OBS Chapter 4150 Sin Revealed
Chapter 4150 Sin Revealed
Chapter 4150 Sin Revealed
The girl leading the way pushed open the first door on the left side of the second-floor corridor. The room inside was completely empty, devoid of any furniture. However, the wall directly opposite the door was made of glass, and behind it lay a manor bathed in sunlight.
The images behind the glass wall were moving. Once inside the room, Shad could tell that it was not an illusion or a projection; the space behind the glass wall was indeed a physical space.
In that manor, the young noblewoman got up from her room and began her day.
The space behind the glass wall exhibited anomalies in both time and space. The accelerated visuals revealed to the group that although the noble lady appeared polite to everyone and had a gentle and kind personality, she was actually very jealous of a beautiful maid in the manor.
Both the noblewoman and the maid were seventeen or eighteen years old, young and carefree. The former was not bad-looking, but she was no match for the maid. From the noblewoman's late-night soliloquy, it was clear that she was jealous of the maid's beauty and longed to have the same appearance to show off her own superiority.
The story that followed was not unexpected. By chance, a friend visiting the manor gave the noble lady a small knife and told her how to use it to make leather goods.
So, in the dead of night during the storm, the noble lady went to the room of the drugged maid, successfully obtained and put on the leather garment, and alone in the thunder and rain, she stood naked in front of the full-length mirror in her bedroom, laughing and twirling to admire her current beauty.
Then, an identical dagger emerged from the darkness behind her, first stripping her of her skin, and then peeling off her skin to make more skin.
The noblewoman's friend then put on the new leather garment and lived as her ever since, enjoying a life of luxury and ease. Occasionally, she would also wear the beautiful maid's leather garment to seduce men for her own amusement, but ultimately, on a stormy night, she died at the hands of the maid's vengeful spirit.
After her death, the club collected two leather items and also skinned her, bringing the skin back to the club. The final scene behind the glass wall shows all three leather items drying in the garden of the manor. The weather is fine, and the three light leather items sway gently in the warm spring breeze.
"Ugh~"
When the final scene appeared, Vige uncontrollably gagged. Although as a Ring Mage she was used to all sorts of bizarre and disgusting things, the last scene still made her feel intensely uncomfortable. The others also looked quite unwell; being used to disgusting things didn't mean they enjoyed watching such a malicious story.
"I don't understand, why are you showing us these things?"
A middle-aged man of unknown identity in the group asked a question, and the young woman leading the way replied with a smile:
"As I just mentioned, the second floor is the workshop and operation area. Although we cannot directly show our guests the actual leather making process, the club can still demonstrate the reasons that lead to the creation of each leather item."
Jealousy, vanity, comparison, or other wonderful emotions and sins can all drive people to desire a more attractive appearance. This room will show you five stories that have happened in the past; this isn't the most interesting one. It's still early, so please read the next story before we move on to the next room.
Everyone wanted to object, but the space-time behind the glass wall changed directly, and what followed were four stories: twin noble youths jealous of each other's interpersonal relationships, a noblewoman mother jealous of her young daughter's youthful appearance, a serial killer who hunts young people in order to maintain his youth, and a criminal obsessed with youthful bodies who collects furs.
No one spoke during the story. Starting from the middle of the second story, Vige couldn't take it anymore. She hugged Xia De's arm and rested her head on his shoulder, completely refusing to look at the following scenes. But even so, Xia De could still feel the fluctuations in Vige's soul.
This wasn't due to her low psychological resilience, but rather because the malice and influence of the Sage-level relic on those who entered it had finally erupted completely at this moment. Everyone's rationality, including Shad's, was being tested. The subtle influence that had seeped into their spirit and soul, combined with the negative emotions that had accumulated before, was pushing everyone to the brink of losing control.
Xia De's condition was relatively good, and "she" suddenly spoke up:
[Outsider, your sins of "jealousy/vanity" have increased.]
Her voice made Xia De feel much better:
“But I did nothing, I just read other people’s stories, so why would that increase my own sins? I didn’t feel jealous or envious of other people’s appearances.”
Her voice remained gentle:
This is an inherent characteristic of the relics themselves. On the surface, it means people who come here will have a greater fondness for leather goods; the deeper truth is that the guild hall increases the sins of its visitors.
She paused slightly:
[You have already acquired the "Envy" rune; lingering here for an extended period will also cause the "Vanity" rune to appear. However, if you acquired the rune due to accumulating enough sin, this will slightly affect your personality.]
"I see."
【besides.】
She smiled very gently:
[The power of the "Mark of Great Sin" seems to exist here.]
"what?"
According to Ms. White, who still sleeps in the snow-capped mountains in the form of a snake egg, the "brand of sin" was an opportunity that appeared in the First Age to elevate mortals to godhood—although this is just a legend.
That brand sparked the "War of Original Sin" in the age of myth, but in the end, the brand shattered, and no one obtained it. However, the fragments of the brand continue to be secretly passed down in a sinful way. When Shad first met "Desire" in the secret room beneath Aurora's mansion in Coldwater Harbor, the other party mentioned this. Now, thinking back, "Desire" also participated in the War of Original Sin back then.
During the battle at the snow mountain, in order to fight against the demons whose weapons were enhanced by the blood of the primordial demon, the doctor's power allowed Shad to witness a portion of the true nature of the "Mark of Sin," and the [Chains of Sin] were also sublimated due to the information provided by Ms. White. Therefore, "she" can now sense the power of primordial sin that seems to exist here as well.
"Wait a minute, could it be that desire is asking me to help not only for its own possessions and contracts, but also for the power of sin?"
Xia De was startled, but quickly dismissed the idea. The mermaid had never seemed particularly interested in "sin"; she was more interested in the rotten aspects of human nature, what humans called "desire."
"I'm not interested in mermaids, but there seem to be some locals who are interested."
The story behind the glass wall was still unfolding. Apart from Vigo, who had Shad's help to stop it, everyone else stared blankly at the story behind the glass wall. Even Mr. Gerald Delon, who was at the thirteenth level, couldn't close his eyes.
"Seven strangers. Now I know the general identities of five of them. Could one of the remaining two be a demon?"
Logically, given Shad's current level, he shouldn't be completely unaware if a demon were so close. However, this is, after all, the interior of a Sage-level relic, and the suspected "Withering Demon" is related to the location of the "Primal Demon," so Shad cannot rule out the possibility that the other party could deceive him.
"If the sixth person is truly a demon, then who is the seventh person? Viggo's mother, or just a background character?"
Xia De speculated in his mind, but did not tell Wei Ge his guess about the demon, as it was too early to say such things now.
The five acts of the story quickly came to an end. After the story ended, the originally completely transparent glass instantly turned into a smooth mirror. The expressions of everyone reflected in the mirror at this moment became the best footnote to the end of these disgusting stories.
Most people seemed to have just woken from a dream, except for Mr. Gérard Delon, who was in somewhat better spirits. The young woman who had led the way, however, still looked at everyone with a gentle smile.
"This is the reason why most leather goods were created. Long ago, leather craftsmen discovered that instead of going out to find good leather themselves, it was better to wait for people to come to them with their needs. This can be considered the business strategy of the guild hall."
In very ancient times, before I even joined the guild, the leatherworkers would frequently go out on their own initiative, but this made us many enemies. Now times have changed; most of those powerful enemies have vanished, while we, having long since changed our strategies, still exist.
Most people didn't listen carefully when she said these words; instead, they tried to calm their minds and spirits to prevent themselves from losing control at that moment.
She only spoke after most people had recovered somewhat:
"Are these stories interesting? No, sir, please don't swear. Before we leave this room, let's play a little game. The winner will receive a souvenir from the club."
The young woman snapped her fingers, and the mirrored wall turned back into transparent glass, only this time behind the glass was a room exactly like the one everyone was in.
In the center of the room sat a square table, with two girls slumped asleep on either side. Both appeared to be from southern China; the black-haired girl on the left was plain-looking, while the blonde girl on the right was unmistakably beautiful. A toolbox sat in the center of the table.
The girl who was leading the way then said:
"The toolbox contains a set of leatherworking tools specially supplied by the guild, along with instructions for use. In a little while, the black-haired girl on the left will be the first to wake up and will have plenty of time to read the instructions."
She smiled and said to everyone:
"They are strangers to each other, and the black-haired girl who woke up first has always longed for a more beautiful appearance. The game involves guessing whether the black-haired girl will use those tools to obtain what she has always wanted but has never had, in order to satisfy her vanity and desires."
Note that this is not a story that actually happened. The women behind the glass are alive, normal people who have been sleeping for hundreds of years as reserve materials for the guild, so I cannot predict the answer.
You can each choose your answer, and the reward for a correct guess is a human skin mask. It's not a complete mask, but it'll make a nice little souvenir. Of course, there's no punishment for guessing wrong; it's just a game.