"Calcosa...... Aldebaran ...... Harry The dark sun is high in the sky......"

A deep female voice echoed through the dark space, and she looked up at the stars, then felt a vague response.

Perhaps the old man was really different, she thought, that the call came from somewhere, maybe it was in her own heart, just like before.

Dressed in robes, the Ancient One calmed his thoughts, followed the dark cosmic sound until he came to the bottom of his heart, took a step towards the deepest part of the spiritual world before the fog dissipated, and then came to the top of the huge city.

Is this Calcosa?

Standing on the edge of the Sky Island, the Ancient One looked down, the phantom of the huge city below was both magnificent and terrifying, and the countless spires pierced out of the city were like the wreckage that the Ancient One had seen on a planet in the Aldebaran system.

The surging mist revealed some strange patterns, with a Gothic beauty, but not identical, the Ancient One did not feel darkness, sadness and contradiction in it, there was no Gothic core of mysticism, only a kind of peace and peace.

When the fog gradually thickened, Gu Yi turned back with a feeling, and saw the black sun guarded by countless mist, he hung quietly in the sky, without saying a word, and those mysterious patterns and surging particles had told Gu Yi all the answers.

The Ancient One folded his hands and bowed, and said, "I know you won't respond, but as a Supreme Mage, I still want to thank you for your warning to Earth, thank you, Ancient One, humanity has taken action, and the old days will not return." ”

The black sun will never respond, the ancient one knows this, maybe he is not a life at all, more like a machine in human understanding, only following certain logical actions, but the ancient one firmly believes that he has abundant feelings, can understand order, and also has love.

In the long life of the ancient one, she had seen many such gods, not all of them were chaotic and crazy, there were many regular beings, who truly loved their creations, cared for them like father and mother, and rejoiced in their progress.

Judging from the experience of the past year or so, the more they understand and create order, the more ancient and powerful they become, because there is a price to pay for protecting the order they create, and if they are not able to defeat all the invaders and make self-preservation not a problem at all, they will not have the strength to love their creation.

"We should talk about you." Gu Yi still maintained a posture of folding his hands, but raised his head and said, "It shouldn't be a coincidence that you called me, do you want to make a deal with me?" ”

The black sun did not respond, still hanging silently in the sky, like the only darkness condensed from the endless gray, and when it was dark enough, it showed that the other light-colored places were brighter, which sounded paradoxical, but it was extraordinarily beautiful when observed.

"What do you want?" The Ancient One asked again, and she patiently enumerated what she could offer: "energy, soul, doors to the real world, pain and blood, willpower, good character, ......"

The Ancient One was already familiar with this process, and when she placed her chips on the table, she was able to judge what kind of existence they were based on the choices of the other party.

The neutral gods prefer things related to the soul, not soul energy, but the meaning of the soul's existence, the essence of life in the universe, and they will want their contractor to offer their soul after completing the contract, but they will not absorb the soul, they just want them to accompany them, which will allow them to listen to the pulse of the universe.

The good-natured gods like the peace and calm that comes out of some long trial, so they tend to test the contractor, perhaps to find some fragment, perhaps to inquire into some kind of knowledge, and they like the calming power that the contractor produces in concentration, which is their tranquilizer.

Chaotic and evil gods, on the other hand, often demand blood, pain, and screams, and they will drive their followers to destruction, or simply ask powerful beings to open the door for them to invade the real world so that they can kill on a killing spree.

As long as the gods put forward conditions, the ancient one can see through them and decide how to deal with them, of course, she will not stop destroying them because the gods are good enough, everything depends on her own needs.

The black sun still didn't respond, and seemed to completely reject the ancient one's request for a trade, but the ancient one didn't lose her patience, she just stood here quietly, like a statue, as if she could just spend a thousand years like this.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the mist became thicker, Gu Yi raised his head, squinted his eyes slightly, and stared intently at the huge black sun, there was no light, no sound, only the flow of the sun particles changed slightly.

The black sun showed a different pattern to the ancient one, and some other knowledge poured into the ancient one's mind, and after gradually understanding this obscure knowledge, the ancient one showed a slightly puzzled expression.

Emotion?

The Ancient One lowered his head and took a gentle breath, then raised his head again to look at the black sun with a calm and powerful gaze, and said, "You want emotion?" What kind of emotion? Happy, painful, calm, confused...... Do you want them all? You're too greedy. ”

Gu Yi didn't seem to have heard such a request, but she still exhaled, looked at the black sun and said, "The passionate emotions of my youth have long since left me, and after I have attained the fulfillment of my mood, I have very few emotional fluctuations. ”

"But you came at the right time, or at the right time for me, and not so long ago I did feel remorse, and did I feel remorse for some of my habits, and that would satisfy your request?"

The black sun didn't respond, and the sun particles were still surging silently according to the previous rules, but the ancient one knew that this was a gesture of accepting everything, and she had a question that she had to explore.

"So, what can you give me?"

The answer appeared in Gu Yi's heart, there was still no sound, no picture, just a concept, like Gu Yi's flash of inspiration, but she knew that it was the response.

Knowledge and Truth.

"What kind of knowledge? And what kind of truth? ”

Then the ancient one got the answer again, frowning and reading the answer softly: "...... All? ”

Gu Yi showed a look of confusion, the other party didn't look like the kind of arrogant demon god with a burned brain, but Gu Yi really didn't know how he was going to give all the knowledge and truth.

The Ancient One decided to take a risk, just because this black sun was not like any kind of life she had ever seen, just quietly hanging high in the air, magnificent and terrifying, like another level of nature.

"I'll tell my story first, and then you will tell yours, and I'll open my heart to you about my joys, my pains, and my confusion, and I don't want much, but you should answer my questions, tell me what you are, and what ...... are in the depths of the stars."

After the ancient one finished speaking, without the slightest bit of mud, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she fell into the memory, and began to tell the story of her and Jennifer.

"After I arrived in that universe, I started to patrol until I saw a little girl in the backyard of a house who was completely different from other monsters......"

“…… Then Jennifer began to tremble, and I realized what a mistake I had made, and that my empiricism was about to kill her......"

"It was an accident, but I prefer to think that it was a human error, a mistake of my making, that I took the little girl in a messiahic gesture, but failed to really fulfill my savior duties......"

"Every Supreme Mage must be convinced of their invulnerability, and if their doubts waver, they risk dragging the earth into a catastrophe together......"

"Yes, you're right, this kind of extreme arrogance is constantly domesticating our spirit and personality, but I don't feel pain, responsibility is the greatest meaning of existence that human beings can find......"

"No, I don't think it has anything to do with whether or not it can be remedied, I've made many irreparable mistakes, but none of them have made me as frustrating as this one......"

The Ancient One stared at the changing patterns of the black sun, feeling the thoughts that kept welling up in her mind, and to her amazement, the ancient god was telling her how he understood her, that he was dissecting her emotions and explaining where they came from.

He was offering a different kind of knowledge, a knowledge that the ancients had paid little attention to, acting on the abstraction of intelligent beings.

The ancients began to preach the knowledge provided by the Black Sun in order to be able to better understand them in an orderly way.

"I have always been balancing my own humanity with my divinity, and when I was the Supreme Mage, divinity prevailed, and my responsibility to all of humanity forced me to become a god and make one choice after another that would be beneficial to the majority."

"Perhaps the change came when I had a qualified successor, and the responsibility on my shoulders was no longer so heavy, so that humanity gradually returned, and I began to stop being trapped in the gains and losses, and no longer had to worry about which side to preserve, so I began to become greedy, hoping that the slightest salvation would not go wrong."

"Once upon a time, I have always had a high tolerance for sacrifice, and I am not afraid to sacrifice myself or a certain part of my race, and I do not feel guilty or depressed about it, but because the divine nature has suppressed everything, I will do my best to preserve what I can, so that I can have a clear conscience."

"But when humanity prevails, I will hope that there will be no more sacrifices, not for Jennifer, not for all of humanity, and if I don't, I will feel the sadness that I rarely felt when I sacrificed my own kind...... The quest for perfection comes from compassion in human nature, but also from greed in human nature. ”

She was silent for a long time when Gu Yi's words fell, and then she folded her hands again, her robe floating slightly, and she said, "I have always regarded the human mind as a mysterious thing, and sometimes I even think that demon gods are easier to understand than humans. ”

"But I would say, yes, Your Majesty, this is indeed a wonderful knowledge, another way of seeing the world, and if this is what you give me in return, I can accept it without having to have any additional knowledge, I think it is enough."

But soon, Gu Yi felt that other knowledge had drifted into her heart in the form of pages and pages, and Gu Yi looked intently and found that what was recorded on it was the secret of the stars.

"Azathoth, Nameless Mist, Sabu Nikolas, Yog Sototh, Nyaratotip, Cthulhu, ......"

The Ancient One pronounced the names on each page, and was struck by the sheer size and horror of this mysterious god system hidden in the depths of the stars.

She looked down at the laptop cover that was gradually taking shape, with a black sun on it and the Arabic word "Necronomicon" written in flower script.

And she finally saw a very clear message, or a warning, on that huge black sun, "not to be circulated".

(End of chapter)