Part 6 The Light-Exporter Chapter 70 – A Curtain.
”God, God has come to save us……”
The crying words echoed at the entrance of Moon City, causing the waiting residents to fall into a trance and be shocked.
……
At the edge of the solidified gray mist, beside a quietly burning fire.
Klein, who had eaten another round of mushrooms, eliminated the long iron black stick in his hand and looked up in the direction of the deep pit that Nim, the High Priest of Moon City, had described.
He then reached out with his right hand and with a gentle glean, dragged out himself from a quarter of an hour ago.
After glancing at each other, Klein’s main body disappeared sharply into the mists of history and raced wildly to the front of the First Age, where he sat atop the layered metropolis of the old days.
His historical pore image stood up, snapping his fingers in quick succession and flashing toward his destination in a stream of leaping crimson flame.
When the hill-turned-pit was close at hand, Klein paused, discreetly reached out his right palm again, and dragged the secret puppet of the past, Chunas Korg, out of the void.
The “fallen count” in the form of a hardened man’s face muscles wriggled as he quickly transformed into another Germaine Sparrow.
With one hand, he took out a lamp from the Mists of History, and with the other hand, he rubbed the corner of his forehead and grumbled:
”Why do secret puppets have to change their appearance, too?
”It’s not like anyone else is here ……
”Can’t develop OCD ……”
A few seconds later, the secret puppet projection carried a horse lamp that gave off a dim light and took a step towards the deep pit not far away.
Between the floating light, Klein got a good look at the target location and realized that it was actually not that deep, the gap between the bottom and the ground was no more than two meters, of course, if compared to the original hill, the change was indeed big enough.
Inside the “deep pit”, the soil was smooth, with a few stones, around which grew a lot of mutated and twisted plants of indistinguishable varieties, which didn’t look too different from the rest of the place.
After observing for a while, Klein, who had quietly opened his “spiritual vision” and “spiritual body line” vision, slowly entered the “deep pit”, ready to follow the planned route, circling every place worth re-examining. He was ready to follow the planned route and go around every place that deserved to be re-examined.
As he walked, his brow furrowed slightly and he let out an “eek”.
He realized that there was a certain lag in the rotation of his thoughts, yet it didn’t affect his thinking!
This was like the state of just waking up after too much sleep, where the head was stuffy and the mind was not active enough.
This was a situation that would occasionally occur in a person’s life, and the extraordinary people of other paths might not be able to notice it, but as a demigod of the “Diviner” path, Kraven could clearly sense the abnormality.
If we go further, it’s close to the reaction brought about by the “Secret Puppet Master’s” manipulation of the “Spirit Body Thread”……. The influence of Kotal, the ebony demon wolf, was left behind? No, if K left it behind unintentionally, it means that K was in his full mythological form at that time, then the investigation team in Moon City would have collapsed and lost control of their lives……. If he left it behind intentionally, what is the point of doing so? To tell others that k had been here? Klein walked around rather suspiciously and didn’t find anything else out of the ordinary.
Thinking about it, he hid in some historical hole before the first era of the main body, four steps against the trend, chanting incantations, into the gray fog.
He wanted to do a “divination”!
With the specific time and place, the description of the Moon City High Priest Nim and the field survey, and the help of the lighted historical fragments, Klein believed that the prerequisites for “divination” were basically in place.
This can’t be said to be enough, but it is barely enough for him to give it a try. Moreover, if the event of the hill turning into a “deep pit” is really related to the “Source Castle” and himself, the probability of success of “divination” will be greatly increased, and the revelation will be very great. The revelation will be very clear and undisturbed.
Without thinking, Kraven, who had already considered the details, sat down on the high-backed chair of the “Fool” and produced a dark red round-bellied fountain pen and yellowish parchment, and brushed the paper and wrote:
”June 28th, 1349 of the Fifth Age, a mutation occurred in this place.”
Putting down the water-absorbing fountain pen, Klein grabbed a pile of “deep pit” clay from the historical fog with his left hand, and used it as a medium for “divination”.
Holding the soil in one hand and the parchment in the other, he leaned back and recited the divination statement seven times, and then, with the help of meditation, he entered a deep sleep.
In the gray dream world, Klein saw the gray, solidified mist, the dozens of meters high hill, and the twisted and mutated plants around him.
A few seconds later, the fog suddenly had a clear writhing, quickly “spit” out a black shadow.
The black shadow seemed like a huge velvet curtain, frantically absorbing all the surrounding light.
With a translucent state, it grew larger and larger, completely enveloping the hill.
The hill then disappeared, disappearing with its roots, leaving behind only a “deep pit”.
The strange plants at the edge of the “pit”, which was also covered, suddenly added a thin black illusory “spirit body line”, which extended to different parts of the black “curtain”.
The “curtain” became more and more transparent, more and more illusory, and finally reached the point where it was invisible to the naked eye – if not for the “spiritual threads” indicating the actual situation, Klein would not have been able to discover it! The “curtain” covered the surface of the “pit” like that.
The screen flickered, the dream distorted, and a new scene appeared.
A five-member Moon City patrol approaches and realizes that the hill has disappeared and a “pit” has appeared.
They stopped in their tracks and turned away from the area without hesitation, not recklessly going forward to investigate.
I don’t know how long it took, but a huge figure suddenly appeared in the other direction.
It was a demonic wolf covered in dark short hair, with eight legs, and was four to five meters tall.
This demonic wolf had a handful of short gray hairs on its forehead, and its pure black pupils occupied at least three-quarters of the space of its eyes, which was none other than Kotal, the Ebony Demon Wolf that had not yet appeared in its full mythological creature form.
The Ebony Demon Wolf raised its head, opened its mouth, and seemed to hiss, but it brought no movement.
In the next second, there was a figure in front of K. It was another K.
This ebony demon wolf’s history of porosity image eight legs gently stomped, instantly arrived at the “deep pit” side.
After looking around, k carefully lowered his head and picked up the completely transparent “curtain” that made the entire hill disappear.
This “curtain” suddenly came to life, quickly contracted, rolled back up, wrapped around the ebony demon wolf, as if adding a half-black, half-transparent clothes for k.
The ebony demon wolf gently trembled, and seemed to have become a puppet of the “clothing” in two or three seconds.
But it was only an image in the hole of history, and in the next breath it was removed from the body and disappeared.
The “curtain” lost its support and instantly collapsed, spreading out on the ground.
Kotal, the ebony wolf, didn’t give up, sometimes transforming the surrounding monsters into secret puppets, sometimes summoning the historical projections, letting them come forward again and again, suffering all kinds of failures, but in the end, a new batch of K’s secret puppets were able to pick up and control the piece of “curtain”.
The whole process was silent, as if it were a pantomime.
Then, the huge demon wolf let the secret puppets take the “curtain” and approached itself.
At that moment, the grayish fog nearby once again wriggled, forming a vortex comparable to a hill.
The vortex emitted an invisible suction force, causing the strange “curtain” and the Ebony Demon Wolf Kotal to be thrown over at the same time!
Such a scene caused Klein’s dreamscape to have a substantial ripple, bursting into countless points of light, making it difficult for him to see the specific details clearly.
When everything was back to normal, Kotal, the Ebony Demon Wolf, clad in a transparent “curtain”, flew away from the re-consolidated fog.
At that moment, the Moon City investigation team arrived and saw the ancient figure of the god.
Kotal glanced at them and disappeared into the depths of darkness without stopping.
At this point, the image shattered, the dream ended, and Klein woke up.
He sat up straight and tapped his fingers up on the edge of the long, mottled table, muttering silently to himself:
”That piece of solidified gray and white mist was not without mutations before my arrival, only that the watchers of Moon City did not discover it, after all, this mist stretches for an unknown length of time ……
”What is that ‘curtain’ that the gray-white mist spits out? When it’s big, it can cover a hill and turn it into a ‘deep pit’ like magic, and when it’s small, it can become the ‘clothing’ of a demon wolf and transform k into a puppet …… It’s kind of like the ‘Diviner’ pathway high level items ah ……
”It was spat out because I went above the gray mist and finished binding with the ‘Source Fortress’?
”It seems to be able to turn the surrounding plants into its own secret puppets as well …… This gives me a familiar feeling ……
”By the way, within the misty town, the food made in the room is problematic, all have ‘spiritual body threads’ growing out of them, extending towards that church at the very core, once they are consumed, the entire person will instantly evaporate and disappear, well, it’s suspended inside the church and becomes a secret puppet ……
”That is to say, at the ‘Miracle Worker’, or ‘Secret Servant’ level, one can make plants, make things that once possessed a spirit grow ‘spirit threads ‘, thus turning them into secret puppets?
”…… Is that ‘curtain’ a ‘Miracle Worker’ or a ‘Secret Servant’ ‘s extraordinary properties?
”Looking at the behavior of the Umber Demon Wolf, it’s likely the latter ……
”Is this the reason why that ‘Sneaky Servant’ trait has been missing for a long time, with only clues and no one to find it?
”Before the ‘Source Castle’ had an ‘owner’, the grayish mist would unconsciously attract the vacant high-level traits of the three pathways and encompass them? What is this attempting to do?
”That suction is really strong, it scared Kotar, the ebony demon wolf, so much that he couldn’t care about staying, he just wanted to run away ……
”What is k suspecting and fearing?”
After a bit of analysis, Klein’s face gradually gained a bit more of an uplifted look.
If he could successfully hunt an angelic being like the Ebony Demon Wolf, it would be an unrivaled harvest!
Of course, the Ebony Demon Wolf after obtaining the “curtain” would definitely be more difficult to deal with than ever before, so Klein’s certainty in this matter had been lowered by quite a bit.
In the midst of his thoughts, Klein suddenly remembered something:
”From the point of time, when the Ebony Demon Wolf arrived at the Northern City State Ruins of Nos, it was obvious that it had already obtained that ‘curtain’ ……
”k Turning the entire city into secret puppets and creating a city of puppets was not for the purpose of settling down or accumulating helpers, it was to prepare for the ritual of the ‘Secret Servant’?”