Dark!

Pure darkness, without a shred of light.

Arthur felt depressed like never before.

It's not just the breathlessness, it's the heart—

Knock, knock!

Arthur's heart was beating at this moment in a way that had never been more intense than ever before.

As soon as you shrink one by one, the pain spreads from your chest!

Suddenly, Arthur instinctively rested his palm on his chest, opened his mouth wide to breathe, but immediately, his body froze in place.

Eye!

A pair of scarlet eyes appear above the dark dome!

Like the sun, like the moon!

It's like a star that has never changed since eternity!

They, they, they, or they scanned in, their eyes filled with coldness, cruelty, chaos, gore, twisting, destruction, despair.

Airplanes!

[Death Intuition] flickered like an unprecedented speed, like a 100-watt light bulb!

Arthur, who froze in place, never felt so small.

Small as dust.

Tiny as an ant.

Those eyes didn't stay long, and after a moment they were all gone.

But it was this moment that almost caused Arthur's spirit to collapse.

Whew! Whew!

Arthur gasped for breath, his vision blurred.

In the rapid shaking, the words began to appear—

[Diagram Complex Language (Basic) Lv1 (-/-): Words used to have real power, but with the passage of time, most people have forgotten their strokes, forgotten their pronunciation, and even their existence has been forgotten, only a few talented people can peep into one of them, Herke once traced the origin of these words, but when asked, the master chose not to talk about it; Now that you have mastered the basics of this script, you can read some of the text recorded in Tufu. 】

……

'Words are truly powerful!' ’

Arthur's gaze swept over this sentence, and he unconsciously thought of the gaze just now.

What were those eyes just now?

Almost as soon as he thought of those gazes, horror appeared in Arthur's eyes, and his body trembled uncontrollably again.

Although he had already guessed, and Gramm's diary had described more than once the dangers of learning Tufuyu, he had never imagined that it would be such a terrifying sight.

A pair of eyes appeared in front of him like stars falling from the sky, staring at him!

It was a feeling that suffocated him from the depths of his soul!

Huge, scarlet, boundless.

And also......

The negative emotions in his eyes were like an ocean under a storm that wanted to swallow him.

What would it look like if such a gaze did come? ’

Unconsciously, such a thought came to Arthur's mind.

Then, he began to instinctively shift his thoughts.

But inexplicably, in another way, I thought of those eyes again.

Why didn't Graham mention those gazes in his diary? ’

Arthur wondered.

He quickly recalled, confirming that Gram had never written these glances in his diary.

And just as he was about to flip through Gramm's diary again, to see if he had missed something, his heart suddenly tightened, and a coldness that penetrated deep into his bone marrow followed.

[Death Intuition] flickered again!

Suddenly, Arthur reacted.

Don't think about these gazes anymore!

Don't even record these gazes!

Otherwise, something bad will happen.

Arthur's eyes were gloomy like never before.

Is it dangerous to just think about it?' ’

Is this the real mystical side? ’

'It's even more terrible than I expected!' ’

With a heartfelt mutter, Arthur got up and left the secret room.

He doesn't joke with his own life.

Therefore, he will never think about those gazes again, let alone record them.

And experience taught Arthur that if you want to stop thinking about one thing at all, focus on another.

With the hot cocoa cooked and a few slices of bread, Arthur returned to the Medium Room, where he opened the book that Gramm had left behind.

It's not the diary.

It's the one that records many secret techniques and rituals entirely by [Tu Fuyu].

Different from the direct analysis of the talent [All Things Eat], after mastering the basic [Tufu Language], Arthur, who was reading, had a deeper understanding of those secret techniques and rituals.

For example, he learned that to make [Apophis's Saliva], he needed three poisonous snake teeth, a thirty-centimeter snake vine and a piece of pure amber, and boiled in 10 liters of liquor over high heat for 6 hours, and finally the light blue liquid was the liquid itself.

For example, he learned that the two unknown secret techniques brought by Gram were [Vampire Touch] and [Praise of Iros].

There is also the secret technique given to him by Malinda, which he also knows, is the usurpation of the [Smoke Mirror].

However, knowing is knowing, but still unable to learn because of 'not enough spirituality' or 'lack of necessary things'.

Just as [Vampire Touch] needs a material called 'Vampire's Fang' in addition to the necessary 'spirituality' - not a vampire in Arthur's conventional cognition, but a corpse that has been resurrected from the dead, somewhat similar to the existence of ghouls.

What's even more exaggerated is that [Praise of Iros] actually allows learners to collect dreams and nightmares, and there is no specific value, but it needs to be collected until it is enough, which seems to be a long and nihilistic process.

On the contrary, the [usurpation of the smoke mirror] given by Malinda seems to be approachable, as long as the 'spirituality' is enough.

Of course, Arthur's focus is still on reconciling and conditioning 'spirituality'.

In Gramm's legacy, there are three rituals that reconcile and condition the 'spirituality': [Cat Cave Doctrine. Remnant], [Tallinn meditation method. Remnant], [Assasin's Secret Bloodstream. Remnants!

The three rituals come from different schools of thought, and they also represent three ways of reconciling and restricting the 'spirituality' –

【Cat Cave Theory. The remnant records the precepts: [Cat's Orange].

【Tallinn meditation. The remnant is an oath: the Tower Oath.

[The Secret Story of Assasin's Bloodshed. The remnant is recorded in indulgence: [Blood].

Among them, the [Tower Oath] only needs to find a tower more than 10 meters high, under the starry sky, take the 'Tallinn Medicine' made of moon grass, and then swear under his real name to 'keep learning with a humble heart and maintain more than 6 hours of study every day'.

But if you break your oath, you will face death.

It is death in the true sense of the word, and there is no room for turnaround.

[Blood] is even more direct, hunting twelve people who have enemies with you, bathing in the blood of the enemy under the scorching sun, silently reciting the true pleasure of killing from the heart, and then every time you kill the enemy, you can bathe in blood to get great pleasure.

However, with the accumulation of such pleasure, the person performing the ritual will become obsessed, and if it is not controlled, as the infatuation intensifies, it will become extremely empty under normal conditions.

Ultimately?

will only be reduced to a tool that only knows how to kill because of pleasure.

Arthur is well aware of the fragility of reason, and the slightest temptation will collapse directly, especially in the face of some pleasure, it will make people fall into the abyss with extreme speed.

Others are like that.

He is no exception.

Therefore, it can only be far away!

Once in all, it's hell!

In the same way, it is the same to always be humble.

You can be humble in the face of a master, but can you still be humble in the face of someone who doesn't look like you is as good as you?

Even with restraint.

It's also extremely difficult.

After all, 'arrogance' is the original sin.

Therefore, among the three rituals, Arthur chose [Cat's Orange].

Because, safe.

(End of chapter)