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Edward Vaughn's recitation of the words "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" in ancient Hermes caused some fluctuations in the gray mist, and Crane looked around vigilantly, and immediately grabbed the "Black Emperor" card and the sun brooch in his hand, for fear that something unexpected would suddenly occur.

But it seems that the eternal gray fog has no other vision except for the acceleration of the flow and the appearance of some swirling waves, and it is likely that it is just a conditioned reflex triggered by this name.

After the dream divination ended, he felt that the occult connection was completely severed, and Crane gasped for a few breaths.

It was not once or twice that he was caught red-handed by the subject of the divination, and Mr. Edward did not whisper or burn him as firewood, but only recited a few words of the honorific name of "Fool...... How did she know? …… Yes, the Aurora Society has earned my honorific name through "Little Sun", and has already posted bounties in various secret gatherings, so it is not surprising that she learned about this......

The connection has been disconnected, and there should be no worries. Recalling the divination picture that had shocked him just now, Crane hissed, feeling that it would be a pity not to be able to pull the other party into the tarot.

After pretending to be a "god" for a long time, he is still a little arrogant and good-looking.

But in the case of not being able to guarantee that the other party will be unfavorable to you, it is better not to risk pretending to be a ghost in front of the angels.

Anyway, he doesn't dare to divinate again now, "Edward Vaughn will be bad for himself", think about it from another perspective, if he is walking on the road and suddenly is looked at twice in a row by an indescribable high-ranking existence, Crane himself will be a little inexplicable and angry.

His mind turned, and he disappeared above the gray mist.

But as soon as his front feet disappeared, the gray mist on his back feet vibrate, and one by one like vines and roots slowly climbed up to the corners of the gray mist, and the decaying aura they carried repelled the source castle, causing a strong reaction from the gray mist, but then the power of deception flashed, and the occult connection that had been broken was forcibly connected, and the unknown authority led to a faint "possibility" caused by Crane's reckless behavior, and the roots and gray mist wrapped around the source castle produced a saw, gradually stabilized, and intertwined and twisted with each other, forming a hole with a distorted arc of light at the edges, like an eye.

The cavity lasted for a few seconds, then dispersed again, and then a black silhouette appeared above the Source Castle, sometimes twisted, with curved horns and wings, sometimes into a ribbon-like object and a huge hollow, never able to completely leave the blockade of the gray mist and step into the Source Castle.

Soon, the uninvited guests sensed the best thing to do, and the black shadow began to shrink towards the center, revealing a distinct head and body, and a layer of occult concepts from the old world floated down, enveloping the twisted and wriggling mass of vines, so that the black shadow had the outline of a human in the blink of an eye. At the same time, someone once again used the ability to deceive, gradually calming the boiling gray fog and recognizing the intruder.

The fog dispersed.

The Decaying King opened his eyes and looked straight ahead for a moment before turning around and looking up and down the place, which had no visual function and was only used to camouflage humans.

Her hanging hands clenched and unfolded. After seeing the bronze long table not far away, the eyes without Tong Kong narrowed slightly.

Somewhere under the floor-reaching cloak moved, a crow with white eyes emerged from it and landed on the ground in the form of Amon. He turned his head, unlike the virtual personality Adam, who had never understood the concept of the "banyan tree" for the first time, he saw the human shell of the outer gods.

In order to better deceive the Source Castle, she now looks almost indistinguishable from humans, with a clear division of limbs, pale and reserved, but with the struggle of all things as nourishment, she brings about the decline of all life in the universe equally. The blackened scorched bones were her crown, wrapped in withered branches, and the cracks were overflowing with indelible blood, bright red as if flowing lava, and this was the most vivid and clear color on her body.

The roots had turned into long, dark pale hair, which fell slightly haphazardly over her shoulders and behind her, and the creature struggled upwards to grasp the hand of hope that was the trim of the cloak she had mopped the floor with gold thread.

But these are very ambiguous, as if there are no finely carved statues, with simple white patches painted on the cheeks, oval sockets and eyeballs that symbolize the eyes, but no nose, and a straight mouth. Dark blocks of color scrawl the extent of the body, and she resembles an oil painting figure that has been simply outlined by a brush, and no details can be seen.

Walking in the relevant essentia of Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun, and he did not carry a "scepter", the Decay King felt a little unaccustomed.

However, it had been confirmed that the person who was peeping at her just now was not Tianzun, and these inconsequential details only flashed in her mind.

She didn't move. The concept of native plants and the near-human shell reduced rejection as she thought, but also became her restraints. After standing for several seconds, she slowly raised her hand and took a step, feeling a lot of resistance with every movement. In Amon's opinion, it was as if she was walking in water, and she could not cause too many waves.

Amun, who realized that he and the outer gods had ascended to the Source Fort in the form of spirits, curiously walked around the distance a few times, feeling very new to this essentia that had been missing for thousands of years. As one of the ways to master the Source Castle, it is impossible to say that he has no ideas, but the outer god is standing by and looking at him coldly, and Amun, who does not want to take responsibility and fate, and does not have enough strength, is of course even more unlikely to take the opportunity to establish contact.

"Don't worry, I don't have that sense of responsibility." He jokingly said, "What are you going to do now?" ”

The king of decay answered him with deeds. She took a step in the direction of the bronze table, a slight withered breath at her feet, leaving a fleeting gray-black mark on the ground of the illusion.

Unhurried, she made her way to the table with 22 chairs, her eyes lowered, her gaze slicing over a few of the chairs with the logos behind them, and lingering for a few more seconds on the high-backed chairs with the signs of the "door" and the "fool" path.

She didn't say anything, and finally looked at a card placed in front of the "Fool", and her spiritual instinct told her that it was the Black Emperor.

"That's interesting......" she whispered to herself.

Amun, who was wandering around the Source Castle, also found a new pleasure, and he found that in the corner of this quaint and solemn temple there was actually a pile of miscellaneous items blocked by gray mist, which was messily placed with clothes and various low-order extraordinary items, and one of the brass-colored keys with a special aura caught his attention. He took the key and showed it to the Outer God, and unexpectedly received a sneer and a compliment from the Outer God.

"Have you confirmed the identity of the person you just had?"

"Hmm."

Following the guidance of the other party, Amon's eyes fell on the "fool" seat at the head of the long table, and combined with the various doubts of a certain soothsayer, he turned into a "Amon shocked cracked" emoji.

In the corner of the table was a stack of tarot cards, which the King of Decay took and shuffled a few times, then drew one from it:

"Justice" card.

She didn't show any emotion, and without surprise put it aside, and drew another one:

"Demon" card.

The hideous and terrible demon often has a beautiful voice and lures people to become his slaves with money and so-called security.

People lose empathy under the control of demons, and what occupies the hearts and minds is completely naked and primitive desires. In pursuit of money and denying any other goal in life, people become selfish and greedy, but at the end of life, these material things no longer have any meaning.

Seeing this, Amun, who was still in a cracked state, was also interested, and he stole one directly from the middle and read it out loud: "Lover card? ”

"Its inverse reading is very much in line with Amon's characteristics."

The outer god took back the three cards and put them back into a stack of tarot cards, putting them back in their place in their place: "Symbolizes self-awareness and temptation, and inverted represents failure, infirmity, unfaithfulness, and self-pity." ”

"I'm quite reluctant to accept criticism on behalf of the ontology."

The Decayed King placed his hand on the long bronze table, trying to read the memories it carried from the inanimate object. But this place was essembr, the long table was not a stable and normal object, and all she could see was a gray and misty picture, a few unclear figures, and even the basic characteristics of the owners of these chairs could not be seen. The only thing that caught her attention was that there was something at the end of the long table, which seemed to be a person, but in fact it was a false illusion created by an extraordinary object.

The Decaying King did not think of what this object was for, but instead found it in the clutter pile: an all-black eye tainted by the spirit of the true Creator, Sequence 5 of the Fortune Teller's Way.

"The Master Key", "Black Emperor Card", Crane asked him about how to remove the contamination of magical items......

All the clues are correct.

She looked up, looked at the essentia, analyzed its possible effects and functions, and soon came to an understanding. She slowly walked over to an empty chair and sat down. The fog at the top of the high-backed chair swelled rapidly, revealing first the empty earth and half-withered plants, then into a ruined city wrapped in branches and vines, and the two emblems flickered back and forth several times before finally freezing on the latter.

It seems that this is the way to "establish contact with the Source Fort correctly" on the premise that it does not belong to the three secret paths, which should not be the case, but it is embodied according to Crane's idea...... The Decaying King didn't look back, but she saw the change behind it and thought thoughtfully. In this way, even if the connection is successfully established, as long as you further strengthen the connection, you can make the connection "the possibility of ascending to the Source Fort again".

She got up and let the emblem fade away.

While the King of Decay was pondering, Amun seemed to have suddenly found something new, and pointed to the depths of the Source Fort and said:

"There are a few steps there."

"There's nothing there, I don't see it." The outer god replied calmly, "It should be something left by the Heavenly Venerable, and only you can see it." Now that you see it, you can go up and take a walk. ”

…… Amon squeezed his monocle with a smile on his face, walked into the depths of the gray mist, stopped in a clearing, looked up, and said, "There are six steps here...... " After saying that, he made a stride up the stairs, and then disappeared from the spot in an instant.

The King of Decay looked, but did not see the Worm of Time falling.

After a minute or so, Amon suddenly appeared there unharmed, his expression distressed and confused. He returned to the outer god in three steps and two steps, and said as he recalled: "That's ...... It's amazing. ”

"I saw a hall with a lot of light cocoons hanging on the roof, and there were a lot of souls in it, and these souls were dressed in wonderful clothes. This style reminds me of Antigonus and Zarathu, could it be that their hobbies were also influenced by the top of the path? ”

"There are three cocoons, no, four cocoons have been broken, and they are empty inside, and I don't know where the people in there have gone."

Four souls...... One is in my hands, the other two are Russell and Crane, the ancient sun god is the back hand of God, and who is the other person, who has not had any information at all for so long, is it not that he died before he became famous? The thought flashed through the ocean of thoughts of the outer gods, and immediately two conjectures arose: "Maybe it's really dead" and "Maybe the absence of information is a kind of intelligence in itself." But it doesn't matter, at least not for now.

Looking at the outer god's thoughtful expression, Amon decided to go back and find a way to get some information about the pre-First Age era.

"Should we go now?"

"Hmm."

"And then what are you going to do?"

"Hmm." The repulsion began to grow stronger, the color patches that made up the body began to fluctuate violently, and the outer god said succinctly, "Go visit the fool." ”

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Inside 15 Minsk Street.

Crane waited for more than an hour with trepidation, and found that nothing strange had happened, that the tables and chairs had not suddenly started attacking him, and that no demons had come out and begun to hunt him down. It seems that his divination is not malicious (purely curious and accidental), so he did not let Mr. Edward's crisis intuition of being a demon be activated, and naturally he was not prepared like Belial, or used the connection to find him directly.

After all, the gray mist can even block the eyes of the gods!

Mr. Edward may have just sensed that someone was spying on her, so he looked over and did not see who was looking at her......

He breathed a sigh of relief, it was almost seven o'clock, and Crane found his stomach rumbling with hunger, and he couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic for the work of angels.

Crane thought bitterly. At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and he bounced off the sofa in shock.

Who is it? Crane hurried to the door, and the moment he grabbed the doorknob, his spiritual intuition had already sketched out what a visitor would look like:

It's Edward Vaughn.

Crane almost jumped up, he had just been found divining others, and now he was approached by the other party, and there was nothing more than this to be a thief.

…… But she probably didn't have any reason to think that I was the one who spied on her, after all, I was just a mediocre Sequence 7, and I didn't even find the materials for the promotion potion...... I think the biggest possibility is that she came to talk to me about the demon Belial, after all, I told her the news in the first place, and now the matter has been resolved...... It should be, right? I hope so...... Feeling that he had hesitated for a long time, Crane regretted not hanging the Do Not Disturb sign, and turned the doorknob in a whisper, using the power of the clown to pretend that nothing had happened, and looked at the visitor outside the door in "surprise":

"Mr. Edward? What are you looking for me? ”

The Abyss Angel smiled peacefully: "It's okay, it's about Belial, and your information has allowed me to get some benefits from this matter." I don't want to owe anyone anything, so I'm only having time to visit now. ”

And so it was. Crane's hanging heart was put down, and he turned sideways to give up the empty seat: "Come in, let's talk?" I'll go and prepare tea. ”

"No need, I have other things to do, come here and talk to you a few words and leave."

Edward took out his wallet, opened it, and pulled out a wad of banknotes, thought for a moment, put the bills back again, and exchanged them for a check (Crane saw a thick wad of such checks in his wallet, and shamefully lemoned), and she rummaged through them and said to Crane:

"You've done me a lot of good."

Without saying exactly what the benefit was, she handed the cheque for five hundred pounds to Crane: "This is the reward." ”

After Crane took the check in surprise, she naturally asked, "By the way, a new evil god called 'The Fool' has been mentioned in many secret gatherings recently, have you gotten any news or information?" ”

Why are you even asking me about this ......! This is the first time that there are so many people! Crane felt that his smile was about to be suppressed, and replied casually: "Sure enough, you also have relevant channels, and I have received similar news recently, but I don't know, this may be a new one, or a disguise of an existing evil god." ”

Edward nodded, not showing distrust or affirmation of the answer. She reached into her pocket and felt for it, tossing it to Crane:

"That's the pay, too."

"The extraordinary properties of a Sequence 7. The sequence is so low that I can't always think of selling it, so I'll give it to you as well. ”

"There are at least a thousand pounds for sale, and the reward should be good enough."

Extraordinary features? The Tarot Club Exchange is open again! Crane took the object with ease, and when he looked closely, it was a palm-sized glass bottle, and the inside was chaotic and black.

There is also a label on the bottle: Church of the Night-Dream Demon-Soul.

Seeing these words, cold sweat suddenly crept up Crane's back, and human instinct made him want to look up to see Edward's expression, but his eyes and spirit were completely attracted by the purple-black mist in the bottle.

The mist began to spin and twist the moment it landed on his hand, revealing a human face. This face, with a slightly high hairline and deep gray eyes, was funny, humorous, and somewhat bad in Crane's memory, and the serious, but often mild-smiling face stared at him with wide eyes, full of fear and sadness, and he opened his mouth wide and shouted silently over and over again to the man holding the bottle:

Run!

Run!!

Come on!!!

Captain...... Dream Demon, by Dunn Smith...... Why, why are you here...... Captain, you should sleep in the kingdom of the goddess...... Tingen God descends ...... Demon...... Demon!!!

"You know him, Cleon Moretti."

"We've actually met, haven't we? Right in Tingen, at the time of the coming down of the true Creator. ”

The voice of the demon chanting sounded above his head, and Crane's hand trembled violently, he had no courage to look up, and all the caution and strength he had accumulated up to this moment was swallowed up by bottomless fear and despair.

His eyes darkened, and a sharp pain suddenly came from his heart.

This is the power of the "Apostles of Desire...... Crane staggered back two steps, leaned feebly against the wall of the entryway, and slipped down point by point, unable to see anything with his eyes.

I'm going to die......

Died of the most common sudden heart failure, without any trauma or suspicion, the angel's methods were much more clever than that of Jason Beria.

Edward watched silently as Crane died, clutching the glass bottle tightly before he died. She retreated, disappeared like a weightless shadow, and left 15 Minsk Street, the lights in the house went out one after another, and the wooden sign "The owner is not there" flew up automatically and hung on the door that was closed by the wind.

With five hundred pounds and the soul of the Dream Demon, she successfully bought Crane's life.

……

It was getting dark, but Sherlock still hadn't come, and Emlyn leaned against the wall with his arms folded in confusion, occasionally looking at the sunset in the distance and his pocket watch. If it weren't for the fact that the other party had paid a thousand pounds in advance and had agreed on a time, he would have thought that he had been released.

Is Sherlock not coming?

What about the extraordinary materials he ordered?

I'd better wait a little longer......

TBC

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A short and powerful title, a monumental chapter! From this chapter onwards, I write chapter names with numbers, otherwise there will be too many words hhh

And ah, I've always wanted to say, it's really interesting, everyone defaults to Crane discovering Edward first, and the bet is only a bet on the length of time, it seems that everyone knows how big the source castle is.