Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 29 – The Aftermath of the Warfront
”Don’t save me …… don’t save me ……”
In the “Source Castle” and housing the “Fool” card, Klein already has the status of King of Angels, and will not be directly contaminated by Mr. Door’s hissing, but the content of those words made his head slightly numb. But the content of those words made his scalp slightly numb, pupils dilated, difficult to contain the sudden surge of panic in his heart.
He originally thought that Mr. Gate had been calling for help, but what he heard now was:
”Don’t save me!”
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In Klein’s silence, the voice that was drifting and faint but like a steel needle piercing the spirit shouted for a dozen seconds before suddenly changing:
”Help me …… help me ……”
This time, the language used also changed somewhat.
…… Klein leaned back in his chair with an expressionless face and listened for nearly ten more seconds.
Then, he lifted the maintenance on the images of the historical orifices of the “Universal Key” and the “Crimson Moon Coronet”, allowing the space above the gray fog to return to complete peace.
Hoo…… he exhaled, his fingers habitually tapped up the edge of the mottled long table, and muttered silently to himself:
”‘Door’ Mr. is indeed half crazy, but the crazy Part 1s not the k that shouts with all its might, but the k that appears to be calm and can communicate with people rationally …… The latter can also influence the former to some extent, distorting the content of k’s shouting ?
”Mr. ‘Door’ when he was awake actually shouted ‘Don’t save me’ …… For a king of angels who had been banished and sealed for over a thousand years, this was definitely not the normal reaction to have. Definitely not a normal reaction, unless k thinks that k who returns to reality will bring about a disaster that k himself doesn’t want to see …… a completely out of control king of angels?
”Combined with the fact that Mr. ‘Gate’ has been inducing him to go to the moon occupied by the Outer Gods during his exchanges with the Great One, there is another possibility in this matter:
”The banished Mr. ‘Gate’, without the protection of the original Creator’s leftover barrier, has encountered the erosion of a certain, or even several, Outer Gods, and has lost the vast majority of his sanity, and is in a state only a little bit better than that of the ‘Bound God’ ……
”The ‘Apprentice’ pathway is able to roam the stars at Sequence 3, and Mr. ‘Door’ also contains the title ‘Leader of the Endless Stars’ in his honorific name …… Does this indicate that this King of Angels may have contacted the Outer Gods and suffered some influence before he was banished?
”Well, what does the crimson earth, the pyramid-like buildings, and the different positions of the stars that Ms. ‘Magician’ last saw represent? It doesn’t look like it’s within the current galaxy, and it’s not quite the same as the mausoleum that the ‘Black Emperor’ needs to be …… the lair of one of the Outer Gods that influenced Mr. ‘Gate’, or rather, the One of the anchors of the legends that Mr. ‘Gate’ left behind on other planets with living creatures, k, when he became a ‘Traveling Mage’? The probability is the latter, since Ms. ‘Magician’ did not encounter pollution from the stars when she saw that scene ……”
The more Klein thought about it, the heavier his heart became, as this could be a true representation of the end times in some way.
Doomsday is definitely not something that won’t happen if you don’t think about it and pretend you don’t know about it!
No wonder the “yellow light” Venetian predicted that the day the curse was lifted would be the beginning of the real disaster for the Abrahams …… Mr. “Door” has been calling for help, resulting in the Abrahams family can no longer come out! A demigod may be a protection of sorts …… Although it will cause the Abrahams to lose their status and most of their precious things and become mediocre, at least it will preserve the bloodline …… Oh, and in the prophecy, the solution to the curse is in the hands of an “apprentice” who has been assisted by a hidden being. In that prophecy, the solution to the curse is in the hands of an “apprentice” who has received help from a hidden presence …… Klein smiled lowly and had a thought about how to respond to the “magician” lady.
He was going to ask “Magician” Forsyth to tell only part of the truth when he told her teacher:
Firstly, he emphasized that Mr. Door was already half-mad and very dangerous, and that there was a great risk even if he talked to him; secondly, he didn’t talk about the second ceremony to lift the curse, which was easier to achieve, and only talked about the sacrifices to the “soothsayers”, “thieves”, and “magicians”. Secondly, not to mention the second, more accessible ceremony to lift the curse, but only the one dedicated to the demigods “Soothsayer”, “Stealer” and “Apprentice”.
With the first point, the Abrahams could understand why their ancestors persisted in calling for help, since k had lost his mind and was capable of doing anything terrible.
This would effectively remove the heart disease from the Abrahamites, preventing them from helping Mr. Gate out of his predicament, and allowing them to start believing in the “Fool” more and more quickly.
The second point is to discourage the small number of extreme Abrahams who are not capable of performing such a ritual.
At the same time, informing them of the ceremony itself would strengthen the trust of the Abrahamic families in the “magician” Fools.
”Not to mention the question of how many existing ‘secret magicians’ there are, the demigods that can become ‘trickster magicians’ are definitely harder to catch than one another, and most of them are concentrated in the Secret Cult, dealing with them would be provoking Charatru, even if the Abraham family Even if Abraham’s family still has demigods who can use ‘0’ level seals for a short period of time, they can’t complete the preparations for the ritual that easily… Well, it’s most dangerous to deal with the ‘parasites’… If you’re not careful, you’ll be able to make Amon’s doppelganger the target… By that time, it’ll be the same as giving Amon his Dessert ……
”Also, a word of warning to Ms. ‘Magician’ afterward, in the tone of ‘World’ Germaine Sparrow, to beware of the extremists of the Abraham family… … “Klein thought for a moment, and began to respond to “Magician” Voorhees’s earlier prayer.
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After returning to the real world from within the fog of history, Klein boarded a steam train and arrived at the capital of Makai County, once the second largest city in Ruen, and the front line of the past war, the city of Constantine.
”…… The destruction is very serious ah …… “After getting off the train and exiting the platform, Klein stood on a high place and took a look at this purely industrial city.
Although he was new to the area, he had seen various photos of Constanton from newspapers and magazines in the past.
Those photos were all in black and white, documenting every aspect of the city.
Among them, there were three things that impressed Klein the most:
One was the forest of chimneys and blast furnaces, as if a forest had been artificially created, which was extremely visually appealing and represented industry better than Bakerland;
Two, the extensive use of concrete and steel in the buildings, which were built taller, larger and denser than their counterparts in Birkeland;
Three, many of them were stained with coal ash, including human bodily surfaces, but the air quality was somewhat better than in Beckland, because of the high winds of the inter-ocean.
Now, on the other hand, the towering blast furnaces, chimneys, and tall buildings had become rather sparse, with nothing but piles of rubble everywhere.
Comparatively speaking, however, the factory areas had suffered less damage than the residential areas, as many of them were steel mills and arsenals, which were just as important to the Forsaks.
”The death toll here is definitely in the hundreds of thousands ……” Klein sighed darkly as he carried his suitcase and walked down the steps to the steam train station and actually entered the city of Constanton.
On his way to the hotel, he continued his role as the Miracle Worker, randomly selecting a burly man in his early thirties.
”I’m a wandering magician, and my best trick is to fulfill everyone’s wishes, would you like to try?” The once thin-skinned Klein was now able to accost others very naturally.
The burly man glanced at him and waved his hand impatiently:
”Can you bring back my father, mother, two brothers and a child?”
With that said, he didn’t wait for a response from the magician across the street, walked slightly grumpily toward the nearest public carriage stop, and struck his left breast with his right fist.
Klein stood his ground, maintaining a slight upturned smile at the corners of his mouth as he quietly watched the man leave.
He remembered a magazine he had seen earlier on the steam train, which featured several pages of photographs reflecting the current state of the major cemeteries in the city of Constanton.
The headstones were like the chimneys and blast furnaces that had originally stood there, and the racks of ashes seemed like tall building after tall building that had not yet collapsed ……
The entire city of Constanton seemed to be buried in the cemetery.
Curbing his smile, Klein walked around the long-dried-up fountain in front of him towards the inn not far away.
On the way, he heard a number of pedestrians discussing which place in the neighborhood was haunted, and which place had a horrible monster:
”When I passed by the Maris River before, I heard a lot of people crying in the water, I didn’t dare to look and ran back to the city like the wind ……”
”That was nothing, I saw something even more terrible at 9 Hyacinth Street! There was a face taped to the window there! A very pale face!”
”Behind my house, several passersby have disappeared, and blood has been dragged all the way to the nearest ruins, but the police have not found a body ……”
”It’s horrible, may the Goddess protect us!”
”Storm above, keep these ghosts and monsters away from us.”
”By the way, there’s a notice posted at the city hall saying that if you find something similar, report it to the police immediately.”
It seems that the previous meat grinder type war made many corpses too late to be tranquilized and turned into ghosts and monsters, phew, many times, some of the deceased may not still have a body to keep …… Well, there’s certainly no shortage of extraordinary people in here who have lost control of their lives due to mental breakdowns or physical mutilation …… Also, the vast majority of those who didn’t take their potions in the normal way are also out of control …… The Nightwatchman and the Punishers will surely clean up these incidents over time, but at least in the city of Constantia, people may have to wait a little longer for them to get out of control. After all, some ghosts and monsters are good at hiding and evading, and their instincts are very cunning …… As Klein walked without looking, he gained a new grasp of the overall situation in Constanton.
Here, encounters with transcendent events were no longer coincidental, but everyday with a certain probability.
At this time, Klein saw a group of “night watchmen” wearing red gloves and black trench coats walk past the intersection in front of him, but he did not recognize any of them.
Sure enough, the Church of Tranquility sent a more mobile “red gloves” team to help …… Uh, what’s going on in the neighborhood? Klein nodded unnoticeably, following his spiritual intuition, he cast his eyes on a certain apartment building behind a pile of rubble.
There, on the fourth floor, behind a convex belly window, a highly decomposed face was staring out against the glass, drop after drop of pale yellowish-blackish liquid sliding along the window.