Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 111 Speaking of Cao Cao Cao Cao’s arrival
In addition to continuing to complete the main storyline of "The Black Emperor", Yu Jin returned to Backlund for another important reason, which was the potion.

He had already digested the 'Master of Magic' potion, so he needed to take the 'Astrologer' potion.

The Kulala sisters have also finished digesting the 'Assassin' potion, so they also need to continue taking the 'Instigator' potion.

However, since the two sisters share one set of ashes, only one set of 'Instigator' potion is needed.

And these potions are naturally provided by the Church of Night.

"Your Excellency."

After Ember took the potion, Anthony asked, "Do you know the Abraham family?"

"Abraham?"

A trace of doubt flashed in Yu Jin's eyes, and he nodded slightly, "I've heard of it."

The Abraham family is descended from the most powerful noble family of the Tudor Dynasty in the Fourth Century.

In that era, whether it was the Augustus family of Loen, the Einhorn family of Feysac, the Soren family of Intis, or the Castia family of Feynaport, none of them had yet risen.

Even the ancient Antigonus family is inferior to the Zaratul family.

But that's about it.

This family was once extremely glorious, but this glory has not been passed down to this day.

After the Four Emperors' War, this family seemed to have disappeared, and there are few rumors related to it.

The only thing that interested Yu Jin was that this family was said to have mastered the complete 'apprenticeship' path.

Anthony saw Yu Jin's confusion and explained, "The Abraham family was once a top noble family, not inferior to any secret organization. But one day, their ancestor Bethel Abraham suddenly disappeared, which made the family lose its greatest support."

"And after that, this family was hit by some unknown terrible curse."

"All people with Abraham's family are plagued by the curse. Anyone with the bloodline of this family will often hear strange whispers after becoming a Beyonder, and eventually lose control. No one is spared."

"And these Beyonders who lost control due to their mumbling will cause even greater slaughter."

"This caused this once prominent family to decline rapidly in a very short period of time. At one point, some people even suspected that they had already disappeared into the long river of history."

"But according to the intelligence from the Church of Evernight, this family still exists. It's just that they are no longer as prominent as they once were. It seems that there was some unrest within the family, which also caused the family to become weaker."

"Today, this family now only has a small number of Extraordinary People, and most of these Extraordinary People are at risk of getting out of control."

"But no matter what, the inheritance of this family has never been broken."

"So they should still have the high-sequence potion formulas for the 'Apprentice' pathway in their hands, and this is exactly why I mentioned them."

"The potion formulas for the Apprentice Path of the Church of Evernight only go up to Sequence 5. Therefore, if you, the Follower, wish to obtain a higher-sequence potion formula for the Apprentice Path, you may want to start with this family."

Anthony explained it in great detail, apparently fearing that Ember would misunderstand the Church of Evernight because of it.

And everything Anthony said was true.

The 'apprenticeship' path of the Church of Evernight is not complete, and the highest level is only Sequence 5.

This is because once they reach a high sequence, any force will keep their potion formula strictly confidential.

Even for the Seven Orthodox Churches, their Beyonders could only obtain potions instead of potion formulas when they were promoted.

However, there are few extraordinary people on the apprenticeship path.

Coupled with the decline of the Abraham family, this resulted in the almost loss of the high-sequence potion formula of this path.

If you want to go further, you can only go through the Abraham family.

"Mumbling? Abraham family?"

Yu Jin couldn't help but fall into thought.

Fors is the apprentice path, and will hear whispers on the full moon night.

Is she a descendant of the family of Abraham?
No, she said she heard the mumbling after using the stone bracelet.

That was most likely a side effect of the stone bracelet.

But no matter what, even if Fors is not a descendant of Abraham's family.

The person who led her into the world of Extraordinary People should also be closely related to this family.

If we really need to find this family, maybe we can go back and ask Fors first.

but……

Ember thought for a moment and asked, "Besides the Abraham family, are there no other forces that possess the high-sequence potion formula for the 'Apprentice' pathway?"

"As far as I know, there shouldn't be any of the seven orthodox churches."

Anthony shook his head and explained, "As for other forces that may have the formula for the high-sequence potion of the 'Apprentice' pathway, there are probably only two, the Aurora Society and the Tamara Family."

"As I said before, there was a civil strife in the Abraham family."

"Some of them joined the Aurora Society, and one demigod even became a saint of the Aurora Society."

"So, although the Aurora Society has potion formulas for the 'Apprentice' pathway, they may not include high-sequence ones. Even if they do, they are definitely very limited. I estimate that the highest potion formula they have is only up to Sequence 3, or even very likely only Sequence 4."

"As for the Tamara family, they were once married to the Abraham family for a long time, so they are likely to have a high-sequence potion formula with an 'apprentice' path."

"But unfortunately, there are fewer traces of this family left than those of Abraham."

"So it's still just the Abraham family?"

Yu Jin shook his head. It seemed that he had to do this branch quest even if he didn't want to.

Unless he wants to stop at Sequence 5—

Although he himself does not rely on the extraordinary abilities of these so-called 'paths'.

But as someone once said:

Not having a sword in your hand and having a sword but not using it are two different things.

"Your Excellency."

Seeing that Yu Jin had accepted the information, Anthony continued, "The remaining members of the Abraham family are scattered all over the world. The Church of Darkness is trying to find their traces, but this may take some time."

"Not urgent."

Yu Jin shook his head and said, "I'm still only Sequence 7. I still have a long way to go before I can reach Sequence 5."

According to certain fragments of his memory.

It takes at least two months to go from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

Sequence 6 to Sequence 5 requires four months.

Even at Sequence 5, it would take at least... um, two months to fully digest the potion?

Yu Jin looked a little doubtful.

How come it takes less time to go from Sequence 5 to Sequence 4?

Who is this based on?

Oh, I can't remember.

Forget it, none of this matters anyway.

Anyway, if he follows this template, it will take him another eight months to digest the potion.

In other words, he only needs to find the Abraham family within these eight months.

"of course."

Anthony smiled and nodded, watching the ember leave.

And when Yu Jin left the church, his figure completely disappeared from sight.

The smile on Anthony's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a look of sorrow.

This month or so has not delayed the investigation of Your Excellency.

On the contrary, it speeds up the process.

But Her Highness Arianna was not in Backlund right now. How should he deal with this?

Help His Excellency with the investigation?
Not to mention that he himself knew very little about the so-called "Black Emperor".

The mere fact that this matter might disrupt the goddess's plan was enough to discourage him.

So should I reject His Excellency?

This is even more impossible.

The goddess has a divine oracle that she will unconditionally meet all of your needs.

Anthony is in a real dilemma now. He doesn't know whether to help or not.

This undoubtedly made it very difficult for him.

After hesitating for a long time, Anthony finally decided to tell Ms. Arianna about the situation here.

After all, she was the one responsible for all of this. What did she have to do with him, a mere Sequence 3 Archbishop?

……

Wintershire, Tranquil Church.

Arianna stood in front of a huge painting, and suddenly she looked up at the huge painting as if she had a feeling.

After a moment, her figure disappeared.

When he appeared again, he was already in the large prayer hall of the Serenity Church.

She stood at the foot of the altar, head bowed, eyes closed.

"The Lord has returned to Backlund."

"An evil god suspected to be the 'Original Moon', pretending to be the 'Mother Tree of Desire', sent an oracle to the Rose School, trying to deceive the Lord of Favors to collect the twenty-two blasphemous cards, especially the Moon Card and the Mother Card."

"Qonas Kilger's soul fell into the hands of His Excellency the Favored One, and he has learned of the existence of Ruins No. 1."

Arianna reported all the information passed by Antony to the goddess in detail.

Soon, she received a response from the goddess. "'Not one, but two. Watch out for the moon'?"

Arianna opened her eyes, her pupils suddenly dilated as if an earthquake had occurred, and her eyes were full of horror.

Two evil gods successively borrowed the name of the 'Mother Tree of Desire' and delivered oracles at the same time?

So this is why the oracle content is divided into two parts?
The first oracle asked the Lord to collect as many as possible of the twenty-two blasphemous cards, especially the Moon Card.

And perhaps this first oracle was known to another evil god, and he also hoped to achieve certain goals through your Excellency the Favored One.

So there was the second oracle -

'And the Mother card'.

In other words.

One evil god is longing for the Moon card to be collected, while another evil god is longing for the Mother card to be collected?

This may be related to their authority, and they may be eager to come through these two blasphemous cards.

Just as these two blasphemous cards are vessels of the True Creator, are they also vessels of Them?

But why can they all deliver oracles through the Rose School?
It is undoubtedly impossible for the Rose School to believe in three evil gods at the same time. They have always believed in the Bound God, and the Bound God is the incarnation of the Mother Tree of Desire.

Arianna immediately realized the crux of the problem.

There is usually only one explanation for this situation -

That is, the authority of these three evil gods overlaps and intersects with each other.

Therefore, the other two evil gods were able to take advantage of the loophole caused by the overlapping of the same authority and convey false oracles to the Rose School in the name of the 'Mother Tree of Desire'.

The crossover part of the authority is also very clear, which is the 'moon'.

Originally, everything could be accomplished without anyone noticing, but the 'third' evil god noticed all of this, and took the opportunity to deliver a new oracle to the Rose School again, asking the Favored One to collect the Mother Card.

This still was not discovered by the 'Mother Tree of Desire', but it successfully aroused suspicion among its believers.

That's why all of this was eventually exposed to the 'Mother Tree of Desire'.

"The Mother Tree of Desire, the Primordial Moon..."

"So, who is the third evil god?"

So far, there are at least four evil gods who have been in contact with Your Excellency.

The true creator, the mother tree of desire, the original moon, and an unknown evil god who is also related to the authority of the moon.

More or less, they all tried to achieve a certain goal through Your Excellency the Favored One.

And this purpose may be related to the transmission of fire.

Arianna suddenly lowered her head, drew a crimson moon on her chest, and whispered the goddess' name.

She didn't dare think about it any further.

Even though she was an angel on earth, one of the most powerful extraordinary beings in the world.

But in front of the gods, she is still as small as dust.

Even with the goddess's blessing, even if she was in a quiet church.

But if you get too involved, it might still attract the attention of those evil gods.

As for the Black Emperor.

Arianna chose to remain silent.

In fact.

She knew about the Black Emperor, knew that this was Sequence 0 of the Lawyer Path, and knew that the Black Emperor of the ancient Solomon Empire had once tried to become a god but ultimately failed.

After all, at His level and rank, He would not be too unfamiliar with ancient history and the main features of the 22 paths.

But until His Excellency the Favored One appeared, until the Goddess reminded the Black Emperor.

She didn't even know that the Kingdom of Loen was actually trying to create a god.

And even today, she already knew that the Kingdom of Loen was trying to create a god.

However, its specific process and location are still unclear.

It's not that she didn't think about investigating, but she eventually gave up the idea.

Because it is obvious that more than one god is involved in this, there must be other gods providing shelter and cover for the Kingdom of Loen, otherwise there would not be almost no flaws until now.

Even the goddess knows a lot about it and has reached some kind of agreement with the real creator.

But no matter what.

These are not things she should explore.

Since the goddess did not explicitly say that she would stop the followers from continuing their investigation, she probably just let them take their own course.

That being the case.

Then they just have to watch carefully.

Of course, they will also provide corresponding assistance when Your Excellency needs it.

……

Leaving St. Samuel's Church, the embers returned to the Hillston area.

Although it's been more than a month.

But Backlund's changes were not actually that big, or in other words, he had not changed at all.

The sky was still gray and shrouded in black fog.

Not a single ray of sunlight could penetrate the fog covering the city and shine upon the land of Backlund.

Although he has returned to Backlund.

But at this moment, the embers seemed to have lost their initial throbbing.

He was just walking aimlessly on the street.

Before he knew it, he was back in Burningham Street.

He originally wanted to go straight back to 117 Burningham, but when he passed by a cafe, Yu Jin stopped.

Through the window of the cafe along the street, Yu Jin saw a familiar figure.

She was a slim lady wearing a beige long dress with a ruffled stand-up collar and her brown hair was slightly curled.

Although his back was facing away from Yu Jin, he couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly.

But based on the other person's back, he recognized that it was Fors.

Opposite her sat an old man wearing a coat and a half-high black hat.

At this moment, there was a hint of undisguised disappointment in the old man's blue eyes.

Yu Jin didn't go in to say hello, he just stood by the road and watched.

By the way, I also bought a newspaper from the skinny newsboy who was struggling to sell newspapers on the street.

The newsboy was extremely thin and looked like he hadn't eaten for several days. Even his voice was weak when he shouted.

And his bag was almost full, perhaps because it was already afternoon.

People who want to buy newspapers will buy them in the morning and will not wait until the afternoon.

Only people like Yu Jin, who had just arrived in Backlund, needed to read newspapers to learn about the situation.

Ember glanced at the date on the newspaper.

Well, these are newspapers from several days ago, so it makes sense that the newsboy can’t sell the newspapers.

Looking down again, there was a huge banner headline on the front page:

"11! Another lady has been murdered! Sivellaus Field is helpless!"

"Ok?"

Ember frowned.

He remembered that when he left, Miss Daly from Tingen had already taken over the case. She was a Sequence 6 Beyonder.

Led by a Sequence 6 Beyonder, the case has not been solved until now, more than a month later.

Isn't this a bit inefficient?
Yu Jin shook his head. The police in Loen Kingdom were really bad.

However, this farce has lasted too long. I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible.

At the same time in the coffee shop, Fors drank a sip of Filmore coffee and organized his words:
"I used to be a doctor at the nearby Yousef Clinic, and Mrs. Anlisa often came to see me. At that time, her husband, Mr. Lauberro, had passed away."

"I occasionally talk to her and help her with some things, such as..."

"So, she finally made a will, leaving her savings and cash to me, and donating jewelry, books, furniture and other things to charitable organizations, which was supervised and executed by the law firm she designated."

Fors did not lie, she spoke the truth.

Just hiding something.

She already knew that the old man in front of her was named Lawrence Nord. He claimed to be from Conston City in Jianhai County and was a public school teacher.

And the reason he came to Backlund was to find Mrs. Anlisa's husband.

And considering that Mrs. Anlisa became an Extraordinary by inheriting her husband's legacy, Fors herself became an Extraordinary because of Mrs. Anlisa.

Therefore, the old man in front of him is most likely also a Beyonder—

At least they knew that Extraordinary People existed.

Therefore, Fors declined the other party's request to talk in the compartment and chose a table by the window.

At the same time, he also concealed the fact that he had become a Beyonder.

After all, Emperor Roselle once said:
Harmfulness is not allowed, and defensiveness is indispensable.

(End of this chapter)