Chapter 596 Artificial Death Plan (Bonus 1)

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"Star" Leonard was going crazy: What kind of gathering did I join? How did we start denouncing the orthodox churches while talking?

"Hermit" Cattleya chuckled: This doesn't seem difficult to understand.

"Fool" Klein realized: It seems that after Hobert was promoted to a demigod, his perspective on problems became increasingly dark. The fact may really be as he said, the orthodox churches, or rather the seven orthodox gods, were seriously derelict in this disaster, but I remember that when he was Sequence 8 and Sequence 6, even if he knew this kind of information, he probably wouldn't spread it. At that time, he preferred to spread some positive energy.

Then he realized: Could this be the change that the 'Lawyer' potion brought to him? I wonder if he has noticed it himself?

At the same time, Klein decided to pay attention to Hobert's state in the future. If it becomes serious to a certain extent, he must remind him and help him find a way to fight against the changes brought about by the Beyonder characteristics.

"Justice" Audrey sighed helplessly: The truth of history is often so difficult to accept.

The other members did not have any churches they were loyal to, so they did not have deep feelings after hearing this news.

"Emperor" Hobert continued the previous topic: "I heard that before the 'Pale Era', there were still connecting passages between the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent. It was because of this fierce battle of gods that the passages sank into the seabed, and the two continents were completely separated by the ocean.

"Although the Underworld Emperor is stronger than ordinary gods, he is only a little stronger. He simply cannot stop the siege of the seven gods.

"In the end, the Underworld Emperor was defeated and fell during his return to the Southern Continent. The Uniqueness of the 'Corpse Collector' and 'Hunter' pathways within his body lost control, destroying the balance between the real world and the spirit world, forming the Berserk Sea."

The Tarot Club had traded this information before. As several members who joined after that transaction, Cattleya, as the "Pirate Admiral," knew about this matter. "Moon" Derrick and Leonard had probably heard some relevant information.

So they weren't too surprised.

"Salinger's death was a huge disaster for the Balam Empire," Hobert said. "The Rose School, well, the Rose School at that time was still quite disciplined.

"Under the leadership of the previous 'God of Spiritual Creatures', that is, the 'Chained God', the Rose School took the opportunity to rise and established the 'Highland Kingdom'.

"Until the arrival of the colonial era, the Balam Empire and the Highland Kingdom were still fighting for the dominance of the Southern Continent."

The other members didn't know much about the history of the Southern Continent, because the history of the Southern Continent has almost been submerged in the colonial wave. Everyone only knows that most of the local kings and chiefs in the Southern Continent are nobles of the Balam Empire and the Highland Kingdom.

It's just that the Balam Empire and the Highland Kingdom are not recognized by the countries of the Northern Continent. Although they also have imperial courts and royal courts, those grassroots nobles, those local kings and chiefs, are no longer under their control and have turned to the colonialists of the Northern Continent.

After being sorted out by the "Emperor" in this way, they successively discovered that the history of the Southern Continent, like the Northern Continent, has the war as its core.

The historical materials truly circulating among the people are only the superficial appearances of the results of these wars.

Seeing Hobert pause for a few seconds, as if he had finished trading all the information, Emlyn asked, "Then what is the meaning of the 'Artificial Death' mentioned earlier? Is a new Death God about to be born in the Southern Continent?"

Hobert replied with a smile: "The 'Death' pathway is very special. Would we find it strange if we said 'Death is dead'?"

Everyone looked at each other, it did sound strange.

Will the gods of the spirit world also die? This seems to make people feel like "death itself is dying".

"It is because of the special nature of this pathway that many nobles of the Balam Empire, or former clergy of the Death God Church, feel that Salinger has not truly fallen," Hobert said:

"Therefore, a considerable number of them have been trying to awaken Salinger, or find a way to revive Him.

"Here, I have to mention the relevant information of the Numinous Episcopate. We all know that the Numinous Episcopate is actually a general term for the Beyonders of the Balam Empire in the Southern Continent.

"Their internal divisions are divided into many factions, and the two most powerful factions are the 'Royalist Faction' and the 'Artificial Death Faction'.

"The Royalist Faction supports the descendants of Salinger to ascend the throne. As far as I know, the leader of the Royalist Faction calls herself the Pale Empress and is still in power in the imperial court of the Balam Empire. In the Southern Continent, a considerable part of the people and land still accept the rule of the imperial court."

This was the information Hobert learned from the butler, Dophis, before Dophis was promoted to a demigod.

At that time, Dophis said it in great detail, including the areas where the Balam Empire mainly fought against the Loen military, and Loen's economic plunder of the Balam Empire.

Hobert only briefly described it at this time. He continued: "As for the Artificial Death Faction, this is actually what outsiders call them. They call themselves the Awakening Faction, believing that Salinger is only seriously injured, so He has fallen into a deep sleep somewhere in the Berserk Sea.

"It is said that they have been trying to awaken the 'Death God' with various methods since a long time ago.

"I don't know exactly when, but it should be in the Fifth Epoch. When they tried to sacrifice to the 'Death God', they received a response from the 'Death God'.

"So they began to focus on using rituals to awaken the 'Death God'. It is said that after hundreds of years of accumulated results, they can actually get intermittent responses from the 'Death God'!"

This made the other members besides Klein feel very surprised.

"Hanged Man" Alger first thought: Did the Underworld Emperor really just fall into a deep sleep?

Then he denied his own idea: Back then, it was the seven gods who besieged the Underworld Emperor and the Primordial Demoness! If the Underworld Emperor had not fallen, the seven gods would most likely have chased directly to the Berserk Sea, or even directly to the Southern Continent!

In the end, a very terrifying thought appeared in his mind: What exactly did the Artificial Death Faction awaken?

Cattleya then thought of the fall of the Ancient Sun God. She noticed that after the fall of the Underworld Emperor Salinger, the "Emperor" began to use "Death God" to refer to the true god of this pathway. Is he implying that Salinger has really fallen, and the "Death God" who is now awakened may only have part of Salinger's consciousness? So this is already a brand new Death God?

Leonard pinched his chin: I may not have the authority to read this information yet. Given the church's emphasis on the Southern Continent, the church's archives should also have such information.

Then he realized a problem: Should he report some of the information obtained at the Tarot Club to the church?

But soon, Leonard shook his head, thinking that this would likely be punished by Mr. Fool, and it would also easily expose his secret of participating in the Tarot Club to the church.

Audrey simply asked directly: "Mr. Emperor, did Salinger really not completely fall?"

"He fell," Hobert replied.

Then Audrey asked the question in the hearts of the other members: "Then who is responding to the Artificial Death God Faction?"

This made Fors, Emlyn, and other members think of the Sanguine Ancestor Lilith, the relevant information of the "Primordial Moon" and the "Mother Tree of Desire", and guess whether someone was impersonating the "Death God" to respond to the Artificial Death God Faction?

Hobert organized his words before saying: "It can be understood as that is part of Salinger's divinity, or it can be understood as that is the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway!"

The information that Uniqueness can make a certain response had been exchanged at the Tarot Club before, so everyone didn't find it too surprising, but after hearing such a thing again, they still felt very magical.

However, most members only knew that Uniqueness can have a certain impact on the Beyonders of this pathway and make some responses similar to the level of gods, but they thought that this was more like a magical sealed artifact, which must be used by someone to make a response.

So Hobert's answer just now, they basically understood as someone, or some god, had obtained the Uniqueness with Salinger's spiritual residue, and was responding to the Artificial Death Faction.

However, Cattleya among them did not think so, because she remembered that the Queen had said that the "Hidden Sage" seemed to be the "awakened" Uniqueness, but she still couldn't understand why the Uniqueness would be "awakened"?

Klein, who had read the corresponding diary and recalled some of Mr. Azik's words, immediately understood and asked after looking at the "Hermit": "Constant sacrifice can 'awaken' the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway and automatically reply to the Artificial Death Faction?"

Audrey and other members then understood that it was not someone who had obtained the Uniqueness of the "Death" pathway, but the Uniqueness was "awakened"?

Emlyn didn't know whether he was talking to himself or asking the "Emperor": "Uniqueness can still be awakened?"

"Theoretically, that is just an abstract authority, but the facts have proved that it can indeed be 'awakened'," Hobert said: "Because such a thing not only happened to the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway.

"The specific theory of 'awakening' is unknown, because Uniqueness is too special.

"I only have a simple guess about this. Beyonder power, to a certain extent, can be regarded as an application of the real or abstract power of the entire universe by living beings. What Uniqueness represents is the authority of the power in a certain field of the universe.

"This application process is very mysterious, but thinking of the divinity obtained after the 'High Sequence', can we draw such a conclusion that the universe is another form of life?

"Or rather, this universe also has its own consciousness, and it has been using those consciousnesses to keep the universe running normally?

"And the consciousness of the universe is a completely different state from the consciousness of us living beings. It is cold and ruthless. It believes that the purpose of its existence is to maintain the normal operation of the universe.

"Reflected in the Beyonders, is this not divinity? When Beyonders become 'High Sequence' and integrate more and more divinity, the contradiction between the consciousness of the universe and the consciousness of living beings gradually intensifies!"

This time, everyone, including Klein, was very surprised, and at the same time, a very contradictory psychology appeared, as if they understood the "Emperor's" meaning, and as if they didn't understand anything.

Because they usually don't come into contact with similar theories, or even do similar thinking, so at this time, they don't even have related associations, or don't know which direction to Connection.

Only Klein, recalling some guesses similar to Hobert's remarks in the AD era, quickly understood Hobert's meaning: No wonder he always said that Beyonder power is a tool! That's what he meant! Thinking about it this way, Beyonder characteristics are very much like some modifications or mutations made to living beings, allowing living beings to manipulate some powers that do not belong to living beings.

Then he thought: If you don't have such a "tool", then humans can only create some tools that can use the power of the universe through the research of basic physics, and the discovery and understanding of relativity and quantum mechanics. That is called science.

This idea was a guess that Hobert had only gotten in the past two days. Since completely breaking the rules he set for himself, Hobert unexpectedly discovered that his thinking seemed to have broadened a lot.

He is now beginning to think about the nature of the law itself. In the end, he found that all laws are an abstract manifestation of the operation of the universe.

It has the support of real power, and it also has an abstract and conceptual side. This is a combination and also a contradiction.

As for the "Universe Life Theory", Hobert referred to some memories of the AD era, and integrated the characteristics of this mysterious world, and came to a guess.

This is considered a by-product of thinking about the essence of the law, but it just happens to be used here to explain the uniqueness.

Moreover, when Hobert entered the "Nation of Disorder" and obtained the memories sealed there, he found that this guess was very similar to the description of the "Original Creator".

At the same time, Hobert also thought about another question along this line of thought: "The purposes of both mysticism and science are actually the same, but the results are completely different.

Mysticism makes religion deeply rooted, with the majesty of gods, but after reaching the "High Sequence", humanity will inevitably be affected by divinity.

Science amplifies the power of man himself, lands on the moon, and sees the depths of the universe, but the process of using the power of the universe is too long, and the amount of Exploit is very limited.

The common point of both is: the first thing to think about is to use them for fighting and war. This may be the influence of humanity on divinity."

At the moment, Hobert gave everyone a few seconds to think, and then continued: "In this way, isn't it easy to understand that Uniqueness can be 'awakened', because it is 'alive' itself.

"It's just that its life form is difficult for us to understand, and it is closer to what we call divinity!"

Cattleya couldn't help but ask: "So, can the 'awakening' of the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway be seen as a part of the universe coming alive?"

Hobert spread his hands: "My guess is not perfect enough, and I can't answer your question for the time being."

Cattleya then asked: "What about the Hidden Sage? Is He also the awakening of Uniqueness? But, but He, I mean what does my pathway represent? What role does it play in the universe?"

Hobert said: "I have also heard that the Hidden Sage is the awakening of Uniqueness.

"As for the 'Seer' pathway, it is generally recognized as representing knowledge itself.

"Applying my guess just now, what this pathway represents, is it the conceptual representation of the knowledge of this universe?"

Hobert paused slightly and then said, "Then let me try to explain why the 'Hidden Sage' always pursues Beyonders of the same pathway to impart knowledge."

"Leaving aside the extraordinary factors, isn't all the knowledge that human beings obtain through observing nature and the universe?"

"For example, we gain the ability to use fire and rudimentary knowledge about fire by observing the great fires formed by nature."

"Then, can it be said that knowledge in the natural world is always presented and emitted in the form of constantly occurring events, spreading to the surroundings? It's just that the knowledge we humans can receive and see is limited."

"Isn't it a bit like your situation? It's not that the 'Hidden Sage' is chasing you, perhaps because of the special nature of this pathway, you can receive more knowledge that is in an emitting state."

Derrick and Emlyn had already lost track of Hobert's thinking, so they simply gave up halfway through listening.

Leonard also didn't quite understand, and in the end, all that remained in his heart was emotion: It's too systematic. This conjecture seems very mature to me!

Audrey and Alger understood Hobert's meaning and were shocked for a moment because their lives as nobles and on the sea had never led them to consider these things.

Fors, who had many science fiction concepts, not only understood Hobert's thoughts but also quickly accepted them. She was also very surprised by this and originally wanted to praise Hobert a few words, but in the end, she couldn't bring herself to speak.

Klein also quickly accepted Hobert's conjecture. At this moment, he only had one concept in his mind: I, a transmigrator who received a university education and was once a keyboard warrior on the internet, actually lost to a 'native' in this kind of conceptual thinking? If I ever meet Roselle, will he laugh at me?

Cattleya then asked, "Then, is there a way for me to avoid being subjected to this kind of knowledge infusion?"

Hobert considered for a moment before saying, "I can only give a directional approach. It is impossible to stop the 'Hidden Sage'."

"After all, as long as the universe operates normally, it will generate new information and disseminate new knowledge. The 'Hidden Sage' should not be able to control this."

"Even without the support of this conjecture, the 'Hidden Sage' is, after all, a being at the level of a god. We ordinary people basically have no way to have any impact on it."

"Then, there is only solving it from your side, such as finding a way to block the path of knowledge infusion."

Cattleya slowly nodded. The two methods she could think of now were to become a demigod as soon as possible so that she could withstand the scouring of knowledge.

The second method was to pray to Mr. Fool and ask for His help.

Audrey saw that "The Hermit" and Hobert had finished their discussion, and she said, "Mr. Emperor, how did you think of these things?"

She was afraid that she hadn't expressed herself clearly and then explained, "I mean, how did you come up with so many novel ideas?"

In Audrey's view, Hobert was too omnipotent. He became an Earl at a young age and created a political miracle. He only used a few months to create 'Earl's Light', creating a commercial miracle.

Where did he have time to carry out such conceptions and assumptions?

Klein was also very curious about Hobert's thinking, so he stared at Hobert.

Hobert said, "As a Beyonder of the 'Lawyer' pathway, I consider rules and regulations more than everyone else. One day, I suddenly thought of a question: What is the source of rules and regulations?"

"So, some ideas were generated, and some conjectures were obtained."

The other members nodded slowly together. In this way, they felt that this line of thinking was very clear and the logic was distinct.

"I believe everyone has fully understood the Uniqueness and also knows the state of the 'Artificial Death'." Hobert said, "Let's continue this topic."

"I heard from the great 'Creator' that Salinger left behind a resurrection arrangement, and this arrangement seems to be related to the Uniqueness and His direct descendants."

Regarding this point, Klein felt that he should be the only one at the Tarot Gathering who knew the inside story: the 'Creator's' description was correct, but it was too general.

Then he recalled the conversations he heard when exploring the huge inverted pyramid and some later conjectures.

Before attacking the Northern Continent, Salinger made some preparations and secretly divided Mr. Azik's spirit body into two, half of which Salinger accommodated in his body, and half of which was stitched together with a sealed artifact, forming a seemingly complete spirit body, and then put it back into Azik's body.

Because Azik's spirit body suffered serious trauma, his strength fell to the level of 'Undying' most of the time, and he would die once every 60 years and then be resurrected once.

The Underworld Emperor's original plan was that half of Azik's soul would be here at the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway, and the other half of the spirit body would uncontrollably want to get close to the Uniqueness and want to find the Uniqueness.

When the sealed artifact in Azik's body merged with the Uniqueness, the Underworld Emperor would be reborn in Azik's body.

However, the Artificial Death faction's smart people caused the Uniqueness to undergo certain changes, and they did not attract Azik in a short period of time. Instead, half of Azik's spirit body was with the Uniqueness for a long time, forming a certain fusion and also forming a certain consciousness.

The reactions obtained by the Artificial Death faction's rituals in the early stage were subconscious reactions of the Uniqueness. The reason why they could get intermittent responses later was because of the role of Mr. Azik's half soul.

This is the true face of the Artificial Death!

Hobert did not choose to elaborate on Salinger's arrangement, but continued, "Before, when I was exploring the primitive island with Mr. World and Mr. Hanged Man, I killed a feathered serpent."

"Later, the 'Creator' told me that the feathered serpent was actually used by Adam to observe the 'Artificial Death'."

"Now, the 'Creator' can also use that Beyonder characteristic to observe the 'Artificial Death'. Just a few days ago, the 'Creator' suddenly told us that the aura of the 'Artificial Death' had disappeared."

Klein slowly nodded: Yes, the Goddess had just obtained the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway a few days ago.

When talking about this, although everyone was a little strange, they didn't take it too seriously.

After all, the members of the Tarot Gathering did not have Beyonders of the 'Death' pathway. For them, there was only curiosity, and there was no major impact.

"The 'Creator' also told us," Hobert said, "The 'Artificial Death' was likely eliminated by the Evernight Goddess. Currently, the Evernight Goddess should have obtained the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway."

Klein almost stood up excitedly: You dare to say such a thing! Aren't you afraid of being locked in the small dark room by the Goddess?

Hobert glanced at "The World", who couldn't hide his excitement: Little brother, you probably don't know, the Evernight Goddess now can't wait to let the whole world know that she has obtained the Uniqueness of the 'Death' pathway and is trying to accommodate this Uniqueness.

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