[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader":3,"chapter-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1093":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Lord of Mysteries: Starting As A Reader",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1553620,2017,"Chapter 1093: At the Critical Moment","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1093",1093,"\u003Cp>At this moment, Trier was already suffering a god-descending-level catastrophe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he further used theCalamity Sealto draw down the power of the City of Calamity Sefirah on top of that, who could guarantee that an even greater disaster wouldn’t arrive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, that Sefirah corresponded to\"destructive cataclysm, the primordial calamity.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That symbolism was not an exaggeration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more importantly, theCalamity Sealwas also heavily tainted by the power of the Unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throwing it into this Door—this Door, Roselle constructed by imitating the Night Emperor and Mr. Door—could easily cause an unexpected chain reaction...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And according to what he hadcognized, simply throwing in an item stained with Sefirah aura might not be enough to control the Sefirah power sealed behind the Gray Fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning—whether Trier could be saved would depend entirely on luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the optimal choice was someone who personally carried Sefirah contamination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thought, Ebner hesitated no further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out theBook of the Deadfrom Alvin’s Question Maze, and simultaneously took a white card and inserted it into the slot on his belt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second later—passionate, blazing music burst forth:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Transform!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Blessed Moment...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supreme, Most Virtuous, Paramount, Almighty Death Archon—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord of the Dead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vicente Miranda!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dazzling pallid radiance erupted—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tall figure clad in armor featuring phoenix-of-immortality and feathered-serpent motifs strode out from the gap of history and overlapped with Ebner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The masked armor fully manifested on his body—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Announcing his return to the state of the Lord of the Dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ebner had deliberately refrained from using anotherHistory Projectionsigil during the earlier battles precisely for this moment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To preserve spirituality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already been supporting the Lilith-guided \"Rhine\" projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could at most summononemore projection or executeoneadditional \"Yesterday Reenactment\" transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The majestic armor made him appear monumental.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cast a glance at the dumbfounded Madam Julia, took theBook of the Dead, and stepped into the Door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the White House, Trier\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Temporarily empowered as the Knowledge Emperor, Bernadette looked down at the Abyssal shadow evading Rhine’s strikes—almost as if unwilling to harm her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Symbols—complex, illusory, arcane—flashed rapidly across her deep-blue eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In moments—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She fabricated a legendary tale of a hero defeating the Abyss, vividly describing the hero using a holy sword to pierce it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shape, proportions, and design of that holy sword wereidenticalto the ceremonial longsword Bernadette now held.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fiction she crafted became knowledge, and that knowledge became power, flooding into the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ordinary ceremonial sword transformed into Holy Sword Bernadette, a weapon with anti-Abyss special properties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Bernadette did not wield it herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She handed it to Bornova.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was self-aware—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though she had played a Battle Scholar before, she was fundamentally a mage-type Beyonder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charging at the Abyss with a sword?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Best leave that to her brother’s close-combat mech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bornova accepted theHoly Sword Bernadettewith perfect coordination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, activating his Knowledge Magister abilities, he rewrote the fundamental combat logic of sword-class weapons—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guaranteeing unavoidable hits, converting basic swings into rapid multi-hit, wide-area cleaves...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did the humanoid mech swing the sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The endlessly expanding Abyss was pierced everywhere by radiant explosions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Segments of reality, already partially eroded, began to slowly recover.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But nearby, Lilith—controlling \"Rhine\"—frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of attacking, she invoked her Creator abilities, spawning countless purifying lifeforms and dispersing them across the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Abyssal wound exploded an unending torrent offilth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything it touched—person or object—turned instantly into a warped aberration, a servant of the Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the filth blocked by Lilith’s purifying creations lost its corruptive force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vessel Lilith was using was merely that of the Creator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her rate of creation could not match the rate at which filth surged outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She could hold it back for a time—but not much longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If nothing curbed the Abyss’s spread, Trier truly would fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernadette, meanwhile, had already been struck by filth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Knowledge Emperor, such light contamination barely affected her—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if too much is accumulated, cleansing would become impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When her one-day Knowledge Emperor state expired, she might plunge straight into demonhood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Farbauti’s power is as vile as ever... and just as unavoidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He loves driving the Abyss to corrupt all things while he hides in the deepest layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless a true deity intervenes, there is no stopping it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lilith’s expression radiated disgust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bernadette didn’t know who Ebner had summoned from history, but hearing Lilith’s words, she couldn’t help asking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Highness... is there truly no other way?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Signs of demonification spread across her shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bornova’s mech, realizing it could not withstand the corruption much longer, had abandoned attacking and instead protected the retreating Machinery Hivemind squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lilith spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In fact... the summoning of the Abyss isnot yet complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Abyss has not fully entered reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as we eliminate the medium, we can forcibly drive it back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze shifted toward Tulip Central Avenue—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Toward the hundreds of thousands of motionless protestors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their extreme emotional turbulence—rage, despair, fury—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Theywere the medium through which the Prime Minister summoned the Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yaldabaoth—and even Prime Minister Charlie Delien—never expected the western plan to succeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their true operation centered on this enormous protest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Yaldabaoth likely had other objectives—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise he would not have \"accidentally\" spoken so loudly earlier, letting EbnerCognizeeverything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only bykillingthese protestors could the Abyss’s descent be interrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the reason Bernadette resisted was tosavethem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She bit her lip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart trembled violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she forced herself calm—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in that brief emotional stir, filth had surged into her psyche.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she wavered again, even the rank of Knowledge Emperor would not save her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she was about to make the most painful decision—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mass of gray-white fog rose from the hollow of the Arc de Triomphe behind the White House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 50-meter-tall, 45-meter-wide, 15-meter-thick monument shuddered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fog condensed into a massive phantom stone stele.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Atop the stele stood a long-bodied bronze bird statue, its wings covered with pale symbols.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the stele’s face, glyphs derived from theTongue of the Deadformed two enigmatic lines:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even gods cannot escape.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even death shall be detained.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment this phantom stele appeared—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ever-expanding Abyss abruptly froze—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then rapidly contracted toward the White House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stele dissolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And from the Arch stepped a tall armored figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised one finger—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And a straight, wide, colorless, phantom river—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The River of Eternal Darkness—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>burst forth from the Door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It surged through the wound carved byHoly Sword Bernadette—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And flooded directly into the Abyss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter )\u003C\u002Fp>",1082,"2026-06-06T07:27:25.441Z",1,"novelbin.me","cae7a15d4ccf2f160dbdcaef2b14069079cf192fd1525721c62cdeeb0eea4b70","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1094","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1092",1326,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-cover.jpg"]