Mystery: She came from the Chaos Sea

Chapter 12: Creating Characters is a Way to Kill Time

After it became clear that Doom was not tired of Hermione, the wolf cub could only return in disappointment. Hermione breathed a sigh of relief and once again expressed her gratitude to Lady Doom for her protection.

"Repay me by being a good cook." It sounded like a joke, but the tone was serious. As the words fell, the figure of Ms. Misfortune disappeared from the wicker chair.

"Every one of them...either want to eat me, or pretend to want to 'eat' me, or want to eat the food I cook...they're all foodies!"

Looking at the deserted and empty house, Hermione cursed and rolled up her sleeves. She first cleaned out an unused room and used it as Ouroboros's living quarters.

Then I hurried to the kitchen to pick up the remaining ingredients and carefully planned what delicious food I could make.

"The top of my path is 'Dreamer'. I've... traveled through time. Well, it's not really travel through time..."

"It's fine if I don't have any cheats, but there's no chance I'll reach the max level so I can just imagine all sorts of delicious food..."

Hermione worked hard to prepare a table full of dishes, and she was fantasizing in her heart, but the satisfaction of doing it herself also filled her heart.

At this moment, a little hand tried to steal the delicious food on the table, but was knocked down by Hermione: "Ouroboros, this is lunch prepared for your savior. Good boy, be polite."

"It's been a while since I've eaten Sister Hermione's food." Ouroboros' stomach growled, his eyes wide open as if to melt others, but he looked at Hermione with confusion: "My savior?"

Even if this child can turn danger into safety after all this journey, her life for the next six months must have been extremely difficult. However, Hermione still insisted, "If Lady 'Misfortune' hadn't concealed your extraordinary inspiration in advance, would you still want to sleep so soundly?"

Hermione told Ouroboros about the wolf cub's sudden "visit", and also wanted to warn Ouroboros that the current environment was very dangerous.

But Ouroboros, who was kneeling on the stool, stared blankly at the food on the table with his handsome eyes, and obviously didn't hear much.

Hermione really wanted to take Ouroboros's brain apart to see if the processor in this child's brain was single-threaded...

However, this focus is also Ouroboros' greatest advantage.

It is this focus that makes Ouroboros, despite his young age, the one who has gone the furthest on the path of "monster" in the tribe.

"Little brat. If you ever think about stealing the food your sister reserved for me again, I'll throw you out." The silhouette of the "Misfortune" goddess appeared in front of the dining table and sat down elegantly opposite.

As Ouroboros tried to stretch out his little paws to steal food, the wooden bench under his knees disappeared bit by bit as if it was erased by an eraser.

This sudden change caused Ouroboros, who was kneeling on the wooden bench, to fall to the ground with a thud.

Hermione could not bear to see the child's miserable plight, so she covered her eyes with her dinner plate, thinking that she would not feel any pain if she could not see it.

Ouroboros did not shout or cry out, his eyes still fixed on the delicious food on the table.

Seeing this, the corners of Ms. Misfortune's mouth curled up, but she didn't slow down at all in enjoying the food.

However, the disappeared wooden bench reappeared.

And an invisible force lifted Ouroboros's thin body and sat him back on the wooden bench.

Hermione looked thoughtful at this:
This seems to be Lady Doom's way of accepting Ouroboros's continued existence here...

After the meal, Lady Misfortune took a nap, while Ouroboros helped Hermione with the housework. Although the children who grew up in the tribe had a habit of being greedy, they were all diligent and efficient at work.

This done, Hermione took out square slabs of stone from the room which had been designed as a study.

These stone slabs are used for carving text.

After sorting out the potion formulas and pathway sequences that could be sorted out, Hermione found a new and meaningful way to pass the time -

That is to create words that belong to human beings and can leverage the power of nature. Creating something from nothing is difficult.

But Zhou Mingxiang had done work on tracing the origins of many languages and was quite knowledgeable about characters, and Hermione was proficient in two extraordinary languages, Giant and Dragon, so there was a good chance that he could actually do it.

Although Ouroboros had no talent or new ideas in creating characters, he had strong computing ability and could help Hermione sort out the similarities and differences between the giant and dragon characters.

With the assistance of Ouroboros, Hermione's deduction speed was much faster.

Hermione had a hunch that it wouldn't be long before she could actually carve on the stone a language that was more in line with the pronunciation habits of the human race and could leverage the power of nature.

Lady Misfortune would sometimes watch Hermione's creation of characters. Apart from being surprised at first by the tranquility and ingenuity of Hermione, she never participated or interfered, but simply watched quietly.

Hermione, immersed in her new research, lived a fulfilling life and did not feel at all that being forced to live in this residence was a pain.

Ouroboros also has plenty of patience.

But while Lady Misfortune was busy out, Ouroboros, who was carrying piles of stone slabs, suddenly mentioned a topic that surprised Hermione:

"Sister Hermione."

"what happened?"

"Ms. Misfortune seems to have been...suppressing some kind of pain and madness."

Hearing this, Hermione looked up in surprise: "What did you say?"

Ouroboros said slowly in an emotionless tone:
"Although my inspiration is blocked, I can still vaguely see an indescribable gray mist occasionally appearing and twisting around Ms. Doom..."

"Sometimes I could see blurry images of a towering palace resembling a giant's, with Lady Doom twisted into the form of countless worms."

Ouroboros paused, and although his tone remained emotionless, he spoke more calmly and seriously. "If it weren't for the mysterious power that Lady Doom exerted on my spirit, my intuition tells me that I would have gone mad the moment I saw these images."

The more she listened, the deeper Hermione's frown grew. Although Ouroboros often saw false hallucinations that tortured him, there were rare times when he could see images that showed signs of foreboding.

Could it be that the seemingly gentle and rational Ms. Doom is also unable to escape the crazy nature of the Demon Wolf Clan?
Hermione rubbed her swollen forehead and continued to think about the words Ouroboros had brought.

Towering palaces, worms...what do these images symbolize?

worm……

Hermione knew that the mythological form of a certain path possessed a twisted and strange worm image—that was the "Fortune Teller" path where her younger brother, Zhou Mingrui, the protagonist of the video story, who had not yet awakened, was!

Also known as the "Fool's" Path!

But how did Ms. Misfortune, who is clearly from the second sequence of the Night Path, become associated with this kind of imagery?
The Fool, the Gray Mist...

And the things associated with these words...

Hermione first thought of her brother Zhou Mingrui's biggest cheat, which was also the fundamental reason why her brother fell into a deep sleep.

Source Castle.

For some unknown reason, Ms. Misfortune became connected to Sefirah Castle and was contaminated by it?

(End of this chapter)