Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 2 The Wrap-Up of Things
After the near-frozen silence was maintained for nearly ten seconds, Velos and the other members of the Abraham family brushed their gazes to Voorhees.
After feeling that mixture of caution, wariness, and fear, Voorhees took the initiative to take several steps to the side and opened his mouth to warn:
”Be careful of the negative influence.”
Even if the Extraordinary Characteristics hadn’t yet combined with the surrounding things to form a seal, they still possessed a certain amount of negative effects, it was just that most of the time, they had to be directly touched to produce an effect. Of course, the Extraordinary Characteristics here all belonged to the High Sequence, and no one could be sure if they would actively expand the scope of their interference.
Seeing that Voorhees didn’t show any obvious greed, Dorian nodded and said:
”Once you finish digesting the ‘Secret Mage’ magic potion, you can consider promoting to Sequence 3 ‘Wanderer’, I will give you the magic potion formula and prepare the appropriate materials for you. Of course, at this level, the higher the sequence, the greater the danger you will face, this is an objective situation that does not depend on one’s will or arrangement. At that time, it is up to you to decide whether or not you need to be promoted.”
He said these words, on the one hand, he was loving the student, on the other hand, he was stabilizing the student, telling her that what the Abraham family possessed was equal to hers, and that there would be no one who would view her as an outsider and intentionally make things difficult for her in terms of sequence advancement.
This could effectively eliminate the hot-headedness brought about by some greed.
After harvesting so many high sequence extraordinary characteristics at once, Velos and other members of the Abrahamic family did not have any reluctance to give up a “Wanderer” extraordinary characteristic, and even thought that exchanging it for “peace” was absolutely worth it, after all, there was only one demigod here, and that was Voorhees. After all, there is only one demi-god here, and that is Forsyth.
After all, there was only one demigod here, and that was Forsyth. In the case that the members of the Abraham family were too late to use their level 0 seals, and they didn’t dare to take out most of the level 1 seals due to the near failure of the seals just now, Forsyth had the ability to take care of all of them.
Facing his teacher’s promise, Voorhees let out a “hmm” and said:
”Is this the ‘door’ to the hidden space being opened?”
She assumed that the high sequence of extraordinary characteristics in front of her all came from the Abraham family’s treasure trove, only to be thrown back into the real world due to the previous anomaly, however, she also felt that the number was clearly too much.
”No.” Dorian shook his head slowly, a confused look on his face.
The rest of the Abraham family members held their silence, equally bewildered.
Things like treasures falling from the sky, if it didn’t happen in front of their eyes, no one would believe it!
”Shall we, say a prayer to Mr. ‘Fool’?” Fools tried his suggestion.
Vaguely guessing, Dorian immediately looked at Velos and the other members of the family, and saw that those who had already converted to Mr. Fool nodded their heads in agreement, while those who had not yet converted were visibly hesitant and wanted to object.
After a moment’s consideration, Dorian calmed himself and said:
”You will collect some of the characteristics of the negative effects that are ranged in the right way to prevent them from combining with things around you.”
”I’ll go to the side and pray to Mr. ‘Fool’.”
”Good.” After hesitating for two seconds, several of the Abraham family members present agreed.
Then, they seized the time, discerning the characteristics and trying to collect them.
When this group of members had already made some gains, Dorian retreated to the side of the student Voorhees and bowed his head to pray to Mr. “Fool”.
Soon, a gray mist and an ancient palace located in the depths of the mist appeared before his eyes, and a high and solemn voice echoed in his ears:
”This is the relic of Mr. ‘Gate’.”
”Your bloodline curse is completely lifted.”
”Mr. Gate’s relics …… relics …… Dorian chewed on that word, opened his eyes, and once again turned his gaze to those high sequences of extraordinary characteristics.
He watched in silence, his vision blurring.
……
East Chester County, inside the Hall family’s estate.
Alfred and the others, who had just figured out the source of the previous explosions and cries of “enemy attack”, saw the doors and windows open at the same time and clang against the wall.
In the process, several panes of glass shattered.
There is indeed an abnormality …… Alfred raised his hand with a stoic expression and said to his adjutant, his squire, and the members of his father’s guard and private bodyguards:
”Retreat to the main house for now, and guard against any accidents that may occur next.”
”In the meantime, telegraph the Archbishop of the Diocese of East Chester for assistance.”
He thought the most important thing at the moment was not to investigate the cause of the unusual occurrence, but to protect his father, mother and sister.
The former had plenty of time to do so after dawn, the latter could not be remedied if anything went wrong.
After retreating to the main house of the manor and arranging for strict patrols, Alfred walked into the parlor and addressed Earl Hall:
”There was indeed an anomaly, but the guard couldn’t describe what he saw, only that he felt great fear at that moment.”
Earl Hall nodded stoically:
”Further investigation will be done after dawn.”
”You sit down and rest first.”
Next to him, Audrey took her mother’s arm and quietly listened to her father and her two brothers exchange words.
Of course, it was only superficial; she had been constantly branching out into her virtual personality, trying to find the reason for the strange opening of the door and window from the memories of those who had just witnessed it.
After a few minutes, she concluded her investigation with some disappointment, tentatively categorizing the anomaly as a leftover effect of the psychic dragons Erihog and Mr. Fury.
Just then, she noticed that Suzie the Golden Dog’s eyes were getting a little strange, and busied herself by sending out a virtual personality to enter the other’s mind island and make a hidden conversation.
”What did you find out?” Audrey asked bluntly.
A voice echoed from Susie’s mind island:
”I smelled a strong odor of blood, at the edge of the manor, some time before the doors and windows were opened, well, probably within ten seconds or so after the explosions went off.”
After hearing this, Audrey pursed her lips and said in silence for a few seconds:
”Go take a look.”
Susie immediately ended her crouch, tiptoed back out of the living room, and left the main house of the manor through the side door located in the first floor hallway.
During this process, people looked at her from time to time, but did not care, did not try to stop, after all, this is just a dog, mastered the “psychological stealth” dog.
After taking a shortcut to the row of buildings farthest from the main house, Suzie twitched her nose, picked an open window, and leapt in.
Then she saw a gruesome body with bloody, faded skin on the bed.
And her seeing it was the same as Audrey’s virtual personality that resided within her mind island seeing it.
In the main house of the manor, within the living room, Audrey, holding her mother’s arm, lowered her head.
Then she raised her head and allowed her gaze to sweep slowly and deeply over the faces of her father, the Earl of Hall, her mother, Lady Caitlin, her brother, Hebert, and Alfred.
She kept quiet, growing more and more silent.
……
Byam, inside the Church of the Waves.
Dressed in a robe embroidered with the storm symbol, Alger came up step by step from the ground and nodded to the “vicars” and priests and bishops waiting on either side of him:
”The seal has returned to normal in time.”
”You may put back the items in your own custody.”
”Yes, His Excellency Wilson.” The “Substitute Punisher” and the priest bishops let out a sigh of relief in unison, clenching their right fists and striking their left chests, saying.
Alger didn’t say much, just responded to them with the same courtesy.
After traveling all the way back to his room, he slowly looked around the room, inhaled softly, and found a seat.
”Fools who do not belong to this age ……,” Alger prayed almost silently to Mr. Fool, expressing his intention to leave the Church of the Storm.
–The claim that the seal had returned to normal in time could only be believed by the lower levels of the Church, not by any of the Cardinals or High Deacons, let alone the Pope or the Storm Lord.
Without the consent and blessing of Mr. Fool, Alger would not dare to leave the Church of Storms at will, for he would be condemned by the gods.
After a few seconds, he saw the familiar infinite gray fog, and heard Mr. Fool’s response:
”Yes.”
”Go to the Church of Neptune.”
Whew…… Alger relaxed, stood up, and removed his storm robes.
After changing into the linen shirt, brown jacket, and wide-legged pants set, Alger looked at the cardinal’s robe discarded on the table and remained silent for a while.
Then he reached out and folded the robe neatly.
After scrutinizing it back and forth for a few seconds, Alger drew his eyes back, harnessed the gale, and flew out of the church through the open window.
He flew to the bell tower first and landed at the top, looking down on the surrounding streets and the entirety of Byam.
During this process, Alger stepped on the edge of the top and slowly circled around.
Finally, he closed his eyes.
A hurricane suddenly picked up and swept Alger towards where the Church of Neptune was.
……
Above the gray mist, inside the ancient palace.
Kraven sat quietly in the high-backed chair belonging to the “Fool”.
His silhouette sometimes transformed, as if he had put on a mysterious classical black robe, wearing an invisible hood, and sometimes returned to normal, only covered with a thin layer of gray fog.
Such changes alternated, the frequency gradually slowing down.
And whenever Klein turned into a figure wearing a black robe and a hood, a slippery tentacle with a strange pattern would always extend out from underneath the clothing.
These nearly transparent tentacles flared and flapped, completely occupying the entire palace.
After a while, Klein’s figure finally stabilized.
He habitually raised his right hand, rubbed the corner of his forehead, and muttered wordlessly to himself:
”The revival of the ‘Heavenly Father’s’ will was faster and stronger than I expected ……If I hadn’t swallowed Charatu’s extraordinary properties and used k’s residual spiritual imprints as a counterbalance, delaying it for enough time, I wouldn’t have been able to make the adjustments in time and be unable to stop k from awakening ……”
However, this also made Klein’s mental state quite unstable.
The only reason he didn’t lose control was because the “Miracle Worker” potion had been completely digested, and the first portion of the “Secret Servant’s” extraordinary properties had also been digested within a short period of time after he took the potion – “The World” – “The World”. -The identity of the “World” is positioned as the “Source Castle” master’s dependents, which is directly equivalent to the “Secret Servant”, so Kraven played the role of the “Secret Servant” in advance. So, Crane has been playing the role of the “Secret Servant” for a long time and has been quite successful.
As for the second part of the extraordinary characteristics of the “Secret Servant”, it is still to be digested.