Chapter 22: The Black Gate

Faust turned and faced the basement, his eyes sparkling with a dangerous smile, "Let me see how much more this town can surprise me." โ€

He strolled to the basement, playing with a crystal the size of his thumb's belly. The crystal was so muddy that it could not be sold for a few bucks, but Faust was very fond of playing with gems, and there was no good thing at this time, so he had to make do with this thing.

Although the mayor's mansion is spacious, a small number of them are guest rooms, which are concentrated on the other side of the house, and at this end there are several living rooms, as well as the mayor's bedroom, which is considered a private residence. The two are separated by several offices and meeting places, which are not cluttered.

The mayor's basement is not hidden, it is at the end of a hallway behind the living room, and the door opens to a staircase that slopes down. Directly above the basement is the garden of the "Hui" shaped mansion, which peeks out at the corner with a low room top, about half a foot high, with a circle of ventilation holes, but no windows.

This is something Faust can see by using telesensing, a second-level psionic power of the Psychic Prophecy System, which allows a person's senses to spread to extremely distant places, and the distance is directly proportional to the amount of psychic power invested - it is even rumored that a powerful psychic sorcerer once used this to monitor an entire plane.

When Faust was in the middle of the jungle, he had nothing to do but master as many psychic abilities as he could, and telesensing was one of his carefully selected abilities.

Faust now has a lot of psychic power, so he has invested a lot of power in remote sensing, which allows him to remotely sense the entire mayor's mansion.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. In Faust's remote sensing, nearly one-third of the field is in darkness.

Faust had long known about the mayor's strange restraints through Fosse, so he had already anticipated this phenomenon. He carefully discerned the darkness, and soon, he recognized the problem.

The darkness was uneven, and there were two dark spots in the guest room area, one large and one small. The large black spot obscured almost three rooms, but at the edge of the dark spot, Faust saw several familiar objects, including axes, daggers, and staffs. Undoubtedly, it was Reinhardt's and Annabella's room, respectively.

In that case, the owner of this dark spot is about to come out, and it is Professor Pacion. Faust was not surprised by this, and it was not surprising that Professor Pacien was capable of doing so.

The other dark spot was one floor higher than the three of Professor Pacion, and was located in the corner, apparently another resident of the residence. His dark spots were much smaller, blocking only half of the room, and the figure could even be seen moving around the room at the edges.

These dark spots were clearly the personal actions of a few powerful people, and had nothing to do with the huge shadow that hung over the mayor's private part of the mansion. It was a thin darkness, very different from the well-defined dark spots of Professor Pacian and the mysterious inhabitant. It was like a dark mist, through which Faust could see some wonderful shadows, but he could not distinguish between reality and falsehood.

The fog is not evenly distributed, it has its own core, as if that is the source of all fog. It was the mayor's basement.

Faust opened his closed eyes, and there was a closed wooden door in front of himโ€”and before he knew it, he had reached his destination. The door was the same as the other wooden doors along the way, and Faust had seen it through Fosse's eyes, but at the moment it exuded an ominous aura.

It was as if there was a flood behind the door, a demon that destroyed the world, and once opened, it would release unimaginable calamities.

Faust was in a strange state at the moment, observing outside the door, as if there was an area behind the door, where the darkness was thick and distorted, and Faust's psionic energy was concentrated on it, and after a while, he felt a wave of vertigo, which made him have to stop telesensing.

But from the perspective of the Spirit Crystal Servant Foxi, he couldn't detect a trace of abnormality, and he could even feel himself outside the door. At this time, he stared at the door as if he were facing a great enemy, and he was covered in a cold sweat.

"This power ......," Faust muttered to himself, "this is the power of the shadow world!"

Faust never went to the world of shadows, but Legbar did. In addition to psionic energy and other psionic skills from level 1 to level 9 in his inheritance, the most content is the record of his travels around the multiverse.

Among them, the shadow world is the world that Regbar frequents the most. The gates of this world are everywhere, and the shadows of all worlds are connected to the shadow world, and as long as you master the know-how, anyone can go to the shadow world and enjoy the scenery that is completely different from the plane under the sun.

But only the truly strong can use this as a transit point to roam the multiverse - Legba is one of them.

The Shadow World is actually an extremely treacherous world, with long nights, harsh climate, and many monsters, but these are even mild compared to the real horror of the Shadow World.

The shadows are filled with evil, where the wilderness reverberates with whispers that no one can understand, and special powers can distort people's spirits and bodies, and even transform people into some kind of filthy, blasphemous existence.

Legend has it that the Shadow World wasn't like this before, but since the last Dark Shadow Rising Tide, it has gradually changed and is no longer as "gentle" as it used to be.

But in the midst of the ensuing turmoil, these were the little things that few cared about - the disappearance of Shar, the complete destruction of the Shadow Demon Network, and the madness of all the mages who borrowed the power of the Shadows...... These are but the prelude to the great upheaval.

In Regba's time, the record of the great upheaval was only a mythical word, but the change in the shadow world was indeed real, and it was Legba who saw it with his own eyes.

Legbar left a large number of fragments of his memories in the legacy, the strange appearances he had seen in the shadowed worlds, including the three-legged giant with a tentacle as its head, the boiling and tumbling gray sea full of monsters with various organs and limbs, and the ominous red giant star streaked across the sky, accompanied by a piercing roar every time it appeared......

Faust's present situation is different from either one, but the similarity of temperament, the inexplicable imagery, all indicate that they come from the same source.

This door must never be opened. Faust made up his mind that he would not open this door - no matter what kind of interest, it was far less than his own life, and when the money was gone, he could make it again, and when his life was gone, everything would really be over.

Faust decided to leave it at that, he could simply kill the mayor and enslave the entire town by force. Although you can't get the most benefit in this way, it's better than dying like this.

But God doesn't want it to happen, fate will always play a malicious joke when you don't want something to happen.

The old mayor heard the footsteps outside the door, he was a prisoner at the moment, so he naturally wanted to be courteous, "It must be Mr. Faustus outside? โ€

"Wait for ......" seemed to be interfered with by some kind of force, and Fosse's warning was half a step late.

The old mayor walked a few steps to the door, and he dropped the lock and pulled it inward.

"Squeak......