landbeastnovel Chapter 364 The Sincere and Generous Adam...
Chapter 364 The Sincere and Generous Adam...
Chapter 364 The Sincere and Generous Adam...
Sensing the effects of the potion on his body, Sirien slowed his pace, carefully observing every detail around him, trying to blend into the city.
Only after the digestion of the potion in his body had almost stopped did he refocus his attention and, after several "flashes," arrived at the center of the city.
In the flower square where a huge cross stands, Sirion's figure quietly appears.
He passed by people... well, animals, no, after passing by the animal crowd, and arrived at a rather tall and magnificent steeple church.
The stained glass windows on both sides of the gate reveal transparent faces, as if countless souls are sealed inside.
They all stared at Sirion, then all retreated back into their shells.
The next second, the pitch-black door in front of him creaked open by itself.
"6
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So, were they trying to make things difficult for me, or were they testing me?
He muttered something to himself and stepped into the church.
The interior of the magnificent church looked very familiar to Sirion; he could even trace the details of the towering black stone pillars on both sides with his hand.
This is the Church of Adam's Bones!
He walked through rows of neatly arranged black high-backed chairs and came to the front of the church hall, to Adam, who was praying in front of a huge cross.
He waited quietly for a while, until Adam lowered his hands clasped in front of his chest and opened his eyes, before asking, "When I was promoted, that comforting feeling came from you?"
After waiting a short while, Adam replied, "Yes."
"If you have other questions in your mind, why don't you ask them now?"
Cyril thought for a moment, then dragged a chair over from behind him and sat down opposite Adam.
"I feel like something's wrong with how quickly I'm digesting my potion. It's too slow. Hmm... it wasn't slow at first, but it's getting slower and slower as I digest it."
"It's like there's a thin film between us; the harder I try, the tighter it becomes."
Adam seemed to have anticipated his question, and after he finished speaking, he said directly, "That's normal, or rather, that's normal for you."
"If we use the castle theory that explains role-playing, our role-playing is about disguising ourselves as the owner of the castle, deceiving the guards, and finally taking over the castle. Then your role-playing is about breaking into the castle, demolishing it, and building a mansion that belongs to you."
"At first, the castle was very large, and even if you dismantled a part of it, the guards on duty would have a hard time noticing. But as you dismantle more of it, the guards become more vigilant and patrol more, and your chances of success decrease."
"In the end, when only a few rooms and the foundation of the castle remained, the guards discovered your actions and began to do everything they could to stop you."
"The fewer rooms left, the more concentrated the guards will be, making it more difficult for you to steal."
(—;)
Cyril's expression shifted from blank to astonished and finally to silence, conveying a sense of both disbelief and perfect logic.
He paused, organizing his thoughts, and said, "So... the process of me digesting the potion was actually like demolishing the Celestial Venerable's house?"
Adam nodded slightly: "Although there are some differences, you can understand it this way."
"The extraordinary characteristics you have digested will no longer contain the spiritual imprint of that Celestial Venerable; their highest subordinate relationship has now become yours."
"If you can become the Gate of Sequence 0," then the Celestial Venerable will forever lose the symbol of "King of Time and Space," unless He or the new "Lord of Mysteries" can reclaim the characteristics and uniqueness belonging to the Gate.
Would you say I'm the first person to elbow the Heavenly Venerable?
After clearing his mind, Cyril quickly asked, "If that's the case, will I find it increasingly difficult to digest potions as my sequence advances?"
"Especially after Sequence 4, the Celestial Venerable's spiritual imprint will become stronger and stronger."
Adam nodded calmly: "This was bound to happen."
"However, you can first play the role, deceive the guards, become the master of the castle, and then gradually empty it out."
"But this method has a drawback: as your internal characteristics accumulate, the number of guards in the castle will increase, making it more and more difficult for you to steal the castle later."
"...I understand," Sirion replied with a sigh.
He then temporarily put the problem out of his mind, leaving the issues that a demigod would have to face for later consideration.
After a brief pause, he tentatively asked, "May I leave a coordinate at the Church of Bones?"
For a "traveler", a place with coordinates is a place that can be visited at any time, and after becoming a "mystic", these coordinates can be used even further.
Adam nodded slightly.
After receiving confirmation from Adam and leaving the coordinates at the Church of Bones, Cyril once again felt the signs of the "Traveler's Potion" being digested within his body.
Does leaving your coordinates mean you've completed your trip?
It should only be a certain degree of completion, just like how I used to take photos every time I went on a trip, which was a kind of default check-in task. It's just that after checking in here, you get potion proficiency, no, I should say role-playing proficiency.
After letting his thoughts wander for a moment, he looked at Adam and asked cautiously, "I've had the same dream several times before..."
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"I feel that the dream is strongly connected to myself, but I haven't received any effective insights from several divinations."
There was one more thing he didn't say: he felt that his recurring dream was likely related to Adam.
However, this was the Church of Bones, and he felt that Adam must have heard the thoughts that flashed through his mind.
Adam remained silent for a moment before slowly saying, "That's a seal. You'll only know about it when you become a 'Mystic Master'."
Cyril looked at Adam with some surprise. Although he was curious about the question, he hadn't expected Adam to answer it.
Every time he thought about this problem, a jumble of thoughts would flash through his mind, and then he would unconsciously forget about the problem he was originally thinking about.
However, because he often went above the gray fog, he noticed something amiss and guessed that Adam might have left psychological suggestions on him.
As his thoughts raced, Adam calmly said, "Appropriately satisfying your curiosity can make you less resistant to this matter."
"..." Sirion looked at Him in silence.
Adam looked back at him with a gentle and calm expression.
A few seconds later, He reached out and pulled a brand new deck of tarot cards from thin air, asking casually, "Would you like to draw cards again?"
Although he didn't know why Adam suddenly brought up this question, he nodded nonetheless: "Of course."
As he spoke, he casually reached out and pulled three tarot cards from the stack of cards Adam was holding.
He then turned the cards over; they were the Magician, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Lovers.
"The order is different..."
Sirion looked at the three cards in his hand, feeling both curious and surprised.
Adam nodded slightly, making the remaining tarot cards in his hand disappear, and then said, "Last time you drew cards, I reversed the order of the three cards in your hand."
???
Cyril stared at him blankly, feeling as if a row of question marks were floating above his head.
As a series of thoughts flashed through his mind, he felt as if he had grasped something.
After a two-second silence, he hesitated and asked, "So, actually, the Wheel of Fortune is the most suitable path for me?"
"But I..."
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Adam nodded slightly: "Yes, on this planet."
"But considering practicality and the current global situation, I think the 'door' approach is more suitable for you."
"So you guided me to make this choice?" Sirion looked at Him with a complicated expression.
Adam still had that gentle, smiling expression.
"Even for me in the past, fate is still mysterious. Perhaps my guidance is part of your destiny."
Seeing that Cyril remained silent, he continued, "If you have the intention to continue down this path, I can support you in becoming the Lord of Mysteries."
"Given your identity and my stance, perhaps even the darkness will support you."
Cyril looked at Adam with a puzzled expression.
...From the moment I entered the Church of Bones, He seemed to be very proactive.
Composing himself, he asked seriously, "Why are you suddenly telling me all this?"
Adam smiled and pointed to his chest: "I've confirmed something with you."
"You have an advantage over all of us when it comes to being promoted to the Old Ones."
"Instead of waiting for the end of the world to come, and then, with our help, competing with the higher-dimensional observers for the position of 'Dimensional Lord,' why not choose a different goal?"
"Become the old day before the end times, then fight with the higher-dimensional observers, seize their authority and symbolism, and finally face the end times."
"And if one wants to surpass the higher-dimensional observers in a short time," the "Lord of Mysteries" is the best choice.
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After Adam finished speaking, there was a few seconds of silence before Cyril spoke up: "I have no intention of becoming the 'Lord of Mysteries'."
"And I think even with your help, the chances of me becoming the Lord of Mysteries are slim."
"Even if I could obliterate the will of the Celestial Venerable within the 'Gate' pathway, I don't know how long that would take. Perhaps the apocalypse would have already begun before I succeeded."
"And there's also the Source Castle," and two other routes, which might take hundreds or even thousands of years to complete.
"Or do you simply want a temporary 'Lord of Mysteries'?"
Adam shook his head slightly: "This is just a sudden thought that came to me. Besides the Lord of Mysteries," you have other options."
...With your drive to act, just having ideas is already quite frightening, okay?
Who knows when you'll write a screenplay?
Xi Ruien shook his head, shaking off the thought of complaining, and casually said, "This might be the original God's idea. He is the one who is most happy to do things that trick the Heavenly Venerables."
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Adam suddenly fell silent, a glint of light flashing in his pale golden eyes.
After a few breaths, His gaze sharpened, and His gentle expression seemed to turn serious: "What you said is possible."
(°—)
Cyril's expression suddenly froze: "The Primordial God can influence you now?"
Adam nodded calmly: "Being on this path is certainly possible."
"Our struggle against the madness within our extraordinary nature and the lingering mental imprints of the past is not what you think."
"We are constantly in conflict, but also in integration."
"The awakening of the primordial will only means that our state has reached an irreversible point, but even if the primordial will had not awakened, it would still be influencing us at all times."
"At times when we are unaware of our own thoughts and actions, some of my thoughts and actions may be influenced by the old will within me."
"Or rather, in this process of both confrontation and integration, it is our own thoughts, fleeting ideas that just happen to coincide with the other party's and are then amplified."
He paused briefly at this point, as if recalling something.
After a second or two, he sighed softly and continued, "I once guided Aristotle and Cheek in some experiments that had terrible consequences."
"It wasn't until things got out of control that I realized there was a primordial will at play in this matter."
"At the same time, the three angel kings at the top of the three extraordinary paths controlled by the Celestial Venerable all pledged allegiance to the Tudor Empire."
"Perhaps this is fate, or perhaps it is the will of the Celestial Venerable influencing things."
Cyril frowned and said in a heavy tone, "It's not that the old spirit is dangerous only when it awakens within you; it's always been dangerous. The only difference is that one has already gone mad, and the other is still on the path to madness."
"This is a problem that extraordinary individuals cannot avoid once they reach Sequence 2."
He thought of Klein, who was very different in Sequence 3 and Sequence 2, as if the long-suppressed divinity within him had finally been released.
Adam nodded calmly: "Yes, that's why I would say you have an advantage over all of us in becoming the Old One."
"The spiritual imprint left in the extraordinary traits can be completely erased by you. In the end, you only need to fight against the madness of the primal instincts contained in the traits. This is more fortunate than all of us."
If this counts as luck, then I'm certainly suited for the "Wheel of Fortune" route; after all, I'm the luckiest person in the world.
He mentally scoffed, then asked with some curiosity, "Could I take a look at the 'Wheel of Fortune' pathway?"
Adam did not answer, but instead presented the second blasphemous tablet to him.
Sirion was somewhat surprised by Adam's sincerity and generosity today, then lowered his gaze as a series of thoughts surfaced in his mind:
Sequence 9: Monster Main materials: Colorful carp tail, one silver four-leaf clover Auxiliary materials: 100 ml of turbid river water, 3 ordinary four-leaf clovers, 10 drops of physalis hydrosol, one lucky charm, 9 drops of one's own blood... Uh, is this "turbid river water" for real?
Is it considered lucky if you don't contract a disease or die from diarrhea?