Part 6 The Light Bearers Chapter 5 Walking in the Darkness
Beckland, East District.
Voorhees, who had just returned from the Ice World not long ago, wrapped in thick clothing, looked at the stove burning charcoal in front of him, as if he was plunged into that harsh environment again, and couldn’t help but shiver a few times as he said:
”George III is dead, and what happened before will surely come to an end, perhaps we can move away from here, to the North End, to the Hilston District.
”The houses there have fireplaces!”
Hugh responded with a slightly perplexed expression as he sat in a chair across the room, similarly staring at the warmth radiating from the stove:
”Wait another week or two.
”Frankly, I still can’t believe that George III just blew up …… before I had a chance to do anything.”
The bounty hunter, who had become “The Judge”, sounded visibly lost, confused and bewildered, as if he had lost his motivation for life.
Voorhees briefly forgot about the damage the cold had done, and mused in relief:
”I think, this thing is either Gelman Sparrow did, or those who used Sherman before, only they are still investigating George III’s secret plot, you, but also for George III’s death to make a certain contribution, is equivalent to indirectly complete the revenge.
”Er …… the monitoring and suppression against your family should not be there anymore, you can try to start a new life, if there is a chance, maybe you can even appeal for your father through the formal channels.”
Hearing that latter part of the sentence, Hugh lifted his head for a moment:
”Yes, the situation is getting more and more confused, and I am afraid they will be affected by the war.
”What do you say, Voorhees, is it safer in Birkeland, or in an ordinary small town not near the border?”
Folth thought hard for a few seconds and shook his head frankly:
”I don’t know.”
She then added:
”I’m going to ask Mr. ‘World’; he must have a more precise grasp of the overall situation, do you remember? He warned us in advance that there would be a situation around George III, so try to stay away.”
In addition, Voorhees also wanted to ask where the next stop of the “trip” was, so that he could make some preparations in advance.
”Uh-huh!” Hugh intuitively nodded his head.
Forsyth turned over the newspaper in his lap and drank the rest of his coffee before slowly getting up, entering the room inside, and whispering a prayer to Mr. Fool, asking him to pass on his question to Germaine Sparrow, “The World”.
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Near the “Court of the Giants” in the Forsaken Land.
Kraven, who was no longer deeply “parasitized”, followed Amon along the foothills of the mountain and circled around to the front of the mythical land in the frozen twilight.
Although Amon gave him the opportunity to escape by all means, he did not rush to do so, because he knew very well that Amon now has at least Sequence 2 status and strength, is the true meaning of the angel, not his own head to fight against, and, the “Stealer” known as errors, loopholes, bugs, the ability to be strange and bizarre, so that people can not be defended. The “Stealers” are called Errors, Loopholes, Bugs, and have strange and weird abilities that are hard to defend against, so Klein thought that his normal self-rescue methods were basically impossible.
Can only maintain patience, waiting for the opportunity to exploit …… this process, constantly do some attempts, as a way to observe Amon’s response …… Well, but also have to pay attention to a problem, can not be too much trust in Amon’s words, k in the recovered k has recovered the ‘worm of time’, lifted my “parasitic” state on this point, may not be lying, but this may not be all the truth, do not rule out k also left a “worm of time” lurking in my body, the critical moment to take over the body of the possibility of I don’t know if it’s possible that K still has a “Worm of Time” lurking in my body, which could take over my body at a critical moment. …… While Klein’s thoughts were fluctuating, he was about to chat with Amon and ask about the “Dark Angel” Sasriel, when he saw that not far from him, dusk was fading and darkness enveloped the city. The darkness was over, and lightning flashed in the sky from time to time.
They had reached the border of the Court of the Giants and were about to leave this mythical land.
Once in the darkness of this place, either evaporate into thin air, or encounter a sudden emergence of terrible monsters attacked …… Klein’s heart, pretending to know nothing, just like that to continue to move forward, from the reddish-orange twilight to the deep darkness.
It was at this time that Amon, dressed in black classical robes, a pointed fedora, and a clip-on monocle, reached forward and pulled back a lantern covered in thin animal skin.
Inside the lantern, a candle made of some kind of tallow gave off a dim glow and a slightly pungent odor.
”Carry it.” Amon threw this lantern to Klein.
…… Klein caught the lantern and was silent for a while.
After a few seconds, he asked tentatively:
”Where did you get this from?”
In that moment just now, Klein thought that Amon could summon projections from the historical orifices.
Amon pinched the crystal-carved monocle and smiled:
”Stole it from that human camp out front, oh, that’s the afternoon town camp in Silver City.”
Stolen …… Klein s eyelids jumped slightly, did not ask more questions, carrying that lantern into the darkness that could not see the end.
That dim yellow light was like an invisible defense barrier, flying and spreading out, creating a place of warmth in the pitch black depths of the night.
At this time, the lightning in the sky had a stroke without a stroke, the interval was quite long, and the thunder was almost nonexistent, with only an occasional sound.
According to the common sense that Klein had learned from the little “sun”, this was the most dangerous time of the night in the Godforsaken Land.
As he walked forward step by step, Klein first utilized his qualitatively changed “Faceless Man” ability, together with “Creeping Hunger”, to adjust the structure of his eyes to adapt to this special environment, and then, with the help of inspiration, he examined his surroundings.
He felt that the lightless darkness hid a single eye watching him, hiding a creature whose form was hard to describe, but whenever the lightning lit up and illuminated those places, there was nothing.
–Crane did not worry about the serious repercussions of using the “creeping hunger” all the time and not being able to feed under the present circumstances; in his opinion, there were only two results, either the “creeping hunger” tried to devour itself, or the “creeping hunger” tried to eat itself. In his opinion, there are only two outcomes, one is that the “writhing hunger” tries to swallow itself, but the idea is stolen by Amon, and the second is that the “writhing hunger” succeeds in swallowing the wearer, and he himself is reborn through this, and gets rid of his current predicament, and the latter is what Klein is looking forward to, and the former, apart from the “writhing hunger”, will be more confused, and will not be able to feed. The latter is what Klein expects, while the former has nothing to lose except for the “creeping hunger”, which will be more confusing.
After moving forward like this for a while, Klein saw the Silver City Afternoon Town Camp that was built using abandoned buildings.
Behind that ledge surrounded by a block of boulders and a stone pillar, campfires burned quietly, illuminating most of the places inside, making them very different from the outside world.
Three by three, the members of the Silver City Exploration Squad were illuminated by this light, either patrolling or watching over the area to prevent accidents.
Among them, a “Knight of Dawn” with a height of nearly two meters and three meters was standing on top of a ledge, looking into the distance and guarding against monsters hidden in the darkness.
Suddenly, he saw the depths of the darkness, a little yellowish light from the distance.
The …… knight of the dawn’s pupils suddenly dilated, his heartbeat accelerated violently.
In addition to the newborn and not yet educated children, Silver City, everyone knows, in this God-forsaken land, in addition to humans, no one will use the flame in the darkness, to create light, even good at manipulating the flame of the monsters, before launching an attack, but also lurk in the lightless environment, as for other humans, Silver City so far found all the city-state has long been destroyed, become a relic, no survivors, they have seen the only outsiders, they have not seen a lot of people, and they have not seen a lot of people. The only outsider they had seen was the strange child Jack.
And at that moment, a fire appeared in the depths of the darkness, a fire that kept moving!
What it meant, the Knights of Dawn standing on the ledge could not think for a moment, but felt their bodies trembling slightly.
The yellowish firelight slowly moved from far to near, passing in front of the camp, and heading out of the town in the afternoon. Vaguely, the Knight of the Dawn saw two figures belonging to human beings, walking in the depths of the darkness, illuminated in an unusually blurred manner by the light.
They were carrying something that looked like lanterns, and step by step they moved away from the camp and disappeared into the endless darkness.
The Knights of Dawn on top of the ledge had held their breath at some point until the dim light of the fire had completely disappeared.
Was there another human? No, not necessarily human! The Knight of the Dawn’s eyes narrowed and he carefully turned his body, ready to inform the elders of the Council of Six who presided over the camp.
At that moment, he realized that one of the lanterns hanging on one of the stone pillars was missing at some point.
The Knight of the Dawn’s body stiffened, and a cold sweat broke out on his forehead and back.
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Step by step away from the town in the afternoon, Klein endured the gaze of a pair of eyes in the depths of the darkness, and quietly used the ability of the “Ancient Scholar”, and his own connection with the “Source Castle”, to sense that piece of history intertwined with the gray mist.
He succeeded.
This proved that the “Abandoned Land” was not separated from the “Source Castle”.
”The sanctuary of the Real Creator, or even the Kingdom of God, is on this land…….If I invoke the Fortress of Origin and create an anomaly, will it cause k to watch and clash with Amon? ……k is a true god, I don’t expect to be able to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but I can seize the opportunity to kill myself when k is dealing with Amon. ……Klein’s thoughts were about to make the “Source Castle” tremble gently.
In the next second, his thoughts disappeared.
Amon, who was walking next to him, said with a slight curl of his mouth:
”‘Inverted Hanging Man’ has little interest in the ‘Source Fortress’, of course, K’s sanity may not be in his brain at all times.”
”‘Inverted Hanged Man’ means Sequence 0 of the ‘Shepherd’ pathway?” said Klein, who himself didn’t have the luxury of actually succeeding in his impulse just now, but mainly wanted to test Amon’s reaction to see how k would response, there was little frustration at this point, and undisguised curiosity prompted the question.
Amon nodded slightly and said:
”Yes, it symbolizes fallen selfhood, of course, if you want to interpret it in a positive sense, it’s about sacrifice and commitment.”
Klein thought for a moment and tried:
”I thought that was a nickname you picked up.”
Like Medici.
–As far as Klein knew, the birth of the “True Creator” due to the “Redemption Rose” was probably related to the fall of the ancient Sun God, so he wondered what kind of attitude Amon had towards this evil god, and whether it was related to the K-word. Therefore, he wanted to know what kind of attitude Amon had towards this evil god, and whether it was the same as K’s brother.
Amon stroked his monocle and laughed:
”I’ve always had respect for the gods.”
”渎神者 “说这句话真是违和啊…… Klein had no choice but to discontinue this topic.