The sacred right side of a certain comic

No. 36, Bryce Road, looks like a simple and old apartment from the outside. It has a long history like Britain, and its colonies spread all over the world before the 20th century. For a large country known as the Empire on which the sun never sets, such an apartment that has been around for a hundred years has no more meaning than modern existence. It is more like a lamentable ancient ruins, making people miss the days when the sun never sets. The majesty of the fallen empire.

But such a dilapidated and ancient apartment had an unusual significance a hundred years ago. It was one of the two important ceremonial venues of the secret society Golden Dawn.

After the three golden giants created the Golden Dawn a hundred years ago, one of the founders, William Robert Woodman, retired from the scene due to old age and frailty. The entire Golden Dawn was left to the remaining two founders, Mathers and Westcott. commanded by.

In order to obtain the sole leadership of the Golden Dawn, the two factions fought openly and secretly. The apartment at No. 36 Bryce Road was the stronghold controlled by the Westcott faction. It was also the weapons collection of the Golden Dawn, which was filled with gold. The spiritual equipment owned by Dawn.

A hundred years ago, Aleister knew that it was impossible to fight against the entire Golden Dawn with his own power, so he could only use conspiracy.

Because Mathers personally interceded for Aleister to join the Golden Dawn, everyone in the Golden Dawn regarded Aleister as a Mathers faction. Aleister also used this understanding of the members to break into He arrived at No. 36 Bryce Road, an important stronghold of the Westcott faction, which triggered a fight between the two factions within the Golden Dawn.

Mathers and Westcott started a desperate struggle under the last resort. Even though the two already knew that this was Aleister's conspiracy, they had to shoot because the arrow was on the string. In the end, Westcott and Mathers were fighting. were defeated in the battle, members of the two factions fought with each other, and most of the members of the Golden Dawn were killed or injured.

Judging from the results alone, this should be a victory for the Mathers faction. Even if its own faction has also suffered heavy losses, as long as it slowly recuperates over time and vigorously develops new members, the Golden Dawn will become Mathers's voice.

But at this time, Aleister personally killed Mathers using the spiritual equipment 'Fantasy Killer' stolen from the Golden Dawn weapons depot at No. 36 Bryce Road, and the Golden Dawn fell apart. , only a few members survived.

Among the surviving members of the Golden Dawn, the most famous is Yeats, the great poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The deaths of Mathers and Westcott represented the end of the secret society Golden Dawn, and also meant that Aleister began to reach the peak of his life. He stole the achievements of Mathers and the Golden Dawn, and added his own Researched and created the theory of modern mysticism, and became the object of worship of countless magicians.

It must be said that it is ironic that Mathers' wish to be remembered in history was finally fulfilled by Aleister.

Aleister's life was full of betrayal, stealing other people's achievements, and other dark things. His character and morality are evident. Even the great poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature once publicly despised Aleister. character.

But the winner takes all. In this magnificent history of magic and occultism, all members of the Golden Dawn died, even the great poet Yeats, and Conan who created the classic detective in the novel"Sherlock Holmes" Doyle has also been buried underground. Only Aleister survived and is still alive today.

No. 36 Bryce Road, after a hundred years, once again welcomed guests.

This is a very ordinary apartment. In fact, although the former members of the Golden Dawn were big names in various fields, they also lived ordinary lives. Among them were doctors, actors, coroners, poets, and soldiers. , there are novelists and so on.

The number of magicians at that time was not as large as it is now, and there was also the suppression of the magical country Britain and the three major Christian sects. The so-called 7=4 peak people could not do whatever they wanted in this world, let alone the entire Golden Dawn. There are only a few people who have truly reached this level.

Back then, Mathers had no job, and he was so poor that he had to rely on others for financial support. In the end, Mathers even had a fight with his sponsor because of Aleister, but who would have thought that the talented man named Aleister would... The young man eventually betrayed him, destroyed the Golden Dawn he worked so hard to create, and took away all the results of his research.

The greatest luck for Mathers is that he married Mina, a perfect woman. His financial sponsor only gave him monthly living expenses for Mina's sake, but this has also become his character. The origin of his low self-esteem made him always apply adjectives of noble blood to himself such as 'Highlander', 'descendant of Scottish nobles' and so on.

"This is one of the two most important ceremonial sites of the Golden Dawn."

A hundred years later, Roy brought the"Thoth Tarot" magic book, which contained all the memories and personality of Mina Mathers, to this holy place that magicians should pay homage to.

However, there were no furnishings in this holy place at all. A sense of sacredness.

The apartment is quite large, and there are many mysterious texts posted on the surrounding walls. People who don’t understand mysticism will get dizzy just by looking at the things on the walls. There are

Tarots scattered all over the floor. Cards, stumbling chairs and tables, newspapers from a hundred years ago, messy wine bottles, all kinds of ravaged handwriting and books and papers are not worthy of such entertainment items.

It can be seen that magicians are also human beings, even members of the Golden Dawn Likewise, they would gather here after their daily work, study occult science together, brag and fart together, drink together in front of the bar, and even play poker to relieve their fatigue after being tired. There is still magic running in this apartment, so in order to Now, a hundred years later, those newspapers, pieces of paper, etc. have not decayed, and there are no spider webs or dirty dust on the ground and walls. They have perfectly maintained the scene a hundred years ago.

And judging from those stumbling chairs, at that time Something big must have happened. The members of the Golden Dawn gathered here had no time to clean up, so they all ran out of the ceremony venue. But in the end, none of those members came back, and No. 36 Bryce Road disappeared. In the long history.

As for what happened on that day, even if Roy didn't witness it with his own eyes, he knew that Aleister must have triggered the civil war of the Golden Dawn.

Roy paid attention to the pile of garbage at his feet. If there was any The leakage of items will cause a stir among modern magicians, especially those pursued by modern gold-based magic associations. They are all relics of the Golden Dawn.

Roy raised some fallen chairs and tables and found himself a place where he could sit down. place, and then he saw that the table he was holding up was still covered with a tablecloth. The table was round, and the tablecloth used the circle of the table as a compass to draw a magic circle, with the words and symbols written on it Roy It's very familiar. It's Aleister's handwriting.

He has been reading books written by Aleister since he was a child, so he can naturally recognize Aleister's handwriting.

"It was here that Aleister accepted the assessment of other members of the Golden Dawn, and at Mathers's insistence, he became a member of the Golden Dawn."

Behind Roy, a beautiful woman wearing black mourning clothes, with a plump and beautiful figure, and a veil on her face said in her mature and charming voice.

That was Mina Mather.

Although she is just The soul of the administrator of the Grimoire is not the black cat witch back then, but her body and spirit are the same as the real Mina Sess.

Human beings have three elements, body, spirit and soul. This is the basic theory of human composition. , both in the Moon World and the Forbidden World, are universal, so this Mina Mathers has the memory and personality of the real Mina Mathers, but is different in soul.

And this Black Cat Witch Her rose-like lips and teeth were slightly fanned together, and she recounted what happened that year.

"Aleister's test is to summon spirits, which first requires drawing a circular magic circle. Being able to draw a perfect circle with bare hands is a basic skill of a magician, but Aleister took a different approach. He buckled the round table to the ground, followed the traces of the round table, and completed the drawing of the magic circle on the tablecloth."

"……But for those magicians who advocate mystery, this is undoubtedly a kind of blasphemy. The magic circle is painted on the tablecloths that can be seen everywhere, and it is such a joke painting method, almost letting the superiors control many mysterious magics. The teacher became a common thing, which made many members of the Golden Dawn dissatisfied at that time."

Roy listened to Mina's narration with great interest. At that time, Aleister was still very young, so he must have the rebelliousness of a young man.

"What is most unacceptable to the members of the Golden Dawn is that Aleister's summons actually used the blood of animals. In ancient times, many magics were done in bloody ways such as sacrifices, but the Golden Dawn's Members think that is not civilized, so there is an unwritten rule in the Golden Dawn, that is, any use of magic must not use the barbaric and bloody practice of sacrifice."

"……Obviously Aleister broke this rule. His spirit summoning ceremony was very successful, but he was not recognized by other members and even criticized him. In the end, Mathers, the founder, came forward in person. He admired Aleister's talent, firmly recruited Aleister into the Golden Dawn, and personally taught Aleister the mysticism."

Mina Mathers' words were a little erratic, as if she was caught up in reminiscing about the past."……Aleister is diligent and studious. He is talented and can always accept all the knowledge taught to him by Mathers as quickly as possible. As his master wife at that time, I also took good care of him, but Mathers He would never have imagined that this talented young man would eventually go against his ideas and destroy everything about him."

The Black Cat Witch's tone was full of lamentation, full of emotion about everything that had happened in the past, and lamentation for Mathers.

"From your tone, it sounds like you still miss Mathers very much?"

After Roy placed the table and tablecloth, he picked up the Tarot cards on the ground and played the Tarot game casually on the table.

"Although I am not Mina Mathers, I am still Mina Mathers. As a person who understands Mathers, I deeply love that man. This feeling will not disappear, but that is just me in the past. Now I am just a widow who lost her husband."

Mina Mathers shook her head and sighed.

As Mina Mathers, she should hate Aleister, but she is Aleister's magic book"Tottaro", so she should Following Aleister's words, this contradictory feeling must have made her very painful.

Mina Mathers is the greatest treasure in Huang Zhichang's life, and Aleister used Mina's image as the"Thoth Tarot""Managers, they really didn't let them go after the Mathers died and continued to torture them.

"Perhaps it was because you were Mathers' wife and a widow that Aleister resurrected you.’"

Roy knew Aleister's private life very well and said jokingly

"With that despicable and despicable character, he may indeed have this idea, but I didn't have a body at that time, and he couldn't do anything to me."

Mina Mathers said sarcastically.

"Well, I understand his obsession with the widow, he is my father anyway."

Roy nodded, indicating that he understood Aleister's mood.

"……"

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