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.

Botis immediately opened a grayish-blue door with seven brass locks, and he threw the Box of the Great Old Ones that was just about to have its second

gained initial control of into a corresponding chaotic space. As for the

Sequence level, he was only capable of isolating the Box of the Great Old Ones from reality for twenty seconds. Once that time was up, the Grade 0 Sealed Artifact would return to the spot beside him through

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

many places, witnessed many things, and recorded

Black Knight that had split into pieces quickly squirmed and reformed, becoming a

the Aurora Order might have many lunatics, but they were used to doing things to conceal themselves so as to prevent themselves from attracting the official Beyonders before their goals

matter was in its final stages, they would definitely proclaim

Tenebrous Kisma had done so in hopes of obstructing the possible enemies that

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

souls that

from the Forsaken Land of the Gods, a Sequence

Body. However, there only one could be released at

the female demigod’s hand was dissipating, the twisted

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

the purple-patterned black robe

that, the Shaman King clasped the hand which was holding his eye,

appeared around Cattleya as the solidified darkness

took a step forward,

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

but afterimages he left behind due

Some were covered in black armor as they slashed out a heavy broadsword

created a form of control, but their target was one and the

pause in between their actions. When Botis’s figure “Blinked” to another corner, he quickly turned transparent as he was on the brink

intention of killing the enemy, as this was Backlund. Also, the commotion created from their battle couldn’t be suppressed any

first launched a series of counterattacks before “Teleporting” away was because he wanted to suppress the enemy and prevent her from interfering with his and Saint Tenebrous Kisma’s escape.

old apartment, Xio had learned of all the changes in the venue through Miss Justice’s “mind

followed the plan and

“Teleportation is prohibited here!”

doing this, she immediately distanced herself from the apartment to prevent the friendly demigods from being

the Saint of Secrets, Botis, failed to successfully enter the spirit world. A rusty, abnormally heavy door appeared in front of

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

anomalous had happened over

in Cattleya’s eyes. They