Lord of Mysteries: Taiyi

Chapter 89 The Contract is Completed

In an instant? Even Azik needs time to travel through the spirit world. Kurt's initial reaction was disbelief, but after thinking about it, the other person did seem to have lost some of her memories, and her identity seemed extraordinary. Maybe it really was true—and what would be the point of her lying to him? He'd find out after sending her there once.

Moreover, the messenger's mechanism allows for direct summoning using a summoning incantation and corresponding rituals, regardless of distance—in fact, if both sides are summoned simultaneously, it should be possible to achieve instantaneous arrival.

The difficulty is that the recipient doesn't know you're about to send them a message; you can't just summon it every now and then to check if there are any messages being sent.

The anchor point that Sorin just mentioned is likely a passive summoning ritual that she can trigger herself, which theoretically could indeed achieve instant teleportation.

But what kind of ability is this? It sounds a lot like a gateway—

Kurt didn't intend to guess; he asked directly, "Do you know about the Divine Path, Thorin?"

Sorin seemed tired of floating, and put her feet on the ground. Feeling the knowledge about extraordinary characteristics that Kurt had taught her, she shook her head in confusion: "I don't know. I've forgotten where my power comes from, and I don't know what the Path of God is."

Kurt nodded slightly, no longer dwelling on the matter, and continued to ask, "What about storage capacity? How exactly does it work?"

Before she finished speaking, Kurt tossed her a round potato. Sorin caught it, her fingertips tracing its rough skin, a hint of inquiry flashing in her eyes. Pale fingertips emerged from her wide silk sleeve, drawing a twisted, eerie rune in the air. Silver-blue starlight suddenly burst forth, transforming into flowing lines that followed the rune's trajectory, slowly weaving into a dazzling six-pointed star.

As starlight engulfed the potato like a tide, the six-pointed star suddenly blazed brightly, and the potato, along with the starlight, melted away without a trace—Kurt watched this miraculous scene, somewhat astonished. His "tracing," which he had just used with the Eye of Möbius, had failed.

Given that Kut's extraordinary properties at Sequence 5 are so easily obtained, could this power surpass that of a demigod? Then why is there no "color" to the "property"? What is the source of this power?

Kurt's thoughts were somewhat confused, but he finally settled on the power being above demigod level—Kurt unconsciously softened his tone and asked, "How do I take it out?"

Upon hearing this, Sorin looked troubled and said with a hint of emotion in her voice, "Could you give me this? I'd like to—study it."

Kurt paused for a moment, then blurted out, "It's just a regular potato."

After hearing this, Sorin hesitated for a moment, then conjured up the potato again and reluctantly handed it to Kurt.

What's with that pitiful look on your face? It really was just a potato! Wait, she might genuinely have never seen a potato before—has she forgotten everything and is desperately wanting something of her own to gain psychological comfort?

Kurt tried to explain it using his slight knowledge of psychology from his previous life, though it could also have been just pure curiosity.

Kurt looked at Sorin's expression, then waved his hand, somewhat amused and exasperated, and said, "Then you can take it and play with it—would you like to be my messenger?"

Kurt planned to try this mysterious little creature first. If it didn't work, he could simply break the contract and find a new one. Maybe after she regained her memories, she would become an angel and make a huge profit.

Of course, to prevent this situation from potentially endangering him, Kurt planned to use the Underworld and his Source as double collateral—that way, even if the angel wanted to break the contract, he would have to think twice.

Since Kurt had already taught her all the details about the messenger and the contract, Kurt directly expressed his "willingness to hire".

Sorin happily took back the potato, but after hearing Kurt's request, she hesitated for a moment before asking, "Are you asking me to work for you for free?"

"You're becoming less and less like a proper spirit being. Don't slander me, did I give you a potato?" Kurt said with a slight smile, "What kind of reward do you want?"

Sorin thought for a moment and said, "You need to help me regain my memories, and also—talk to me occasionally."

Want to chat with you? Well, that makes sense. Right now, I'm probably the only person she can talk to who she can communicate with. Later, I can help her learn some commonly used languages.

Kurt sighed, tried to deactivate his spiritual vision, and after realizing he couldn't see Sorin, he reactivated it and nodded, asking, "How can I help you regain your memories?"

Sorin seemed a little embarrassed as she said, "I haven't figured out how to remember yet. I'll tell you when I do—"

Kut nodded, then picked up a high-end round-bellied fountain pen that had been prepared and began writing the contract swiftly in the ancient Hermetic script, which could manipulate the power of nature.

As Kurt wrote, he dictated the verbal agreement he had just made with Sorin, promising to help her regain her memories, but only on the condition that she provide a method within Kurt's capabilities. The agreement included that the messenger could not peek at the letter, destroy or discard it, or endanger the contractor's life. Kurt did not take advantage of Sorin's lack of Hermes knowledge by adding extra details. This necromancer contract should be effective only after both parties understand its intended meaning.

Otherwise, so many spirits wouldn't be willing to become messengers for others—in the end, to ensure the validity of the contract, Kurt first used the underworld.

"The final destination of all death is the hell of the spirit world, the witness to the decay of all things, the kingdom that belongs only to the god of death."

After these four sentences were written, the Hermes script on the brown parchment ignited one after another with a ghastly green flame, casting a gloomy and eerie light all around.

Then, using his own name, he would link this contract to himself. The principle was similar to the contract he had created for Audrey and the others, linking it to himself. If Sorin violated the contract, Kurt would discover that he could still use the source matter to punish her.

As Kurt had predicted, after writing down the names of the deceased, they began to collapse inward one by one until they disappeared completely. Kurt then developed a strange connection with the contract and could sense its state.

After finishing the main text, Kurt pulled out a demigod talisman, representing his source power, pressed it onto the parchment to compensate for the lack of the Azik copper whistle used by Klein in the original work, and signed his name: "Kurt Bard".

In this way, it's equivalent to using the power of the underworld to draft an effective contract, but the ultimate binding party is Kut's source matter, and the binding force from the underworld will be weakened.

After Kurt finished signing, the parchment floated up, bringing with it the spell that slowed down the increase in entropy in the surrounding area, and came to Thorin.

After Sorin took the pen, she first squeezed it curiously, then felt the contents of the contract before writing her name in a strange script: "Sorin Lancaster".

Kurt watched the contract float into the sky, and with a sudden inspiration, he infused it with the power of a talisman, strengthening the connection between them. The contract then burst into a ghastly green flame, and the ancient parchment abruptly collapsed inward, as if swallowed by a black hole, instantly twisting and vanishing without a trace.

With the contract in effect, Kurt clearly sensed a subtle connection between himself and Sorin, largely thanks to his prestigious title—he was both a "witness" and a party to the contract.

"A spirit that wanders in illusion, a benevolent creature that can be commanded, a messenger belonging exclusively to Kurt Bard."

Before Kurt could even escort Sorin back to the Spirit Realm, Sorin spoke again, asking, "Can I have this pen?"

Kurt nodded, both amused and exasperated. Fortunately, he had just added a clause to the contract that Sorin could not keep the items Kurt had deposited for herself—of course, at this stage Kurt wouldn't deposit anything valuable, at most some spiritual materials or supplies like bullets and glass bottles.

Kurt then thought about ending the summoning ritual and sending Sorin back, only to realize that he had already stopped the ritual long ago.

"What a strange spirit!" Kurt couldn't think of a good solution for a moment, so he asked, "Can you return to the spirit world now?"

Sorin, clutching the potato and pen, nodded and said, "I'll come out when I need to talk to you—"

After saying that, she disappeared.

It came out on its own? It can even have this function—Kut was stunned for a moment, but in the end he breathed a sigh of relief, marveling that he had actually found an exceptionally special spirit to be his messenger.

Kurt quickly accepted this extraordinary encounter, after all, he had actually traveled there in human form!

When Kurt was wandering the streets alone with a completely invalid ID card, trying to find a way to make a living, it was Deng Li who "picked him up" and took him back.

Then Kurt was inexplicably kept as a sugar daddy for a while, until Dunley used her connections to get him a legal status, and Kurt finally ended his "humiliating" gigolo life. Of course, Kurt wasn't that handsome in his previous life, but Dunley was simply kind-hearted and then discovered that Kurt was exactly her ideal type.

Both were "decadent" idealists who often discussed how to eliminate the gap between everyone—however, Dunley had money, while Kurt had drive, and the two spent nearly five years doing charity work all over the country—

In the end, the two got together. A month before their wedding, they went to an observatory to watch a meteor shower. Kurt saw a strange celestial body that was flashing with seven colors and lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he was in Backlund Hospital and saw Lori crying with red eyes.

He realized that he had traveled to this world 22 years ago, experienced a "mystery in the womb", and also realized that he had traveled to a mysterious world.

All of this happened three months ago; in just three months, he and Deng Li were separated by tens of thousands of years.

This is one of the reasons why he can't get over this relationship quickly. Their story has only just begun.

Thinking about this, Kurt suddenly realized a possibility: could this Sorin also be a traveler from another world? But she might not be from Earth; she might be a native from another world? After all, the unique enhancement I gave to her imitation didn't work on her, so it's very likely that her abilities aren't from the extraordinary system?

"Hmm, that possibility can't be ruled out—" Kurt shook his head, ceasing his thoughts on the matter and instead beginning to consider how to effectively kill Capin—

Now, with Sharon's help, he's planning to kill the Sequence 5 of the "Arbitrator" pathway that Klein didn't manage to kill before, and ideally, prepare the extraordinary traits—but this requires understanding their behavior patterns in advance.

Kurt finally decided to try some targeted potato (scratch that) plants—if that didn't work, he'd call in reinforcements.