Volume 7 The Inverted Hanged Man Chapter 79 – Meeting Again

　　Klein turned his body at once and looked at the silhouette that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

　　He had envisioned all sorts of scenarios in which Utopia would be attacked, but he definitely did not expect such a scenario to occur.

　　If it was Amon “parasitizing” Germaine Sparrow, with Kraven’s current position and the round-the-clock monitoring of the “Spirit Worms” on top of the “Source Castle”, he would have been able to discover the problem in the first place. If Charatru transferred the “Spirit Thread”, it could only conceal him for a short period of time, and must be assisted by angels like the “Emperor of Knowledge” or the “Servant of Secrecy”, which could not achieve the effect of such a sudden attack. The only way to achieve the effect of such a sudden attack is for the human being given by the “audience” to ferment slowly, without a trace of abnormality on the outside.

　　In order to prevent this situation, the only way is to periodically cut off the “spiritual thread”, so that the secret puppet enters the state of death, in which case, regardless of whether it originally had a human nature or not, in the end, it will cease to exist.

　　Unfortunately, Klein had never heard of such a means before, and was simply guarding against the intrusion of “virtual personalities” into the secret puppets.

　　This may be the power of the “Imagineer”, which can give each fictional, not real enough life a unique humanity.

　　As the hard, cold face met Klein’s eyes, he felt a force push him back.

　　He fell backward at once, dropping downward from the layered ruins of the old metropolis to below, beyond the mists of history.

　　In the process, he tried to control himself, but was unable to do so, for the cross stake that had been nailed to his heart sealed all his extraordinary abilities.

　　With a thought, Klein looked at Germaine Sparrow, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

　　Snap!

　　The “Spirit Worms” in the “Source Castle” received his will, gave up the “Spirit Thread” of the secret puppet, and took up the “Staff of the Stars”, ready to give Klein a good fight. and took up the “Staff of the Star” and prepared to give Kraven a fatal blow, killing himself.

　　When the body is completely dead, Klein will be able to resurrect himself on the gray mist and get out of his predicament.

　　Knowing that Adam is the mastermind behind the scene, he doesn’t take any chances.

　　Just at this time, a stone square floating in the void appeared under Klein’s feet.

　　A pitch-black stone pillar then towered up, supporting a magnificent and sacred church that encompassed Klein.

　　The Church of Bones, the Church of Adam’s Bones, the Kingdom of God of “The Imagineer”!

　　Rumbling!

　　Numerous silver-white lightning bolts fell from the “Source Castle”, penetrating the fog of history, and struck the church, but could not shake it in the slightest.

　　At the same time, inside the ancient palace, the figure sitting in the position of the “Fool” suddenly fell to the side and collapsed into a vortex of transparent worms.

　　This vortex extended a slippery and strange tentacles, frantically slapping the surrounding area, overturning the pile of sundries and destroying the mottled long table.

　　Klein’s doppelgangers were disconnected from the main body, which was not truly dead, so they were out of control and mad, just like Charatu was back then.

　　In the old city before the First Age, Germaine Sparrow, wearing a half-height silk bowler hat and a black trench coat, looked up at the Source Castle with a complicated expression.

　　His essence was a corpse, and after the “spiritual thread” was abandoned, he naturally could not maintain his own existence.

　　Adam gave only humanity, not imaginary life, because the latter will be discovered.

　　Germaine Sparrow slowly fell back, his eyes cast into the rooms of the old city.

　　He died in these ruins.

　　……

　　Klein landed on his feet and stood in the center of the church, only to see that every pillar, every arch voucher, and every dome of the place was studded with skulls of different races, most of them on the pale side, densely clustered together, gazing at the outsiders with empty eyes.

　　Transparent, twisted, agonized faces protruded from the walls, windows, and doors of the church, completely separating the interior from the outside world.

　　And at the very front of the church loomed a cross hundreds of meters high.

　　In front of the cross, rows of black seats with backrests were placed.

　　Adam, who wore simple white robes, had a light gold beard, and a silver cross pendant, stood under the cross, facing the rows of seats, as if he was a pastor preparing to preach to the believers.

　　K looked warm and clear-eyed, seemingly just inviting Klein to come and listen to the Scriptures.

　　Klein looked down at the stake stuck in his chest, walked slowly towards the first row of seats, and sat down in the center.

　　For a true mythological creature made up of many “Spirit Worms”, the wound in his chest was not fatal at all, and the main purpose of that ancient bloodstained cross stake was to seal off extraordinary abilities.

　　If not for the fact that a true god was standing right in front of him, Kraven could have pulled out the cross stake by himself with the power of his body and lifted the seal.

　　At this moment, he didn’t try because he was afraid of going from “not daring to do it” to “not wanting to do it”.

　　”I didn’t expect you to directly intervene in this matter, you don’t need to wait until today at all if you want to deal with me.” Klein looked at his shirt, which was stained red with blood from his chest, and seriously voiced his doubts.

　　He wasn’t terrified at all, as if he was certain that Adam wouldn’t kill him.

　　Adam held the silver cross pendant in one hand and said in a calm voice:

　　”Until then, you can be of no small use in many places.”

　　K took two steps forward, his eyes clear as he continued:

　　”When Amon came to steal the Church of Corpse Bones, I made a deal with K. K helped me get the first ‘desecration tablet’, and I helped K catch you.”

　　这样啊…… Klein instantly had something dawned on him.

　　On the one hand, Adam didn’t want to be obstructed by the “Real Creator” and other existences when he became a god, but on the other hand, he wanted to get the first “Blasphemy Tablet”, and so, on the one hand, he pushed Kline to go to the Giant King’s Court by giving the “Darknessless Cross” and other methods. On the other hand, he wanted to get the first Blasphemy Tablet, so he used methods such as giving the “Darknessless Cross” to push Kraven to go to the Giant’s Royal Court and open the door of Sasriel’s sleeping place to attract the attention of the “True Creator” and other existences, and on the other hand, he stole the first Blasphemy Tablet through K’s brother, Amon, at the critical moment.

　　And want to catch Klein who is about to take initial control of the “Source Castle”, definitely the “Imagineer” is the most appropriate arrangement.

　　Don’t look at Amon and Adam are usually very distant, brother and brother are easier than others to cooperate …… Klein gently nodded, looked sideways at the stained-glass road that highlights the distorted face:

　　”I likewise did not expect Charatu to work with you, k not afraid of becoming food for Amon?”

　　When Klein had created Utopia, he had expected Amon to attack and Charatu to destroy, but not that the K’s would cooperate in some sense.

　　In his opinion, the probability of Chalatu’s complete defection to the Mother Tree of Desire was greater than this, unless, of course, Adam had also unknowingly arranged for the k’s.

　　Adam’s clear gaze took on a little more compassion:

　　”As far as k is concerned, you becoming an Old Day means that k will inevitably fall, but if Amon becomes an Old Day, k can still retain his current position and level as long as he shows his loyalty, and the ‘Lord of Secrecy’ will always need a ‘Secret Servant’. ‘.”

　　”Therefore, k chose to cooperate with me, and during this process, if k can seize the opportunity and grab the chance to turn you into a secret puppet before me, and with the help of you to enter the ‘Source Castle’ and become the master of that source material, then k will be qualified to go to the Darkness to ask for a chance to face Antigonus, and to make a final competition, and conversely, k would concede defeat completely and pledge allegiance to Amon.”

　　”At this point, k is very decisive.”

　　”It’s not like your style to explain so much.” Klein responded casually before asking with a frown, “Becoming an Old Sun doesn’t require all the Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics of the corresponding pathways?”

　　He had speculated this from the relationship between the Ancient Sun God and the Eight King of Angels, and just assumed that one must first become an Old Day or Quasi-Old Day, and split the characteristics afterwards.

　　Adam replied with a gentle expression:

　　”For the neighboring pathway, only ‘uniqueness’ and one copy of the Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics are needed, forcibly occupying more instead will easily lead to loss of control, so Charatu has a chance to become the King of Angels after owing allegiance to Amon, while K can’t owe allegiance to you because K doesn’t have the ability to become the King of Angels like the ‘Stealer’ pathway to split a Sequence 2 split out, using k to steal all of the spiritual body, consciousness, and spirit of the main body over, changing from auxiliary to main.”

　　There is a fundamental difference between the “Diviner’s” Secret Puppet Split and the “Stealer’s” “Worm of Time” Split in this regard, as the former involves the “Spiritual Body Thread”, and the latter relies only on itself. The former involves the “thread of the spirit body”, while the latter relies only on itself.

　　Moreover, the Stealer’s angels were able to do this because the K’s Sequence 2 was the “Trojan Horse of Fate”.

　　Klein had just nodded his head when he suddenly saw Adam turn his body sideways, revealing an object beneath the cross.

　　It was a gray stone slab, the surface of which had many traces of mottling, and appeared to be rather vicissitudes.

　　It was very similar to the first “blasphemous tablet”, but it didn’t have that unusually ancient feeling.

　　On it, there was the same kind of writing that seemed to be the source of all languages, writing the names of sequences one after another, and the recipes of magic potions one after another.

　　”The second ‘Profane Tablet’?” Klein asked in a slightly surprised voice.

　　He quickly traced his gaze across the tablet, not bothering to decipher the writing in the front part, and looked directly at the last few lines.

　　His intuition told him that there was very important information there.

　　”There’s no need to rush, Amon won’t come to steal away your destiny until he completes the ritual and becomes Sequence 0. Otherwise, there’s no way for k to withstand the identity of the master of the ‘Source Castle’, and until then, it’s the best choice to let you continue to stay in my God’s Kingdom.” Adam was like relieving a penitent believer.

　　Kill me …… Klein mumbled in his heart.

　　By this time, he had deciphered part of the last few lines:

　　God, Creator, Maker, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Lord of the Astral Plane:

　　”Sea of Chaos” + “Imagineer” uniqueness + “Sun” uniqueness + “Tyrant” uniqueness + “White Tower” uniqueness. “White Tower uniqueness + Hanged Man uniqueness + 1 copy of Writer’s Extraordinary trait + 1 copy of White Angel. “White Angel” Unique + 1 copy of “Thor” Unique + 1 copy of “Omniscient Eye” Unique + 1 copy of “Dark Angel” Unique.

　　Lord of Secrecy, Lord of Time and Space, Dao of Fate, Source Fortress Incarnate, Spirit World Dominator:

　　”Source Castle” + “Fool” Unique + “Error” Unique + “Door” Unique +1 copy “Secret Servant” Unique + 1 copy of “Worm of Time” Unique + 1 copy of “Star Key” Unique.

　　Seeing this, Klein looked sideways at Adam “The Imagineer” and asked in a puzzled manner:

　　”Why are you showing me this?”

　　Wouldn’t it be safer to hypnotize me directly and let me sleep until Amon becomes a god?

　　Adam said with clear eyes and a gentle expression:

　　”Frankly speaking, if the other side wasn’t Amon, I would be more willing to help you become a ‘Spirit World Dominator’.”

　　”We have too many similarities, and in a sense, are still old friends who have met once.”

　　Speaking of which, K said with a slight smile:

　　”We meet again, Trickster.”