Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Chapter 262 Wanderers

"Future Number".

As soon as he left the sea area of ​​the God War Ruins, Klein noticed that the skylark in the cage had moved.

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

Seeing Klein staring at him expressionlessly, Skylark uttered two weak chirps, lying weakly on the bottom of the cage, and looked at the people outside the cage motionless and aggrieved.

Klein sighed heavily and walked out of the cabin.

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

The moment he saw the food, Skylark's eyes lit up, and he lifted his head weakly, trying to squeeze to the edge of the cage door, looking at Klein impatiently.

This look is so similar to someone sitting in a restaurant watching the dishes.

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

This made Klein always feel an indescribable sense of disobedience.

In fact, he also thought about whether to give this skylark to the "Queen of Mysteries", but he was worried that one day Esther would come to find him and want to take away this skylark that was forced to be fostered here.

Of course, it must not be handed over to Frank Lee, otherwise, in case he really did some experiment, the "Future" turned into a bird's nest directly...

Then Esther's expression must be very interesting, at least it can make her temporarily forget the idea of ​​​​settling accounts with me.

As soon as Klein opened the cage door, the skylark couldn't wait to jump out, but because it had been inactive for too long, its body became weak, and it stumbled and fell on the dinner plate.

Seeing how weak it was kicking its legs, Klein had to reach out to support Lark so that it could stand firmly on the edge of the plate and chatter about the fish inside.

Klein tore the bread into small pieces, then wiped off the residue on his hands, and waited for Skylark to eat by himself.

Now it will really become a bird breeding, and I don't know how your original owner is now. If the opposite is really "Land Abandoned by God", it is 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, and his state at that time has changed. brought out...

Klein looked at the skylark squatting by the plate and looked up pitifully. He poured light beer into the plate with only a few crumbs left, so that the bird could drink a couple of sips.

"Can you understand me?"

Skylark rolled his eyes.

Klein immediately became alert, reconfirming that the intelligence of this skylark is much higher than that of ordinary birds:

"Don't imitate her, just nod or shake your head."

Skylark timidly made a "chirp" sound and nodded.

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

Skylark shook his head desperately, as if afraid of being chased 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, unable to decide whether to keep the skylark.

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

"Then you have to be honest 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 move 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, vigorously swung its body and flapped its wings, and a faint light glowed from its body.

Soon, the missing feathers on the wings and the strange-colored feather clusters on the top of the head changed. Now it looks like there is not much difference in appearance from the ordinary skylark except for the light yellow eyes.

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.

"Let's call you Norns." Klein put down his hands and began to arrange the plates on the table. The empty cage had to be returned to Frank.

Because there were magical items in Esther's satchel, Klein knew that the "Logan's Claw" was uncontrollably poisonous, so he sacrificed the entire satchel to himself and put it in the mist pile .

But after letting Esther know the identity of "The World", Klein was relieved. Now there is a reasonable excuse for "The Fool" to help deliver the news, and there is no need to use the messenger anymore, although in the end it is still me...

Skylark chirped twice in a row, pulling Klein back from his thoughts.

"I wonder where your master has gone."

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

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

Skylark squatted on Klein's shoulder, looking at him blankly, as if he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

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"Land Abandoned by God".

White lightning frequently appeared in the sky, sometimes it made a distant bang, and sometimes it collapsed without a sound, showing an extremely unstable state.

Except for those deformed monsters wandering in the dark, Esther did not encounter any living things, there are not even plants here, maybe there used to be, but they have already mutated into other appearances, for example, Esther saw halfway A tangle of creeping vines.

The holy emblem of the night in her arms has been exerting its power, and Esther already doubts whether it is something that has been "opened" by the night himself. Otherwise, how could she be so effectively protected in this place where the divine power remains.

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 basically be judged that it has the effect of "sleeping".

Coupled with the "dream" when connecting with the night, in addition to that, it is the "secret" that can merge with the night here.

Esther speculated that the holy emblem of the night was not for her, but for "Zoya", so the goddess of the night never mentioned it in the dream.

Don't be fooled by the appearance they show you.

What Amon's avatar had told her appeared again, turning into a thorn, constantly piercing into Esther's trust in the high-ranking existence.

Esther repeatedly questioned her heart, but the real creator...or should be called "Hells", what about Him and Ouroreus?They are all evil gods recognized by the Orthodox Church and various countries in the Northern Continent, but they still expressed goodwill to me, or at least for the sake of "Zoya", they are willing to help me.

When Esther frowned, "spiritual intuition" became active again, and gave an intriguing feedback, which made Esther's expression return to indifference:
"Struggle? A struggle between gods..."

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

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

The darkness as far as she could see gradually thickened, revealing the silhouette, and in front of her was the ruins of the first town she saw.

When Ulorius took Leomaster to meet Hels, he seemed to deliberately avoid any places with relics and walked directly to the high mountain.

So now Esther has to use her feet to measure the place as she pleases.

Due to the chaotic Extraordinary power remaining here, she no longer dares to steal the 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 she will steal the distance in the next second. Will not be stepping on the body of any monster.

She donned the hood of her scarlet 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, which made Esther subconsciously walk lightly, acting like a foreigner walking among the barren hills and graves.

Most of the houses could not even be seen in their original shape. The ground or outer walls were covered with strange black stripes half a meter wide, as if something was flowing mucus and dried, leaving a layer of brittle paper-covered tracks.

The broken walls and ruins seem to be copied and pasted, filling both sides of all the broken roads, but occasionally there are different things exposed inside—maybe a stone table smashed in half, a stone bench with a missing leg, or I can't find a leg bone of my body.

Or maybe it was the arm bone of a giant race.Esther couldn't help the thought.

There are not many things that can mark the direction here, only the emptiness after the destruction of life.

A group of monsters dragging their soft limbs squirmed in the darkness, arching their flat and crooked bodies like snails, rubbing and moving forward, dragging a large reddish-brown trace under their bodies.

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

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

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

Until this moment fell into the palm of an outsider, the original trajectory was disrupted.

Esther made a subconscious grabbing action.

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

The eyes with round stars scanned the stone tablet in the center of the town, guessing what should be engraved here, the sacred scriptures and commandments of the Lord?A history of the town where light came?Is it simply the name of this square?
She didn't know, and had no way of knowing.

Perhaps the last remaining residents of this town are crawling on the ground, grinding their bodies on the road they once walked, leaving a trace of blood, whether this action is intentional or not.

"Fate..."

Esther brushed the dust off her palms.

(End of this chapter)