Chapter 665 - Event of Importance

Eisen looked around himself with his truth-seeing eyes active. The old man was trying his absolute best to truly focus on what was around him, since there was obviously something off. And that's when he noticed it. The thin thread of light connecting Mystor with one of his angels that were standing along the walls. 

Immediately, the old man stood up and walked over toward that angel, and without hesitation said, "You are the real Mystor, aren't you?" He asked, and the angel, whose appearance was basically the opposite of what Eisen would have expected of Mystor.

While that Mystor on the throne was completely enveloped in a thick, mysterious mist, the bit of the outline that one could see hinted at a completely different sort of body sitting underneath it than what Eisen now saw in front of him. 

This angel was a young, lean-built man with ear and lip-piercings. He seemed like more of a mischievous kind, but the moment that he realized that Eisen didn't just speak to him on a fluke, he began to smile broadly.

"Oho, who'd have thought that you'd see through even this extremely high tier of trickery with ease." The angel said, and swiftly snapped his fingers. Both the angel and the figure sitting on the throne were enveloped in a bright light, and then practically changed places.

The angel in front of Eisen was what he had expected Mystor to really look like. An elderly, somewhat frail man with a long beard, basically exactly what Eisen imagined from Mystor in the first place. But now, on the throne, sat the real Mystor. He looked exactly like the angel that Eisen had just spoken to, and mist flowed around his body as if it was some sort of cloak, hanging onto his arms and wrapping all around his body.

The old man looked at the figure that was sitting there, this young man with a quite bratty demeanor, at least from Eisen's point of view. Mystor sat there on his throne and looked back at Eisen with a broad smile, "Even though it wasn't me that said it, it were my words. I gotta say, I'm kind of impressed that you managed to find me that quickly." The real mystor now said, although Eisen was still unsure if it really was the right one this time. However, he was worried without reason, since now, the notification finally appeared in front of Eisen.

[Quest Completed – Mystor's Acknowledgement]

[Description] You are seeking to be acknowledged by the gods of heaven and made your way into the realm of the God of Truth, Mystor. You have to prove that you cannot be deceived by false truths. Mystor is hiding somewhere within his divine realm and hid plenty of clues, a majority which are distractions.

[Condition] Find Mystor's Location amongst the souls of his divine realm within 24 Hours

[Reward] Mystor's Acknowledgement

[Penalty] Mystor will not acknowledge you, and you will lose the right to try again for 1 Year

With a satisfied smile, Eisen used his truth-seeing eyes to make sure that this notification was actually real and not just some trick again, and then waved it away to the side.

"Now then. Is there anything you would like to ask me?" The god asked with a smile on his face, and Eisen immediately nodded his head, "Yes, there is." The old man replied.

"A few things, actually. One, how did you know about all those things? Two, why did you show them to me in the first place? Three, what is the meaning behind those statues? I doubt that they were simply things you chose randomly." Eisen asked bluntly. Mystor smirked in response and quickly replied.

"There is nothing in this world that I do not know the true nature of. I know the true nature of the first death of a truly immortal being, and I know the true nature of the ascension of the first true Demon. And of course, I know the true nature of your abilities, to an extent. And so, I wanted to test my knowledge out a bit, expand it, deepen it. Simple as that."

"...You showed me something so traumatic just to test your knowledge out a bit?" Eisen asked with a deep frown, and the god slowly nodded his head, "Yes, that's what I just said. Well, to an extent, it was also something that I was simply curious about. In how much detail would you be able to remember those memories, for example? Usually, things from the time of that execution must have been rather blurry by now, if you didn't completely forget it in the first place. It has been a hundred thousand years by now, after all. But nonetheless, you were able to accurately remember a small detail such as which chains in particular broke back then." Mystor explained. And somehow, after that part of the explanation, Eisen actually wasn't sure what exactly he should think. This was rather useful knowledge to have for Eisen as well, the fact that he would be able to remember these things so accurately.

Before Eisen could go on to ask about the last question again, Mystor continued, "As for your last question... It was a failed attempt at causing you to remember another memory. It was something similar to what I planned for the first memory I made you remember, just on the other end of the spectrum. First I tried to cause you to remember something based solely on the room that memory unfolded in, which was something I expected to work without much of a doubt. As for the latter, it was a bit of a stretch. I tried to cause you to remember a memory based on three figures that appeared in it, although they were not quite prominent within it."

Eisen didn't even need to think much about it, "The Fisherman, the Researcher, and the Smiling Wolf."

"Yes, exactly. Sadly, it did not work, however. Oh well, guess I-"

"You're lying to me." Eisen said bluntly, and Mystor stopped speaking, surprised at the old man's words, "What makes you think that?"

"Because it simply doesn't make sense. Why would you try and make me remember these three very specific things, but with one of them just try something so loosely? And also, what do the cardinal directions, the colors, and the locations have to do with those three? At first it seemed random, but then I thought... What if that was all the information you had on the third piece of another puzzle, that you yourself wanted to figure out. And that was something you tried to do by pretending that I was going through some sort of puzzle. This was way too easy, you know that. It wasn't a challenge in the slightest, and there were little to no ways for me to fall for some kind of red herring the whole time, or at least as far as I could notice." Eisen pointed out, thinking about this rather intensely, since he simply thought that this didn't really make all that much sense.

"...And what if that was the case?"

"Nothing much, but I think I would have the right to know what all this is about." Eisen replied.

Mystor stared Eisen deep into his eyes for a few more moments. Such an intense stare from a literal god, especially considering Mystor's alignment, felt so penetrating that it seemed as if Eisen was being stripped of everything that he held inside of him. Secrets, things he had forgotten, or simply such things that Mystor did not need to know about. And then, with a deep sigh, the God of Truth replied with that which gave him his title. 

The Truth.

"Fine. You may learn about it for all I care. It is quite simple, you see? I told you before that I know the true nature of anything and everything that exists in this world. But that isn't entirely true. There is one event that not even us gods of knowledge can distinguish the truth of. An event caused directly by your establishment of Demonhood, by the death of your lover, as well as your first death that followed soon after. And of course, those three. The fisherman waiting by the crystal-blue river east of the location of this event, the researcher waiting by the sun-yellow tower north of that place, as well as that mysterious beast by the blood-red hut in its west. That is the little information that we have on this event. But it is something that we must know of if we want to win this battle." Mystor explained to Eisen, who slowly crossed his arms in response.

"Then why didn't you tell me? I could have helped you, you know?" The old man pointed out, and Mystor looked back at him rather surprised, "Is that so? I did not expect for you to be so open to us meddling with your past." 

"I'm not. But as long as I'm involved with it myself, that's something else. It's not meddling then anymore."

"That's fair enough. Well, to tell you the truth, there is not much more information that I can tell you at this point. We know that it is an event of importance, but we literally do not know what happened. We only know that it happened around one thousand years ago, and all these things that I already just told you." After the god's explanation, Eisen was a little bit confused.

"An event that happened a thousand years ago, that is closely related to at least two events that happened a hundred thousand years ago?" 

"It is the truth, that is the consensus that I and the other Gods of Knowledge came to. Believe it, or don't believe it, but if you can trust one being then it's the god of truth." The god, who looked anything but trustworthy through the tone of his voice and his general demeanor and appearance, pointed out, although Eisen just sighed deeply in response.

"Sure, says the one that tried to just lie right to my face. I know that while you are the god of truth, your abilities refer to the manipulation of truth as well. I think you might be the least trustworthy amongst the gods that I've spoken to so far." Eisen said bluntly, in response to which Mystor just started to laugh loudly. After saying something as disrespectful as this to a god, that deity's angels would have reacted rather aggressively.

But in the case of Mystor, all of his angels simply knew that Eisen was telling the truth, so they didn't even budge at what the old man was saying to their god.