Chapter 140: A Very Simple Deduction
by cnwebnovels.comChapter 140: A Very Simple Deduction
The instant he saw the Red Angel evil spirit, Klein’s pupils widened, and the human-skin glove on his left palm abruptly turned transparent.
He did not even listen to what the other party was saying. His instinctive reaction was to immediately Teleport away. But at that moment, the spirit world reflected in his eyes was different from usual.
The countless transparent creatures, impossible to fully describe in form, had all been stained with the color of iron and blood. Dense gunsmoke filled the surroundings. The seven pure lights above, containing infinite knowledge, were obscured by it and were almost impossible to see.
Klein’s heart sank. He did not rashly Teleport.
Seeing this, the Red Angel evil spirit chuckled.
“What are you afraid of? Zaratul?”
Hearing that sentence, Klein instinctively looked around, but discovered nothing abnormal.
The Red Angel evil spirit maintained that extremely irritating smile and pointed to the sofa opposite the reclining chair.
“If I had already told Zaratul that Dwayne Dantès is Gehrman Sparrow, then when you returned to 160 Böklund Street this morning, what would have been waiting for you in the wine cellar would not have been living people, but your butler and servants hanging there like air-dried hams. Of course, they would still have welcomed you warmly.
“Sit. Under such circumstances, listening first to my thoughts and intentions isn’t a bad thing.”
Imagining the scene described by the Red Angel evil spirit, Klein, though he himself had done similar things before, still felt the hair on his body rise in horror.
He remained on guard and had his marionette, Qonas Kilgor, who had transformed into Dwayne Dantès, sit down on the sofa, while he himself stood nearby in the appearance of the personal valet Enyuni.
He had, at some unknown moment, swapped positions with his marionette and instantly changed both of their appearances.
“Perhaps that’s only because you just learned this information from Patrick Bryan and haven’t had time to tell Zaratul yet?” Klein retorted through his marionette.
At the same time, from the Red Angel evil spirit’s words, he judged that Zaratul really had already arrived in Backlund!
This was a complete, unrestricted, strange and terrifying Sequence 1 angel—an existence fully worthy of being called a hidden one!
The Red Angel evil spirit’s gaze swept across the personal valet and his master. He smiled.
“A fool like Patrick Bryan? I can get whatever I want to know out of him in fifteen minutes. And a whole night plus a whole morning have already passed since that ritual.”
…You and Miss Messenger might actually share a common language… Klein had his marionette raise an eyebrow.
“So?”
The Red Angel evil spirit let the reclining chair beneath Him rock gently.
“I wonder if you’ve ever heard a saying. When you choose a Beyonder pathway, the corresponding friends and enemies are already determined. You and I are not friends, but neither are we enemies.
“Of course, you and I did have some conflicts, but neither side suffered any major losses. The matter is already over. As for me, because your growth will bring immense trouble to certain fellows I despise, I don’t particularly want to kill you ahead of time. I’m quite happy to see you continue advancing.”
The Emperor said something similar before… Certain fellows He despises… Klein chose his words, then asked in return, “The Blasphemer Amon?”
“You’re not that ignorant, nor that stupid.” The Red Angel evil spirit laughed and raised a hand to rub His chin.
Whether in speech or in action, He made one feel an impulse to punch Him.
After thinking for a moment, Klein calmly pointed out a problem.
“Then you could have chosen Zaratul. If He is able to improve because of it, He would likewise bring enormous trouble to the Blasphemer Amon. Compared to Him, I am still far too weak. I still need a long time to grow, and far too many accidents can happen in between.”
The Red Angel evil spirit nodded seriously.
“True. I thought so at first too. A fellow like you, not much stronger than a stray dog—what could you use to compare with a Sequence 1 Zaratul? Who dies faster?”
At this point, the Red Angel evil spirit suddenly changed direction and sighed.
“But if every matter in this world allowed one to choose the most ideal plan, it would be far too beautiful…”
Before His voice fully faded, a bloody slit abruptly tore open across His bloodless left cheek.
The slit ripped wide, opening and closing like a mouth, revealing two rows of illusory white teeth within.
“I investigated it. The decline of the Sauron family was caused by Zaratul and Roselle!”
Is this the spirit left behind by that ancestor of the Sauron family? The Red Angel’s split personality is more severe than I imagined. No, this isn’t a normal split personality. It’s three people crammed into one body. No matter what He wants to do, He first has to obtain consensus, or internal conflict will break out… Klein preliminarily believed that the Red Angel evil spirit was not setting a trap, but truly had no way to tell Zaratul the corresponding information.
This is His weakness. It can be used in the future… After silently muttering to himself, Klein asked instead, “Then why did you come looking for me? Just to say what you said earlier?”
The Red Angel evil spirit raised a hand and rubbed His left cheek, causing the mouth that had appeared there to slowly vanish. At the same time, He smiled and said, “Aren’t you investigating the Loen royal family’s affairs?
“There seems to be a fairly high-ranking witch named Katarina involved. If you find traces of her, notify me before you normally take action.”
White Saint Katarina… What does the Red Angel evil spirit want with her? Mm, Sequence 4 of the Hunter pathway can cause a woman to become a man, while Sequence 7 of the Witch pathway can cause a man to become a woman. These should be two interchangeable Beyonder pathways… The Red Angel evil spirit can’t find a suitable Hunter pathway Beyonder characteristic, so He plans to switch to the Witch pathway? That makes sense. As an evil spirit, as long as He can resolve the problem of His own existence, He can still advance through potions and characteristics… Klein was first startled, then, combining what he knew of the hidden truths, formed a certain guess.
And this instantly produced a strange thought in him.
When one’s body simultaneously contains high-Sequence Beyonder characteristics of both the Hunter and Witch pathways, will the Red Angel evil spirit display a male state or a female state? Does the higher level decide? Whoever has the stronger status takes control?
At that moment, the Red Angel evil spirit looked at Dwayne Dantès and his personal valet, then gave a heh.
“You really do have a talent for provocation.”
I haven’t even said anything… Klein replied inwardly, slightly bewildered.
The Red Angel evil spirit curled His lip.
“I can guess what you’re thinking, unless you admit you’re very ignorant.
“Still, for Them, that might be a good thing.”
“Shut up!” Two bloody mouths appeared on both sides of the Red Angel evil spirit’s cheeks and shouted at the same time.
Looking at the “split personality scene” opposite him, Klein rationally gave up on delving into that topic and instead said, “It’s not impossible for me to notify you in advance. The question is, how should I notify you?”
In his view, the Unaging Witch Katarina was certainly not a good person, and the Red Angel evil spirit was the same. It would be a fine thing if the two of them came into conflict.
The Red Angel evil spirit laughed.
“Of course by reciting my honorific name:
“The great God of War, symbol of iron and blood, sovereign of turmoil and strife.”
“Pah!” The mouths on both sides of the Red Angel evil spirit’s cheeks simultaneously made sounds of contempt, as though they did not quite acknowledge it.
That is a standard honorific name for a deity… After wielding the Uniqueness, Medici, in a certain sense, already belongs to the level of a quasi-god? And as long as no one accommodates the Uniqueness of the Red Priest pathway, this evil spirit’s status will not drop? The honorific name will continue pointing toward Him? Klein nodded thoughtfully and probed, “What do you know about the secret ruin of the Blood Emperor Alista Tudor?”
Hearing that name, the Red Angel evil spirit’s facial muscles twisted slightly before He gave a sneer.
“You’re trying to ask what secret the Loen royal family is hiding, aren’t you?”
“You may not know that. But you might be familiar with the Blood Emperor’s secret ruin.” Klein deliberately provoked the other party.
The Red Angel evil spirit suddenly burst into laughter, slapping the armrest of the reclining chair.
“That trick of yours is as childish as a three-year-old!
“Haha. The secret hidden by the Loen royal family is very simple. I guessed it merely by reading the newspapers. Tsk, you only have a clever-looking face; your brain is full of wriggling worms.”
“You can guess it just by reading the newspapers?” Klein frowned slightly and asked in return.
The Red Angel evil spirit stopped laughing and smiled with the corners of His mouth raised.
“Of course. Some necessary common sense is also required. I imagine you should possess it.
“How about this? I’ll ask you a few questions, and then you’ll understand how simple the answer is.
“Does that secret ruin of the Blood Emperor belong to the type known by the Churches?”
“No.” Klein shook his head firmly.
The Red Angel evil spirit kept smiling and continued asking, “Do you know which pathway and which Sequence Alista Tudor was at before He advanced to Sequence 0?”
“The Black Emperor pathway, Sequence 1, Prince of Abolition.” Klein answered calmly.
The Red Angel evil spirit nodded lightly.
“Are you aware that before Alista Tudor became the Blood Emperor, He was one of the two consuls of the Tudor-Trunsoest United Empire, and that those who supported Them were six of the present seven gods, including Evernight and Storm?”
Klein nodded, giving an affirmative answer.
Half-sitting and half-lying, the Red Angel evil spirit crossed one leg over the other.
“Then do you know that after Alista became the Blood Emperor, He had truly gone mad, and that He directly perished in the war of gods?”
“I know that, roughly.” Klein did not dare sound too certain, because this information had come from Roselle’s diary, while the Emperor had learned it from Mr. Door.
The Red Angel evil spirit chuckled.
“Then do you think Alista Tudor had the rationality and opportunity to leave behind a secret ruin after becoming the Blood Emperor?”
“No.” Klein slowly shook his head.
The Red Angel evil spirit spread His hands.
“Since it was a ruin left behind by Alista before He became the Blood Emperor, and since it was unknown to the six gods supporting Him at the time, what could it be? If you had a choice, would you walk a path destined for madness?”
This… Klein instantly thought of the nine mausoleums required in the Black Emperor apotheosis ritual.
For a Prince of Abolition, before the previous Black Emperor returned, secretly seeking to advance to Black Emperor was what He would truly have wanted to do!
“That ruin is related to the Black Emperor?” Klein asked in a low voice.
The Red Angel evil spirit rubbed His chin again and clicked His tongue with a smile.
“You seem to know the Black Emperor’s ritual.
“Doesn’t that make it simple? What has Loen’s current King been doing over the past two or three years? The repeal of the Grain Act, the unified examination for government employees, the reorganization of military relationships, suppression of the House of Lords and nobles, strengthening the authority of the House of Commons… Haven’t all these things been printed in the newspapers?
“And isn’t it common knowledge that the Arbiter pathway can switch to the Black Emperor pathway?”
Because many of these matters had appeared to Klein as “the tide of the times,” and because one of them had even been something he had pushed forward himself, he had never examined them from a mysticism perspective. Now that they were connected together, understanding immediately dawned on him.
Very quickly, he remembered another matter.
The previous person who wanted to become the Black Emperor was Roselle, and he just so happened to have ties to Amon’s brother as well!