Part 2 Faceless Man Chapter 253 – Tail Swallower
Bang!
Derek’s axe, entwined with channels of silver awnings, struck the river on the mural, splitting the wall and causing it to dent and send stone chips flying.
With his strike, the river that had its head and tail completely disconnected from it.
Just as he was expecting the cycle to be broken and all members of the exploration team to jump out of the temple scene, Colin the Demon Hunter’s figure flashed and came to him, saying with a sullen face:
”What are you doing?”
The demigod’s sword tip was still hanging downward, but the hand gripping the handle was significantly harder than it had been a moment ago.
Derek thought back to the words that had crystallized the wisdom of the members of the Tarot Council, and spoke with half “confusion” and half “fear”:
”There was a dark figure that flashed through here, Your Excellency, literally! It looked like the figure of a child!”
Colin Iliad asked another member of the team without taking his eyes off of him:
”Heinem, did you see it?”
The member of the exploration squad called Heinom subconsciously leaned in the direction of the Chief and shook his head firmly:
”No, I didn’t see anything.”
Colin’s light blue eyes suddenly had a shimmering light swirling through them, highlighting two dark green complex symbols.
He gazed at Derek in that silence for four or five seconds.
Finally, he withdrew his gaze and said without anomaly:
”This is your first exploratory mission, and it’s not unusual for you to hallucinate due to nervousness.
”Next, you follow at my side, I think you’ll be calmer that way.”
”Yes, Your Chief Excellency.” Derek agreed without hesitation.
After his earlier attempts, he initially confirmed that the mural was not connected to the key point.
The “Redemption Rose” hinted by Mr. “Fool” should have a deeper meaning, it’s not that simple. …… Derek held the “Hurricane Axe” and walked in silence. Derek held the “Hurricane Axe” and walked beside Chief Colin in silence.
After that, things are not very different from his memory of several exploratory actions, the crowd repeated the past, the sixth time to reach the final hall arranged with the altar, and found the yellow-haired boy huddled in the shadows of the Jack.
Upon hearing the words “help me …… help me ……” and seeing the obvious figure of a child, “Demon Hunter” Colin nodded his head imperceptibly, withdrawing most of the attention he had been betting on Derek Berg.
Just as he was weighing his words and preparing to speak, Derek asked suddenly:
”What should I do to save you?”
The little boy, Jack, wore an excited expression:
”Save me, save me, send me home! Take me home!”
”Where is your home?” Derek asked, curious and scared.
Seeing this, Colin closed his mouth and tightened his grip.
The young boy, Jack, weakly raised his hand and said:
”My house, my house is in Enmat Harbor!”
Port of Enmart …… Although Mr. “Inverted Man” didn’t mention it, judging from the word port, Jack really doesn’t belong to us here, and he most likely came from the outside world, from the Kingdom of Rune, where Miss Justice and the others are from! Ms. Rune’s kingdom! Derek was overjoyed and excited.
His reaction did not arouse the suspicion of “Demon Hunter” Colin, because this powerful chief of the “Council of Six” had also never seen the sea, and could only know about this body of water, which was many times bigger than lakes, from some preserved books, and the name “harbor”. The term “harbor”.
The strange boy’s mouth spat out the “port of Enmatsu” as if in front of Colin opened a picture of a new world, which made the bitter search for the future of Silver City instantly forget about other things, and blurted out:
”How did you, or you guys, get here?”
The young boy, Jack, wore an expression of remembrance:
”My father and I traveled first by boat, then met up with his companions and continued on by boat, and after a very, very big storm, the rest of us boarded land and traveled in the direction that the Lord’s gaze had seen us, and kept on going until we came here.”
Traveled in the direction of the Lord’s gaze? “Demon Hunter” Colin and Derek and the others simultaneously looked to the idol on the altar to discern where he was gazing.
Soon enough, Colin determined the general message.
They traveled in the direction of the idol’s gaze and came here, which means that by reversing this process, we will be able to find the seashore and the place where they landed. …… In the opposite direction of this line of sight is the area around the city of Silver City, which has been gradually perfected through continuous exploration. The map appeared in the mind of Colin “Demon Hunter”, allowing him to draw a preliminary picture of the strange boy’s “journey” route.
If there were no other temples in the center, no corresponding statues, and it went on and on, it would, it would pass through the ruins of the “Court of the Giants”! Colin’s pupils suddenly contracted.
That was the palace of the deity that once housed the ancient god “Giant King” Ormil, not far from Silver City!
The descendants of the Silver Kingdom, who had long been ruled by the Giant Clan, knew exactly where its ruins were located, but had never been able to complete their exploration because it was extremely dangerous, more so than pure darkness without light!
According to Colin’s backtracking, the strange boy and his party had traveled through the ruins of the “Court of Giants” to reach this place.
”How did they get here? Maybe they didn’t go in a purely straight line and bypassed the ‘Giant’s Court’ …… In any case, the back of the ‘Giant’s Court’ has a path to the sea, and the other end of the sea probably has the kingdom of mankind …… probably has a human kingdom …… Could that be the hope of Silver City?” Colin could hardly contain his thoughts.
At that moment, Derek acutely noticed that the clothing between the young boy Jack’s chest and stomach was tinged with a dark red color, and there seemed to be a liquid slowly oozing out.
”Are you hurt?” He asked cautiously.
Jack hung his head and answered in a fluttering tone:
”Grew something unattractive ……”
As he spoke, he pulled back his clothing, revealing his bare chest and stomach.
There, set in place, were two eyes, a nose, and a mouth!
It wasn’t painted on or jeweled together, it consisted purely of real eyes, a real nose, and a real mouth, and didn’t look like a group of each other, as if they belonged to three separate people.
In a flash, Derek conjured up an image of the little boy Jack eating his companions and using their remaining eyes, noses and mouths to form a grotesque human face between his chest and stomach.
The face was gentle and indifferent, making Derek feel inexplicably familiar.
It only took a second or two of work for Derek to figure out the reason for the familiarity:
This human face resembled the angel within the mural above, the silver-haired angel with the feet of the circulating river!
Sure enough, the reason we keep repeating the quest stems from k! Derek’s heart fluttered, and he pronounced a word off the top of his head, as if he were about to give an incantation to relieve his predicament.
”Redemption Rose!” He shouted solemnly.
The little boy, Jack, raised his head and stared at him in bewilderment, his mouth grinning a little, to the position of his ears:
”I’m so hungry ……
”So hungry ……”
…… Derek froze for a moment, seeing the intensity of the battle.
When he came to his senses again, he sat back down at the campfire.
”Redemption Rose” was not a spell …… He reviewed it profoundly.
The seventh quest began soon after, and Derek, who had already made the attempt, stopped behaving erratically, only to fight for the chance to examine the “Redemption Rose” mural.
As usual, the team entered the underground hall with its altar and idol, and found the apparently bizarre little boy Jack.
After a similar conversation, Derek once again saw the face that had been pieced together from other people’s features.
Without making any irritating moves, he lowered his voice and said to Colin “the Demon Hunter”:
”Your Excellency, the face on his chest resembles the angel in the fresco above, the one with silver hair and the river flowing under his feet, well, the fresco in the corner that says ‘The Redeeming Rose’.”
”Demon Hunter” Colin started, then frowned.
He watched, calming the young boy, Jack, while surveying Derek out of the corner of his eye.
After a few seconds of silence, he whispered:
”Because you’re the one who mentioned it, and it gave me some associations.”
Not waiting for Derek to ask, he moved on to his own words:
”We studied that mural for a long time, and simply thought that it depicted a leading angel and a group of ascetics on pilgrimage, and that the name of their group might have been ‘The Redemption Rosary.
”That river with its head and tail indicates a cycle, and our interpretation was that the pilgrimage was happening over and over again.
”And now it seems that it may identify that angel.
”That’s what you made me think, because Amon was once hidden inside you.”
”Why?” Derek was bewildered for a moment.
”Demon hunter,” Colin said as he gazed at the young boy, Jack:
”The little worm that Amon left behind possesses the symbolism of time, and circulating rivers are often associated with destiny, and the two together brought back memories of a handful of canonical references that I don’t know to be true or false.
”‘The Lord who created all things, the all-knowing God’ gazes upon the world with k surrounded by a multitude of angels, of whom the chief of all angels, the King of Angels, who is closest to the throne of God, is eight in number, and the k’s names have either been lost in the long history of the world, or still have a certain amount of records, either brief or detailed.
”Rumor has it that there are even heirs of the gods among these eight kings of angels.
”Among them, two of the angelic kings were titled ‘Angel of Time’ and ‘Angel of Destiny’.”
Derek asked with a moment of clarity and confirmation:
”You think Amon is the ‘Angel of Time’ and the one on that mural is the ‘Angel of Destiny’?”
”Can’t be sure for now, only one title of ‘Angel of Time’ has been passed down, while ‘Angel of Fate’ is recorded in relative detail …… “”Demon Hunter” Colin suddenly inhaled.
Immediately afterward, he said in a deep voice:
”Angel of Fate, ‘Tail Swallower’ Urolius.”
……
In the evening, inside the underground building of the Audra family.
Emlyn White looked at the iron-black casket and said to the ancient Bloodborn lying inside:
”Lord Nibais, I accept the mission of the Patriarch!”
Nibais responded in a pale voice:
”Very well.
”When do you wish to begin? What wish do you have that you haven’t fulfilled?”
”……” Hearing Lord Nebais ask about heart’s desires, Emlyn White’s little legs went weak and he almost regretted it.
He stiffened his neck and said:
”No need!
”It can begin now.”