Chapter 178: The Monster Pathway

Chapter 178: The Monster Pathway

After several minutes, Daly Simone and Leonard Mitchell, who had made successive errors in judgment, finally arrived at the top of that steep stairway.

They descended level by level, moving very slowly and cautiously guarding against their surroundings, ready to fight at any moment.

Yet until they reached the bottom, they discovered nothing abnormal, not even any useful traces.

Daly again grabbed at the wind and brought her hand close to her ear, listening carefully.

After a few seconds, she looked around and said, “There was the sound of a gunshot. A weapon once fell at the bend of the street ahead. That—what was his name, Enzo—is dead. Dead…”

“Who did it?” Leonard asked, rather astonished.

In his view, because he and Daly had repeatedly suffered all kinds of misfortune earlier, Enzo had essentially already escaped pursuit. There was no possibility of someone secretly monitoring from the Rose School of Thought acting to eliminate him and erase clues.

If so, who had killed this Beyonder, who was suspected to be Sequence 6 or Sequence 5?

One had to know that tonight’s operation by the Red Gloves had made use of sealed artifacts in advance to perform a certain level of anti-divination. There should have been no one able to foresee it and specifically wait here to hunt the fleeing Enzo.

Daly shook her head.

“Those little fellows did not see it. It should have been a Beyonder very skilled at anti-divination…

“Perhaps it was Enzo’s enemy, and they were already planning to act tonight.”

She simply gave her guess, then split up with Leonard to search the nearby blocks and see whether they could find any overlooked clue.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Leonard circled to the railing area of one of the streets and lowered his voice.

“Old man, did you notice anything?”

The Pallez Zoroast inside him waited two or three seconds before answering.

“You two should have heard a scream just now and used it to correct the direction of your pursuit.

“That was Enzo’s scream. He seems to have seen something extremely terrifying and indescribable, something that could directly harm and corrupt his spirit body.”

Leonard froze. The light in his eyes contracted slightly as he repeated in a low voice, “Something extremely terrifying and indescribable…”

…

Inside the hotel room, Klein Teleported back with his new marionette.

He then had the marionette stand at his side, while he pulled over a chair and sat down. He studied the marionette, then sighed.

“A Beyonder of the Monster pathway, but still not as good as Senor. He cannot hide on the surface of a gold coin and be carried around. He can only follow beside me all the time…

“From the perspective of his pathway, he is not part of the Rose School of Thought’s core personnel. But his Sequence is not low, so he should still receive a certain degree of attention. In other words, if I do not disguise him, I could easily be watched by the Rose School of Thought because of him…

“On the other hand, perhaps I can also use him as bait to fish up another Wraith. When the time comes, he can act alone while I hide nearly two hundred meters away, waiting for prey to bite.

“No, that will not work. I cannot be influenced by greed. The Southern Continent is an active region for the Rose School of Thought. Once my whereabouts are exposed, given the Mother Tree of Desire’s special attention to me, not only would a saint come, perhaps even an angel might descend directly!

“Mm. I should disguise this marionette. As a Faceless, my ability in this regard is rather decent.

“Then I can continue using mysticism to search for the next marionette, wait for Danitz to finish investigating, and wait for Mr. Azik to come find me.”

Klein swiftly made his decision. Using a combination of methods, he preliminarily figured out the level and Beyonder abilities of his new marionette:

This was Sequence 5 Winner of the Fate pathway!

Among the Sequences of this pathway…