MTL - This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic-Chapter 404 pen of order
Chapter 404 The Pen of Order
"Little Disaster Ji, so that's what it means..."
Mu You frowned and looked at the illusory book in front of him.
The description in the essay in front of him does not match the history of The Fool he learned from the game.
In the background story at the beginning of the game "The Fool", the Fools are a group of people who can't cast magic, so they are called fools by wizards. The Wizards Association refused to share the world with the Fools, so they launched a war and built a 'high wall' to block the Fools in the Forgotten Land.
However, judging from this essay, the Fools are not born unable to release magic, but after returning from the high heavens, for some reason, they lost the ability to release magic.
The name 'The Fool' is not a derogatory term given by wizards, but what they have always called themselves. In fact, the original meaning of the name 'The Fool', as can be seen from the interpretation of his fool card, is a person with an 'adventurous spirit', not a person who cannot use magic.
In addition, the Wizards Association did not start the war because of its arrogance and looked down on the fools and felt that the fools were ignorant, but because they were afraid of them, afraid that the fools would recover their vitality, let the sky city fly again, and bring disasters to the mainland.
In short, the background described in this essay and the game is almost completely different.
Compared to this, Mu You certainly believes more in this essay.
The most obvious point: In the game, it is said that the ancestor of the Fool does not have the ability to release magic, but the actual situation is that all players who enter the game can learn and release magic normally.
And the natives of the star spirit world have never expressed any doubts about the fact that the Fool can cast spells, which shows that they subconsciously agree that the Fool has magical potential.
It can be seen that the background introduction of the game "The Fool" was artificially fabricated by the game designer, deliberately misleading the players. The purpose may be to vilify the image of the Wizarding Association and make players have enough hatred for the Wizarding Association from their hearts.
Mu You exhaled, and closed the mid-empty illusory book with his magic wand.
Through the contents of this book and the information he just learned that the Fool came from before the Great Calamity, Mu You has already outlined a general cause and effect in his mind:
The ancestors of the Fools were originally the civilization of the last protoss era. For some reason, they learned of the existence of the catastrophe period, discovered the law of the destruction of the astral world every 4000 years, and at the same time found a way to avoid the catastrophe period. The best way - to hide in the forgotten land!
At that time, the 'wall' between the Forgotten Land and the Astral World should not have been damaged. The Cataclysm will destroy the Astral World, but it will be blocked by the wall and will not affect the world behind the wall.
So the Fools took the excavated remains of the gods, and collectively migrated into the Forgotten Land four or five thousand years ago, and spent the Catastrophe Period under the protection of the wall.
After the catastrophe period, the astral world ushered in a new era, and at this time, the fools in the forgotten land were divided into two factions, let's call it the farming faction and the adventurous faction, among which the "farming faction" was tired of the astral world Due to the disputes and risks in the world, they decided to live peacefully in the forgotten land without magic power, which is probably the ancestor of modern humans.
On the other hand, the fools of the "adventurous faction" couldn't restrain their desire for exploration and knowledge, so they brought the skeletons back to the astral world, ruled hundreds of tribes easily, and then supported the human race, using the human power of the human race to create Twelve sky cities.
Later things became clear. In 2405 of the Astral Calendar, that is, more than 1400 years ago, the fools took the sky city to the high sky, but encountered some kind of disaster on it, so they could only escape back to the planet in embarrassment. As a result, the spirit world caused a small calamity in the star spirit world.
After the end of the Lesser Calamity, the adventurous Fools whose power was sealed were naturally no match for the Wizards Association.
For more than a thousand years after that, the Astral World and the Forgotten Land were safe and sound, and did not communicate with each other.
Until now, a thousand years later, a word game was born in the Forgotten Land, allowing countless players to know the existence of the Astral World, and set foot on this land again through soul projection...
Mu You let out a long sigh.
It can only be said that the premonition of the man in black is right, the Fools have indeed made a comeback again!
And this time they came more violently and radically than the original Fools. Hundreds of millions of players rushed into the Star Spirit World like locusts with an instigated revenge mentality, and instantly stunned the Wizards Association. Within, it rises again and restores all sky cities!
It can be said that the time for the Wizarding Association to curb the development of the Fool has passed. With the current speed of development, it is only a matter of time before they become the overlord of the astral world again.
Now the question is, who actually created the Fool game?
Are those adventurers who fled back to Earth thousands of years ago?
If yes, are they alive now?
Unfortunately, this question is destined to be impossible to find the answer in this library.
Mu You shook his head, time is precious, he can only continue to search for information.
In addition to the concepts of big and small calamities, the most urgent thing Muyou needs now is of course the information on the inheritance mission.
Continuous release of the search spell's magic shock would arouse the vigilance of the monsters on the roof. Mu You waited for a while until the magic power scattered on the scene had dissipated, and then cast the spell again. He searched for the 'balance of order' first, and the result: none.
Backtracked and searched for 'Book of Order', but there was still no result.
Immediately without giving up, he searched for 'Pen of Order' again.
Finally got it this time!
The golden runes form a chain, extending all the way to a bookshelf on the front left.
Mu You hurried over to check. At this time, on the top of the bookshelf, a page of illusory paper automatically appeared at the part connected by chains. The paper looked yellowed and torn, obviously very old.
Mu You read the content on the paper, which was an excerpt from an unofficial history book called "Desert Chronicle".
"...In 2811 of the Protoss Calendar, the famous desert emperor Radars Caesar bought a magical pen from a parade vendor. It is said that it is an artifact of the gods and has the power to rewrite the order of all things, but that person The merchant also warned him that this is a cursed artifact, and all those who use it, without exception, will suffer eternal torture and die... It is a pity that Caesar did not heed the advice, and he used the magic pen to turn the desert into a desert. Oasis, created the most powerful army in the world, conquered the north and south on his behalf, finally unified the desert, and established the Kingdom of Caesar. Together with his entire kingdom, it disappeared into the desert overnight, and no one has heard of him since then, and the magic pen evaporated and disappeared into the world along with him..."
"In the desert?"
Mu You was taken aback.
The 'pen' mentioned on this page is probably the pen of order.
What kind of desert emperor, apparently, suffered a backlash because of the abuse of the divine tool, and even caused a whole country to die with him, and the magic pen disappeared with him.
But now, after all, more than a thousand years have passed, where this magical brush went afterward, whether it was picked up by others, it is not mentioned, and all clues are interrupted here.
Fortunately, no matter what, it finally gave him a direction to investigate.
'Radars Caesar', Mu You remembered the name, then canceled the magic power, waited for a while, and after the magic power shock dissipated, he swung his staff again to cast spells.
The time is now 0:50, and before he knew it, the two hours were coming to an end, and the group of silent beasts on the top of the building would soon be back from watching the moon, so he had to hurry up.
The golden runes reappeared again, and this time Mu You searched for: Divine Skeleton.
The countless characters around began to rotate again, but this time the time seemed to be extraordinarily long.
The golden rune floated for nearly ten minutes before finally stopping.
What stunned Mu You was that more than 20 golden chains were formed on the scene, leading to different directions.
"Wipe, so much?"
Mu You was surprised. He thought that the skeletons of the astral world would be very rare, but he found so many contents?
The embarrassing thing is that time is running out at this moment, and Mu You seems to be able to hear the breathing sound of the silent beasts on the roof starting to move.
Before he had time to think about it, Mu You hurriedly activated his super speed and moved around at lightning speed, checking all the found content one by one.
The result made him very disappointed. Among the twenty-two articles in total, twelve of them were all about the hidden bones of the gods in the sky city.
Among the remaining ten articles, three pointed out that there are gods hidden in the territories of the dark elves, dwarves, and sun elves, but these were impossible for him to touch.
There are six remaining items, and the unity of description is that the bodies of gods are buried in the 'outland'. Every time the cataclysm of the astral world is over, the scope will be reduced by a circle, and these "cut off" parts are the outer domains. Of course Mu You knew that there were **** corpses in the outer domain, but a special entrance was required to enter the outer domain, just like the tomb of the **** of death before. However, these contents only mentioned the Outland, but did not mention the entrance of the Outland, which is useless.
It wasn't until the last one that he finally got some clues.
"...don't get close to the Tower of the Brave in Baifeng City, because there is a demon **** guarding it, and you will become unlucky if you get close to it..."
The last one is actually a nursery rhyme, which came from a popular nursery rhyme in Baifeng City two or three thousand years ago, but it seemed that it was banned from singing because the lyrics involved gods.
"White Maple City?"
Mu You was taken aback when he saw this place name: The name looks familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere...
It's a pity that Mu You didn't remember where he saw it for a while, but at this time, the roar of the Silent Beast was heard from above his head, obviously, his existence had been discovered.
Mu You had no choice but to cancel the spell, and sank into the shadow room on the spot.
The next moment, a large number of Silent Beasts with giant axes and smoke tails rushed into the library, searching back and forth angrily, but failed to find Mu You's location.
"It seems that these things can't get into the shadow room..."
Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, and observed the floating things above through the transparent ground.
These silent beasts are very similar in appearance to the time guards I saw in the Tomb of the God of Death.
According to Weiwei'an, these things are similar to the 'administrators' of this world, responsible for maintaining various basic rules and order in the astral world, once a bug appears somewhere, or someone does not follow the rules, try to jump out of the rules Action, and these things will appear, or solve the problem, or solve the person who finds the problem...
Mu You lingered in the shadows for a while, hoping that the things above his head would get bored and desert the library.
It turned out that he was thinking too much. Except for the two hours of admiring the moon, these things conscientiously guarded their posts and never left.
After waiting for an hour to no avail, Mu You had no choice but to leave.
Follow the shadows all the way to the first floor of the library.
Leaving the library in a sneaky manner, Mu You went to the shadow of a corner corner, took away the invisibility cloak from Mrs. McKenna, and then took a jar of sobriety potion for her to drink.
What Mu You gave her was only the lowest level of drowsiness potion, and a bottle of sobriety potion was enough to remove the effect.
Before the potion took effect, Mu You sank into the shadow again and left.
A few seconds later, Mrs. McKenna, who was lying on the cold bluestone, opened her eyes in a daze, got up and yawned.
Looking at the familiar scenery around her, Mrs. McKenna was stunned for more than ten seconds before reacting. She hurriedly covered her chest and lowered her head to check her clothes.
The next second, a high-decibel scream echoed across the campus.
A few minutes later, the alarm bells of the entire Red Rose Academy rang...
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When the Red Rose Academy was in trouble because of the late-night attack on a female teacher, Mu You had already returned to the Undercity.
"Look at the trick, one shot!"
As soon as he appeared in front of the teleportation formation, Mu You heard an immature cry behind him.
He turned around, raised his right hand, and easily caught the blade of a wooden knife that was slashing at him with his fingers.
Appearing behind him was Mu Mianmeng. The little girl was holding up a wooden knife with both hands, leaning back with all her strength, trying to pull the wooden knife out from his fingers.
Mu You looked down and saw that the little girl was wearing a familiar white animal face mask.
It was actually a rare piece of equipment.
【Cat's Eye Mask: After wearing it, the softness and flexibility of the body are greatly improved, and the elegance and lightness of the feline family are obtained, allowing you to see things in the dark. 】
"Where are you from?" Mu You looked at her strangely.
"The cat sister gave it to me!"
After the little girl finished speaking, Mu You let go of her fingers, and she finally pulled out the wooden knife, and sat back on her buttocks under inertia. But when she was about to fall, the little girl supported the ground with one hand, performed a light backflip, and landed with a perfect score.
Of course she couldn't do this kind of action with her unstrengthened physique. It was obviously the effect of this cat mask.
The little girl was extremely embarrassed after landing, she pulled her eyelids and made a face at Mu You, then ran away with the wooden knife in her hand.
Mu You ignored her, but turned his head to look behind him, and there was a catwoman walking towards him quickly.
Only lions and Virgos will appear in this image, and this one must be Virgo, because a lion can never walk such an elegant catwalk.
After approaching, Virgo raised the writing board in her hand: "The little girl is very cute, I gave it to her."
"Such a precious thing, isn't it good..." Mu You was a little surprised. Rare props, in terms of value, have at least a thousand-year lifespan. A thousand-year-old thing, just like this as a small toy?
Mu You suddenly wondered if Virgo's family was some wealthy family...
As a result, Virgo wrote and drew on the paper, and then held up the cardboard: "Because I have something to ask for."
"Oh? What's the matter?" Mu You asked.
Virgo took a little longer to write and draw this time, and only held up the cardboard after a while.
On the cardboard is a super long text plus several stick figures with pictures, vividly describing the living conditions of the cat people.
Mu You took a look, and the simple meaning was: the cat-humans, who are also nocturnal animals, are also envious of the special environment of Eternal Night City, and want to move here.
(end of this chapter)
