Giant of Light: I am the Old Ones

Chapter 269 Traces of Time
That huge sphere looked natural and perfectly fitted.

Hounds are said to emerge from any angle up to 120 degrees, so hiding in a sphere may be a viable option.

But as she read through the reports sent by the researchers, Amanda's eyes kept twitching.

Burns died in the sphere.

The hounds did not emerge from the inside of the sphere that protected him, but gushed out directly from any folded or naturally placed body part at an angle less than 120 degrees anywhere on his body, tearing him into pieces.

At that moment, the spell machine even detected that Boones' sudden sequence was released to the maximum extent, and there were faint signs of a breakthrough.

But the entire research department was suddenly affected. When the time flow returned to normal and people found Burns, there was only a pile of rotten meat left in the sphere that had been eaten to pieces.

According to Spell Machine's follow-up notes, Boones' suddenness did not deter the Hound and even intensified his suffering.

Suddenly slowing down the flow of time, it had no effect on the hound. Instead, it prolonged the hunting process of the hound, causing Burns to suffer nearly seven times the length of time.

After that the hounds disappeared and were never seen again.But the traces left by the hounds traveling through time are indeed so clearly visible. Those gods who have not yet been converted or died in the past era are waiting for the right opportunity to make a comeback.

Because no one has witnessed the existence of hounds, whether the hounds of Tindalos are a temporal phenomenon or a real, highest-level evil creature is still debated by the academy's top brass.

Amanda did not see Boones's remains, which had been thoroughly physically cleaned to avoid leaving anything harmful to the current timeline.

Omega carefully sensed all possible abnormalities. He found no trace of the hound. The information about the hound in his memory still came from Amanda's limited online knowledge.

The Hound of Tindalos is a well-known monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. It is said to be a creature that lived during the birth of the earth.If intelligent life in the long river of time is noticed by these creatures, they will reach the timeline of their prey across countless time and then kill them.

Because of this hunting habit and occasional recorded stature descriptions, they are known as the Hounds of Tindalos.

It is said that every [-] million years, it takes the hounds a day or a year to cross. Therefore, once the people being watched by the hounds hear the barking of the dogs, they must prepare a way to escape or evacuate.Or simply join a cult, learn those repatriation spells, or even summon a more powerful evil god to protect you.

Among all the methods, the most famous and seemingly feasible one is to hide in a spherical building to protect oneself from being hunted down by hounds. So far, this method has failed.

Fortunately, the hounds will leave after preying on the target, and as long as they are not witnessed by others or see other people in the process, there will be disturbances in the timeline. There is no need to worry about the hounds' prey expanding to all humans.

"Well, Boones' death is in the past. We should have noticed the Hound earlier and maybe there was a chance to save him. But for now, guys, we have to confirm something more serious."

Wei Siwen sighed and led people up the steel frame stairs next to the sphere. Then the upper cover of the sphere was opened, and there was nothing inside.

Wei Siwen said: "There are currently 481 time traces that can be confirmed. Among them, 372 are closing and cannot be connected. The remaining 109 traces can accommodate the power of the godhead level. Only 7 traces can pass through. Therefore, we need to What we are facing is only seven openings."

People held onto the guardrails and looked inside the spherical building, but could not see anything.

Only in Omega's perception, there were some subtle claw marks, like scratches from the claws of some predatory animal.

Presumably these claw marks are the so-called traces of time.

"Is there any clear information on the god level that has been confirmed by testing? There are so many samples collected by the academy that it is impossible to compare them."

Ludwig asked, every recorded and relatively powerful god is basically recorded in the classics of the academy and the church.The academy is even bold enough to personally bring back the sacrificial relics of the dead or converted gods for study.

There seems to be no fear at all that terrible things will happen because humans in the world have a new understanding of these dead gods.

However, the academy's method is very clear, that is, it directly declares that the gods in various cultural circles are limited descriptions and imaginary images of natural phenomena or unexplainable things in the early stages of human civilization development.

After applying this patch in advance, those who read mythical stories will subconsciously feel that these are really just mythical stories.

This is also a method of ideologically correcting the legacy of the gods.

Wei Siwen did not answer directly, but showed several reports.

The information that has been identified so far includes two individuals besides the most dangerous Holy Father.

One is a god-level creature called the Candle Dragon, which in myths and legends can even control the alternation of day and night.

Of course, some people think that it just represents the change of polar day and polar night in the polar regions. After all, the sun rises every day but never disappears.

The other is the concept of a deity called a shepherd.

Except for the Holy Father, the other two are actually just things with godheads, or even natural phenomena.

Shepherd Amanda thought about it for a long time, but couldn't find the corresponding concept.

According to college records, it is said that Shepherd was actually a vicar.

He was once the incarnation of the Sun King in Northern Ireland mythology, and that area is indeed a world-famous place for grazing sheep.

Later, when the early culture of the church invaded the islands near Britain, he betrayed the Sun King and became the shepherd of the Holy Father.

Even in ancient Greek and even Nordic mythology, traces of the existence of shepherds can be found.

The Sun King was eventually vilified by the church into the image of a naughty, cunning, prank-like dwarf elf in Western culture, and was reduced to a funny character.

When he said this, there was no other emotion on Ludwig's face.

In order to ensure that after conversion, the church will not have any strange beliefs about gods popping up in the mainstream cultural circle, it has almost taken over the entire Western culture.

In the church's classics, the sages of ancient Greece were sent directly to the first level of hell, and the primitive beliefs of those small places even gradually became unorthodox about mountain spirits and wild monsters.

These changes must have erupted terrible bloody conflicts back then, but what they got in return was the stability of belief that the church needed, so that distorted beliefs in gods would not erupt among a large group of people and cause pollution.

Those cult believers who want to spread their faith will be noticed by churches everywhere for the first time.

(End of this chapter)