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Aaron was about to take advantage of the last bit of time to deal with Shaman King Klarman, who was running wildly on the ground in the distance, when he saw an illusory Door appear in the void.
Behind the Door was an illusory, gloomy river emanating endless Death, and on that silent river, a somber small boat seemed to sail from the depths of the underworld, as an arm suddenly reached out, grabbed Shaman King Klarman, and dragged him behind the Door.
After Klarman's figure disappeared into the river behind the Door, his aura was completely concealed by Death, and Aaron regretfully withdrew his gaze, pondering in his mind.
"Such a strong Death, a river that seems to lead to the underworld... This is somewhat like the Death pathway's 'Ferryman'. Did the Numinous Episcopate secretly make a move?"
There was no time to ponder further. After sealing the strange heart and placing it among the miscellaneous items, Aaron waved his hand and retrieved a medal that was crystal clear, as if cast from black gems—it was Arianna's Night Emblem.
He threw it into the fading prayer scene, towards Joseph Weil, who was on high alert with a grave expression.
Watching Klarman being dragged into an unknown space by an arm, and the sudden end of the angel-level battle, made Joseph's mind somewhat chaotic. While guarding against possible attacks, he continuously chanted Varna's honorific name in his heart, but received no response.
Just as he was on guard, a faint light flashed before him, and a black token floated silently, giving him a strange sensation that it was indeed there when he looked at it, but would disappear when he didn't.
"Joseph, no need to be nervous, I am Aaron."
"The Sun Pathway angel just now was a helper I invited. Although the projection of Archbishop Larrion of the Church of the God of Combat was defeated, you still need to be careful of possible accidents."
"This token does not possess Beyonder characteristic or power. Its only function is that once activated, it will establish contact with the Servant of Concealment, Arianna, no matter where she is in the real world."
"For certain reasons, I might be temporarily out of contact for a period, so I am lending you this token for now."
"If you encounter danger and need more direct help, and the ancestor does not respond to your plea, you can activate this token while chanting the name 'Arianna' in ancient hermes."
In this quiet and peaceful atmosphere, Joseph's mouth slowly widened. After hearing the content of Aaron's telepathic message, he was momentarily at a loss for how to respond.
The prayer light points then dispersed. Although he didn't know what kind of backlash he would suffer, for safety's sake, Aaron still stirred the surrounding dark gold mist and spoke in a deep, majestic voice:
"I need some time to further recover. The Chaos Council is temporarily suspended."
Just after he transmitted this scene to every member of the Chaos Council, before Aaron could even sigh in relief, as if a certain time limit had been reached, invisible ripples suddenly spread out from the originally calm "Chaos Eye" at the top of the throne, radiating in all directions.
The entire magnificent Temple seemed to tremble. Along with the spreading golden ripples, the high-backed chairs and stone chairs standing in the Temple toppled, as if ravaged by flames, bearing scorching marks.
Looking at the backlash, which was far more violent than last time, an ominous premonition flashed through Aaron's spiritually exhausted mind. Without leaving any time to breathe, his vision suddenly went dark, and he directly lost consciousness.
The golden patterns symbolizing divinity on his body resonated with the magnificent palace, jointly resisting the invasion of the golden ripples, and the dark gold mist surged incessantly within the magnificent Temple.
In a hazy daze, Aaron seemed to see emptiness, etherealness, and desolation all around him, permeated by boundless dark gold mist. His consciousness seemed to be crushed and integrated into it, spreading towards infinite distances with the diffusion of the dark gold mist.
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North of Sonia Sea, Sonia Island is the largest island in this Sea area, and also the origin of the name Sonia Sea, almost equivalent to a small continent.
It was originally the only remaining settlement for elves after the Cataclysm, but as time passed, this ancient Beyonder race was plagued by various factors and gradually died out, with only occasional, sporadic appearances proving they had not completely gone extinct.
At the end of the Fourth Epoch, the Loen Kingdom occupied this island, but in the "Twenty Years' War," they suffered a crushing defeat and handed Sonia Island over to the Feysac Empire, which has been over seven hundred years ago.
Checker Ward followed the crowd off the "White Pigeon" and looked with interest at the people coming and going in the port area. There were many people with dark blue hair, but even more were Feysac people nearly two meters tall, sturdy and strong.
He graduated from Bishop Montella over a month ago and, after leaving the Southern Continent, traveled through the Berserk Sea's Safe Passage to Sonia Island.
During this time, the Incinerator potion had been mostly digested, but it had been almost a month since the hidden existence who called himself the Lord of Order announced the temporary suspension of the Chaos Council, so the idea of exchanging for the Sequence 6 Conspirer potion formula could only be put on hold for now.
Checker sighed in his heart, feeling both anticipation and apprehension, wondering what new changes that hidden existence would bring after his recovery. As he was pondering, his powerful spirituality allowed him to pick up on the conversation of several Feysac people nearby who were clearly dressed as pirates.
"Johe, I heard that if you sail a few hundred nautical miles northwest from our Sonia Island, you'll enter a Sea area that many explorers haven't officially explored yet."
"That's not a battlefield ruin full of killing intent, that's a Sea area full of treasures and opportunities, and I don't know who will get there first."
One of them, a scar-faced man emanating spiritual fluctuations, sneered and took a big gulp of expensive sonia blood wine, then slowly spoke under the envious and fearful gazes of the others:
"Foolish, there's a Naga tribe active there. They've always been dedicated to finding the rumored underwater city where powerful Demons are sealed. That's the object of their faith."
"Although the danger there is indeed not as terrifying as a divine battle relic, it's not something a mere Sequence 9 like you can fathom. Even a Pirate Admiral would face certain risks there."
Looking at the expressions on the faces of his subordinates around him, he nodded with satisfaction, then seemed to think of something and said with some excitement:
"You just came back from the Sea, so you probably don't know that something big has happened recently in our Feysac. A few weeks ago, the Archbishop of the Church of the God of Combat, who had been stationed in the 'Giant King's Court' in Saint Millon, went to Trier, the Capital of Intis."
"No one knows what happened, only that the entire sky was covered in twilight. Tsk, that was simply like a miracle. It finally managed to rein in those superstitious Intis people..."
Checker quietly listened with his extraordinary hearing. As a former intis noble and a victim of Roselle's assassination, he was always more concerned about such matters.
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Layers of illusory whispers echoed within the magnificent palace, and a vortex of dark gold mist covered the entire Temple. Time seemed to lose its meaning here.
On the throne deep within the palace sat a figure with a blank expression. The black emperor card lay at his feet, dim and lusterless. The dark gold vortex above the throne slowly contracted, condensing into a majestic and vast figure.
Aaron, immersed in the illusory whispers, slowly opened his eyes. An unprecedented feeling emerged in his heart. He instinctively raised his arm, but only saw a hand completely composed of dark gold mist, with faint mysterious symbols on it.
His previously somewhat sluggish mind instantly cleared. Following the spiritual sensation, Aaron looked down and saw himself sitting on the throne with his eyes closed, or more accurately, only his physical body.
As his emotions fluctuated, the surrounding dark gold mist continuously poured in, making Aaron's phantom increasingly solid, but this was accompanied by a strong spiritual warning. His intuition told him that if he continued like this without stopping, he might completely lose himself.
Although he was still somewhat unclear about the situation, Aaron instinctively floated towards the throne and merged with his body.
As if a certain process was interrupted, the surging dark gold mist stopped pouring in. Aaron's body suddenly opened its eyes, only to find that one arm still could not merge with him, seemingly having contained too much dark gold mist, reaching its capacity limit.
Before Aaron could react, with the return of his Spirit Body, a series of knowledge abruptly appeared in his mind. After an unknown period, Aaron reopened his eyes.
Spirituality connected with the Sefirah, and the illusory arm that could not merge with his body instantly detached, transforming into an even more illusory figure under the manipulation of Aaron's main consciousness.
Unlike the figures he had casually molded from dark gold mist before, this figure, originating from his own being, still had mysterious symbols flowing on its surface. Both hearing and vision could be shared, as if it were another self.
Looking at the vivid and flexible figure before him, whose every movement could stir the dark gold mist, Aaron recalled the knowledge in his mind and murmured in disbelief:
"Is this my incomplete mythological creature form?"
This was different from facing Barranca, the Sequence 2 angel and "King of Curses" of the Rose School of Thought, before. That time, it was less about Aaron repelling him, and more about him actively retreating after the "Door of Summoning" was destroyed.
This time, confronting an angel displaying a complete mythological creature form head-on with the help of the "Chaos Eye" caused far more damage than Aaron had anticipated. Moreover, due to the unique nature of this Uniqueness, the backlash, comparable to an angel's level, also possessed the characteristics of the Sun Pathway.
That terrifying purification and repulsion directly forcibly stripped the black emperor card that had merged with Aaron. Without the protection of the divine patterns, Aaron's consciousness directly faced this backlash.
At the moment his consciousness collapsed, it was re-aggregated by the power of the Sefirah. With the superposition of various factors, Aaron turned misfortune into a blessing, further deepening his integration with the Sefirah, and prematurely gaining an incomplete mythological creature form within the Sefirah.
The knowledge transmitted by the Sefirah refers to this mythological creature form as the Mist of order. The edicts implemented within one's own territory and the feedback received from them are the foundation for acquiring divinity, and also the mysterious patterns formed during the creation of the mythological creature form.
From the moment one acquires the mythological creature form of the Mist of order, one can gradually transition from being an agent of rules in the low Sequence period to a higher-level formulator of rules.
In the future, when Aaron achieves angel status and possesses a complete mythological creature form, with the bonus of the Nation of Disorder, he could even alter certain shallow rules for a certain period.
However, this separated figure of himself is more like a stripped-down version of an incomplete mythological creature form. On one hand, it's because Aaron's soul alone underwent transformation; his physical body is still Sequence 5 and has not received divinity.
Although the soul can re-gather and restore itself, once the physical body manifests a mythological creature form, it is difficult to revert.
On the other hand, this incomplete mythological creature form can only be manifested within the Sefirah. In reality, without sufficient anchors and the support of divinity, the outcome would only be loss of control.
But even so, it is not useless to Aaron. This separated part of his consciousness can exist independently within the Sefirah, responding to prayers and making replies on Aaron's behalf.
It can even borrow certain Sealed Artifacts to launch attacks. Although this would lead to additional spiritual consumption, it avoids Aaron having to go above the dark gold mist every time, and also allows for a separation of the "Lord of Order" identity.
Moreover, with the Sefirah's bonus, having prematurely gained an incomplete mythological creature form, he now truly has the confidence to face certain situations. Even if he were to face the previous backlash again, he would have the real ability to cope.
With this thought, Aaron looked at the pile of miscellaneous items, removing the seal he had originally placed. Layers of dark gold mist dispersed accordingly.
Looking at the neatly placed and undamaged Will Auceptin paper crane and several other Sealed Artifacts, Aaron breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to retrieve the divination pendant.
A moment later, he opened his eyes with a complex expression and muttered in a low voice:
"I didn't expect to be unconscious for almost a month this time. Fortunately, I had informed the members of the Chaos Council beforehand. But this time, it was a blessing in disguise. A month's time was well worth it."
Collecting his thoughts, Aaron looked at the items that had fallen below the throne. He first returned the dim black emperor card and the now calm Sun Chaser Scepter to the pile of miscellaneous items.
The original strange heart seemed to have been shattered by the backlash, and after re-aggregating, it split into two parts. He performed a divination using the divination pendant:
The heart on the left, the size of a human head and shimmering with a dawn-like radiance, was a Sequence 4 Demon Hunter Beyonder characteristic.
And the black crystal on the right, emanating a fallen, evil, and defiled aura, was a Sequence 4 Demon Beyonder characteristic. The Abyss corruption contained within it had not been completely destroyed, and it re-corrupted it after the Beyonder characteristic re-aggregated.
He isolated and sealed the corrupted Demon characteristic, and placed the Demon Hunter Beyonder characteristic next to the Sun Chaser Scepter. Once that demigod Beyonder characteristic was extracted, he could enter Groselle's Travels.
After confirming through divination that there were no dangerous omens, Aaron returned to the real world, immediately entering a concealed state. He used the true vision provided by the consciousness he left within the Sefirah to look towards the Ancient Forest.
Even after a month, the center of the battlefield was still shrouded in the decay of twilight, and the giant lava pit also emitted a strong purifying aura. There were no signs of danger, nor any new traces of battle.
It seemed that the Church of the God of Combat's representative was very restrained, and the worst-case scenario did not occur. Aaron couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After lifting his concealed state, he quickly traveled to Saint Annes and found Joseph Weil by sensing Arianna's emblem.
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