"God, God has come to save us..."
The weeping words echoed at the entrance of Moon City, leaving the waiting residents in a trance and shocked.
…………
At the edge of the solidified gray mist, next to the quietly burning fire.
After eating another round of mushrooms, Klein put away the long iron-black skewer in his hand and looked up in the direction of the deep pit described by Moon City High Priest Nim.
He then stretched out his right hand, gently pulled out himself from a quarter of an hour ago.
After they looked at each other, Klein's body quickly disappeared and entered the mist of history. He rushed to the First Epoch and sat on top of the layers of old cities.
His historical pore image stood up, snapped his fingers, and flashed towards the destination in a series of rising red flames.
When the deep pit that the hill had turned into was within reach, Klein stopped and cautiously stretched out his right hand to drag the former secret puppet, Qonas Kilger, out of the void.
The tough-looking "Fallen Count"'s facial muscles twitched, and he quickly transformed into another Gehrman Sparrow.
With one hand he pulled out a lantern from the mist of history, with the other he rubbed his forehead, and muttered softly:
“Why does the secret doll have to change its appearance?
“There’s no one else here…
"Don't develop obsessive compulsive disorder..."
A few seconds later, the secret puppet projection, holding a lantern emitting a dim light, walked step by step towards a deep pit not far away.
As the light floated, Klein saw the target location clearly and discovered that it was not actually very deep. The difference between the bottom and the ground was no more than two meters. Of course, if compared with the original hill, the change was indeed large enough.
Inside the "deep pit", the soil is smooth with a small amount of stones. There are many mutated, twisted and difficult-to-identify plants growing around it. It looks no different from other places.
After observing for a while, Klein, who had quietly activated his "spiritual vision" and "spiritual line" vision, slowly entered the "deep pit", preparing to follow the planned route and go around every place that was worth re-examining.
As he walked, his brows frowned slightly and he said, "Huh?"
He found that his thoughts were slowing down to a certain extent, but it did not affect his thinking!
This is like the state when you just wake up after sleeping too much, your head feels stuffy and your thinking is not active enough.
This is a situation that occasionally occurs in a person's daily life. Extraordinary people from other paths may not be able to detect it, but as a demigod of the "Fortune Teller" path, Klein can clearly feel the abnormality.
If we go deeper, we will be close to the reaction caused by the "Master of Secret Puppetry" manipulating the "Thread of the Spirit"... The influence left by the Dark Wolf Kotar? No, if it was left by Him unintentionally, it means that He was in the form of a complete mythical creature at that time, and the Moon City investigation team would have collapsed and lost control one by one... If he left it intentionally, what is the point of doing so? Tell others that He has been here? Klein walked around in confusion and found no other abnormalities.
After thinking for a while, he hid in a historical gap before the First Age, took four steps backwards, chanted a spell, and entered the gray fog.
He wants to do a divination!
With the specific time and place, the description and on-site investigation of Moon City High Priest Nim, and the help of illuminated historical fragments, Klein believed that the prerequisites for "divination" were basically in place.
This was not enough, but it was enough for him to give it a try. Moreover, if the incident of the hill turning into a "deep pit" was really related to "Source Castle" and himself, then the success rate of the "divination" would be greatly increased, and the revelation would be very clear and undisturbed.
Without thinking, Klein, who had already considered the details, sat on the high-backed chair of The Fool. He took out a dark red round-bellied fountain pen and yellowish parchment, and wrote quickly:
"On June 28, 1349 of the Fifth Era, a strange change occurred in this place."
Putting down the absorbent pen, Klein reached out with his left hand and took out a piece of "deep pit" soil from the mist of history, using it as a medium for "divination."
Holding the soil in one hand and the parchment in the other, he leaned back in his chair, whispered the divination sentence seven times, and then fell into a deep sleep with the help of meditation.
In the gray dream world, Klein saw the gray and white solidified fog, the hills that were dozens of meters high, and the twisted and mutated plants around him.
After a few seconds, the mist suddenly began to move noticeably and quickly "spit out" a black shadow.
The black shadow was like a huge velvet curtain, madly absorbing all the light around it.
It was translucent, growing larger and larger, completely covering the hill.
The hill then disappeared, leaving behind only a "deep pit".
The strange plants on the edge of the "deep pit" that was also covered suddenly had thin, black, illusory "spiritual lines" extending to different areas of the black "curtain".
The "curtain" became more and more transparent and illusory, until it became invisible to the naked eye. If it weren't for the "spiritual line" that revealed the actual situation, Klein wouldn't have noticed that the "curtain" was covering the surface of the "deep pit" like that.
The image flickered, the dream twisted, and a new scene emerged.
The five-member Yuecheng patrol team approached this side and found that the hill was gone and a "deep pit" appeared.
They stopped and left the area without hesitation, without rushing forward to investigate.
After an unknown amount of time, a huge figure suddenly appeared from another direction.
It was a demon wolf covered with short dark fur, with eight legs and about four or five meters tall.
This demon wolf had a tuft of short gray hair on its forehead, and its pure black pupils occupied at least three-quarters of the space in its eyes. It was none other than the dark demon wolf Kotar, whose complete mythical creature form had not yet appeared.
The dark wolf raised its head, opened its mouth, and seemed to roar, but there was no sound.
The next second, a figure appeared in front of Him. It was another Him.
The dark wolf's eight legs kicked lightly and it arrived at the "deep pit" in an instant.
After looking around, he carefully lowered his head and picked up the completely transparent "curtain" that made the entire hill disappear.
The "curtain" suddenly came alive, shrank rapidly, rolled up, and wrapped around the Dark Wolf, as if it were covering it with a half-black, half-transparent layer of clothing.
The dark wolf trembled slightly, and seemed to have turned into a puppet of "clothing" in two or three seconds.
But this is just an image in the gap of history. In the next breath, it was no longer maintained by the main body and disappeared directly.
The "curtain" lost its support, collapsed instantly, and spread out on the ground.
The dark wolf Kotar did not give up. He sometimes transformed the monsters around him into secret dolls, and sometimes summoned historical projections to let them move forward again and again. He suffered various failures, but in the end, his new batch of secret dolls still picked up and controlled the "curtain".
The entire process took place without any sound, as if it were a pantomime.
Then, the huge demon wolf asked the secret puppets to bring the "curtain" closer to it.
At this moment, the gray fog nearby began to wriggle again, forming a vortex comparable to a hill.
This vortex gave off an invisible suction force, causing the strange "curtain" and the dark wolf Kotal to be thrown over at the same time!
This scene caused Klein's dream to appear with real ripples, bursting out with countless points of light, making it difficult for him to see the specific details.
When everything returned to normal, the dark wolf Kotar, covered with a transparent "curtain", flew away from the re-solidified fog at a rapid speed.
At this time, the Yuecheng investigation team arrived and saw the figure of the ancient god leaving.
Cottard glanced at them and disappeared into the darkness without stopping.
At this point, the picture shattered, the dream ended, and Klein woke up.
He sat up straight, tapped the edge of the mottled long table with his fingers, and muttered to himself silently:
"It's not that the solidified gray-white fog had not undergone any changes before I arrived, but the guards of Moon City had not discovered it. After all, the fog had been there for who knows how long...
"What is that 'curtain' that the gray mist exhales? When it's big, it can cover the hills and turn them into 'deep pits' like magic. When it's small, it can become the 'clothing' of the demon wolf and transform it into a puppet... It's a bit like a high-level item in the 'Fortune Teller' path...
"It was spit out because I entered the gray fog and completed the binding with the 'Source Castle'?
"It seems to be able to turn the surrounding plants into its own secret dolls... This gives me a familiar feeling...
"Oh, right, in the misty town, the food prepared in the room is problematic. There are 'spiritual threads' growing out of them, extending to the church at the core. Once you eat them, the whole person will evaporate and disappear instantly. Well, this is hung in the church and becomes a secret doll...
"In other words, when you reach the level of 'Miracle Master' or 'Attendant of Mysteries', you can make plants and things that once had spirits grow 'Spirit Threads' and turn them into secret dolls?
"…Is that 'curtain' the extraordinary characteristic of the 'Miracle Master' or the 'Mysterious Attendant'?
"Looking at the performance of the Dark Demon Wolf, it is most likely the latter...
"Is this the reason why the 'Secret Servant' trait has been missing for a long time, with only clues and no one able to find it?
"Before Sefirah Castle had a 'master', the gray-white mist would unconsciously attract the spare high-level characteristics of the three paths and contain them? What is it trying to do?
"That suction force was really strong. It frightened the Dark Wolf Kotar. He didn't even bother to stay and just wanted to run away...
"What is He doubting, what is He fearing?"
After some analysis, Klein's face gradually showed more excitement.
If we can successfully hunt down the Dark Wolf, an angel-level being, it will be an unparalleled harvest!
Of course, the Dark Wolf that got the "curtain" was definitely more difficult to deal with than before, and Klein's confidence in this matter was reduced a lot.
As his thoughts raced, Klein suddenly remembered something:
"From the point of view of time, when the Dark Wolf arrived at the ruins of the northern city-state of Noth, it had obviously already obtained the 'curtain'...
"He turned the entire city into puppets, creating a puppet city, not for settling down, not for gathering helpers, but to prepare for the ritual of the 'Servant of Mystery'?"
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