Part 1 The Joker Chapter 212 The Avenger
In the northern part of the Kingdom of Ruen, the September wind was cool with a bit of chill, and after running through the cemetery, it was even more chilly.
Klein was blown and hit the ground, and came back to his senses, smiling bitterly and saying to himself:
”This crossing really still hides some secrets ah ……”
”But by the looks of it, at most two more times, I won’t be able to ‘resurrect’ …… I also don’t know if this recovery ability that doesn’t normally appear will still be useful if I’m chopped up into mincemeat… …”
……
After a few dozen seconds of calming down, Klein buttoned up his shirt and tuxedo formalwear, realizing that he was wearing the newest one, but at this point they were both quite soiled.
…… Benson, Melissa really does not know how to save …… He subconsciously came up with this thought, will hand a brace, rolled over to stand up, and found that the “clown” ability has not disappeared.
”The best brother …… The best brother …… The best colleague ……” Klein looked at the tombstone, silently reciting the The inscription on the tombstone, his heart suddenly sour, seems to realize Melissa and Benson’s feelings of mourning.
This may be even more sad than I witnessed the death of the captain …… He sighed, retracted his eyes, squatted down, and closed the coffin board back together.
Though his thoughts were still a bit disorganized, Klein knew he had to process the scene as quickly as possible without anyone noticing.
Coming back from the dead was not something normal people could play with!
If the Nightwatchman, the Substitute Punisher or the Mechanical Heart knew about this, Klein believed that he wouldn’t have a good ending. Of course, if this was Earth and he was taking the “Lawyer” or “Fraudster” magic potion, he could be faked into Of course, if this were Earth, and he had taken the “lawyer” or “fraudster” magic potion, he could have been fooled into becoming a “God’s Favorite” or a “Redeemer”, but there is a true God in this world who will respond to the rituals!
Filling the soil well again and covering the stone slab, Klein clapped his hands and stood up again.
The situation could not have been more peculiar; he looked like a gentleman who had taken advantage of the dead of night to come and pay his respects to a friend, and the only thing that was wrong was that the man in the picture on the gravestone looked exactly like him.
Just now, his inspiration detected the existence of the “Aztec copper whistle”, so he dug it out and wiped it clean.
However, Klein did not intend to summon the messenger immediately, he decided to clarify the current situation first.
Raising his left hand, Klein saw the citrine pendant still wrapped around his wrist.
”This is sort of a burial item, isn’t it?” He laughed to himself as he unwrapped the spirit pendulum and looked up and around, his expression gradually sinking in, “…… The captain should be buried in this cemetery as well, right ……”
He changed two directions in a row and finally used the spirit pendulum to determine the location of Dunn’s grave.
Borrowing the moonlight as he walked and searched, after ten minutes, Klein saw the black and white photo of the captain: a gentle expression, a higher hairline, the gray color of his eyes vaguely reflective, and not much difference from the usual.
Beneath the photo was Dunn’s name, date of birth, date of death, and epitaph:
”A true guardian;”
”Most trusted companion;”
”Captain Forever.”
Klein stared in awe, his vision blurring again for some reason, vaguely returning to that day when he saw the captain turn his head sideways, squeeze his left eye at himself, and say in a mellow voice and relaxed tone:
”We saved Tingen.”
The captain …… Klein gave a wordless cry.
He stood there as if he were a statue for several minutes, then suddenly smiled and chuckled:
”Captain, you certainly weren’t in the best of spirits that day, all that talk about how you could have ‘brought’ old Neil into the dream world if he hadn’t lost control of his mind, he was the ‘Secret Peeper’ and you were the ‘ Nightmare’, you simply can’t serve the extraordinary characteristics he left behind, well …… you didn’t even ask me at the time what powerful means of attack I had, did you trust me, or did you forget about this back …… but you must have guessed some of it too …… I only took one sealing object and said it was for Leonard to use, you should be able to think with your toes that I have additional, powerful means of attack.”
Rambling on, Klein paused for a moment, shaking his head and sighing:
”I don’t know what I am now, maybe just an evil spirit that crawled out of hell and wants revenge ……”
As he said that, he suddenly could not continue, and a tear crossed his face, finally, he choked and shouted out in a low voice:
”Captain …… we are also very sad to leave you ah!”
Feeling the wind full of cold and chill blowing by, Klein raised his hand to wipe his eyes and wrinkled his nose.
Resuming his silence, he found a secluded spot close by and took four steps against the grain into the gray mist above.
He was going to use divination to figure out who had killed him that day, to figure out the real culprit behind the scenes driving the chain of events!
Since it has already appeared in front of me, I can certainly divine a certain information …… Klein pursed his lips and saw that the majestic palace and the old mottled table had not changed a bit.
He sat down in the seat belonging to the “Fool”, and materialized in front of him a tawny parchment and a round-bellied fountain pen.
With the outside body in a state of little protection, Krynn did not delay, and after a moment’s thought, he wrote down the divination statement:
”Kill my people.”
He read it silently seven times, leaned back in his chair, and with the aid of meditation, entered the dream world.
In a gray world, countless points of light danced and gathered, eventually coming together into a single image:
A pair of shiny leather boots, a slightly pale hand, the urn of St. Selene held by the former.
Gradually his eyes moved upward, and Klein saw a middle-aged man with short dark blonde hair.
He wore a long black double-breasted gown and was obviously blind in one eye, his eyes were deep blue and nearly black, and the contours of his features were as sculpted as a carving, without the slightest wrinkle.
The image shattered and Klein awoke from his dream, frowning slightly, thinking that his killer looked familiar.
As a Diviner, he quickly confirmed why he felt familiar, as he had seen the other party’s picture on the wanted notice and the related description of his appearance!
This murderer was Ince Zangwill! The former archbishop of the Church of the Goddess of the Night who had defected with the seal “0-08”, the “gatekeeper” who had failed to be promoted!
”It’s him!” Countless images flashed through Klein’s mind, finally settling on the scene where the other party picked up the urn of St. Selene.
Da, da, da, he reached out and tapped the edge of the long bronze table, feeling that he had figured out quite a few things:
”The captain said that extraordinary people who die normally will likewise leave behind extraordinary characteristics, and they gather together to be slightly equivalent to a magic potion without auxiliary materials.”
”That is to say, as long as you know the corresponding auxiliary materials, you can get promoted through the ‘relics’, but of course, you can’t take it over the level, then it’s easy to lose control or go crazy.”
”Well …… promoting a high sequence powerhouse requires a special ritual to go along with it, that’s something mentioned in the ‘No Dark One’ remnant formula …… subsequent promotion Perhaps rituals are likewise required ……”
”Ince Zangwill is a Sequence 5 ‘Gatekeeper’ of the ‘Reaper’ pathway, he wants to become a High Sequence Powerhouse, a Demigod, and based on the practicalities of the Sequence Swap, he has three choices, one is to himself Sequence 4 of the ‘God of Death’ pathway, the second is Sequence 4 of the ‘Sleepless One’ pathway, and the third is Sequence 4 of the ‘God of War’ pathway, ‘Demon Hunter ‘.”
”St. Selene is a Saint, either Sequence 4 or Sequence 3, and her ashes correspond to one of these two Sequence potions …… Innes Zangwill, as a former Archbishop, must have known exactly which one it was, and must have known exactly what the auxiliary materials were… …”
”His real purpose in plotting these things is to get the ashes of St. Selene, and use them to advance to Sequence 4 of the ‘Sleepless One’ pathway?”
”Well, the skull of a Death God’s descendant might be the material needed for the special ritual, after all, it was originally the ‘Death God’ pathway.”
”In that case, it seems that the target he’s targeting is more the captain than me …… Sure enough, he’s the one behind it ……”
Thinking about this matter, Klein wrote the corresponding divination statement and took the spiritual pendulum, letting the citrine pendant dangle on the surface of the paper, close to touching.
After meditating, he opened his eyes and saw the citrine pendant doing a clockwise rotation.
This indicated that the antecedent information was sufficient and the divination was successful!
It showed that Ince Zangwill had indeed plotted a series of things for the sake of St. Selene’s ashes and for promotion to Sequence 4!
Klein tapped the edge of the table again and pondered another question:
”Zangwill is only the ‘gatekeeper’ of Sequence 5, it is impossible for him to create so many coincidences by himself alone, so that all of Megoos would visit the Night Watchman Squad at the right time according to the ‘arrangement’. ”
”So, it’s the ability of that seal ‘0-08’?”
”It has the appearance of an ordinary quill …… It’s effect is that things written down are destined to come true?”
”No, it shouldn’t be that simple …… Otherwise Ince Zangwill could just write ‘The ashes of St. Selene grew wings and flew themselves into Ince Zangwill’s hands’ and sit at home and wait ……”
”This necessarily has certain limitations ……”
”‘0-08’ most likely has no direct attack capability, otherwise Ince Zangwill would have already forced his way through Tingen City’s Charnis Gate ……”
”This item located on the topmost layer of all the seals can make people unconsciously unfold their behavior according to its description? Is that the reason for that one coincidence?”
”If that’s indeed the case, ‘0-08’ is really terrifying, even Mego Oss, who is carrying the heir of an evil god, has followed its arrangement …… No wonder ‘0 ‘ level seal is so dangerous that it has the highest importance, the highest level of secrecy, not to be inquired about, not to be outsourced, not to be described, and not to be snooped on ……”
Klein stopped tapping on the edge of the table and did a divination for his guess just now, but unfortunately, the information was incomplete and unsuccessful.
Seeing that several minutes had passed, he intended to return to the real world as soon as possible, so he stopped scattering his thoughts and wrote down his penultimate “divination statement”:
”The city where Ince Zangwill is currently located.”
Due to the existence of the seal “0-08”, and because Ince Zangwill had already become a demigod, Klein could not directly divine the other party’s exact location, but could only zoom in and make a vague “inquiry”.
Of course, if there was no mysterious space above the gray fog to eliminate interference, even if he vaguely “inquired”, he would definitely fail in divination and could not get an answer.
Leaning against the high-backed chair, Klein silently recited the divination statement seven times, and once again entered the dream world, entering the gray world.
The gray, cloudy world suddenly cracked open and a large, rushing, spacious, slightly muddy river appeared.
Above the great river was a magnificent bridge, and on both banks there was dock after dock, busy with goods and many workers.
On the north-east bank of the river, there are houses lined up, most of which are characterized by the current architecture of the Kingdom of Ruen, with polygonal four-pitch roofs, convex belly windows, and no porch on the street, in addition to a number of Gothic buildings.
The streets here are crowded with people, horse-drawn carriages one after another, and strange machinery can be seen from time to time.
The further east you lean, the more chimneys, the more smoke, the further west you go, the higher the ground, a gray and blue or beige or light yellow houses coiled upward, clustered in a gorgeous court, clustered in a towering Gothic clock tower.
When!
The bells echoed, and Klein awoke, knowing which city he had just seen.
”The Land of Hope”, “The Capital of All Capitals”, Birkeland!