Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 493 Demon Oil Painting
"Dwayne Downstairs, this is just a superficial identity. He can be Dwayne Downstairs, and sometimes I can be Dwayne Downstairs."

Klein still felt that it was necessary to make it clear to Leonard to prevent him from actually reporting him.

"Klein, you are hiding very deep." Leonard smiled, "I think it's better to report you to prevent you from hiding in the dark."

"How much reward is the church offering?"

"Are you still concerned about this?" Leonard recalled: "This matter was searched in secret, and no reward was offered in a big way."

"That's a pity."

"You still want to report yourself?"

"Since you are already going to report me, why not report myself first? Maybe there will be a chance of surrendering and getting a reduced sentence." Klein shrugged.

"Don't talk nonsense with me. I just want to ask you one thing. Will you do such a thing again in the future? Including your companion."

Klein took a deep look at Leonard and sighed: "Between the two of us, who is the favored one of the goddess of the night?"

"..."

Leonard's old face almost turned red, and he knew that his actions today were too abrupt.

From the last incident with Amon, Klein was the favored one of the Night Goddess, and his actions might have been approved by the Night Goddess.

Was it the goddess of the night who asked Klein to hide in the dark?
Leonard figured out a lot of messy things in his mind at once.

"Next time if you have something to ask me for, just send the letter to the mailbox of the house at 160 Burklund Street."

After speaking, Klein left the dreamland, got up from the bed, walked to the window sill, and looked at the dark night and starry sky above his head.

The beloved of the goddess of night, what exactly does he need from himself?
Or is it just a simple investment?
Under the same starry sky, in different histories, different scenes appear.

Zaratul, who escaped from the foggy town and returned to his true form, after regaining his complete sanity, stared at the starry sky for a night, and then entered a hidden history of the Fourth Age and hid there to avoid being followed by the possible positioning of the stars. Find yourself.

As long as they were not together under the same starry sky at the same time, he would probably be able to escape the gaze of the stars.

The starry sky of the Quaternary Period was significantly dimmer than the current starry sky.

At that time, the gods were still on the ground, and the sky was not as clean as it is now. It was blood red and pale.

The earth is full of traces of war. Compared with the wars of the Fourth Age, the current war is like the difference between a small stream and the vast ocean.

There was so much killing that the sky was stained with blood.

Zaratul, hiding in the hidden history, recalled his past experiences while looking for traces belonging to the stars.

But he found no relevant traces about the stars in the entire history of the Fourth Age. Even when he took the risk to read the historical books about the Third Age, he found no records about the stars.

Some are just a lot of old days of outer gods that exist in the starry sky, but even he does not dare to read this knowledge easily.

Ancient forbidden knowledge will attract attention from beyond the stars.

This is a saying that is almost true.

"It seems that the stars only came to the real world in this era, but the ancient aura on his body proves that he has existed for a long time."

"Is it an ancient existence that has been sleeping since the first and second eras?"

"Until this era has just woken up, the end of the world is really coming."

Worry flashed in Zaratul's eyes. He wanted to go further, but the former goddess of the night did not take the initiative to give him a chance, and even imprisoned an important clone of him in the foggy town.

However, the goddess of the night has recently changed her mind and deliberately let people release her clone. It seems that the appearance of the stars made the goddess of the night want to cultivate a fool who can open the Western Continent as early as possible.

Now if he wants to go further, he has only two choices. One is Antigonus at the top of Hornakis Peak. He is half a fool, possessing a copy of the extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence 1 Mysterious Attendant and containing uniqueness.

The second is to go to the land abandoned by the gods to find the last extraordinary characteristics of the mysterious servant.

Both paths are very difficult. Now He has not faced Antigonus's strength directly. Only by first finding the extraordinary characteristics of the mysterious waiter left in the land abandoned by God can he have a chance to meet Antigonus. Fight for the Fool's throne.

The God-Forsaken Land is the home base of Adam and Amon, especially Amon who wanders around the God-Forsaken Land all year round in order to share the extraordinary characteristics of the mysterious waiter.

He also had no chance of winning against Amon.

Especially now that He has provoked the stars.

Zaratul took a look at this hidden history and decided to continue hiding here, and first take a clear look at the current situation.

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As Zaratul fell silent and disappeared, people within the entire Esoteric Order were panicking. Coupled with the infiltration and oppression of the yellow-robed monk organization, the Esoteric Order without Zaratul was gradually turning into the shape of the yellow-robed monks.

Some members of the Secret Order have already converted to believe in the King in Yellow.

The fortune teller path is also an extraordinary path related to destiny. In front of the yellow-clothed monk organization with Sequence 3 life-stealing powers, their destiny has no way to hide.

But despite this, the monk in yellow still did not learn about Zarathul from the members of the Secret Order.

Hastur is not in a hurry about this.

Knowing all the contents of the Fool's Tarot Card, he has a very good understanding of the extraordinary path of the diviner. He also knows what kind of extraordinary abilities Zaratul possesses.

I roughly guessed that Zaratul was hiding in a hidden history.

He was not in a hurry to find Zaratul, so he let Zaratul worry for a while.

Backlund's life is dull and warm, which is in sharp contrast to the chaotic battle situation on the front line.

Although the current strength of the Loen Kingdom is better than that of the Fusac Empire on the frontal battlefield, the Fusac Empire, which has the support of the Outer Gods and the Southern Continent, is not something that the Loen Kingdom can conquer in a short time.

This is the instruction from the ancient phoenix, now the ancient god Gray Carrie.

He wanted to delay the Loen Kingdom's conquest of the Feysac Empire in this way, making it difficult for the Night Goddess to quickly digest the authority that originally belonged to the God of War.

At the same time, they also want to buy some time for the recovery of the southern continent, and then start a more massive war from south to north.

Regarding the battle between Gray Carrie and the Night Goddess, Hastur was naturally more partial to Gray Carrie, so he did not stop Gray Carrie's plan, and even guided the believers of the Mother Tree of Desire to the Feysac Empire, so that The situation is even more chaotic.The Witch Cult and Aurora Society also sent many members to the Fusac Empire.

There are also external gods such as the Fallen Mother Goddess and the Ring of Fate hidden outside the starry sky. They seem to be secretly developing followers. The Feysac Empire, whose God of War has fallen and has chaotic beliefs, is undoubtedly a good choice.

The combination of various factors makes the situation in the Feysac Empire very complex and changeable. Even if the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis join forces, it will be difficult to take down the Feysac Empire in a short time.

Hastur currently lives in Backlund, and occasionally passes through the portal to return to South Wales to do some things.

Except for the mysterious legend of the King in Yellow that he left behind in various places at night to digest, on weekdays, he was not much different from other Loen nobles.

Sometimes he teased Sharon, sometimes he went to Audrey's house as a guest, sometimes he studied law with Professor Wayne and Lecturer Follen, and the peaceful days passed like this for a month.

It wasn't until Forsi came to ask for help that there was any trouble.

"Mr. Hastur, I think only you can help us with this matter."

In the study, the gradually setting sun cast orange light, which shone on Forsi's long brown hair, adding a bit of tranquility and softness.

If you ignore the nervous and uneasy look on Forsi's face at this moment, Forsi really looks like a literary and quiet female scholar with a temperament.

"It would be my honor if I could help you, but what you need to do now is to drink hot tea first, then sit down, calm down, and then tell me the whole story." Hasta He motioned to Forsi to sit on the sofa and drink hot tea.

In order to calm Forsi's mood as soon as possible, Hastur also winked at Azshara, making her appear cute in front of Forsi.

Azshara reluctantly performed her belly-turning talent, and As expected, Forsi gradually relaxed. She took a sip of hot tea, was silent for a while, and then took another sip of hot tea before she began to talk about what she had encountered recently. .

Just three days ago, a man who claimed to be a member of the Abraham family, Dorian Gray Abraham, came to Backlund and found her, wanting to accept her as a student and tell her about the current situation of the Abraham family.

The Abraham family in Dorian's words is simply that many members of the Abraham family who did not become extraordinary people and lived a peaceful life suddenly became extraordinary people one after another.

And it's not the initial sequence 9.

Some people go from an ordinary person to Sequence 9, Sequence 8, and become a Sequence 7 Extraordinary person overnight!
This kind of promotion method is really terrifying!
Because of this, many members of the Abraham family went crazy, fell into chaos, or turned into terrifying monsters while being promoted successfully.

Only a few lucky ones can maintain their sanity while being promoted successfully.

But even so, their mentality has undergone tremendous changes, and they began to abandon the faith of the Abraham family and instead believe in a terrifying existence whose name cannot be mentioned.

In his limited extraordinary knowledge, this was the first time he had seen such an outrageous and mysterious phenomenon.

As there were more and more people like this, Dorian and a few people who could still maintain their sanity quickly left the family and took away several key sealed artifacts inherited from the Abraham family.

Dorian, who was disappointed and frightened by the current situation of his family, came to Backlund and found her.

Forsi depicts these things vividly and vividly, especially the situation that the Abraham family is facing now. After her artistic processing, it makes people feel really creepy.

After briefly telling the first half of the story, Forsi stopped, took two sips of hot tea, and cleared his throat before continuing: "Last night, the specific time was 23:[-] pm. I haven't called my teacher for a long time. Just like this, in front of me, because of the full moon's gibbering, he suddenly lost control and turned into a monster, and finally used his remaining sanity to end his life in front of me."

"If it weren't for Xio's ability to deal with and purify corpses, I would have been targeted by the Nighthawks and taken away for questioning."

"But I didn't have time to indulge in the sadness of losing my teacher. The teacher who passed away suddenly did not tell me the sealing methods of the two sealed objects he carried with him."

"At around 07:30 this morning, there was a sealed object that seemed to be affected by the whispers of the full moon last night. The seal on it cracked, revealing some extraordinary abilities. It has caused a lot of impact, and the seal power is still losing. , has seriously affected our lives, and it has only been less than half a day."

"Let's get on the carriage first."

When Hasta heard this, he stopped Forsi from continuing and took her downstairs in a carriage and rushed to the place where Forsi and Xio lived.

On the carriage, seeing Hastur's serious expression, Forsi's bad premonition deepened, fearing that something bad might happen to him if he stayed at home alone.

"Don't worry, it's probably still too late."

Hastur's comfort did not achieve good results, but Forsi became even more worried.

In order not to waste time, Forsi began to introduce the sealed artifact and its current impact.

The name of the sealed object is the Devil's Oil Painting: This painting depicts one after another quite abstract and incomprehensible patterns, and it has the ability to seal and imprison.

Its current impact is that it will continuously suck everything around it into the oil painting, and then solidify into symbols, patterns, twisted lines, etc. that are difficult to see and understand on the devil's oil painting.

When Forsi left home, the area affected by the devil's oil painting had gradually grown from a small opening to the size of a washbasin.

Hastur just listened quietly to Forsi's description and did not express his own opinion on it.

He had heard about the sealed artifact called the Devil's Oil Painting. Although he was not very familiar with it, he was still confident of solving the problems faced by Forsi and Xio.

The carriage drove for about 10 minutes and arrived at the downstairs of Forsi and Xio's rented house. As soon as the carriage stopped, Forsi couldn't wait to jump out of the carriage. Hasta followed her, listening to the mixed footsteps. Go upstairs.

Audrey originally lent a villa for Forsi and Xio to live in, but the two felt that it was not a problem to live in it forever. In addition, they each made a lot of money on the sea, so they came out to rent a villa together. A house with three bedrooms, two living rooms and two bathrooms.

When the door opened, Forsi heard Xio's excited voice: "Forsi, have you invited Mr. Hastur?"

Hearing Xio's still strong and energetic voice, Forsi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yes, I have invited Mr. Hastur, he can definitely help us solve this problem."

Forsi quickly walked around the living room and came to the outside of the unoccupied house. She stepped forward to open the door, but found that the door was locked from the inside and could not be opened from the outside.

"Hugh, open the door quickly!"

Bang bang bang!
Forsi patted the door as he spoke, but strangely, no more Xio's voice came from the room.

The deathly silence made Forsi's little heart beat uneasily, fearing that something unexpected might happen to Xio inside.

"Step aside!"

Hasta shouted, and before Forsi subconsciously left the door, Hasta raised his right foot and kicked the door lock off, causing the door to dent.

Forsi didn't have time to feel sorry for the door that cost 10 sulers, so he hurriedly passed Hastur and entered the room first.

Xio's figure was not seen in the room. It was empty. The only thing that came into view was the colorful demon oil painting. It was opening its demonic mouth that swallowed most of the room, waiting for the next visitor.

(End of this chapter)