Lord Shadow Chapter 1572 The Story of An Old Man

Chapter 1572 The Story of An Old Man

The mountain, veiled in the shroud of night, reverberated with eerie sounds that sent shivers down the spine of the uninitiated.

The relentless howling of creatures beyond the veil of darkness seed to be a titanic wolf, its voice resonating like a lant from another realm.

Intermittently, a thunderous roar pierced the night, echoing through the vast labyrinthine chambers of the mountain.

It was the Minotaur, a monstrous denizen of the mountain, confined beneath its rocky prison by the indomitable power of the Seven Warlords.

Amidst these primal cries, the wind whispered its own eerie lody as it raced through the jagged peaks and twisted passages of Mount Parnassus.

Its cutting sound sliced through the stillness, a haunting symphony that only those who had chosen to reside amidst the mountain's mysteries could truly call familiar.

To these inhabitants, such eerie nocturnal serenades were the lullabies of their rugged lives, a part of the very essence of the surroundings of this mountains.

Right now, inside a temple, on the top of Mount Parnassus, there is a man kneeling in front of a woman who is bathed is a majestic aura.

This man is Antonius and he is kneeling in front of the One-Eyed Oracle Erika. Sotis he would look at her and there is worries on his face.

He looks at Erika and he could see her veins popping up and he wanted to tell her to take it easy but he knows that it is not his place to say that, so he did not say anything

And there is silence in the temple for around fifteen minutes. Antonius did not get up and he simply waited.

He wanted to say sothing to Erika, maybe, to ask her to take it easy maybe to ask her to rest....but the words did not co out and he sighed.

Erika, seated beneath the sheltering canopy of a towering tree, radiated an aura that transcended the earthly realm.

Her presence, like an ethereal beacon, extended its influence skyward, casting ripples across the ground below.

Within the temple's diverse chambers, one held a unique design—a chamber with an open sky ceiling.

Stepping within, looking at the design of this particular chamber one could feel the embrace of the limitless heavens that enveloped all who ventured inside.

The sensation is akin to being cradled within the very bosom of the sky itself.

The feeling of being chased by the wind, and feeling the touch of heaven

The chamber, a perfect circle, bore an open ceiling that invited the elents to partake in its sanctity.

When the heavens wept, the chamber bathed in the tender caress of falling raindrops.

When the sun reigned supre, its radiant beams refracted and danced within the chamber, lending their brilliance to neighbouring sanctuaries.

This space is a marriage of Earth and Heaven, where the terrestrial and the celestial coalesced in harmonious unity.

A slice of Earth, a slice of Heaven.

And when it is night like this, with clear skies and twinkling shining star in the heavens, the chamber transford into a realm of enchantnt.

The moon, a luminous guardian in the inky firmant, bestowed its ethereal glow upon the temple.

Bathed in its silver radiance, the chamber beca an otherworldly sanctuary, hauntingly beautiful in its celestial embrace.

Antonius praised it once when he was here.

Erika designed this place. Not far away from this Temple, there is even a man-made waterfall.

It falls from a thirteen feet high peak, and the water is clear like the blue of sky and giant eagles and griffins would fly around the peaks in the afternoon and sleep in the flat peaks on the night.

Magical, beautiful, tantalizing. That is what he felt each ti he cos to the temple.

There is a reason why this particular chamber has such a different design from the other chamber.

It is because there is a tree. This tree is tall and is around fifteen ters tall that it make people feel wonder when they see such tree.

This tree growth is shocking to other people that watch it.

It was just planted a week ago and now it has reached fifteen ters tall.

There is many branches and on each branch there is a fruit.

This fruit has variety of colours., Sotis it is red mixed with blue, sotis it is orange mixed with pink and others it had other different kind of combination of colours.

And it emanates an aura of Ti.

Around the base of this extraordinary tree, the very fabric of space itself seed to warp and ripple at tis.

It was as if the surrounding environnt montarily transford into a sheet of paper being crumpled and then swiftly smoothed out again.

This peculiar phenonon added an elent of enchantnt to the already mystical atmosphere.

Erika had a particular affinity for this tree and the space it inhabited. It was here that she crafted her unique concoctions, harnessing the tree's arcane energies to infuse her drinks with a touch of the extraordinary.

And now, she cut the skin of the tree and from the cut, a blue clear sap co out from the cut.

She take one of the glasses around her and put the glass near the cut as the sap drip into the glass.

If one did not know that it ca from this tree, it almost seems like the sap is a clear blue water

It is the bluest colour one could see.

She did not yet answer Antonius question. But Antonius knows Erika. And so, he is patient. Because he knows, Erika always has anings in her actions.

He waited.

And she waited.

And then the glass is full. And she drinks the sap. Finished drinking it, she brought sothing out of her sleeve.

A paper. And she hold it out and Antonius took the paper.

And when he touches the paper, a word appear.

"Inkwell"

Antonius took a second before he ask

"A codena?"

Erika nodded.

There is silence between them. Erika then took a knife beside her and then make a cut on

"there is a tube and this tube is connected to so chute"

Antonius did not understand why Eriak suddenly said sothing about a tube and a chute but he knows better than to interrupt so he just keep listening.

"This channel of tube is very magical. When soone wanted to send a ssage, one would throw the ssage into one of these chutes in another country, or in another continent, and the ssage would arrive in a secret building. Of course, right now, that channel is outdated but during that ti, no one could break through this channel and it is one of the most secure channels to trade secrets"

Erika smiles and then she made a sound with her mouth

"Tting!"

She muttered like the sound of a bell, like the sound of sothing hitting a tal tube. And Erika eyes which is clear just now suddenly turns cloudy, and Antonius knows that she is seeing through the Veil again.

And she is in a trance. Right now, Antonius sees her and look at her but Erika right now is probably in that mont, the mont that she is seeing right now

And she is unconsciously recreating it

That sound of a bell that cos from her mouth probably reflect the vision that she is seeing right now

She might be hearing a sound of ringing and imitate it.

Antonius look around and he could see that there is the herb tea that she always drinks is there and he heaved? a sigh of relief. Sotis, when she looks through ti, there are tis that such act bring heavy taxation to the body.

In such cases, the herb tea would alleviate the fatigue

"That building was in Ankara" she mutters and Antonius keep listening

"There is a dark room. The room is large. And inside that large and dark room, there is an old man"

She paused for a second and she laughs

"He has quite the life story. Old but strong. He survives all of those young people and manage to find a job even after the Fall."

Right now, Antonius is sure that Erika is telling the story of Inkwell. This is one of Erika thod.

When she gave a task to Antonius, especially when the task involves? a person, usually Erika would do this kind of tracing past and present thod.

It is so that he would have enough information about the person he is about to et.

"there is an event in his life that made him think of running away. It was a day like any other for him. ssages ca and he relayed them. However, that day, a ssage ca and it is from that ssage that seeds of doubt began planted in his heart about his organization strength"

"At that ti, he has wrinkly skin, a weakened body and he wears a monocle glass that could see through things and detect lies and abnormalities. His back is a little hunched" And Erika laughed a bit.

Antonius had long ignored the laughter of Erika when she is in trance. It is impossible to know why she laughed and whether she laughs or because the vision she saw is laughing and she is imitating it.

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