Chapter 77: A Chance Encounter

Chapter 77: A Chance Encounter

Having formed an idea, Klein immediately planned to make a few preparations.

He would first explore the spirit world and choose a suitable candidate to become his messenger. Then, once he left the Rorsted Archipelago and the nearby waters, he would carry the Sea God Scepter over, reason with the target, and persuade it to become his messenger.

If I get lost, or encounter danger, I can immediately end the summoning and return above the gray fog. That means there is basically no risk… Klein considered for a few seconds, locked the bedroom door, and began the ritual to summon himself.

At the end of the ritual, he swiftly entered the world above the gray fog. But he did not hurry to respond. Instead, he sat down and made the Sea God Scepter fly out from the pile of miscellaneous items and land in his palm.

He planned to browse through the believers’ prayers as a matter of routine and see whether there were any matters that needed a response.

During this process, Klein discovered that a portion of the prayers were actually quite interesting, because human beings could deceive friends and relatives, but found it very difficult to hide their truest thoughts when confessing or praying to a deity. At most, they could make a few embellishments, making those thoughts look not quite so bad.

A mixed-blood who had risen into the middle ranks of Bayam’s police department had clearly begun leaning toward converting to the Lord of Storms. Yet in his confession, he exerted every effort to describe his actions as a plan involving humiliation and endurance. For the bright future of those with local blood, he could only painfully confess to his deity and hope that He would protect him, allowing him to use the identity of a believer of Storms to climb higher within the police system.

Although his words sounded flawless, the fluctuations of his thoughts and the rise and fall of his emotions were clearly presented within the prayer scene. They produced a feeling that could not be concealed.

Deceiving himself while also attempting to deceive a god… If it had been Kalvetua, that sea serpent with little intelligence, perhaps he really would have believed it… Should I strike him with lightning, or give him ten wind blades? Mm. A mixed-blood able to climb to the level of chief inspector is quite decent. I will leave him for now. Even traitors have their uses… Klein lifted the Sea God Scepter and made one of its blue-green “gemstones” shine brilliantly.

The light entered the scene and invisibly seeped into the chief inspector, a man named Braya.

This was not a curse, nor was it an influence. It was a mark on the divine level, and would almost certainly not be discovered by others.

Put simply, it is a unilateral “special attention”… Klein silently added inwardly.

He continued browsing and saw a young believer with bronze skin and slightly curled hair praying for the deity to make a man named Cham encounter a storm and be buried in the sea. The reason given on the surface was that the other party was not devout enough. But the true thought in the young man’s heart was that, as fellow fishermen, Cham always brought in a better catch than he did.

What sort of nonsense is this? The human heart really is hard to fathom… Klein first frowned and muttered silently, then had a vague idea.

“For a Faceless to achieve true acting, there must not only be no flaws in appearance, features, habits, and gestures. The fundamental consistency of the personality must also be maintained. There cannot be too great a change. Yet personality differs from person to person. Everyone has their own distinctions…

“By browsing the prayers of believers, it is equivalent to being able to witness different personalities and different psychological states without going through too much trouble. The ‘face’ in ‘a thousand faces for a thousand people’ does not refer only to appearance…

“This is quite important to my later acting as a Faceless…