Lord of the Mysteries fanfic: wake up, hermit

"No matter what is hidden under this bunker that stores sealed artifacts, or why people in Silver City turn into evil spirits after death, these two questions can actually be summed up into one question."

These were the first words Hawkes Foley spoke after Thoth and Amon returned.

The quick-thinking Amon immediately understood what the chief meant, "So, the things hidden underground are the source of the curse."

"Yes. There is a sealed object called 'Gift of the Earth' hidden underground. Its ability is to make non-toxic and harmless black-faced grass grow around Silver City, and its negative effects..."

At this point, Hawks exhaled a breath, "It is to turn the residents of Silver City into evil spirits."

The fatigue and numbness revealed in a moment made his tall and burly figure suddenly feel withered. With the dim light, Amon looked at the rusty arm armor bound in the iron chain and asked:

"Not all Silver City residents know about this, right?"

Hawks smiled bitterly and said: "If we knew the truth behind the black-faced grass, which is regarded as hope and gift, that makes parents, brothers, and sisters unable to rest in peace, no one would eat any morsel of dry food with peace of mind, and no one would

If you don’t have the strength to fight monsters, you won’t have the fighting spirit to find a way out.”

Immediately afterwards, the weather-beaten old man said solemnly, "This is supposed to be a secret kept by the chief of Silver City for generations, and I revealed it in order to follow the promise of 'exchanging problems for problems'... In any case, it goes against the rules of the ancestors.

The admonishment makes me extremely ashamed, please don’t tell other people in Silver City.”

"Haha, this is another price...Gah!"

Thoth gave the white crow a brain-destroying blow, and before it pecked at it, he quickly grabbed the little head and said calmly: "I'm sorry, this little thing just likes to scare people. Don't worry, we won't

Tell others, swear by the name of the Creator.”

Ignoring the white crow flapping its wings angrily, Thoth speculated with the thinking of a mystic: "Could this 'gift of the earth' mark everyone who has eaten black-faced grass? And when they are dying,

Inducing mental changes? Hmm..."

"No, actually the curse still lingers."

Just as Thoth was about to retrieve some information from his mind, Hawks quickly said, "The previous generation of chiefs discovered that as long as they leave the coverage area of ​​the 'Gift of the Earth', they will not turn into evil spirits."

"Then black-faced grass won't grow beyond that range, right?"

"That's what it should be."

"That's right," Amon also stopped making noise, "I also saw a 'ring' with those glasses before - between the dead black grass and the black grass that can barely bear tassels.

The circular area within the ring should be the scope of effect of 'Gift of the Earth'."

"Great, how big is that circle?"

Amon estimated, "The radius is between 150 and 200 meters."

Hawks sighed, "Most people are unable to leave the corresponding area in time. The reason why the former chief discovered this was because he went to explore an area far away from Silver City. He stayed next to the bodies of his comrades who died in the battle for three days.

For three days and three nights, the corpse did not turn into an evil spirit."

"That's it." Thoth breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Although spatial distance is a problem, it would be much easier if the restriction was only distance."

Hawks was stunned for a moment and asked in an uncertain tone: "You...are you going to solve this curse for us?"

Thoth nodded matter-of-factly, "Any questions?"

As a hidden sage, he has always been good at solving problems related to knowledge, and suppressing and weakening the negative effects of sealed objects is also a very practical knowledge.

"On behalf of Silver City, I thank you for your kindness, but we don't know how to repay you."

It is certainly a good thing to be able to solve the curse and let the relatives rest in peace, but considering that there is no free lunch in the world, Hawks is still very cautious. He asked tentatively, "There are some powerful sealed objects in Silver City. I don't know, Mr. Sidell."

Are you interested?"

"Okay, you can show me." Thoth added silently in his mind, even though I had already seen almost everything before.

After some introduction by Hawkes, Thoth chose a holy-level sealed object from the "Moon" pathway. This sealed object requires moonlight to be triggered, but the God's Abandoned Land has always been dark. It has been in darkness since the "Catastrophe"

From now on, it will always be eating dust in the corner. Even if Thoth takes it away, it will have no impact.

"Then next, is it time for us to take a look at the 'Gift of the Earth'?" White Crow said in a tone that made Hawkes uncomfortable, "Or are you planning to let Him face an invisible person?

Are you thinking hard about something you can’t touch?”

"Of course not, but I need to get something first. Only with it can you come into contact with the 'gift of the earth'."

After a while, Hawkes carried a huge stone disc in. It was a really heavy thing, about the size of a millstone, although Hawkes put it down as gently as possible.

, but the moment he hit the ground, Thoth still felt the ground shake.

Amon's eyes narrowed, and he jumped down from Thoth's shoulder. While moving, he looked at its structure - although it was made of white stone, it had an exquisite structure that was incompatible with the Silver City. There was a large,

In one, there are three small circular grooves, each circular groove is divided into twelve parts, and the three hands are connected at the center of the circle. These are clearly three clocks, but what is different from normal clocks is that

It doesn't make a "ticking" sound over time.

"This is the key to the underground space where the 'gifts of the earth' are stored."

Hawks said with some shame, "But the dossier recording the usage was lost in an attack by an evil spirit."

"There is the power of the 'wrong' approach here, and the status is very high."

The rules of sound transmission were deceived. Amon's voice bypassed Hawks's ears and was transmitted to Thoth alone. He rarely became serious, "But this is not what I did. It should be the last one who held it."

Wrong 'uniqueness people."

The answer is ready to come out.

"So it's my father's handiwork."

"alex?!"

Thoth was secretly shocked. The layer of "secret" he touched earlier made him think that the goddess of the night wanted to hide something, but he did not expect that there was also the original sun god, the omniscient and omnipotent creator - but it is not surprising if he thinks about it carefully.

, the remnants of the past are natural allies to a certain extent, and it is not surprising that they would get together to plan anything.

"It's more exciting."

"Ah?" Thoth didn't respond.

Amon was eager to give it a try, "There are not many opportunities to expose my father's background. I have to cherish it."

He pecked a few pieces of white feathers off his body. When the feathers fell to the ground, they became as black as ink, and "proliferated" rapidly like mitosis, until they formed black crows about the same size as himself. Together, they launched the "Decryption Scholar"

"Ability, using his paws to fiddle with the hour, minute and second hands on the three dials, working together under Hawks's stunned eyes.

"Click."

When Amon put away his clone and returned to Thoth's shoulder, a sound similar to a lock being opened sounded, and then the stopped clock started running, and regular ticking filled the dark fortress. Then

, a piece of the ground collapsed like quicksand, revealing a dark and lightless circular gap, like a "rabbit hole" leading to another world.

Thoth realized that the hidden barrier that had been unmoved no matter how much he tried just now was opened. This also confirmed his suspicion that the goddess of the night and the ancient sun god had indeed reached some kind of cooperation.

"This..." Hawks felt that he had been stimulated enough today, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Shh." Thoth signaled him to stop talking, and then drove a secret-peeping butterfly to fly downward slowly. This time the secret did not swallow it up, and it successfully captured a shape, winding, and thin.

Long, covered in mud...

"Whoosh!"

A green shadow sprang out from the gap, attacking Thoth like a hunting viper. The reflexes honed on the battlefield allowed Thoth to catch it - it turned out to be a vine-shaped man-eating plant.

Flower! After being restrained, it began to struggle wildly, but Thoth's arm was blessed by the magic of "Ibaraki Doji's Broken Arm", and its strength was extraordinary. Accompanied by a small popping sound similar to the explosion of liquid, its body fell softly.

When it hung down, Thoth let go of his hand, and a sticky mess fell to the ground.

But plants have no sense of pain and no fear, and the death of their companions cannot suppress their desire to spurt out and overturn the ground of the Sealed Artifact Castle. The Sealed Artifacts also begin to restless, feeling happy that they can finally break free from their restraints.

"Amon, please steal Mr. Chief's hearing and vision."

The next moment, Hawkes Fry's world became extremely silent and extremely dark, and Thoth also spoke solemnly——

"'When I opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, 'Come here!'"

"And I looked, and behold a black horse; and its rider was upon it, and he had scales in his hand."

“I heard a voice from among the four living creatures saying, ‘A liter of wheat for a denarius, but do not waste the oil or the wine.’”

The sound of tapping sounded from the darkness, and a skinny black horse came from thousands of years ago and stepped onto the land abandoned by the gods. A knight was on its back, holding a scale.

The illusion began to fill the dark room. In front of the horse's hooves was the fertile land and the undulating waves of wheat. Behind the horse's hooves was the cracked and dried land, withered and haggard crops, and thousands of miles of starvation. Crows and vultures were pecking at their little oil and water.

The Keyan corpse screamed in dissatisfaction.

The knight's name is Famine, he is the natural enemy of abundance and the antonym of all prosperity.

"If you still want to keep your pitiful little power of fertility," Thoth said coldly, "just stay calm and don't go crazy here."

Under the threat of famine, the commotion subsided, the plants retreated underground, all illusions and whispers receded like the tide, and Amon also returned vision and hearing to Hawks.

Even though he had experienced hundreds of battles, the feeling of having his senses taken away still frightened Hawks. He asked in confusion: "What happened?"

"You are not an angel yet. There are some things you have heard and read, which are of no benefit." Thoth said, "Next, I will go deep underground to learn more about the 'gift of the earth'."

"If the movement is too big, just--"

Amon flew to the "stone mill", patted the largest dial with his paw, and pointed to the thickest hour hand, "Set this needle to this position."

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The northern border of the empire.

"Hey, Duke Abraham, it's Chinese New Year. Why are you going to this freezing place instead of telling your son about the stars in front of a warm fireplace?"

"Young people can always find something to do for themselves, so an old guy like me doesn't have to hang around in front of them all the time."

Duke Abraham ignored the red angel's habitual taunts and blew the tea foam calmly.

"If you are here to see Big Eye, I'm afraid you will be disappointed." Medici did not intend to tell him the convoluted words among nobles. "He is walking outside right now. I don't know what month or year he will be walking."

Just came back."

"It's okay." Bethel put down the tea cup, "I'm not here to chat today, I'm here to see someone off."

Medici frowned in confusion, and a door decorated with silver nails opened behind Bethel, and a pale man was pushed out by an invisible force.

"He is?"

"A occultist with hidden relatives."

Medici's expression became solemn, and Bethel said unhurriedly, "He was near Stiano's House at the time, and he was the first to be hit. However, because the Holy Emblem played a certain protective role, he was burned by the sun's flames.

The lighting time was a few seconds later than the others - and these few seconds were enough for me to pull him out of the fire."

"Although most of his body was scorched, the physique of an incomplete mythical creature made him breathe a sigh of relief. I used the recorded 'restart' to restore his body, but his mind became insane - he became you.

What I see now."

Medici noticed that the young man's eyes were full of fear, his lips were constantly moving, his nails were tearing off the dead skin on his hands unconsciously, and he didn't care that his fingertips were dripping with blood.

"He saw something he shouldn't have seen."

Bethel added meaningfully.

In other words, he was an important clue to the fire case, and such a person should be held in Trunsoest's hands and even brought to Solomon.

"You want Big Eye to owe you a favor?"

"I don't lend money, I just pay debts."

Duke Abraham stood up and said with a smile, "Can you please Lord Medici to give Hidden a word of thanks for his help in the primeval forests of the Southern Continent in the early days of the Glorious Era, in the 59th year of the Creator's calendar."

(I was wrong. I will never eat sugar oranges with hot pot rice noodles anymore. I felt like the Battle of the Four Emperors was going on in my stomach all afternoon.)