Part 4 The Undead Chapter 179 A Strange Image
Klein looked down into his palm, his eyes reflecting the gold coin:
It was facing upwards, showing the king’s head.
This signified affirmation, indicating that Klein should utilize the eyes of the secret puppet to look at himself!
After such a revelation, Krynn remained hesitant, wondering if he should perform the ritual and take the secret puppet Enzo above the gray mist, in an environment that was relatively safe, where any damage and contamination of the spirit would be completely wiped out before he tried it again.
However, he suspected that this would be fruitless, as the Fate pathway extraordinary himself had noticed the projection of that mysterious space on his body in reality, and similar idiosyncrasies would likely cease to exist in the Gray Mist, which would be like trying to look at an elephant’s external size, only to be drilled into the target’s body.
Fingers scrunched up one by one, gripping the gold coins, Klein was silent for a long time before he finally came to a decision.
He stood up, took out his ceremonial silver dagger, and created a “Spiritual Wall” to encompass the room.
This was to guard against the possibility of the miserable screams and strange movements getting out!
Immediately after that, Klein set up a ritual and sacrificed the “Creeping Hunger” to the gray mist.
He was afraid that the glove would backfire on the wearer if there was a problem with his condition!
–This is the inherent property of “Creeping Hunger” itself, once it can not eat enough, can not guarantee to eat a person a day, it will feed on the wearer, and Klein more often than not to feed it to starve it.
After making other preparations in an organized and uncluttered manner, Klein reached out and removed the Blood Flower ring from Enzo’s hand and brought it to his left palm.
This would ensure that he would be able to recover from any serious physical damage.
As he was about to put it on, Klein thought for a moment, then paused, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a sentence:
”Remember to take the ring.”
He was worried that after the experiment was over, he would not want to take it off because he was affected by the “flower of blood”.
At that time, perhaps a beautiful princess to kiss me to wake up, no, to help me pull out the ring …… Klein smiled to himself, exhaled, took off his clothes, put on the ring.
He then turned his attention to his new secret puppet, Enzo “The Winner”.
Hesitation beforehand and inner retreat were always inevitable, but as long as he had made up his mind, he had experienced so many things that he could go forward and not retreat.
After making a few adjustments and entering a meditative state, Klein allowed the puppet to slowly turn its body to look at him.
With the eyes of the “winner”, he first saw a thin layer of gray fog, a little outward diffusion.
Within the fog, there was a brilliant door of light that was slightly tainted with green and black.
The door of light was composed of countless layers of light balls, each of which was in turn a pile of twisted worms, some of which were transparent, some of which were translucent, and some of which carried complex and ineffable or far-reaching symbols and patterns.
Before Klein had a chance to see the details clearly, his mind suddenly buzzed and he lost consciousness.
After an unknown amount of time, he slowly woke up, and for a moment, he had a bit of amnesia, almost thinking that he had slept normally until dawn.
”What happened? The night is still dark outside the window ……” Klein braced his hands and sat up, only to realize that he was actually lying on the floor.
At that moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Enzo, the secret puppet serving next to him, and a plethora of images and sounds snapped into his mind.
”Right, I was just studying what the extraordinary people of the ‘monster’ pathway can see from me …… Is this being stimulated beyond its limits and directly fainting? I vaguely remember that there was a hissing sound of pain heard at that time, was this from myself?” Finding the memory of Klein hastily examined his own body state, and was shocked to see that the body surface had one after another bloody and hideous wounds, and it seemed that something had drilled out from the inside.
At this moment, at these densely packed wounds, the flesh and blood were writhing and reorganizing into a whole abnormally fast.
Klein then looked at the floor, only to see a figure imprinted by blood where he had just been lying.
”Fortunately, I wore the ‘Flower of Blood’ ring, or else I might have died a slow death due to the severe injuries brought about by the collapse of my flesh, and I wonder if such a death would be a human form, or a monster form, after being resurrected …… “Klein raised his hand and rubbed the corner of his forehead, his eyes swept around and found that the tables and chairs had tipped over, but the “spiritual wall” had not broken.
He was truly relieved to find that the mutation was confined to his own body and a small area nearby, and had not spread outward.
And judging from the recovery of his wounds, Klein decided that he had been unconscious for no more than a minute.
He picked up his chair and sat down, feeling as if he had forgotten something, but unable to recall it.
It wasn’t until he instinctively processed the scene and saw a note that said “Remember to take the ring” that he realized and pulled out the ruby-encrusted gold ring on his left hand.
More memories then surfaced, and Klein shook his head in hindsight and amusement and whispered:
”Luck is really important sometimes, if the negative effect of the ‘Flower of Blood’ ring had been randomized to the strongest just now, I might not even recognize the words and wouldn’t have been able to get the reminder ……”
Seeing that the wounds on his body had almost recovered, he asked the secret puppet Enzo to put on the “Flower of Blood” again, and removed the “Green Wah” ring.
With the latter’s healing, Klein no longer felt any discomfort, and returned his focus to the image he had seen earlier – the image that the Fate Pathway Extraordinaire had seen on him:
”Doors of light tinted with a little greenish-black, uncountable balls of light, transparent and translucent worms clumped together, mysterious and complex symbols and patterns that hold a great deal of knowledge but give no feedback …… What do these symbols represent?
”Is this some kind of mythical creature form corresponding to that mysterious space above the gray mist? The kind that belongs to the Sequence 0 True God level?
”Because of the gray mist’s barrier, only the extraordinary ones of the ‘destiny’ pathway can directly see it and bear the impact and contamination? Likewise, it’s also because of the gray fog’s obstruction that the ‘destiny’ pathway’s extraordinary ones don’t completely break down as if they were looking directly at the gods, but they also don’t get any knowledge?”
Klein thought for a while, and began to try to decipher the symbolism embedded in that image with his divination skills:
”The door of light kind of looks like the symbol behind the ‘Apprentice’s’ chair, which in turn seems to point to Mr. ‘Door’ ……
”The countless cascades of light orbs are consistent with what I meditated on, and the latter stems from a mythological system constructed from certain Earth novels …… Was my subconscious influenced to choose a similar and analogous memory, or did my choice reverse the way I influenced the presentation of that image in the gray mist?
”Twisted transparent worms close to the mass on the huge throne on the main peak of the Honchos Mountains, but a little different, which belongs to the sequence 0 ‘Fool’ of the ‘Diviner’ pathway? Translucent didn’t see much, hard to tell ……
”Also, that greenish-black color of the surface always reminds me of the depths of that mysterious space that I haven’t been able to climb up yet …… When standing on the highest level of that staircase of light, I could see a bit of greenish-black rendering on the clouds that coalesced in mid-air… …”
Klein thought for half a day and failed to get an answer, so he had to temporarily press the matter into his heart, waiting for more information more clues in the future before analyzing it.
After dealing with the traces of the scene, he took four steps backward and entered the gray fog, ready to do a more comprehensive and thorough examination of his own state, and to confirm whether the secret puppet Enzo still has the passive “Luck” and “Calamity”.
……
Inside a not-so-big dilapidated room in the slums of Byam.
”Star General” Gadelia was sitting behind the table, looking at the door, when she heard a peculiarly rhythmic knock on the door.
”Come in.” She spoke without deliberately hiding her voice.
The wooden door opened with a creak, and the “Inverted Man”, wearing a hood and a black robe, walked in.
Seeing the other party’s concealed attire, Gadelia pushed up the heavy glasses resting on the bridge of her nose and said with a slight smile:
”If you walk out like this, it won’t take five minutes before you’re surrounded by people from the Storm Church.”
She didn’t make any disguise, because she knew that the matter of her letting Germaine Sparrow board the “Future” had already spread in the sea, and it wasn’t hard for the “Inverted Man” to guess that the “General above the Stars” was the “Hidden One”. It was Ms. Hidden One.
Alger did not respond directly, closed the door to the room, pulled out a chair, and said without falling down:
”You’re walking out of here like that, too.”
What he means is, “Star General” in the seven pirate generals, second only to the “Hell Admiral”, and suspected and Germaine Sparrow close relationship, belongs to the Storm Church and the Church of the Night and other forces in pursuit of the main target, the bounty has risen to 45,000 pounds! No matter what city you go to, as long as you don’t make a disguise and are recognized, it means a lot of trouble is about to come.
Gadelia nodded her head with a small margin, and turned to the face of the “upside-down man”, which was blocked by the hood, and said:
”In front of me, this kind of costume does not really have any meaning.
”However, I respect your choice.”
She kept her glasses on.
The aura was sufficient, very confident, worthy of being a “Star General”…… who wore an additional mask under the hood, Alger didn’t bother with the disguise aspect and went straight to the point:
”Thank you for your help.”
”Above the stars will be,” Kadriya said as she lowered her right hand to her left elbow:
”I’m curious, with your current strength and the resources you possess yourself, you should be able to handle the ‘artisan’ issue even without my help, so why do you need to seek me out additionally?”
Alger was prepared for this and said simply:
”I don’t really want to be a topic of discussion for others.”
Gadelia seemed to grasp the other party’s latent meaning and said after a few seconds of silence:
”I need more information.”
Alger nodded gently and said:
”Based on my observations and guesses, the ‘Artisans’ should be controlled by those who believe in the ‘Primordial Moon’, the latter belonging to that faction that originally existed in the Southern Continent, rather than the traitors of the School of Life. ”
Unchanged in expression, Gadelia thought for a moment:
”Why don’t you look for Mr. ‘Moon’? He should be interested in that aspect of things.”
Alger hooked the corners of his mouth and replied with his voice as usual:
”If neither of us can solve it, I might do so.”