Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther didn't mention the "Red Angel" thing again, and she always felt that Ourolius was a little depressed.

From the tone that was always flat and unchanged, no one could possibly hear any emotional changes in Ourolius, but Esther had such feelings.

Not through words, but through invisible tacit understanding.

Maybe the relationship between "Zoya" and Ourolyus is not bad? Esther thought this way, her eyes moved into the darkness, and she saw several deformed beasts lying on the ground with red eyes. Although they stared in this direction, they never dared to pounce forward.

After Ourolius and Leomaster walked away, the deformed beasts continued to wander around in the darkness.

Nothing could be seen further away. Even if there was a brief flash of lightning passing overhead, the range that could be illuminated was very limited, not enough to provide stable wide-area lighting.

According to the information Esther learned, Silver City considers it to be night when the lightning subsides, and it is day when the lightning is frequently active. However, it is difficult for her to feel that the years calculated in this way are accurate.

As the journey progressed, Skylark's eyes became heavier and heavier. The situation in the "Land Abandoned by the Gods" was worse than she imagined. It was hard to imagine how the Silver City where the "Sun" was located survived.

Along the way, although we passed two towns whose layouts could barely be discerned, they were completely silent except for ruins. Occasionally, weathered skeletons could be seen in the shadows under the ruins.

Even those bones, most of them have lost their "human-like" shape, including those huge giant-like spines. New heads or limbs growing out of broken bones are relatively common results of mutation.

Esther had a sense of absurdity, she always felt that this shouldn't be like this.

Xiao Qi and Xiao Wu said that it was a glorious era, the supreme God walked in the world, and His mercy and salvation for mankind...

Skylark closed his eyes and moved closer to Ourolius' neck, but the body temperature of "Angel of Destiny" was even lower than Esther's, giving Esther a subtle feeling of being close to a cold-blooded animal.

"Ourolius?"

Ourolius raised his head slightly, and after a few seconds responded to the call: "We're almost there."

What Esther wanted to ask was not this: "If I want to meet... I mean, is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

This time Ourolius answered very quickly: "No need, as long as it is 'Zoya'."

Skylark blinked blankly, wondering if he had triggered any keywords, and then Ourolius directly activated the "automatic reply" so that he could give a quick answer.

Esther began to get used to this strange communication mode: "But how can you be sure that I am 'Zoya'? Maybe I am just a 'thief' parasitic on Skylark?"

After Ourolius was quiet for a few seconds, he said slowly: "Intuition?"

Should it be said that it is the path of "destiny"? Such an answer actually makes people feel reasonable, and Aaron always follows his heart like this.

Esther sighed.

She seemed to have nothing to complain about, because she herself was also driven by intuition to act and subconsciously put aside thinking: "Is it just 'intuition'?"

Ourolius's voice was still so calm and gentle: "I can't admit my mistake, the 'light' is on you."

Esther wanted to scratch Ourolos's head twice. This answer was obviously much more normal than "intuition". Why didn't He say it just now?

This pilgrim's hike will eventually reach the destination, which is also a tall mountain. Even standing at the foot of the mountain, the tall cross on the top of the mountain is clearly visible.

It is between reality and reality, with a vague human shape hanging upside down.

Skylark raised his head and looked up at the shadow that was penetrated by wooden stakes and bleeding continuously.

True Creator…

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"Ourolius, can we fly up?"

Ourolius looked back at Leomaster behind him.

Skylark nodded: "Oh, I understand. He has to go up, so let's take him up first."

"It's to lead him." Urolius corrected him.

Esther was stunned, wait, this seems to be what she said when she prayed before...

The "Black Saint" lowered his head and said nothing. He believed from the bottom of his heart that he was the most inconspicuous "identity" present, and did not reply to anything. It was entirely up to Ouroleus or "Zoya" to make the decision.

Leo Master had been reciting something silently, but Esther had observed that he always had a longing and excited look on his face, and there were faint tears in his eyes.

Unlike Leo Master, Esther was more nervous. No matter what the relationship between "Zoya" and the real Creator was, she could not forget her experience in Tingen.

Seemingly noticing Skylark's shrinking of his neck, Ourolius tilted his head and turned to his shoulder: "Don't worry."

But after He said these words, He returned to silence. Ouroleus did not explain much, nor did he elaborate on the attitude of the "True Creator", which made Esther even more uneasy.

When Ourolius and Leomaster reached halfway up the mountain, the thunder in the sky began to become more frequent, and one after another penetrated the dark sky.

Skylark raised his head and stared at the sky for a long time, then suddenly whispered a word: "God of War?"

Esther didn't expect to reply at first, but Ourolius nodded lightly, as if he recognized some of her guesses: "Yes."

Skylark fluttered his feathers and lowered his body with some dejection: "It's really uncomfortable..."

Ourolius' brows seemed to frown slightly: "Too cold?"

When Skylark shook his head, his tone was also very depressed: "No, I'm just sad about what happened here."

It wasn't until he was about to approach the cross that Ourolius's faint voice came: "Me too."

There was no emotion in His voice, as if what he said was the feelings of others and had nothing to do with himself.

But Esther smiled bitterly and swept away a strand of silver hair that was tangled in her paws: "If you are just a bystander forever, you will easily leave regrets."

Ourolius's eyelashes trembled violently, as if he wanted to raise his eyes out of surprise, but in the end he did not open them.

"You... are different." Ourolius said.

"Really?" There was a smile in Yunque's voice, "Maybe it's because I'm not willing to be a bystander forever?"

These were just words that Esther casually used to deal with Ourolius.

Ouroleus suddenly turned his face, and under his long eyelashes, his half-concealed silver eyes looked at the little skylark tenderly.

"What's wrong?" Skylark tilted his head and saw the silver river flowing in Ouroleus's eyes.

Esther glimpsed a bit of rotating light inside, but the moment she caught it, the light had completely disappeared in the long river of fate.

Ourolius closed his eyes again: "Be careful, Esther."

Skylark suddenly widened his eyes.

Among all the beings who knew "Zoya", Ourolius was the first to call out her name calmly, not "Zoya", but "Esther".

She was sure that she had never told Ourolius her name, and she didn't know why he suddenly reminded her like this.

Be careful? Does he refer to the past "Zoya", or is it something else?

The silver-haired "Angel of Destiny" just lowered his head and did not give an answer.

The shadow of the cross pressed in front of her. Esther looked up, but she couldn't see the blurry figure clearly.

It's just that more and more blood is flowing through His body, giving people the illusion of a red stream.

Leomaster prostrated on the ground, kissing the shadow of the cross with tears streaming down his face, repeatedly chanting the name of the "Creator" and the scriptures, without raising his head for a moment.

The skylark flew away from Ourolius's shoulder, and a ray of light emerged, instantly returning to the human form of a white shirt, dark blue vest, and black trousers.

Esther whistled, and the lark controlled by light spots slowly flew down from the sky, stood on her shoulder, and rubbed Esther's cheek affectionately.

Ouroleus was already kneeling not far away, lowering his head devoutly, and began to pray softly.

Esther stood there, staring straight ahead.

In the shadow of the cross, a pool of turbid liquid of flesh and blood was flowing unnaturally in this direction. The squirming blood vessels and trembling organs were spread out flat on the ground, as if someone had peeled off the skin and then roughly flattened it. , and in the end there was only a pile of mud left.

The almost liquid flesh and blood mixed with organs soon spread to Esther's feet, gradually rising upwards, condensing into a mass of flesh and blood that was taller than her.

Esther did not dodge, but stared blankly at the crack above a pumping heart.

Soon, the cracks were torn open on both sides, revealing the moist eyeballs covered with bloodshot eyes and covered with mucous membranes. With every beat of the heart, blood drops would overflow from the edges of the "eyes" like rolling tears.

The buzzing sound sounded in Esther's mind, but it was not as strong as Esther expected. "Spiritual intuition" gave feedback, and "Zoya" clearly gave Esther the idea of ​​denial.

He actually refused to face the "True Creator". When he came with Ourolius, his "spiritual intuition" was to let nature take its course and be peaceful, hoping that Esther would come here.

Now such an unexpected development made Esther start to panic.

The mass of flesh and blood gradually extended, making a "gurgling" sound like bubbles surging as it rolled, forming a palm without skin in front of her. It was unknown which blood vessels were excessively twisted and ruptured during the extension. A stream of blood instantly poured to the ground and onto Esther's shoes.

The gloomy and pure black eye moved around, and each twist would drive the heart at the root, causing more blood to drip from the corners of the eyes. His eyes looked at Esther from head to toe, including her cinnamon-yellow hair, the skylarks on her shoulders, and her light-colored eyes similar to Ouroleus.

Finally the eye stopped and fell directly on Esther's face.

"Spiritual intuition" urged Esther almost impatiently to let her deal with the scene in front of her.

This is simply escaping, and then you blame it on me. Don’t you have your own tendency? This is obviously your own past interpersonal relationship!

Esther was complaining in her heart, but she didn't dare to show any wavering on the surface, for fear of arousing the other party's anger.

Even if he is an evil god, he is still a god no matter what. She has no choice of "refuse" at all.

Taking a deep breath, Esther boldly stretched out her hand and landed on the fleshy limb.