OBS Chapter 4194 The Sea of Origin and the Gate of Creation
Chapter 4194 The Sea of Origin and the Gate of Creation
Chapter 4194 The Sea of Origin and the Gate of Creation
"I do have some connections with the Crimson Cult."
Xia De shook his head with difficulty:
"If they are followers of the [God of the Drowned in the Deep Sea], I know I can contact them through the Drowned Ghost Tavern at the Time Wheel City docks. As for the [Crimson Order], although they came to me during the Moon Bay incident last summer, I don't know how to contact them again. Although both of those evil gods belong to the ocean lineage, the cultists do not share a common faith, so there's no way to reach the other through one."
Although fish-men still frequently attack humans in the bay outside Coldwater Harbor, those things probably won't help me find their cult. Arcadia City is not a coastal city, so those cultists certainly won't appear here.
I think the only thing we can do is ask Sylvia for help. Her family's fleet travels between docks all year round; perhaps they can provide some assistance."
The matter of the Leatherworks Guild had barely ended when the issues of demons and the Sea of Origin surfaced. Fortunately, both of these matters are currently only under investigation. After the Leatherworks Guild is contained, the Arcadia region should enjoy a brief period of peace for about a week, as no one should dare to venture out easily during this time.
Vige had to teach Adelina that afternoon, and Shad observed for a while, but Vige quickly noticed that Adelina kept glancing at Shad, and that Shad was clearly disrupting their lesson. Although Vige liked Shad, she had to let him go do other things first.
As it happened, the "fake man" still had a payment that Xia De hadn't collected, so after temporarily bidding farewell to the girls at Fragrance Mansion, he took a carriage to the outer city.
The fakes absorbed a portion of the power in the core area of the [Leather Goods Guild]. While they didn't fully recover, they still gained a significant advantage. Humanity's final sealing and containment prevented them from withdrawing all their power, but compared to the power they had already absorbed, this loss was acceptable.
Shad and the False Man hadn't agreed on a time or place to meet again, so he went back to the banks of the Serenil River, where he had first seen the "False Man's House" in the area. It was near Grayrock Pass, but almost no one ever went to that area.
Last time, Shad encountered a fake fisherman here, but this time when he arrived, there was nothing there. Shad wasn't disappointed. He stood by the river for a while, watching the rushing water, and when he turned around, a dilapidated brick house that hadn't been there before had appeared on the riverbank.
The house looked like it had been abandoned there long ago, and it blended very well with the riverside scenery, but Xia De knew that this was the real "House of the Pseudo-Man".
"I'm curious, I just sealed the [Leather Goods Guild], how dare you show your face in front of me like this?"
"What is going on?" Shad asked, and the door to the dilapidated brick house opened. Behind the door was a somewhat blinding red light, and a high-ranking pseudo-human, whose appearance Shad knew best, leaned out from behind the doorframe:
"【Leather Goods Guild】is not as good as us, and besides, you don't have that demigod witch by your side right now."
"Yes, the guild hall is indeed inferior to yours. Is our deal considered complete?"
"It's done, so I can tell you some of the things you wanted to know now."
Just like last time, it had absolutely no intention of inviting Shad inside the [House of the Pseudo-Humans].
"We know some information about the ongoing so-called War of the Chosen, a ritual by which the ancient creator gods choose their successors. Mortals are always ignorant, and even when they have the opportunity to touch the authority of the ancient gods, they do not know what they have gained."
We've heard tales from ancient times, and the location for this Chosen Ones ceremony was decided long ago.
"The Sea of Origin?"
Xia De asked, and the fake man wasn't surprised at all that Xia De knew:
"Yes, the Sea of Origin. It is the place where the ancient gods created the first children, and the first races tested the last races. The beginning and the end are in the same place, which also symbolizes the cycle of life."
Shad asked again:
"Since you are so ancient, you should know how to reach the Sea of Origin, right?"
The imposter was not stingy with this intelligence:
"The Sea of Origin is not a specific ocean existing in the material world; it exists outside the material world, a very special space. There are two ways to access that sea—"
The first possibility is that the Sea of Origin will overlap with the material world on its own at certain times. At that time, mortals who can sense it can go to that sea on their own. Once they step into that sea, they will completely merge with it and become a part of the Origin.
The second method involves opening a path to the Sea of Origin through a ritual. Ancient worshippers of the Old Gods possessed a divine ritual called the 'Path of Origin,' which bears similarities to the ritual used by worshippers of the Moon God to reach the Moon.
Do you know the specifics of that ceremony?
"do not know."
"Can you predict when the 'Origin Sea' will descend upon the material world?"
The dummy figure, leaning against the doorframe with its upper body protruding, replied:
"Before you closed that door, before the 'Origin Sea' descended, a thicker mother fluid would always flow from the crack in the door. But you and your unicorn friend closed that door together, and you cut off the possibility of observation yourself."
Shad laughed:
"I want to compliment you; this sentence makes you seem more human."
The fake man ignored his "praise":
"We don't know much about the Sea of Origin. As for the so-called Chosen Ones ritual, apart from confirming that the location is related to the Sea of Origin, we can't provide any other clues."
If you feel it's unfair that you only received this information, then you can continue to ask what you want to know.
Both sides swore an oath of cooperation in the name of the ancient gods, which is why the false one would say such a thing. Although Shad was already quite pleased to have obtained the location of the Chosen Ones' ritual, he still continued to ask:
"I want to know about that door, and if possible, I'd like to get in touch with it again."
"You should understand that we will never give you another chance to set foot in the core room. Summoner, we acknowledge that you have the ability to completely destroy us."
Shad also ignored its praise:
"You and I both understand what that door means. Don't you want to open that door a crack again?"
Pseudo-humans simply don't resemble humans very much; this doesn't mean they have intellectual disabilities.
“Callers of the gods, we do not have the same greed as humans.”
Shad smiled. After the [Leather Goods Guild] incident, the fakes were even less likely to let him enter the Blood Pool room again.
"I can tell you some truths. I do want to open that door, and I want to do something after I enter it. There are only a few doors to the delivery room in the material world. I can't find any others, so I can only cooperate with you. It's actually a win-win situation."
These hypocrites don't seem to understand what a win-win situation is:
"No matter what you say, we will not give you another chance to enter the core room. Human sweet talk is useless; this is about survival."
Shad winked:
"Very well, since you won't give me that opportunity, then I need some of your knowledge as the final reward for this transaction."
What do you want?
"Two things. First, information about doors, whether yours or any other doors; second, a method for processing the mother fluid flowing from the door cracks into pseudo-human mother fluid. I don't need the means to create pseudo-humans, I need the means to further extract and process the liquid rich in strange life force."
This time, the high-ranking pseudo-human didn't object:
"can."
Two seconds later, "she" whispered a reminder to Shad:
[The outsider felt a spiritual connection from the outside world.]
This time, the fake people didn't provide any paper materials. The knowledge that Xia De needed was directly transmitted to Xia De's mind through the fake people's mental network.
The knowledge was quite vast, yet not entirely complete. It was evident that the pseudo-people had also conducted in-depth research on the [Creation Birthroom]. In the past, they had also tried to expand the area of the door crack to obtain more power from the birthroom. Although they had not succeeded over the years, they had at least gained some information.
Is that so?
The door deep inside the "House of False Men" is covered with the degraded flesh and blood of the eldest son. After suppressing its power, the false men tried to open the door wider, but no matter what method they used, they never succeeded.
Initially, they believed it was due to their own actions, but in the distant past, the false beings had also tricked all sorts of normal beings into coming to that door and touching it, but without exception, none of them could have any effect on that door.
The only exception was Shad and Ellie, when Shad's hand and Ellie's horn touched the door at the same time, causing the door, which had had a crack since the birth of the "House of the Pseudo-Humans," to close completely.
Judging from the information conveyed by the fake people, they had also considered whether they could open the door since Shad and Ellie could close it. However, for their own safety, the fake people clearly did not want to verify whether this idea was right or wrong.
"Closing the door is simple, but opening it will probably require going through the normal process, which means you'll need the corresponding spirit runes, incantations, and special items or qualifications."
Shad thought to himself that the runes corresponding to the [Twilight Creator] must be [Creation] and [Life], and among the materials provided by the false people was a prayer that was clearly identical to the format of the "incantation" he knew—
May the First Creator bless me before twilight.
Shad was almost certain that this was the incantation to open the door, so if he could really reach the core of the "House of the False Man" again, all he lacked was the key or the qualification to open it.