Part 1 The Joker Chapter 127 Paving the Way

　　The light through the glass illuminated the guardhouse outside the armory, and Neil Sr. finished flipping through the paper, took a sip of coffee, and looked up at Klein:

　　”How are you feeling now? Calmed down yet? Or need a drink, an early paycheck, a leisurely day off?”

　　At this moment, after thoroughly digesting the “Diviner” magic potion, Klein was trying to change the “switch” of his psychic vision through meditation, so that it would not be so conspicuous.

　　Nowadays, he no longer relies on stimulating a few specific areas to turn on his psychic vision, so he can use more subtle ways to achieve his goal, such as quickly pinching his thumb on each of the two joints of his middle finger, for example, tapping the left side of his teeth twice in a row.

　　Considering that at some point one had to hold a gun in one hand and a staff in the other, but had to use the psychic vision, Klein eventually chose the tapping of the teeth, open on the left and closed on the right.

　　Continuing to suggest and make the change, he opened his eyes and smiled:

　　”I’m just too focused on the captain and their actions to need to calm my emotions.”

　　At the same time, he tapped his left tooth twice, trying to open his psychic vision to familiarize himself with the approach as quickly as possible.

　　Cough cough cough! Old Neil suddenly coughed violently, coughing his face red like a boiled lobster.

　　”What’s wrong,” Klein was stunned for a moment and asked with concern.

　　He carefully examined Old Neil’s aura and found that the other party’s health color was still normal, only relatively a bit debilitated due to his age.

　　Old Neil coughed for another ten seconds or so before slowing down, he probed his hand and picked up his coffee, slowly took a sip and said, “Everyone makes mistakes at times, ahem, I just choked on my own spit …… So, we’re starting today’s occult lesson?”

　　”Okay.” Klein’s teeth on his right side tapped twice in a near-silent manner.

　　The fact that he had digested the “Diviner” potion one to two weeks sooner than expected made him both happy and troubled, happy because getting rid of the hidden danger of losing control of his body, and getting promoted and mastering more extraordinary abilities were enough to make anyone feel happy and thrilled, but troubled because it had disrupted his arrangements and plans.

　　Considering the fact that he has to stay in the Tingen City Night Watch for a long time, Klein thinks that becoming a “Joker” quietly is not a good choice, and he will always worry about being exposed, and he will not dare to use his abilities in the missions that need to be coordinated, which will put him in greater danger.

　　His plan was to follow the example of “psychic” Daley, submit a special application to the senior management, and use the accumulated merit in exchange for the formula and extraordinary material rewards, and openly become a Sequence 8 night watchman.

　　However, there is a fundamental difference between “mastering” magic potion for a month and mastering magic potion for a year, Klein can afford to pay some attention to the Holy Church, and is willing to become a key cultivation object, but he definitely does not want to attract a high level of suspicion from the upper echelons of the hierarchy, and he has to find a persuasive enough reason for his own status.

　　His original arrangement was to seize the time when the “Diviner” magic potion had not yet been thoroughly digested, and gradually make some preliminaries in the captain, such as mentioning that every time he went to the Divination Club, he felt spiritually lively, such as pretending to casually describe the “Diviner’s Code” that had been summarized from helping people with their divinations over and over again, such as saying in advance that recently, he had recently become the “Diviner’s Code”. For example, pretending to casually describe the “Diviner’s Code” that he had learned from helping people with their divinations over and over again, for example, saying in advance that recently there had been basically no more cases of hearing voices or seeing things that should not have been heard.

　　In this way, the night watchman executives will think that he has unconsciously followed Daley’s example in accomplishing his “mission” and done it more thoroughly.

　　And this will make them focus on summarizing the rules and exploring the direction of “playing the law”, greatly reducing the suspicion of Kraven, and only do a routine review.

　　Well, it can also be used to remind the captain, to help him discover the “play law” …… Klein silently added in his mind, for him, Dunn Smith is a very good captain, except for the poor memory, there are no major shortcomings, so hope to reduce the loss of control of him! the pitfalls and make him stronger.

　　Of course, Crane could have chosen to wait a year before submitting a special application, that would have been without risking a bit, but the continuous coincidences and the red chimneys he had seen in his dream divination compelled him to improve himself as soon as possible.

　　”Spend the next two weeks making three to four layups with the captain, then formally submit the application …… In the meantime, it’s also a good idea to go to the underground trading market to see if there’s any corresponding extraordinary materials …… It should be very expensive …… “Klein made a quick decision and returned his attention to the occult course.

　　As time passed by and a nice lunch hour slowly descended, Old Neil finished his cup of coffee and let out a laugh as he cleaned up the clutter on the table:

　　”Your occult course is coming to an end, and judging by what you just attempted, you’re ready to make charms for yourself.”

　　”That’s exactly what I have planned for the next few days.” Klein exhaled contentedly.

　　Unlike the amulets he had previously given to his brother Benson and his sister Melissa, sigils had to be inscribed with the aid of rituals, and possessed a certain amount of special abilities that could be used in a fierce battle.

　　However, low-grade talismans are also not omnipotent; their spirituality will continue to decline, and they must be “recreated” every two weeks, and they require a specific incantation to open them, so they can’t be used as soon as they want to be.

　　In addition, the spells that the Night Watcher can master are still limited to the “domain” of the Goddess of the Night, and there are only three that Klein can make at the moment, one is the “Sleeping Charm”, which has an effect similar to that of the “Chants” of Dunn Smith and Leonard Mitchell, which make people quiet and fall asleep. Chanting, one is “Soul Restoring Charm”, can calm ghosts, ghosts, zombies and water ghosts, to a certain extent to deal with ghosts and evil spirits, and one is “Dreaming Charm”, can help the caster to enter the target’s dream world.

　　These effects are duplicated by the “Midnight Poet” and “Nightmare” abilities of the “Insomniac” sequence, so Dunn and Leonard and others hardly use charms. The “corpse collector” Frye and “sleeper” Loyal, Cohen Le will carry one or two pieces, but long-term also not useful, but also from time to time to find the old Neil “recharge”.

　　At this time, the old Neil glanced at Klein, smiled and said:

　　”I remember you practiced too often this month, the material quota is already gone, you plan to go to the underground trading market?”

　　Klein was stunned at first, then nodded heartily:

　　”Yes.”

　　The prices of those materials were clear to him, he just hoped that it would work once and not go to waste ……

　　After being tasked with delivering lunch to the underground, Klein put on his jacket, hat, and cane and returned to Blackthorn Security on the second floor.

　　Passing by the recreation room, he saw that Leonard and the others had returned and were eating.

　　Knock, knock! He knocked on the door to the captain’s office.

　　”Come in.” Dunn’s mellow voice came out.

　　Klein pushed the door open and removed his hat and said:

　　”Captain, did you catch ‘Instigator’ Tris?”

　　Dunn pinched his temples and shook his head slightly wearily, “We didn’t find her at Tingen Station, but according to a telegram from Beckland, a passenger saw her in the first class compartment of the earliest service, unfortunately she got off the train halfway through.”

　　”What a pity.” Klein sighed in anticipation, “Divination isn’t everything ……”

　　Dunn said with a sweep of gray eyes:

　　”You don’t need to be dismayed, Sequence 7 Extraordinaires aren’t that easy to catch, at least we disrupted Tris’s evil rituals and saved the lives of at least forty innocents, and, we got a handle on her current condition so that she’ll never again be able to commit crimes as wantonly as she did before.”

　　”If she ever tries to do anything like that again, she could be noticed at any time, discovered, prosecuted, and sooner or later, found, captured, and, of course, more than likely, killed by us, the Nightwatchmen, or the Substitute Punishers, or the Mechanical Hearts.”

　　”I hope so, may the Goddess protect us.” Klein drew a Crimson Moon on his chest.

　　Immediately afterward, he paused, weighing his words:

　　”Captain, it’s been over a week since I’ve heard something I shouldn’t have heard or seen something I shouldn’t have seen, and that’s with regular meditation and regular use of psychic vision.”

　　”Hmm?” Dunn frowned slightly in confusion.

　　Klein added instantly:

　　”I feel like I’m not far away from fully mastering the ‘Diviner’ magic potion, and that might have something to do with the fact that I often go to the Divination Club to help people with their divinations.”

　　”…… Why would you think that?” Dunn changed his seating position and wore a perplexed expression.

　　Klein replied with deliberate lack of fluency, “Every time I go, every time I go to the Divination Club, I feel that my spirituality becomes lively, and every time I help people with divination, my body, mind, and spirit will be much more relaxed, and I have also summarized a set of, well, a set of ‘Diviner’s Code’ from it and strictly abide by it, just like the peeps’ Secret Man’s ‘Do what you want, but do no harm’, heh, and it was from that maxim that I was inspired to try and mimic to formulate a Diviner’s maxim.”

　　”I think it might be an effective way to help the extraordinary get a handle on magic potions as quickly as possible, and lessen the loss of control, like Ms. Daley, who has been working as a ‘psychic’.”

　　Dunn had taken out his pipe at some point and placed it on the end of his nose, sniffing it gently, he seemed to have forgotten about Klein and pondered for several minutes before speaking:

　　”Not a bad guess, interesting try ……”

　　Klein’s purpose this time was just to point it out and set the stage, so he didn’t mention much more, and instead said, half-jokingly and half-proof-guardedly, “Perhaps I’ll be the fastest member in the history of the Nightwatchmen to master the Sequence 9 magic potion.”

　　”May the Goddess bless you.” Dunn didn’t take it too seriously and smiled with a blessing, then fell back into thought.

　　Seeing this, Klein got up and excused himself, exiting the captain’s office.

　　While helping to cover the door, he suddenly thought of another dilemma, that is, how to play the “clown”!

　　I’m not going to join a circus, am I? Moreover, Tingen City does not have a regular circus, it is a traveling kind of …… Klein’s expression turned bitter.

　　Being a soothsayer was a good way to hold one’s head up, even if one’s acquaintances bumped into one, but being a “clown” was not dignified at all!

　　Maybe, maybe there’s another way to play it. When the Blasphemy Tablet came out, there was no circus, no clowns. …… Never mind, there’s still another two or three weeks to go before I get my chance to be promoted, so let’s not think about it just yet. …… Crane walked evasively toward the sofa area in the reception hall , toward Roxanne, Mrs. Oleanna, Brett, and the others, toward the lunch that belonged to himself and old Neil.