Chapter 555 – The Secret Keeper of Truth

Chapter 555 – The Secret Keeper of Truth

Almost soul tearing roar in the consciousness of the reverberating, chaotic out-of-control perception of the stirring of reason, and with the passage of time gradually subside, this “storm” lasted for an unknown period of time, the registrar suddenly realized the existence of the “self”.

He heard the sound of his heart thumping wildly, and his reason struggled hard to return to the “human” side from the brink of loss of control. He realized what had just happened, and subconsciously raised his head to look in the direction of the unfamiliar voice.

Duncan stood in front of him, with the not-quite-dispersed spiritual flames floating behind him, his tall figure like a dark cloud falling from the sky, emitting an indescribable sense of oppression.

The registrar thought for a moment and suddenly recalled the words that the girl named Nina had just said to herself, “…… Just don’t be afraid later.”

He recognized the tall figure in front of him – for an elf, a hundred years ago was not too far away.

But before he could cry out in shock, a gentle power was suddenly injected into his mind, while at the same time a familiar voice came from a short distance away, “Leave it to me to take over here.”

The registrar turned his head to look in the direction the voice came from.

A middle-aged man wearing a dark blue academy robe, his hair already slightly gray, and holding a large, heavy book under his armpit walked into the room, and was looking this way with a calm but tired gaze.

“His Excellency the Secret Keeper!” The registrar, as if saved, stood up from the table in an instant, then moved away from Nina and Duncan at the first opportunity.

He then opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to report something, but before he could do so, he was interrupted by the middle-aged man called the “Secret Keeper” who raised his hand: “I have already understood the situation here, and this matter is now taken over by the City State University, so don’t ask for anything else. Your work for today ends here, after you leave here, immediately go to the psychological counseling room for a psychiatric evaluation, go.”

The registrar left with a belly full of speculation and a head full of confusion, while Duncan’s gaze fell on the middle-aged elf with a sense of exhaustion on his face, and after scrutinizing him for a moment he asked curiously, “Which one are you?”

“You do not recognize me?” The middle-aged elf frowned suspiciously, but quickly nodded in understanding, “Oh yes, I did hear that your memories were affected by subspace ……”

He looked breathless as he spoke, a bone-deep fatigue permeating his tone, so much so that there was little change in tone when he expressed his surprise, and by the end of it he sighed and raised a finger to point at himself, “Ted Reel, the ‘Keeper of the Secrets of Truth’ of Lightwind Harbor, responsible for the city’s safety in the Transcendent Realm’s security, we met a hundred years ago, when you often invited me for a drink, and we exchanged many things related to the border together.”

Ted Reel? The Secret Keeper of Truth?

Duncan frowned, of course he did not have any impression of this name, but this situation of “meeting a familiar face” in front of him was not a surprise, before he came to Light Wind Harbor, he knew that there would be many people in this city who would recognize his face – after all, a hundred years is not a long time for elves. After all, a hundred years is not a long time for an elf, and the Lost Country was always on the edge of the civilized world, and it was border towns like Light Wind Harbor that he dealt with most often.

So after a brief moment of thought, he took out the words he had prepared long ago, “Sorry, can’t remember, subspace took away a large portion of my memories, please forgive me.”

Ted Riel waved his hand, “It’s alright, forget it, ‘forgetting’ is Rahm’s greatest blessing, I’m used to dealing with ‘forgetting’ anyway.”

Used to dealing with Oblivion?

Duncan stared blankly, always feeling that the other party’s words were vaguely a bit resentful and deep meaning, but it seemed that they were not pointing at himself, but before he could ask, the opposite side of the “Truthkeeper” had already continued to open his mouth: “I listened to Ms. Lucrecia and the head of the field team to roughly explain what happened, the one behind you is Nina. I heard Ms. Lucrecia and the head of the field team roughly explain what happened, is that Ms. Nina behind you?”

Nina had already gotten up from her chair at this time, she hid behind Duncan, and curiously looked at the stranger across the street, and only when she heard the opposite side call her name did she step out boldly, and greeted politely: “Hello, I am Nina.”

Then she tilted her face up and looked at Duncan with some embarrassment, “I’m sorry, Uncle Duncan …… Did I cause you trouble?”

Duncan smiled and reached out to rub Nina’s hair, “It’s all minor, don’t worry about it.”

While saying this, he was feeling something else in his heart – being accidentally involved in a transcendental incident while trying to report an anomaly to the Guardians is better than leading a bunch of Ghost Sailors on a rampage through the city center only to be caught by the sheriff and sent to the police station. ……

Shirley and Nina’s little inconvenience was pretty harmless compared to what Lawrence had gotten himself into.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but ask again, “Where’s Shirley?”

As soon as his words fell, he heard footsteps suddenly coming from the doorway, followed by Lucrecia bringing Sherry into the room with her, “Dad, Sherry’s here.”

Shirley had a nervous and uneasy look on her face, and after entering the room, she carefully observed Duncan’s face for a moment, before coming over with small steps as if she were a thief and quickly explaining, “I didn’t do anything bad! Nina and I were going to report the situation to the guards, but I don’t know how a strange thing just appeared out of nowhere, and as a result, the guards had the nerve to take us ……”

“Oh, I apologize to you two ladies on their behalf,” Ted Reel turned his head to look at Sherry, “but it was a necessary security procedure.”

Shirley was just halfway there when she was suddenly startled by the voice of a stranger coming from beside her, and turned her head to look at this middle aged man with an ordinary appearance and little presence from a moment ago, “I go here how is there another person …… Uncle who are you?” “He is Light Wind Harbor’s ‘Truth Keeper’ Ted Riehl,” answered her Lucrecia, the “Witch of the Sea” nodded to Ted Riehl, as a greeting, and then added a sentence. This “Witch of the Sea” nodded to Ted Riel as a greeting, and then added, “It’s equivalent to the ‘Gatekeeper’ or ‘Judge’ of this city-state.”

Sherry scurried to Duncan’s side in an instant at that.

Ted Rile watched this exaggerated reaction from Sherry and froze for a moment before turning his head to Lucrecia, “…… I’m that scary?”

Lucrecia spread her hands, “I guess the reason has nothing to do with you.”

Duncan, on the other hand, craned his head to look at Shirley, who had scurried up beside him, “I see you’re usually quite comfortable with Vanna, huh? Why are you afraid of an Inquisitor or something like that at this point?”

“Is that the same?” Shirley craned her neck to look at the opposite side of the “Truthkeeper”, muttering in a low voice, “Vanna has joined the gang, this is not one of our own. ……”

Duncan immediately glared at the guy, “Team, how many times have I told you it’s a team!”

“Oh ……”

Duncan sighed helplessly, then shook his head, before looking up at Ted Reel and Lucrecia, who was heading this way, “I’ve already gotten the general picture from Nina, so let’s dispense with the explanations and niceties – right now, I’d like to take a look at that ‘weird thing’ Shirley was talking about ‘weird thing’, is it in this facility?”

“The twenty-fourth sample holding room, in the underground archives in the central district,” Ted nodded, “I’ll take you there.”

After saying that, the tired-looking “Secret Keeper” took out the large, heavy book he had under his arm, casually opened one of the pages, and tapped his finger on it.

In the next instant, a page in the book suddenly flew into mid-air, and Duncan saw that a gate was drawn on the page, with countless arcane and complex symbols covering the surface of the gate – in a series of dazzling deformation and reorganization processes, the gate drawn on the paper was quickly transformed into an illusory doorway in the air.

The translucent illusory doorway opened, and behind it was a hazy scene of a certain corridor located deep underground in a certain facility.

Duncan looked at this scene with amazement, and the first thing he felt in his heart was that it really deserved to be called the faction with the highest cultural level in the world – the performance of this “secret keeper” of the Truth Academy was indeed a bit cooler than Vanna’s jumping splits.

His second reaction was curiosity, guessing what would happen if he took down the paper in mid-air while it was unfolding – this bold thought swirled in his mind for a moment, and the next moment he noticed the subtle look from Lucrecia next to him.

“Dad, don’t move.”

Ms. “Witch” warned quietly with a mouthful of words.

Duncan turned his face as if nothing had happened and gathered his bold thoughts.

Then, with Ted Ryer leading the way, Duncan, Lucrecia, and a curious and expectant Shirley and Nina passed through the illusory floating door in turn.

The short period of dizziness and sensory dislocation soon ended, and when the light and shadow in front of their eyes coalesced again, they had already arrived at the “Central District Underground Archives” that Ted described.

A deep and long corridor appeared in Duncan’s field of vision, the two sides of the corridor were illuminated by bright gas lamps, and we could see the sacred symbols of the God of Wisdom Rahm, symbolic graphics and scriptures of the bas-relief stone slabs are arranged in the vicinity of the light, the solemn and heavy corridor, we could also see that there is an emergency isolation gate at every distance, and in between the gates and the gates, there is a closed door of the small room.

“This is the reception area,” Ted Riel looked at the two young girls beside him who were full of curiosity, and casually explained, “Suspicious samples that are temporarily discovered, abnormalities that are less than moderately hazardous, as well as all kinds of items that have been contaminated, and can’t be destroyed in a short period of time will be confined in the various rooms in accordance with the level of danger and the method of reception. confined in various rooms-don’t approach those doors rashly, the things inside are not very peaceful.”

As if to confirm the warning of the “Secret Keeper”, along with his voice, there were all sorts of vague noises coming from certain small rooms on both sides of the corridor, some of them were the noise of chains rubbing together, some of them were as if people were whispering in their sleep, and there was even the disgusting sound of viscous liquids gushing out, as well as a constant sound that sounded behind the door, as if it would be coming out of a certain door in the next second. The sound of footsteps coming out of a certain door in the next second.

Sherry and Nina instantly withdrew their curious gazes, and the expressions on their faces finally took on a bit of serious tension.

Duncan’s eyes, on the other hand, swept between the small rooms with ample security measures.

In the next second, there was a dead silence in the entire corridor.

“Peaceful now.” Duncan nodded in satisfaction.

(End of chapter)