franphil Chapter 311 The Old and New Grim Reapers
Chapter 311 The Old and New Grim Reapers
Chapter 311 The Old and New Grim Reapers
The enormous, phantom clock seemed to possess some kind of magic; as the hands ticked and the chimes rang, the torrent of time flowed backward, time began to rewind, and the progress bar for "Death" Salinger's fusion with the underworld regressed to its origin. The "Time Worm" appeared leisurely, watching Salinger with amusement.
"Delaying tactics are effective."
"But will it really work?"
He smiled, then vanished in shimmering light. Throughout the City of the Dead, countless "Time Worms" appeared in various forms. These vermin of fate gnawed at Salinger's mark on the City of the Dead, and for a moment, they painfully transformed back into Salinger.
Once you've strayed onto Sequence 1, there's basically nothing you can't steal, even the Grim Reaper's control over the Underworld. It's just authority, right? Just steal it.
"Death" Salinger was not in a hurry. His eyes burned with pale flames, and wherever his gaze fell, dead Time Worms appeared in the void. But many more Time Worms had already moved on. Even for the King of Angels, who was 2+1, it would not be easy to kill one Archangel who could escape.
Salinger had thought that the escalation of the war of the gods might present him with an opportunity, but he underestimated the Hermit. As long as the Hermit's clone, the Time Worm, existed, he would have no chance.
If such a thief steals part of His anchor or authority during the promotion process, coupled with the lingering influence of the phoenix, the possibility of Him losing control is very high. Even if He succeeds by chance, it is hard to say who the Grim Reaper will ultimately be.
The Hermit could suppress his ascension to godhood without expending too much effort; creating a Sequence 1 clone did not significantly affect the Hermit's combat power.
Since that's the case, it forces the Hermits to commit more resources to the secondary battlefields. Salinger made up his mind and began to hunt down the Time Worms with all his might.
Huh?
Shael was slightly surprised. Was this the near-divine King of Angels? He certainly had guts.
As the "Grim Reaper" wreaked havoc, the Time Worms hidden in the void died one by one. The remaining Time Worms gathered together, and Salinger lowered his eyes. His huge serpent tail slashed down like a scythe, with flashes of light and shadow, and the crimson moonlight shone brightly.
The "Time Worm" disappeared, and in its place appeared an unbelievably beautiful woman. Her appearance was the sharpest dagger, and even the merciless Grim Reaper was stunned by her ultimate beauty, weakening the force of her attack. Dark shackles transformed into chains that bound the feathered serpent's tail.
Behind Salinger, the Time Worm, who had stolen the clone's position and swapped back, clapped its hands lightly. The authority of the underworld that it had taken from the hermit had transformed into a phoenix scepter with pale feathers on its surface. By stealing the secrets of heaven, it disguised itself as a follower of the Phoenix Ancestor.
His eyes shone brightly, and with a wave of his hand, a phantom phoenix took flight, its sharp beak pecking at the "Grim Reaper" in the air. His eyes, burning with pale flames, seemed to have layers of star gates, and as he bombarded Salinger, he seemed to glance back at Shael.
boom!
Salinger stumbled a couple of steps. As the angel king of the Death Path, His resistance to death was quite good, and He wasn't seriously injured. At that moment, the crimson moonlight shone on Him, and His undead body began to be reborn, as the power of death began to weaken.
Salinger's hands turned pale. After forcibly expelling this influence, "Goddess of Beauty" Olnia and "Time Worm" Shael charged forward together once again.
The two showed no respect for the "Grim Reaper" before them, and were not afraid of this 2+1 angel king.
The idea of "Death" hunting down "Time Worms" has become nothing but empty talk.
Salinger suppressed his anger, but he was helpless against the combination in front of him. Without becoming a god, he was still just the King of Angels, and he couldn't be much different from the other Kings of Angels.
He thought of the golden phoenix ornament that could influence the Eternal Darkness tributary... If He used it, He could also reach the level of the King of Angels, at which point even the Hermit would have to take him seriously, instead of just sending a clone to deal with him.
"The Worm of Time," Shael, remained silent, a faint smile still on his face. He swung the Phoenix Scepter in his hand, grasped it towards the "Grim Reaper," and then pulled it sharply, forcibly enslaving Salinger, the pinnacle of the Grim Reaper path in the world. Olnia naturally followed suit, her face shrouded in crimson, also carrying the power of enslavement.
"You dare!"
Salinger felt the pull and shackles on his spirit body, and this time he was truly angry. Relying on his ability to control his soul, he forcibly stabilized his spirit body. The bursting pale flames even burned away the crimson moonlight, but soon he felt an emptiness in his heart.
On the other hand, the Phoenix Scepter in Shael's hand became even more vivid. In the eye sockets that seemed to be cast in bronze, there were layers of illusory gates, which seemed to flash with a bit of human desire and greed. Without Shael's prompting, the chirping sound had already resounded.
The authority of Sequence 0 "Death" is extensive, but the power that the King of Angels can wield is limited.
Now, although the powers of death, pallor, enslavement, and the dead still reside with Salinger, the power of the "end" has just been stolen.
The authority of the end symbolizes the destination of everything, the common end of all life.
The ancient god of death, relying on the authority of the "End" and the ability of the "Gate," gave rise to the underworld.
Without filling this gap, without being able to symbolize the ultimate destination of death, Salinger can never become a true, complete "Grim Reaper".
Thieves face many difficulties when stealing, especially when it comes to the high-level characteristic of seizing authority. The success rate is not only very low, but there are also limitations. However, this is the case of theft. At present, it is not called theft, but the return of the property to its rightful owner.
As long as the Phoenix Scepter remains, the authority at the end does not need to be returned.
In this world, is there anything more symbolic of the ultimate destination and the end of life than the phoenix ancestor who created the underworld in life and whose death mark floats on the eternal dark tributary after his fall?
"I am now the final destination for all living beings."
"And you are merely the essence of death, the monarch of the dead."
The smile on the "Time Worm's" face deepened. It had stolen a part of the three-part title of the Grim Reaper, and a very crucial part at that, which involved the identity of the Lord of the Underworld and the authority of the Underworld.
Even the "Goddess of Beauty" Olnia looked at her companion in shock, as well as at the scepter surrounded by the phoenix and exuding a familiar aura. Shael had not explained this plan to her beforehand. Olnia came to her senses and looked at Salinger with some sympathy in her beautiful eyes.
Are you really here to annoy the hermit?