Volume 7 The Inverted Man Chapter 61 Three Options
For the secret puppet town, Klein had been thinking about how to create it a long time ago, and already had three preliminary plans:
If he excluded the interference of external factors, his best choice would be to have the Secret Puppet Town rise up overnight in a certain place in a certain country in the North Continent, and connect it to the surrounding cities via railroads, rivers, and highways.
In this way, the Secret Puppet Town would have a large number of outsiders arriving every day, and would have a very strong interaction with the surrounding area: on the one hand, the town with no affiliated villages would certainly buy grain, salt, cloth, ores, sugar and other necessities from elsewhere, and on the other hand it would have its own outputs that could be sold to the neighboring cities, market towns and villages. In this case, groups of merchants, laborers, travelers, etc. will travel back and forth very frequently, and at the same time, their interactions with the residents of the Secret Puppet Towns will also be quite numerous.
Under the influence of various strong interactions, it wouldn’t take long for the secret town to be born in a corresponding area in the spirit world, and by the time the destiny of the residents had become fine and real, Klein would be able to take the magic potion to advance to Sequence 1 “Secret Servant”.
The time taken before and after this may not take three months.
But the problem is that this program can’t be kept secret.
In the current era, the sudden addition of a town in a certain place could not be hidden from the public, and soon enough, government employees and police officers and journalists would come over to investigate, and after that, all kinds of strong interactions would also make more and more people know about this city, and this is a problem that could not be solved through the ability of illusions, unless the Secret Puppet Town did not interact with the surrounding cities, towns, and villages at all, or interacted with them less, which is contrary to the needs of the the needs of the ritual.
By the time the news of the secret puppet towns spread, Klein would undoubtedly be targeted by enemies such as Charatu and Amon proper, and at that time, it would definitely be easier to destroy than protect, and he would have to move places with his secret puppet towns, which would cause the pre-interactions to lose their effect, much like what the Umbreon Demon Wolves had gone through in the first place.
Therefore, Klein only listed such an option, basically will not choose, unless a certain “visionary” is willing to provide help, so that all the living beings in the north and south continents will take it for granted that there is really a town there, and did not just appear out of nowhere.
Considering the influence of various external factors and his own extraordinary ability, Klein’s safest choice is to establish the secret puppet town on an uninhabited island that is sufficiently secluded and off the safe channel, and use the “Source Castle” to make anti-divination and anti-prophecy arrangements.
At the same time, Klein will rely on that “curtain” to “graft” a portion of the highway, river, and railroad nodes to the outside of the town, making it one of the stops on someone’s journey.
This cannot be kept completely secret, but when the “grotesque phenomenon” spreads and may attract the attention of Charatu and Amon, Klein can easily undo the original “grafting” and change the “entrances” without regularity. “.
Under such a strategy, what was transferred was only the “entrance”, not the city of the secret puppets itself, and the effects of the various interactions in the spirit world could be retained and not interrupted, allowing the ceremony to progress steadily.
Of course, there is also a big problem with this option, that is, the area of interaction is limited, and it is not possible to produce all aspects of deep daily influence, in addition, the frequency and intensity of interaction will not be too high.
If this option was chosen, it would mean that Klein would have to spend most of the year, if not more than a year, on the ritual.
–If he were to force the fate of each secret puppet to have a beginning and an end for the sake of stability, the time consumed by the ritual would have to be at least fifty years, but there was a tricky way to do this, which was to give the town a meteorite, an earthquake, or a volcano eruption directly after all the others had fulfilled the requirements of the ritual, so that the fates of all the secret puppets would reach their end at the same time. Such a scenario is also found in reality and is quite reasonable.
Between the radical and conservative scenarios, Klein had another compromise.
That was to replicate a certain city, have the secret puppets correspond to the inhabitants of that city one by one, and then, the ones who were more evil, directly obliterate that city and replace it with their own secret puppet towns, and the ones who had a merciful heart, hid that city and ensured the supply of materials – the reason for not transforming the target city was because it had its own Spirit Realm counterpart area, it wasn’t newly The reason for not transforming the target city is that it has its own spiritual counterpart and is not newly born.
Klein, with the “curtain” formed by the extraordinary characteristics of the “Secret Servant”, had a better option: to “graft” a certain stage of the city onto his own secret town.
In this way, his town would become the dark side of the city, and outsiders entering at the appropriate time would be met by puppets, not real people, and when that time passed, they would leave the town and return to reality, dealing with real people.
During the process, Klein would also send out secret puppets, playing the role of outsiders, to maintain interaction with the corresponding real people so that the real outsiders could seamlessly access them when they returned to reality.
In other words, two lives are being played out in the same city at the same time, but no one is aware of it, and only occasionally does someone feel that something isn’t quite right, but there’s no way to explain it, so they just ignore it.
This is quite in line with the character of “secretive”, and has a certain degree of secrecy.
Of course, this program also has its own problem, that is, the fate of the puppet is highly simulated by the fate of the real person, there is no independence of its own, which will lead to a certain aspect of the ceremony does not meet the desired effect.
Duk-duk-duk, Klein tapped his fingers on the edge of the long, mottled table, hesitating between the second and third options.
After several minutes, he obeyed his heart’s will and chose the second option, preferring to spend more time than to compromise the fate of the innocents.
”The odds are that Charatu and Antigonus chose the third option in the first place ……” Klein sighed, ready to return to reality.
At this point, he glanced at the clutter pile again and considered whether or not to send down an oracle to have Silver City modify some of the descriptions in the Holy Scriptures.
To a deity, the Holy Canon was actually not something too important, and its greatest use was to facilitate evangelization and increase the number of anchors.
This was something that Klein had long ago concluded from the contents of the Holy Canon of the Church of the Righteous God such as the Book of Night Revelation and the Book of Storms:
Most of the content in it was all about exalting the Positive God, bragging nonsense, and showing mercy and compassion.
If it is true that in ancient times the image of the gods was perceived by the believers as having a certain negative influence on the gods, there is no longer such a danger in the present time when symbols are used instead of images of the gods, and at least the “Goddess of the Night” and the “Lord of the Storms” and other gods are boldly claiming to be the original Creator. At least the “Goddess of the Night”, “Lord of the Storm” and other deities have boldly declared themselves to be the original Creator of a certain part of the body, and are not at all worried that this will aggravate the resurgence of the original will in their own bodies.
That is to say, if there is really a problem in this regard, Klein believes that the “Goddess of the Night” must have changed the corresponding description, from the original Creator’s one eye to the birth of a child of k, which is just as high as the status.
At the same time, the recognition of certain things by the believers will not burden the gods themselves in the occult sense, otherwise Amon would have secretly prepared a group of believers for Krynn, or the previous “Source Castle”, and induced them to form the “Angel of the Time” is the “Lord of Mystery”. The “Lord of Mysteries” incarnated this knowledge, and with the help of qualified instinctive response, established enough contact with the “Source Castle” to open a “back door”.
There are only two most important parts of the Holy Scriptures for the gods, apart from the need for evangelization:
The first is the description of the deity’s own authority and honorary name, which, if wrong, can lead believers to direct their prayers to the wrong unknown object, which is not only dangerous for believers, but also can cause the deity to lose its anchor; and the second is the description of other churches, which can easily lead to conflict.
As for angels and saints related, the gods are not really too concerned about it, what they are concerned about is the angels and saints themselves, as they need to use this to gain a certain anchor.
Therefore, the descriptions of the angels and saints in the major canons were detailed enough, with powers and honorable names, so that it was easy for different believers to pick and substitute, and in addition, it was not enough to form a solid anchor, as it was covered under the beliefs of the deities.
The Orthodox Church, in order to solve this problem, would assign different Angels of the Lord’s Protection and Saints of the Lord’s Protection to different churches, precisely delineating the scope.
Because of this knowledge, Klein has never paid much attention to the Holy Scriptures, and after flipping through the part describing his own authority and honorary name in the front, he was too embarrassed to want to read on, and only used the method of “divination” to make sure that there would not be any conflict with the Orthodox Church of God.
After considering it for a while, he gave up the idea of directly sending down an oracle to make Silver City revise the Holy Scriptures and decided to use a softer approach:
In the communication of the Tarot Club, through the “world” Germaine Sparrow induced the “sun” to adjust its cognition, and the Part 1nvolving the “angel of the time” in the direction of Paleos Zoroaster, without arousing the suspicion of Silver City. The Sun will be able to revise the content accordingly without arousing the suspicion of the Silver City.
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Byam, Verdu Abraham has gained a lot of occult knowledge in several circles of extraordinary people.
He lit a gas wall lamp and took advantage of the night to read it carefully.
Turning to the end, he suddenly read a piece of information he had never known before:
”Banshee Harbor is a place full of occult power, and the connection between there and the astral realm of the Spirit World is beyond imagination …… Even if the Storm Church directly destroyed this harbor, it did not completely eliminate the anomalies that existed in it ……
”A lot of occult researchers are buying Bansi related items at high prices ……”
Banshee …… Verdoux muttered to himself wordlessly, and suddenly developed a strong interest in that harbor.
He began to consider whether he should also acquire some items from Bansi and study them in depth, after all, the Spirit World is related to “teleportation”, and the Astral World and the Starry Sky are related to “roaming”, and all of them may involve “gates”! “Mr. Bertram Abraham’s escape.
Perhaps, if the opportunity arises, a visit to Bansi could be in order …… Verdoux nodded imperceptibly.