Chapter 1252: Mr. Clown
When they saw the figure walking out from behind the collapsed tower,
the members of the City of Silver's expedition team immediately put up a
defensive stance, ready to attack or provide any defense.
In their eyes, the man wearing strange clothes and a strange hat was
equivalent to a monster, a particularly terrifying one at that!
Even normal Beyonders would view themselves as monsters after being
subject to such a physical mutation!
Upon seeing the reactions of the half-giants, Klein grinned widely and
said with a beaming smile, "Hello everyone, I'm Gehrman Sparrow.
"All of you should be glad that I can still control myself. Otherwise,
you would've lost your minds because you looked at me directly."
As he spoke, the transparent maggots on the left side of his face and
neck were still squirming slowly. Beneath the clothes on the left side
of his body, there were protruding marks that gently squirmed.
A monster! The members of the City of Silver who were not
demigods were increasingly certain of their own judgment.
"You are... you are The Wor---no, Mr. Sparrow?" Derrick Berg finally
managed to recognize Mr. World who he had met once.
Klein raised his left palm and covered his left cheek. He smiled and
said, "Life is always about encountering the unexpected."
Without waiting for Little Sun to respond, he paused and said, "I have
already opened the door to the Giant King's residence. This brought
about some accidents, causing the divine kingdom to change."
*The door to the Giant King's residence has already been
opened?* The grizzled and scarred Colin Iliad narrowed his eyes.
He subconsciously looked up at the magnificent buildings shrouded in
golden sunlight.
However, due to the distance, he couldn't see the situation at the apex.
However, to have the frozen sunset become replaced by the blazing sun at
noon had explained many things.
Klein's gaze swept across the City of Silver's Chief and Elder Lovia,
who was dressed in black armor, of the six-member council. He then
looked at The Sun and continued with a smile, "This has also brought me
some negative effects, just as you have already noticed."
At this point, he clapped his hands and said in a commanding tone, like
an adult instructing children, "Alright, Beyonders below the level of
demigod are to fall back. The Giant King's Court after the anomaly is
not a place you can enter."
The members of the expedition team, apart from Colin, Derrick, and
Lovia, felt an inexplicable sense of fear as they cast their gazes at
the Chief.
Colin Iliad remained silent for a few seconds before turning to them and
saying, "Leave the Giant King's Court and wait at the periphery. If you
see the signal, immediately act according to plan."
The handpicked expedition team members were not only strong themselves
and close in strength to a demigod, but they also had different powerful
Sealed Artifacts that complemented each other. Even if they were facing
a saint, they weren't without hope when it came to defeating one.
However, in the City of Silver's original plan, they weren't the main
force. Therefore, Colin Iliad had led them here in the hope that, when
he and the other demigods shaved off the hidden enemies, these team
members would be able to shine. They could then use the different Sealed
Artifacts to deal with different incidents, preventing the entire team
from suffering from any weaknesses.
Now, with powerful help from the outside joining them, and the fact that
the Giant King's Court had indeed experienced some sort of anomaly, no
one knew what they would encounter if they went deeper. With the utmost
caution, Colin Iliad believed that Gehrman Sparrow's suggestion wasn't a
problem. Furthermore, he had his own selfish thoughts---he didn't want
members other than the demigods to suffer any unnecessary risks or
meaningless casualties. Therefore, he agreed to the opinion of the
monster-like powerhouse.
When the time came for an opportunity to show itself, he, Lovia, and
Derrick would be able to give a signal and let the team members rush
over a cleared path to provide reinforcements.
As for the entire team's Beyonder powers not being able to deal with
different situations due it collectively becoming relatively monotonous,
Colin Iliad wasn't too worried since the former Shepherd, Lovia, was
around.
The members of the expedition, who weren't demigods, exchanged looks and
hesitated for a moment. In the end, they still chose to listen to Colin
Iliad.
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
At the same time that they answered, they gave Derrick Berg a deep look,
as though they were trying to remind their Chief to be careful of this
Sequence 4 demigod.
He actually knew a living, monster-like powerhouse!
This was very suspicious to the residents of the City of Silver, who had
barely seen any outsiders!
Sensing his companions' obvious distrust, Derrick's heart ached as his
eyes nearly welled up in tears.
But eventually, he didn't make any excuses. He maintained his silence
and straightened his back.
After the other members of the expedition team retreated from the Giant
King's Court, Klein smiled and pointed at the two demigods.
"Let me guess. You must be the Chief of the City of Silver, the former
Demon Hunter, the present Silver Knight, Colin Iliad. You are The Hanged
Man's believer, Black Knight Lovia, who had helped 'Him' shepherd?"
Lovia's gray eyes, which were hidden behind her visor, narrowed.
"You really look like a clown."
The Hanged Man? Upon hearing Mr. World's words, Derrick almost
doubted his ears.
He even imagined that Elder Lovia had something to do with Mr. Hanged
Man, but he quickly remembered the exact image of the Fallen Creator---a
naked man hanging upside down on a cross.
*Mr. World used The Hanged Man to refer to the Fallen Creator. Elder
Lovia chided him for being impolite?* Derrick, who had just
exceeded two meters in height, nodded thoughtfully as he praised Mr.
World's guts from the bottom of his heart.
He actually dared to give a true deity a nickname, and even said it out
loud in front of "His" follower!
Colin Iliad looked at Gehrman Sparrow and then at Lovia. Unable to tell
who was right or wrong, he calmly said, "Let's continue moving forward."
He had already pulled out the two swords on his back and allowed them to
be blanketed with the dawn's glow.
"No problem." With a smile, Klein turned around and walked to the left
of a huge stone staircase with the three demigods of the City of Silver.
After walking for a while, they saw the familiar rugged pathway. On one
side of the road was a towering cliff, and on the other side was an
afternoon sun-soaked, bottomless cloud.
At this moment, Klein and company felt the vibrations of the ground.
They saw large amounts of illusory, pitch-black gases surging out from
deep within the golden cloud.
With a whoosh, the rugged pathway collapsed, falling into the dark
"water surface."
Beneath the "water surface," there seemed to be invisible maelstroms
lurking.
"Haha, it collapsed. There's no way out. Haha." Klein bent down laughing
loudly, making Colin's, Derrick's, and Lovia's nerves tense up.
It took Klein a few seconds to regain control of his emotions. He
straightened his body and took out a piece of white paper from his
pocket with a smile plastered across his face. He folded it into a
"plane."
Phew. He blew at the head of the paper plane, swung his arm,
and threw it towards the clouds that had been devoured by darkness.
At the same time, the glove on his left hand was covered with slippery
fish scales.
Upon seeing this scene, the originally confused Colin Iliad nodded
slightly before casting his gaze at the flying paper object.
A violent wind stirred as it carried the paper plane forward in flight
for a few seconds.
Then, it suddenly dissipated, and like a stone, it rapidly plummeted
into the dark clouds, without causing any ripples.
"From the looks of it, flying is useless." Klein turned halfway around
and smiled at Derrick and company.
Lovia didn't respond as she released a translucent soul that enveloped a
piece of gravel.
In the blink of an eye, that piece of rock disappeared from its original
spot, "Blinking" to a spot above the dark clouds. Following that, it
fell down uncontrollably and sank into the clouds.
"'Teleport' doesn't work either," Lovia said in a slightly deep voice.
As Klein pressed at his abdomen, he bent down and chuckled before
saying, "It looks like we can only enter through the main entrance."
Derrick immediately turned around and was about to head back when Colin
Iliad and Lovia looked at each other and nodded indiscernibly.
The four demigods quickly returned to the huge, grayish-white stone
staircase and looked up.
Above the flight of silent stairs which had very high steps, the
majestic city walls were covered with burn marks. There were even arrows
shafts as thick as ordinary trees.
In the middle of the city wall was a door that was tens of meters tall.
It was grayish-blue in color and there were golden nails embedded on its
surface.
On both sides of the door stood a guard that stood at six meters tall in
a domineering manner. They wore exquisite silver full-body armor, one
holding a greatsword, the other a huge ax. Behind their visors was an
orange glow.
Silver Knight!
These were two Silver Knights guards!
Without wasting any time, Colin Iliad quickly retracted his gaze and
said to Gehrman Sparrow, "I'll hold back one of the Silver Knights.
Quickly finish off the other one."
He wasn't very sure of Gehrman Sparrow's strength, but from the
admiration and respect that he sensed from Derrick Berg, as well as the
fact that he had opened up the residence of the Giant King, he
determined that this demigod who was blessed by The Fool was no weaker
than him.
Under such circumstances, whether it was Gehrman Sparrow or Colin Iliad,
it wasn't difficult for them to quickly kill a Silver Knight guard with
the help of Lovia and Derrick. After all, they weren't living demigods,
but a special statue without any intelligence.
Just as Colin Iliad finished his sentence, he saw Gehrman Sparrow bend
his back and laugh out loud.
"Why do you care so much about these two toys?
"If they were still alive and could think---real Silver Knights---I
would definitely be as cautious as you are. But now, haha. Watch."
As he spoke, Klein used his left hand, which had many Worms of Spirit
crawling about, to press down on his top hat. He straightened his body
and briskly walked up the stairs.
Then, he was surrounded by strong winds as he approached the main door
of the Giant King's Court.
During this process, he casually raised his right hand and shook it a
few times, as if he was stretching his wrist or grabbing the air.
At the end of the last action, Klein's shoulder sank slightly as if it
had frozen, but nothing appeared in the void.
Colin Iliad originally wanted to have an understanding of Gehrman
Sparrow's strength, so he didn't stop him. He only signaled for Lovia to
follow, to back him up if he made any mistakes. However, at that moment,
he suddenly slowed down. He frowned slightly as if he had caught the
scent of something.
As for Derrick, he looked at him with slight admiration. He believed
that Mr. World could quickly finish off the guards.