"Where did this 'key' come from? I feel that it is full of ominousness, as if it is haunted by a curse... No, the cursed things are much brighter than it."
‘Witch’ Rose trembled slightly.
"It comes from a ruins. Later, after my investigation, I confirmed that the ruins should belong to the Ethereal Sect, a once glorious ancient sect!"
The 'Professor' sounded a little fanatical: "And I have read a paper on the study of the Ethereal Sect. The researcher believes that the Ethereal Religion originated directly from the spiritual world, and its source exists in the spiritual world... ...And that source is located in Diat!"
"Once I find the true source in Diat, I can even prove whether the false spirit of existence that cannot prove its own existence is real. This is a great discovery that will shock the mysterious world!"
Aaron next to him almost rolled his eyes again when he heard this, but he tried to hold it back.
He looked at the fanatical professor and finally said: "Even if it proves that the hidden existence is real, there is no point in it, right?"
"Knowledge! Knowledge and truth are the meaning of everything!" the professor said, waving his hands.
"Haha... Green, you still don't know that the professor is a tower extraordinary person who can gain influence by publishing research papers..."
Langley smiled and said: "Once the professor succeeds in his argument and publishes a paper, the waves and impact it will cause may be enough for the professor to be promoted to an inhuman existence..."
"Furthermore, this old man has always had mental problems, or in other words, extraordinary people have mental problems to a greater or lesser extent... I have always thought that he has a 'knowledge addiction' and fanatical pursuit of knowledge and truth." Rose said tightly. Then he said.
"I don't care about this..."
Chimpanzee Alexander beat his chest. He was two heads taller than Aaron and looked very oppressive: "As long as the promised reward is enough."
"I'm sorry, I lost my composure. The pursuers of knowledge always do this when they are close to the truth."
The professor's voice gradually became calmer: "Then... let's get started."
He chanted a mantra and threw the mirror fragments in his hand into the air.
Bang!
The mirror exploded and shattered into countless dust, which fell on the five people.
Aaron suddenly felt an invisible suction coming from his body, trying to suck him in a certain direction.
'Is this a new occult connection established? It is gradually getting weaker... It seems that this 'key' is a one-time use.'
"Let's go."
The professor randomly chose a direction and took steps, followed by the other four people.
The group of people disappeared into the wetland.
A fog appeared in front of Aaron's eyes. When the fog gradually dissipated, he saw the outline of a ruined city.
The fallen city of Diat has arrived!
'What a wonderful feeling...'
Looking at the vaguely familiar area, Aaron said to himself: 'Thousands of years ago, I walked here in the form of a false spirit. Thousands of years later, I also came here in the form of a spirit body.'
The original high-rise buildings have been reduced to ruins, and their surfaces are covered with a layer of shadow.
The entire city is wrapped in a strange pitch-black tone, making people feel inexplicably depressed and desperate.
"Diat..."
The professor murmured, and his voice suddenly became louder: "The void here is always surrounded by information about pollution... Green, every time I ask you to cast a spell, use 'purify' on the surroundings!"
"No problem."
Aaron pretended to take out a silver charm and threw it into the air.
A dazzling light exploded and enveloped the five people.
Langley finally took a breath and said fearfully: "I feel very bad here..."
The location of the five of them is in the suburbs, and it is obviously still a long way to go from the suburbs to the urban area of Diat.
Aaron noticed that the professor would look at his pocket watch from time to time, and then ask him to perform a 'purification' or use a spell to dispel the darkness and shadows around him.
This kind of time interval is very strange, sometimes it is only one minute, sometimes it is five minutes, or even ten minutes.
'Sure enough...our sense of time has become different?'
'It was the same before. I walked from the Great Wetland to Diat in one step. Time and space are so chaotic. No wonder the spiritual world is extremely dangerous...'
He thought for a while, got closer to the professor, and walked side by side with him. While admiring the corrupt and dark scenery around him, he made excuses to chat: "Professor, are you an extraordinary person who purely cultivates the 'Tower'? I rarely see him."
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"Yes, I am determined to pursue knowledge and truth and never stop." The professor replied very sincerely: "And I am still in the stage of 'bachelor', which is the title of the third substance."
"I have always heard that wise men who purely cultivate the 'Tower' can help people fight against spiritual pollution and influences?"
Aaron asked along the way, he was really curious about this.
"Sanity is only temporary, madness is eternal... When it comes to ways to reduce madness, in fact, various secret sects can find some as long as their inheritance is deep enough, but our 'Tower' approach can be realized at the initial stage... And
, if it can be cured, do you think I will still have the symptoms of 'knowledge addiction'?" The professor spread his hands, and the face under the mask seemed to be smiling helplessly.
"So, what does your school of thought use to combat the effects of madness and pollution?"
Aaron began exploring academic questions about pollution.
When this was mentioned, the professor became excited: "My school of thought believes that everything needs balance, and pollution and madness can also be subdivided... They can also be included and neutralized by contradictory and opposing theories...
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"For example, if your heart is full of emptiness and nothingness, then you need to maintain the balance with realism. If an extraordinary person is full of fear, then we need to let him feel more hope..."
"Introducing one kind of paranoia and neutralizing it with another kind of paranoia?" Aaron's eyes widened: "In other words... if a person has mysophobia, let him take the initiative to suffer from another kind of 'sloppiness'.
And spiritual influence? If it is in occultism, it means actively exerting influence on the spirit of extraordinary people, or even introducing pollution! Fighting pollution with pollution?"
"That's what it means, because there are many types of symptoms of mental fanaticism, paranoia, and even madness, and the severity is also different. Therefore, specific analysis is needed for extraordinary people to formulate the most effective 'intervention plan'... Even so,
It can only maintain an unstable, dynamic and fragile balance..."
The professor sighed: "Every time an essence is opened, the extraordinary person's mental aspect will undergo huge changes, and more 'variables' need to be introduced, which makes it easier to make mistakes. Therefore, sometimes, I would rather bear the negative effects of promotion.
I am also unwilling to take the initiative to intervene...because the crazy traits introduced on the initiative may cause more troublesome consequences!"