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.

was ajar. After Weimer exerted force with his hands, it slowly

immediately lit up, helping him see

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

viscous, pale-yellow liquid fell from the sky and hit the ground like rain, giving people the feeling that the dome was severely damaged

the viscous, disgusting liquid dissolve

puddles rolled and bubbled

popped, and deformed babies with moist skin and

viscous yellow liquid, creating more puddles and stirring

"Waaa! Waaa! Waaa!"

They began to cry.

from Gray's eyes. The eye patch turned dark red as if

blank. He felt that every part of his body was

him to his senses, and he

of Gray returned to normal. It was still the empty cathedral hall with wide windows that lacked maintenance, and a tall and magnificent dome. There

Gray panted

around and shouted as he ran,

thud thud! Gray rushed out

care about Parvi, Ol' Keaton, and Weimer

was already considered a responsible captain for still remembering to warn his teammates under

Thud! Thud! Thud!

despite his blurred vision, he ran all the way out of the strange town, back to

rushed back in less

"Set sail!" Gray ordered.

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

eyes, he realized that it was not

he ran, he kept

brows knitted together, startled and

he was

He turned to look at Ol' Keaton and the

captain. His eyes were red as if he had just

lingering fear,

roof with

with light. I felt like I was going blind. No,

a sigh

me up

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

real. There were still lingering fears when he woke up, but he would be fine

nodded and carefully

that there was really no problem,

"What about you?"

at the distant coastline and the shrinking port and said in

cathedral collapsed. I fell to the ground with

Moreover, my head, my flesh, and my skin fell at different speeds.

slightly loose skin and deep wrinkles on Ol' Keaton's face trembled as if he

said after a

to be torn apart. Then, it was as if there were invisible hands around me. They pressed my hands, legs, head, skin, flesh, and bones to my internal organs

possible. Fortunately, I woke up the next second

Weimer sighed with emotion.

you hadn't woken

and said thankfully, "I wasn't in that much

that made