Chapter 2265: The Puppet King (16)

"Who?!" Arthur asked with a loud roar at the marvelous voice. He hadn't even had time to see the world in front of him, because his consciousness had just been sucked into the world, and the scene in front of him was still blurry.

The other party didn't seem to answer, or was too slow to answer, beyond Arthur's expectations. It was then that Arthur saw the scene in front of him clearly and found himself on an "island".

Surrounded by an oily, blackened, viscous ocean that stretches as far as the eye can see, it borders the sickly dark green sky. The sky, the dark green sky, as if there were no sun, moon and stars, was purely a dark green sky. It's just that there is some kind of pale green smoke in the sky that is slightly brighter than dark green, as if it is the light source of this strange world, illuminating the whole world from top to bottom without dead ends, and dyeing everything in front of Arthur's eyes into a faint green, not dazzling nor dim.

Such a world is clearly not the real world. This seems to be a different space ------ a different space in a book?

The "isolated island" where Arthur is located is not an island formed by natural rocks, but a circular platform made of metal of unknown origin. The edges of the platform are intricately shaped and distorted, making it seem like bugs are wriggling there. Actually, if you look at it seriously, it's just a pattern on the floor, but because they are on the edge, the air around the floor is affected by the heat coming out of the black sea and twists, eventually causing the pattern of the floor that would not move to seem to be wriggling.

The sight of it all is morbid and disgusting. However, this is a huge library, and this isolated island is full of neatly arranged bookshelves, and the shelves are full of books, and the floor next to the bookshelves is also full of books, and even the waxy things flying in the air, Arthur takes a closer look and sees that they are actually flying pages.

This isolated island is a library, a library that has survived as an independent library. This mysterious world, so quiet that only the sound of pages turning around, is a special space that houses this library. In addition to the island where Arthur was, he seemed to be able to see several other islands in the distance, each of which was about the same size as the island he was, two hundred feet square, and those islands seemed to be full of bookshelves, stacked with a huge number of books that humans could never finish reading in their lifetime. If Arthur's black ocean didn't give him such an uneasy and disgusting feeling, Arthur might have the courage to swim from this island to another island to see if there would be a different collection of books on the other island. But the black ocean feels so evil that the devil knows what is so malicious beneath the viscous and wriggling surface that can't see the bottom of the water?

"You're finally here. Arthur observed all this, and after about ten seconds, the voice that had spoken to Arthur before suddenly spoke again.

Sure enough, it didn't deliberately ignore Arthur's questioning, but it was so "slow" that even its tone of voice dragged on five times slower than ordinary people's speech, and it took more than ten seconds to say such a short sentence. It was also the first time in Arthur's life that he would have such a feeling of anxiety when he heard the other party speak, if it weren't for the fact that he was full of doubts now, he would even want to interrupt the other party directly, telling the guy to either speak quickly or stop talking.

"What is this place?" Arthur waited patiently, and finally waited for the other party's voice to fall, and then hurriedly asked: "Is this the other space in the Abyss Magic Codex?"

"Yes and no. The voice that sounded from somewhere, continued to reply slowly, "The Grimoire opens the door to this place. This place is my territory, the Abyss Library. ＂

"Library...... Arthur glanced around, and indeed, there were more books than a library. Despite the morbid atmosphere of this alternate space, Arthur had no objection to the fact that it harbored a great deal of knowledge.

"Who are you?" he asked. Since this Abyss Library is the territory of this mysterious voice that speaks, the owner of this voice is definitely not simple.

"My name, Morbius Maiyu, the Candidate of the Abyss, the Hoarder of Knowledge. The voice replied, "Nice to meet you, King Arthur." ＂

"Oh, do you know me?" the identity was debunked at once, but Arthur didn't appear too surprised. It should be said that he knew from the beginning that his identity would be easily recognized in such a situation. The self-proclaimed "Abyssal Candidate" Morbius McElder's origins are certainly not simple, and once it comes to the forces of the Abyss, Arthur knows that they are not something to be messed with.

"I know everything, I hoard all knowledge, all intelligence. Morbius McEu replied, "I expected your coming." ＂

"Hmph. I didn't want to come to this kind of place, and I didn't plan to stay in this kind of place for long. It was only by accident that I came across your broken book that I was teleported in. The Knight King said disdainfully, "So, shouldn't you get acquainted with each other and send me back?"

"It's not going to be easy. Morbius said, "The people who come here are those who seek knowledge. One thing for one thing, one wisdom for one wisdom. If you don't trade, you can't deal. ＂

Arthur frowned.

"In other words, I can't go back to my original world without getting something from here?" he asked again, "What does it mean that I have to lose here?"

"Your price has been collected. But the abyss said, "Now, go and get what you have in exchange." ＂

Arthur wondered what the price he was paying.

Then he suddenly realized that the "price" was actually his memory of the past month. All memories of that month had vanished from the time he had last visited the remains of the Penzance Warrior's Grave to the Dark Forest. The fragment of his memory was the price he had paid for entering the Abyss Library.

"You ignored my intentions and took my memories away?!" Arthur exclaimed, "How did you do that?!I hadn't even entered the Abyss Library before this!?"

The other party did not answer. Perhaps, the question is too stupid to be answered.

The "abyss" is a space higher than the real world, in which even the flow of time is meaningless, and there is no distinction between past, present, and future. Or maybe time is just a dimension in the abyss that can be freely traversed, just as people move from one place to another.

So, asking Morbius "when was the memory taken away" is meaningless in itself. Arthur's memories are only taken away from the fact that they are lost forever, and in no particular order, so that Arthur completely forgets what happened in that whole month.

＂...... Well...... Well, another question. Arthur said angrily, "What do you want these memories for? The memories of that month are not worth enough to be exchanged for wisdom, are they?"

"Wisdom is not precious. Morbius said, "Hoarding knowledge is my priority." Especially the precious intellect of such a person as yours. ＂

Arthur was silent for a moment. Anyway, as long as it's a memory from Arthur, is it okay? Anything? Even if it's just Arthur's eating, bathing, sleeping, etc., inconsequential memories, does this guy plan to hoard it?

If that's the case, then it's easy to imagine how important this guy can be to pay Arthur accordingly.

In any case, it seems that Arthur will not be able to leave this alien space without getting his own reward. Finding a way to get out of this hellish place is the priority, and leave the rest of the matter aside.

His "reward" wasn't actually hidden too deeply, just in a clearing in the middle of the isolated island library. Or, in other words, there is a large shelf there, and a book is prominently displayed, and the shape of this book is exactly the same as the "Abyssal Magic Book: Ten Thousand Dimensions" that Arthur had encountered before, and even a blind person can see that this thing is unusual.

Arthur walked over and stood in front of the book. As if sensing Arthur's approach, the book opened on its own.

As expected, the book was full of cuneiform characters that Arthur couldn't read, and it would normally be useless even if he got the book. However, although the words were completely indecipherable, the words on the book moved naturally, combining into one circle after another on the pages like a magic circle.

Then, dark green balls of light emerged from the circles. It floated in the air like that.

Looking at Arthur, who was dumbfounded, he subconsciously reached out and touched the ball of light, thinking that this would trigger something.

Knowledge flowed into Arthur's body from that ball of light.

"Wow, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ah,

That is, in a flash, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, a huge and astonishing amount of knowledge. Millions of images instantly poured into Arthur's mind, and hundreds of billions of voices echoed in his ears, the amount of information was so large and the information was so chaotic that it almost didn't make the Knight King go crazy.

That is, the intellect of a madman.

Those who can receive it will have a great wealth called wisdom that will be used for the rest of their lives. Those who can't accept it will become crazy.

"Uh......-huh!" Arthur clutched his head, feeling like his brain was about to explode. And yet he survived.

"You're really ------" Morbius's voice echoed in Arthur's head, and he kept observing it all, "Is it because he has reached [the Extraordinary] that he has a higher tolerance for chaos than ordinary people?"

What the hell is [the principle of the strings]? When had Arthur been to that kind of place?

Then he realized that even though his brain was hit by a massive amount of information and he had a splitting headache, he was still sane at this time.

The surrounding scene gradually darkened. By the time Arthur came to his senses, he was back in the real world, standing in the lobby of the bandit's base.

Everything I saw just now seemed to be an illusion, a pipe dream. However, the brain monster that died in front of Arthur, cut in half, and the heavy metal book "Abyssal Magic Book" in Arthur's bag, all told Arthur that this was all true.

He knew what he had lost. But what did he get from the Abyss Library?