Chapter 200: Rather Thin-Skinned

Chapter 200: Rather Thin-Skinned

…The Goddess really responded… When he saw the words formed from the powder, Klein’s first reaction had nothing to do with the actual content. Instead, he was shaken by the fact that something which seemed so absurd had truly happened.

Although he had long been mentally prepared and believed that the probability of success would not be low, he still sank into complicated emotions and failed to break free for several dozen seconds.

After a while, Klein slowly exhaled. He raised his right hand and tapped his chest four times clockwise.

“Praise the Goddess!”

He then ended the ritual and forced his attention back to the “divine revelation” itself.

“Possessed by an evil spirit. Exorcism required?

“Ince Zangwill is actually possessed by an evil spirit? From Sequence 9 to Sequence 5, he advanced along the Death pathway, and at the key stage of obtaining divinity, he switched to Sequence 4 Nightwatcher of the Evernight pathway—a pathway extremely skilled at handling spirit-type creatures. Wraiths and evil spirits should be afraid of him. How could he be possessed by the undead?

“Unless that evil spirit’s level is extremely high, or its essence is highly unusual.

“Unfortunately, I’ve only ever seen one true evil spirit, the ancient evil spirit sealed inside Alista Tudor’s underground ruin. I don’t know much about these monsters and can’t grasp many of the details. Mm, I can later write to Miss Sharron and ask her. I can also have Little Sun inquire about it. That Shepherd Elder Lovia grazes an evil spirit…

“No wonder Ince Zangwill wants to meet a demigod of the Numinous Episcopate. In the field of exorcising evil spirits, apart from the Church of Evernight and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, the Numinous Episcopate is probably next. Uh, I suppose the Church of the God of Combat has to be added before that. Neighboring pathways always have similarities.

“One more thing can be seen from this: Ince Zangwill does not want the royal faction and the Demoness Sect he is cooperating with to learn that he is possessed by an evil spirit. Otherwise, he would have no need to personally come to the Southern Continent! Those two powers both originate from before the Fifth Epoch and possess long legacies. It is impossible that they cannot find a single Sealed Artifact capable of exorcising or purifying evil spirits. Even if they truly could not, contacting the Numinous Episcopate through the Demoness Sect would certainly be more secretive and safer than Ince Zangwill making the trip himself…”

As his thoughts turned, Klein spread a sheet of letter paper on the desk and wrote with his pen:

“The intelligence you provided allowed me to connect the clues I had previously gathered, and thanks to the help of a great existence, they clearly point to one conclusion:

“Ince Zangwill is possessed by an evil spirit and is seeking help from the Numinous Episcopate.

“Starting from this fact alone, we can already make several useful judgments:

“Ince Zangwill will often display inconsistencies in language and behavior; he will occasionally deviate from his normal track, doing things we would never expect him to do and making mistakes we find difficult to understand; before this problem is resolved, his contact with the Numinous Episcopate will not cease. It may even become increasingly frequent…

“Following these judgments to investigate may allow us to catch Ince Zangwill’s tail, but I believe it still won’t be enough to lock onto him. The coincidences created by that Grade 0 Sealed Artifact are not something that can be crossed by normal means.”

As he wrote this, Klein could not help recalling the time he had directly encountered Ince Zangwill.

His investigation had not pointed directly at the man, but it had nearly exposed their conspiracy. Ince Zangwill had therefore taken action personally, calling down a meteor from the sky in an attempt to kill Sherlock Moriarty and erase the clues. In the end, Klein…