Mystery: The Stranger

Chapter 47 Early Pollution

No matter how dazzling or majestic the six gods' radiance was, it did not affect the normal changes in celestial phenomena.

Just as the prayers were gradually subsiding, a crimson moon slowly rose from the east, breaking through the clouds and casting a gentle, hazy moonlight that enveloped the entire Backlund and fell upon Snow, casting a clear and slender shadow at his feet.

The next second, a slender, ethereal figure slowly emerged from the shadow—it was Saratas. She stretched, her eyes showing a hint of languor yet also a touch of curiosity. With great interest, she looked up at the six gods in the sky, her gaze unrestrained and devoid of any reverence.

Of course she would dare to do that.

Although the gods are extremely sensitive to gazes, and even the slightest prying glance can be detected by them, the atmosphere in the square had already eased considerably. The dukes had already straightened their postures, some turning to look at their companions and whispering to each other; others looked up, their gazes casually sweeping over the six gods in the sky, without excessive reverence or deliberate prying; even in the shadows of the square, there were quite a few angels who had come to join the fun, hiding in the shadows of the crowd, their eyes observing the six gods in the sky with interest, their expressions casual, as if they were just watching an ordinary grand event.

Xalatas's gaze mingled with these casual stares, following the direction of the crimson moonlight as he looked back towards the sky. His figure was ethereal, his aura concealed, like a shadow under the moonlight, utterly inconspicuous.

Even with Liu Shen's keen senses, he would never notice such a tiny and hidden phantom—after all, there are many beings with secret powers who are watching this place openly or secretly. Liu Shen only wanted to keep things under control and wait for everything to settle down. He did not want to cause any trouble by dragging out those beings in the shadows who were at least Sequence 2 or higher.

Xalatas's gaze swept briefly over the six gods, only seeing the six beams of light themselves, without truly focusing on these deities. When her gaze swept over the Goddess of Night, she paused slightly. After all, in this world, darkness is one of the most basic symbols of the universe, the most important melody, and has a certain similarity to the nature of the void, so she paid more attention to it. Then she sensed something else.

Over the years, Xalatas has shared a lot of the divine power transformed from the divine fire. To Xalatas, it is closer to a high-quality moon dew. In her eyes, Snow is her servant, and the faith of the Red Moon is provided by her other servants in the vampire clan. She also pays attention to and collects the spirituality in the crimson moonlight every night. Without her, Snow, in his Sequence 5 vessel state, would have basically gone out of control and gone mad long ago. It is no problem for her to eat more.

It was precisely because she had been immersed in and absorbed the spirituality and faith of the Crimson Moon for many years that she felt a subtle and strange sensation in her heart when she looked at the Crimson Lord who ruled the night and held the uniqueness of the moon.

She didn't deliberately spy or actively perceive; she merely sensed it passively. Especially now, with the red moon high in the sky and its light shining down, the goddess of the night actively displayed her divinity and power.

Within that vast and profound dark divine light, Xalatas clearly sensed a wisp of yin-based primordial power that was completely different from pure darkness, warm and mellow.

"What's wrong?"

Snow immediately detected the subtle emotional fluctuation in Saratas and inquired in a low voice through the mental link. He could clearly sense that the divine fire within his body had suddenly accelerated its burning speed.

"It's nothing, I just saw with my own eyes the current master of Crimson."

Xalatas responded calmly, without elaborating on the vague and eerie sensation he had sensed. Such elusive intuition was impossible to verify, and further discussion was pointless.

Snow didn't delve into it, assuming that this arrogant and conceited Void Spirit was secretly mocking the high and mighty Six Gods.

After all, he had often had this kind of mentality before, so it was nothing new to him.

Unbeknownst to anyone, beneath this calm surface, the gears of fate were quietly turning, and a cataclysmic change, enough to overturn the extraordinary order of the Northern Continent and rewrite Snow's destiny, was brewing in the shadows unseen by anyone.

Beyond Earth's barrier, the true crimson giant moon hangs silently in the starry sky, continuously showering down its crimson radiance. As night falls, the moonlight endures, first covering the vast celestial realm, then piercing through layers of barriers, pouring into the spirit world and the mortal realm—an unchanging natural law. And this moonlight, shining in all directions, also reflects and influences the celestial symbols associated with the moon's origin; everything is perfectly ordinary.

The followers of the "Queen of the Otherworld," represented by Thranla, pray to the Red Moon every night. This was originally required by Xalatas, because the divine fire was burning at all times. Therefore, these followers of the Red Moon naturally had to pray devoutly every night. Xalatas and Snow have always used the otherworldly symbol as a medium to steadily receive and carry all the scattered power of faith and the spirituality of the Red Moon.

The spirituality and faith of the Red Moon converge in the symbols of the otherworld, and besides Saratas and Snow, there is a third person who knows all this, namely the true "Queen of the Otherworld," Seria.

She shouldn't know, because she had already perished once in the Second Era. The characteristics of the Gate Path had long since been separated, and it no longer had much to do with the symbol of the otherworld. Now she was no longer the otherworldly queen revered by the vampires, but only retained the identity of "Duke of Red Moon" and lay dormant in the world.

But Sermia still found out, and she had already sensed it when Snow first came into contact with the otherworldly symbol.

From the moment Snow first touched the otherworldly symbol, igniting the divine fire with the fire of her soul and the seed of desire, this long-hidden Sequence 2 angel was already alerted. It was precisely because she subtly probed through the power of the lunar pathway, causing the otherworldly symbol to tremble slightly and respond, that Snow was ultimately able to successfully ignite the divine fire with the immense power of the otherworldly symbol, taking a crucial step forward.

Given her Sequence 2 status and hierarchy, Sermia, having lost the high-level characteristics of the Gate Path, shouldn't be so sensitive to astral anomalies. However, as early as the Second Age, she was tainted by the hidden corruption of the Fallen Mother Goddess, and this strange sensitivity stems from that ancient and shadowy old corruption that is deeply rooted in her spirituality.

In fact, as early as the Second Era, the progenitor of the vampires, Lilith, was already in a problematic state. As an otherworldly queen with dual Sequence 2 of the Moon Path and the Gate Path, she was inevitably corrupted first.

"Queen of Another World" Sermia once inadvertently summoned some power from the real moon. Not only was she deeply corrupted, but she also indirectly implicated the progenitor Lilith, becoming a foreshadowing of the subsequent decline of the vampires and the fall of the gods.