Lord of the Mysteries

Upon seeing this coiling feathered serpent deep inside the black fog, and a face at the top of the towering figure, Azik was first taken aback. Following that, the corner of his forehead throbbed as though he had been struck in the temple, splitting his head in two.

Amidst the excruciating pain, several incontiguous scenes flashed in his mind;

It was a feathered serpent with a face identical to his, even to the smallest detail;

Above a silent land, there were countless pale corpses;

Floating in midair, there were clouds stacked from bones that came from different species;

Black tentacles that drilled out from the ground, with eyes that resembled dead fish at the tip of each tentacle;

A transparent Spirit Body was forcefully pulled out of his body.

After these flashing scenes, a pair of white flaming eyes that were on the brink of extinguishing glanced over. A white feather stained with yellow oil fluttered down, splitting Azik’s transparent Spirit Body into two.

One of the parts suddenly flew up and plunged inside the “cloud of bones.” The remaining part fused with a golden accessory that had appeared out of thin air. Amidst the pale-white flames, it materialized back into a body of flesh and blood.

This scene was like a thunder god’s hammer striking down at Azik’s mind, again and again, making the pain hardly bearable. He raised his hand to his head as his knees gradually buckled as he knelt on the staircase.

He had finally recalled everything that had happened, and he understood the reason why he was constantly dying and reviving, always losing his memories and having to recover them every single time.

His soul wasn’t complete!

Similarly, Azik also understood why the feathered serpent suppressing the entire space in the depths of the black fog had an identical face as his.

It was him!

That was the other Azik Eggers!

And all of this was a concealed attempt before Death’s fall.

If stitching souls existed, there was naturally the splitting of souls. At that moment, the crazy and powerful Death had seemingly foreseen “His” outcome. Unwilling to die so simply, “He” secretly split the soul of his son, Balam Empire’s Death Consul. He took half of it away and used another item as a replacement, stitching it together with Azik’s soul.

It was a mystery if it was a deliberate arrangement of Death, or if it was an unintended consequence of the Numinous Episcopate’s Artificial Death Project, the half soul that had been taken away from Artificial Death had fused with the target of the Artificial Death Project—the Uniqueness of the Death pathway. It made the latter gain certain innate abilities as it began influencing High-Sequence Beyonders of the Corpse Collector pathway who had failed their advancement.

repeated deaths and resurrection just like Sequence 4’s Undying. And due to the golden accessory inside his body, and the calling from the other

wasn’t able to perform any in-depth investigations. Furthermore, the Numinous Episcopate’s Artificial Death Project had been raised in the past few centuries. It was only in

Haa! Haa! Haa!

hands had left his head. They were placed on the staircase as his throat produced a voice that

of him. They spread out into a layer of pale yellow

the other half of his soul calling out, as well as its desire. The two “selves” which had

to raise his head or

madness. If he became one with it again, he would probably immediately be restored to his state as a Death Consul from before. He might

would forget everything, forgetting everyone who he had once

the same word again. Irresistibly, he raised his neck bit by bit as pitch-black

that took a life of its own protruded out. His forehead cracked as

sliver of light emitted out of nothingness,

flames emanated around it in the form of feathers.

painful growl. He raised his head completely as two wisps of pale-white

serpent had straightened its body. It reached its head out as the two identical faces of different sizes

by bit, Azik, whose hands were on the ground, struggled to stand up with a warped expression. Slowly, he

approached, the entire mausoleum began shaking. The surroundings turned transparent, reflecting a world with countless skeletons

through the boundary between reality and the illusory, reaching into the mausoleum. However, they clung straight to the ground without daring

East Balam, Kolain City.

rushing to her next target’s location, suddenly stopped in her steps and held

wrong?” Red Gloves team captain, Soest, asked in

slightly as she answered, seemingly in reverie, “I hear strange voices. I can sense the calling that stems from an unknown place… I even wish to kneel to the

the rest of you hear it?”

Mitchell shook his head, he heard the slightly-aged voice

the

subconsciously turned his body and looked in the direction of the harbor towards the distant Berserk Sea. He saw a swath of pure, deep-black darkness. There weren’t any gales, massive waves, dark clouds, lightning, torrential rain,

to sense his surroundings. When he heard the painful murmurs and shouts that sounded

Azik, it has inflicted him with adverse effects? Klein’s mind raced as he

spiritual intuition told him that what was about to happen

do. He didn’t even dare open his

could be solved with mere courage. It

as he tried hard to think of whatever items he had on him that could be of

a completely different level. It won’t

Death Knell? Even worse…