Hermes? This is an ancient powerhouse… Klein’s gaze narrowed.
With a solid foundation in mysticism, he was very clear about which era the old gentleman who created Ancient Hermes was active in.
“That was the Second Epoch, when Giants ruled the land and Dragons soared through the skies. In a sense, he appeared in human history earlier than the God of War and the Earth Mother. In other words, the little ‘Sun’ before he joined the Tarot Club didn’t know the Seven Gods, but he most likely had heard the name Hermes. Hmm, I’ll look for a chance to have ‘The World’ confirm it later…”
“That old gentleman personally experienced the thorny path of humanity’s ancestors testing themselves with drugs, step by step seeking extraordinary powers. Using Giant language and Dragon language as a base, standing on the shoulders of pioneers, he innovatively invented a complete set of extraordinary language belonging to humanity. He most likely has seen the first ‘Blasphemy Slate’!
He actually lived until the era of Emperor Roselle, and might even be alive today! He is the living fossil of human mysticism!” Klein sighed with emotion, realizing from another aspect how terrifying the “Twilight Hermit Order” was.
Even Hermes was a member of it!
And other secret organizations, and even the internal circles of the Church of the Seven Gods, when performing sacrifices and rituals, often used Ancient Hermes!
“The Twilight Hermit Order is truly high-end, classy, and magnificent…” Klein couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
What he envied most wasn’t that the “Twilight Hermit Order” had a legendary figure like Hermes who coexisted with human history, but that the other party possessed the second “Blasphemy Slate”.
This is practically cheating! Klein thought about how the Tarot Club only had one twenty-second of the “Blasphemy Cards”, and he felt a bit emotional.
He shifted his focus back to the paper and continued reading the remaining part of the previous diary entry:
“Oh my god! The old man sitting next to me, looking ordinary and unremarkable, turned out to be Hermes! He lived from the dark Second Epoch all the way to the Fifth Epoch of waning extraordinary powers!
“I was right to join this organization!
“I can see my bright future, three exclamation marks are not enough to describe my mood right now!!!
“Do these big shots, these immortals, gather together just purely because they believe in the long-circulated idea of the approaching twilight? No, not at all, at least I don’t!
“There must be those among them who fanatically believe in those ideals, purely wanting to wait for the awakening of the original Creator, wanting history’s progress to advance to that predicted node. Hmph, according to my understanding, it’s most likely not an awakening, but a resurrection.
“But such people won’t make up more than half. The rest are all people with their own agendas. Either they are ambitious like me, or they are lurking traitors. Wait, I just thought of a problem. After I accepted the secret invitation, I quickly attended the gathering. I didn’t even go through a review! Although the convener of the gathering said that due to my joining, the members had a disagreement and had to put it to a vote. With more than two-thirds in favor, I was barely allowed. But that’s not the key. The key is that they completely don’t care whether I believe in the twilight ideology, nor do they mind me having all sorts of thoughts.
“What are they relying on to confirm that I won’t harm this organization? Is there a high-sequencer of the ‘Spectator’ pathway here, one who has reached the Angel level? Did He, without my knowledge, use my verbal promise to plant a secret psychological cue, and have enough confidence to discover the hidden malice of members?
“This is entirely possible, but it makes one shiver just thinking about it.”
“Furthermore, without permission, once the name of that organization is mentioned to outsiders, it will be immediately detected. They even gave me a few examples of expelled former members… This is the case even if written on paper, even if using a newly invented language!
“Let me think, let me think… Sequence 2 of the ‘Spectator’ pathway is ‘Insight’, Sequence 1 is ‘Author’. Who here matches the corresponding characteristics? (Note 1)
“Hmm, I have a preliminary suspect, and that’s the convener of the gathering.
“Oh, right, Sequence 0 of the ‘Spectator’ pathway is called: ‘Visionary’!
“But I don’t think anyone here has reached the level of a True God. Otherwise, there would be no need to hide behind the scenes. Of course, they might have a divine object of the Sequence 0 level, like the ‘Uniqueness’ of a certain pathway. Perhaps it is this that created this real dream connecting the east and west of the continent, and possesses the ability to react the moment a name is mentioned.
“At the time, I didn’t think that much about it. Besides the shock, I also asked about other things. For example, why does the description of gods include the word ‘Authority’? Old man Hermes gave a brilliant answer.”
Seeing this, Klein realized that this page of the diary had reached its end.
He quickly turned to the next page, but soon flipped back because the following diary entry was completely disconnected from the previous one.
The answer? Was it on the next page of the original diary, or was it too long to write down, or was it not necessary to record it in the diary? Klein was so manic he wanted to travel to the past, grab Roselle by the neck, and make him tell him the answer Hermes gave!
Of course, on the surface, he had no emotional fluctuations or unnecessary body language.