Chapter 279 Ancient Secrets
The strange illustrations take up almost the entire page, with only a few other illustrations and unrecognizable Greek inscriptions scattered around.
It seemed to be telling an ancient story, but what shocked Mosca was that in this picture, the ancient Greek god Hades only appeared in sporadic illustrations.
And in the main pattern, the protagonist is the strange puppet.
Who is this puppet?
Mosca couldn't help but think that according to ancient Greek legend, if anyone could compete with Hades, the god of the underworld, for a position in the ancient Greek temple, it could only be Zeus.
But Zeus could never be in this image.
So who is this weird puppet man?
Countless thoughts flashed through Mosca's mind in an instant, and finally turned into a sentence that he blurted out.
"What's this?"
Mosca never believed that the demon Mammon would choose a useless thing. Even if the demon Mammon admitted that this thing was the most valuable thing in the temple, Mosca would not be surprised.
"Isn't it obvious what this is?"
There was a strange light in the demon Mammon's eyes, filled with indescribable admiration.
"This is a record left behind when this temple was built in ancient times."
Mosca said slowly: "What is written on this inscription? Who is this person? Why is he here?"
The demon Mammon smiled. He stretched out his hand and seemed to touch the pattern in the air. He said slowly, "It tells the story of Hades, the ancient Greek god of the underworld, and a great being."
"This is not a story that cannot be told, but why should I tell it to you?"
"What do you want?" Mosca asked directly.
He seemed to have a premonition that the secret here was very important.
"In addition to the map, there is also an eye on the tower."
At this point, the demon Mammon paused and said, "The all-seeing eye!"
Mosca frowned and said, "That thing is a sacred object from the tower. It is not something I can access at the moment."
But the demon Mammon shook his head and said, "I don't want the all-seeing eye. I want the inscription under the all-seeing eye."
"Inscription?"
Upon hearing this, Mosca couldn't help but raise his head and look at the ancient pattern. Could it be that the pattern was also related to this?
Mosca had seen the inscription under the Eye of All-Seeing. It was written in the ancient Egyptian Pharaonic language, also known as the Sun Inscription. However, no one in the tower could recognize this text anymore, so not even Mosca knew what was written on it.
But Mosca knew one thing, that the inscription was not an important place, at least that place was never hidden from the eyes of the magicians in the entire tower.
"If it's just an inscription, I can agree to it." Mosca said slowly.
The demon Mammon showed a satisfied smile. He gently raised his finger, and a contract written on an ancient parchment was instantly generated.
"Then...let's sign the contract!"
Mosca signed his name without any hesitation, and the parchment scroll instantly caught fire.
After the parchment scroll burned, the demon Mammon slowly raised his head and said in a tone of vicissitudes of life: "So... are you ready to listen to the story?"
At this moment, in the hall, two hell wizards had already touched the ancient brass book and slowly took it out from under the double fork of Hades, the god of the underworld.
Mosca raised his head, and invisible magic instantly bound the two of them up with chains.
The demon Mammon promised not to touch the ancient brass book, but Mosca never agreed to this.
After dealing with the two Hell Wizards, Mosca slowly raised his head and said, "You can speak now."
The demon Mammon did not comment on what Mosca did. It seemed that he had no interest in preventing a certain contract, nor in helping Murray reach a certain contract.
"You have seen the underworld some time ago. How did it feel?"
"It's cold and terrifying. No matter what, knowing that someone can control your life and death, you must be terrified."
Mosca said coldly, and in his mind he was frantically thinking why the demon Mammon in front of him mentioned the underworld.
The demon Mammon nodded in agreement when he heard this.
"Yes, fear is what should be there."
As he said that, he turned to look at Mosca and asked, "How much do you know about the underworld?"
Mosca frowned and said, "It is said that the hell in every myth exists in that world. It is written in the ancient books in the tower that it is a silent place and also a forbidden place. No matter who enters that world, they can never leave."
"It was a silent hell, the end of death."
“Pah pah pah…”
The demon Mammon applauded and said with a smile, "That's a very good explanation. This is also the traditional understanding of the underworld by almost all supernatural forces over the past two thousand years."
At this point, he paused and said, "But...it's only been two thousand years."
"This was not the case two thousand years ago."
Mosca frowned. This was the second time he discussed the underworld with others since he entered the supernatural world. Could it be that there were some secrets in the underworld that the world didn't know?
The demon Mammon ignored Mosca's thoughts and said to himself: "Two thousand years ago, there was a great being who could easily break the barrier between the Yin and Yang worlds and travel between the worlds of life and death."
"The ancient Greek god Hades heard this and sought out this great being, seeking an opportunity for him to become the King of the Underworld."
"That great being told him that if he became Hades, he would need to put half of the monsters in his hell into a book made of ancient brass and then place the book into the human world."
"Hades agreed, so there is such a temple and such a brass book."
The demon Mammon put his hands behind his back, looked up at the tall statue of Hades and said, "Do you think Hades is less powerful than Zeus?"
"In fact, his authority is even greater than Zeus to some extent. This is the deal he made with that great being."
Mosca was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then he slowly asked as if to confirm: "If according to what you said, then that great being should still be in the world now?"
"You are really smart!"
The demon Mammon's eyes were full of praise.
However, in Mosca's heart, a huge storm suddenly arose. How could there be a god in this world whose power was even higher than that of Hades, the ancient Greek god of the underworld?
In other words, there is still a god-level existence in this world?
(End of this chapter)
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