Phrygian region.
A small village near the Black Sea.
In the hot summer, the sea breeze blows against the small village, carrying a faint salty and humid atmosphere. The small village is close to the coastline. The soft sand on the beach is paved with golden mats, and the blue sea and blue sky are connected in the distance. , panoramic view. The slightly surging waves, accompanied by the sound and spray, seem to welcome every visitor.
The houses in the village are built against the mountains and made of local stones, giving them a simple and natural look.
These ancient houses are scattered along the coastline, with lush vegetation and flowers blooming in front and behind the houses, adding a touch of vitality and color to the village.
A blond-haired tourist with golden eyes wearing a straw hat appeared here. He was wearing a light-colored cotton shirt. The collar of the shirt was slightly open, revealing his strong collarbone and showing his healthy complexion under the sun. He wears a pair of slim dark jeans under his shirt, highlighting his tall and well-proportioned figure and toned lines. He wears a pair of comfortable leather sandals. On his left wrist, he wears an unusually exquisite watch.
The handsome young man with blond hair and golden eyes exudes a kind of confidence and affinity, and in a place "unseen" by others, a figure as small as a keychain sits on his shoulder, and the wrist on his left hand The watch was glowing orange.
[Record Start]
Date: [1590.9.5.]
Inspection Location: [Phrygia-Krasnodar Province-Haifeng Village]
Investigator: [Investigator of Honkai Administration Bureau - Hugh Abraham]
Purpose of inspection:
[Investigate the fluctuations of gods (existing gods) that appear in the Youyang Alliance, and the main responsibility is to suppress Any possible signs of collapse——]
With Xia Xiu’s authorization, [Adam] is conducting a record investigation, and he is holding a coconut with a straw in it, as if he is here on vacation Tourists generally wander around.
“Abraham, bring the coconut a little closer.”
The "purple figure" sitting on Xia Xiu's shoulder stretched out his small hand, pulled the blond young man's hair under the straw hat, and motioned for the other person to lift the coconut higher.
"Don't just eat it. How about it? Do you smell some divinity?" Xia Xiu glanced at the greedy [Hope], and then raised the coconut in his hand so that the other party could reach it. straw.
“I’m not Jiamu.” [Hope] took a hard sip of coconut milk and replied to the blond young man beside her with a puffy face.
“I assigned Jiamu to the Management Bureau as a special operator, and even if Jiamu comes, his nose can’t smell any divinity.” Xia Xiu shrugged and said with a smile. .
He released [Hope] because he wanted to rely on the characteristics of the other [human apostle] to find clues of divinity.
Three days ago, after handing over the information he obtained to the Big Wrong Intelligence Officer, Xia Xiu had been waiting for the other party to work overtime to integrate all the information.
Pansy Jane needs to be responsible for cooperating with [Adam] to integrate any intelligence that Xia Xiu needs. The Administration has absolute rationality and [Adam] is connected to the big database of the Kingdom of Heaven. Logically speaking, there is no need for an intelligence officer. Position, but [Adam] is different from Eden in that it does not have access to the [Ether Ocean], which means that it needs some "external brain" to deal with some supernatural phenomena.
The intelligence officer position is more like being a "gut-dependent person." Intuition-dependent people are usually able to make decisions quickly because they do not need to spend a lot of time collecting and analyzing information. However, this approach also has its shortcomings, because intuition is not always correct, and sometimes wrong decisions may be made due to lack of sufficient information or analysis, which is exactly complementary to [Adam].
[Adam] requires a highly spiritual intelligence officer to connect to the ether and obtain terrifying intuitive dependence. In the context of the existence of strange forces and chaotic gods such as [Ether Ocean], intuitive dependence and spiritual foresight are often better than pure rationality. The analysis needs to be more accurate.
[Adam] Based on Xia Xiu’s own human body portrait that he observed and copied through [Future Vision], it was detected through the database that the other party was once active in the Phrygia area, and Pansy Jian was detected through the special instrument of the Administration , amplified his spirituality, and stayed in the database for three days without sleep, and finally calculated the specific location of the relevant people within three days - [Haifeng Village].
Xia Xiu still remembered Pansy Jane's embarrassed appearance in his mind. Her hair was messy, her eyes were red and swollen, and her eyes looked distracted and weak. Her original good looks were covered up by signs of exhaustion and staying up late.
The social animals are so miserable!
Just when Xia Xiu was thinking about making less demands for his subordinates in the future, [Hope]’s small and exquisite nose wrinkled slightly, and his two smart amethyst eyes subconsciously looked at someone in [Haifeng Village] In the corner, she did sense a somewhat familiar mythical wave.
“Hey, there seems to be a really strong smell. This smell is a bit similar to the big thing made of storms on Jupiter, but it’s not exactly the same. It makes me feel even more ···Sane?" [Hope] said with some uncertainty.
What are the traces left by the stars on Terra in the past...
After hearing what [Hope] said, Xia Xiu subconsciously thought in his mind.
Now that the stars are beginning to align, the traces of their past and their followers will gradually begin to revive. Together, these guys will contribute to Terra's increasingly collapsing situation. .
"Show me the way, I'll go over there and have a look."
Xia Xiu stretched out his hand and pressed the straw hat on his head, and then [Presence Meme Su] completely smeared around him. What he was going to do next might blaspheme some of the customs of this village. In order to cause unnecessary trouble, he decided to take action first and then leave after solving the problem. He would never leave any trace behind. A hint of cloud here.
Under the guidance of [Hope], start moving towards the destination.
Soon, he came to the ruins and altar in a remote corner of the village, and the surrounding area was isolated by yellow police tape.
Xia Xiu walked straight across the cordon, ignoring the large words "No Entry" written on the wooden board nailed to the ground, and walked towards the ruins and altar.
When approaching the altar, Xia Xiu stopped, and [Hope] sitting on his shoulders could not help but show a little disgust, because an indescribable disgust suddenly began to appear around him. breath.
A strange hissing sound suddenly sounded, as erratic as a ghost.
Subsequently, everything around them began to distort, and a horrifying and bloody scene appeared in front of them. A horrifying scene was being staged.
The scene of ruins has disappeared, replaced by a pitch-black farmhouse, with the figure of a pigherder shrouded in darkness. He is dressed in ragged clothes and has a ferocious face, like a devil.
The pigherder walked towards the livestock pen of the farmhouse, and the panicked neighing of the cattle and sheep seemed to make him feel the breath of death.
He held a butcher knife and approached an innocent lamb step by step.
The lamb felt the coming of death. It trembled, and its eyes were full of fear and helplessness. However, the swineherd ignored these looks, he was just immersed in the maddening pleasure.
A shrill scream sounded, and the bloody massacre began.
The swineherd slashed the lamb's throat with his sharp butcher's knife, and blood spurted out like a fountain, splattering all over his body. However, he didn't seem to care about any of this, instead admiring the cruel scene.
When the other animals in the livestock pen saw this scene, they all let out shrill screams.
The pigherder became even more violent and excited. He held a butcher knife and slaughtered the livestock one by one, grinning and enjoying the pain and fear they caused. The smell of blood permeated the entire livestock pen, and the smell of death was suffocating. Soon, the flesh and blood in the livestock pen were blurred, and corpses were scattered everywhere. The pigherder breathed the breath of blood contentedly, as if he had transformed into the god of death, leading this bloody hell.
The grinning pigherder raised his bright red eyes and looked crazily at the last prey.
"The aberrations are repeated, and there is also some divine pollution..."
In the pile of bloody corpses, the blond young man murmured calmly, and an illusory figure began to emerge from behind him.
The shadow is wearing a shining white robe, with various mysterious symbols and patterns hanging on his chest. He wears a radiant crown on his head, and holds a hand burning with sacred flames in his right hand. He held a big sword in his left hand and a red book in his left hand. Three pairs of wings of holy light emitting pure light particles spread out behind his back.
[Metatron·Basic Form——]
Under the dull gaze of the swineherd, [Metatron] raised the sword in his hand high, and the holy book emitted a burst of light, and then A magic circle appears on top of the sword. This magic circle consists of 13 circles of exactly the same size, which are connected to each other through a series of straight lines. Each circle is connected to all the other circles, forming a seemingly chaotic yet orderly pattern.
[Holy Light Lord Metatron's Cube——]
A complex geometric formation composed of thirteen rings is wrapped around the great sword.
『Four Body·Fire——』
The noble angel with waterfall-like blond hair cut down the flaming sword, and the sword bloomed with dazzling platinum light, illuminating the entire community animal pen. The holy flame spurts out from the tip of the sword, just like the holy flame purifying all evil.
The swineherd looked at the scene in front of him in horror, his eyes splitting.
When the holy flame touched the earth, a huge shock wave spread rapidly.
Boom——
Horrifying energy surged, and countless demons and monsters were turned into nothingness under the flames. All evil was torn apart in an instant, and the flames spread, covering the entire area almost instantly land.
All hostility, darkness, and corruption quickly disappear in the holy light. It mercilessly swallows up all corruption and evil, turning all filth into ashes.
The holy flame burns away all darkness, leaving only the sacred light. It burned in the air, turning the entire sky a dazzling white gold.
Under the flames, the world is purified again and glows with endless brilliance.
Crack——
The entire distorted picture finally collapsed under the load. Xia Xiu quickly returned to the original ruins, and [Metatron] stood quietly. Behind him, the altar in front of him began to crack inexplicably.
“This is the backhand left by the Phrygian who created the plague virus, a fragment of divine pollution..., that’s it?”
The blond young man rubbed his chin and whispered. After muttering to himself, he suddenly felt dull.
He has passed the "big early stage" where he needs to decipher the secrets step by step and solicit sponsorship from everywhere. Now he is the fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven, the [Virtual Crowner] at stage 3.5. Now he only pays attention to a vigorous and resolute approach and vigorous efforts. Miracle.
Xia Xiu came to the cracked altar. Around the altar, a series of strange and weird symbols were carved, which seemed like a unique language model.
[Kubeleya (Kubeleya)]
[ττι (Attis)]
"[Adam], scan the above text and analyze the text content."
He raised his watch and pointed it at the words on the altar. Soon, two rays of light appeared on the watch and began to scan the words on the altar up and down.
[Drip——]
[Scanning completed! ]
[This is ancient Phrygian, the following is the translated text:
Attis, the son and lover of the Great Mother. He often appears as a handsome man. When the goddess was born, she had both sexes. She cut off her male root and became a goddess. The severed male root fell to the earth and became an apricot tree. The seeds of the apricot tree entered the body of Lana, the daughter of the river god, and the child she gave birth to was A Tis.
Later, the Great Mother fell in love with the young and handsome Attis, the god of agriculture, and he became the lover and lover of the Great Mother.
But not long after, Attis betrayed Cybler and fell in love with a mortal girl. When they were holding a wedding, Cybler suddenly appeared, and in a fit of anger, he killed all the people attending the wedding. He went crazy, and Attis was not spared. He ran to the mountains alone and castrated himself to death. ]
After reading the text, Xia Xiu rubbed his eyebrows with a headache.
“It seems that it is not just as simple as the stars, but also involves the living gods. The Phrygian who caused the plague could not be the ancient [Eunuch], a priest who serves the [Great Mother Goddess]. ”
[According to existing information, this possibility is as high as 93.97%——]
"Come on, now I can even guess the motive of that guy creating the plague. He has the same virtue as the Impaler. He wants to seek cooperation with the stars and resurrect the gods he believes in. Tsk, they can't They should weigh themselves, and even if they want to look for it, they can’t look for Xingkong, who is relatively easy to deal with like [Master of the Gate]..."
[Drip——]
[Wall of Sighs: A vicious peep has been intercepted for you——]
The stars have begun to return, and their myth factors have entered an active period. Now any words about them will cause Fluctuations in the starry sky.
"I'm quite familiar with that guy." The blond young man whispered.
He just sent a big gift package to the [Lord of the Gate] complex a while ago. His name is definitely on the current list of apostles. It just depends on whether you peep or not.
Xia Xiu looked at the center of the broken altar.
There, there is a cave entrance that is imprisoned by dense iron chains.