"Who?!" Hearing that strange voice, Arthur yelled and asked. He didn't even have time to see the world in front of him clearly, because his consciousness had just been sucked into this world, and the scene in front of him was still a blur.
Blurred.
The other party seemed not to answer, or perhaps answered too slowly, beyond Arthur's expectations. Only then did Arthur see the scene in front of him clearly and found that he was on an "isolated island".
Surrounded by a petroleum-like, charred black and sticky ocean, it stretches as far as the eye can see, until it borders on the sickly dark green sky. The sky, that dark green sky, seems to have no sun, moon and stars, it is just a dark green sky.
.It’s just that there is some kind of light green smoke in the sky that is slightly brighter than dark green. It seems to be the light source of this strange world, illuminating the whole world from top to bottom without any blind spots, dyeing everything in front of Arthur’s eyes into a faint haze.
Green, neither dazzling nor dull.
This kind of world is obviously not the real world. It seems to be some kind of alien space------an alien space in a book?
And the "isolated island" where Arthur is located is not an island made of natural rocks, but a circular platform made of some unknown metal. There are many complex and very twisted patterns on the edge of this platform, which makes
At first glance, one might think that there are insects squirming there. In fact, if one looks carefully, they are just patterns on the floor. However, because they are on the edge, the air around the floor is distorted by the heat emerging from the black ocean.
Movement, eventually causing the floor pattern that was originally motionless to seem to be crawling.
All these scenes are morbid and disgusting. However, here is a huge library. This isolated island is filled with neatly arranged bookshelves. The bookshelves are filled with books. The floor next to the bookshelves
It was also filled with books, and even those waxy yellow things flying in the air. Arthur took a closer look and found that they were actually flying book pages.
This isolated island is a library, an independent library. This mysterious world, so quiet that only the sound of turning pages can be heard, is a special alien space that accommodates this library. In addition to the isolated island where Arthur is located, he seems to have other
He could see several other islands in the distance, each of which was about the same size as the island he was on, two hundred feet square. Moreover, those islands seemed to be filled with bookshelves, stacked with everything a human being would read in his lifetime.
There are endless books. If the black ocean in front of Arthur didn't make him feel so uneasy and disgusting, Arthur might have the courage to swim from this island to other islands to see if there are different books on other islands.
Collection of books. But the feeling of the black ocean is so evil. Who knows what kind of malicious things are under the thick and constantly squirming water that cannot be seen? Not to mention that casual entry into the water may lead to being arrested.
Things in the water attacked, and Arthur was even reluctant to walk into the water, for fear that something would jump out from the bottom and bite him.
"You're finally here." After Arthur observed all this, about ten seconds later, the voice that spoke to Arthur before suddenly spoke again.
Sure enough, it didn't deliberately ignore Arthur's question, but it was so "slow" in itself. Even the tone of its speech was five times slower than that of ordinary people. It took more than ten seconds to say such a short sentence.
This was the first time in Arthur's life that he felt anxious when hearing the other person speak. If he wasn't full of doubts now, he would even want to interrupt the other person directly and tell the guy to either speak faster or stop talking.
"What place is this?" Arthur patiently waited for the other party's words to finish before he hurriedly asked: "Is this a different space in the Grimoire of the Abyss?"
"It is, and it is not." The voice that didn't know where it came from continued to reply slowly: "What the magic book opens is the door to this place. This place is my territory, the Abyss Library."
"Library..." Arthur glanced around, and indeed, there were so many books here that it qualified to be called a library. Although this alien space was filled with a morbid atmosphere, it
Arthur had no objection to the fact that it contained a vast amount of knowledge.
"Who are you?" he asked. Since the Abyss Library is the territory of this mysterious voice, the owner of this voice must not be simple.
"My name is Moebius Maiyu, the Hoarder of Knowledge in the Abyss." The voice replied: "Nice to meet you, King Arthur."
"Oh? Do you know me?" His identity was revealed all of a sudden, but Arthur didn't show too much surprise. It should be said that he knew from the beginning that his identity would be easily revealed in this situation. This
The background of Mobius Maiyu, who calls himself the "Hour of the Abyss", is definitely not simple. Once he talks about the forces of the Abyss, Arthur knows that they are not something to be trifled with.
"I know everything, and I have accumulated all knowledge and information." Mobius Maiyou replied, "Your arrival was also within my expectation."
"Hmph. I didn't intend to come to this kind of place, nor did I plan to stay in this kind of place for a long time. I was just teleported in after accidentally bumping into your broken book." The King of Knights said disdainfully: "So, shouldn't you
Can you recognize me and send me back?"
"This is difficult to do." Mobius said, "The people who come here are all those who pursue knowledge. One thing is exchanged for another thing, and one wisdom is exchanged for another wisdom. Without trading, there will be no communication."
Arthur frowned.
"In other words, if I don't get something from here, I won't be able to go back to my original world?" He asked again: "What do you get from here, and what does it also mean that you have to lose?"
"Your price has been paid." Abyss Hour said: "Now, go get what you exchanged."
Has the price been paid? Arthur wondered in his mind, what exactly was the price he paid?
Then he suddenly realized that the "price" was actually his memory of the past month. From the last time he visited the Tomb of the Penzance Warriors to the Dark Forest, all his memories of that entire month had disappeared.
The fragments of his memory were the price he paid for entering the Abyss Library this time.
"You actually ignored my intention and directly took away my memory?!" Arthur exclaimed: "How did you do it?! I didn't even enter the Abyss Library before this!?"
The other party didn't answer. Perhaps the question was so stupid that it wasn't even worth answering.
The "Abyss" is a higher-dimensional space than the real world. In that space, even the flow of time is meaningless. There is no past, present, or future. In other words, time is just a free passage in the abyss.
It's just a dimension, just like people moving from one place to another.
Therefore, asking Mobius "when was the memory taken away" is meaningless. Arthur's memory is only the fact that it was taken away. Once it is taken away, it is lost forever, and it is in no particular order.
, so Arthur completely forgot what happened during that whole month.
"...Well...then, let's change the question." Arthur said angrily: "What do you want these memories for? My memories of that month are not valuable enough to be exchanged for knowledge."
Is that the point?"
"Intellect is of no value." Mobius said, "Hoarding knowledge is my top priority. Especially the precious knowledge of people like you."
Arthur was silent for a while. Is it enough to just get the memories from Arthur? Can it be anything? Even if it's just insignificant memories of Arthur eating, bathing, sleeping, etc., this guy is going to hoard it.
Get up?
If this is the case, then one can imagine how important the corresponding reward this guy can give Arthur is.
In any case, it seems that Arthur cannot leave this alien space without getting back his reward. Finding a way to leave this ghost place is the most important thing, and let's put aside other things for now.
His "reward" was actually not hidden too deeply. It was in an open space in the center of this isolated island library. In other words, there was a book prominently placed on a large shelf there. The content of this book was
The shape is exactly the same as the "Dimensions of the Abyss: Dimensions of the Abyss" that Arthur has encountered before. Even a blind person can see the unusualness of this thing.
Arthur walked over and stood in front of the book. As if sensing Arthur's approach, the book opened by itself.
As expected, the book was full of cuneiform writing that Arthur couldn't understand. Normally, even if he got this book, it would be useless. However, although the writing was completely unintelligible, the writing on the book was naturally
It moved and formed circles one after another on the page, like magic circles.
Then, a dark green ball of light emerged from those circles. It just floated in the air.
Arthur was dumbfounded and subconsciously reached out to touch the ball of light, thinking that this would trigger something.
Knowledge flowed into Arthur's body from the ball of light.
That was, in a blink of an eye, a huge amount of astonishing knowledge from all over the world, from ancient times to modern times. Millions of pictures poured into Arthur's mind instantly, and hundreds of billions of voices echoed in his ears. The amount of information was huge.
The chaos almost made the King of Knights go crazy.
That is, the wisdom of a madman.
Those who can accept it will have a huge wealth called wisdom, which can be used throughout their lives. Those who cannot accept it will become crazy.
"Well...!" Arthur covered his head. He felt that his brain was about to explode. However, he managed to hold on.
"You are indeed ------" Mobius's voice echoed in Arthur's mind, which has been observing all this: "It is because of having reached [extraordinary principles] that the patience for chaos can
Is your tolerance higher than ordinary people?"
[Obvious logic] What the hell? When had Arthur ever been to a place like that? He couldn't help but wonder.
Then he discovered that even though his mind was being bombarded by a massive amount of information and he had a splitting headache, he actually still maintained his sanity at this time.
The surrounding scene gradually became dim. When Arthur came to his senses, he had returned to the real world and was standing in the hall of the bandit's base.
Everything he saw just now seemed to be an illusion, a daydream. However, the monster with a brain that was cut in half and died in front of Arthur, as well as the heavy metal book "The Grimoire of the Abyss" in Arthur's bag,
They are all telling Arthur that all this is true.
He knew what he had lost. But, what did he gain from the Abyss Library? (To be continued)