"I don't know what to call you?" After walking up the stairs, Esther asked.

The old man walked up the stairs blindfolded, but was not affected by the fact that he could not see the road clearly, and he led Esther to the corridor on the right, and entered the first room:

"You can call me Mr. Rejord."

"I ......"

Rejord waved his hand suddenly, and then pushed the door open and walked in: "I don't need to know your name, or rather, the more I know, the less good it will be for me." ”

Esther nodded thoughtfully: "Then you can call me Hamel, it's a fake name." ”

She walked into the house and took in her surroundings for the first time.

It is a carpeted study, and in addition to the wooden shelves that are stacked from the floor to the ceiling to stuff the books, the display room separated by a transparent glass case contains many auxiliary props that can be used for divination.

A few low armchairs sat in the middle of the room, and a candlestick rested on the matching low coffee table, strewn with pen and paper, and nothing else.

Rickard replied vaguely to Esther's "pseudonym", gesturing for Esther to sit down in the armchair in the room: "You are a very special presence to us, Mr. President has emphasized this many times. ”

"The 'Destiny' pathway." Esther smiled and pointed to the point.

It wasn't until Esther sat down that Rejord sat down in the chair across from her: "Yes, even if we can 'observe' your existence, it's because you have an inseparable invisible connection with the extraordinary beings of this path. ”

Esther did not answer, though she knew the peculiarity, but she could not discern the deeper source, and what Mr. Rejord said sounded mysterious.

Rejord paused for two seconds and cleared his throat: "Well, Mr. President, please give me two things, both of which are related to you. I'm sorry I don't have time to prepare something better to entertain you, Kano will bring some desserts later. ”

Esther looked around the room, "I'm curious about who your president is. ”

"You may have seen him, but you may not remember him," Rejord laughed very gently, not much different from an ordinary old man who would sit on the edge of the square basking in the sun and feeding the birds, and even made people feel kind, "Now that it has been confirmed that you are now a path other than 'destiny', there is one less question that Mr. President asked me to ask." ”

"And what about the other question?" Esther was curious, the president seemed to be wary of her approach, could it be that the other party was really guarding against Zoya?

Rejord sorted through the scattered papers on the table, and Esther had noticed that it was covered with graffiti-like symbols

Rejord asked, "Are you playing for yourself?" ”

What's this weird question? Esther was stunned for several seconds, and did not organize a specific answer.

"Yes", but there is still Zoya in herself, Esther doesn't feel that she is doing anything for Zoya, what she does is only for herself, and the ultimate goal is just to get rid of Zoya.

"Not"? Such an answer is contrary to her heart, and Esther will not deny the selfishness of her heart, which is not something to be ashamed of.

It's just that this question is very confusing to her, which is intuitively shown on Esther's face, and more than ten seconds have passed, and she has not been able to give an answer.

Although he couldn't see through the blindfold, Rejord could feel Esther's hesitation, and he nodded: "You've answered my question, now we can talk more about the possibility of cooperation." ”

If Esther's dazedness could be presented as a numerical value, the number must be desperately increasing at this time, and her hands were twisted together: "Wait, is this the end of the question?" ”

"'Hesitation' is the answer for you."

What a god, Zoya also said it this way, so it seems that Ulorius has a somewhat similar style...... Why didn't Aaron? Because his sequence is not high enough?

The corners of Esther's mouth curled slightly: "Then I'd be happy to hear what your president is proposing to cooperate." ”

Rejord turned the few pieces of paper that had just been sorted out in a different direction and pushed them in front of Esther: "This is what the president wants me to relay to you, please read it silently, I shouldn't know anything about it." ”

"Does this content hurt you?" Esther didn't look at it first.

Ryjod folded his hands in front of him, leaned back and leaned back in his chair: "It's likely that I'll be contaminated, and I'll be showing signs of losing control, and there are some things I shouldn't know." ”

Knowledge itself is polluting, and the sequence is not high enough to bear? This is a sufficiently effective means of secrecy.

Esther's gaze turned to the sheets of paper.

The paper is paved with chaotic, childlike shapes, irregular and chaotic, but between those shapes that have no meaning, they outline strange patterns like rings.

It was a strange feeling, Esther was looking at a near-imaginary painting, or reading a strange foreign language that she had never learned.

But as soon as she finished the gaze required to "read", a piece of information popped into her mind:

"I'm sorry I can only communicate with you in this way, I haven't been fully born into this world yet. Connecting with you through others can avoid the risk of having a cohesive instinct when you have faced a weak self.

"I've got some news about you from somewhere else, and now that you're out of your destiny, it's much safer to deal with you. For you, the extraordinary power to accommodate both 'Destiny' and 'Thief' will only lead you into a frenzied convergence. ”

Esther looked away and pinched the bridge of her nose, she felt a constant throbbing pain in her right eyebrow, double vision of what she saw in her right eye, and a blur of her left eye, dizzy.

After a few tens of seconds, this feeling subsided, Esther turned over the piece of paper she had just browsed, revealing the next page of complicated lines and symbols, and continued reading:

"I know you're looking for answers to certain questions, projections of the keys of light."

Light...... What?

Esther subconsciously held her breath, her heart uncontrollably increasing the rate of agitation, turning to a wild beat that could burst at any moment.

Rejord subconsciously grabbed the armrest, propped himself up and gradually sat up straight, but he still didn't say a word, just looked quite serious. He silently pressed his right hand under his arm, hiding the few white scales that appeared on it.

Esther's eyes lit up with a round star, and for a moment she caught a glimpse of a floating gray mist, but the next moment her vision was cut off.

Esther's heartbeat gradually calmed down, and she squeezed her eyes twice to dispel the discomfort caused by the instantaneous vision just now, and continued to look down:

"Zoya was once acquainted with another Serpent of Mercury, my enemies, who had followed the 'All-Knowing and Almighty' of the Second and Third Ages. Tracking down Zoya is quite dangerous for you now, and even with special protection, you are likely to be forced to face the fate of extinction.

"It's a fate that only me or another mercury serpent can peep into, and outside of our path, even the gods can't fully comprehend what we can see."

Esther slowed down for a few dozen seconds again, until she was no longer dizzy, and then turned the third page with the throbbing pain in her eyebrows. Below that, only the last page remains.

She watched patiently:

"I have three requests: one is that please don't look for me or even try to devour me, this is my request for the safety of my life, and the period is until the end of my fate.

"The second is to find a way to keep yourself as much as possible in a future that can be foreseen by Zoya, and if you can do it, it will be good for you and me.

"The third is to observe the situation of the 'Lord of the Spirit Realm' for me, and your observation itself can become an 'anchor', whether it is done by you or Zoya."

Esther closed her eyes, and as she recovered, she pondered the three strange requests.

The first one is very easy to understand, the other party is afraid of Zoya. The second one is like asking Esther to work hard to protect herself, which is a warning in advance in order to make some exchange with herself in the future?

The third is more like a request for someone else, the "Lord of the Spirit Realm...... It should be Mr. "Fool", is he facing some crisis? Will he need that special anchoring ability from me and Zoya?

Or is there a threat from the outside?

Esther had to shove a monocle out of her mind, and she exhaled heavily, and now that she was in good shape, she skimmed through the last piece of paper:

"In the same way, in response to these three requests, I can fulfill all three of your requirements, as long as it is within my ability. I can help develop the person you want to be the 'anchor', and I can lend you the full power of the 'Restart', or you can leave the request for now.

"If you agree to my offer, write Zoya's name and yours directly on this piece of paper, in occult language."

Esther looked up and glanced at Jored across from her, but instead of responding to her gaze, he shouted out the door, "It's okay, you come in, Kano." ”

The asymmetrical man brought in a tray with simple snacks like cookies, chocolate, and toffee balls.

After putting the tray down, Kano left the room again, closing the door for the two of them.

Jo Read's lean but polished right hand spread out at the sweets on the table, "I think you might need a little more." ”

"I do need it," Esther picked up a piece of chocolate and bit down hard, "May I ask who you will be?" ”

Jored tilted his head and pondered for two seconds, then smiled reassuringly, "The revelation I have received guides me, and it doesn't matter if I tell you. ”

"We are all members of the School of Life, and the one we want to trade with you is the president of the 'Council of Destiny'."

Esther lowered her gaze and stared at the pen on the table, recalling the corresponding materials she had read when she was still on watch.

The School of Life, whose origin is unknown, is based on the inheritance of master and apprentice, and is one of the secret organizations with a very unique concept - they divide the world into three levels, the world of absolute reason, the world of spirit and the world of matter.

It is also an organization that has mastered the path of "destiny".

Since this is the fate foreseen by the other party......

She picked up the pen that had been lying on the table for a long time, and scribbled it across the last piece of paper in Giant's language, writing Zoya's honorific name, and "Esther".

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