Lord of Mysteries: The Outer God is Me

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"Something important?" Lin Ruo pinched the letter, his brow raised, his expression a bit strange. "Could it be Bernadette Gustav has come?"

Aside from that possibility, Lin Ruo really couldn't think of anything else important at the moment.

After all, if it were about Roselle the Great's diary, the other party could just write a letter asking about it or send the diary over with a messenger. That was what they had agreed on before.

—In fact, in the past few days, Lin Ruo had already received some of Roselle's diaries that Bornova had sent over by messenger. Unfortunately, most of these diaries were either ones he had already read or were of little value. Although a small portion involved him, there was no key information. Too much of it recorded the battles of wits and courage between Roselle and him back then in order to urge him to submit his manuscript.

Clearly, Bornova was different from Bernadette Gustav, who held the vast majority of Roselle the Great's diaries. He himself had not collected these before.

Moreover, based on some of the information Lin Ruo had collected and the known clues, Lin Ruo discovered that Bornova didn't seem to want the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery to know that he was collecting these. The other party didn't seem to be collecting Roselle's diaries through the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery's channels.

It must be said that this was intriguing, but considering Roselle's open break with the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery when he died, Bornova's actions seemed normal again.

"Not necessarily, maybe they found a clue related to the Great Emperor?" Lin Ruo muttered to himself, casually placing the letter on the table. After tidying himself up, he planned to go to the appointment.

Although he didn't know what the important thing Bornova was talking about was, even if it was really "Queen Mystic" Bernadette Gustav who had come, considering that the meeting would take place inside St. Samuel's Cathedral, Lin Ruo wasn't afraid.

More accurately, if Bernadette was really willing to meet him inside St. Samuel's Cathedral, Lin Ruo would be more than happy.

However, to Lin Ruo's disappointment, when he visited Saint Anthony's study again, he still only saw Bornova. On the table next to him was a mirror. Lin Ruo glanced at the mirror and confirmed what it was—the Mirror of Arrodes, Klein's loyal simp in the original work.

It seems Bornova brought it along... Lin Ruo withdrew his gaze, looked at Bornova again, and asked, "Do you have something important to discuss with me?"

"Yes, Uncle Lin Ruo." Bornova nodded, his expression seemed a little nervous. Lin Ruo noticed that he was clutching a small metal box tightly in his hand.

"What exactly is it?" Lin Ruo asked, his gaze falling on the metal box in the other party's hand.

"I recently remembered something. After seeing you, Uncle Lin Ruo, it was a sealed memory... Then, following the memory, I found this." Bornova raised his hand and handed the metal box in his hand to Lin Ruo, saying:

"This was given to me by Father... During our last meeting, he asked me to give this to you."

Lin Ruo's eyes narrowed as he took the metal box from Bornova's hand. It was a rather exquisite box, engraved with mysterious and ancient patterns. Lin Ruo's fingertips traced over the patterns, and something flashed through his mind instantly.

It seemed to be inside a palace, in front of a window where you could see the stars and the moon. He saw a man with chestnut-brown, slightly curly long hair, wearing a dark red coat embroidered with gold thread, quietly gazing in a certain direction.

Lin Ruo knew that was the direction of the Western Continent.

That was the direction of Huang Tao and Zhou Mingrui's hometown.

"Alas..."

He heard a sigh, but it seemed that everything was just an illusion.

"Why are you here? Didn't you say you were going to beat up the naughty kids?"

Lin Ruo heard the other party ask.

He saw Roselle turn his head and then show a surprised expression.

"What's wrong with you? Wasn't your humanity maintained well before? Could it be that you were tricked by Amon..."

Lin Ruo wasn't surprised that the other party asked that, because he also saw himself reflected in Roselle's pupils.

How should he describe that him?

That was an expression that seemed to regard everything as a dream bubble. It wasn't ordinary indifference, but seemed to be a disregard for everything.

Lin Ruo even had a strange feeling, as if in his eyes at this moment, everything was unimportant, everything was illusory, as if the world was just a bubble that could be easily burst, both fragile and unable to attract his attention.

Whether it was the world itself or the people in the world.

No! That's not how it is!

It shouldn't be like this!

He pursued power clearly for...

Lin Ruo suddenly woke up and broke free from that state, but the scene in his memory hadn't ended yet.

Lin Ruo saw Roselle approaching him somewhat, his expression slightly worried: "Are you okay? Don't scare me, why did you suddenly become like this? Could it be that you were tricked by Amon..."

Those rambling words seemed like a switch. Lin Ruo could feel that the emotions of him in the memory seemed to fluctuate, and then the whole person became alive, as if humanity had taken over the authority from the lofty gods.

"Long time no see..."

Lin Ruo heard himself say, seeing Roselle's astonished and puzzled expression.

"You... is your brain finally having problems?" Roselle looked at him with a strange expression.

"Hahaha!"

He heard himself laugh, like joy, like sadness, and seemed to carry some meaning that Lin Ruo didn't understand.

After laughing, Lin Ruo heard himself say:

"The corruption you have suffered cannot be solved by dying once."

"But it's not entirely without a solution."

In Roselle's puzzled eyes, the young man handed him a small metal box.

He then looked into Roselle's eyes, but seemed to be talking to another person:

"This is the key, the key to saving everything."

"Don't rush to retrieve the past, you must climb to the top before everything ends."

"This is the ritual you must complete."

Lin Ruo bit his lower lip tightly. He was sure that the him in the memory wasn't talking to Roselle, but to him.

But how is this possible!

Lin Ruo felt that his heart was simply a mess.

And the memory continued.

"What? What do you mean by that?" Roselle obviously didn't understand his riddle-like words, after all, this wasn't meant for him to hear.

The young man no longer looked into Roselle's eyes, but just glanced at the cosmos outside the window. At that moment, Lin Ruo was sure that what he saw wasn't an illusion.

He saw the scarlet moon in the sky turn silver-white for a moment.

Like the moon of his hometown.

"So beautiful..."

He heard him say that, his voice very soft.

"When you plan to die, give it to Bornova and let him give this key to me."

The young man withdrew his gaze and looked at Roselle again.

"The me at that time will solve the corruption on you."

He said that, but his tone became more and more indifferent, as if the human side just now was just a flash in the pan.

"Alas..."

Lin Ruo heard a sigh again. After the sigh, he blinked his eyes, and in front of him was the familiar study again. Bornova was looking at him with astonishment and worry.

"Uncle Lin Ruo... are you okay?"

Lin Ruo raised his hand and touched warm tears.

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