Chapter 69 - Hales who prays to return to the Black Abyss (2/2)
〖 Is that so? 〗Negary waved his hand to allow the palace door to open, three people wearing fully black masks with a single white tear below their eyes were standing right outside.
“May the Black Abyss shroud over all, manifestation of The Dazzled”
“We welcome the manifestation of The Dazzled, let us return to our origin!” all three individuals immediately began to walk towards Negary with black smog surrounding them.
〖 How audacious 〗Negary commented: 〖 You ignore the will of others and force your own beliefs on them to erode them away 〗
〖 How fitting that I am the same! 〗
The ground below them suddenly turned into black sludge, countless tentacles rose from the sludge trying to catch the Hales members. But while they were cloaked in the black smog, their figures seemed to be illusory as they walked directly through the bindings of the tentacles and kept moving towards Negary on his throne.
God is unseeable, thus what you see is a shallow manifestation. While clad in this black smog, all attacks would not be able to reach their true self. This was one of the abilities that Hales relied on the most, each official member would be able to perform a ritual to obtain this black smog that originated from the Black Abyss.
“All Evil Spirits are inherently weak against the members of Hales, because Evil Spirits are the errors of this world. They are the loopholes within the Light and the flames where luminance cannot reach, and where the power of the Black Abyss would reach its peak”
“Which means that we would also become terrifyingly strong!” the three individuals leapt into the air, the black smog that drifted around them turned into countless chains that tried to bind Negary.
〖 What a bunch of clowns! 〗Negary remained on his throne as an intense pressure accompanied by an ear-piercing roar erupted from his body, the air itself around him seemed to be breaking apart, everything else became insignificant, and the only thing that seemed to exist in this world was Negary.
The three individual’s lifeless bodies fell down from the air. The black smog that surrounded them before scattered to reveal their naked bodies.
Hales believed that clothing is born from the Light and the flames, thus using them would further warp and taint their original appearance. Their skins were filled with countless runic patterns and wounds, from which one could tell that these people had undergone untold amount of torture, including being whipped, stabbed, stripped of their nails and skin, castration…and so on and so forth.
“The flesh is nothing but unclean ash born from the flames, since they rejected anything born from the Light and flames, they destroyed their bodies through pain and torture, believing that they would shed some of the ash by doing so” Granny Seal’e explained: “Some even say that their ultimate fate would be to shed their own bodies and obtain a new body created by the black smog”
〖 Then what is this ‘The Dazzled’ they spoke about? 〗the ground moved and completely swallowed the three individual’s bodies, unsurprisingly, they didn’t produce any Soul Essence. The organization called Hales had obviously come into contact with even more Evil Spirits than the Church of Divine Grace, so they naturally had measures against the common abilities of Evil Spirits. Because of this, Negary could only rely on Granny Seal’e to know more about them.
After Granny Seal’e released her [Origin] once, she obtained the power of precognition and learnt countless secrets of many organizations and of this world in general, becoming a truly erudite person.
“Hales believed that God is unseeable, unspeakable, unfathomable and unreasonable. Because of this, those who gazed upon God could only see the four states, or rather the four sides of God. The Dazzled represented the ‘unseeable’, the Cut Tongue represented the ‘unspeakable’, the Chopped Hand represented the ‘unfathomable’, and the Decapitated represented the ‘unreasonable'”
“Lord Negary’s germs are invisible and boundless, because of that, they believe that you are the Dazzled” Granny Seal’e explained: “It was because the Cut Tongue had returned to their position that Hales had the courage to show themselves again”