Chapter 1117: Alvin Abraham
With the Goddess accompanying him, the "corpses" that had originally been hanging inside the church appeared exceptionally quiet, no longer performing the "chorus" they had when Ebner passed through here last ti.
They even made efforts to twist their bodies, trying their best to turn their "fronts" away from the Goddess’s direction.
The Queen of Terror indeed... Seeing this, Ebner muttered inwardly. Then, following the familiar route, he walked step by step until he arrived before the pitch-black altar deep within the church.
Turning his gaze toward the slanted rear of the altar, he unsurprisingly saw the handso man seated cross-legged there, his hair as black as the night curtain itself—Alvin Abraham.
However, unlike the last ti, now that Ebner had already advanced to Cognizer, he could clearly see that the statue of "Mother of Heaven" atop the altar was extending countless invisible tentacles, binding Alvin’s body tightly.
"No wonder last ti, after I used the thod of controlling the ’bone dragon’ to achieve ’ntal synchronization’ with Alvin, I could briefly use his abilities but couldn’t move at all... So he was tied up airtight by the Goddess!"
Ebner complained inwardly for a few lines, then turned to look at the Goddess beside him.
The Goddess understood his aning, gave a slight nod, and without any visible movent, the invisible tentacles binding Alvin’s body retracted back into the statue.
"That will do," the Goddess said softly.
Her voice was gentle. Just a few short words sounded like a softly humd lullaby.
Already fully prepared, Ebner did not waste ti. He directly took out various materials and arranged them around the body of "Wanderer" Alvin, providing assistance for the imminent casting of the "Alvin Revival Technique."
—"Alvin Revival Technique" was the na Ebner had given to the secret technique that had been perfected after generations of his own efforts.
After finishing the setup, Ebner rested for another dozen minutes, recovering the spirituality he had expended and adjusting his condition to its peak.
Only then did he connect to his White Tower space, construct the frawork of the secret technique within it, and release it outward.
A blazing beam of light condensed at the tip of Ebner’s index finger and shot straight toward the center of Alvin Abraham’s forehead.
In the next mont, a slender stone as brilliant as the starry sky manifested at Alvin’s brow, as if a "celestial eye" had opened.
That was the "soul stone" Alvin had condensed after death—and the key to resurrection.
At the sa ti, Ebner used his spirituality to connect to "Alvin’s Quiz Labyrinth," releasing the resurrection "miracle" he had "purchased" from "Zaratul" on the first floor of the Dream Labyrinth Tower. It rged with the soul stone, instantly completing the previously frawork-only technique and causing it to begin functioning.
Reversal, restart, connection to the River of Eternal Darkness, resurrection, becoming a clone...
Everything proceeded smoothly. Yet just as the process reached the final step—ntal synchronization—a sigh sounded within Ebner’s mind:
"You didn’t use ’theft’ to seize my destiny... Aren’t you afraid that the source of our endless ’restarts,’ that ’God of Luck,’ might revive through this?"
Ebner was not surprised at all by the sudden voice. He cast his consciousness into his ntal island, looked at the blurry figure that had only an outline, and smiled as he replied:
"To seize destiny, one doesn’t necessarily need ’theft,’ right? ’Herding’ and ’beast-taming’ reach the sa effect at high sequences."
The figure laughed upon hearing this.
"So that’s how it is... My sche was completely seen through... Was it because of that illusory ’Omniscient Eye’? Indeed, that was a factor I hadn’t considered back then."
Ebner shook his head.
"Not entirely. You and I are the sa person—how could I not understand myself?
"You deliberately hid the hint about ’theft’ very deeply, trying to make
think you were rely unwilling to accept things and were intentionally making trouble for , so I’d overlook the danger of stealing destiny...
"But based on my understanding of myself, if I were truly cornered, even if I might play so pranks, I wouldn’t hide sothing that important so deeply. After all, it really could be missed.
"Heh—if I’m not mistaken, the reason you set the highest level of authority in ’Alvin’s Quiz Labyrinth’ to require your approval was because your contingency was hidden in the function only accessible at that level, right?
"And it’s not just
who suspected this. Danitte Tinekerr before
should have seen through your plan as well.
"Although so of his mories regarding the reason for conducting the Chaos Sea experint are missing, that experint—though it relied more on using corruption to counter corruption—also aid to use clone personalities woven by the abilities of the ’Three-Headed Sanctuary’ and ’Dreamweaver’ to oppose, or even seize, the fate of the main personality.
"Although it wasn’t very successful, what I’m facing now isn’t an ’Unknown’ with an obvious Old One status."
The blurry figure fell silent for a few seconds, then spoke in sudden realization:
"So that’s it... As expected, only I truly understand myself! No wonder you nad the technique ’Alvin Revival Technique’... This really is a technique prepared specifically for !"
After sighing with emotion, he continued:
"You and I—and even the ’God of Luck’—are ultimately one person. Our calculations and struggles were rely about who would take the dominant position... The final goal was always that one sleeping within the ’Unknown’...
"Now, everything I have is handed over to you!"
With that, he smiled freely and vanished completely.
At that very mont, Ebner touched the imprint Alvin had left within the Land of the Unknown. Vast amounts of mories surged along his spirit.
Caught off guard, Ebner was instantly subrged in a flood of mories.
...
Early Fifth Epoch—a ti more than a thousand years before the Industrial Revolution would begin.
The future industrial capital, Loen’s second-largest city Conston, was at this ti rely a small coastal town, utterly unremarkable.
Within a manor outside the town, over a dozen mbers of the Abraham family stood ready with various sealed artifacts, staring tensely at a certain room on the second floor.
Inside, the Abraham family’s only "Recorder" in recent years was concocting a potion, preparing to advance to Sequence 5 Traveler.
At this mont, the young "Recorder" in the room had indeed reached the most critical stage. Relying on coordinates left by his ancestors, he had successfully positioned himself and avoided getting lost while roaming the spirit world.
Yet just as his consciousness returned and he was about to complete the final step of advancent, familiar yet maddening mutterings sounded in his ears.
"At a ti like this!"
Blood and tears flowed from the young man’s eyes as he let out an unwilling roar. Nevertheless, his spirit continued to decline uncontrollably, and his body began mutating, taking on a monstrous appearance.
Just as he reached the brink of loss of control—his sanity collapsing, his life and death becoming "unknown"—a burst of "pure white" light suddenly erupted from his blood-red eyes.
Imdiately afterward, his condition rapidly improved. The mutterings vanished, and even his mutating body returned to normal.
Only now, his eyes carried a trace of confusion as he murmured to himself:
"Who am I?
"Oh, right... I’m Liu Bo, I’m Alvin of the Abraham family, and I’m also the future... Ebner!
"Heh, I’d just said that if there truly were no hope, I’d at most pull so pranks to disgust the successors... and you imdiately tampered with the mory inheritance and made my words co true?
"Should I say—worthy of ?"
Ebner mocked himself for a few lines, then looked around and suddenly realized:
"This should be the scene when Alvin first transmigrated... So he imdiately gained Sequence 5 strength upon arrival?
"He didn’t directly touch the Sequence 3 threshold Lilith and the Goddess spoke of, yet already had enough power for self-preservation early on—what good fortune!
"No wonder the Goddess valued him so much... although she probably didn’t know back then that Sequence 3 would be subject to ’Unknown’ morning inspections...
"But what’s going on now? Aren’t I supposed to be receiving Alvin’s mories? If I’ve already awakened my own consciousness, even moving within this mory world, I wouldn’t follow his ’life trajectory,’ would I?"
After thinking for a while, Ebner directly Teleported outside the manor to investigate.
He first found the Abraham family patriarch and tried to tell him about his successful advancent, while also testing whether he could ask for so sealed artifacts.
However, the patriarch—holding the Demon Painting—did not answer his questions, only repeatedly saying things like "he is the family’s hope" and "the ancestors have blessed his success."
This gave Ebner a strong sense of déjà vu, and he ford so guesses.
Next, he attempted to Teleport to Backlund, but failed, leaving him only able to conduct detailed observation around Conston.
"People are repeating the sa tasks...
"Ti never changes...
"When speaking to them, only the sa few lines repeat...
"No thod can harm them...
"So that’s it. I understand now.
"This is a zero-degree-of-freedom RPG ga!
"If I don’t advance the ’plot,’ NPCs only have those limited interactions... even most ’maps’ aren’t unlocked!
"And the worst part—there are no quest prompts at all... I have no idea where to trigger the ’plot’...
"This mode of mory inheritance... truly is the kind of vicious trick I’d co up with!"
After fiercely condemning his own "terrible" personality for a few lines, Ebner finally curled his lips into a "proud" smile and muttered:
"Although as Alvin I can’t use Insight, at least I have a cheat!"
Before the words even fell, the illusory Omniscient Eye and the uniqueness of the Wheel of Fortune descended simultaneously. A brief line of text appeared before Ebner’s eyes:
"Clean up the containers that held the potion..."
...
I don’t know how much ti later.
Before the altar in the central church of the foggy town within the Evernight Kingdom.
Ebner and Alvin opened their eyes at the sa ti, then turned their heads together to look at the Goddess standing beneath the statue—identical to it in appearance.
"Alvin, or Ebner?" the Goddess asked calmly.
"Ebner!"
(End of Chapter)
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