Part 5 The Red Priests Chapter 159 The Key Diary
Above the gray mist without a single waver, Klein sat quietly at the top of the long mottled table, as if a stone statue that had existed here for hundreds or thousands of years.
He felt a sense of horror at what he had just discovered, and felt a coolness rush out from the back of his head, spreading throughout his body and bringing a not-so-subtle, but real shiver down his spine.
It was as if he had watched a familiar friend become a stranger in a very short time, behaving in an unusual manner, as if he had been impersonated.
There was, of course, a clearer and more visual analogy in this regard, and that was Leonard Mitchell suddenly pulling out a monocle and putting it on when he came to visit Klein at his door to discuss the matter of Palles Zoroaster.
Could it be that the Archon was unknowingly impregnated after his ascension to the Red Moon, without being aware of it himself, and usually behaving in an uncharacteristic manner, with certain, unobtrusive signs surfacing only when he remembers his past through his diary, dissects his heart, and converses with himself? Or was it Adam’s hypnosis? But at this time, Russell is at least Sequence 1 ah …… Klein could not help but look down at himself, assuming that there is another person in his body that he does not know, completely unknown, it is not clear whether it can be called a “human being”.
This is really a kind of extreme horror …… Klein slowly inhaled, forcing himself to focus back on those diaries of Rossel the Great.
Soon, he found something else worth reading:
”July 28th, attended another gathering of that ancient hidden organization.
”From the idle chatter of the members, I perceived a problem:
”Was it because I had been promoted so quickly that my experience was comparatively meager, that there were so many things I had never heard of?
”Like the contamination originating from the stars and the earth that they mentioned, I only learned of their existence for the first time today!
”Oh, I also wonder how many of them are K. Except for a very few members, the vast majority of them don’t like to let others know the level they are currently at ah.
”Taking the opportunity of the others’ exchange, I asked in a low voice about old Mr. Hermes next to me, hoping to learn more about the contamination of the stars and the earth.
”Hermes told me that it was not knowledge I could access at my current level, and that just knowing about it would in itself subject me to contamination!
”How can it be so terrible? What could it be? I was even more curious.
”That old gentleman later told me that the contamination originating from the earth could be left alone, as it would naturally subside with the passage of time, and that in the long past, during the era when the ancient gods were active, powerful beings tried to solve the problem once and for all, only to end up making things even more troublesome and causing great damage, and that later on, they gave up on their intention of exerting a direct influence, and replaced it with a sealing and guarding.
”From that point on, although there were still occasional mishaps, the overall situation became smoother, and to this day, even without seals and unguarded, as long as no one gets close enough to try to go deeper, there’s no more contamination going on.
”This is a situation that really surprised me a bit, and it doesn’t look like it will take a protagonist of my time to solve this problem.
”Old Mr. Hermes mentioned the starry sky again, saying that the situation there is more complicated, more interesting, and more dangerous than I had imagined. k said that even the angels of Sequence 2 Sequence 1 don’t actually have enough knowledge about the starry sky, only a general understanding of a certain amount of it, and aren’t aware of the fact that there’s a lot of many other things there in addition to the dangers, and that if it wasn’t for the fact that k had once known a person who was good at roaming the starry sky existence and knew quite a few things from the other party, he wouldn’t have been able to say the words he is saying now.
”I was curious but didn’t expect much and asked who that being who excelled at roaming the stars was.
”Old Mr. Hermes made no secret of the fact that it was Mr. Bertram Abraham, the ‘Gate’.
”Mr. ‘Gate’ …… I pretended not to know anything about it, and asked in a very casual tone about this one’s bitterness.
”Hermes did not answer positively, only said that in the fourth era, even angels, demigods are also privately called by their first names, can make everyone accustomed to the use of titles, in addition to the gods of the night, the storm, the earth and other deities, only a few such as Mr. ‘Door’.
”That’s so …… Mr. ‘Gate’ really doesn’t have a low status.”
Pollution originating from the ground would naturally subside with the passage of time? “The Magic Mirror” Aroldus said that the gray fog gave it a feeling much like things underground …… It wants me to return to the throne before exploring the underground, while Luca Brewster affirmed that the higher the sequence, the greater the danger posed by things underground …… Klein tapped his fingers up on the edge of the long, mottled table, growing more and more confused about what exactly was going on underground.
Fortunately, Hermes’ description, the state of the abandoned castle and the attitude of the “Goddess of the Night” all seemed to indicate that the contamination originating from the underground would indeed naturally subside, and that not caring about it was the best way to deal with it.
Whew, let’s put aside our worries about the underground for the time being. ……Hermes’ words and the bronze gate in the depths of the “Miracle City” Levihide are a kind of confirmation of each other. Weed really tried to solve the problem of the underground, but only left behind the fear and shadow …… At present, it seems that the greatest possibility of the end of the world is from the stars, and my current sequence is not even qualified to understand …… In the midst of the thoughts, Klein continued to turn over the diary in his hand with a bit of sadness. The diary.
After reading several pages in a row, his eyes suddenly lit up and locked onto one of the entries:
”December 31st, the end of the year, this is the most suitable day to make decisions and start a new story.
”I’ve already figured out where eight secret tombs should be built, only the last one is still missing.
”It would have to be even more hidden than the previous eight or the point would be lost.
”One place that came to mind after a long period of thought was the unnamed island where the Grimm are buried.
”Of course, the Abyss is also an option, it’s just that I can’t find a single living demon in the area I currently have access to, and there’s no way to domesticate them and make them my populace to help me build my mausoleums, and ordinary humans simply can’t survive there, and even powerful Extraordinaires would have a hard time fighting off the erosion that’s embedded in the Abyss itself.
”Regardless, the living environment of that nameless island seems to be good for now.
”Heh, the ‘Order-Slaying Princes’ of the Fourth Age really have too narrow an understanding of the populace; it is never just humans and humanoids that the ‘Emperor’ rules over; all living beings should be my subjects!
”And that nameless island is full of extraordinary creatures of little intelligence who have long believed in me and followed me, and whom I could well drive to build secret tombs.
”As I write this, I suddenly recall the experience when, because of my dream of Grimm, I returned to the nameless island with Edwards, Benjamin, and the others, and found the extraordinary creatures living in harmony, gathered together, performing rituals, and the dead Grimm among them.
”I was truly startled and felt a fear I hadn’t felt in a long time, it all seemed extremely bizarre.
”On that occasion, William died, Perry died, only Edwards and Benjamin survived, and all would have been buried if I hadn’t become strong enough to reign in the ‘0’ seal.
”The power affecting those extraordinary creatures on that nameless island turned out to come from the stars, and those who died from that contamination will return to the source after death.
”Fortunately, and fortunately, forces originating from the stars can only project a very small portion into the real world, and I eventually solved the problem by making that nameless island my secret base.
”Now, it’s time for it to work!”
After reading this diary entry, Klein did not rejoice at his guess as to where the last tomb of Rossel the Great was, but instead frowned slightly.
On the one hand, it was because the pollution from the starry sky had truly appeared in front of him, on the other hand, it was because that nameless island was not so secret, besides the Emperor, there were also two survivors who knew about it, Edwards and Benjamin, and it didn’t meet Rossel’s requirements.
Is it that before that, Edwards and Benjamin have already died normally and won’t reveal the secret, or is it that Rossel intends to let these two subordinates stay on the island forever after the successful construction of the mausoleum and solve the problem of the psychic? Of course, if Russell has the appropriate sealing object or extraordinary ability, he can also make Edwards and Benjamin completely lose that memory …… Klein was silent for a moment and flipped through the diary once again, searching for the coordinates of that nameless island.
However, he didn’t see the corresponding content even when he read to the last page, but there was a diary entry that vaguely illustrated some of Russell’s thoughts at the end of the year:
”December 27, I have been fidgeting a lot lately because I am completely unsure of what is coming next,” he said.
”I no longer desire help; I am satisfied if they maintain neutrality.
”I have put myself into a most dangerous situation, both by an act of initiative and a choice that I had no choice in making.
”There are times when I am confused as to why I have stepped into the situation I am in.
”Am I too paranoid, or is this the only way it can be?
”No, at this point in time, there can’t be any more confusion, it doesn’t make any sense except to affect my mindset and make the already small hope even smaller.
”Already come here, then we can only go on, success is naturally sunny.
”Oh, all my hopes are placed on one sentence:
”Put death before life!”
So it seems that the Great One really chose to die and then come back to life in order to get rid of the madness and pollution …… It’s crazy, like playing a game of Russian Roulette with six bullets jammed in and hoping for a dud… …Not being a man of extremes and whims, it was impossible to consider the feasibility of this…Perhaps it was because his enemies could not guess that the Emperor had a chance of survival…Crane leaned back in his chair and sat in silence in his ancient palace. sat in silence within the ancient palace for some time.
Only when his scattered thoughts slowly gathered back did he consider how to find the nameless island:
”I remember that the Benjamin who has been to the nameless island seems to be a member of the Abraham family, which can be inquired about through Ms. ‘Magician’ …… Well, the next step is to meet with her, so there’s no need to specially let the ‘The Fool’ convey ……
”The descendants of Edwards, William, Perry and the others let the ‘Queen of Mysteries’ ask, this is more appropriate ……”
With a definite idea in mind, Klein looked around the room, sighed, and disappeared above the gray mist.