What exactly is the Black Sun?

To understand this concept, we need to start from different fields and perspectives.

For the members of the Black Sun Age project team, the so-called Black Sun is the origin of the game's story, the background driving force for the entire game's loops and mechanics, and of course, hanging in the sky as a model to provide atmosphere.

For those who play the game, when the black sun rises, it means that the player's gaming activities will become more challenging, and there will be more unknowns and dangers in the game world, and of course, more rewards.

However, for the real Vann, for those who really live here......

It is a black celestial body that replaces the original warm and bright sun and brings bad omen.

When it hangs high in the air, all the magic in Van will be disrupted, and that power will cause the body of the beast to mutate, it will cause the crops to die, the docile domestic animals to become manic, and the desires and emotions of the people will be magnified under its influence...... Not only that, but the magic crystallization industry, which was the main productivity and technological pillar of Van En in the past, will also suffer a serious impact.

The magic in the crystals began to become active and elusive, their instability increased, and the magic that escaped from them would continue to affect everything around them, even causing the poor miners to suffer from strange illnesses......

Although none of this has yet happened, through Zeke Ernst's words, Schug has already heard the heavy steps of this terrible catastrophe.

It's just that the absurdity lies in the fact that the footsteps of the black sun are clearly the rumbling sound of cannon fire from humans themselves.

"Isn't the only son of the abyss who crawled out of the city of Selen, the pit of sacrifice, sitting right before me?"

There are two completely different things to think about in your own heart and to listen to someone else say it, especially when this sentence comes out of the mouth of Zeke Ernst, a member of the Black Sun Society, and its impact is even more staggering.

"I didn't expect that one day I would be treated like an "official certification"."

Xiuge sighed secretly in his heart.

Schug only believes part of what Zeke Ernst is doing and what he is saying.

The reason is very simple, the ruler of the Ernst family and the former marshal of the kingdom should not be a person who blindly follows vague prophecies, if all the decisions of people sitting in such an important position are based on the so-called prophecy as an absolute reference, then the effect of replacing a person with an obedient dog is estimated to be not much worse.

Shuge thought for a moment, and then decided to continue with the other party's words.

"Regardless of whether this old guy is acting with me, or if he is really a loyal "believer" in the Black Sun Society, it is not appropriate for me to directly question his rhetoric now......

So Shug asked, "When did you decide that I would become the so-called ...... 'Abyssal Son'?"

Maybe it was because of mood swings, or maybe it was because of some dry mouth, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"A long time ago."

"So that's another prophecy, right?"

The old man didn't answer, he just looked at Xiuge and smiled quietly.

"Okay, then I'll try to understand what you mean......

Xiug's body tensed, his palms pressed against the small round table in front of him, and the light reflected his face and expression on the glass display cases that blocked the various weapons, intermingling with countless shadows in all directions.

"My experience was carefully designed by the Black Sun Society, they arranged all of this according to the prophecy, and the reason why the family didn't send someone to bring me out before the peace celebration in the city of Salem was because ......

"The Society needs the city of Salon to be turned into a pit of sacrifice."

The old man took Shug's words, and his voice was as calm as a sharp and polished bayonet: "Everything is part of the sacrificial ritual, the presence of Schug Ernst and the escape from nature

It's also part of it...... Of course, there are other things as well."

"But you don't know anything about my experience in the city of Salem, so how can you think that the prophesied thing has really happened? Wouldn't there be an accident?"

Hearing Shuge's words, the old man nodded approvingly, his gaze paused slightly on Shuge's palm that was only pressed against the table, and then said, "There are some changes that cannot be brought about by human power and magic, and now they have appeared in you...... This is the strongest evidence for associations."

"There are only three people in the entire family who know about the association and these prophecies."

"I, you, and of course your father, Yerevan."

As if fearing that Xiuge would hear something, the old man slowed down, "I'm already very old, and once I leave these secret rituals in the manor, I'll die very quickly, so it won't be long before I'll be lying in the grave slowly rotting. And Yerevan...... Hehe, I know very well what he is capable of, he is not strong enough to lead the continuation of the Ernst family, nor does he have the ability to deal with what is to come."

He stared at the young man in front of him.

His eyes are focused as if he were looking in a mirror.

"For me personally, that's why you're really sitting here."

Outside the window, the snowflakes seemed to form a barrier large enough to isolate all secret conversations.

Schug repeatedly "savored" what old Zeke said in his heart, and he always felt that something was not quite right in it, but for a moment he could not find the key to it.

So, he decided to ask about the manor hotel first.

"Well, even if I'm really what you call the 'only son of the abyss', then what's going on in the Manor Hotel? The mansion has not been renovated in any way, so why should all the younger generation be forced to concentrate in a hotel where there are obvious anomalies?"

The old man replied, "This is an ancient tradition of the Ernst family, which has been established with the 'help' of the association since the beginning of the cooperation between the family and the association."

"That manor hotel was, in fact, the family's first mansion, which, according to the association, contained the will of the Ernst family...... When the old and the new are replaced, all the young people who are candidates for succession will move in and be screened by the will of the family."

"By screening, do you mean throwing your offspring off the stairs? It's a wild way."

Shuge didn't hide his doubts about it: "So what happened tonight, will it continue to happen next?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

The old man shook his head, "But in any case, the members of the Ernst family must follow the will of the family, and should gladly accept whatever the outcome brings, this is one of the revelations of the association to the family."

"Let's not discuss why you insist on making me the heir to the family...... All I want to know now is what I should do next in the Manor Hotel. What if your so-called "family will" ends up choosing someone else?"

"It's going to find you, so do what you have to do."

Zeke Ernst stared at the young man in front of him, "Son, in some ways, you should know better than I do."

When Shug was carried away from the huge mansion of Ernst Manor by the silent guards, his spiritual world still did not calm down.

This was not only due to the many secrets that Zeke Ernst had revealed to himself, but also because Schug had captured the strange contrast in the Ernst family of power.

Zeke Ernst, known as the three-clawed falcon, shouldn't be like this.

In Hugue's vision, the old man should be a wise and calm soldier, an absolutely rational and intelligent politician, not some kind of believer in association.

When Shuge walked to the door of the manor hotel, something suddenly occurred to him.

He suddenly understood why he would

I think what Old Zeke said before was particularly strange.

"When he talks about prophecy and the so-called only son of the abyss, the subject of his use is 'association'...... It was only at the end of the discussion of family succession that the word "I" was reused. Not only that, but on the issue of the manor hotel, Lao Zeke's expression is also very similar, does this show that this old man's attitude towards the so-called inheritance rituals and prophecies is actually very ambiguous? But for some reason, I can't say it explicitly?"

Standing in the lobby of the Manor Hotel, Xiuge only felt that his head was swelling, swelling violently.

I feel like I'm going to grow my brain.

Under the watchful eye of the guards, he walked up the stairs of the hotel, one step at a time.

On this night, the surging amount of information almost filled Xiuge's mind, and although he had been tired all day, he was not sleepy at all.

It's too much to bear and think about these things.

Walking up the stairs, Schugg found himself skewed and wrong in his estimation of the Ernst family.

In fact, not only him, but even the princess Sophia also had huge gaps and misunderstandings in her understanding of the Ernst family and old Zeke. Z.br>

The two are never concerned with the same thing.

As the royal daughter, Sophia Augustin's goal is to weaken or even eliminate the interference of the aristocratic group in the power of the kingdom as much as possible, and to bring the power in important fields such as military and economic fields back to the royal family as much as possible, so that the nobles can become pure kingdom mascots, allowing them to focus on the inheritance of the family and the cultivation of future generations.

And Zeke Ernst, who was the primary target of Princess Sophia, didn't care about any of this at all.

"Rather than the worldly struggle for power and interests, what this old guy really cares about is the survival of the family...... Judging from all the previous signs, whether it is the identity of the so-called "only son of the abyss" that I am inexplicably burdened with now, or what is happening in the Manor Hotel now, it seems that behind all the events related to the Ernst family, the existence of the Black Sun Association is inseparable."

"If Zeke Ernst is really as wary of the Black Sun Society as I thought, then in this case, he still hasn't chosen to completely throw himself into the Sophia Princess, does this mean that he doesn't think that the power of the kingdom can deal with the influence of the association on the family?"

"Is he hope...... I'll do it for him?"

In silent thought, Xiuge went to the floor where his room was located, where guards were also on guard.

He pushed open the door and stepped into his room.

"Judging from the actions of the Black Sun Society and the summoning rituals they have mastered, it is very likely that they are related to the ancient gods mentioned by Theseus, so what I have seen and felt in this manor hotel may also be similar in nature to the Descendants of the Abyss."

"Only in this way can it directly trigger hostility and resistance from forces such as the Touch of Calon from the Dream Sanctuary."

Xiuge came to the desk, and he quickly pulled out a piece of paper, and wrote and drew on it, following his habit of thinking.

"The Black Sun Society's judgment of those prophecies is clearly false."

"According to the prophecy of the Society, the former Shog Ernst is indeed dead, and as I heard in the sacrifice when I was corrupted by the Descendants of the Abyss, this body is essentially an empty shell without a soul...... Therefore, according to their original plan, the summoned Descendants of the Abyss should "move" into this body and complete the replacement of their identities."

"But in fact, there has been a glaring omission in this prophecy - although it was already ambiguous enough, what happened in the city of Seren, and the mutation in my body, has completely transcended the predictions of these sentences."

"First, if the only son of the abyss refers to the Descendants of the Abyss summoned by the mages of the Black Sun Society, then the Descendants of the Abyss are no longer complete, and according to the memories and information from the Dharma, it was forced to split its own power after being severely injured

Wandering through the city of Salen, the other part has become my "food."

"Second, if the only son of the abyss is pointing to 'Shug Ernst', then it is impossible for the members of the Black Sun Society to know that this body has actually completely changed its soul long before the events of the peace celebration, and not only that, but the existence of the dream shelter and Theseus has brought new variables......

"On top of that, Old Zeke's role in this series of events is very delicate, and I need to verify and judge further to confirm that he really wants to pass on certain messages to me, and not deliberately guide me."

Hug looked up, and his image was reflected on the glass window in the light of the light.

The figure in the mirror seems to be smiling, and it looks a little weird and eerie.

"At the moment, it seems that the key information gap is still in my hands, which means that I can make some bold attempts and plans...... Theseus, is that what you call improvisation?"

Snowflakes fluttered outside the window.

It was indeed a heavy snowfall.