Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 171 The Night Emperor's Secret Room
Beneath the Tussock River, in the ancient ruins of the Quaternary Period.

Odysseus was deciphering the ancient magic circle on the door in front of him, and soon he discovered that the magic circle actually had its own spiritual gathering part, so today, more than a thousand years later, the magic circle is still functioning normally.

This surprised Odysseus very much. He had always thought that there were no decent magic circles after the Second Age, and that his research was unique.

I didn't expect there was such a sophisticated magic array in the Fourth Epoch.

However, Odysseus soon calmed down and said, "Since ancient times, there have been many intelligent people. It's not surprising that such a formation existed in the Fourth Epoch."

Bernadette was slightly stunned. She had seen many geniuses, and most of them found it difficult to accept that others were as smart as themselves.

She didn't expect that Odysseus would adjust his mentality so quickly.

A few minutes later, after seven or eight pages of recording and calculations, Odysseus said, "Okay, I found a way to open this magic circle."

Bernadette smiled and said, "Thank goodness I found you."

Of course, she was aware of the difficulty of the deciphering process and the knowledge required. It was like an exquisite anti-theft mechanism made by a skilled craftsman more than a thousand years ago. The manufacturing technology of these mechanisms had been lost for thousands of years. However, Odysseus only took more than 20 minutes to crack the mechanism.

However, Odysseus did not open the door immediately. Instead, he said, "These ancient symbols that make up the magic circle are very strange. I don't even sense any trace of civilization."

He paused and then described it: "They are the most straightforward text tools I have ever seen."

When writing a type of language, one can always see between the lines some of the emotions of the inventor of the language, as well as the parts of civilization and clues of civilization that it expresses.

For example, the Chinese character "北" in Odysseus' memory. While deducing the mystical symbols, he also gained a deeper understanding of Chinese characters.

He discovered that the Chinese character "北" was originally in the shape of two people, one of whom was a real person and the other represented a shadow on the ground.

Because the civilization that invented Chinese characters is in the northern hemisphere, under the sunlight, the shadows are basically facing north.

So this way, the direction "north" is represented.

If a person living in the southern hemisphere sees this word, he will definitely not understand why it means "north".

This is the "emotion" and "civilization clue" contained in the text.

However, Odysseus did not feel any "emotion" towards the ancient symbols in front of him. This was very abnormal. It was as straightforward, mechanical and cold as a computer language.

But more than a thousand years ago, there was a magic circle that could gather spiritual energy, which Odysseus could accept, but there were definitely no computers or anything like that at that time!
Bernadette thought for a moment before asking, "Will there be any danger if the magic circle is triggered?"

"Not at the moment," Odysseus said, "after all, these are just cold symbols.

"I just want to remind you that these symbols are not right, and the person using them may not be feeling any emotion."

This is indeed a bit weird, because anyone who is a human will always have some emotional fluctuations, unless they are a dead person.

Can dead people draw magic circles?

In the extraordinary world, it is possible, but it always makes people feel a little weird.

Bernadette was silent for a moment before she said, "As soon as we sense danger, our exploration will cease immediately."

"Okay, then I'll open the door." Odysseus put away his pen and notebook, placed his hand on a blank space on the stone door, and injected spirituality into it.

The gems and crystals on the door slowly lit up, and the mystical symbols also glowed faintly.

A long time ago, this symbol should have been coated with a layer of spiritual material, but over the past thousand years, these spiritual materials have long since fallen off or evaporated.

However, because the magic circle has been gathering spiritual energy, these symbols can still play their role.

Click~
When all the symbols lit up slightly, the stone door made a dull sound. Odysseus immediately stepped back and the stone door slowly opened.

Without pushing, the gap will become larger and larger, and finally open completely outwards.

There are metal plates inside the stone gate, and some metal mechanical structures such as gears underneath.

Odysseus sighed, "This is truly an exquisite mechanism. Look at these metal plates, there are all kinds of magic arrays on them.

"Let me take a look. This magic circle can prevent spirits from passing through this door. This one can block sightlines from passing through this door. This one can block massive impacts..."

He took out his notebook again while reading: "Please wait a moment."

As Odysseus spoke, he discovered that this was a structure similar to a "composite magic array".

His research on the "composite magic array" was basically done behind closed doors. Although it was relatively useful, he didn't know whether his research direction was correct.

This magic circle is a good reference.

Odysseus roughly wrote down those ideas that looked good or some things that he didn't understand, then looked inside the door.

Inside was a large hall, empty, as if there was nothing there.

Bernadette, who had been observing for a while, said, "I thought there would be some upside-down candlesticks and some asymmetrical decorations."

Asymmetrical and inverted candlesticks are the most typical Quaternary interior styles.

After seeing that Odysseus had finished recording, Bernadette stepped into the hall.

She had just used the "Invisible Servant" to move around inside and did not notice any danger.

When he came into the hall, Odysseus found that the top of the hall was round and seemed to be engraved with some strange patterns.

There are some reflective objects between the patterns, and you can see the faint light they reflect, like a pair of cold eyes staring at the two intruders.

Other than that, there was nothing in this hall.

"I'll make it brighter here." Bernadette seemed to understand what was going on, and made the glowing crystal rise rapidly, emitting a stronger light.

The round top was suddenly illuminated, and there were indeed a large number of small crystals on it, which also emitted a faint glow under the light.

In addition, there are some metal structures on the top, which seem to be able to move the positions of these small crystals with the help of these metal structures.

"This is..." Odysseus suddenly felt that the scene on the dome was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Bernadette said firmly: "This is the starry sky."

"Starry sky." Hearing this word, Odysseus' heart skipped a beat. "Or the night sky," Bernadette explained. "These small crystals represent the positions of the stars. The metal devices can be used to adjust their positions so that the position of the stars at the top matches the current season.

"For example, it's already deep winter, but the stars at the top are still in late summer. By adjusting the positions of these constellations, the stars at the top will also be in deep winter."

As a former "astrologer", Bernadette knows the positions of the constellations and the corresponding seasons very well.

Odysseus said, "Oh," "So that's how it is."

He then said, "I've read in some materials that many ritual magics correspond to the stars represented by the corresponding gods, but I've never heard of any corresponding to the corresponding constellations."

Bernadette paced slowly while looking at the constellations at the top, and after about half a minute she said, “This might be a place where advanced ritual magic is performed.

"I've read in some literature that some very advanced ritual magic requires corresponding constellations or distant stars."

Odysseus was stunned. Why had he never heard of such ritual magic?

"However, it is said that such rituals often bring many terrible consequences." Bernadette continued, "You can even think of those advanced rituals as rituals directed towards evil gods."

She hummed, then continued, "That should be the case. As long as we adjust the position of the stars above to match that of the outside world, this place will be connected to the starry sky, which is equivalent to performing a ceremony under the starry sky."

Odysseus did not have this knowledge, but he had a concept in his heart: the starry sky was where evil gods gathered.

He didn't know why he had such a concept. Every time he thought of the corresponding theory to support this concept, his spirituality would send him a warning.

This made him realize that not remembering this information might be a form of "self-protection" or protection provided by the "wilderness of knowledge."

Thinking of this, Odysseus guessed, "Perhaps it was built underground precisely because it involves the evil god. After all, this kind of ritual can't be performed in a grand manner."

He looked around and said, "This should be the place built by the Trunsoest family. Could it be that this family has been hiding it from the Six Gods and communicating with the evil god?"

"It could also be a kind of check and balance." Bernadette looked at Odysseus deeply.

What Odysseus said just now means that he knows a lot about the true history of the Fourth Epoch, such as the fact that there were only six gods back then, and that Trunsoest completely turned to these six gods, or in other words, he had in-depth cooperation with these six gods.

Bernadette then looked at the ceiling of the hall again. She had discovered before that Odysseus had many secrets, but the fact that he could confess all the secret knowledge he knew and discuss this issue with her showed that he trusted her, so he was so frank.

She was not an official Beyonder and didn't care much about the secrets surrounding Odysseus.

Odysseus nodded. "That makes sense! The Night Emperor is also a god. Although he has the support of the other six gods, he should also be subject to the constraints of those gods.

"So that's why he wants to cooperate with the evil god to check and balance the six gods?"

He smiled and said, "That sounds dangerous."

Bernadette withdrew her gaze from the top. "I once obtained some historical documents whose authenticity was difficult to verify. One of them described the Night Emperor as having fallen under the combined attack of the Six Gods."

Odysseus recalled that this was indeed the case. Trunsoest was killed by the Six Gods, and the uniqueness of the "Judge" path became the sealed object "Trunsoest's Brass Book".

The key point is that this uniqueness has been contaminated!

Odysseus looked towards the top of the hall. "Could it be that the Night Emperor was tainted by the evil god and was killed by the six gods?"

His spirituality told him that this was not the correct answer.

But he couldn't remember what kind of pollution he had suffered, and he might have to enter the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to restore the corresponding memory.

Just as Odysseus was considering whether to find an excuse to go outside the hall and enter the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to obtain relevant information and judge whether there was any danger here, the ground suddenly emitted a faint light.

Soon, more and more places were emitting bright light, which were the same mystical symbols as those on the stone gate.

Bernadette and Odysseus quickly retreated. Odysseus stared at the ground for a moment and said, "This is a magic circle."

However, he still needed to observe it a little longer before he could confirm whether this magic circle had the function of activating itself.

Odysseus discovered the energy-storing crystals last week and had many ideas for "self-activating magic circles". This is his latest research, and he even has only one concept.

Since there were magic arrays that could gather spiritual energy more than a thousand years ago, it is not ruled out that they had the corresponding technology for "self-activating magic arrays".

giggle~
While Odysseus was studying, a series of strange noises suddenly came from above their heads. The two of them looked up together and saw that the "starry sky" above their heads was moving by itself.

Bernadette took a look and said, "The stars are changing towards deep winter."

By this time, their spirits had not sensed any danger, and there was no sign of the gate closing.

This led them to believe that this was probably just a self-starting mechanism.

As long as you don't perform the corresponding rituals, there is no danger in just standing under the "night sky".

So Odysseus withdrew his gaze and continued to study the magic circle.

With a crisp "click" sound coming from the top, the movement of the constellations stopped, and the small crystals began to emit faint starlight. For a moment, the top actually looked a bit like a normal night sky.

At this moment, the center of the hall floor suddenly opened, and a small stone platform was lifted up from inside.

On the stone platform, there stood a thin-necked glass bottle, which contained a pale white, thin, almost illusory mist.

When they saw the thin-necked glass bottle, Bernadette and Odysseus immediately felt a huge danger.

They immediately stepped back, but found that they were not moving backwards, but were still moving forward.

Bernadette raised her hand, wanting to use the corresponding ability to transfer herself and Odysseus away.

But strangely, she did raise her hand and tear off one of her sleeves.

In this way, she realized instantly that her actions had been "distorted", but it was a "distortion" of an extremely high level!
Bernadette was about to summon a Level 0 Sealed Artifact, but Odysseus suddenly said, "Wait, wait, we'd better not use too high-level Beyonder abilities!"

He took a deep breath, slowly moved his feet, and came behind several of the mystical symbols.

Odysseus continued, "Just follow my example and get behind those two symbols!"

Bernadette immediately followed what Odysseus said and slowly raised her foot. At this time, she found that as long as she moved slowly enough, she could sense the "distorted" force and avoid being affected by it.

At this time, Odysseus, who had been observing the magic circle, said: "This is a sealing magic circle, a very advanced sealing magic circle, but... it's not perfect."

(End of this chapter)