Lord of the Mysteries

Parvi shot him a glance.

"People are missing!"

"No, no, no, that's not it. I know that." Weimer shook his head seriously.

His eyes lit up.

"I know what's missing!"

"What?" Captain Gray and First Mate Ol' Keaton asked in unison.

Weimer laughed.

"Money, notes, and gold coins!"

He straightened his back and continued explaining, "Although we haven't entered the houses to conduct a detailed search, according to my experience, even if we just look from the outside, we should be able to find some. However, there's nothing at all!"

"Perhaps it's just that the people here aren't very rich and don't have the habit of leaving their money around." Parvi didn't agree.

This was not an important problem. The four of them quickly diverted their attention. After entering the municipal square, they looked at the tallest building.

It was a black-spired cathedral.

Mushrooms tenaciously grew out of the cracks in the bricks of the cathedral. They were either simple and plain, or gorgeous and colorful. They strung together, showing a presence that couldn't be ignored in front of the green vines.

"This place feels like it's been abandoned for even longer." Parvi paused before saying, "From the architectural style, this looks like the cathedral of the Goddess. Do the people here also believe in the Goddess?"

She found this rather peculiar.

The residents of such a hidden island and strange town seem to believe in the Evernight Goddess…

Ol' Keaton stared at it for a few seconds before saying, "Seems so."

Then, he immediately added, "It feels like the closer we get to the square and the cathedral, the longer it appears to be abandoned."

Be it the weeds on the road, the green plants on the surface of the buildings, or the mushrooms of all kinds, the closer they got to the center of the town, the more numerous they became. And the cathedral seemed to be covered in a green coat with many speckled holes.

After a moment of silence, Parvi suggested, "Let's go to the cathedral. As long as the Goddess is still watching this land, there won't be any particularly serious problems there."

Captain Gray and Ol' Keaton didn't object, but the former reiterated the rules of this exploration.

"After entering the cathedral, you can only use your eyes to see and ears to hear. Don't do anything else."

"No problem." Weimer walked towards the cathedral at the side of the square.

This left Parvi with no choice but to gesture a circle on her chest and simply ask for the Goddess's protection.

As there wasn't much time left, the four of them sped up and quickly arrived at the cathedral's entrance.

They were in no hurry to push the door open and enter. They "sized up" their surroundings individually.

"Very quiet," Captain Gray concluded.

The other three also expressed that they did not find any problems.

cathedral's door was ajar. After Weimer exerted force with his

black eye patch immediately lit up, helping him see the scene

no tables or chairs in the hall. There were windows on both sides that shone with light, and

liquid fell from the sky and hit the ground like rain, giving people the feeling that the dome was severely damaged and was facing a

speak, he saw the viscous, disgusting liquid dissolve

rolled

popped, and deformed babies with moist skin

babies grew rapidly, they dripped more viscous yellow liquid, creating more

"Waaa! Waaa! Waaa!"

They began to cry.

to flow from Gray's eyes. The eye patch turned dark red as if he was moved to tears by the birth of

was blank. He felt that every part of his body was nurturing a new

snapped him to his senses, and he instinctively took a

normal. It was still the empty cathedral hall with wide windows that lacked maintenance, and

Gray

next second, he turned around

Gray rushed out

not care about Parvi, Ol' Keaton, and Weimer at

captain for still remembering to warn his teammates under

Thud! Thud! Thud!

at all. Relying on his amazing physique despite his blurred vision, he ran all the way out of the strange town, back to the crude port,

rushed

"Set sail!" Gray ordered.

set sail before he bothered to check his injuries. He raised a hand to his

eyes, he realized

ran, he

together,

he

see?" He turned to look at Ol' Keaton and the

looked at the captain. His eyes were red as if he

with lingering fear,

fell from the roof with a whoosh

My eyes were filled with light. I felt like I was going blind. No, I'm already blind! Then, I felt

heaved a sigh of

Captain woke me up at that

rubbed his eyes and said in confusion and relief, "I'm fine now. It's just that I kept crying at first, but then I got better. It

lingering fears when he woke up, but he would be fine after a

nodded and carefully examined Weimer's

no problem, he looked at First Mate Ol'

"What about you?"

at the distant coastline and the shrinking port and said

to the ground

Moreover, my head, my flesh, and my skin fell at different speeds. They began to pull at each other.

loose skin and deep wrinkles on Ol' Keaton's face trembled as if he didn't want to recall any more of

exhaled and said after a

to be torn apart. Then, it was as if there were invisible hands around

die as quickly as possible. Fortunately, I woke up the

Weimer sighed with emotion.

even more painful than what happened to me. If you hadn't woken up in time, you might have

quietly and said thankfully, "I wasn't

that made me feel