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Mr. Door's promises were naturally untrustworthy; George was well aware of this.
But he didn't care, because by the time he planned to save Mr. Door, he would surely have become Sequence 0 of the Seer pathway. He would just take it by force then.
"Very good. Then let me collect some interest first."
George fully activated his divination effect, and just as he had fleeced the True Creator before, he began to extract all information regarding the Door pathway from Mr. Door.
Mr. Door did not prevent this; instead, he revealed a sinister smile.
Because at that moment, a wisp of crimson power had begun to invade George's spirit along the path of the divination.
"Trying to corrupt my spirit?"
How could George not detect that invading wisp of crimson? But he did not immediately dispel that power; instead, he continued to fleece Mr. Door.
It wasn't until he had finished extracting all the knowledge of the Door pathway that he severed the connection with Mr. Door and switched to divining the source of that crimson power.
"Divining the source of this power attempting to corrupt me."
A colossal creature, seemingly stacked up from reproductive organs and possessing gigantic wings, appeared in George's eyes.
The Fallen Mother Goddess, the Origin of Evil, the Undying One, the Sovereign of the Real World, the World pathway, the Chaos Ovarian pathway...
A large volume of mystical knowledge and information began pouring into George's mind.
"I am your Mother. Become my loyal child!"
The entity clearly noticed George's fleecing behavior and immediately intensified the corruption aimed at George along the path of the divination.
"This is the power of an Outer Deity. It feels significantly stronger than True Gods like the True Creator and the Eternal Blazing Sun!"
George dared not be careless regarding the Fallen Mother Goddess's direct corruption.
Although it was only reverse corruption based on the clue from the divination, filtered through the barrier left by the Original Creator.
However, the strength of this Fallen Mother Goddess, lurking outside the Earth, was clearly much higher than that of the True Gods on Earth.
Even he, if he were to slip up, could leave hidden dangers within his spirit.
"Merge!"
George, in a rare moment of inner chuunibyou, silently chanted the command.
Subsequently, the souls of his main body and his various world avatars simultaneously transmitted and fused into one.
A powerful mental barrier enveloped him, completely isolating the corruption transmitted by the Fallen Mother Goddess.
Seeing that she could not corrupt George, the Fallen Mother Goddess had no choice but to actively sever the connection, preventing George from stealing more information.
"So, Roselle was also corrupted by this entity, which is why he couldn't return."
Opening his eyes again, George couldn't help but murmur inwardly.
Although the Fallen Mother Goddess had severed the divination connection, he still gained a good amount of information.
This Fallen Mother Goddess had quite the origin.
She was the first child split off by the Original Creator, and subsequently mated with the Original Creator, giving birth to most of the Outer Deities of the Old Ones level in the universe.
During the First Epoch, due to the awakening of the Original Creator, her own Uniqueness and two pathways were forcibly taken away.
The Uniqueness taken was called the Mother Nest, and the two Beyonder characteristics taken were Mother and Moon.
To reclaim her own Uniqueness and Beyonder characteristics, she corrupted the Ancestor of the Blood Race in the Second Epoch, and corrupted Mr. Door in the Fourth Epoch.
Then, in the Fifth Epoch, she used Mr. Door to trick Roselle into ascending to the Moon, thereby corrupting Roselle.
It was precisely because of the corruption from the Fallen Mother Goddess that Roselle hesitated to return, fearing that he would completely become the Fallen Mother Goddess's puppet and bring disaster to Earth.
"Expel!"
Using the powerful soul strength from the fusion, George completely cleared the mark left by Mr. Door within Fors's Beyonder characteristic.
If one were simply a Beyonder of the Door pathway, they inherently would not be affected by Mr. Door.
Forget that Mr. Door is a quasi-god; even if he were a True God, it would be impossible for him to affect every Beyonder on his pathway.
If that were possible, those pirates who were also on the Tyrant pathway would have long ago been dealt with by the Lord of Storms.
Fors was affected because the bracelet she wore contained the mark of a Beyonder characteristic previously left by Mr. Door.
That was why she had been marked by Mr. Door.
The Fallen Mother Goddess's power significantly increased during the full moon and the red moon, allowing Mr. Door to use her power to transmit murmurs.
He estimated that if Mr. Door still had descendants surviving, they would likewise be affected by the murmurs.
"Don't use this bracelet anymore in the future, and you won't be affected by the murmurs."
"Thank you... Thank you for your help..."
Fors replied, trembling all over and her face filled with terror.
The tiny ripple of aftermath created during the recent clash between the Fallen Mother Goddess and George's spiritual power had nearly caused her a mental breakdown.
Waving his hand to soothe Fors's unstable mental state, George took her back to Backlund, concluding the night's activities.
Over the next few days, George simultaneously digested the knowledge obtained from Mr. Door and the Fallen Mother Goddess while converting his person-finding magic.
"Done!"
On Sunday morning, George, who was being held by his mother Chris, slowly opened his eyes.
He had finally converted the principles of the person-finding magic entirely according to the power system of this world.
"Direction Manifestation—Roselle, Roselle Gustav!"
As the person-finding magic was performed, the location of Roselle gradually emerged in George's mind.
For someone at Roselle's level, if normal divination methods of this world were used to locate him, even True Gods would be interfered with.
But the principle of George's person-finding magic was entirely different from the divination methods of this world; it belonged to a magical power system of another kind.
Thus, it was not affected by this world's anti-divination spells.
Therefore, he easily found the precise location of Roselle's soul.
"It seems I can notify Bernadette to go and rescue Roselle first."
Bernadette hadn't contacted him yet; he estimated she still hadn't found the location of the nameless island.
As for the Fallen Mother Goddess, whom he would inevitably encounter when saving Roselle...
The Fallen Mother Goddess's true body couldn't enter Earth. At most, she could channel some power through the corrupted Roselle, which George still didn't pay much mind to.
At worst, he would simply take Roselle directly into his own world then.
Once brought into his world, the Fallen Mother Goddess's power output could be directly blocked.
He could also use the world's laws to easily clear the corruption on Roselle's soul.
"Huh, what thick fog..."
Just as George was thinking about meeting Bernadette that evening to get the job done today, he heard his mother, Chris, suddenly utter a puzzled sound.
He looked up, following his mother Chris's gaze, and found that the entire East District was instantly shrouded in a vast expanse of dense fog.
"This is... an ability of the Witch pathway!"
Using the knowledge he had previously fleeced from the Primordial Demoness, George recognized at a glance that the rising fog in the East District was not ordinary dense fog.
Instead, it was the Fog of Plague spread by a Sequence 4 Despair Witch of the Witch pathway, capable of bringing fatal diseases to ordinary people.
(End of Chapter)