Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Beneath the Tassok River, within the Fourth Epoch's ancient ruins.

Audis was deciphering the ancient array on the door in front of him, and he quickly discovered that the array even had its own part that gathered spirituality, so even after more than a thousand years, this array was still operating normally.

This greatly surprised Audis, who had always felt that there were no decent arrays after the Second Epoch, and that his research was unique.

He didn't expect there to be such a precise array in the Fourth Epoch.

However, Audis quickly calmed down: "Throughout history, there have been many intelligent people, so it's not too surprising that there is such an array in the Fourth Epoch."

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Bernadette was slightly stunned. She had seen many geniuses, but most geniuses found it difficult to accept that others were as smart as them.

She didn't expect Audis to adjust his mindset so quickly.

After another few minutes, Audis, who had made seven or eight pages of records and calculations, said: "Okay, I've found a way to open this array."

Bernadette smiled and said: "Fortunately, I brought you along."

Of course, she was clear about the difficulty of this deciphering process and the knowledge reserves required. It was like an exquisite anti-theft mechanism made by skilled craftsmen more than a thousand years ago. Under the premise that the manufacturing techniques of these mechanisms had been lost for over a thousand years, Audis only took more than twenty minutes to crack the mechanism.

However, Audis didn't immediately open the door, but said: "The ancient symbols that make up the array are very strange. I didn't even feel any aura of civilization."

He paused and then described: "They are the most straightforward writing tools I have ever seen."

A writing system will always reveal some of the inventor's emotions between the lines, as well as the civilization it expresses and clues about that civilization.

For example, Audis remembered the Chinese character "北" (běi, north). While deducing mystical symbols, he also gained a deeper understanding of Chinese characters.

Among them, he discovered that the Chinese character "北" initially depicted two people, one representing a real person, and the other representing a shadow on the ground.

Because the civilization that invented Chinese characters was in the Northern Hemisphere, shadows basically pointed north under the sunlight.

Thus, this method was used to represent the direction "North."

If someone living in the Southern Hemisphere saw this character, they would definitely not understand why it represents the meaning of "North."

This is the "emotion" and "civilization clues" contained in the writing.

However, Audis didn't feel any "emotion" from the ancient symbols in front of him, which was very abnormal, very much like a computer language—straightforward, mechanical, and cold.

But Audis could accept the existence of arrays that could gather spirituality more than a thousand years ago, but there certainly weren't things like computers at that time!

Bernadette thought for a moment before asking: "If we trigger the array, will there be any danger?"

"As it stands, there shouldn't be any," Audis said. "After all, these are just cold symbols.

"I just want to remind you that these symbols are a bit strange. The people who used them may not have had any emotional fluctuations either."

This was indeed a bit strange, because as long as it was a person, there would always be some emotional fluctuations, unless it was a dead person.

Could a dead person also draw arrays?

In the extraordinary world, it was indeed possible, but it always felt a bit strange.

Bernadette was silent for a while before saying: "As long as we sense danger, we will immediately stop exploring."

"Okay, then I'll open the door." Audis put away his pen and notebook, placed his hand on a blank space on the stone door, and injected his spirituality.

The gems and crystals on the door slowly lit up, and the mystical symbols also showed a faint glow.

A layer of spiritual materials should have been smeared on these symbols a long time ago, but over the past thousand years, these spiritual materials had long fallen off or evaporated.

However, because the array had been gathering spirituality, these symbols could still function.

Crack ~

When all the symbols had lit up slightly, the stone door made a muffled sound, and Audis immediately retreated as the stone door slowly opened.

Without needing to push, the gap grew larger and larger, eventually opening completely outward.

Inside the stone door were metal discs, and below them were some metal mechanical structures such as gears.

Audis exclaimed: "This is truly an exquisite mechanism. Look at these metal discs, with all sorts of arrays on them.

"Let me take a look. This array can block spiritual bodies from passing through this door, this one can block sight from passing through this door, this one can block the impact of great force…"

As he looked, he took out his notebook again: "Please wait a moment."

As Audis spoke, he realized that this was a structure similar to a "composite array."

His research on "composite arrays" was basically done behind closed doors. Although it was still quite useful, he didn't know if his research direction was correct.

This array was a good reference.

Audis roughly recorded some of the ideas that looked good or some things he didn't understand before looking inside the door.

Inside was a very large hall, empty as if there was nothing.

Bernadette, who had been observing for a while, said: "I thought there would be some inverted candlesticks and some asymmetrical decorations."

Asymmetry and inverted candlesticks were the most typical interior styles of the Fourth Epoch.

Seeing that Audis had finished recording, Bernadette stepped into the hall.

She had just used an "Invisible Servant" to wander around inside and hadn't sensed any danger.

Coming to the interior of the hall, Audis discovered that the top of the hall was round, seemingly engraved with some strange patterns.

Between the patterns were some reflective objects, and you could see the faint light they reflected, like cold eyes staring at the two intruders.

Other than that, there was nothing else in this hall.

"I'll make it brighter here." Bernadette seemed to understand what was going on, and quickly raised the crystal that emitted light, making it emit an even stronger light.

The round ceiling was immediately illuminated, and there were indeed a large number of small crystals on it, which also emitted a faint light under the illumination.

In addition, there were some metal structures on the ceiling, which seemed to be able to move the positions of these small crystals with the help of these metal structures.

"This is…" Audis suddenly felt that the scene on the dome was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Bernadette said with certainty: "This is the starry sky."

"Starry sky." Hearing this word, Audis's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"Or rather, the night sky," Bernadette explained. "These small crystals are the positions of the stars. You can adjust their positions through those metal devices, so that the position of the starry sky on the ceiling matches the current season.

"For example, it's already deep winter now, but the star map on the ceiling is still in late summer. You can change the star map on the ceiling to the current deep winter season by adjusting the positions of these constellations."

As a former "Astrologer," Bernadette knew the positions of the constellations and the corresponding seasons like the back of her hand.

Audis said "Oh": "So that's how it is."

Then he said: "I saw in some materials that many ritual magics have to correspond to the stars represented by the corresponding gods, but I haven't heard that they also have to correspond to the corresponding constellations."

Bernadette looked at the constellations on the ceiling and paced slowly. After about half a minute, she said: "This may be a place for performing advanced ritual magic.

"I have seen in some documents that some very advanced ritual magics need to correspond to the corresponding constellations, or a distant star."

Audis was stunned. How come he had never heard of such ritual magic?

"However, it is said that such rituals often bring many terrible consequences," Bernadette continued. "You can even regard those advanced rituals as rituals that point to evil gods."

She "Mmm" and then said: "It should be like this. As long as the positions of the stars above are adjusted to be the same as the outside, this place can be connected to the starry sky, which is equivalent to performing a ritual under the starry sky."

Audis didn't have this knowledge, but he had a concept in his mind: the starry sky is a place where evil gods gather.

He also didn't know why he had such a concept. Every time he thought of the corresponding theory that supported this concept, his spirituality would send out a warning.

This made him realize that not remembering this information may be a kind of "self-protection," or the protection provided by the "Knowledge Wilderness."

Thinking of this, Audis guessed: "Maybe it is precisely because it involves evil gods that it was built underground, after all, this kind of ritual cannot be carried out with great fanfare."

He looked around and then said: "This should be a place built by the Trenssost family. Could it be that this family has been hiding from the Six Gods and contacting evil gods?"

"It may also be a kind of checks and balances." Bernadette took a deep look at Audis.

Audis's words just now meant that he knew a lot of the true history of the Fourth Epoch, such as there were only Six Gods back then, and that Trenssost had completely sided with these Six Gods, or rather, had developed a deep cooperation with the Six Gods.

Bernadette then looked at the top of the hall again. She had previously discovered that Audis had many secrets, but he could clearly state the secret knowledge he knew and discuss this issue with himself, which meant that he trusted himself more, so he was so frank.

She was not an official extraordinary person and didn't care too much about those secrets on Audis.

Odis nodded: "That makes sense! The 'Night Emperor' is also a god. Although he received the support of the other six gods, he should also be restrained by those gods at the same time."

"So, he wanted to cooperate with the Evil God to check and balance the Six Gods?"

He smiled: "That sounds very dangerous."

Bernadette withdrew her gaze from the top: "I once obtained some historical materials that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, which contained such a description: The 'Night Emperor' fell under the joint attack of the Six Gods."

Odis recalled that this was indeed the case. Trunsoest was killed by the Six Gods, and the uniqueness of the 'Seer' pathway became the sealed artifact 'Trunsoest's Brass Book'.

The key is that this uniqueness has been contaminated!

Odis looked at the top of the hall: "Could it be that the 'Night Emperor' was contaminated by the Evil God before being killed by the Six Gods?"

His spirituality told him that this was not the correct answer.

But he couldn't remember what kind of contamination it was. He might have to enter the 'Knowledge Moor' to restore the corresponding memory.

Just as Odis was considering whether to find an excuse to go outside the hall first, enter the 'Knowledge Moor', and obtain the corresponding information to judge whether there was any danger here, the ground suddenly emitted a faint light.

Soon, more and more places emitted light, which were some mystical symbols like those on the stone door.

Bernadette and Odis quickly retreated. Odis, who had been staring at the ground for a while, said, "This is a ritual array."

It's just that he had to observe it further to determine whether this ritual array had the function of activating itself.

Odis had many ideas for 'self-activating ritual arrays' after discovering those crystals that stored energy last week. This was his latest research, even just a concept.

Since more than a thousand years ago, there were ritual arrays that could gather spirituality, then it was also possible that they had the corresponding technology for 'self-activating ritual arrays'.

Giggle, giggle~

Just as Odis was studying, a series of strange sounds suddenly came from overhead. The two of them looked up together and saw that the 'starry sky' above was moving on its own.

Bernadette glanced at it and said, "The star signs are changing towards the depths of winter."

At this time, neither of their spiritual senses felt any danger, and the door showed no signs of closing either.

This led them to believe that this should just be a self-activated mechanism.

As long as they didn't perform the corresponding ritual, there would be no danger just standing under the 'night sky'.

So, Odis withdrew his gaze and continued to study the ritual array.

As a crisp "click" sound rang out from the top, the movement of the constellations stopped, and those small crystals began to emit a faint starlight. For a time, the top actually looked a bit like a normal night sky.

At this time, the central position of the hall floor suddenly opened, and a small stone platform rose from inside.

On the stone platform, there was a thin-necked glass bottle standing upright, which contained a wisp of pale white, thin, almost illusory mist.

When they saw this thin-necked glass bottle, Bernadette and Odis immediately felt a great danger.

They immediately retreated, but found that they were not retreating, but still moving forward.

Bernadette raised her hand, wanting to use the corresponding ability to transfer herself and Odis out.

But strangely, she did raise her hand, tearing off a sleeve from her own clothes.

At that moment, she instantly understood that her actions were being "distorted", and it was a very high level of "distortion"!

Bernadette was about to summon a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, but Odis suddenly said, "Wait, wait, we'd better not use extraordinary abilities that are too high-level!"

He took a deep breath and slowly moved his steps, coming behind several mystical symbols.

Odis then said, "You learn from me and go behind those two symbols!"

Bernadette immediately followed what Odis said, slowly raising her foot. At this time, she discovered that as long as the movement was slow enough, she could detect the power of "distortion", thereby avoiding being affected by the power of "distortion".

At this time, Odis, who had been observing the ritual array, said, "This is a sealing ritual array, a very high-level sealing ritual array, but... but it's not perfect."