Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 327 Zaratul and the Fool

On the top of the Honachis Mountains stands an ancient palace shrouded in mist, dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

Yu Jin's figure appeared in front of the side of the palace. He took a look at the ancient palace, then stood up and walked towards the main gate.

The demigods of the 'Apprentice' and 'Thief' paths have been captured, and now only the demigods of the 'Fortune Teller' path are left.

It was a pity that the demigods of the Fortune Teller path might be lacking in combat, but they were definitely extremely talented in escaping. Even though Klein could use Arrodes to temporarily locate them, one or two minutes was not enough. They would quickly find a new identity to hide themselves, so even Ember would have a hard time finding them.

Especially the return of Zaratul made those strange magicians belonging to the "Secret Society" silent. They were already frightened birds, and it would be more difficult to catch them without being able to accurately locate them.

Therefore, Yu Jin did not waste time looking for these tricksters, but directly targeted the Fool.

Half of the 'Fool' of the Antigonus family.

Yu Jin slowly walked to the main gate of the palace, stretched out his hands, and slowly pushed the heavy stone door.

With the sound of friction, the door opened little by little, revealing a path wide enough for one person to pass through, and also revealing the scene inside.

What appeared before his eyes was a hall with many corpses hanging. Each corpse was different. There were men and women, and their clothes were either gorgeous, simple, exquisite, or casual.

Behind each of these hanged figures, there is a transparent and smooth tentacle with complex patterns. They all come from the depths of the hall, from an ancient stone chair there.

On the huge stone chair, transparent and twisted worms huddled together, growing wildly, extending one strange tentacle after another around.

This is the half of the Fool of the Antigonus family, the half of the Fool who has gone crazy and out of control!
He who has embraced the uniqueness is the well-deserved King of Angels, and the half-crazy 'Fool' is even more terrifying. Because 'half-crazy' means that this half 'Fool' has lost control and gone crazy, but it also means that his self-awareness can no longer suppress the will of the 'Lord of Mysteries' in his body. The two spirits are stitched together, showing the most primitive, instinctive, bloody and crazy side, which makes him much more difficult to deal with than when he is awake.

But to Ember, this half-'Fool' is actually the easiest to deal with.

After all, He can't run.

Yu Jin walked slowly through the gate and stepped into the palace.

Sensing the opening of the door and the approach of the embers, the group of worms suddenly left the stone chair and waved their slippery tentacles violently, causing them to rush towards the door frantically, as if affected by some invisible suction force.

But all this was fleeting. In the blink of an eye, the wriggling attack, the huge throne and the worm group disappeared at the same time.

Before Yujin's eyes, there was only a dark scene that even the light could not illuminate at all.

But soon, the darkness began to dissipate and the surrounding scene changed.

Buildings appeared all around, people walked on the streets, and voices spread out, making the whole environment suddenly lively and noisy.

People ignored the embers standing in front of them and went to different places, talking to each other about various things.

They and the buildings are all dull in color, almost black and white, like an old photo from the depths of history that has suddenly come to life.

Yu Jin also had no intention of communicating with them, he just walked forward along the gradually rising street.

The higher you get, the more magnificent the building becomes, with exaggerated domes supported by huge stone pillars.

The people living in this "old black and white photo" are generally tall, and seem to be studying, working, and resting normally.

The scenes here change continuously, showing the birth of a baby, the growth of a child, the ignorance of youth, the troubles of adulthood, the pressure of middle age and the sadness of aging. After death, they turn into secret dolls and confidently go to the palace on the top of the mountain...

This is the kingdom of night.

Belongs to the 'Mother of Heaven' and also belongs to half 'Fool'.

The living believe in the 'Mother of Heaven', and the dead become puppets to serve the 'Fool'.

The process is so smooth and the way of squeezing believers dry is praised even by capitalists.

The embers once again set out on the path up the mountain and entered the magnificent palace that was dedicated to the gods.

Deep in the palace, on the huge stone chair, a figure rested his elbows on the armrests and leaned his head against the back of the chair.

He has a very young face, but his long hair is half white, half hidden and half visible; He looks like a man, his eyes are darker than Zaratul's, and contain an indescribable sense of vicissitudes; His facial features are all good, but on his cheeks there are tufts of coarse black hair like wolf hair, giving people a contradictory feeling of being both old and young, both rational and crazy.

This was the ancestor of the Antigonus family. This time, He did not appear in the form of a mythical creature, but sat on the huge stone chair in His original appearance.

At this moment, His eyes were half open and half closed, as if He was resting, and inside the hall, there were corpses hanging, some wearing simple clothes, some wearing gorgeous clothes.

They are like a forest growing backwards, swaying gently in the wind.

Although it was his second time going up the mountain, Yu Jin was not surprised by what was happening before his eyes.

He knew that he was in a dream, in the dream of the ancestor of the Antigonus family, the half-Fool, on the stone chair.

The Kingdom of Night and the City of the Dead, all the scenes he had just seen, were Antigonus' dreams.

A dream that has been away for thousands of years.

Even though he was born into an extraordinary species, Antigonus seemed to be deeply attached to the peaceful and secluded little country he once was.

For him, that which always lingers in his dreams is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful memories of the past.

But unfortunately, all this is in the past.

This was once the Kingdom of Night, ruled by the 'Mother of Sky' and half of the 'Fool'.

And now, this place belongs to 'night'.

The Kingdom of Night has been completely destroyed, and the Mother of Heaven has become the Sealed Object 0-17, the vessel for the goddess to descend. The half-Fool has also gone out of control and gone half crazy, and has been sealed forever in this ancient palace.

The instigator of all this is the goddess of night.

The moment the embers appeared on the top of the mountain and opened the door of the ancient palace, the Goddess of Night had already sensed it.

The reason why Yu Jin entered this dream was undoubtedly the guidance of the Goddess of Night. Because in the dream, the half-sleeping "Fool" was much easier to deal with than the half-mad "Him".

As for why the Night Goddess chose to seal rather than kill half of the Fool directly, the reason is also very simple:
Because to the half-Fool, death means rebirth.

Sequence 2 of the 'Fortune Teller' path is called 'Miracle Master'. What is a miracle?

Resurrection from the dead is a miracle!
Of course, the essence of this miracle is a profound use of the power of the past.

So when a miracle worker dies, the extraordinary characteristics contained in their destroyed bodies will unknowingly enter the pores of history and combine with the projections of "spiritual worms" from the past, giving them substance, allowing them to drill out of the mist of history and reassemble their bodies in the real world to be resurrected.

The only problem is that this kind of "resurrection" is limited in number, and a miracle worker can only be resurrected four times at most.

If you can become a mysterious servant, the number of resurrections will be reset to four.

Because when a 'Miracle Master' or 'Mysterious Servant' is cornered, they can still use suicide to cut off their tail and survive.

As for this miracle of "resurrection from the dead", unless it is a higher-order Extraordinary Person of the same path, even God would find it difficult to stop it.

Therefore, whether it was the half of the Fool or Zaratul, the choice of the Goddess of Night was to seal it.

And if you want to prevent their resurrection, it is almost impossible.

Although theoretically, a higher-order Beyonder on the same path could stop them, one of them is already a Sequence 1 Servant of Mystery, and the other is an Angel King with uniqueness. Unless they can be killed, it is almost impossible for a higher-order being to exist - the only exception is Sefirah Castle.

Klein, who controls Sefirah Castle, can prevent their resurrection, but the prerequisite is that Klein is at least a Sequence 2 Miracle Master.

Because only if he is strong enough can he leverage enough power belonging to Source Castle, and rely on the suppression of his status to forcibly extract the extraordinary characteristics in their bodies bit by bit.

Once they lose their extraordinary characteristics, they will also lose all the extraordinary abilities based on their extraordinary characteristics.

So in the final analysis, the process of "resurrection from the dead" is still irreversible. This method of forced aggregation is completely like cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron, completely cutting off the other party's hope of rebirth before he dies.

But Klein is only Sequence 5 now, not even a demigod, and his status is far from being able to suppress a Sequence 1 angel.

But Embers can.

Although he is only a Sequence 5 Traveler, his status as a First Flame is higher than that of the Source Essence.

Half of Sefirah Castle has now transformed into the shape of the First Flame.

This also means that Ember can mobilize the power of Source Castle with the help of the First Flame Introduction.

On the same path as half of the Fool, a personal suppression is formed.

Yu Jin shifted his gaze from the man with thick black wolf hair on his face to the side of the huge stone chair, where there was a tarot card with Roselle's image and words written in starlight.

Obviously, there was an unlucky guy who got the Tarot Card. Under the influence of the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics, he took the initiative to come to this palace and became one of the corpses hanging upside down at the top.

And this Tarot card also fell into the hands of half of the "Fool".

And just like half of the Fool itself, this Fool card also has its own function.

So, Yu Jin put away the tarot card without any psychological burden.

During the whole process, half of the Fool remained asleep, unable to escape from the eternal sleep imposed by the Goddess of Night herself.

Silently, the flames began to spread from nowhere, eroding the dreamland bit by bit. From the initial small flames, they quickly spread to a raging flame that engulfed the entire palace!

The raging sea of ​​fire came to an abrupt halt in front of the platform.

Neither the stone chair itself nor the half of the 'Fool' sitting on it were affected in the slightest.

The flames surrounded it like a pack of wolves, but they would not act rashly before receiving orders from their master.

Finally, when the entire dream was engulfed in flames, only half of the 'Fool' was left on the stone chair.

The raging flames slowly condensed into a worm vortex with countless slippery tentacles extending out, which slowly emerged. The left half of the vortex was covered with slippery tentacles with bared fangs and claws, while the right half was completely covered by flames. The tentacles, which seemed to be shaped like flames, were motionless and appeared exceptionally quiet.

And in the center of that half of the 'flame' vortex, there was a strange phantom of a light door.

Even the light gate had half of it covered in flames, completely symmetrical with the left half!
The light gate did not move, the vortex spun rapidly, and the terrifying suction force raged, sucking everything around it in. Whether it was the flames covering the dream, or the half of the "Fool" who fell into eternal sleep on the stone chair!
Under the dual suppression of status and eternal sleep, the extraordinary characteristics in half of the Fool's body gradually emerged, faster and faster.

The light transformed by the extraordinary characteristics gathered in the air and finally turned into an object like a heart. The heart was as transparent as crystal, but small bubbles popped out from time to time, and each bubble seemed to contain an illusion.

That is the extraordinary characteristic of Sequence 2 'Miracle Master'!
This change surprised Yu Jin a little, because in his imagination, the one he wanted to draw the most should be the uniqueness of the 'Fool' or the Beyonder characteristic of the Sequence 1 'Mysterious Servant', but now the Beyonder characteristic drawn was the Sequence 2 'Miracle Master'...

Yu Jin frowned slightly, but soon his brows relaxed.

Because he figured out the reason—this half-Fool had most likely swallowed two copies of Sequence 2 Beyonder characteristics.

One of the Sequence 2 Beyonder characteristics was tightly integrated with the other Beyonder characteristics, like an indestructible skyscraper. The other one was isolated from the building, like a security booth in the building.

Therefore, the first item to be drawn was the 'security booth'.

call out!
As soon as the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Miracle Master' were formed, he quickly flew towards the light gate.

But before that, Yu Jin suddenly reached out and held it tightly in his palm!

The light gate is the manifestation of the personality of the 'Source Castle', and the embers only use its 'personality' to suppress and forcibly aggregate extraordinary characteristics, but do not intend for the 'Source Castle' itself to possess any extraordinary characteristics.

Putting away the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Miracle Master', another 'Galaxy' was soon drawn out from half of the 'Fool's' body, slowly gathering into a ball of dazzling light.

And what is revealed this time is the uniqueness of the 'Fool's' path!
Just like the extraordinary characteristic of the "Miracle Worker" that was extracted before, once the uniqueness appeared, it quickly flew towards the light gate.

At this moment, in this dream where only the eternally sleeping 'Fool' lies, an old man wearing a black robe with a hood, with eyes as dark as the lightless water, and long and dense white beard on his face and mouth, suddenly appeared beside the stone chair, and together with Yu Jin, he looked up at the uniqueness flying towards the light gate in the air!
(End of this chapter)