[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

74: The Sun God 13

The Night Watchman melted into the shadows, stealing ever closer to the bottomless black pit.

In the city of New York where darkness never lifted, the movements of a single shadow went unnoticed by the ghouls. The creatures had no time to pay attention to such things. In all likelihood, their altar would be completed soon, and that was why they'd launched such a suicidal attack. It was a tactic to delay the humans who were trying to stop them.

So Zong Yan crept along the asphalt pavement. Then, without a backwards glance, he flung himself into the hole.

As soon as he crossed the threshold, the temperature plummeted. The Night Watchman was dressed in many layers—a trench coat, a three-piece suit with an undershirt, heavy Martin boots—but he couldn't avoid the deathly cold that drilled into his bones.

It wasn't an ordinary cold. Normal cold only affected the surface of the body, but this type of cold penetrated deep into Zong Yan's bones and blood, circulating to all parts of his body.

The Night Watchman's heart was gloomy.

Thanks to the information he'd received from several evil gods, he already knew what the ghouls were doing in New York.

They were trying to leverage the return of the stars to summon the evil god they worshipped.

It had to be admitted they were pretty good at planning. The chance their ritual would succeed was almost fifty percent higher than at normal times. If the ghouls weren't going to try it now, what were they waiting for?

The name of the god they worshipped was "Mordiggian". Zong Yan had looked up this evil god in the MU app.

Mordiggian was a Great Old One, but since he'd lived on Earth so long ago, there weren't many records of him. Investigators only knew that he had several other names—"the Charnel God", "the Great Ghoul". There were also top secret investigation files that contained valuable information investigators had found in a ghoul city. According to the files, the Great Old One named "Mordiggian" was one of the few higher-level beings who could understand and communicate with humans. Most of the time, he could be regarded as a rather benevolent evil god.

But that wasn't very useful to Zong Yan.

What the ghouls were trying to do was summon the actual body of the Great Old One Mordiggian.

What was the fundamental truth about a Great Old One's body?

By way of illustration, long ago on Earth, there had once existed several brilliant and magnificent civilizations which endured for countless centuries.

Indeed, Earth's history had seen the rise of more than one civilization. According to the Mayans, there had been five Suns, or solar ages, on the planet. The fifth Sun was the modern era, the age of humans. It was once calculated that doomsday would occur in December 2012, but this date was later found to be incorrect.

The Mayan civilization was the focus of a special research discipline at Miskatonic University. During their heyday, the Mayans were a society that combined magic and technology, both of which were hundreds of times more advanced than anything humans possessed today. They could accurately predict future calamities through changes in the stars.

Fifteen billion years ago, Azathoth fell into a deep sleep, and from his dream, the universe was born.

During the first solar age, the Earth was home to many evil gods: Cthugha, Chaugnar Faugn, Yidhra, Tsathoggua... Numerous Great Old Ones once strode the surface of the planet.

About 350 million years ago, an evil god named "Cthulhu" arrived as well. At the time, the continents hadn't yet moved to their current configuration. The surface of the planet was almost entirely covered in a single vast ocean without much land. This Great Old One established a civilization and nation of his own upon the sea. Its name was R'lyeh. Every being on the planet was subject to the great Cthulhu, and his clan spread throughout the world.