1. The gaze of an Outer God

Loen Kingdom, Awwa County, Tingen City.

It was night time.

A crimson moon hung in the night sky, glowing in silence.

In the bedroom of a single storey family house on Wendell Street in the North District, the crimson moonlight shone through the glass window on the face of a young man sleeping on the bed.

Suddenly, the young man's countenance became hideous and twisted, blue veins on his temple became visible as he seemed to writhe in agony, but he showed no sign of waking up. It seemed that a nightmare had entered his mind eroding him. His fingers clenched and clawing against the bedsheets as he struggled to tear apart the nightmare and wake up.

This was happening under the baptism of the crimson moonlight, but no one could 'see' this strange phenomenon except for the crimson moon.

At this time, a dark cloud drifted past, just covering the crimson moon. The struggle of the young man however seemed to grow fiercer.

Just when the dark clouds were passing by and the crimson moon slowly becoming visible again, the young man suddenly stopped all movements, like a puppet that had its strings cut, his hands and feet fell back to the bed. The dark cloud was now passed and the crimson moon visible once more, thus the baptism of the crimson moonlight continued, making the scene of the motionless youth appear hazy and dreamy.

'I don't know how long it has been...'

'pain!'

'Headache!'

'It hurts all over!'

As soon as Gao Gu woke up from the bed, he felt a strong pain.

"What's happening, I didn't do any strenuous exercise, why do I feel like my body is falling apart..."

Just after Gao Gu muttered a few words, scenes of memories that did not belong to him suddenly flashed into his brain.

"The Kingdom of Loen... Awwa County... Tingen City..."

"Hidal Smith..."

"The names of these places sound a bit familiar..."

Gao Gu then opened his eyes abruptly, and through the glass window he saw a crimson moon hanging in the sky.

"Loen kindom! Tingen! Red Moon! This is... the world of the Lord of Mysteries!?"

Gao Gu jumped up from the bed at once, this action made his already aching body even more unbearable, he gasped for a moment as his whole person grimaced in pain, so he could only lie down again.

As he lay on the bed, a frown formed on his face, 'Why the world of Mysteries!? Dammit, even being fodder in any other world would be better than here!'

Although LOTM was his favorite book, the world in this book was definitely the last place he wanted to be in.

Because this is a world where even if you are willing to be an ordinary person, you may be involved in strange events at any time.

And the ending is often not good.

"The parents of this body seem to have died because of a strange event!"

"In this case, the probability of encountering strange events in the future will be even greater!"

Gao Gu pressed his temple, forced himself to calm down, and searched through the memories of this body, "It is 1349, May 28."

'I remember that Zhou Mingrui seemed arrive here in 1349 on June 28th. So I crossed over a month earlier than him! That's fine I suppose, this gives me more time to prepare.'

"Well, my name is Hidal Smith, and I have a brother... Dunn Smith, sigh!", Gao Gu's eyes widened, "Captain Dunn is my brother? I'm actually Captain Dunn's brother! Why don't I remember that the captain had a younger brother? Well, there is a possibility that he did have one but Cuttlefish never wrote about him."

"Dammit, the captain is bound to die in the near future!"

Gao Gu remembered that when Cuttlefish wrote the captain's death, he was sent a lot of blades from the fans, thus he gave up the idea of ​​writing a few more deaths, and then said that his heart was not cruel enough.

"ugh... I have to find a way to save the captain."

Whether it was because of his feelings for the captain when he was reading the book, or because he became the captain's younger brother through transmigration, Gao Gu didn't want the captain to die.

Gao Gu began to recall the general content of the Lord of Mysteries in his mind, but because it has been a bit long since he read it he couldn't remember it clearly, only recalling the general plot and some things that appeared frequently and a few impactful events.

"Maybe I'll recall something when I see something familiar in the future, but for now I really can't remember that much.", Gao Gu was a little helpless.

For example, the most obvious memory of the plot in his mind right now is of the sealed artifact no. 0-08. This is because the captain died because of 0-08.

"The most important thing now is to find a way to become a Beyonder first."

Gao Gu tried to remember a certain Sequence 9 potion formula, but soon he gave up completely because it was impossible to remember such a precise thing!

Then Gao Gu quickly thought of another possible direction. He is the younger brother of Captain Dunn Smith!

'In this case, I can find a way to join the Nighthawks team, and then use the Evernight Church to embark on the path of Beyonders!'

'Although there are many restrictions on having an official background, it is relatively safe. At least that way I won't have to hide from official Beyonders like Klein did in the novel.'

Thinking of this, Gao Gu propped himself and sat up, he felt that his body had improved a lot compared to when he first woke up.

'By the way, Zhou Mingrui hasn't come down from the Sefirah Castle yet, so can I go in now and take the Sefirah Castle for myself so that he won't have to come down!', Gao Gu felt that this method might be feasible, but then frowned again.

"I remember that the Sefirah Castle requires a certain ceremony and chant for someone to enter, but I don't remember what the ceremony is, and I can't recall the chant as well. If it was {the Fool who doesn't belong to this era}, I can still remember it, but This is Klein's own honorable name which is useless for to me now!"

Gao Gu got out of bed and saw the crimson moon in the night sky. He drew a circle on his chest and said, "Praise the goddess!"

Looking at the crimson moon in the sky and the dark starry sky, Gao Gu remembered something and muttered: " 'Crimson Moon'... 'Primordial Moon'...'Cosmos'... 'Great Old Ones'... 'Outer Gods'..."

"Not good!"

Gao Gu suddenly remembered these things because he saw the crimson moon and the starry sky, he then remembered that this is knowledge that should only be known after becoming Sequence 2, otherwise just thinking about it will bring great danger!

And at this time, he is just an ordinary person, not even a Beyonder, so there is only one outcome,

Death!

Almost at the same time, the originally disc-sized crimson moon suddenly became incomparably large, occupying half of the sky, and the light on the surface of the crimson moon stretched and contracted, as if it had come alive.

On the unseen part of the moon, there flowed a crimson sea, it then began to drown everything until the entire surface of the moon was covered by this crimson sea.

When Gao Gu remembered about the "Outer gods", the blood colored sea boiled. And as if alive, the sea quickly condensed to one place and stacked up like countless worms, and finally formed a huge red phantom.

Above the phantom, there appeared countless eyes, constantly flashing scarlet light as they gazed down at the blue planet in front of them.

Further out in the expanse of the universe, brown stars, orange stars, red stars, Venus, and blue stars all flickered at the same time like blinking eyes and then they cast their gaze on the blue planet as well trying to establish a connection through the knowledge that Gao Gu had recalled.

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Yeah this took around 3 hours to edit and trying to have make sense... 3 hours!!! I'm not going to do this as often as I thought. I can't sacrifice anymore of my limited reading time, so I will be doing at most 1 chapter a day...

So I strongly suggest that you don't wait for me and just go to the Original site and read there through Google translate... The link is in the description.