This is a question that Hua Lin could not answer, he had just used the power he had gained to expel the consciousness that had been wrapped around Paigang Toast, and he was not sure that what he had done was the right thing - alas, it was then that he realized that not only he, but even the entire Garo world, knew too little about the depths of the universe, and they knew no more about this universe than a land bird skimming the sea, they saw the wind howling on the surface of the sea, they saw the gray waves and white foam, they saw the floating seaweed, Wood, icebergs, and the occasional leaping fish, so they thought it was the sea.

However, the reality is that they know nothing about the depths of the sea, and all they know is limited to certain wreckage that has washed up on the surface.

The same is true of the immortals of this world, who, whenever something evil happens, track down and kill the priests, expel and round up the believers, smash the altars and other vessels, burn them with fire, pour the rest into the crevices of the earth, and it seems that everything is back to normal. But as long as there is one believer who continues to offer sacrifices to the abyss, the response will only get closer—if nothing else, because "it" has been expanding and never stopped.

The little bit of residual liquid that remained on the tip of the knife provided Hua Lin with information that was not only about the illusion of Jiming Village, but also answered some of his other questions, such as what exactly happened in Montenegro.

When Hua Lin was a child in the Garo world, he would sometimes see exhibits of stitching monsters, which were a punishment for family crimes by wizards. The wizards would cut the prisoners' bodies open, sew the parts cut from their loved ones on their bodies, cut out their limbs and put them on their loved ones, and then sew all the prisoners into a tortured monster with several arms, legs, a head under the navel, a back – it's hard to say if it was a back or not – and a head, and then drag the monster to the slum for exhibition, allowing the lower classes to vent their anger on this immovable mass of flesh. This kind of exhibition was extremely lively and left a deep impression on everyone, so that Hua Lin saw the totem pole of the barbarian era for the first time in a religious culture class after entering the academy, and thought it was a statue of a stitching monster.

"Stitching monsters are a very primitive and inefficient form of witchcraft," says their teacher of the history of witchcraft." It was briefly prevalent before the Age of Wild Dance, when the number of wizards was limited, the number of witchcraft was even more limited, and the effect of shield spells was short-lived, and the effect of resistance was very unsatisfactory, so they could not protect themselves at all times, and those savage samurai often took the opportunity to hunt the head of the wizard, they organized, killed the wizard by sacrificing a few people, or hid and shot poisoned arrows, and the wizards themselves hired samurai to hunt the enemy. Some people have thought of using artificial samurai to have more loyal and powerful guards, and some of them have invented the Stitching Monster, which only needs some fresh pieces of meat and a brain that doesn't need to be too clever to block an entire team of samurai. Even better, it can move at speeds of up to two kilometers per hour, so wizards can hide in its shadow when they're out in the field, not afraid of a poisoned arrow or a fireball coming from an enemy. ”

But the shortcomings of the Stitching Monster are as prominent as the advantages, it is too clumsy and bulky, it is useless except to use it as a mobile shield for wizards and scare children, and even before the Age of Wild Dance was replaced by more flexible demonic armor, by the time of Hua Lin's study, the Stitching Monster could not even scare children in the Garo world, and it became a method used by wizards to execute, and Hua Lin himself approved several.

But he didn't think that his first impression at the Wizarding Academy was not cranky! The resemblance between Stitching Monster and Totem Pole was not accidental!

Now he understands why the eight arms of the puppet hidden in the statue of the goddess in the white-clothed temple have such a strange flying momentum! What if those eight arms have their own will? What if those eight arms, like the wrists and feet of a starfish, can grow a small starfish on their own after breaking? No, it is just a starfish and not the "one" hidden in the abyss. Now, if you still use starfish as an analogy, those broken wrists and feet are not just thinking about growing into a small starfish, but also avoiding the devouring of the starfish's mouth!

To use another analogy, when you want to bite your fingertip and suck a drop of blood, your arm wants to fall off your body on its own for fear of being bitten!

At the same time, your arms may grow into another you after they fall out, as do your teeth and tongue!

Of course, you can also grow other arms by devouring these arms, and the current eight are not the previous eight, the previous eight...... Is it the bloodshot eyes, or the feasting teeth, or the person who has already walked the world and passed you?

Hua Lin had certainly read some of the oldest myths, in which certain gods were called by this name at one time, and by that name at another, and that and they would often change in the legends, take up the weapons of other gods, or have avatars that were completely different from the originals, and the tears of the goddess of good luck would kill the inhabitants of a kingdom, and so on. When he read it, he disagreed, believing that it was simply the result of the lack of culture of the bards. Indeed, poets are different from shamans, even savage sorcerers can write symbols, and poets are mostly illiterate, and a small half are really blind, they wander from village to village with drums, begging for food by singing, and in order to win the favor of the audience, they often do not hesitate to give the goddesses of other regions to the gods of the region where they are wandering, and show the merits and magic weapons of other gods in their poems. But now he suddenly felt that "the poets were inspired by the devil" was not a lie, but most likely reflected some long-lost knowledge of horror, which came from the even older era of totem poles, because blood and barbarism had long since been abandoned by the Orthodox Church - but also possibly, this is the truth that the Orthodox Church does not want to admit?

There is a (?) deity that devours and splits each other.

What's even more terrifying is that there are still some human beings who believe in them and are willing to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to win the attention of these things that they don't know what their last name will be tomorrow!