492

Sand, sand.

In the twilight room, Crane quickly flipped through the books in his hand, and occasionally spoke to the "Black Sage".

Leomaster also sat cross-legged on the ground, clad in a robe dyed golden by the light. This is a real, ancient, and well-meaning demigod for himself, and with the fact that the true creator has made it clear that he wants to invite him to tea, it is simply unreasonable not to take the opportunity to ask for some information.

After flipping through the Bible for a while, Crane found that there was so much information in it that it was so numbing that it was a head-numbing, and although the main framework was a celebration of the ancient sun gods, the part that was filled in was supplemented by the story of the Second Age, an overview of the situation, and the general way of the old gods. It also mentions the eight kings of angels who surround the Lord, but their names are all unclear.

Crane asks Leomast:

"Do you remember the names of the eight kings of angels?"

"Why have their names been hidden?"

Leomaster, who had closed his eyes and recuperated, opened his eyes and said with a solemn expression: "First, do not call them by name, and pray by the honorific name of an angel. ”

"Second...... Leomaster hesitated, "there are only three people left in this world who can still be called by their real names. ”

Can't call your real name? As if he couldn't look at them directly, he meant "call them by their real names", which meant that the eight kings of angels did not die...... None of them died? But only three people are still "able to be called"?

Well, one of the two divine sons of the ancient sun god, "Angel of Time" Amun, seems to be the type that can be called, while "Fantasy Angel" Adam is not. The "Sun" had seen Amon's clone in the Godforsaken Lands, and their chief had called it by his name, but nothing terrible had happened, and Amon's body had not appeared, killing them......

Then the other two ...... "Angel of Destiny" Ulorius seems to be okay, she has already descended in Silver City, so the chief must also call her by her name occasionally...... What's more, their names have all been passed down from Silver City through classic records.

And another, perhaps, the "Red Angel" Medici......

Crane asked, "Why can't you call them by their names?" Is it just special in this area? ”

Leomast shook his head: "They've erased their names. ”

"Why?"

Leomast hesitated: "Your Excellency, you should go and ask the Lord about it, I am not qualified to inform you of the secret history. ”

Not eligible...... Crane had no choice but to nod and change the question:

"Is there still a way to the Godforsaken Lands?"

The little boy "Jack" that everyone in Silver City met during the investigation should not have entered by the normal route, because "Sun" once said that "Jack" had a human face on his stomach, and that face was very similar to Ulorius's face, and "Jack" should have been blessed by the "Angel of Destiny", or privileged, in order to become the only survivor and be found alive by the Silver City exploration team.

Leomaste nodded, "The Venerable 'Angel of Destiny' will open the way for the blessed to make pilgrimages. ”

"And we, the Aurora, have another way to the Lord's sanctuary, but we need the Lord's approval to get there."

At this, he sighed and replied with a wry smile, "I didn't get the approval because I had spent too much time in the battle with the Dark Side, far beyond the time limit for the pilgrimage, and was completely out of touch. I made a big mistake, I lost myself in atonement, my faith and soul are not pure enough, after this time, I will continue to practice penance, wash away my sins, and redeem myself. ”

"Where is this road?"

"Entering from somewhere in the sea of ruins of the gods, through the gaze of the false sun, through the dream-sprinkled sea, across the bounty and thunderstorm, it must be in this order, or it will not be the right path."

"Then we can reach our island, and the Black Sanctuary you saw in your dreams is the end of this road."

"Becoming an Immortal"

Crane's breath stagnated for half a second: "Walk through the real-life black monastery to reach the Godforsaken Land?" ”

Leonast nodded, "Exactly, as long as the Lord agrees." ”

A route that can truly reach the Forsaken Lands, and the people of the Forsaken Lands will surely be able to get out of this path as well...... Darkness has been coming for more than 2,000 years, why hasn't anyone noticed it for so long?

Crane was happy at first, then thought about it carefully, and his heart slowly sank again: there was only one possibility, the exit of this route was too far and too far from Silver City. In the description of "The Sun", the current combat power level of Silver City is almost the highest in history, but with the danger of God's Forsaken Land, it is necessary for the Chief to personally lead the team to go out to explore...... For more than 2,000 years, Silver City has only expanded the scope of exploration in the surrounding area......

But this information is also valuable enough in itself, and Crane carefully inquired about Leomast's location when he came, intending to tell this information to the "sun", although it is insignificant, and the possibility of success is infinitely close to zero, but it is also a real hope.

Crane had an idea, he took out "Stories of the Eastern Continent" from the bookshelf, as we all know that the Eastern Continent is the land forsaken by God, in front of a believer who believes in the Creator, of course, he can't call that "sanctuary" the land of God's forsaken.

He quickly flipped through the "Eastern Continent Experience" and found that it was actually a record of the adventures of the "Black Sage" in the Godforsaken Land.

One day more than a hundred years ago, the Black Sage crossed this path, and with the permission of the true Creator, he walked through the monastery and entered the Godforsaken Land. However, the Forsaken Land is full of dangers, and even with the protection of the Sage, the Aurora followers brought by the "Black Sage" continue to die for various reasons. After everyone died, the Black Sage still walked a long way with its great strength and seals, but found nothing but the wreckage of the town, and there was no trace of the legendary "Chosen People of the Lord".

In the end, the "Black Sage" returned the same way with the relics and extraordinary properties of his companions, ending the pilgrimage.

"Experiences in the Eastern Continent" recorded a lot of information about monsters, and also recorded the route of the "Black Sage" at that time, and Crane wrote down all of these, planning to share them with the "Sun" in the future.

"The Aurora Society is also looking for a city like Silver City......" Crane wasn't surprised.

He was about to ask again, when the blinding sunlight shone in, and he woke up naturally.

Looking at the brilliant sky outside, he wiped his forehead and said to himself silently:

"What a strange dream."

Putting away his feelings, Crane rolled over and got out of bed, went to the deck area, and continued to observe the surroundings, waiting for the mermaid to appear.

Nearly an hour later, he finally heard the thin, ethereal singing sound wafting in the distance.

Mermaid?

Crane's heart was overjoyed, and excitement emerged from his long-lost heart.

After nearly four months away from Beckland, and after going through a lot of things, he finally arrived at the destination of this "trip" and met the last condition needed to advance to Sequence 5 "Secret Puppet Master"!

The anxiety and confusion caused by waiting in his heart have been growing since he entered this sea area, and all the seemingly absurd and ridiculous things that happened on the "Future" and the dangers and unknowns contained in the three states of night, noon, and dream in this god war ruin, made him always tense his spirit and spend every hour and every minute tormentedly.

Now, these emotions and these pressures finally have a chance to be released!

Call...... Crane exhaled slowly, and headed back to the cabin, into his own room.

Without panic or forgetfulness, he took out the remnants of the ancient spirit, the eyes of the six-winged gargoyle, the bark of the dragon-patterned tree, and the metal bottle containing the golden spring water of Sunia from his suitcase, unfolded it behind his desk, entered the bathroom, locked the door of his room, and expertly arranged the ritual of asking for the gift.

After getting this ritual right, he didn't rush to respond to the gray mist, but arranged an additional ritual and summoned his own ritual by himself!

After taking four steps backwards and chanting a mantra, Crane came to the gray mist and responded to the summoning ritual, so that he came to the real world as a spirit and brought the "Tinder" glove back to the mysterious space.

After finishing the preliminary work, Crane did not relax, came to the position of the fool, embodied a pen and paper, and quickly wrote a divination statement:

"It's a mermaid singing in front of you."

Removing the citrine pendant, he confirmed the situation by divination:

It is the mermaid singing in front of the "Future"!

Calming down, Crane beckoned the iron cigarette case to fly out of the clutter pile and onto the long mottled bronze table.

With a snap, he opened the lid and saw that the "all-black eye" with no child's hole was still lying quietly inside.

After obtaining the "Tinder" glove, he separated the contamination that belonged to the true creator, and the "all-black eye" that returned to normal could provide him with a lot of help, and was also the normal main material for potions.

He grabbed the "Eyes of All Black", which was no longer in question, and quickly responded to the ritual of asking for a grant, passing the extraordinary properties of the "Master of Secret Puppets" through the illusory door to the altar located in the bathroom.

Pausing at his desk, Crane took out the steel milk pot that had belonged to the "Future" kitchen from the side and began to mix potions.

All the auxiliary materials were fused together to form a golden bunker dominated by the "Sunia Golden Spring Water". As the final "Eye of Black" was submerged in a dark golden liquid, bubbles erupted on the surface of the water.

Every bubble bursts, the potion goes black for a minute, and after ten seconds, all changes stop.

Inside the milk pot, the potion was formed, all black, and there seemed to be countless tiny insects swimming quickly with the naked eye.

Crane pulled out the gold coin and quickly made a confirmation using the method of divination.

After receiving the revelation of success, he breathed a sigh of relief, poured the "secret puppet master" potion into the metal bottle prepared in advance, and stuffed it into his coat pocket.

It was only then that he left the cabin with a slightly brisk pace and came to the deck.

At this time, the symbols, magic symbols, and strange patterns on the "Future" have been lit up in layers, forming a brilliant sea of stars, which weakens the mermaid's song to the greatest extent.

- Mermaids' singing is rumored to cause humans to lose their minds and become insane, so that they jump off their ships and become food for the mermaids.

Soon, Crane left the "Future", left the protection of the bright sea of stars, stepped on a small ship, and was in the ocean.

The song came from a faint voice, as if it had penetrated directly into his spirit, making him tingle and uncontrollably wanting to hear more.

This wasn't enough for Crane, and his spiritual instincts told him that he had to get a little closer, to make the singing a little clearer, to meet the demands of the ritual.

"Storm!"

Crane pulled out a charm made of white tin and summoned a controllable gust of wind to propel the boat forward.

I don't know how long it took, but the mermaid's singing suddenly became louder, and it was as if it was whispering in Crane's ear, and every note could knock on the spirit, and every melody made people intoxicated and yearned.

Crane flickered, and nearly jumped into the sea, swimming to the source of this beautiful song.

He tried his best to control himself, and found that there were many rocks not far ahead, and figures were sitting on the edge, singing softly.

These creatures had human heads, their eyebrows were pure and flamboyant, their chests were covered in dark red scales, and their lower bodies were huge fish tails, which beat the reef rhythmically.

Different mermaids have different looks and different tail scales, which is a strange beauty for humans.

But as Crane approached in the boat, many mermaids jumped into the water in terror and swam around.

Fortunately, there were still a few mermaids on the reef farther away with their backs to here, not noticing their companions who left in a hurry.

Crane perked up, thought for a moment, and pulled out another spell.

This is the spell of the "Poseidon" realm to bring underwater creatures closer to the user!

"Storm!"

At the sound of the incantation, the blue-blue flames enveloped the white tin flake, causing it to disappear into the real world out of thin air.

Seeing that the remaining "mermaids" were aware of themselves, but no longer timid to run away, Crane immediately took out the metal bottle containing the "Master of the Secret Puppet" potion and unscrewed the lid.

Grunt, slightly bitter potion poured into Crane's mouth with a stale feel, down his esophagus, straight for his stomach pouch.

Suddenly, Crane found himself becoming extremely stiff, as if he had returned to Tingen, back to the state in which he had been manipulated by the strange puppet of the seal "2-049".

He tried to move his joints, but they seemed to be filled with lead.

At the same time, he felt tiny worms burrow into each of his cells, into the spirit body. His thoughts began to slow down, and his mind's ability to reflect his own state wore off.

The mermaid's melodious song came out, stirring up that longing, accumulating fanaticism and obsession, so that Crane kept the last of his emotions, and with the help of this temptation, he was little by little free from his rigid and sluggish state.

A gray mist of the desert quickly appeared in front of his eyes, and the illusory "Hornachis...... Fregra ...... Hornachis ...... Fregela ......", and compared to his promotion to "soothsayer", "clown", and "magician", this murmur has become noticeably staccato, as if it is being ruled out by some interference.

Unlike when he became a "Faceling", his whispering was noticeably stronger, and he was able to intermittently break through the barrier between the gray fog and reality...... My ability to think, restored! Crane was overjoyed and tried to raise his arm.

The difficulty of the joint position is still there, but it is getting weaker and weaker!

At the same time, Crane "saw" himself as he was:

The complexion is yellow-brown, like a doll that has been buried alive for many years wrapped in old bandages, and the flesh buds are hidden under the skin, wriggling, separating, and merging.

Crane immediately sketched countless balls of light in his mind, and calmed this state with "meditation".

In the process, the mermaid's song still echoed in his ears, causing his joints and muscles to twitch and slowly fade into stiffness.

I don't know how long it took, but Crane opened his eyes, and his body was completely normal.

He took a breath and said silently:

"Finally......

"Finally Sequence 5!

"It's finally the 'Master of Secret Puppets'!"

493

On a small coastal town.

The tin coachman tugged on the reins of the wooden pony, and a pumpkin carriage appeared out of thin air on the shore of the seashore.

Tin patted the wooden pony, jumped out of his seat, and opened the door of the pumpkin carriage, and the female demigod who had lost her feet immediately poked her head out of the door and looked back in the direction of the rut.

There was a pair of tap-dancing feet in red dancing shoes, and the brisk and fatal pace was the culprit of her extremely haggard and painful past few days. But in order not to let these dancing shoes follow others away, she has not dared to slack off and carry out mysterious magic.

She had been on the run for three days day and night with these deadly dancing shoes.

Just ten minutes ago, the female demigod with severe spiritual consumption had a premonition that if she continued like this, she would lose control of her spirituality and had to rest for a while.

She specially chose to rest in the deserted woods, but it seemed to be to no avail, and she still failed to keep the "red dancing shoes". In a brief encounter with the real world, the tap dance steps suddenly disappeared.

Disappeared without a trace.

The "Red Dancing Shoes" abandoned the demigods who had no feet and could not dance, and did not know where they went.

"We have to find a way to get the word to the church as soon as possible......" The female demigod's voice revealed infinite fear.

This dancing curse can't be stopped, if there is no external force to stop it, I don't know how many ordinary people and middle and low sequence extraordinaries will die quietly because of these dancing shoes!

……

Edward cleared the harvest from the Dawn of the Elements: a few gold, a few occult books, a few seals and a few properties, and then singled out the seals that belonged to the five ways of omniscience and omnipotence, and offered them to the true creator.

The price is not too self-indulgent, and it is basically based on the price of extraordinary characteristics. There must be a premium, but the real creator didn't say anything after reading the offer, anyway, these things will become extraordinary characteristics for the promotion of Aurora members, and it is not that they can't afford it.

The coordinates and situation of the island of Laxia were also informed, and the true creator said that he would investigate it before making a decision.

After finishing the task at hand, Edward took out the "pale death", looked at the cold and hard human face, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh.

"At first, I told Thea Eggers that if she told me the information about Siea, I would give her some silent cities."

She didn't say yes. But in order to take down Aldra, I had to tell me about the high sacrifice. ”

"Later, I said that if you can trick Si'a here, my conditions will still be the same, and she will not agree."

"Now that I've got S'ea, I'm going to see what else she can do with me in exchange for this 'Pale Death.'"

"To do business with demons, of course, you have to buy early and enjoy it early."

She put these things away, took the wishing lamp, and planned to stay in the southern continent for a while longer, and return to the northern continent when the war began.

Because the Lantern God said that it needed to be close to the Black Emperor of Rune, it was best to find an opportunity to meet for any reason, so that it could be more subtle and make the influence from the top of the path more difficult to detect.

TBC

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Mazaku: What's going on, why the odds of failure on Earth have been rising, can this new version still be played?