Chapter 58: Open

But as the incarnation of the Three Pillars God began to change, the first thing to change was the black goat that symbolized Sabu Nicholas, and the hair on his body began to wriggle, then fell off, and after detaching from the main body, he became a black goat heir in mid-air.

These black goat heirs did not rush towards Su Yuheng and them, but gathered in a heap, rushing towards the black hole frantically and fearlessly.

With the addition of these black goat heirs, the speed of black hole expansion suddenly soared, and even if Su Yuheng and others joined forces to suppress it, it was a little unbearable.

And the most troublesome thing is that as the black hole continues to expand, there are already several huge and indescribable beings like stars at the other end of the world, who have noticed the situation here, attracted their attention, and are rushing towards the world they are in.

One of the fastest and most massive figures was an outer god wrapped in a yellow coat.

But as the other party continued to get closer, Su Yuheng and the others saw clearly that the so-called yellow coat on the other party was actually a starry sky coat composed of one galaxy after another.

"The King of Yellow? Damn, another big guy! Flashing Knife couldn't help but exclaim.

Su Yuheng silently looked at the demon rescue.

This time, he didn't need to look at the magic rescue, he just threw him a card, and then Su Yuheng quickly browsed the information of this big guy.

The "King in Yellow" in Flashblade's mouth actually refers to Hasta, one of the Old Rulers of the Cthulhu Mythos, created by Ambrose Beers, also known as the "Unspeakable One" and "Lord of the Deep Sky Sea".

In the system constructed by Auguste William Dress, Hasta is one of the beings that symbolizes the "wind", and although there is no specific description of Hasta's physical form, it is said that he looks like a giant octopus-like creature, similar to Cthulhu in some ways.

"A landscape that does not belong to the planet at all...... Directly in front of us is a lake, Harry's Lake. Five minutes later, ripples rose in the lake, and it seemed as if something was floating on the water, with its back to me. A huge aquatic creature with tentacles, like an octopus, but even ten times larger, nay, twenty times larger than the giant octopus on the West Coast. Its neck alone is fifteen strokes thick....... Don't dare to look it in the face. โ€

This is Auguste's portrayal of this man far beyond latitude in his essay "The Gabled Window".

Hasta is one of the most powerful beings among the Old Dominators, a person comparable to the Three Pillars, and a cousin and mortal enemy of Cthulhu.

The Unspeakable Hasta lives near Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus, and has an absolute connection to the mystical Lake of Harry, the Yellow Seal, and the Kalksa and its inhabitants.

His body is imprisoned by the Old Gods on the planet of the star Pleiades Pleiades in the Pleiades Cluster, in Lake Harry near the ruins of the ancient city of Kalksa, and he also has a special connection to the Pleiades.

Legend has it that Hasta has an innumerable number of avatars, usually in the form of a human dressed in yellow and wearing a soft mask, and sometimes in the form of a black flying entity with sharp claws and tentacles.

However, Hasta's body is actually amorphous, and legend has it that he appears to be a large, faintly visible octopus-like creature that resembles Cthulhu in some ways.

Hasta is often associated with the Yellow Seal, which is said to be the mark of greatness when he was in the form of the King of Yellow.

The Yellow Seal represents unparalleled power to those seeking supernatural paths, and those who see it are considered blessed Chosen One, but it is also a source of madness, and the dreams of anyone who sees them will be distorted.

But for the followers of Hasta, the Yellow Seal is a symbol of the supreme Hasta.

Hasta first appears in The Shepherd's Hightower, where he is portrayed as a benevolent shepherd god, a far cry from his later role in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Later, in the Cthulhu Mythos, Hasta is mentioned, but it is not described in detail.

Until the appearance of a forbidden book called "The King in Yellow", it is said that anyone who reads it will go crazy.

It is related to a supernatural being known as the "King in Yellow", which led the people of the time to consider it a great being in the Cthulhu Mythos, and was finally screened and added to the text of The Murmur of the Night, along with Lake Harry and the Yellow Seal.

Since then, the image of the "King in Yellow" has appeared in the Cthulhu Mythos in the image of Hasta.

Later believers added and described Haast in detail, and eventually made him a definite high-ranking ruler of the Old Day.

In particular, in the essay "The Return of Hasta", people at the time included him in the ranks of the old rulers, and called him "an ineffable being" and "a man who walks among the stars".

It is in this story that the antagonistic relationship between Hasta and Cthulhu is formalized, and at the same time, Hasta is divided into the side that represents the wind in the elemental theory.

Later, in the article "The Cottage on Kuwen Street", it is mentioned that Hasta is "half brother to Cthulhu" and has a follower of Byaki who has bat wings.

However, the article on the Cthulhu Mythos does not elaborate on the kinship of Hasta or Cthulhu, so this narrative seems strange, and even the people and believers of the time seem to have abandoned this idea, and no similar concept has been mentioned in other subsequent myths.

In Dress's work, the image of Hasta is not described in detail.

In "The Return of Harsta", it is mentioned that Hasta descended with an evil purple light that seemed to be unearthly, and in "Gable Window", there is also a brief mention of an image of Harry's Lake and Hasta, which contains certain octopus features.

Subsequently, a man named Carter created a number of stories related to Karksa based on these two stories, such as the sonnet "Litany to Hastur", "Carcosa Story About Hali".

In these stories, Carter focuses on the mysterious king of Karksa and the one that was mentioned in the earlier stories, rather than just the story of Hasta, the ruler of the old days, and thus creates a mysterious king who rules over Kalksa, a terrifying god who exists in his own rightโ€”and is inextricably linked to Hasta.

In Carcosa Story About Hali, Lin Carter also refers to Hasta as "the dweller of the abyss", "the son of Azathoth", "the companion of Sabu Nikolas, the father of Nag and Jeb", and "the prince of the old rulers".

In the article "The Horror of the Gallery", Carter even claims that Hasta is the son of Yog Sotos, and that he and Cthulhu are cousins and mortal enemies, and that he and Shabu Nikolath have combined to give birth to Itakua, Royger, and Zal.

This is similar to the original Cthulhu Mythos, where Hasta was crushed into the lake for leading a rebellion against the Old Dominators.

After that, Tinis created a series of ancient texts centered around Hasta, who reimagined Hasta's connection to the King in Yellow by writing a number of canonical and running mods for The Unspeakable Oath, Pagan Publishing's magazine for Call of Cthulhu tabletop game rules.

And Tinis named the series after the "Myth of Hasta".

Another important series about Hasta is the "Myth of the King in Yellow" in the contemporary Cthulhu Mythos.

From a certain point of view, this group running game arranged by Su Yuheng and their current Xuan God was born and evolved in this way.

Then there are the many incarnations of Hasta, the first of which is the "King in Yellow".

"The bony body of this strange man is hidden under layers of ragged and broken yellow robes, and although he looks thin and clumsy, his every move is unusually flexible, with a kind of grace that is absolutely extraordinary."

This is the description of the incarnation of Hasta in the article "The King in Yellow".

This avatar looks similar to a human, it usually wears yellow or variegated ragged robes, and wears a pale mask, in fact, the old robe is a part of its body, an extension of its flesh, and beneath the mask hides ugly tentacles that are used to attach to the target's body to drain the will, it has a disgusting plasticity, and can change the shape of its body at will, the King of Yellow is the most common incarnation of Hasta.

Followers of The King in Yellow are mostly lonely madmen, poets and artists who have gone mad after reading a bizarre play called The King in Yellow, and often draw inspiration from its brutal beauty to create works that depict the worthlessness and nihilism of human existence.

The peculiar sigil known as the Mark of the Yellow is the source of its influence on the human mind, and will subtly lead it to madness through distorted dreams.

Then there is the embodiment of the "Distant Feaster".

He felt it approaching, a wind as cold as it came from the darkness of outer space, as if even the air around him was condensing...... The pitch-black form that encapsulated all the inhuman fears finally glided down from the sky, its ancient wrinkled body like a giant ape with a hunched back...... As it approached the hill, its blade-like tentacles slowly spread. โ€

This is the depiction of this image in the article "The Distant Feaster", which is extremely strange.

The Distant Celebrant is one of Hasta's incarnations, in the form of a wrinkled black flying entity with claws and tentacles.

With spikes attached to its tentacles that can easily impale the skulls of its victims and suck brains, this monstrous avatar is rarely followed on Earth, and when Aldebaran is on the horizon, it can be summoned by spells at night, and will visit the summoning site at any time, and distant revelers will come with the cold winds in the night sky, and several Baiyaki will sometimes follow.

Then there is the last of the more famous incarnations, the "Emerald Incarnation"

"The Emerald avatar is a mysterious saint dressed in shimmering green tattered robes, surrounded by a halo of divine light. As the avatar walks, only a vague figure with green wrinkled skin can be faintly seen. The burqa tightly wrapped around his entire body, except for the head and neck of the exposed humans...... Those who look deeply into the shadows will see that there is no nose or mouth in them, only shining, pupilless green eyes. โ€

The description of the avatar of Hasta comes from the article "Mystery".

The Emerald Avatar is one of the incarnations of Hasta. This avatar rarely appears in front of outsiders, and never actively searches for victims, and anything mentioned or related to it is filled with a mysterious and seductive aura of "curiosity", and the jade mandala pattern is likely to be related to it.

The Emerald incarnation is known in the West as "Gongbo" โ€“ an evil spirit body or shaman, symbolizing self-obsession, evil temptation, desire to fall into demons, and in Pali and Sanskrit, it is called Mahaditthi, meaning powerful liar.

This avatar is worshipped as a god by a special sect, in which he is an ascended spirit who is worshipped by all sorts of foolish and blind believers.

But the emerald incarnation is not immortal, its physical form can be destroyed, and every 200 years it must be replaced with a new mortal body, and by consuming the soul of a sinless Tibetan, it can be reborn in spiritual form anywhere.

Finally, in terms of faith, the followers of Hasta are more common all over the world, even in the starry sky, and they call themselves "Yellow Friars", who are widely distributed around the world, and their heinous evil deeds make them widely known, among which the Kalksa Foundation and the Brotherhood of the Yellow Seal are the two orders that worship Hasta.

It can only be said that it is worthy of being an existence equivalent to the three-pillar god, if such an existence is allowed to pass through the black hole......

Forehead...... It doesn't seem to be a difference?

After all, it's not just the Three Pillars now, but also Geheros and Azathoth.

It's just that right now, Su Yuheng is participating in this kind of game for the first time, and the three phantom gods are almost already his hole cards, so he has almost no other way to stop this situation, he can only look at the imprint of them.

But fortunately, at this time, the trap that Silver and Esuke had laid for a long time finally worked.

As if they had sacrificed something like a life force to the two of them, two red cards suddenly activated!

The forgiveness of the royal palace

Perpetual Trap

Effect: The operator of this card pays 700 LP for each preparation phase of both sides. Unable to pay 700LP on the occasion of this card destruction. (1): As long as this card exists in the magic trap area, the effect of all magic cards on the field will be nullified.

Skill extraction

Perpetual Trap

Effect: Pay 1000LP to activate this card. (1): As long as this card exists in the magic trap area, all the surface sides of the field indicate that the effect of the monster is nullified

With the activation of these two cards, two forces beyond the rules of latitude suddenly swept away, shattering all the terrifying number of black goat heirs around the black hole.

Without the addition and sacrifice of these black goat heirs, the black hole was once again suppressed by them with various card rules and the power of personality brought by some special cards such as the "Three Phantom Gods".