Chapter 463: The Ancient God's Subsidiary Gods
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Hobert smiled and said, "This question is very complicated and not within the scope of this answer. Well, to be precise, I cannot answer this question until the situation is clear."
He thought to himself: The Evernight Goddess is hovering over my head right now. If I ruin her plans, I believe there will be no 'Emperor' left in this world.
Derrick nodded with some disappointment, "Alright then."
Klein and Alger both realized that the "Emperor's" answer implied a huge hidden story.
Emlyn: Is it or isn't it? What does 'not within the scope of this answer' mean? We all paid for this.
Thinking of this, he felt a little guilty, because his "spectator seat" came from Miss Justice's payment, and he certainly understood that this answer was worth more than 3,000 pounds.
Hobert continued: "'Elf King' is a true god of the 'Sailor' pathway. Oh, by the way, let me mention that, as mentioned before, there is a high probability that there are Beyonder characteristics of other pathways in the bodies of ancient gods."
"But what specific pathway is impossible to verify, so I'll just say His 'True God pathway'."
Hobert paused slightly and then said: "'Elf King's' subsidiary gods are 'Calamity Queen' Cohinem and 'God of Luck'."
Alger said, "Sorry everyone, I need to ask another question."
In the last transaction, Audrey, who paid the most, could ask questions freely, but for the sake of fairness, others could only ask one question.
Although this was not stated in advance this time, everyone felt that it would be fairer to follow the previous practice.
"Little Sun" Derrick said, "Mr. Hanged Man, I can give you my chance to ask a question."
Although he had asked a question just now, he did not get an answer, so it doesn't count as using up his chance to ask a question.
Alger was not polite: "Thank you."
After all, he had given Derrick a lot of guidance before, so now it was like using up the favors from those times.
Alger asked the "Emperor": "As far as I know, there are still a small number of natives on some islands who still believe in the 'Calamity Queen'. May I ask, does the 'Calamity Queen' still... still exist?"
Hobert replied: "As far as I know, after the 'Elf King' fell, She also fell along with Him. But Her Beyonder characteristics seem to have been preserved in a relatively special way, and have not been completely reused, so Her will has been preserved to a certain extent within a small range."
Alger opened his mouth: What a strange state!
Klein behind the gray fog couldn't help but think: I didn't expect that the ancient gods and subsidiary gods of the Second Epoch still have an impact on the present.
Hobert continued: "'Sanguine Ancestor' Lilith is a true god of the 'Moon' pathway, and her subsidiary gods are 'Goddess of Beauty' Auernia and the Goddess of Life."
Emlyn exclaimed: "Your Majesty Auernia has indeed followed the Ancestor since the Second Epoch!"
Hobert smiled and continued: "And the information I give to Mr. Moon is: Before Lilith 'fell', there were some problems with her state. In addition, it is said that her fall was due to a betrayal!"
Emlyn stood up abruptly: "Who? Who betrayed the Ancestor!"
Hobert thought to himself: It seems that Emlyn's level has not reached the authority to know these things.
Logically speaking, the vampires should know some inside information about this matter. After all, the "Goddess of Beauty" did not fall until the Fourth Epoch, giving them enough opportunities to tell their clansmen some secrets about the Ancestor's "fall".
Hobert smiled at the angry Emlyn: "The value of this answer is 3,000 pounds."
This piece of information is free, but an explanation requires payment.
Emlyn immediately calmed down a lot: "3...3000 pounds! Then, then I must trade with you as soon as I have enough money."
Hobert smiled: "No problem."
Everyone smiled at each other, marveling at how much the "Emperor" knew, and also marveling at his high-end or hidden information, one ring after another.
Even if Hobert didn't explain this information in detail, everyone couldn't help but come up with many associations.
Klein leaned back in his chair and thought: It seems that there are many secrets between the ancient gods of the Second Epoch. These secrets may be the key to unraveling some historical questions.
Alger folded his arms: The more information he gets from the "Emperor", the more he feels that the history of the gods is the history of an era! Every time at this time, one can't help but feel how insignificant human power is!
Audrey: I really want to know the answer, but I can only wait for a while, because this is a question that Hobert prepared for Mr. Moon.
The hall was quiet for a few seconds, and then Emlyn seemed to suddenly come back to his senses: "That's not right, the Ancestor clearly hasn't fallen. Some of the vampire elders occasionally receive instructions from the Ancestor!"
He thought to himself: I came to participate in the Tarot Gathering because I received instructions from the Ancestor?
"This question is also included in those 3,000 pounds," Hobert said with a smile: "But I can only give you a simple answer and cannot explain it to you in detail."
Emlyn nodded, which meant that the Ancestor had indeed not fallen!
"Let us continue," Hobert continued: "'Dragon of Imagination' is a true god of the 'Visionary' pathway, that is, the 'Spectator' pathway. In addition, there are Beyonder characteristics of other pathways in His body, but what specific pathway is impossible to verify.
"His subsidiary gods are 'Nightmare Dragon' Alzuhod and 'Wisdom Dragon' Herabgen.
"According to some of our previous transactions, we know that '0-08' was formed after Alzuhod fell. And last week we just said that 'Wisdom Dragon' is the current God of Knowledge and Wisdom."
Only Emlyn was a little surprised: This is already the second god to appear! Could it be that the current Seven Gods were all subsidiary gods of the ancient gods?
Because of "0-08", everyone was relatively familiar with the "Dragon of Imagination", so they did not stop here, and Hobert continued: "'Phoenix' Ancestor is a true god of the 'Death' pathway, and at the same time has certain Beyonder characteristics of the 'Door' pathway in His body."
Audrey asked: "Mr. Emperor, these two pathways don't seem to be adjacent pathways!"
"Yes, they are not adjacent pathways."
Everyone's thoughts were similar: No wonder the ancient gods were all crazy. It turns out that they have two non-adjacent Beyonder characteristics in their bodies. The "Emperor" is right, becoming a god in the Second Epoch all depends on luck!
In fact, everyone had already anticipated this point, but now there is direct evidence to prove the previous guess.
"'Mutant King' is a true god of the 'Prisoner' pathway," Hobert said: "We mentioned not long ago that the members of the 'Rose School' are mainly Beyonders of this pathway.
"His subsidiary gods are 'God of Spiritual Beings' Tolzna and the God of Combat."
Tolzna belongs to a somewhat "niche" "god", and no one has heard of Him, so Hobert did not make further explanations.
"'Annihilation Demonic Wolf' is a true god of the 'Sleepless' pathway, and at the same time He has the Beyonder characteristics of an King of Angels level of the 'Seer' pathway in His body," Hobert said:
"His subsidiary gods are 'Goddess of Misfortune' Amanises, 'God of the Undead' Salinger, and 'God of Wishes' Kotar."
Even Klein, who had been a Nighthawk, did not know the true name of the Evernight Goddess.
His attention was drawn to another name, so he manipulated "The World" and asked: "Salinger? Is that the later 'Underworld Emperor'?"
Klein had seen some descriptions of the "Underworld Emperor" in a previous diary, including the Underworld Emperor's true name.
Hobert smiled: "Yes!"
He thought to himself: You don't even know what you just missed.
Everyone was not as surprised as before, after all, this was not the first subsidiary god to later ascend to the throne of God.
Finally, Hobert said: "'Devil Monarch' Farbauti is a true god of the 'Criminal' pathway. Members in Backlund should still remember that the murderer in the 'serial murder case' that caused a stir before was an Beyonder of this pathway."
Except for Emlyn, who had just joined, everyone was deeply impressed by this matter.
A certain Mr. Fool sitting at the head of the table had also investigated the "Apostle of Desire" and finally finished him off.
Everyone savored the answers just now, and no one spoke for a while.
Audrey savored it while saying in her heart: This is the atmosphere that the Tarot Gathering should have!
After a dozen seconds, the free exchange session restarted, and Klein manipulated "The World" and said: "I heard about a matter at sea, which is related to the Storm Church."
Alger frowned: Related to the church? Why didn't I receive a notification?
Klein was a little disappointed. He originally thought that he could find out from the "Hanged Man" how the Bansy Harbor incident was handled, but judging from the "Hanged Man's" reaction, he didn't know about it.
However, Klein still manipulated "The World" and continued to describe: "The ancient customs of Bansy Harbor have revived, and some residents have become cultists. Even the bishop of the Storm Church has fallen.
"I heard that the matter has been resolved, but many people have died."
Alger recalled the situation in Bansy Harbor and took the initiative to explain to everyone: "There is a tradition of human sacrifice there, and the target of the sacrifice is an evil spirit called the 'God of Weather'.
"Overseas, in the Southern Continent, there are many similar evil spirits. They seem to have been cleared, but they actually survive in a strange state."
"This reminds me of an King of Angels," Hobert suddenly realized that Klein had not met Medici in Backlund and did not know the relevant information. He felt that he should remind Alger.
Audrey asked curiously: "Mr. Emperor, what does this have to do with the King of Angels?"
Other members had similar questions, except for Emlyn. He remembered that other members had traded information about the King of Angels at the last gathering.
This made Emlyn inexplicably excited, and he found another reason why the Ancestor asked him to pray to Mr. Fool: Sure enough, this is a savior gathering preparing for the end of the world. We are all the chosen ones and will gradually face evil existences such as the "King of Angels", "Primordial Demoness", and "True Creator".
This made Emlyn suddenly have an impulse to initiate a transaction with the "Emperor" to obtain information about the King of Angels, but the fact that he had no money ruthlessly shattered the fantasy in his mind.
Hobert replied: "I remember that the descendants of an King of Angels live in Binsy, which is now Bansy Harbor, and that King of Angels is the 'Red Angel' Medici we mentioned at the last gathering."
Klein was stunned: So there are descendants of the Medici family still alive, but they should be relatively weak and can only hide in this small port.
Alger did not expect that this incident would lead to an King of Angels. He was already thinking about how to report this news to the church.
While accumulating merit for himself, he can also make the Storm Church more vigilant.
"Everyone, I have a question," Emlyn said: "The thing is, suppose, a strong person arranges for you to investigate something. Although you have successfully obtained the information, you cannot report it to that strong person for some reason. Then, how should you continue to get support from that strong person?"
Other members, including Hobert, turned their attention to Alger. In their minds, Mr. Hanged Man has rich experience in this area.
Alger glanced at "The Moon": "It's very simple, but you must bear certain risks."
Emlyn subconsciously denied: "It's not me!"
"Suppose it's you!" The Hanged Man replied with a smile: "You can slowly show some abnormalities in your daily life to make that strong person aware of your problem.
"He will have two choices, one is to directly torture you, but this can easily break the clue.
"The second is to inadvertently provide you with help so that you can do more in-depth investigations, and then send someone to monitor you.
"I think the second possibility is the greatest. The risk you need to bear is how to not expose the information you want to hide under surveillance."
It can still be like this? Then Emlyn realized that he no longer needed to show any abnormalities. His transaction with the followers of the "Creator" that he mentioned to the vampires was a relatively abnormal move.
Because in the vampires' impression, the "Creator's" sphere of influence should be in the Southern Continent, but Emlyn, who doesn't usually go out, "met" the followers of the "Creator" in Backlund and established contact very accurately. This sounds incredible.
Emlyn finally understood: No wonder Lord Nibbs seemed very interested in the transaction, but still discussed it for a few days before finally confirming the transaction matters. It turned out that they were not worried about the followers of the "Creator", but had concerns about me.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said to the "Hanged Man": "Thank you for your suggestion."
Alger smiled slightly, indicating that it was nothing.
Then, Audrey started another topic: "I heard a piece of news this morning that a large-scale conflict between Beyonders just happened in Conant City.
"One of the parties, using a fishing company as a cover, suffered huge losses. It is said that more than twenty Beyonders died.
"Some people described it as a rare tragedy in the Beyonder world."
She got the news from her father. Since the last Backlund smog incident, Earl Hall has allowed Audrey to participate in the meetings with the Archbishop every three days.
In addition to doing prayers and sermons, the Archbishop also routinely informs important believers like Earl Hall of some extraordinary cases encountered by the church and some information that can be disclosed on a small scale to increase important believers' understanding of extraordinary cases, so that they can have self-help references when encountering similar incidents.
The Punishers connected the case in Conant City with the previous case at the Nicro shipyard in Backlund, and contacted the "Nighthawks" to form a joint investigation team.
The details of the tragedy in Conant City were then revealed to the "Nighthawks."
The Punishers did this not because they had found clues about Hobert, but because the two cases were very similar: many people died!
Ordinary Beyonder cases usually involve one or two deaths, at most a few.
But these two cases involved a dozen or twenty deaths, which was a clear difference from other cases.
This was actually because, in other Sequence 5 level conflicts, the strengths were usually comparable, and many times it was just a fight without anyone dying.
If the strength was vastly different, the stronger side would focus on harvesting the enemy's "Mid-Sequence" Beyonders, and would not care about the enemy's "Low-Sequence" Beyonders, or would maintain their status and be too lazy to fight those "Low-Sequences."
So, in similar conflicts, the "Low-Sequences" also had a high probability of escaping.
But Hobert didn't think so. In his eyes, those were all 300 pounds walking around, or "300+600" pounds walking around. If he couldn't harvest the consistently frugal goods, he would try to harvest a wave, which was why so many people died.
Alger guessed, "It might be a conflict between Beyonder organizations."
Fors suddenly said weakly, "Um, I seem to know something about this."
Everyone was stunned. Alger and Audrey had suspected that it was related to "The World" or "The Emperor," but they had never thought that it would be related to the "Magician," who rarely spoke.
Audrey said, "Miss Magician, if you have detailed information, can you tell us about it?"
Fors confirmed, "Is the case you're talking about happening at the 'Balan Fisheries Company'?"
Audrey nodded, "That's right."
"Then we're talking about the same thing," Fors said, "That was an action I took with two companions."
Everyone was surprised again, and Hobert also pretended to be surprised.
Klein: I saw Miss Magician in disguise at the pier before. Judging from her temperament, she doesn't seem like someone who likes fighting!
Emlyn couldn't believe it: Miss Magician looks like a quiet girl, but I didn't expect her to create such a tragedy as soon as she makes a move.
Audrey also couldn't believe it: I didn't expect Fors to be able to do such a thing! I wonder if the two companions she mentioned include Xio?
Fors realized that everyone seemed to have misunderstood something, and quickly explained, "Those who were killed were all members of the 'Judgment Group.' They were supported by the Feynapotter Kingdom and specialized in sabotage in the Loen Kingdom!"
Before the action, Hobert explained the immoral things that the "Judgment Group" had done, so that Fors would not have any psychological burden.
"The 'Numinous Episcopate' that appeared in southern Loen before was planned and organized by the 'Judgment Group.' This evil cult not only performs live sacrifices, but also uses infant sacrifices!" Fors said:
"And this is just a conspiracy planned by a deputy leader of the 'Judgment Group.' Many heinous cases in the Loen Kingdom were planned by them.
"They also forcibly force wild Beyonders to join them, otherwise they will turn those Beyonders into Beyonder characteristics!
"In this operation, we only killed the Beyonders of the 'Judgment Group,' at most a few thugs who helped them, and did not kill anyone outside the 'Judgment Group'!"
Audrey also felt a sense of shared hatred: "These people deserve to be killed!"
Alger's focus was not here: "How did you three kill more than twenty Beyonders?"
Even three "Mid-Sequence" Beyonders could not kill more than twenty "Low-Sequence" Beyonders. Those people were Beyonders, not stones. Wouldn't they run?
Fors explained, "One of my companions has a very powerful and strange sealed artifact."
Alger nodded, which sounded more reasonable: "Your companion is a Sequence 6 or Sequence 5, right?"
"Yes, it's Sequence 5!"
This was even more reasonable. Alger smiled and said, "Then the enemies must all be 'Low-Sequence' Beyonders!"
"That's not the case," Fors said, "The other side also had a Sequence 5."
Alger thought he had misheard: "That is to say, each side had a Sequence 5?"
"Yes."
Several male members with rich Beyonder combat experience felt a little unbelievable. "The World" asked in a hoarse voice, "Are your two companions both Sequence 5?"
Fors thought for a while, feeling that saying only the sequence number would not reveal too much information: "One is Sequence 5, and one is Sequence 7."
"The World" then asked, "What about the enemies?"
Fors said with a slight sense of pride, "It seems like there were four or five 'Mid-Sequences,' and the rest were 'Low-Sequences.'"
Alger immediately made a judgment: Miss Magician's companion should be holding a Grade 1 sealed artifact, otherwise there would not be such a result.
Klein had a similar idea, and thought: The spoils of this battle, the Beyonder characteristics alone could sell for a lot of money.
Emlyn was stunned for a few seconds before he thought: Are you kidding me? Three people won without any advantage and killed so many people?
At this time, Audrey was already a little strange: "Why don't the official Beyonders eliminate the 'Judgment Group'?"
Alger said, "It is difficult to completely wipe out this kind of local Beyonder organization. It is very likely that the official Beyonders' investigation will be discovered by them at the beginning, so they will immediately transfer, and in the end, they can only catch some peripheral members."
Fors also said, "My companion also said that being able to achieve such a great result this time, surprise attacks and luck accounted for at least half of the factors.
"Originally, he thought that at most he could kill one core member of the 'Judgment Group,' and they would react."
Who knew that Gale and the others would be holding a meeting at that time!
Audrey frowned, "Isn't there any other way?"
"Yes!" Alger smiled and said, "Dispatch demigods, seal off the entire city, and the attacking force is at least twice the strength of the opponent, so that they can be effectively prevented from running away separately during the pursuit."
Everyone smiled together. The step of "dispatching demigods" alone was very difficult. After all, there were only so many demigods of the official Beyonders, and they had many more important things to do, such as deterring the enemy's demigods, or sitting in a certain place.
After discussing this issue for a few more sentences, Klein announced the end of the gathering.
...
In the middle of the Berserk Sea, on the "White Agate."
Klein, who had finished the sacrifice and bestowal ceremony, got up from the bed and saw that the sky outside the window was dim, as if brewing a storm.
With a dull whistle, the ship finally docked.
Klein pushed open the door of the bedroom and found that Danitz had thoughtfully packed his luggage in advance.
Danitz smiled and said, "We have finally arrived at 'Generosity City.'"
From Bansy Harbor to now, he had been worried, and now, he was finally free.
Klein, no, Gehrman Sparrow, said, "You can talk about which pirate contact points are in Bayam."
Danitz's expression twisted: Shit...
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