Looking at the Abrahams who suddenly had red eyes and choked voices, Mr. Door sighed deeply:
"Yes, I'm back."
"I am not a qualified leader; the family's greatest crisis was brought about by me. If anyone, because of this, does not wish to return to their Abraham identity, I will have no objection. They can retain their current wealth, stability, and happiness to live out this final period."
Lawrence and the other Abrahams shook their heads repeatedly, replying one after another:
"No, no one will blame you or resent you for this. This was not your will, and we all know the reason."
"At most, at most, it's just some lament over the unfairness of fate."
Mr. Door sighed softly, shook his head, and his voice sounded particularly heavy:
"You don't know the whole reason. That Erudite partially deleted the information. However, I believe every member of the Abraham Family has the right to know the truth, the part that doesn't involve too much danger."
Pausing for two seconds, Mr. Door continued:
"The ravings during the full Moon came from my cries in the depths of darkness and storms, but this wasn't entirely due to the influence of corruption; part of it was my own will."
"As the Abrahams with the deepest connection to me, you are the most likely to establish contact with me, be affected by my corruption and temptation, and rely on the family's foundation to rescue me from the depths of darkness and storms."
"This is not the family's salvation, but the beginning of disaster."
"Once the polluted me returns to reality, my authority will become the key for the Primordial Moon to invade this world, bringing about the apocalypse directly."
The expressions on the faces of Lawrence and the other Abrahams solidified, and their looks became dazed, as if they were trying to digest the information and find reasons to convince themselves.
After a long silence, Lawrence finally asked:
"So, the family's suffering from the ravings isn't just your madness and self-salvation after being polluted, but also a protective measure to prevent family members from establishing contact with you and bringing danger to this world?"
Mr. Door nodded slightly, his voice a little softer, filled with deep guilt:
"Yes, but you shouldn't have to bear such a sacrifice. It was my selfish choice for all Abrahams."
After a long silence, Lawrence suddenly chuckled:
"If I had known the truth from the beginning, perhaps I would have hesitated and struggled, but ultimately, I would still have agreed with your approach, Ancestor."
"At least, I know that our millennium of sacrifice was meaningful. Even if no one knows, we protected the entire world."
Above the Gray Fog, relying on the unbroken connection with Mr. Door, Klein also witnessed this scene.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly sighed deeply, then began to laugh.
After laughing for a while, he stopped and looked at Leyton's Historical Projection, then asked:
"You knew all this from the beginning?"
Leyton nodded gently and said, "More or less. Although I didn't see the specific information, I could infer a general idea."
Klein nodded, sighing with emotion:
"I suddenly thought of a saying: This world is broken, but there are always people mending it."
"This must be the humanity we possess, right?"
"I seem to suddenly not be so lost anymore. I've found some reasons to contend with Amon, beyond just for myself."
Leyton looked at Klein with some surprise, seeing his determined gaze, and chuckled:
"I have a premonition that Amon won't be able to defeat you in the upcoming struggle."
As soon as he finished speaking, several illusory stars above the Gray Fog suddenly expanded and contracted, sending out crimson ripples in circles.
Layers of prayers echoed around, coming from the Forsaken Land of the Gods, from the residents of Moon City and the City of Silver.
After listening to the content of the prayers for a while, Klein turned his head to look at Leyton's Historical Projection, finding that the other party had already withdrawn his consciousness.
"He leaves quite quickly." With a casual remark, Klein reached out and summoned the black "curtain," letting it transform into a cloak that he draped over himself.
Then he began to respond to the prayers of the Moon City residents, transferring them to the City of Silver by way of fulfilling wishes, and then transferring all of them out of the Forsaken Land of the Gods to the Rorsted Archipelago.
After observing them for a period, seeing that the people of the City of Silver and Moon City were constructing the city in an orderly manner, he withdrew his gaze.
"The feedback from helping the Abraham Family and the residents of the City of Silver and Moon City fulfill their wishes is very strong. My Miracle Invoker Beyonder characteristic is almost completely digested. The remaining bit could be fully digested at any time. Next, I can prepare for the Attendant of Mysteries ritual."
As he muttered to himself, Klein let the cloak draped over him fall back into the Gray Fog in the corner, and then his figure disappeared directly above this Gray Fog.
In Meris in Southern Intis, at the top of a hundred-meter-tall building constructed from steel, concrete, crystal, and glass.
Many plants were cultivated here, trimmed into various unique shapes, like a sky garden.
On the terrace next to the garden, Roselle and Leyton sat on a long sofa, each holding a game controller, with a crystal display screen in front of them, showing a video with a peculiar art style.
Roselle vigorously shook his controller while exclaiming:
"As expected of the embodiment of knowledge and technology, it's so easy to recreate game consoles and displays."
"I want Bornova to simplify and popularize these things, to make games sweep the world. This is what young people should be playing."
On the other side, Bernadette, who was already used to this scene, came closer and interjected:
"Then you need to find someone to take over Bornova's duties first. He's doing more work in a day now than he did in a month at the Steam Church."
Roselle nodded and turned his gaze to Leyton, saying:
"Can't such a large Moses Ascetic Order find a few people who can work?"
Leyton put down his game controller, leaned back on the sofa, and shrugged:
"Half of Bornova's duties have nothing to do with the Church; you lazily dumped them on him."
"Moreover, I've already notified Mr. Door. He will bring people from the Abraham Family to share the Church's affairs. Shouldn't you also expand the number of members in the Senate?"
Roselle's mouth twitched, and he said somewhat speechlessly:
"I'm a person who died for over a hundred years and just revived. How could I have any connections? I only have a pair of children, and they still need to work for you!"
"If it weren't for my influence in Intis being acceptable, we wouldn't even have enough official personnel to maintain the normal operation of Southern Intis."
Hearing Roselle's complaint, Bernadette pondered and said:
"Father, Cattleya is already a Sequence 3 Saint. I can ask her for help to manage some maritime affairs."
While they were conversing, countless starlight surged from the void, rapidly constructing an illusory Door. Mr. Door and several Abraham Family Elder Council members, including Lawrence, appeared directly in the rooftop garden.
After a brief moment of surprise, Mr. Door was the quickest to recover. He looked at Leyton and Roselle, who were sitting in front of the crystal display, and exclaimed with some astonishment:
"The style of this city is somewhat out of place with the current era. My intuition tells me it should appear hundreds or even thousands of years from now, not in this Steam-dominated era."
"Even though I've seen many civilizations in the Cosmos, not many have developed technology to this extent."
Mr. Door's words made Roselle curiously inquire:
"Do civilizations in the Cosmos primarily focus on technological development or gathering Beyonder characteristics?"
Mr. Door shook his head with a complex expression:
"We are just an anomaly. Most worlds with life do not possess many Beyonder characteristics, or may even have none. An Angel is quite rare in the entire Cosmos."
"Of course, this doesn't mean that traveling the Cosmos is safe after becoming an Angel. On the contrary, for Angels, the vast, silent Cosmos is even more dangerous, because they are no longer limited by their environment and can come into contact with more things."
Roselle and Mr. Door did not delve deeper into this topic. There were also Abraham Family members of lower Sequence present, and knowing too much about the Cosmos was a hidden danger for them.
After the pleasantries, Leyton reached into the void and took out several vertical eye ornaments carved from crystal, distributing them to Mr. Door and the Abraham Family members he brought.
"This is a portable signal receiving device that allows you to establish a connection with the World Tree anytime, anywhere. It contains detailed explanations and information about this city, which can help you quickly familiarize yourselves with it and adapt to life here."
Mr. Door nodded, took the ornament, and infused a little Spirituality into it.
A clear light immediately bloomed from the crystal-carved vertical eye, and a large amount of information surged out, establishing a mysterious connection with Mr. Door's Body of Mind and Heart.
Behind him, the members of the Abraham Family also mimicked Mr. Door's actions, infusing Spirituality into their vertical-eye-shaped ornaments.
Soon, Mr. Door finished his experience and spoke with a thoughtful expression:
"This is very similar to the mental sharing of the Nebula Empire, which is an extraordinarily vast power in the Cosmos. They welcome everyone to join, without any thresholds, claiming to be all-inclusive."
"The minds of all beings who join the Nebula Empire are integrated, forming a single entity. It's very magical and also very terrifying. I once suspected that the Nebula Empire itself is a mental domain creature, and all joiners become a part of it. However, I haven't verified this; the Astrologer's intuition made me instinctively stay away from them."
"Heh, I've gone off-topic again. This method of linking using information as a bridge is relatively safe and effectively avoids the corruption caused by direct interaction between mental bodies. It's a very brilliant idea."