The bizarre dream full of whispers quickly fell into pieces. The sleeping man only felt an abnormal throbbing pain in his head, as if he had been severely swung with a stick. No, it was more like a sharp object was pierced into the temple and accompanied by stirring!
Hiss... In the misty lake, the man wanted to turn over, cover his head, and sit up, but he couldn't move his hands and feet at all. He seemed to have lost control of his body.
It won’t be... it won’t be successful...
The man tried his best to concentrate his will to completely get rid of the shackles of darkness and psychedelia.
However, when he was half asleep and half awake, his will was always as erratic as smoke, hard to control and hard to restrain. No matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't help his thoughts diverging and distracting thoughts emerging.
The medicine prepared in advance has no effect on this situation... As expected... the failure rate of things involving the Sea of Chaos is ridiculously high...
Live... I have to live... wake up... wake up!
With absolute perseverance and determination, the man tore through the shackles in one go and escaped from the dark and hazy world.
There was still a vague throbbing pain in his head, and the man felt that his whole body was limp and without any strength. The scene in front of him was blurred for a while, and was eventually covered with a dull crimson color.
Finally, when his vision became clear, he saw a log-colored desk in front of him. There was an open notebook in the center. The paper was rough and yellowed. When he raised his head, there was a sentence written in strange letters with deep black ink. Eye-catching.
On the left side of the notebook, near the edge of the table, there is a neat stack of books, about seven or eight books. The wall to the right of them is inlaid with gray-white pipes and wall lamps connected to the pipes.
This lamp has a very classical flavor and is about half the size of an adult's head. The inner layer is made of transparent glass and the outer layer is surrounded by a grid of black metal.
Diagonally below the extinguished wall lamp, a black ink bottle is shrouded in light red light, and the relief on the surface forms the pattern of an angel in the lake.
In front of the ink bottle, on the right side of the notebook, a dark fountain pen with a round belly rests quietly, with a shimmering tip.
Where is this place? Why do I appear here? Shouldn't it be on the surface of the Sea of Chaos...
The man pressed down all the questions in his mind and quickly adjusted his situation.
Soon, he recalled the fragmented memories in his mind.
Adam Moretti is a native of Tingen City, Ahova County, Loen Kingdom, Northern Continent, and a recent graduate of the History Department of Huoyin University...
His father was a sergeant in the Royal Army. He sacrificed his life in the colonial conflict in the Southern Continent. The pension he received gave Adam the opportunity to attend a private grammar school, which laid the foundation for him to enter university...
His mother was a believer in the goddess of the night and passed away the year Adam passed the entrance exam to Huoyin University...
There is also a brother and a sister who live together in a two-bedroom apartment...
The family is not wealthy, it can even be said that it is not well-off. Currently, it is entirely supported by my brother who works as a clerk in an import and export company...
As a history graduate, Adam has mastered the ancient Fusac language, which is known as the source of writing in the northern continent, as well as the Hermes language that often appears in ancient tombs and is related to sacrifices and prayers...
Hermes text? The man's heart moved, he stretched out his hand to press his throbbing temple, and cast his gaze on the notebook spread out on the desk. He felt that the lines of text on the yellowed paper changed from strange to strange, and from strange to familiar. , from familiar to interpretable.
This is written in Hermetic script!
The deep black ink stains looked a bit sloppy and weird.
It says:
"They're right, I'm crazy."
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part2 Kabbalah meeting
An ocean where illusion and reality coexist.
Every deep black wave seems to contain every color, which is one and the whole.
"Is it its owner...or has someone else tampered with it?"
Adam glanced sternly at this vast ocean, trying to mobilize the power within it.
"...Only this function is still available."
Want to try it?
Adam made his decision with little hesitation.
Without trying, the Sea of Chaos would be almost meaningless to him.
Moreover, he has spent half his life as a researcher, but what he still retains is his ardent "curiosity."
Even in this crazy and chaotic world, it will only bring about uncertainty. But this is the source of human nobility and progress.
Atop a vast sea of darkness, Audrey Hall regained her sight and looked around in horror and confusion. She saw a man with a hazy figure diagonally opposite his head making similar movements.
Immediately afterwards, they almost simultaneously discovered a mysterious man standing not far away who seemed to be completely integrated into the ocean.
"Sir, where is this?"
"What do you want to do?"
Audrey and Alger were startled for a moment and fell into silence, then they spoke in unison.
I see.
They are ordinary people drawn here by the Sea of Chaos.
"Just a try."
Adam spoke, his voice a little cold.
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"You can call me Jesus."
…
"Since you all chose Tarot cards as your code name, let's call it the Kabbalah Conference."
Surrounded by the Tree of Life of Kabbalah, the ten sources of interconnection are the paths, namely the 22 paths, which are the extraordinary paths.
And the road that passes through the Ten Sources is the extraordinary road, the road of ascent, the road of the Fire Sword, that is...
The road to the original Adam, the road to heaven.
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part3 The beginning of Nighthawk’s career
"Belief and fear bring trouble, and more belief and fear bring more trouble, until everything is destroyed."
After saying this, Dunn sighed and said:
"And apart from praying for the blessing and help of gods, humans cannot solve real big troubles."
Believe and fear...
Adam silently recited these words.
Yes. For most people, it is safer not to know.
but……
I just want to be the first one to try it.
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That cup. That golden cup.
How could it be possible for those unscrupulous cultists to be able to react to the Chaos Sea...
Adam pinched his eyebrows and thought with the keen thinking of the "audience" that I was crazy."
Who are "they"...and why "I" am crazy.
It's really thought-provoking.
The church that takes this matter most seriously is the Church of Storms, and the Church of Night is just the most efficient one.
The evil organization Psychological Alchemy Society...Spirit World History Society...
More clues are needed.
Adam thought.
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"Are you going to take the 'spectator' potion? Seriously, Adam, I don't really recommend taking your newly acquired potion."
"...Why? Mr. Neil."
"With the old potions, we have more or less mastered some rules, which allow us to better tap into the power within the potions. However, even if there are no problems with the new potions, they will suffer from various problems.
reasons, leading to a higher rate of loss of control..."
"Sorry, Mr. Neil."
Adam said sincerely but decisively:
"Perhaps you can also understand my feelings...the secrets you have discovered by yourself are more delicious when you taste them."
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part4 Dark Omen
"Roselle..."
"He doesn't belong in the Sea of Chaos. He belongs somewhere else."
"I need to keep collecting his diaries. It's very useful."
Adam summarized his past actions and made plans for the future.
"Justice finally chose the path of the soothsayer... The Hanged Man is a sailor, there is no doubt about it."
“Is there some connection between the audience and the sailors?”
"The people from the Psychological Alchemy Society have been lured out and killed. Although the golden cup is of great importance, the Psychological Alchemy Society does not have enough manpower to continue the operation for the time being. In the short term, I am safe."
"But what role did the Spirit World History Society play in this incident? In what capacity were they involved?"
Ah...that's really...
Today is also a day to try to survive.
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"Too dangerous."
"I should remind Melissa to keep her distance from those people."
"No matter what, the family relationship between Melissa and I still exists. I can't see her in danger and not lend a helping hand... although her weight in my heart is not too high."
But...is it really worth taking the risk...
Adam sighed and silently recited the name in Rune language in the sea of chaos.
The embodiment of ancient legends,
A symbol of mystery and rebirth,
The immortal butterfly that walks with the pure light under the seat of mystery.
The three-part true name and the person of the god.
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Someone is interfering with my destiny.
No, it's not about controlling fate, but about controlling thoughts... It has a certain connection with fate, but more importantly, it's the mind.
Standing on the sea of chaos, Adam's eyes became sharp.
There is no doubt that there are big problems with my appearance in the Fifth Era. Even if my understanding and utilization of the Sea of Chaos is only shallow, at least I know that I should appear near the Sea of Chaos, not the so-called
of Rune.
There is also a big deviation in the waking time. I should wake up at the moment when the owner of the Sea of Chaos dies.
But this is reasonable... The time valve is inherently unreliable, with a failure rate as high as 70%. It is a device that detects the incarnation of the rules of the universe, how can it be accurate?
So, is the person who made me appear here "he" or "she"?
Adam closed his eyes, and with the help of the sea of chaos, he felt the dense threads weaving on the sea of subconscious mind and on the trajectory of destiny.
But that's all he can do.
He could only "see the abnormality", but he didn't know where the abnormality occurred or how to solve it.
Praying to the gods is one way, especially praying while standing on the Sea of Chaos, but this also means that the Sea of Chaos will be exposed to their eyes.
Before his strength reaches a certain level, this is something that must be avoided.
"That guy is not the original owner of the Sea of Chaos, but just a weakling. He is not a true god, nor a god, he just has a powerful enough magical item..."
He whispered his speculation.
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part5 The unusual daily lives of nighthawks
"Let's go, Adam. Don't worry, we will definitely complete this mission perfectly! We will become the best Nighthawks in the future!"
Leonard, with black hair and green eyes, changed from a poet to a fool as soon as he opened his mouth.
Adam was silent, too lazy to respond to this guy.
Leonard thought that this new colleague who had just joined the Nighthawks for a few months and had only experienced one major incident was a little nervous.
He approached Adam intimately, put his arm around his shoulders, and said almost into Adam's ear: "Don't worry, Adam, I am a senior and a late-night poet at Sequence 8. I will protect you, a non-combatant!"
"..."
Adam slapped Leonard's hand away, hesitated, and decided not to speak.
He once thought that this guy was deliberately acting out this completely defenseless and optimistic fool, but after two months of careful observation and asking other people (other victims), he came to an accurate conclusion——
This guy just doesn't have a good brain.
As long as you ignore him, he will slowly stop talking if there is no topic...
Then Leonard stuck to Adam again.
"Don't be afraid! Adam! Just rest assured! I, Nighthawk Leonard, will definitely..."
Adam looked helplessly at Luo Yao next to him, but Luo Yao just showed a smile that said, "I hope you will be blessed."
"Go away!"
Traveler Adam, a genius researcher who thinks he is absolutely calm, is in a mysterious world many years in the future, but the only thing that makes him lose control of his emotions repeatedly is (__).
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"It's a provocation letter."
After reading the letter, all the clues were connected.
Dunn's deep gray eyes became sharp.
"Langleus...this guy is a lunatic."
Leonard cursed angrily, "I must capture him and bring him back to prison!"
He was still a little angry, but said to Adam with joy and joy:
"Thanks to you! Adam! If you hadn't discovered Megoose's anomaly in advance, now we would..."
"Leonard."
Dunn's voice was calm and somewhat unusually majestic, "It's not time to be happy yet. Since he can arrange the first descendant of the evil god, there may be a second one."
"He must still be in Tingen now. We must find him quickly."
"Old Neil is not convenient for divination now. We need to cooperate with other churches."
"Let's go."
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Adam knew he was being targeted.
He spends more and more time distracted, and even if he contacts the Sea of Chaos with his astral body from time to time to eliminate interference, there will still be various problems.
The people behind the scenes had given up their pretense and exposed themselves directly to Adam.
If Adam hadn't been unwilling to report information about the Sea of Chaos to the Night Goddess, who didn't seem to have a clear conflict with him, he would have been exposed by now.
But this only further exposed the other party's weakness.
Old Neil... I really shouldn't have saved him... The person behind the scenes arranged too many hidden tricks when I wasn't paying attention...
But I at least gained some secret mysterious knowledge, and Old Neil can also reunite with his wife after death as a human being, not a monster...
Adam sighed secretly, but he was cared for and comforted by the observant Leonard. He even saw that Adam was worried about Old Neil.
——The key point is that not only is it embarrassing to hurt someone who truly cares about his companions, but more importantly, it is useless to hurt him! Leonard will still get in touch again after being scolded!
Speaking of which, Dunn just now reminded him of the security director of the research institute he worked at who didn't know how many years ago. He was reliable and calm.
——And he can't tell the feelings of people around him towards him. Adam has long seen that Ms. Daly likes Captain Dunn.
And Leonard...
——Reminds him of a certain hound kept by the security director, the breed is Husky.
part6 The God of Mystery is not a good person
"Sure enough, there is another ceremony."
Leonard entered the state of performing the task, tried to be calm, and said in a low voice.
"Captain, let me sneak into the sabotage ceremony secretly. The sealed object on your body is too obvious. The rescuer is responsible for keeping an eye on Lanerwus and preventing him from making any changes..."
"I come."
Dunn firmly rejected Leonard and handed the sealed artifact to Adam.
Wearing a black trench coat, he seemed to blend into the night.
"This new ritual is almost successful. Be prepared to be unable to stop it. Leonard, come here, I will tell you how to take out the holy relic. You first go back to the church and prepare for the worst case scenario."
A short time passed before Dunn announced the start of action.
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The operation failed.
The joints of a simple humanoid made of white paper are cut and spliced, and are pulled by invisible threads to move.
"Hahahahahaha!!"
"The Fool who does not belong to this era! The great master who is farther than the distance! Rooted in the ancient mysterious god!"
"I pray for your attention, your grace, and give me the strength to protect myself!"
Lanervus laughed wildly, and the invisible thread gradually returned to his hands.
"This ritual is flawed! It will be terminated as soon as Lanrevus dies!"
Adam finally discerned the ritual, but it was too late. Lanervus broke through the window and let go of the invisible thread in his hand to stay away from the battle scene. However, the paper man stood and adjusted his posture without anyone's control.
"It is said that the evil god has thousands of incarnations, and it is possible that the power he descends has self-awareness and combat experience..."
The Captain of the Punisher looked downcast and said in a low voice.
"……ha."
After thinking and judging for about half a second, Dunn still said calmly: "We give up on Lanerwus. Non-combatants evacuate immediately. We cannot let the evil god incarnate into the crowd!"
He has already judged the approximate power of this evil god. It is very similar to a sealed artifact of Nighthawks, but stronger. There are only 5 combat-type Extraordinaries here, and this incarnation can control four people at the same time.
"Machine Heart agrees!"
The captain of the Mechanical Heart raised his steam heavy machine gun, and the exorcism bullets were sprayed out as if they were free, but when they landed on the paper man, it only shattered the paper - and then restored it again in the next moment.
At this time, Adam rushed towards the broken window and chased straight towards Lanrewus.
"Adam! You are not a fighting type of Extraordinary! Don't be impulsive!"
As soon as Luo Yao finished speaking, he fell into a state of stagnation. Dunn woke everyone up in time.
"He's not the fighting type either!"
Adam shouted and rushed over.
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part7 I'm crazy
Adam did not think his behavior was impulsive.
Even before taking action, he confirmed that the idea he had came up with was the result of no interference.
Yes, the other party is a Sequence 8 Beyonder who looks taller than me. He is also a member of the Spiritual World History Society and his background seems to be deeper than his own.
But in fact, the audience is especially restrained from stealing in low sequences.
As a spectator, he can easily tell when the other party is preparing to steal, when the other party is committing fraud, and what the reason and purpose of the fraud are...
In addition, regardless of the influence of extraordinary factors, in terms of marksmanship, Lanrewus is definitely not as good as Adam. He has participated in special training. After all, this is the basic quality of a Maozi researcher.
The other party is obviously not the mastermind behind the scenes. Not everyone can control an outrageous object with a high fantasy level like Adam, as a low-sequence or ordinary person - in fact, this also makes Adam curious. In his
According to calculations, there is more than 80% chance that he will be combined with a large number of extraordinary characteristics attached to the sea of chaos after awakening.
There is a certain connection, or tacit understanding, between the other party and the mastermind behind the scenes.
He wants to get the item in the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes.
After running for a while, all the disguises made by the other party were not hidden from Adam, but at this time Lanerwus slowed down.
He indicated that he meant no harm and hoped to communicate with Adam.
There was about a 60% chance that what he said was true - Adam made his judgment.
People's hearts are not that easy to judge. As an audience rather than a dramatist, he cannot guarantee that the characters he conjectures are consistent with the real characters.
So he stopped and was ready to listen to what Lanreus had to say.
So Lanervus spoke mysteriously in the tone of telling a horror story.
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Do you know about the third era?
That was called the "Era of Disaster", also known as the "Era of Secrets".
Why is this happening?
Let me introduce you to our supreme Lord, the God of Mysteries.
You don’t seem to be very interested in these? Are you actually an unbeliever?
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It just so happens that I am too. In fact, half of the people in the Spiritual World History Society do not truly believe in our Lord. All she needs is "approval".
In this case, let me tell you why our organization is called the Spirit World History Society.
Did you know that the spiritual world was destroyed once?
That time was the Great Split, when the old universe was destroyed and the new universe was reborn. Of course, according to some accounts, this was the countless times of destruction.
What is the Great Schism? Chaos separated and formed our Lord Mystery and the Strange God God.
That is exactly the scene of the First Age, when all things were first opened and two gods were in opposition...
The remaining gods? Just false gods.
In other words, our Lord surpasses all gods.
Then, the two gods fought the grandest decisive battle. God died, and his body was divided into the remaining gods, while our Lord fell into weakness and slept until the Third Age.
Our Lord, who awakened in the Third Age, predicted a doomsday - the end of the Fifth Age. So she used the power of the beacon of destiny to forcibly reverse the future in an attempt to continue the life of this world.
She succeeded in giving the world a glimmer of hope, but at the cost of being seriously injured as she was already weak.
The gods that God split into took the opportunity to rebel and successfully killed my Lord...but only killed.
So what if I kill you? Our Lord is not God, she is the god in charge of history and wishes. She makes a wish to return from history, and she returns again.
In the fourth era, our Lord revived. She made countless preparations and arrangements for the end of the fifth era.
She is the true greatest, and the so-called Seven Gods and the other evil gods are just a bunch of selfish traitors.
Ha, look at what you said, is it wrong to use the reason of self-continuation? Can this weaken the greatness of our Lord? What she wants to save is the world!
At this moment, the end is approaching, and there will still be 30 years at most. Our Lord's actions are indeed more drastic, but this is a necessary sacrifice.
Necessary sacrifice.
Join us.
You have seen the Cup of Natural Disasters, which is an item left by one of our lord's scrollers. Another believer of our lord and some mortals once observed the natural disasters with you, and they died, but you survived. This shows that
Our Lord favors you, and you have high enough inspiration and will - even though you have lost that memory now.
Join us.
We are the greatest and we want to save this world.
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A smile appeared on Adam's lips.
"Do you really believe what you said?"
"You are far more selfish than the God of Mystery you said, and you also said you don't believe in the God of Mystery."
"good."
Lanerwus smiled ferociously.
"But your biggest mistake was wasting too long with me."
"To tell the truth is also a kind of fraud."
He quickly rolled over holding his head and entered the room.
During the conversation, they had already arrived at the edge of a house and arranged some simple rituals - divination performed by Adam, followed by Lanreus, a counter-divination not directed at Adam.
The special explosives from the Spiritual World History Society that were carried by messengers from the tunnel at the bottom of the house were ignited at this moment.
"As a low-sequence Beyonder! There is no way you can survive such an explosion! Even the spirit body will be shattered!"
"But, I believe it."
Adam still had a smile on his lips and didn't move a step.
Explosion.
But it wasn't the soles of Adam's feet.
The safe house prepared by Lanervus, the well-defended safe house, became his best cage.
No bones remain.
The explosion in the sealed space is enough to destroy all traces of his existence.
He stood there and explained to the dead Lanerwus who had completely disappeared from this world:
"First of all, I am no longer a low-sequence extraordinary person."
He had secretly been promoted to Sequence 7 in just two months.
The formula comes from the Sequence 8 member of the Psychological Alchemy Society, and the extraordinary characteristics, that is, the main material comes from the Sea of Chaos.
Yes, the sea of chaos.
According to his speculation, no matter which of the four paths it takes, there are at least characteristics from 9 to 3 in the Sea of Chaos.
"Although I can't physically resist the explosion, you obviously can't either. I just misled you and made you realize the wrong location of the explosive. After all, your messenger is not smart enough."
"Secondly..."
Adam took a breath.
"I really believe what you said."
Because he comes from before the last apocalypse.
Although there is a certain gap with his understanding, this is a scripture after all, and it must have certain modifications and beautifications.
"The timing of my arrival is really bad..."
"The end will take at least thirty years."
They were right, I was crazy.
For some reason, Adam thought of this sentence.
"Knew it."
As he spoke, he was cleaning up the scene - physically making his own footprints into the room.
As for other counter-divination, leave it to the Sea of Chaos.
He no longer needs the identity of Nighthawk.
Tingen is too young and cannot keep up with his growth.
Then why are the running steps so fast...
"For all mankind."
He said seriously and then wanted to laugh a little.
He finally recalled life in Tingen.
A warm family, reliable teammates, a sufficiently generous salary, interesting mysterious knowledge, and even the "self-achievement needs" can be satisfied from the work of the Nighthawks, because they are indeed guarding Tingen.
Why would you give up on these so easily? Just do it if you find a suitable opportunity?
Adam paused for a few final seconds at these bonds.
Then he said:
"I'm crazy."
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This is the amazing imagination of the venerable and lovely classmate Sun Xiaogui, the author of "Secret: The Queen and the Chariot". I praise Xiaogui!
Ps: The Queen and the Chariot is also a rare long novel among the mysterious fics, so please go read it!