Mystery: She came from the Chaos Sea

Chapter 163: Night Monastery

Marianne knelt on one knee with a pious posture, which seemed particularly pure and firm against the backdrop of the disordered environment of the abyss.

Facing Marianne, Amanesis slowly pulled out a heavy stone box shaped like a book from his secret space.

Inside the stone box was a copy of the Beyonder Characteristics of the Dark Path Sequence Three "Bishop of Fear," and engraved on the back were the potion formula and promotion ritual for the "Bishop of Fear."

The stone box landed steadily in front of Marianne.

At the same time, Sasriel herded the "Filthy King", opening a gap between reality and the abyss.

The moment this crack was created, the nearby abyss monsters became restless, but before these monsters could use this attraction to find it, the crack was hidden by Amanisis.

The demigods of the Abyss Path can cross into the real world with the help of specific rituals or media.

Once they enter the real world, these demigods of the abyss will bewitch the creatures in the real world, trying to cause panic in the real world, and even make those creatures become the embodiment of their evil thoughts.

The abilities of the "Blood Dukes" and "Filthy Lords" are even more powerful. They can even open the channel connecting the Abyss and reality, allowing demons and monsters to flood into the real world. Therefore, every time the Abyss invades, these "Blood Dukes" are the commanders of the Abyssal army.

Amanisis looked at Marianne and said gently, "Marianne, the end of the gap is the real world. You should return here and have a good rest."

As for matters such as the Pope of Night, Amanesis naturally did not need to bring them up. After Marian returned to the real world and became the "Bishop of Terror", many things would proceed naturally.

Judging from Marianne's resume as both a bishop and a deacon, this devout saint is a person with particularly strong subjective initiative. So after gaining more powerful power, Marianne will certainly take the initiative to shoulder more responsibilities.

However, Marianne's response at this moment was completely beyond Amanisis's expectations.

Marianne knelt on one knee and pleaded with Amanesis in a firm and sincere voice:

"Goddess, I hope to stay in the Abyss. There are many people in the church who can handle various affairs in the real world, and many people can do it better than me."

"But I've never heard of anyone who can stay in the abyss and destroy demons, and I happen to be able to do that."

"So I beg to stay in the abyss and spread your honorable name in the abyss."

"I only wish to return to your kingdom of God after my death."

Marian wants to stay in the abyss and actively hunt more demons.

He's a tough guy...

Hermione listened to the other party's ambitions, her eyes cast towards the gap connecting reality and the abyss. Suddenly, an idea came to her mind, and she opened her mouth to entrust:

"Marian, for some reason, this gap cannot be closed for the time being. Since you are determined to stay in the abyss, can you guard this gap?"

During her long wandering in the abyss, Marian also encountered such short-lived gaps.

Because of this, he has also encountered other humans who have mistakenly fallen into the abyss.

Unfortunately, he, who had been full of expectations, was not able to rely on these brief passages to return to the real world before the gap disappeared.

But even so, Marian knew very well that such gaps had a strong attraction for the creatures of the abyss.

Although she didn't know why the passage in front of her couldn't be closed, she saw that the goddess had no objection to the matter, so Marian responded without hesitation:
"Follow your arrangements."

Watching Hermione's arrangements for Marianne, Amanesis enveloped both "Himself" and Hermione with his hidden power and asked, "Do you intend to use this passage as bait to lure those high-sequence Beyonders from the Abyss Pathway over here?"

Hermione nodded and smiled. "Due to the peculiarities of the Abyss, even if we continue wandering like this, it will be difficult to find those cunning demons. However, a seemingly insignificant crack in the passage might be able to lure some of them over."

Amanesis added, "But there's no need for Marian to stay here."

Hermione spoke her true thoughts:

"Just like Marian said, so far, he is the only one who can go deep into the abyss for a long time to kill demons. This is not only due to the lack of a passage into the abyss, but also due to the unique environment inside the abyss."

"Because of this, the real world is always in a passive position when facing the invasion of demons. And the abyss cannot be destroyed or sealed..."

"But now, I can herd the Filthy King to maintain a passage. I plan to have Marianne train some warriors here who specialize in conquering the abyss."

The reason why the Extraordinary people of the "Abyss" path were not cultivated was that Hermione was worried that without understanding the uniqueness of the "Abyss", these Extraordinary people of the "Abyss" path could easily be turned into pawns of the Outer Gods.

Take the "aliens" for example. If it weren't for Tolzner's support, Hermione would have been forced to completely exterminate the aliens.

However, this act of extermination will lead to the loss of the prerequisites for the birth of the old one who is honored as "Father of Demons", "Lord of Aliens" and "Source of Curse" on Earth.

From Hermione's current height, she has realized that although the Pillars are the top of the Old Ones, in terms of combat power, there is actually no qualitative difference between them and ordinary Old Ones. Some of the Pillars' authority and symbols will also be restrained by some ordinary Old Ones.

The three pillars are special because each of them has a most special symbol.

The special thing about “The Omniscient and Omnipotent” is that He is the ruler of the astral world.

The special thing about the “Lord of Mysteries” is that He is the Lord of the spiritual world.

The special thing about the "Fallen Mother Goddess" is that she is the ruler of the real world.

Although the mysterious world has many different dimensions, such as the underworld and the abyss, the mysterious world only has three levels: the astral world, the spiritual world, and the real world.

This is also the reason why the "Fallen Mother Goddess" has split out a source "mother nest", but still possesses the symbol and status of a pillar.

The "Omniscient and Omnipotent One", "Lord of Mysteries" and "Fallen Mother Goddess" each control a realm, but not completely. There is some overlap in their authority, which is the pillar.

Of course, there is a fourth hidden pillar... but Hermione does not want to facilitate the conditions for the birth of that pillar... She wants herself and Amanesis to live a good life together, not to overturn the table and destroy the world.

Precisely because there is no qualitative difference between the Pillars and the ordinary Old Ones, Hermione does not want to be restrained by two or three Outer Gods who can restrain her power in the real confrontation with the Outer Gods in the future, which may lead to something irreparable.

Therefore, she cherishes every resource on Earth and wants to make sure that the Earth's Old Ones cultivated by these resources can become her stable allies as much as possible.

Moreover, she now has a better grasp of the plans of the "Father of Demons", not only because of the existence of the "Spirit Angel" Tolzna, but also because of her unexpected contact with the "Master of the Dark House" of the Western Continent.

Therefore, Hermione is determined to obtain the uniqueness of this "abyss".

As long as she grasped the uniqueness of the "Abyss," even if the Abyss still couldn't avoid the influence of the "Mother Tree of Desire," more initiative would fall into her hands. She would even have the conditions to cultivate Beyonders of the Abyss Path, thus incorporating the Abyss into the territory of the human kingdom. ...

An abyss filled with malice and distorting one's sense of direction.

A warm yellow passage that runs through the void, connecting to the gap leading to the real world.

At the entrance of this passage, a black monastery sits quietly.

The outer walls of the monastery are made of rough stones. They lack carvings and decorations, but they are strong enough due to their extraordinary strength.

On the dark and heavy door of the monastery, there is a pattern engraved with "deep black as the background, bright embellishments, and a crimson moon that is exactly half of the size". It is the holy emblem of the "Goddess of Night".

After cleaning up the new batch of monsters that came to test her, Marianne, known as the "Sister of Terror", used the stored clean water transported from the real world to simply wash off the blood stains on his hideous and ugly appearance.

During the long days of living in the abyss, Marianne no longer cared about things like her own image.

But now, because the goddess also lived in the monastery in front of him, he would rather waste some clean water and wash himself after the battle. This was his respect for the goddess.

Moreover, now, resources such as clean water and food are no longer as difficult to replenish as when he accidentally fell into the abyss alone.

Pushing open the dark door, Marian habitually glanced at the courtyard on the right, where the goddess lived.

Marianne had seen the goddess many times, talking intimately with the "angel of fantasy" named Hermione as if she were an ordinary human woman. The intimacy revealed in their every move was like a synonym for beauty.

Marianne was not a human from the Irusha tribe, and therefore, he had never seen the goddess living in human society as a human.

But after all, Marianne was a strong man of the dark path. She had served as both a bishop and a deacon, so she had heard some legends.

Once upon a time, He never believed that those rumors were true.

Or rather, He has never thought about it, because in His view, these are all blasphemous words and vain imaginations.

However, now that she saw the goddess and the angel of fantasy being intimate without any intentional concealment, Marianne understood why such a scandal involving the goddess would be spread in the human church.

It turns out that the goddess doesn't care...

It seems the Lord doesn’t care…

However, some people have said that the Lord is in the astral realm, and these two angels are the Lord's agents in the real world, two incarnations of the Lord. Therefore, the relationship between the goddess, as the Lord's companion, and the angel of fantasy seems to be...

Thinking of this, Marianne suppressed these thoughts and secretly warned herself not to let her imagination run wild anymore.

He looked towards the bright passage connected to the gap again, diverting his attention.

He followed the goddess' instructions and the first group of ascetics selected would descend into the abyss, listen to her teachings, and become monks of this monastery of darkness.

Marian took off her nun's hat and touched her deformed head and ugly face, wondering if these first church companions would be frightened by her appearance and give up staying in this dark monastery.

In fact, the goddess once said that the Lord could use the power of "purification" to help him restore to his original appearance, but Marian refused the goddess's gift on the grounds that purification would cause him to lose his sense of direction in the abyss.

"Facing fear is also a kind of training. I hope these new recruits won't let me down."

The monastery is located within the compound of Amanissis.

The surging darkness brought a sense of tranquility that soothed the soul. Amaniss channeled the soul of the "Blood Duke" Bebli, who was lured by the rift, and showed all the soul scenes he obtained to Hermione.

After seeing the secret hidden deep within the soul of Bebli, whom they had killed, Hermione said in amazement:

"Now, even the Sequence 2 and Sequence 1 Beyonders of the Abyssal Path have been planted with malicious seeds by Fabuti, becoming his resurrected avatars."

This fellow countryman, who also came from a prehistoric civilization, completely indulged his inner malice. His style of behavior was extremely selfish, and everything was based on his own happiness and survival as the primary criteria.

During the Dark Ages, Fabuti was hunting down extraordinary people who followed the same path, planting the seeds of evil in their bodies to serve as his resurrected clones.

These extraordinary people usually have independent consciousness. People like Bebli, the Sequence 2 "Blood Duke", have no idea that he has already become Fabuti's clone.

But as long as the original body of Fabuti falls, the seeds of evil thoughts buried deep in their bodies will be instantly activated, and one of them will lose himself and become the original body of Fabuti, thereby awakening the consciousness and memory belonging to Fabuti.

Hermione lamented Fabuti's methods, but she didn't care about the methods Fabuti used on the demons.

All creatures born from the abyss are, without exception, evil... Anyone with a shred of conscience cannot survive. Even Marianne relies on her unwavering values to resist the pollution of the abyss.

If Fabuti had not directed his malice towards all living beings, even towards her and Amanesis, she might not have completely put this fellow villager in opposition.

However, there is no if.

Hermione continued:
"Fortunately, neither Samael nor Bebli is Fabuti's true self. I simply stimulated their consciousness and memories buried deep within their hearts."

"So after Fabuti's death, his true self was unable to access the memories of his clones. In other words, Fabuti still doesn't know who killed Samael and Bebli."

Amanesis pondered, "But with Samael and the subsequent disappearances... Fabti's current form, once they get this information, should realize it's us. At the very least, they'll suspect the Church of Humanity."

In response, Hermione warned, "It's not just us who can threaten Him. There's also the power of the Outer Gods... and even their own will."

That person refers to "God".

The contact with the source substance "Shadow World" made Hermione fully confirm the relationship between "God" and "Shadow World".

However, the growing spiritual imprint of the "Master of Dark House" and those Dark House disciples also shows that "God" does not attach as much importance to the "Shadow World" as he does to the "Chaos Sea".

Hermione continued:
"Let's see how the High-Sequence Beings in the Abyss react. If someone like Bebli still actively bumps into us, then we'll continue our 'fishing'. If even the Demigods don't dare to show up..."

"Then we will slowly search the abyss while training warriors capable of operating in it."

"Even if the uniqueness of the Abyss has fallen into the hands of the Outer Gods' hidden forces, we must force it out. While the initial barrier is still reliable, we must try to gather all the chips we can."

(End of this chapter)