A solid gold sun scepter, if swung, could really cave in someone's skull.
Tang casually swiped it across the ground. Without using any spirituality, a very deep mark immediately appeared on the gray-black stone bricks of the floor.
There was no sense of obstruction or delay.
"Without spiritual enhancement, its physical attributes alone are maxed out."
Moreover, just taking it out of 'Craftsman' didn't cause the sun to ascend.
So the negative effect should only appear when spirituality was injected to use 'Black Sunlight.'
"'The sun ascends,' this 'sun' should just be a metaphor... Eternal Blazing Sun, no, a mystical item fused from the five omniscient and omnipotent pathways can't solely refer to the Sun pathway."
So the partial will of the Ancient Sun God was the most likely possibility.
Of course, it was also possible that it was the one who revived on the Ancient Sun God, the one equivalent to the Lord of the Mysteries.
Being in the position closest to above the True Gods, His influence on His corresponding pathways was terrifying.
So, which one was it?
Tang slowly injected his own spirituality into it.
Since the System said there wouldn't be a problem, then the System itself should be able to offset the influence of the partial reviving will within the mystical item on him once.
So let him see, what exactly was this 'sun ascends.'
As spirituality poured in, the twisted triangles floating on the sun scepter, along with the symbol representing the sun, all lit up with black light.
Black, an inherent impurity, depravity, distortion, the most unbearable side of the heart was stripped out. From destruction, fear, madness, and other negative emotions, terrifying monsters would be born... This crazy feedback of spiritual premonition was making even the wielder tremble with fear.
With the scepter as the center, black light emanated from the sun symbol.
It was a light completely different from the dazzling, warmth-bringing sunlight.
The reason why people could see colorful things in a lit environment was because sunlight shone on objects, and some of the light was reflected off the surface of the objects and entered the eyes, thus bringing various colors that human eyes could recognize.
What absorbed light infinitely and never reflected it was black.
'Black Sunlight,' it deprived vision... no, it was more than just that.
As the user, Tang looked at the sky, which still retained some color in his vision.
The sun in the sky, which should have been just an illusion, turned black.
"It's a solar eclipse." When the sun scepter was used, the sun closed its eyes.
The sun turned black, bone-chillingly cold, as if it were just a huge sphere floating in the air, nothing more.
The light around disappeared, as if the very existence of light had been stripped away. The only remaining 'light source' was the sun scepter in Tang's hand.
It replaced the 'sun'! Emitting light!
Without exception, all things enveloped by this 'sunlight' could not clearly display their original colors. All objects were as if illuminated by an even denser darkness, not only without any warmth but also eerie and incomparably cold.
The thick, cold tones could arouse people's instinctive fear response, making them want to flee this place.
"It's the audience's Extraordinary ability."
Corruption, sunlight, inner heart—the abilities of three demigod-level Extraordinary characteristics were all displayed at this moment.
The Proprietor's Ring on Tang's left little finger was now slightly hot.
Using the perspective of the marionettes within the theater, he saw that a range of nearly a hundred meters centered on him was enveloped in dense blackness.
That was not pure darkness, it was 'Black Sunlight' that swallowed everything.
If it weren't for the theater core's suppression, and this place being isolated, the entire theater would have been affected at the speed of light.
The Never-Ending Theater might not fear a mystical item formed by the fusion of only Sequence Four characteristics, but the marionettes might not be so lucky!
Some marionettes followed orders and stepped forward, entering this black sunlight that resembled a domain.
Then, something appeared behind the marionettes.
Was it, a shadow?
In Tang's perspective, a shadow appeared behind the marionettes, just as if they were illuminated by normal sunlight.
And now, the shadow, 'lived.'
Before Tang realized this, the marionettes fell down.
The theater core actively abandoned the spirit threads of these marionettes, and the shadows, from the moment they appeared, did not fall with the marionettes.
They quickly possessed the marionettes, and at the same time, a denser black substance appeared on the marionettes.
Like... oil?
'Warning! The sun is about to ascend!!'
At this moment, Tang heard terror in the System's voice.
Something was gurgling and surging outward along the sun scepter.
The sun scepter at this moment was like a straw stuck in a drink, and something was being sucked out along the straw!
'Sun... sun... it... He &￥&）——'
Like a sound explosion in his ears, the distorted noise instantly crashed Tang's brain.
He subconsciously clenched the sun scepter, but the tactile sensation was very strange.
Tang 'subconsciously' looked over, his spiritual intuition not even reacting to how dangerous this action was.
He saw that his hands were covered in a lot of oil...
'Warning &*%& contamination %￥￥ disinfection——'
The System's voice was extremely distorted, intermittent.
Then, Tang's spirit body was thrown out of his physical body.
The entire theater was trembling. The black curtain surrounding the entire theater, at some point, had a corner quietly corroded by 'oil.'
The theater core was beating wildly. The marionettes abandoned their ongoing commands. Their spirit threads were entirely manipulated by the theater core. Then, a huge repulsive force was about to throw Tang's body and his sun scepter out of the theater!
This is what you meant by no problem?!
Tang didn't even have a chance to question the System. His spirit body was directly expelled from his physical body, but the System remained in his physical body. Then he 'saw' that the symbol representing the sun on the sun scepter now seemed to be connected to the abyss, spewing out countless black substances.
That was...
The Chaos Sea?!
Countless knowledge resurfaced in his mind. Those madly distorted ancient knowledges immediately made Tang understand what exactly was surging up.
That was more terrifying than the revival of the Ancient Sun God's consciousness or the Lord's consciousness, even more terrifying than a mere invasion at the consciousness level... Primordial One!
The metaphor of the sun referred to the Primordial One! Ascending meant surging up! It was about to surge into the real world!
[Contaminating host, provoking system, immediate erasure]
The System's voice rang out at this moment!
There was no more static. Compared to the System's usual cheap and rogue voice, this voice was extremely calm, without any intonation.
It was like suddenly changing a core.
Tang 'saw' again that among the densely packed words engraved on the sun scepter, countless mystical symbols emerged.
Those symbols were like living things, each symbol representing an origin, carrying a civilization, recording countless pieces of information drifting in the torrent of history!
That was terrifying knowledge that would completely collapse a high-sequence powerhouse with just one word interpreted!
That was, Mad Secrets!
(End of this chapter)