Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 139 Chapter 138 Ceremony
After sending the people away, the distorted sun symbol on the sun scepter in Tang's hand reflected the surrounding scenes.

In the dark environment, only the "Master Ring" he wore emitted a faint light, illuminating a small area in the captain's room.

Darkness filled the air, and the pollution in the air was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, constantly corroding everything on the sea.

"The Fountain of Youth, a strange thing suspected to be caused by the pollution of the City of Disaster, Binsi, Bansi, Source..."

"Why am I so unlucky..."

Because the Knowledge Wilderness is so large, the aggregation of higher-level Beyonder characteristics triggers the ups and downs of fate. Even though the Knowledge Wilderness has been processed, it still allows these things that belong to the same source of essence to actively collide with it?

A rectangular object appeared in the palm of his hand that did not hold the Sun Scepter.

That was the spell that reappeared yesterday.

"history."

Using the language that can mobilize natural forces as the starting spell, Tang used the spell of yesterday's reappearance to bring something he once possessed into his hands.

This is not about borrowing power from your future self, but about borrowing the objects that you have handled from your past self.

During this period, Tang's research on the Book of the Dead did not completely stop.

The newly opened "Myth Skills" module of the system is indeed useless, but the "Book of the Dead" is a carrier of crazy knowledge. At the cost of reducing the SAN value, you can get feedback every time you read the same chapter.

This is another use of the black magic book "Book of the Dead". The details of the things interpreted from the crazy knowledge are different when reading it extensively or intensively.

The last time you read it, you get mythical skills, and the next time you read it, you may get corresponding mysterious symbols and magic signs. Even without relying on the system's "mythical skills" module, it can be used for mysticism in the real world.

Of course, some of this feedback was useful, while others were useless. Sorting out the useful mystical knowledge amidst the vast amount of information was a bit of a struggle for the Trickster who had just digested the potion.

This is more the job of a mystic than his.

The SAN value was lowered and then raised again. If it weren't for the strong anchor point of the ritual, the high level of the audience, the complete digestion of the magic potion by the trickster, and the subsequent psychoanalysis and comfort from the audience, his mental state would certainly not be so good.

Studying the mysticism contained in a chapter of the Book of the Dead allowed Tang to discover some interesting things and create some interesting things based on them.

He pulled a square tablecloth out of the pores of history.

“For ancient scholars, nothing will leave them forever; it just stays with them in a different way.”

This square tablecloth has a pure black base, and when it is pulled out from the cracks of history, it merges with the surrounding darkness. It is engraved with a silver powder, with twisted and pulsating symbols and mysterious and complex patterns.

The silver-white pulsating symbol sparkled brightly under the faint light of the 'Master's Ring', as if facing a brilliant starry sky, emitting indescribable meaning and indescribable madness.

Both ritual studies and spell studies are essential for extraordinary people to master, but few extraordinary people are proficient in both. After all, most extraordinary people today still rely on their own extraordinary abilities and strange seals.

The ritual requires too many conditions. Without helpers, the ritual can only be used as an auxiliary and a trap set in advance.

After all, a ritual is a rather time-consuming occult magic that cannot be prepared immediately. Facing a sudden attack, the effect of a ritual is not as good as that of a spell, and the effect of a spell... probably no enemy will give you a chance to use a talisman?

Are you going to say, "Wait, let me get out a talisman first"?

"In the world of occultism, the essence of ritual magic is to invoke power upon oneself, upon others, or upon the gods. This varies depending on the specific symbolism of the ritual... The rituals created through the occult knowledge deciphered from the Book of the Dead naturally point to mad knowledge and the wilderness of knowledge."

"Ritual magic can only continue to develop if the church has gods who will automatically respond. The evil god's rituals... the real creator makes people suck their fingers?"

But whether it is the official extraordinary people or those extraordinary people who believe in evil gods, few people pay attention to this field.

After all, this is a world with gods. The believers of the night pray to the Lord of Storms with rituals, and it is estimated that the Lord of Storms will send down lightning and kill people directly.

Rituals can only be used for the gods one believes in, which is why ritual magic is not very versatile today.

But crazy knowledge is different. The complex mystical knowledge of crazy knowledge itself points to all aspects, including secrecy, strong winds, sunshine, waves, corruption, and madness. These are all part of the records of crazy knowledge, and these are the mystical knowledge itself.

Omniscience is omnipotence. To a certain extent, this applies not only to the Reader Path, but also to High-Sequence Beyonders of the Knowledge Path II.

Now the main body of the Knowledge Wilderness is still trapped in the Western Continent, and the ritual may not be successful.

But the System and the Necronomicon, both are products of crazy knowledge.

Using the "Book of the Dead" as a springboard, responding to the ritual with crazy knowledge, and using the system as a medium, he intercepted some mysterious symbols and magical signs in the "Book of the Dead". Through the system's organization and optimization, Tang Zhen created a ritual pointing to crazy knowledge and the wilderness of knowledge.

"But honestly, creating a ritual is really difficult for a trickster. This should really be the job of an occultist... We should quickly grab an occultist..."

"There's no need to be so troublesome. Host, let's turn into a prophet and everything will be solved~"

Tang: “…” This guy is really a thief with evil intentions.

A ball of fire ignited from the corner of the tablecloth with twisted and jumping symbols and engraved with strange and complex patterns.

The flames danced, burning this object pulled from the cracks of history. The flames brought no warmth, but a bone-chilling chill spread from the burning fabric.

'You ask me why I dread cold drafts, why I shiver more than others when entering a cold room, and why I seem to react with revulsion and disgust when the night chill creeps into the mild warmth of autumn?'

A chill that seemed to freeze even the darkness emanated from the corners of the tablecloth. Tang entered Euclidean space, observing this newly created ritual with the authority of a higher dimension.

A bone-chilling cold spread from the captain's cabin.

It was a cold that froze even the torrential rain falling from the sky, the sea breeze blowing from afar, the sea surface, the monsters on the seabed, and the countless floating corpses hanging on the strange poles not far away.

It was a coldness that froze even death in an instant, a solid ice that froze even the body and the soul. A chilling wind howled through the windows and doors, spreading wildly in all directions. The sea surface was frozen into a continuous glacier. The monsters on the ghost ship became actual statues, seemingly shattered at the slightest touch. The countless snake-like heads and long hair of the humanoid monsters on the seafloor were stiff and frozen, plunging into the bitter cold of winter.

Crazy knowledge is emerging in a mysterious and bizarre way, and the content described in one of the chapters of the Book of the Dead is becoming concrete!
This is Sequence 4 of the Mystic's Path, the core extraordinary ability of the Mystic, a mysterious reappearance.

The less known a mystery is, the more terrifying its power can be. Beyonders of the Second Path of Knowledge profoundly demonstrate the principle of 'knowledge is power.' By allowing Crazy Knowledge to respond to rituals, the more Crazy Knowledge of a high enough level is mastered, the more effective the ritual will be.

The Book of the Dead is not just about strange content, it is itself a carrier of crazy knowledge.

Under the observation of Euclidean space, Tang saw that in the center of the humanoid monster under the sea, a bottle filled with a strange liquid was quietly suspended in the sea water, standing quietly without being affected by the surrounding ocean currents.

He put on mosaic glasses to observe the stars, to prevent the possible pollution from the disaster city from affecting him in advance.

After seeing the bottle, Tang raised the Sun Scepter in his hand.

A talisman that reappeared yesterday disappeared, and he gained power from the future. The Sun Scepter instantly became more terrifying, as if in an instant it became something absolutely unobservable and indescribable.

He borrowed some of the power of his future self's Sun Scepter, a Sun Scepter that completed the five paths of omniscience and omnipotence, each of which had extraordinary characteristics such as historical pore images, which were either real or false.

More terrifying, more twisted, more fanatical, and more difficult to shake, as if countless souls were worshiping fanatically, screaming and shouting madly, and the black sun swaying among countless spirits revealed its light from the dark clouds.

That is the black light of death, that is the black sunlight that symbolizes madness.

"To deal with the contamination of the source essence of the suspected disaster city, the crazy knowledge response alone is obviously not enough, based on my understanding and the ritual response evolved from the mystical knowledge I have come into contact with."

Black sunlight dispersed the overcast sky and descended from the sky. Countless black sunlight rays fell onto the ghost ship, twisting and deforming the corpses frozen into frost in the cold wind. Their remaining spirits were stained black, and the sound they made as they swayed was—

"Sun! Sun! Praise the sun!"

The black sunlight itself has no temperature, but it is this light that implies corruption and has all the characteristics of the sun that ignites ghost ships. It is like the person in the cold who sustains his life with "coldness". Even a slight increase in temperature will cause their bodies to disintegrate and their souls to shatter.

The sea grew darker, reflecting the sky where the black sun shone.

The humanoid monster on the seabed opened its mouth wide, struggling to pull its hair apart, trying to break free from the influence of the ritual.

But the black sunlight passed through the ice on the sea and fell on her.

She was ignited.

Black flames burned on the seabed, and the cap of the 'Fountain of Youth' in the center began to spin silently, as if some force wanted to open it.

But a hand stretched out from the void and pressed the cap of the "Fountain of Youth".

Then, the object disappeared into thin air, dissipating into the silent and dead seabed, which was burning with dark flames.

Everything here is immersed in the sunlight and ice, falling into a dead and eternal sleep.

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Tang, who had recreated the previous ship with the miracle of the "Master's Ring", stood on the deck. The "error" remained. Without any sailors rowing, the ship was still sailing into the distance at an incredible speed.

"There is indeed pollution, but it's not clear whether it's from the City of Disaster."

Needless to say, the system's appraisal results for the bottle of 'Fountain of Youth' were all garbled and had no value at all.

Judging from the observation of Euclidean space, the pollution in the "Fountain of Youth" is not that serious, but the level is high enough. Even if it does not belong to the City of Disaster, it may be related to the divine power in the ruins of the War of Gods, or to the top leaders of the witch sect, those disaster witches.

After throwing something into the system warehouse, no matter what its nature is, it will be sealed by the system space, so there is no need to worry.

"Should we report this to the church? If there really is a problem in Binxi, should we have the Storm Church and the Lord of Storms send a lightning strike there in advance?"

Tang thought about it and decided to go to Binxi to take a look.

"Speaking of which, what should we do with Backlund's three-in-one hot pot? No one should have found it yet... Capture it and give it to Owen? Not impossible. I remember that hot pot possessing a janitor."

But it must be treated harmlessly. Use Crazy Knowledge to soak the hot pot and marinate it first?
Emm, that’s good to consider.

Tang chatted with the War Bishop in Tingen about the two people he had just sent over. After settling them down, Tang withdrew his attention and looked into the distance.

"Next we have to go to the God War Ruins, which will take some time."

Tang began to use his secret doll to handle some things that did not require his presence. In fact, he only needed to leave a secret doll on the ship, and then he could exchange it back when he arrived at the ruins of the God War.

"It's also possible to travel, or through Euclidean space... But with the former, I don't know what dangers I might encounter in the spirit world. With the latter, it would consume a huge amount of spiritual energy. Even if I've reached Sequence 4 and digested the potion, I wouldn't be able to maintain that level of consumption."

He has plenty of time now, it's just a few days, he can still wait.

During these few days, Tang would occasionally exchange places with other secret dolls to handle some things, but most of the time he would stay on the sea, alone.

Just treat it as a small vacation for yourself.

It wasn't until a huge gully appeared in front of the wooden boat that Tang put on his monocle again.

The blue sea is cut off by a huge gap here, and the endless sea water falls vertically like a waterfall, rushing into the bottomless dark abyss.

This seemed to be an abyss that connected directly to the center of the earth, and was the entrance to the ruins of the war between gods.

(End of this chapter)