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Chapter 988: Chapter 344: Lazy Branding and Matthias

“The existence of Spirit Amber is related to ‘Taboo’. You can understand it as an actual ‘snake’s bone’.”

The black-haired girl said with a smile: “And its relationship with Amber… Do you really want to hear it?

“Many of the concepts in the Path of Dusk were never originally Amber’s to begin with, but Spirit Amber believed they belonged to Amber. The higher you go on the Path of Dusk, the more difficult it becomes, partly because of this… because the higher you go, the more you deviate from the Path of Amber and instead get closer to the Spirit Amber Celestial Marshal.”

This situation actually occurs in other paths as well… It can even be said that the main reason why the sixth path is now impassable is because of this.

The Serpent Father doesn’t care much, so the Fallen Celestial Marshal who digs up people diligently every day has become the absolute mainstream of the path of transcendence.

What those Demon Scholars perceive as the Path of Transcendence was actually ‘The Path of Corruption and Transcendence’ from the very beginning.”

Their path becomes narrower because they have to align with the existing paths, yet lean towards their perceived ‘True Path’.

Of course, if the Fallen Celestial Marshal finally succeeds in ascending, then those Demon Incarnations stuck at the Fifth Power Level will have to be collectively promoted. But obviously, they don’t have that chance anymore.

All of the Advanced Divine Art is this kind of ‘dark history,’ and it’s easy to offend gods if it’s casually shared. And the more Aiwass reads, the less reverence he has for the gods… It’s really true that distance creates beauty.

Even if Aleister doesn’t spell it out, Black Chancellor would certainly have guessed a great deal already.

The Path of Dusk has no praying power, nor can it communicate with the great beings of the Dream Realm, its intelligence is quite outdated.

And the followers of the Path of Dusk are famously reticent; if you don’t ask, I definitely won’t tell, and if you ask, most likely I still won’t tell… As a result, they can only guess blindly in their judgments.

After all, the professions of the Necromancer and the Preserver are essentially two choices splitting from the same heritage. They both belong to the Spirit Amber Celestial Marshal and have nothing to do with Amber.

Seeing Adolf’s brows furrowed in deep thought, Aleister was very satisfied.

So she kindly stopped playing the riddler and directly revealed the answer:

“Spirit Amber once left remnants in the bodies of sea monsters in the Material Realm, and that was the ‘Taboo’ force completely severed by it. Under the erosion of time representing the Force of Equilibrium, the taboo shell gradually faded away, leaving behind bones submerged by the Dusk Power.”

“By ascending in a more intellectual form, it made its appearance consistent with new races like elves and giants… This is actually a kind of severance from its original form. Even you don’t know that Spirit Amber is actually a serpent with a human face, let alone what others don’t know.”

“—This is a form of Necromancy, isn’t it? Achieving one’s goals through transforming corpses… Transforming one’s own soul, of course, is included.”

“That’s true indeed.”

Black Chancellor nodded, uttering a rather authoritative voice: “This is Necromancy. Preservation Arts and Necromancy are two sides of the same coin.”

Preservers of the Path of Dusk can study Necromancy, and Necromancers can study Preservation Arts.

Although the difference between Demon Scholars and Curse Ritual Magicians is not particularly big, botanists and Alchemists also have similar capabilities, but at least their textbooks are completely different.

And between Preservers and Necromancers, which side one leans towards is entirely a matter of personal will.

Even between each other, they can switch and advance… just like how a Necromancer at the Fourth Level can also become an Amber Artisan. In other paths, advanced professions are closely related to the initial professions… At least Demons cannot advance into Demon Incarnations.”

“The so-called art of Necromancy, its essence is actually ‘Excavation Art’. We call it Necromancy simply because the most common material we use is the carcasses of various animals.”

“Just like in heavy snow, the seasoned hunter can always find the nuts buried by squirrels… Necromancy is the same. It is the reverse side of Preservation Arts, thus if these two are studied separately, the Transcendent will never reach high positions.”

“If Preservation Arts’ essence is ‘Extending the Death of All Things’, then Necromancy is about ‘Utilizing Things That Have Died’. Whether it’s the medical arts of the Path of Adaptation, cooking skills of the Path of Love, or tailoring skills of the Path of Beauty, fundamentally all are extensions of ‘Excavation Art’.”

This is Black Chancellor’s understanding of Necromancy.

To put it less politely, Necromancy is the ‘Art of Utilizing Waste’.”

—Never mind how it became waste, just say whether it was utilized in the end or not.”

“It’s pretty much the same,” the fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl nodded, her tone as mature as an adult’s, “Spirit Amber once borrowed the power of Amber through some means, sealed the ‘Taboo,’ and enveloped it within a shell of Amber… This is why ‘Amber’ and ‘Spirit Amber’ sound and appear so similar, because from this perspective, Spirit Amber is considered a creation of Amber.”

“And both Preservation Arts and Necromancy are skills handed down from Spirit Amber. If Necromancy is considered an invention of it, then Preservation Arts is the power it obtained from Amber.”

“From this relationship, although Spirit Amber is a Celestial Marshal, it is actually an apostle of Amber. It’s just that since Amber doesn’t take apostles at all, that’s why there’s a situation where Spirit Amber first switches jobs to rise as a Celestial Marshal, and then returns in the role of an apostle.”

“Spirit Amber directly disseminating the Preserver profession belonging to Amber to mortals, is much like the Hourglass directly distributing Amber’s power to Death—It seems that the gods of the Dream Realm are used to not asking Amber’s opinions on matters.”