Lord of the Mysteries

The prayer hall in the Evernight cathedral was as dark as before. Only the holes on the walls allowed some light to seep in, like stars in the night.

Klein sat in a corner that wasn’t eye-catching. He took off his tall hat and began praying like a pious member of the congregation.

He simply mentioned how Roselle had revived in his last mausoleum, and focused on the corruption of the Primordial Moon. He deliberately emphasized that, in order to prevent the “crimson moon” within him from being born in the real world, Roselle had chosen to terminate the process of having his Black Emperor Uniqueness and three Sequence 1 characteristics return to him.

At the end of the prayer, Klein pointed out the hidden dangers of the Cards of Blasphemy, and he expressed his concerns about the whereabouts of the Mother card and The Moon Card.

In fact, Roselle only mentioned the need to be careful of the Mother card and didn’t mention The Moon. However, Klein knew that the two pathways of Earth and Moon belonged to the Mother Goddess of Depravity. Therefore, to be cautious, he specially added The Moon Card.

This was also the main reason he was worried about Earth Mother Lilith.

Compared to most of the twenty-two pathways, the High-Sequence Beyonders of the Planter and Moon pathway had a huge advantage. That was that they didn’t need to worry about the Primordial One from awakening in their bodies. They didn’t need to worry about dissociation from approaching the world underground. This was because the Beyonder characteristics they possessed didn’t directly come from the Primordial One which led to no corresponding mental imprint. However, if they were to directly go underground and enter the Chaos Sea, no matter who it was, they would encounter corruption. It was just that the extent would be different.

This advantage was very likely due to the fact that the Sanguine Ancestor Lilith was more special than the other ancient gods. After all, “She” didn’t need to divert a large part of “Her” energy to resist the will of the Primordial One awakening within her. And back then, the invisible barrier protecting this world was still sufficiently sturdy, separating the Mother Goddess of Depravity and the other Great Old Ones from Earth, making it difficult for “Them” to exert too much of an influence on the situation inside.

But with the passage of time, this advantage gradually became a problem.

As the underground corruption became weaker and weaker, the invisible barrier also became weaker and cracks began appearing. Under such circumstances, Earth Mother Lilith’s situation became worse. This was because “She” was facing the intrusion of the Mother Goddess of Depravity that was ever increasing in potency and terror. In this aspect, the original Creator—the Oldest One—who was dead was definitely inferior to the living Mother Goddess of Depravity.

Considering how Outer Deities who had transcended Sequences had an influence on Beyonders from their own pathway, Klein felt that he couldn’t afford negligence on such matters.

After he finished his prayer, he waited for nearly five minutes. After confirming that there was no response, he stood up, put on his wandering magician’s tall hat, and walked out of the cathedral that belonged to the Evernight.

To him, this was mainly a disclosure obligation. As for what the Evernight Goddess planned to do with it, or if “She” would remind him of certain matters, it was beyond his control.

In short, Klein could only temporarily believe that the Evernight Goddess knew the relative importance of matters.

…

Backlund, at the Harvest Church south of the Bridge.

The top-hatted Emlyn White got off his carriage and looked at the sun covered by the clouds and mist.

On the way to the entrance of the cathedral, he gently rotated the ring on his left hand, as if to flaunt his identity.

The ring was semi-translucent in color, as though it was made from light-red amber. There was a blood-red gem embedded on its tip—a reward Emlyn had received a long time ago—Lilith’s Ring.

day, he only needed to drink three bottles of human blood to be

entering the Harvest Church, Emlyn automatically removed

Bishop Utravsky, stood up one

ahead

Mistral still not

set up a chapel

casually said, “He will

before saying, “Where’s Bishop

bishop is waiting for you behind. The Church’s envoy has arrived.” Ernes controlled his facial expression as he

Church’s envoy… Emlyn rotated the light-red ring on his left hand and walked

slightly curly black-haired envoy the Church with a tall nose

the archbishop, His Grace Loreto,” Father

window, blocking most of the

Emlyn replied with the etiquette of the Church of

and spoke in

status of an archbishop. From today onwards, you will be a hierophant, a high-ranking deacon of the Church. You will be in charge of the Sanguine matters in

time to digest this information, Loreto continued, “I came to Backlund under the Holy See’s orders. I’ll

suppressed his glee

immediately

believers of the Earth Mother, as long as you claim that you have obtained a revelation, they are individuals who have been

something like this to you, or if you have obtained a revelation personally, please inform Bishop Utravsky

mention this before… This request sounds very strange, as though there’s some suspicion… Emlyn frowned as

bishop never said anything about taking note

realized that he came off as criticizing Bishop Utravsky, but he couldn’t find any better

understood what was odd

everyone that the Earth Mother you sensed isn’t the

are fake. It’s from demons or evil gods… The look in

Loreto didn’t

you because he

as a Feysacian, a hierophant who had changed faith in his later years,

Blessed. He doesn’t need to care about the temptation of demons and evil

nodded and said calmly, “The revelations of Earth Mother are in ‘Her’

He grunted and said to Loreto, “Then what is the second point that

his expression turn