Chapter 260: Blood of Decay (7000+ words, seeking monthly votes)

William looked dazed, staring at that mess of patterns, and almost wanted to cry!

"I... I am just a rookie who has only just entered the door of Occultism..."

He forcibly held back the tears about to fall, his eyes fixed tightly on those stains, using Meditation to calm his mood and stimulate his hidden inspiration.

Finally, William's inspiration stirred slightly, and he saw a patch of darkness so thick it could not be dissolved.

"I saw... darkness!"

He muttered in a bewildered tone.

"What you saw is your future... representing that you will encounter the threat of death in the near future... This is a fact one can know without even Divination; even a piece of trash could see it... What about more specific details? The time and place of death?"

Aaron curled his lips and said.

Phoenix Street 27.

Aaron walked into the room where the 'Displacement Drawer' was placed, his inspiration stirring slightly.

The letter had a white envelope, with a line of elegant handwriting written on it—'To be opened by Mr. Yasuo'.

"They are quite cunning and dangerous... According to the Parliament's confirmation, another branch of the Sotos has been almost completely exterminated by them, and... they like to hide their killings in accidents and natural deaths. Their actions are quite covert, and because of this, they have not received much attention or attracted strikes from the Investigation Bureau..."

Aaron patted his chest: "My mask still has a few layers, so I'm fine for now... Besides, I have left no direct bloodline, so the possibility of clues being found is almost zero."

Two days passed quickly.

Below, there were also portraits of two people.

William's eyes were vacant, as if he were a walking corpse, returning behind the bar, his hands moving mechanically, subconsciously continuing to work...

He stepped forward a few paces, came to the carved chest of drawers, and pulled open the first drawer.

He saw that inside the previously empty drawer, there was suddenly an extra letter, and beneath the letter, there was a thick stack of documents.

William could only trace his inspiration again; in his eyes, the environment around the bar became gloomy, and only the coffee stains on the plate flickered with a strange Light.

Aaron waved his hand: "Go back to work... I will be watching you."

"I..."

"Boss, I... what should I do? Within a week, I will face death?"

"Adopting the title 'Mother of Night'... does it mean that even after the 【Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood】 gave birth to the 【Lord of Buried Bones】, she had not yet completely shed the wounds of 'Darkness'? Did she lean toward the domain of 'Darkness'? Or... is the so-called 'Mother of Night' an aspect, an avatar, fabricated by the 【Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood】 using the Element of 'Darkness'?"

And the latter has already completely fallen, but the 【Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood】 still has the possibility of surviving!

"However... even if these Hidden Existences know that Aaron Sotos has some problems, it is at most a suspicion regarding how he first obtained the Mysterious channel, thus recruiting the traitor of the 'Blood of Decay' to conduct bloodline tracing and research... They haven't even seen through the mask of being a believer of the 'Spirit of Falsehood'."

"They are frantically hunting the remaining Sotos Descendants, seemingly possessing some kind of bloodline secret technique that can obtain power from similar bloodlines. This might be a Ritual taught to them by the 'Mother of Night'... As of now, the 'Blood of Decay' is still a Cult with strength exceeding the Green Banyan Council, possessing more than one Non-human Existence!"

In ancient times, besides the 【Scarlet Creator】, the most powerful among the Siming Gods should have been the 【Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood】 and the 【Black Sun】.

Aaron smelled the scent of a conspiracy.

It was just that when he occasionally went to the bar for a meal, he heard Baerjin say that William's state was getting more and more wrong.

"Even if one is about to die, one cannot escape the manipulation of a superior's work?"

Aaron had not gone to Halsey's Moving Castle these two days, after all, he had to pretend to be working hard on forging.

Beside the corpse stood a gentleman wearing a white suit and a mask.

Finally, the time reached the third day.

Those rays of Light flowed uncertainly, bringing various hazy images.

After reading the materials, he thought of more:

"'Mother of Night'? She protects those descendants of Sean; could it be that she is interested in Aaron Sotos? After all, he is the first Extraordinary in the Mortal World..."

Aaron glanced at them and saw that Bojin was the image of an old man with a scholarly air, while Luofuman was middle-aged, with a sinister face, his eyes thirsting for blood and the Evil Domain.

"Respected Mr. Yasuo, I have collected and organized all the information regarding those descendants of the rebels, which is attached to this letter. Next, I will give a brief introduction—ever since the death of the 'Regicide' Suolun, that group of rebels quickly fell into chaos and destruction, once on the verge of extinction, but in the era of dark chaos, they threw themselves into the embrace of a Siming God, an existence named 'Mother of Night'... With the help of the power of the Great Existence, they barely maintained their bloodline continuation and established an organization named—'Blood of Decay'!"

"'Blood of Decay' adopts a Cult model, developing believers only from the descendants of members, worshipping the 'Mother of Night'. The members are mostly Extraordinary of the 'Red' Element. Currently known Non-human Existences include the Patriarch Bojin Suolun and the 'Blood Thirster' Luofuman Suolun..."

Aaron commented.

"You haven't died yet? It seems you have walked too little on the path of the 'Tower'... I helped you with the most difficult Divination, yet you cannot even interpret the symbols. To interpret this Divination, you need to open the Third Primordial Substance, become a 'Scholar', or even become a Non-human Grade 'Sage' to barely be able to do it..."

The scene of the Divination he saw was on the night three days later, in a dim alley, where William fell in a pool of blood, his eyes gradually losing their luster.

William screamed.

"Limiting the time to within a week? Still a piece of trash!"

Finally, William's eyes shed tears, and he muttered: "I saw the Occultism symbol representing 'week'..."

Aaron pondered for a long time, put down the letter, and looked at the 'Blood of Decay' information below.

He wanted to grasp those phantoms, but found he couldn't see them clearly at all.

For the Green Banyan Council, they were mortal enemies, but in Aaron's eyes, they were just cannon fodder; a glance was enough.

Aaron picked up the documents and the letter, wrote a 'Received' note to throw into the drawer, closed the room door, went to the study, brewed himself a cup of hot cocoa, leaned back in the soft chair behind the desk, and opened the envelope with a small knife on the table, slowly reading the contents of the letter.

Besides these two, the information also contained introductions to the high-level members of the 'Blood of Decay', basically all of the Third Primordial Substance.

"The other party doesn't even bother to disguise; the 【Lord of Buried Bones】 is His child, holding the authority of gestation and reproduction. Who else could it be besides the 【Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood】?"

"And the ruins discovered by the 'Vulture' last time, could it be that they were left behind by this 'Blood of Decay' organization?"

"Is it a pure 'Red' path after all? I happen to be missing the remains of a 'Red' Non-human Existence for my materials to advance to 'Furnace'..."

(End of this chapter)