Chapter 186: Guesses and Thoughts

Chapter 186: Guesses and Thoughts

Gurain, inside the hotel room.

Klein sat in an armchair and reached out to accept the black tea with lemon slices that Winner Enzo served him.

On his other side, Admiral of Hell Ludwell, wearing his mask and carrying a rapier at his waist, stood perfectly straight, as though he were the most loyal of guards.

Only now, after fully calming down, did Klein have enough mental space to analyze what had happened inside Death’s mausoleum. Among all the details, what he cared about most was which existence had helped Mr. Azik escape his predicament at the critical moment, and had given him those three choices.

“First, it was a female voice.

“Second, this matter must be beneficial to ‘Her.’ Otherwise, no one would cross such a vast distance just to provide assistance. Of course, if She had merely happened to be passing by and helped out of kindness, that is also understandable and acceptable. But the problem is that the mausoleum was the product of the divine power, characteristics, corpse, and natural environment left behind when Death fell. Without the corresponding ‘key,’ even gods cannot discover it or open the door. How could anyone just happen to pass by?

“Third, Mr. Azik’s action was very sudden. He did not first go find the members of the Numinous Episcopate carrying out the artificial Death plan to ‘gather information.’ He directly followed the call to the Berserk Sea and entered the ‘Death treasure vault.’ Unless an existence could locate either him or me, or possessed powerful prophetic ability, almost no one could have arrived so quickly and so precisely.

“Finally, Salinger, who could be reborn from within Mr. Azik, is almost certainly that Death from the Fourth Epoch who ‘went mad, but also became stronger.’ Yet that female voice directly called His name without the slightest respect.

“This…”

As Klein analyzed carefully, a certain guess suddenly appeared, yet he could not help wanting to avoid that possibility.

As far as he knew, the Evernight, Death, and Giant Beyonder pathways belonged to one group and could be interchanged at the high Sequences. Besides borrowing the honorific name “Lady of Crimson” or perhaps relying on some specific Grade 0 sealed artifact to occupy part of the Moon’s authority, the Goddess also possessed the title “Lady of Repose and Silence,” which could completely point toward the Underworld and Death’s domain.

In addition, after the previous experience in the foggy town, the fact that he had once used the holy sword in Tingen to establish a vow under the Goddess’s witness, and the clear fact that the Goddess also possessed authority over misfortune, Klein believed he might already be on Her “special attention list,” just as he used the Sea God Scepter to mark certain believers.

“Bold assumptions, cautious verification. If it truly was the Goddess, then almost every question can be answered.

“As one of the seven orthodox deities, and as one of the final victors of the Pale Era, Her status and level are sufficient for Her to directly call Death by name.

“And if I, whom She has marked, encounter an abnormal change—for example, entering a strange place such as the ‘Death treasure vault’—She would definitely notice and respond accordingly. And because that inevitably requires a cycle, She could not arrive at the very beginning to stop it.

“For Her, that artificial Death—or the initially activated Uniqueness of the Death pathway—can clearly strengthen Her authority over ‘repose and silence,’ perhaps even allowing Her to directly erode Death’s domain, just as the Mother Tree of Desire did to the Chained God.

“When Death fell, the three Sequence 1 characteristics should have actively separated. Who knows who obtained them? If the Goddess gathers them again, perhaps Her title will need to add phrases such as ‘Ruler of the Ancient Underworld, Lord of All Undead.’

“Although Mr. Azik was tracked by a high-Sequence powerhouse of the Church, he was never…