Chapter 50: A Strange City

Chapter 50: A Strange City

With a little more accumulation, it won’t be long before I can respond to Moon City’s prayers, heal their deformities, and create a fairly substantial miracle… Also, I have preliminarily summarized the acting principles of a Miracle Invoker. If things proceed step by step like this, digestion is only a matter of time. Perhaps I’ll succeed before the end of this year… Klein withdrew his gaze from outside the window, raised his left arm, and manipulated the monster hand puppet worn on his hand to amuse the child sitting opposite him.

This made him look even more like a wandering magician.

If he wished, he could even use the Staff of Life or his Grafting ability to bestow a certain living characteristic upon the hand puppet.

While amusing the child, Klein’s thoughts spread, and he began considering where he should “build” the marionette city required for his advancement ritual.

“For a marionette city to give birth to a corresponding region in the spirit world, it needs sufficient interaction. This means that placing it in the Forsaken Land of the Gods will not work. Leaving aside the fact that the place is sealed and cannot directly connect to the spirit world, only borrowing a tiny bit of special connection—even if there were no such problem, in the absence of intelligent life, it would be difficult to produce enough interaction…

“If I place it on the Northern or Southern Continent or in an overseas colony, I have to be cautious enough. Before the ritual approaches success, it absolutely must not be exposed as a marionette city. Otherwise, Zaratul, Amon, and other enemies will definitely interfere, destroy it, or even attack…

“Mm, there must be a sufficient reason for the marionette city to appear, and when interacting with passing merchants, travelers, and surrounding humans, there cannot be the slightest abnormality. Every marionette must be a living person. Each must have a past, present, and future of their own, and must follow the trajectory of their own fate…

“This means the marionette city will be extremely complicated, requiring the division of many, many Spirit Worms to handle. This hides the risk of losing control…

“Those who are married must act like married people. Those with alternative tastes must display their preferences. Perverts must be despised by others… In that case, perhaps when outsiders stay in the marionette city, they might hear shameful sounds…

“I’m still just a child…

“This is a large-scale reality show. Or rather, an advanced version of ‘playing house,’ one that has to fool its audience…”

As Klein lampooned inwardly, he silently calculated whether he had enough marionettes.

He had previously gone back and forth to the Forsaken Land of the Gods several times, converting large numbers of various monsters, whether they possessed Beyonder characteristics or not. In normal times, he had also consciously controlled many rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes, and flies in batches, striving to make the other side of the marionette city realistic enough.

My current accumulation can barely support a small city. After I make a few more trips to the Forsaken Land of the Gods, it should be enough… Just as this thought flashed through Klein’s mind, a scene suddenly appeared before his eyes:

Atop the Giant King’s Court, bathed in the glow of dusk, the opened door closed slowly and heavily.

It was like a pair of invisible hands shutting the entrance to the Forsaken Land of the Gods.

This… Klein’s gaze darkened slightly. He vaguely guessed that this scene meant the True Creator would soon seal the Forsaken Land of the Gods again.

This was the prophetic ability brought by his angel-level spiritual intuition and danger premonition:

In a few minutes, or perhaps a few seconds, such a thing would happen.

Has the True Creator caught Amon? Or has He already given up? Is He sealing the Forsaken Land of the Gods again because He doesn’t want others to go in anymore? Isn’t that a little…