Seeing the blood moon, Annan suddenly took a breath of cold air.
Although I haven't figured out where this is yet.
But seeing the color of the moon, Annan instinctively felt that the people in this village might be quite hospitable...
"Fortunately...the curse carrier is still there."
The first time Annan woke up, he touched his chest.
He was immediately able to confirm that the necklace with the Philosopher's Stone, which was the carrier of Annan's curse, was still hanging on his chest.
At the same time, Annan also noticed that his left shoulder was slightly warm and hot.
That is exactly what [Curse: Endymion is about to be born].
This means that Annan probably used his own body.
but……
Annan stood up from the bed and looked around.
He found himself in a small cabin.
This is not like a normal person's residence, but rather like a hunter's cabin. On the wall are white deer heads from hunting, and an old-fashioned shotgun.
There is a simple clothes rack in the corner of the room, as well as several pots of dark green thick-leafed plants. There is a faint red halo in the room, and the atmosphere seems to be slightly ambiguous...
But for some reason, Annan always felt that the layout of this room was a bit inconsistent. But for a while, Annan couldn't figure out where it was.
"……Um?"
Annan got up and saw that there was a TV in the room!
Although it is an older TV that looks like an oven or microwave, it is indeed a real TV.
Upon closer inspection, there are indeed wires running in this room. There are two knobs on the right side of the TV, and there is a video recorder in the cabinet below. There is a row of video tapes placed vertically on the left side of the TV, and there seem to be some signs on them.
.
"...The range of perception has also been suppressed?"
Annan murmured.
If it were in the home world, Annan would not even need to use his eyes to see this distance. He could instantly perceive the layout of the entire room, even the things hidden in the cracks of the wall and stored in desk drawers.
can be directly sensed.
But here, Annan's basic attributes and underlying abilities were suppressed to the point where he was like a mortal.
Fortunately, Annan still has extraordinary abilities.
Annan felt it. He could roughly confirm that his elemental power could still be used normally. Ability above gold level should not be completely banned.
Then this is not the worst case scenario.
Moreover, although including the "Three Sirens", almost all of Annan's spells were not brought in.
But in addition to his curse bearer, the ring named [Vatore's Ritual: Shadow in the Shadow], a gift from Salvatore to Annan, was also brought in by Annan.
...I don’t know if Kafni’s “Shadow Demon” can be summoned from this world. However, it requires all the charges to be used, and it can be directly teleported back to Salvatore’s [Death Omen: Emergency]
Teleport], it is estimated that it is also unavailable.
Salvatore did not enter this nightmare after all.
However, these three skills, [Powerful Dispel Curse], [Illusory Shaping·Extreme Heat Beam], and [Law: Dissolve], can still be used for a while.
In order to replenish the light energy for [Endymion who is about to be born], Annan simply took off his shirt and only wore a vest, put on the deerskin boots placed beside the bed, and walked towards the TV at the other end of the room.
Looking at the rustling snowflakes on the thick glass screen, Annan felt quite nostalgic.
Speaking of which, his family used to have this kind of TV when he was a child. It was quite common at that time... but after he entered junior high school, he never saw it again.
He did not touch the TV for the time being, but watched the video tape next to the TV.
There is an obvious gap in the middle of these videotapes.
That position can probably hold a plate, so the quantity is just right.
Those videotapes did not have covers, nor did they indicate what was inside.
But there is white tape stuck in the corner, with a row of numbers written in black handwriting similar to a gel pen.
There are seven videotapes in total, and the labels on all the videotapes only have three numbers.
Annan checked it repeatedly and confirmed that the marks on it were: "123", "456", "789", "147", "258", "369", and "159".
"...small keyboard?"
Annan recognized what it was at the first sight: "Is [357] missing?"
If the numbers from one to nine are placed in squares according to the layout of a small keyboard or calculator... then these are exactly seven groups of numbers: three horizontally, three vertically, and one diagonally. The arrangement rules are that the numbers are from small to large.
.
So according to this rule, the missing video tape should be 357.
Annan thought for a moment and tried to push the door of the room.
The result was not what he expected.
Can't push it open.
Can't push it away at all.
Even the old door bolt didn't shake. It was as if the door and the wall were completely fixed in the space.
"...I can't push it away."
Annan complained: "Is this a puzzle-type nightmare from another world?"
Nor should it.
This decryption seems so simple. It should not be able to support the weight of this otherworldly nightmare.
However, judging from the otherworldly nightmare that Annan watched before, it might just be an introductory plot.
"You won't let me leave after watching seven tapes..."
Annan murmured, found a tape at random, and put it into the video recorder skillfully.
"Speaking of which, the introduction mission for the two of them also depends on the tape..."
Annan suddenly felt worried: "Can they really figure out how to use this thing?"
He thought and stepped back to the bed.
Watching a cutscene similar to the beginning of a movie appear on TV.
The screen of this TV is really old. Looking at it up close makes Annan feel very uncomfortable... maybe it's because the refresh rate is too low. Even from a distance, Annan feels that the picture is like a slideshow, and it's like a slideshow.
unusually slow.
"I'm almost going blind."
Annan complained and took off his shirt.
This is so that the curse on the left shoulder can smoothly contact the light.
Because Annan could only operate in darkness for thirteen hours.
If his left shoulder is not exposed to a light source for thirteen consecutive hours, Annan will feel increasingly intense burning pain. In the end, it will be like pressing a soldering iron on his shoulder.
High-level curses can override the effects of low-priority curses.
The curse that Annan obtained before, which can dilute the pain, will not take effect on this curse.
……etc?
Annan was suddenly stunned by the burning pain in his left shoulder even after taking off his clothes.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the red moonlight.
This moonlight...can't be used as a consumption for my curse?
But the moonlight in his world can obviously do it
He paused.
He looked down and glanced around the house again.
Annan finally realized something was wrong.
Why did he always feel that this room was a little out of place before?