Chapter 1220: A "Curtain"

"God, God is here to save us..."

The words spoken in a sob-filled voice echoed at the entrance of Moon

City, causing the residents who were waiting to fall into a trance.

At the edges of the grayish-white fog, a fire quietly burned.

After eating another batch of mushrooms, Klein dispelled the iron-black

skewer in his hand and looked up at the crater described by Moon City's

High Priest, Nim.

He then reached out with his right hand and gently pulled, dragging

"himself" out from fifteen minutes ago.

After exchanging looks, Klein's true form rapidly vanished and entered

the fog of history. He ran all the way to a time before the First Epoch,

and he sat in the old stacked cities.

His historical projection stood up and snapped his fingers repeatedly,

flashing through the crimson flames as he headed for his destination.

When the crater that was once a hill was almost right in front of him,

he stopped. He cautiously extended his right palm and pulled Qonas

Kilgor out of the void.

The burly Earl of The Fallen's facial muscles twitched as he quickly

transformed into another Gehrman Sparrow.

He took out a lantern from the fog of history with one hand and rubbed

his temples with the other as he muttered softly, "Why does a marionette

have to change its appearance?

"There's no one else here...

"I can't develop OCD..."

A few seconds later, the marionette's projection carried a lantern that

emitted faint yellow light as it walked towards the crater not far away.

As the light flickered, Klein saw his target location and realized that

it wasn't too deep. The difference between the bottom and the ground

wasn't more than two meters. Of course, compared to the original hill,

this change was indeed huge.

Inside the "crater," the soil was smooth, and there were a few rocks in

it. There were many twisted, mutated plants around it whose species were

difficult to distinguish. It looked no different from other places.

After observing for a while, Klein, who had stealthily activated Spirit

Body Threads and Spirit Body Threads vision, slowly entered the crater,

planning on following his preplanned route and reassessing everything

worth paying attention to.

As he walked, he frowned slightly and let out an exclamation.

He realized that his thoughts had turned sluggish, but it didn't affect

his thinking!

It was as if he had slept too much and had just woken up---having a

heavy head with insufficiently active thoughts.

This was a situation that a person would occasionally experience.

Beyonders of the other pathways might not be able to detect it, but as a

demigod of the Seer pathway, Klein could clearly sense something amiss.

*If it were any deeper, it would be close to the effect when a

Marionettist controls Spirit Body Threads... The influence left behind

by Dark Demonic Wolf Kotar? That's not right. If "He" didn't mean to

leave it behind, it means that "He" showed "His" complete Mythical

Creature form back then. That would've resulted in Moon City's

investigation team in breaking down and losing control... If "He" had

intentionally left it behind, what would be the purpose? Telling others

that "He" was here?* Klein circled the area in puzzlement, but

he didn't discover any anomalies.

After some thought, he let his main body that was hiding in the

Historical Void in a time before the First Epoch take four steps

counterclockwise as he recited the incantation and went above the gray

fog.

He wanted to do a divination!

With the exact time and location, Nim's description, and a real-world

survey of the area, as well as lighting up some of the historical

fragments, he believed that the prerequisite for making a "divination"

had basically been met.

This didn't mean it was enough, but that he could barely give it a try.

Besides, if the hill turning into a crater incident had something to do

with Sefirah Castle and him, then the chances of a successful divination

would greatly increase. The revelation would be very clear and not be

interfered with.

Without any further thought, he sat on The Fool's high-back chair. He

conjured a dark red fountain pen and yellow parchment and wrote:

"28th June of June 1349 of the Fifth Epoch. The anomaly that happened

here."

He put down the fountain pen and grabbed with his left hand. He pulled

out a handful of crater soil from the fog of history to use it as a

medium for divination.

With one hand holding the soil and the other holding the parchment, he

leaned back in his chair and recited the divination statement seven

times. Then, with the help of Cogitation, he fell asleep.

In the hazy dream world, Klein saw the grayish-white solidified fog. He

saw the hill that was tens of meters high, and the twisted vegetation

around it.

A few seconds later, the fog began to churn and rapidly "vomited" a

black shadow.

The black shadow was like a huge velvet curtain, madly absorbing all the

light around it.

Its translucency increased as it completely enveloped the hill.

Following that, the hill vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a

crater.

The strange plants at the edge of the crater were also suddenly covered

and had black illusory Spirit Body Threads that extended towards

different parts of the black "curtain."

The "curtain" became more and more transparent and illusory until it

reached a point where one couldn't see it with the naked eye. If not for

the fact that he had Spirit Body Threads vision to observe the reality

of the scene, Klein wouldn't have been able to discover that the

"curtain" had covered the crater's surface.

The scene flashed, and the dreamscape twisted to reveal a new scene.

Moon City's 5-man patrol team approached and discovered that a crater

had replaced the hill that had vanished.

They stopped in their tracks and left the area without hesitation. They

didn't rashly investigate.

After an unknown period of time, a gigantic figure suddenly appeared in

another direction.

It was a demonic wolf covered in dark fur with eight legs. It was about

four to five meters tall.

The demonic wolf had a tuft of short, grayish-white fur on its forehead.

Its pure black pupils covered at least three-quarters of the space of

its eyes. It was none other than the Dark Demonic Wolf, Kotar.

The Dark Demonic Wolf raised "His" head and opened "His" mouth, as

though "He" was screaming, but nothing happened.

In the next second, a figure appeared in front of "Him." It was another

"Him."

The Dark Demonic Wolf's historical projection did a simple step with

"His" eight legs and "He" instantly arrived beside the crater.

After "He" surveyed the area, "He" carefully lowered "His" head and

picked up the completely transparent "curtain" that had made the entire

hill disappear.

The "curtain" suddenly came alive as it rapidly contracted and spun. It

wrapped around the black demonic wolf as if it was adding half a black

translucent piece of clothing to "Him."

The Dark Demonic Wolf trembled slightly, as if it had become a "clothed"

marionette in two to three seconds.

However, this was only a Historical Void projection. The next breath

didn't happen as the main body stopped maintaining the projection.

The "curtain" lost its support as it instantly collapsed and lay spread

out on the ground.

Dark Demonic Wolf Kotar didn't give up. "He" occasionally transformed

the monsters around "Him" into marionettes or summoned historical

projections, allowing them to go forward again and again, experiencing

all kinds of failures. However, in the end, "His" newest batch of

marionettes still managed to pick up and control the "curtain."

The entire process was silent, as though it was a mime act.

Following that, the gigantic demonic wolf made the marionettes bring the

"curtain" to "Him."

At that moment, the grayish-white fog around "Him" churned again,

forming a vortex that was comparable to a hill.

The vortex emitted an invisible suction force, causing the strange

"curtain" and Dark Demonic Wolf Kotar to be thrown towards it at the

same time!

Such a scene caused a substantial ripple to appear in the dreamscape.

Countless points of light appeared, making it difficult for him to see

the specific details.

When everything returned to normal, Dark Demonic Wolf Kotar draped the

transparent "curtain" around "Him" and rapidly flew away from the

solidified fog.

And at that moment, the Moon City investigation team arrived and saw the

ancient subsidiary god leave.

Kotar glanced at them, but "He" didn't stop, vanishing into the

darkness.

At this point, the scene shattered and the dream ended. Klein woke up.

He sat up straight and tapped the edge of the long mottled table with

his fingers as he silently muttered, *It's not that there weren't any

anomalies before I arrived. More likely it is that the guards from Moon

City didn't discover it. After all, the fog extends outwards to an

unknown limit...*

*What's that "curtain" that was spat out by the grayish-white fog? It

can cover a hill when it's large, turning it into a crater, as though by

magic. When it's small, it can be used as "clothes" by the demonic wolf,

turning "Him" into a marionette... It's a little like a high Sequence

item of the Seer pathway...*

*It was spat out because I entered the world above the gray fog and

completed the binding with Sefirah Castle?*

*It seems to be able to turn the surrounding vegetation into its

marionettes... This gives me a familiar feeling...*

*Yes, there was something wrong with the food laid out in the rooms of

the foggy town back then. Spirit Body Threads were growing out of them,

reaching out towards the core of the cathedral. Once they've been eaten,

one will instantly evaporate and vanish. Yes, they end up hanging in the

cathedral and becoming a marionette...*

*In other words, once one reaches the level of Miracle Invoker or

Attendant of Mysteries, one can make plants or objects with spirituality

grow Spirit Body Threads, so as to turn them into marionettes?*

*...Is that "curtain" the Beyonder characteristics of a Miracle Invoker

or Attendant of Mysteries?*

*Judging from the Dark Demonic Wolf's performance, it might very well be

the latter...*

*This is the reason why one Attendant of Mysteries characteristic has

been missing for a long period of time. There were only clues, but no

one could find it?*

*Before Sefirah Castle had an "owner," the grayish-white fog

unconsciously attracted the high Sequence characteristics of the three

pathways across space and accommodated them? What is it trying to

do?*

*That suction force is really very strong. It frightened even Dark

Demonic Wolf Kotar. "He" didn't even stop, only having thoughts of

escaping...*

What was "He" suspecting? What was "He" afraid of?

After some analysis, there was a look of excitement on his face.

If he could successfully hunt down an angel like the Dark Demonic Wolf,

it would be an unparalleled harvest!

Of course, the Dark Demonic Wolf, who now had the "curtain," was much

harder to deal with than before. This matter had greatly reduced his

confidence in succeeding.

As his thoughts raced, he suddenly recalled something:

*From the timing of these sequence of events, the Dark Demonic Wolf

clearly had the "curtain" by the time he arrived in the northern city

ruins, Nois...*

*"He" turned the entire city into marionettes and created a marionette

city. It wasn't to settle down, nor was it to accumulate helpers. It was

to prepare the ritual for Attendant of Mysteries?*