After lunch, everyone went upstairs one after another with heavy hearts.
But Mr. Stork stopped Gilan, as if he wanted to discuss something with him.
"Mr. Stork?" Gilan asked.
"Well, that's it." Mr. Stork spoke briefly before speaking, "The northern friend I was talking about at the dinner table just now is actually a member of 'Record Society'."
Gilan raised his eyebrows.
Record Society members are more than just the four in the apartment?
"Actually, 'Record Society' is a large secret society, and the Assembly I preside over is only a small branch... There are other branches located throughout the empire, but they have little contact with each other."
Mr. Stork seemed to see Gilan's confusion and explained.
"The member who contacted me this time is a friend I met many years ago. Her code name is 'Forest Dove'... According to her, she learned a secret in a True Film Reel called <Hammer of Justice>, which is related to the legacy of an alchemist."
Mr. Stork paused for a moment and lowered his tone:
"The inheritance is in Black City, and the alchemist's name is 'Sabbatai Louis'. What did you think of?"
"Louis Family!"
Gilan narrowed his eyes and blurted out.
Mr. Stork nodded with deep eyes.
"Yes, this alchemist is an ancestor of the Louis Family, and it can be confirmed that he has been dead for many years and left a mysterious legacy!"
Saying that, Mr. Stork turned to look at Gilan.
"Ms. Forest Dove plans to find this inheritance. She has clear clues in her hand, but she is now trapped in the slums and cannot get out. Moreover, Layton Louis, the head of the Louis Family, has noticed her existence and sent his henchmen to hunt her down."
"It was under this last resort that she asked me for help and promised that as long as I helped her escape and get the inheritance, she would give me half of the profit."
"How about it, Mr. Snowy Owl, are you interested in helping me?"
Mr. Stork asked.
"Among us the Assembly, you are the only one with the best skills. I can trust you... No matter whether the matter is successful or not, I will pay you 200 Caesar as a reward. If it succeeds, I will divide another part of the inheritance."
Gilan was lost in thought, Mr. Stork did not rush, just waited quietly.
He can not only attack Louis Family, but also get a hefty reward. He is still happy to take this job... The most important thing is that Gilan now has a certain ability to protect himself.
After a long while, he took a deep breath and asked in a deep voice:
"When will we do it?"
Mr. Stork smiled when he heard this and said immediately:
"Changes will happen later, take action tomorrow morning."
"Okay!" Gilan nodded.
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As night fell, the rain became heavier.
It was pouring rain outside the window, crackling.
Gilan was sitting cross-legged on the bed, meditating with his eyes closed.
In the darkness, the black iron ball he visualized began to squirm, and six sharp iron thorns pierced into his consciousness!
Crack!!
A bolt of lightning flashed across the dark curtain of the rainy night, bursting into white-purple light.
Rumble...
There were rolling thunders and the rain continued.
The electric light briefly illuminated the dark room, and the figure originally sitting cross-legged on the bed suddenly changed into a twisted and weird posture.
He covered his tilted head with both hands, arched his body, and kept shaking.
The eyes were widened and the mouth was open, as if he was suffering from unparalleled pain.
When the electric light disappears, only a blurry outline remains.
Gilan felt pain all over his body and even deep in his soul. His Adam's apple rolled, but he couldn't make a single sound.
In the silent night, there was only the sound of rain, thunder, and the sound of his heartbeat.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
"Hoo..."
Finally, Gilan regained control of his body.
The out-of-body feeling of separation from consciousness disappeared, and he instinctively wailed.
Immediately, he fell heavily on the bed.
Gilan was breathing heavily and sweating all over.
His eyes were extremely bright in the darkness, as if there was light.
'I sensed it! I sensed it clearly!'
Gilan rolled his eyes, and there was obviously nothing in the air in the room, but he sensed through an indescribable "perspective" that there were countless dust-like particles floating around, emitting four colors of light.
Scarlet, blue, golden and gray.
Like a swarm of fireflies, flying around the room.
This kind of "perspective" is not seeing through the eyes, but perceiving from the inside out. If you insist on describing it, it would be like appearing out of thin air in your mind, like an imagination.
Gilan knows, this is "Gnosis induction".
It can also be called "spiritual vision".
Click.
He stood up, sat on the edge of the bed, and pulled the cord of the bedside lamp, and suddenly a warm light illuminated the area around the bed.
With the colorful light twisting, a red leather handbook appeared in Gilan's hand.
'With my current Gnosis, I should be able to read the entire secret record, right?'
He couldn't wait to turn the pages of the book.
Suddenly, Gilan looked overjoyed.
The originally distorted and blurry handwriting became clear!
He really saw the black writing!
"Okay!"
Immediately, he began to read from the first page of <Branding Iron Secret Record>, carefully reading every word recorded by the author Shadai Balbina:
"First of all, before entering the mysterious realm, please allow me to tell you, the reader, what 'Path of the Flaming Sword' is. This is related to your future understanding of mystery."
"The path for mortals to know, understand and master the mystery is called 'Path of the Flaming Sword'. This process is bumpy and long, but if you can reach the top, you can also become the mystery itself."
To the right of the text on this page is a hand-drawn drawing.
It was a cross sword with the tip pointed downward. The sword was in flames, and the flames were in the form of three pillars of fire, spiraling around the sword.
The tip of the sword, the weak sword part, the strong sword part, both sides of the blade, the middle ridge, the edgeless part, the crossguard, the hilt and the pommel, etc., are all marked with rather mysterious and unfamiliar words in small letters.
The flame parts of the three spiral fire pillars also correspond to the names.
Densely packed with more than a hundred words in total.
A strong mysterious charm rushed toward Gilan.
"In 'Path of the Flaming Sword', 'fire' symbolizes the triple spiral, namely the three realms of body, furnace and theosophy, and also corresponds to the three major schools in the world, astrology, alchemy and magic."
"The 'sword' symbolizes the stage of the tenth level of essence."
"The 'Noon Dawn' Omer that represents July is the original Hour-God. It is his brilliance that illuminates the path forward for mankind. It is also he who stole the power of the four Year-God and created 'Path of the Flaming Sword'."
"Therefore, in the triple spiral, the sword symbolizing 'spring and fire', the Holy Grail symbolizing 'summer and water', the star coin symbolizing 'autumn and wind', and the scepter symbolizing 'winter and earth' are the four paths, thus opening up twelve paths to Hour-God."
"As a writer, I, Shadai Balbina, am a fifth-level Long-Lived One on the 'God-Communing Pentacle' path... The end of this path is Hour-God'Twin Kites', which symbolizes the month of May."
"My original essence is 'Secret Casket', and I have the power to seal and utilize secrets."
Gilan stared at the page with feverish eyes.
The author Shadai also explained the common names of the ten major substances above.
Levels 1 to 3 are collectively referred to as "Spirit Mystic".
Levels 4 to 6 are called "Long-Lived One" because people at this stage begin to have a natural lifespan beyond the ordinary.
Levels 7 to 8 are "transformers" with very few descriptions.
The 9th level is "Apostle" and the 10th level is "Hour-God".
The last two stages only have a name and a paragraph. Other than that, there is not much description.
That passage is also excerpted from another book by Shadai Balbina <Celestial Palace Documents>, which is described as follows:
"Hour-God is a god who lives outside the world and is the embodiment of the laws of the world."
"Most of them were once human beings and ascended from humans, so they are also called the 'New Gods'."
"Apostle is the servant of Hour-God, and was called 'angel' in ancient times."
"Hour-God sits on the twelve highest seats. There can be only a few, but not more. There are four Apostles under the seats. The same reason applies. There can only be a few, but not more. Under the Apostles, there are four transformations, and the same is true."
"People's alertness, the rise and fall of civilizations, the survival of species..."
"The passion of creation, the hymn of courage, the redemption of the lost..."
"These are all the results of the ripples that Hour-God accidentally left in the world and achieved in the material world."
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