Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 184 183 Ancient Scholars

Countless papers recording the history of ancient times turned into crimson flames. The white frost crystals and the blood of Fulgrim's dog were devoured by the flames, turning into endless, thin gray mist.

This grayish-white mist is ancient and solemn, carrying a heavy atmosphere that comes with history.

Then, another thing was thrown into the gray-white mist that was constantly condensing and expanding.

With the addition of the main ingredients of the ancient scholar's potion, the thick fog transformed by history shrank and collapsed inward. After a series of reactions, it finally froze into a bubbling, dark object.

The hand that looked slightly pale due to years of lack of sunlight held the cup of potion and brought it to his lips.

Through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the room, one can see the sky outside, where the sun and the crimson moon coexist. All around are twisted and strange buildings swirling together, forming a layout that is both magnificent and terrifying, both twisted and reasonable.

Sometimes this place overlaps with the real world, and sometimes it moves to unknown areas. Sometimes dark shadows surge here, and sometimes corpses crawl out from the surface.

Among the countless twisted and entangled buildings, people would come in and out from time to time. Some had solemn expressions, while others smiled warmly. Among the countless people, there were men, women, children, old people, and countless people of all kinds.

The only thing they have in common is that they all have illusory transparent black lines, which fly towards the highest dome and are connected to something.

Tang looked at this extremely distorted world, and then slowly drank the cup of liquid that symbolized the 'Ancient Scholar' potion.

"Sequence 4, promoted to Sequence 3."

As the potion was infused, Tang's body involuntarily disintegrated into a translucent worm that seemed to have strange powers.

These worms sometimes huddled together and sometimes dispersed. They were both concentrated and scattered. As Tang took the potion, they suddenly became agitated. They scrambled to tear apart the potion he had swallowed, taking it into their bodies, reintegrating it into their spiritual bodies, and sharing this new delicacy with other spiritual worms.

As the potion was poured in, Tang suddenly saw a thin gray mist appear in his eyes.

They cover the entire world and are witnesses to countless histories in this world.

In this gray-white fog that covers the entire world, countless historical spots are dotted like stars, illuminating one historical pore after another.

The first thing he saw was the countless histories that he himself possessed.

During the past three hundred years, the entire world has been undergoing earth-shaking changes. Countless secret organizations have sprouted and grown like plants after rain, gradually stepping onto the stage of history.

Zaratul of the Secret Order became a Sequence 2 Angel, the School of Life was established, the Rose School of the Southern Continent underwent a transformation, the Bound God's condition became increasingly abnormal, and behind the Indulgence Faction lay hidden something ancient and terrifying...

Countries such as Loen, Intis, and Feysac were established one after another, and the Seven Gods went to the astral realm and no longer walked on the ground.

In the Pale Age, the god of death Salinger teamed up with the primordial witch Chike to launch the Pale Disaster. In the end, one god fell and another was seriously injured.

During the War of the Four Emperors, the gods themselves took the stage, and the Black Emperor, Blood Emperor, and Night Emperor fell one after another, with the Hades Emperor gaining the greatest benefit.

The United Empire, the Solomon Empire...

When the catastrophe happened, the ancient sun god was eaten by his own angel kings, who gave rise to the Fallen Creator, the Lord of Storms, the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and the Eternal Sun.

The humanity of the ancient sun god drove the true creator crazy, and his divinity was hidden in Adam and revived in the body of the angel king who the audience passed by.

In the distant Second Age, the ancient gods were crazy and irrational. The gods of desire, Kotal and Antigonus, and the goddess of misfortune, Amanissis, originated from the demon wolf clan.

The First Age...

Prehistoric era, past times, 'homeland'.

Countless historical fragments were lit up, and Tang's memory and spirituality were integrated into countless time insects wandering in the mist of history. They became confused, followed their instincts, lost their own thinking, and only wanted to wander among these countless historical fragments and did not want to return to the real world.

Countless minds looked up at the same time at this moment, and they all saw a light spot that was completely different from the surrounding light spots.

That fragment of light revealed Tang who had not yet entered the extraordinary realm, Tang who was self-pitying, Tang who became a fortune teller, Tang who went out to sea to become a master of secret puppets, Tang who hunted for the gods who descended from the dark side of the universe, and Tang who discovered Pales Zoroast.

Becoming a strange wizard, creating a large number of secret dolls, creating strange stories, adventures in the God-forsaken Land, attempts to open the Western Continent, exploring the Giant King's Court, playing cards with fortune tellers, manipulating the secret society, and so on and so forth, all of these became the anchor points for ancient scholars. Various details of life were faithfully recorded in the historical fog that shrouded the entire world, becoming his cornerstone and converging into a vast ocean.

This vast ocean quickly passed by countless historical fragments, allowing countless spiritual insects to merge into the ocean, tracing back to their origins and understanding their own origins.

"I am a scholar of antiquity."

They began to gather rapidly and re-form into new and complete individuals.

His spirituality grew rapidly, and through the wonderful experience of promotion, Tang obtained the complete sequence of mystical knowledge of ancient scholars.

He closed his eyes, then slowly opened them, revealing a pair of slightly dark and deep eyes.

"It went more smoothly than I expected. Well, this could also be because I used the thief's extraordinary ability to interfere, eliminating all historical records involving 'me' over the past three hundred years, perfectly fulfilling the ritual's requirements. Also, I did some pre-emptive acting."

Although the ceremony was completed, Tang was not in a hurry to escape from the mist of history.

He looked at the historical fog that seemed to cover the entire world. After becoming an ancient scholar, he had a more fantastic experience here than before when he could only observe with the help of yesterday's reappearance spell and Euclidean space.

He seemed to see into the depths of the fog of history, where there existed illusory and unreal things.

If the danger was posed by the fog of history itself, Tang might have simply walked away. However, his spiritual intuition as a Sequence 3 told him that this unreal thing was closely connected to himself.

If the experiences of three hundred years ago were the stable anchor in the promotion ceremony for ancient scholars, then the unreal things that Tang saw now were also, in a sense, his anchor.

"future?"

Tang took a step forward, traveling through countless historical mists and fragments of light.

As we approached that area, there were fewer and fewer illuminated objects around us, as if we were approaching the end of history, which is the current era.

After passing through countless historical mists, he immediately found that he was not close to that point in any essential sense.

But in Tang's sight, the gray-white fog that should have reached the end seemed to have no end. It was infinitely far away, and even the gray-white fog seemed like a dark bottomless abyss.

Between this side and the other side, there is an invisible curtain that separates the inside and the outside, preventing prying eyes.

Tang looked more and more clearly. The anchor point that caught his attention was a solitary point in the vast history.

It was a region both real and illusory, both existing and nonexistent, a realm not accessible through normal means. Tang pondered for a moment before slowly disappearing into Euclidean space, dashing deeper into the mists of history.

As expected, the previously inaccessible area opened up to him. Countless fragments of light around him became clear under the observation of Euclidean space, but Tang could not see the specific objects within.

These light spots, symbolizing a certain period of history, appear stagnant, inharmonious, and incompatible with the real world in Euclidean space.

The fog of history slowly pushed the curtain into the depths of darkness. Every stagnant spot of historical light broke away from the stagnation and disharmony after entering the range illuminated by the fog of history, and seemed to reappear in the real world.

"These stagnant spots of light involve a part of the future, belonging to future history. They are also the source of future power that I saw when I recreated the spell yesterday?"

Don’t look at what you shouldn’t look at, don’t listen to what you shouldn’t listen to, and don’t understand what you shouldn’t understand.

Tang's spirituality also told him at this time that when he was promoted to a 'miracle worker', obtained the status of an angel, and became a power with certain divine qualities, everything would have an answer.

"Once my mental state stabilizes and my spirit becomes calm, I will immediately prepare to be promoted to a Miracle Master."

After making up his mind, Tang used the connection of mysticism to dig out historical pore images from the future in Euclidean space as he moved forward.

The historical spots that he had lit up were no longer around him. All around him were stagnant historical pores that could not be touched or understood.

After entering here, that wonderful sense of connection suddenly weakened. Tang Bian used his characteristics as an ancient scholar to try to re-establish a more solid connection.

At this stage of ancient scholars, the closer the connection with the things corresponding to the historical pore images, the higher the probability of successful extraction. Among them, the things that belonged to oneself and that one had owned were the most likely to be extracted.

Ancient scholars borrowed spirituality from their past selves, also based on the mystical foundation of "the connection between oneself and oneself is the deepest." Dragging one's own historical pore image, even for Extraordinary people who were only initially promoted to Ancient Scholars, had an almost 100% chance of success.

With the help of the connection between his future historical pore image and the historical light spot, Tang quickly determined the location of the fragment of light that acted like an anchor point.

Not surprisingly, as Tang pulled out the image of the historical pores, the light spot that was close yet extremely distant was illuminated, like a pocket watch losing its rusty shell, revealing the delicate things inside.

The historical pore image on the side seemed to come alive, as if grafted, and Tang's figure suddenly appeared next to the historical light spot that was suddenly lit up.

The historical pore image from the future disappeared, and in the historical light spot in front of him, in the dark and cold mausoleum, the young man sitting on a high seat holding a three-meter-long dark golden scepter seemed to have sensed something and looked in one direction.

He didn't say anything, but just drew a strange symbol on his chest.

Tang seemed to be aware of something and looked around the light spot that had been lit.

Many historical fragments were illuminated by the movements of the mausoleum itself. Each of them broke away from the sense of stagnation, became real, and began to come alive.

Not realizing the danger, Tang hesitated for a moment, but ultimately followed his inspiration and reached out to touch one of the historical spots.

He saw a mountain range.

That was the Honachis Mountains, in a misty town located on the main peak of the mountains. A man with half-white long hair and thick black short hair growing on his face and body sat there, falling into a deep sleep.

Outside the ancient palace, a young man walked towards the palace. On one side of him was Klein Moretti, who had a bookish temperament and looked calm and introverted. On the other side was a strange being who looked 70% similar to the young man, like a torrent of knowledge, with a body composed of countless secret symbols and mysterious signs.

Led by a young man, they walked into the dark and ancient palace. Under the watchful eye of a mysterious being, they seemed to be preparing to perform some kind of ritual.

The next moment, the entire historical light spot began to waver. It was a war that Tang could not see, involving countless terrifying beings in high positions. Even the images faithfully recorded by the historical mist made Tang, who only saw it vaguely, almost lose control on the spot as if he had digested the magic potion of ancient scholars.

Ah, future me, can you be a human being?
The invisible gray mist appeared silently at the moment when Tang's spirit was obviously abnormal, and it obscured this historical spot.

Tang almost turned into a maggot on the spot because he saw something that shouldn't be there, and when he came to his senses, he found that an object had appeared next to him.

That was one of the system's previous mission rewards, the 'Survey Book for Observing Stars'.

He suddenly understood what this item was used for.

The next moment, incomprehensible words gradually appeared on a page of this seemingly ordinary mapping book.

This seems to be the origin of all words, and the source of all languages ​​that can now leverage the power of nature.
'Observer: Don Eggers Ramd'

Observation Subject: Klein Moretti

"This is a Fortuneteller Path Sequence 1, serving the mysteries..."

With a humming sound, something seemed to be casting a gaze from an infinitely high vantage point, and Tang's headache instantly eased. He raised his head, as if sensing something, and gazed towards the sky above the mist of history.

There was nothing there, but Tang knew exactly what was there.

That is Sefirah Castle, the Lord of Mysteries.

Tang withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes and took a deep breath for a while, then took the initiative to cancel the effect of the ritual.

He returned to his bedroom, except that his mind began to scream, "Host, host, mission completed, look at the new mission!"

"Ahhhhhhh, twisted twisted, go out and play, go out and play, host, hurry up, let's hurry up, hahahaha, ancient scholar, hahahaha——"

…other than that, the room seemed unusually quiet.

Tang touched his brows together, and the corners of his mouth twitched at his son's startled expression.

This damn noise, even after all these years, is still unbearable.

After packing up the system group and throwing it to the other secret puppets equipped with subsystems, Tang sat in the rocking chair, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, soothed his spirit, and familiarized himself with the new extraordinary ability he had mastered.

And, observe the situation in Euclidean space.

"The degree of compatibility with Euclidean space is increasing. From the beginning, I could only use the authority of that space to achieve observation purposes. At Sequence 4, I can initially leverage the power of Euclidean space. Then at Sequence 3, I can use Euclidean space to extend the power of ancient scholars into the future and obtain some kind of gift."

The Sequence 2 Miracle Worker and the Sequence 1 Mystic Servant should also have a corresponding degree of improvement, and the secrets of this space should be partially revealed after he reaches the Angel level.

After being promoted to an ancient scholar, he always felt that there was a big bomb buried in it, waiting for him to jump a few times and then blow him away.

(End of this chapter)