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.

door with seven brass locks, and he threw the Box

could throw a target that he had gained initial control of into

Great Old Ones from reality for twenty seconds. Once that time

induced by the enemy’s Beyonder

the Apprentice pathway, he had traveled many places, witnessed many things, and recorded many kinds of powers, Botis made the most correct decision in that

pieces quickly squirmed and reformed, becoming a thin rug that

Aurora Order might have many lunatics, but they were used to doing things to conceal themselves so

once the matter was in its final stages, they

hopes of obstructing the possible enemies that were

grew out from the floor, walls, and ceiling, a twisted black shadow

was one of the souls that

of the Gods, a Sequence

existence of its corporeal Spirit Body. However, there only one could be released at any one point in

hand was dissipating, the twisted Shaman King

as it instantly illuminated the entire room, as though the crimson

woman wearing the purple-patterned black robe and

was holding his eye, letting the crimson “moonlight” become completely

solidified darkness bound her to the

Botis took a step forward, phasing behind his enemy

one “Blink” followed by another as a total of eight figures dressed in black

he created, but afterimages he left

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

different powers either attacked or created a form of control, but

figure “Blinked” to another corner, he quickly turned transparent

enemy, as this was Backlund. Also, the commotion created from their battle

because he wanted to suppress the enemy and prevent her from interfering with his and Saint Tenebrous Kisma’s

old apartment,

followed the plan and jumped down from the window,

“Teleportation is prohibited here!”

herself from the apartment to prevent the friendly demigods from being

world. A rusty, abnormally heavy

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

had happened over at the female

in Cattleya’s eyes. They connected together like a mysterious