Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

The source of danger in being promoted to Sequence Four easily reminded Esther of the topic discussed with Thomas and the others. Sequence Four Extraordinaries will come into contact with the level of "divineity", and she will be affected by this connection because of this connection. The further impact of "Zoya"?

However, Esther did not feel too panicked. She had considered praying to "The Fool" for protection before being promoted. Everyone in the Tarot meeting knew that Mr. "The Fool" could ask "angels" to provide assistance to everyone. It is not a secret, but it is also a kind of protection for the members participating in the meeting.

Just like this, Mr. Fool's protection became a must. Esther had to consider what could be exchanged for equal value. If she owed more pages of Russell's diary because of this, she would have to pay for it in Intis. Stay longer.

This country is the place where Russell made his fortune, and there are not too many diary fragments that can be collected. Tillis, the most prosperous coastal city nearby, is a good choice, but Esther needs to explore the underground extraordinary people's trading market. She planned to ask Aaron and the other three about this, maybe they would know the corresponding channels.

At least I'm very proficient in Intis now. Except for the fact that I can't recognize a foreigner with this face, I won't have anything to worry about when I go to the underground gathering and put the mask out again.

Esther thought about it for a moment and came up with a new plan. Now all she had to wait for was the "Queen of Mystery"'s reply to Aaron.

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What Esther didn't expect was that before she went out to have breakfast, Aaron knocked on her door.

"Miss Hamel, can I come in?" Aaron asked standing by the door holding a ball of black cloth wrapped in layers.

Esther immediately stepped back to the door and let him in: "Good morning Mr. Aaron, what are you holding?"

Aaron quickly walked into the room, put the black cloth on the ground, and quickly arranged a spiritual wall around the room:

"My teacher is quite satisfied with this transaction. She actually handed this thing to me directly this morning with a reply letter. This magical item is not very stable, and the negative effects are too weird!

"Something in my room disappears for a few seconds and then appears in another location...so I think it's better to bring it to you as soon as possible so that you can suppress it with those light spots."

Esther couldn't help but look at Aaron with a hint of condemnation. She even repeated his words: "So you think it's better to bring it to me as soon as possible."

"Yeah, what's the problem? I trust your ability to solve this little thing!" Aaron's eyes were sincere, and he was serious.

Esther also started to help, and together with Aaron, they opened up the layers of black cloth: "If my guess is correct, it's just your spiritual intuition that this is the best way to do it."

"Yes, so this must be the best solution."

Don't use your blind trust as a reason! As soon as you left the "Four Leaf Clover", you let yourself go and completely lost the airs of a captain! ? Esther couldn't help but rant in her heart.

The two quickly removed the black cloth to the innermost layer. There was only a square box inside. The box seemed to be made of mahogany. The whole box was only about the size of a palm, but the black cloth took up a lot of the volume.

On the lid of the box, luxurious gold lines are used to carve out curly patterns, and messy hands of different lengths extend from the curled arcs. The bottom where curves and straight lines intersect is a circle of scales like the base of a dial.

Esther's movements suddenly stopped: "Aaron, this is indeed what your teacher gave you, right?"

"Yes, a magical item of the 'Parasite' sequence was sent directly by my teacher's messenger."

By the way, the messenger can also deliver things, express express from the spirit world... Esther tried to use random thoughts in her mind to dispel the fear caused by some kind of psychological shadow. Of course she didn't recognize the coat of arms on the top of the box, but it was inexplicable. I will think of an angel.

Esther was at a loss. She felt that she was a little sensitive, so she raised her head and glanced at Aaron. In the previous times she deliberately let go of her perceptions, Aaron, Thomas and Alexander were all normal and were not parasitized or controlled. signs.

The appearance of this box may just be accidental. After all, they are all "thieves" and have nothing to do with the Amon family. Yes, it must be like this...

Esther took a deep breath, raised her hand to open the lid of the box, and took a look at the contents inside.

"Snapped!"

She closed the lid with great force, and her mind went blank for a moment.

It's not that someone stole Esther's idea, it's just that she is deeply in the fear of doubting her life.

What was contained in the box was a monocle that seemed to be polished with crystal.

Her breathing was stagnant and her memories were mixed. Esther felt a chill crawling up her back, and the malice of being deceived and teased seemed to lie on top of her head again, unscrupulously mocking her wishful thinking of trying to escape from it all.

Esther turned her head and stared at Aaron: "You are not a member of the Amon family, right?"

Aaron's eyes were even more confused than hers: "What are you talking about? Why are you asking this suddenly? Of course I'm not! Don't you know my last name? Drasco, Aaron Drasco."

"Alexander, Thomas, Mary, none of them have the surname Amon, right?"

Esther's voice was trembling when she asked this question, fearing that the answer she received would be a smile and a mocking "You finally discovered it".

Aaron was very confused. He didn't know why Hamel looked like he was about to faint: "No, they are not convenient to reveal their last names because they don't want anyone to find out their origins. But I can assure you that we are related to that Fourth Age person." The 'Stealers' family has no connection whatsoever."

Esther looked at the box under her hand, her mood was so complicated that she didn't know what to say. In the end, she didn't raise her head to look at Aaron again: "Put this here, you go out first, I have to be quiet."

Aaron noticed Hamel's extremely unstable mood, but didn't know why she was like this. He accepted the proposal for the time being and once again showed his absolute trust in her: "Okay, then I'll go out first and wait for you to calm down. Come to me later to discuss the follow-up."

When Aaron walked out of the guest room, he didn't even forget to close the door for Esther.

Esther's hand pressed harder on the wooden box. She felt that she needed to open it again to take a look at it. She subconsciously held her breath and reopened the lid of the box.

The monocle is placed on top of several layers of soft black satin. The shape is obviously carefully designed. It is not clamped in the eye socket but hung on the bridge of the nose, with a frame and temples. A thin chain hangs from the side of the silver frame, and from the end of the chain hangs a polished and shiny obsidian, like a crow's eye.

If worn, the lens will be placed in front of the wearer's right eye.

This made Esther feel her eyebrows begin to throb again. Just staring at the monocle made it difficult for her to think. The Pioneer attached some light spots to it. Esther quickly looked away and closed the lid again. Only then did she feel that she could breathe smoothly again.

Isn't that "Mysterious Queen" really planning to solve me in this way? Or does she know Amon?

Esther felt that her entire experience aboard the "Clover" began to become unreal. Were the people she met really the same person? Or she has stepped into another trap again. They have all been parasitized by Amon, and their relationship in the past two months has been a scam...

She recovered her thoughts that were scattered due to fear in time. After taking a few deep breaths, Esther calmed down again and broke away from the previous trance that made her doubt everything.

She rubbed it hard on her right eyebrow, entering into the reasoning mentality that a "decryption scholar" should have.

After rational thinking, Esther confirmed the conclusion of "impossible".

Amon's true form has already appeared before, so he won't go to such trouble again to get a pirate ship to play with him. The status of the "Queen of Mysteries" is not low, especially the "blasphemous card" she holds in her hand, which is enough to assist her in divining whether there is anything unusual about Aaron and the others.

Esther has met the "Queen of Mystery". Judging from the lady's attention to Russell Gustav, the senior traveler, she is the one who knows some information about the "other world", including all kinds of things. fairy tale spells.

This is not equivalent to the blank information shown by Amon. Amon has never shown interest in Russell, so the "Mysterious Queen" herself is probably normal.

So is this pair of monocles a coincidence? Or is it that the "Queen of Mystery" doesn't understand that there is a problem with the "Stealer" path, and just simply obtained this thing, and then kept it with her?

That's right, Aaron and the others said that Trier was once the capital of the Tudor Empire in the Fourth Age, and the angel family that supported the establishment of the Tudor Empire at that time had a "stealer" path, so when they encountered a sealed object in this form , is also very possible.

But from every angle, Esther felt deeply uneasy.

It's not like she has never seen other people wearing monocles. This is not a very rare ornament in the Northern Continent. Rune and Intis can see it everywhere. She shouldn't make such a fuss.

It's just that the psychological shadow is a bit heavy.

Esther grabbed the wooden box and placed it on the coffee table. She lowered her eyes and sketched the shape of the light ball in her mind, opening up a chaotic state of perception.

She lifted the lid of the box again and looked at the contents inside. The black hole-like silhouette that she had expected in the worst case did not appear, which made Esther breath a sigh of relief.

The outer frame of this pair of glasses is blurry and made of ordinary material, but the lenses are like a bunch of translucent worms hugging each other. Most of the worms' links are very twisted, unlike the "Worm of Time" Esther has seen. "So clear, it doesn't look stable.

This is in line with the chaotic state that a magical item should have. Esther's "spiritual intuition" did not give her any warning feedback. It seems that this thing is indeed just an extraordinary item.

Esther opened her eyes again, and after returning to normal vision, she finally had the courage to take the glasses out of the box.

She touched the obsidian at the end of the chain and gave up the idea of ​​putting it on after a moment.

Even though she knew this was not the same monocle, Esther always felt panicked.

If I had known it was such a "terrible" shape, I would have been better off asking the "Mysterious Queen" to smash it directly, leaving only the extraordinary characteristics of the "parasite", out of sight, out of mind...

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