Chapter 107: Descendants of the Old Gods (Asking for a Monthly Pass on the Last Day)
...... At this moment, Klein, who heard the old man's answer, was full of foul words echoing in his mind, and there was no other idea to present except this.
Zarathu, the leader of the Esoteric Order, a descendant of the great nobles of the Solomonic Empire in the Quaternary Age, the previous master of the notes of the Antigonus family, the extraordinary path navigator of Russell the Great, the true high sequence of the "Fortune Teller" path, was already a secret existence of the "Miracle Master" a hundred or two hundred years ago, and was considered by the "Magic Mirror" Arodus to be an angel who lost control of the monster in the process of promoting the "Mysterious Attendant" of Sequence 1!
No matter which description of this, it is an unbearable weight for Klein at the moment, which makes him feel both a sense of shock that the characters in the history textbook have jumped out of the textbook and come to the front alive, and at the same time he feels that the air around him seems to have become substance, piling up on him layer by layer, squeezing his body and blocking his breathing.
Klein once assumed that maybe everything he encountered, including the crossing, stemmed from the layout of Zarathu, suspecting that he was the boss he would eventually face, and now, he had met it, in advance.
I'm just a Sequence 5!" Crane couldn't help but shout in his heart, wondering if the other party was really Zarathu.
Zarathu is a surname, representing the great nobility of the Solomonic Empire in the Quaternary Age, and theoretically speaking, there should have been more than one Charathu in the history of more than 2,000 years...... Perhaps this was the grandfather, father, brother, or heir of the leader of the Esoteric Order in Russell's notes...... Also, as he said earlier, he himself has been dead for many years, and both Arodus the "Magic Mirror" and Will Ansette, the "Serpent of Mercury", have confirmed that Zarathu, the leader of the Esoteric Order, is still alive, but he has lost control and become a monster and has become extremely crazy...... Klein first tried to convince himself that things weren't necessarily as bad as he thought, which quickly calmed him down and gave him the ability to think more carefully:
The extraordinary abilities that this Zarathu showed just now may not seem many, but each of them transcends common sense, and the part related to history and destiny is even more so...... He is by no means just a "sophist", there is even a sequence 3, or even a sequence 2, and the number of angels in one path is never many......
There is a close connection to the "Night Country" where the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains has disappeared, and there is a whisper that can be transmitted to the ears of the low-level extraordinaires in the "soothsayer" pathway...... When the leader of the Esoteric Order Zarathu obtained the notes of the Antigonus family through Russell the Great, he appeared less and less often, and he did not know what he was planning, can it be considered that he came to the main peak of the Honakis Mountains to find the treasure left by the Antigonus family according to the notes, and obtained the potion recipe and corresponding materials for Sequence 1 "The Mysterious Attendant"?
In the occult world, successive coincidences often mean something is wrong, it means affirmation......
If it was really that Zarathu, such a "self" was divided and existed in the misty town, was that the reason why he finally lost control and went crazy?
As for the fact that he was "already dead", there is a reasonable explanation, as the leader of the Tantric Order, Zarathu, himself said:
What is a miracle? Coming back from the dead is a miracle!
And He himself was already a "miracle master"!
Klein's thoughts turned, and the white-bearded old man who called himself Zarathu laughed and said:
"Look at your reaction, do you know me?"
Klein thought for a moment, and said tentatively:
"I've heard of this surname.
"I once met the 'Mystic Queen' and learned from her about the Esoteric Order and its leader. ”
The old man bowed his head slightly, and without replying in the affirmative, nor in denial, he smiled and asked vaguely:
"How else do you need help?"
Help...... Crane pondered the extraordinary abilities that the other party had shown, and hesitated:
"Can you summon a fish from the outside world from the history of this hidden world? ”
In his opinion, it is not impossible, you must know that a large part of the outsiders who have entered the town come from the easternmost remnants of the Sunia Sea, maybe some fish were raised there, both as a reserve food, and used to observe environmental changes, and disappeared at night because they did not fall asleep, or maybe any explorer just ate a stomach full of fish, and encountered the dark night, and did not have time to fall asleep, in that case, it is not incomprehensible that there are fish from the outside world in the history of Misty Town.
Zaratul raised his head and glanced at Klein, who was disguised as Gelman Sparrow, but did not give an answer for a moment.
After a few seconds, he lowered his gaze and said in a muffled voice:
"Yes. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the "blood general" Seigor had an extra piece of crushed fish flesh in his hand.
"It could only last for three quarters of an hour, and when it was over, it was as if it had never been eaten. Zarathu added.
It really works...... Klein felt more and more that the ability of the "soothsayer" to pass the high sequence was strange and terrifying.
He wanted to say that there was nothing else he needed help with, but he thought that Zarathu was a notoriously cunning being, and that everything he said and did needed a question mark, and he felt that he should prepare something.
With all his thoughts in mind, Crane decided to show a certain amount of greed, and made Zarathu lower his opinion of himself, believing that he could easily induce him.
After asking the secret puppet to put away the fish, he rolled his eyes twice, and took a faint breath and said:
"I also need the 'Sorcerer' potion recipe. ”
Zarathu's posture did not change, he was silent for a few seconds, and said with a smile:
"No problem, as long as you're willing to believe that I'm giving you the real formula.
"When you get that obsidian back, I'll give you the 'Sorcerer' potion recipe along with the 'Open the Door' symbol.
"Well, for me, it's all a no-brainer, as long as you can spill my ashes back into the river of my hometown. ”
Klein listened quietly and couldn't help asking:
"Your personality must be very high, and if you scatter your ashes like this, it will pollute the whole river and create countless monsters. ”
Hearing this, Zarathu laughed and said:
"Very carefully.
"However, there is nothing special in my ashes, and I have long since lost them. ”
As he spoke, he raised his head again and glanced at the top of the old church.
Is he implying that his extraordinary properties and the peculiarities of his body as a result of his alteration have been sucked away by the "magnet" at the top? Klein speculated about the other party's meaning, and asked about his own extraordinary path:
"What is the Sequence 3 potion after 'Sorcererer' called?"
Zaratul's face and beard moved slightly:
"Ancient scholars. ”
Ancient Scholars...... Although it sounds like a dead artifact dug up from a grave, Zarathu's repeated mention of "history" is simply incredible...... Klein asked again with a little glee:
"What about the corresponding sequence 0?"
Zarathu raised his head again, glanced at him, and then chuckled:
"You should know when you 'open the door' and escape. ”
I hate people like you the most, who only talk half the way and always laugh and don't say anything...... Klein suddenly felt similar to that of Russell the Great, so he moved his gaze to the stone statue next to him, and asked:
"Who is this?"
Zarathu did not turn his head, and said in a voice that was not clear enough:
"He is a descendant of an old god. ”
A descendant of an old god, a descendant of Fregra, the "Wolf of Destruction"? This old god seems to hold the power of the night...... Before Klein could ask a question, he heard Zarathu laugh and laugh:
"He also has a brother, and you should be familiar with it. ”
"Who?" Klein tried to remember, but couldn't find an answer.
Zarathu said "hey":
He gave himself a new surname.
"Antigonus. ”
Antigonus ...... Night Country...... Hornachis ...... Fregra ...... Klein's eyes lit up slightly, and he connected the fragments of information into a whole.
The destruction of the "Night Country" by the Night Church is easy to understand, due to the struggle for power, it makes no sense to deal with the Antigonus family who inherited the extraordinary path of the "soothsayer", there is no need to do that level, after all, it is the "Grim Reaper" and the "giant" that can be exchanged with the "Sleepless" path.
And Klein had never understood why the Antigonus family had to put the treasure on the main peak of the Honakis Mountains, and why they trusted the people of the "Night Country" so much.
Now, he finally got a little bit of it.
Klein was about to ask another question when he suddenly saw the crimson moonlight shining through the church window, causing shadows to be dragged out of the corpses hanging in the air.
Klein's heart tightened, and without thinking about it, he followed the emergency plan, directly raised his right hand, snapped his fingers, and lit a candle near the other wall, far away from him.
At the same time, he attached the "Wraith" Segnor to himself, leaping forward, rolling and tumbling, to the nearest outer wall.
At this time, the whole church became unusually quiet, and there was no longer echoing murmuring.
Crane's spiritual instincts weren't alerted to any danger, but he saw through the shadows on the ground that the corpses hanging in the air had turned to the side with the candle light!
Without hesitation, Klein pressed his left palm, and the whole person directly penetrated the wall and came to the outside of the church, and then without raising his head, with the help of the endogenous power created by the "resentful spirit", he rushed to the nearest house with a leap and a jump, and the distance between the two was only about ten meters.
In the process, he didn't hear the roar of the beast, nor did he notice the figures coming and going around him, but there was a pinprick feeling on his back that was being watched by a dense gaze!
In just a second, Klein flipped to the outside of the house, pressed his palms, and slid inside.
Then, snapping his fingers, he manipulated the flames from a distance to extinguish the candles in the church.
After a brief moment of silence and tension, the feeling of him being watched by so many eyes disappeared, and outside the closed curtains, figures began to appear, coming and going.
PS1: I recommend this book, "Creating a Game World", which seems to be quite popular now.
PS2: Ask for a monthly pass on the last day~