Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 80 – Derek’s Worries

　　”Fallen Creator?” “The sun,” Derek frowned.

　　The residents of Silver City had always believed in the “Creator of all things, the all-knowing and all-powerful God”, and when they heard a similar name being labeled with the word “Fallen”, they would inevitably feel instinctively rejected and uncomfortable.

　　”Fallen Creator” …… This is the name Mr. “Fool” used to call the “Real Creator”! …… So this evil god has this kind of image …… But why would his idol and temple appear in the exploration area of Silver City? But why would his idol and temple appear within the exploration area of Silver City? It was suspected that it was a god’s abandoned land! Or, before being abandoned by the gods, there was already a belief in the “true Creator”…… Is the sanctuary that the Aurora Society has always claimed to be in the Forsaken Lands really in the Forsaken Lands? “Inverted man” Alger thought of a lot of things at once, but can not make a definite judgment, because the history of the pre-cataclysmic event has long since been transformed into myths and legends, which can not be described as simply shrouded in fog.

　　He pondered for two seconds and said deliberately:

　　”We have another name for the ‘Fallen Creator’, the ‘True Creator’.”

　　”The forces of Faith K hold such an extraordinary pathway as the ‘Secret Prayer Man’ ‘The Listener’ ‘The Hermit’, followed by the ones you mentioned ‘Shepherds’.”

　　”Shepherds?” The silent “Sun” Derek sat bolt upright, his eyes colored with horror.

　　He was not unfamiliar with the extraordinary ways mentioned by “The Hanged Man”, except that in some sequences, Silver City used similar words, such as “Whisperer” and “Listener”.

　　It turns out that the strange and sinister idol represents the “Secret Prayer Man” pathway……. Elder Lovia is already a “shepherd”… …She is acting more and more wrong …… Derek suddenly worried about the newly promoted elder of the Council of Six and the safety of Silver City.

　　In past explorations of the surrounding area, Silver City had found several cities that had been completely destroyed, and in those places, there were only a handful of words inscribed on the backs of rubble that proved that there had once been such a civilization.

　　Those words were all variants of Gargoyle, Giant, and Elven, and the vast majority of them repeated descriptions of a single being.

　　That existence was called:

　　”The Evil God”!

　　The residents of Silver City who had participated in the operation were all speculating that those city-states had been destroyed by the Evil God, so how could Derek “The Sun” not be shocked, worried, and terrified when he found out that the pathway where Elder Lovia was located was suspected to be controlled by an Evil God?

　　He returned to his silent state, much to the dismay of Audrey “Justice”, who had been waiting to hear more of Silver City’s story.

　　–After so many gatherings, and after the last time she purchased information about the Gargoyle clan, her interest in Silver City is growing stronger and stronger.

　　His reaction is a little different from what I thought …… “Inverted man” Alger calmly observed for a while, but there is no additional gain.

　　For a while, he could not find a better point of entry, and if he asked directly, he suspected that the “sun” will demand payment, which is not a simple matter for him to carry two extraordinary material debt.

　　At that moment, they both heard the sound of a table being tapped.

　　Klein, who was in the thick gray fog, hid his exhaustion and laughed softly:

　　”Let this gathering end here.”

　　”Your will is our will.” “Justice,” said Audrey, rising at once, lifting her skirts in vain, and making a curtsy, as the “Inverted Man,” the “Sun,” and the “World ” answered one after the other in similar terms.

　　Klein waved his hand, severing the connection, and quietly watched the blurred figures of Ms. Justice and the others dissipate into light.

　　Then, he made the small “world” disappear instantly, and picked up the small badge he had gotten from Lanlus to study it.

　　”Hold this and you may join.” Klein recited the words on the back of the badge, only to realize that the item in his hand hadn’t changed in any way.

　　He thought for a moment and cautiously poured his spirituality into it.

　　A layer of faintly awned scalping bulls flew and coalesced into a beam of light that shot out beyond the gray mist.

　　However, it was bounced back by the roiling gray fog.

　　This beam of light dispersed with a flourish and transformed into palm-sized illusory parchment with a line of ancient Forsak written on it:

　　”January 4, 1350, eight o’clock in the evening, Babur Valley.”

　　A simple communication device in the realm of the occult? Transmit a message, request synchronization, get an update on the time and place of the party? Klein recalled the image he had just seen, and made a preliminary judgment on the badge’s usefulness.

　　”1350, that’s next year …… The Babur River Valley is located in that section of the Tasok River just before it enters Berkland …… The time is detailed, but the location is vague, that’s nearly a hundred kilometers of river valley …… Perhaps, when we get there, this badge can still be used as a locator tool …… “Klein turned the badge over in his hand with interest, trying to study the corresponding symbols, spells, and logos, to see if he could copy it himself one.

　　Unfortunately, due to his separation from the Night Watch, his knowledge of the occult was still at its original level, and he had yet to be given the opportunity to study it further.

　　Therefore, after studying it for a few minutes, he had no choice but to give up.

　　As for the phrase “If you have this item, you can join”, Klein’s intention was to not consider it for the time being.

　　If I can become a “Faceless Man” by the end of this year, then I can go and take a look in disguise, otherwise forget about it……. Klein muttered silently to himself, and turned his attention to the matter of promoting to “Magician”. This matter.

　　”Sun” where the real roots and sap of the Misty Tree People should be secure …… If the luck is not too bad, the spinal fluid of the Evil Tattooed Black Panther can also be obtained this week, Sequence 7, the middle sequence, has been seen and touched… …Hmmm…… how should I play the “magician”? Thinking about it, Klein began to consider the specifics.

　　Because of the encounters and experiences before and after his return from the dead, he instantly realized the true meaning of “clown”, so, in the past month or so, he only used to play in his daily life, he can gradually digest, and do not need to summarize, and then according to the feedback to amend, until he killed Llanerus, completed the initial vengeance, the moment of laughter with tears, the “clown”, the “clown”, the “magician”, the “magician”, the “magician”, the “magician”, the “magician”, the “magician”. By the time he kills Lanlus, completes his initial vengeance, and laughs with tears, the “Joker” magic potion is naturally and completely digested.

　　This is not the same as Klein’s earliest digestion of the “diviner” magic potion of the specific process, is a relatively special situation, and now, “magician” play will return to the previous kind.

　　”The true meaning of a magician, to make a fake look real? Well, according to Charatu in the Archon’s diary, although the mainstream of this path is not destiny, there’s still a part of it that belongs to it, so there has to be a corresponding content here, too? Like, it seems to change fate to some extent, but eventually it turns out that it was just an illusion, just magic, just deception?” Klein rubbed the corner of his forehead, wrapped himself in the remnants of his spirituality, and fell into the gray mist.

　　……

　　Inside a two-bedroom house in the St. George district.

　　”It’s a good thing I had such an extra place prepared, otherwise I wouldn’t know where to hide.” Forsyth stared into the mirror and ruffled his hair.

　　”Yeah ……,” Hugh replied breathlessly as he lay on the bed.

　　”I just read in the paper that Llanerus is dead, but this whole thing involves divinity, so it’s definitely not over that quickly, so we’ll have to hide for a while, er, no, you’re the one who’ll have to hide, not me, I’m the upstanding clinic doctor and bestselling author of novels!” Forsyth looked into the mirror, doing simple make-up.

　　Hugh had no words to respond for a moment, and slowly sat up and said:

　　”Luckily, I was smart enough and experienced enough to find someone to inform me, not directly say that it involves the divinity of the ‘Real Creator’, only described as it seems dangerous, the target is very variable, there is a feeling of praying to the evil gods, etc., otherwise, I wouldn’t dare to stay in Beckland, getting involved in a high-level struggle is really hard and dangerous, I never want to take Miss Audrey’s mission again!”

　　”Yeah?” Forsyth asked back without looking back.

　　”Eh …… “Hugh was silent for a few seconds, and turned to say, “Actually, there’s no need for us to mention the matter of divinity, since Miss Audrey’s side can find out, the Church of Goddesses can surely do the same… …They should have already killed that ‘giant’, right?”

　　”There’s no way I can confirm that.” Voorhees replied without any euphemism at all.

　　Hugh was stunned, and let out a long, slow sigh.

　　Voorhees stopped the movement in his hands, glanced at her sideways and said:

　　”You basically accomplished the mission yourself this time, so I won’t share the bounty with you, a total of 200 pounds, together with your savings of 70 pounds, even after deducting the drawbacks, the first extraordinary material for the ‘Magistrate’s’ magic potion is still very close!”

　　”But the 100 pounds from the police won’t be available that quickly.” Hugh pursed his lips.

　　It wasn’t that the police weren’t thrilled to give the bounty, but she couldn’t go and get it directly, she had to go through the friend who had helped her submit the clue – that was the officially recognized recipient of the bounty.

　　Since she was sure that this matter must be a big deal, she wouldn’t have the guts to go to that friend anytime soon.

　　As for the question of whether or not that friend would swallow the generous bounty, she was still relatively confident, the other party had helped too many unseen bounty hunters do similar things, and the drawbacks were drawbacks, if they dared to directly swallow the money, they would have already died in a dark and narrow alley.

　　”But that will belong to you after all.” Voorhees paused for two seconds and asked seriously, “And when you’ve scraped together enough money, you’ll contact the masked man, do his work for him, and buy the appropriate materials from him?”

　　”No, unless it’s completely impossible to get it anywhere else, there’s no hope.” Hugh gave his answer.

　　……

　　Queens, inside Earl Hall’s luxurious villa.

　　Audrey was still reminiscing about today’s party when she suddenly saw her personal maid, Annie, coming over with a piece of paper.

　　”Miss, a telegram for you.” Annie smiled and said, “From the east coast of Byron.”

　　From Alfred? Audrey took it with delight and read it carefully:

　　”Dear sister, the seven-colored lizard dragons you asked for arrived in Puerto Prizzi last night, and I gave them instructions to deliver them to your estate on the outskirts of the city.”

　　Arrived last night? Then at the earliest today, at the latest tomorrow, it should be delivered to my manor …… Audrey looked sideways at Susie, who was wrestling with her snacks, and said with a light smile:

　　”Susie, the gift I prepared for you is almost here.”

　　”Woof?” Susie looked at her mistress in confusion.