Lord of the Mysteries: Yao Guang

Esther opened her eyes from "praying". Some vague intuition told her that the person who "hung up the phone" was definitely not Klein.

A dizzy tinnitus came over her. Esther was surprised by the dizziness. She hadn't felt such a clear discomfort for a long time, especially after her cognitive fusion with "Zoya".

Esther could only suspect that the power that cut off the connection also affected her. The connection between the two was hidden, and a certain connecting door was suddenly closed, and even the surrounding gray fog began to become turbulent.

Esther knew that she had to leave here as soon as possible, otherwise the oppression of the gray fog on her would become stronger and stronger until it crushed her, which was not impossible.

The gray fog emitted sporadic buzzing sounds, and Esther heard a lot of vague mumblings from it, but she couldn't find the source of those sounds. She could only follow her intuition and rush to the exit of the path where she stepped into the gray fog as quickly as possible.

The moment Esther stepped out of the gray fog, the surging fog behind her slowly subsided, no longer trying to tear her apart, and returned to the solid barrier that had existed for who knows how long, deeply covering the world on the other side.

A crow with a white circle under its right eye suddenly appeared beside Esther. After staring at her for a moment, the crow coughed twice.

"You weren't left in the gray fog?" Esther reached out and poked the down feathers on the crow's chest. "I didn't even sense your presence before."

The crow shook its head and fanned away Esther's fingers with its wings: "I lost consciousness after you went in. I just woke up."

Esther stopped teasing the Amon clone that was left behind. She looked towards the dark continent. A flash of lightning flashed across the sky in the distance, illuminating a rugged mountain.

"Then He should know it now?"

"Well, what else would I be doing here? You are a very huge threat."

Esther always felt that the other party's tone was a little strange, but she didn't know what was going on in Crow's little head: "I thought that after experiencing some 'accidents', you have adjusted your strategies when communicating with me...but you seem to be still worried about something."

"Are you asking me, or the original?"

"Of course I have to ask."

"I fear you."

Crow's frank words made Esther curl the corners of her mouth, and she couldn't help laughing out loud. The haze that had accumulated in her heart seemed to have dissipated a lot. It felt really wonderful to hear Amon, even if it was just an avatar, say such words.

But Esther also knew that there must be some other reason behind this: "Don't be afraid, roasted crow doesn't taste good."

The crow shook its tail twice and stepped on Esther's shoulder twice: "But the Beyonder characteristics are delicious to you. This is what I am most afraid of. What you want to eat is the Time Worm, not the crow."

After two seconds of silence, Esther's smile gradually faded: "Did you find something?"

"I don't know, but you are dangerous, very dangerous - but I am the only one who knows nothing! When you came out of the gray fog, I heard other Amons arguing about something, but no one shared the specific information with me, a bunch of selfish guys..."

Esther couldn't help but shake her head: "So, you are actually angry because your gossiping nature is not satisfied?"

The crow's wings were puffed up in anger. "Besides, His true form should be here. He was planning to come and watch you directly. Why did He suddenly throw this task to me?"

Well, this guy was really annoyed because he couldn't participate in Amon's collective gossip, which was something Esther hadn't thought of. But Amon himself didn't come, was it because something else was holding him back?

The crow only complained a little, and when he noticed that Esther was lost in thought, he immediately interrupted her thoughts with something else: "By the way, what were you doing in there?"

"Ah, no, just consider it as a revelation from my destiny..."

Or maybe it was simply a stumble caused by "fate". Esther sighed in her heart. She originally thought that she could open a special channel to find a way to communicate with the other side and use them to influence Sefirah Castle.

Esther was stunned for a moment. The "cryptographer's" unique ability to grasp the key points allowed her to find the key from her own endless fantasies.

"They hope to open a door through me, but this is also a failed attempt. Haha, they can't even influence me completely. It's obviously all fate..."

The crow glanced at Esther's profile, and did not interrupt her mumbling, but instead put these words into the information returned to the original body. Since he was left with Esther, as the clone monitoring Esther, he only had to be responsible for watching here, and the original body had a lot of things to consider.

Esther paused and looked at the crow on her shoulder: "Do you have a way to leave here?"

"Are you in such a hurry? If you want, you can walk around. I can introduce you to a city nearby. Aren't you curious about the survivors there..."

Esther interrupted the crow's conversation and said, "No, I want to leave the Forsaken Land. I have something I want to discuss with your brother. Some information that Adam will surely be interested in."

But Crow seemed to have a plan to deal with this sentence: "He is still busy preparing for promotion and will not see you at this time."

"How do you know? What I'm going to say this time is very important. Tell Adam that it's about—"

"It's about the Outer Gods, isn't it?"

Esther looked into the shadows, but for some reason, when she saw the classical robe, she felt a strong chill in her heart.

There seemed to be something different about Amon, but Esther could not see any changes from the surface. His monocle and the black smile behind him were very familiar to her, but Esther felt inexplicable fear and disgust.

There is even an indistinguishable feeling of resentment.

Esther frowned: "Are you really Amon?"

"Of course I am Amon."

The black-haired young man waved his hand, and the crow cried happily, then turned into a fluorescent light from Esther's shoulder and flew into her sleeve.

"Do you have any questions?"

Amon's smile remained unchanged, but Esther saw mockery in His eyes, as if He knew what she was thinking and the source of her fear, confusion, and resentment.

But how could He know? He can’t steal my thoughts…

"I can only hear their voices. Your thoughts are hidden because you cover yourself with their voices, Zoya."

Amon tapped the rim of his monocle, a soft light flashing between his fingers.

The thoughts of running away and moving forward appeared in Esther's mind at the same time. In the end, she chose the latter and walked towards Amon.

Amon showed Esther what was in his hand, but before Esther could subconsciously "steal" it, he had already taken it back into his own uniqueness.

It was a dice with hundreds of star-shaped faces engraved on it, and its shape was close to a round wheel.