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Klein fell silent for a moment. He could accept Leyton's statement, but he could not ignore the tragedies caused by the Aurora Order outside the Forsaken Land of the Gods, nor could he ignore the True Creator who orchestrated it all.
Seeing Klein fall silent, Leyton reached out and gently tapped the edge of the table in front of him twice. When Klein's attention was drawn to him, he chuckled and said, "You don't need to care too much about this. Each of us views problems from a different perspective, and there's nothing wrong with sticking to your own ideas."
"We can be hostile to Him because of the tragedies the Aurora Order caused to welcome the True Creator's descent, or we can choose to cooperate with Him for some necessary trade-offs."
"Necessary trade-offs?" Klein murmured softly. His spiritual perception suddenly stirred, and he looked at Leyton, pondering, "You Beyonders of the Reader Pathway seem to prefer viewing problems with such a rational attitude."
"I'm just a Mysticologist now."
Leyton corrected him, then chuckled, "However, after being a Reader for so long, I still retain some habits, more or less."
"As for some similar habits among Readers, a large reason for this is the influence brought by acting and potions, which is the influence from the top of the Sequence on the same Pathway."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Leyton himself was stunned for a moment, then he pursed his lips and tilted his head back. He probably knew why the God of Knowledge was so good at picking sides.
After a brief silence, Leyton changed the subject:
"I'll sacrifice a scale to you. Try to see if you can use it to pinpoint the returning Dragon of Imagination."
"I can... but it's highly likely to be ineffective. He must have made corresponding preparations."
Klein said cautiously, but he did not refuse Leyton's suggestion to try. He was also very interested in the Dragon of Imagination. Across this Gray Fog, even a former ancient god shouldn't be able to do anything to me.
Crimson light surged like a tide around him. Leyton felt a blur before his eyes, and he was back in the hotel in Bayam.
He quickly got up from the sofa and searched the room for candles, essential oils, and other ritual materials. Lacking materials rich in spirituality, he directly used his own spirituality to create shimmering starlight, condensing them into transparent amber beads to substitute.
Quickly preparing a simple sacrifice ritual, he gently rubbed his fingers, creating several scarlet flames to light the candles in front of him, then stepped back and began to chant the incantation:
"The Fool who does not belong to this era, the Mysterious Ruler above the Gray Fog, the King of Yellow and Black Who Wields Good Luck."
"Your faithful servant implores your gaze;
Implores you to accept his offering;
Implores you to open the door to your kingdom."
...
In the ancient palace above the Gray Fog, a crimson light suddenly surged. As the light faded, Leyton's figure reappeared there.
His gaze went straight to the uppermost position on the mottled long table, to the blurry figure shrouded in Gray Fog.
A grayish-white scale was quietly suspended in mid-air, slowly rotating, revealing the two different strange symbols on its front and back.
Klein quietly observed the grayish-white scale, carefully sensing something. After a moment, he pondered, "He has indeed made some preparations. This scale seems to be connected to the entire spiritual world, rather than a single individual."
Leyton nodded slightly, not too surprised, "As expected. At least, this scale is more likely to be a scale from his own body, rather than from other giant dragons, or an item created through imitate."
A moment later, Klein directly reached out and grasped the grayish-white scale, closed his eyes, and softly chanted:
"The location of the Dragon of Imagination."
After repeating it seven times, he quickly entered a deep sleep through meditation.
In the dream, Klein quickly woke up. He saw himself appear above a deep, dark ocean, where every drop of liquid around him was like a light and shadow, blurry and dreamlike. Is this the Sea of Collective Subconscious? Or the so-called spiritual world?
The surrounding environment made Klein's expression slightly dazed. Even though this was just a scene he saw through dream divination, the layered and alternating consciousnesses in the Sea of Collective Subconscious inevitably caused his mind to fluctuate.
Every consciousness in every mind makes some exchange with the Sea of Collective Subconscious. Beyonders who are not proficient in the spiritual domain find it difficult to move here, and even, if they are not careful, their minds will be polluted by the layered and accumulated subconsciouses here.
A voice that went straight into his mind suddenly resounded in Klein's mind. His spirituality surged like a stimulated beast, vigilant, as if it would break away from the dream divination state at any moment.
To his astonished gaze, a huge figure emerged from the depths of the ethereal and profound ocean:
It was a slender, lizard-like Monster, its body like a small mountain, its surface covered in large, grayish-white, stone-like scales, and its eyes were pale gold and vertical.
The Dragon of Imagination Ankewelt! He actually hid directly in the depths of the Sea of Collective Subconscious, waiting for my divination. Didn't they say ancient gods are all crazy? How does He look so rational?
Ankewelt's pale gold, vertical eyes were empty, but He looked at Klein's direction very naturally, as if He had already seen him.
Klein felt as if he saw human-like surprise and joy in the other party's large, cold eyes?
While Klein was surprised and thinking, Ankewelt slightly flapped the grayish wings behind Him. The surrounding spiritual world instantly stirred up a storm, and various extreme emotions quickly bred and spread.
After doing all this, Ankewelt spoke to himself:
"It seems that the Dragon of Wisdom's Blessed does not have much respect or trust for Him. He did not choose to hand my scale over to the Dragon of Wisdom."
Dragon of Wisdom? Does this refer to the God of Knowledge? This True God is actually a giant dragon, and a titled one at that. In the second epoch, He might have been one of the Dragon of Imagination's subsidiary gods.
It really is the Spectator's style, testing from the very beginning... Perhaps, no matter what choice Al made, no matter whose hands that scale fell into, this former ancient god had corresponding preparations and choices.
"I didn't feel any malice, nor could I trace the source of this gaze... This means your Sequence is very high, or you possess the Concealment authority."
"Are you the 'Fool' who has recently become active?"
Ankewelt's words, like a self-question and answer, interrupted Klein's contemplation. He looked at the massive dragon with considerable surprise.
He can detect my divination, but cannot trace me back, nor can He affect me... I can't be careless, this might just be His performance. But how does He know I am 'The Fool'? Is it just a guess? Or did Al and He communicate something in the spiritual world?
Should I say something too? Always listening to Him talk makes me feel very passive.
No, I'm just divining... As expected of an angel of the Spectator Pathway, even words without Beyonder ability influence can guide people unknowingly? ... Thinking of this, Klein quickly reined in his thoughts, no longer pondering His words, and quietly became an observer.
Ankewelt's voice did not pause because of Klein's thoughts. He seemed to be talking to himself on this Sea of Collective Subconscious:
"Sequence 0 is not the pinnacle of the Sequence Pathway. When I was still the 'Dragon of Imagination', I felt a higher level of corruption. It came from deep underground, extremely dangerous!"
"With Antigonus and Zaratul still alive, you can still call yourself 'The Fool', which should be related to the thing the Demonic Wolf King called 'Sefirah Castle', just as the Ancient Sun God could control the 'Chaos Sea' deep underground."
"There is no direct conflict between us... Perhaps, we can try to cooperate?"
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