Shadow of the Beautiful World

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The head that still remained in shock said goodbye to the neck that was spurting blood with nostalgia. It was like a kicked soccer ball, drawing an arc in the blood swaying at dusk by the sea, hitting the sandy beach that had been melted by the scorching flames, and bouncing a few times helplessly.

The headless corpse fell to the ground, and the black-skin magic book suspended in the air seemed to have lost its power as a foil, and it was falling.

Merlin tried to catch it, but the book seemed to have its own consciousness. The moment before it fell into Merlin's hands, the book disappeared into the air amidst the strange light.

But just before it disappeared, a sharp shadow flying knife grazed the body of the book, tearing off a flying page from the magic book.

swish

The somewhat yellowed pages made of parchment were held in Merlin's hands.

boom

Behind him, the alien demigod summoned by Lady Hydra finally landed in the material world with difficulty.

An indescribable force, as cold as a venomous snake, and with a soft and greasy feeling that slid over the skin, exploded on this beach.

Merlin, who was holding the angry spear, turned his head. He thought he would see a ferocious monster.

But unexpectedly, there was only a slightly weird woman standing behind him.

A bald woman.

She has a good figure, wearing a set of strange black battle armor, which looks to be made of some kind of animal skin, and there are some patterns on it that Merlin doesn't recognize, which look like ancient Egyptian characters.

Her face is very characteristic.

Although he is bald, uh, this is really hard to ignore.

But there was a hint of blankness in her crescent-like eyes, and around her eyes, there were large patches of eye shadow similar to war, which made her look a bit hideous.

In her hand, she held a ritual battle axe.

Unlike most battle axes, the blade of this exquisite ax is fixed directly above the handle, which looks like a shovel. Streaks of dark red light danced on the blade of the ceremonial battle axe, like some kind of flame rune, it was not scorching hot, but rather cold.

It looks very strange.

It was you who summoned me from Hades to this world?

The woman asked Merlin in a strange language. Merlin had never heard of that language, but he could understand the meaning of that language.

This woman is strong.

There is no doubt about this, she is even stronger than the most powerful half-demon Merlin has ever seen, the son of Satan hiding in New York. But it is weaker than Carol in his heyday, um, about the same as Ronan.

It's not me, it's her.

Merlin didn't put away his angry spear, he looked at this weird bald woman vigilantly, he turned sideways, pointed at the headless corpse behind him, and said:

Unfortunately, she died before the ceremony.

died?

The woman floated forward in a strange levitating posture, she didn't care about Merlin and the spear in his hand at all, these two things did not threaten her.

In the entanglement of real shadows, she floated to the corpse of Lady Hydra, she looked at the corpse, and after a few seconds, she shook her head:

She's not dead.

Um?

Merlin looked at the bloody corpse, he didn't know what this weird woman meant.

Probably seeing Merlin's doubts, the woman explained in a calm tone:

She has a contract with the god of the underworld, Sithorn. I can smell the breath of that supreme phantom. You just destroyed her body, but failed to annihilate her soul. She will be resurrected, but it may take a long time, and She will not die until Sithorn's contract is broken.

Is that so?

Merlin frowned and said:

It's really tricky. What's the background of Sithorne?

You should call him Hades.

The summoned foreign demigod seemed to be very talkative, and she didn't refuse to answer Merlin's question.

She glanced at Merlin, seeming to see through Merlin's heels, and she said:

Your father, the Sangong Demon, rarely calls him by his name in a provocative manner. Sithorne is one of the many ancient gods, one of the first demons born in the many dimensions of hell, In theory, he was one of your father's brothers.

He has many names, Hades, Evil God, God of Black Magic, or the Supreme Shadow, but he has been exiled to other dimensions for hundreds of millions of years. In your known life, it is impossible for you to meet him.

Um

Merlin nodded. After realizing that the demigod of Hades in front of him was not hostile, he put away his angry spear. The moment the spear left his hand, a feeling of weakness came to his heart, as if he was suffering As if he hadn't slept for several days and nights, Merlin's face turned paler.

The explosive power of the Spear of Wrath is really superb, but its side effects are also quite disturbing.

He coughed lightly, looked at the bald woman again, and asked cautiously:

So, who are you? May I know your identity?

I?

The woman shook her head and said:

I'm just an unimportant character, a daughter exiled by my father, you can call me Razan, or Ye Jackal. I have to thank you for killing Sithorn's contractor before the ceremony is completed and let me I won't fall into the hands of these vicious bastards and be controlled by them, which at least allows me to retain the last bit of dignity.

That is to say, you are free?

Merlin looked at the rapidly decaying headless corpse on the ground, and said:

Will you stay in the world?

Freedom? No.

The very talkative demigod of Hades, Ye Jackal Lazan shook her head, she said:

The ceremony has been executed, and I have to complete the contract, but because of the woman's sudden death, the contract was passed on to the book of darkness. It is the book that disappeared just now, and I have to find the next owner of that book , help him or her fulfill a wish, and then I can be truly free.

Dark divine book?

Merlin heard another thing he didn't understand, and he asked:

That sounds like a big deal. Some kind of magic weapon? Or something sacred?

neither.

Razan explained:

That's the medium Sithorn stayed in the material world. He himself can't return to this dimension, so he can only find the contractor in this way. He uses the dark divine book to bestow his power on his followers and ask them to help him complete some weird things. request, to amuse yourself, or lay out one conspiracy after another in the air. But that book has a will of its own, and it won't be held by the same person twice.

You defeated this woman, which means that she no longer has the power to hold the dark book, and she was abandoned by that book.

What's the use of that book?

Merlin says:

Does it contain many spells?

Not just spells.

Razan raised her head and looked at the direction of the sun. She tapped the black ritual battle ax on the ground. The next moment, real shadows quickly gathered under Razan's feet like a rolling tide. It turned into an armored, ferocious and weird black skeleton raptor, carrying Larzen into the air.

The summoned skeletal bird of prey seemed to have a will of its own. Its empty, pale eyes stared at Merlin in front of it, as if it was looking at dinner. The demigod Ye Jackal looked at Merlin condescendingly, and she said:

The Dark God Book can bring any knowledge he wants to everyone who reads it. But no one who holds that book will end well. It is a cursed monster. You should not covet it. It, this is my last advice.

Son of the Sangong, let's see each other next time, think about it carefully, we should never see each other again.

Lazen's indifferent, expressionless face pulled a strange smile, and she said to Merlin:

It's not a good thing to get involved with you sons of the devil.

Then farewell.

After finishing speaking, Ye Jackal manipulated the skeleton raptor under his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed into the sky under the sun, so fast that Merlin didn't even react.

Merlin watched Ye Jackal turn into a small black dot in the sky, he rubbed his chin, thinking about the information Ye Jackal just left.

Professing to be a demigod of Hades, well, Hades makes me think, this should be the hell in the mythology system of ancient Egypt.

She said that she was the daughter exiled by her father. That is to say, the real identity of Razan's father may be Osiris, the king of Hades, one of the nine gods of Egypt? Mother's older sister or younger sister?

Tsk tsk, the background is really big.

Merlin couldn't help but sigh with emotion:

This is the real background.

After finishing speaking, he let go of his left hand, which he had been holding tightly just now. In his hand, there was a piece of paper that was clutched. It was a little yellow and looked a little stained. This is the page that Merlin tore from the escaped book of the dark god.

He couldn't be sure whether Lazan had noticed his little move, but judging from Lazan's warning when he left just now, the demigod of the underworld should have known what Merlin was holding.

But she didn't mean to ask for it at all.

Even the demigods abandon you like walking shoes, it seems that you are indeed an evil thing.

Merlin put the paper on the stone beside him and spread it out in the sunlight. He took out a pen from his pocket and wrote a sentence on the empty page.

Will you eat my soul?

The moment this sentence was written, the black handwriting quickly dissipated, as if it had never appeared.

The next moment, under Merlin's gaze, a line of square characters appeared in front of his eyes.

If Merlin read it correctly, it should be written in the ancient eastern country, which made him a little confused.

According to Lazan, any response in the Dark Book of God will be displayed in the most familiar words or images. That is to say, Merlin himself does not know that what he is most familiar with is not alphabetic English, but square characters?

strangeness

Merlin touched his chin, but he didn't pay much attention to these things, because he could understand the answers on the page.

Language is just an appearance, the meaning conveyed in this book is communicated through will, even a blind person can read and understand.

And facing Merlin's weird question, the answer on this page is:

It depends on your problem

The higher the value, the more you lose, please be cautious.

Now, let's start asking questions.

really!

Merlin narrowed his eyes. Even though this piece of paper was torn from the Dark God Book, it still kept in touch with that book. Perhaps, that book left this page on purpose.

Merlin thought for a while, picked up the pen, and wrote down another question.

How do I destroy Hydra?

This time, the answers emerged from the pages faster and shorter.

It can't be destroyed.

Merlin looked at the answer, frowned, and wrote a second question.

Maybe I'm asking the wrong way, so how can I save S.H.I.E.L.D.?

This time the answer was equally brief.

Hopeless.

Damn it!

Merlin thought that this page was deliberately playing with him, so he simply wrote down the question he wanted to know the most:

How can I escape my fate?

The answer on the page is also three words.

Wait to die.

I should burn you!

Merlin complained, and he planned to close the pages of the book, but at this moment, he accidentally wrote the last question:

Who are those people behind me?

This time, the page hesitated for a full 10 seconds before giving an answer that was not an answer.

Do you really want to know?

This answer made Merlin froze for a moment, he felt a deadly coldness coming from the page with his fingers touching the page, the force could not be drawn out, it seemed to represent some kind of warning.

Merlin could guess that once he was sure that he wanted to know the answer, his soul might be taken away by the god of the underworld Sithorn the moment he saw the answer.

The reason is simple, just like what this book said before.

The higher the value demanded, the higher the required return.

Facing the words that surfaced on the page, Merlin hesitated for a moment, then shook his head:

Forget it, I don't want to know.

Then, a sentence appeared on the page.

Hehe, coward!

Fack!

Merlin swears, he roughly stuffs the piece of paper into his pocket, and makes up his mind not to take it out again.

He looked back at the devastated island. The completely destroyed underground laboratory was still emitting gunpowder smoke. When the dark perception swept across the ruins, Merlin found no signs of life activity.

He shook his head, and in the shining black mist, the light of the Apparatus Curse appeared, and he disappeared on this island that no one paid attention to, just like when he came.

He still has work to do.

It will take a long time for Mrs. Hydra to be revived, which means that the magical power inside Hydra has been weakened. At this time, it is the best time for Merlin to go out to clean up the group of shadow scum.

Although the dark book told him that he would never be able to destroy Hydra, Merlin still planned to give it a try.

Just use the easiest way.

Kill them one by one, if you can get rid of all the people who caused the problem

then the question

Naturally, it no longer exists.