Unfortunately, this dimensionality reduction attack did not last for a few seconds. "He" quickly returned to normal and looked at Edward and said calmly, "You… have been promoted to Sequence 1?"
Yes,
With the help of his [Illusion] ability, Edward reversed his [Degeneration] ability and "promoted" himself to Sequence 1, gaining the strength of a [Constructor] in a short period of time.
But the duration of this strength is very limited. He must end the battle as soon as possible, completely break free from Adam and complete his resurrection!
"Bang!"
Edward snapped his fingers lightly, and the entire memory space quickly twisted and changed. The earth quickly became desolate, and the sky seemed to have turned into an oil painting, dotted with a strange sun and flashing with distorted lightning.
At this moment, he completed the construction of the astral world here, and then directly used [Record]. Three powerful figures descended in the "constructed" astral world: They were the tyrant Leodro, the eternal sun Osekus, and the god of wisdom and knowledge Herabergen.
After a brief moment of stiffness, the three gods immediately became agile. Leodro's first reaction was to point the trident at Edward.
Sun thief, are you pushing your luck too far?
You really don't think of me as a God who comes when you call and goes away when you wave, right?
Today I will let you know why I am called a "tyrant"!
However, before He could actually take action, He noticed the presence of another person at the scene—Adam!
Then he stopped.
The three backstabbers reached a consensus without saying a word: Go after Adam first!
The reason why they shared the ancient sun god in the first place might be because of the influence of the law of gathering of extraordinary characteristics, which made them uncontrollably commit the act of backstabbing.
But it's done!
Faced with Adam, the "Son of God" who was determined to resurrect the ancient sun god, of course they had to get rid of him as soon as possible, so the projections of the three gods directly attacked Adam.
Edward seized the opportunity to quickly move away from Adam's memory, and once again transformed into a stream of information and fled into the distance. The moment he reached Lilith's river of memory, he plunged into it.
But at this moment, the memory scenes in front of his eyes suddenly changed rapidly, and scenes full of Adam emerged one after another.
"!!!"
Edward quickly stopped and turned to look around: everything he saw was replaced by Adam's memory!
Playing with memory, the audience approach is the real expert!
Even though the memory space here is not the ocean of collective subconsciousness, it still cannot escape the control of the audience who have half the pillar status.
For a moment, Edward couldn't tell whether what he saw was true or false. Did Adam really tamper with all the memories, or did Adam just make these memories appear to belong to him?
But Edward didn't dare to gamble!
boom!
The next second, all the rivers of memory seemed to have life, and without waiting for Edward to get close, they set off tremendous waves and rolled towards him. Edward didn't dare to let any drop of "memory" (water drop) occupy his body. He waved and slapped his hands several times in succession, turning all the rivers of memory into two dimensions.
Although this action resolved the crisis, it also meant that he could no longer find the memories needed to revive himself.
He looked around blankly. The strength of Sequence 1, which had been brought about by the reversal of Degeneration through Illusion, had now reached its limit and was rapidly declining.
The starry sky structure in the distance collapsed, and the projections of the three gods gradually dissipated.
Before Edward fell back to Sequence 2, he once again slapped Adam, who had escaped the pursuit of the three gods, and took a picture of him. Then he made a decision quickly: He quickly took four steps in reverse and recited the formula:
"Fusheng Xuanhuang Immortal Lord.
Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianjun.
Fusheng Xuanhuang God.
Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun. "
Endless gray-white fog surged in, enveloping Edward and trying to take him back to Sefirah Castle. However, at this moment, he was just a "code" of memory, caught between reality and falsehood, and unable to return to Sefirah Castle at all.
Of course, this was what Edward thought of when he recited the four sentences, so he summoned Sefirah Castle not to go back, but to use Sefirah Castle - or more precisely, the Lord of Mysteries - to have a head-on confrontation with Adam.
"Source Castle, kill it!"
Amidst a loud humming sound, a projection of a gigantic creature with an unclear shape and surrounded by gray mist descended. In just a moment, the long river of Adam's memories was shattered by the arrival of Sefirah Castle.
The God consciousness hidden in Adam's body and the Tianzun consciousness hidden deep in Sefirah Castle once again fought in another way after tens of millions of years. `Hong\te-xiao!shuo~wang!¨Has¨ been published, Zui^xin~zhang!Conclusion?
This pair of old enemies both want to put pressure on the other's coffin to resurrect.
But this "battle in the air" is destined to be indecisive. After all, only a trace of consciousness remains on both sides, and they are still a long way from waking up.
But it was enough to buy Edward enough time. After making sure that Adam's memory was dispelled, Edward plunged into the nearest memory without hesitation.
But in order to avoid accidents, Edward forced himself to stay conscious this time and shortened the time of resurrection as much as possible - he didn't know if Adam would have something else waiting for him, so he had to enter Sefirah Castle and fall asleep as soon as possible to let everything settle!
After a moment, the projection of Sefirah Castle turned into gray mist and dissipated.
Then, Adam recovered from his two-dimensional state and frowned as he looked towards the place where Edward disappeared. After a while, He said calmly, "This... is fine."
The reason why He attacked Edward was that He wanted to turn him into his own personality, and He wanted to use him to seize the "things" deep in the Chaos Sea. He also wanted to find out the relationship between Edward and that person.
But there is another important reason: He wanted to use Edward to lure out "that person" and "confront" Him face to face: Unfortunately, "that person" never showed up in the end - maybe the other party was unable to show up, or maybe He didn't care about Edward at all.
No matter which one,
With Edward's escape, Adam's original plan failed, and he made the decision that he had been waiting for a long time: it was time to talk to Grisha.
...
Feynaport City.
Lalder has been very upset lately.
Because Mr. Sparrow had given himself the ability to switch forms at any time, but it suddenly disappeared not long ago. This made Lalde fall from the peak into the valley, and he became depressed all of a sudden.
He wanted to go to Trier again to ask Mr. Sparrow for help, but his father and grandfather would not allow it at all. His sister Akasha had just sneaked out of the house last week and was caught by his father and had her leg broken!
It's not an exaggeration, his leg was really broken.
Anyway, this injury is nothing to the vampires, but it really hurts - Akasha has been howling in the house for a week, but has not won any sympathy.
"Aaaaaaah!!"
Akasha rolled around on the bed, "I've already said I won't go looking for that Sparrow, why won't you let me go out! If I stay like this any longer, I'm going to go crazy!!"
"Forget about it, Akasha." Larde looked at his sister and shook his head. "Grandfather didn't let you go out. It had nothing to do with Mr. Sparrow. It was because you said you received the oracle from the ancestor Lilith."
"I was..."
Larde shrugged. "But my grandfather firmly believed that it was just the evil god's temptation."
"…"
Akasha gnashed her teeth and said, "These old fools are stupid! When the First Ancestor returns in the future, I will see how they apologize!"
At this point, she suddenly scowled at Larde and said, "You don't believe me either?"
Larde sighed, "I want to believe it, but... you said that the oracle of the First Ancestor asked us to sacrifice all the Sealed Objects we have collected over thousands of years to Him..."
"Don't you think it's weird?"
Akasha frowned and said, "What's so strange about offering sacrifices to the gods?"
"If it were any other church, it might not be strange, but for us, the vampire race..." At this point, he waved his hand, "Forget it, it's better for you not to know some things, otherwise everyone present would know about it after you spread it."
"snort!"
Akasha sneered, "It was you who was fooled by Sparrow's few words and told everything, wasn't it?"
"…"
Larde's face immediately turned red, and he said angrily, "I...I, what I said at that time were all public information of the vampires, and no one told me not to tell others. If someone specifically told me not to tell others, I would definitely not tell them even if I was beaten to death."
"Really?"
"Of course..."
Larde answered subconsciously, but he immediately realized that the person asking the question was not his sister Akasha, but a familiar yet unfamiliar male voice. He immediately looked over in shock, "Who?"
"Mr. Sparrow?!"
Akasha smiled. "Ah, did you come here to save me? I have no way to repay you. I will be responsible for warming your bed from now on."
Feeling a strong sense of weakness and his vitality fading at a faster rate, Edward patted his head gently and gradually recalled everything that had happened.
It turned out that the memory that was revived at that time was actually that of Larde, whom he had not seen for several months, and the image of himself in his memory was not much different from the real self as a whole - except that he was labeled as an old fox.
However, perhaps it was because the time taken for this resurrection was too short, or perhaps it was because Lard's memory of himself was not very deep, which resulted in this resurrection being much weaker than the previous ones. At most, he would only have one day left before he would die again.
With a Russian priest guarding there, this might be his last resurrection.
Edward's mood became heavier: "I don't have much time left."
"Mr. Sparrow?"
It was only then that Larder reacted. He was a little confused for a moment. He had just been talking about Mr. Sparrow with his sister, but when he suddenly stood in front of him, he could not recognize him at once - it felt like the last time they met was not a few months ago, but dozens or even hundreds of years ago, so his memory became a little fuzzy.
Edward immediately noticed the abnormality of Larde, and realized that this was the fading of memory caused by resurrection, which brought about the forgetfulness - Larde was completely different from Bernadette and Lilith.
His memory of himself was barely good enough for resurrection, so just one resurrection had already caused his memory to fade.
If it happened again, he would probably forget about himself completely.
Chapter 643 Little Snake Will's Request
But what Edward was curious about was that once someone gradually showed signs of forgetfulness after being resurrected many times, would it be possible for his faded memory to be restored by close contact with him at this time?
This question may not be answered for the time being. With Adam "guarding the body" in the memory space, Edward can only give up his previous plan and fall into a deep sleep before this death comes.
But the problem is that my own spirituality alone is not enough to [imagine] another self to act on my behalf and collect imagination.
"Mr. Sparrow, Mr. Sparrow!"
Akasha's voice broke his contemplation. She said urgently and excitedly, "Take me away from here! If my grandfather finds me, I won't be able to leave!"
Larde also reacted at this time, "Mr. Sparrow, and my suit. The power you exerted before seems to have disappeared in time. Can you help me again..."
Edward took a breath and pointed his finger at Lalder, "It's OK."
Sure enough, the suit on Larde once again had the effect of being able to change at any time.
"As for you..."
Edward looked at Akasha and she was in a state of hesitation. He was not hesitating whether to take her away, but whether to try to do something before falling asleep to avoid the tragedy of her parents and grandfather's death in the future. After all, he was getting to know the siblings.
Just as he was thinking about this, the door was suddenly pushed open, and an old man with white hair, a short white beard and wearing a black suit appeared at the door. It was the grandfather of the siblings, Marquis Punk.
As soon as the marquis saw Edward, a smile appeared on his face: "Oh, I was wondering who would come to visit these two children. It turns out to be Your Excellency."
Akasha's face turned pale and she shouted, "Ah! It's over..."
"Grandfather, I didn't call him here! I told him again and again that I would never leave home. Larde can vouch for me!"
Larde: "…"
Edward glanced at her speechlessly, flicked his finger, and a big red bump popped out on her fair forehead. Then he said to the Marquis, "I just happened to pass by here, so I came to see them. I'm leaving now."
As he spoke, he opened an illusory door leading directly to Trier's home and was about to leave.
A trace of surprise flashed in Marquis Punk's eyes: of course he saw that what Edward opened was not the Traveler's Door, but an ability that only Sequence 2 Planeswalkers could master.
In other words, in just a few months, this spiritual mage who was originally only at Sequence 4 has been promoted successively and has become a planeswalker with strength far exceeding his own!
Fortunately, no message was sent to inform His Excellency the Duke just now, otherwise, if a fight really broke out, it would be very troublesome!
But he hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sir, I would like to ask you a question."
As soon as the word "you" was uttered, Larde and Akasha were very surprised. In their opinion, although Mr. Sparrow was a demigod, he must be far inferior to their grandfather.
As a result, my grandfather's attitude now is obviously... a little restrained?
Edward paused and looked over: "Please speak. *天*喜!暁\税·蛧! _更/辛?嶵!全\"
Marquis Punk asked, "Do you know what the existence is that Akasha mentioned as conveying the oracle to her?"
"What oracle?"
"It is... it is the same thing that 'that one' did to the blood race during the Four Emperors' War. Let us... sacrifice all the seals that we have collected over the years to him."
"Well."
The Mother Goddess of Earth would never do such a thing.
Then, in all likelihood, it was Lilith again.
Edward thought for a moment and said, "I can only tell you that Lilith... Lilith, the ancestor of your blood race, knows about this and has no objection."
I don't think there's any objection.
"…"
Marquis Punk's eyes trembled, and his mood changed significantly: "You mean, the ancestor is really still..."
Although many vampires have firmly believed that the ancestor is still alive for many years, it is also a fact that he has never passed down any will. The longer time goes by, the more those believers will inevitably waver.
"I said nothing and I know nothing."
Edward waved his hand, stepped through the door, and disappeared.
Seeing their grandfather disappear in a hurry with excitement after Mr. Sparrow left, the brother and sister looked at each other in bewilderment.
After a while, Akasha said, "Lard, I'm hungry. Bring me something to eat."
"Didn't you just..."
"Hurry up!"
"oh!"
Larde curled his lips and walked out quickly.
As soon as her brother left, Akasha sat up and prayed devoutly: "Ancestor Lilith... I have something to report to you..."
...
Back home,
Edward was greeted by an empty house. From the calendar on the wall, he knew that only one day had passed since the last death.
Lilith was not at home and no one knew where she had gone.
As soon as Edward collapsed on the sofa, the dressing mirror in the room flashed a light. Lilith then stepped out of the mirror, rushed in front of Edward, and said in surprise: "Edward, you're back!"
But soon, the smile on her face froze, and she asked anxiously, "You, what's wrong with you? Why are you in such a bad state? Is your resurrection not without a price? Are you hiding something from me?"
"No, no. Lan~Lan-Wen? Xu` ¢ has been released. Bu/Zui\Xin·Zhang/Jie¨"
Edward patted her back gently, "There was an accident."
Lilith wrinkled her nose and asked, "What happened?"
After hesitating for a moment, he told the truth: "It's Adam."
He briefly explained how Adam had ambushed her in the memory space and wanted to replace her. Lilith immediately became furious and rolled up her sleeves to fight Adam: "That bastard!! I'm going to kill him now!!!"
Edward quickly pulled her back and said seriously, "Without the strength of Sequence 0, it will be difficult to pose any threat to Adam. Even if you want revenge, you have to wait."
"I can't stand it!"
Lilith's face was gloomy, and her eyes were full of murderous intent. "When He and Chick teamed up to kill me, I didn't intend to pursue the matter because He did help me later. But this time, He actually dared to attack Edward. I can't stand it... I can't tolerate it! Never!"
"Lilith."
Edward pinched her cheeks with both hands, stared into her eyes and spoke word by word, "The reason I told you about Adam's trick on me is that I didn't want to hide it from you. So you have to promise me that you won't cause trouble for Adam before you advance to Sequence 0! I hope that when I wake up, I can see a healthy and complete Lilith waiting for me!"
"But..."
"Ahem."
Edward suddenly started coughing violently, "I don't have much time, Lilith."
Lilith immediately said anxiously: "...I, I promise you, I promise you!"
"Hook."
He stretched out his pinky finger and forcibly hooked it around Lilith's pinky finger, "It's a deal!"
"...good."
Lilith lowered her eyes.
"That's good~"
Edward smiled and hooked her nose, then he forced himself to stand up and said, "Wait for me for a moment. I have to go to Sefirah Castle first."
After saying that, he walked four steps backwards and entered the magnificent ancient palace.
As usual, Edward interrupted the rhythm of Sefirah Castle recognizing its master, stepped onto the Stairs of Light again and came to the area full of cocoons. He then took out the Beyonder's extraordinary characteristic, shook it lightly, and turned it into a curtain, wrapping it into a cocoon.
As if he realized something.
The "death" that was like a maggot attached to his bones suddenly erupted, and Edward's legs immediately softened and he collapsed to the ground. His consciousness was blurred for a while, and his spirit was so weak that he couldn't even give a warning.
After a while,
Edward gritted his teeth and stood up shakily. He then ejected the gold coin to confirm that everything was OK. Then he logged out of Sefirah Castle and returned home.
As soon as he landed, he slumped down on the sofa again. Lilith urged anxiously:
"Edward...you, you should go to sleep."
She pursed her lips, held Edward's hands tightly with both of hers, and whispered, "It hurts me to see you like this now."
"Don't worry, it's all taken care of."
Edward smiled and said, "I can go to sleep anytime, but before that, I want to say goodbye to some friends."
"After all, this sleep may last for hundreds of years."
...
In the spice shop at 125 Montaugay Street, little snake Will was sitting in a corner where his mother couldn't see him, eating ice cream stealthily.
Suddenly, two figures appeared beside him. He paused while digging for ice cream and turned to look at the two of them. "Ah, Lilith, congratulations. You have finally been resurrected as you wished. Well, you were cuter when you were a child."
Then he looked at Edward again, frowned and said, "You are in a very bad condition now. Are you going to die?"
"…There's no need for everyone who sees me to remind me of this."
"Let me make it clear first, in your situation, no matter how much luck I give you, it will be useless."
"Don't want your luck."
Edward snatched his ice cream and took a bite, then said, "I came to say goodbye to you."
"Last words before death?"
Lilith immediately raised her fist and hit Will on the head, "If you can't speak, shut up."
"I will not die."
Edward stated a fact in a calm tone, "It just takes a while of sleep."
The little snake rubbed his head and stared at him: "Sleeping? The mysterious consciousness has awakened in you?"
"No. Nothing to do with that. Just fighting death by sleeping."
"Oh, I think I understand."
The little snake pinched his chin in surprise, "But you are not the master of Sefirah Castle anymore, how can you command Sefirah Castle?"
"Heh, maybe I'm popular. Even Sefirah Castle likes me."
Will rolled his eyes and laughed: "...Then you have to teach me so that I can trick the Key of Light into coming over later."
"Okay, but that'll have to wait until I wake up."
Edward smiled and said, "I hope you can provide Lilith with as much help as possible while I am asleep. If Lilith does something irrational, you can also help stop her."
Lilith immediately said, "Edward, you don't believe me!"
Will also said at the same time: "You...maybe you shouldn't believe that I have the ability to stop Lilith."
But He immediately shook his head and stretched out his hand: "What's the benefit?"
"No." He suddenly took out a piece of paper, "You owed me something last time, and you haven't finished it yet."
"Then I'll owe you two things."
Will looked at him silently. After a while, he suddenly took out a pen, wrote a line on the paper and handed it to Edward, "Okay! Then help me finish this first thing."
On the paper was written a line of ancient Hermetic words in childish handwriting: "Wake up alive."