Arthur did not feel that he had received any divine favor, and since he came to this world, he had been avoiding contact with religion.
But through the Rose Manor incident, especially the words on his arm, he finally had the idea to understand the world.
Late at night, Arthur lay on his bed, smelling the familiar smell, which made his body regain that comfortable feeling.
This bed is the witness of his time travel, and it is also the place where his soul began to roam.
He opened the door familiarly and entered his mother Mary's room the next moment.
At this moment, my mother was lying on the bed, with a copy of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" beside her.
His mother, Mary, was a writer and had the habit of reading before going to bed, which was not surprising to Arthur.
What he didn't expect was that his mother would actually like to watch this kind of epic work with strong religious overtones.
In the soul world, Arthur could see his mother Mary, exuding a soft and holy light.
He came to Jabi's room again.
At this moment, Jabi was lying on his back on the bed, sleeping soundly. The same light seemed to be stronger than his mother's.
Arthur couldn't help but think of the conversation with Jabi at night. After so many things, Jabi was still safe and sound. He felt more like Jabi that God was favoring him.
Arthur returned to his room again.
Just opposite his bed, there was an old black wardrobe.
Here he could see the five-pointed star array engraved in the middle of the fancy handle, and the five-pointed star on his right hand came from here.
Although the closet door was tightly closed at the moment, Arthur could still feel the horror inside.
The world behind this door is different from the soul world. It seems to be another space. Arthur once called it the place of nothingness.
Ever since he went in once as a child, he never dared to try it again.
At this moment, Arthur slowly walked towards the closet, stretched out his hand and felt the coldness and ominousness coming from the closet door.
He grabbed the handle on the door and tried to pull it, but found that the cabinet door was unusually heavy, as if there was a very strong monster pulling behind it.
After several attempts, Arthur finally opened the cabinet door slowly, and a black mist spurted out from inside. Suddenly, his nose was filled with the smell of mold and rot.
Arthur waved his arms to drive away the black fog, and he cautiously walked into the closet.
As soon as he entered, it was the same as last time. Suddenly there was a wind lantern in his hand. In this dark world, he could only see two or three meters under the light.
There are no coordinates or reference objects here, and it is easy to get lost in this darkness.
Sometimes he was thinking that the real Arthur might have been lost in this space, or that he came here by mistake for unknown reasons, and then opened it by mistake. The wardrobe only occupied Arthur's body.
Therefore, he was afraid of this space and wanted to explore it thoroughly.
"Rustling, rustling", there seemed to be a group of ghosts running ahead in the darkness.
This made Arthur stop immediately, and he raised the lantern in his hand high above his head.
Not far ahead, he saw more than a dozen fireballs rolling rapidly on the ground.
Arthur was a little undecided, whether to move forward or not. At this moment, a fireball suddenly broke into the range of his light. It turned out to be a mouse larger than a cat.
The sharp teeth flashed with cold light, the blood-red eyes were like those of a demon, and the burning fireball on its tail.
Arthur felt his hands and feet were cold, and there were so many demon rats that they would eat him up in just a few breaths.
Arthur took a step back involuntarily, and the rat demon seemed to have noticed his fear, and let out a strange "chichi" cry, and then pounced on him ferociously.
Arthur raised the wind lantern with his left hand and pointed at the rat demon with his right hand. However, he felt that exorcism alone might not be able to threaten these evil spirits, so he immediately started singing nursery rhymes.
"Weave a wreath of roses, fill our pockets with flowers, ashes, ashes, we all fall."
This nursery rhyme has become an advanced version of Arthur's exorcism.
As he chanted, the nursery rhyme turned into a halo, protecting him, but it did not subdue the mouse demon as expected.
Just forcing them outside the circle, more rat demons came over, so densely packed that Arthur felt like he was about to suffer from trypophobia.
Fortunately, they did not dare to touch the halo, so Arthur began to move forward step by step with difficulty.
Some of them were slow runners. When they touched the halo, a white flame immediately ignited, causing the demon rat to scream "squeak".
But at the same time, Arthur felt uncomfortable. Every time he touched it, his halo would shake, and the light would weaken a little.
When he first came here, he hadn't seen anything like this, but it wasn't all bad news. At least it proved that there were creatures here, even if they were demons.
Arthur calmed down and continued to sing nursery rhymes while searching forward. He didn't know how long it took, but he saw another big tree in the darkness.
The bark is like charcoal, the dry branches are twisted like ghost claws, and every leaf seems to be imprinted with evil.
There were three nooses hanging from the thickest tree trunk, which were the instruments of torture used to execute death.
When Arthur came here, all those rat demons had already fled far away.
Only then did he discover that there was a church not far from the big tree. The slender and towering spire made it look mysterious and very strange.
What concerned Arthur most was that there was a very obvious five-pointed star pattern on the top of the tower.
He remembered that Sher once said that the five-pointed star was a symbol of pagans and the devil, and this church put it on top, so Arthur had to be more careful.
At this time, a burst of chanting suddenly came from the church.
"I saw a white horse and hell followed."
Then, Arthur felt a sharp pain in his right hand. The bright spot in the far left corner of the pentagram in his hand suddenly shone brightly, and the aperture formed by the original nursery rhyme began to rearrange itself.
A larger halo was formed, and at the same time, the black words on his arms seemed to be under some kind of threat, and they were struggling desperately.
Some words finally broke away from his arm, but when they encountered the halo outside, they immediately let out an extremely harsh scream.
In an instant, it turned into a puff of black smoke, and then under the light of the halo, it turned into a new white light, which was rearranged with the halo.
But at this moment, a white light suddenly burst out in the distance. It was a hill, and a white horse was neighing on the hill with its hoofs in the air.
The skeleton knight on horseback waved his sword, as if to indicate his arrival.
Arthur couldn't help but curse: "How could it be him."
