Chapter 46: One Plus One Is Greater Than Two

Chapter 46: One Plus One Is Greater Than Two

As Klein passed through the living room, his spiritual intuition was stirred. He felt invisible gazes being cast at him from unknown places, sweeping over his body.

He pretended to have noticed nothing and entered the sitting room ahead. After examining the environment, he found a seat neither too close nor too far from the host’s position.

The instant he crossed the doorway, all those gazes vanished.

If the Wraith weren’t isolated by three layers of seals, it would probably have been discovered just now… Mr. X isn’t as bold and insane as he appears…

Klein sat down and pulled at his hood, hiding his face deeper in shadow.

After waiting for a little over ten minutes, when the gathering members had mostly arrived, Mr. X, wearing a brass mask, appeared soundlessly at the doorway and walked inside step by step, heading for the host’s seat.

He wore a black classical robe and a pointed wizard’s hat. As he walked, his aura remained restrained, yet it made everyone present lower their heads unconsciously.

After turning around and slowly sitting, Mr. X swept his gaze around the room and spoke in a low voice.

“Begin.”

Within four meters… Klein did not rush to act. He withdrew his gaze and patiently watched several gathering members exchange information about people with abnormal luck for gold pounds, listening as Mr. X occasionally responded with a few words.

Time passed second by second. The focus of the gathering began shifting from Mr. X’s bounty to transactions between participants. Klein no longer hesitated. With the thumb of his left hand, he pinched the first joint of his index finger twice, activating Spirit Body Thread vision.

Illusory black threads instantly appeared before his eyes. They extended from different people and spread toward infinity.

After briefly distinguishing them, Klein covertly began manipulating Mr. X’s Spirit Body Threads.

In his plan, there were mainly two difficult points. One was that Mr. X, whose previous Sequence included Astrologer, and the saint of the Aurora Order who might be hidden in the dark, could receive a premonition of danger when Klein began manipulating the corresponding Spirit Body Threads and keenly notice something unusual.

Regarding Mr. X’s spiritual intuition, Klein was fairly confident. Back when Miss Sharron existed in a Wraith state, even she had not detected Marionettist Rosago’s manipulation of her Spirit Body Threads ahead of time. However, a saint, a half-human, half-divine high-Sequence Beyonder who had obtained godhood, would not surprise Klein no matter what strangeness he possessed. Nor would it be surprising if the saint’s inspiration were stirred by changes to another person’s Spirit Body Threads.

Other Marionettists would most likely have no solution to this point. But Klein was different. He still had the identity of the Fool, and he could borrow the power of the mysterious space above the gray fog. He could rely on the Paper Angel’s interference in advance to eliminate the hidden danger.

The gathering continued without the slightest abnormality. A dozen seconds flashed by. Klein was only three seconds away from achieving preliminary control over Mr. X, while this divine envoy of the Aurora Order remained utterly unaware, his gaze deep as he watched a transaction conclude, seemingly lost in thought.

At the critical moment, Klein stopped on his own initiative.

Barely maintaining his progress, he drew out one hand and inserted it into the inner pocket of the hooded robe, touching the iron cigarette case sealed by a wall of spirituality.

Klein then moved his finger and gently poked, removing the wall of spirituality and letting it turn into a breeze that coiled within his pocket.

He withdrew his hand and waited several more seconds, until Mr. X’s gaze shifted to the other side. Only then did he continue manipulating the Spirit Body Threads.

Two seconds. One second. Zero.

Mr. X’s thoughts abruptly became…