Part 5 The Red Priestess Chapter 30 The Berserker
The robe-clad Kraven did not move, but he was inspired by the infiltrator’s “psychic threads”.
In other words, if he wanted to, even without leaving his bed, he could turn all the people at 160 Birklund Street into secret puppets, of course, for a demigod, a “trickster”, the neighbors a few houses away were also in the range of manipulation.
”There were many spirits around, and one of them helped him complete his flight and land on the next balcony …… Is this the ‘death’ pathway, or the ‘night’ pathway of the extraordinary? Pathway of the Extraordinary? Something that could do something of this magnitude, or at least Sequence 6 …… come to Richardson? No, he walked toward the door of this bedroom of mine, and he stopped there, and he reached out his right hand and knocked falsely on the door of the room …… He was certain that I could detect it?” Klein sat up with a slightly sullen expression.
The first part of his judgment was accomplished by relying on the “Spirit Thread”, while the next part was directly “seen”, forming a picture in his mind.
–After Klein became Sequence 4, not only had the ability of the “Joker” to sense danger been strengthened, but also the mysterious spatial power above the gray mist that he himself could pry and utilize had been essentially improved, and with the combination of the two, it was naturally not difficult to see in the case of a relatively long distance. In addition, based on his knowledge of the mysterious space, he could see the figure and movement of the visitor in his mind.
In addition, based on the deepening of his control over all aspects of the mysterious space, Klein was able to restrain the gray fog’s influence in the real world, so that even extraordinary people with special means could not see the traces, and according to his judgment, when he was on top of the gray fog, with the “Blasphemy Card” attached, and holding the scepter of Poseidon, “The Fool” projected the traces to reality. The power that “Fool” projected into reality was infinitely close to that of a true angel.
If not for this, even if the gray mist plus the paper double did provide the ability to keep people awake in a dream-like state, Klein wouldn’t dare to let Miss Justice face a “spectator” pathway of Sequence 4, or even Sequence 3.
In the midst of his thoughts, he left the bed, put on his slippers, straightened his robe, walked to the position of the easy chair, and slowly sat down and said:
”Come in.”
The door to the master bedroom opened noiselessly, but the cold wind did not blow in, but only swirled in the corridor.
The “visitor” was a man about the same age and height as Dawn Dantes, with black hair, brown pupils, and deep features, typical of the Ruins.
He wore a silk bowler hat, his face was long and thin, and his temperament was rather grim, but not the type that made people feel uncomfortable, but the type that visualized the meaning of the night in the suburban cemetery.
This instant, Klein saw uncountable spirits swarming around the middle-aged, elderly gentleman, leaving him surrounded by ghostly darkness and layers that seemed to hide a world.
Klein’s spiritual intuition told him that this was a demigod.
I just returned to Beckland, how come I was approached by a demigod …… Except for the side of the Archbishop of Beckland of the Church of the Dark, the identity of Dawn Dantes has not been exposed to the slightest problem ah …… Klein looked at the doorway with quite a toothache, his face without expression. It couldn’t be seen whether it was anger or shock.
That demigod took two steps, and suddenly let his right hand drop straight down in front of his body, driving his waist and back to become bent, like a bow drawn to its limit.
He made a solemn salute in a peculiar posture with the utmost respect, while at the same time, the door of the room closed without making any sound with a pull of the cold wind.
Klein nearly froze, not knowing how to react, and then his thoughts floated, vaguely guessing something.
At that very moment, that demigod kept his posture unchanged and spoke in a deep voice:
”The Spirit Order Patrick Blaine has come to pay homage to Your Excellency by the oracle.”
The oracle …… Klein controlled the twitching of the muscles in his cheeks, and combined with the speculation just now, roughly understood what was going on:
The “Goddess of the Night” has deepened her control over the “uniqueness” of the Artificial Death, or “Death” pathway, and is able to issue an oracle to the senior personnel of the Artificial Death faction of the Spirit Order!
Klein half-sighs, half-smiles, and reaches out his right hand to press it to his chest, but there is no additional action attached to it:
”What is the oracle of God?”
Blaine slowly stood up straight and looked at the gentleman with the graying sideburns sitting in the easy chair, and responded with some vague fervor:
”We have succeeded, God has finally awakened,k and has asked me to follow your orders and accept your arrangements from this day forward.”
Klein had expected this, but after hearing the other’s reply, he still had the feeling of his face souring, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
This is letting me, the darkness of the night’s dependents, moonlight as the artificial death’s dependents, and secretly lead the Spirit Order’s artificial death faction ah …… Is this a gift of fate, or is it secretly marked up for that price? Since the goddess did not let the church archbishop or senior deacon take charge of this matter, it means that k wants to strictly keep the secret …… Klein stood up at once and tried to make his expression and tone look pious:
”I am honored to obey the oracle.
”God’s will is my will!”
After the statement was completed, he sat down again, looked over at the demigod who was standing straight up, and pointed to the sofa across from him, saying:
”Please take a seat, well, introduce yourself by the way, this belongs to basic courtesy, doesn’t it?”
Just now, as a single thought flashed by, Klein vaguely grasped the reason why the goddess had given the Artificial Death faction of the Spirit Order to her leadership:
Germaine Sparrow’s identity was closely related to the former “Death Consul”!
Therefore, if anyone discovers the clues and starts investigating the matter of the change of ownership of the Artificial Death Faction of the Spirit Order, they will find that it has something to do with Germaine Sparrow, and then suddenly realize that they have grasped the truth, and understand why the Artificial God of the Dead was able to initially come to life to send down oracles.
Based on this speculation, Klein deliberately allowed Dawn Dantes to use one of Germaine Sparrow’s catchphrases.
Patrick Blaine sat to the couch and thought for a moment:
”I’m a Ruin who once traveled to East Byron on business, and was secretly converted because I contracted a disease there and nearly died, was rescued by a member of the Order of the Spirit, and was given the grace of the gods to live during a ceremony.
”My faction was always vilified by the other members of the Spirit Order that we blasphemed and tried to create new deaths on our own, but that was not the case, we firmly believed that the gods had not fallen at the end of the Fourth Age, but had simply fallen into a slumber that needed to be awakened in a specific way to revive K a little, and we were proven right, as you are a testament to. ”
I got the ancient documents do not say so, that group of Spirit Order executives are fully aware of their own imitation of the “Hidden Sage” thing Artificial Reaper …… Is not the gentleman across the street is not a core member of the Spirit Order Artificial Reaper faction, and on the “Uniqueness” and other knowledge lack sufficient understanding? But how could a demigod not be a core member? The Spirit Order, even if it was transformed from the original Byron Royal Family and the Church of the God of Death, with a deep accumulation and many strong people, it is impossible to waste a demigod like this …… The seven major orthodox churches can’t do this kind of thing …… Klein listened to it with extreme suspicion, and asked without moving his head:
”Where are the other top echelons of this faction of yours?”
Patrick Blaine said with a reverent face:
”When I joined the Spirit Order, God had already awakened a little bit, and this is all due to those holy people from before, who sacrificed themselves in one ceremony after another.
”At present, we have three saints and one angel, all of whom are in East Byron, and I am in charge of all matters in Birkeland.”
This isn’t right, according to the information provided by Leonard, the Spirit Order’s personnel in Beckland were divided into multiple groups that were unknown to each other, and only contacted the designated personnel in the southern continent, and there wasn’t an overall person in charge at all……. Klein’s first thought was that Patrick Bryan was lying, but immediately ruled out the idea because these were to the oracles The favorites in the middle were things that were very easy to verify.
He thought for a moment and turned to ask:
”What is the name of that angel? Where is it currently? Has it been given an oracle?”
Patrick Blaine said frankly:
”God has told me not to inform anyone else, nor to ask anyone else about it.
”Our leader is called Hector, which is both a surname and a first name, k used to be the high priest of the church, and later received God’s gift and became an angel, k has always been dedicated to awakening the sleeping God, and was severely eroded in a certain ceremony, and is currently unable to leave his own mausoleum or else he would simply go out of control, k is considered to be my teacher.”
This demigod that existed during the time of the Byron Empire is clearly the soul figure leading the Artificial Death program ah …… Klein thoughtfully asked again:
”k and the other two demigods are Byronians, pure-blooded?”
”Yes.” Patrick Blaine nodded.
I probably understand what’s going on …… Klein couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
He thought that Patrick Blaine was not a normal demigod and was a byproduct of the Artificial Death program!
In the beginning, Hector and the other members of the Spirit Order’s Artificial God of Death faction were not trying to save a Ruin at all, but were planning to use him as a sacrifice or material for a certain ritual, and as a result, their attempts, which could not be said to be certain, resulted in accidents, and the “uniqueness” of the “God of Death” had its initial instincts, or appeared. As a result, their attempt, which was not a sure thing in itself, produced an accident, and the “uniqueness” of the “Reaper” had a primitive instinct, or some other change, which led to Patrick Blaine surviving and establishing a certain connection with the so-called man-made Reaper, and tainting his spirit and his body with a special flavor.
Witnessing these circumstances, Hightower and other senior officers began to regard Patrick Blaine as one of the keys to the success of the Artificial God of Death’s plan, giving him magical potions, teaching him knowledge, instilling in him the belief in the God of Death, and weaving the perfect justification for their own behavior, and Blaine, because of the specialness of his own state, soared step by step and became a demi-god and half-human existence.
Of course, no matter how critical, but also experimental material, Patrick Blaine was never really treated as a member of the Spirit Order Artificial Death Faction, and later was even sent to the Kingdom of Ruen, Beckland, leading two or three groups of members, in cooperation with a variety of rituals, in an attempt to further make the “uniqueness” of the activation.
Such speculation is in line with everything Klein has learned so far: first, Leonard mentioned that the Spirit Order Artificial Reaper Sect had placed their experiments in Bekrand, with the intention of destroying the enemy’s capital city if anything really goes wrong; second, many of the groups have a single line of communication with the southern continent, and there is no overall leader in Bekrand; and third, there is a huge deviation between the situation of Artificial Reapers grasped by Patrick Brayne and the real one.
In other words, those guys in the Southern Continent didn’t care about Blaine’s death or telling him the truth, a situation that couldn’t find a better explanation other than him being a byproduct of the Artificial Reaper program.
Well, it seems that the goddess’ current degree of mastery of “uniqueness” is still limited, and she can only issue an oracle to such a fanatic who has a direct connection with the Artificial God of Death, and is not able to influence the angels and saints such as Hector …… Klein collected his thoughts and opened his mouth to ask:
”How many Sequences do you currently have?”
Patrick Blaine did not hide it:
”I am the ‘Undead’.”