Chapter 20 Facing

This clone made by Klein is based on the current state, not Dwayne Dantes, Sherlock Moriarty, Merlin Hermes, so as to avoid cognitive obstacles.

After encountering the mutation brought by Adam, he became more careful about similar aspects.

Glancing at the clone, Klein's thoughts moved, making his face blank.

The clone immediately stretched out his right hand, mobilized the power of "Origin Castle", and grabbed the main body.

One after another, after it failed a dozen times in a row, it finally extracted a little dim light from its body.

Finally... Klein sighed and extinguished the idea of ​​extending this kind of attempt to actual combat.

He did not resist at all, and when he let go of his body and mind, the clone took advantage of the personality and power of "Origin Castle", and it took so much time and failed so many times to finally succeed. The actual combat value can be imagined.

As more and more Beyonder characteristics left his body, Klein relaxed and felt as if he had finally abandoned his burden after walking with a heavy load for a long time.

Of course, his mental state also fluctuated to a certain extent, because after losing the involvement of Zaratul's residual spirit, the will of "Heavenly Venerate" to recover more strongly eroded his mind.

This was within Klein's expectations, so he didn't panic at all. With his self-awareness that had already stabilized, a fairly tenacious will, and a sufficient number of anchors, he gradually resisted the pollution from the "Heavenly Venerate" will. A new balance has been found.

At the same time, when the "Servant of Mysteries" Extraordinary characteristics that Klein had not yet digested basically entered the body, its blank face without facial features suddenly distorted, with dark eyes and looming eyes. White long whiskers.

At this moment, it is very close to Zaratul.

However, it was unable to withstand the madness brought about by this "Servant of Mysteries" Beyonder characteristic, and its body rapidly developed in the direction of collapse, crawling out one after another of transparent and twisted worms, extending one after another of smooth and evil worms. tentacle.

It got out of control on the spot.

Klein didn't let it go, he moved his finger without hesitation, and turned this clone into his Secret Puppet.

The runaway process is interrupted by this.

At this point, he has made all preparations, and his body is in a state where he has digested the potion and can accommodate the uniqueness of The Fool.

And comes with a Sequence 1 marionette.

Klein immediately leaned back in his chair, and went through the next thing to do in his mind again to see if there were any fatal omissions.

"For the battle of the gods, all I can do is now, and then I can only do my best... Well, I am too optimistic about the previous process, because with the help of the goddess, there is the 'River of Eternal Darkness' The river is the support, so there is no need to worry about what accidents the ancestor of the Antigonus family will cause?" After some examination, Klein thought that he was still not cautious enough, and he was a little arrogant and careless.

After thinking about it, he created another clone, his face still blank.

After completing this, Klein stood up, took out Creeping Hunger from the fog of history, and put it on his left hand.

This is a preparation for possible small-scale battles, in which "flashing" is faster and more convenient than "grafting".

After adjusting his collar, Klein looked around slowly, and let his eyes fall on the strange light door stained with blue and black, and on the human beings hanging there, wrapped in transparent "cocoons". body.

Scanning them one by one, his eyes were fixed on the three broken transparent "cocoons".

The next second, Klein's figure disappeared and appeared in the gray fog of history. He walked step by step before the first era, and walked into the cascading old city.

He stood on top of a crumbling edifice that barely stood, overlooking the piles of rubble, the discus-turned public transport, the overlapping cars.

In the silence, his eyes swept across the remaining houses, as if penetrating the barriers of history, and saw one after another electric lights lit up inside them.

The light of these electric lamps spread softly, illuminating the glass, illuminating the building, illuminating the street, illuminating the ruins of a corner of the old city.

After staring for a long time, Klein retracted his gaze, took one step, and returned to the real world.

Immediately afterwards, he teleported directly to the peak of the Hornages Mountains, and "saw" the ancient palace shrouded in mist, dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

His marionette and clone immediately appeared in front of him, like two guards.

Facing the ancient palace, Klein pressed his top hat, raised his right hand, and snapped his fingers.

The peaks of the Hornages Mountains suddenly became dark, and illusory stars were dotted around them.

Klein "grafted" this place with the astral world.

Without any hesitation, he took the marionette and clone and walked to the main entrance of the ancient palace.

The Secret Puppet, who looked quite similar to him now, took the lead, bent his back, stretched out his hands, and slowly pushed the heavy stone door.

In the sound of Zazaza's friction, the door opened a little bit, revealing the scene inside.

Unlike the last time Klein sent the "Trensost Brass Book" over, it was dark inside, making it impossible to see the numerous corpses hanging in the hall, nor the transparent transparent body resting on the huge stone chair. Worm mass.

No need to guess, Klein used the intuition of the "diver" at the level of the King of Angels to determine that it was the "Goddess of the Night" who used the "River of Eternal Darkness" to put the ancestor of the Antigonus family into eternal sleep. The change.

After Secret Puppet and clone entered one after another, he also walked slowly through the gate and set foot inside the palace.

The darkness swayed and changed.

Buildings appeared all around, and silhouettes walked on the street. Words spread out, making the whole environment suddenly vivid, bringing a bit of noise.

People ignored Klein and his Secret Puppet and clone, went to different places on their own, and talked to each other about various things.

They and those buildings were dull, almost black and white, like an old photograph from the depths of history that suddenly came to life.

This made Klein think of holographic black and white projections, scenes in historical pores and real dreams.

He strolled through such a town, walking along the gradually ascending street.

And the closer you get to the heights, the more magnificent the building is, with an exaggerated dome supported by huge stone pillars.

The people living in this "old black and white photo" are generally tall and seem to be studying, working and resting normally.

The scenes here change continuously, showing the birth of a baby, the growth of a child, the ignorance of youth, the troubles of adulthood, the stress of middle age, and the sadness of aging.

Of course, these are all interspersed with each other, but sometimes one of them is the theme.

As Klein went deeper, he began to see some town residents pass away.

Their relatives did not have much grief, and took the dead back to their homes, put them on the bed, and put them next to the pillow, as if the bodies were still alive.

When Klein was about to leave the town, the deceased got up from the bed, left their relatives, walked out of the house, and walked up the street step by step to the highest point.

There is also a city there, which seems to be the city of the dead, the final destination of all life, the kingdom of eternal sleep.

This is very close to where normal people live, the latter is distributed in the area from the mountainside to the peak, and the former is on the peak.

Others might be surprised by such a state, but Klein immediately understood where this was and what such a scene meant.

Because, he directly saw the "spiritual body thread" on the dead.

The moment they were about to die, the "spiritual body thread" floated to the top of the mountain and was controlled by an unknown existence.

In other words, they became Secret Puppets.

Therefore, the deceased can go out on their own after being dead for a period of time, leave their families, and go to the peak.

And this is completely consistent with the details of the "Research on the Ancient Ruins of the Main Peak of Hornakis" that Klein had read:

The Kingdom of Night belongs to the "Mother of Heaven" who passes through "Night", but at the top of the mountain, there is a marionette town for the ancestors of the Antigonus family.

Therefore, the residents of the Kingdom of Night respect and fear the night, and believe in the "Mother of Heaven". At the same time, they believe that death is not the end, and that the dead relatives will protect themselves in the dark night.

Indeed, death is not the end, the "City of the Dead" is right next to them, on the top of the mountain, and can be reached on foot, and the dead will continue their lives there in the form of marionettes.

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is undoubtedly equivalent to being alive.

The country of the living and the city of the dead are thus connected, at opposite ends of the road. The distance between life and death is so close, as close as neighbors.

This also explains why there are no tombs in the Kingdom of Night, because the dead do not need to be buried at all, they become Secret Puppets and go to the summit.

This should be the original Kingdom of Night... Klein nodded lightly and climbed to the peak in the dark environment step by step.

What caught his eye was a seemingly normal town, but everyone here was a marionette.

Passing through the marionettes in different clothes and shapes, Klein entered the magnificent palace in front of him that was dedicated to gods.

In the depths of the palace, on the huge stone chair, a figure propped his elbows on the armrests and leaned his head against the back of the chair.

His face is quite young, but his long hair is already half white, half hidden and half obvious; his appearance is male, his eyes are darker than Zarath, and there are indescribable vicissitudes; his facial features are not bad, On the cheeks, however, there were clusters of thick black short hairs like wolf hair, giving people a contradictory feeling of being old and youthful, rational and crazy.

This is the ancestor of the Antigonus family. This time, he did not take the form of a mythical creature, and sat on a huge stone chair in his original appearance.

At this moment, his eyes were tightly closed, as if in deep sleep, and inside the hall, there were clothes or simple or gorgeous corpses hanging.

They are like a long forest, swaying gently in the wind.

"After entering the state of eternal sleep, the ancestor of the Antigonus family finally got rid of the loss of control and madness for a short time, and returned to his previous appearance?" Klein stood in the center of the hall, staring at the goal of the trip, and sighed spontaneously.

The Land of Night and the City of the Dead he had just seen, all the scenes he saw were the dreams of Antigonus.

A thousand-year-old dream.

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