Volume 7 The Hanged Man Chapter 34 The Way

　　Behind the curtain of endless shadows, a darkness that swayed with a slight watery light.

　　A young man with black hair, black eyes, a wide forehead and a thin face sat up abruptly, as if he had experienced a nightmare.

　　Dressed in classic black robes, K. stretched out his right hand and tried to take out a crystal monocle from the “void” and put it on his right eye.

　　But this time, he got nothing.

　　K’s right hand paused in mid-air for two seconds, before retracting and squeezing the right eye socket.

　　At that moment, a gentle and flat but emotionless voice rang in k’s ears:

　　”To him, there are things more important than life.”

　　”As far as you are concerned, there is hardly anything worth caring too much about except yourself.”

　　”When things get to the point where you have to stake your life on it, it means you lose.”

　　Amon ticked the corners of his mouth as if he wanted to respond with a smile or two, but in the end nothing came out.

　　The voice continued:

　　”Being born a mythological creature, your lack of a normal enough anchor is also a problem.”

　　”It makes it difficult to understand what courage and sacrifice are, even though you know what they are.”

　　Amon’s expression changed for a moment as he rose from the darkness that wavered with a slight watery glow.

　　K glanced at the discarded but seemingly contented human skin gloves beside him and withdrew his gaze, the corners of his mouth quirking up as he said:

　　”This seems interesting.”

　　”Next, I’m going to get out of here and dive into the stars, it’s so much more exciting and thrilling than reality, maybe I’ll figure out those two words you just said because of it.”

　　”That’s dangerous, and once you’re in the stars, I can’t offer any more help until I’ve succeeded, but at least you’ll be able to avoid K,” the gentle, flat but emotionless voice responded.

　　Without another word, Amon raised his hand and pinched the socket of his right eye, disappearing into the endless curtain of shadows.

　　……

　　Above the gray fog, inside the ancient palace.

　　With Amon completely shattered in the power of the “supernova explosion”, Klein couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

　　If he had a choice, he certainly did not want to sacrifice himself to resurrect the “Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun”, and he preferred to guard the world himself and find the meaning of life again.

　　Of course, if there was no choice, he would not hesitate to let the “Heavenly Father” awaken. This point, he is sure that he can do, Amon is also clear, so, k did not do to force, just trying to detach.

　　The battle just now, to the end, is a battle of courage, who really not afraid to die completely, who will occupy the absolute advantage.

　　Obviously, Amon did not have the consciousness to sacrifice himself for this matter.

　　After letting out a sigh of relief, Klein’s face underneath that cold and eerie mask suddenly twisted.

　　Under the translucent dark colored cloak on the surface of his body, that one slippery and evil tentacle that extended out either slapped the ground or raised high, was not under his control at all.

　　He could feel that the “Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun” in his body was waking up faster and seemed to be unstoppable.

　　Even if Kraven died with this will, and then relied on the ability of the “miracle master” to resurrect, it was still impossible to get rid of it, because the “Lord of Mysteries” also held the “miracle” power. The Lord of Mysteries also holds the power of “miracles”.

　　At this moment, Klein remembered the words of the “Dark Angel” Sasriel, the ancient sun god:

　　”The original has awakened within me. ……”

　　In the next second, where Amon’s body was shattered, a ray of light was pulled by the invisible gravity and came straight to Kline.

　　Some of them were worms of time with twelve links, some of them were worms cast in brilliant starlight, and some of them were purely just a large number of points of light ……

　　Klein tried to prevent these extraordinary characteristics from merging with himself, but he was interfered with by the increasingly strong will of the “Heavenly Father” in his body, and failed to succeed.

　　His body swelled into a balloon, and then thinned out into a paper figure, and so on and so forth.

　　The mask on his face became brighter and more bizarre, and the slippery evil tentacles extending out from under his cloak became more and more uncontrollable.

　　One part of the “Worm of Time” extraordinary properties, one part of the “Star Key” extraordinary properties, one part of …… Klein’s spirit was like being torn and eaten by invisible monsters with one bite after another, generating a rather intense pain. The pain was intense.

　　In the end, a pair of eyeballs that seemed to be made of pure starlight, containing layers and layers of illusory gates, and a monocle made of crystal were reorganized into a pair of eyeballs that ran towards Klein’s face, towards the eye sockets of the mask.

　　Almost simultaneously, the strange door of light tainted with a slight greenish-black color emerged from Klein’s body again.

　　”The Source Fortress.”

　　In this instant, the uniqueness of Kraven, the “Source Castle”, the uniqueness of the “door”, and the uniqueness of the “error” had an extremely strong tendency to converge.

　　Once they became one, the “Lord of Mysteries” would completely awaken and complete his resurrection.

　　Kraven raised his hand violently and covered half of his face.

　　His whole body bent down, as if he was struggling with his other self.

　　Relying on the cognitive orientation and image interference brought by the believer’s anchor, Klein finally slowed down the resurrection of the will of the “Lord of Secrecy” a little, so that the power of convergence was weakened a little.

　　The pair of starlight eyes and the crystal monocle remained in front of Klein’s face, hovering only a few centimeters away, like a planet rotating around the sun.

　　It was in the midst of an extreme imbalance, and Klein asked himself if he could not maintain it for long; perhaps in a few minutes, or even a few dozen seconds, the convergence would continue inexorably, bringing about changes he could hardly bear.

　　”Haha, it’s kind of a fusion.” Klein gave a less-than-stable laugh.

　　Then, he “fooled” the “Tron Solstice Brass Book”, causing it to enter a sealed state and fly into the pile of clutter.

　　Immediately afterward, Klein left the Source Castle and took a step into the astral realm of symbols and authorities.

　　This place looks similar to the starry sky, dark and deep, vast and boundless, but in reality there are many peculiarities, for example, obviously see a sun-like star hanging in the distance, emitting normal light and heat, but if you try to get closer without damage, you will find that the starry realm there is like a black curtain, the sun is painted directly with oil paint, around which a bunch of concepts and symbols are gathered.

　　Moreover, that sun wasn’t painted that well, like a random doodle by a child with no art skills, which was both comical and frightening.

　　On another level, this might be the embodiment of the chaotic madness of the underlying rules.

　　Klein had just entered the place and immediately felt an invisible gaze.

　　Some of them came from the area protected by the world barrier, while others originated from a wider place with obvious malice.

　　The corner of Klein’s mouth curled up uncontrollably as he suddenly turned his head sideways and looked back beyond the world barrier, raising the slippery and evil tentacle.

　　This brought the pair of starlight-cast eyes and crystal-polished monocle with it.

　　Horrifically, the stares from the stars all receded, leaving only a hand-painted red moon still hanging there, flickering with light.

　　”Haha.” Klein laughed out loud and came to the outside of a dark country filled with night herbs and deep sleep flowers.

　　At the same time, the “Goddess of Darkness” appeared at the edge of the Kingdom of God wearing a long, tiered dress decorated with starry shavings, her face covered with a thin, translucent black veil.

　　She didn’t turn huge, but looked at Klein with a flat stare, raised her right hand, and revealed a bird-shaped gold jewelry.

　　At the head of this bird-shaped gold ornament, within the bronze-like eyes, layers of illusory gates penetrated, allowing a drop of colorless, watery liquid with a strong aura of eternal silence to fly out and land on Klein’s cold and bizarre mask.

　　The will of “Blessed Xuanhuang Tianzun” passively entered the state of eternal sleep, and so did most of Klein’s consciousness, leaving only a little bit of wakefulness.

　　In this state, he had the mask retracted and transformed the cloak into a black trench coat.

　　Then he had the crystal-ground monocle transformed into a pair of black gloves, and had the pair of starlight-cast eyes transformed into a stardust-encrusted cane.

　　–This was only a change in appearance, the substance did not change, and once the two items were detached from Krynn, they would return to their original form, though of course, Krynn could make them change form permanently if he stabilized and contained them, revising the appropriate concepts and symbols over and over again.

　　”It won’t last long, it’ll just postpone things for a while.” “The Goddess of Darkness” warned in a soft voice, “the ‘Lord of Secrecy’ will awaken faster if the waters of the ‘River of Eternal Darkness’ are used repeatedly… Because k will be stimulated to produce unknown changes and adjust itself, similarly, the special and my blessing from the ‘Source Castle’ will gradually be worn out and you will enter the state of eternal sleep.”

　　Klein nodded with a smile as if he wasn’t discussing himself:

　　”I see.”

　　”The Goddess of Darkness” said in a tone that seemed to soothe Klein’s spirit:

　　”In this matter, the approach Amon took and the actions he made were beyond my expectations, k is indeed the true ‘God of Fraud’.”

　　”You are not completely without a chance next, you can first try to take complete control of the ‘Fortress of Source’, pulling the will of the ‘Lord of Trickery’ along with you into eternal sleep, and both fight and merge with k in your dreams, and I can inflict a certain amount of blessing on you,. But it is you who are the most critical.”

　　”There is no ritual to becoming the Old Day, no ritual can alter the awakening of the original will, but the Ancient Sun God believes that accommodating the order can somehow enhance self-awareness and enhance the success of things.”

　　”Becoming Sequence 0 of one pathway first, followed by taking control and fusing the source material, and only lastly accommodating the other uniqueness is the optimal sequence.”

　　”Becoming a dual-pathway true god, taking control and fusing the source mass, and then accommodating the remaining uniqueness is not a good nor bad sequence.”

　　”Not fusing the source quality until the last step is the worst option.”

　　Klein laughed:

　　”It’s a good way to just wake up and have a ‘Lord of Secrecy’ be born.”

　　”That could be K, or it could be me, well, after taking complete control of the ‘Source Fortress’ and entering eternal sleep, I should be able to make certain weaknesses in the seal of the Western Continent, weaknesses that can be entered and exited.”

　　”The Goddess of Darkness” did not say anything as she listened to Klein’s words.

　　Klein continued to laugh:

　　”This is my own choice.”

　　”I expected this day to come a long time ago, and I will eventually face k.”