Chapter 438: "Curtain"
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"Yes, a sequence is an extraordinary feature."
Crane was silent for a moment, still a little reluctant to believe it.
can know his own affairs so clearly, and also understand his relationship with the "Source Castle", as well as the specific time related to the divine descent, and can also appear in the Eastern Continent, the other party must have a connection with the Aurora Society.
But the other party may not know about the "Source Castle" and the souls of these ancient relics collected on it, and there is no need for Klein to take the initiative to disclose this information. So, after thinking for a moment, he asked in a skeptical tone:
“…… I've heard a little about the lack of a sequence-one potion in the 'soothsayer' pathway. ”
"But what does it have to do with me, it's possible that it has been hidden in the Godforsaken Lands all along, and has only been obtained by the 'God of Wishes' in the recent past, why do you think it belongs to me?"
He originally wanted to take the opportunity to deceive some information, but he didn't want the other party to spread his hands, so he said happily:
"I don't know, I guess."
"If I knew, I wouldn't have asked you, would I?"
After speaking, seeing the complicated expression on Klein's face, he didn't think too much, and asked: "You are an 'ancient scholar', you can see the history of the past, but you must be completely archaeological before you can see it?" ”
Crane thought for a moment and nodded.
"I thought you could read history directly from the environment, but it turned out to be like archaeology, not memory. Well, even the skill of capturing historical projections must be based on the premise of a complete understanding of this character in history, so it seems that there are many limitations...... Of course, only for you extraordinary, the Lord of Mystery is omniscient about history, without any limitations. ”
“…… Are you the embodiment of a hidden being? ”
Hearing the other party directly report the name of the Lord of Mysteries, Klein was completely convinced that the other party was definitely not Amun.
But how strange is this incarnation of a hidden being? Would the average Hidden Being speak in this tone? And don't ordinary hidden existences prepare divine descent containers, how can there be such a hidden existence that repairs containers while acting?
Although Medici, Hermes, and others also said the term, they spoke with a more familiar feeling.
But what he didn't know was that the other party also avoided the identity of "Amon", and was trying his best to get Klein to give up this speculation. If he could, the Lord of Withering did not want to have any "resemblance" to the Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun and his other identities and vessels. Because in the case that his own strength and personality are far inferior to this pillar, the possibility of this "secret feeling that I am Amun" is simply fatal.
"I'm glad you don't think I'm Amon anymore."
So he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and when Klein himself refused, he immediately cut off the possibility.
After doing all this, he felt that Klein had become much more pleasing to the eye, and he smiled (in what he thought) was more friendly:
"Kotal outnumbered you in person and sequence, so you can't tell what happened at that time - but Kotal is only a sequence two in the end (Crane looked at this tattered container that didn't seem to even have extraordinary properties), and didn't really contain the potion, and if you want to fully divinate the situation at that time, as long as the person exceeds sequence one."
"You mean, get a god to help?"
Crane deliberately ignored the stealthy being standing on the other side who seemed willing to help, and instead thought of Medici...... According to Medici's own words, since the "God of War" can still point to him, then his person is rounded to the king of angels, which should be enough for divination.
The Godforsaken Land is cut off from the outside world, and it is useless to pray to God here, but it is certainly useful to pray to Medici.
"You want to find Medici?"
The outer god judged his thoughts directly from the thread of possibility that stretched out of Crane's body, and he did not object at the first time: "Medici's personality should be enough here, provided that there is no one higher than the person of the King of Angels in that matter." ”
Klein was stunned for a moment: "Why do you say that?" ”
"Because Sequence One Potion can't fall out of thin air, of course."
The outer god said in a tone that taught the students whose minds had not turned:
"If you think about it for yourself, you will know that the 'God of Wishes' is active in the Second Age, and after the destruction of the Demon Wolf Clan, it gradually disappeared, and this potion has been missing. If the potion had been in the Forsaken Lands, how could it have not been obtained by the ancient sun god or Kotal at that time? If this was the seal that flowed out after the 'cataclysm' due to the destruction of the city-state, it should have been activated a long time ago, and it should not have been acquired by Kotal, and it should have been contained in reverse. So...... This potion must have appeared here in a short period of time. ”
"Are you sure this potion originally belonged to me?"
"Guess."
How can there be a hidden being who speaks like this? Once again, Klein was shocked by the other party's casual appearance and was speechless.
But in order to be able to dig up history and truth, he still worked hard to continue:
“…… If I agreed to work with you, in what ways would you help me find the truth? With all due respect, if I were to recite the honorific name here and pray to an unknown deity, then I would certainly not say yes. ”
Seeing that he finally showed signs of relenting, the outer god also breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a slightly raised tone:
"No, it won't. This is God's territory, and there is no point in praying to anyone other than Him, who is such a dictatorial God. ”
Klein, who had just preached the "Fool" to the people of Moon City: ......
"I thought He wouldn't care about these little things."
"That's because the true Creator has promised to give them to you, and He doesn't want to contradict you right now."
It's not reassuring at all...... Klein pondered his words for a moment, and found that it was difficult for him to really treat the other party as a god-level great being: "Since you don't answer prayers, then how are you going to make my divination results?" Is it similar to a psychic link? ”
"The authority is not on me, or I can reproduce the history here."
The outer god regretted a sentence and said with a smile:
"Don't be that troublesome."
"It's very simple, you just say, 'I want to divinate the results,' and then do whatever you have to do."
Just say that? How does this sound a bit like a different type of "wish-make-a-wish"? If it weren't for the fact that the "God of Wishes" Kotal was the wolf in question, Crane would have suspected that the one in front of him was Kotal's secret puppet.
He looked at the other man with a slight suspicion, pulled out a historical projection again, and then asked the historical projection to pick up the pendulum and the banknote.
With the specific time and place, the description and field investigation of Nim, the high priest of Moon City, and the help of the lighted historical fragments, Klein believed that the prerequisites for "divination" were basically in place.
This can't be said to be enough, but it can barely be given him a try, and if the incident of the hill turning into a "deep pit" is really related to the "Source Fort" and himself, then the probability of success of "divination" will be greatly increased, and the revelation will be very clear and undisturbed.
"I hope the divination will go well."
When this sentence fell, Klein inexplicably felt that there seemed to be something more in him, and it could also be his own psychological hints.
"On June 28, 1349 of the Fifth Age, there was a change in this place."
Putting down the absorbent fountain pen, Crane grabbed it with his left hand and took out the "deep pit" soil from the fog of history, using it as a medium for "divination".
Holding the clay in one hand and the parchment in the other, the historical projection whispered the divination sentence seven times, and then, with the help of meditation, fell into a deep sleep.
His divination succeeded.
After saying that, he divined an angel, and he really succeeded!
In the gray dream world, Crane suddenly felt that someone else had entered his dream, and he watched it all quietly. Immediately after, he saw the gray and solidified mist, the hills tens of meters high, and the twisted and mutated plants around him.
A few seconds later, the mist suddenly wriggled significantly, and a black shadow quickly "spit out".
The black shadow was like a huge velvet curtain, frantically absorbing all the light around it.
It became larger and larger in a translucent state, completely enveloping the hill.
The hill then disappeared, and the roots were gone, leaving only a "deep pit".
The strange plants at the edge of the "deep pit" that were also covered suddenly had thin black illusory "spirit lines", which extended to different sections of the black "curtain".
The "curtain" became more and more transparent, more and more illusory, and finally reached the point where it was impossible to see with the naked eye—if it were not for the "spirit thread" to reveal the actual situation, Klein would not have found that the "curtain" was covering the surface of the "deep pit" like that.
The picture flickered, the dream distorted, and a new scene emerged.
The five-member Moon City patrol approached this side and found that the hill was missing, and there was a "deep pit".
They stopped, turned around and left the area without hesitation, and stepped forward to investigate without recklessness.
I don't know how long it took, but in the other direction, a huge figure suddenly appeared.
It was a demon wolf covered with dark short hair, eight legs, and four or five meters tall.
This demon wolf has a pinch of gray short hair on its forehead, and its pure black pupils occupy at least three-quarters of the space of its eyes, and it is none other than Kotal, the dark demon wolf who has not manifested its full mythical creature form.
The Ebony Demon Wolf raised its head, opened its mouth, and seemed to roar, but it didn't make any noise.
The next second, there was an additional figure in front of Him, and it was another Him.
The eight legs of this dark demon wolf kicked lightly, and they arrived at the "deep pit" in an instant.
He looked around, then cautiously lowered his head and lifted the completely transparent "curtain" that made the entire hill disappear.
The "curtain" suddenly came to life, shrank rapidly, rolled upside down, and wrapped around the dark demon wolf, as if adding a half-black and translucent garment to him.
The dark demon wolf trembled slightly, and it seemed that it had become a puppet of "clothes" in two or three seconds.
But this is only an image in the pores of history, and the next breath is lifted and maintained by the body, and it disappears directly.
The "curtain" lost its support, collapsed in an instant, and spread out on the ground.
The dark wolf Kotal did not give up, sometimes transforming the monsters around him into puppets, sometimes summoning historical projections, making them come forward again and again, suffering all kinds of failures, but in the end, his new batch of puppets still picked up and controlled the "curtain".
The whole process did not make a single sound, as if it were performing a mime.
Then, the huge demon wolf brought the puppets close to him with the "curtain".
At this moment, the nearby gray-white mist wriggled again, forming a vortex comparable to that of a hill.
The vortex emitted an invisible suction, allowing the strange "curtain" and the dark demon wolf Kotal to throw at the same time!
Such a scene caused Crane's dream picture to appear in a series of substantial ripples, bursting into countless points of light, making it difficult for him to see the specific details.
When everything was back to normal, Kotal, the dark wolf, draped in a transparent "curtain", and sped away from the re-solidified mist.
At this time, the Moon City investigation team arrived and saw the figure of this ancient god who had gone away.
Kotal glanced at them, but disappeared into the darkness without pause.
At this point, the picture shatters, the dream ends, and Klein wakes up.
I saw that the strange hidden being had already sat down cross-legged at some point, and sat opposite him, staring at the sky in the distance. When he saw that he opened his eyes, he said bluntly:
"See?"
"The piece came out of the fog, that is, it was dropped from the Source Fort."
"More than a year ago, this potion fell to Godforsaken and was picked up by Kotal. Kotal began to prepare for his promotion ceremony during the year, but probably because of the isolation of the spirit world in the Eastern Continent, he could only play the role and not complete the ceremony......"
He muttered to himself for a moment, wondering why the first few remnants of the old days had not received the potions given by the Source Castle, so that they all went astray, but Crane had left a whole set of potions up to Sequence One.
If it succeeds, then the soul that falls from the source castle will become Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun on the spot under the impact of such divinity, and then this guy only needs to grab the source castle with one hand, and use the extraordinary aggregation to suck at the other mysterious three-way high sequences in the world, one bite at a time, even if it is Amon, he can also try to revive directly in the other party's body, and no one can stop him at all.
It's scary!
If you have been on the earth for 1,400 years without doing anything, and suddenly see a celestial venerable fall from the sky a few years ago, it will definitely be a rocket to escape from the earth on the spot, return to the starry sky, and then run out of the solar system and go straight to a billion light-years away, where will it continue to stay until now?
At this time, Klein also came back to his senses, and when he heard these words said by the hidden being, he didn't speak for a long time.
"The 'curtain' that comes out of the gray mist can cover the hill when it is large, making it magically become a 'deep pit', and when it is small, it can become the 'clothing' of the demon wolf, turning it into a puppet......"
"It's being spit out because I went into the gray mist and finished binding to the 'Source Fort'?"
"It seems to be able to turn the plants around it into its own secret puppet......
"By the way, in the misty town, the food in the room is problematic, there are 'spirit threads' growing out, extending to the core of the church, once they are eaten, the whole person will instantly evaporate, disappear, well, this is hung in the church, become a secret puppet......"
"In other words, when you reach the rank of 'Miracle Master', or the 'Mystic Attendant' of Sequence 1, you can let plants grow 'spirit threads' from things that once had spirits, so as to turn them into secret puppets?
"Looking at the performance of the dark demon wolf, it should indeed be the 'secret waiter'......"
"That suction is really strong, it scared the dark demon wolf Kotal, I can't care about staying, I just want to escape......"
After mentally recalling what he had seen and what he had done when he first arrived, Crane suddenly felt a little lost and sighed softly.
"If I become Sequence One as soon as I wake up, I will definitely be directly devoured by divinity and become Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun."
"But that 'curtain' didn't fall on me, and I quickly bound up with the Source Fort and escaped this fate."
"Heh, did you really escape?"
An indescribable feeling rose in his heart, like regret and little rejoicing, more of exhaustion and helplessness.
"I lost a chance to 'die'......"
……
Southern Continent, a small town in the eastern part of the Highlands Republic.
The clear sunlight shone through the window, which was missing two pieces of glass, and countless motes swirled and flew in the pillars of light.
However, in the small cabin of five or six square meters, the young man lying on the bed board in a kimono was caught by the sun, and he turned over uncomfortably, and after lying in bed for several minutes, he yawned and slowly sat up reluctantly.
The young man scratched his messy head and started the bed, he had helped in the bakery until the second half of the night last night, and he had fallen asleep without even taking off his clothes. Now after dawn, he has to get up to turn over the dozens of acres of land outside, and his daily life has been like this during this time, from getting up to picking up the basin and toothbrush and walking out of the door, he has yawned a dozen times.
He had just connected the water to the public sink in the village, and before he could pat the cool water on his face, he felt a sharp gaze staring at him from the side, making him shiver and suddenly sobering up.
"Village Chief." He quickly turned around, "What's the matter?" ”
The old village chief, with snow-white hair and a slender figure, stared at him, then stretched out his hand and pointed at the faucet.
The faucet is not tightened and is dripping water at a rate that is neither fast nor slow.
"Marić." The old village chief said solemnly, "You don't always waste resources like this, do you know how precious it is?" ”
"Got it, got it......" Maric scratched his head, reached for the faucet tightened, and brushed his teeth and face as fast as he could.
The old village chief watched the whole process from the side, and saw that Marić was much more agile than when he first came, and the serious expression on his face eased a little:
"A young man like you, it's not a big crime, it's just that you participated in the escape of the temperance faction, it's a good thing to be thrown here by the leader, you work hard, actively reform, and strive to be an excellent pacesetter, if you are fast, you can be transferred back in five years."
Hearing that it would take him five years to return to the city at the earliest, Marić's expression suddenly became red.
Half of the people in the village were members of the Rose School who had committed crimes, including himself.
After being captured by the "Angel of Temperance", Marić was ready to go to justice heroically, after all, the members of the Indulgence faction were indulgents no matter how good their reputation was - but he didn't expect that after being talked to by Richard Enstela for a while and taking a few days of ideological education classes, he and Sharon would be thrown directly into this remote village.
The smell of animal feces and dirt fills the village, sewage and household garbage are piled up on the roadside, and sheds made of planks and dirt are tattered, especially after the rain.
The villagers are either yellow-faced and thin-skinned, or they look like indulgent Diao people in the labor camp, and even Sharon, who has always been restrained, has a little green face.
The extraordinary ones eat less, have a lot of work, and are suitable for physical work, so they are all sealed up and sent to work in villages around the country to help improve the quality of life of the villagers.
After Marić came, he was arrested for a month to do infrastructure construction because he was young and strong, digging canals, building water tanks, burying pipes, building houses, composting everything, and in a few days this young man with the appearance of the Northern Continent became a native of the Southern Continent.
Obviously, only a month has passed, but the leisurely life in the Northern Continent is so far away that it seems to be a matter of the previous life.
After being sealed with extraordinary and partial strength, even the extraordinary person of Sequence 5 is nothing more than a very strong human being, which can be easily controlled with seals. And the old village chief, who looked to be at least eighty years old, was actually a demigod who came to watch over them. He had been a respected priest of the Church before the war, advocating active resistance within the temperance faction, and joined Richard Ernst as soon as he had a partial voice.
Under his management, the security of one surrounding town and three villages was quite good.
"I ...... I'll try. ”
Marić said bitterly that the Angel of Temperance confiscated his treasured chips but not the cards, and that when he first arrived, he would try to play cards with the villagers in the gap between work, but now he was in no mood to play cards at all.
"What about Sharon?" Marić asked, "If Sharon had worked hard, would she have been gone in five or six years?" ”
Speaking of Sharon, the eyes of the old village chief, who was kind and kind just now, changed.
"Sharon...... Sharon, that kid can't. ”
The old village chief hated that iron could not become steel, and while urging Mariqi to follow the others to turn over the soil with his eyes, he babbled and said:
"That boy won't endure hardship! refused to go to the field, worked in the mill for half a month, and now didn't he go to the village to copy the ledger and materials? Sharon does write well, but how many things can be copied for her in the village? If she is like this, I am afraid that she may not be able to be taken back in thirty years! The leader didn't send her here to torture her, why was he so angry? Obviously she was a good girl when she was young, but this child was really spoiled by Her Royal Highness Renette......"
Marić scratched his head again, the other party was a demigod and an elder, of course he couldn't talk back, so he had to resign himself to it.
"I'm leaving."
"Okay, let's go."
He said goodbye to the old village chief and put the basin and toothbrush back in his quarters.
Then he changed into the clothes and trousers that he had not washed for the longest time, skillfully tightened his belt, rolled up the cuffs and trousers, took off his shoes, carried the hoe and shovel in the corner, and carried the dirt all over his body, and followed the neighbor's uncle who greeted him outside the window to the farmland outside the city.
TBC
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If you have something to do tomorrow, take a day off!
(End of chapter)