Part 3 The Traveler Chapter 68 – The Negative Effects of Seals
After a while, Klein initially understood the ability of “Neptune’s Scepter”:
It can create tsunamis, hurricanes, rainstorms, lightning strikes, and allow people to fly in the sky and walk on the bottom of the sea, with almost no limitations.
It was nearly indestructible and could simply smash the heads of enemies, it allowed the bearer to never get lost without other powerful factors stacked on top of it, it provided unimaginable balancing abilities, drove many undersea creatures, answered the prayers of believers, and allowed one to gain the power of a sea monster-like power equal to that of a lord of the seas.
This really already belonged to the deity level for Klein, even on Earth, he could fight against an aircraft carrier formation!
Don’t look at him now is the sequence 6, there are a lot of practical extraordinary ability, in the eyes of ordinary people, can be considered a real strong man, belong to the legend of the character, but the essence is still fragile, is still closer to the “human”, if the situation is appropriate, a revolver can be resolved, of course, after the death of the resurrection, uncovering the coffin and rise, and it is a different matter. It’s a different story.
But “Poseidon Scepter” has those, but all beyond the level of “human”, is the folklore, is the people’s mind, the power of the gods or demons, undoubtedly.
No wonder from the beginning of Sequence 4, it has been called half god and half man, this is really more like a god than a man …… Klein voicelessly lamented, and then laughed to himself:
”If I can use the ‘Neptune’s Scepter’ normally, I can already serve as the senior deacon of the night watchman and become one of the two dozen most powerful people in the church …… Ince Zangwill If I didn’t have the ‘0-08’ and was at sea, I would have been able to take revenge on him immediately, and even had a not insignificant hope of success.
”But can I use the ‘Scepter of Poseidon’ properly?
”Can’t ……”
Klein had just realized that the negative effects of the “Neptune’s Scepter” were so great that within the Black Night Church, it could easily receive a rating of “1” grade seal, and there was no telling how many researchers would have to die in order to figure out the best way to seal it and use it.
There are three negative effects of the “Neptune Scepter”:
One is that it makes the bearer irritable, easily becoming angry and overzealous;
The second is to periodically freeze the minds of all creatures within a certain range and drain their blood, including the holder, as for how wide the range is and what the exact value of the cycle is, Klein, who is not a professional researcher, can’t give a precise description, but can only make a rough estimate that the range is 600 meters to 1,000 meters, and the cycle is 20 minutes to 35 minutes;
The third was to converge and present the prayers of the believers with both sound and images, which could easily make a non-demigod level holder whose spirit was not strong enough to directly collapse and lose control.
”The first one is okay, if it is only used for a short period of time, anger and rage are acceptable, simply put, holding such a strong seal, mang is done ……
”The third, in fact, there is a way to circumvent, ‘Poseidon’ response to faith is limited by distance, that is to say, as long as you leave the Rothschild Archipelago and the nearby waters, simply can not receive the “signal”, and will not be affected. Well …… it seems that if I keep it on top of the gray mist, I can break the distance restriction, except that the sound or image of the prayer will be blocked and reduced to a point of light, not affecting me in the slightest, leaving me free to choose whether or not to respond, who to respond to, and how to respond ……
”And when I respond, I am able to use the ‘Neptune’s Scepter’ power ……
”The biggest problem is the second, I myself is okay, when I incarnate into the Black Emperor, belongs to the resentful soul, no blood, not afraid of being drained, but those creatures around me are miserable, this is completely indistinguishable from the enemy, and the cycle is not well grasped …… can’t we encounter a dangerous situation, and discuss it with the enemy first, let’s change a time and change a place to make an appointment again?”
Klein thought carefully, conceived a few scenarios using the “Scepter of Poseidon”, but it all depends on the environment, depends on the accurate judgment beforehand, almost does not have much feasibility.
”Hoo…… is it its destiny to stay above the gray mist and give Amon-like people a pike, no, a lightning bolt, when they try to ‘feel’ their way up… …
”By the way, there’s another use, when Miss ‘Justice’, Mr. ‘Inverted Man’ and the rest of them pray for help, I no longer only have the option of a paper angel, but I can also provide rain, a little wind …… Of course, this can all be done with paper angels like the purification ability of the ‘Sun Brooch’ ……
”Seriously thinking about it, with the ‘Scepter of Poseidon’, I can behave like a true demigod above the gray mist ……”
Kraven’s mood gradually improved as he realized that the ‘Neptune’s Scepter’ wasn’t completely unavailable at the moment, which would allow him to make quite a few more tiresome maneuvers.
He withdrew his attention and returned his sight to the white bone staff with the green and blue “jewels” at the top, and thought about another issue, that is, whether to answer the prayers of the followers of the “God of the Sea”:
”Kavituva is dead, there is no need to provide those people with an object of faith ……
”However, even if the living priests and the high command of the Resistance notice the anomaly and stop receiving responses, for a long time they will not really accept the worst, and people will always take chances, and are used to reassure and hypnotize themselves, especially when they are in a dangerous situation where there is no light at the end of the tunnel, as in the case of the city of Silver, which, more than two thousand years ago, is still worshipping The “Creator”, believing that he and others have only been abandoned in disgust, and that one day they will be answered again. ……
”That is to say, ‘Neptune’s’ fervent believers in the lack of response, not only will not believe that Kavituva has fallen, and thus stop the living sacrifice, but will also intensify their efforts in the hope of once again obtaining the favor of the gods …… Without a few years. A dozen years of propaganda and strikes will hardly bring them to their senses.
”When the Resistance is without the support of Kavituva, the indigenous deity, I’m afraid that they can only fall back fully to Fusak or Intis, and at that time, with their bigoted beliefs, they’re likely to be driven to do inhumane things, such as attacking the places where civilians congregate, or, for example, letting the children whose eyes still have the remnants of their innocence stand in the way… …
”They need to be given some guidance, they need to be shown what it means to believe in the right way, but not to burden myself, just give a little help where I can …… I’m not responsible for saving them from their fate… …”
Klein tapped his fingers on the edge of the long, mottled table and suddenly gave a low laugh:
”Wasn’t it meant to be a real play? ‘Poseidon’ Kavituva would be a good subject.
”I just don’t know if this counts as experiencing the gray mist of isolation and not being able to harvest feedback.
”Oh well, one always has to try to figure it out.”
Klein quickly made his decision, inexplicably feeling refreshed.
After deliberating, he first materialized the scene he needed, then grasped the “Scepter of Poseidon”, spreading his spirit and touching one of the points of light.
……
Inside the jungle of Blue Mountain Island, in a hidden cave.
The bald rebel Karat fell out of his wheelchair and crawled towards the broken statue of Kavituva in front of him with a desperate and confused look in his eyes.
He vaguely sensed something, but didn’t want to believe it, because it would mean that all the perseverance, all the sacrifices, all the pain, would be meaningless.
No…… he hissed silently, constantly whispering the name of Kavituva, “God of the Sea”, trying to get a response from the gods.
He elbows on the ground, fingers into the mud, inch by inch to the broken statue of God in front of, hold up the stone carved into the head of the sea serpent, and found that the eyes are strangely sunken into a black hole, the teeth have already fallen out one by one.
Karat was nearly frozen, and the light seemed to be lost before his eyes.
It was at this moment that he suddenly saw a blurred figure and saw that behind the other was a deep blue tsunami surging into the sky and a silver-white bolt of lightning that forked like a tree branch.
Stunned, Karat instinctively lowered his head, and a joy of disbelief flooded his heart.
He saw the figure with clustered waves at its feet and coiling hurricanes around it, the whole majestic and sacred, lofty and vast.
Then he heard an indifferent and grandiose voice:
”I have returned.”
As the voice echoed, Karat inexplicably shed tears.
……
Inside the undersea ruins that were semi-mingled with the spirit world, ten or so minutes after Klein left.
The seawater that filled the place suddenly clattered and poured out, and in just twenty to thirty seconds of work, the Elven Ruins were so dry that it was as if they were on top of land.
Fresh hurricane winds blew in, bringing in breathable gases.
A silhouette in the hurricane fell, the leader is a tall and sturdy middle-aged man, the appearance of the age of just forty looks, face lines hard and deep, the body muscle block clear, hold up the loose storm cleric robes.
This is the Storm Church Cardinal, Rothschild Archbishop of the sea, the “vicarious punishment” senior deacon, the “sea king” Yarn Kautman.
He had dark blue eyes, and his hair of the same color was twice as thick as a normal person’s, like a small worm and a tentacle.
Behind Yarn Kautman were many members of the “Substitute Punishers” and the military, who were examining their surroundings with anticipation and caution, not relaxing their demands because of the protection of the demigods in front of them.
At that moment, they heard a humming sound, and then they were swept up by the hurricane and arrived at the door of the hall of relics in one breath.
They saw a huge sea serpent lying inside with blood and flesh reduced to mud, revealing white bones, and other than that, there was nothing else.
”Who is it!” Yarn Courtman suppressed his anger and let out a low roar.
As he shouted these words, a wave fell with a crash above him.
The wave echoed through the half-collapsed hall, quickly calming into a windless lake.
The lake reflected the scene from before:
An unreadable figure drew up a short white staff set with green sapphires, causing the waters to thrash and the ruins to shake.
Yarn Courtman took a breath and turned his back on the crowd:
”Find him.”
……
By this time, Klein had picked out a dozen or so relatively important believers and responded one by one, mainly by giving the new covenant:
”I have returned, when I have forgiven the past and redeemed you.
”First commandment: no living sacrifice, no human sacrifice.”