Chapter 70: Subsequent Measures

Chapter 70: Subsequent Measures

When Klein opened his eyes again, the threats and pleadings in his mind had all disappeared. Ahead of him, the pale-blue flame still burned quietly upon the pitch-black wick.

He carefully inspected the state of his spirit body, confirming that all traces of chaos had vanished. His aura colors had also become pure, no longer mottled.

Finally resolved…

Klein breathed out, set down the Sea God Scepter, and snapped his fingers, instantly extinguishing the Nightmare Candle.

He did not immediately return to the real world. Instead, he sat quietly above the gray fog for a while, soothing and dispelling the negative emotions still remaining in his heart within this place where not a single sound emerged.

After this incident, Klein understood more deeply than ever before that the extraordinary path was a road of constant struggle against madness and danger. All Beyonders, with the slightest carelessness, could be pushed by internal factors or outside stimuli to the brink of losing control, developing problems of the mind. And once the symptoms manifested, if the problem was not resolved quickly enough, rescuing them afterward would become extraordinarily difficult.

This secondary personality resulted from both internal and external factors… The source is that I am a transmigrator, yet I fused with Klein Moretti’s memory fragments and part of his emotions. Naturally, there was already an underlying tendency toward split personality. Recently, to steal the Antigonus family notebook and to act as Dawn Dantes, I have been like someone walking along the edge of an abyss, under enormous pressure. After being polluted and stimulated by the internal caretaker’s out-of-control mind, the problem immediately erupted…

Klein lifted a hand and rubbed his temples while vanishing from above the gray fog.

The moment he returned to his body, Klein suddenly felt his mind become much lighter and clearer, as if a glass pane coated in dust had been carefully wiped clean. The excess Faceless potion he had taken had been fully digested.

As expected, the appearance of the secondary personality was partly triggered by the various psychological issues from before. This time, using the Nightmare Candle to solve the problem was equivalent to undergoing a complete and effective psychoanalysis. For a short period of time, there should be no hidden danger in this regard. Still, I have to constantly pay attention, regulate myself more, and not be negligent…

Klein walked out of the washroom and onto the balcony. He gazed at the distant mountains and the nearby greenery, his state quite good.

He could clearly sense that the degree of his self-recognition and self-identification had deepened. The vague feeling of detachment that had often existed before had weakened considerably.

I never expected that winning the struggle against a secondary personality would have such a benefit… If not for the fact that a second split personality would be stronger and harder to deal with, I would almost want to split my personality a few more times and kill “myself” a few more times…

Klein shook his head with a laugh, mocking himself twice.

Truthfully, for anyone else, this single split personality alone would have been extremely dangerous and difficult to resolve. It was only because he knew where to find the Nightmare Candle, knew how to obtain it, understood the nature of the problem, and had experience dealing with it that he could eliminate the hidden danger in time, preventing the secondary personality from growing. Otherwise, the best outcome would have been like Bishop Utravsky’s original state. The worst would have been a gradual, irreversible loss of control.

Besides, I still have a “psychiatrist” as backup…

Klein chuckled softly and slowly walked back into the room, sitting in an easy chair.

He recalled today’s encounter again, extracting points he would need to pay attention to in the future.

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