Klein's voice abruptly stopped. Through the shared perspective of the Marionette, he noticed that Aaron's current state was extremely bizarre.
Not only was his body covered in dark, cold scales, but he was also pierced by illusory thin tubes emerging from the black mist.
"No matter! I'm well aware of Azik's situation. Take out the 'Rusco's Eye' that the Evernight Goddess bestowed upon you earlier."
Waving his hand indifferently to indicate he was fine, Aaron looked at his increasingly ethereal body and couldn't help but sigh.
The Death Pathway's Uniqueness had basically been activated, filled with an extreme coldness and madness. If it were to reunite with Azik now, he would likely immediately become a pseudo-Death with only divinity and no humanity!
However, the Evernight Goddess, who should have appeared long ago, remained silent. This abnormality made Aaron suspect that the turmoil in the Berserk Sea had caused some issues in the Astral World.
His main body was still far away in the "Abyss of Ferrying" eliminating Haiter. Relying solely on this pseudo-divine descent clone, he could only temporarily swap fates with Azik using the Fate Siphon charm, directly transferring the influence of the "Artificial Death" onto the Nation of Disorder, which served as the medium for the divine descent clone!
Although the residual pollution still caused irreversible changes in Aaron's body, to his surprise, appeasing the Balancer and the half of Azik's soul that had merged with the Death Uniqueness helped him digest a lot of his "Balancer" Beyonder characteristic.
The only problem was that the Fate Siphon charm had limited effectiveness, and this pseudo-divine descent clone alone couldn't prevent Azik from merging with the Death Uniqueness.
Although he wasn't entirely sure what Aaron wanted to do, Klein still exhaled a long breath and took out Rusco's Eye, which was hidden in his flesh, accompanied by a strong sense of powerlessness.
Even though he had advanced to Sequence 5, he would suffer severe injuries just by opening his eyes to look at Mr. Azik's current state and what he was encountering.
This was not a problem that could be solved by courage alone; it was a difference in Beyonder characteristic level, an unbridgeable gap.
Just then, Klein suddenly heard an extremely familiar scream of pain.
Almost instinctively, he turned his head, and through Ludwell's vision, Klein saw Mr. Azik kneeling on one knee at the bottom of the tiered sarcophagi, not far from that indescribable feathered serpent.
Drops of sweat slid down Azik's forehead, hitting the stone slab in front of him, spreading a thin layer of yellowish oil and growing fine white fuzz.
His forehead suddenly bulged as if alive, then split open, revealing a bloody gash.
A golden light then emerged from nothingness, taking shape within the flesh.
This was an ancient golden ornament, shaped like a slender bird, surrounded by wings made of pale flames. Inside its bronze eyes, layers of light formed a mysterious and illusory Door.
The Fate Siphon charm had failed!
Aaron, beside him, also changed his expression slightly, cursed under his breath, and somewhat suspected whether the Die of Probability, sealed within the Nation of Disorder, had taken the opportunity to affect him with its terrifying bad luck.
"Close your eyes!"
Aaron roared, no longer bothering with Klein. His figure dispersed and reformed, having already forcefully pressed Rusco's Eye onto Azik's forehead, blocking the bird-shaped golden ornament that was trying to fly out of the flesh crack.
Inside Azik's ancient eyes, two pale flames suddenly ignited. Looking at Aaron, who was blocking him, he let out a pained roar, unable to hide his agony:
"Don't mind me!"
"Quickly take Klein and escape from here!"
Aaron glanced at Klein, who was fumbling his way towards them not far away, shook his head helplessly, and ignited the divinity of this quasi-divine descent clone, merging it into the last remaining eye of the Demonic Wolf Flegrea.
The illusory yet real feathered serpent deep within the black mist straightened its body, extended its head, and met the gaze of Rusco's Eye, which was slightly rotating and shimmering with golden light.
The entire mausoleum suddenly began to vibrate, and the surroundings became transparent, revealing an illusory world with countless skeletons and specters.
Bloody arms, black-green vines with infant faces, and slimy tentacles penetrated the boundary between reality and illusion, reaching into the mausoleum, yet they clung tightly to the ground, not daring to move.
Aaron's rapidly fading figure paused slightly, stopping his almost collapsing form, and looked at a beautiful lady outlined through the illusory world between Azik and the mountain-like illusory feathered serpent.
This was the "Mother of the Sky" sealed beneath St. Samuel's Church in the Backlund diocese, the Evernight Goddess's divine descent vessel!
Finally caught up… Aaron's expression relaxed slightly. He didn't have time to ask what accident had occurred and immediately turned sideways, casually taking the constantly wriggling Rusco's Eye.
The bird-shaped golden ornament on Azik's forehead immediately became agitated, and pale flames spread fiercely, but it was then pressed down by a slender, fair hand. The mountain-like illusory feathered serpent showed a look of fear for the first time.
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In the deepest part of the Abyss of Ferrying, the "City of the Dead" suffered the greatest destruction in over a thousand years since the fall of Death during the Pale Disaster.
The desperate battle of three Angels, or rather, Aaron and Bernadette's one-sided crushing of Haiter, brought this ancient city to the brink of collapse.
Once again scattering the monstrous feathered serpent into black mist, the Sun Chaser Scepter in Aaron's hand surged with endless light, as if it had suddenly transformed into the Sun descending into reality.
Accompanied by Haiter's painful and angry roars, clumps of greenish-tinged Beyonder characteristics were forcibly stripped away. Even so, Haiter stubbornly continued to reform his body.
Having witnessed the terrifying vitality of a Death Pathway Angel, Aaron raised an eyebrow and casually collected the Beyonder characteristics, which were at most demigod level, but his expression became relaxed.
Through the Nation of Disorder, he had synchronized the consciousness of his pseudo-divine descent clone and already knew of the Evernight Goddess's arrival, so he no longer needed to risk exposing some of his trump cards to maintain the situation.
Ignoring Haiter's malicious curses, the special environment of the "Abyss of Ferrying" allowed him to have no qualms. Moreover, the higher-ups of the Church and various national forces should now be focused on the Berserk Sea. Aaron patiently wore down this half-crippled "Death Consul" little by little.
Alvin Gallows, who had sealed the Spirit World near the "Abyss of Ferrying," followed the light of the Sun Chaser Scepter and found Aaron, breaking through the much thinner black mist. The slowly wriggling black thorns on his body were entwining several figures, who were precisely the high-ranking members of the Artificial Death faction who had tried to escape by Spirit World traversing during the chaos.
One Ferryman, two Undying… Aaron slightly tilted his head, scanning these figures, pausing for a few seconds on Patrick Bryan, whose aura was the weakest.