Chapter 6: The Black Cat
Magellan and the Countess were on the run. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is a stone building with a long corridor with a long corridor with a variety of cuneiform characters and drawings carved into the stone wall.
Occasionally, the sun shone on their faces, bringing a hint of warmth, and then they were left behind by them, and the shadows wrapped in the ancient coldness embraced them again.
It's an ancient sprawling building, a true marvel. The intricate labyrinth runs deep underground, protecting the territory of the goddess Isis, while the power of the Sun and the Nile still reaches the depths of the earth.
Every day at noon, the sun shines through the winding passages, illuminating the temple of Isis and sparkling on the Nile waters of the culvert.
And now, Magellan and the two are running wildly at the water's edge.
Behind them, a terrifying black beast was in pursuit. It was an enlarged black domestic cat, with no sound when its feet landed on the ground, and its muscles trembled as it ran, driving its pure black fur, like silent ripples on the water.
It was an animal as graceful as a beautiful lady in a summer palace, but its huge size always exuded the dangerous aura of a predator.
The countess did not hesitate at every fork in the road, and she led Magellan along the only path in a complex labyrinth, and every time the behemoth approached them, it was thrown away at some corner.
But in the end, there was only a dead end left in front of them.
It was a monolithic earthy boulder with two cobras intertwined with each other to form a pattern of the Knot of Isis.
Magellan pressed one hand against the stone wall and stopped the momentum of the forward rush.
Convinced that this was an obstacle that could not be violently pushed away, he reluctantly turned to face the black cat's head, which was still cute despite being magnified.
As he had known for a long time, the behemoth that had been given the opportunity jumped up.
It's a standard feline pounce, with the big cat flying like lightning over an amazingly long distance before landing silently on its paws to the ground.
Magellan put the long sword in his hand back on his back with lightning speed, and squeezed out a shriveled smile at the round black pupils of the huge cat's eyes in front of him.
Then the beast smiled.
It was a complex and simple smile mixed with joy, innocence, curiosity, banter, and wisdom, and it was so dangerous that Magellan's hair stood on end.
Like a kitten that had found a toy, the giant beast rubbed its cheek against the countess, leaving Magellan stunned.
Then it turned, looking at the two of them, as it walked down the alley.
The giant beast asked the two to follow it, and for some reason, Magellan understood the meaning of the big cat.
The two looked at each other and followed.
Behind the wagging tail of the black cat, they made their way through several stone walls that were actually illusions, out of the most complex part of the labyrinth, and finally into a spacious hall.
The stone walls on all sides are covered with images of the goddess Isis, and in one corner, between two intertwined cobras is a green grass.
They were two huge horror monsters, but when the black cat walked over, they just raised their heads and hissed a few threatening times, and then disappeared into the darkness.
The big cat gracefully walked over to the green grass and nodded at the two.
"This is the Staff of God?"
"Yes. ”
The two stepped forward and looked up at the huge long leaves of the green grass.
"The runes of Isis that can get us out of this book of madness?"
"Yes. ”
Even though the huge green grass didn't look like a rune, Magellan tore a small piece from the blade of grass and put it in his mouth.
Then the world began to change.
It was a crazy vortex with Magellan at its core, and it was not the world that made him involuntarily change, but his delusion.
Then the change stopped.
Magellan got up from the ground and calmed his chaotic brain, he looked around and saw the countess standing beside him...... and a black cat.
It was a small, round hairball with black eyes wide open in the darkness deep underground, looking at the two of them with an irresistible gaze.
"Meow ......"
The kitten jumped lightly, as lightly as if weightless, and landed on the countess's shoulder.
"Meow. ”
Helen turned her face sideways to look at the pure black kitten, and then the little creature pressed her furry forehead against the countess's flawless side face.
"This is the temple of the goddess Isis?"
Magellan looked up at the pillar of light that shone from the top of the temple overhead, and the thin light fell on the forehead of the goddess holding the Knot of Isis, the only light in the dimly lit temple.
"Why is there a cat here?"
The countess put her hand on her shoulder, and the kitten obediently walked into the palm of her hand, then turned to look at Magellan.
"Meow. ”
"I don't know. ”
Magellan shook his head and said nothing more.
He knew what the countess meant. The first stop of the two of them was the temple of Isis, because the goddess had disappeared with the collapse of the ancient empire of Emenchet, and she had very little power left, and her temple was almost undefended except for the secrecy in which it was located.
Able to walk through the labyrinth of the Book of Madness that guards the temple, this black cat may have once been part of a terrifyingly powerful force, but now that the god is gone, it is nothing more than a cute little creature.
Magellan took out the "sun" from the gloomy temple, lit the oil lamp, and held it up to his eyes.
As he had expected, the walls of the temple were covered with frescoes and cuneiform scripts, brightly painted, and the goddess was covered with intricate gold jewelry, and in front of her, both mortals and powerful gods were reduced to foils.
"The great goddess Isis, the god of magic, the god of hidden wisdom, the guardian of the pharaohs, the mother of Horus, the darling of the sun and the underworld......"
"Meow ......"
Magellan circled around the temple and returned to where he was.
"But where is the sealed Thoth's head?"
The sunlight is gone, the fixed moment of the day has passed, and the underground temple has returned to darkness.
The countess walked to the foot of the statue of the goddess.
"No one knows whether the great goddess Isis has digested the god's head, for all the gods believe that she has mastered the secrets of the sun and the underworld, and that Thoth's knowledge is only a small piece of the puzzle. ”
But Pharaoh still worshipped only the sun, not even Horus, the patron saint of the gods and kings, nor did the great Isis. ”
"Yes, so......" Helen put a hand on the idol's feet, "maybe that shard of divine power that makes mortals shudder is still here, right here." ”