As he spoke, Klein raised his right hand.
A mass of dark and filthy flesh and blood appeared on the palm of his hand at some point, filled with unspeakable madness.
"The answer is the erosion of the Hanged Man." Klein said to Shadow with a smile.
What he has, and the "shadow" doesn't have, is the erosion left by the "true creator". This is an influence that even the power of the "Source Castle" cannot eliminate for the time being!
But Klein could be sure of one thing, that is, before meeting the "Dark Angel" Sasriel, the "True Creator" would not let himself lose control or die easily.
Therefore, he deliberately let the corroded part of himself be infected by the "mental plague" to create the illusion that he was about to lose control, and concealed the fact that his target was the "Audience Saint" by manipulating the "Spirit Line" without distinguishing between friend and foe. When the opponent launched further attacks, he successfully put him into a stagnant state, creating an opportunity for the "Silver Knight" puppet.
The result was just as Klein had expected. The eroded part of him contained the seeds of the "mental plague", preventing the negative impact from erupting.
During this process, the "Shadow" moved away from Klein in advance because he was worried about the impact of the "mental plague" and failed to detect the abnormalities of the "Audience Saint" and the "Spirit Line" in time.
Doesn't Klein know how cautious and careful he is?
Of course, once he meets the "Dark Angel" Sasriel, Klein has no way of predicting what kind of changes the erosion will bring, and whether the "mental plague" contained within will leak out and cause a certain impact. He can only focus on solving the current problem.
Hearing his words, a stream of red fire suddenly surged out of the pure "shadow", instantly covering him.
At the edge of the "Realm without Darkness", near the residence of the Giant King, a cluster of flames rapidly rose up, and a "shadow" emerged.
He chose to escape without hesitation, fleeing to the palace where the "Dark Angel" was sleeping, and completely ignored Enuni and the "Sun Saint"!
Klein, who was using his "virtual personality", was stunned when he saw this scene. He couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and the "Spirit Worm" again, shaking his head and laughing:
"So I'm so timid?"
He suspected that the "shadow" that was cut off took away most of his caution and carefulness, leaving him with more impulsiveness and recklessness.
Bang!
A sharp silver-white light lit up and struck the red flames that fell from thin air outside the "Realm of No Darkness", shattering the dark "shadow" that had just appeared inside.
Klein did not waste time talking to himself. He had already controlled the "Silver Knight" puppet and predicted where the "Shadow" would jump to next based on the distribution of the flames and his own habits. Then, he condensed the "Silver Rapier" in advance and slashed it out from the air as soon as he saw the flames coming.
——The "Realm without Darkness" has no barrier boundaries in the physical sense. Anyone can leave directly or exert influence on the outside.
However, the torn "shadow" eventually turned into thin pieces of paper and disappeared quickly.
Several more streams of burning red flames flew down, and the dark "shadow" used them to jump and approach the open door of the Giant King's residence, and the silver-white sharp light that lit up one after another just tore apart his "paper substitute" - the "warrior" path has the ability to see through illusions since Sequence 5. If there is no "psychological invisibility" type of skills to assist, the "paper substitute" is obviously better than "creating illusions", which is when two "fortune tellers" fight each other, it is easy for the illusions to be shattered layer by layer.
In just two or three seconds, red pillars of fire rose up outside the Giant King's residence, as if setting off fireworks to welcome distinguished guests.
The next moment, the "Shadow" will jump into one of these pillars of fire and hide in the place where the "Dark Angel" sleeps.
But at this moment, a figure quickly appeared in front of the red flames.
He was wearing a long black trench coat and a half-high silk hat. The right side of his face was normal, while the left side was made up of a transparent, twisted worm. It was Klein's true self.
The corner of Klein's mouth curled up again, and he snapped his fingers with his right hand, which had been raised long ago.
Bang!
The red pillars of fire were all extinguished, and the dark "shadow" was forced to emerge halfway and return to the steps filled with morning light.
"Manipulate fire"!
The reason why Klein was able to arrive outside the Giant King's Palace in advance and prevent the "Shadow" from arriving was because the other party had fled decisively and could no longer affect his summoning of the images in the historical pores. He easily took out the "Creeping Hunger" and switched to the "Traveler" soul.
“Being too cautious is not a good thing.” Klein said to Shadow with a smile on his face, while bending his knees and lowering his back.
As he bent down and knelt, his figure suddenly turned into that of a knight covered in silver armor.
The knight inserted the sword in his hand into the crack in the ground, creating an invisible barrier that blocked the door to the place where the "Dark Angel" was sleeping.
At that moment, Klein exchanged positions with his "Silver Knight" puppet and acted towards his "shadow" as if he could allow you to enter the Giant King's palace as long as you could destroy the barrier created by the "Guardian".
Of course, his true body will interfere with the "shadow" summoning of historical projections and manipulate the "spiritual thread".
When the battle situation here was reversed, the battle between the three demigods of Silver City and Enuni and the "Sun Saint" also changed.
When Colin Iliad once again entangled Enuni, who had lost his black armor, Derrick repeated his previous strategy:
Sometimes he would use "Kagerou" to deal area damage, exchanging the Chief's injury for victory in battle, and sometimes he would condense the pure and white "Spear of No Darkness" to launch precise attacks - this was not often used because it was easy for Enuni to dodge it, and it might even hurt Colin Iliad by mistake.
After three rounds of "Sun Flame" coverage, Enuni finally couldn't hold on any longer and unfolded one of the last two pairs of virtual black wings again, turning it into a dark ocean that swallowed up all the light and submerged Colin Iliad, leaving the Silver City chief with a layer of sticky black liquid on his body, which significantly hindered his movements.
Seizing this opportunity, Enuni broke away from the entanglement, avoided the subsequent "Spear of No Darkness", transformed into a shadow, and quickly swam towards the Giant King's residence, trying to cooperate with the "Shadow" to break the barrier.
At this moment, a sharp silver light burst out from his body, tearing him into balls of dark red flesh and blood!
This sudden and precise attack came from Lovia.
The elder of the "Six-Man Council" actually gave up dodging the attack of the "Sun Saint" and at the moment when Enuni left the battlefield, he decisively switched the soul he was herding to the "Silver Knight" evil spirit, making the black armor on his body stained with silver.
Here!
The pure white "Spear of No Darkness" hit the lady, causing her to be completely swallowed by a miniature, blazing sun.
Enuni's flesh and blood had not yet lost their vitality, and they were rapidly moving together, trying to reconstruct their body.
But at this time, Colin Iliad, whose movements were restricted by the black sticky liquid, burst into spots of light. They turned into a storm, tearing through the obstacles and allowing the silver-white armor to reappear.
Then, the giant "Silver Knight" took a step forward and swung the Dawn Straight Sword in his hand, allowing the previous "Storm of Light" to continue, sweeping forward and covering the dark red flesh and blood.
A pair of black wings emerged and then disappeared, calming the "Storm of Light". However, Derrick's "Sun Flame" followed, igniting every piece of flesh and blood with sacred flames, dissolving everything with pure light.
When the "Sun Saint" saw this scene, he knew that his main body could not escape the fate of being destroyed. He did not even bother to deal another blow to Lovia, and turned around to exit his "Realm without Darkness".
Suddenly, he heard a voice full of malice and filth:
"slow!"
Luo Weiya struggled to break away from the remaining power of the "Spear of No Darkness" and "teleported" to a place not far from the "Sun Saint". Then she switched the soul she was herding to a demon and used "Filthy Words".
At this time, the black armor on her body had been completely shattered, and there were many cracks on her black robe with purple patterns, revealing the melting and slowly wriggling flesh and blood, and her breath was quite weak.
The "slowness" of non-demigod level cannot affect the "Sun Saint" for too long, but for Colin Iliad, this is enough. He condensed a "silver-white rapier" and let it "teleport" to the enemy.
This "silver-white rapier" randomly mutated, directly penetrating the sacred armor of the "Sun Saint" and exploding in his body.
Silver light burst out, and the "Sun Saint" was divided into countless small pieces.
With a snap, the flesh and blood fell to the ground and disappeared in an instant, as if returning to history.
After the battle here ended, the three demigods of Silver City immediately moved closer to the Giant King’s residence, blocking the “shadow” in the middle.
The "shadow" leaped forward, trying to hide in the mist of history. However, just as he saw the gray mist, he was pressed down by a hand made of transparent worms.
Neither he nor Klein rushed to the beginning of the First Epoch in advance, because they knew that the other party would definitely stop them or wait there!
The "Shadow", who had nowhere to hide, was immediately surrounded by the three demigods of Silver City. His various abilities were offset by Klein, and even his "Flame Jump" was affected by "Flame Manipulation", making it difficult for him to escape from the predicament.
More than ten seconds passed, and after one paper figure after another was shattered, the "shadow" finally had no substitute to use, and was stabbed in the abdomen by Derrick's "Spear of No Darkness".
A blazing white, miniature "sun" immediately exploded, and the dark "shadow" quickly faded and completely disappeared.
Klein felt a sharp pain in his head, and his mind, which was on the verge of losing control, suddenly relaxed a lot.
He instinctively looked towards his feet and saw a light black shadow extending out under the morning light.
"Too weak..." Klein bent down slightly and couldn't help but laugh at himself. After all, a "fortune teller" who didn't have the ability of an "ancient scholar", didn't have a secret doll, and couldn't manipulate the "spiritual thread" was really weak compared to the demigod level.
His soul has been restored to its original state, but he has not yet cancelled the "virtual personality", and he does not intend to summon the historical projection of Miss "Justice" immediately to do this, because Enuni, who has been contaminated by the "Dark Angel", has shown the characteristics of the "Sun", "Audience", "Storm" and "Secret Prayer" paths. If he wants to enter the residence of the Giant King, he must beware of mental influences, and the "virtual personality" is a good defense measure.
At this time, the transparent worms on Klein's left face and body quickly settled and turned back into flesh and skin. However, due to the influence of the madness contained in the "virtual personality", the surface still remained translucent, allowing people to see the "spiritual worms" hidden underneath.
When Derrick, Lovia, and the others cast their gazes over, Klein straightened his back, reached out and took out the "Staff of Life", pointed at the open door of the Giant King's residence, and said with a smile:
"Hurry up, the Dark Angel is waiting for us inside."