Chapter 459: Extraordinary Characteristics Aggregation?
After another day of trekking, the three returned to Bayam, the "City of Generosity" on Blue Mountain Island on Thursday.
After receiving a lot of caring messages and taking away some of the Death God documents collected by Vice Admiral Iceberg, Angel and Klein were very satisfied with their journey over the past few days. Only Danitz reluctantly said goodbye to his gloating friends on the Golden Dream and became Edwina's "Ambassador to Bayam".
Of course, as the fourth boatswain and also the "arsonist" of Sequence 7, he did not just stay in the luxurious suite of "Blue Wind" to monitor the radio and wait for his captain to contact him through the séance ritual and dream.
Before leaving the Golden Dream, Edwina hired Angel and Klein as intermediaries to help her provide aid to the rebels in the Rorsted Archipelago who were fighting against Loen's colonization and the suppression of the Church of the Storm. Danitz would also play an important role in this.
These rebels were mainly local residents. Some of them asked the colonial government to let local people manage local affairs, while others wanted to expel all outsiders from the archipelago. Their demands were different, but their methods were equally fierce.
Most of them were followers of the "Sea God" Kalvetuwa, collaborating with adventurers and pirates who valued money over their lives. They even had official support from Intis and Feysac. From time to time, missionaries from the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and "God of War" churches would secretly cross the sea to help them fight the expansion of the Storm Church.
Ten days ago, when the "Sea God" stirred up a tsunami and attempted to attack Bayam, the rebels coordinated with the Sea God's fanatics to launch offensives everywhere. Although Kalvetuva's decline was faster than anyone expected, and they encountered a joint attack from the Loen Navy and the Church of the Storm, suffering heavy losses, they were still the unofficial largest force in the Rorsted Archipelago, and even the pirate generals did not dare to provoke them easily.
So, was Lieutenant General Iceberg providing them with assistance, a subtle gesture of goodwill, or...
...To show goodwill to the forces behind Klein and me, who possess the power of Poseidon and could easily kill Vice Admiral Hurricane? After all, Poseidon's followers are now, in a sense, followers of The Fool...
Angel leaned on the single sofa by the balcony, thinking as he looked out the window at the gradually darkening weather.
After returning to Bayam yesterday, Danitz had been busy contacting the rebels, confirming the time for assistance, and arranging for the private port to receive supplies. She and Klein took turns accompanying this pirate, who had a bounty of 6,000 pounds on his head and dared not go out without disguise, to prevent him from being recognized and captured to claim the reward.
During these two days, she also saw countless resistance fighters hiding in the dense jungles of Blue Mountain Island and under the cliffs of the bay. Most of them were not even extraordinary people, and they had not even received any education. However, in order to eliminate primitive beliefs and spread the power of the gods, the Loen colonists, investors and businessmen used increasingly ruthless means to drive them together, forming a force that could not be ignored.
In the escalating confrontation between the two sides, the rebels began to disregard the lives of the locals, resorting to drastic tactics of exchanging wounds for wounds and blood for blood. They were even carrying out primitive and bloody sacrifices... Fortunately, now that Mr. Fool has taken over, he has issued a new "Ten Commandments", prohibiting the followers of "Sea God" from killing innocent people and using living people for sacrifice... Angel thought with relief.
"If that believer named Ralph hadn't used sweet talk to get me to donate 100 pounds to a charity fund that helps local children, I would like them even more..."
Thinking of the gold pounds she had lost yesterday when she and Danitz went to the deep mountains and forests to meet the resistance, she felt heartbroken.
Mr. Fool has never taken so much money from me!
She stabbed down with a knife in hatred, destroying an almost completed "sleeping" talisman. Deep red electric light flowed on the surface of the silver piece, and the power gained through prayer instantly dissipated without a trace.
This evening, it was Klein's turn to accompany Danitz out. Angel was in the Azure Wind Inn replenishing the various talismans she had recently consumed. She made several of the two most frequently used talismans, "Sleep" and "Dream." If she couldn't use them all, she could share them with Klein and Danitz. However, Angel was still hesitant about whether to continue making the "Disaster" talisman.
This kind of spell, which didn't require prayers to the gods for power, yet possessed immense destructive power, was practically impossible in the mystical realm. Furthermore, the spell was closely tied to her, forged only by her own hands, using her own unprocessed blood, and even then, only wielded by her.
She once tried to have Klein try using a "Disaster", but soon discovered that no one else could infuse it with spirituality at all. Even if they recited the activation spell, there was no response.
Without a doubt, this is my unique peculiarity... Angel looked at the only "Disaster" in his hand, filled with a trace of spirituality, and watched the rusty dark red and the pitch-black with a breath of destruction flowing between the runes, as if it would burst out in the next second, bringing irreversible disaster to everything that touched it.
"Even in 'Lady Despair' Panatia, I've never seen such power... This is definitely not the extraordinary ability of the 'Witch' path. Of course, they don't have the special ability of my resurrection after death... Could it be that my two resurrections in Tingen and Backlund, the mysterious runes in Bansy Harbor, and the power of 'disaster' all come from the same force?"
Angel muttered, suddenly remembering what Edwina had said on the Golden Dream about the "attraction" that attracted pirate generals and pirate kings to Bayam.
Is there some kind of attraction in her uniqueness?
"Emperor Roselle once said, 'What separates must come together, and what comes together must separate.'"
Before returning to Bayam, the cold voice of Vice Admiral Iceberg echoed in Angel's ears again.
"Crush the polluted properties and let them gather together on their own."
Azik's hint also appeared in her memory.
A thunderclap suddenly sounded in Angel's mind.
"Will the 'Witch' Beyonder characteristic within me attract other Beyonders who are also on the Witch Path?"
After confirming this idea, she immediately found other evidence.
Starting with Madam Sharon, Beyonders from the Witch Path appeared beside me one after another: the assassin named Randy, Tris and Mitis who hadn't yet become witches, then the Witch Cult of Backlund, and even now, Tracy had come to Bayam's vicinity... Angel counted the "witches" that appeared beside her one by one, and was surprised to find that one hand was not enough.
Of course, low-sequence and even mid-sequence entities shouldn't have such a strong mutual attraction, otherwise the Beyonders from the twenty-two paths would have gathered together long ago... But perhaps my uniqueness will produce a much greater "aggregation" ability than a simple Beyonder characteristic, so that without me even realizing it, countless "witches" have appeared beside me... Angel felt more and more that he had grasped the truth.
Oh, and there’s also the “Hunter”!
She clearly remembered that the evil spirit trapped in the underground ruins of Backlund had promised her a reward in exchange for freedom. It had said that a "witch" could jump to the "hunter" path at Sequence 4. This might mean that there was some similarity between the two paths, so much so that the Dominican Federation, Danitz, and even Elaine, who had escaped from Tracy, appeared beside her.
"Is this the reason why I saw both the 'Witch Card' representing the witch and the 'Red Priest Card' representing the hunter in the abandoned city after death?
“They are adjacent, even closely connected pathways!”
After reaching this conclusion, Angel excitedly stood up from the table and walked to the balcony. He looked out the window at the sea shrouded in dusk. He wanted to find someone to share this joy with, but when he remembered that Klein was not by his side, he returned to the living room regretfully.
She no longer had the heart to continue making talismans, so she put away her tools, separated the three "Sleep", three "Dream" and the only "Disaster" talismans and kept them away so that they could be used at any time, and then continued to stroll back and forth in the living room.
"This should be close to the truth, but I'm still undecided about my own 'specialness'. Perhaps I could consult Mr. Fool. Well, of course, this would cost money, such as more Roselle diaries... But I already owed this promise when I deposited the contaminated Holy Symbol of Night last time, and I haven't found a single new diary page!
"I should have bought some from Ms. Edwina on the Golden Dream. She must have quite a collection, but I was completely preoccupied with watching Danitz copy the Death God's text. It was all because of that hunter's provocative expression as he copied and cursed... But I can still find another hunter, a hunter from Intis!"
She suddenly froze.
Elaine Soren, a descendant of the nobility from Intis, a red-haired lady who had recently escaped after being kidnapped by Tracy. Her family had been active in Intis's political arena during the Fourth Epoch, and even played a key role in the assassination of Emperor Roselle. Did they have a collection of the emperor's notes?
Thinking excitedly, Angel took out his magic mirror, placed it next to the desk, and chanted:
"Mirror, Mirror, tell me where Elaine Soren is now."
The mirror turned dark, then a wisp of smoke emerged, and finally reflected the face she was looking forward to.
Failed? Angel raised his eyebrows in surprise, remembering that he still had the bottle of Elaine's blood that was frozen in time. He found it again and used it as a medium to perform the same divination.
This time her divination broke through the interference, and the mirror soon showed the figure of red-haired Elaine dressed as a man with her hands tied behind her back. She was sitting in a small boat with an indignant look on her face. Several rough-dressed sailors around her paddled hard to drive the boat away from the dock, and from time to time they cast their lustful glances at the beautiful lady.
This... Elaine, was captured again? Is she really a Sequence 7 Beyonder?
Looking at the image in the mirror, Angel fell into deep thought for a moment.
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