Chapter 45: A Crazed Configuration

Chapter 45: A Crazed Configuration

Friday afternoon, Klein, who had feigned illness and skipped the literary salon, once again arrived above the gray fog.

Before him lay a palm-sized, copper-green notebook with a shell that looked extremely hard. It was precisely Leymano’s Travels, provided by the Magician Fors.

Turning this object, which was in truth closer to a magic book, to one of its pages, Klein glanced at the scorched yellow color. Then he raised his hand and summoned the Sea God Scepter over from the pile of miscellaneous items, gripping it in his palm.

As he infused a portion of spirituality into Leymano’s Travels, making it glow with a faint, hazy radiance, the blue-green gemstones at the tip of the white bone scepter lit up one after another with brilliant light.

Amid a teeth-grating sizzle, thick and savage bolts of silver-white lightning appeared out of thin air, baring claws and fangs as they interwove, forming a storm-like scene.

At the same time, upon the scorched yellow paper of Leymano’s Travels, complicated symbols and marks rapidly outlined themselves, overlapping one another, fusing together, and gradually taking shape.

Just as the page was about to be dyed silver-white, streaks of electric serpents burst outward from within, destroying every pattern in an instant.

Failed again… Klein silently sighed and repeated the process once more.

This was not his first attempt. Ever since he had obtained Leymano’s Travels on Wednesday night, he had gone above the gray fog from time to time, using this magic book to record the abilities displayed by the Sea God Scepter, brushing through attempt after attempt until his spirituality was nearly exhausted and he had to return to the real world to rest.

Throughout the process, there had been failures and successes. Through repeated attempts, Klein had finally reached the final step: recording the Lightning Storm he had coveted for a long time.

This was a demigod ability of the Sailor pathway!

Before the failure just now, Klein had already failed nearly twenty times. His luck could be described as rather poor.

Failure. Failure again. Another failure. By the fifth time, he finally saw, with delight, the silver-white color spreading across the scorched yellow paper. The ancient, mysterious, complex, indescribable symbols and markings on it contracted inward at the same time, connecting into a strange pattern that gave anyone who saw it the sensation of being struck by lightning.

“Whew… Finally succeeded.” Klein rubbed his fingers over the paper and let out a long breath.

He flipped forward through Leymano’s Travels, admiring his earlier results.

Over the past two days, he had not been completely fixated on Lightning Storm. He had also recorded two other demigod-level abilities. One was the Paper Angel, formed by using himself to leverage a small amount of power from the mysterious space above the gray fog, which could interfere with divination and prophecy. The other was Tornado, also originating from the Sea God Scepter.

When recording these two, Klein’s luck had been relatively good. One succeeded after nine attempts, the other after twelve.

As for Beyonder abilities below Sequence 4, such as Flight, Gliding, Lightning Strike, and so on, they required only one or two attempts. Klein had almost filled the whole book with them.

For a wild Beyonder, this magic book actually isn’t especially useful. It requires a long time and prolonged patience to record enough useful abilities. Moreover, above Sequence 6, the probability of failure increases, and it isn’t that easy to obtain suitable powers… However, in the mysticism world, there are twenty-two pathways. If the abilities from the early Sequences are paired well enough, killing a Sequence 5 isn’t that strange…

Klein closed Leymano’s Travels and sighed inwardly.

In his view, this magic book was indeed equal to half a divine artifact for an unaffiliated Beyonder. Although its early-stage formation was even…