The notebook in Shisanxiang's hand has three pages full of various information.
Although Shi Sanxiang doesn't want to admit it from the bottom of her heart.
But the things Huskies brought back did provide a lot of information and intelligence.
——And it is indeed very important.
"The food and drinks were all hot and almost complete. Combined with the unusually small number of tableware, it can be roughly inferred that... when these people disappeared, everything that came into contact with them also disappeared.
"
Shisanxiang took a breath, put down the pen, turned the book to the beginning and narrated: "Except for the seats, there is only one thing that did not disappear with their owners. That is gold jewelry."
Huskies' short-range memory is relatively stable.
He remembered clearly - there were several gold rings that he picked up not from the cabinet or drawer, but from the ground.
To be precise, it landed next to the seat.
If there are only one or two, it can be said to be an accident. They happened to fall next to the chair.
But three gold rings were left next to the chairs in different rooms, and a ring and a gold necklace were left on the bed in different rooms - something wasn't right. After all, they were gold jewelry, so why would anyone just throw them away?
As long as you notice this detail, you can easily deduce the truth. After these people disappeared, only these gold jewelry fell directly where they disappeared.
"The room we are in is room 203. The number of guests in rooms 201 to 208 is one person, four people, justus, three people, three people, two people, four people, and one person.
"If 'Frederick' is counted as a guest in Room 203, then taking Rooms 204 and 205 as the midline, the number of guests on both sides is completely symmetrical."
The "stronghold room" is shaped like a two-layer cake. After cutting off a small circle in the middle, each person's room is in the shape of a fan ring. Rooms 204 and 205 happen to be the two rooms closest to the door.
If the entire stronghold room is cut into a completely symmetrical shape, then including Frederick, it will be exactly symmetrical.
"If it is some kind of mysterious ritual similar to Ogawa's apartment...then the layout in room 206 should be related to room 203."
Shi Sanxiang looked at the notes and checked them carefully.
He quickly confirmed one thing.
"...In fact, only rooms 206 and 203 do not contain any gold utensils or jewelry at all."
"Gold..."
Annan murmured.
He opened his eyes and looked thoughtful.
After a long time, he sighed.
"I see."
At least Annan fully understood the method used by Pope Trissino to arrange this nightmare.
Delicious Wind Goose looked away from the forum in front of her and looked at Annan, who had been immersed in meditation before and looked at Shisanxiang and the others "with invisible sight".
"Gold... does it mean Mr. Yao's domain?"
As a ritual master apprentice who had learned a little bit about it, Delicious Wind Goose asked Annan humbly.
Annan shook his head.
"The metal 'gold' does indeed symbolize the sun and 'dying'. Just like silver symbolizes the moon and 'condensation'.
"But when gold exists as jewelry, it has another meaning."
Annan explained.
"The transformation wizards of Zedi Black Tower believe that they are not transforming one substance into another substance out of thin air. Instead, they are transforming the old subject into a purer subject with a 'newer and stronger' substance.
This is also the reason why once the transformation spell is executed, its power will become more and more powerful...
"This is not a snowball, otherwise the weaker the transformation wizard will be, the more powerful it will be and the harder it will be to control. Instead, through iterative transformation, the subject will become more and more purified... Then the closer to the end, the greater the resistance will be.
Big. This kind of resistance is not based on magic, but on spirituality - that is, the resistance to finding the right route is higher than the wrong route.
"Spirituality will tend to the direction with lower pressure, just like fluid will flow to the side with lower pressure. Finally, if it enters the wrong route of transformation, it will 'return to the original point'. That is, a [cycle] occurs."
In other words, the transformation spell will continue to cycle and become more powerful... because it actually goes in the wrong direction.
That is to say, a sudden "diving" occurred in the transformation of higher spiritual levels.
When Annan said this, he glanced at Thirteen Incense.
——While he was explaining, Delicious Wind Goose was rereading frantically, relaying what Annan said as a barrage to Shisanxiang for reference.
But it's not a big deal to let him know.
"Since this kind of purification has branches and can be circulated, it naturally has the most ultimate end point...the end with the greatest pressure. It is also the so-called 'Philosopher's Stone', [something that cannot change nor be changed]."
That is, the "perfect essence of all elements". A treasure that can transform some imperfect things into their own perfect form.
This is the inherited knowledge of the Black Tower of Zedi that Annan got from Salvatore.
It used to be a top secret that only the sons of the tower could know. But after the inheritance of the black tower in Zedi was interrupted by the spirit-carrying monk, Salvatore hoped that it could have a chance to spread, so as not to let him know after his accidental death that day.
This knowledge was lost.
According to Salvatore, the perfect Philosopher's Stone cannot be made artificially.
Unless everything is perfectly blended into one - because the Philosopher's Stone was "created" in the same way as the world.
If you want to get the real Philosopher's Stone, you have to let the animals enter the plants, let the plants enter the rocks, let the rocks enter the atmosphere, let the atmosphere enter the flowing water, and let the flowing water enter the animals again. They will lose their original definition and cannot be classified.
way to become a mixture that encompasses the entire world.
From this point of view, the Philosopher's Stone of the Hermetic School can never reach the "ultimate".
Because the Philosopher's Stone of the Hermetic School uses materials that symbolize all things in the world to create a "thing that cannot be classified." It can be said that it is a "sample" of the Philosopher's Stone...or "
Model".
"When the 'gold jewelry' is placed in the 'circle' that represents circulation, what it replaces is no longer the 'sun' or 'purification', but the 'philosopher's stone'."
Annan said slowly: "Your positions are obviously carefully arranged.
"Using 'circle' to represent the cycle, 'symmetry' to represent the mirror image, and 'golden jewelry' to represent the philosopher's stone - this symmetrical, cyclic... gap between dreams is created.
"As the mechanism to open this ceremony, a 'key' is needed. That is the last step to create symmetry..."
"……I understand."
Shisanxiang's pupils shrank.
When he saw this, he finally realized: "Because Room 203 is Justus's room, he is usually alone. And the real Frederick would never regard this as his own room..."
So in real history, this mechanism was not triggered.
"Only when we, as the purifiers of nightmares, enter this nightmare from the future... Because we have replaced 'Frederick' and there is no memory of Frederick, so at the moment of entering this copy,
This immediately causes the mechanism to be triggered.
"That's why the food is hot and fresh! Because they just disappeared...or, we just entered the dreamland."
Frederick's dream and the nightmare they just entered completely overlapped at the beginning!
The moment the player playing "Frederick" enters the dungeon, the mechanism is triggered, switching the dream of "Frederick" to the "gap between dreams".
——In other words, this is actually a mechanism ritual specially designed to detect "whether a purifier has entered this nightmare"!
As long as this period of history becomes a nightmare and a Purifier enters, they will be thrown directly into a designed dream within a dream, making it impossible for them to escape... unable to enter the real history.
And Frederick himself probably had never dreamed of this place at all!
... Trissino, did you even predict that this place might turn into a nightmare and be purified and spied on in the future?
Shisanxiang sent chills down my spine.
Annan's eyes were bright.
A pure ritual—can it actually reach this level?
Even a piece of consciousness coming back from the future can be detected and sealed. They are not allowed to come into contact with the real history...
"...So, is there a fourth floor?"
"Sure enough, there is a fourth level."
Annan and Shi Sanxiang said almost in unison.
That is, the surface world where Justus "dies" and "Frederick" becomes Professor Wolf...
——A real historical node.
The next moment, a new main mission appeared in front of Shisanxiang and Husky: