Volume 7: The Hanged Man Chapter 22: Crucial Information
Although Biles had witnessed Phil’s severed hand, Weber’s hanging, and Mr. Wizard’s insect gathering into a palm, and had a certain degree of knowledge of the frightening changes brought about by “0-02”, but after all, the level was not enough to see, and the hidden horror behind these things was not very clearly grasped. Very clear grasp, more as a ghost story into reality to understand.
Therefore, at this moment, he was afraid, but under the watchful eyes of the magical “wizard” and the angel on the ground, he still summoned up the courage to quickly approach the rectangular table, which, of course, was also influenced by the “sailor” path itself.
Within two or three steps, Biles had reached a place where he could touch the brass book.
He did not bother to think, directly out of the right palm, grabbed the brass pages in front of the “0-02”, and quickly flipped.
In this process, Biles’ back of the hand has been resting on the unfilled brass pages, to prevent it from being blocked, so that he and Mr. Wizard, Ms. Angel can observe the changes in time, and respond in advance.
With a clattering sound, the “sailor” saw the clause that “touching the ‘Trenchhurst Brass Book’ would be punishable by death”, and his heart first felt a moment of horror, and then a strong doubt, wondering about his current state of affairs. Doubt, doubt about his current state.
However, this did not affect his movement of turning the pages forward, while different pages of the Brass Book were successively reflected within Klein’s eyes, each page containing a different provision of the rules.
The projections of these brass book pages did not appear in the form of one disappearing and one replacing the other, but rather existed side by side, gradually increasing.
At the end of the day, each of Klein’s two eyes had a different number of images of brass pages, which were neatly arranged, row after row, as if “0-02” had been split into individual pages and placed on a glass table to bask in the sun.
This is the “dream divination” technique of the angelic plane, and Klein replayed the things he had just seen one by one before his eyes.
As time passed, the brass pages began to rotate within his dark brown eyes, highlighting one of them:
”…… ‘The Brass Book of Trenthorst’ originated from the ‘Inquisitor’ tainted by the ‘Land of Disorder’ ‘ ‘Uniqueness’ ……”
As I expected, since the “Tromsøst Brass Book” presents all the underlying rules, the corresponding content must contain a description of itself! This is the nature of its decision, unless it is fully awakened or activated, with sufficient wisdom to know selectively do hide …… Klein’s heart just flashed joyful thoughts, saw the previous brass pages have not been filled, new mercury words began to emerge.
This means that “0-02” has finally separated some of its power from the dead cycle, and is ready to add articles, make explanations, and fix the loopholes.
”Leave!” Without hesitation, Klein opened his mouth and shouted.
Strictly obeying the orders of the Higher Power, Byers immediately withdrew his right hand, turned his body, and ran wildly towards the landing window.
”Make a show of attacking me.” Seeing that the dual-attribute “sailor” had already left the municipal library, Klein suddenly added another sentence.
Biles’ heart was filled with confusion, but he still raised his right arm, pulled back his shoulder, and assumed a posture that he was about to swing his fist at Klein.
At this time, the new article finally took shape:
”For the above rules, the ‘Trenthorst Brass Book’ and the group of people it allows have immunity when enforcing the law ……”
However, even though this article has been successfully enacted, Byers has not been penalized in any way.
Apparently, the “Trenthorst Brass Book” does not prosecute problems that arise when there is a dead end or a lack of clarity, just as it did not add any additional charges to “Magic Mirror” Aroldus when it patched the loopholes in the rules earlier.
For the same reason, Biles, who actually touched “0-02”, did not suffer from source material contamination – before the supplement, Biles was part of Beltane, and could not be destroyed in any sense, so he would not be contaminated, and with the supplement, his previous behavior would not be “tainted” by the supplement. Before the Supplemental Clause, Byers was part of Beldan and could not be destroyed in any sense, so he could not be contaminated, and with the Supplemental Clause, he could not be “held accountable” for his previous behavior.
In fact, after Biles left the city library, he violated the curfew again, but Klein had sensed a problem before, that is, the citizens of Beldan are not restricted by the curfew when pursuing outsiders, so he had Biles pose as an attacker, avoiding his own attack. So, he made Biles attack himself and avoided the corresponding punishment.
Immediately afterward, he seized the opportunity of “0-02” to repair this loophole, and quickly recalled the detailed information of the “Book of Trenthorst Brass”:
”…… This book has the characteristic of being alive, but most of the time it is at a very low level. ……
”…… The first half of the book presents almost all of the big ground rules, while the second half is blank and needs to be written on its own. ……
”…… Once unrestricted, it will naturally create biased laws for the surrounding area and strictly enforce them, a process that it will always modify and revise based on the problems that come back to it.
”…… As the laws become progressively tighter, the character of k alive will deepen …… By the time a strict law that interferes with all aspects takes shape, the ‘Trenthorst Brass Book ‘ will be completely alive, possessing true intelligence and the ability to modify the underlying rules of the first half of the Torah to a certain extent …… The exact extent that can be achieved is as follows ……
”…… If there is a contradiction between the articles of the law that cannot be corrected, or if the pages of the book have been completely filled but have not yet formed a sufficiently tight system of rules, the ‘Tron Solstice Book of Brass’ will add a new rule at the junction of the first and second half of the book, after one hour. Where the first half and the second half meet, a new clause will be added that says ‘The following rules are invalid’.
”As this clause takes shape, those rules written at the back will fade away, leaving the pages blank again ……
”After the second half of …… is completely blank, the ‘the following rules are invalid’ clause will be erased, and the ‘Trenthorst Brass Book’ will repeat its previous behavior until a strict law that interferes with all aspects takes shape ……
”…… The rules it lays down must be publicized or communicated in order to have effect …… When an act is not clearly spelled out in text, whether it is illegal or not follows the general perception of the surrounding beings… …
”…… The ‘Trenthorst Brass Book’ abhors twisted, unattractive rules and hates being looked for loopholes …… ”
What a detailed description …… There should be a way to seal “0-02” implied in this …… Klein’s thoughts raced electrically, trying to find information that could be utilized from each paragraph.
Just at this time, Arianna, the leader of the Black Night Church ascetics, spoke in a low voice:
”Find a way to make the pages behind ‘0-02’ fill up with provisions but not tight enough.”
Right! In this way, the “Brass Book of Trenthorst” will declare the following rules invalid, and start over again, and then its restrictions on the surrounding area will disappear for a short time, giving us the opportunity to touch it, take it away, or pray to the gods directly …… But how to do this thing? thing? “The Tromso Book of Brass detests twisted, unattractive rules, and hates to be looked for loopholes …… Klein’s mind moved, and he already had an inspiration.
He did not hesitate, and immediately stretched his hands forward, as if embracing the air.
In the next second, inside the Beldan Municipal Library, which had shrunk in floor area to one tenth of its original size, a hall paved with deep black stone slabs and chopped patterns everywhere descended into reality.
Eight black stone pillars towered over this hall, and metal round rods after metal round rods dangled from the high dome – their bottoms were each connected to candlesticks carved into different creatures, 41 left and 40 right.
This is Klein once saw the Tudor-Trenthorst United Empire’s ruling hall, at that time, the double consuls are still the “Black Emperor” path of the Sequence 1 “regicide Prince”, so this place is filled with twisted, out of the normal situation, no any The rules are not aesthetically pleasing.
In addition, when Klein summoned this historical scene, he also used the ability of the domain to add many details of the Fourth Age that he had mastered, making the order originating from the “Black Emperor” more and more detailed and complete, as if it were a substance.
Snapped!
Both of his hands broke at the same time, and fell to the ground, and at the wound, blood spurted out, just like an ordinary person.
This was the second time Klein had committed fraud!
After the two palms and the spurting blood fell to the ground, they quickly disintegrated, turning into one transparent and twisted worm after another, and a slightly viscous and nearly invisible liquid.
As these “Spirit Worms” convulsed and died, Klein twisted his expression in agony while letting numerous worms crawl out of the severed area and coalesce into a new palm.
At the same time, he tried to maintain the scene that he had built up through many summons, not letting it dissipate.
On the rectangular table, a multitude of new articles appeared in response to the brass pages bound into the interior of the tome:
”…… All buildings and layouts are to follow the golden ratio, symmetrical beauty ……”
”…… No strange costumes are allowed ……”
”…… The death penalty is mandatory for the following offenses ……”
”……”
The “Brass Book of Trenthorst” flipped and flopped, making one amendment after another at intervals to the orders originating from the “Black Emperor”, and the more the new articles appeared, the faster they appeared, and there was no longer even a pause of tens of seconds or tens of seconds.
Inside the hall, the candlesticks hanging down from the ceiling broke and disappeared one after another, and then the rest of the place had all kinds of changes, which made the details that could reflect the original order to be wiped out one by one.
In the end, the hall finally became untenable and directly collapsed, returning to the hole in history.
At this time, the “Brass Book of Trenthurst” had already turned to the last two pages by itself, and was spread out there, no longer making any movement.
Seeing that the last page was also filled with provisions, and could not form a tight system with the rules formulated by “0-02” before, Klein exhaled silently, relaxed a little, and then felt that his spirituality was almost exhausted.
”Let’s go to the Byers’ house and wait for an hour.” He turned back to Arianna.
If they stayed where they were, they would be punished more and more severely for repeatedly violating the “curfew” until they were sentenced to death.
As for the task of monitoring the “Trenthorst Brass Book” to ensure that there were no accidents, of course, it was given to Aroldus, although this magic mirror can not directly look at the “0-02”, but it can pay attention to the bulletin board, judging from the disappearance of the order on it, the progress of the matter.