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Chapter 1814 The Talent Sequence in the Illusory Heart (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

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A whooshing sound came from the sky; it was the sound of the towering skeletal giant's body tilting forward.

For the first time, this terrifying and powerful monarch leaned forward, staring at He Ao. "The incident in Dawn City, was it your doing?"

“I think that’s not the proper way to say it,” Heo said, holding the illusory badge in his hand and smiling as he looked at the skeletal giant. “At least, you should say that I ‘saved’ Dawn City.”

boom--

A deafening roar of thunder echoed through the thick fog, and a fierce wind whipped through the fog, violently tearing apart the distorted shadows within it.

Beams of light shone beneath the massive white bone throne, outlining mysterious and eerie intricate symbols that shimmered with a dazzling purple glow.

These symbols instantly spread across the areas where the thick fog parted, penetrating deep into the fog's depths and illuminating the entire fog with clarity and brightness.

Twisted shadows, like countless sea serpents swimming in water, darted swiftly through the thick fog, their movements making the dazzling magic array shine even brighter.

Heo quietly watched Aines, watching the dense array of shimmering magic circles.

A 'guess' that had just been forming in his mind was now being confirmed.

The arrangement made by the Church of Death near Aines is not a gate to the underworld, but something more deeply connected to the underworld.

It is more stable and more powerful than the Gates of the Underworld.

“Even if you possess the Heart of Illusion, you cannot use its true power to return it to me,” the skeletal giant sitting on the throne said hoarsely. “I can allow you to continue to retain your wisdom and reason.”

"Is this yours?" He Ao held the illusory badge in his hand and smiled. "Is this the talent sequence of your previous Death God Pope? You killed him, then sealed his talent sequence in this badge, and have been trying to control this talent sequence ever since."

“Your guess is interesting,” the towering skeletal giant lowered his head slightly, “but I don’t like your wording. The leader of the Church of Death is not determined by who is stronger or weaker. I have more divine favor, so I am the leader of the Church of Death, and the illusory heart in your hand is my spoils of war.”

So he did indeed kill the former pope.

He Ao raised an eyebrow slightly.

He wasn't really sure about this guess; he just said it to test the waters. But to his surprise, the skeletal giant didn't care at all and just blurted it out.

This explains Ilya's faith in the God of Death. She does not belong to the current Church of the God of Death, but to the original Church of the God of Death. Her faith likely came from the previous, now-deceased Pope of the God of Death.

Her library must have originated from the former Pope of Death.

This also explains why Ilya, a B-rank, could have an underground library with so much secret knowledge.

Of course, there are probably many omissions in this, but the general outline is likely like this.

He Ao pondered for a moment, but his hands didn't stop moving. He held the badge in his hand and smiled, "Since you consider this your spoils of war, then according to the logic of spoils of war, since I seized this Illusory Heart, it is also my spoils of war, so the same logic applies."

His hand gripped the illusory badge that emanated a terrifying pressure, while his other hand slightly extended, bringing another illusory badge with a purple glow close to the one radiating pressure. As the two badges touched, they emitted a strong attraction and instantly merged together.

He also put the other phantom badges he had acquired into it.

thump—

A certain surging power undulated within the illusory emblem that was finally fused together, as if that power was striking the emblem's outer shell from the inside, producing a crisp sound.

Although the sound was extremely faint, almost imperceptible, the skeletal giant sitting high on the throne clearly heard it.

Those eyes, burning with intense purple flames, stared at He Ao, and a thunderous roar echoed once more through the thick fog, "Since that's the case, then I'll take it myself."

The moment he finished speaking, the separated thick fog instantly closed up, and the dense fog buried He Ao's body in an instant.

Countless twisted shadows, like a surging tide, instantly enveloped Heo.

Some of them transformed into hands gripping a throat, some into long, thin nooses, and others into coffins covered in sharp nails, densely surrounding He'ao.

It seems that the skeletal giant is still coveting my soul.

He Ao's gaze swept calmly over the surging shadows. He didn't make any unnecessary movements, but instead grasped the illusory badge in his hand, as well as the fiery reins wrapped around his hand.

A surge of power erupted in an instant, like a house with a natural gas leak being ignited by flames in a flash.

boom--

In that instant, the blazing flames suddenly ignited in the mist, forming a towering mountain of fire.

The flames on the fiery mountains were also gushing out violently, like wild beasts baring their ferocious teeth, grabbing at the twisted shadows from all directions.

The surging shadows scattered and tried to escape, but in an instant, they were caught by the flames and ignited by the light of the fire, becoming fuel for the flames to burn even more fiercely.

He Ao had now figured it out: the magic that activated the badge was essentially the power of death within the badge, and the Illusory Heart badge, as the original 'mother', possessed the most power of death.

Once these forces are transformed and driven out, they can naturally ignite the most intense flames.

crackling-

As shadows were cast into the raging fire, the sound of burning firewood erupted from the flames, and the fire began to burn fiercely, like waves of fire growing in the wind.

It started as a house, but quickly it spread to the size of a low building, and in an instant, it really looked like a towering mountain.

In just a moment, the firelight illuminated almost the entire fog.

The flames were so intense that even the thick fog, upon being touched by the firelight, quickly ignited and emitted a sizzling sound.

These mists and shadows originate from the underworld. When they encounter the power of death, they are as if they have encountered a ruler, utterly powerless to resist.

“I have said,” a thunderous roar exploded in the sky, and a giant skeletal hand reached out from the mist and suppressed the raging flames, “that the gods’ favor upon me far surpasses that of others.”

The moment the words fell, the giant skeletal hand gently grasped, and the surging flames instantly seemed to lose their core, deflated rapidly like a balloon whose air had been sucked out.

The surging fog and shadows rose again, instantly filling the area once covered by the flames. The flames, as high as mountains, vanished in an instant, and the surging fog pressed down again, leaving only the specks of firelight emanating from He Ao's body.

The enormous skeletal hand still floated in the sky, like a dark cloud pressing down on the heavens, appearing and disappearing in the thick fog.

In that instant, the skeletal giant 'absorbed' the death power released by Heo and destroyed the fiery mountain created by Heo.

After the fiery mountain disappeared, the giant hand pressed down on He Ao without hesitation or any words.

Seeing your hand rapidly enlarging in the mist, He Ao simply raised his hand slightly, revealing the illusory badge in his hand.

At this moment, a surge of purple light is now flowing across the once calm and stable illusory badge.

The purple radiance was similar to the original structural radiance of the badge, but it also carried a kind of uncontrolled surge. This uncontrolled radiance rose and fell on the surface of the badge, and in a daze, even the entire structure of the badge began to become unstable.

At that instant, the grayish-purple light gathered in He Ao's palm. He gripped the badge tightly and then suddenly exerted force.

boom--

With a soft sound, the badge shattered, and a surge of power burst forth from He Ao's palm in an instant.

Like a violent storm bursting from He's palm, it ignited the flames on his body, stirred up the surrounding thick fog, and also stirred up the skeletal hand that descended from the sky.

The thick fog and shadows were suddenly blown away in all directions by the storm, revealing the surrounding silent buildings.

The vast square, the old-fashioned buildings, the collapsed shopping mall, and the distant, shimmering Greystone Palace and Parliament House were revealed.

On the rooftop balcony of the Gray Stone Palace, a figure sitting on the balcony slightly raised his gaze and looked at the mist.

Heo raised his head and looked ahead. In front of him, on the skull throne standing above the square and ruins, a huge skeletal giant with purple flames flickering in its eyes sat there, looking down at him.

The giant skeleton's arm had already been blown into the sky by the raging hurricane, almost disappearing into the dark clouds.

A dazzling purple light shone in He Ao's hand, and the violent power vanished in an instant, while the surging fog rapidly converged towards the center.

It concealed the gleaming parliament building and the Greystone Palace, the silent buildings, the ruins of the shopping mall, the towering skull throne, and the skeletal giant sitting on it.

boom--

The next instant, the dense fog parted again, and the towering skeletal giant reappeared in Heo's field of vision.

The skeletal arm that had been blown into the sky fell from the heavens and was then received back into the skeletal giant's hand.

The position was perfect, as if the arm had never moved.

The skeletal giant's eyes were burning with intense purple flames as he stared at the faint purple orb in He Ao's hand. His thunderous voice echoed once more, "What did you do? How did you do that?"

"Why don't you try guessing?" Purple light covered He'ao's body and his hands, allowing him to grasp the glowing orb. He smiled and looked up at the skeletal giant.

The flames that had been swirling around him gradually subsided and returned to his body, like a rolled-up robe falling back into place.

The skeletal giant stared at He Ao, and after a brief pause, its thunderous voice slowly said, "The sealing power of the Illusory Heart is mainly the power of my lord. Just now, you deliberately drew out these powers, making me display my divine abilities, and then drew these powers away, thereby weakening the seal."

He stared at Heo, the purple flames in his eyes continuing to burn. "But the entire seal is self-contained. Even if you remove all of my lord's power, it shouldn't make the seal so fragile that you could destroy it so easily. Moreover, the Illusory Heart will automatically pray to my lord for more divine grace."

At this point, his gaze swept quickly across the surrounding radiance, as if he understood something, "It's the corrupted divine grace on Des,"

He lowered his head and looked at Heo again. "You used the offspring of the Illusory Heart to absorb the divine grace from Des that had been corrupted by Des's soul, and then just now, you merged these powers back into the Illusory Heart through the fusion of the offspring and the mother."

His speech quickened rapidly, “After the divine power of the Illusory Heart itself is taken away, it will try to absorb more divine power. These impure divine graces hidden in the Illusory Heart will enter the seal, thus creating a ‘gap’.”

He stared at He Ao, the purple flames in his eyes flashing intensely. "It wasn't you who broke the seal, it was the power within the seal that broke through the gap. You merely provided a simple external force to make the gap more easily exposed. This is not difficult for someone who has received divine grace."

“You’re very smart,” He Ao nodded slightly. “The process is roughly the same.”

The towering skeletal giant slowly sat up straight, seemingly enjoying the praise, like a student being commended by a teacher.

But after a brief pause, he felt that something seemed amiss.

He immediately lowered his head, looked at Heo, and said in a hoarse voice, "You're very smart too, Hawke. I never expected you to be this smart."

"Do you know me well?" He Ao asked slowly, suppressing the surging purple light in his hand.

“Of course I know you,” the skeletal giant said calmly. “I have been watching you ever since you were promoted to mortician, watching your life, your character, your experiences. You should feel honored that you have passed my test.”

He paused, looked at Heo, and said calmly, "Although your recent performance has given me some 'surprises,' it is obvious that it was given to you by the god behind you. You still haven't broken out of your original framework. You are a conservative person, Hawke."

He looked at He Ao, at the radiance in He Ao's hand, and said, "I know you've come this far because you couldn't make up your mind. I admit you're smart enough, and you have more leverage. I can allow you to leave, to leave this vortex completely, as long as you put down what you're holding."

He slightly raised his head, gazing at the burning bones below, like a noble monarch pitying sinners. "I know this is what you want. Now, I give it to you."

I'm asking for votes in the middle of the month.