Chapter 1700: 463 Subtle Fate and True Order

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“Zerg Larva?”

Matthew’s heart was greatly surprised.

Were these the ones he had encountered in the Moonlight Woodland?

He stared intently at the woman in his field of view as her body transformed into countless Zerg Larvae that rapidly fell to the ground, bounced around for a bit and then began to wriggle violently in unison.

The larvae quickly burrowed into the ground, disappearing without a trace.

They left behind only tiny holes the size of little fingers.

And that inconspicuous, oversized cloak!

This scene far exceeded Matthew’s expectations.

He tried to extend his Insight underground, but discovered that the larvae had vanished into thin air.

Matthew also wanted to continue searching for traces of that woman, but in the following period, she seemed to have evaporated from Earth.

Matthew couldn’t help but blink his eyes.

Putting aside the influence of illusion.

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The mysterious woman just now–

The most fitting guess for her identity was the queen of the Zerg race!

Matthew had once encountered one in the Moonlight Woodlands; at that time, the queen had been affected by Evil Art Masters and was in a highly mutated state.

Matthew had taken some effort to subdue her.

However, the most memorable scene during that visit to the Moonlight Woodlands was the Goddess of Moon, Assia, consuming the power of the Evil Art Masters.

Compared to that,

The Queen Zerg seemed more like a mindless monster.

But today’s queen was different.

She seemed quite intelligent and appeared to know about Matthew’s presence inside out.

“Order City Canning has control over many Demiplanes and Secondary Planes; could it be that a Secondary Plane has been invaded by the Zerg race?”

“Could this be the origin of a greater Chaos Storm?”

“Is the influence of the God of Murder just a prelude?”

Matthew’s mind made a bold conjecture.

Prior to this,

he had actually made a general deduction about everything that was happening inside Order City.

The recent turmoil was definitely related to the God of Murder, but the latter might not be everything there was to the storm.

The God of Murder was a very special god.

Though he held sway over the domains and divine titles of conspiracy and slaughter, his means of killing were not sophisticated; rather, he achieved his notorious divine name more through conspiracy.

Matthew had done his homework before coming.

The God of Murder was historically renowned for using others to do his dirty work.

His most famous conspiracy involved borrowing the blade of the Lord of the Nine Hells, Barthor, and in one fell swoop, he took out the Killing Life Twins and the Lord of Cold Wind–

All three were the God of Murder’s rivals for the God Thrones during the Age of Enlightenment.

Thereafter,

he was unrivaled in the related domains, securing the murder divine title with little more than a flex.

There was widespread speculation that the God of Murder had colluded with purgatory.

The facts seemed to confirm this.

Lord of the Nine Hells, Barthor, was also known to hold a grudge during his active days.

But having been used by the God of Murder several times, he surprisingly never troubled the latter.

Therefore, some believed that the God of Murder was Barthor’s son, a doppelganger, or even an incarnation of Barthor himself.

In the Era of the Heavenly Family Palace,

rumors about the God of Murder were numerous.

But the god himself was extremely patient.

After successfully ascending, he rarely made a move.

It is also possible that whenever he did take action, all witnesses were killed, leaving no evidence behind.

Overall,

the God of Murder was a rather low-profile deity within the Heavenly Family Palace.

His profile only rose significantly when he was parasitized by the Lord of the Thousand Transformers, Jasliven.

In the end,

the gods joined forces in sealing Jasliven,

and the God of Murder himself thus fell completely.

Even the angels in charge of recording history at the Lun Palace knew very little about this deity.

People always felt that his ascension was too easy and his fall too light.

Unlike the well-known gods, whose steps towards the pinnacle or plunges into the Abyss would shake the entire World,

For that reason,

many documents that Matthew reviewed mentioned an alternative theory–

That was that there was something suspicious about the process in which the God of Murder was parasitized by Jasliven.

Some spellcasters believed that the God of Murder foresaw the arrival of the Calamity Mage (or learned of it from the Ancient Darkness God) and the upcoming Ascension of the Heavenly Palace.

To rid himself of the burdens that came with divinity,

he “escaped from his shell” by taking advantage of Jasliven’s parasitization to reincarnate as a mortal.

For hundreds of years thereafter,

many infamous assassins active in the world of Aindor were suspected by these spellcasters to be reincarnations of the God of Murder.

Among them was Matthew’s old acquaintance, Sener…

That spellcaster also provided another strong piece of evidence–

It was said that when Jasliven was sealed and the God of Murder was supposed to have completely perished, the Divine Fire of Retaliation he left in the Heavenly Family Palace did not extinguish completely.

This was markedly different from the status after the fall of Death.

Therefore, he deduced that the God of Murder was still alive; the so-called parasitism was just a ruse exposed to the people by the sly and cunning former god as he laid his plans for a new era.

“The God of Murder comes from the Northland and often mentioned his fondness for the north during conferences of gods, I guess that after his death escape, he would definitely live as a mortal, frequenting some taverns in the northern cities of Aindor.”

“He might be a lazy bartender, a kind-hearted innkeeper, or even a street criminal fond of petty theft.”

“He hides in the shadows of the city, listening to the clumsy conspiracies of others, greedily absorbing the sustenance from the conspiracies.”