Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

Dai Li stared at the words on the altar for a full ten seconds. Generally, rituals are held to pray to the goddess to heal companions, to make spells, or to pray for the power of fate, the power of darkness, etc.

No matter how you pray, you always wait for the goddess's response after reciting the prayer.

Generally, the goddess will respond to the prayers of the Nighthawks.

But that response was just some kind of power bestowed by the goddess. There had never been such a response on the altar.

As the surging sense of sleep disappeared, Dai Li came back to her senses: "Hobert, who's called Hobert? Which Hobert?"

Finally, she looked at the young man who was talking to Selina in the yard, the young man carrying the oil painting on his back.

…

Hobert called Selina in front of the two big "moths": "They were two extraordinary people before, but they became like this because they were contaminated by a high-level force."

Selena saw it just now, but didn't take a closer look. At this time, she only felt a little shocked: "Teacher, is this the true face of this world?"

"Yes." Hobert said, "I said in my letter that I wanted to talk to you recently, and I just wanted to talk about this matter.

"Both you and Elizabeth have relatively high levels of inspiration, and are relatively more likely to encounter extraordinary events. The Aurora Society, your former divination teacher, wanted to develop you into their peripheral member, and they also took a fancy to you. inspiration.”

Selena felt a huge sense of crisis for the first time: "Teacher, what should I do?"

"Either pretend that nothing happened, and try to warn yourself not to come into contact with extraordinary events, or things that look or sound strange." Hobert looked at the "moth" in front of him:

“Either, quickly become an extraordinary person and have the ability to protect yourself.

"The extraordinary world and extraordinary power will not give you time to spend more time with your family, and then become an extraordinary person without any worries. Sometimes the more you are around your loved ones, the easier it is to bring disaster to them."

Selena lowered her head and said with tears in her eyes: "I understand, teacher, I will say goodbye to my family and then leave with you."

"Enjoy your New Year's holiday." Hobert said: "When the New Year's holiday is over, I will come to pick you up."

Selena wiped the corners of her eyes: "Thank you, teacher!"

At this time, Hobert saw Daley and Leonard walking quickly, and he took a step forward: "I will help Selena remove the pollution from her body. You can go about your business!"

"Hobert Jeffrey!" Daly looked at him firmly.

Hobert scratched his head and smiled: "You have recognized the wrong person. My name is Gehrman Sparrow."

Dai Li shook her head: "The goddess gave instructions and asked you to help eliminate the pollution in our bodies. She said that you have received the gift in advance!"

"Let it go..." Hobert saw Daley and Leonard whose faces suddenly dropped, and he immediately changed his words: "Let it go... don't worry, I will help you solve the problem." (Note 1)

Then he thought seriously: When did I receive gifts from the Goddess of the Night or the Church of the Goddess of the Night?

Suddenly, Hobert recalled the hand he met before entering the villa, and the bracelet on that hand.

Now that bracelet is lying on the stone platform of the "State of Disorder".

As Hobert followed Daly to the reception hall, he took a breath: Could this be the authority related to the fate of the goddess of the night?

Selina's family are all devout believers of the goddess of the night. Hobert doesn't believe it if there is no manipulation by the goddess of the night.

For a moment, Hobert also felt as if his action had been arranged: What did you arrange for me to do? I didn't hang in "Origin Castle" with you for so many years! I’m not very familiar with you, okay? If you ask me to eliminate pollution, aren't you afraid of losing your prestige in front of the "red gloves"?

Hobert glanced at Daly and the others and found that none of them had any doubts about the goddess of the night. Instead, they looked in reverence, thinking that everything was under the control of the goddess of the night.

He smiled helplessly: Well, I still have a lot of room for improvement in terms of "being a god".

Then Hobert guessed that the goddess of the night had also marked him. After all, when he first became a "lawyer", he had prayed to the goddess of the night for help twice.

And when he prayed for the first time, the help he got was obviously a little wrong. The power of the goddess of the night seemed to be a little stronger, and he fell into a deep sleep before he could lie down on the bed.

After thinking about this problem, Hobert also came to the crowd. He pretended to pray again, asking for the "creator"'s help.

Because the pollution on the passengers is not as serious as on the marionette, there is no need for the image of the "creator" to appear this time. All it takes is the star that represents Hobert himself to inhale the pollution of the "Fog of Uncertainty."

After the pollution in the body was sucked away, everyone felt relaxed and expressed their gratitude to Hobert.

Then Hobert went to the forest where the moths were, and he repeated the same operation, sucking away all the pollution that the moths had sucked out of the woods.

These contaminations may be due to a transit. They are not as pure as those of the Demonic Wolf of Mist and those Marionettes. They did not form the image of "Uncertain Mist" again in the "Land of Disorder", but silently melted into the "Land of Disorder". "country".

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Dozens of kilometers away from Boklon Villa, a demonic wolf about the size of a rhinoceros, which was traveling through the snow and woods, suddenly stopped.

It is surrounded by thick rolling fog, and only a dense fog can be seen dozens of meters away. At most, a giant wolf can be seen in the thick fog.

A few hundred meters away, all you can see is a thick fog.

The Demonic Wolf of Mist looked in the direction of Boklon Villa: "The pollution there has actually disappeared!"

He shook his head thoughtfully and continued to escape.

…

In the Bocklon Villa, Hobert sat across from Daley and Leonard.

Hobert spoke first: "I didn't expect that we would meet again here. As you know, I have a bounty on my back and cannot use my appearance in the Loen Kingdom."

Dai Li smiled and said: "Then you can also reveal your identity. Are you still afraid that I will arrest you in exchange for the bounty?"

"I'm trying to avoid causing you trouble." Hobert said confidently. At the same time, he also looked at Dai Li's subordinates over there, as if to say: It's not that I don't trust you, but that I don't trust your subordinates.

In fact, he had no intention of getting acquainted with Daley and Leonard, so that everyone could avoid trouble.

Leonard suddenly thought of what Dai Li said a long time ago: "Although the royal family calls you a traitor, the Church of the Goddess of the Night has never issued a similar statement."

Hobert thought about it for a while, and it was really like this: "In that case, can I continue to trade with you? I had an agreement with Captain Thomas before, and he will acquire some of the extraordinary characteristics in my hands."

Especially those extraordinary characteristics that are difficult to take advantage of, such as the "criminal" path, which is also the "abyss" path, and the "secret prayer" path.

Hobert is only willing to sell these extraordinary characteristics to the Righteous God Church, otherwise it will easily return to the hands of the Blood Worship Cult or the Aurora Society through multiple transactions.

Dai Li said: "I can report this matter to the superior, I think there is no problem.

"It's just that the transaction partner will change from the Nighthawks to the 'Red Gloves'."

Hobert: "That's great."

This was another huge gain from his trip.

He asked again: "Does the remuneration you just mentioned still count?"

Dai Li smiled gracefully: "Don't you want the reward?"

"Just now, now is now." Hobert smiled.

He was once a semi-official Beyonder, so of course he knew that Dai Li was using the reward as bait just now, looking for opportunities to control himself or investigate him.

Dai Li took a sip of the tea brought by the waiter: "You are still an official member of the Nighthawks team. It is your duty to save the believers of the goddess. What reward do you need?"

Hobert sighed: It is true that "talking about feelings hurts money". Talking about this kind of thing with acquaintances is not as refreshing as talking with strangers.

The three of them chatted for a while. Hobert left the method of summoning his messenger, and after confirming the time with Selina to pick her up, he left here using "travel".

The barrier set up by the Demon Wolf of Fog is a thick fog that can make people get lost. Such a thick fog cannot prevent abilities such as "travel".

Hobert has been contaminated before, and those contaminations will make him make the choice to stay near the mountain village.

Now that the pollution has been basically eliminated, at most there are a few marionettes of the Demonic Wolf of Mist still wandering in the mountains, which no longer affects Hobert's use of "travel".

As for how Dai Li and the others left, Hobert believed that the "Red Gloves" should be able to pass through the barrier set up by the Demonic Wolf of Mist when there was no longer any pollution.

Returning to his own territory, Hobert had a late lunch first, then returned to his room and dedicated all the extraordinary characteristics and extraordinary materials he had just obtained to the "Land of Disorder".

Hobert sat on the Iron Throne and first checked the ten extraordinary characteristics. Among them, there was a demigod-level extraordinary characteristic of the "Warrior" path!

In other words, there is a "Demon Hunter" among the secret puppets of the Demonic Wolf of Mist!

Only then did Hobert realize that the Demonic Wolf of Mist was actually very powerful in its heyday, and even the demigods were no match for it.

The "Witcher" marionette should be at the forefront when the Demonic Wolf of Mist fights the enemy to make up for the Demonic Wolf of Mist's shortcomings in melee combat and defensive capabilities.

Most of the other Beyonder characteristics are Sequence 5. For offense, there are "Sacrifice of Light", "Ocean Singer" and "Reaper".

There are "Wraiths" and "Dream Thieves" in terms of behind-the-scenes tricks, "Druids" in terms of recovery, and "Traveler" in terms of escaping.

There is also a "Necromancer" and a "Rose Bishop", who are more versatile than the equipment that Hobert has carefully managed.

It must have taken the Demonic Wolf of Mist a long time to accumulate so many marionettes that could cooperate with each other.

Not to mention demigods, even if a Sequence 3 faced the attacks of ten marionettes, he would not necessarily be a match for the Demonic Wolf of Mist.

And those four extraordinary creatures each have their own uses. One of them should be one of the main materials needed by the "Law Mage".

Because he is in the "Land of Disorder", Hobert's spirituality can make clear judgments.

Hobert is currently unable to make a judgment on other main materials, but they are all Sequence 5 level main materials.

When Hobert looked at the dazzling array of seizures in front of him, he always felt like the accumulation of decades or even hundreds of years by the Demonic Wolf of Mist had been harvested by him all at once.

If all this is really arranged by the goddess of the night, she might as well arrange it a few more times.

The last trophy was the hallucinogenic wings that Hobert took back.

He briefly researched it and found that, as the Demonic Wolf of Mist said, this was a bit like a "naturally formed" magic circle. At present, Hobert had not thought of its specific use.

Hobert once again manifested a stone platform, placed all the loot this time on the stone platform, and then seriously considered the issue of the goddess of the night.

The only explanation he could think of was that old pollution like "uncertain fog" was quite troublesome for the current goddess of the night to solve. The goddess of the night may have known that I was the "creator" for a long time. After all, if I am marked by her, she can often "peep the screen". Or maybe the goddess of the night simply knows that I am the favored one of the "Creator", so she arranged for me to be involved in this matter to help solve the pollution of the "Uncertain Mist".

As for the problem of the goddess of the night "peeping on the screen", Hobert didn't think much about it. After all, he had often "peeped on the screen" before, and the goddess of the night was not embarrassed. What should he, a young man, be embarrassed about?

And based on Hobert's screen-peeping experience, after he was promoted to demigod, he could use the power of the "State of Disorder" to temporarily avoid being "screen-peeped".

After becoming an angel, unless the goddess of the night is invited to see it, even if the goddess of the night wants to see it, she can only see some blurry pictures.

Hobert smiled: "It's like you want to peek at me taking a shower."

As for the fact that "Hobert is the 'creator'" was known to the Goddess of the Night, Hobert also felt that it was no big problem. After all, he had always shown enough goodwill to the Church of the Goddess of the Night.

The most important thing is that he has no conflict with the path of the Night Goddess. Unless it involves a god-level transaction, he should not be suppressed by the Night Goddess.

The reason is simple: lack of motivation.

If the status quo is maintained, Hobert is still a member of the Nighthawks team, and the "creator" is also a secret ally of the goddess of the night.

But if this strategy is changed, Hobert will be very unhappy. If he can be killed, everything will be over. If he is not killed, the goddess of the night will lose a potential ally and have an enemy.

In terms of costs, maintaining the status quo is best for the Night Lady.

After reaching a certain conclusion on this matter, Hobert recalled the two scenes when the projection of the "Uncertain Fog" disappeared.

The first scene brought a big impact to Hobert. It was the first time he came into contact with the essence of the "Uncertain Mist", and it was also the first time that Hobert felt the power of the "Uncertain Mist".

Previously, Hobert had always felt that the "Uncertain Mist" was not a pillar among the outer gods, and its power should be ranked behind the "Mother Tree of Desire". The key was that it had no sense of existence and should not be very strong.

Today, Hobert has completely changed his feeling of self-righteousness. After all, it was the old days, the old days that possessed part of the "source"!

Even without the support of any Sequence 1 Extraordinary Characteristics, He is still a very powerful existence. At least anyone below the True God cannot harm Him.

Hobert thought again that after he was planning to become the King of Angels, he was planning to find trouble with the "Uncertain Mist". It was purely to give him extraordinary characteristics!

Then Hobert recalled the second scene, the valley with singing birds and fragrant flowers, which Hobert had seen in a channeling a long time ago.

That was the settlement of the Tamara family!

Among the three people at the front of the sacrificial ceremony, it is very likely that one of them is Tamara herself.

At that time, the five major nobles of the Tudor family, in addition to the Abraham family, the Ammon family, and the Antigonus family, these three families with the "King of Angels" level, the other two families were the Jacob family and the Tamara family.

At that time, those who could become a great noble of the empire were at least Sequence 2 angel level. The Tamara family initially mastered the "Judge" pathway. Later, they intermarried with the Abraham family and mastered some of the potions and extraordinary properties of the "Gate" pathway.

Hobert had previously speculated that the ancestor of the Tamara family should be a Sequence 2 "Balancer" of the "Judge" path, because the three Sequence 1 copies at that time were all with the "Night Emperor".

However, after the death of "Blood Emperor" Tudor, there was no definite information proving that Tamara also died. Hobert suspected that Tamara herself should have survived until now.

At the level of angels, as long as they did not die in the "War of the Four Emperors" that year, unless they died of old age in the Fifth Age, almost no one can kill them when there are no true gods in the northern and southern continents.

Later, the "Night Emperor" fell and Augustus and Castilla, who betrayed their "old club", each received a copy of the extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence 1 "Hand of Order".

A similar history has happened before. Tudor and Trunsoest obtained the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 by betraying their "old club" Solomon.

The uniqueness of the "Judge" path is now in Castile, but according to Adam, it seems that the Church of God of War gave it to him not long ago.

There is also a copy of the Sequence 1 Extraordinary Characteristics of the "Judge" pathway, which is most likely in a certain Zhengshen Church. After all, it was the Six Gods who teamed up to kill the "Night Emperor" back then.

It was probably at that time that the Church of God of War obtained the "Brass Book of Trunsoest".

Tamara should not have the courage or ability to take away a copy of Sequence 1 Extraordinary Characteristics under the watchful eyes of the Six Gods, unless there is some unknown transaction involved.

So Hobert guessed that if Tamara was still alive now, she would still be the Sequence 2 "balancer".

As for where the Sequence 1 is, Hobert also has some guesses. From the perspective of dividing the spoils, the Church of God of War is already unique, and there should be no more Sequence 1.

The Church of the Dark Goddess, the Church of Storm Wind, and the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess are also unlikely to have that Sequence 1. The first two of their three churches support the founding of the Loen nation, and the latter supports the founding of the Feineport nation.

In the "Oath-Breaking War" that nearly knocked out the heads of all the countries in the Northern Continent more than 600 years ago, I believe that as long as these three churches have the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1, they will give the secular power they support to obtain Greater results and more believers.

Then the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun are more likely to have that Sequence 1, and the probability of the Eternal Blazing Sun is greater than that of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Because the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom also supported the Kingdom of Feneport in the early fifth era. Although it later fell out with the Church of the Mother Earth, at least it once supported it.

From a game point of view and a spoils-sharing point of view, the Eternal Sun Church has a greater probability of getting that Sequence 1 piece.

Looking back at that period of history, Hobert could probably feel that after the Six Gods teamed up to kill the "Night King", they roughly divided into three or four camps.

Since the Goddess of Night and the Lord of Storms teamed up to seal Mr. Door in the "War of the Four Emperors", it can be seen that their relationship was relatively close at that time, and they were in the same camp.

Therefore, the God of War, the Eternal Sun, and the God of Knowledge and Wisdom must be hostile to this camp. In the early Fifth Age, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and the Mother Goddess of Earth were basically in the same camp, and together they supported the founding of Fenebaud.

The God of War and the Eternal Sun don't seem to have a very close cooperative relationship. They can be regarded as "non-campers", or two different camps.

So from the perspective of the game among the gods, the God of War, the Eternal Sun, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom will not allow the Night Goddess and the Storm Lord camp to hold another Sequence 1 of the "Judge" path.

Similarly, the Lord of Storms and the Eternal Sun will not allow the camp of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and the Earth Mother to hold another Sequence 1.

The best result is that each of the four camps has one piece, so Eternal Sun has the highest probability of getting the last piece of Sequence 1.

Back in the Fourth Age, after Abraham was jointly sealed by the Night Goddess and the Storm Lord, many of the forces of the Abraham family should have taken refuge in the Tamara family. After all, they were relatives who often married into each other.

Therefore, after the "War of the Four Emperors" ends, the strength of the Tamara family should have increased, and there may even be an additional "planeswalker".

Or it is not impossible for the Tamara family to cultivate an angel of the "Gate" path over a long period of more than a thousand years.

These two forces should be the backbone of the Tamara family today.

In addition, based on the law of interchange of adjacent pathways, the Tamara family has also mastered certain extraordinary characteristics of the "Black Emperor" pathway.

This path started the latest, and the highest-sequence person may only be a demigod or a Sequence 3 saint, but it is unlikely to be a Sequence 2 angel.

Hobert guessed that these three channels were not very cohesive, so in the second scene, the three officiants in front of the altar appeared to be incompatible with each other.

The reason is obvious. The angels of the "Gate" path can basically be equated with the pollution of the "Fallen Mother Goddess".

It seems that the relationship between the Tamara family and the "Uncertain Fog" is still unclear. It was probably Tamara herself who got something with the "Uncertain Mist" mark from her "old club", and she has been with the "Uncertain Mist" ever since. "Uncertain Mist" made "contact".

Thinking about it now, the Tamara family is very much like an "advance base" for foreign gods. Hobert is considering whether to report it to the goddess of the night.

Then the three people in the second picture that Hobert got are probably the top power of the Tamara family: a Sequence 2 "Balancer", a Sequence 2 "Planeswalker", and a Sequence 3 "Frenzy Mage".

Among the angel families that failed to become the rulers of the northern and southern continents, such strength should be relatively high.

After sorting out the proceeds and information from this operation, Hobert returned to the real world. Not long after, he was notified by The Fool that the debt and reward paid by "Little Sun" to "Emperor" had arrived.

Note 1: The author also knows that the pronunciation of "fart" and "Don't worry" in alphabetical languages ​​must be different from the pronunciation of Chinese characters. But if seeing this makes you smile more than anything else, the author thinks you can ignore the small details here.