Chapter 659: Current Situation
In a tavern in a small city in the southwest of the Loen Kingdom, Leonard, who was unshaven and still drinking in broad daylight, suddenly felt that there was something in his body.
"Old man, old man, are you back?" Leonard put down his wine glass, his whole body trembling with the tone.
"Oh, you're really good at drinking in broad daylight."
The mocking words shook Leonard's spirits. He pursed his lips, drained the beer in the glass, and said with a smile: "Without you guys here, I am alone and bored, so I can only drink some wine to pass the time. "
"Aren't you going to continue to advance to a higher level?"
"As high as you can go, I can only go so far in my life."
"Don't you often claim to be the protagonist of this era?"
"That's just because I haven't met the real protagonist of the era yet. Now that I have met him, I am content with being ordinary."
Leonard's voice was filled with relief.
"So living a life of drunkenness and dreaming of death is the path you have chosen?"
"I am preparing to travel around the world and become a real bard. Old man, are you interested in accompanying me on this journey?"
"You just want to find a free guide, right?"
"Old man, you have seen through all my little thoughts."
Leonard paid for the drink, stood up and left the tavern with a smile.
As a bard, it is natural to have poems to sing, and poems praising the stars and the Fool are all very good.
Soon, Leonard was singing a poem praising the stars and departed.
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In the Southern Continent, Audrey and Sharon were carefully looking at the starlight incarnation in front of them. Audrey even stretched out her finger to poke the arm of Hastur's incarnation, without any concrete feeling.
"This is just an incarnation of starlight, made purely of light." Hastur explained with a smile.
During this period of time, he has been adapting to his promotion to the Singer of Sequence 1 Star in the Hall of Stars. Continuous promotion is also a load for him, which needs to be digested slowly.
In order to prevent Sharon and Audrey from worrying, he sent down a starlight incarnation to meet them first.
"It is purely composed of light, isn't it just an illusory existence like an illusion?" Audrey asked curiously.
"There is still an essential difference." Hastur explained: "Illusions cannot interfere with the real world, but my incarnation can."
Hastur gathered a beam of starlight with one hand and smashed it at Azshara, who was eating dried fish. It was so frightened that it jumped onto the house and then let out an aggrieved meow.
Audrey roughly understood the function of this incarnation and had no intention of continuing to explore it.
"Are you really safe in the stars?"
"Well, there's no danger at the moment."
Sharon raised her head and glanced at the starry sky, "I always have a bad feeling in my heart."
"You are overthinking, just relax."
After Hastur comforted Sharon and chatted with them for a while, his starlight incarnation left the Southern Continent and descended on the Yellow Church in Backlund.
Hastur did not disturb the followers in yellow and only met with Lady Lisa.
As soon as they met, Mrs. Lisa knelt on the ground, prostrate, as if she had been greatly frightened.
"Are you surprised to see me back safe?"
"No, you misunderstood. I am apologizing for having unintentionally peeked into your secret."
"What secret?"
"The prophesied black star." Mrs. Lisa's tone was trembling, and she didn't even dare to raise her head. "I can't continue to recall this secret, otherwise my soul will be completely destroyed."
Hasta was puzzled by this, and Mrs. Lisa explained: "This is a prohibition I set for myself, so as not to allow myself to recall the forbidden secret again."
Gee, is this the self-cultivation of a devout believer?
Hasta sighed in his heart, he had roughly guessed what the forbidden secret Mrs. Lisa was talking about.
She should have known the fact that she was not the King in Yellow.
The stars are not the same as the King in Yellow, and there is even hostility between the two.
Mrs. Lisa spied on some secrets, and she was frightened to seal that part of her memory to prevent herself from blaspheming the gods.
The followers of the King in Yellow have now gradually taken the shape of stars.
To Hastur, the Great Old One, believers are nothing more than toys for fun.
Hasta did not dwell on this issue anymore and began to ask Mrs. Lisa about the current situation of the Yellow Clothes Church during this period. After confirming that there was no trouble, he left the Yellow Clothes Church.
He felt it for a while, then went to the place where Will's parents originally lived, and really found Will here.
"I tried my best to control my aura, but you still caught me. How perverted." Will, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, curled his lips.
"This is the pull of fate. My shape has long been imprinted on your destiny."
"...Can you please stop speaking so ambiguously?"
"Why are you still here?"
"I always want to spend this life with my parents in this life." Will glanced at his unconscious parents, who were busy in the kitchen preparing tonight's dinner.
"Is this what fate requires?"
"No, this is my need." Will shook his head: "I want to end this life on my own."
Hastur did not mention this issue again and asked Will what happened during this time.
"The number of outer gods from the starry sky was much greater than before. They acted unscrupulously and have caused many troubles."
"Adam and the True Creator are connected to the starry sky."
"You must be careful. Those Outer Gods did things without any moral bottom line in the past."
Hasta talked a lot with Will before leaving Backlund. He went to Intis and met Klein.
Hasta couldn't help but smile when he heard that Klein's current name was Antinous, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud.
He had heard of the name Antinous. This man was a famous male favorite in history. He was favored by an emperor named Hadrian.
After Antinous died, Emperor Hadrian named him a god, the savior of the world and the god of peace. He also built a city and countless statues for him.
Klein might not know the origin of this name, but Roselle, who gave him this name, definitely knew.
Klein smiled bitterly and said, "I've always felt that this name is problematic."
"Actually, this name is quite suitable for you and Roselle."
"..."
Klein could hear Hasta's suppressed laughter, and sighed, "Roselle, we should call him the Great Emperor of Geng in the future."
"This title suits him very well."
Hasta chatted with Klein briefly, and then handed him a bookmark with the secrets of each sequence of the Diviner's Path.
This is not a real Diviner's Tarot card, but the content he had engraved from An Banyu.
Klein took the bookmark and read it fascinatedly. This is the gift he needs most at the moment.
With this bookmark, the entire Diviner's Path is no longer a secret to him.
He only needs to focus on finding extraordinary materials and digesting potions, which saves him a lot of time.
"Mr. Hasta, this gift is too precious."
"Before I ascended to the starry sky, you once gave me a blessing. Now, this is my return gift to you."
Klein finally did not refuse. This is indeed the gift he needs most at the moment.
"Is Mr. Hasta going on another long journey?"
"Pay attention to my gaze, which is coming from the starry sky. Don't let them notice you."
Hasta briefly talked to Klein for a few more words before leaving Intis.
His last stop was the Rorsted Islands, Bernadette's Star Sea Kingdom.
Sensing Hasta's arrival, Bernadette ended the meeting early.
Recently, her old father asked her to sponsor a lot of wealth in order to restore the glory of Intis, and for this reason, the Star Sea Kingdom and the Republic of Intis signed a number of contracts.
"Are you used to not having the lamp god chattering beside you?" Hasta stood on the balcony protruding from the second floor of the castle.
"The starry sky without the shining stars is a scenery that I can't get used to." Bernadette smiled and said.
"Now you are more and more like a qualified believer in the stars. This is your father's evaluation of you."
"Stars, do you want to hear my father's evaluation of you?"
"No."
Hasta directly rejected the proposal. He knew that Roselle would never say anything good.
Bernadette smiled and didn't mention the topic again.
"The stars are ascending to the starry sky, and the whole starry sky is boiling."
"You seem to yearn for the starry sky?"
"Because of my father, I have been afraid of and yearning for the starry sky since I was a child."
"At least now, the starry sky is not suitable for you."
"Now what I yearn for is no longer the starry sky." Bernadette said something meaningful.
Hasta talked a lot with Bernadette, and when he left, he told Bernadette to be careful, and then returned to the starry sky.