These two high-level members of the righteous god churches didn't surprise Tang; they were both demigod-level Beyonders.
They seemed to have just gone through a battle and looked somewhat disheveled.
One of them, an old man as serene as the silent night, looked into the distance, seemingly gazing at the massive meteorite crater at the end of the crimson moon.
At this distance, even Tang in Euclid's space couldn't see clearly, but the old man still seemed to sense something, gazing into the far distance.
Because of the Night Goddess's descent?
Tang stopped in place, glanced at the crimson moon in the sky, and then cast a sidelong glance in a certain direction in the distance. Not noticing the pursuit of the gazes of the goddess and Adam, he then boldly used Euclid's space to browse the information of these two demigods.
Euclid's space countered divination and prediction, and could also isolate some inexplicable gazes. Having run such a long distance in Euclid's space, with the level of this space as a barrier, even if Adam and the goddess intended to chase him, it was unlikely they could catch up so quickly.
"Chanis? Archbishop Chanis, the founder of the Night Goddess Church's Night Watcher system?"
Browsing the information of the two demigods, Tang was somewhat taken aback. He really hadn't expected to encounter this person here.
As for the other one, oh, a high-level member of the Storm Church, unimportant.
So these two demigods were so late because they were affected by the Storm Church Beyonders' inherent debuff 'late but present'?
Did this thing also have a range that affected allies?
"In the future, I should just avoid the Storm Church and directly notify the Night Church and the Artisan Church... although the Artisan Church is also outwardly strong but inwardly weak, it's still better than the Storm Church's storm pigeons who can't catch up with anything..."
'Host, you're so humorous.'
Tang: Oh, so what?
Indifferent jpg.
While browsing the information, Tang also roughly understood why these two demigods were traveling so slowly.
"They were ambushed by an Intis demigod on their way here, a Hunter pathway demigod... was it the one by the river, with Augustus and that Gardener pathway demigod? He was also polluted, affected by the abyss?"
Tang cast his gaze in the direction the two demigods had come from, took out a gold coin from his pocket, and flicked it into the air with a 'ding'.
As the coin fell, he didn't look at heads or tails but confirmed whether the attempt was dangerous. Putting it back in his pocket, Tang directly proceeded in the opposite direction of the two church high-levels.
After advancing to demigod, the spiritual amplification given by the potion and the growth of divinity caused Tang's own spirituality, already that of a Trickmaster, to increase exponentially. Even using Euclid's space for travel, he could afford the huge spiritual consumption in a short time.
To be safe, Tang didn't plan to leave Euclid's space here and travel with the Traveler marionette.
The System sighed: 'Host is indeed from the cautious faction...'
"System, you're bold." Could this be called being cautious? This was called being prudent, prudent, alright.
"This is called following the will of the heart."
'Hehe, okay, okay, host, whatever you say.'
Tang: "..."
Really wanted to punch this thing.
The scene in Euclid's space flashed rapidly again. Tang's overflowing divinity enveloped his own spirituality, constantly browsing the surrounding interactive information flow, extracting the information he needed from it.
Soon, following the residual spirituality left by the two archbishops on their way, he found the place where several demigods had fought. Then, through the subtle clues of pollution remaining here, he found the Intis demigod who had already left this place far behind, hiding by a stream.
He no longer looked like a normal human. His whole body had undergone different degrees of gigantism, and a stench of rotten demons constantly polluted the surrounding environment. His body was pitted and scarred, as if struck by lightning, and some parts were missing, as if erased.
But overall, this Intis demigod looked more like a monster than a human.
Tang remembered that this Intis demigod had said before that there had been multiple collective sacrifices in Intis recently, resulting in the large-scale death of residents in the towns.
"These collective sacrifices probably also subtly affected this Hunter pathway demigod on the border, planting the seeds of pollution in him."
Coupled with the hidden pollution in the Gardener pathway demigod, when Tang and that vessel of the Dark Side of the Universe fought fiercely and the abyss appeared, the pollution here broke out together, causing this Intis demigod to frantically prevent the demigods of the Loen Church from going to support.
Hmm, it was so reasonable that Tang didn't know if there were any traces of arrangements made by some old fogey of an audience member in this.
The Audience pathway, terrifying indeed.
Tang stood beside this Intis demigod, watching the opponent's gradually extinguished, inhuman eyes.
After he died, the pollution would completely transform this area, turning it into an abyss that humans couldn't set foot in.
Holding the Sun Scepter, Tang confirmed that this Iron-Blooded Knight couldn't be saved and could only wait for death.
The pollution of the abyss was powerful and诡谲. It had already penetrated the opponent's body, mind, and spirit. Even if there were demigods of the Sun pathway and high-Sequence powerhouses of the Audience pathway to treat him, they couldn't completely eradicate this mental pollution rooted in the depths of the spirit body.
"The mental pollution of the abyss feeds on emotions, and grows frantically using the spirit body and physical body as nourishment."
He prepared to use a high-level charm of the Death domain to kill this demigod, while using the Sun Scepter to quickly析出 the extraordinary characteristics of the Iron-Blooded Knight, giving this Intis demigod a quick death, so as not to suffer the double torment of losing control and pollution so painfully.
"Although marionetting is more efficient, I don't want my marionette to have residual abyss pollution, even if it's just a temporary marionetting, the pollution will affect my own stability in reverse through the spirit threads."
Tang raised his hand, preparing to take out the bundle of charms he had placed in the System's warehouse.
But before he could act, he suddenly frowned and stared at this Intis demigod for a few more seconds.
After advancing to Sequence Four, his mastery of Euclid's space became deeper, and the accuracy and precision of his observation also increased rapidly.
Even just a superficial observation allowed Tang to see something was wrong.
Subconsciously letting his spirituality envelop the opponent, the projection of this Intis demigod in Euclid's space turned into the information flow itself, and Tang saw all the secrets of this demigod.
He suddenly cursed inwardly, the Sun Scepter appearing in his hand. Without hesitation, he performed a dimensional reduction, and the golden hammer immediately appeared, amplifying this mystical attack, directly blasting the black sunlight onto this demigod.
The filthy and depraved black sunlight seemed even more terrifying than before after another 'sun's ascent'. The Iron-Blooded Knight's spirit body was instantly polluted, and the Sequence Four extraordinary characteristics were rapidly析出ing. At the same time, Tang saw that within the polluted spirit body, black seed-like things were rooted in the Iron-Blooded Knight's spirit body, like parasites, as if they were the incarnation of the abyss's depravity.
When this black seed touched the black sunlight, it layered upon layer, rapidly expanding, seemingly about to turn into a small abyss, but it was rapidly purified by the power of the No Dark, until the spirit body of this Sequence Four demigod couldn't withstand the impact of the pollution, collapsed and dissipated. Only then did the black seed fail to hold on, unwillingly disappearing into the shattered spirit body fragments all over the ground.
The Dark Side of the Universe had hidden a backup plan!
Tang only felt unlucky. If he had let this Intis demigod die here, polluted by the power of the abyss, perhaps in a few years a Hunter pathway demigod would appear, arranging a sacrificial ritual to open the door to the abyss!
Looking at the extraordinary characteristics on the ground, Tang glanced at the top of his head, performed another divination to confirm there was no problem, then came out of Euclid's space, picked up the extraordinary characteristics on the ground, and threw them into the System's warehouse.
Finally glancing at the corpse of the Intis demigod, who had completely异化 and fallen into a monster under the black sunlight and the pollution爆发ed by the abyss, Tang was silent for a moment before snapping his fingers and igniting his body.
Afterwards, Tang re-entered Euclid's space, concealing his whereabouts, preventing prying eyes, and returning to Saga Castle.
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Inside Saga Castle.
The tremor of the earth continued. The war between the three countries naturally didn't break out. Upon receiving the news, the high-level members of the Night and Storm Church who had set off early had already notified the righteous god churches of various countries. The high-level members of the churches who were urgently dispatched barely stopped the military high-levels controlled by desire.
Faced with this deadly commotion created by the Dark Side of the Universe, the high-levels of the major churches couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, secretly rejoicing that things hadn't developed to a point of no return.
If a real war had broken out, not to mention the impact on the countries, although the churches' faith would have become unprecedentedly strong during the war, the already unstable friendly and hostile relations between the countries would also have been broken in an instant.
The old, weak, women, and children would die, and the young and strong would join the war. Even eight or nine-year-old children would probably have to go to the battlefield early. This would be a devastating blow to the population of each country, shaking the anchors of the gods. Even if the churches could harvest faith as a result, the final outcome would still be more harmful than beneficial. The churches would not, and could not, let it go unchecked.
And without letting the Dark Side of the Universe's intentions be achieved, naturally there weren't too many casualties.
The military high-levels of various countries who had regained consciousness naturally knew they had been tricked. Since no major consequences had occurred, under the protection of the high-levels of the various churches, they needed to quickly calm the emotions of the border soldiers and stabilize morale to prevent any major disaster.
And the two consecutive earthquakes gave the countries an opportunity to cease fire and reconcile.
However, the Loen army had a minor conflict with the Intis army, with few casualties. The only regret was that a colonel took the lead during the conflict with Intis and died as a result.
The Intis military high-levels expressed their apologies for this and conceded some negotiable benefits to ensure the relationship between Loen and Intis, so as not to stir up the emotions of the two countries that had just been calmed down again.
The Intis high-levels were also speechless. Who knew how that Loen colonel's brain was wired? Wasn't it good to stay in the rear? Why did he have to face them head-on, using his life to win benefits for Loen? Was he a dog of the Augustus family?!
Even a dog wouldn't be so reckless!
In response, the Loen military high-levels posthumously promoted this colonel who had contributed to Loen to the rank of brigadier general and held a memorial service for him with the待遇 of a brigadier general, mourning the merits of this Brigadier General.
Many officers attended the memorial service for this brigadier general, and apart from mourning the deceased brigadier general, his child, Liliana Bernstein, became the biggest focus of this memorial service.
Liliana Bernstein, the child of Brigadier General Whistlek Bernstein, was too beautiful and lovable. In Saga Castle, this young lady was equivalent to receiving the protection of the military high-levels.
If one could take her into their arms, it would be equivalent to gaining the attention of the military high-levels, and obtaining some tickets to the high-ranking officers' club in advance.
At the memorial service, some men with not much merit and no ability to advance were restless.
They hoped to have an encounter with this young lady who had just lost her father and looked somewhat pitiful, to help her out of her grief.
Owen held a glass of red wine, his shoulder was patted.
He looked back and saw Angele, who had appeared at some unknown time, pointing to the side, signaling him to go over.
Owen put down his wine glass, politely apologized to the officers beside him, and in their strange, confused, yet suddenly normal gazes, quietly stepped into a corner that had been pre-arranged with a ritual to isolate it from outside contact.
"Tang?"
Something seemed hidden in the dark corner. Owen's expression gradually became serious. He looked over and saw one transparent worm after another crawling all over that corner.
Each of those worms was transparent and seemed to possess extraordinary vitality. Each transparent worm seemed to have its own thoughts. They all raised their heads, as if noticing someone intruding into their territory. Owen saw very clearly that each worm had a human face...
"Are you performing worm crawling?"
He suddenly asked.
The transparent worms disappeared, the magician's illusion dispelled, and Tang walked out of the corner.
"Don't talk if you can't speak properly. This is called illusion, a magician's performance, understand?"
He was just a little 'Trickmaster-ish'. What was worm crawling? That was called dark, twisted wriggling, okay? Did he know how to speak?
Owen's mouth twitched. It seemed your description wasn't much better than mine.
"What happened? Your marionette was vague before. And, did you advance?" he asked alertly.
Huh?
Hearing this, Tang looked Owen up and down, muttering, "What precise intuition."
Was this the spiritual intuition exchanged for brains?
He grinned, "Well, in short, I had a fight with the vessel of the Dark Side of the Universe, won, and completed the ritual by the way."
No more pretending, he was laying his cards on the table. He was Sequence Four, a demigod.
Owen: "Oh, you fought with... you fought with what?"
His face suddenly changed.
"The vessel of the Dark Side of the Universe." Tang spread his hands, preparing to receive worshipful gazes. "The thing you're thinking of. I pinned him to the ground and beat him to death, and then I advanced. Oh, right, you..."
"Wait, about that before, you don't need to make it short. Tell your brother what happened first."
'Oh ho ho ho ho, host, you're about to be in big trouble~'
The System's mocking voice rang out.
(End of this chapter)