Chapter 105: A Tangled Mystery

Chapter 105: A Tangled Mystery

Could that evil spirit be Red Angel Medici, the King of Angels who once served that “Creator,” one of the founders of Redemption Rose? Klein immediately made that association and worked backward, searching for traces and clues.

“The previous holder of the Red Priest card was drawn by some degree of attraction to that underground palace and died beside the Tudor descendants.

“The evil spirit I saw in the dream could easily slaughter a powerful dragon while alive.

“It knows the Mutant pathway’s Sequence 4, Puppet, potion formula—perhaps even more than that.

“It knows a great deal about Redemption Rose.

“The orthodox Churches, which have existed in this world since after the Cataclysm, do not know that the former Binsy Town, now Bansy, is home to descendants of the Medici family, yet that evil spirit could give the corresponding hint.”

The probability that it evolved from Red Angel Medici after His death is very high… And a King of Angels was actually killed by Blood Emperor Alista Tudor. Does that mean the latter had already surpassed Sequence 1 and reached the level of a Sequence 0 true god—an existence that could not be directly looked upon?

That evil spirit once said that in the late Fourth Epoch, Solomon Empire’s Black Emperor, Tudor Empire’s Blood Emperor, and Trunsoest Empire’s Night Emperor were fighting over the position of Sequence 0 until Alista Tudor went mad… Does that mean that, starting from that time, the Blood Emperor was already a half-mad true god?

Right. Mr. Azik also mentioned in his letter that he had lost consciousness after being glanced at by Blood Emperor Alista Tudor. At that time, he had at least been a Sequence 4 demigod. For the Blood Emperor to possess such authority, the only explanation is that He had reached the level of a true god…

Mr. Azik also described the true Black Emperor’s return from resurrection in that letter, saying that He sat upon a huge throne and looked down upon the entire land… If the Black Emperor could resurrect and return, then He was most likely a Sequence 0 true god as well… If that is true, the War of the Four Emperors was far more high-end than I previously believed. It was not merely three Sequence 1s fighting over the position of Sequence 0… Klein connected many earlier and later matters, gaining an entirely new understanding of Fourth Epoch history.

But with that, many questions surfaced one after another.

“If that ancient evil spirit really is King of Angels Medici, then that underground palace very likely belonged to Blood Emperor Alista Tudor. In that case, why were there two thrones side by side? Why were there humanoid statues of the six orthodox gods?

“Why did the half-mad Blood Emperor kill Red Angel Medici? After becoming Sequence 0, which position did He occupy? First, Black Emperor can be ruled out… Could it have been Red Priest? Did He kill King of Angels Medici for the other party’s Beyonder characteristic?

“But Red Priest and Black Emperor do not seem like neighboring pathways that can be exchanged. I can almost confirm that the former pairs with the Demoness pathway. Hm… Captain once said that when one consumes a potion from another pathway, the first attempt will not necessarily kill them. Most likely, they go mad and obtain distorted, terrifying, bizarre powers. That fits the Blood Emperor’s half-mad nature!

“At the final step, because there was no longer any hope for the Black Emperor pathway or a neighboring pathway, He made the maddest choice, paying the price of partial insanity to switch to a completely unrelated pathway?

“But that has problems as well. Advancing to Red Priest required killing King of Angels Medici. Yet before advancing, Alista Tudor could not have accomplished that alone unless—unless—more Sequence 1s helped Him, or even a Sequence 0 true god…”

At that thought, one statue after another from the underground palace abruptly flashed through Klein’s mind:

The statue of the Evernight…