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First failure. \w￠zs`xs￠._c-o/m!
The second time failed, the third time...
After failing more than ten times in succession, the heart monster was obviously angry. It relied on its arms all over its body to wriggle out from the inside of the hull along the gaps. Those dozens of arms were waving desperately, and illusory translucent books appeared in its palms and were flipped quickly.
The next second, dozens of extraordinary abilities from different channels and sequences attacked Edward all at once. Although most of them were low-sequence, when combined together, he still felt a great sense of crisis.
Edward immediately teleported away, throwing the gold coins in his hand several times in a row. After making sure that the effects of those abilities disappeared, he tore through the air and stepped out of the spirit world again, casting all kinds of spells such as thunder explosion, fierce fire, killing curse, etc. At the same time, he used Lightning Storm again to give the monster a baptism of lightning.
This time, the various attacks obviously caused greater damage. The black and red heart burst into wounds, and blood spurted out. It wanted to teleport away immediately, but was stopped by Edward again, so it had to use various abilities to fight back again.
Edward's figure flickered repeatedly, and one illusory door after another appeared around him. He hid in another world isolated from reality, and then kept moving between each door, making all the attacks of the Black and Red Heart fail.
The Black and Red Heart obviously also wanted to use [Prohibition] to restrict Edward, but the prohibition sequence it recorded was too low and had no effective effect at all.
"Thunder explosion!"
As Edward waved his wand and cast a spell for who knows how many times, the place where the black and red heart was embedded in the wooden box suddenly exploded, and the wooden box flew up.
Its arms stretched out in panic, trying to take the wooden box back, but Edward had already stolen it and grabbed it with his invisible hand.
Almost at the same time, the dark red heart shriveled and corroded at a speed visible to the naked eye, oozing out foul-smelling blood, along with which flowed out dozens of swollen corpses that had been dead for a long time - they were most likely the people from Abraham's family who had left.
A moment later, the Laurel, which had suffered repeated attacks from Edward, sank to the bottom of the sea with a series of "creaking" sounds, leaving behind huge bubbles and completely disappeared.
Edward watched from afar, feeling strange: This Laurel...did it really sink because of me?
It is unknown what happened in the future that caused the descendants of Medici to find a third of it and use it as an altar, and it is unknown where the rest went. +1￠5/9.t_x?t\.*co·m*
Is its fragmentation simply caused by the natural flow of ocean currents, or is there some other reason?
Edward cast his eyes towards the quaint wooden box, and began to ponder the previous question again: Why did the Laurel come to Bansi?
Did he just happen to pass by after the Beyonder characteristics in the box were activated, or was Mr. Men planning to do something in Bansi?
Why did Father Maozi send me here? -- Simply to give me the extraordinary characteristics of the Wanderer as a gesture of goodwill? -- Didn't He know that this arrangement would not only not bring goodwill to others, but would make people hate Him?
No, He is not that kind of person at all.
So, the answer must be hidden in this box.
Chapter 557 Old Shanghai
Thinking of this, Edward teleported away to a nearby deserted island, threw the box on the beach, and cast several Breaking Spells at it.
Unfortunately, it had no effect.
He was not surprised. If it was really so easy to damage, it would have been destroyed in the previous battle.
He raised his brows and stole a few more times at the contents - again finding nothing.
After Edward tossed a gold coin to make sure the box was not dangerous, he transformed into a spirit and walked forward carefully. He then used his [Open Door] ability to try to penetrate the box and take out the contents.
As expected, it failed again.
This feeling is just like the feeling I had when I faced the door in the Amon Ruins last time. It is as if it was designed specifically for the doorway or spirit.
It suddenly dawned on him:
Perhaps the relics from last time actually belonged to Abraham's family, but were usurped by Amon - hasn't He always liked to use the relics of Jacob's family to fish?
Thinking of this, Edward picked up the box again with his invisible hand, then walked around it, and soon found the Abraham family emblem on one side, and the keyhole in the same position.
"…"
After a brief silence, Edward once again took out the bronze "master key", inserted it into the keyhole with his invisible hand, and turned it gently.
Click.
With a crisp sound of gears turning, the lock of the wooden box... opened.
It's really open.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
With a mechanical sound, the six sides of the box began to shrink at the same time, and finally turned into six small illusory doors and disappeared, along with the master key.
Then, the contents of the wooden box fell to the ground all at once, including marbles, gloves, paintings and other strange and damaged items, as well as more than a dozen items with various extraordinary properties stained with crimson halos and twenty or thirty kinds of extraordinary materials - among which were the auxiliary materials needed to be promoted to a Wanderer!
What Edward felt most strongly was a miniature starlight gate that was constantly emitting strong pollution—it was the extraordinary characteristic of the Gate Path Sequence 3 Wanderer!
For thousands of years, although the Abraham family knew that they could not be promoted to Demigod or above, they never stopped collecting relevant materials, hoping that one day the "curse" would be lifted and they would be able to "batch" out a batch of High-Sequence Extraordinary People as quickly as possible.
Edward quickly guessed why those things were all damaged. They should have been some sealed objects before, but they were damaged one after another due to the erosion of pollution, and then the corresponding extraordinary properties of the pollution were extracted.
One Sequence 4, three Sequence 5s, five Sequence 6s, and the remaining ten or so are from Sequence 7 to Sequence 9. It can be considered a great harvest. Unfortunately, whoever uses these things will die, so they can only be kept in their hands.
Of course, none of these are important. What is important is the Wanderer's extraordinary characteristics and the three extraordinary materials in it, which just make up what is needed to prepare the Wanderer's potion.
In this case,
I can finally advance to Sequence 3!
I didn't expect that I was still worrying about the materials the day before, but I got all the main and auxiliary materials at once the next day!
However, while Edward was pleasantly surprised, he still did not let his guard down - he still did not believe that the Russian priest was playing tricks just to give him something, especially the crimson pollution all over the ground, which was obviously from the Fallen Mother Goddess.
He carefully picked up the miniature Starlight Gate with his invisible hands, took out a tin box and put it in it, then immediately threw it into his space pocket.
Almost at the same time, a gray mist suddenly rose from all around. Edward's heart tightened and he looked around quickly. Through the light mist, he saw the streets and houses looming in the mist.
Ding-ling-ling.
Along with the ringing of a bell, a figure walked over from the far end of the long, shadowy street. He was wearing a straw hat and a towel around his neck. He was bending over and pulling a two-wheeled black cart with a roof to block out the scorching sun and rain. Sitting on the cart was a lady wearing a waist-length dress and holding a round fan with flowers and birds painted on it.
The man's face was rotten to the bone and oozing with yellowish pus; the woman's skin was swollen to a shiny state and was covered in numerous blue-black spots.
With another ding, a blue train with only two carriages rushed out from the endless gray fog. Through the glass windows of the train, one could clearly see that only the heads of the passengers were left, and each head had a bloody spine dragging behind it.
Edward's pupils suddenly shrank, and some memories emerged in his mind. He suddenly thought of this plot in the original book - this was clearly the world hidden by Bansy's strange wooden door, and he didn't know whether it was an imaginary or real world.
A city that looks like old Shanghai and is said to be one of the nine source elements, the city of disaster.
How did I end up here?
Is it the extraordinary characteristic of the rover? !
At this moment, he suddenly realized:
So, Mr. Men's real purpose of having the descendants of Abraham come to Bansi was for the City of Disaster? !
But, even if He wanted Sefirah, He should have wanted Sefirah Castle...
Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Men's behavior is most likely the result of the influence of the Fallen Mother Goddess, so the one who really wants to come to the City of Disaster is actually the Fallen Mother Goddess.
Of course, His target is obviously not the City of Disaster, but the Western Continent where the City of Disaster is sealed—to be more precise, the Mother Nest.
So, "He" intends to use the power of the gate, taking advantage of the aura of the City of Disaster leaked by Bansi as a springboard, to open up the "road" to the Western Continent and invade the Western Continent to obtain the Mother Nest? — Hey, why does it seem like I'm traveling back and forth between the Harry Potter world and the Lord of Mysteries world at first glance?
However, before the new Lord of Mysteries is born, the seal of the Western Continent cannot be broken...
oh,
So here I am.
For a moment, Edward was so upset that he didn't know how to start.
wrong.
He immediately denied this conjecture. He thought that he was "sent" by Adam. How could he cooperate with the Fallen Mother Goddess to open the seal and let the Mother Goddess enter the Western Continent to obtain the Mother Nest and destroy the world?
Besides, I'm still a long way from being promoted to the Lord of Mysteries, and I don't have the ability to open the seal of the Western Continent.
Whatever the situation, get out of here as soon as possible!
He used [Destination] with a thought, and without any delay, he arrived at the city of Calderon deep in the spiritual world in an instant. However, before he could see his surroundings clearly, gray-white mist surged out from the area again, and he was back in that strange city once again!
What's happening?!
Edward was horrified and used [Home] again, but the situation was exactly the same as before. The moment he arrived at Calderon City, he was pulled back to "Old Shanghai" again.
After trying this four or five times, Edward suddenly thought of something and took out the extraordinary characteristic of the Wanderer from his space pocket. "Could it be because of it that I am pulled back here again and again?"
So, we can only throw it away?
The Wanderer Extraordinary Characteristics that I finally got, I was about to be promoted to Sequence 3.
Just lost like that?
I am so unwilling!
Edward's face flickered: I really hate the characteristics of Gou Sanjia's approach: cowardly and reckless, obviously scared to death, but becoming irrational because of unwillingness.
By the way, how about sacrificing the Beyonder Characteristics to Sefirah Castle? I don't believe that Mr. Men's methods can even affect Sefirah Castle?
But wouldn't it be more dangerous to just recite four sentences and enter Sefirah Castle?
How about... taking another look?
Swish, swish.
At this moment, a sound of electricity came from the opposite side, and the foggy building suddenly lit up with colorful neon lights. There were several large traditional Chinese characters, and it seemed like some kind of dance hall.
Half a minute later, a strange song sounded:
"Sizzle, sizzle... Night Shanghai... Night Shanghai... Sizzle, you are... a... city that never sleeps, sizzle... the lights are on... the music is playing... singing and dancing... sizzle... peace and prosperity..."
The singing is sometimes fast and sometimes slow. When it is fast, it seems as if the fast-forward button has been pressed. When it is slow, the tone becomes distorted and horrible, like the tone often heard in many horror movies.
Edward took a step subconsciously. His legs passed through the light mist and stepped on the solid floor, making a crisp and empty sound. He couldn't help but be surprised: I can actually walk?
In the original book, German Sparrow was blocked by the fog and could not get through it no matter what method he used.
Da da da.
Edward's footsteps echoed on the empty streets. From time to time, some pedestrians would pass by. Most of them were rotten or swollen, or had only their heads with bloody spines suspended in the air.
Everyone who passed by would look at Edward, but they would just watch quietly and then walk away.
It's becoming more and more like walking into a horror movie.
A few minutes later,
Edward walked to a place about ten meters away from the karaoke bar and stopped. Through the spacious glass door, he saw a curvy figure standing next to a microphone and singing in the dance hall. The voice was still as fast and slow as before.
Squeak,
The glass door opened automatically, and a brightly lit stage appeared in front of him. On the stage stood a man wearing a high-slit cheongsam?
No, its body was clearly female, but its face was covered in a thick beard.
Its face was rotten to the point where the bones were visible, and the skin on its hands holding the microphone was swollen and flowing with thick pus. As the door opened, its pair of gray eyes looked straight over, bringing with them a smell of pollution that made Edward's skin sting.
"Ya Zi!"
Edward narrowed his eyes slightly, returning double the pollution he had suffered.
"ah!!!"
The next second, the dancer (male) let out a shrill scream, and her lower body swelled up and exploded rapidly. Her head, holding the bloody spine as if it had been pulled out, also swelled rapidly and turned into a ball of blood rain.
The crackling sound of electricity rang out again, and the lights in the dance hall went out along with the colorful neon signs. Then the whole house was quickly shrouded in gray fog and disappeared from sight.
An idea inevitably came to Edward's mind: That's it?
The grayish-white fog seemed to be affected and began to surge violently. It became thicker and denser, blocking the streets and covering the buildings. In the blink of an eye, it completely submerged this "street of old Shanghai."
Immediately afterwards, a rotten wooden door suddenly appeared in front of Edward.
Chapter 558 Lilith's True Purpose
He had seen this door before, just after Bansi defeated the fire giant in the "other world".
In the original book, German Spalla saw the "Old Shanghai" behind the wooden door only after he pushed open the door. So now that he is in it, can he just push open the door and go out?
After going out from here, will the rover's extraordinary characteristics "pull" itself back?
Gold coins pop up,
Just before it fell to the palm of my hand, it suddenly slipped out of my hand and fell to the ground, then rolled all the way to the wooden door and hit it, then stopped. ^天!熙·晓¨说`徃￠ *免·沸/阅读?毒*
The divination failed.
It's not surprising. After all, this is a city of disaster with the same status as Sefirah Castle.
"call--"
Edward let out a long sigh, holding the tin box containing the Wanderer's extraordinary characteristics in one hand, and pushing the wooden door with his invisible hand - if the situation goes wrong, he will immediately throw away the box and run for his life.
But the invisible hand passed through the wooden door as if it did not exist at all.
He frowned, walked forward and gently pressed his hand on the wooden door, counting silently in his mind:
"3...2...1."
It was clearly just a rotten wooden door, but it felt like it was being pushed against a heavy stone door. He used all his strength to slowly push it open a gap. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the wooden door suddenly closed again.
Bang!
He quickly reached a hand out from the crack in the door and pressed it on the door frame, then put his shoulder against the door and slowly pushed it open.
suddenly,
Edward felt a sharp pain on the back of his hand that was pressing on the door frame, and hastily retracted his hand, only to find that his hand had grown furry white hair, and his body was rapidly changing, transforming into a rabbit of the same size.
"What the hell!"
After a few seconds, Edward's figure returned to normal.
Before he could figure out the situation, the wooden door closed again. He hurried to stop it again, but the moment his fingers touched the door, the rotten door suddenly turned into fragments all over the sky, and then the fragments quickly burned and expanded, turning into a huge, deep, crimson vortex.
Then, a familiar voice came out from the vortex, piercing Edward's spirit like a needle: "You again?!"
"…"
Edward hesitated for a few seconds, "Mr. Men?"
"Very good, I am really looking forward to our meeting more and more."
"…Then it's better not to meet again."
"Hahahahahaha."
"He" sounded again, and the deep vortex suddenly stopped and turned into a mirror-like water surface. Through the water surface, Edward saw Mr. Men with a smile on his face and a pair of ripple-like blue eyes. ~Swoosh￠船`暁^税`蛧? /追·醉^歆·璋-节?
However, there was a layer of crimson light in His eyes.
Suddenly, the blush in Mr. Men's eyes disappeared, and the smile on his face suddenly faded. He looked at Edward quietly: "Well done."
Huh?
Back to normal?
The next second, Mr. Men's figure seemed to be forcibly pushed away, and a blood-red planet came into view. The surface of the planet seemed to be entangled by countless blood-red flesh and blood, which were pulsating with some kind of regular breathing. In the center of the planet was a pupil full of madness.
Moon?!
No, this is the Fallen Mother Goddess!
One person, one ball, looking at each other through the "mirror".
A bone-chilling chill rose from the soles of my feet.
Edward clearly felt a trace of polluted air seeping out from the mirror, desperately trying to drill into his body - he was very familiar with this feeling, it was exactly the feeling he had when Christine (the Fallen Mother Goddess) wanted him to "give birth to a child" for Her.
Suddenly, he looked at the "bloody moon" opposite and grinned:
"Ya Zi!"
Bang!
The mirror shattered all of a sudden, and turned back into a dark vortex of fire... It collapsed with a loud bang and completely disappeared.
Then, the fog that lingered around quickly dissipated, and Edward found himself standing in front of an old building. He turned around and looked around, and found that this was Bansy Port, and the building in front of him was the location of the future Bansy Telegraph Office.
It came out.
...
Trier Palace Crypt.
Christmena landed lightly on the bronze coffin and avoided another attack from the purple-robed witch, but her condition was obviously very bad at this time, with wounds of varying sizes all over her body.
As a Sequence 2 disaster witch, Christmena was not afraid of the Purple Witch - even though she had merged some of Chick's flesh and blood and possessed the strength of a Sequence 1. But Christmena also had the help of her "mother" Lilith, and they had already prepared, so they should have a greater chance of winning.
However, what they didn't expect was that Chick actually joined forces with the Outer Gods - the most powerful Outer God, the Fallen Mother Goddess.
Although Chick did not actually allow the Fallen Mother Goddess to invade the barrier, he borrowed the polluting power of the Fallen Mother Goddess, making this descended body full of high-level pollution. This caused Christmanna to not only be wary of pollution, but also unable to let go and launch an attack.
But the good news is that even Chick did not dare to maintain contact with the descended body, fearing that the Fallen Mother Goddess would contaminate Him, allowing the Purple Witch to become a "puppet" who only knew how to madly hunt down Christmenna.
But even so, as one thing gained while the other lost, her situation naturally became worse and worse.
"Little Christine, use that."
At this time, Lilith's voice sounded in her ears.
Christine gasped. "But, Mom, you're going to use it for..."
"Hehe, survive first before you can talk about anything else."
"…"
After a few seconds of silence, Christine took something out of her pocket. It was golden in color, with indescribable mysterious symbols engraved on the surface, like a miniature kettle.
Wishing lamp.
She took the wishing lamp and rubbed it gently, and the wick at the mouth of the pot burned by itself. The light emitted by the wick was extremely viscous, just like water with a lot of sugar mixed in. It gushed upwards and gathered into a twisted and blurry pale golden figure.
Then, the pale golden figure uttered an unusually majestic voice: "Tell me your wish, anything is fine."
Christmena held the magic lamp and kept dodging the attacks of the Purple Witch. Her figure suddenly disappeared and she said quickly: "Eternal Lamp God, my second wish is..."
"Wait a minute, little Christine."
Suddenly Lilith interrupted her and said in a slightly surprised tone: "The Outer God pollution on Chike seems to be disappearing."
"What?"
Christmena looked up quickly and saw that the crimson halo lingering around the Purple Witch was rapidly shrinking and dissipating, and the feeling of being on edge also disappeared.
"Tell me what you wish for!"
The pale golden figure in the magic lamp urged.
Lilith's voice sounded immediately, "We don't have any wishes. We are just worried that you will be too bored if you stay in there for a long time, so we let you out to get some fresh air."
"…"
The pale golden figure was silent for a few seconds. "Are you kidding me? You don't really think that I can't do anything to you if you don't tell me your third wish."
Lilith asked back, "What else?"
She had seen with her own eyes how Bernadette suddenly changed her mind when faced with the wishing lamp and then threw it aside - the genie had no way to stop her at all.
"Do you believe that I have countless ways to bring you misfortune?"
"No."
"you&*&&******"
"Well, little Christine, put it away."
Christine did as she was told and put the wishing lamp back into her pocket, completely ignoring the genie's impotent fury.
"The next step is easy, let's go!"
In an instant, she flashed and approached the Purple Witch. She did not use the Disaster Witch's destructive power, nor did she use viruses and black flames. In an instant, countless transparent silk threads like spider webs burst out, blocking all the retreat routes of the Purple Witch.
The Purple Witch naturally would not accept her fate. The moment she was being cut by the silk thread like a net, she used the magic wand substitution technique. Unfortunately, this only allowed her to avoid the first wave of attacks, so she decisively used the mirror substitution technique.
But this time she failed.
At the moment when the mirror that served as a substitute shattered, a white and slender arm stretched out from the broken mirror and pinched her neck. A gentle voice sounded: "Didn't Chick's flesh and blood tell you? The mirror is my territory."
"…This is also the real reason why He has been looking for me for so many years."
Click.
The Purple Witch's neck was crushed, and her face still showed the shock and confusion before her death, as if she was asking: I am a Sequence 2 angel, how could I die just because my neck was crushed?