Chapter 440 The Only Living Ancient God
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Hobert found himself surrounded by seven or eight demons.
Each of them sported goat horns and wore mocking smiles as they looked at Hobert and his fallen companion.
The blood-type patterns and demon statues scattered all around made Hobert feel as if he were in Hell itself!
Hobert smiled. "I didn't expect the demons' ability to foresee danger to be so keen."
The demons' smiles deepened. A huge demon stepped out from the group, a wicked grin on his face. "Isn't this Baron Hobert? Lost in a midnight stroll?"
The demons erupted in laughter.
Seeing the other party's wicked smile, Hobert knew it had to be Yarlin.
Hobert said to himself, "Your ability is quite good. Saves me the trouble of finding you one by one. Disorder!"
A "Disorder Stone" was thrown on the ground, and several Sequence 6 "Devils" immediately froze, struggling against losing control.
Fortunately, they were in a "Demonized" state, and their control over themselves was significantly enhanced. They desperately burned the goat horns on their heads, trying to recover as soon as possible.
Yarlin, who was not greatly affected, suddenly had more than twenty blue fireballs appear around him. The fireballs were controlled by Yarlin's will, and one by one, they smashed towards Hobert.
Hobert used "Blink" and appeared directly in front of Yarlin: "Holy..."
Halfway through the ability, Hobert suddenly felt his heart throb twice. He felt unwell and extremely restless, and he actually interrupted his own ability.
This was the "Desire Apostle's" detonation of desire. Hobert had always tried to restrain his desires, but just now he had the desire to kill Yarlin, so Yarlin seized the opportunity.
Fortunately, the "Lawyer" pathway was also known for resisting mental attacks, otherwise Hobert's heart would have suffered great damage.
Yarlin couldn't laugh anymore. He didn't expect Hobert to be so fierce. His fireballs hadn't all been thrown yet, and Hobert had already rushed over, wanting to fight him at close quarters!
Buzz~
A thick magma greatsword appeared in Yarlin's hand, stabbing towards Hobert, who was clutching his heart. Because of the high temperature, his stab actually produced the sound of cutting through the air.
Who knew that Hobert would actually grab his magma greatsword with his bare hands and send his black knife towards Yarlin's heart.
Yarlin immediately released the hilt and dodged nimbly.
Suddenly, Yarlin felt Hobert's aura soar, and he immediately sensed a fatal threat.
Then Yarlin understood that Hobert had released the seal of some sealed item.
This time, Hobert brought two Grade 1 sealed items to deal with possible dangers. One sealed item was the scepter he always carried with him, and the other sealed item came from a "Rose School" demigod.
He didn't dare to use the sealed item from the "Error" pathway randomly. The first time he used it, Amon didn't come, but that didn't mean he would be so lucky in the future.
For the sake of easy distinction, Hobert named this Level 1 sealed item from the "Rose School" "1-103".
In fact, according to the naming convention of sealed items, it should be named "1-003", but that might expose the fact that the "Creator" had very few Grade 1 sealed items, so he simply named it "103".
The appearance of "1-103" was a moving human skin. Its ability was: "It can turn inanimate objects without spirituality into monster puppets. These monsters will undergo unknown mutations, some may even possess Beyonder abilities, some will be controlled by the holder, some will not be controlled by the holder, and some may even attract some powerful and evil gazes!"
The negative effect was: "As long as you wear it, you will become crazy and bloodthirsty, but you can retain most of your sanity. Only by killing one person can you remove the wearing state. Wearing it for more than five minutes has a certain probability of suffering an unknown curse. Some curses turn the holder into a slug, some curses make the holder lose his mind, and some curses completely turn the holder into a werewolf, but he can maintain corresponding sanity. Even a Sequence 2 'Ancient Bane' cannot remove such a 'transformation curse'."
In other words, if he didn't kill an opponent within five minutes, Hobert would likely turn into a slug.
The reason why Hobert dared to "catch the blade with his bare hands" just now was because he was affected by the sealed item, and his sanity went offline for a short while. The hot greatsword, after being released from Yarlin's control, turned into a ball of orange-red magma.
Hobert quickly withdrew his hand, but his hand was still severely burned.
But at this time, Hobert seemed to be unaware of the pain. He now had only one thought in his mind: Kill!
Hobert's eyes were bloodshot, and he charged towards Yarlin with his knife.
At this time, the demons who were fighting against losing control gradually recovered, but what greeted them was an army of monsters made up of objects.
A small bamboo basket floated up and covered the top of a demon's head.
The demon struggled to break free, but he couldn't.
Pfft~
The bamboo basket imitated the "Dragon's Fart", allowing the demon to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by farts.
A wall suddenly opened its arms and hugged a demon. The wall kept saying to itself, "I am a fossil, I am a fossil. You don't believe it? Hehehe, I have something wrapped inside!"
A piece of clothing hanging in the yard suddenly "jumped" down from the clothesline. Soon, it exuded golden light and wrapped around a demon. The demon let out a painful scream.
The clothes laughed: "You didn't expect it, but I am actually a sunflower. Wherever I go, the sun follows!"
The demon who was burned by the sunlight cursed: "Sunflowers go to find the sun, how can the sun find the sunflower?"
A stick standing by the wall jumped and poked a demon's butt. The stick slowly said, "I, actually, am a poop stirrer!"
The tiles on the roof threw themselves out and smashed towards a demon. They kept shouting: "I am a dart! I am a dart!"
Pa~
The demon smashed a tile, and the tiles shouted: "Don't let the sacrifice of our compatriots be in vain! Charge!"
The demon was covered by tiles.
Even the knife in Hobert's hand had life: "Friend! Your swordsmanship is too poor, watch mine!"
The black knife spun on its own and slashed at Yarlin.
Hobert quickly dodged backwards. The black knife's attack almost cut Hobert: "Disorder!"
Yarlin paused briefly, and the black knife plunged into his chest. At the same time, he grabbed hard and detonated Hobert's bloodthirsty desire.
"Distortion!" Hobert gradually regained more sanity, and had been guarding against this point from Yarlin.
He "distorted" the concept of himself and Yarlin, so that the other party also suffered half of the detonation of desire.
The veins on Hobert's face bulged, his eyes turned red, and he pounced on the nearest demon.
The bloodthirsty desire once again overcame reason, and he once again grabbed the head of the demon with his bare hands!
The demon's head was covered with a bamboo basket, and he couldn't avoid Hobert's attack at all.
Hobert twisted hard, and with a "crack", he twisted the other party's head 360 degrees: "Leave none alive! Cough cough cough, TMD, who farted? It smells so bad!"
He knew that the demon was not dead yet, so he continued to twist, one circle, two circles, three circles, and then pulled hard, pulling off the demon's head.
The demon, spraying dark red blood, grabbed with both hands, as if looking for his head, and his head was kicked out by Hobert as a ball, hitting another demon.
The headless demon reached out and grabbed a few times, and fell straight to the ground.
Yarlin was not doing well either. He was already bloodthirsty and cold-blooded, so the impact he received was no less than Hobert's.
He punched the wall that he thought was a fossil, and when he saw a demon struggling to come out, he exclaimed, "It really is a fossil!"
As he spoke, a magma greatsword appeared in Yarlin's hand, and he pulled open his posture and slashed horizontally. Both the wall that thought it was a fossil and the demon were cut in half.
Hobert and Yarlin, who had each killed a life, had their bloodthirsty state weakened.
Hobert regained most of his sanity: "Corrosion!"
The demons' already dark hearts were immediately severely corroded by this skill! The demons, who were originally resisting those strange monsters, immediately lost most of their sanity.
Some stood in place and sang a song that no one had ever heard with great devotion, allowing the monster to poke his butt. At this moment, he was really crazy.
Some squatted on the ground drawing circles, allowing the clothes exuding the breath of sunshine to wrap around him: "Curse you!"
Even Yarlin hugged the upper body of the demon that he had cut in half: "How about we dance?"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hobert quickly took off "1-103" and resealed it: "Why is this battle so strange?"
He quickly picked up the black knife not far away, preparing to take advantage of the demons' temporary state of irrationality to start a massacre.
Hobert had long guessed that "Corrosion" must be the most effective attack method against demons.
So when he found himself surrounded, he began to brew mental corrosion against the demons.
It's just that Hobert was affected by the sealed item, and his IQ was occasionally offline. It wasn't until he regained most of his sanity this time that he remembered his arrangement for "Corrosion".
Before Hobert could rush to Yarlin, he felt a huge wave of malice coming.
It was as if an invisible tentacle was entangling Hobert's emotions and desires.
Hobert immediately used "Blink" to recover the "Disorder Stone", and then used "Travel" to leave with the demon corpse whose head he had twisted off.
Hobert's figure disappeared, and only three or four seconds later, a middle-aged man with no expression walked out of the shadows. He looked at the ugly "demons" and said, "Fools!"
At this time, Yarlin took the lead in regaining his sanity. He dropped the half corpse he had just been holding and returned to a normal human state: "Archbishop Bowen!"
Although the demon forces are inherited in a family manner, because they jointly formed the loose "Blood Worship Sect", even if Yarlin and Bowen were related, they had to call the other party Archbishop.
Bowen glanced at the "monsters" that were gradually losing their vitality and turned back into clothes, wooden sticks, and ordinary tiles: "Were you the one who summoned me just now?"
As soon as Yarlin felt that the situation was not right, he immediately summoned this demigod, but this convenient summoning can only be used in a close-range state. Fortunately, this demigod did not leave South Colson tonight.
He said, "Your Excellency Archbishop, before the battle started, I did not feel a fatal threat on the other party."
If he had felt that Hobert was carrying a Level 1 sealed item, Yarlin would have watched his companions being killed from afar, and then designed a trap to deal with Hobert.
Bowen took a deep breath: "His sealing of sealed items is very special, so you didn't perceive it in advance."
At this time, more and more demons regained their sanity. They ended their "Demonization" state and became ordinary people.
Bowen glanced at the wound on Yarlin's body, and he sneered, "This wound is unusual. If you don't want to die, don't move."
Without waiting for Yarlin to answer, Bowen grabbed towards the direction of the wound, and a thick magma emerged from Yarlin's body.
These magmas cooled immediately after falling to the ground and exuded the breath of death.
Yarlin felt that part of his soul had been caught out. He knelt weakly on the ground, sweating profusely and trying to repair the trauma of his spirit body: "Thank, thank you, Archbishop."
The demon, whose butt was painfully poked by the stick, asked, "Archbishop, should we go to the other side and kill that hateful Baron?"
Bowen sneered: "He is a chosen one. We don't need to take action. Sooner or later, he will fall into the endless abyss!"
...
Hobert was surprised to find that he had not returned to his territory, but had come to Knight Cutton's room.
At this time, the Beyonder characteristics in Cutton's body had been analyzed, which was an "Arbiter"'s Beyonder characteristics.
Hobert knew that Cutton was a Sequence 9 Beyonder, but he had just left before he had time to speed up the analysis of the Beyonder characteristics in order to attack one of the demons faster.
Hobert threw the headless demon corpse on the ground, and after a little thought, he understood what was going on: This was the negative effect of "1-104"!
"1-104" was the scepter that Hobert had been carrying with him. "1-101" was the Level 1 sealed item from the Error pathway, and "1-102" was another Level 1 sealed item from the "Rose School".
Although Hobert did not use "1-104" this time, he also released its seal, so he was naturally affected by its negative effects.
One of the negative effects of the scepter was that it would make the holder unusually greedy. Fortunately, "1-104" had been resealed by Hobert using the power of the "Nation of Disorder".
Within ten minutes of use, it would only become relatively greedy, but not "abnormally greedy".
So Hobert unconsciously returned to Cutton's place, wanting to pick up his Beyonder characteristics and see if there was anything valuable here.
Since he was here, he certainly couldn't leave empty-handed. Hobert picked up Cutton's Beyonder characteristics, and then used the "Spirit Wine Glass" to communicate with the demon's corpse.
Once again in the spirit world composed of gray fog, Hobert stood before a man of about thirty years old, staring ahead with lost eyes.
Hobert asked, "Why does the Abyss want to give Hobert a gift?"
"…"
After asking seven times, the gray fog in front of Hobert parted, revealing a sacrificial scene in a cave.
Inside the cave, magma gurgled and bubbled, and on the altar was a "sacrifice" still twitching and bleeding.
A middle-aged man in a sacrificial robe, his face expressionless, stood before the altar and said, "Our sacrifice has finally pleased the 'Abyss'! Grand Duke Reitz's idea is correct! The 'Abyss' is our 'Demon Lord'!"
"He is trapped somewhere and needs our sacrifices to provide Him with the power to escape. Therefore, as long as we persist in sacrificing to the 'Abyss,' our monarch will return to the earth!"
After the demons cheered, one of them asked, "Your Eminence Archbishop, what instructions did the 'Abyss' give us?"
The Archbishop said, "The 'Abyss' told me that tomorrow a baron named Hobert will come to Viscount Teuton's mansion for a banquet. We must give the 'Monarch's Ring' to Hobert!"
"The 'Monarch's Ring'? Heavens, that's the ring the monarch once wore!"
"Indeed." The Archbishop said with a cold smile, his expression unchanged, "Hobert is the person chosen by the 'Abyss.' He can help the 'Abyss' further escape its predicament."
Another person asked, "Is Hobert also a demon?"
The Archbishop sneered, "His spirit body and life are useful to the 'Abyss'!"
The scene ended, and Hobert pondered with his arms crossed, "They have been sacrificing to the 'Abyss.' If the 'Demon Lord' Farbauti, or rather the 'Dark Side of the Universe,' still holds the uniqueness of this pathway, then these sacrifices pointing to the 'Abyss' are also pointing to Farbauti."
"But why does the 'Abyss' know my movements so clearly? Is it just because of that painting's effect?"
Then Hobert felt a little strange again. Why didn't they do any anti-divination or anti-spiritualist measures for such an important plan?
After thinking for a while without getting the answer he wanted, Hobert asked the spirit in front of him, "Your understanding of the 'Abyss.'"
"…"
After asking seven times in a row, the spiritualist scene changed multiple times, flashing scenes of the other party discussing the "Abyss" with his companions.
Most demons know less about the "Abyss" than Hobert. They only know that it is their god.
Through their discussion of the Abyss, Hobert learned some inside information about the Blood Sanctify Sect. More than a thousand years ago, after the appearance of the "Dark Side of the Universe," the higher-ups of the Blood Sanctify Sect had a huge disagreement.
Some high-level demons believed that it was the incarnation of the "Demon Lord" and should be sacrificed to and loyal to the "Dark Side of the Universe."
However, more high-level demons claimed that they had received instructions from the "Demon Lord" that the "Dark Side of the Universe" was not Him, and that everyone should not believe in the "Dark Side of the Universe."
This group of demons later split again. Some continued to believe in the "Demon Lord" Fabuti, because the "Demon Lord" occasionally responded to their sacrifices.
Others began to directly believe in the "Abyss," believing that as long as their sacrifices pointed to the uniqueness of the Abyss, they could still get in touch with the "Demon Lord." Moreover, they believed that the "Demon Lord" was obviously in some kind of trouble. If they directly sacrificed to the "Abyss," they could effectively bypass the power that was troubling the "Demon Lord" and directly contact their god.
Seeing that the demon's spirit was beginning to fade, Hobert immediately asked, "All Sequence 5s and that demigod's information in Southern Colson!"
"…"
After chanting silently seven times in a row, the appearances and names of Sequence 5s and that demigod appeared one after another, as well as some information about them.
The demigod was called Bowen, who was the archbishop who presided over the sacrifice before.
Also, there were not three Sequence 5s, but five Sequence 5s, including the three who liked to smirk, Yarlin, the seemingly wooden Shandy, and a voluptuous female demon, Gloria.
There were also two Sequence 5s that this demon had never seen before, only knowing that they were called Wordsworth and Weitz.
The demon's spirit was very faint, and Hobert, in the spirit of not wasting it, asked this demon for the potion formula of the "Abyss" pathway.
But only the potion formula for Sequence 7 was presented before this spirit completely dissipated, and Hobert was forced to withdraw from the spirit communication.
Hobert accelerated the extraction of Beyonder characteristics, and then simply searched Keton's place.
Just as he was about to leave, Hobert's mind moved. He found a rope, hung Keton's body on the so-called "Tree of Sacrifice," and dipped it in blood to write the phrase "Evil Politics" on his body.
Then he used "Travel" to return to his room. Hobert first sacrificed what he had gained tonight, an Beyonder characteristic of Sequence 6 "Devil" and one of "Arbiter" that he didn't usually use, "1-103" to the "Nation of Disorder."
Then he returned to the real world, pondered the information he had obtained through spiritualism, and fell asleep while thinking and guessing.
As he fell asleep, Hobert clearly felt some power invading his dream. Since Hobert was contaminated by an outer god last time and almost died in his dream, he would wear a bracelet made of "Order Crystal" every day to sleep.
The "Order Crystal" bracelet would keep Hobert awake even in his dreams, and he could use the power of the "Nation of Disorder" to wake himself up at any time.
In the dream, Hobert walked on a beautiful grassland. At the end of the grassland was a black hall that gave people a huge sense of oppression.
The hall was a sea of flowers, and in the sea of flowers was a stone throne.
Hobert entered the hall and came to the throne. He recalled that this was the hall deep within the painting, and there was also a sea of flowers and a throne in that hall.
The difference was that on the throne in Hobert's dream at this time sat a thin, short-haired, middle-aged man with a short beard on his chin.
The middle-aged man was wearing a classical costume, and his two thin and long arms were placed on the armrests of the throne.
He had the aura of a monarch, looking down at Hobert expressionlessly like a statue: "Flegrea divined you, descendant of Trunsoest! You will help me escape my predicament and help me get rid of my greatest enemy!"
Hobert smiled and said, "While occupying my body?"
He guessed that the other party should be the "Demon Lord" Farbauti.
The middle-aged man on the throne had a tone somewhat like a charlatan: "Even if I don't actively look for you, you will defeat my greatest enemy in the future.
"Now that I'm actively looking for you, I need you to do me a favor."
"What favor?"
"Kill those annoying demons on the other side!"
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