After the invisible servants retreated with the two Beyonder characteristics from the Psychology Alchemists' leader, Leyton tilted his head to look at the pile of dark gray dust on the ground, his eyes flickering.
Besides Barros Hopkins, the King of the Black Throne, and Pauli Derlau, the former dean of Backlund Medical College and royal medical consultant, he also had other Spectator Saints like Eric Drake, a well-known hermit from the Sonia Sea. It's truly difficult to completely kill them!
"Alas~"
A distant, profound sigh penetrated the hidden space created by the surrounding stars, echoing in Leyton's ears and momentarily blanking his mind.
"So fast..." Leyton thought to himself, and at the same time, his left hand, holding the pitch-black leather glove, squeezed hard. The glove crumbled inch by inch in his hand, disintegrating into specks of red and light blue light, floating in the air.
Blinding sunlight appeared from outside, like dawn expelling night, easily penetrating the flickering stars around and destroying the "Concealment" here.
In the dazzling sunlight, Leyton saw a somewhat blurry figure. He was wearing a simple white robe, with a light gold beard covering the lower half of his face, and a cross pendant hanging on his chest, looking like the most ordinary priest.
Leyton calmly assessed Adam, who appeared before him, and said nothing, merely tapping his fingers lightly, allowing the Beyonder characteristics extracted from the glove to quickly dissipate and spread to various parts of Eden.
These were the Beyonder characteristics of a Demon. As the light points of these characteristics drifted to various parts of Eden, its originally peaceful appearance instantly began to tear, and various emotions and desires abnormally surged.
Adam's figure quickly became clear. He looked at Leyton with a gentle smile on his face, seemingly unconcerned by his previous actions, and spoke in a calm voice:
"Greetings. Should I call you the newborn Sage, or the embodiment of the Knowledge Moor?"
"You can tell?" Leyton looked at Adam with some surprise, then chuckled softly with a hint of realization, "Of course, after all, you once controlled the Chaos Sea."
The moment his words fell, his body suddenly dematerialized, breaking down into complex knowledge, transforming into a pure information flow entity, and, like a torrent, moving away from Eden and the dream world.
Adam maintained his gentle smile, as if nothing could stir his emotions.
He looked at Leyton with calm eyes, his voice echoing throughout the entire dream world, easily reaching Leyton's ears:
"Perhaps, we can have a chat. I think you will need a brand new, unique humanity of your own."
Adam's voice echoed in his ears, and Leyton, still in his information flow state, felt an urge to stop and continue the conversation with the other party, an urge that grew stronger and stronger.
This thought did not make Leyton stop his movement away from the dream world; instead, he ran even faster.
In Eden, Adam merely glanced in the direction Leyton had departed, then quickly retracted his gaze, not pursuing.
He turned and looked around Eden, sighing softly.
The emotions and desires that had abnormally surged due to the Demon's Beyonder characteristics instantly calmed down, like stagnant water, not creating a single ripple on the calm lake surface.
Specks of crimson and light blue light emerged from various parts of Eden, slowly gathering into Adam's hand.
In the hotel in Midseashire County's Constant City, Leyton's figure reformed from the complex, pure knowledge.
As soon as his figure appeared, green, thick pea vines began to descend from the room's ceiling, quickly covering his body and pulling him into a forest interwoven with green.
Within the space isolated from the outside by Mystical Reenactment, Leyton once again transformed himself into an information state, checking his condition bit by bit.
He wasn't sure if Adam appeared after that sigh, or if he had discovered him soon after he arrived in Eden and rushed over.
That was the King of Angels closest to the Visionary position. As someone present at the scene, Leyton was not confident that he could see through the other party's psychological invisibility.
After checking and confirming that his mind and consciousness were not subjected to unknown interference, the complex and pure knowledge reassembled Leyton's body. At the same time, the vines forming the green forest rapidly retracted, allowing his body to return to the hotel room in reality.
He pulled out a chair from beside the desk and sat down. He gently tapped the wooden desk surface twice with his right hand, and several invisible servants floated up behind him, successively placing the iron boxes in their hands on the desk, then disappearing again.
Leyton let out a long breath, then waved his hand. The iron boxes opened one by one, and the Beyonder characteristics stored inside flew out, slowly rotating around him.
The mechanical glove on his right hand spontaneously split open at the palm, revealing tightly interlocking gears that clicked and whirred, like a slowly devouring maw.
At his thought, a heart, seemingly formed from countless flowing black shadows, spontaneously dropped into his right palm, which he gripped tightly.
Click! Click!
The sound of mechanical operation became crisper, as if constantly tearing something.
The pitch-black heart in his hand melted bit by bit, turning into long, slender, translucent shadows that flowed into the glove.
In just a moment, the Beyonder characteristic he held completely disappeared. Simultaneously, the strange symbols inscribed on the bronze mechanical glove changed slightly. On the back of the hand, a pitch-black gem with a deep red, rose-like bloom inside appeared. Around the gem was a cold, indifferent eye pattern without eyelashes, the gem itself like a pupil adorning it.
After examining the gem on the back of his hand for a moment, he suddenly extended his right hand forward, making a grasping motion in mid-air.
The shadows in the room suddenly came alive, surging like water, condensing into pitch-black shackles, then instantly shattering, transforming into the most ordinary shadows, flowing into the floorboards and wall cracks.
Retracting his right hand, Leyton quietly examined the mechanical glove for a while. Deep, profound pale purple light flickered in his eyes, and he soon understood the changes in the glove after incorporating the Black Knight Beyonder characteristic.
"The negative effects are almost unchanged; only the living Beyonder characteristic has been strengthened somewhat. It will pray to the Knowledge Moor every day and likes to acquire and spread knowledge."
Muttering softly, Leyton then manipulated the Manipulator and Earl of the Fallen Beyonder characteristics floating in mid-air, successively integrating them into the mechanical glove on his hand. They transformed into grayish-white and dark red gems, respectively, embedded just below the middle and ring finger joints, surrounded by intricate symbols and patterns, looking like stars circling the eye below.
Utilizing the Black Knight Beyonder characteristic's "herding" ability, these two additional Beyonder characteristics did not increase the glove's negative effects; they merely granted it a significant amount of mysticism knowledge related to mind and order, increasing its living Beyonder characteristic to a certain extent.
It seemed Leyton's thoughts startled the glove on his hand. The three gems embedded on the back of the hand flickered with a cold light, as if blinking, and then a rather sharp, childish voice emanated:
"Great Master, I can virtualize many personalities for you, giving them corresponding mind bodies. This can both resist many influences in the spiritual domain and help you quickly complete spellcasting, even achieving multi-spellcasting effects."
"Not bad..." Leyton praised softly.
The "Virtual Persona" Beyonder ability was one he had always longed to possess. For a Mystery Pryer, who primarily relies on spellcasting, "Virtual Persona" was like transforming a small pistol into a heavy machine gun.
The sharp, childish voice continued:
"Great Master, I can also help you achieve 'Consciousness Stroll,' allowing your consciousness and Spirit Body to roam in the collective unconscious sea, but unable to bring your physical body with you."
"That's not a difficult problem for me."
As Leyton spoke, he leaned back against the chair, holding the remaining Dream Weaver Beyonder characteristic in his left hand, and with his mechanical-gloved right hand, he gently rubbed his fingers, creating one brilliant golden star after another, radiating circles of warm, strongly Purifying light.
As the Purification continued, pale white specks of light began to precipitate from the Dream Weaver Beyonder characteristic.
After about half an hour, the Dream Weaver Beyonder characteristic was separately extracted, and the remaining Beyonder characteristics, from Sequence 9 to Sequence 4, were re-packed into the metal box and handed to the invisible servants to take away.
"Indeed, murder and arson are the fastest ways to get rich. No wonder everyone wants to become Gehrman Sparrow."
As he murmured, his body instantly dematerialized, breaking down into complex knowledge, and drilled into the Spirit World Depths.
Soon, he arrived at the Library located deep within the Spirit World.
The Library seemed unusually lively tonight. He saw Hillarion, "Orange Light..." whom he had met before.
His appearance had changed significantly upon returning to the Spirit World; he was now a plump old man in an orange robe with a white short beard, looking quite amiable.
Besides "Orange Light..." he also saw Glenn Palace, one of the ten pillars of the Moses Ascetic Order. This lady with messy brown hair sat opposite Hillarion at a dark round table.
There were also Brie and Ritz, the two Artisan cats, lie on the table, constantly flipping through books.
Leyton's gaze swept across the Library. Besides the Knowledge Rabbit quietly reading and moving books, there were also many strangely shaped Spirit World creatures with not-so-weak auras. This Library had a tendency to develop into an animal park, if Spirit World creatures counted as animals.