Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 361 Mr. 360 "Door"

"A lost adventurer?"

The voice from the depths of darkness was also quite surprised. With the assistance of two Angel Kings of equal caliber who had made plans in advance, and the source fortress at the pinnacle of the three mysterious paths, it did not recognize that this extraordinary individual who had trespassed into this forbidden area was Don Eggers, who had once caused it to lose half an arm.

When the voice rang out again, Tang calmly surveyed his surroundings. The darkness here was too intense, and in order to maintain the effectiveness of his deception and trickery, he dared not directly use the authority of Euclidean space to see the true situation of this area.

Seeing that Bethel Abraham did not intend to appear, Don feigned alertness, displaying the humility and spirit befitting an extraordinary person who had mistakenly entered someone else's territory, and continued speaking.

"Yes, after accepting the commission from that member of the Abraham family, I traveled the world, saw the vast ocean, witnessed cities in ruins, set foot in ancient buildings that buried the ancient history of the Quaternary period, and visited places of secrets that have long been unknown. During this journey, I acquired many ancient historical books."

He tested it cautiously.

"Perhaps you know the whereabouts of the ancestor of the Abrahamic family that I am looking for?"

This time, Tang is disguised as an ancient scholar of Sequence 3.

Studying ancient history and becoming a scholar from ancient history, as a Sequence 3 of the Diviner path, the rules of this sequence also require ancient scholars to exert more effort and face greater dangers than other saints.

If one is not careful, the ancient scholar who is digesting the magic potion may die while pursuing the ancient knowledge buried in the torrent of history.

Ancient scholars represent a group with both a very high ceiling and a very low floor. The more history they research and know, the more secretive and powerful they are, the stronger their influence becomes.

It's not impossible to compete with an angel within a certain timeframe.

The Abraham family once controlled the Apprentice Path, which is adjacent to the Diviner Path. Now that the Abraham family is gradually declining, it is a very reasonable development to ask an "Ancient Scholar" to help them find an Abraham member who is extremely important to them, in exchange for a "0" level sealed artifact corresponding to the Apprentice Path Sequence 1 or Sequence 2.

The Abraham family is now divided into two branches. One branch has been protected by Mr. "Mistake" and has always been in a relatively safe environment, while the other branch has grown wildly, and now very few people in this branch can advance to Sequence 4 arcane mage.

Since that choice a thousand years ago, the divided Abrahamic family has seen one branch flourish even more, while the other has steadily marched towards its predetermined fate of aging and extinction.

It is perfectly reasonable for the Abrahamic members, who were not protected by Mr. "Mistake," to try to restore their former glory and to seek out that ancient, but not dead, ancestor.

Behind Tang, in a shrunken, slightly open, bluish-black portal, Mr. "Mistake" was providing him with the necessary fraudulent assistance.

Having been corrupted by the Fallen Mother Goddess and sealed in this area for a thousand years, Mr. "Door" possesses some rationality, but not much.

Tang thought it would be worth trying to trick Mr. "Men" out of his way first, and then proceed with the next step.

An ancient scholar, a neighboring path, strays into this land ruled by storms and darkness. Will the fallen Mother Goddess and Mr. "Door" spare him?

The answer is naturally—

"It seems you are an ancient scholar who has stumbled into this exiled region."

From the darkness, a slightly aged voice slowly spoke: "Who is the person the Abraham family is searching for?"

“I’m not quite sure.” Tang, holding the lantern, shook his head, not caring whether Mr. “Door” could see or not. “They only said it was once a great nobleman, an angel, and they seemed to call him Mr. ‘Door’…”

Regarding the origin of the Full Moon Curse, Olson, who had become an angel, knew that it stemmed from Mr. "Door," who disappeared during the War of the Four Emperors, and his ancestor, Bethel Abraham.

As for whether Olson told the other members of the Abraham family this news, Tang was not sure, but he estimated that those high-sequence extraordinary individuals should know something about it.

As for the middle and lower ranks, or the branch that did not choose to join Miskatonic University more than a thousand years ago, whether the people there knew, Tang knew very well, they did not know.

After all, there are always fools who want to do something self-righteous. Mr. "Door" is the source of their full moon ramblings, and being able to liberate Mr. "Door" means the lifting of their curse... The "Red Light" of the Seven Lights of the Spirit World once made a similar prophecy for a member of the Abraham family.

But the second half of the sentence is that when Mr. "Door" returns and the Full Moon Curse is lifted, an even greater calamity will befall the Abraham family.

Does Mr. "Door" really care about the lives of Abrahams these days?

No, it certainly won't.

But among them, the "Door" who struggles between the fallen Mother Goddess and his own mad consciousness, constantly shouting "Don't save me," is the only remaining humanity he possesses after being corrupted.

There are two branches. One branch knows that Mr. "Men" is the source of the Full Moon Talk, but is not afraid of it. The other branch does not know the source of the Full Moon Talk, but is extremely afraid of it.

Don is misleading the public; his montage-style narrative makes every word he utters seem true, even when the order is scrambled. The search for Mr. "The Door" is something Olson once entrusted to him, and the Abraham family is indeed trying to restore its former glory...

Everything is right, and everything is wrong.

Mr. "Door"...

The voice in the darkness sighed deeply, seemingly also longing for that name.

"Yes, may I ask if you know Mr. 'Door'?"

Tang demonstrated the attitude expected of an ancient scholar.

Having been trapped in this deep darkness for many years, hiding in the darkness he cannot see, yet able to communicate, and appearing quite kind, this is an excellent opportunity to learn about ancient history.

Any ancient scholar would have thought the same thing.

The powerful figure in the darkness seemed to be pondering, or perhaps reminiscing about the past.

"Mr. 'Door' has indeed not appeared in the real world for a long time. As one of the five great noble families during the Fourth Age Tudor Empire, the prosperity of the Abraham family was closely related to this Mr. 'Door'..."

Mr. Door seems to have been trapped in this world where there is no other living thing besides himself for a long time, and now he has become quite eager to share:
In a world shrouded in darkness and punctuated by lightning, He spoke of many things, including the historical secrets of the Tudor Empire in the Fourth Age, as well as the various conflicts, collaborations, and wars between different nations and churches during the War of the Four Emperors.

If this were an ancient scholar digesting a potion, everything Mr. Door said would become the driving force for the ancient scholar to completely digest the potion.

Tang could sense Mr. "Men's" intentions.

"Are they trying to numb my spirit with a large number of real historical texts?"

How could Mr. Door have said so much to him just to help him digest the potion?
"To neutralize and paralyze the self-defense of a Sequence 3 diviner with exceptionally strong spiritual awareness, I first used a large amount of real and useful ancient history to numb my spirituality, preventing me from being distracted by the traps hidden in his words during the rapid digestion of the potion." By prolonging the speed of his reaction, under the suppression of his rank, an ordinary ancient scholar would be unable to react in time and fall into the trap when encountering Mr. "Door's" trap.

Ancient scholars, immersed in a wealth of authentic historical texts, could not fake the potion's response regarding whether what Mr. "Men" said was true or false, whether it was real history or fictional.

Mr. "Door" talked a lot, so much so that even an ancient scholar who had just drunk a potion could digest most of it, and then the important part finally came:

"Until Mr. 'Door' returned from his travels through the stars, he encountered the Goddess of Night and the Lord of Storms, who discovered the hidden power within Mr. 'Door'..."

"That is……"

The ancient scholar, who was listening intently, was unaware of the unusual spirituality within him and immediately continued, "What is that?"

"That comes from the power of my mother."

"Mother?"

The darkness and storm were instantly dispelled, and a huge, crimson moon appeared above Tang's head.

The moon is so beautiful, let's look at it...

The moon is so beautiful, look at the moon!
Look at the moon! Look at the moon! Look at the moon!

Help me! Help me! Help me!
Don't look at the moon! Don't look at the moon! Don't look at the moon!
Don't save me! Don't save me! Don't save me!
Mr. "Door" said with a smile.

When Mr. "Door" said that "the power contained within Him comes from His mother," the whole world seemed to change.

In an instant, a massive amount of mental pollution surged into Tang's brain.

The reason why Mr. "Door," or rather the power remaining here of the Fallen Mother Goddess, is to feign compliance with an ancient scholar is not to directly eliminate him, but rather to more troublesomely, to turn him into a believer in the Fallen Mother Goddess.

This is not because the Fallen Mother Goddess lacks believers, nor is it because Mr. "Door" wants to spare his life.

The reason Mr. Door is here, and the reason the Fallen Mother Goddess corrupted Mr. Door, is simply because She wanted to enter the barrier more quickly while it still existed.

While the Outer Gods do retain some semblance of reason, madness is the underlying nature of this world. If it can be done sooner, why wait?
So, after Mr. "Door" was trapped here, the ancient scholars who mysteriously appeared in the seal became their next target.

Once they figure out the secrets of this ancient scholar, they can leave this place by following the path he took.

This is not a difficult task for a Star Key with the authority of "space".

The difficulty was that they couldn't find the crack in the seal, but Tang did.

Perhaps it's an intermittent crack in the seal, or perhaps the seal is more focused on suppressing the power of Mr. "Door" and the Fallen Mother Goddess; it doesn't matter...

For ancient scholars who could project historical narratives, what was more valuable than murder and spiritualism was corrupting believers into becoming mothers and doing things for them.

Even if Mr. "Door" cannot leave, an ancient scholar who is familiar with Mr. "Door's" history can still accomplish many things after arriving in the outside world.

Everything was arranged perfectly, everything was such a coincidence.

Tang looked up at the blood-red moon in the sky, his mind filled with the incessant, frantic cries of "Save me, save me!" and "Don't save me, go away, go away!" It was as if the old man standing under the blood-red moon, with red as his base and wearing a robe made of blood, smiled.

"It seems we're thinking the same thing."

Mr. "Men" paused when his gaze fell on the ancient scholar.

The feeling of being deceived and fooled vanished the moment Tang's presence was truly seen.

For a moment, He was in a daze, as if He saw a gray mist, and a gaze looking down from above the mist.

"It's not easy to fool you, to fool the fallen Mother Goddess."

Tang snapped his fingers, and his figure vanished instantly.

This is merely an image from a gap in history. Whether he is insane, dead, or a follower of the fallen Mother Goddess, it does not change the fact that he is simply a projection from the past.

After Tang's figure disappeared, behind him, within a bronze light gate that had shrunk by one size, an arm suddenly reached out and grabbed some things that remained after the historical projection disappeared.

Mr. Door immediately realized what it was. He looked at the arm that was extending out and said, word by word, "Source, Fortress."

"bingo."

The sound of snapping fingers echoed from the darkness once more.

"Unfortunately, there is no reward."

Beneath the blood moon, darkness surged wildly, and bolts of lightning struck towards Mr. "Door's" location, a storm of bright silver lightning engulfing that spacetime.

The things that Mr. "Mistake" was pulling at were struggling, weak, illusory, and faintly bloody, constantly spreading upwards, trying to completely pollute the weak part of the spirit that had been stripped away.

Tang emerged from the darkness, picked up the historical image from the "Door's" arm, protected by a radiant crystal, and brought it close to the bluish-black light gate, approaching the small wisp of spirit about to be pulled into the Source Castle.

The blood-red stain, now tainted with spirituality, seemed to have spotted an even more delicious prey. Misled by Mr. "Mistake," it continuously poured out its weak spirits and entered the severed arm in Tang's hand.

At this point, the mission is accomplished.

The dark blue portal closed swiftly to prevent the Fallen Mother Goddess from discovering the problem.

Tang then turned his gaze to the sky, to the blood-red moon that had suddenly grown much larger after the appearance of the Source Castle, and smiled slightly:
"I hope you like my gift."

(End of this chapter)