“I do feel a little impatient, but not that easily angered…” Wearing a triple crown, dark blue robes, and holding the “Scepter of Poseidon,” Klein carefully examined his own condition.

This means that the "Tyrant" card can indeed suppress the negative effects of the "Poseidon's Scepter" to a certain extent, but it cannot completely eliminate them.

Klein calmed down his emotions through meditation and turned to look at the pile of junk in the corner.

"'Groselle's Travels'? This is my strongest defensive item at the moment, and it has wonderful uses, but the problem is that it was made by another ancient god, 'Imaginary Dragon' Angerwede. According to Little 'Sun', this dragon king was once in the same camp as Calderon's master, the ancient god of death, the ancestor of the Phoenix, Graygari. No one knows whether this 'travels' will trigger unnecessary changes... It's better to be cautious and not bring it.

“Similar to the Azik Copper Whistle, the mutated paper man cannot be contained. It has the residual breath of the artificial death god… This may bring some deterrence when exploring Calderon, but it also hides great hidden dangers.

"The extraordinary characteristics of the 'Priest of Light'? This can effectively restrain the undead, which are the natural enemies of the residents of the 'City of the Dead'. But it is just a material and has not yet been made into a magical item. The role it can play is quite limited, and the negative impact is extremely serious. It is very unfriendly to me in the state of a soul. In addition, lightning can also 'purify' the dead. With the 'Scepter of Poseidon' and 'Word of the Sea', there is no need to bring the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Priest of Light'..." Klein's mind flashed one thought after another, and he eliminated the remaining items in the pile of debris.

He held the "Poseidon's Scepter" in his left hand, which was covered with a human leather glove. He lightly raised his right hand, causing the "Word of the Sea" staff to fly up and land in his palm.

Then, Klein, dressed as the Pope, changed the appearance of his soul, hiding his facial features in the shadow of the triple crown.

He stood up slowly, his dark blue robes fluttering in the wind, his bone scepter shining brightly.

With just one step, Tyrant Klein passed through the "Gate of Summoning", walked out of the candlelight, and came to the real world, where he was in a fairly spacious bathroom.

After taking the "Luck Thief" spell and the "Death Knell" revolver into his body, he opened the door and returned to the living room, manipulating "Winner" Enzo to come over and take over the "Word of the Sea" black staff.

After thinking for a while, Klein pulled out the "Death Knell" revolver and handed it to "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell.

After doing all this, he took the two secret dolls and, relying on the extraordinary ability of "travel", headed straight for the spiritual world coordinates provided by Miss "Magician".

The journey was relatively smooth. The aura of the "Tyrant" made the strange spiritual creatures along the way dare not approach, or even look directly at him. It didn't take long for Klein to reach his destination.

The scene before his eyes was essentially no different from other places in the spirit world. Rich and bright blocks of color overlapped, a little mist permeated some places, and in each deep place, pairs of eyes moved away one after another.

The cape attached to the Pope's vestments swayed slightly. Klein made a brief distinction and let "Winner" Enzo and "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell enter a cloud of mist that looked thin and normal.

Suddenly, the vision he gained with the help of the two secret dolls broadened, reflecting a magnificent city that could only appear in myths and legends.

This city is different from normal ones. It does not develop upwards, but extends in circles to the end of the deep underground pit. The overall feeling of an inverted mausoleum is given to people.

The buildings inside it have various styles, but they are all equally strange. Some of them are towering pale stone pillars with huge single houses polished on the top. Some are long and square with doors on the roof and no windows. Some are built underground with a tombstone at the entrance. Some are built with bones and are messy and fragmented.

The closer to the end of the underground pit, the better preserved the buildings are, while the closer to the top, the more collapsed parts there are, filled with a sense of decay and desolation brought about by time.

Klein stopped the two marionettes and stood at the edge of the city, looking down at everything. However, he couldn't see what the building at the bottom looked like. It was shrouded in deep darkness, as if no light had shone in for thousands or tens of thousands of years.

After a brief observation, the "winner" Enzo lowered his head and recited in a low voice in ancient Hermetic language:

“Fools who do not belong to this age;

“The mysterious master above the gray fog;

"The Yellow and Black King who controls good luck..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Klein, who was outside Calderon City, heard illusory and overlapping voices of prayer, and he could tell that they came from a man with a deliberately hoarse voice.

“It was the prayer of the secret doll just now…” Klein breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself inaudibly, “This means that Calderon City is not shielded by the gray fog, at least the outer area is not shielded by the gray fog. I can go in.”

He said this, but he was not in a hurry at all. He turned to control "Admiral of Hell" Ludville, asking him to raise his left arm and open his palm.

An illusory light suddenly burst out, and then collapsed inward with one point as the center, forming a pair of bronze doors.

The gate is slightly blurry and extremely unreal, with its surface covered with countless mysterious patterns, giving people an indescribable feeling of silence and depth.

With a creaking sound, the mysterious bronze door moved backwards and a crack appeared.

Through this gap, Klein saw the deepest and darkest darkness.

In the darkness, whiteness surged, sometimes rolling up, sometimes falling, like a river flowing in the lightless night.

On both sides of it, huge and pale stone pillars were vaguely visible, which were very similar to those in the city of Calderon, but more exaggerated.

At this moment, pairs of transparent eyes and indescribable faces suddenly appeared, filling the gap in the illusory bronze door, eager to pass through.

Klein felt a slight sting in his eyes, and he quickly asked his secret puppet Ludwell to clench his left palm.

Bang!

The illusory door covered with mysterious patterns was pushed by an invisible force, closed suddenly, and disappeared from the sight of the "winner" Enzo.

"This mysterious gate that separates life and death and leads to the underworld seems to have changed its direction. Behind the gate is no longer the underworld, but the core area of ​​Calderon City, the deepest part of the underground pit?" Klein, who was wearing a triple crown, a pope's robes, and holding the "Scepter of Poseidon", nodded thoughtfully.

As a result, many abilities of the undead realm will be rewritten and mutated in Calderon City.

With this understanding, Klein asked Admiral of Hell Ludwell to raise his left arm again.

The left half of the secret doll quickly became illusory, with some dark green spots appearing, as if it had turned into a vengeful spirit or a ghost.

His arms and forearms no longer obeyed the rules of reality and suddenly extended a long distance. His palms were extremely pale, and an illusory face appeared.

The face had a half-open mouth, a tongue as sharp as a snake's, and was covered in white hair.

The tongue popped out very far, giving people a feeling of being unreal, as if it could drill directly into the human body and suck out the soul.

“Sure enough, the ‘Messenger of Death’ ability that Ludwell obtained with the help of the underworld creature in his body has mutated. Not only has it become more powerful, but it has also changed from extracting spirits from a distance to directly absorbing them…” Klein stood at the entrance of Calderon and asked the secret puppet “Admiral of Hell” to display the various extraordinary abilities of the “Death God” field in different categories, and grasped their differences from normal situations.

Among them, the common point is that they have all become stronger!

Then Klein asked the "Winner" Enzo to conduct experiments using his own special abilities and the abilities of the "Flower of Blood" ring and the "Word of the Sea" cane, and came to one conclusion after another:

“Destiny is not affected…

"The lightning strike was suppressed and became much weaker...

“Can’t fly too high…

"The abilities of Wind Blade, Singing, Phantom Scale, Balance, and Water Curtain remain unchanged..."

As these experiments came to an end, Klein had "Winner" Enzo and "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell walk down the pale stairs at the entrance, step by step, until they reached the outermost area of ​​Calderon City, where all the buildings had collapsed.

When they were almost two hundred meters away, Klein raised his right hand and pressed the face in the shadow of the triple crown. Then, holding the Scepter of Poseidon, he stepped into the thin mist.

He felt a little dizzy and the scene in front of him suddenly changed. He had entered the "City of the Dead" Calderon.

Restraining his inner impatience, Klein made the glove on his left palm darker.

His body gradually faded, took on a dark color, and turned into a shadow. Only the "Poseidon's Scepter" in his hand continued to emit a silver-white or blue-green light.

After using the soul's cover and the "Tyrant" card to suppress this, Klein floated diagonally forward and merged into the shadow of the collapsed building. He followed the two secret dolls stealthily and conducted preliminary reconnaissance of the outer area of ​​Calderon.

As he was walking, Klein gradually noticed something unusual:

It’s so quiet here!

It was so quiet that it seemed as if the whole city was dead, not even the insects survived!

According to "Magic Mirror" Arrodes and "Red Light" El Moria, when the Phoenix ancestor Greygari pulled Calderon up and threw him into the depths of the spirit world, she did not let the residents of the city leave in advance, and some spirit world creatures would occasionally enter.

But at this time, there were no living creatures in this outer area, not even skeletons, zombies, or even one or two non-building bones!

Klein became increasingly nervous, and with the help of the vision of "Winner" Enzo and "Admiral of Hell" Ludwell, he looked around more carefully.

During this process, "he" glanced at a broken pale giant pillar and saw a golden disc in the broken ancient house on top.

The smooth surface of the disc reflected a figure, but it was not the "winner" Enzo, but Klein himself, wearing a triple crown and dark blue robes!

Klein had a sinister aura on his body, his face was pale, and his eyes were lifeless, as if he had been dead for a long time.