Lord of the Mysteries

Chapter 1196 The Ugly Duckling

When opening the first level of the Box of the Great Old Ones, the long table, chairs, Fors, and the others were like dolls. They were either still or motionless. Otherwise, under the power of torsion springs, they made repeated simple movements.

Upon seeing this scene, Botis’s hair stood on end. For some baffling reason, he felt that he was about to join and become one of them.

He instinctively wanted to react to the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact in his hand, but he saw the hooded, purple-robed woman retract her right hand and hold it to her mouth, slightly clenched.

A dark color instantly formed in her palm. It was an ancient bugle with a charm that appeared very heavy and powerful.

The Horn of Magic, the Horn of Destruction!

Botis’s pupils dilated as he lacked the luxury of time to deal with the Box of the Great Old Ones. He grabbed forward with his right hand, as though he had raised an invisible screen that shielded the void.

The area he was in was distorted once again. He disappeared and was concealed.

Woo!

The horn in Cattleya’s hand let out a soft hum. It echoed in the room but didn’t extend out of its confines.

With the sound waves overlapping, the shadows shattered and the ground cracked. The space that had been concealed by the Saint of Secrets was like a thick piece of glass that had been struck by a sledgehammer. Countless cracks appeared and intertwined with each other.

Elsewhere, a towering knight in full black armor appeared out of the shadows. He held a long broadsword, and two dark red beams of light glimmered in his eye sockets—Saint Tenebrous Kisma.

Woo!

Once again, Cattleya blew the horn. Everything in the room seemed to freeze into a translucent amber.

Silently, the amber broke apart, and even the black-armored knight fell to the ground like a mirror, shattering into small shards.

The distorted region returned to the real world.

However, Botis also managed to grab the gaps between the two horn blows as he created numerous illusory doors to appear around them.

Some of them were double doors that opened outwards, some were deep and recessed, some were covered in mysterious patterns, and some were hollow in the middle, allowing one to vaguely see the boundless darkness behind them…

The illusory doors were in bountiful numbers, densely packed, and overlapped together, almost enveloping the Saint of Secrets.

with seven brass locks, and he threw the Box of the Great Old Ones that was just about to have its second layer

target that he had gained initial control of into a corresponding chaotic space. As for the different illusory

of isolating the Box of the Great Old Ones from reality for twenty seconds. Once

“betrayal” induced by the enemy’s Beyonder powers would

things, and recorded many kinds of powers, Botis made the

the same time, the Black Knight that had split into pieces quickly squirmed and reformed, becoming a thin rug that flowed with flesh

only survive in the shadows of reality, the Aurora Order might have many lunatics, but they were used

was in its final stages, they would definitely proclaim their existence

the possible enemies

a layer of flesh grew out from the floor, walls, and ceiling, a twisted black

souls that Saint Tenebrous

powerful vampire from the Forsaken Land of the Gods, a Sequence 4 Shaman

there only one could be released at any one point in time unless the corresponding Shepherd had already become a Sequence 3

was dissipating, the twisted Shaman King reached out and dug

shimmered with a bright, crimson glow as it instantly illuminated the entire room, as though the crimson moon had

the purple-patterned

which was holding

darkness bound her to the spot. It froze the

took a step forward, phasing

by another as a total of eight figures dressed in

but afterimages he left behind due to his blazing

condensed a blinding white spear. Some were covered in black armor as

either attacked or created a form of control, but their target

to another

as this was Backlund. Also, the commotion created from their battle couldn’t be suppressed any further. Once it

of counterattacks before “Teleporting” away was because he wanted to suppress the enemy

apartment, Xio had learned of all the changes in the venue

anxious, she didn’t panic at all. She followed the plan and jumped

“Teleportation is prohibited here!”

herself from the apartment

to successfully enter the spirit world. A rusty, abnormally heavy door appeared

Botis, an illusory door of this level wasn’t able to stop him from leaving at all. He could “open” the

anomalous had happened over at the female demigod in the purple-patterned

appeared in Cattleya’s eyes. They