Mystery: The Stars Returner

night.

Maric was invited to Hastur's home. When he came to the door, Butler Neil came out to greet him.

"Where's Hastur?"

"The Baron is dealing with some things. Please go to the study upstairs and wait for a while."

"okay."

Butler Neil led Maric to the study on the second floor. The door of the study was ajar, but Butler Neil pushed it open with a gentle push.

Maric glanced first, and indeed did not see Hasta's figure. He walked into the door and sat on the sofa naturally.

"Guests, please take a seat first. The Baron will be here shortly." Butler Neil said goodbye and left.

At first, Maric could sit quietly, but after waiting for a while, Hasta didn't appear, and his eyes turned to the bookshelf on the left front, where there were many books.

Most of the books are about legal knowledge, and some are about linguistics, such as Elvish, Giant, and Ancient Hermetic.

Apart from these, there are only a few scattered books recording occult knowledge.

With the idea that idleness is also idle, Maric got up and went to the bookshelf, picked out a book that he was more interested in, sat on the sofa and started reading.

After reading for more than ten minutes, Maric placed the book on the sofa and frowned slightly, feeling a little strange.

In his impression, Hastur has always been a person who has a very good sense of time. Logically, he would not let himself wait for such a long time.

Did you encounter some difficulty?

Maric thought for a while, but still didn't go out to search, and still chose to stay in the study.

Butler Neil came twice, once bringing drinks and snacks, and once bringing several bottles of fine wine.

"Something's wrong."

The more Malic thought about it, the more strange he felt. He got up and walked around the study. When he returned to the sofa, there was a familiar figure sitting on it, Hastur.

"When did you come in?"

Maric glanced at the door that was still closed as he spoke.

Hastur said with a smile: "I have always been here."

"Don't be ridiculous, if you stay here all the time, there's no way I wouldn't notice you."

Maric came to the sofa and sat down on the empty seat next to Hastur.

"Perhaps your eyes deceived you."

"Oh, I prefer to believe that you deceived me."

Maric chuckled, opened a bottle of wine, and poured himself a full glass.

"Maric, do you know why human eyes can see?"

"..."

Maric was stunned for a moment and said: "If you can't see anything with your eyes, do you still call them eyes?"

Hastur smiled and said, "Then do you know how a blind man becomes blind?"

"Because their eyes are broken, they can't see anything."

"That's true, but it's neither accurate nor scientific."

"??"

Marich's mind was filled with questions. He felt that Hasta was a bit weird today and his words were confused.

"It would be great if the person here today was Miss Sharon."

Hasta sighed with emotion. Maric felt that this sentence seemed to be mocking his own IQ?

Before he could react, Hastur, who was still in sight, suddenly disappeared.

Maric's face instantly became solemn, and he tentatively shouted: "Hasta?"

no respond.

"Invisibility?"

Maric raised his eyebrows slightly, put down the wine glass with his right hand, and then smacked it at Hastur's position at a very fast speed.

It was empty and no one was photographed.

"This magic is really interesting."

Maric's interest was greatly increased at this moment, and he was determined to uncover Hasta's little trick.

Stand up and walk around, punching and kicking at empty spots from time to time.

But the true location of Hastur has never been found.

Only then did Maric become truly serious.

I began to understand why Hastur invited himself to his home as a guest today and made himself wait in the study for so long.

Hastur obviously wanted to use his hand to test his new ability.

"Can't see with the naked eye, how can it be deceived even by spiritual vision?"

Maric turned on his spiritual vision and scanned the entire study again, but still found no trace of Hastur.

"You couldn't have taken advantage of the effort just now to sneak outside, right?"

As soon as Maric finished speaking, there was a sound of turning books on the other side of the bookshelf, as if Hastur was telling him that he was still in the study and had not slipped out.

"It's really interesting, an extraordinary version of hide and seek?"

Maric hurried to the place where the sound of turning books had just been made. No one was seen, but he was not depressed. Instead, he had a smile on his face.

I saw cold air emanating from his whole body, and the light blue cold air enveloped him in all directions. At the same time, he transformed into a werewolf form, with a pair of wolf ears raised to listen.

As the cold air passed, a light layer of frost formed on the ground.

After almost a few seconds, Maric's wolf ears moved slightly, and his body crashed five meters to the left.

boom!

The speed was very fast, knocking Hastur out of the so-called invisible state.

"Invisibility isn't that easy."

Maric raised his chin slightly, his tone revealing undisguised pride.

Hasta covered his shoulders, rubbed them twice and said, "Sure enough, there are still a lot of loopholes."

"Hasta, are you planning to use this ability to spy on a noble lady taking a bath?"

Hastur looked at Maric's face and sighed: "I am different from you."

"..."

Maric felt inexplicably insulted.

"Ahem, let's get back to business."

Hastur did not give Maric a chance to get angry and changed the topic first.

"Do you think there is any room for improvement in my invisibility?"

"You will make a slight sound when you move your position. Even though you are very restrained and use very light force, it still cannot escape my ears."

Maric thought for a moment and then said: "When faced with a large range of extraordinary abilities, it is easy to force you out of invisibility."

"Also, you have a faint smell of perfume. Although it is very slight, there are some extraordinary people who have very keen senses and can easily detect abnormal changes in the air."

Hasta is open-minded and accepts teachings. These are the areas in which he needs to improve.

"I haven't thought of other problems for the moment. You can ask Sharon to help you try."

"Will Miss Sharon help with this kind of thing?"

Hastur was a little moved. Compared to Maric, Sharon was undoubtedly a more suitable tester.

"Don't worry, I'll help you talk to Sharon. She should also be very interested in your ability."

Maric had a bright smile on his face, as if it was wrapped around him.

"Let's wait until tomorrow night. I need some time to improve my invisibility."

"I really look forward to what kind of shock you can give Sharon."

Maric is obviously watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.

"It would be a shame if he was found all at once."

"It's okay. It's not a shame to lose to Sharon. I became a Sequence 9 Beyonder earlier than her, but she still caught up with me. Now, she has even left me behind."

Then, Maric stayed in the study to give Hastur some relevant advice. From beginning to end, he never asked Hastur how to do this.

After sending Maric away, Hastur stayed alone in the study to continue improving his invisibility.

Today, the reason why he was able to deceive Maric's physical and spiritual vision one after another was because he set two rules for himself in advance in the study.

Rule number one: He doesn't emit any light within a certain distance around him.

In short, it achieves the so-called invisibility effect by deceiving people's eyes.

This involves modern science, which is a bit complicated. Hastur would not be able to do this if he did not have extraordinary abilities.

In addition to this rule, there is also the help of secret authority.

Otherwise, the fluctuations in the rules here cannot be hidden.

From Maric's perspective, he could not sense the aura and fluctuations of the rules here, and Hastur could not be seen with the naked eye, thus forming the so-called invisibility technique.

The second rule is specifically designed to deceive spiritual vision, and with the help of secret authority, this is even simpler.

Deceiving the naked eye and spiritual vision so that they cannot function as they should, this is the basic principle of Hastur's current invisibility.

It sounds powerful, but in fact it has many limitations.

The abilities of extraordinary people are far beyond those of ordinary people. Like the five senses mentioned by Maric, as long as any one of the senses is extremely good, you can sense where he is even with his eyes closed.

Physical invisibility uses the principle of light imaging, but not all extraordinary people observe the world through this principle.

There is also the issue of sequence level. I am only Sequence 7. When encountering an Extraordinary with a higher sequence, it is easy to see through the illusion.

The so-called invisibility is more like a joke about the emperor's new clothes.

"If there is only a spirit body, it will be easier to achieve invisibility."

Hastur soon discovered that no matter how he made the rules, the innate nature of the body meant that it could not be completely hidden.

In the spirit state, it cannot be seen directly with the naked eye, and it can also float in the air. It makes no sound when it changes position, and there is no smell that can be smelled.

Just like the state of a ghost, the body is inherently more suitable to be the carrier of invisibility than the body.

If he wanted to deceive an extraordinary person like Sharon, it would only be possible in the spiritual state.

With direction in hand, Hastur continued to study how to improve the second version of invisibility.