Whispering Poems

Chapter 145 - Ancient God - Primordial Rift
"No need to remind, my eyes are fine. I didn't expect to need a space-related rune to open it. That's why the church couldn't find it. If you hadn't been reminded that nearby elements gathered, I wouldn't have found it here."

Guessing in his heart, Xia De looked down at the passage in front of him again, but the bloody footprints did not extend in:
"At least one of the two nine-ring warlocks a hundred years ago knew about this place and tried to open the passage with blood, so the blood stains on the wall seemed to be smeared, but in the end they couldn't walk in because the opening method had nothing to do with the blood stains. Did they fight because of this secret? But why did they die together? Are they really crazy?"

[You have come into contact with "Miracle". 】

"Are you sure there are only miracles ahead and no blasphemous elements related to evil gods? Or whispered elements related to relics?"

Xia De asked, the whispering voice of the woman next to his ear was actually very useful.

[At least not yet. 】

After thinking about it, he bent down, picked up the oil lamp and carried the cat into the passageway exposed on the basement wall. After passing through the hidden wall, the wall became solid again.

The passage is not long, and the other end is an open space.

Oil lamps illuminate the place, a standard circular space, only slightly higher than the basement outside.There was a strange smell of oranges in the air, not the decay of a basement that had been empty for a long time.There are sundries and books piled up beside the curved walls, and a white stone statue is placed in the center of the space.

The base is a circular platform, on which stands a statue of a man with two heads, both of which have no faces.He holds the book in his left hand and points forward with his right hand.The direction the finger points to is the direction of Shad and Mia.

The two-headed man is wearing a rolled-up long robe and is barefoot. Due to the style of the sculpture, he presents an unusually sacred posture.

Under the dim light of kerosene lamps, the years seem to have left no trace for the statue.After being stared at by Xia De, the statue spontaneously emitted a soft holy white light, which gradually became brighter than the light of an oil lamp, illuminating everything here.

Surprised, Shad took a step back, not because of the light, but because he had seen the two-headed statue.

In the hall on the first floor of the Prophet Association, among the thirteen founding series of Rhodes brand oil paintings, there is an impressive appearance of this statue.But the face of the card is not a statue but a real image of a man, with his back facing the outside of the card face, holding a book in one hand and pointing to the "inside" of the card face, while the background of the card face is the grotesque bubbles in the infinite starry sky.

"I remember that the name of the card is - Creation·Space. Is this the statue of the ancient god? It's actually under my house?"

Surprised in his heart, he still only heard the reminder of the "miracle" element in his ears, so Xia De did not retreat.He put Miya and the kerosene lamp by the wall together, and told the cat not to wander around. Mia also instinctively felt uncomfortable in this space, so she just watched Shade approaching the statue worriedly.

I didn't feel anything when I stood on the edge, and I didn't feel the slightest discomfort when I touched the statue of the false god [Vampire Duke Rael] not long ago.

But the closer you get, the more you feel your head swell, and countless overlapping whispers echo in your head, and at the same time, the skin can feel tearing, as if a blunt knife is lightly scratching the skin.

In the end, it even made Xia De feel like seeing the saint again. Fortunately, the state of "divine afterglow" is enough to offset this discomfort.

It's just a statue of an ancient god, but it actually has the same sense of oppression as the old saint.

"The original ancient gods are really different from the later old gods."

he thought to himself.

There is an obvious line of inscriptions engraved on the base under the white stone statue. Shad, who has experienced the [Dark Box] incident, should not have interpreted it.But the line of sight was just a touch, and he couldn't help but understand this sentence, which was beyond his control. The statue of the ancient god resonated with Shad's power.

The hand involuntarily touched the somewhat warm base, the holy white light sprinkled on the face, and Xia De read out that sentence uncontrollably:

"The original crack, bless you in the infinite space."

The miraculous state disappeared after he finished reading, and Xia De took two quick steps back. Seeing that nothing happened, his panic calmed down.He frowned and looked at the statue in front of him:

"This sentence sounds familiar."

Muttering to himself, he thought of the sentence engraved on the [Time Key] "The World Tree blesses you in time", and the incantation for using the time key is "The World Tree blesses me in time".

"Could it be that?"

Xia De suddenly had a bold idea.

He immediately moved away from the statue, then picked up the frightened cat by the wall, and left here with the oil lamp.After passing through the hidden wall, the wall automatically returns to its original shape.

Xia De left the first floor and returned to Room [-] on the second floor, leaving the cat here while he took the weapons and relics.Taking a deep breath at the top of the stairs, I returned to the basement when I was ready.

The moment you walk through the hidden wall and gaze at the statue, the two-headed statue lights up again.Xia De chanted the spell against the wall, but nothing happened, so he approached the two-headed statue of the ancient god a little nervously.Put your hands on the pedestal and whispered:

"May the original crack bless me in the infinite space."

Waiting for less than a second, the surrounding white fog quickly rushed in, wrapping Xia De in it.

Standing in this slightly familiar thick fog, Xia De also heard the whispering voice from his ear as he wished:

[Outlander, you have stepped into the 'space maze'. 】

[Message from the ancient god "Primary Rift":]

[Existing space road signs: 1. 】

"it is as expected!"

A vague path appeared in the hazy white mist, and Shad saw a bare wooden road sign erected in the path.The wood is broken and crooked, as if it has experienced a hundred years of wind and sun in the wild.The style of the road signs is ordinary, except for the arrow pointing in the direction, a few letters are crookedly engraved on the wooden stick supporting the arrow.

This is an ancient text, and the meaning of a word made up of multiple letters is "1".

He was a little excited, and looked at the not-so-long path in front of him:

"Is this teleportable? The key of the ancient god of time, can enter the past time, and the statue of the ancient god of space, can move in space?"

He didn't dare to step into the white mist around him easily, but he could walk into the blurry path with his feet.After thinking about it, he walked over and reached out to touch the wooden signpost at the end of the path.

The woman's voice reminded softly in the ear:
[The original crack will guide you. 】

The white mist swept across the trail and completely enveloped Shad who touched the road sign.He felt a burst of dizziness, and when the dizziness ended, he found himself in the circular space where the two-headed statue of Baishi was placed.

An expression of excitement immediately appeared on his face:

"Is this a new statue? Am I really teleported? Where is it now? How long is the statue's cooldown?"

He asked in his heart, but he heard the woman's laughter.

Only then did I think of a certain possibility, so I immediately looked at the wall, the oil lamp that was put down a few minutes ago, and the sundries piled up here are all in their original positions:
"So, this is St. Teresa's Square? An existing space sign is actually here?"

He didn't know what expression to make.

　PS1: As mentioned in Chapter 51, the space behind the White Mist Gate is called the "Corridor of Time".At that time, I thought that someone would care, why that place was named specifically.

PS2: The background set by the author for this world is very grand, and it has just begun.

PS3: As I write this, I suddenly feel a bit like "The home system - the basement transfer point function is turned on."

　
(End of this chapter)