Volume 7: The Hanged Man Chapter 15: The Brand of Death
Dazedly wandering in the “River of Eternal Darkness”, the “God of Death” Salinger looked towards Kraven, who was wrapped in a gray “cocoon”.
Inside the eyes of those pale flames that were about to be extinguished, the bird-shaped gold jewelry that was attached to Kraven’s chest was instantly reflected.
In the next second, a low roar came out of k’s rotting mouth, echoing in the sky above the river, causing the entire city of Calderon to visibly shake.
The tributary that rolled up and down, sometimes deep and dark, sometimes pale, rose high with it, surging wildly toward the end of the stone staircase, toward Krynn.
In the process, the illusory tide combined more with the grayish mist, taking on a similar color.
Wave after wave of the gray flood beat up Kraven’s body, but could not destroy the “cocoon” around him.
The rotting body of “Death” Salinger took one step after another to the edge of the tributary, but could not get out of it, and could only stand there, hissing madly.
Kraven’s gaze went beyond K to the uncountable blur of figures that hovered on either side of the tributary.
Some of them had been swept by the high tide into the center of the tributary, sinking uncontrollably to the bottom of the river and melting frostily.
The remaining ones, without a trace of fear, remained in a state of wooden bewilderment, walking back and forth in a never-ending stream.
At a glance, Klein saw many familiar figures.
They all belonged to the same person, Aztec Aegis, who had a bronze complexion and soft features.
This “Death Consul” seemed to split into multiple selves, wandering in a daze between the pale stone pillars on both sides of the “River of Eternal Darkness”.
At the same time that …… Klein’s heart stirred, his right leg was suddenly cold.
He subconsciously looked down and saw a pale palm.
That palm penetrated the gray “cocoon”, grasped on his calf.
The owner of this palm was floating within the incoming torrent, like a water ghost, trying to pull Klein into the deep water.
Its attack could ignore the aura of the “Source Castle”!
Noticing Klein’s gaze, the owner of the pale palm lifted his head and revealed his face.
He had black hair and brown pupils, with ordinary features and a slightly scholarly appearance.
Klein Moretti!
This “water ghost” was Klein Moretti!
The next moment, Klein’s left leg, right shoulder, and left arm were also grabbed by different pale palms.
This made his body cold, his spiritual body as if frozen, all of his extraordinary abilities could not be used, even struggling was difficult.
Those three pale palms belonged to different blurry figures, and those different blurry figures had the same face.
Klein Moretti’s face!
Dragged by these four “water ghosts”, Klein’s body gradually broke away from the gray “cocoon” and sank into the torrent.
His body became colder and colder, his thoughts gradually fell silent, and his vision became darker and darker, eventually leaving only swaying, lightless waves.
Above the gray mist, inside the ancient palace, Klein’s consciousness returned to his body.
Then, without hesitation, he reached out his palm, invoked the power of the “Source Castle”, and through the connection between himself and the historical projection, stole an item from the latter.
With a flash of gold, Klein grasped the bird-shaped gold jewelry.
At the same time, he lifted the maintenance on the historical pore image.
The figure that “drowned” in the eternal darkness flood then disappeared.
”Being able to ignore the aura of the ‘Source Fortress’ means that those four figures were really me …… But how did I get trapped within the tributaries of the ‘River of Eternal Darkness’ and never-ending wandering? Four figures, four figures …… “Klein tapped up the edge of the long mottled table with a stoic expression, getting inspired at the sound of duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk duk.
The fact that “four” corresponded to “spirits” and “death” was that he had died and been resurrected four times.
Of course, the four resurrections were reset after becoming a “Secret Servant”.
”Every time you die, regardless of whether you are successfully resurrected or not, you will leave a mark within the ‘River of Eternal Darkness’? I died four times, so there are four figures hovering on both sides of the ‘River of Eternal Darkness’?” Klein roughly grasped the key, and then sighed in his heart, “‘The River of Eternal Darkness’ is worthy of being a source quality, worthy of being a symbol of things such as death, eternal sleep, the end, the end, and the deep darkness……. This is what the goddess said. There is an unusual danger in my case? Well, when the historical projection was ‘drowned’ just now, I had suffered a certain amount of mental level damage, and if my mental state was unstable, I would most likely be out of it by now.”
Based on this inference, Klein had a completely new perception of the many Aztec figures and the wandering “death god” Salinger:
The k’s were all branded with death accordingly.
”Mr. Aztec did die many times during his ‘undead’ stage and later in his journey to trace his memories, only to come back to life each time. In accordance with the current situation, although the ‘undead’ are immortal, they also have great hidden dangers, and when the number of deaths is high, perhaps one day the main body will be attracted within the ‘River of Eternal Darkness’, and become one of the figures wandering around eternally …… Salinger’s figure is only one …… This indicates that after accommodating uniqueness, one’s own brand of death will also be unique.” As Klein’s thoughts raced, he was somewhat worried about Mr. Aztec’s survival afterward.
In order to solve the hidden danger in this regard, there are two ways, one is to complement Azk’s soul, so that k no longer repeat the previous, and the second is to help the “Goddess of the Night” to become the old days, to control this “River of Eternal Darkness”.
”Oh, maybe it’s another two-in-one choice: with the Goddess becoming the Old Day, there’s no need to utilize that half of Mr. Aztec’s soul.” Klein collected his thoughts and returned his attention to the purpose of this time.
He had entered the depths of Calderon not to resolve the death brand of Salinger, the God of Death, so that there was no hope of resurrection, but to take some of the waters of the River of Eternal Darkness.
”Obviously, the illusory tide that spreads out of the river will not work, it’s just a diffused breath, not the river itself. Also, the river water fused with the gray mist won’t work either, it’s not pure enough and shouldn’t have the desired effect. So it seems that the only way to take the river water is to take advantage of the tributaries turning back to a deep dark state, heck, the main trunk can’t even get in, and that grayish mist must be a sturdy barrier again.” Based on his analysis, Klein quickly drew up a plan.
That was not to approach the “River of Eternal Darkness” first, not to attract the attention of the “God of Death” Salinger, wait until the tributaries fell back and became deep and dark, and then go directly over there, and let his four death marks drag the historical projection to the bottom of the river.
In this process, the historical projection seized the opportunity to use the bird-shaped gold jewelry to take some of the river water, and then, the consciousness shifted back to the “source of the fortress”, relying on the “theft” ability and the close connection between the two, to take away the bird-shaped gold jewelry.
After refining the steps, Klein went back to Calderon, the city of the spirit world, and summoned his historical hole image again.
Repeating the previous process, he quickly returned to the stone monument topped with the bronze bird statue, and walked down the gray stone stairs, step by step.
The aura of the “Source Castle” around him gradually thickened and turned into a thin “cocoon”.
It didn’t take long for Kraven to reach the end of the ladder, and he saw the “River of Eternal Darkness” flowing in the void, the pale pillars on both sides of it, and countless blurred figures hovering at the edge of the tributaries.
This time, he didn’t rush forward, broke away from the ladder, and waited patiently until the water of the tributary fell back, faded away from gray, and became deep darkness.
It was now! Klein’s figure flickered, stealing away the distance, and appeared in a corner where “Death” Salinger could not see.
No surprise, as his body dipped into the water of the “River of Eternal Darkness”, a pale palm immediately penetrated the breath of the “Source Castle” and grabbed his legs and arms.
His four death brands appeared around him, dragging him to the bottom of the river!
The deep, dark water flooded Klein’s head, leaving his body cold and his thoughts silent.
Before he lost consciousness completely, one transparent and twisted worm after another emerged from his neck, and they quickly crawled to the bird-shaped gold jewelry, clustered around it, and lifted it up, ready to draw the water of the “River of Eternal Darkness”.
At that moment, a huge shadow appeared in the illusory river in front of Klein’s eyes.
It was a huge bird that was completely submerged by the tributaries of the “River of Eternal Darkness” and was suspended in the water.
This giant bird’s body surface was covered with feathers made of pale flames and mysterious patterns, but it had already been dissolved by the “River of Eternal Darkness”, exposing part of its dark, rotting skin with yellowish pus.
The eyes of the giant bird seemed to be cast in bronze, which hid layers and layers of illusory doors.
The Immortal Bird Patriarch, Grey Carrie!
The ancient god of death who opened up the underworld!
Bronze light erupted from Grejali’s eyes, enveloping that bird-shaped gold ornament and Klein’s historical projection at once, to drag them over together.
After weighing his current situation, Klein made an instantaneous decision and gave up his attempt to draw on the river’s water.
His consciousness immediately returned to the “Source Castle” and stole back the bird-shaped gold jewelry.
His historical projection then dissipated.
The water is also dangerous ah …… immortal bird originator Grey Carrie this ancient god has completely sunk into the “river of eternal darkness” …… if the goddess truly accommodated the ” If the goddess truly accommodates the uniqueness of the “God of Death” pathway, if Salinger can’t take the opportunity to resurrect in k, he should also sink into the water just like Grey Carrie, and Grey Carrie’s brand of death will further dissolve as a result……. Klein silently lamented for a few moments, and modified his plan of action accordingly.
Immediately afterward, he summoned the Historical Hole Image as he had done before, and returned to the end of the ladder.
After waiting for a while, waiting for “Death” Salinger to turn his body, heavy and slow toward the river, Klein suddenly stole the distance and appeared in front of the other party’s eyes.
In the next second, Salinger let out a low roar, causing the waters of the tributary to rise rapidly.
At the same time, Klein was grabbed by his own death brands and yanked hard toward the bottom of the river, sensing the Immortal Beginner, Grey Carrie.
As before, a glow erupted from within Greycarrie’s bronze eyes.
However, this light enveloped not Klein and the bird-shaped gold jewelry, but the “God of Death” Salinger.
”Graft”!
Seizing this brief opportunity, the “Spirit Worms” that crawled out of Klein’s historical projection lifted up the bird-shaped golden jewelry.
The bronze eyes of the jewelry also glowed, drawing a small amount of river water.
In the next instant, Klein’s consciousness returned to the “Source Castle” and lifted his hand to retrieve the jewelry.
Whew, it’s finally done …… Looking at the bird-shaped gold jewelry in his palm, he slowly exhaled.
For the master of the “Source Castle”, this task is really not very difficult, as long as you don’t recklessly enter with your own body, you can rely on failures time and again to accumulate experience and figure out the situation.
If it wasn’t for the fact that there were two Reapers in the tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness, one hovering and the other sinking, Klein wouldn’t have failed twice.