Part 3 The Traveler Chapter 133 – The Gray Mist
”At the greeting of Ms. Justice, Gloria “The Hidden One” remained a calm spectator as before, not overly involved, as if she were still an outsider to the party.
She watched as Miss Justice and Miss Magician each took out Rossel’s diary to pay off their debts, and then, not daring to look directly at Mr. Fool, she carefully glanced at him, but still couldn’t see through the strange and strange eyes. But she still couldn’t see more through the strange gray mist, and her deep purple eyes could only reflect the clothes that were definitely embodied.
Holding the three pages of Rossel’s diary, Klein didn’t read them with the usual impatience, after all, he had already touched and used the “0” level seal, seen what the “uniqueness” of an extraordinary pathway looks like, and effectively intimidated this kind of artifact! He thought that no matter what Roselle the Great wrote, it would be difficult to shock him too much.
”Unless he’s been blessed with the ‘Witch’s Blessing’ by someone uniquely capable of becoming a woman for a brief period of time ……,” Klein joked mentally, looking around the bronze table with interest.
Hey, the curiosity of Ms. Hermit is not the same as that of Ms. Justice, she seems to attach special importance to the matter of Roselle’s diary? Klein withdrew his gaze and made a note of what he had just discovered, then read the tawny parchment in his hand with a casual demeanor:
”April 22nd, we were ready to enter there and explore the Abyss.”
”On the twenty-third of April, we traveled along the dark ocean, penetrating the liquid fog, and arrived at the peak of the mountain that seemed like a monster, and which was backed by roiling black mists that seemed as if they covered a continent.
”Yet, if one looks toward the base of the peak, one gets the impression that there is no end or limit there, and I jokingly told Edwards at the time that if I jumped off a cliff here to kill myself, I would probably never hit the ground, but would always be descending.”
Seeing this, Klein nearly raised an eyebrow, finding it hard to believe that this Rossel fellow dared to organize his knights and sailors to explore the border area after seeing the abyss.
”Isn’t he afraid of death? It’s rumored that it’s a place that corrupts everything and corrupts all living beings! This stage of Rossel definitely didn’t reach Sequence 4, not a demigod, at most Sequence 5, and maybe not even …… In my place, I would definitely immediately turn the ship around and report to the church …… “This instant, Klein once again profoundly Recognize how huge the difference between himself and Russell.
In addition, Russell’s description of the border of the “abyss” reminds Klein of the mysterious stone door in the Mausoleum of Amon, which presented a similar image after the steam touched the “mannequin” of Archbishop of the Church of the Mechanics Horamik.
I don’t know what Rossel will find there …… At least he didn’t die because of this quest, and lived a wonderful life behind it …… Klein’s eyes shifted downward to read the rest of this page of the diary:
”On April 24th, we went down along the crest of the mountain and tried to go deeper.
”The black fog was cold and slippery, as if it could soak through flesh and blood and souls, haha, luckily certain items on the Black Throne were effective in resisting this corrosion, otherwise I suspect that my Knights of the Apocalypse and I would have been turned into members of the Flan Awkward Dance Troupe. (Note 1)
”It’s very silent here, we haven’t found anything.”
”On April 25th, we saw demons, but all that remained of them were rotting corpses.
”Behind the jagged black rocks of the mountains, under the silt that is hard to call a road, in various places, normal or unimaginable, there were different corpses of demons.
”It was as if they had met the same death at the same moment.”
”On April 26th, it was either corpses or silence, and there was never an end ahead.
”Those items from the Black Throne began to show signs of corrosion.
”I have felt very little fear in recent years, but here, that fear of the unknown is like an invisible hand squeezing my heart tightly.
”Must leave! Must return! Cannot stay any longer!”
What happened after that? Did Rossel the Great escape the border of the Abyss very smoothly, or did he encounter something else? What did the mutations there symbolize? A fierce war? Klein turned to the second page with subconscious anticipation, regretfully realizing that there was no connection between the before and after:
”May 8th, my lovely Bernadette is almost two years old, the more she grows, the more delightful she becomes, worthy of being a little girl who has inherited the excellent genes of her mother and me.
”Listening to her crisply call her daddy and looking at her lively figure, I suddenly felt a sense of fulfillment.
”Since crossing over to this world, I’ve done a lot of things, some of which can even be said to be unseemly, but I don’t feel ashamed or regret about it. This is partly due to the fact that I am a person who has a hard time restraining his own desires and is easily influenced by his surroundings, hehe, I must thank fate that I have never encountered an ‘Apostle of Desire’ from the ‘Demon’ pathway, otherwise, according to the records of the materials, I would have definitely been restrained quite severely by the sequence of this Extraordinary Person restrained quite severely, and might even have encountered a second death.
”On the other hand, I still feel a sense of detachment from this world; my mother and father in this life have been very kind to me, and I have tried to make them proud, but, I know that my feelings for them are very weak, and likewise, this is how I feel about Matilda, more possessive than affectionate.
”I have to admit, my mindset is like playing a virtual reality role-playing game, where my parents, wife, brothers, and friends are all just NPCs that I can bet a little bit of affection on, but won’t really take it to heart, so I can go to all kinds of depraved gatherings without any guilt, and I can deal with my once-acquaintances in a cold-hearted manner, just like when I was playing Shangri-La I could massacre a chicken for the sake of a village.
”But after Bernadette was born, I realized that I belonged to the world a little more, that I wasn’t so detached.
”This is my child, a living child.
”Maybe that’s called maturity?”
Can’t experience this feeling without a child, no, not even a girlfriend …… But the mentality mentioned in this diary entry by the Great One, I have to be wary of …… Just because it didn’t exist before doesn’t mean it won’t appear in the future, and the higher the sequence, the more divine than human it is …… Klein sighed silently twice and turned to the third page of the diary:
”January 6th, a new year, a new beginning.
”After being promoted to ‘Artisan’, I’m finally capable of doing that one thing!
”That is to make that mysterious silver medal I remember, odds are it caused me to cross over!
”In fact, after becoming a ‘Communicator’, I had already fully recalled what it looked like, recalled the peculiar symbols and patterns on its surface, but at that time, I could clearly perceive that I was unable to imitate a similar item.”
”On January 9, after several failures, I finally succeeded.
”Holding the silver medal covered with strange symbols and patterns, I worked hard to infuse my spirituality and tried to inspire it.
”An infinite gray mist seemed to appear before my eyes, but nothing happened after that.
”Was it the material, or the lack of necessary steps?”
”On the 10th of January, I restored the state I was in according to my recollected pre-crossing experiences, and thought I was no longer missing anything, but the mysterious silver medal still only allowed me to see the odd gray mist, and could not help me accomplish anything.
”Since this doesn’t work, how did I manage to cross over in the first place?
”I gave up trying for the time being and destroyed the silver medallion that was made, perhaps when I become a High Sequence powerhouse and a demigod, I will have a way to decipher the meaning of those patterns and symbols and figure out the mystery of the crossing.
”Well, I can definitely become a demigod! I’m the protagonist of this era!”
A gray mist? After the Great Emperor imitated that mysterious silver plate of Earth, he saw an infinite gray mist! Klein read the diary to the point that his pupils shrunk horribly.
At the bottom of his feet, there happened to be an infinite gray fog like eternity!
”Could it be that both my crossing and the Great Emperor’s are somehow related to this mysterious space? But why is the Great Emperor unable to enter while I can? According to those diary entries from the last stage of the Great Emperor’s life, he must not have been able to unlock the secret of the Silver Medal, or else he wouldn’t have failed to think of this place when he was at his most despairing and frantic, he wouldn’t have failed to use this place as a place to rely on……. Crane raised his head and his gaze fell to the outside of the ancient palace.
He remembered that in the depths of this mysterious space, there was a staircase of light leading to a heavenly land that vaguely corresponded to his own sequence.
The ladder seemed to have been built for giants, and its destination was a layer of grayish mist that floated in midair and seemed to hold something up.
Is that where all the secrets of my crossing with Rosel the Great are hidden? Klein let the diary in his palm disappear and leaned back in his chair, speaking in his usual tone:
”You may begin.”
Derek “The Sun” had originally planned to ask for the Sequence 6 magic potion formula behind the “Sun Goddess” in advance, but the release of Elder Lovia had made him abandon this plan for the time being, and he couldn’t wait to tell the whole story, hoping to receive the necessary guidance.
Considering that it was now a trading session, he forcibly suppressed his inner impulse and continued to wait in silence.
The little “sun” has something on his mind …… Silver City, there is a change? “Justice” Audrey thoughtfully retracted the line of sight, also did not open the mouth to buy anything.
At this time, “inverted man” Alger looked around, took the initiative to say:
”I need the magic potion formula for ‘Ocean Singer’.”
As expected, he already had Sequence 6 and was a “Wind Favored One”…… Isn’t he a member of the Church of Storms, so why is he seeking the magic potion formula of the “Ocean Singer” from the outside? It’s much less difficult to get it from the inside. …… Does he have a secret he’s trying to hide from the Storm Churches, or was he just pretending to be a Storm Church member? “The Hidden One” Gadelia instantly had quite a few guesses and gently nodded her head:
”I can keep an eye out for you.”
Seeing the “Hidden One” respond, Alger smoothly asked:
”Ma’am, what things do you need?
”I can collect clues in advance, so that I can use them to exchange magic potion formulas later.”
Note 1: A reference to the Knights of Farland who watched over the Abyss but were corrupted by it, from the game Dark Souls 3.