Klein had long been thinking about how to create the Secret Doll Town, and had three preliminary plans:

If the interference of external factors is eliminated, his best choice is to build a secret doll town overnight somewhere in a country in the northern continent, and connect it with the surrounding cities through railways, rivers and roads.

In this way, a large number of outsiders will arrive in the Secret Town every day, and there will be very strong interactions with the surrounding areas: on the one hand, the towns without affiliated villages will definitely buy grain, salt, cloth, ore, sugar and other necessities of life from other places, and on the other hand, it will also have its own output, which can be sold to surrounding cities, towns and villages. In this case, merchants, laborers, travelers and other groups will come and go very frequently, and at the same time, they will interact a lot with the residents of the Secret Town.

Under the influence of various strong interactions, it won’t take long for the Secret Doll Town to give birth to a corresponding area in the spirit world. When the fate of the residents becomes more detailed and real, Klein can take the potion and advance to Sequence 1 "Mysterious Servant".

This may take less than three months.

But the problem is that this plan cannot be kept secret.

In today's era, it is impossible to hide the fact that a town suddenly appears in a certain place. Soon, government employees, police, and reporters will come to investigate, and the various strong interactions that follow will also make more and more people know about this city and understand this city. This is a problem that cannot be solved through illusion abilities, unless the secret doll town does not interact at all with the surrounding cities, towns, and villages, or interacts less frequently, but that goes against the requirements of the ritual.

When the news of the Secret Doll Town spreads, Klein will undoubtedly be targeted by enemies such as Zaratul and Amon himself. By then, destruction will definitely be easier than protection. He can only move his Secret Doll Town to another place, which will cause the early interactions to lose their effectiveness, just like the experience of the Dark Wolf.

Therefore, Klein only proposed this plan and would basically not choose it unless a certain "dreamer" was willing to provide help and make all the creatures in the north and south continents take it for granted that there is indeed a town there and it did not suddenly appear.

Taking into account the influence of various external factors and his own extraordinary abilities, Klein's safest choice is to build the Secret Doll Town on an uninhabited island that is off the safe route and sufficiently hidden, and use the "Source Castle" to make anti-divination and anti-prophecy arrangements.

At the same time, Klein will rely on that "curtain" to "graft" certain nodes of some roads, rivers, and railways outside the Secret Doll Town, making it one of the stops on some people's journey.

This cannot be kept completely secret, but once the "weird phenomenon" spreads and may attract the attention of Zaratul and Amon, Klein can easily remove the original "grafting" and change the "entrance" irregularly.

With such a strategy, only the "entrance" is transferred, not the Secret City itself. The effects of various interactions with the spirit world can be retained and will not be interrupted, so the ritual can proceed steadily.

Of course, this solution also has big problems, that is, the scope of interaction is limited, and it cannot have a profound impact on daily life in all aspects. In addition, the frequency and intensity of interaction will not be too high.

If he chose this option, it would mean that Klein would have to spend half a year or even more than a year on the ceremony.

——If he wanted to ensure that the fate of each doll had a beginning and an end, the ritual would take at least fifty years. However, there was a trick, which was to send a meteorite, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption to the town after everything else met the ritual requirements, so that the fate of all the dolls would end at the same time. This situation also existed in reality and was quite reasonable.

Klein also has a compromise between the radical and conservative options.

That is to replicate a certain city, let the dolls correspond to the residents of that city one by one, and then, the more evil ones will directly erase the city and replace it with their own doll town, while the kind-hearted ones will hide the city and ensure the supply of materials - the reason for not transforming the target city is that it itself has a corresponding area in the spiritual world and is not newly born, so it does not meet the requirements of the ritual.

Klein, relying on the "curtain" formed by the extraordinary characteristic of "Mysterious Servant", has a better choice: "grafting" a certain stage of that city onto his own secret doll town.

In this way, his Secret Doll Town became the dark side of that city. Outsiders who entered during the corresponding time period would encounter secret dolls instead of real people. When that period of time was over, they would leave the Secret Doll Town, return to reality, and deal with real people.

During the process, Klein will also send out secret puppets to play the role of outsiders and interact with the corresponding real people, so that the real outsiders can seamlessly connect after returning to reality.

In other words, two lives are being played out in the same city at the same time, but no one can notice it. Only occasionally someone will feel that a certain detail is not quite right, but they have no way to explain it and so they ignore it.

This is quite consistent with the characteristic of "secret" and has a certain degree of secrecy.

Of course, this plan also has its own problems, that is, the fate of the secret doll is highly simulated that of a real person, and it has no independence of its own, which will cause the effect of some aspects of the ritual to fail to meet expectations.

Klein tapped his fingers lightly on the edge of the mottled long table, hesitating between the second and third options.

After several minutes, he followed his heart and chose the second option, preferring to spend more time rather than affect the fate of innocent people.

“At the beginning, Zaratul and Antigonus most likely chose the third option…” Klein sighed and prepared to return to reality.

At this time, he glanced at the pile of debris again, considering whether to send down an oracle and ask the City of Silver to modify some of the descriptions in the holy book.

For a god, the holy book is not a very important thing. Its greatest use is to facilitate missionary work and increase the number of anchors.

Klein had already drawn this conclusion from the contents of the Holy Scriptures of the Orthodox Church, such as The Revelation of Night and The Book of Storms:

Most of the content is about elevating the righteous gods, boasting nonsense, and showing kindness and mercy.

If in ancient times, believers' perception of the image of gods did have a certain negative impact on the gods, then this hidden danger no longer exists when symbols are used instead of statues. At least gods such as the "Goddess of Night" and the "Lord of Storms" all openly declare that they are the incarnation of a certain part of the original creator, and they are not worried at all that this will intensify the revival of the original will in their bodies.

In other words, if there really is a problem in this regard, Klein believes that the "Goddess of Night" must have changed the corresponding description, from the original eye of the Creator to the offspring He conceived and gave birth to, which is also of a high status.

At the same time, the believers' recognition of certain things will not cause a mystical burden to the gods themselves. Otherwise, Amon would have secretly helped Klein, or the previous "Source Castle" to prepare a group of believers, inducing them to form the cognition that the "Time Angel" is the incarnation of the "Lord of Mysteries", and with the help of instinctive responses that meet the conditions, establish sufficient connection with the "Source Castle" and open a "back door".

For the gods, the most important parts of the scriptures, apart from the need for preaching, are only two:

The first is the description of the authority and name of the gods themselves. If there is an error, it will cause believers' prayers to be directed to the wrong unknown objects, which is not only dangerous to believers but also causes the gods to lose their anchor. The second is the description involving other churches, which can easily lead to conflicts.

As for angels and saints, the gods don’t really care about them. What they care about are the angels and saints themselves, because they need to gain a certain anchor through them.

Therefore, the descriptions of angels and saints in major scriptures are detailed enough, with authority and honorific names, to facilitate selection and substitution by different believers. Moreover, this is not enough to form a solid anchor, because it is covered under the belief in gods.

In order to solve this problem, the Orthodox Church assigns different patron angels and saints to different churches, and precisely divides the scope.

It was precisely because of this perception that Klein had never taken the Holy Scripture seriously. After reading the part that described his authority and honorable name, he was too embarrassed to read on. He only used the method of "divination" to confirm whether there would be a conflict with the Orthodox Churches.

After thinking for a while, he gave up the idea of ​​sending down an oracle to ask the City of Silver to modify the Holy Scripture and decided to use a softer approach:

In the communication with the Tarot Club, through the "world" Gehrman Sparrow, the "sun" was induced to adjust its cognition, and the part involving the "angel of time" was moved towards the direction of Pallez Zoroast, so that the corresponding content could be revised without arousing the suspicion of the City of Silver.

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Bayam and Verdu Abraham gained a lot of knowledge about mysticism from several Beyonder circles.

He lit the gas wall lamp and read carefully at night.

When he turned to the end, he suddenly read a piece of news that he had never known before:

"Bansi Port is a place full of mystical power. Its connection with the spiritual world is beyond imagination... Even if the Storm Church directly destroyed this port, it could not completely eliminate the anomaly in it...

"Many occult researchers are buying Bansi-related items at high prices..."

Bansi...Verdu muttered to himself silently, and suddenly developed a strong interest in that port.

He began to consider whether he should also purchase some items from Bansi and study them in depth. After all, the spiritual world is related to "teleportation", and the astral world and the starry sky are related to "wandering", all of which may be related to the escape of Mr. "Gate" Bethel Abraham.

Maybe, if there is a chance, we can go to Bansi and have a look... Verdu nodded imperceptibly.

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