"Who are you?"
"Great Hastur!"
"Few people would say they are great."
"…Hasta."
"...where is this?"
"The land of great Hastur's favor!"
"But you said before, this is my hell?"
"For greedy souls, this is a real hell. For those with firm faith, this is just a wilderness. Only those who lack neither sense nor luck can get out of this illusion."
Zheng Qing stood under the huge bronze door, and the man in yellow wearing a white mask stood in front of him. The two of them asked and answered questions, much like the interaction between a scholar and a teacher.
If it weren't for the wriggling tentacles hidden behind the mist.
Zheng Qing caught a glimpse of those wriggling shadows from the corner of his eyes, and his eyes immediately felt a stinging sensation, as if facing the biting cold wind in winter. He immediately withdrew his sight and focused on the man in front of him who called himself 'Hasta'.
exist on the body.
Zheng Qing knew the name 'Hasta'. Ever since he killed a descendant of Tsathoggua in the Silent River, and then successively dealt with Nicholas and the hound of Tindalos, the young public student was very happy.
He has learned some forbidden knowledge about the depths of the starry sky and knows the names of many outer gods.
Hastur is one of them.
He is more commonly known as the 'King in Yellow' and the 'Lord of the Deep Space Star Sea'. It is said that Cthulhu is his brother and Shub Nicholas is his spouse. Mortals who see him will inevitably suffer evil consequences.
Either madness or death.
Regarding the last point, Zheng Qing remains skeptical, but will never ignore it.
He touched several talismans hanging on his body again, feeling the warmth conveyed by the talismans, and felt a little comfort in his heart: "It sounds a bit complicated... But you, are you really Hastur? According to me
As we know, His Highness Hastur belongs to the stars."
This sentence is a subtle reminder to the other party that there is a long distance between the starry sky and the real world, and there is also a powerful magic agreement blocking it. The alliance will not allow an alien god to appear in the world wantonly.
But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, Zheng Qing immediately regretted them.
Because these are two questions.
As he said these words, two golden beans in his hand immediately disappeared. Together with the two gems that disappeared before, Zheng Qing suddenly felt heartbroken.
"I am Hastur, but the great Hastur is not me." The King in Yellow first corrected a slight error in the young wizard's understanding, and then added: "Moreover, this is a dreamland, not the real world, nor the real world."
Not Phuket.”
Zheng Qing was heartbroken, but also felt a little enlightened in his heart.
"Both is and is not" is a very clear statement to the wizards - the other party is an incarnation of the great Hastur Highness.
Although the existences wandering deep in the starry sky cannot come to the world, it does not mean that they have nothing to do with reality. They may have descendants who need to take care of them; they may have believers who worship them; they may also need to communicate with the big people on the ground.
Wizards trade magic materials to get what they need.
The agreement between the wizards and the stars clearly limits their arrival.
Hence the incarnation.
Coming to the world as a projection, incarnation or even a descendant has become the safest choice for many outside gods. The descendant of Tsathogua who is entrenched in the Silent River Bend, the black goat cub that once appeared in the north area of Beta Town, and the one in front of him
A being wearing a yellow robe falls into this category.
With this sudden realization, Zheng Qing also recalled more things about Hastur's incarnation - about this, Zheng Qing saw two completely different statements in the book.
One theory says that Hastur originated from the sea, so his true body has some characteristics of an octopus. He is an aquatic creature with huge tentacles. When he comes, he is accompanied by an evil purple light that seems to be out of this world. His incarnation is
Known as the 'Far Feaster', it is a wrinkled black flying creature with sharp claws and tentacles.
In the wizarding world, most of the images about the existence deep in the starry sky are similar to this, and their reliability is questionable.
Another theory says that Hastur is a kind-hearted shepherd god, dressed in ragged clothes, quick in movement but with an elegance that does not belong to mortals. In this image, he sometimes incarnates into a person wearing a shining robe.
The mysterious saint in green tattered robes is known as the Emerald Lama.
Yellow robes, lamas and gods, these elements of belief combined, Zheng Qing could only think of one word, Atlas. He very much suspected that there was some mysterious connection between Hasta and Atlas Academy.
But he is not a student of Atlas Academy, and he is not good at building relationships.
The young wizard raised his head and looked around - if this is really the place blessed by the great Hastur, then why did he bring him in?
"You said before," he calculated the number of gems and golden beans in his hand, carefully glanced at the white soft mask under the hood of the man in yellow, and said cautiously: "I can take Zhu Si away safely.
Dreamland?"
He emphasized the word 'safe' very seriously.
Hastur's incarnation did not answer immediately.
He lowered his head and looked at Zheng Qing for a long time. The wizard was hairy all over and his back was sweating, and then he spoke again: "If you accept my gift."
"Gift?" the wizard repeated the word uneasily.
Gifts originating from the depths of the starry sky are the gifts that wizards most desire and fear.
The desire is that the gifts in the depths of the starry sky are very valuable, allowing a wizard with ordinary qualifications to easily become a great wizard, and even allowing a great wizard to break through the bottleneck of legend.
Fear is because 'all the gifts given by fate have been secretly marked with a price'. The more you get, the more you lose - similar to Mundell's paradox in the law of transformation, when a wizard accepts
For the power that comes from the starry sky, he will pay the price for his appearance, form, reason, and even himself.
"Do I have any other choice?" The young wizard asked with a hint of luck, and at the same time reminded: "My husband is very powerful, even more powerful than the ancient wizards!"
A strange laughter came from under the white soft mask.
"This is a lawless place. Even Azathoth, who is the source of all things, cannot touch it." Hastur's incarnation voice became very gentle: "Your husband may be very powerful, but it is difficult to find this place for a while.
...And precisely because He is so powerful, you should feel more at ease with this gift, right?"
Zheng Qing suddenly felt that what the man in yellow said made sense.
Since Mr. can reverse time and space and practice death and resurrection, it should be easy to eliminate the pollution from the depths of the starry sky.
and.
From the corner of his eye, Zheng Qing glanced at the huge tentacles spreading on the edge of the mist, surrounding him. Seeing them rolling and threatening, he smiled bitterly in his heart.
He really had no other choice.
This chapter has been completed!