The Secret Code of Monsters.

Chapter 615 Breath of Order
Roland had no reason to hide this from Claudia Hayon Cavendish.

Although I am an executive, I am not that 'executive'.

He told Hayon that if she was willing to give him the parchment, he would tell her what he had "interpreted" from it - Roland was ambiguous about the authenticity of the "original people" (after all, the teachings of the Holy Cross also said that the Father of All Things created humans), but Saint Agnès did exist.

"If you are willing to share precious knowledge and secrets with me, Mr. Collins, I am willing to pay you not only this leather scroll, but even a rare object for it." Since that day, Hayan never showed any arrogance or disrespect to Roland again.

She seemed to have learned something from her mentor. When she faced Roland, she always had a kind of flattery that was not there, and a passion that was more subtle than flattery...

Between men and women.

"How can I let Cavendish..." Roland looked at the somewhat excited woman and pursed his lips: "...Deal."

"A reasonable deal."

"Secrets are never free."
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Her look made me uncomfortable.

"Oh, the way Big O-bat looks up at you while mumbling..."

"I think comfort or discomfort has nothing to do with eyesight."
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I remember blocking you.

“I have imagination.”
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You don't have it.

The next afternoon.

Hayan came to the door carrying a suitcase.

Theresa sent the servants away and served the three of them herself - since the reappearing past also concerned Theresa, Roland hoped that she could listen as well.

"It's an oil lamp left by Jocelyn Cavendish, and I've never been able to find a way to light it."

Hayan unfastened the leather buckle and pulled out balls of bulking yarn for filling.

Inside the suitcase was a twisted copper lamp.

——It twisted like a candle twisted by the heat of the flame, as if it had a soul. A huge copper ring was placed on the top of the lantern for holding, and the shell was covered with words as twisted as the lantern itself...

The copper-gold shell wailed.

This is a rare item left to the family by Jocelyn Cavendish.

Roland only took a glance and understood why the oil lamp was left in the Cavendish family - Jocelyn Cavendish did not understand the words on it, or fortunately she did not try.

……

"Name": Breath of Order
"Type": Wonder (Influence)
「Description」: Even the fragile can burn.

A lamp-shaped oddity.

Those who use it will pay a heavy price.

Holding the cold copper ring, using the soul as fuel, silently reciting the glorious words lost in history.

'I am going to die.'

'Until no one dies anymore.'

When history has wounds, it can only become scars.

Holding and using the Breath of Order will ignite a lamp, causing your soul to burn rapidly.

Its light will devour those who "do not belong to this history".

Note: Both ritualists and mortals can die, but you cannot expect the souls of mortals to be as vigorous (powerful) as those of ritualists.

Note: Souls burned by the 'Breath of Order' cannot return to the peaceful place they believe in, and have no chance to condense into ghosts wandering the mortal world.

Note: Does not work on gods.

Note: Souls are its fuel... I mean, both living and dead.

Note: Please treat this rare item with caution. Once used, it will not give the holder a chance to regret.

……

Roland held the copper ring, and the old oil lamp hanging in the air creaked.

It is like an anthropomorphic copper life. Staring at the hideous, twisted, mottled shell for a long time always gives people a chilling feeling.
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Influence?

"Yes, it does."
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I only know that strange objects come from alien species.
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What is the impact?
"Don't you know what influence is? If the ritual requires a 'lie', you should know exactly what to do."
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Influence can create strange things?
The flame jumped twice.

"Rather than manufacturing..."

"Rather, it 'needs'." Roland didn't understand.

“The world needed it, and so it appeared.”
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Just like God said, let there be light?
"The bullshit teachings of the All-Father..."

"Roland."

"Never activate this wonder."

"Never."

"There is a solution to any dilemma, but don't pin your hopes on this lamp - you won't have the chance to regret it."
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I do know where it could be used...

Devouring beings that do not belong to this history.

The direction is already very clear.

worm.

In his dreams, he and Shandel Kratov encountered black beetles that would rapidly multiply, divide, and lay eggs in human flesh and souls.

They are not part of their own history.

It is an invader and a destroyer.

But thinking of this, Roland suddenly had a guess:

Jocelyn Cavendish left the lamp behind, but where did she get it?

A "secret meeting with the key hanging"?

'The world needed it, so it appeared' - the meaning of the wrench, if understood from another perspective: Is the behavior of "secret meeting with the hanging key" recognized or not?
Why didn't they come back alive?

After the channel was opened, did the worm arrive at this level of history from that moment on?
Roland faced more and more mysteries.

And Hayan's next words brought all the clues to a familiar name.

"...I remember when I was little, I heard an old servant who served my aunt talk about a name," Hayan saw Roland staring at the oil lamp in a daze, and whispered: "...It was a complaint. She said that there was always someone named Ryan Master looking for my aunt...It's useless, right?"

"Ryan Masters?" Roland's eyes were dim.

Then something is right.

The Dream of Saint Archbishop.

Ryan Masters who left his name.

A member of the "Secret Society of the Hanging Key" or even the leader.

Jocelyn Cavendish, likewise, was an important member of the Society of the Hanging Key.

These primitive people with "noble" blood flowing in their veins, did not know when and where they found the secret of the world when they were sleeping, knew their own identities, and began to form a cult. In order to find their own gods, uncover the lies of the Crown God on earth, and worship, praise and welcome Him, in an attempt to reproduce the greatness of the Eleven Crown Gods...

Then they established their own country.

Roland grinned and uttered a word that Belos often used in his dreams.

'Jew...'

Hayon tilted his head: "What did you say, Mr. Collins?"

"I said you are as beautiful as usual today, miss." Roland let out a breath, carefully put down the oil lamp, and looked at Randolph, Theresa and Hayon in front of him.

"The text on the parchment scroll happened to be a subject I was studying - the executive officer always needs to know more about his enemy..."

Randolph was the first to react.

"My father is a cultist? Roland, are you kidding me?"

"Your mother, Jocelyn Cavendish, to be exact."

Roland didn't know whether he should hide the part about the jump in history and replace it with an 'unknown ritual' - he didn't think Claudia Hayon Cavendish would give up the pursuit of 'nobility in blood', but he hoped to delay the crazy behavior of these lunatics as much as possible...

Is the "Secret Meeting of the Hanging Key" really destroyed?
If not, this ritualist of the Cavendish family would sooner or later follow the same path as Jocelyn Cavendish...

Roland suddenly thought of it.

If we judge by 'blood'.

Randolph and Beatrice can be considered half primitive people...

(End of this chapter)