Lord of the Silver Crow

As if the bells from another era far away echoed in Yago's ears.

Almost at the same time, Yago saw a gate.

On the wall of the clock tower, a door appeared.

The vague throbbing made Yago realize that behind this door, there was something attracting him.

Yago hesitated for a moment, then walked towards the door that appeared on the bell tower.

The mechanical door, with dark rust stains, gradually opened as he approached.

Appeared in Yago's field of vision.

A relatively intact stone corridor with some cracks.

Inexplicably, Yago felt a little familiar.

He stared at the ground of the bell tower corridor and walked up.

It is not so much a slate as a metal.

Also, the length.

The long corridor, far exceeding the width and length of the bell tower he saw, was at least a hundred meters long.

But from the outside, it doesn't look that long.

Impact on perception?

Yago's footsteps stopped, and he hesitated again whether to go forward.

But it was also at this time that the throbbing feeling resurfaced again.

go ahead.

Yago didn't hesitate any longer and chose to move forward.

Stepping on the metal-like stone road, Yago advanced smoothly all the way.

but

Suddenly, he stopped.

Because, at his feet, there is a coin.

A pitch-black coin.

Coins like shadows, dull and black.

Spiritual body?

It has an illusory feeling similar to a spirit body, and also has a strange hazy feeling in the cognitive field.

Familiar, very familiar.

He was all too familiar with this feeling.

This is the power of his Sequence Path, the Undead Path that he has shifted.

The power of the Gateman mask is such a power.

Also, this coin.

Yago picked up the coin and turned it over

Bacha II.

On the silver coin of Catesia, the face of Bacha II of the Sturmonk Dynasty.

Silently, Yago held the coin and continued to move forward.

There was no change, only the sound of his footsteps echoed in the dark corridor.

I don't know how long he walked, Yago finally came to the end.

At the end of the corridor is a circular room. On the wall of the circular room, there are more than 20 doors lined up on the wall.

Including the door behind him, there are twenty-two doors.

22, this number, although there is no evidence, all kinds of coincidences all the time made Yago think of Tarot Cards and Kabbala Tree at the first time.

Of course, there is also Hebrew with 22 letters.

And on each of the doors, there is also a symbol marked.

Not in Hebrew, nor in the various versions of the Tarot pictorially similar symbolism.

Yago had seen these symbols in the ruined temple and in the bell tower.

Yago paused slightly.

He began to recall things related to the ruined temple.

In the ruined temple, there are twenty-one statues—the statues are somewhat different from the style of the ruined temple itself.

As for the door, there were indeed more than twenty doors in the circular room before entering the ruined temple.

However, the number is not twenty-two.

How much it is, Yago doesn't know.

The various scenes in the circular room could not be fully remembered, and seemed to have cognitive interference.

However, the gatekeeper mask can block out some of the cognitive distractions.

At that time, Yago didn't have enough understanding of the field of cognition, and he didn't even notice these strange situations.

In this case, the conclusion recorded by Yago is——

It doesn't match the number of Tarot cards and the number of paths in the Kabbalah tree.

He only had this vague memory.

However, it's different here.

He can clearly observe every door here.

He can also clearly confirm the symbols on the door.

Yago's sight was fixed on a symbol he was very familiar with——

A simple symbol similar to the word ji bends to form the outline of a human figure in a robe.

The human silhouette has no face or specific details, just a curved and uninterrupted line.

Just looking at the symbols, one would probably think of the image of wearing a robe. Without the depiction of a face, one can only fill in the imagined parts of the face of the person in the robe with black or a mask.

But. This symbol close to the word several is not only one, but two.

The two symbols are misplaced and overlapped.

A symbol that resembles two faceless men in robes superimposed on each other.

And, on top of these two symbols, Yago saw thirteen lines.

Thirteen interlaced lines vaguely fragment this symbol.

The thirteenth of the 13 Tarot cards is Death.

but

In the Tarot card, The Fool has no number, but is defaulted to 0.

If it is in order.

The thirteenth should be The Hanged Man numbered 12.

The fourteenth is the Reaper numbered 13.

Yago shook his head and glanced at the symbols on the other doors.

On a door, Yago found the side 8 symbol that was suspected to be an infinity symbol.

However, its corners should be relatively sharp. Moreover, it is not straight, but oblique.

More like an hourglass?

Yago paused for a moment, remembered the difference, and turned to other doors.

One symbol after another was caught by Yago.

He can confirm that these symbols are consistent with the symbols he saw on the ruined temple.

only

A symbol that does not exist on the ruined temple.

It was a symbol with sharp corners, approximately S-shaped, or in other words, a mirror-reversed Z-like symbol.

Also like.

Lightning symbol.

Yago tried hard to recall the status of those symbols in his memory to review, and confirmed that his conclusion was correct.

This symbol, which is somewhat similar to lightning, is not found in the ruined temple.

After reading all the symbols on the door several times, Yago walked towards a door after memorizing it.

It is the door engraved with the symbol representing infinity in the previous life.

The slanted 8, the slanted infinity symbol, and the hourglass-like symbol came into his vision again as he walked to the door.

The moment he stood in front of the door, as if in response to his movement, the door opened.

Like a place where endless shadows gather.

like an endless dreamland

In a strong trance, Yago stepped into the door.

Then, a familiar scene came into his vision.

One after another magnificent and wonderful buildings are distributed in Yago's field of vision in a layout that does not conform to the laws of physics.

and more importantly

In the center of the area surrounded by countless buildings, there is a huge open space.

It presents an irregular trapezoidal shape, and at the outermost periphery of the building, there is endless darkness, as silent as a water body.

This slightly familiar picture shocked Yago, and then he turned his head.

The majestic, towering, temple-like huge building was surrounded by darkness.

I don't know how many hundreds of meters high the top is, on the edge of the dark sky, the Gothic spire is supported by four giant pillars, and a huge black bell hangs below.

Temple of ruins.