mtl008 Chapter 3240 The Shadow of Faraines (37)
Chapter 3240 The Shadow of Faraines (37)
Chapter 3240 The Shadow of Faraines (Thirty-Seven)
Schiller regretted it, he really shouldn't have watched it.
Before, Naya kept hinting at him to read this novel, and he felt something was wrong, but at that time he thought Naya had tampered with the book and that one would lose all his mental health if he read it.
At that time, Schiller felt that Naiad would not resort to such despicable means. Just as Constantine said, every time Naiad played tricks on humans, he followed a subtle law of echo, which was full of black humor.
He rarely crams a lot of knowledge into people's heads like other Outer Gods do. The only clone who can attack indiscriminately, the Night Demon, has very harsh conditions for summoning. Not to mention how difficult it is to find a rectangular octahedron, how many places in the world can be found without any light?
This proves that Naya is not a physical damage player at all, he is best at mental attacks.
Well, he had succeeded, Schiller thought, he had succeeded in using this crap Constantine had written against himself.
Who can tell him! Why is it Bruce again! Why is it the master and the apprentice again! Why is it this kind of mutual torture again!
Schiller really wanted to grab Constantine by the collar and ask him if he was awake.
But if you think about it carefully, Constantine certainly didn't know that Pride would pull him in halfway. He probably thought that the people who would see this novel in the end would be Bruce and Pride. He was ruthless in making up this kind of story, and the main point was to kill two birds with one stone by revealing the dark history.
But I'm sorry, the agent can fight in Congress and work at the grassroots level, but he really can't bear the hardship of being Bruce's teacher.
The agent slipped away.
Schiller's expression was dull for a moment. When he regained consciousness, he gently raised his eyelids and looked around. After all, he was discussing the plot of the game with Batman in the last second, and in the next second he came to another room. He needed some time to adapt.
He looked up and saw Bruce's blue eyes.
Bruce saw him too, and the moment he saw him he knew something was wrong.
Bruce quietly walked out from behind the Pope's wheelchair, sat down at the table, and pretended to reach out for the book in front of Schiller.
Just as his fingertips touched the cover, his other hand also pressed on the book.
Arrogant lowered his eyes, looked at the gold-plated words on the cover, and said, "I was just discussing with others what the cult-like behavior mixed in with the strange events was. We think the Pope must have been deceived, but the one who deceived him may not be those unspeakable beings, or it may not be just that."
"Yes." Bruce pretended to take his hand back and said, "Blind fools rarely respond to the requests of believers, but some of them do pay attention to humans. Communicating with these beings is not complicated. All you need to do is recite a spell."
"It seems that you know a lot about this." Schiller glanced at the Pope, and when his eyes shifted away, Bruce wanted to reach out again, but Schiller quickly picked up the novel.
"I got this novel by accident, and found that the things recorded in it seem to be related to us. Do you know this author named Constantine?"
"No, I don't know him," Bruce had to say.
"It seems that he may have learned about what happened here through some mysterious power. The last time I read this novel, his story was only halfway through. I think it's time to see what the ending is."
"Maybe that's just his nonsense," Bruce said. "It's just a dream talk by a drug addict who's overdosed. Don't take it seriously."
Schiller frowned slightly and said, "Really? I thought you would think highly of this novel."
"Well, my literary appreciation is average."
"Then wait." Schiller also walked over to the other side of the table and sat down, opened the book and said, "Let me see how this crazy author wants to end our story."
"It's over, it's over, it's over!!!" Bruce shouted in his mind: "Naya! Naaya!! Isn't this arrogant?! Didn't you say I could add some plots to it?! What should I do now?!"
"If you are willing to pay for the publication of this novel, I will naturally provide you with the right to modify the plot, but I will not ask you to falsify your academic qualifications." The smile in Naya's tone was almost overflowing.
"You did it on purpose!" Bruce shouted, "You bastard, you deliberately mentioned Miskatonic University in front of me! You are trying to induce me!"
"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood. I mentioned this university to every player who contacted me. I asked the God of Stories to help me build a map of Massachusetts. If you drive there now, you can indeed enter this university. This is not some empty talk to tempt you."
"you……"
Bruce pounded the table mentally and said, "Why is that arrogance back?!"
"Can I still stop him?"
"You damn liar!" Bruce took a deep breath and said, "You knew this would happen! And you're still laughing!"
Naya was indeed smiling happily, this was the most brilliant plan he had come up with recently, after a long period of preparation and waiting, it could finally bear fruit.
And Schiller had reached the end.
His eyes suddenly paused on a few lines of text.
"Double major in psychology and sociology from Miskatonic University?" He repeated the content, and then said: "The outstanding graduate who obtained the degree in the shortest time in history?"
Schiller looked up at Bruce.
"Listen to me. I can explain. It's not my fault. It was Nyarlathotep who came to me and said..."
"He took the initiative to look for me." A dry and hoarse voice appeared in the room. Schiller looked in the direction of the voice and saw a face on the Pope's head with its mouth opening and closing.
"Matthew summoned me. He proposed to make a deal with me. If I could give him forbidden knowledge and let him graduate from the University of Michigan with this knowledge, he would spread this knowledge through novels and make my name known to more people."
Bruce turned and glared at the Pope and said, "It was obviously you..."
"I have the receipt."
Even though the Pope had become like that, he was still able to raise his arm and took out a piece of paper from somewhere.
Schiller stood up, picked up the note and looked at it. It was a very standard cash receipt in duplicate. The one in the Pope's hand was a carbon paper version, on which was written "Fifty thousand dollars for the first printing of the novel."
Bruce was shocked. He stood up and yelled at the Pope: "Nyarlathotep, do you still remember that you are an Outer God? What is a receipt???"
"It has both our signatures," the Pope continued.
Schiller looked down and saw that there were indeed two signatures at the bottom of the receipt, one was Matthew and the other was Nyarlathotep.
Bruce was about to say something, but Nyarlathotep continued, "I have receipts for all his sacrifices."
After that, a pile of parchments fell from the sky. Schiller picked up one and took a look. In addition to the deciphered words and symbols, there were the names of Nyarlathotep and Matthew.
"You should have sent the novel I gave you to old Siltek, right?" The dry voice continued, "He has suffered heavy losses from the church. He will never let go of any opportunity to discredit the church and expose the truth. The novel may be published soon."
Bruce opened his mouth and said, "Yeah, so what? Isn't this a good thing to do?"
"Is it considered a good deed to publicize your fake academic credentials?"
"Nya, what's wrong with you? Do you still remember who you are on the same side with?!" Bruce said angrily, "You are the Outer God summoned by me, I am the believer who summoned you, and he is the troublemaker who came to ruin our plans! You complain to him, is that right?!"
"So you graduated from Miskatonic University with the forbidden knowledge given to you by the Outer God you summoned?" Schiller asked.
"He didn't graduate. If he had graduated, it wouldn't be considered a fake degree." The Pope said, "He just wrote his degree into this novel. After the novel is published, everyone will know that he is a genius who was wrongly accused. In this way, he can smoothly take over the remaining power of the church."
Schiller frowned and looked at the end of the novel.
“…Through a confrontation, Matthew finally realized that his teacher Rodolph was not wronged. He was expelled from the church because he summoned the evil god.
Matthew felt that his studies at Miskatonic University were not in vain. He recognized the blasphemous symbol, which was the strongest evidence. Although he was unwilling to believe it, he had to admit that his teacher had become a puppet of the evil god..."
Schiller thought for a moment and commented: "Not a bad reversal."
Almost all the previous content was narrated from Rodolph's perspective. Even from Rodolph's perspective, Matthew had been studying forbidden knowledge and even found the spell to worship Nyarlathotep, behaving like a cultist, which could easily lead readers to think that Matthew was a villain.
At the end, the scene suddenly switches to Matthew's perspective, and readers can discover that Matthew has been studying forbidden knowledge because he thought his teacher was wronged and wanted to prove his teacher's innocence.
But it was not until the two men confronted each other on the top floor of the lighthouse that Matthew discovered that Rodolph was not wronged, he was the one who summoned the evil god.
In terms of specific content, many years ago, Rodolfo, the most outstanding guard of the Pope's guard, was expelled from the guard because of a case. His student Matthew always believed that his teacher was wronged, so he went to Miskatonic University to study, hoping to find evidence.
Many years later, the master and disciple met again in Faraines, but after a confrontation, Matthew discovered that Rodolfo was not wronged, he was indeed a cultist.
And he planned to kill the Pope and the Great Prophet here, and put the blame and the identity of a heretic on Matthew.
After a battle, Matthew defeated Rodolph and successfully left here, and the story of Faraines came to an end.
But there is a fatal problem here - it was Matthew who walked out of here alive, and it was also Matthew who published the novel, so is the truth really as written in the novel?
Of course not. Naya even took out the receipt, and Matthew's name was written all over it, proving that he was the cultist.
It’s just that history is written by the victors. Since Matthew walked out of here alive, the ending of the novel will naturally be what he said.
Therefore, once Matthew leaves the lighthouse alive, the game will immediately reach a bad ending - the real cultist not only walks out alive, but also puts all the evil deeds of the church on another person, and he can take power with a clear conscience.
And Naya revealed all this just to let Schiller know that if he doesn't kill Matthew, the game will fail.
This is indeed an interesting trick, Schiller thought.