Part 6 The Light-Exporter Chapter 17 When the Stars Returned to Their Place
”Chernobyl!”
Upon hearing Amon’s words, Klein’s first reaction was dismay.
He had anticipated many unfoldings as he approached the green and black Cyclops, but how could he not have expected to hear such a name?
It was like a water-cooled machine gun appearing in an ancient oil painting, a novel bridge appearing in a scientific research paper, full of incongruity and unbelievable.
In the next second, Klein associated it with the antics of the ancient sun god who created the dark angel Sasriel out of his own ribcage but named his firstborn son Adam, and instinctively thought that what was happening at this moment was a similar situation, which made him want to laugh.
Realizing that Amon, the King of Angels, who was so powerful that he was almost a “bug” and always had a nasty grin on his face, was saying such a name with a relatively serious and dignified demeanor, Klein’s urge to laugh became more and more difficult to curb, and he didn’t want to curb it either.
Better laugh so hard that Amon gets annoyed and just gets me killed …… Amon would turn out to be the way he is today, and the education of the Ancient Sun God is definitely responsible for a large part of it! The corners of Klein’s mouth grinned, ready to vent his inner laughter without mercy.
At that moment, another silver-white lightning bolt pierced the sky, illuminating the deep gully and allowing Klein to once again see the thick gray and white continuous buildings at the bottom.
It was a very different style of building from the current, from the Fourth Era, the Third Era, and even the Second Era.
Plop!
Klein’s heart contracted sharply for a moment and expanded again, and his smile froze on his face just as it had a chance to bloom.
Poof! Plop!
Klein heard his own heartbeat, and common sense after common sense about the current world suddenly popped up inside his head:
”There are twelve months and three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, with leap years ……
”There are twenty-four hours in a day, sixty minutes in an hour and sixty seconds in a minute ……
”Confirmation is a planet ……
”There is and is only one sun and one moon in the sky ……”
Poof! Poof! Poof!
Klein’s instincts prevented him from thinking further, but a “voice” emerged from deep inside him:
Could it be that there has never been such a thing as “traveling”, and that I’ve actually been on Earth all along, but have just been suspended in that light door above the gray mist for too long, and really don’t belong to this age?
As this thought took shape, many details that hadn’t caught his attention erupted like a volcano in Klein’s mind:
”The easternmost part of the Sunia Sea, before entering the ruins of the Divine War, there are decayed and collapsed steel buildings around that ancient well in the deep sea, which seem to be left by humans ……
”The overall topography of the North and South continents is very much like North and South America, except that a large part of the two close together was erased directly by some force, forming a complex channel, zigzagging back and forth in the wild sea …… Also, the Sunia Island is like that large island in the north that the overall drift to the south to form the …… The inter-oceanic sea seems like an expanded, connected version of the Great Lakes, where it’s like it’s been hit by a giant meteorite ……
”Above the northern continent, the mountain ranges and rivers are much altered, but the overall shape is still barely recognizable ……
”In this way …… the western continent, the home of the elves, and the eastern continent, where the ‘godforsaken land’ is located, correspond to Chernobyl ……
”In the legend of the Treasure of the Seas, there is a lost civilization which is called Newins, sunk somewhere in the Sea of Mists ……
”The Giant King’s parents were human …… The source of the Bloods and Elves is also suspected to be human ……
”My two previous questions, why the ‘Source Fortress’ captured ‘travelers’ from Earth, and why all of those people belonged to the era I was in, can also be explained… …”
In a matter of two or three seconds, it was as if thunderclap after thunderclap exploded continuously in Klein’s mind, which caused his lips to quiver slightly, as if he was trying his best to contain a certain answer from taking shape.
”But the moon in this world is scarlet …… The stars are also a bit different from Earth …… I’m not a fan of astronomy and I can’t remember it too well, but the Great Emperor served the ‘ Generalist’ pathway magic potion, the starry sky really has to be exactly the same, he would have discovered it long ago …… “Opposing opinions then presented themselves in Klein’s mind, they were like solid anchors to keep the ship in the storm from being blown away from the harbor.
But the next second, Klein remembered two words.
One was a scary prophecy he had read on the Internet in his “last life”:
”When the stars return, chaos will rise from the earth, and the Great Beginning will awaken.”
Another line was:
”Beware the moon!”
This …… that prophecy is not made up? The stars returned to their place, and so there was a difference from before? Klein nearly ignored the Amon in front of him, even as his body trembled gently.
It took him a great deal of strength to let out a sigh in his heart:
Perhaps, I have never left my hometown, but I will never be able to go home ……
He had just produced such a cognition and realization when the grayish mist appeared before his eyes without a sound.
This time, he was standing directly in the “Forest of Decay”, which corresponded to the end of the First Era and the beginning of the Second Era.
Unlike in the past, the boundless gray fog in front of him was no longer empty, and in the depths of the fog, far, far away, one after another shattered spots of light were lit up.
They were like beacons, illuminating the path of history, pulling Klein forward, ever retracing his steps, through thousands and thousands of years and more.
Then he saw the brilliant door of light tinged with a slight greenish-black color, saw transparent cocoon after transparent cocoon suspended above the door of light, and saw himself in a T-shirt and slacks.
The invisible wind blew through, and the grayish mist beneath the light door turned over layer by layer, revealing a city.
Within them were erected tall skyscrapers, parked cars of all kinds, and solidified pedestrians coming and going.
These cities were pressed one on top of the other, covered in gray dust, many buildings had collapsed, stabbing out broken steel bars, cars were dented, some crumbled, and some were spread into a discus, and the pedestrians’ eyes were lifeless, as if they were wax statues. ……
At the sight, Klein stopped and stared deeply.
He was already incredibly clear:
This world is Earth!
His “Ancient Scholar” magic potion was completely digested at this moment.
Suddenly, Kraven’s consciousness returned to the real world, and he found that his connection with the “Source Castle” had been further strengthened.
In the buzzing sound, the resonance generated by the prayers of the members of the Tarot Club around him became stronger and stronger.
He had already been able to use them to vaguely sense the “Fortress of Origin” above the gray mist, and Klein, who had seen the seat of the Fool, seemed to have finally established some kind of connection with the crimson “figure” that was twisting and trying to take shape. “finally established some kind of connection.
Kraven instantly had a realization that at this moment, he did not need to recite incantations or take four steps in reverse, but with a single thought, his spiritual body could enter the “Source Castle” and merge with the “figure”.
This was undoubtedly the best chance for him to get out of the trap!
Not bothering to sigh at the fact that this world was the Earth, and with the thought that Amon would never expect such a change, Klein immediately turned his thoughts and “jumped” towards the “Source Castle”.
At that moment, Klein’s eyes reflected Amon wearing a peaked cap, monocle, and classical magician’s robes, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly with an inexhaustible pleasure.
Klein’s mind suddenly exploded, all thoughts occupied by the insane ravings from Amon:
”You’re right, I don’t want to steal your destiny and carry a heavy burden while becoming the new master of the ‘Source Castle’ ……”
”You are correct, this is a fraud that has been going on since the beginning ……”
”But the heart of this fraud was to make you think that I gave you hope all the way and then destroyed it in order to break your will and agree to become my favorites myself ……”
”If I hadn’t purposely changed my costume when I entered the ‘Godforsaken Land’, and if I hadn’t several times ‘accidentally’ demonstrated the ability to capitalize on ‘mistakes’ abilities, can you be so sure that my original body has arrived?”
”Wouldn’t a ‘God of Fraud’ understand that changing his image at that time would reveal a lot?”
”Do you think that I, who entered Chernobyl long ago, would not understand what the name stands for?
”My thousand years in the Godforsaken Lands was a search for the oldest part of that history, the one beyond the First Age.”
”The true purpose of this journey is to give you some time, to give you some knowledge of history, to help you finish digesting the ‘Ancient Scholar’ magic potion, so that you can relax your guard in this area, and then, after your connection with the ‘Fortress of the Source’ has further deepen and attempt to invoke the ‘Source Fortress’, seize this opportunity, utilize the loophole, and directly steal the ‘Source Fortress’.”
”Fate belongs to you, and the ‘Source Fortress’ belongs to me.”
……
This horrible murmur from the King of Angels not only contained Amon’s soft laughter, but also destroyed Klein’s spirit, no worse than Mr. Gate’s hissing.
The surface of Klein’s skin showed traces of “spirit worms”, and he was on the verge of losing control.
Inside his body, a twelve-link “Worm of Time” came out, and turned into a shadow of Amon wearing black magician’s robes, the same type of peaked fedora and crystal monocle.
The purpose of the shallow “parasitization” of Amon in Klein’s body was not to monitor his mind, nor to control the situation through deep “parasitization” at critical moments, but to seize the current opportunity!
The main purpose of Amon’s “deep level” parasitization at the very beginning was to “parasitize” a “worm of time” at a shallow level without a holy person noticing it!
This Amon’s shadow looked back at Klein, who had been distracted by his ravings and was unable to turn his thoughts, and revealed a smile identical to that of his own body:
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly with an unspoken pleasure.
K immediately turned around, through the invisible connection, “jumped” to the “source of the fortress” above the gray mist.
This is similar to the situation when k “parasitized” in Derek Burger’s body and tried to dive into the gray fog through the crimson star corresponding to the “sun”.
But this time, no one purified the Fortress of Source, closed the gate, and isolated Amon.
It was a wonderful show.
This is the “God of Fraud”.