

"Your Excellency, Chief, please immediately control all members of this exploration team. There is definitely something wrong with them! And... Elder Lovia, there is a high possibility that she has also been contaminated!"

Colin frowned slightly and said:

"Before you reported this matter, and even before Dak left, Lovia came to me and told me that she suspected that the members of this exploration team were contaminated by something. She suggested that we secretly monitor them and let them guard the inverted mausoleum of Elder Havik if necessary."

Harvick was the former "chief" of Silver City. He built a mausoleum for himself deep underground. Afterwards, he lived in it and appeared less and less. Eventually, the door was closed and could never be opened again.

"Elder Lovia has already mentioned the anomaly? Shadow?" the monitor asked in astonishment.

After receiving a positive answer, he whispered half doubtfully and half relievedly:

"I hope there's nothing wrong with Elder Luo Weiya..."

"...I have sent people to control the members of the exploration team, but we cannot ignore other possibilities. Chief," Colin exhaled, "ask Avro to come over, and she and I will interrogate Derrick Berg together."