Part 3 THE TRAVELER Chapter 85 The Source of the Affair
”On April 9, having just returned from the masquerade ball of the Countess of Valinian, there was a sudden emptiness in my heart.
”One woman, one woman, another woman, monotonous and mechanical movements, the indistinguishable smell of perfume, the warmth of entangled limbs, could only be rewarded with so many seconds of pleasure, followed by endless boredom, disgust, emptiness, and numbness.
”What fun is there in living like this? Is this the point of living every day?
”It can’t go on like this, I have to get out of this degenerate state.
”And, a word of self-reminder, don’t habitually write Arabic numerals in everyday positions.”
…… The Great One, you have moments of introspection and literacy too? This doesn’t fit your image in my mind! Klein nearly raised his eyebrows slightly as he watched.
His gaze moved down to the second diary entry:
”On April 11th, Countess Valinian invited me to a private salon, and she told me that Lady Julia would be attending as well,” he said.
”Ha, this conservative blonde who married from Rouen will be attending as well?
”What anticipation!
”I’ve fantasized about her in bed for a long time, and may her husband, Monsieur Vicomte de Ligne, not intervene.”
Daidi, did you forget the diary you wrote the day before yesterday? Gee, it smells good, doesn’t it? Also, you misspelled words, mind! Klein couldn’t help but spit out a couple sentences.
”April 14th, I’ve been attending too many events lately, I’m a bit overwhelmed ……
”It’s no small matter!
”Even though I’m young, I have to prevent the risk of decline in this area… moderation, moderation!
”‘Archaeologist’ is improving my physique, effectively enhancing certain abilities, however, this is not its area of expertise, it is incidental.
”Continuing to enhance the sequence, the changes brought about by the previous magic potion should deepen as well, it’s an endeavor.
”It’s said that ‘pharmacists’ can make potions with little side effects, so perhaps I’ll have to find a few of them to consult.
”Also, moderation is really needed, indulgence will only lead to a rising threshold and a less than normal level of fulfillment.
”Quietly think about it, there are still a lot of things you can do Well, human beings are always like this, bound by desires, unable to see what is truly valuable, why did I cross over, what secrets are hidden in the depths of the starry night sky above my head, where did the initial consciousness come from, self-knowledge, if it comes purely from the consciousness, who was I before the identity of Huang Tao and to whom does the most essential part of me belong? ……”
Da Di, are you expounding to me what it means to be as horny as a wolf beforehand and a philosopher afterward? Hey, you also have that aspect of concern ah, I thought you cured certain attributes …… Luckily, you did not teach Chinese to your children, well, I should not have taught them, otherwise what would they think when they read this content? It is not without reason that Charatu predicted that your eldest daughter, Bernadette, would turn against you and turn her back on you …… Of course, not teaching them is more of a kind of protection, isn t it …… Klein managed to be amused by Rosel’s diary, but the surface was unchanged.
Rosel the Great’s diary was both a book of knowledge and a collection of jokes to him.
With a thought, Klein flipped to the next page of the diary:
”On October 2, Charatu came to visit me again.
”He hoped that I, who had already entered the realm of demigods and demi-humans, would fulfill my promise and help him steal the dangerous seal from the Church.
”It was a notebook from the Antigonus family of the Fourth Age, a class ‘1’ sealing object!”
Seeing this, Klein’s pupils contracted with difficulty:
This should be the same notebook that the Secret Society had later lost.
This should be the same notebook that led to Klein Moretti’s death and allowed himself to successfully awaken in this world with the help of the other party’s corpse!
This was the source of everything!
”As it turns out, it didn’t fall into the hands of the Mithraic Order in the first place, but was instead sealed within the Church of the Artisans of Peshawar’s later Church of the God of Steam and Mechanics, and Charatu managed to steal it through Rossel the Great ……
”By the way, that member of the Mithraic Order within the ‘Creeping Hunger’ feared Chalatu, believing him to be an undead and abnormal monster, does that mean that Chalatu gained some benefits with the help of the notes, but then had an accident, and went from being able to communicate with Rossel normally as a ‘human’ into a monster, and that’s why the loss of the Antigonus family notes came afterward?
”Of course, it can’t be ruled out that Charatu let it go missing on purpose ……
”Hmmm …… Because of Charatu’s transformation into a monster, the Mithraeum lost all their mermaids, causing all the ‘Faceless Men’ afterward to have to venture out to sea? Rossago succeeded because of trying to enter that ocean where the ruins of the Divine War diffused?”
A single thought flashed within Klein’s mind, making his heart unusually heavy.
He didn’t think that his encounter with Antigonus’ notes was closely related to Rossel, because he had been speculating in the direction of the Law of Convergence of Extraordinary Characteristics, and some of the details of the subsequent events were in line with a similar logic.
Does it all involve the higher levels of the “Diviner” pathway? Kline’s afterglow took in the quiet stretch of gray fog that stretched out endlessly.
Could it be the cause? he asked himself again.
Steadying his emotions, Klein continued to skim the rest of the diary:
”Meh, I’ll have to see what happens, if it’s easy to steal and there’s little risk of exposure, I’ll give it a shot, otherwise I’ll just pretend it didn’t happen.
”Even if Charatu exposes me, it doesn’t matter, with my current status, position, sequence, and influence, the church won’t even do anything to me if I’m willing to turn around and repent.”
The other two diary entries on this page recorded Rossel’s journey to conceive the theft scheme, but neither looked like it had much chance of success, however, Klein knew that he eventually got the notebook and handed it over to Charatu, the head of the Secret Society.
After a brief pause, Klein turned the page of the journal:
”On the tenth day of the twelfth, once again, I attended that ancient hidden gathering.
”At the gathering, I found them to be extremely hostile to the Quaternary Solomon Empire, and quite unanimous.
”I raised the question, and old Mr. Hermes readily told me the answer, that in the Fourth Age the allies and supporters of the Solomon Empire were the ‘True Creator.
”That’s very true.
”I resisted the urge to ask what exactly our organization had done in the history of the Quaternary, but upon leaving that palace and returning in the dream world, I realized that old Mr. Hermes’ route this time overlapped with mine to some degree.
”This ancient human who had survived the pre-cataclysmic period surely knew a lot, and I cozied up to him and asked him a question in all sincerity, and that was why did the organization hate the ‘True Creator’? Is it simply because k uses the sacred name ‘Creator’?
”Old Mr. Hermes chuckled and said that we are not such shallow creatures.
”He asked me a rhetorical question, “Are you aware of the specific abilities of the ‘Shepherd’?
”Of course. That was my answer.
”He asked again meaningfully:
”If you were to pick one of all the current deities to move toward an all-knowing, all-powerful Lord, who do you think would be the most likely?
”This …… first thought that flashed through my mind was that the ‘shepherd’ pathway of being able to devour, graze, and drive the souls and characteristics of other Sequencers, which ends with the ‘ True Creator’.
”So that’s it ……”
Although there is only this diary entry on this page, there is a great deal of information. …… Solomon’s Empire originally belonged to the camp of the ‘True Creator’. …… Well, within the underground ruins of that Tudor family, there were Inside the underground ruins of the Tudor family, there are human statues of six positive gods. Although it is impossible to determine whether they are worshipping the gods or blaspheming them, one thing is clear: the six gods are involved in the three empires, and in the later period, they are even more closely related to the Trenthorst dynasty……. Three empires, representing three different camps of the gods? Klein tried to use his own “archaeological” discoveries and knowledge of history to decipher the hidden truth of the last era, but there was still a lot of fog in front of him.
Klein’s answer to Hermes, the oldest master of the occult, is close to Roselle’s:
As the sequence increases, the saints and angels of the “Shepherd” pathway will be able to graze more and more souls with extraordinary abilities, and at the end of the day, if the “True Creator” can graze the other twenty-one transcendent pathway counterparts, then in a way, k would be the equivalent of omniscience, and in a way, it would be the same as omniscience. In the end, if the “True Creator” can herd the other twenty-one transcendent pathways, in a way, k would be the omniscient Creator.
There are still a lot of secrets hidden in the serial pathway. …… Klein turned to the fourth page of the diary.
This page of the diary recorded Rossel’s behavior after taking the “Generalist” magic potion, he read a lot, a lot of study, the foundation is very solid, the breadth and depth of knowledge has been raised to a new level.
During this period of time, he had almost no entertainment, and studying was his greatest entertainment.
Within one of the diaries, this is what he wrote:
”…… When a person knows with certainty that he is bound to reap the rewards of his efforts and can visualize how much the rewards are, then he will definitely work as hard as I am now like crazy.”
Isn’t this truth the essential appeal of many games? Klein flipped through this last page of his journal and read the ancient god’s lore provided by the little “sun”.
Throughout the entire process, there was silence in the majestic palace, as both “Justice” and “Moon” pondered what they would trade and exchange later.
The “Hidden One” Gadelia encountered a similar situation for the first time, but not at all rushed and uneasy, on the contrary, seriously analyze the information revealed by this scene:
”This is not the first time this has happened …… Mr. ‘Fool’ has the habit of reading Rossel’s diary at tarot gatherings …… members are actively or passively Collecting for k, but not sure if they are paid in advance ……
”Can k really read the Roselle diary …… in search of those secrets sunk in the long river of history?
”Just now, that ‘sun’ had mentioned that the information he submitted was the legends of the ancient gods …… This tentatively matches my previous guess …… ”
At this time, Klein had roughly skimmed through the new Ancient God information.
In the Second Age, in that dark era, each ancient god had a subsidiary “deity”, just like the “Dragon of Imagination” Anglewild and k’s child “Dragon of Nightmares” Alsouhod. The Dragon of Nightmares.