Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

After going deep into the golden color, the invisible heavy pressure disappeared.

With an unstoppable momentum, the black spear opened a gap in front until it completely passed through the mist emitting golden light. Before Esther completely left the range of the clouds, she glanced behind her. She passed by The place has been completely closed, leaving no passage.

Before she was completely trapped in the clouds, Esther grasped her right hand, and then firmly grasped the handle of the spear, and her body also escaped from the golden envelope.

It wasn't until this moment that Esther exhaled and felt the gravity falling on her body again. This caused her body to fall uncontrollably for several meters. After Esther's "deception" adjustment, she turned into a human body. The soft feather continued to fall lightly.

The ground below turned black again, and the golden clouds were still in the "sky" above her head, but after the previous two flips, Esther no longer cared much about whether it was still "normal" here.

All common sense is limited to invisible rules. Esther had already noticed this when she changed the momentum of the spear, and the final effect confirmed her suspicions. This makes her ability as a "deception mentor" greatly strengthened here. The rules Esther faces are almost full of loopholes, completely unable to achieve stability and self-consistency, and can easily be dismantled by her.

However, each floor of the space here is narrower than the previous one. This is not only because when looking down, Esther can see the edge surrounded by darkness from a distance, but also because of her understanding of this space. A gut feeling.

Recalling the land with right angles on its edges, Esther shook her shawl twice more, hoping to see a Time Worm rolling out of it - but her hopes were of course in vain.

Esther could only call in a low voice: "Hey, are you still there?"

"Well, it can't be someone else talking to you, right?" Crow's hoarse reply was very casual, far less cheerful than when Kah asked Esther to "come on". Perhaps because nothing attractive enough happened, Esther did not encounter extreme danger, which made Crow unable to continue to "persuad" Esther.

Without encountering a desperate situation that forces her to compromise, it is impossible for Esther to give in in the stalemate between the two parties, and Crow knows it very well.

Esther didn't care if the crow was happy now: "The structure here seems to be a triangular... quadrangular spire?"

"You could just say 'pyramid'."

"I didn't remember it for a moment," Esther said vaguely, "I remember that there is a custom in the southern continent of setting up an 'inverted pyramid' tomb."

"Then do you think this is a mausoleum?"

"It doesn't look like it, but those black and white knights should be protecting something."

Esther's descent did not stop. As she got closer and closer to the ground, something strange appeared in her field of vision:

Judging from the appearance, they were black clay dolls walking back and forth. They wandered aimlessly on the vast plains, and even interacted with each other by gesticulating their bodies.

There are even some simple earthen bags not far away, all made of black mud and grass stalks. If you include the arched hole for the mud dolls to enter and exit, it can probably be regarded as some kind of house with strong regional characteristics.

Such a scene made Esther feel puzzled and a little funny at the same time - it was like someone mixed clay to make statues, controlled these clay dolls, and played house in this semi-enclosed space. Have the guards outside stop all dishonest guests.

However, Esther did not laugh in the end. Instead, after noticing the abnormality, her expression gradually became indifferent.

Esther once again called to the crow who didn't know where it was hiding: "Is this one of the 'surviving' towns you said? In this form?"

Her voice sounded very compressed, like a taut spring.

"Yes, because this 'town' still exists, including its residents."

This was not the answer Esther wanted to hear, but it was already a fact before her eyes.

As if she felt Esther needed to be more annoyed, after a two-second pause, the crow's voice sounded again: "You can also say that the original 'town' does not exist because it has been renamed 'country'."

Uncharacteristically, Esther didn't complain about anything, but quietly accelerated her sinking speed. After standing firmly on the ground, she walked straight towards the nearest clay figure.

These black clay figures have no clear joints and no hair. Their heads only have holes for eyes, nostrils, mouths and ears. Their limbs are like slender bread loaves, but they have been deliberately polished on their hands. The traces allow the five fingers to move a little more freely.

The heights of the clay figures also vary. At least the one closest to Esther is a petite clay figure that only reaches her chest. When Esther approaches, this clay figure with almost no neck does not look like other compatriots. He backed away with the same fear, but stared blankly at Esther with his empty eyes.

Esther's cheek twitched slightly. She could clearly feel that there was another "spirit" looking at her. No, not just "her", but all the other "spirits" were looking at her. Look in this direction.

Because their body structure does not allow them to move quickly, they just slowly gather at the periphery. The feeling of peeping is not malicious, and even lacks due vigilance and preparedness. It is just full of surprise for this outsider who is different from "them". .

A question that made Esther feel even more uncomfortable emerged from her heart: Do these humans, whose spiritual bodies are still conscious, know that they have now become clay statues? If the rules here don't allow "them" to discern the truth, then for "them"...

Esther quickly pushed out of her mind the thought that made her even more annoyed. She tried to say hello to the clay doll in front of her in the ancient Fussac language, even though Esther didn't know whether "she" could hear her words. :"Hello?"

The hole at the mouth of the clay puppet shrank due to the blowing wind, and then expanded. While blowing out a soft airflow, it actually emitted a voice: "Hello?"

However, Esther immediately realized that this rhetorical question was just a "parody" imitation of her question. When Esther was still looking for other ways to communicate, the spirit in the clay doll exuded joyful emotions. Then he turned around and slowly moved to another place. Because the movement was too violent, a large piece of the clay figure's legs fell off, revealing the white bones inside that were bent due to hard walking.

Esther subconsciously clenched her right hand, but finally let go weakly - after all, the source of her resistance was not here.

Esther also had some suspicions in her mind. If she wantonly destroyed the black soil covering the spirit body and skeleton, she would not want to witness how miserable the clay dolls would become in the future.

Those clay dolls had begun to engage in some kind of communication through mutual contact that Esther could not participate in. Soon, Esther heard the results of their communication. More and more airflow was extracted and exhaled, emitting The "whirring" sentence repeats the same sentence with a distorted tone:

"Hello?"

Esther sighed heavily and heard a mocking sound in her ears: "It seems they quite like you."

"...Do you have any good ideas?" As Esther asked in a low voice, she also leaned over and picked up a handful of black soil from the ground. They quickly dissolved into powder in her palm, showing an obvious sign of resistance. .

"I didn't," the husky voice replied with a smile.

Lies, again, expecting me to ask Him for help…

Esther took a deep breath, and then walked towards the clay puppet that kept repeating the word "hello". Their voices were mixed because of the overlap, making the noise in the land getting louder and louder.

But something happened that stopped Esther.

She heard a violent vibration coming from deeper into the ground below, causing the ground to begin to shake violently.

It was a roar full of rage. The sound traveled an unknown distance, but it seemed to explode directly in Esther's ears.

Someone yelled one word clearly: "Quiet——"

In the violent shock, the black soil on the clay statue's body was shaken away. The white incomplete skeleton and broken limbs of the clay statue instantly became toppled dominoes, falling and scattering on the ground one after another. (End of chapter)