Volume 7: The Hanged Man Chapter 2: The Miracle Worker
As soon as the bottle of “Miracle Worker” magic potion entered Klein’s stomach pouch, it immediately split into countless cold “worms” that swam to every part of his body.
Suddenly, Klein’s spirit was torn apart and turned into countless small pieces, combining with different “Spirit Worms”, and there was no longer any difference between who was the main body and who was the dominant one.
At some point, he entered the gray fog, half-high silk hat and long black trench coat under the body quickly disintegrated, crawling out one after another transparent twisted worms.
These worms quickly flew towards the depths of the historical fog, each occupying a different “fragment of light”, overlapping with its own image in the historical aperture.
In just two or three seconds, the place where Klein had just been was left with only his trench coat, shirt, bowler hat, socks, shoes, and intimate apparel that had lost all of their support and were in a semi-floating state.
”I ……”
”Who am I ……”
”Who am I ……”
”I am the subject ……”
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The “Spirit Worms” flashed through different but similar thoughts, none of them were willing to return to the “body” on their own initiative, instead, they became strongly hostile to other kind, only because of the residual spiritual influence of Klein, they didn’t make any over-radical behavior for the time being.
Just at this time, the gray mist appeared within the circle after circle of invisible ripples.
The ripples did not just happen to appear, it has long existed in the mist, just relative to the whole of Klein, it seems invisible, but in a “spirit worm”, it is obvious enough.
It came from a piece of history that had resurfaced in the current era, symbolizing the end of the Second Age and some of the fragments of light from the Third Age, and the two thousand years that the city of Silver had stood firm in the darkness.
This forgotten history collided with the current era in some way, creating ripple after ripple that is difficult to describe in concrete terms as it formed corresponding historical holes.
Such ripples seemed to have a strong attraction to the “spirit worms”, causing them to poke their heads out of the historical fragments.
After a short period of solidification, one of the “Spirit Worms”, half unable to endure, half influenced by the residual consciousness of Klein, climbed out of the previously occupied light spot and “flew” toward the core of the ripples.
Immediately afterward, one after another “Spirit Worm” returned from different places of the historical fog, and came into the light fragments formed by Silver City’s history in the current era.
When they approached each other to a certain distance, a strong cohesive force finally came to the forefront, pulling countless “Spirit Worms” together and blending them into one.
This is not an effect that can be produced by two or three Spirit Worms approaching each other; there must be a sufficient number of them for this to happen.
When that part of the “Spirit Worms” re-formed as a whole, and Klein’s mutilated consciousness finished piecing together his own self, things finally changed in a simple direction.
The “Spirit Worms” formed a transparent and huge vortex, which emitted a strong cohesive force and sucked the remaining, hesitant, unwilling to return, and not too far away “Spirit Worms” into it one after another. “The remaining Spirit Worms that were hesitant and unwilling to return, and were not too far away, were sucked in one after another.
When more than two-thirds of the “Spirit Worms” had returned, a slippery, transparent tentacle grew out of the vortex.
They extended to the second era, the first era, and even the old cities of the prehistoric era, grabbing the last part of the “Spirit Worms” one by one and stuffing them back into the vortex.
In a matter of ten seconds or so, the vortex began to stretch, turning into a horrifying figure made of transparent and twisted worms, and an invisible tentacle naturally extended from the figure’s body.
The tentacles pulled in items such as trench coats, hats, socks, and leather shoes floating within the historical mist, and put them on different parts of the horrible figure.
The figure made up of countless “Spirit Worms” then pressed the hat on top of its head, causing the transparency of its body to quickly fade away, and a layer of flesh-colored skin, short black hair and brown eyes grew out.
This was the appearance of Klein Moretti, but reaching a height of one meter eight.
Klein, who had managed to find his sense of self and pieced together a complete mental body, hadn’t even had time to examine his current state before he felt two abnormalities at the same time:
A kind of extraordinary characteristics from the fusion of his body, a certain strong, terrible, lofty, irresistible idea seems to awaken a little, passing out one image after another, these images are some of the occult knowledge about the “miracle worker”, some are dust ignited into the sun, all kinds of astral generation of grand scenes, they are all with a reckless, cold, and indifferent. All of them carried the spiritual imprint of recklessness, indifference, cruelty, madness, condescension, and lack of any emotion, rapidly assimilating Klein’s spirit and causing him to change his state uncontrollably;
The other was the crimson stars and a large number of bright points of light that appeared in front of Klein’s eyes: the prayers of the members of the Tarot Club, such as “Justice”, “The Hanged Man”, “The Moon”, and so on, were heard from within those stars. The prayers of the members of the Tarot Club, and the prayers of the residents of Moon City echoed in the points of light, and together they created an image of a mysterious being, shrouded in gray mist, looking at the world with compassion, supreme and great.
The two anomalies reacted separately to Klein’s body, causing the left side of his body to be shrouded in a grayish mist, revealing only a slightly smiling, deep and far-reaching eye, and causing the right side of his body to once again disintegrate, turning into a huddled mass of transparent, twisted worms and a bloodshot eye filled with maddening implications.
At this moment, the right part continued to erode towards the left, and the grayish mist was gradually compressed to the extreme.
Without hesitation, Klein raised his left hand with some difficulty and summoned the white bone scepter with a greenish-blue jewel at the top from within the historical mist.
Around this “Neptune’s Scepter”, one prayer light point after another surrounded it, and through that medium, it was transmitted to Klein’s body.
The right side of Kraven’s body immediately jumped out one lightning bolt after another, surrounded by invisible winds and illusory waves, which helped the gray mist resist the erosion of the left side of the pollution, so that the whole reached a delicate balance.
By this time, Klein finally regained his humanity and memories a little bit, initially restoring the state he was in before taking the magic potion.
He was finally promoted to the second level of the sequence, with an angelic personality, is a real “miracle worker”.
Originally, the “Source Castle” was about to be triggered by his change, but with a turn of his mind, all the anomalies returned to calm.
This proves that he has truly grasped the “Source Castle” and become the master of this “source quality”, as for how much power it can be utilized in the real world, he is still unable to assess.
Phew …… fortunately I am letting the history of the Silver City representative return to reality, powerful enough, if the ritual effect is a little bit worse, I will be out of control today collapsed here …… Klein raised his hand and rubbed the corner of his forehead, slowly exhaled, and had a better understanding of the anchor. :
The anchor was not a tool to help him maintain his humanity, its main role was to form the appropriate cognition, positioning and image, fighting against each other with the mental imprints within the extraordinary traits, maintaining a delicate balance.
Under this balance, the humanity belonging to Klein himself could barely be maintained without being more severely affected by either side.
In other words, there was a difference between the deity that the believers perceived and the actual deity, and without the spiritual imprints within the Extraordinary Characteristics to counteract the influence of this aspect, the image of the deity in their minds would gradually overwrite the deity’s true appearance.
This was likewise a kind of contamination.
Until this point, Klein didn’t understand the reason why the positive gods had human statues in the first place, but later on, they all turned into holy emblems, which could avoid the believers from developing a uniform image perception, and better utilize the anchor to counteract the residual spirit of the original, instead of subconsciously altering themselves.
As for why it took the Orthodox Gods one or two epochs to figure this out, which Klein quickly figured out, there were two reasons:
One was that he had the past image and present state of the positive gods to compare, the diary of Emperor Rosel for reference, and the corresponding occult knowledge to provide inspiration; and the second was that the mythological biomorphism of the “Diviners” tended to be split, and was sensitive to similar influences.
”This balance is not too solid, often skewed to a certain extent, which will lead to my state is not stable enough, from time to time will scare the people around me, fortunately, this can be predicted in advance, can effectively avoid …… Also, in a state of delicate balance, try to show more of their own human side, as a way to strengthen this aspect of self-knowledge …… This seems to be a common choice for quite a few angels, and the indulgent desires of the Rose School count as well ……
”But Amon’s followers are all themselves, kHow do they maintain balance?
”Could it be that mythological creatures born with ‘uniqueness’ have an original fusion of wills themselves, and that Amon has long since become accustomed to a state of semi-insanity, no, that’s the normal state of k …… is the image that every Amon voted to agree on ……
”That’s a thought, I could form an Order of Secret Puppets and have every one of them be a devotee of the ‘Fool’ and use my truest likeness as the image of the deity, which could effectively provide the best anchor …… No wonder! Charatu and the Ebony Demon Wolf don’t have many believers …… Uh, when the residents of Silver City are converted to the ‘Fool’, consider separating the incarnation of the ‘God of the Sea’ from serving as an anchor of its own This is too contradictory to the perceptions of the rest of my followers to be truly unified ……” Klein thought of many things in an instant, and then his thoughts turned and went straight back to the gray mist.
After becoming a “Miracle Worker”, becoming a “k”, becoming the master of the “Source Castle”, he did not need to take four steps backward, chanting incantations, or letting all the members of the Tarot Club pray, he could easily return here.
However, it seems that the function of the “Source Castle” is not enough, he still can only enter the spiritual body, and can not bring his physical body along with him.
After sitting in the seat belonging to the “Fool”, Klein didn’t rush to check the changes in the “Fortress of Source”, but first confirmed his own enhancement and digested the occult knowledge he had just gained:
”Well …… the extraordinary ability of the ‘Miracle Worker’ comes from two aspects, one is the further utilization of the fog of history, and the other is the newly added core ability of ‘Wish’. of core abilities.
”The further utilization of the fog of history includes several abilities:
”One, resurrection with the help of the ‘Spirit Worm’ from the past, but it will be ineffective after four times, I’ve already used it three times so far, and I can only resurrect it once more in the ‘Miracle Worker’ stage, so I’ll have to wait until I’ve been promoted to ‘ The ‘Secret Servant’ stage can only resurrect one more time, when promoted to ‘Secret Servant’, there should be a corresponding increase; two, exert a certain influence on the future, so that the probability of certain things happening to a certain extent become greater or lesser, equivalent to interfering with the target’s destiny, huh, finally ruling the good fortune, but in this regard, and the ‘Dice of Probability’, and Weir can not be compared! Third, what is summoned from within the historical orifice is no longer just an item, it can be some scene that one is familiar with.
”Well, the total number of items plus scenes I can summon now is nine, but there are still only three on the angelic level ……
”‘Wish’ is already a standard Divine Spirit ability, but it’s a bit strange that one can only fulfill one’s own wishes if one first fulfills the wishes of others, and that one can only gradually fulfill larger wishes if one first fulfills the smaller ones …… “