Volume 7: The Hanged Man Chapter 78: Human Nature
Seeing that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the secret puppet town, Klein began to think about what had happened to Ms. Justice:
”The operation against Erihog, the psychic dragon, was not arranged by Adam, but led by Hermes?”
”Otherwise, Adam couldn’t have not divinely descended, and Aerihog couldn’t have escaped so easily, and would necessarily have to use the second ‘City of Miracles’ to have some hope.”
”If Hermes led the way, the development of the whole thing is logical …… Hermes didn’t even think of capturing or killing Erihog at all, but only wished to know some information from this ancient mind dragon, and when Erihog uttered ‘Adam isn’t necessarily Adam’, the operation naturally ended.”
”Hmm, so it seems that Hermes has long had some suspicions about Adam’s true state, but only rolled over and utilized Miss ‘Justice’ because he couldn’t get Erihog to show up on his own accord due to the limitations of his own identity.”
”Adam is not necessarily Adam, Erihog is not necessarily Erihog …… This sentence is really interesting, the high level of the ‘audience’ pathway is more mysterious than ‘Diviner ‘ is even more mysterious ah, when the ‘Dragon of Empty Thoughts’ Anglewild has clearly occupied the position of Sequence 0, but beside him there is also a son of the same pathway Sequence 1, the ‘Dragon of Nightmares’ Alsouhod ……”
”If Adam really isn’t Adam, then who could K be? Is it the same Adam from mythology before the First Age, or is it part of the ‘original’? Or, related to the ancient Sun God’s resurrection setup? In that case, Medici calling k ‘paranoid’ really means a lot ……”
Klein quickly materialized a gold coin and snapped it into midair to do a divination.
The results of the divination showed that today’s events were nothing harmful.
Klein then dispersed the gold coin and prepared to drop his consciousness and return to his original body sleeping in St. Arianna’s Church.
It was at this time that there was a slight delay in his movements:
Ms. “Justice” meeting Erihog and Hermes, and that MI9 officer returning to Utopia to testify in court, happened almost simultaneously.
On its own, there was nothing wrong with either side, but the word “simultaneous” made Klein wary.
He was very sensitive to “just right”, “coincidence”, “at the same time”, “almost”, this was the past experiences left an impression on his mind. This was the imprint of past experiences within his mind.
Tapping his fingers on the edge of the mottled table, Klein decided to prepare himself for his concerns.
He quickly gathered a ray of light containing certain words and a certain will, and threw it into a prayer point.
With this done, Krynn sunk his consciousness and left the source fortress, allowing his spirit to return to his being.
Immediately afterward, he began to influence Utopia, intending to arrange for the temporary “departure” of the outlanders currently in the city.
That way, even if something did happen, it wouldn’t affect the innocents.
This also means that Klein is ready to abandon Utopia and rebuild the town of secret puppets in another place, after all, the ritual can be repeated many times, but people can only be resurrected once after they die.
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”Rest well for the next two days, it will be a while before the court.” Biles sent Wendell to the door of the “Iris” hotel.
Wendel smiled and responded:
”I already have sleepiness now.”
At this time, it was the middle of the night, he was too anxious and tense to sleep before, so he thought of turning around in the MI9 headquarters to soothe his mood, but as a result, after hearing the conversations of his colleagues on watch, his emotions were completely triggered, and he decided to return to Utopia to face the problem head on.
Checking in, without his luggage, Wendell walked briskly up to the third floor and entered his room.
As he passed through the doorway, he had a vague feeling that his surroundings were unusually dark.
In order to sleep better, Wendell went to the window and drew the curtains together.
During this process, he inexplicably felt that the scenery outside the window was unusually familiar.
However, under the shroud of night, he couldn’t distinguish it too clearly, and thinking that it might be a scene he had seen before in Utopia, he raised his hand to cover his mouth, yawned, and walked towards the sleeping bed while taking off his clothes.
……
Monica slept until midnight, when she suddenly had to pee.
After holding it for half a day, she couldn’t hold it in, so she finally rolled over and got out of bed, walking towards the room’s own washroom.
As she pushed the door of the lavatory room, she had the feeling that this had become a little bit heavier.
Rubbing her eyes, which she could barely keep open, Monica didn’t care about this tiny change, quickly solved the problem of personal hygiene, ran out of the lavatory, and rushed back to her sleeping bed.
As she got under the covers, she felt the temperature inside drop so much that she had to wrap herself in layer after layer.
It didn’t take long for her to fall back asleep successfully.
……
About a quarter of an hour later, Byers, who was patrolling the streets, rubbed his hands together and turned towards the street where the police station was located, ready to hand over to his colleagues.
Suddenly, his body froze at the mouth of the alley.
The thin, black and dense “spiritual threads” on his body fell off at the same time and floated upward.
A delicately cut paper figure fell down, connected with those “spiritual threads”, and quickly turned into another Biles.
At the same time, a torrent of information poured in, transforming into a man with long chestnut-colored hair wearing gorgeous clothes.
With blue eyes, a high nose, and thin lips, this man was the Sequence 1 historical projection of Rossel Gustav.
Immediately afterward, this projection grabbed its hand and sucked all the surrounding information into its palm, condensing it into an illusory ball of light.
Inside this information were all the details of what had gone wrong with Byers.
In the next second, Rossel Gustav’s historical projection forged a piece of normal information, and sent it along the “spiritual thread” connected with the paper man to the St. Arianna’s Church in the town square, and to the church’s underground.
After this series of operations, another torrent of information came from mid-air and was reorganized into three figures with Rossel’s help:
An old man in black robes and a hood, with a long, dense white beard on his face; a middle-aged man in a cloak, with black hair and blue eyes, and a square face with a dignified air; and a huge tree doused in petroleum, which had extended above it arm after arm protruding from all sorts of strange things, and rolled one black and white eye after another, covered with blood.
The k’s were:
The leader of the Mithraic Order, Charatu!
The historical pore-image of William Augustus I, protector of Ruin, the original king!
The historical projection of S’u’ah, the “Sinner of the Gods”!
After making the appropriate preparations, Chalatu quietly infiltrated Utopia with the help of the location provided by the previous historical projection.
Without any delay, he used his right hand to suck out the “Spirit Worm” from Biles’ body by utilizing the Law of Convergence of Extraordinary Characteristics.
On the other hand, on the palm of one of the hands of the historical projection of “God’s Sins” S’u’ah, there was a palm-sized, rather ugly doll.
The doll was wet and slimy, with no eyes, no ears, no nose, and only a hole-like mouth that gulped in grayish-white mist.
As the “Spirit Worm” and the figure approached, the black and white eyes rolling on the trunk of the S’u’ah tree looked at them at the same time.
Wordlessly, the Spirit Worm merged into the ugly figure, which twisted, wriggled, and sprouted eyes, a nose, and ears that resembled those of Klein Moretti.
At this point, Charatu no longer hid it, and could not hide it, took out a black shroud, and violently wrapped the Klein doll!
The “spiritual threads” of all the secret puppets in the entire Utopia were broken at the same time, and they could no longer connect to their own bodies.
It wasn’t that they had a problem, but that the body was cut off from them.
In an instant, the guards in the police station, the guests in the hotel, Tracy and the thieves in the holding cell, and the citizens of Anderson and Al-Suu in the different houses all stopped breathing and became rigid at the same time.
Whether they were sleeping or doing something else, it was as if the pause button had been pressed at this moment.
Klein at the bottom of St. Arianna’s woke up at once, knowing that the accident had indeed come.
He did not hesitate, and with a turn of his mind, he was about to return to the “Source Castle”, using the position and strength of the King of Angels to fight against the enemies that had already appeared on the surface of the water and those that had not yet appeared on the surface of the water.
This was the best choice under the current circumstances.
–Even if he couldn’t protect his body, Kraven still had a chance to resurrect.
Just at this time, his floating consciousness encountered an invisible, deep dark barrier, making it difficult to penetrate through and enter the “Source Castle”.
This …… Klein’s spirit tightened, thinking that the enemy may be more troublesome than he thought.
He can not use the ceremony, a thought back to the “source of the fortress” thing, know the high level of existence is not much!
In the next second, the huge tree poured with viscous oil had already arrived over St. Arianna’s Church.
In addition, a low and majestic voice echoed out:
”Roaming is prohibited here!”
”Teleportation is prohibited here!”
”……”
Klein wasn’t dominated by emotions, seeing that he couldn’t return to the “Source Castle” for a while, he immediately changed his strategy and leapt towards the historical mist.
When the grayish fog met his eyes, it turned into a vortex made up of countless transparent worms, which in turn extended a slippery tentacle covered with strange patterns.
Unlike that time in the past, the vortex at this time exuded a powerful suction force, causing Klein’s figure to accelerate and cast over, being entangled in layers of countless tentacles.
The Law of Extraordinary Characteristic Convergence!
The law of extraordinary characteristic aggregation among angels!
With a subtle flash of ethereal light, Klein, who was firmly controlled by the mythological creature form of Charatot, turned into a paper figure.
This was both an angelic application of the “paper double” and the help of “grafting”.
Although Klein could not return to the “Source Castle”, he was able to influence the “Spirit Worms” that were guarding the gray fog, allowing them to ingest the “curtain” and provide assistance.
After dodging Charatu’s fatal blow, Klein ran wildly through the historical mist, and fled towards the old city before the First Age.
At this time, many long-dead secret puppets in Utopia, without the support of the “Spirit Body Thread”, either rapidly decayed, or fell off their limbs, or were affected by their own extraordinary characteristics, and underwent all kinds of mutations, and were transformed into different forms of horrible monsters that surpassed the imagination.
Some of them swallowed their own head, some are only a wriggling mass of flesh and blood, and some have grown dense eyes ……
Soon, Klein raced wildly into the old metropolis within the mists of history.
It was a safe house for him to trust, as only “ancient scholars” plus prehistoric humans were eligible to enter.
Without hesitation, Klein took his customary look around and began praying to the “Goddess of the Night” on top of the layers of urban ruins.
Poof!
A slight sound came out, an old, bloodstained cross stake pierced Klein’s heart from behind.
A silhouette of a cold man in a half-height silk hat and black trenchcoat is silhouetted behind him.
Germaine Sparrow.
Klein’s pupils dilated for a moment while the crazed adventurer spoke in a low voice:
”Adam gave me humanity.”