Part 5 The Red Priestess Chapter 107 – The President

　　In the dimly lit world, the huge red moon hung silently over the tops of the houses, and everything in the gardens seemed to be asleep.

　　The despair faded from the eyes of the not-quite-complete grayish-white dragon, and it gathered its skin-covered wings, tame as a domesticated hound.

　　Herwin Lambeth, a member of the Psycho-Alchemy Council and a demigod of the “audience” path, lost his life and became Klein’s secret puppet!

　　Kraven did not bother to admire it, and switched places with the “winner” Njoni, who was next to the grayish-white dragon, and appeared there in the image of Germaine Sparrow in a black trenchcoat and silk bowler hat.

　　He then maneuvered his new secret puppet to cure himself of the “mental plague” he had contracted.

　　A soft, cool breeze blew over the sea of collective subconsciousness and penetrated Klein’s islands of consciousness, making him feel as if something foul-smelling, rotten, divided, and contradictory within his mind had been collected in a lump and surgically stripped away.

　　Klein immediately distorted his face, showing a grimace, once again feeling the extreme pain of his soul being torn apart.

　　Fortunately, in order to make the “Spirit Control Bullet” and “Yesterday Revisited” spells, he had already gotten used to this feeling, and didn’t cover his head and roll all over the ground.

　　After the highly infectious spiritual “virus” and the infected consciousness were separated, the cool wind turned into a bit of warmth that made people want to take a nap, causing Klein’s traumatized spiritual body to relax, as if immersed in a bathtub, his body and mind were nourished, and he began to grow and recover rapidly.

　　When he recovered from his mental illness, the gentle winds that blew in became violent and swept around, removing all the remaining “viruses” from the air.

　　After doing so, Kraven had the gray-white dragon quickly shrink its body, restraining its divinity and returning to its human form.

　　However, since Hwyn Lambeth’s clothes had been torn into pieces, the grayish scales on his body surface did not retract.

　　After a few more seconds, Arianna, the leader of the ascetics of the Church of Darkness, who wore simple robes, a bark belt, and long black hair, stepped out from the huge red moon, stepped into the void, and arrived diagonally above Hwyn Lambeth.

　　This angel stretched out her right hand, and with a mere grasp, made the slightly blurred soul of Hwyn Lambeth leave his body and float out of his head.

　　”Why are you helping George III?” Arianna asked rather directly.

　　Hwyn Lambeth’s confused expression turned serious for a moment:

　　”This is the choice of the times, this is the inevitability of fate, we are just going with the flow and making some guidance to move the times in the right direction.”

　　”Dusk Hermit Society” standard answer …… So it seems that the demigods of the Psycho Alchemy Society are also not clear about what Adam’s true purpose is ah …… Even if the The majority of the official members of the “Dusk Hermit Society” probably don’t know …… Klein thought without much psychological burden because he was in a hidden world.

　　Arianna did not show an unexpected expression, and asked:

　　”What is the next zeitgeist?”

　　Hwyn Lambeth’s eyes were unfocused, but his demeanor was quite solemn as he answered:

　　”A war, a war that sweeps the world.”

　　Isn’t this …… peace good? Klein frowned slightly and couldn’t help but mutter in his heart.

　　He was quite aware of how a world war would traumatize humanity.

　　He only hoped that he and the Black Night Church could grasp the key as soon as possible and succeed in stopping the outbreak of the war that the “Dusk Hermit Society” was trying to push for.

　　Arianna was silent for a second, and then asked:

　　”What is the secret of George III?”

　　A small smile appeared on Hwyn Lambeth’s face:

　　”Every king is bound by the Three Great Contracts, and can only go as high as Sequence 5, while he has bypassed the obstacles in this regard with our help, and already substantially possesses a higher rank, only waiting for the wave of the times to come, and will be able to smoothly ascend to the position that already belongs to him.”

　　The Three Pacts …… What is this? Well, it’s an understandable clause that the king only goes up to Sequence 5, after all, on the premise that the Mysteries are as unseen as possible, it’s best for the king to have a normal turnover, and it’s understandable to the public that they’d live for eighty or ninety years, and if they’re alive and kicking for more than a hundred and twenty-three years, it’s bound to cause speculation and panic …… George III is just trying to live longer on his own, and the Psychological Alchemy Society and the Cult of the Witch? Normally, this is only the king’s restriction, and it will not affect other members of the Augustus family, who should have the existence of earthly angels within them, there is no reason to support George III ah …… Several questions sprang up in Klein’s mind at once.

　　”George III is not a demigod right now, just through some way to have a higher bit, in advance to do the play?” Arianna asked in a not-so-quick and not-so-slow tone.

　　To the Church of Darkness, this was a rather crucial question, if George III was essentially already a demigod, then they could directly contact the Church of Storm and Steam to arrest him, as the existence of that king was evidence in itself.

　　The spirit of Hwyn Lambeth nodded and said:

　　”Yes.”

　　”What exactly is the way?” Arianna continued to ask.

　　Hwyn Lambeth slowly shook his head and said:

　　”I’m not sure, the person in charge of this is our president, I only remember him mentioning once that he wanted to make George III more talented.”

　　More gifted? Hearing such a description, Klein instantly and sharply associated it with something in Roselle’s diary.

　　In that great emperor’s eyes, the so-called talent was to make one’s spirit and soul more like that of one’s ancestors in the higher realms, so as to obtain the recognition of the corresponding extraordinary characteristics or spiritual imprints within the sealing objects, and to pass through the great negative impacts brought about by taking magical potions and ruling the sealing objects with relative ease.

　　This was not a perfect method, and it could even be said that the hidden dangers were extremely great, because the spiritual imprints would reverse change the souls of those who consumed them or wielded them, causing them to undergo a certain amount of mutation.

　　If anyone relied on this method to ascend to Demigod, it was highly likely that they would turn into a spiritual sewing monster!

　　Was George III hypnotized by anyone to accept this method? No, if it was hypnosis, the Augustus family’s angels or seals would surely be able to discover the problem …… Klein grew more and more puzzled, waiting for the ascetic leader floating in midair to ask questions again.

　　Arianna obviously knew what “more gifted” stood for and asked without any change in expression:

　　”Who is your president?”

　　Hwyn Lambeth gave a reminiscent look:

　　”He has many identities and many names, but just by looking at him, I can be sure that he is the president of our Mental Alchemy Society.

　　”His current identities and names are:

　　”Barrows Hopkins, ‘King of the Black Throne’, one of the Four Kings of the Sea, Bakeland Medical School’s former principal, royal medical advisor, and the ‘dead’ Paulie Delrau, and the renowned hermit of the Mid-Sunyan Sea, Eric Drake ……”

　　”The King of the Black Seat”…… Klein then realized that he had heard this title before, but just ignored it every time, didn’t put it on his mind, and seldom recalled it.

　　It turned out that this pirate king is the “audience” pathway …… He nodded with a sense of realization.

　　Arianna listened quietly and turned to ask:

　　”George III in that ‘blood emperor’ relics actually hide what secrets?”

　　Hwyn Lambeth’s slightly dumbfounded expression changed a little as he said:

　　”A crucial thing, he wants to master it, which requires a great deal of sacrificial rituals.”

　　”What is it?” Arianna pursued without any interval at all.

　　Hwyn Lambeth was baffled for a moment and said:

　　”I… I don’t remember… ……”

　　He raised his hand violently and covered the head of his soul, looking rather pained.

　　But no matter how much he thought back, he couldn’t remember the answer.

　　Was the memory “cleansed” by Adam or one of the angels in the “audience” pathway? Klein watched with a grave expression, feeling more and more that the secret of the relics might be more important than he thought.

　　Arianna was silent for a few seconds and lowered her head to Klein:

　　”What do you want to ask?”

　　Klein thought for a moment and addressed Hwyn Lambeth directly:

　　”What are the names of the ‘audience’ pathway high sequence magic potions?”

　　The pain of Herwin Lambeth’s soul was eased, and he answered with a slow speech:

　　”Sequence 4 ‘Manipulator’, Sequence 3 ‘Dreamweaver’, Sequence 2 ‘Insightful’, Sequence 1 ‘Writer ‘.”

　　He didn’t mention Sequence 0, “Imagineer,” and obviously didn’t know it.

　　”What is the formula for the ‘Manipulator’ magic potion?” Klein spoke up even though he felt his question was slightly vulgar compared to Ms. Arianna’s.

　　Hwyn Lambeth did not hesitate and said in a confused tone:

　　”The main ingredient is, the complete brain of an aged mind dragon, or, the crystallized heart of a tree tutor, or, the extraordinary characteristics of a ‘manipulator’.

　　”The secondary materials are, 80 milliliters of blood from an aged mind dragon, three golden leaves from a tree-man mentor, and one tear from each of seven different human or humanoid creatures produced by strong emotions ……

　　”The ritual is to take the magic potion in the great resonance of their emotions in a specific setting with at least 10,000 people.”

　　In comparison, the demigod ritual of the “audience” pathway is not that difficult …… Also, the “audience” can heal themselves, self-analyze, and can effectively combat the madness and uncontrollable tendencies brought about by the magic potion. The “audience” can self-heal, self-analyze, itself can effectively combat the magic drug brought about by the madness and out-of-control tendency, the ceremony can certainly be simplified a little …… Klein thoughtfully nodded down and said:

　　”What is the formula for the magic potion of the ‘Dream Weaver’?”

　　”I don’t know.” Hwyn Lambeth shook his head and said.

　　Well …… Klein inquired again about why Hwyn Lambeth had personally come to Audrey and got the appropriate answer.

　　Then he said to Arianna:

　　”I have no more questions.”

　　Those questions he had, Herwin Rambis couldn’t answer them either.

　　Arianna’s right hand then pressed gently, allowing the spirit of Hwyn Lambeth to return to his body.

　　The angel then glanced at Klein and said in a calm tone:

　　”Do not use him as a secret puppet.

　　”It is also best not to make items with his extraordinary properties until his spirit brand is removed.”

　　Of course, I don’t want to be visited by Adam at my door …… Klein nodded sincerely:

　　”I’ll keep that in mind, thank you, Ms. Arianna.”