Part 2 The Faceless Men Chapter 183 The Brotherhood of the Net Light
After returning to the real world, Forsyth sat down at his desk and thought out loud for a while about things related to the Abraham family, and gained a whole new understanding of the few occult notes that mentioned only a few words.
So that’s how it is …… No wonder Mrs. Annalisa was reluctant to inform Mr. Lawrence of her husband’s and her own deaths …… When you think about it, the Abrahams family is pretty pathetic and sad… …Forsyth muttered a few words to herself, and, rummaging through a pile of ordinary miscellaneous books, she pulled out the copy of Spiritual Insights and prepared to transcribe the first and second chapters.
To do so, she meditated and adjusted her breathing, making sure to put herself in the best possible state, otherwise, just transcribing the contents of the Spirit World Insights would bring her mania and confusion.
These words obviously have no spirituality, but once they are combined to describe those absurd scenes, it’s as if they have the ability to affect people’s emotions …… Take a five minute break every five minutes of transcribing, I don’t want to lose control of myself because of this …… Forsyth took out her small and delicate pocket watch and placed it in front of the desk diagonally.
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Silver City, Berg’s house.
Derek woke up, the reflection of lightning illuminating everything in his eyes.
He looked around and didn’t feel like he was being watched.
But the “Hanged Man’s” accurate reasoning about the previous events and his calm, confident demeanor convinced Derek that his suspicions were not wrong, and that there must be one or more extraordinary people with special abilities spying on him at this very moment.
”And Mr. ‘Fool’ didn’t deny ……” Derek rolled over onto his back and moved his body out of habit.
During this process, some of the “Inverted Hanged Man’s” analysis and suggestions quickly surfaced within his mind:
”The fact that no one has sought you out and put you in the dungeon so far suggests that your ‘Chief’ and the rest of the elders of the ‘Council of Six’ are more inclined to observe in the hope of finding a way to make the entire Silver City a better place to live from Amon, the first living person they’ve encountered in more than 2,000 years. to find a way to get the entire Silver City out of the Forsaken Lands.
”So, on the premise that you haven’t done anything too out of the ordinary, they certainly won’t alert you hastily, lest Amon discover something unusual.
”In this way, their surveillance is bound to not get too close, at least not while you’re awake.
”Because of this, the odds are that they didn’t realize that you had coughed up that ‘worm of time’, and their subsequent reaction indirectly proves this.
”Similarly, they should have only been able to observe what ritual you were performing, but not be able to figure out who you were praying to, and in my place, I would have suspected that it had something to do with Amon.
”For the above reasons, you can complete the ritual of requesting the bestowal openly and honestly, and put it all on Amon afterwards, but of course, you must pretend to be discreet enough and careful enough, and be ready for the examination of different sequences of Extraordinary Ones, such as ‘psychoanalysts’, when it’s all over; in this case, you may pray for the help of Mr. ‘Fool’ ……”
Following the advice of the Inverted Man, Derek walked around the table twice before carefully closing the window, lighting the candles, and setting up the ritual of asking for favors.
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Above the gray mist, inside the lofty and ancient palace.
Klein was idly eyeing the stone pillars supporting the dome, thinking that this building based on his own intention was rather like an Athenian temple.
Is this because of my own subconscious? He wondered as his thoughts wandered.
At that moment, the crimson star corresponding to the “sun” shone brightly, quickly rippling out and forming an illusory and mysterious door, while a small amount of power was pried from the entire gray fog, flowing like water.
Hearing the cascading prayers, Klein lowered his head and looked at the “all-black eye” in front of him.
”I hope the little ‘sun’ will not lose it, otherwise Mr. ‘world’ will have to follow the heroic sacrifice …… ”
–Because of the “Eye of Total Darkness”, Klein, who is not a “Master of Secret Puppets”, can secretly manipulate the dummy “World” to make him act like a “World”. It is because of the Eye of Darkness that Kraven, who is not the Master of the Secret Puppets, can secretly manipulate the dummy “World” and make him appear flesh and blood.
Once he lost this item, he could only let the “world” die to avoid the “magic” being ruined.
In the midst of emotion, Klein spread his spirituality and drove the flow of gray mist power to the illusory door, pushing open a gap and stabilizing the transmission channel.
Immediately afterward, he put the “Eye of Total Blackness” into an iron box and threw it into the gap of the mysterious door, as if casually saying:
”Don’t touch the items inside directly.”
After this, he did not stay too long, because he knew that the little “sun” did not find the opportunity to act so quickly, because he did not know when the “magician” lady could finish transcribing two chapters of the “Spirit World Insight”.
Spiritual stretching, Klein’s figure suddenly disappeared into the gray fog.
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Silver City, Berg’s house.
Derek had just seen an additional iron black box on the altar when he heard the familiar voice of Mr. Fool:
”Do not touch the contents directly.”
Don’t touch the contents directly …… Derek took this reminder down honestly and decided to carry it out without a second thought.
After thanking the “Fool” and Mr. “World” and finishing the ritual of requesting a gift, he opened the metal box with great care and examined the contents.
It was an all-black eye with no pupil, and the mere sight of it gave Derek a feeling of mental confusion, slowed down his thinking, and a faint, not quite real, murmur of insanity appeared in his ears.
Shivering violently, Derek closed the lid of the box, picked up the sterling silver dagger, and closed the box completely by creating a “spiritual wall”.
Then, he put the box into the hidden pocket on the inside of his clothes, put on his “Hurricane Axe”, and went out, heading straight to the training ground.
The Exploration Team members had not yet been released from their quarantine.
However, Derek did not want to act today, he followed the teachings of Mr. “Hanging Man”, intending to first observe the specific situation, and then patiently wait for the opportunity, of course, if encountered a great opportunity, but also must be decisive.
Entering the training ground, Derek circled around the area where the exploration team was located, and saw that they were gathering together in twos and threes, exchanging something in whispers, but once they found that someone was watching them, they would immediately stop and stand there in silence, sometimes taking a few steps, as if they had just crawled out of the depths of the darkness of the living corpse.
If I lift the “wall of spirituality” now, and let the feeling of Mr. World’s object spread outward, how would they react? Turning their heads and looking at me at the same time? Derek imagined all of them turning their heads in unison, looking at him with indifference, and felt an inexplicable fear.
He took a breath and told himself to be patient, to wait, not to panic.
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Silver City, the top of the round tower, belonging to the “chief” of the room.
Colin “Demon Hunter” Iliad’s eyes snapped open as he rested his head and looked into the corner of the wall where the shadows were deep.
A silhouette twisted and stood up from there, shaking slightly, and said in a voice that sounded like metal rubbing against metal:
”Your ‘Chief’ Excellency, Derek Berg has performed another ritual, from what I can see it would be a request for a bestowal, much like the sacrifices we usually do, but with the difference that he was answered and given an iron black square box.
”What exactly is inside, I cannot see, but it gives off a very evil and dangerous feeling.”
Speaking, the shadow pleaded eagerly:
”Your ‘Chief’ Excellency, this is definitely directed by that mysterious person, we must take action now, we can’t let it go any longer! Otherwise, sooner or later, Derek Berg will summon an evil god or a similar existence and destroy the entire Silver City!”
Colin’s expression became unusually grave as he stood up and paced slowly:
”Wait a while longer.
”Until now, we have been unable to figure out the purpose of that mysterious person who calls himself Amon, not understanding the purpose of him discovering Silver City but only sending a doppelganger over to patiently stay in an underground prison for forty-two years.
”If it was simply to destroy us, he would not have made these incomprehensible moves.
”Wait a little longer, this may harbor our hope, the hope of surviving when the apocalyptic disaster comes!”
As soon as he spoke, a bolt of lightning streaked through the window, illuminating the entire darkened sky and lighting up the gloomy room.
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Towards evening, Klein waited for Ms. Magician’s prayer, and obtained the first two chapters of “Spirit World Insights” through the sacrificial ceremony.
As he sat down in the seat of the “Fool” and leisurely turned over the notes he had copied and read them line by line, he realized to his dismay that he was gradually becoming a little manic.
What is this? Those words obviously have no spirit, the paper is even more ordinary, it can not be a seal, how can it affect my mental state? Moreover, I am on top of a gray fog, a gray fog that can even isolate the influence of a true god …… Klein frowned and leaned back, carefully recalling the contents of the Book of Secrets that were related to a similar phenomenon.
It didn’t take long for him to roughly understand the cause:
When describing certain existences specifically, even if it was only purely textual in nature, it would affect the thoughts and spirit of the person reading it!
Among them, the most terrifying were the accounts related to true gods.
A book that explained a certain deity in detail would cause every reader to become insane or have their three views distorted, and it was a probable event that the extraordinary would directly lose control!
And the notebook “Spirit World Insights” originated from a certain ancestor of the Abraham family, who recorded all sorts of strange stories and anecdotes he encountered during his own travels to the Spirit World.
In the first chapter, he describes the light in the spirit world, believing that the seven pure rays of different colors contain infinite knowledge of different fields, and that travelers can see them covering the heights no matter where they are in the spirit world.
And what is even more surprising is that these seven magical rays are alive! They are as alive as the various spiritual beings that hover over the place!
In the field of occultism, many secret rituals are actually directed to the seven pure lights, and through secret contact with them, certain knowledge is gained, so many occultists call the seven pure lights “masters” or “teachers”.
In response, the seven Pure Lights seemed to be very happy, and they even brought together a number of spiritual beings to form a secret organization specializing in teaching people knowledge, the “Brotherhood of the Pure Lights”!
In the second chapter, the traveler of the Abrahamic family records his encounter with the “yellow light” Venetian.