Chapter 70: News from the Numinous Episcopate

Chapter 70: News from the Numinous Episcopate

160 Böklund Street, Dwayne Dantès’s residence.

Klein stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the drizzling rain descend with the wind, strike the ground, fall against the glass, and interweave into a net.

Ever since autumn began, Backlund had once again become rainy. This brought a lingering coldness and dampness that refused to leave.

For a long while, Klein did not move. Against the blurred rainy scenery, he silently gazed into the distance, his eyes unfocused.

Only when his spiritual intuition was touched did he rein in his thoughts, which had been fluttering like fine rain, and turn his head to look beside him.

Reinette Tinekerr, carrying four blond-haired, red-eyed heads, walked out of the void with a letter held between one mouth’s teeth.

“Who sent it this time?” Klein habitually asked Miss Messenger.

The previous letter he had received had come from Sharron. This lady had told him that she had successfully passed the ritual and advanced to Sequence 4 of the Prisoner pathway: Puppet.

Klein had first offered his sincere congratulations, then apologetically informed her that he had already obtained what he wanted and would not be going to the spirit world’s Calderón City in the short term.

Of course, he had also said that the place concealed no small secret and might be connected to himself. After some time, there was a high chance he would still go there. At that time, if Miss Sharron had time and was willing, he hoped to receive her help.

To Klein, on the one hand, the materials he needed for later advancement might still have to be found there. On the other hand, he believed that miraculous city involved the ancient Death, the Phoenix Ancestor Gregrace, and might contain a way to treat Mr. Azik’s “spirit body incompleteness.” Even if it could not give the Death Consul another chance at advancement, Klein still hoped that Mr. Azik would no longer suffer the torment of losing his memories again and again.

Of course, Klein also had a backup plan for this: after he advanced to Sequence 3, Scholar of Yore, he could prepare more Yesterday Once More charms for Mr. Azik, or directly apply the corresponding Beyonder power to help him quickly recover every time he lost his memories.

At that moment, Klein had already taken the letter, and Reinette Tinekerr’s four heads answered in sequence:

“That…” “Undying…” “Fool…”

…Patrick Bryan of the Numinous Episcopate’s artificial Death faction… Klein easily understood who Miss Messenger meant, because Patrick had been the one writing to him most frequently over these two months. Basically, whenever something somewhat important happened, he would report it or ask for instructions.

After several such exchanges, Reinette Tinekerr had even given him a nickname.

Miss Messenger had not shown this preference before. I wonder when it began… Most of the people who write to me often have nicknames now, except Miss Sharron… Klein muttered inwardly as he unfolded the letter paper and rapidly browsed through it.

In the letter, Patrick Bryan said that this time, the command from the Southern Continent was no longer to have him conduct various attempts to awaken “Death.” Instead, it ordered him to prepare a special ritual to help the angel of the Death domain within the mausoleum—the leader of the artificial Death faction, Haiter—recover further, allowing Him to briefly leave “the place of self-sealing.”

On the surface, there did not seem to be any major problem with such an order. It only felt somewhat abrupt. Yet Klein still sensed that something was not right.

The artificial Death faction of the Numinous Episcopate in the Southern Continent had repeatedly told Patrick to continue performing strange and dangerous rituals, trying to awaken “Death,” but I instructed him to fool them with excuses like being unable to gather the materials or the experiments ultimately failing. Now they have finally begun to suspect Patrick has a…