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ExpectationChapter 1051: Looking forward to

half of... "Old Days"?

Is it the "Old Days" that I know?

Could it be a reference with a different meaning?

Several questions suddenly popped up in Angel's mind. Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly realized something and looked around, then said in a deep voice:

"Audrey, are you listening?"

It's not that she didn't trust this "manipulator", but she always had a prejudice against the audience channel in her heart. In addition, the topic she and Azik were going to discuss was also very dangerous. If she had not reached Sequence 2, just knowing something about it would be watched by unknown beings and contaminated.

Mr. Azik chuckled, pointed in the direction of the door, and said,

"This room is an independent dream fragment. She has deliberately stayed away and did not eavesdrop on our conversation outside the door. This kind of restraint is a rare quality in the 'audience' path."

After being influenced by Hvin Rambis and investigating the "accident" between Klein and me out of curiosity, Audrey has also grown up... Angel thought with shame and relief, and after calming down a little, he spoke again:

"Mr. Azik, what do you mean by 'the old days'?"

"This is a concept I learned from my father. It refers to a position above the 'Sequence' and higher than the true God." Azik said in a low and serious tone, "Only descendants who have reached the level of angels are qualified to know this. We are also forbidden to reveal it to others, not even saints... If I hadn't learned from that little girl that you had been promoted to Sequence 2, I would not have brought up this topic."

It seems to be the "Old One" I was thinking of, but Mr. Azik seems to only know that it is a person higher than the Sequence 0 True God, and does not know that it also refers to the "Outer Gods" outside the barrier... "Death God" Salinger knows all this, but did not reveal it all to his descendants?

What about the concept of "source"?

Angel thought for a moment and asked carefully:

"Since your father, the God of Death, knows about the existence of the 'Old Ones', he should have also revealed relevant information about the 'Source', right?"

"He didn't tell us directly, but based on daily communication and my accumulated knowledge, I can guess what they refer to... I think the 'River Styx' that my father has been trying to control is one of them, and it is also the most important one for the Path of Death. The 'City of Disaster' that polluted the uniqueness of the 'Red Priest' is another one."

Azik replied with a distressed look on his face, seeming a little annoyed by his lack of knowledge.

"'The Styx' should be the 'River of Eternal Darkness', one of the nine source substances, corresponding to the three paths of 'Death', 'Darkness', and 'God of War'... The other source substances are..."

Angel told Azik what he knew, satisfying both his desire to share and the other party's thirst for knowledge.

"I see. This is why my father wanted to use Graygari's body to control the underworld and get closer to the Styx at all costs... After He launched the Pale Disaster, the tip of his sword was also pointing at the kingdoms of the Goddess of Night and the God of War..." Azik touched his chin and said with enlightenment, "So, the 'City of Disaster' corresponds to the Hunter and Witch Paths?"

"That's right." Angel nodded.

After discussing the "answers" with Azik, Angel had summarized what happened to the "God of Death" Salinger. This god who survived the "War of the Four Emperors" obtained the uniqueness of the "Red Priest" that did not belong to his own adjacent path. He coveted its power, but was unable to deal with the pollution of the "City of Disaster" attached to it, so he could not use it.

It was not until the "Original Witch" invited Salinger to form an alliance and needed more power to counterattack the northern continent that he, under the advice of the "True Creator", used the corpse of the previous generation death god Graygari in his possession to control the underworld and the "Styx", that is, part of the power of the source substance "River of Eternal Darkness", using source substance to fight source substance, in an attempt to forcibly accommodate the uniqueness of the "Red Priest".

Judging from the results, He most likely succeeded. Although at the cost of becoming half crazy, He did become "Above the Sequence" and "Half of the Old Day", possessing power superior to other true gods. He fought two against seven and set off the Pale Disaster, which devastated the lives of the people in the Northern Continent.

The only problem is that the information Angel knew about the "Old Ones" showed that the components of the "Old Ones" were the source materials and the extraordinary characteristics and "uniqueness" of the pathways corresponding to the source materials, but it did not include the uniqueness of those non-adjacent pathways, let alone the ability to utilize the power of two source materials at the same time!

Even the theory of "crazy ancient gods are stronger" cannot explain what happened to the God of Death. You know, just accommodating the Beyonder characteristics of non-adjacent pathways caused these ancient gods to become crazy, let alone the power of "Source" that surpasses Sequence 0?

In response to her question, Azik could only shake his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

"But father did gain the corresponding power. This is probably related to some characteristics of the 'Source Essence'... During the war against the northern continent's countries and gods, for some unknown reason, the 'Original Witch' had problems with her condition and could not fight against other gods. Father almost single-handedly fought against the Seven Gods Alliance and even had the upper hand at one point."

It seems that Salinger does have the power of the "Old Days". Of course, the Seven Gods Alliance may not be united in resisting the invasion. The Goddess and the God of War must be the most active because they are adjacent to each other. The Lord of Storms, the Eternal Sun and the God of Wisdom may have their own ulterior motives, and even hope that the God of Death can eliminate their opponents. The God of Craftsmen has been a true god for a short time and is weaker than other gods... When Angel was dividing the strength of both sides of the Pale Disaster in his mind, he suddenly reacted and asked,

"Isn't the original witch in a bad state because she was severely injured by the Seven Gods after the failure of the war, and it has continued until now?"

"No, long before my father merged with the uniqueness of the Red Priest and prepared to launch a war, His condition was not very good. The charm that was displayed all the time would disappear intermittently, allowing me to stay sober when I saw Him, instead of being charmed all the time... When discussing matters with my father, there would also be errors and omissions in my memory..."

When talking about "charm", Azik showed an awkward smile, obviously not very satisfied with his condition at that time.

Angel was very concerned about the situation of the "Original Witch". She suspected that it was because the death of Alistair Tudor had a huge impact on the witch, but she felt that the timing did not match. Instead, it was very close to the time point when the uniqueness of the "Red Priest" was accommodated.

Could it be related to the source substance of the witch and hunter path, "City of Disaster"?

Seeing her lost in thought, Azik sat up straighter and said solemnly:

"In short, the uniqueness of the 'Red Priest' is now polluted by at least two sources, the 'River of Everlasting Darkness' and the 'City of Disaster'. Although this will separate and destroy other pollutions and isolate their influence, it is still one of the most dangerous seals... You'd better not follow my father's example and try to contain it... That is something that even true gods find difficult to do."

Besides, you were only promoted to Sequence 2 not long ago—he added with a look of vicissitudes in his eyes.

"I understand, Mr. Azik," Angel replied with a slight smile, indirectly admitting that he did have some ideas about the "Blood Flag of Salinger", "but the path of advancement for my path has come to an end, and the Sequence 1 characteristics of the 'Hunter' path have either been acquired by the 'Original Witch' or are in the dangerous Trier of the Fourth Epoch... I can only find a way to increase my strength so that I have a chance to face future challenges."

"It's a pity that I can't help you now."

Mr. Azik sighed.

"No, Mr. Azik, you've helped Klein and me so much!" Angel comforted him hastily, even standing up from the clingy single sofa. "Why don't we do something for you, such as... how to make your 'split state' in your dream better as soon as possible?"

"The being who helped me in the Death God's Tomb gave me some special features, allowing me to stay awake in my dreams. This means that most of the important dream fragments are under my control. The only dreams that are out of control are filled with violence and hatred, but they don't actually cause much harm..."

Enjoying Angel's concern for him, Azik answered slowly.

"The help of the goddess?"

"It seems you already know..." Azik sighed again, stretched out his hand to support his head, and rubbed the black mole under his ear with his fingertips. "The wound deep in my soul can only be healed with time. Only those unique items that can repair the soul can provide some help. This is the power of the 'God of Death' path. Now it is in the hands of the Goddess of Night. If you hope to do something, you can pray to her for guidance, but... don't force yourself."

"Your quick recovery is what Klein and I hope for the most."

Angel replied seriously.

At this point in the conversation, Angel's main purpose of this trip had been accomplished. She looked around with some disappointment, realizing that the time had come for them to part again.

Azik laughed again, stood up from the chair, waved his hand to let the locked vermilion wooden door open automatically, pointed in that direction and said,

"Go back, let the little girl take you out. If you come next time, remember to bring Klein with you... Of course, as time goes by, I may forget more things in my dreams, until I completely forget the past and wake up from the dream... You can write to me and remind me what I have experienced. This will help me remember everything as soon as possible."

"Klein has written a lot, I will do the same..."

Angel sniffed and walked forward to give Mr. Azik a big hug.

Of course, she did not forget to restrain her witch charm so as not to remind the other party of those bad memories of the Fourth Epoch.

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Watching Angel leave the dream with the help of the reserved "manipulator", the smile on Azik's face gradually faded. He looked at the room in the castle with nostalgia, came to the single sofa that still had body temperature, and sat down.

The next second, the surrounding scene flashed and changed, and wall-mounted bookshelves, neatly arranged desks and chairs, and sunshade curtains appeared in Azik's sight.

He returned to the history faculty office at Khoyi University. Outside the window were tree-lined walkways and rows of teaching buildings. The students' whispers reached his ears through the window cracks.

"Dongdong——"

There was a knock on the door. Azik calmed down and said:

"Come in."

Two figures that Azik was very familiar with appeared in the office. The thin man wearing a top hat smiled and said in the same tone as he remembered:

"Good morning, Mr. Azik. Angel and I are engaged. I hope you can attend our wedding on time."

"I'm looking forward to that day."

Azik nodded and replied calmly, his eyes passing by Klein and Angel, whose movements and expressions were somewhat mechanical, and looking out the window at the sunny Tingen City.

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The scene around her gradually blurred, and then became clear again. Angel found herself back in the room with floating dust and thick curtains on the windows. She was sitting on the sofa soaked in body temperature. Audrey was holding her wrist and had her eyes open as well.

They returned from their dreams to reality.

Angel subconsciously looked at the corner where the wooden bed was in his dream, and found that the black coffin was still placed there, and the heavy lid showed no sign of being opened.

In order not to forget us, Mr. Azik chose to give up the half of the soul of the "Archon of Death" that was extremely unfamiliar to him, and fell into a deep sleep to try to repair his own half of the soul of "Mr. Azik". But if he really wakes up, he will lose all his memories and enter a new reincarnation...

She suddenly felt the cruelty and impermanence of fate and was about to look away, but she found several envelopes neatly stacked on the desk next to the coffin. They had different patterns on their surfaces, as if they came from different regions or countries, but there were no labels, no addresses or names.

One of them had a picture of grape vines and beautiful petals, and it was a custom-made envelope from Angel's Iris Winery.

It seems that the others are letters from Klein. He should be like me, writing down his experiences, doubts, and feelings in letters from time to time and sending them to Mr. Azik, hoping that he will see them after waking up and recover his lost memories as soon as possible... Angel's mouth curled up slightly, and his eyes returned to Audrey. The latter reluctantly let go of her wrist, looked at her with half expectation and half disappointment, and said:

"Is it over?"

"Well, I have already discussed it in detail with Mr. Azik and answered his inner doubts. However, He still needs to repair His soul in His sleep and cannot wake up for the time being."

Angel replied in a melancholy tone, standing up from the sofa and walking to the vermilion wooden door.

"Let's leave. Let's walk out first. I'll take you back to Backlund."

The two returned to the carpeted corridor and walked out along the way they had come. The road under their feet was clean and spacious at first, but then became dilapidated, and finally even had to go around a collapsed area, as if they had traveled from Baron Ramde's Castle in the Fourth Epoch to an abandoned castle in the Fifth Epoch.

In the silence, Audrey suddenly spoke:

"Ms. Queen, I saw you and Mr. World in Mr. Azik's dream... the dream fragment closest to the present... You were visiting Him, a lecturer in the History Department of Khoi University."

Department of History, Khoi University... Angel slowed down and asked:

"What did they talk about?"

"Regarding your engagement to Mr. World..."

Audrey answered with a smile on her face.

"Well, this is indeed the scene that Mr. Azik hoped to dream of before he fell asleep... Unfortunately, reality is far less beautiful than dreams, and various accidents always disrupt our plans."

Angel didn't play dumb in front of this audience, but shook his head with some regret.

Immediately, she looked at Audrey beside her:

"You helped me a lot this time, and I may enter Mr. Azik's dream again in the future, and even try to help him repair his soul and wake him up as soon as possible... How is your performance and digestion progress of the 'Manipulator' potion? Do you have any clues about the 'Dream Weaver' potion?"

Miss Queen is not going to use Sequence 3 potions as a reward, is that too much? Unfortunately, I have no clues about Dreamweaver's potions and Beyonder characteristics… No, that's not the problem… Audrey's mind was a little confused, and she replied after a moment:

"I was promoted not long ago, and my current concept of playing the role of a 'manipulator' is still at the level of Sequence 5 exploration and dream travel. But today, that gentleman asked me to try to rescue you from the battle dream myself, which gave me some ideas on how to play the role.

"As for Sequence 3... I think it's still too early."

No wonder Mr. Azik did not enter the dream fragment himself, but asked Audrey to do it for him. It turned out that he wanted to remind her that this was a precious opportunity to act... Angel nodded in understanding and said casually:

"This is an angel's dream after all. The cross-sequence and cross-personality performances are usually very good."

And this dream is likely, no, it must involve the power of gods... she added silently in her heart.

Angel was relieved that Audrey did not rush to seek the Sequence 3 potion, but this also made her worry that after being promoted to a demigod, she was affected by the residual mental imprint and divinity of the Beyonder characteristics and became unlike herself.

Fortunately, the "audience" channel can often analyze herself and make timely adjustments. She also has an extraordinary dog ​​by her side to remind her at any time... Looking at Audrey, who was walking briskly and obviously benefited a lot from this experience, Angel smiled again.

After the dream journey ended, she planned to try to touch the seal numbered "01" to see if she could take the uniqueness of the "Red Priest" into her pocket. Just like she said to Azik, even if she didn't contain it and didn't try to jump to the "Conqueror", she must at least master this power.

As for who to contact, Angel already had a plan in mind -

Elaine Soran, the Sequence 5 "Reaper", is not only the corresponding channel of the "Salinger Blood Flag", but also does not violate the taboo of "only Sequence 4 and below can approach". As Angel's follower, she can also accept the gift of the "City of Disaster" when necessary to reduce the impact of the pollution in the seal on her.

From a certain perspective, this kind of "gift" is actually a kind of pollution, but the method is the same and it is not malicious. It is somewhat different from the pollution of "foreign gods" or evil gods.

Only source substance can fight against source substance, and the power of "City of Disaster" and "River of Eternal Darkness" seems to have some special characteristics. Be careful not to harm Elaine... She thought silently, and returned from the winding corridor to the outside of the castle illuminated by the crimson moon, breathing the "fresh" air mixed with humus and damp mist.

Looking at Audrey who was looking at him expectantly, Angel waved his hand and took out three talismans from the "mirror space". The talismans were almost transparent, as if made of ice crystals, and had lavender lines flashing on the surface. He handed them to the other party and said,

"This is a high-level talisman I made. It can give you the ability of "traveling through the mirror". Each talisman can be used ten times. If you only use the mirror to transmit information or objects, you can use it twenty times.

"You have already experienced many trips through the mirror world. You should try to go home by yourself..."

At the end, Angel couldn't help laughing.

What a beautiful spell... Curiosity about the spell diluted Audrey's disappointment. She took the three wafers that felt like ice, examined them carefully, and asked curiously:

"What about you? You're not going back to Backlund?"

Angel shook his head and looked towards the southeast.

"I want to go back to Tingen."

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Above the gray fog, Klein, who had finally waited for Angel and Audrey to return to reality before their prayers ended, breathed a sigh of relief, and his spirit left the two shining stars.

He had been keeping an eye on what was happening in the abandoned castle in the town of Ramde, mainly because he was worried that the two people were trapped in a dream and unable to leave, so he was ready to intervene at any time.

"It looks like the matter has ended successfully. I wonder how Mr. Azik is doing in his dream, and whether his soul has been healed as a result...

"Unfortunately, the dream seems to be protected by a 'secret' force, and even I can hardly see what's going on inside. But this also means that the goddess is paying attention to this matter, and it's not my turn to worry about it..."

He muttered as he returned from the gray fog to the God-forsaken Land, where it was pitch black for a long time before a flash of lightning flashed across the sky. He looked towards the Silver City dotted with stars in the distance, and used a skillful operation to pull out his own historical projection, which then let the historical projection pull out another historical projection. He then hid himself in the fragments of the historical fog, allowing the projection of the projection to have consciousness, and he blended into the Silver City with ease.

After several infiltrations today, he realized that it was actually very difficult for this city to defend itself against invaders above the level of demigods, especially an "ancient scholar" like him who could change his appearance and use fire to jump through patrol teams. If he had not been protected by the two "god-level seals" that "Sun" Derrick mentioned, he would have probably perished in the long river of time like the abandoned towns and villages around him.

Even now, there are several clones of Amon in the city. If the Angel King was not too lazy to deal with them, He alone could wipe out all the fighting forces of the Silver City...

Klein complained inwardly, and suddenly he felt a heavy sense of mission on his shoulders.

He visited the City of Silver tonight and visited the "Chief" Colin Iliad in order to take advantage of the opportunity when Amon's real body came to Backlund to snatch the Beyonder characteristics and was severely damaged, to eliminate all of Amon's clones and lay a good foundation for his next action!

After all, from Amon's trash talk against Leonard and Pales, Klein had learned that Amon knew his movements very well, so there was no need to hide his whereabouts in the God-Forsaken Land.

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In a low house on the edge of the City of Silver, a resident who had drunk mushroom milk early and enjoyed a more sumptuous dinner than usual was sleeping in the dim but safe candlelight.

He suddenly turned over as if he had a nightmare, and his limbs moved a few times stiffly. A transparent insect with twelve segments condensed in his body, and it passed through the stone wall with a bright light and flew in the other direction of Silver City.

At the same time, in three other places in the city, the same thing happened to three Silver City residents of different identities.

Four rays of light gathered together, and four "Time Worms" drilled into the twin towers in the north of the city and gathered in a secret area underground.

There stood a young man with black hair and eyes, wearing a black robe. He had absorbed all of the "Time Worms" and the extraordinary properties contained therein, and had acquired a status close to that of an angel. He was able to bypass complicated rituals and prayers and directly transmit information to the main body.

In front of Him, Klein, dressed in Gehrman's trench coat and top hat, was pulling out the "Star Staff" from the mist of history, seemingly intending to use a powerful attack to prevent Amon's clone from communicating with the original body.

"It's too late. The owner of Sefirah Castle is right here..."

As soon as this thought came into Amon's clone's mind, his body stiffened. The crystal monocle that had appeared in his right eye socket tilted to one side, and the surface was no longer crystal clear, as if it was covered with a layer of gray.

The all-destructive petrifying power was rapidly spreading within his body, cutting off all life force and completely freezing and solidifying the information that was about to be transmitted to his body.

At this time, Klein took out his other hand from his windbreaker pocket, holding two talismans of different shapes and colors between his fingers.

"The Stealer" and "Petrification