Mystery: emerging from the wilderness of knowledge

Outside the Iron Church, the sky was suddenly covered with starlight. Black and white were intertwined in the pale blue starlight, like a huge chessboard, easily covering half of Trier, making all movements around it slow down, as if the passage of time was infinitely delayed.

The "Chess Game of Time" used by the "Hidden Sage" even briefly affected the true god.

In the steel church, the flow of information rushing rapidly between the fragments of civilization with mottled light and shadow suddenly stopped and turned into countless bright and twinkling stars, quickly moving and intertwining in the mid-air, outlining each one representing change, Symbol of the realm of mystery, time, and destiny.

The church instantly became eerie and dark, and the surrounding space and time were distorted. It was completely isolated from the outside world, and even information could not be exchanged.

Renekton used the simulated "mysterious realm" to temporarily cut off the church from the outside world, losing the support of the outside body, and most of the fragments of civilization floating around it like light spots disappeared in an instant.

This state only lasted for a moment. This was the church of the "God of Steam and Machinery". He easily reestablished the connection with the real body and broke the secret that shrouded the church.

Renekton, who once again transformed into a torrent of information, seized the opportunity and rushed out of this increasingly dangerous church.

The illusory ball of light instantly decomposed and turned into a torrent of information that was so complex and terrifying that it flowed into the distance like a torrent, with no intention of continuing to entangle.

Pales responded briefly, his voice sounding weaker than before.

In just a few moments, the surrounding illusory ball of light, which was condensed from complex information, was filled with cracks, and the surroundings were re-established with the spiritual world.

Leonard directly ignored Pales's words and asked with a little concern:

Deep in the spiritual world, the seven lights that disturbed the information and position of the spiritual world stopped moving. They returned to the highest point of the spiritual world, flowing quietly as if eternally.

It was as if the misty light composed of a large number of illusory things was constantly collapsing inward, converging, and condensing into an illusory but heavy book.

"Also, who made that terrifying sound that suddenly sounded just now? Him, or Him?"

Under their influence, some of the information in the spiritual world is hidden, and some become extremely active. Concepts such as the position and direction of the spiritual world become confused, like a group of building blocks that have been randomly spliced ​​together.

"Wearing it for a long time will make people lazy and don't even want to think." Pales briefly introduced the second negative effect of the ring. At the end, he did not forget to mock Leonard:

"This has no impact on you. You don't like thinking at all."

"Look, I asked a lot of questions, but I didn't think about getting the answers by thinking on my own."

After a slight pause, Pales' tone calmed down and he sighed softly:

"If he had not succeeded, even if he was far away from Trier, you could still feel the movement of the God War."

Following his movements, the facial features on the body made of starlight and flesh and blood twisted into a whirlpool, and then twisted back under his deliberate control, turning into a normal human face with only half flesh and blood.

Pales snorted lightly, but then he spoke happily:

"What language is that, and what does it mean? It doesn't feel like a meaningless roar, but the pronunciation seems completely different from the languages ​​of the northern and southern continents, and it's not like dragon language, giant language, or elven language. "

Pales chuckled, and then said in a mocking tone:

"Old man, why didn't you say that the side effect of this ring is getting lost? I almost walked into a church belonging to the Church of Steam just now."

In a warehouse near the port terminal, a faint blue light floated from the void, rapidly shrinking, condensing into an illusory "Traveler's Door" covered with mysterious patterns.

After a pause, his eyes fell on Leonard's right hand with the ring on it, and continued:

"This ring is my reward for you. You can use it to go back to Backlund directly. I need to stay here for a while to solve the problems with that characteristic and completely accommodate it."

"Old man, were you injured just now?"

"You" Leonard stared in shock at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, and he swallowed back the unfinished words in his mouth.

The "Traveler's Gate" express book behind him disintegrated and disappeared. Leonard looked around and complained softly:

"Even you were affected?" Leonard sighed in disbelief, and then nodded thoughtfully: "No wonder I fell directly out of the spirit world at that time. I thought you did it on purpose."

Leonard walked out of the door with somewhat frivolous steps. The traces of cracked flesh and valgus flesh on his body had disappeared, leaving only the dried blood stains that had not yet been wiped off.

The torrent of information rushed directly into the spiritual world the moment it left the steel church, and quickly wandered into the depths of the spiritual world.

"Similarly, it can make such a roar, and even I have been affected to some extent. Could it be an ordinary existence?"

The rays of light that are not brilliant, not pure, and have no color grow out of nothingness, obliterating the huge chessboard shadow created by the "Hidden Sage", destroying the barrier composed of colorful mountain peaks, and penetrating the difficult-to-connect knot that is isolated from the outside world. world, rushing into the spiritual world crazily.

Leonard breathed a sigh of relief and did not argue with Pales that he did not like to think about this issue. He turned to the previous situation:

"Old man, do you think he succeeded?"

"Although I was a little injured, my current state has recovered a bit compared to before. I didn't expect that there would be sealed objects of the 'Stealer' route underground in the Steam Church, which gave me some supplements."

After a pause, he continued:

In the deepest and highest place of the spiritual world, seven rays of clear brilliance of different colors, containing endless knowledge, are slowly moving.

"You have some indigestion."

While Leonard and Palles were talking, "light" composed of streams of complex information surged out from the spiritual world and quickly gathered and reorganized Renekton's body in the warehouse.

With the help of the Seven Lights, Renekton quickly moved away from the spiritual area corresponding to Trier.

"You finally know that you shouldn't watch what you shouldn't." Pales's voice echoed in Leonard's ears.

"I didn't know until you got lost that one of its effects is to make people get lost."

"I'm in good shape now. I can finally try to explore the treasure of the Jacob family that I found in Flora Jacob's memory. Remember to find a member of the Jacob family at the next hermit gathering of destiny. Descendants."

Pales's old voice had a hint of ridicule, echoing directly around him:

The "Hidden Sage" followed the "God of Steam and Machinery" into the spiritual world. In this spiritual world that was already intertwined with countless information, illusory "light" composed of streams of complex information expanded rapidly. , instantly enveloped the surrounding spiritual world area, turning into an illusory ball of light, separating the surrounding area from the spiritual world as a whole.

Withdrawing his gaze, Renekton tried his best to put a smile on his voice and said:

"Looks like you got a pretty good harvest."

Leonard's brows twitched, and he had the urge to immediately take off the ring on his hand and throw it out. He took a deep breath, suppressed the urge in his heart, and continued to ask:

"One of the effects, what other negative effects does it have?"

He was wearing a black robe with a hood, and his body beneath the robe was half squirming flesh and blood, and the other half was a statue made of black liquid and bright starlight. There was no clear dividing line between the two sides, like two immiscible liquids fixed in a human-shaped container, and any movement would cause them to shake.

Renekton spoke calmly, but nodded with an unusually cold expression as he explained the reason for his current state.

The illusory book is constantly turning, reflecting and absorbing the information floating around.

"The characteristics contained in that sealed object include the pollution from the 'primordial moon', and the characteristics of the 'generalist' path that was affected by the 'steam'. I can't accommodate it well for the time being."

Their positions suddenly became very close, as if they were within reach, and colorful lights shone around them.

Leonard swallowed subconsciously and turned his gaze slightly. The starlight floating in the dark liquid gave him an extremely dangerous feeling. Even if he was just observing, he would probably be immersed in it and be attracted by some knowledge and some knowledge inside. affected by information.

Only countless mottled lights and shadows were left floating in place, outlining a vague figure. He looked at the direction in which the "Hidden Sage" retreated, and then took a deep look at the seven rays of pure light located at the highest point of the spiritual world, accompanied by a meaning. With an unknown sigh, this vague figure disappeared into the spiritual world.

"Aren't you talking nonsense?"

Renekton's eyes stayed on Leonard for a while, and he saw Pales through him. The "worm of time" seemed to be in some recovery again.

Pales sneered: "Oh, I'm not that bored. Playing tricks on you doesn't give me a sense of accomplishment."

He was startled by the sudden appearance of Renekton. If it weren't for the familiarity on the other side, he would have activated the ring on his hand at that moment and teleported to other places.

Intis, the easternmost Reed Port in Haut-Honakis Province, was originally a small port that relied on fishing. With the development of the shipbuilding industry and the advantages of the inland sea, it gradually relied on Intis and Fernando. The trade exchanges between Sark and Loen developed into the most prosperous city along the Intis Sea.

Behind him, mottled light and shadow composed of countless fragments of civilization floated rapidly, approaching the torrent of information from Renekton's incarnation, but were quickly dispersed by the chaos in the spiritual world.

".no problem."

Leonard was stunned for a moment before he realized that the following words were meant for him. He nodded immediately, used the ring on his hand to open a "Traveler's Door", and teleported directly out of the warehouse. .