Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

The claw knife was hairy, which not only made it feel weird to hold it, but also seriously affected Esther's ability to use it - because the long, hard hair on the handle hung down, covering the sharp edge at the front.

Esther held the handle of the knife in her right hand and held it with her left hand, gathering all the hair accumulated in the "Logan's Claw" for several months in the palm of her hand: "I almost forgot that this thing can still grow hair, you don't care at all. For a moment? I'm pretty sure you have a way to suppress the negative effects."

The crow's rebuttal left Esther speechless: "Why should I help you maintain extraordinary items? It's useless at all."

However, Esther quickly blocked this sentence from another angle: "I knew that all my things are really with you!"

Crow's eyes rolled: "Yes, it's with me. When you can give me an extraordinary characteristic with the same value as the 'Deception Teacher', I will consider returning those garbage to you. Otherwise, I will not be in a big loss." ?"

"You already said it was 'trash'," Esther muttered bitterly, "Can't you just give it to me?"

Kach kindly "reminded" from the side: "There are also extraordinary characteristics of 'parasite' and 'dream stealer'."

"You-" Esther turned her head and sighed heavily, saying nothing.

"I can exchange it with you for other extraordinary characteristics." Crow smiled and said, "For example, 'monster'?"

"Really!?" Esther was overjoyed at first, and then quickly realized the trap in the text, "No, you mean the extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence Nine 'Monster'... Isn't this deal too good a deal for you? A little bit?"

"It's a pity that you didn't fall for it." Kah sighed and shook his head. Looking at her quite real expression, it was as if Esther had missed out on some sky-high price deal.

Esther rubbed off the last bit of lint on the outside of the claw knife, put her fingers through the hole in the handle, flipped it back and forth twice, and quickly regained the feeling of using it in the first place: "I'm not that stupid."

"Who knows? It won't hurt to try." Kah raised his eyebrows, not optimistic about Esther's simple and over-the-top plan, "You want to directly break the divided space here?"

"You didn't help find the back door." When Esther said this, there was always an unquenchable resentment.

She didn't wait for Kah or Crow to speak again, but directly extended the claw knife to the ground, and then carved circles and circles of symbols on the ground. The crow quickly analyzed the directions of those graphics. A small number of them were used to communicate with the spirit world, while the effect of other parts was more direct "destruction."

When Esther completed the drawing of the central symbol, Crow looked at the very familiar pattern and couldn't help but said: "This is not the symbol of 'Origin Castle'. I have to admit that my expectations were disappointed. But you are here to tell me Will praying by myself still have any effect?”

"I don't know, so we'll have to see what effect this has."

Esther spoke mysteriously, not expecting to be able to tell the truth in front of the crow. She gently twirled her index finger with her nails, and a drop of red blood mixed with silver gradually seeped out from Esther's fingertips. , dripping onto the traces on the ground.

One second, two seconds, more than ten seconds passed, and nothing happened.

The surroundings were still quiet. Esther stared at the symbols on the ground and silently touched her fingertips:

“Is it because I skipped a step and still have to pray to myself?”

Kah suddenly answered Esther's question: "No, it's because there are other rules here."

Before Kah finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook. A soft light bloomed from the magic circle where Esther dripped blood, turning into a broken round wheel that was constantly rotating in the air, emitting an extremely distorted and harsh buzzing sound. The sound was almost like a group of screaming ghosts.

The vibrations on the ground were getting stronger and stronger, and the violent bumps even gave Esther the illusion that she was being stuffed into a frying pan, as if she would be lifted up at any time - when Esther wanted to kick When she was heading towards the ground and using her strength to float upwards, Kahe suddenly grabbed her shoulders and made Esther stand firmly on the ground with him.

Esther didn't struggle. She had guessed a long time ago that Kach knew very well how to enter the world deep underground, and he was just happy to watch her wander around like a headless fly, doing useless work here.

Is it really useless?

The next second, not surprisingly, Esther's previous weird premonition came true.

First there was a roar in the distance, and then as the sound got closer, it became clear what happened: within a regular square, one piece of ground began to turn upside down and upturned, like a huge chessboard, with a The grid is followed by another one, flipping up directly from below, kicking up a large amount of dust and completely inverting the upper and lower "grounds" at the same time.

Esther watched all this happen calmly, and even had the thought to say to Kach: "To be honest, I don't think I can be blamed for this. There are too many problems here."

As the land turned over faster and faster, and finally approached the edge of the square land, the ground under Esther's feet was also tilting, with the angle getting higher and higher, from barely able to stand to almost completely vertical. Then it was completely flipped over.

During this process, Esther and Kah, who were originally standing on top, both stabilized their bodies through "cheating" the conventional physical laws. They squatted down in unison to get closer to the ground.

When the bottom becomes the top, what is revealed is another deeper space.

This time, the place where the light emitted became the top of the head. Esther looked up and saw a cloud layer emitting golden light. Regardless of whether there was any real sunlight effect, at least they replaced the role of the sun here. It emits light with a little warmth.

From a distance, it looks like a ball of floating gold spread out in the sky, forming a very visually striking contrast with the black earth beneath your feet.

Esther quickly realized the strangeness of the surrounding environment: "The proportions of the space here don't seem to be normal..."

"Yes, each layer will be narrower than the previous one," Kach said casually, smiling and tapping his monocle. "If you are curious, you can walk around the edge again and use the range here. Measure the distance of your feet.”

Esther glanced back at the edge of the square right-angled plot of land behind her. The invisible black barrier on the periphery still gave her a very dangerous feeling. She immediately shook her head: "No, I'm not that boring."

She looked up at the clouds in the sky again, and soon noticed that where the golden light was emitting, there were tiny black spots moving back and forth: "There seems to be something in the sky?"

The crow on Esther's shoulder yawned lazily: "So? What are you going to do?"

"Of course we have to go up and have a look. We are below now, so we should continue to go up..." Esther hesitated, always feeling that the words would be very ridiculous as soon as she said them.

"Let's go then."

Kahe's black boots touched the ground lightly, like blown soap bubbles, flying lightly into the sky.

Or should this be considered a fall?

Esther began to feel confused because she couldn't tell the difference.

She kicked the ground hard, and her body flew into the air, almost not feeling any drag force downwards. Only then did Esther realize that Kah had not "cheated" the natural laws here. To be more precise, physics no longer exists here.

Esther adjusted her body's direction, and just lightly moved her hands through the air, driving her body up a lot. This was almost similar to the experience of flying.

She controlled her direction and caught up with Kahe, who was also rising upwards: "This place really makes no sense at all!"

"No, there are a lot of rules in this place. You will know when the time comes."

Kah pointed at the thick golden clouds above the two of them. After getting closer to a certain distance, Esther could finally see clearly the black spots of the shuttle movement.

What made her a little disappointed was that the moving things did not look like "human beings", but like black or white stone statues. This reminded her of the previously overturned ground, which was in the shape of regular blocks. grid.

"We're not going to play chess here, are we?"

Crow closed his eyes: "Sometimes I really don't understand what's going on in your head."