Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

Hobert used the ability of "correlation" to realize that there was a problem with the connection between the soldier named Bruce Will and the spirit world.

It is difficult to notice this problem. Only when the other party takes corresponding actions can he use relevant abilities to detect that his connection with the spirit world seems to be very obscure.

Before Hobert could remind everyone, Soldier Bob said that Bruce died two months ago!

After being reminded by Bob, Egbert also "remembered": "Yes, we buried him together, right...on the only way to this watchtower."

Bruce fell into a daze at first, and then seemed to remember: "Yeah! I'm dead!"

At this moment, his military uniform became old, the pupils of his eyes disappeared and turned completely white, and there were some signs of decay on his cheeks.

Boom~

The next second, he fell straight to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, a light green blurry figure floated from Bruce's body.

This change frightened the soldiers, but Hobert had been using the "air cage" to "lock" them there, unable to even retreat.

Hobert did not immediately attack the green figure, but asked: "Who are you?"

The light green shadow turned a deaf ear to Hobert's question. He asked the soldier next to him: "Why are you starting a war?"

The soldier took a deep breath and said with some trembling: "Because... because of justice!"

"No, no party in this war is just!" The light green shadow finished speaking and rushed towards the soldiers.

The soldier closed his eyes in fear and waited for death. Others also thought that this soldier would definitely die.

But at this critical moment, a black film suddenly appeared in front of the soldier. The shadow hit the film and was bounced away.

Everyone was slightly relieved. At this time, everyone heard Archduke Hobert ask again: "Who are you? Where are you from?"

The soldiers immediately understood that the black film was Duke Hobert's ability. Captain Egbert was a little surprised, and felt in his heart that Duke Hobert's level once again exceeded his expectations.

Green Shadow still did not answer Hobert's question, but asked other soldiers: "Why did you start the war?"

The soldiers had a different answer: "For the King!"

"have no idea."

"Because politicians are curly baboons."

"For profit."

…

When it was Egbert's turn at last, he replied: "If we can win, I can receive an officer's allowance, and my family will live a prosperous life from now on."

The light green shadow seemed to be dissatisfied with these answers. He asked around and finally asked Hobert: "Why do you want to start a war?"

Hobert asked, "Why should I answer your question?"

Xuying was slightly stunned by this rhetorical question: "Why can't you answer?"

"Let's do this. Let's make a deal. I'll answer a question for you, and you'll answer a question for me." Hobert said.

The soldiers and the Archbishop of the Church of the Night Goddess were stunned: Is this still a bargain?

But what they didn't expect was that Xuying actually said: "Okay."

So Hobert said: "Please repeat your question."

"Why are you starting a war?"

Hobert replied: "To me, war is about building an ideal state."

The shadow seemed to be more interested in this answer, and then asked: "Why does it take the form of war to establish an ideal country?"

"It's my turn to ask questions." Hobert smiled: "You need to answer my first question before I can answer your question."

"Excuse me."

Hobert asked, "Who are you?"

"I am the epitome of your war."

Hobert immediately said: "Please tell it clearly."

Xuying did not accept this trick: "Is this your second question?"

"No." Hobert looked at the shadow: "But you have already asked the second question, and I have already answered it."

Egbert and others were shocked: Archduke Hobert...even traps monsters!

Bin Ze on the side almost laughed out loud: This is the result of playing word games with "lawyers".

Xuying was stunned on the spot, obviously not expecting that he had made a stupid mistake.

Hobert continued: "My answer is very clear, but your answer is difficult to understand, which is obviously not acceptable.

"I ask you to explain clearly before you can continue the Q\u0026A, and if you don't know the answer, you can automatically jump to the next question.

"Besides, you currently owe me an answer to a question."

Xuying obviously paused for a moment before saying: "I came from the unwillingness, helplessness and the smell of decaying corpses in the war."

Hobert and Bing suddenly understood: It turned out that the shadow had manipulated the corpse through the corrupted breath. No wonder they did not feel the power of the "God of Death" pathway.

"Look, if you don't explain it, it doesn't mean the same thing as your answer just now." Hobert said: "Then let me ask the second question: Are you a collection of undead produced in the war?"

Xuying did not answer immediately this time, but seemed to think for a while before answering: "I am more like the emotional resonance generated by the war, and then formed with the support of 'external forces'."

It paused and asked: "Why would you rather start a war and kill so many people than build your ideal country?"

"Because it is sacrifice, it is the darkness before dawn." Hobert said: "First of all, I want to make it clear that everything has two sides.

"I am very disgusted with that kind of mindless anti-war behavior, because some wars are inevitable, or it can be said that only the flames of war can temper human society.

“For example, the war I launched in the Southern Continent is different from the war in the Northern Continent.

“After the war is over, the South Balam Principality will carry out major construction, which will allow more people to survive and live better.

"The war in the Northern Continent is just a few people, or a group of people competing for interests. The meaning of the war is different, and the results are of course different.

“So, in my opinion, in order to kill as few people as possible in the future, it is necessary to start a war now. Some wars are going to come sooner or later, so it is better to find an opportunity to fight them at a time when as few people as possible will die.

"In addition, since the civil war in the Principality of South Balam, we have saved hundreds of thousands of people who would die from hunger and cold. Since the war against the Highland Kingdom, we have also saved thousands of people who were about to be sacrificed to the evil god. Slaves and maidens.

"This is the meaning of war. We don't want to fight, but there are always reasons why we have to fight!"

These words not only stunned the shadow, but also Egbert and other soldiers as well as Archbishop Bing fell into deep thought.

Hobert then asked: "According to your description, you should appear on the battlefields of those fierce tug-of-wars. Why do you appear here?"

Xuying replied: "Because here is the opportunity for me to form."

Then it explained: "This opportunity just appeared a few days ago."

Xuying asked again: "Then why so many people died in the war in the northern continent, and why do people still think it is less meaningful than the war in the southern continent?"

“Because they don’t launch wars for the welfare of ordinary people.” Hobert also explained: “In other words, those who launch wars don’t care about the lives of ordinary people.

"The meaning of their war is for cold things such as profit, and thinking about the meaning of war can only be done by people with warmth, so there is no way out for thinking about this type of war."

Then He asked: "Did the opportunity you mentioned come from the stars?"

When asking this question, Hobert raised his hand and "distorted" everyone's hearing, so Egbert and others did not hear the word "starry sky".

Xuying replied: "I don't know, but I do have a certain amount of support from the power of the stars."

It asked: "You just said that the South Balam Principality saved so many people, how many people died on both sides during the war?"

Hobert said: "Our army's current losses are that more than 30 extraordinary people have sacrificed their lives, and more than 50 ordinary soldiers have sacrificed their lives!"

This number once again shocked Egbert and others. How could they invade the capital of the Highland Kingdom with only so many people dead?

"As for the enemies, their losses are relatively large." Hobert said: "The Extraordinaries alone have lost four to five hundred people, and the death toll of ordinary soldiers is about eight hundred.

"They were serving the nobles. After the nobles escaped or surrendered, they dispersed, so the casualties were not large.

"But many civilians died. In Asun City alone, more than 300,000 civilians died."

Hobert then asked: "Where does the telescope on the third floor connect to?"

"I don't know." Xuying said, "You can change the question."

Hobert asked again: "Where is Leonid now?"

"I don't know either."

Hobert spread his hands and said, "This is the end of our Q\u0026A."

As he spoke, a group of black crystals enveloped the light green shadow.

But then, another phantom of the same color appeared outside the window. It floated outside and said: "It's useless. Too many people died in this war. Every rotting corpse represents one of mine." Doppelgänger.

"Your body will decay sooner or later, why not let me help it decay now."

Hobert said: "I'm different. If it weren't for external factors, I could live for a long, long time, so I don't need your help."

As he spoke, He used the method of "distorting" space to lead everyone away from the watchtower, and in a few breaths, they arrived at the south side of the mountain range.

Hobert said to them: "Go ahead and tell them your names and dates of birth."

Since this verification method is so simple, we must verify the remaining people again.

Fortunately, everyone else spoke out their relevant information very fluently, and no problems like Soldier Brook's happened.

Hobert said to them: "You leave first, I will try to deal with that guy."

Without waiting for anyone to answer, Hobert rushed back to the watchtower.

At this time, the watchtower had no breath of life, and even the shadow had disappeared.

Hobert came to the third floor, stood in front of the telescope, and pulled it off the shelf with his hands.

Hobert then used the "Order Crystal" to seal the telescope, but his spirituality soon realized that the connection between the telescope and the starry sky had not been closed.

This telescope was indeed a passage at the beginning, and turned the telescope into a level 3 sealed object that can release curses to people around it.

If you use a telescope for a long time, it will be exposed to unknown contamination.

But after the channel is established, it doesn't matter whether it exists or not.

Standing in front of the empty frame of the telescope, Hobert wondered how to deal with the phantom.

First of all, this phantom has no entity, and physical attacks have no effect.

The key is that this phantom has a high level of intelligence, and it is difficult to trick it into gathering all its clones together, so sealing it with an "Order Crystal" won't work either.

The only way Hobert can think of right now is to cut off its source of power.

But how to cut it off is another problem. According to the shadow's self-report, it comes from the unwillingness, helplessness and the smell of corpses in the war.

At present, Hobert does not have the energy to end the war and burn all the corpses who died in the war!

This idea obviously didn't work, so Hobert changed his idea: Where does the power of this phantom come from?

It admits that part of its power comes from the stars. Hobert first thought of the outer god related to the rotten breath: the King of Decay.

Although Hobert doesn't know his specific authority, it sounds a bit like the God of War. This outer god also seems to symbolize decline to a certain extent.

This reminded Hobert of an ice blue metal cylinder in the "State of Disorder" that was suspected to be related to the "Decaying King".

The cylinder was captured by Hobert when he killed Hvin Rambis of the Psychological Alchemy Society.

At this time, Hobert thought of the previous phantom saying that it "comes from the unwillingness and helplessness in the war." This is all a display of emotion or emotions.

This is obviously not the same thing as the authority of "decline". It is somewhat similar to the authority of the "audience" channel, but there are obvious differences.

At that time, Hobert was still wondering. If the ice blue metal cylinder was related to the "Decaying King", why would it "find" the Extraordinary in the audience path?

Now it seems that the "Decaying King" may have some authority similar to that of the "audience" channel, so why did this sealed artifact fall into the hands of the Psychological Alchemy Society?

Hobert shook his head and did not think about this problem for the time being. Instead, he followed the train of thought just now: Was the opportunity that Xuying said he appeared when the sealed object in Leonid's hand showed signs of being out of control? ?

This is very possible. That sealed object is probably also related to the outer god "Decay King", so its loss of control caused the "corruption" of the corpses on the battlefield as well as the unwillingness and helpless emotions to connect to the starry sky through this telescope. The "declined king" has formed a phantom.

If this conjecture is correct, then finding the sealed object may provide an opportunity to cut off the source of the shadow's power.

As for how to find the sealed object, Hobert had a good idea. He took out a crystal box containing an ice-blue metal cylinder from the "Land of Disorder". After opening the seal, he took the cold cylinder In hand, use it to "connect" the sealed object in Leonid's hand.

Just as Hobert expected, he soon found a certain connection. The sealed object in Leonid's hand was indeed not far away.

After basically determining Leonid's position, he made some simple preparations and immediately attacked.

Following the connection between the two, Hobert quickly found Leonid in the dense forest, his body glowing with dusk light.

He was sitting cross-legged on the ground. In front of him was a flesh-colored crystal stone that was constantly changing its shape. If the stone's surface wasn't reflective like a crystal stone, it would have looked more like a piece of rotten flesh that was constantly moving.

At this time, a circle around the stone was emitting dusk light, which caused the surrounding trees to quickly dry up and decay. It was obvious that Leonid was working hard to seal this sealed object.

Hobert was about to snatch it, but Leonid suddenly stepped back and stopped controlling the sealed object.

Hobert was stunned for a moment, but immediately realized that this guy was about to lose control of the sealed artifact in front of him, and he wished that someone would take over at this time.

But why didn’t Leonid pray for the power of the God of War?

While thinking about Hobert, he condensed a piece of "order crystal" and put it on the "flesh-colored crystal stone". The sealed object immediately became honest.

Leonid was shocked when he saw this scene. He seemed to be hesitant, should he come back to snatch this sealed artifact?

Hobert did not put away the sealed artifact immediately, but asked: "Why has this sealed artifact been so active recently?"

Before this war, there had been three large-scale wars in the Fifth Age alone, and the war cycles were very long.

If it really appeared because of the phantom of large-scale war, then it should have appeared long ago. After all, many people will die in classical wars, and there will be plagues and famines after the wars, especially civilians, who will die a lot.

If it was just because of the war, the phantom would have appeared long ago.

Considering that Leonid was working hard to seal the "flesh-colored crystal stone" just now, Hobert believes that this sealed object has been too active recently, which is the main reason for the appearance of the phantom.

Leonid sneered and had no intention of answering.

Hobert said: "If I fail to seal this sealed object properly due to lack of information, then I will throw it at an angel of the God of War Church while you are fighting against the Church of the Goddess of Night."

Leonid was stunned for a moment and then said: "That's because the goddess of night has not strengthened the barrier power in the star realm recently, so some outer gods have the opportunity to penetrate some power into the real world."

At this moment, Hobert was thinking: This bitch definitely did it on purpose!

First of all, this is a sign of weakness. The goddess of the night said that she was very busy and had no time to take care of the barrier.

The key is that the goddess of the night has long known that the Church of God of War has the "flesh-colored crystal stone" as a sealed object. When the war first started, she planned to let Hobert, who had the "order crystal", seize it.

At this time, there were some holes in the barrier, and the "Decaying King" penetrated a little power into the real world, making the "flesh-colored crystal stone" sealed object that the Night Goddess had always hoped for suddenly become active.

Hobert doesn't believe this could be a coincidence.

Then He asked: "Why don't you ask the God of War for help?"

Leonid, who was about to leave, paused and said, "This is the secret of our church."

After saying that, his whole body turned into a ray of dusk-colored light and disappeared into the dense forest. At this time, the spiritual world suddenly flashed a ray of dusk-colored light. Leonid's figure was quickly outlined, and he left through the spiritual world.

Hobert thoughtfully picked up the sealed object on the ground. Leonid's answer seemed to indicate that the God of War seemed unable to provide any help due to some special reasons?

Returning to the third floor of the watchtower again, Hobert lifted the seal of the sealed object, and the flesh-colored crystal stone became active again.

Hobert injected spirituality into the crystal stone from a distance, and the beautiful scenery of the sea and dense forest in front of his eyes suddenly looked like a damaged color picture, with a black hole appearing in the middle.

This hole gives people a very profound feeling, as if it leads to the depths of the universe.

Hobert "amplified" and "distorted" the power of the real world, like stacking the surrounding space in the direction of a black hole, and quickly filled the hole.

"It's useless. The power from the starry sky only formed my initial strength. I no longer need it." At this time, the shadow floated outside the third floor again:

"Unless you end the war, unless you burn all the rotting corpses, I will always exist and become stronger and stronger."

Hobert temporarily sealed the "flesh-colored crystal stone", and he frowned: This is not possible?

Things are really a bit difficult to handle. There are really too many sources of power for this phantom.

And as the war continues, it will indeed be provided with more nutrients.

The shadow knew that it couldn't hurt Hobert, so it surrounded Hobert and kept saying things to make Hobert give up.

Hobert thought for two or three minutes, but couldn't think of a good way. He was about to ask the goddess of the night for help again, but suddenly recalled the method of screening the soldiers just now.

Then he had a very good idea, smiled at the phantom and said: "For the real world, you are very redundant."

As he spoke, Hobert first prayed to the "Creator", and then began to carefully arrange the "Spiritual Wall", and also added a layer of "Order Crystal" barriers outside the "Spiritual Wall".

Only then did he enter the "Land of Disorder" with confidence, take the "0-78" spiritual field that had just been captured not long ago from the stone platform, and project the power of the "creator" into the real world through his own stars.

After seeing the shadow that was still "without fear", the "creator" picked up the "spiritual field" full of barbs and began to build a "spiritual cage" between the spiritual world around the shadow and the real world.

The shadow seems to have encountered something wrong and is about to escape from the "cage".

The "creator" "zoomed in", and in an instant, one-third of the Minerminsk Mountains were covered by the "spiritual cage"!

The "Creator" sitting on the "Iron Throne" held the "Spiritual Field" in his hand and began to use the ability of "correlation" to quickly find the connection between the phantom and the spiritual world.

As Hobert expected, its connection with the spiritual world was abnormal. At this time, these connections were blocked in the real world by the "spiritual cage".

Hobert uses the "spiritual wilderness" to perform spiritual operations and "dismantle" these connections bit by bit.

Even if the phantom shuttles between clones, it doesn't help. Hobert can always follow the spiritual connection to find it and continue to "dismantle" it.

It wasn't until the spiritual and spiritual connections between the phantom and the entire world were severed that Hobert came to the Bell Hall in a hurry.

At this time, although the shadow can still use the decayed clone to shuttle inside the "spiritual cage", it can clearly feel that the entire world is increasingly rejecting it.

Boom~

At this time, a distant bell suddenly sounded in the air.

The sound of the bell stirred up flocks of birds in the woods, adding a touch of agility and vitality to the mountains that had just begun to sprout.

The shadow stood there blankly. Suddenly, a young face appeared in the shadow: "I can't die here, my mother is still looking forward to my coming home..."

Then another officer in his twenties and seventies appeared in the shadow: "Am I going to die? Will I never see my wife and newborn daughter again?"

The image of the shadow kept changing: "...Why? Instead of entering the palace of marriage with my fiancée, I am going to die in this mud?"

"...Why do you still want to kill me after I surrendered?"

"...I didn't start the war, but why should I die?"

"...Haha, why is this world only cold?"

"...Child, did you escape safely? You are only 7 years old. What should you do in the future? What should you do?"

"..."

At this moment, Hobert in the bell tower was reluctant to continue pushing the hammer, but in the next second, he gritted his teeth and rang the "Bell of Order" again.

Boom~

Shadows that should not exist in this world disappeared in an instant.