Part 6 The Light Shifters Chapter 8 The Awakening
Silently staring at the goat-white rabbits for more than ten seconds, Klein closed his eyes and let his right index and middle fingers flick each of them, as if pressing invisible keys.
Almost a third of the secret puppets collapsed violently, losing the feeling of being alive.
Klein’s expression suddenly appeared distorted, as if he had been slashed thirty-three times in a row with a giant sword.
The familiar and extreme pain ravaged his spiritual body, causing a not-so-obvious light-colored bud of flesh to protrude from his body surface, each of which seemed to be brewing a transparent worm.
This was the backlash from killing thirty-three “Spirit Worms” at once.
It took nearly a quarter of an hour before Klein began his second attempt to kill another third of the secret puppets.
The same pain, the same rest, and the same maneuvers were repeated again and again, and Klein finally finished off this group of cursed secret puppets completely.
He couldn’t do it all at once, because the damage caused by a hundred “Spirit Worms” dying at the same time was enough to make him lose control, and being cursed meant that he couldn’t solve the problem directly through the recycling feature.
Of course, this was the level of a newly promoted Ancient Scholar, not the performance of an Ancient Scholar who had almost finished digesting magic potions.
In fact, even if he lost a hundred Spirit Worms at a time, Kraven’s pain would only increase, but he would not show signs of losing control, and would not affect the battle; he was just playing the role of a character, so that his performance would fit the appropriate position.
–At his level, losing more than half of the “Spirit Worms” at the same time would make it possible for him to lose control.
When he had completely digested the “Ancient Scholar” magic potion, he would be able to recover from the death of nearly 500 “Spirit Worms” at one time, and even if he lost all of the corresponding extraordinary characteristics and didn’t return to them, he wouldn’t lose his position or level, and he would be able to absorb the “Soothsayers” and “Diviners” through his absorption. He could recover his strength a little bit by absorbing the extraordinary characteristics of the “Diviner” pathway.
After completing this matter, Klein, who had eased up, walked out of the half-collapsed tower-topped building, and went to the darkness outside to bring back a few white rabbits and a goat.
He now realized that the darkness of the Godforsaken Land was not as dangerous as the little “sun” described, and most of the monsters were so weak.
No, to be precise, the danger hidden in the depths of the darkness, except for the point of making people evaporate into thin air, other than this guy called Amon next to me …… Klein swept a glance at the skinny man sitting near the leather lantern, smiling at his own busy glance, and summoned the boiling water and other things from the historical aperture, squatted down, and seriously dealt with the skin of the white rabbit and goat. up the fur, blood and flesh of the white rabbit and goat.
After some busy work, Klein built a campfire and set up a grill originating from history, placing a white rabbit on it, brushing it with things such as basil, cumin, and refined salt from the seasoning set, and constantly turning it over.
At this point, the historical food he had eaten earlier had long since disappeared for lack of maintenance, and his body and soul were sending out a call of eagerness to replenish it.
A tantalizing aroma gradually came out, and Amon slightly twitched his nose and said:
”You really want to eat?”
Without waiting for Klein to answer, the “God of Mischief” added to himself:
”Their essence is the flesh and blood of monsters and your ‘Spirit Worms’, are you sure you want to eat them?”
”The curse of metamorphosis on the angelic level can’t be lifted without a confrontation of the same order or the right way to do it, and since something looks like a rabbit, smells like a rabbit, and tastes like a rabbit, it’s a rabbit.” Klein smiled to himself as he earnestly cooked the roasted rabbit, “Besides, how can I escape from you without staying in the best condition? For this slim hope, I can only challenge my mental endurance.”
This is called enduring humiliation! Klein silently added in his heart.
At the same time, he sighed at the “Ancient Evil Thing” transformation curse.
It was many times stronger than the similar curse of Sequence 3 “Silent Disciple”!
The time it lasts is virtually unlimited……. Obviously, when ordinary animals become my secret puppets, they can use all of my extraordinary abilities through the “Spirit Worm”, but secret puppets that have encountered the Metamorphosis Curse are not allowed to… …This is the curse of the angelic realm……… In addition to fighting at the same level, you can also try to lift it the right way, no curse is absolutely unsolvable, there are loopholes… …… Oh, kiss this rabbit and it will transform back into a… Germaine Sparrow? Klein adjusted his mental state half self-deprecatingly, half analytically.
After hearing his answer, Amon, who wore a monocle, smiled and nodded his head:
”Very well.
”That is indeed the realization that should come.”
Klein didn’t respond and continued his grilling business.
Before long, with the help of his “Flame Manipulation” ability, he had roasted a rabbit and a leg of lamb, and while the spices had not yet disappeared, he ate the sweet iced tea that he had summoned from the orifice of history, and ate it with a full mouthful of flavor and physical and mental relief, which effectively relieved him of the depression, despair, and despair of having been “kidnapped” by Amon. ” depressing, desperate and wandering.
During this process, Klein occasionally thought about the disgusting appearance of those monsters and the fact that the “Spirit Worm” was equal to himself, but he managed to control his feelings very well.
After filling his stomach and regaining his energy, Klein turned the remaining ingredients by the fire into dry food, and put on an appearance of saving up for the rest of the trip.
Watching him slowly but methodically making various preparations, Amon suddenly pushed down his monocle and asked with the corner of his mouth slightly curled:
”In fact, you’re stalling for time, trying to lengthen the trip to reach your real destination, right?”
The movements of Klein’s hands stalled slightly and returned to normal, and he laughed:
”Yeah, I’m waiting for help.
”Guess who it’ll be?”
Amon didn’t answer positively and chuckled:
”I’m looking forward to it.”
…… Klein continued his busy schedule until he had prepared enough dry food for three or four meals.
He thought for a moment, and in front of Amon, he probed his hand into the void once more, failing and trying again and again, trying to conjure up something at some point, which seemed to say in a gesture whether you have the guts to steal it or not.
Amon watched for a few seconds, smiled and shook his head as he slowly stood up and walked outside the half-collapsed tower-topped structure.
Klein’s right hand stopped in mid-air and whirled back, pinching his forehead.
He whispered to himself in a voice full of confusion:
”What was I trying to do just now ……”
In the midst of his recollection, Klein followed and stood up, taking his packaged dry food with him, carrying his leather lantern, and walking behind Amon’s flank.
One man and an angel skirted the hills and entered a river valley.
Here the water flowed with a crash, but when the dim glow of the lantern shone through, when lightning from high above lit up the area, Klein realized that there was no water in the riverbed at all, and the sounds he had heard a moment ago had disappeared.
”A river that’s been turned into obscurity?” After a moment of deliberation, Klein had no qualms about questioning Amon.
”Yes, it only appears in the lightless darkness.” Amon replied with a slight nod, not really caring.
”Is it drinkable?” Klein followed up with a question.
Amon smiled and said:
”Yes, it was once one of the sources of water for a city-state that held out in the darkness for sixteen hundred years, and as long as the water can be carried away from the riverbed, they can appear where there is light.
”Your next step is to propose that I go and wait beside it with a lantern, and hydrate myself in the lightless darkness?
”And then, taking that opportunity, transform into stealth?”
Klein laughed slightly awkwardly:
”How could I possibly use such a simple and easy to think of solution?”
Amon let out a laugh at his words and stroked his monocle, saying:
”There are times when the simplest plan is the most effective instead, you can give it a try.”
Regarding the words of the top fraudster, Klein could neither believe nor dare to disbelieve them, fearing that the other party was just saying the opposite of what he was saying.
He could only put the matter of the water aside and asked instead:
”In the Godforsaken Land, how many human settlements like Silver City that haven’t been destroyed yet?”
Amon eyed the front and said with an unchanged expression:
”I know of no more than ten.
”In this regard, Silver City is fortunate to at least see and have the ability to reach the dawn.”
This meant that Silver City was close enough to the gate of the “Giant’s Court”, the God’s Abandoned Land, that it didn’t need to die nine deaths to reach it, whereas the other city-states, no matter how much they stood firm in the darkness and sent out their exploration teams, were only making a futile struggle, and couldn’t possibly find a way out? Indeed, in this sense, Silver is unfortunate and fortunate …… It purely depends on which side it is compared to …… Klein, carrying a leather lantern, began to conceptualize a second escape operation as he walked along the riverbank.
Amon walked beside him, occasionally providing him with some seemingly reliable, but the actual effect is unknown, acting like a schizophrenic, trying to destroy the body to get the “source of the fortress” hope.
……
”In the other direction of the Giant’s Court, in the city of Silver.
Derek Burger accepted the Chief’s call, took the Cross of No Darkness, went to the top of the round tower, and entered a spacious room.
Here, a mysterious and complicated altar had been set up, and different items were placed in different locations. There were six items in total, and all of them exuded a dangerous aura.
Derek scanned the room at a glance and saw the usual silver flute, a mask made of skulls, and the remains of a shapeshifter.
”You have the ‘Cross of No Darkness’, which allows you to stay here for a quarter of an hour, but no more, or you will die suddenly.” Colin Iliad, dressed in a linen shirt and a brown coat, admonished Derek.
Derek, touched with inspiration, opened his mouth to ask:
”Your Chief Excellency, is this because of that ‘Dusk Mask’?”
His right hand pointed synchronously at the mask made of skulls.
”Right.” Colin nodded softly, “I have prepared the remains of six powerful creatures, which I have hunted alone or as a main force.”
Derek was instantly enlightened:
”You are still short of the blessings of the gods?”
Colin became silent for a moment, opening his mouth after a dozen seconds or so, and said slowly:
”Yes.”
After a period of hesitation and struggle, he finally chose the Fool.
At least those mushrooms really brought hope to Silver City.
Derek held back his euphoria, thought back to the exchange at the tarot meeting, and asked the question with a slightly puzzled feeling:
”Why don’t you let those two divine seals give their blessing?”
He remembered that the subordinate gods, or angels, could fulfill the needs of the ceremony, and it wasn’t necessary to have a true god of Sequence 0 in order to provide a blessing, after all, the “Silver Knight” was only Sequence 3.
Colin was silent once again, and after a few seconds of hesitation said:
”They do not give blessings.”