Chapter 685: From A Delay to Disconnection

In the room that had been reduced to shambles, Klein, whose top hat had

fallen to the side and clothes had become tattered, was about four

meters away from Kircheis, who was a behemoth with bat wings. The

situation was so quiet, as though a puppet show was being played.

In fact, Klein still had the means to do something else.

Back when Marionettist Rosago forcefully controlled both him and

Sharron, he could resist the Wraith's possession and use Flame

Controlling to summon a flame to destroy the shadow pulled in by

Sharron. If he hadn't made a serious mistake by targeting the Sequence 5

Wraith, Rosago could've diverted his attention to killing Klein,

snuffing out any chance of him using the Language of Foulness charm.

Now, although Klein was definitely inferior to him, there was also only

one enemy!

Of course, there wasn't really much he could do. Under the premise of

not losing control over Kircheis, he could move, but he couldn't do it

too hastily or quickly. He could use Beyonder powers which didn't expend

too much of his spirituality, but he couldn't divert his attention to

power the mystical items he carried, or use actions that required too

much movement like drawing a gun.

And when a target was controlled to a certain extent, several attacks

could nudge or stimulate the target, allowing them to resist the control

of their Spirit Body Threads to a greater extent and even show signs of

escaping from his control.

Therefore, Klein had to wait.

At that moment, his heart rate suddenly sped up as an uncontrollable

sense of horror and anxiety surfaced in his mind.

He couldn't help but suspect that Kircheis's companions who had their

intentions affected by Distortion were about to return!

No good! My emotions have been stirred! Klein was first taken

aback as he tried to use Cogitation to forcefully calm his agitated

heart.

Haha... He has... emotional stirrings... A chance... Kircheis

was delighted as a slow thought flashed through his mind.

Then, using his Beyonder powers, he attempted to magnify Gehrman

Sparrow's horror and anxiety, planting an emotional seed in him.

As long as he succeeded, all he needed was to completely "trigger" it,

maiming his opponent, making him unable to influence him further!

*No... How can it... be ineffective... His... emotional stirrings...

have disappeared...* Kircheis's bloodshot eyes constricted

slowly as it was gradually filled with shock, alarm, and anger.

Klein, who imagined that he had given the Desire Apostle a chance to

counterattack, discovered that nothing had happened after completely

calming himself down. The curled goat horns on Kircheis's head were

ignited, but he didn't attempt to use his emotional stirrings!

Moments after having this thought, Klein roughly understood the

situation.

It wasn't that Kircheis didn't wish to control his horror and anxiety,

but it was that he had failed!

From the moment he sensed the emotional stirrings, he had to take a few

seconds to digest the situation before using two to three seconds to

make the decision. Finally, he spent even more time to organize his

thoughts before channeling the corresponding Beyonder powers. All of

that took him at least ten seconds to complete.

Klein only took a total of three to four seconds to calm his mind after

detecting the problem.

Therefore, Kircheis's Beyonder powers naturally failed to be effective

against an enemy who was in normal condition.

*To put it simply, the delay was too long! Under such situations, don't

try to fiddle around with highly intricate matters...* Klein

lampooned before suppressing his sense of schadenfreude.

After another ten seconds, Kircheis finally understood the source of the

problem. He no longer considered targeting desires and emotions, and

instead, while flapping the bat wings on his back with great difficulty,

he relied on a Devil's powerful body and Spirit Body to resist the

control stemming from the Spirit Body Threads. He tried to make the

swirling light blue flames slowly coagulate into a fireball.

Klein could almost foresee fireballs bombard him; hence, he didn't

hesitate to split off some of his spirituality, snapping his fingers

using his right thumb and middle finger.

Pa!

The light blue flames suddenly soared before they truly took form and

collapsed completely. They were like fireworks blooming behind Kircheis.

Magician's Flame Controlling!

Kircheis continued struggling, but his actions became even slower as he

resembled a rusting puppet. As for Klein, he casually moved his feet to

dodge the Devil language Kircheis had launched with all his strength.

Three seconds, two seconds, one second... Klein suddenly

stopped as his eyes locked onto Kircheis's head which had lost its

curved goat horns.

At that moment, he still needed two and a half minutes from controlling

this Desire Apostle to turn him into his marionette, but Klein didn't

have such plans. He never had such plans in the first place!

It took too much time, allowing Kircheis's companions to rush back in

time!

Klein only had one ultimate goal---it was to control Kircheis to a

certain extent so that attacks within a certain limit wouldn't help him

escape his predicament!

The bloodshot eyes, grimacing expression, and sharp teeth with drooling

saliva reflected in Klein's eyes. He opened his mouth and said a word,

"Bang!"

Air Bullet! An Air Bullet of a Sequence 5!

This was already comparable to a bullet shot from a steam rifle!

Bang!

The Air Bullet accurately hit Kircheis's forehead, causing him to throw

up his head, yanking the Spirit Body Threads.

In between his brows, a bloody hole that wasn't too deep had appeared.

It wasn't a mortal blow.

To a Devil, a Desire Apostle, their bodies seemed to be cloaked with

thick and hard armor. Their blood and flesh had extreme elasticity and

defensive strength.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Klein kept creating Air Bullets while making gunshot sounds, striking

Kircheis's forehead, again and again, slowly leaving it a contiguous

mess. At the same time, he stably controlled the Spirit Body Threads to

prevent him from using the feedback to weaken his influence.

Kircheis let out an angry stuttering roar as he tried moving forward in

a bid to counterattack, but Klein was a lot more agile than him!

And his plans to liquefy undoubtedly failed because of the control of

the Spirit Body Threads.

Bang!

Another Air Bullet struck Kircheis, completely shattering his forehead,

penetrating his brain.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The subsequent bullets flew in, one bullet

after another.

Bang!

Kircheis's skull was finally sent flying as black crevices filled his

brain. At that moment it was a complete mess.

The aura of this Slaughterer worth 9,500 pounds quickly dissipated, but

he didn't close his eyes, as he had already lost them.

Bit by bit, he collapsed to the ground slowly as Klein walked over and

extended his left hand.

Two blood-red eyes split open in the middle of the glove.

A cold and eerie wind appeared as Slaughterer Kircheis's Spirit Body, as

well as his black fog-like Beyonder characteristic shot towards Creeping

Hunger amidst screams before fixing itself to a blank finger.

Soon, the glove turned black once again, but this time it was profound

and pure, resembling countless squirming dots of the same color formed

one layer after another.

Klein sensed the changes for two seconds before walking towards the

shattered window, feeling somewhat disappointed and also somewhat

delighted.

When Grazing Kircheis, he had actually considered which Beyonder powers

he wished to receive and which he didn't wish to receive. The one he

didn't wish for was the danger premonition of a Devil, as this needed to

have Creeping Hunger constantly activated while maintaining Kircheis's

soul. And this meant that he needed to feed the glove every day, which

spelled an extreme inconvenience for himself. Furthermore, this also

overlapped with his powers as a Seer to a certain extent.

As for whether the danger premonition of a Devil worked after making it

into his marionette, Klein believed that it was targeted on the

marionette and had nothing to do with its controller.

What Klein wished for the most was to "draw" the Desire Apostle's

Beyonder powers of using a target's emotional stirrings or the use of

any of the Language of Foulness, with the best being Death or

Corruption.

At that moment, he had been quite lucky to obtain three Beyonder powers.

One of them was Language of Foulness, but it wasn't Death or Corruption,

but Slow. This allowed all targets in a seven-to eight-meter radius to

instantly turn numb or even come to a halt. However, it could only be

maintained for two seconds.

The second Beyonder power was Sword of Lava. It could create a flaming

sword with extremely high offensive power. One strike could directly

cleave through a thick stone column, leaving the sliced off end to

appear to be melted off. This was the option Kircheis had used when he

attacked maniacally.

The third was Sulfur Fireball. Not only could it create an explosion of

considerable might, but it could also poison people and objects which

had been stained by the flames. If matched with a Devil form's powers,

ten to twenty fireballs could be launched at the same instance. Out of

that form, it maxed out at three.

*That's not bad. The damage delivered by Sword of Lava to non-undead or

non-corrupt creatures is clearly higher than the Priest of Light's Light

of Holiness...* Klein came to the window and happened to see the

backs of Kircheis's companions opening up a distance from him.

*They haven't shaken off the influence? No, with so much time having

passed, they must've shaken off the influence and returned somewhere

nearby. Now, they're escaping? They sensed Kircheis's death? That's a

little weird...* Klein turned his head back and saw Kircheis's

corpse still in his Devil form. His form didn't change back into a human

as a result of his death.

He looked at the corpse for two seconds before coming up with a theory.

"Powers like the Devil form are a state that brings a body close to the

state of losing control. However, they still have their reasoning and

can change back while they're in control. Otherwise, they will maintain

their forms."

Klein didn't delay as he searched the Devil's corpse. He discovered that

Kircheis's gigantification had torn all his clothes and pants, causing

his wallet and cash to scatter across the ground. Later, they were all

destroyed due to the blanketing attack from the fireballs and sulfurous

flames.

"..." Just as Klein looked away, he suddenly discovered something

twinkling in the giant Devil's chest.

It was a thin and long crystal formed purely of blood. A faint smell of

sulfur emanated around it.

"What's that?" Klein frowned, unable to figure out an answer.

*Kircheis's Beyonder characteristics has clearly entered Creeping

Hunger. Why would his corpse produce something strange?* A

question flashed across Klein's mind.

Furthermore, as the second mate of the King of Immortality, Kircheis

didn't even carry a mystical item or Sealed Artifact. This had exceeded

his expectations.