Chapter 172: Analysis

Chapter 172: Analysis

An Artisan is suspected to be controlled by a cult or hidden organization, and you are still thinking of asking the Hermit for help? Go straight to the World! Who knows which sea the Future is drifting on at the moment, or how long it would take to get there, while the World can Teleport!

After hearing the Hanged Man’s prayer, Klein’s first instinct was to refute the request in his mind, believing it would delay timing and cause unnecessary losses.

He then calmed down and believed that with Mr. Hanged Man’s prudence, caution, experience, and efficiency, he would not make such a simple mistake. Since the other party believed asking the Hermit for help was better than having the World deal with the problem, there had to be a corresponding reason.

In other words, Mr. Hanged Man judged that the matter was not yet so urgent that immediate action was needed. He even wanted to observe more and find more clues, confirming more details… And since Madam Hermit had proactively proposed helping, that meant she believed her recent area of activity overlapped to a certain extent with Mr. Hanged Man’s. If a problem truly arose, she could rush over as quickly as possible… Or perhaps she also has an ability similar to Teleportation? But that possibility is extremely low…

Klein’s finger lightly tapped the edge of the mottled long table. He felt he should still trust Mr. Hanged Man’s experience.

Of course, another reason was that the other party had not described what exactly he had discovered or what seemed suspicious, leaving Klein unable to infer or divine the truth of the matter.

As his thoughts turned, Klein cast the Hanged Man’s prayer image into the crimson star symbolizing the Hermit.

He was waiting for Admiral of Stars to respond when he suddenly saw the star representing the Sun begin to contract and expand, sending out layers of prayer.

Has the City of Silver’s exploration of the former Chief’s mausoleum produced preliminary results?

Klein made a guess and extended his spirituality over.

As he expected, little Sun described in full everything that had happened after the three elders of the six-member council opened the former Chief’s mausoleum. This included encountering the spirits of dead family members, crossing an illusory black river that hid countless strange creatures, facing the former Chief—whose body had grown white feathers in an incomplete mythical creature form—and the Shepherd Lovia separating a shadow that attempted to pounce toward the illusory thin tubes extending from the former Chief’s body, only for Colin Iliad to use the Fate Stealer charm to temporarily swap his own fate with the former Chief’s, thereby changing the result.

Illusory black thin tubes… Body covered in white feathers stained with pale-yellow grease… This sounds very familiar… Right, aren’t these the main features of some of the images I saw when I divined the abnormality of Azik’s copper whistle? And the reason the former Chief built a mausoleum was because he wanted to switch to the Death pathway’s Sequence 3, Ferryman…

As Klein listened, his mind spun swiftly, placing together everything he could connect and considering what conclusion might be drawn.

Very quickly, he formed a bold guess:

The mutation of the City of Silver’s former Chief was connected, to a certain extent, to the Numinous Episcopate’s artificial Death project!

Although this conclusion sounded unbelievable and very hard to accept—because the City of Silver was located in the Forsaken Land of the Gods, completely isolated from the outside world. Only through a certain connection between the Giant King’s Court and the ruins of the divine battle could one enter and leave. Even the seven gods could not find it or penetrate it with their power. Yet the similarity among many traits, combined with Shepherd Elder Lovia’s behavior during this operation, made Klein, who was sensitive to coincidences, eliminate several other possibilities. He had no…