Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 25 Two Rituals
On top of the gray mist, inside the old palace, Klein’s figure emerged.
At this moment, on the high-backed chair belonging to the “Fool”, there was a “person” enveloped in gray mist.
As Klein returned to the “Source Castle”, this “person” instantly disintegrated into a transparent and twisted “spirit worm”, flew to Klein’s body, and drilled into it.
Fortunately, the restrictions of “0-02” are only that it can’t be leaked and can’t be returned, and this part of the “Spirit Worms” guarding the “Source Castle” didn’t break the connection, otherwise they would have already lost control of their lives and become monsters. Otherwise, they would have already lost control and become monsters……. Klein secretly sighed with emotion, sat down to the position belonging to the “Fool”, and picked up the “Fool” card that had been sacrificed before.
Because this “blasphemy card” has already been opened, so there is no need for him to find additional incantations, only with the infusion of spirituality, you can see the corresponding changes produced.
The “Fool” card quickly turned into a miniature, illusory book, and as Klein’s mind guided him, he kept flipping back and forth until the last two pages:
”Sequence 1: The Secretive Servant.
”This is the Angel of the Servant of the Trickster, who has initially grasped the authority of the corresponding domain, and can evoke the ‘spiritual threads’ that originally existed in the item, and can combine many physical things or abstract concepts together ……
”The magic potion recipe is as follows:
”Primary Material: one copy of ‘Sneaky Servant’ Extraordinary Characteristics;
”Auxiliary materials: nine Spirit World specialties;
”Promotion ceremony: establish a town purely composed of secret puppets and design its own destiny trajectory for each of them, so that through their interaction with each other, they can interpret a picture of life that is real enough to give birth to a corresponding region in the Spirit World.
The larger the size of this town, the more secret puppets there are, the more elaborate the routine, the more vivid and real the different destinies are, the longer they stretch out, and the more effective the ritual will be.”
”Sequence 0: The Fool.
”This is a true deity, in a sense, k is the embodiment of the corresponding authority ……k specializes in fooling all things in various ways, showing all kinds of incredible miracles ……
”The magic potion formula is as follows:
”Primary material: the ‘uniqueness’ of the ‘Fool’, the remaining two copies of the ‘Trickster Servant’s’ extraordinary properties outside of itself;
”Secondary ingredient: control of at least a quarter of the Mists of History;
”Promotion ritual: fooling time, history or fate once.”
Looking at it, Klein’s brows gradually furrowed, and he muttered silently to himself in his heart:
”Compared to the promotion ceremony of the ‘Secret Servant’, the ‘Fool’ is really too abstract …… How can one be considered to have fooled time, history or destiny ? And how do you identify if it’s successful or not?
”Mastering at least a quarter of the Historical Mists is fairly easy for me; on the one hand, I know enough ancient hidden secrets to light up quite a few historical fragments, and on the other hand, I’m the one who can exert a direct influence on the Historical Mists through the ‘Fortress of Sources’… …
”Ignoring the question of becoming a ‘Fool’ for now, the current focus is on the ‘Sneaky Servant’, and the road has to be taken one step at a time, uh, sure, some lucky people can just fly… …
”The nine Spirit World specialties are easy to find, either by asking Miss Messenger to help or by consulting Seven Lights, it’s not a problem …… That promotion ceremony is close to the conditions around the ancestors of the Charatu and Antigonus families, and matches Seven Lights’ words of ‘having a ‘close connection to the spirit world’ close connection’ words, it can be initially judged that it is indeed true.”
Thinking of this, Klein removed the citrine pendant wrapped around his left wrist and used divination to confirm the authenticity of the “Secret Servant” magic potion formula.
It’s not that he doesn’t believe in Rossel the Great, but that old townsman should have been influenced by Mr. Door before he made the “Blasphemy Sign”, and went to the moon, suffering from the contamination and erosion of the “Fallen Mother Goddess”. Before making the “Blasphemy Card”, Mr. Gate should have already been influenced by Mr. Gate to go to the moon, and suffered the contamination and erosion of the “Fallen Mother Goddess” and had his memories distorted.
Because of this, the final stage of Rossell in the “blasphemy card” in the key places to plant some traps is completely possible.
In this regard, Klein had always been cautious and careful.
”Speaking of the body of the ‘primordial moon’, the most powerful ‘fallen mother goddess’ of old, judging from the title of K, could the great emperor have been unknowingly tainted… …Above the moon, there may live many younger brothers and sisters that Bernadette has not seen, not necessarily gender-specific, of course ……
”The secret dolls needed for the ‘Trickster Servant’ ritual can be obtained from the Godforsaken Lands, the very large number of monsters there is also a plus, and I’ve accumulated quite a few before.” As Klein’s thoughts fanned out, he turned his head to look at the other side of the ancient palace, causing the grayish mist in the area next to the clutter pile to dissipate for a moment.
As the mist receded, rows of tan-colored seats were revealed there, with a figure sitting on each of them.
Those figures included giants covered in silver full body armor, humans wearing linen clothing with deformed features, and large chunks of flesh and blood with eyes …… They sat quietly in their seats, their eyes dull and indifferent as they gazed in the direction of the long mottled table, row upon row.
These were the secret puppets that Klein had collected in the God Forsaken Land, and every time he needed to transfer them, and it was inconvenient to carry too many of them with him, he would sacrifice a batch of them on top of the gray mist.
Of course, this had nothing to do with environmental awareness, but the encounter in the Misty Town and the scene shown by Charatu made Klein intuitively believe that there was a high probability that a certain ritual would have to use a lot of secret puppets afterward, so he had always been very frugal in this regard.
As for why he didn’t suspend all of these secret puppets, but let them sit inside the figurative theater and act as spectators, it was because Klein felt that those behaviors of the ancestors of the Antigonus family and Charatu were a bit perverted.
He did try to mimic them once, but the purpose was to play the role, and now he didn’t need to.
”But how is a secret puppet city like this supposed to generate information about the corresponding spirit world? The spirit world is a collection of many information about the past, present and future, but it does not directly contain such falsehoods ……
”Generate it through the perceptions of others? Every living being’s behavior and words are reflected in the spirit world in an abstract form and become the source of divination, and when some of their actions, some of their words, and some of their strong intentions have clearly constructed a secret-doll city, then the spirit world projection of that city will appear, ‘real existence’… …
”The ‘interaction’ contained herein involves the deep mysteries of the spirit world ah ……” Krynn thoughtfully closed the “Fool ” card and held it in his hand to play with it.
Because he had already reached the angelic level, he had a certain knowledge of the production of “blasphemous cards”:
At that time, Rosier could not only draw power from knowledge, but also give power in the sense of substance to abstract knowledge!
As for what materials this great emperor used as the basis for his production, and how he was able to achieve anti-divination and anti-prophecy on a divine level, Klein was unable to figure it out at the moment.
After pondering for a while, Kraven tried to put the “Fool” card into his body.
His state immediately changed, more layers of colorful clothing on his body surface, an extremely gorgeous headdress appeared on his head, and his aura was obviously extremely deep and terrifying, but it carried a bit of comical, playful, and absurd feeling, presenting a weird and contradictory state.
The entire space attached to the “Source Castle” gently shook, seemingly about to submit to the feet of this deity that was difficult to describe in concrete terms.
”The dimension has been slightly raised again, but there are no other substantial changes, after all, I’m already the owner of the ‘Source Castle’, heh, it’s like having an extra fashion that can emphasize my temperament …… “Klein shook his head and laughed at himself twice.
At the same time, one transparent and twisted “Spirit Worm” after another crawled out of his body, reorganizing into a figure identical to his.
After separating into his “self” that could always answer his prayers, Kraven returned to the real world and walked around Beldan City, healing the wounds of the people by wishing for them and learning about one of the aspects of the war from their mouths.
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”Shit!” Daniz couldn’t help but curse when he heard the crew’s report, “They actually ate the whale oil? Why didn’t you guys stop it?”
When passing through the Galgas Islands, Daniz and his crew had purchased a batch of unrefined whale oil, preparing to bring it back to Bayam and sell it at a high price, but who knew that the “half-giants” of Silver City had eaten some of it.
The crew member looked at the ambassador and whispered:
”They can’t understand what we’re saying, and we can’t understand what they’re saying, only the shortest one can communicate, but he can’t be found all the time, he always goes to meditate where the sun shines, and changes his position every time.”
Daniz snorted subconsciously:
”That’s what happens when you’re illiterate.
”You wouldn’t have to go through something like that if you all had a command of Gufthak, Giant, Elvish, and many other languages like I do.
”Of course, things like linguistic talent are related to intelligence, so you guys don’t have to push yourselves too hard.”
The crewman carefully glanced at Daniz again:
”Lord God-Emperor, what they ate was the portion of whale oil you bought.”
”…… shit!” Daniz reacted faster than his thoughts and rushed to the cabin.
After a moment of chaos, Daniz got a Sequence 8 Extraordinary Trait as compensation, and he didn’t know if he had earned it or lost it, but anyway, the monster’s dirty bodily fluids left on that trait made him a bit nauseous and wanted to vomit.
By the time the ship was calm again, the “city of generosity” Bayam was already in front of the Silver City Pathfinder team.
Derek led Liavar and Candace to the deck and looked towards the destination of this “trip”.
Although they had passed through many ports, they had never been allowed to get off the ship and could only watch from afar, but now they were finally going to set foot on land for the first time.
–Even so, the large crowds, the many houses, and the vigor that they had seen from afar several times before, which could not be hidden even by the hardship and pain, made them yearn for the life in the light world more and more.
Of course, accustomed to darkness and lightning, it took them quite a while to get used to the sun outside, and if they hadn’t been extraordinary, they might have even suffered permanent eye damage.
Looking at the people coming and going in large numbers at the docks, looking at the airships traveling high up in the sky and the boat after boat around them, listening to the cacophony of voices that he could barely understand but was still not familiar enough with, and thinking about the fact that this was going to be the settlement after the Silver City, Derek suddenly felt some inevitable nervousness.
When he swept his eyes, he suddenly saw a man standing on the lighthouse on the seashore, wearing robes embroidered with storm symbols, his hair was dark blue and almost black, like twisted seaweed, and the lines of his face were rough and deep.
As his eyes met, Derek became calm, no longer apprehensive.