Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chantal followed Esther and walked into the room next to her. Esther didn't lock the door, so she just opened the door and went in.

It even seemed a bit crowded when there were three people in the room. The single room in this hotel was not much larger than the third-class cabin on a passenger ship. It was intentionally designed like this to save space.

Esther pulled everything on the table to the side, took the lead in sitting on it, and motioned for Chantal to sit on the other side of the room.

Although Chantal sat down obediently, due to his height and long legs, he could not close his legs like Esther.

"You can put your feet on the edge of the bed, I don't mind." Esther said in Intis language.

Chantal glanced at the bald man lying on the bed, breathing weakly, and subconsciously asked in Intis: "Is he still alive?"

"Alive, but from ordinary people's point of view, there is no difference from death." Esther rubbed the center of her right eyebrow in distress, "He has been parasitized by me for a long time, and he no longer has much active self-consciousness. In his current state Almost like a puppet.”

Chantal silently recited the word "parasitism" twice, which seemed to be different from the evil spirit possession he imagined:

"if you……"

"Yes, if I want to control you, you will become like this." Esther said with a smile, "I can also choose to let you have free will, but that will not be good for me. It's like driving a steam train. Drivers generally don’t mess up trains, right?”

Chantal was quiet for two seconds and decided to return the topic to a safe area: "What do you want to know? I don't have any impression of you."

Esther's eyes dimmed a bit: "Yeah, Mary probably doesn't have much of an impression on me now... Tell me about you, and I will judge the truth myself."

Then the "Sun" charm was still dancing between her fingers. Chantal looked at the charm and spoke softly:

"I don't need to lie to you. It was my own fault that I recklessly ignored the danger of tonight's action. I don't know what you want to hear."

Esther pointed to Chantal's collar: "Your family?"

"Stealers" have such instincts about valuable items, especially magical items that incorporate extraordinary properties, that it is difficult for Esther not to be attracted to them.

Chantal's expression was tense for a moment, then relaxed again:

"I'm not from Nas, that's obvious, my parents are from Intis. I don't remember my mother very much anymore, she died when I was very young. My father said I inherited her Eyes, but hair color is like my father's.

"I just heard my father say how wonderful she was, how beautiful, gentle and powerful she was, haha, it's really disgusting to say that."

But when he said this, his expression was full of nostalgia, and behind the nostalgia there was even a hint of hatred and grief:

"Perhaps the deepest impression I have of my mother is her arms. She had blond hair like a wheat field. I would shrink into her arms and hold on to her long hair. My father would hold us tightly and hum a little to quiet me. The songs coming down, the carriage swaying...

“I later learned that we were running for our lives during that time.

"My father is the 'Purifier' of the Eternal Sun Church Tribunal. He is young, talented, pious and ambitious. He is only short of enough meritorious service to be promoted to the sixth rank. He once wrote in his notes: 'Even if I still want to praise The sun, I don’t want to be ashamed of my brothers and sisters, but I have lost the qualification to sing praises to the sun.”

Esther no longer played with the charm, but let it lie quietly on her palm: "So this is your father's relic?"

Chantal's breath stagnated: "You..."

Then the "Sun" charm was thrown over by the other party. He reacted quickly and caught it in his hand, feeling the calming warmth.

"I can feel your emotions, please continue, I shouldn't interrupt you." Although Esther frowned slightly, her expression and tone were gentle, and she looked more lively than her previous indifferent attitude.

Chantal cleared her throat:

"Well, I don't have a deep impression of what happened at that time. It was all inferred from my father's notes. My mother was originally an informant for his development. He once thought that she was a wild extraordinary being involved in the incident. .

“A lady who looks fragile but gentle and beautiful will naturally receive his attention and protection. It was during this process that my father and my mother fell in love.

"But my father didn't know at that time that my mother...she was once him."

This time, Esther's eyes gradually relaxed. She looked at Chantal without hesitation, and then quickly turned her head away, digesting this too weird news.

Chantal rubbed her face and calmed down before continuing:

"My mother's serial name is 'Witch', which means that no matter what gender the person who drinks the potion is, they will become female. And my father... only found out about this after my mother became pregnant."

Esther has always had a bad feeling about the existence of "witches", but that was based on the various evil behaviors she had been exposed to. She never knew that there was such a weird thing in this path.

She nodded: "Of course your mother would hide this, but from my point of view, her purpose of approaching your father is not simple."

Chantal sighed:

"My father thought she was an innocent person, but she was actually the perpetrator. Behind the 'witches' are often the Witch Cult. But it was an accident that my mother was turned into an informant by my father... She originally thought she was being raped If caught he would be dead.

“Then they had me, and my father took on the responsibility of being a ‘father’ and started doing everything he could to hide my mother’s presence, cover up my existence but do his best to care for us.

"At first my mother was able to hide me with her, but as I grew up, they made up their mind to leave Trier and head to remote villages in the south. They could set me free if they could find a place where no one knew them. The earth grows in the sun.

"That way, they can live a peaceful life and just be an ordinary couple, rather than extraordinary people who betray the organization.

"But that's just their overly optimistic wish."

Chantal tightened the Holy Emblem of the Sun in her hand, and her dark brown eyes looked even more gloomy:

"The Witch Sect uses not only potion formulas and materials to control extraordinary people, but also blood and hair. That is a curse that cannot be avoided no matter where they escape.

"Only three days after my parents took me away from Trier, my mother's condition deteriorated, and her body weakened rapidly. In just a few days, my mother became seriously ill, mentally weak and in a trance. At risk of losing control.

"But at that time she couldn't even eat or drink, let alone give up her own life... so she begged my father to kill her.

"She didn't want to lose control, let alone become a monster, and let my father and I see her ugly side."

Esther's fingers gently drew circles in the palm of her hand, just acting as a listener. Seeing Chantal's mouth tightened and her face gloomy, she gave a tentative push:

"Did your father also write this down in his notes?"

"Well, I did too. I only found out when I read his notes."

Chantal raised her hand, put down the collar that was pulled up to her chin to cover her Adam's apple, and took out a pair of rings strung together. The gold one was normal, but the black ring gave off an ominous aura no matter how you looked at it:

“After my mother died, my father buried her on a hilltop overlooking the wheat fields because she said she liked the golden color of the sun shining on the wheat fields, which reminded her of the feeling of leaning on my father’s shoulders and listening to him sing.

"This ring became the only relic that my father took away. It was originally silver, but it seemed to absorb my mother's extraordinary characteristics. My father wrote in his notes that this was the last thing she could leave to him. Think about it.

"Of course this golden ring belongs to my father. They can't go into the church and let the sacred sunshine witness their love. They can only secretly promise each other a true heart in this way, like a mouse on the street."

Esther glanced briefly at the ring hanging around Chantal's neck: "It seems to have words engraved on it."

"The black one is 'my sunshine', and the golden one is 'my salvation'. Let me tell you, these two people were blinded by love, so they were stupid enough to get together, and they became extremely bad. parents."

Esther twitched her lips. She could hear the true sorrow in Chantal's words, so she didn't reveal that the child missed her parents far more than she resented them.

But she does know why Chantal is like this. She is obviously a man but looks like a woman. The extraordinary characteristics of the "witch" combined with the ring have become a magical item. However, the negative effect of this thing is that it partially changes the carrying ability. The person’s body shape.

"Your father fled overseas later?"

Chantal nodded:

"The target he and my mother planned was Bayam, which is more dangerous than going to the Southern Continent. But the Church of Storms is stationed in the Rhosid Islands and is an enemy of the Eternal Sun Church. This is a good hiding place for my father. land.

"We wandered on the sea for a while, and I have the impression that all I see when I open my eyes every day is the sea, and life is quite boring. At that time, my father began to teach me literacy, in addition to basic Loen language, and ancient Hermes language and Fusac.

"He is not a bad teacher, but we have limited time. I can only get his response if I say the right words. Out of a child's dependence on his father and fear of the outside world, I learn very quickly .”

"Your father..." Esther paused, "Didn't he teach you the negative effects of magical items?"

Chantal shook her head and caressed the two rings carefully:

"My father only left his notes and his contacts. My knowledge of the extraordinary world and his past events were all learned from them. A believer in the Eternal Blazing Sun ran to the territory of the Church of Storms, let alone He is also an extraordinary person.

“He connected with the pirates in Bayam, found the market for underground Beyonders, and sneaked in to do some work for them, selling finished charms or accepting employment services from others.

"Due to the characteristics of his path ability, the holy water of the sun and the charms he made were very popular with pirates. We spent a relatively peaceful time traveling between Bayam and Nas. I found some odd jobs at the dock for help. He wandered among those dangerous elements and led me to teach in various aspects.

"This kind of life is not bad. We saved part of our savings and went fishing together in our free time. I learned singing from him and listened to his stories about the past in Trier, especially the moments when he fell in love with my mother. He I can talk repeatedly for a whole day.

"Until my father was betrayed, and during the investigation by the Punisher, he was completely exposed as a heretic."

Chantal's smile looked more like a crying face:

"How could anyone be so stupid as to praise the sun loudly when surrounded by others?"