Anomalies

The Riddles of God

Welcome to Archon Palace !!

“Anaan again !? That time welcome to Mekhane's house, now Archon's palace !??”

“Candle your voice, damn it. You could have woken something, you know.”

“Hah !? Wake up what !!?”

I turned towards Hanz instantly, simultaneously pulling his hand as fast as lightning, making him flinch and almost fall onto the ceramic floor. Just a moment ago, me, Hanz, and Robin, entered the portal of time gaps that were on the wall. And this is where Hanz and I are now, in a palace interior with a ceramic floor. I don't know which part it is, but for sure, it's not the main part of his palace.

“Dengerin me, motherfucker. This is not a playground, know !!”

“Uh, yeah..... Alright !! Unless there is a jumpscare.

The nature of Hanz seemed to immediately turn into 180° degrees in my opinion, for some reason. He looked at me very sharply, and also horribly. He looked like he was going to beat me up with annoyance, but it seemed to disappear instantly when Robin finally entered from the portal as well, walking behind me while holding an arrow in his left hand. Fortunately, I will always be safe if there is a Robin !!

“Robin, you've been coming a while too, huh ?? Why ?”

I watched him constantly, waiting for my question to get an answer, but Robin didn't even look at me. I'm....... It was like a ghost in front of him !! Robin looked at the surrounding area for a while, before finally, she looked at me for the first time after that very long time gap.

But still, his face still looks annoying in my opinion. Why the hell does everyone seem to change when his nature runs out here ??

“This place is too wide, we split.” Robin said as she walked away, heading towards a brown wooden door on her right side.

“Wait, are you angry ?? I just chose him this time, know !”

“Not that the problem, Eva !!” robin answered very loudly.

It seemed, Robin's emotions had already exploded at this moment, and I was indeed acting too stupidly. In short, I let Robin go to the wooden door, while Hanz and I surrounded the rest of the palace, until finally, it was, the two of us arrived at a large room that he said Hanz was a library room. I don't even see any books here. How can this be called a library ?

“Oi, you seem to be really serious here anyway ? Though time outside, more like a clown than an anomaly.

Hanz silenced me for a moment, still continuing to walk through the hallways of the room that he said this library was with me. Hanz then dragged his hand across the wall to the left, like he was looking for something with his touch. I began to observe his strange movements, before he decided to answer my question all of a sudden.

“Archon, I haven't heard that name in a long time. They are a race of psychopathic bastards from the *****Mekhane, can be said to be the first child of his lineage directly. They are the guardians, although it is actually more appropriate to be called the real devil. You're better off, man.”

“Oh, waw. Long times wide so your talk.

“Don't joke around, stupid. I'm looking for their fucking traps now.”

“Hah ? Trap ?”

Suddenly, a voice from the robe blown by the wind sounded behind me. Hanz and I looked back for a moment, and like the usual horror movies, there was no one back there.

“They found us....”.

“You mean ? I don't understand at all, damn !!”

“Cih, it should be in the library safer than here. Follow me !!”

“Hah !? I think I would dare to travel here alone.”

I had no other choice but to let my hands be pulled by Hanz, running together straight ahead through the passageway with that golden-coloured ceramic floor. Indeed, the scenery around is very luxurious and also looks quite well maintained, but that is what makes this palace so more sinister. Just a few steps ran, and suddenly we were both surrounded by a dense black fog. I feel like cosplay being blind right now.

“Jebaknya...”.

“What do you mean ?? This is the trap???”

When you look around again, the floor where we stand also changed, into a wooden floor with a bright blue light emanating underneath. It's back in that labyrinth area again ?

Hanz and I looked around us, even though there was nothing to see here. Around me, there were voices of someone or something, which seemed to move very quickly around me and Hanz many times. They laughed, and moments later began to speak to both of us.

Look, look !! There are unclean intruders entering into the palace of this holy Archon !!

You guys are already trapped, you are already trapped inside here !!

Whether it's a threat, a gnash of teeth, or even a sword and arrow, it'll never help you get out of this palace !!

You are the victims of the Archons......

You guys, are the prey of all of us !!

“They're Archon !?”

“It looks like it is.” Hanz replied as he grabbed something inside his pants pocket.

Suddenly, the entire darkness disappeared instantly. The floor has also become ceramic. Hanz and I seem to be in the same hallway. Nothing happened to my body, nor Hanz's body. Oh look, who really threatened to doang here.

“So, it was just their welcome??”

“Yup, bad welcome indeed. (Sigh) Well, I think it's a good time to go to the library right now.”

After saying that with a long sigh, Hanz immediately grabbed my hand and ran forward very quickly, like he was in a hurry to find something question mark.

“Oi, really make your way to the library !! What's up there, motherfucker !?”

Hanz turned his head towards me for a moment, before finally facing back to the front while still running without reducing his speed in the least.

“You don't know what Archon is, do you ? There are many books about them.”

“That's a mockery for me !!? You bastard !!”

“Home. This damn place has a lot of fucking puzzles too, and most of them are called in library books. As long as we are still not adventuring far in this place, we will find as many clues there.”

“Oh, speedrun really tuh.”

Just a moment later, after running at an incredible speed until it was out of breath together, me and Hanz finally arrived at the front of a wooden door to the left of which was a rotating staircase leading up. The ladder is like a property in the game only, it is there only as a regular decoration that can not be used by anyone. Hanz immediately broke through the door, and he still pulled my hand, making me almost fall on the floor.

What a dog......

“(Yawn) Apparently, they're just bragging. You go upstairs, I walk around under.”

I was silent for a moment, thinking about something that had been awkward in my opinion. He just suddenly appeared before me that time, and it was as if he had been very close to Robin a long time ago. Who is he, then ?

“Oi, wait a minute.”

“During this time, you seemed to call yourself a kind of god, a demigod ? Son of the god ?? Who are you really ??”

“It...... Difficult to explain.“

Hanz simply answered that, then continued his adventure around the first-floor library. Just now, Hanz sent me to the second floor, didn't he ? I went to the second floor, up a rotating staircase made of some expensive wood. In short, I was already on the floor, climbing 26 steps to be precise. I walked while observing the strangely shaped writings that were slightly emitting a white light from its surface on a golden wooden table. From up here, I can also see Hanz who is looking for his choice book. Perhaps, this was a good time to ask what kind of writing this was to him. He was the son of a disappearing god (said Robin), so he must have known about what kind of oddity this was. It should be.

“Oi, Hanz !! The people here write it on all freaks !! You know what they write !!?”

“Gods on writing it all. Taumaturgi his name.”

“Tau...... Tau...... What's the name !? It's hard anyway...”.

Hanz giggled down there, then went towards his right and straight ahead. Really sucks. But just knowing about this strange writing is still not enough. I still wanted to drain her knowledge of 'goddesses', so I started to walk after her from this second floor. I began to see some books scattered on the table. Must be a very good librarian at doing his job, right ?

All the books here are so thick, it makes me wonder what they really are. I picked up one of the books on the top of the stack, then opened it on the middle page. It is like the law of nature to always open the middle page when checking out a new book. I don't know if it's a miracle or something, but I found out that this book uses English. It must be a miracle.

“Sixth child ? Who is ?” I asked Hanz.

“Do not ask about the sixth child, if the third child does not know yet.” said Hanz from below, while reading a book with the strangest writing in the world.

“Hah ? Your jokes are funny, but you have to be the third child ?”

Hanz closed the book, then looked up at me. Finally after a long time passed, his bastard face was visible as well.

“You started looking for something you shouldn't know, huh ? You have to be careful, Eva. Or you will fall into a deeper hole.”

“Waw, one thank you for the inspiration. Now tell me about the third child...”.

Hanz closed the book he had just read, then walked around the bookshelves in front of him. I, who was curious, also followed his steps from this second floor.

“Yaldabaoth, the third child of the red star. He controls everything. The third child, who dropped the sixth child into the human world. And finally, the sixth child has disappeared somewhere, living together with humans as his friends.”

“Oh, waw. Can you continue the story ??”

“Wait a minute, I'm looking for something here.”

Hanz raised his right hand up, then plucked his finger once.

“Oi, why is it suddenly so !!? How am I, motherfucker !!?”

“Ciao !!”

And Hanz walked to the left, disappearing as his figure passed through the floor where I was standing right now. I finally couldn't see her figure anymore, and all I could do was wait, leaning against the floor guardrail made of luxurious wood as well, just like the others.

“Damn so bad for people....... Will I be alone here ??” chirp me with a rather loud voice.

But wait a minute, because I don't seem to be alone on the second floor of this library. As I turned to the left towards a bookshelf, my eyes saw one of the books that slowly looked like it was being pulled by someone. I stared at the book intently, before it finally fell on the floor by itself. Is this a scene reference from horror films as usual ?? Because it looks so exact to me.

Oh, look, how that sixth child left you alone here !!

What do you think, this is a safe place to go and do nothing !!? You stupid fool !! ****** dumb !!

“Who are you calling with ******, bastard !!?”

I immediately moved from where I was leaning. I think I hit that bastard in the head. There was a voice, but no one spoke. That's what happened to me just now. Suddenly, the door under the floor sounded like it was opened by someone. Don't you think Hanz is back ?

“Hanz, what is it you !!?” I shouted in a rather loud voice.

Hanz still had not answered down there, so I shouted back in a much louder voice than the one before.

“Hanz !!? The terror has started, know !!!”

Again, Hanz did not answer my call. At least I heard a footstep with shoes down there. At first I was just waiting, and it seemed to be the most stupid mistake I ever made. My eyes widened instantly, the moment that came out of the door was not Hanz, but a vague woman wearing a black robe. He looked up, and from his smile I knew that what he was after right now was me.

“Most !!” suddenly the bastard shouted.

I was immediately shocked at that moment, making me subconsciously step back to touch the wall. That, should be the Archon !!

The last thing I remember was a pair of hands slitting my throat with a knife.

It was as if someone had emerged from behind the wall.

...****************...

“(Gasp) My Neck !! Still intact ???”

I woke up in a room that looked like a prison cell. It's a hard thing for me to believe. That last feeling when my neck was slit by someone, it felt really real. How can I still wake up now ??

“Sial........ Fucking Archon base !!”

I looked around me, and to my right, there seemed to be something useful for me to wear out of this damn prison. I stood up with a gasping breath, then walked over to the thing that was my only hope of getting out of it. And it turned out to be a machete !! Or a sword. I also without thinking straight away took it. Looking around, this sword was full of rust, and many of its sides were already uneven. This made me finally turn my head towards the padlock that locked this prison cell. There's no way I can cut him with this sword.

“But, everything must be tried first right??”

I nodded with confidence, and quickly went straight to the door that was locked with the padlock. If I observe the shape of the padlock, the part of the hole between the shackle is enough to be entered by this sword blade. Whether it was a coincidence or not, only God and the person who put me in this prison cell knew.

I put this blade into the shackle hole of the padlock, then moved it up and down very hard hoping that it would destroy it immediately.

“Come on, wretch lock !!”

It is very unexpected, if only to do this it is difficult to ask for forgiveness, and also my position is very...... Reduced energy. I moved the sword blade even louder, until the sound of its padlock could be heard throughout this dungeon. At the very least, it all ended up producing the best possible results if I said. The sound of 'clang' was heard, and in that moment, the padlock was already separated from his own shackle.

“Waw. Padlock aja son of a bitch already kayak gini....” mumbled me while removing the shackle from the keyhole door.

Finally, after a struggle that felt like it was going to last for that eternity, I was able to get out of this cell as well. I directly faced to the left, and there, the floor was filled with the ruins of the walls. Looks like this is an abandoned dungeon for quite a while. Why use it again ?

“Eeeeeeva !!!”

The voice that called my name instantly made me look down. There was a woman with a shapeless face who had just fallen down right in front of me, and she then extended her left hand to me for help. I watched it for a while, and the longer I looked at it, the more goosebumps rose up inside me.

Why is that person, similar to me !!?