Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 186 The Tainted One
Silver City, Berg’s house.
Looking at the bloodstained scalp with short black hair, Derek suddenly thought of what it looked like just now, that was a beautiful and tempting “mushroom”, he almost couldn’t control himself and swallowed it.
And Dak wanted to invite himself to eat the dummy fruit, bite will make a crunching sound of the dummy fruit, but it is a cut off the bloody, slightly pale skin of the human fingers!
At that instant, Derek’s stomach spasmed violently, and the acidic liquid then rushed down his throat.
Resisting the urge to vomit, he sang a quick lyric in his cockney voice:
”O God, let Your kingdom come here, enemies will be scattered, and believers will rejoice!”
The song breathed a little warmth and holiness, and Derek felt only that all his bodily discomforts had subsided, and that his spirituality had become full and lively.
His courage, his strength, and his agility were all significantly improved in this song.
This was the extraordinary ability of the Sequence 9 “Songbringer”.
Dak stared at his whispering classmate and former teammate, his expression growing more somber and his speech feeling less and less human:
”What is that thing on you ……
”What is that thing on you?
”What is that thing on you!”
Suddenly, Dak’s clothing was propped up in a barred projection, like a nest of vipers tucked underneath, vipers that were constantly swimming and writhing.
Whoosh! A bloody strip of flesh pierced through that tight black clothing with the rough skin with body hair on the surface.
Those strips of flesh danced outward, making Dak look like a blood-colored, soft-furred hedgehog!
With a brush, those strips of flesh ran towards Darrick, who was standing still.
Derek was also a patrol member who had seen many monsters, and didn’t panic much in the face of this situation.
He twisted his waist, raised his arm, and swung down the “Hurricane Axe” that he had already held in his palm.
Poof!
The Hurricane Axe struck several bloody strips of meat, directly cutting them off and causing them to fall to the ground.
However, because it was “night” in Silver City, this strike failed to bring lightning, and more bloody strips of flesh came madly, wrapping the Hurricane Axe around and around, not letting go.
Seeing that the weapon could not be withdrawn, Derek’s eyes suddenly had a pure light, as if two small suns had descended into the room, and his other hand was already clasped in front of his mouth and nose, making the appearance of praying.
Noiselessly, a pillar of flame-burning light fell out of nowhere and struck the tangled strips of blood-colored flesh.
Dak let out a miserable scream that was hard to endure, and the many strips of blood-colored flesh then broke and fell to the ground in charred blackness.
They struggled and throbbed, as if they were alive.
The spirituality contained within these bloody strips of flesh, which was no longer under the control of the original owner, gradually merged with the natural power pried out by the ritual incantation, and a light red “wave” that was getting higher and higher was formed.
This “wave” was thrown into the yellowish candle flame, causing the latter to expand violently, forming an illusory and mysterious door.
The candle had already been painted by Derek with the hidden symbol of the “Fool”!
It was prepared in advance.
All of this constituted a simple but complete ritual of sacrifice!
Click!
In the midst of the seat cracking, Dak lunged at Derek with waving strips of blood-colored flesh, no fear, no tension in his eyes, but only the purest and most ardent desire.
And this time, Klein above the gray mist responded.
In a creaking sound that was not real enough, the illusory door with many strange patterns cracked open a gap.
Behind the gap was a deep darkness, and within the darkness were countless transparent shadows that were hard to describe.
High above these shadows were covered with seven channels of pure light of different colors that contained infinite knowledge.
And above that light glow was an infinite gray mist, an ancient palace that looked down upon the gray mist.
In a flash, a shadow leapt out of a shadowy corner and covered Dak, who was the closest to himself, in one fell swoop.
The strips of blood-colored flesh waving around Dak’s body were all wrapped in a dark, viscous “liquid”, and his entire body became like a cat in an opaque bag.
The shadow didn’t stop, it extended rapidly on the ground, surging towards Derek, who had already dodged to another position, and shouted in a stern voice:
”Stop! What are you doing!”
As a monitor, his original intention was to first observe the changes from the sidelines, record the corresponding anomalies, and wait for the situation to become unmanageable before stepping in to stop each of the bizarre parties.
However, after he saw the illusory door covered with strange symbols and markings crack open a gap, he was shocked by the deep, mysterious, lofty, and majestic scene inside, and intuitively believed that it had something to do with the terrifying Evil God, so he had to notify it while acting hastily in an attempt to forcibly interrupt Dairic’s attempts at making an offering to that being.
However, Derek had already determined his location, and had chosen an area for himself that was far away from his end, so in order to control the teenager possessed by the mystic Amon, the Watcher “Shadow” had to either bypass or control Dak Riggins first.
His choice was the latter, as Dak was clearly acting out of character, and leaving him on his back would have been an absolutely foolish move.
Seizing this opportunity, Derek pulled the metal box from a hidden pocket of his clothing and threw it with all his might at the illusory gateway created by the candle flame, and at the crack that presented a magical sight.
With the iron box disappeared there, covered with strange symbols and signs of the door “clang” closed, and then quickly disappeared.
At this time, Derek, remembering the advice of Mr. “Hanging Man”, deliberately twisted the muscles of his face, and grimly met the “shadow”.
Before the shadow covered him, he suddenly coughed so violently that he covered his mouth with his hand and fell to the ground.
The dark shadow spread over him and wrapped him completely.
Silence returned to the room, but there were two more huge black “chrysalises” on the floor.
After a while, the dark, viscous liquid shrank back and reassembled into a shadow.
As the “chrysalis” disappeared, the figures of Derek and Dak reappeared.
The former collapsed into unconsciousness, but in his hand fell a strange worm with twelve transparent rings, and the latter had turned into a mass of flesh and blood, writhing, hissing, about to attack.
Faced with this situation, the monitor had to spare some of his power, and once again wrapped the shadow-like black “liquid” around Dak Riggins, who had transformed into a monster.
Looking at the pale fingers scattered on the ground and the blood-stained scalp with short black hair, the monitor couldn’t help but take a breath, and used his own extraordinary ability to manipulate the shadows outside to form a tidal wave, so as to notify the “chief” inside the round tower once again.
Only after this was done did he take a good look at Derek’s condition and saw the odd translucent worm.
”This …… Amon’s doppelganger hidden inside Derek’s body is dead?” The monitor whispered rather surprised.
He recalled Derek’s weirdness, the terrifying mutation, and the “mushrooms” and “Dum Fruit” that didn’t look like they had any problems at all, and he vaguely had a suspicion:
Amon and the mastermind behind the pollution of Dak may be mortal enemies, in order to sabotage the other side of the plot, even if the loss of an alter ego will not hesitate to do so, Derek went to the training ground to observe the exploration team and report them to the “chief” of the two things are Amon in the premise of not exposing themselves to do attempts.
The mastermind behind the contamination of Dak also vaguely discovered Derek’s oddities, so he sent Dak to control the other party, blood-stained scalp and fingers are the props to achieve the purpose.
Thinking of this, the monitor suddenly somewhat agree with the “chief” worry: the ultimate doomsday or greater disaster is really coming, so Silver City will continuously encounter strange things, continuously encounter hidden in the depths of the darkness, do not know what exactly is the hidden existence.
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Inside the chief room of the Round Tower.
The “shadow” described what happened in the first place.
Colin Iliad, who had white hair and a scarred face, listened quietly and nodded gently:
”Derek or Amon did prepare in advance.
”The candles with the symbols engraved on them, the evil object that would expose Darrick to the problem, the whispered prayers made under the pretext of pouring water, and the final sacrifice ceremony to send the object away, all indicate that the whole thing was going according to his plan.
”Two questions, one, who does that cryptic symbol on the candle really point to, Amon proper or the gods behind him? Two, why would Amon prefer not to have this alter ego, but to have the anomaly of the quest team exposed, since he and the one behind the curtain are mortal enemies? Then, what exactly was the reason for him to stay quietly in Silver City for forty-two years?
”Could it be that he predicted this matter in advance, and that’s why he purposely met up with that previous exploration team and had his doppelganger hosted within them as a means of destroying the schemes of the one behind the curtain? These forty-two years of waiting for this moment?”
Hearing the Chief’s question, the “Shadow” monitor suddenly said in a daze:
”Perhaps that is true!
”Sir ‘Chief’, think about it, why did Amon wait patiently for forty-two years, only to suddenly let Yudel go out of control after Derek locked him up next door? Because the time in the prophecy was approaching, and he was in a hurry to change the parasitic object that could move freely to destroy the scheming of the one behind the curtain!”
”Indeed …… we were only thinking about what abnormality Derek had before, we didn’t consider the point in time.” Silver City “Chief” Colin responded thoughtfully.
”Shadow” Monitor immediately said:
”Your ‘Chief’ Excellency, please take control of all the members of this exploration squad immediately, they definitely have a problem! There’s also …… Elder Lovia, there’s a not-so-small chance that she’s been contaminated as well!”
Colin frowned slightly and said:
”Before you reported back on this matter, and even before Dak left the house, Lovia came to me and told me that she suspected that the members of the exploration squad this time had been contaminated by something, and suggested that a certain amount of monitoring be done covertly, and that they could be made to guard Elder Harvick’s upside-down mausoleum if necessary.”
Harvick was the former “Chief” of Silver City, and built himself a mausoleum deep into the ground, after which he took up residence inside, appearing less and less, and eventually, the doors closed, never to be opened again.
”Elder Lovia mentioned the anomaly long ago?” “Shadows,” the monitor asked back, stunned.
Upon receiving an affirmative answer, he whispered, half-quizzically, half-relaxed:
”It’s good that Elder Lovia has no problems ……”
”…… I’ve already sent someone to control those members of the exploration squad, but we can’t ignore another possibility.” “Chief,” Colin exhaled, “Have Evro come over and I’ll interrogate Derek Berg with her.”