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Leyton, with Klein and Crow Anu, arrived at St. Estin Hospital in the Backlund Bridge Area through Spirit World travel.
It was nearing winter, and although the Hospital's morgue didn't keep bodies for too long, management was relatively relaxed now, so many bodies stayed overnight in the Hospital's morgue.
Inside the morgue on the basement floor of St. Estin Hospital, a gloomy, cold sensation spread throughout.
Leyton instinctively frowned; he didn't like this environment, as it easily reminded him of horror movies he had seen before.
"Why did you come to this Hospital? Are there more bodies in the Backlund Bridge Area's Hospital?"
Leyton asked with some curiosity.
"More or less. Many poor people from the lower class here die from illness, and their families have nowhere to place the bodies, so they usually store them in the Hospital's morgue."
Klein nodded, explaining in detail the reason for choosing this Hospital.
Leyton looked at Klein with some surprise:
"You're very well-prepared for your detective identity! You even paid attention to these details."
"Because this isn't just a disguise; it's also my job and source of income."
As Klein answered, he pulled out the gold-cased pocket watch from his Arms and glanced at it. He precisely withdrew the spirituality covering the azik copper whistle.
Leyton scanned the environment inside the morgue. After Klein withdrew the spirituality covering the azik copper whistle, the aura of the death domain instantly intensified.
In Leyton's Eyes of Mystery Prying vision, the morgue was tinged with a dark, heavy, dark green color.
Time passed by the minute, about one or two minutes. A corpse on the long table in front suddenly sat up.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Intense knocking sounds came from the iron cabinets where bodies were placed, as if something inside wanted to break out.
"Crimson!" Klein threw a Soul Soothing Talisman at the corpse that had sat up on the long table in front.
The knocking sounds from the surrounding iron cabinets instantly diminished, and the corpse that had sat up on the long table lay back down.
A bright, brilliant, and pure warm light, like water, spread out from Leyton as its center. Wherever the light passed, all activated corpses were Purified, and the residual death aura in the corpses quickly dissipated.
Klein looked up gratefully at Leyton; his solution was even more perfect than his own method of putting the corpses to sleep.
Tap! Tap!
The old gatekeeper outside was attracted by the commotion and light from inside the morgue. He approached with a lantern.
Leyton took two steps closer to Klein, placing his hand on Klein's shoulder. The figures of the two men and one Crow quickly disappeared from the morgue.
With a creak, the old gatekeeper opened the morgue door with a key. He held up his lantern and carefully scanned every corner of the morgue.
At 15 Minsk Street, the figures of Klein, Leyton, and Crow Anu quickly materialized in the living room.
"Phew! We almost got discovered. Spirit World travel is really useful!"
Klein couldn't help but exclaim.
"After all, the Apprentice Pathway is the most suitable Pathway to be made into a Sealed Artifact."
Leyton added.
The expression on Klein's face paused slightly. Controlling his twitching mouth with his Clown ability, he said:
"That joke isn't funny at all to a Beyonder of the Apprentice Pathway."
"Why did you ask about the Sauron Family?"
Leyton took advantage of Klein's relaxed state to ask the question from the Tarot Club, catching him off guard.
"I was a little curious—"
Klein subconsciously answered, but then suddenly fell silent. He looked at Leyton with an awkward, unnatural smile and said:
"How did you guess?"
"I just asked casually, but I didn't expect you to be so honest."
Leyton looked at Klein with an undisguised smile in his eyes.
"You—" Klein was speechless. He calmed himself down, then said with an expression of 'I'll confess everything':
"That's right, I am The World of the Tarot Club."
With the identity of The World as a disguise, Al shouldn't have any more suspicions. Hmm, my identity as the The Fool must be hidden. It would be troublesome if others knew, but if Al knew, it would be more of a social death.
Klein thought of Emperor Roselle, who had already suffered social death in front of him. He didn't want to follow in the Emperor's footsteps and suffer social death at the hands of another Transmigrator.
Leyton looked at Klein suspiciously; he felt that the other party's mental activity at that moment was very rich.
His spiritual intuition was stirred. Leyton reached out and grabbed something in the void, pulling out a few sheets of paper from the opposite house through the connection of the Spirit World.
Klein looked at the two pale yellow sheets of paper that suddenly appeared in the other party's hand, and his Seer's intuition had a bad premonition.
"I suddenly remembered that when we were in Tingen, because you were in low spirits, I didn't give you these two paintings."
As he spoke, Leyton handed over the two watercolor paintings he had made of Klein right after he was resurrected.
Klein reluctantly took the two paintings the other party handed over:
One was a watercolor painting of him climbing out of a grave, with half his body showing;
The other was a cartoon version of a black cat with a top hat, with half its body emerging from a grave.
That black cat with a top hat made Klein inexplicably think of himself, and he frowned repeatedly.
"Is that what you were holding at the time?"
Klein recalled that when he had just climbed out of the grave, the other party indeed held two pale yellow sheets of paper, but they were quickly put away.
"Very vivid, isn't it?"
Leyton raised an eyebrow, his face full of an undisguised smile.
Klein was somewhat speechless. The words on the tip of his tongue finally turned into a sigh:
"Your hobbies are truly unique!"
Under Klein's bewildered gaze, Leyton, accompanied by Crow Anu, stepped into the Spirit World and returned to the room across the street.
"The long day is finally over!"
Stretching and sighing, Leyton went to the washroom on the second floor, quickly washed up, and then lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day when he woke up, it was already close to noon.
He went out to buy two lunches to go, then Leyton sat in the dining room, eating freshly grilled lamb chops and wine made by Bugs Bunny.
Crow Anu and Bugs Bunny sat directly at the dining table, eating their own food.
Leyton's spiritual intuition was stirred at this moment, and a book, as if cast from gold, fell out of the Spirit World.
A mouth-like crack tore open on the golden cover:
"My dear master! The Beyonder characteristic you need has been fully extracted. The great and supreme Mr. Hughes asks me to tell you to retrieve them as soon as possible, and not to create strange items, especially those with strange side effects."
Leyton raised an eyebrow. He always felt that this book deliberately chose to appear when he was eating.
Ignoring the latter words, he asked with a slight doubt:
"Are you that respectful of Mr. Hughes?"
"Of course, I respect every knowledgeable scholar, especially if they are a Wisdom Angel."
The messenger said, constantly shaking the book's body.
"My dear master, please allow me to praise my Lord for a while. I can't help but sing of my Lord's glory every day!"
The messenger didn't wait for Leyton's reply and began to praise the God of Knowledge and Wisdom on his own.
Leyton skillfully used a spell to temporarily block his hearing. The Crow and Bugs Bunny quickly left the dining room with their food.
For a moment, the entire room was filled only with the messenger's rapturous praise of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.
Leyton ate the food on his plate while muttering to himself:
"Why are most of the side effects of the Sun Pathway praising the Sun? How much does the Eternal Blazing Sun love to sing, and love to hear others sing! And it's quite unpleasant to listen to!"
"No wonder knowledge, Storm, and Sun are hostile to each other. Besides the reasons of their own Pathways, I feel their relationship itself should be quite poor."
After silently finishing his lunch on the plate and drinking the last sip of wine in his glass, Leyton sat on the chair and waited for a while. The messenger finally completed its praising task for the day and returned to the Spirit World.
Leyton sighed helplessly. He already understood why Mr. Hughes found this book, which constantly praised the God of Knowledge, so noisy.
If it weren't his own messenger, Leyton would also throw it back into the Spirit World when it praised the God of Knowledge.
After tidying up the dining table, Leyton returned to the study on the second floor.
He quickly took out the materials, set up the ritual for storing and retrieving items from the Library, and took out the Beyonder characteristic that had been gradually extracted from the Devil emblem and the Conspirer characteristic.
Leyton held a crimson object resembling a heart in his hand. That "heart" slowly expanded and contracted, and tiny, almost invisible flames spewed from the small pores on its surface.
"A creature primarily made of fire, what a pity there aren't enough materials, otherwise I'd really like to create a phoenix. However, for a phoenix, you'd definitely need a Beyonder characteristic of Sequence 4 or higher to have enough Beyonder rank."
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