Chapter 196: Misdirection

Chapter 196: Misdirection

By this point, Klein had roughly understood what had happened.

Due to the law of Beyonder characteristic convergence, he had been targeted by this Spirit World Plunderer the moment he entered Calderón’s outer region, where not even normal undead existed. First, it had moved the golden disc from some unknown place beside the route it had predicted he would take, allowing him to see it through his marionette and thus shift his attention to Calderón’s transformation of living beings. Then, it had made use of the giant blacksmith, which was not one of its divided souls, further lulling him into carelessness. Finally, it had silently crept within his range of control and succeeded with a single “strike.”

“If I hadn’t seen those dead hanging like wind chimes inside the small church, if I didn’t have an instinctive fear of high-sequence Beyonders of the Seer pathway, and if I hadn’t prepared several ways to interrupt control on my own without anyone’s help, I would already have become one of the Spirit World Plunderer’s divided souls…

“Honestly, before entering, I should already have thought of the law of Beyonder characteristic convergence… After picking up Sea God Scepter, even with the Tyrant card suppressing it, I was still a little too reckless. I actually overlooked such an important detail…

“On the surface, I did remain as cautious as ever, but in reality, I had unknowingly become reckless—without even realizing it myself…”

As his thoughts raced, Klein once again raised the arm holding the white bone scepter, intending to continue using Lightning Storm for wide-range attacks.

If once was not enough, then twice. If twice was not enough, then three times. In short, he would seize this chance and not allow the Spirit World Plunderer to escape his field of fire.

This was the safest method and also Klein’s most respected fighting style. If lightning strikes had not been weakened considerably inside Calderón, he even suspected he could already go pick up the Beyonder characteristic.

And with more than half of his Sequence 5 potion already digested, his spirituality was still sufficient to sustain him for a while.

At that moment, however, pale flames suddenly ignited on the surface of the “invisible person” wearing the semi-transparent white robe. Several hundred meters away, a similar stream of fire leapt upward into the air.

Using a Flame Jump far more powerful than Klein’s by an unknown margin, the Spirit World Plunderer instantly pulled open the distance.

At the same time, from the rubble where it had originally been hiding, a four-meter-tall bluish-black giant staggered to its feet.

The giant’s chest and abdomen gaped open. Its internal organs were gone, yet it stood like a mountain and a fortress between the “Tyrant” and the Spirit World Plunderer, blocking every line of sight.

In Klein’s eyes, the giant’s Spirit Body Threads had gathered together and were all stretching toward the distant Spirit World Plunderer. One glance was enough to tell that it was a divided soul.

At the tip of Sea God Scepter, a blue-green gemstone lit up. Several bolts of lightning leapt out of thin air, intertwined into a bundle, and transformed into a gigantic silver-white arrow that instantly struck the bluish-black giant’s head.

All invisible defenses shattered at once, like paper. The giant’s head broke apart, turning into countless charred chunks of flesh that splattered in all directions. From the now headless body, pale gas tinged with specks of gloomy green steamed and dissipated, carrying away all vitality.

All this happened in the blink of an eye. Klein, wearing the triple crown and papal vestments, raised the white bone scepter in his hand even higher.

Rings of blue-green light rippled outward, and the sound of wind blew up his cape.

Over a large portion of Calderón’s outer region, dark clouds rapidly gathered and pressed down layer after layer, making this place seem even gloomier and more…