Chapter 441: The Struggle between Farbauti and the Mother Tree of Desire
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Hobert paused for a second or two: "You, aren't you 'Devil Monarch' Farbauti?"
The middle-aged man on the throne said: "For a very long time, I was called that name!"
Hobert was even more confused: "Aren't you Sequence 0 of the 'Abyss' pathway? The god of demons?"
"I am."
Hobert smiled: "Then why did you kill those demons?"
"Because those fools kept trying to awaken me!" Farbauti's face, like a statue, finally showed some impatience: "More than two thousand years ago, I told them that I was actively entering a state of slumber to avoid my enemies.
"But they were honest for a few hundred years, and then they began to offer sacrifices to me non-stop!
"As a result, my enemy found me again, and I had to make some sacrifices to get rid of the enemy again.
"I simply stopped using 'Devil Monarch' to respond to their prayers, and these fools actually started offering sacrifices directly to the 'Abyss'!
"In a fit of anger, I took back the 'Bloody Archduke' characteristic from the Andariel and Beria families, but why don't they learn their lesson? Before long, they started offering sacrifices to the 'Abyss' again."
Hobert recalled Elder Bowen's solemn speech in front of the altar, never expecting that there would be such smart people among the demons!
Then he thought: Case solved, no wonder the Andariel and Beria families gradually declined more than a thousand years ago and became vassals. It turns out that Farbauti directly killed their leaders!
Farbauti continued: "Kill those demons on the other side and stop them from continuing to sacrifice, and that ring is yours!
"That ring has been with me for a long time, and finally one day, it gained demigod-level abilities. I can help you re-seal it so that its negative effects become almost negligible.
"In addition, I can also help you strengthen the painting's abilities!
"What do you think? Descendant of Trunsoest? This deal is very worthwhile, right?"
It was indeed a good deal, but Hobert did not immediately agree, but asked: "Who is your enemy?"
"Telling you will harm you!"
"The Mother Tree of Desire, is it?" Hobert discovered that in this dream, he possessed some memories about the Outer Gods that were sealed in his subconscious.
Farbauti said: "As expected of the person divined by Flegrea. Since you know 'Mother Tree of Desire', you have not been contaminated by Her.
"That's right, that has always been my biggest enemy.
"She has been trying to contaminate me, so I had to hide by sealing myself.
"Waiting for the person divined by Flegrea to appear and drive Her to the depths of the starry sky."
Hobert asked again: "What is your relationship with 'Demonic Wolf' Flegrea?"
"Not enemies."
Hobert nodded: "The 'Dark Side of the Universe' that appeared more than a thousand years ago is?"
Farbauti showed a slight smile: "That is the battlefield where I and 'Mother Tree of Desire' compete.
"More than a thousand years ago, because too many demons offered sacrifices to me, 'Mother Tree of Desire' found me again.
"This time, She successfully contaminated me..."
Hobert's eyes narrowed, ready to leave the dream at any time.
Fortunately, Farbauti continued: "So I made the contaminated part of myself degenerate, and made Him a separate individual.
"This individual possesses all my characteristics, and even possesses some of my authority and divinity, whether in a practical sense or in a mystical sense. This individual is me!
"But he is not the complete me. As long as the me in front of you still exists, even if he is completely contaminated, 'Devil Monarch' is still 'Devil Monarch'!"
"'Mother Tree of Desire' was indeed fooled and began to compete with me for control of that individual.
"So far, I have no hope of winning this battle, but I have not lost either.
"Later, that individual called himself 'Dark Side of the Universe' and began to respond to the demons' sacrifices himself, which is another matter."
Hobert twitched his lips: Hey, hey, hey, your clone has its own will! Don't you have any sense of crisis? Or did you give all your emotions to the "Dark Side of the Universe"?
This reminded Hobert of the concept of a "firewall". The "Dark Side of the Universe" is Farbauti's firewall!
Then he thought: At the level of a True God, it is indeed difficult to be killed. Even if the level of "Mother Tree of Desire" is one level higher than that of "Devil Monarch", as long as Farbauti is careful and does not confront head-on, with the protection of the barrier, he can still fight back and forth with the other party for a thousand or two thousand years.
Thinking of this, Hobert asked again: "Is the scene in the painting your dream? Your 'real body' wouldn't be hiding in your dream, would it?"
Farbauti took a deep look at Hobert: "That is indeed a part of my dream. 'Mother Tree of Desire' does not have this kind of authority, so She can't find me at all."
He added: "You know too much, this is not a good thing."
"I just don't want to die in someone else's conspiracy without knowing why." Hobert smiled harmlessly: "Sorry, I didn't mean you. I can feel your sincerity."
Hehe, sincerity from a devil.
Hobert paused and asked: "Is your condition okay now?"
"I can maintain it for quite a long time."
"Then I'm relieved." Hobert smiled: "Are you so confident in Flegrea's divination? To be honest, I don't want to drive away 'Mother Tree of Desire' for you right now.
"And sometimes, the divination results interpreted by diviners may not be accurate, let alone a divination from thousands of years ago."
Farbauti said expressionlessly: "First of all, you are not driving away 'Mother Tree of Desire' for me, but for yourself.
"Secondly, the reason why Flegrea's divination is credible is because you have an unimaginable close relationship with the True God later known as 'The Fool', or 'Lord of the Mysteries'.
"Even a divination from thousands of years ago, involving the Uniqueness of the same pathway, will guarantee sufficient accuracy."
Hobert was slightly stunned. He didn't expect the "Seer's" ability to be so ridiculous. Basically, other pathways are always affected or hindered in various ways when it comes to the Uniqueness.
The "Seer" pathway was also affected after involving the Uniqueness, but this effect made the divination of the Uniqueness holder more and more accurate.
"One last question." Hobert said: "If I drive away 'Mother Tree of Desire', what will you bring to this world after you regain your freedom?"
"Of course, it's depravity, filth, and corruption."
Hobert shook his head: "If that's the case, I don't want you to regain your freedom."
Farbauti's face still didn't show any emotion: "You say that only because your level is not high enough and you don't know enough.
"This world needs balance, and Beyonder characteristics also need balance. One day you will look forward to my regaining freedom."
Hobert thought: The Black Emperor will also master certain authorities of depravity and corruption. Does it really need the "Abyss" to help me balance these authorities after reaching a certain level?
Hobert shook his head. This theory sounded plausible, but on closer inspection, it was full of deception.
"Okay." Farbauti said: "Having said so much, we can continue the transaction just now.
"I have given that ring some of the abilities of high-level demons. As long as you wear it, demons will not be able to perceive your malice towards them, and they will not be able to manipulate your emotions and desires.
"After you kill all the demons on the other side, these abilities will automatically disappear, and this ring will show its original ability, which belongs to Sequence 4 'Demon'!"
Hobert said: "I want to kill those demons just because I want to kill them, not because of a transaction with you."
He never dared to make a deal with Farbauti. This was a deal with a devil... no, with the "Devil Monarch". Who knows what the consequences would be once a deal was reached?
"Whatever you say." Farbauti said.
Hobert asked again: "You use paintings to open up your dreams. Aren't you afraid that 'Mother Tree of Desire' will invade from here?"
Farbauti showed a slight smile: "You should have explored it. Only I can actively descend into this dream. No one can find me through this dream."
"This is really the last question." Hobert smiled: "It's hard to imagine that as the 'Devil Monarch', your dream is not a barren land full of volcanoes and magma.
"Can I understand it this way? In the minds of demons, there are also beautiful scenery and seas of flowers?"
This question made Farbauti stunned for a full three or four seconds before he shook his head slightly: "You don't understand, you don't understand, this used to be my home!"
Boom~
The dream suddenly shattered, and Hobert, lying on the bed, opened his eyes: "It's just talking about beautiful scenery and seas of flowers, is it necessary?"
This used to be my home!
This sentence echoed in Hobert's mind: Could it be that what I just said made the "Devil Monarch" homesick?
Silently smiling, Hobert, who was completely awake, suddenly felt as if he was wearing a ring on the ring finger of his left hand.
He raised his hand to take a look, and it was indeed the ring that Farbauti gave him!
Hobert immediately sat up and tried to pull it down hard, but he couldn't take it off no matter what.
He was about to enter the "Nation of Disorder" when he suddenly seemed to think of something and glanced at the painting on the wall.
After taking a few deep breaths, Hobert completely calmed down, got up and came to the study, left the perception range of the painting, simply prayed a few words to the "Creator", and then entered the "Nation of Disorder".
Sitting on the "Iron Throne", Hobert spread his spirituality to his own star and used "True Sight" to see his left hand covered with a layer of black mist. The source of these mists was the ring.
Looking closely, the inside of the ring seemed to have some sharp teeth-like structures that pierced into his spiritual body.
From a practical point of view, this ring could be taken off, but from a mystical or extraordinary point of view, this ring was firmly "biting" Hobert's spiritual body and became an inseparable part of him.
So it wasn't that Hobert didn't have the strength in his hand just now, but that his subconscious thought that he and the ring were a whole!
Hobert pondered for a while, boldly used the power of "Distortion" to distort the object that those "teeth" were biting. When those "teeth" loosened, Hobert immediately wrapped the ring with "Power of Order".
Immediately afterwards, Hobert returned to the real world, gently took it off, and sure enough, he took it off.
Hobert immediately sacrificed this ring to the "Nation of Disorder", sat on the "Iron Throne", Hobert put the ring in his palm, and could clearly see some black sharp "teeth" inside the ring.
They wriggled like they were alive.
Using the level of the "Nation of Disorder", Hobert learned the ability of this ring.
As Farbauti said, it does have the effect of blinding the perception of demons and blocking one's desires and emotions.
But it also has a hidden ability that allows the holder to gradually become a demon! Not the adjective "demon", but the final form is the kind of tall demon with goat horns that I saw tonight.
Even if Hobert is not an Beyonder of the "Abyss" pathway, he will still become a demon.
At the same time, Hobert discovered that the last ability may have been secretly given by Farbauti, so it was somewhat out of place with the ring.
More precisely, it was a bit like the blessing of the "Mother Tree of Desire" on the Sealed Artifact that Elliott sacrificed to Hobert before.
After being promoted to Sequence 5, Hobert's operations in the "Nation of Disorder" became more diverse.
He used the power of "Distortion" to try to extract this ability, and this ability was easily extracted by him.
Hobert beckoned a rock from the "Nation of Disorder" and attached this ability to the rock. The lines on the rock twisted and formed a demon's face.
This stone is similar to the previous "Cursed Jade Stone", but it belongs to the "Blessing of the Abyss". The blessed Beyonder will forever become a demon and can use the demon's abilities, but will unconsciously be attracted by the abyss and eventually throw themselves into the embrace of the abyss.
The difference is that now Hobert's power in the "Nation of Disorder" is becoming more and more precise. Without harming the ring, he extracted this "Blessing".
Hobert rubbed his chin and thought: In this way, the transaction initiated by Farbauti really has problems. Perhaps taking the opportunity to contaminate me is just one of his purposes. However, Farbauti may not have thought that "the devil is one foot tall, and the Tao is one foot two tall". The contamination hidden in the ring was discovered by me and dealt with accordingly.
Hobert smiled, named this stone that can be used three times "Gift of the Abyss", and then put it on the stone platform where the Sealed Artifacts were placed.
Then Hobert sat on the "Iron Throne" and thought of 'Demonic Wolf' Flegrea. Perhaps because this ancient god mastered the relevant authority of "Darkness", Hobert did not have too much impression of Him.
If He really gave Farbauti such a divination, then He should also have divined his own fall. Didn't He leave a backup plan for his resurrection?
That's not possible. Even "Attendant of Mysteries" Zaratul has a backup plan for resurrection. Flegrea, who has mastered the Uniqueness of "The Fool", should also have his own arrangements.
In addition, He has the relevant authority of "Concealment", and few people can discover his arrangements. Hehehe, it's scary to think about.
Then Hobert thought that this was something that Klein had to worry about. Let's worry about himself first.
Tonight, I already fought with the "Blood Sancitfy Sect." Hobert didn't intend to hide his identity at the time; he was even looking forward to them attacking first and fighting on his home ground.
Although the residents of the territory couldn't help, Hobert could boldly use methods like the "Order Wood," going all out without worrying about recovery issues.
Now that he had already killed one demon, he had no choice but to kill all of them so that Hobert could rest easy.
But now was not the time for a full-scale war with the demons. It wouldn't be too late to start a full-scale war after the people from the Church of the Earth Mother, the Theosophy Order, and the Tudor family had all arrived.
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