Chapter 49: Negative Effect

Chapter 49: Negative Effect

After gazing at Mr. X’s corpse for a while, Klein suppressed the impulse to personally loot the spoils of battle. He had the Wraith Senor, standing nearby, take two steps forward and remove the gold ring inlaid with ruby.

This way, even if the items Mr. X carried possessed unimaginable negative effects, they would be borne by the marionette and would not affect Klein himself.

After a careful inspection, Senor returned with the ruby ring, forty-eight pounds in cash, and an ordinary pipe stuffed full of tobacco.

Only this much? A divine envoy of the Aurora Order has only this much on him? Klein looked at the scene in considerable surprise, nearly cursing him as a “pauper.”

Soon, he recovered his calm and used reason to convince himself that such a situation was extremely logical.

Mr. X was a Traveler. He could Record other people’s Beyonder powers and belonged to a very comprehensive type. For a powerhouse like this, even if he had other mystical items, he would definitely tend to record their abilities in advance and not carry them around. That way, he could enjoy the benefits of diverse abilities complementing one another while avoiding the corresponding negative effects and preventing himself from being sabotaged by his own possessions.

Following that line of thought, this ring most likely has some passive or triggered effect.

At that thought, Klein nodded lightly. He had the Wraith Senor pick up Mr. X’s shattered and reassembled head, attach himself to Klein, and follow him back above the gray fog.

After sitting in the Fool’s seat, he no longer feared anything. He directly picked up the gold ring inlaid with ruby and used divination to confirm the actual effects of this mystical item.

“Its name is Blood Flower…

“It lets the wearer control their own flesh and blood on a deeper level. So long as they do not die directly, are not completely purified, and therefore do not lose the ability to control themselves, they can wriggle and recover…

“This is equivalent to granting an instinct. It is a passive effect…

“It seems my previous decision to use Death Knell for the fatal blow was correct. If I hadn’t gone all out, Mr. X might not have truly died. He could have used the extreme pain to awaken himself and break free from a Marionettist’s control… He also considered the weakness of being closer to a spellcaster, with an insufficiently strong body…

“This ring also has some corresponding flesh-and-blood magic. It can be considered quite practical…” Holding the ruby ring in one hand and lightly tapping the edge of the mottled long table with the other, Klein muttered soundlessly to himself.

He then began investigating the negative effect of the Blood Flower ring.

Several dozen seconds later, Klein abruptly opened his eyes and escaped the dream.

“Isn’t this a bit too much of a trap?” he whispered, his expression faintly twisted.

Through the dream divination just now, he had interpreted the Blood Flower ring’s negative influence: at random times, without any pattern, it would cause the wearer to give up thinking and lose their intellect.

Very good. Very “True Creator”… Klein could not help gritting his teeth inwardly.

The negative effect appeared randomly, with no rules and no predictable timing. That meant the Blood Flower ring had absolutely no way to be used safely!

Remembering the earlier scene, Klein felt both angry and amused as he muttered, “Mr. X actually dared to wear a ring like this?

“Well, that makes sense. After converting to the True Creator, he would often lose the ability to think anyway. Since that’s the case, wearing one more ring won’t make things any worse.

“Mm. Losing intellect is not the same as losing rationality. It won’t cause someone to suddenly erupt and attack people, but it will make them appear very rigid and foolish, acting only on instinct.”

Whew… Klein exhaled and decided to toss the Blood Flower ring into the pile of miscellaneous items, so it would…