Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"That's impossible." Klein said this categorically.

"I, I know, but..." Esther spread her wings and looked at her wings doubtfully.

Klein was not sure what Esther had seen, so that she would be so troubled: "But you are here now, we are still communicating, and the person talking to me is an extraordinary being parasitic on Skylark, not a spirit. Esther Especially a friend I have known for a long time, how could it be possible—"

After a pause, Klein lowered his voice and switched to Chinese: [Li Xing, calm down. ]

When these words came out of his mouth, Klein was also saying them to himself.

I don't know if it was because Klein called out the Chinese name, but the struggling emotions in Esther's eyes gradually calmed down, but she still showed a sense of weakness and found it difficult to fly freely and flexibly.

So Esther gave up the idea of ​​leaving Klein's hat, and lay down underneath in annoyance: "You're right, I'm a little too blind. The fear I feel may be just symbolic, and it doesn't mean what really happened to me. ."

"So you didn't see the specific scene."

Klein couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. His previous question was too natural. Esther didn't "see" the content due to a strong premonition, but had a special feeling.

"That may not even be the past, but the content of the future, a disaster that I need to avoid or something like that..." Esther's voice did not have much confidence as she muttered.

Klein thought about the current situation in silence, always feeling that Esther's train of thought was just as negative as before, or in other words, just as disturbing.

Esther suddenly raised her head: "By the way, go to my satchel and look for the small square box with a circle painted on it with dark red blood stains."

Klein immediately took Esther's satchel and rummaged through the mess. The moment his fingers touched the silver Holy Emblem of the Night, he briefly paused for two seconds before pulling out Esther from the bottom. That box in particular.

"Is this your own blood?"

Skylark nodded: "Yes, I found that my blood is better than most spiritual materials, and can be used to mobilize light points for more powerful seals."

Although Klein frowned, he didn't say anything and just placed the box on the table. He reached out and picked up the restless Skylark from the bottom of the top hat and placed it next to the box.

Esther pecked twice with her mouth, and a halo of light swayed from the box. Then she winked at Klein and said, "Help? Birds' claws are more delicate."

"You are not delicate." Klein, whose spiritual intuition was touched, replied expressionlessly.

He took two steps back and performed several coin fortunes to confirm that the contents of the box were not dangerous and that it was safe to open the box before Klein stepped forward again.

Esther didn't urge him. She was not in a good state now, and she was in a daze and dissociated.

Klein stretched out his hand to pull the mechanism firmly, and opened the lid of the box for Esther.

What was displayed in front of Klein was a slender little snake with a green body. It reminded him of the nickname "Bamboo Leaf Green", but he was very sure that it was another type of snake that he had never seen before.

Klein immediately turned on his spiritual vision and observed the snake. What surprised him was that there were circles of broken wheels condensed inside the snake's body. The silver threads inside were intertwined into a ball, like twisted and knotted kite strings. .

He had seen that wheel-like pattern on Will Ascetin's giant snake incarnation, but the symbols inside the snake were quite fragmented, with almost no complete structure.

"What is this?" Klein's spiritual intuition gave a vague reminder. He quickly turned off his spiritual vision and asked Esther, "An extraordinary creature related to the 'destiny' path?"

"No, this is just an ordinary snake. It has died a long time ago as a storage carrier of extraordinary power."

Klein did not reach out rashly to grab the snake corpse: "Where did you get it?"

Of course Esther didn't dare to say that this was something she got from Amon.

Skylark shrank his neck uneasily and answered vaguely: "Well, it's just a chance... I'll explain it to you later."

"So what are you going to do now?"

Esther grabbed the extremely thin little snake with her claws: "Eat it to stabilize your mental state. I never knew its use before my promotion, but now I seem to understand a little bit."

Klein has wanted to say this for a long time: "Why do you eat everything?"

"Nature?" Esther couldn't help but chuckle twice after saying that. Although her voice still sounded weak, her surface emotions had almost recovered.

But she looked at Klein hesitantly: "Are you going to watch from here? I'll be a little embarrassed."

Klein was at a loss because no one else was present. He did not deliberately maintain Hermann's role-playing: "We also had dinner together."

"Okay... It shouldn't matter if it's just for you to see, but you'd better stay away." Hibari nodded at him.

Klein quickly took about five steps back, keeping a distance that was not too far away and allowed him to take action at any time and get closer to the table.

Esther took a deep breath and let out a whistle-like bird call.

At the root of each feather of the skylark, a faint light lit up, as if there was a light bulb hidden in its body, which was adjusted to the maximum power to emit light.

Soon, the pale yellow light spots separated from the skylark one after another, but they were different from what Klein had seen before. A long thin line trailed behind the light spots, still connected to the skylark's body.

It looked like spreading petals, or some kind of growing mycelium, but there were too many of these light spots, clustering the skylark's not-so-big body in the middle, almost drowning Esther.

Even though he was a short distance away, Klein still felt a chill on his back. This scene seemed to fit the weird "parasitism", but Esther was the one being parasitized.

The diffused light was ethereal and insubstantial, swaying gently in coordination with each other. Soon, they were attracted to the nearest thing in the outside world, gradually changed their direction, and wrapped around the tiny green snake like an earthworm.

Klein could see clearly that the light beams from the skylark penetrated directly into the snake's body. Even if he didn't turn on his spiritual vision, he could probably guess what they were doing - absorbing the "unknown power" stored inside the dead snakes.

Esther did exactly this, but it was different from what Klein expected. She felt like she was trying to unravel a knotted thread.

In the snake left by Amon, the silver threads that should have been smooth were roughly rubbed together and completely twisted into a knot. They were entangled with each other like hemp ropes and it was difficult to separate the head and tail. This made the process of absorbing it even more difficult for the light spots. .

Esther used her mind to control the direction of the light, while scolding Amon a lot in her mind. She used the analytical ability of the "decryption scholar" to try to digest those silver threads.

Skylark's eyes were kept tightly closed, and Esther didn't dare to let Klein see the abnormality in her eyes. The mark of "Zoya" became more and more clear, and she noticed this when she was promoted to "Parasite".

This "eating" process did not last long, only four or five minutes passed.

Klein's brows furrowed more and more tightly, because the movement of those light filaments as they twisted reminded him of the "Eye of Total Blackness". Klein had once forcibly used that eye, including when he was shaping the "world" and participating in Tarot sessions on the gray mist, and he could sense similar "threads".

Although the composition was different, this similar principle made Klein feel strange, and his spiritual intuition responded with clear uneasiness.

This ability may be more dangerous than Esther imagined. Does she have this awareness? Klein stared at the skylark. The glowing filaments were constantly breaking away from the snake's body and quickly retracting under Esther's feathers.

After a while, Esther opened her eyes again. The first thing she did was to shake the feathers on her body vigorously and murmured in a low voice: "This feels really strange..."

"Have a negative reaction?"

Skylark shook his head vigorously, as if trying to shake something out of his head:

"No, I just heard a lot of sounds and it was buzzing in my head."

"Is it gibbering?"

Skylark ruffled his feathers vigorously, always feeling numb and cramp-like pain all over his body, but it was not that strong: "No, it shouldn't be... If you give a more specific description, it seems to come from some living beings." The call.”

Klein's doubts deepened, and he repeated the word: "Calling?"

Esther distinguished carefully: "Yes, most of them are meaningless sounds, not words. Some of them are giant language, there are singing and wailing, and there are all kinds of sounds."

But soon she shook her head twice more: "Those sounds were intermittent, and now they are beginning to dissipate."

Klein sat back on the chair and looked at Esther quietly for a moment. Watching Skylark become energetic again, the worry in his heart was replaced by strong questions.

Skylark jumped twice in the box: "There is still one layer of shell left."

The original little green snake had completely deflated, like a balloon that had been deflated, and collapsed into a thin and flexible layer of snake skin, without blood or flesh.

Klein glanced at it casually and felt some residual spiritual fluctuations coming from it. It seemed that it could be recycled as spiritual material: "It looks like a complete snake slough, but why do you call it a 'shell'?"

"Because this is its most basic function," Esther stretched out her wings and made two gestures on the thin layer of snake skin. "Even if it doesn't parasitize other organisms, I can still use it to carry out activities. I can use it to carry out activities." It drapes itself around and makes simple changes.”

Klein offers a clearer analogy: "Like the 'painted skin' in a ghost story."

"It sounds like I'm a female ghost." Esther muttered in a low voice, "It's similar to that. It's also more suitable than ordinary creatures for me to fill the light spots and create... some kind of clone."

"Don't experiment on board."

Klein doesn't think this thing is very credible, or in other words, any power connected with "Zoya" makes him feel suspicious.

Esther nodded vigorously: "I know! An extra skylark will also make other people confused, so this thing is just my spare, I won't use it arbitrarily."

Klein was also skeptical about this statement.