Chapter 106: An Image in the Gaps of History

Chapter 106: An Image in the Gaps of History

Sitting diagonally behind the statue was an old man in black robes. He wore a hood, and his head drooped low. His eyes were closed. The white beard around his mouth and across his face was long and dense, as if it had not been trimmed in years, or even more than ten years, making it impossible to see his original appearance.

Yet in Klein’s eyes, this bearded old man was even stranger than the figures suspended in midair.

After his Spirit Body Threads extended from within his body, they did not drift toward the air and gather at that place that seemed to hide a “magnet.” Instead, they circled once around him and returned to the place they had emerged from. Their source and endpoint were one and the same!

Normal Spirit Body Threads originated from inside living beings and extended in different directions until reaching infinity. As for the figures hanging from above, the source of their Spirit Body Threads remained unchanged, but the extended endpoints were all concentrated at the top of this ancient church. One glance was enough to tell that something was terribly wrong.

Is this why he was not hung up? Or, rather, is this his way of avoiding the danger inside the church?

As Klein manipulated his own Spirit Body Threads to resist their tendency to drift upward, he muttered inwardly, making guesses.

Suddenly, he saw a pair of eyes—eyes whose pupils were black like a lightless water surface.

The old man sitting behind and to the side of the statue had opened his eyes.

He is still alive!

Klein subconsciously retreated one step. His body bent slightly, and his left palm blocked in front of him.

Amid an indescribable, heart-stopping silence and tension, the eyes of the old man with the white beard moved slightly. His mouth half-opened, and he spoke in a muffled, indistinct voice.

“At last, another Seer has come here…”

Another? Other Beyonders of the Seer pathway entered this church before? That makes sense. Aside from those erased by the “eraser” angel coming to the misty town, the living beings that vanish at night in the God War Ruins should also appear here. Among them, perhaps there were a few Beyonders of the Seer pathway who had attempted to find mermaids in that sea, or who had succeeded in advancing and were preparing to leave…

Seeing that the other party did not attack immediately and seemed willing to communicate, Klein forcefully steadied his emotions and asked thoughtfully, “Why do you say that?”

The hooded, black-eyed, white-bearded old man did not answer directly. In a low, muffled voice, he asked, “Do you wish to escape this place?

“I can tell you the method.”

Klein was not tempted. He immediately asked, “Then why are you still here?”

If he knew the way to leave this misty town, why was he still inside this dangerous church?

The old man lowered his head halfway and laughed twice in his throat.

“Because I died long ago.”

“…”

The hair on Klein’s back stood on end, and he could not speak.

In his eyes, this old man was not a soul-form existence!

Seeing no response from the other side, the old man slowly lifted his head, swept a glance over Klein in Gehrman Sparrow’s appearance, and said, “Using a special Beyonder ability, I found a gap in this world’s history and fate. I cut out an image of myself and fixed it here, maintaining it until now. As for my body and my spirit, they have long since died completely and dissipated completely.”

This ability is unbelievably strange…

Klein had no way to verify whether this was true or false. He could only change the subject and ask, “Then why guide Seers who enter this place on how to escape?”

The old man’s voice remained indistinct.

“Once you open the door, this place’s history and fate will change. This image I cut out will disappear with it. At that time, you will see a jar of ashes.

“I only hope they can be scattered into the Serenzo River near Trier, the capital of Intis. That is my hometown, the place…