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Not long after Leyton and Klein left, Cesimir, carrying a pure white bone sword, arrived with the Nighthawks of the Church of the Evernight Goddess.
They stopped a few meters from the corpse, and with the aid of their dark vision, everyone saw Lanevus's body in front of them.
Cesimir's face showed obvious anger; after he used the Goddess's Sword to break through that strange barrier, he found that his target, Lanevus, and the mysterious person who suddenly appeared were both gone.
At the same time, all the Church members stationed outside were affected by the evil god, Hidden Sage, and were in very poor condition. He had originally intended to continue tracking Lanevus, but the other party's traces were obscured.
It took great effort for the Church's Beyonders to divine Lanevus's whereabouts, and he immediately brought the Nighthawks team over.
Lanevus's corpse, and the surrounding walls and ground, were all covered with tarot cards.
Everything looked like the scene of some bizarre ritual, with Lanevus as the destined sacrifice.
Cesimir silently sighed. Lanevus, the person who reported him, the Aurora Order, the True Creator, the Hidden Sage, and the person who killed Lanevus—too much was involved in this incident.
At 15 Minsk Street, the figures of Klein and Leyton quickly emerged.
The moonlight from outside the window shone into the living room, and Klein felt his mind achieve a rare tranquility.
After completing his initial revenge, Klein clearly felt that the suppression in his heart had significantly lessened, and his mental state had improved.
"You seem to have changed a bit; it looks like this is a good thing."
Leyton vaguely noticed the slight change in Klein's state and spoke.
"Mm, thank you for tonight."
"What kind of reward do I need to pay?"
Klein nodded slightly, then asked about the reward.
Leyton waved his hand:
"No need, I've already gained something!"
He then held up the transparent amber wrapped in scarlet flesh that he was holding in his left hand.
Klein nodded, not pressing further on the reward issue. Instead, he looked at the transparent amber in the other party's hand with great curiosity, and at the flesh inside, which seemed to be frozen in place, asking:
"What is this?"
"Something the True Creator left inside Lanevus. It's the vessel He prepared to descend through the seal, but this is only a seedling and does not yet meet the conditions for Him to descend."
Leyton answered based on the information he had observed.
"Earlier at the East Docks, did you seek help from the Hidden Sage?"
Klein recalled the other high-level aura that had appeared not long after the True Creator's aura erupted.
"It wasn't seeking help; the Hidden Sage directly descended for a brief moment. Otherwise, this mass of flesh with the True Creator's divinity wouldn't have been so easily obtained by me."
"Evil God… Descent!"
Klein's face instantly turned grim. The area around the East Docks was not uninhabited. If the Hidden Sage had truly descended for a brief moment, it would have been an absolute disaster for the people there.
"There won't be too much of a problem. He made some concealment. You should have noticed that the Hidden Sage's aura didn't spread widely."
"People staying nearby will only have headaches for a while and gain some messy but useless knowledge."
Leyton explained. He himself hadn't expected the Hidden Sage to act so methodically, completely unlike an evil god's style.
Before chanting the Hidden Sage's honorific name, Leyton had actually hoped that the Evernight Goddess could prevent the effects brought by the Hidden Sage.
With the Goddess's Sword of the Church of the Evernight Goddess and Klein's involvement in this matter, Leyton believed that the Goddess must also be paying attention to the development of events.
Leyton even felt that the Hidden Sage was more reliable than that Storm brother who liked to strike people with lightning.
"I always feel that the Hidden Sage is somewhat different from what I imagined; I haven't found any madness in Him at all."
Leyton muttered to himself.
Klein took out the only trophy he had obtained from Lanevus, that eye-sized badge.
After a careful look, besides the symbol of fate and Concealment engraved on the front, there was also a very compact circle of ancient hermes inscriptions on the back:
"Hold this, and you can join!"
"Is this the symbol of some Concealment organization?"
Klein asked, handing over the badge.
Just by glancing at it, Leyton had already recalled the relevant memories:
"The Hermits of Fate! A gathering of Thieves. Don't go there; Amon might be mixed in!"
"Thieves? Amon?" Klein's expression was clearly a bit puzzled.
Leyton hesitated for a moment, then decided to tell Klein everything relevant. Preventing Amon was paramount; not a single mistake could be made.
He skillfully poured himself a cup of hot water, then leaned back on the sofa:
"I mentioned The Marauder pathway to you before, as well as Seer and Apprentice; they belong to the same group of pathways."
"Amon is the King of Angels of The Marauder pathway. This pathway excels in deception and theft. Besides that, based on the special mythical creature forms of your three pathways, Amon can also create many avatars."
"Their strength varies, but their status all belongs to the King of Angels level, and combined with the Marauder's ability to steal and deceive, his avatars can be of any identity."
Klein's expression gradually changed from solemn to a tingling scalp. He could already imagine the fear of everyone around him being someone else's avatar.
"Does Amon have hostility towards me?"
This was Klein's guess, based on the fact that Amon's avatars were mixed among the Hermits of Fate, and Al didn't want him to go.
Leyton weighed his words, then said:
"Not necessarily hostile to you, but definitely hostile to The Fool, the kind where one must die!"
"Wh-why?"
Klein's face paled slightly.
"That place above the Gray Fog! That belongs to Sefirah Castle."
Without giving Klein a chance to ask, Leyton continued:
"You know the relationship between the Sequence 0 of corresponding pathways and their Uniqueness, right? Sefirah Castle is equivalent to the Uniqueness required for advancement above Sequence 0 for the Marauder, Apprentice, and Seer pathways."
"Sequence 0 can still advance further?" Klein subconsciously swallowed. He probably understood why the Hidden Sage invested in him, no, invested in The Fool.
"Above the Sequence, I like to call them Great Old Ones. The Knowledge Moor I mentioned to you before is the same as Sefirah Castle."
"However, the Knowledge Moor belongs to the Mystery Pryer and Savant pathways."
To prevent Klein from having too much aversion to him due to this information, Leyton also mentioned the Knowledge Moor.
"So this is the fundamental reason for the conflict between the Hidden Sage and the God of Steam and Machinery?"
Klein thought of the Hidden Sage's answer when he had previously asked about the required Rewards for the investment.
Leyton nodded and said:
"Yes, and similarly, this is also the reason why all True Gods are hostile to each other."
Klein hadn't expected to learn so much Concealment information at once. After digesting it for a while and regaining his thoughts, he spoke again:
"So, The Fool and the Angels and True Gods of the Seer, Apprentice, and Marauder pathways are all hostile to each other? And I will be affected by this?"
Leyton didn't care that Klein separated The Fool from himself. He nodded and said:
"To be precise, these three pathways don't have True Gods yet. The closest to a True God is Mr. Door, but Mr. Door has already been exiled by the Evernight Goddess and the Storm. The Door pathway currently has no other Angels."
"You don't need to worry too much. As long as you're not unlucky enough to directly run into Amon's avatar, you'll be fine. The Fool will bear the weight when the sky falls."
Leyton said something that wasn't really comforting. Who told Klein not to admit he was The Fool!
Klein took a deep breath. He wasn't comforted at all. The Fool was himself, and he still had to bear these problems.
Actually, Klein really wanted to ask the other party why he could maintain such a good mindset. After all, the Hidden Sage's opponent was a True God. Once the Hidden Sage lost the fight with the God of Steam and Machinery...
"I also have the identity of a Blessed of Knowledge. At worst, I'll just stay in the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and read books and take exams every day!"
Leyton spoke as if he had a premonition.
"Is this prophecy? Or intuition? I didn't even say it out loud."
Klein looked at Leyton in surprise and asked.
"Intuition strengthened by prophetic ability."
Leyton directly stated that he had a portion of the Sage characteristic gradually merging into his body.
Klein's gaze towards Leyton couldn't help but carry some sympathy.
"What kind of look is that! The number of King of Angels-level characteristics is fixed throughout the world. My treatment can make a bunch of Beyonders drool."
Klein's words of comfort were stuck in his throat. He knew that Al didn't need anyone's comfort at all; he would only provoke others.
"What do you know about Sefirah Castle?" Klein changed to a question he cared more about.
"You should ask The Fool! Sefirah Castle is His territory."
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