Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 434 Two Passers-by

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"This is the place where the gods fought each other, the remnants of the 'Great Cataclysm'."

Just as Klein was scanning the surrounding illusion, Hermes suddenly spoke up: "Back then, the gods who participated in the war chose the sea as the battlefield, but as soon as they reached the edge of the continent, the situation began to deteriorate rapidly. In the end, the gods had no choice but to fight on the coast of the Eastern Continent."

"In the end, the aftermath of the disaster destroyed the entire East Continent, but fortunately, the South Continent and the North Continent did not suffer too much damage."

Hermes sighed and whispered:

"It's obviously not a good thing, but it's not the worst thing either."

Not the worst...

Klein was silent. He remembered that his original self was also a student who was very interested in the history of the Fourth Epoch. However, the history of that time had been packaged and changed too much by later generations. After the relevant buildings were discovered, what awaited them was not archaeology and excavation, but destruction and burial.

However, the Aurora Society still preserves a considerable amount of history, artifacts, books, and sealed objects from the Fourth Epoch. After all, the True Creator was the only true god at that time. Klein had obtained a fairly high level of authority, so he could naturally borrow almost all the information and books to help him play the role of an ancient scholar. Therefore, he knew that in the extraordinary world, that era was too brilliant and dazzling, and it was simply shocking.

"I know what the East Continent is like. It's dark, dangerous, and terrifying. It's not a place where humans should live at all."

Hermes walked in front with his back straight, not looking like an old man.

"The Holy Word Angel who walks there on behalf of the true Creator is my junior, but his spirit has fallen into madness since the Fourth Era. He believes that the suffering of the people in the God-Forsaken Land is atonement for their sins, because the Creator cannot make mistakes, and the destruction of the East Continent must be because the people of the East Continent did something wrong first. I think he has a problem with his brain. After all, compared to 'the Lord is not perfect', 'I am guilty' is easier to accept."

"Oh, what crime have they committed? He himself has not committed any crime either. The law should prohibit fanatics from spreading such negative and erroneous ideas."

Klein coughed to hide the upward curve of his mouth.

Hermes sneered:
"Later, Adam said that He had the ability to resurrect the sun god and seemed more reliable than the real Creator, so I helped Him."

"Later, the True Creator returned to normal and recruited me again. At that time, Adam was in trouble, and I saw that He did not retaliate against the followers of the Eternal Blazing Sun when He took back Intis, so I decided to come back to help Him."

People relied on Extraordinary powers to build a gorgeous Extraordinary world civilization. However, in historical records, the nobles were omnipotent, and the commoners and Low-Sequence Extraordinary were just sacrifices that could be put on the altar with animals at any time. The narrators recorded every sacrifice and every celebration of the empire truthfully, which made Klein shudder and feel extremely torn.

The "Black Emperor" was not a title given to every emperor of Solomon's empire, but a name of a deity;
Emperor Solomon cooperated with the True Creator, and actually used the power of the two gods to work together to intimidate the six gods at that time. The God of Death in the southern continent still existed, and the six gods could only go to the border areas of the northern continent to preach, which was unprecedentedly miserable.

When reading and reviewing these documents, Klein always tried to maintain a fair and objective attitude.

After all, the writers of these records were members of the Solomon Empire at the time, or high-ranking officials of the Aurora Society. It is inevitable that they would bring personal colors into their narratives, excessively belittling the gods, or excessively praising Emperor Solomon and the true Creator.

——But it was proved that the power of the great emperor and the fallen creator was still limited. When the six gods stopped their meaningless intrigues and hindering each other and found a breakthrough within the empire, they both inevitably met with failure, and Solomon died.

After that, two of Solomon's subordinates of the same rank betrayed him.

Two angels from the "Lawyer" path, Alistair Tudor and Trunsoest, together with the six gods betrayed and killed Solomon, took away his extraordinary characteristics, and were promoted to Sequence One, ushering in an era of two archons coexisting.

Before Solomon returned, Tudor and Trunsoest, who felt that the Sequence One characteristics were about to leave them, made different choices.

Trunsoest chose to join the camp of the Six Gods, and safely switched to become the true god "Judge" of the "Arbitrator" path, and won the support of the blood clan for himself through marriage. However, Alistair Tudor joined forces with his Angel King Dukes to kill three conquerors and became Sequence 0 of the Hunter path, the first "Red Priest".

The Black Emperor returned from death, occupied the north and founded the Second Empire.

Later, there was a grand battle between the Four Emperors, in which three of them died.

The crazy "Blood Emperor" fell, and Trunsoest, who was protected by the Six Gods, did not escape and died together with the Blood Moon Queen.

The only survivor and the biggest beneficiary, the Hades, devoured the Sequence One and Uniqueness of the Red Priest, and then pushed the Pale Disaster to madness and death. The history of the Fourth Epoch finally came to an end.

However, this did not happen in the official history. This retrograde history was described as "the three empires of Solomon, Tudor and Trensost exist in a normal order." There was no Duke betraying Solomon, who was both a god and an emperor, to seize power, nor was there a world intervened by extraordinary forces. Even these empires were under the protection of the Six Gods in history, and the belief had existed since ancient times.

Klein kept in mind that he was just a researcher of history, a scholar of ancient history. He did not condemn the gods for rewriting history, nor did he stand up for the fallen empires. He just felt that it was a pity for the ancient buildings to be destroyed.

From a scholar's perspective, he is just a spectator.

"I've been to the ruins of the God War."

Klein scanned the sea below, memorizing every abnormal location marked by Hermes and observing the remnants of divine power there.

Hermes laughed: "Are you going to look for mermaids?"

“Yes.” The trip seemed to have happened just yesterday. Klein couldn’t help but sigh as he recalled it. At the same time, he felt that his current state of mind was a little funny. It was only the first half of the year, but he should already use the word “memories”.

"Well, after Zaratul's promotion sequence went out of control, the aggregation devoured many sealed objects and extraordinary people in the secret order, and the mermaids were also turned into secret puppets by Him. Before He returned to normal, no one dared to use those secret puppets to promote mermaids... In addition, some mermaids in the breeding area are believers of the Goddess of Night. I don't know why the goddess is so concerned about the 'Fortune Teller' path."

Klein did not answer. He noticed that there was a small sea forest in the ruins of the God War, and could not help but ask:

"Life, plants, growth, is that the remaining power of the Mother Earth?"

Hermes glanced down and nodded, "Yes."

"The Mother Goddess of Earth was also present at the 'Banquet of Betrayal'? Then the God of War..."

"I've never told you how many people there are in 'Redemption Rose'. You can guess." Hermes said jokingly. He led Klein forward and did not reveal any information directly. Instead, he guided Klein to think and discover the secrets in history by himself. "You should know that the original Sun God, the omniscient and almighty Lord, was not a single-path true god. It can even be said that he gathered all five adjacent paths... plus the Chaos Sea, this has caused a qualitative change. Tell me, if you want to kill such a being, how can the Angel Kings alone be enough?"

Klein's eyes widened as a blurry image of the "Redemption Rose" gradually took shape in his mind. Angels and gods gathered at the long table.

He quickly followed Hermes' footsteps and expressed his speculation in a scholarly manner:
"So, the participants were almost all the gods at the time, no, all the gods?"

"There were no six gods at that time. In addition to the Mother Earth, the God of War, and the Goddess of Night, the other three were the Angel Kings, the Dark Angel, the War Angel, and the Fate Angel. In addition to these, was the Death God of the Southern Continent also involved in the murder?"

He clearly remembered what the little "Sun" and the clergyman phantom Colin Iliad met in Afternoon Town said. An unnameable existence tempted Sasriel. The kings frequently gathered in the palace, and a huge disaster would begin from there... In addition to the King of Angels, there were also gods. Combined with the truth of the ancient sun god's suicide, Sasriel, who symbolized his half, was not so much tempted as it was his true thought. The two of them conspired to kill themselves and pass on the illusion that "the gods planned to murder the Creator" to future generations.

What is unexpected is that the ancient sun god was actually killed and eaten.

The plan went beyond the Creator's expectations, and the murder that was originally intended to save himself became a reality.

When he made this guess, Klein had some vague feelings. He seemed to see the dark fog of history rushing towards him. In an area completely covered by the fog, there was a corner emitting a faint light that was about to be lit up by him.

But it never lit up.

The corners of Hermes' mouth slightly raised:

"You are very smart, but you are still a little short."

One more step? Yes, I don’t know what the name of the person who was erased is. He must be among the gods, but I don’t know who he is, and why he only erased his own name...

Klein felt the fog and the connection between himself and it, but he was unable to light it up. He had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​exploring it temporarily and put it in his heart. After all, the answer was likely to be in the East Continent.

He followed Hermes as he walked in mid-air, passing by lush forests on the sea, lifeless seas, and some seas flashing with lightning storms. Suddenly, when the bright sunlight shone directly on him, Klein heard a burst of mad whispers in his ears.

It was like a thin steel needle that pierced through his eardrum and into his brain, making him feel familiar but also filled with tremendous pain in every thought.

The "spiritual worms" that make up his mythical biological form are gradually changing, as if giving birth to a fallen consciousness that does not belong to him.

The whispers of the “True Creator”!

Are there real Creator whispers in dreams? Mr. Hermes, are your dreams a little too realistic?
Sometimes the mumbling was a chaotic roar, and sometimes it was a mess of knowledge that made people physically feel overwhelmed. Klein could barely resist it, but he couldn't hold on for too long, and he couldn't go too far in the "God War Ruins". At this moment, he suddenly saw Hermes stop, cough, and smile mischievously.

"arrive."

Hermes said, "We have arrived at our destination."

The mumbling did not weaken, but Klein felt inexplicably at ease. He was dragged forward a few steps by Hermes and landed on an unknown island. The island was shrouded in thick darkness and it was almost pitch dark.

"The darkness here is very dangerous, very similar to the East Continent... There are elements of 'secret' and 'shadow'." Hermes introduced it to him seriously, as if they were really walking on this island, "The power of the two gods mixed together, causing changes in the night here. Only this road is safe, which is the path opened by the Aurora."

The mumbling in his mind weakened a little. Klein raised his head and saw a door suddenly appeared in front of him.

In dreams, the appearance of doors and boundaries has more symbolic meanings.

Hermes pushed the door open first, and behind the door was filled with orange light like dusk.

Klein stared inside with his eyes wide open. He saw the magnificent giant-like building that he had seen in his dream appear behind this door, and the darkness around the door was still as thick as if it could not be melted. He followed Hermes into the door, and the surrounding environment suddenly changed as if he was "teleported". He stood in that magnificent "collective dream". The sky above his head was gray, but the sky in the distance was shrouded in the light of dusk. He looked up and saw the black monastery and the epic and mythical projection of the "Giant King's Court" across the cliff.

"Your 'Black Saint' once passed through this monastery on his way to the Eastern Continent for pilgrimage."

Hermes thought he had never been here before, so he gave Klein a brief introduction:
“He once had a deep faith in the Creator, the One in the sacred texts and the Bible, and because of his piety he was given the opportunity to lead a pilgrimage.”

“That is, the time when it was compiled into a diary.”

"But that trip caused some damage to his spirit. After seeing the remains of the city-state and the miserable condition of the elect, Leomaster began to doubt his own faith. In addition, the Eastern Continent was filled with his mumblings, and his spirit soon became unstable."

"He was attracted to go there again, but an accident happened before he even entered. He was trapped by an extraordinary object in the monastery, causing heavy casualties among the other believers he led. Fortunately, he finally received help from a passing messenger of God, who restored him to normal."

As the passing divine messenger endured the true Creator's mumbling, Klein tried to figure out the meaning of the words. He looked toward the black monastery in the distance and asked in surprise:

"Is that the entrance to the God-forsaken Land?"

“This is the entrance to our road.”

This means that if I had wandered around and randomly pushed open a door of the monastery in my dream, I might have suddenly appeared in the God-Forsaken Land... At that time, I was only Sequence 6 and would have died without a doubt... Klein was worried for himself.

"Don't you have to enter the dream at a specific location to open the entrance?"

"Generally speaking, that's the case."

Hermes nodded and pulled Klein directly to the Black Monastery, stepping onto the square in front of them that had traces of fighting:
"If you use the normal method to open it, after leaving this monastery, you must take a boat to reach the core of this ruined ocean. This may take more than a month, and you will experience many dangers that you cannot bear at the moment."

"You can't bear it."

After Hermes finished speaking, he suddenly changed the subject: "Neither can I."

Klein was stunned.

"So we need to wait here for guidance." Hermes winked at Klein and suddenly pushed him hard.

A strong sense of weightlessness suddenly came over him, and Klein suddenly fell down and woke up from his dream!

Then, he found that he was not lying on the bed in his bedroom, but was carried on someone's shoulders in his pajamas. The black armor with spikes and edges almost poked directly into his face, causing pain in his ribs.

Klein was startled and waited for the situation to change. He was extremely shocked to realize that he had appeared in front of the black monastery in reality. Then he saw that the person carrying him had red hair. He looked again and saw Hermes with thick white hair standing not far away. He looked at the surrounding scenery with an "I know nothing" look and began to dig around as if he was doing archaeology.

Medici threw him to the ground. Klein turned over reflexively and stood steadily. The Red Angel clapped his hands and smiled:
"Are you surprised or surprised?"

"In order to let you in, I prayed to the big snake several times. It just so happens that He is still awake now. I think it's just right, so I won't waste time. You have to know that the 'just right' of fate is very precious!"

So you moved me here while I was dreaming? Klein found it unbelievable. The whispers I just felt were not imitated by Hermes. I was really passing through the dream corresponding to that sea area? Can you angels discuss this with me in advance?
"Okay, let's go."

Medici patted Klein on the shoulder and dragged him directly towards the Black Monastery: "Don't waste the big snake's precious time!"

Hermes quickly followed from the side and gave Klein an apologetic look. Then, Klein felt refreshed and dazed, and the world around him seemed to suddenly become gray, as if the pixels and saturation were reduced.

They entered the dream world again.

"This monastery is made up of dreams."

Hermes explained to Klein, "These are the dreams of different creatures from the God War Ruins, both in the past and present."

Medici, who was walking in the front, quickly approached the monastery's gate that seemed to be prepared for giants. The last time Klein came here, he pushed open the completely black gate with his own hands. Suddenly, a relief of a giant white snake with its tail in its mouth appeared.

"Hey! Orochi, how are you doing lately?"

Medici walked up, stood on tiptoe and touched the silver giant snake's head. The giant snake did not resist the warm greeting of his colleague. It slowly turned its head, and Klein's figure was reflected in its ruby-like eyes.

Klein tensed, but nothing happened.

After only a moment, Ouroboros withdrew his gaze, released the tail he had bitten, and flexibly moved his relief-like body around the gate. The gate opened naturally, as if welcoming guests who had set foot on this pilgrimage again after decades.

"I really miss it."

Medici's face became serious, and he made an inverted cross on his chest, then stretched out his hand to call the two people behind him: "Okay, let's go!"

"It's been a long time indeed."

Hermes whispered to himself and made a right cross.

Klein looked left and right, gritted his teeth and casually scratched his chest a few times, then followed the two angels into the gate.

A giant silver-white snake swam down from the gate. Its body grew bigger and bigger, from a python as thick as a wrist to a giant snake that looked quite bizarre and shocking even in the dream. Its body was as thick as four people could hug. It glanced at Klein again, then came in front of Medici, slithered its body, and turned into a long, silver-white staircase that spiraled upward.

The stairs extended to a high place, and the sky in the dream was not real. Only endless light was seen falling.

The body of the giant snake made people dizzy. As they looked at it, it seemed to have really turned into a staircase, and the golden sunlight turned into a rotating corridor wall with blurry paintings hanging on it.

Klein was intoxicated by these bizarre dream symbols. The high places in the corridor seemed to be decorated with stained glass windows with a strong religious nature. The sunlight shining through them brought a rainbow-like sacredness.

Walking in such a dream, even a person without faith like Klein would feel his soul shaken.

It wasn't until Hermes gave him a friendly push that he came to his senses and quickly followed Medici's pace.

TBC
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"This plan is indeed safer for us." Edward said, "But I don't want to help you. I can give you some of my memories, and for the rest, you can find a dead person with extraordinary characteristics."

"Plans? Do plans mean anything to you?"

After a few seconds of silence, Edward spoke unhappily:
"Remember that our goal is to survive. As for the rest, it's up to you. I'll be satisfied if you don't cause me any trouble."

"But I have to say that your proposal is very interesting - I still won't choose to have a good relationship with him. Humans can't trust each other, and I will never bet that he can treat the real Outer God as a colleague. If I had known that the fate of the Lord of Mysteries would stick to Klein like a dog-skin plaster, I would definitely, definitely leave the earth early and I would never come down. This is a farce from beginning to end! And it's a very bad farce!"