Chapter 60
Miel's gaze shifted from the red-glowing pendant to the broken golden chain.
"Stolen?"
The answer to this question was obvious, but he asked it anyway.
To this, Csu Hyrum responded, “You know.”
——He seemed to dislike answering such obvious questions.
After saying these two words, he immediately said, "Tell your people to stand back."
Miel understood what he was about to do and turned to Amira. “Miss Amira, please stand still.”
“Oh, okay.” Amira nodded cooperatively, raised her hands, folded her palms in front of her, and stood very elegantly and dignified.
Then Miel pointed in a direction to Rocas: "Rocas, stand under that tree."
"Okay." Lucas didn't ask anything and ran over.
Finally, Miel distanced himself from both of them and took a firm position.
Cthulhylum moves toward Amira before he even stops.
After the three of them distanced themselves, the red pendant stopped glowing, but as Ksu Hylen approached Amira, it began to emit red light again.
"As expected." Ksu Helen turned around neatly and strode towards Rocas.
As the distance between him and Amira widened, the pendant gradually dimmed, but as he approached Rocas, the pendant lit up again.
Ksu Hailun raised his eyebrows, and Mier also showed a look of surprise.
——This time it is not “expected”.
If Miel guessed correctly, the person who could make this pendant glow met the conditions for being sacrificed by the Church of the Mother Earth. The so-called "Son of God" was just a rhetoric to keep the sacrifice in the church.
So it's not surprising that Amira can make the pendant glow. After all, she has been targeted as a sacrifice by the Cult of the Earth Mother in so many timelines.
The fact that Miel could make the pendant glow also explains why he and Amira have many similarities. For example, they are both pure-blooded high elves, they are both lawful and good, and they are both born aristocrats, of noble birth and elegant temperament. This is why Rocas in another timeline was stunned when he first saw Miel.
However, it is intriguing that Rocas can also make the pendant glow.
This proves that whether a person has a "noble soul" has nothing to do with his bloodline or occupation.
Half-elf rogue assassin.
——Miel had no intention of discriminating against Rocas, but he really couldn't imagine Father Tantan excitedly calling a half-elf wanderer assassin "Holy Son" and then kneeling down to him and praising him crazily.
You know what, this kind of scene is definitely worth seeing.
Unfortunately, Rocas in other timelines was not allowed to enter the church, so Father Tantan had no chance to see the "noble guidance" shining for Rocas.
After examining Rocas, Csu Helen said nothing, turned and entered the mansion, and went straight to the room where Dindel was.
Miel quickly caught up.
C'thulhun, who had been standing by with his arms folded and watching silently, also followed in.
C'thulhan didn't tell Miel that when they first looked at each other in the auditorium, he felt that his incarnation was a little strange.
This incarnation was not resistant to sharing memories with him. Every time they looked at each other, they quickly exchanged all the information they had about each other. However, this incarnation was very resistant to merging with him.
This shouldn't happen.
The consciousness of all incarnations comes from the great Cthulhu. Their self-perception is Cthulhu, and they all think they are unique. Therefore, when they meet each other, they will have a sense of disharmony and division, and instinctively want to merge.
The reason why Lola and Leon separated after merging was because they believed that the combined state might cause harm to Miel. Therefore, in order to abide by the oath, they forced themselves to go against the instinct of merging and maintain the state of separation until Miel took the initiative to ask and accept them to become the current whole called "C'thulhun".
But Ksu Hyrum, who had never merged with any incarnation, firmly resisted the merger.
The reason for resistance is disgust.
——C'thulhan was certain that he was disliked by his other incarnation.
The avatar looked at him like an adult looking at a child lying on the ground throwing a tantrum, deciding that the child was stupid and emotional.
Tsk, that’s really annoying.
Although he was unhappy, strangely, he had no intention of beating this incarnation. He even accepted to a certain extent the other party's choice of not considering fusion for the time being, as well as all the decisions made.
Unless this decision would hurt Miel.
…
Csu Helen went straight to the door of Dindel's room and kicked it - knocking magic!
The door opened and Dindel, who was resting on the bed, opened his eyes in confusion.
Ksu Hyrum brought the pendant hanging from his hand closer to him, and the pendant emitted a dazzling red light.
Perhaps because Tyndall's room was dark with the curtains drawn, he always felt that the red light emitted by the pendant in front of him was stronger than ever before.
Mier was worried that his presence would affect the results of the experiment, so he retreated far away.
When Ksu Hyrum came out of the room, he still came to the same conclusion: "Interesting, everyone has a 'noble soul', without exception."
"Where's Ina?" Miel realized that Ina was not in the mansion and didn't know where he had gone.
"He is not important." Ksu Hailun said, turned and walked out.
Miel quickly caught up and asked, "Him?"
Cthulhu Hyrum: "You know, don't fool yourself."
Miel: “…”
What do I know?
I have no idea.
Do I know?
The dark-skinned man who had locked eyes with Rocas twice in his memory came to mind...
Before Miel could think deeply, he saw Ksu Hailun just step out of the house and then soar into the sky with a "whoosh".
Miel looked at the direction where he disappeared with a dazed look on his face. It took him a while to remember that another part of him was still by his side.
"Cthulhu, where is your...other incarnation?" Miel asked Cthulhun beside him tentatively.
C'thulhane pondered for a moment before answering, uttering two words: "You know."
Miel: “…”
C'thulhun: "Sorry, I just think it's cooler to talk like that."
Miel stared at him with accusations in his eyes: "..."
C'thulhun: "Well, you do know, though."
Miel stared at him for a moment longer, lowered his eyes, and sighed: "Yes, I know."
Miel knew that Ksu Helen had gone somewhere else to test the pendant.
If you want to know what a "noble soul" is, you must know what kind of people can make the pendant shine and what kind of people cannot.
But I can't do this with him because the pendant will glow as long as he is around.
But even though he understood the logic of Cthulhu's actions, Miel still couldn't help but sigh: "Cthulhu, your incarnation is so powerful."
C'thulhan: "I think so too."
Miel: "But he doesn't really listen to me."
C'thulhun: "I listened to him, otherwise there would be no one alive in the church now."
Miel: “…You are right.”
C'thulhun: "Although he left behind a lot of mess, it doesn't matter. It was all his fault and has nothing to do with us."
Miel: "Wow, I'm surprised you would take the initiative to cut ties with your own avatar."
In Miel's impression, Lola and Leon would both consciously take responsibility for what they did to each other.
It was Leon who took Bross's ring without asking, but it was Lola who explained to him with an apologetic look on her face.
It was obviously Lola who spent the night with him, but it was Leon who invited him to dinner with a guilty look on his face.
It is incredible that Loen, who was formed by the fusion of them, would actually take the initiative to separate from his other incarnation.
C'thulhan said nothing.
But he responded in Miel's heart.
He cut me.
Miel was stunned.
C'thulhane didn't intend to explain further. He reached out and gently pushed Miel's lower back. "It looks like he won't be back anytime soon. Why don't you go back to your room and rest for a while?"
"No rush." Miel responded and walked out of the mansion.
He first arranged a separate room for Amira and Rocas to talk privately, and then explained what had just happened to Dindel, who was a little more sober.
Simply put, it was a pendant that claimed to react to "noble souls," and it reacted to Miel, Amira, Rocas, and Dindel at the same time.
Although it is still unknown what the "noble soul" is, this may mean that there is a possibility that all four of them will be sacrificed by the Cult of the Earth Mother.
"Sacrifice..." Dindel sat on the bed with his messy silver-gray, slightly curly hair. His gray eyelashes were half-closed because of sleepiness, and his violet eyes were a little dull.
"I admit that I was the one who summoned the soul of another Rocas and merged it into this Rocas." After a moment of silence, he suddenly exploded, catching Miel off guard.
Dindel ignored Miel's shocked expression and continued, "This may be unfair to him in this world, but if I don't do this, the other him won't be able to rest in peace in his dreams."
Miel: "...What do you mean?"
Dindel: "When I learned of his existence, he was already dead. My Lord cannot invite a dead person into the Dreamland. To save him, I can only let him live first, but his body has been torn into pieces, so this is the only way I can do."
Miel didn't know why Father Tyndall was obsessed with letting the dead enter the dreamland... but he could tell that he did it not out of malice, but out of kindness.
Dindel: "You could say I created the Rocas we know today, so I'm responsible for him. I want to know why he's willing to travel through time and space, even at the cost of being targeted by those dangerous beings. What exactly does he want to change?"
Miel: "...Wait? So, actually, you don't know anything?"
Miel was shocked!
Because Father Tyndall and Inai gave him the feeling that they knew everything, he did not avoid them when he talked to Rocas about how to save the saint.
result……
So Father Tyndall listened to them talking about the Earth Mother Religion with a confused look on his face without knowing anything?
Father Tyndall still looked like he'd just woken up, his tone calm but slightly sleepy. "When I summoned the soul, I saw some images, but they were very fragmentary. I know the reason Rocas traveled through time and space might be related to a church in Glory City, so I decided to come here to investigate and protect him. As for everything else, whether it's the saint, the sacrifice, or the god named Shub-Niggurath, I really don't know anything about them. But if I say I don't know, then whatever you plan to do next, you will avoid involving me, right?"
Miel: “…”
That's right.
"I'm here to help you. I don't want to be someone you need to worry about."
Having said that, Dindel raised his eyes and looked Miel in the eye. "I don't know what a noble soul is, but in my opinion, every soul is worthy of being saved. I will never let anyone in this timeline be sacrificed by the Earth Mother Cult."
"Well, that's exactly my goal." Miel responded with mixed feelings.
He repeated to himself three times, "Father Tyndall is such a good man!", and then, it dawned on him - if this is not a noble soul, what is!
Father Tyndale's soul was of the purest kind!
Just as he finished shouting in his heart, there was a loud "bang" suddenly coming from the door of the mansion, as if something fell from the sky.
Miel was stunned for a moment and rushed to the door.
His first reaction was that the church was coming to kill him, and he wanted to protect everyone in the mansion.
However, when I finally arrived at the mansion's door and saw what the "thing" on the ground was...
Miel stared at the "thing" on the ground for five full seconds, then raised his eyes and met a pair of silver-gray eyes.
These emotionless eyes belonged to a male elf with short light blue hair named Ksu Hyrum.
Following the "robbery" came the "kidnapping" - the "thing" on the ground was a person, someone Miel knew.
The bishop of the Mother Earth Cult—Father Tantarn.
At this moment, the priest was curled up on the ground, shivering, with his hands on the black veil on his head. He was conscious, but obviously so frightened that he could not speak.
Without waiting for Miel to ask, Ksu Hailun took the initiative to explain: "I've searched around, but I can't find the fifth 'noble soul'. There's too little information to draw a conclusion. I'd better ask him directly."
After saying this, Ksu Hyrum kicked Father Tantarn and said, "I have let you see the Son you wanted to see. Now you can tell me what a noble soul is."
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This is my first Cthulhu novel that uses Cthulhu settings directly (previously I created my own settings). Anyway, I had a lot of fun writing it, and I will work hard to finish it! [dog head holding a rose]
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