Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 168 Speculation
With a brush, the early winter night lit up with a tree-like silver-white lightning.
It didn’t strike down, but only penetrated the sky, illuminating the area around where Klein had just stood as if it were daytime.
”The Singers of God,” Ace Snake whispered with a glowering face as he withdrew his gaze:
”The Rose School?
”Not ‘Spiteful Souls’ or true undead creatures ……”
The mature, middle-aged man with golden eyes gave Capin’s body a sideways glance and said:
”Covered the target’s body with tarot cards ……
”This is the second similar case in the last two months.”
”When was the first time?” Cardinal Snake asked in a deep voice.
The mature, middle-aged man in a pencil-thin tuxedo coughed softly and said:
”The time the ‘Real Creator’ tried to descend with the aid of a fraud.”
”Then it wasn’t the Rose School.” Cardinal Snake made an affirmative judgment.
Those organizations that believed in the Evil God, although they didn’t treat anyone well, wouldn’t deliberately try to sabotage something like that; instead, they had the mentality of being happy to see it happen, just waiting for the other side to stir up the situation first.
”I think so too, perhaps it’s a newly emerged hidden organization, their characteristic is to sprinkle tarot cards all over their targets.” The mature and handsome middle-aged man smiled, “And the different presentations of the tarot cards seem to express different meanings …… The face of this corpse is covered with only two cards, one ‘Judgment’, one ‘Emperor’, ‘Judgement’ is the motive and purpose, while ‘Emperor’ is the organization code name of the one just now? Of course, it could still be a ritual.”
Without answering, Cardinal Snake looked around the room and said:
”Let’s see what’s really going on here.”
It was only at this time that the first of the vicarious punishers arrived at Capin’s villa.
……
Above the gray fog, Klein, who had only used the “Paper Man Substitute” three times and had not yet reached his limit, was using divination to confirm Daisy’s subsequent safety.
”Daisy will be able to go home without any problems.” He held the pendulum in his left hand and closed his eyes to recite the statement.
After seven times, Klein opened his eyes and saw the citrine pendant doing a counterclockwise rotation, but the amplitude was minimal and slow.
This indicated that Daisy’s journey home had a few more twists and turns, but they were almost negligible …… Klein finished interpreting the revelation and let go of the last of his worries.
He then looked at the two items laid out before him, both of which emanated a more intense spiritual glow.
One of them was a light blue translucent hexagonal prism, inside of which there were occasional wisps of light passing through it as if it were lightning from the depths of consciousness, a remarkable trait left behind by Lady Kitty.
The other belonged to Parker, who had not been able to play a role in the previous battle, and his extraordinary characteristics had condensed into a ball, like a child’s fist.
This “fist” consisted of three colors, iron black and dark red entwined with a large piece of silver and white.
Without hesitation, Klein immediately manifested a pen and paper, ready to use these two extraordinary characteristics to divine the corresponding magic potion formula.
Before he was promoted to Sequence 7, because the extraordinary characteristics he had left behind had too many extra effects, it was almost impossible for him to use them to divine recipes, even with this mysterious space that eliminated interference and improved his divination ability to a certain extent, it was still not possible.
Therefore, in the past, Klein only had “psychic” as a method.
When he became a “magician”, he was able to initially possess the ability to use the extraordinary characteristics of the legacy of divination on top of the gray mist, but the probability of success was not high.
This time, without exception, Klein failed shamefully.
However, he also had a certain gain, which was figuring out the names of the sequences corresponding to the two clusters of extraordinary characteristics.
”Parker is Sequence 8 ‘Magistrate’ and Katie is Sequence 7 ‘Inquisitor’ …… Isn’t this the ‘Arbiter ‘ pathway? That pathway is in the hands of the royal family, the military, and that small number of noble families in the more ancient parts of Ruin, and they’re pretty tightly regulated about leaking formulas and extraordinary materials …… Could it be that some of those teenage girls Karpin kidnapped are going to be sent to whichever of those noblemen’s estates they’re going to be sent to?
”But they can’t afford to send four extraordinarys to help Karpin just for the sake of enjoyment… it’s clearly not reciprocal …… Herras is quite a bit more powerful than Katie, perhaps Sequence 6 in this pathway, and with that glove on, it might even reach Sequence 5… …Is there some bloody evil ritual involved where the target of the claim can’t be exposed?
”In addition to the kingdom’s inner circle, the Castilian family of Feneport also holds this extraordinary pathway and passed it on to their military and intelligence system …… Another case of espionage that I don’t know what’s involved?”
Klein tried divining a couple of his guesses and once again got a fail.
He put the matter behind him for the time being, and turned to tap the edge of the long bronze table, muttering silently to himself:
”As long as there’s a formula and the appropriate supporting materials, these two extraordinary properties will allow one to become a Sequence 8 ‘Magistrate’ and a Sequence 7 ‘Inquisitor’ respectively… …Ms. ‘Magician”s friend called Hugh seems to lack the extraordinary material for ‘Magistrate’ ……
”Next time, I can sell Parker’s share to Ms. ‘Magician’ through ‘The World’, and quickly accumulate the ‘Faceless Man’ sequence I need for my subsequent The cost of materials …… always through the ‘world’, it seems not too appropriate, this time I deliberately left the tarot cards, if Miss ‘Justice’ heard about this, she will definitely think that I The Favored One did it …… Just let Mr. ‘Fool’ help him sell it on his behalf ……”
Klein quickly finalized the plan and let the extraordinary characteristics of the ‘Magistrate’ and ‘Inquisitor’ fly to the corner on their own and hide in the pile of clutter.
”I also wonder what Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 of the ‘Arbiter’ pathway are called …… have a sense of utilizing order and law …… ‘Judge’?” Klein withdrew his thoughts and half-closed his eyes, scrutinizing his own state.
Once again, he had the sensation that his spirituality was becoming alive, that his magic potion was being pried loose, that his digestion was speeding up.
This time, he intuitively believed that he had summarized most of the “Magician’s Code”, and that it would be better if he had the remaining details, but it didn’t matter if he didn’t, as it wouldn’t affect the progress of digestion too much.
Appearing with a round-bellied pen and parchment, Klein wrote as if reinforcing his memory:
”Magician’s Code:
”1. Do not perform without preparation;
”2. challenge the impossible, even if the end result is only false;”
According to Klein, these are the two most central items of the “Magician’s Code”, and once you have grasped them, you have grasped the key, while the rest of the items are additions and refinements to them.
”3. Do more active performances;
”4. Try to get as much applause as possible from the audience;
”5. take control of your target’s attention.”
……
Putting down his dark red, round-bellied fountain pen, Klein skimmed it from beginning to end, judging himself:
”Daily play combined with three to four active ‘performances’ will be enough for me to digest the ‘Magician’ potion by New Year’s, and if I have another impossibly challenging ‘performance’ in between ‘, the progress could still be a little faster …… That’s pretty much the speed I hope to achieve.”
At this point, there were still like two months to go before January 1st, 1350 years.
After doing this, Klein rubbed the corner of his forehead and prepared to return to the real world.
After putting away the “Black Emperor” card, the Biotoxin Vial, and other items, he suddenly let out a laugh and laughed to himself:
”Challenging the impossible …… isn’t this the same as committing suicide?”
As the voice echoed, Klein’s figure disappeared above the gray mist.
Inside the cheap hotel in the Beckland Bridge area, he snapped his eyes open and saw the candlelight of the ceremony he had summoned himself to.
Quickly taking care of the loose ends, Klein put on the thicker worker’s jacket he had just purchased for 4 Soule and walked over to the window.
He picked up the sweet iced tea he had purchased earlier and looked at the blurry figure of himself reflected in the window with a heartfelt smile, whispering to himself:
”Cheers.”
As soon as the words left his mouth, he touched the glass with the cup in his hand, then raised his chin and drank it in one gulp.
Immediately afterward, he left the inn at a leisurely pace, the gas streetlights in the neighborhood fully lit, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages bustling about, oblivious to the explosion on the border of Chorwood and the West Side.
Crane strolled around the “Brave Man” bar, wandered around for a while, and at 7:58 knocked on the door of old Mr. Wise Eye’s party of the extraordinary.
He put on an iron mask and a hooded robe, and behaved in a normal, ordinary way.
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Meanwhile, Hugh, who had been checking for contact marks in a different place every night, saw a sign that had never appeared before.
It belonged to the man in the golden mask who had sold her the “Sheriff’s” formula under false pretenses at the party convened by Mr. A. It was a sign of an urgent meeting!
It was the sign for an urgent meeting!
”I haven’t been approached before, and I pretended it wasn’t happening, so why the sudden ……” Hugh thought about it and decided to take a look.
–The golden masked man promised to give her some quests so that she could save up enough money to exchange the appropriate extraordinary materials at his place.
Thus, Hugh switched places and marked out the time and place to meet.
Half an hour later, in a remote but well-connected alley, Hugh, who had been secretly observing for quite a while, came out of hiding and walked towards the man wearing a golden mask.
The man, still wearing his black tuxedo, swept his light brown eyes over the top of Hugh’s head and said:
”There is a mission for you.”
”Difficulty and pay?” Hugh asked familiarly.
The man pushed back his gold-cast mask:
”There’s little danger, but there could be a great deal, it all depends on what you do.
”The initial pay is 30 pounds, and if you can get useful information, I can even give you an extraordinary material corresponding to ‘Magistrate’ directly.”
”What mission?” Hugh said with a slight frown.
The man wearing a golden mask’s gaze turned sunken and said:
”Through your channels, figure out who has inquired about Kapin recently.”
”Kapin? That human trafficker?” Hugh asked back in shock.
The man in the gold mask nodded:
”Yes.”
”I refuse this mission, I hate him!” Hugh shot back instantly.
The man across from him chortled:
”Not to work for Capin.
”Because he’s dead.”
”Dead?” Hugh was instantly a little confused.
”He died in his house, covered in tarot cards, with two faces, one ‘Judgment’ and one ‘Emperor’, and, by the way, keep an eye out for any incidents in the last few years that involved tarot cards and were not reported to the police department.” The man in the gold mask added.