Becoming God starting with the word game in Lord of Mysteries

The dark shadows writhed and tightened like living things, binding the men firmly to their spot.

They struggled, but even their voices were swallowed up by the thick darkness.

Li Qianyi promptly removed the gags from their mouths and asked...

"What do you think is special about him?"

"I don't know, the boss just gave us a photo and told us to wait at the station entrance and then find an opportunity to catch him."

The leader looked terrified, his forehead beaded with cold sweat.

He tried to turn around to look at the little boy they had tied up behind him, but the shadow around his neck prevented him from moving.

"So, you planned to wait there all along?" Li Qianyi frowned.

"Yes, yes, at 6:30 PM, the boy with a shaved head and osteosarcoma, leaving from carriage 4 on platform 3," a man said.

The information is so detailed; they clearly came prepared.

Li Qianyi suddenly felt that his encounter with this boy on the bus might not have been a coincidence.

"Who is your boss?" Li Qianyi asked again.

"Our boss is..."

Just as the eldest brother was about to speak, he suddenly let out a piercing scream.

A brilliant golden flame suddenly burst forth from his body, as if something within his blood had been ignited.

The flames were unlike any ordinary fire; they burned without smoke, yet carried a sacred and solemn quality.

Each cluster of golden flames was carrying out some irreversible judgment.

Meanwhile, the others also suffered the same fate.

Screams rose and fell, but then quickly ceased.

"The contract of the 'notary'".

Li Qianyi's pupils constricted slightly.

Once a contract concluded by a notary is signed, even a Sequence 5 cannot violate it. Even if a Sequence 4 demigod tries to forcibly breach the contract, he will have to pay a considerable price.

The flames burned extremely fast, and the group was quickly reduced to ashes, leaving not even bones behind, only wisps of smoke slowly dissipating in the air.

The four people left only two different things on the ground.

Looking at it, one of them was a red quartz with patches of black spots, and the other was a crystalline horn-shaped object covered with short black hairs.

"Extraordinary characteristics?"

Li Qianyi reached out and picked it up.

You have gained the Sequence 9 'Criminal' Extraordinary Trait *1 and the Sequence 8 'Barbarian' Extraordinary Trait *1.

These two traits clearly came from the two extraordinary beings who were executed by the fire of the contract.

"Who arranged the notarization?"

Li Qianyi currently knows of only one "notary," and that is the so-called "Pure White Holy Son."

Could it be him?

Li Qianyi dispelled the shadows, and the darkness receded like a tide at his feet.

He lifted the little boy out of the van in front of him.

The child was still fast asleep, breathing steadily, his tiny body incredibly light in his arms.

Just as he picked the other person up, a message popped up on his phone.

Li Qianyi's pupils contracted sharply upon seeing this.

You touched a 'contaminated human infant'.

[Contaminated Human Child: A human child contaminated by the 'Grey Dragon King's Heel', with 37 days remaining to live]

"The Gray-White Dragon King?"

Li Qianyi frowned. The Lord of Mysteries didn't have any Gray Dragon King.

However, the "Dragon of Imagination - Angelweid" is a grayish-white dragon.

"The Gray-White Dragon King's Heel, Angelweid's Heel?"

Li Qianyi, puzzled, groped the boy's body up and down.

Soon, an unusual hard lump was found on the back of his neck.

It didn't feel like ordinary bone or muscle tissue; hidden beneath the skin, it seemed to have a life of its own.

The moment Li Qianyi touched it, his 'Key to the Curtain of Shadows' was slightly activated.

At the same time, a message popped up on my phone.

【'Grey Dragon King's Heel': A fragment of the heel of the Imaginary Dragon 'Angelweed', which has been dormant for countless eons. Using it will grant you 'The Imaginary Dragon's Blessing' in the 'Old World Ruins'】

You can use the 'Radiant Blasphemous Cross' to remove the 'Grey Dragon King's Heel'.

"This, the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics, perhaps?"

Li Qianyi thought about the inexplicable unease he felt in his car, perhaps influenced by this.

But there's still one problem.

Why would a little boy have a fragment of the heel from the "Dragon of Imagination" on his body?

If it was done by cultists, why go to the trouble of kidnapping?

He doesn't look like a player either.

Li Qianyi didn't quite understand, so he chose to separate the thing first.

After all, the "Grey-White Dragon King's Heel" may have been the culprit that caused him to develop osteosarcoma.

A blasphemous cross emerged from Li Qianyi's palm, emitting a faint, almost extinguishable glow, as it precisely probed into the hard lump on the back of the child's neck.

After a barely perceptible tremor, the fragment was completely removed.

Floating above the cross, it resembles an ancient scale sleeping in amber.

You have obtained the 'Grey Dragon King's Heel'.

【The "City of Miracles: Remnants" event will open at the Shanghai Museum at midnight in 14 days. Using the "Grey Dragon King's Heel" in the "City of Miracles" will grant you the "Blessing of Angorvid".】

"14 days." Li Qianyi did a quick calculation.

"If I can finish digesting the 'Secret Prayer' potion in this time, I can advance to the 'Listener' level."

"Perhaps I can improve the compatibility between 'Shadow Veil' and me a little more."

"Now that I think about it, the goddesses arranged for me to come here, perhaps not just to protect Da Congming, but also to give me the 'Eternal Darkness Spell'."

"Could the more important purpose be to bring me into contact with this fragment?"

Li Qianyi was pondering when he suddenly noticed someone approaching.

He held the boy in his arms, his figure slowly sinking into the shadows.

A moment later, the giant werewolf took advantage of the darkness to leap out from the street corner and landed where the people had just turned to ashes.

The werewolf was tall, with muscles bulging under its fur on its shoulders, and its ribs could be seen rising and falling noticeably with each breath as its chest expanded.

Its mouth was slightly open, revealing its sharp, interlocking canines.

"The sacred relic has been stolen." The werewolf was somewhat dissatisfied. "Why didn't they let us intervene? Otherwise, we wouldn't be in this mess."

"Are you an idiot? The 'sacred relic' can conceal itself. Only those who don't know its origins can catch it." A masked man walked over with a sneer.

Upon hearing the man's words, Li Qianyi, who was hiding in the shadows, was taken aback.

He remembered that the audience pathway sequence 1, 'writer', had a certain trait.

Whatever is said will be known.

"So that's how it is."

"The sacred object is missing."

The werewolf growled in a low voice, bringing its snout close to the ground to sniff. "In the battle for the 'Old World Tomb,' we lost our greatest advantage."

"What do we do now?"

"To be honest, this was an accident that was beyond our control."

The man turned to look into the distance, scoffing, "That annoying guy is here again."

As the two figures disappeared into the darkness, several people dressed in black trench coats quickly arrived.

The leader was a woman with long, flowing hair that fell to her shoulders and shimmered with a faint silver-gray sheen under the streetlights.

Her eyes gave people an involuntary sense of peace, as if they possessed some kind of magic, as if looking at them for even a second longer would lull them into a peaceful sleep.

"There are werewolves, the smell of blood, and lingering spirits."

She crouched down, her slender fingers brushing across the clumps of ashes on the ground.

"Burned to death by some force."

"Captain, there's a boy here."

Another team member found the unconscious child in a corner not far away.

He approached cautiously, and only after confirming that there was nothing unusual around him did he bend down to check.

"She's still breathing, her vital signs are stable, she's just asleep?"

The female captain got up and walked over, her gaze falling on the child before slowly shifting to the depths of the shadowy alleyway.

He looked at it for a few seconds before shaking his head.

"Take him away, we'll talk about it when we get back."