Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"Future".

As soon as he left the sea area of ​​​​the ruins of the God War, Klein discovered that the skylark in the cage was moving.

Compared with the skylark that Esther showed Klein in the Carcas Islands, the skylark now wearing a "shell" is more agile, and its eyes also reveal a bit of humanity, and it is actually carefully looking at Klein's face. Demeanor.

Seeing Klein staring at him expressionlessly, the skylark let out two weak chirps and lay weakly at the bottom of the cage, looking motionless and aggrieved at the people outside the cage.

Klein sighed heavily and walked out of the cabin.

A few minutes later, he came in with a tray and a small glass of light beer. On the tray was a piece of bread and minced fish scraps.

The moment he saw the food, Skylark's eyes lit up, he weakly raised his head, squeezed to the edge of the cage door, and looked at Klein impatiently.

This look is so similar to someone sitting in a restaurant watching the food being served.

Klein had the urge to look up to the sky and hide his face: "Although I know that you are some kind of polymerized 'clone', why do you even imitate her personality instead of 'Zoya'?"

This always gave Klein an indescribable sense of dissonance.

He actually thought about whether to hand over the skylark to the "Queen of Mystery", but he was worried that Esther would come to find him one day and want to take away the skylark that was forced to be fostered here.

Of course, it must not be handed over to Frank Lee, otherwise, if he does any experiments, the "Future" will directly turn into a bird's nest...

Esther's expression must be very interesting, at least it can make her temporarily forget about settling accounts with me.

As soon as Klein opened the cage door, the skylark jumped out impatiently, but because it had been sleeping for too long without moving, its body became weak and stumbled onto the dinner plate.

Seeing the way it was kicking weakly, Klein had to reach out to help Skylark, so that it could stand firmly on the edge of the plate and chew the fish inside.

Klein tore the bread into small pieces, then patted the residue off his hands, waiting for Skylark to eat by himself.

Now it's really like raising a bird, and I don't know what's going on with your original owner now. If the opposite side is really the "Land Abandoned by God", it's a very dangerous place.

However, Leo Master's behavior also proved that there has always been a way to enter the "Land Abandoned by God" from the outside world. His state at that time had changed. "Zoya" used Esther's body movements to move him Brought it out...

Klein looked at the skylark squatting beside the plate and raising its head pitifully. He poured light beer into the plate with only a few crumbs left, so that the little bird could take a few sips.

"Can you understand me?"

Skylark's eyes rolled.

Klein immediately became alert and once again confirmed that this skylark was much more intelligent than ordinary birds:

"Don't play dumb like her, just nod or shake your head."

Skylark timidly chirped and nodded.

Klein sighed again: "So do you want to leave now? Are there any other instructions for you?"

Skylark shook his head desperately, as if he was afraid of being driven away.

Its intelligence is similar to that of extraordinary creatures, and it can even communicate with humans, which saves me a lot of trouble. Klein thought for a moment and couldn't decide whether to keep this skylark.

So he took out a coin and wanted to find out the answer through divination. After getting the results of "no hostility" and "carry it", Klein had no choice but to accept his fate.

"Then you have to stay still and don't run around, you know? If you fly away, I won't bother to find you."

Skylark nodded, jumped around on the table to stretch his body, and then spread his wings and flew to Klein's shoulder.

Klein looked at the skylark's bone-white wing tips: "Can your appearance still change?"

Skylark stood on Klein's shoulder, swinging its body vigorously and flapping its wings, and a faint light lit up from its body.

Soon, the missing feathers on the wings and the strangely colored feather clusters on the head changed. Now, except for the light yellow eye color, there are almost no differences in appearance between it and ordinary skylarks.

Klein poked Skylark on the forehead: "Okay, then do you have a name?"

Skylark stared at Klein with clear eyes, showing a more animalistic look of confusion for the first time, and did not respond.

"I'd better call you Norns." Klein put down his hand and began to arrange the plates on the table. The empty cage had to be returned to Frank.

Because there was a magical item in Esther's satchel, Klein knew that the "Logan's Claw" contained uncontrollable toxicity, so he sacrificed the entire satchel to himself and placed it in the gray mist. .

However, after letting Esther know the identity of "The World", Klein was relieved. Now he had a reasonable excuse to ask "The Fool" to help convey the message, without having to use a messenger, although in the end it is still me...

The skylark chirped twice in succession, pulling Klein out of his thoughts.

"I wonder where your master went."

The skylark screamed again, but it could understand Klein's words, but Klein could not understand its bird language, and communication was greatly restricted.

Klein twirled the coin used for divination twice: "She is far away, so I can only wrong you."

Skylark squatted on Klein's shoulder and looked at him blankly, seemingly unable to understand the meaning of this sentence.

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"The land abandoned by God".

White lightning appears frequently in the sky, sometimes making a distant roar, and sometimes disintegrating quietly, showing an extremely unstable state.

Except for those deformed monsters wandering in the dark, Esther did not encounter any living creatures. There were not even plants here. Maybe there had been some, but they had long since mutated into something else. For example, Esther saw it halfway. A tangle of wriggling vines.

The Holy Emblem of Dark Night in her arms has been exerting its power, and Esther has already doubted whether this is something that Dark Night has "lit" with her own hands. Otherwise, how could this place where the divine power remains give her such effective protection.

The power of the Holy Emblem is quite passive. Considering that "Zoya" had been carrying this emblem before, but Esther was trapped in a dream and could not wake up, it can be basically judged that it has a "sleeping" effect.

In addition to the "dream" that connects to the night, there are also "secrets" that can be integrated with the night here.

Esther speculated that the Holy Emblem of Night was not originally given to her, but to "Zoya", so the goddess of night never mentioned it in her dreams.

Don't be fooled by the appearances they present to you.

The words Amon's clone once told her came out again and turned into a thorn, constantly piercing Esther's trust in high-ranking beings.

Esther repeatedly asked her heart, but the true Creator...or should he be called "Hels", what about Him and Ourolius? They are all evil gods recognized by the Church of the Righteous God and various countries in the Northern Continent, but they still expressed goodwill to me, or at least for the sake of "Zoya", they were willing to help me.

When Esther frowned, her "spiritual intuition" became active again and gave an intriguing feedback, which restored Esther's expression to indifference:

"Struggle? Struggle between gods..."

The essence of struggle is interests, and what they seek is also interests.

Esther thought as she stepped on the ground covered with black cracks.

The darkness within sight gradually thickened, revealing the outline, and ahead were the ruins of the first town she had seen.

When Ourolius took Leomaster to meet Hells, it seemed that he deliberately avoided any place with ruins and went directly to the high mountain.

So now Esther had to use her feet to measure this place as she pleased.

Due to the chaotic extraordinary power remaining here, she no longer dares to steal distance at will. Esther's current range of stealing is too limited, and she is very unfamiliar with the environment here. She cannot guarantee that the next second she steals distance, she will You won't be stepping on any monster.

She put on the hood of the bright red cloak and stepped among the ruins of the town.

Except for the occasional violent thunder in the sky, there was no sound in the boundless darkness. This made Esther subconsciously step lightly, like a stranger walking among the barren mountains and tombs.

The original shape of most houses cannot even be seen. The ground or exterior walls are covered with strange black stripes half a meter wide, as if something has flowed mucus and dried, leaving a trail covered with brittle paper.

The broken walls and ruins fill up both sides of all the broken roads, as if copied and pasted, but the things occasionally exposed inside are different - maybe a stone table broken in half, a stone bench with a missing leg, or There was no leg bone to be found.

Or maybe it was the arm bone of a giant race. Esther couldn't help but have such thoughts.

There are not many things here that can mark the direction, only the emptiness after life has been destroyed.

A group of monsters dragging soft limbs squirmed in the darkness, arching their flat and stooped bodies like snails, rubbing and moving forward, dragging large reddish-brown traces underneath them.

Esther calmly walked past them a few meters away without disturbing each other.

Just along the least damaged and unburied avenue, she walked to the center of the ruins.

The howling wind came and went, blowing randomly over the weathered stone monument, blowing off a thin layer of powder and then rushing to the next place. This process has been repeated hundreds or thousands of times. Countless suns and moons have turned the originally engraved words into dust, and the dust flies to the earth.

Until this moment it fell into the hands of outsiders, and the original trajectory was disrupted.

Esther made the grabbing movement subconsciously.

She rubbed her fingers gently, letting the dark gray fine powder fall from the gaps and fall downwards. Then she spread her right hand, and there was still a little dust on the edge of the palm print.

Eyes with round stars scanned the stone tablet in the center of the town, guessing what should be engraved here, the Lord's holy scriptures and commandments? A history of the coming of light to this town? Is it just the name of this square?

She didn't know, and she had no way of knowing.

Perhaps the last remaining residents of this town are crawling on the ground, grinding their bodies on the roads they once walked, leaving a bloody trace, whether this action is intentional or unintentional.

"Destiny..."

Esther dusted off the palms of her hands.