Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 3461: The Final Choices

Chapter 3461: The Final Choices

Just as Alex began to read about Pallideyes, he was struck with a strange feeling that gave him pause. It was not a feeling akin to anything he had ever experienced before, to a point where he wondered if it was even real.

It was similar to an itch that had appeared deep in his body, one that he could not scratch away immediately. Except, it was in his mind, so Alex could hardly tell what was happening at all.

It had happened just as he turned the page, so was the book responsible for it? Or did it have something to do with the memories that he received from Godslayer? Did he somehow recognize the name Pallideyes?

He looked up from the book, staring at the two around him, wondering if they felt the same thing or not. Judging by their lack of expression, nothing had happened to them at all.

So, Alex looked back down at the book and read about Pallideyes.

Pallideyes was one of the male Death Sages that was not involved with the Death God or the Death cult. He was in fact one of Duskcorpse’s rivals in the mastery of the Death Dao and had even gone up against her when it was decided for someone to become a Death God for the first time.

His eye skill, the Life Sucking Eyes, was world-renowned for its ability to induce weakness and fatigue into any fighter he came up against. If one wasn’t sufficiently strong enough to defend against the skill, they would soon be unable to keep up with his attacks and meet an unfortunate end.

He was one of the stronger Death Sages of the past.

Endbringer was a man who stayed on the backline mostly, helping the victims of the war using his Death Dao to help delay their decay. He alone was said to have been responsible for the survival of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who would have otherwise died since there were long delays for treatments back then.

Gravespinner was a corpse refiner. Where Deadcall fought with corpses by bonding with them, Gravespinner first refined the corpse to make them more akin to a puppet, giving them superior physical strength. He had made a lot of name for himself, but not enough to be considered one of the more prestigious Death Sages.

Finally, Ghostmind was a female Death Sage, with the unique power of turning herself ethereal. She haunted the battlefield like a ghost, slipping into people who couldn’t touch her and filling their body directly with Death aura. If someone didn’t have the right counter to her abilities, she could easily go for the strongest fighter on a battlefield and kill them before they even had a chance to react.

Once Alex finished reading up on them, he took a moment to recount the information in his mind. Going through it all again, his thoughts kept returning to Pallideyes as he wondered what sensation it was that he had felt earlier.

“Any guesses?” Bladedance asked as she watched him place the book away. She didn’t pick it up as there was no point for her to see what he had missed. She had no way of knowing at all.

“A few,” Alex said. “But even those aren’t close to being usable. I need to go through the rest before I can say for sure.”

Alex read through the other books, cross-referencing them with the first book and the information he had in his mind.

The most prominent information about the Death Sage responsible for Godslayer’s demise was that he was a man. Moving beyond that, the man was a Slayer, which was a group started by the Sword God, Saber God, and the Method God. Considering that, it was possible that the man used weapons too.

There was also something about the man working for the Death God, but the Death God herself had been working with the Sword God’s group back then to find a way to kill the Undying God, which could be where one of the outer Sages like Pallideyes joined her and became her subordinate.

Surely the Artifact God wouldn’t be so easily duped by someone who wasn’t even one of the Death God’s subordinates.

’So it’s a male. May or may not use a weapon. May be connected with the other gods, and finally has to be under the Death God’s cult.’

As Alex read through the other records, he learned that Gravespinner had later joined the Death God’s cult too, but surprisingly, the one he thought it would be, Pallideyes, hadn’t.

Alex felt strange learning that. So was he just mistaken about him?

’I don’t know what I can ignore and what I must keep in mind,’ he thought, reading through the remainder of the books.

The strange feeling came up again while he was finishing up, this time confusing him even more as he was reading up on Deadcall.

’What the hell is going on?’ he wondered. ’Is this Godslayer’s memories or not?’

Once he finished everything, Alex put them all aside.

“What did you find?” Bladedance asked, curious.

“I do see a few possibilities,” Alex said. “Since it’s not a woman, I can immediately ignore Curselake, Mournfall, Ghostmind, and Rotspine. That leaves me with 8 possible ones that may have been responsible. I think I can disregard Gravespinner since he is a corpse user, and I don’t remember seeing any corpses in my memories during the battle.”

“Gravespinner is also long since dead,” the Wine God explained.

“I see. And Tombmaker went into hiding, so it’s not him either,” Alex said. “Has he been found?”

“His status is unknown, and it is believed that he is dead too,” the Wine God said.

“Who else is dead?” Alex asked.

“Lastwail and Endbringer are both dead as well,” the man said.

“That leaves Somberskull, Deathgrim, Deadcall, and Pallideyes,” Alex said. He could have dismissed Deadcall and Pallideyes for a few reasons, but because they were the ones that gave him the strange feeling, he chose to stick with them.

“These four,” Alex said. “I need to know where they are at this moment.”