Chapter 61: Three Plans

Chapter 61: Three Plans

Klein had begun thinking long ago about how to create the marionette town, and he had already preliminarily formed three plans:

If he set aside interference from external factors, his best choice would be to directly make the marionette town rise overnight somewhere in some country on the Northern Continent, then connect it to the surrounding cities by railway, riverway, and road.

In that way, the marionette town would have large numbers of outsiders arriving every day and would produce extremely strong interaction with the surrounding region. On one hand, a town without satellite villages would definitely have to purchase daily necessities from elsewhere—grain, salt, cloth, ore, cane sugar, and the like. On the other hand, it would also have its own products, which could be sold to nearby cities, towns, and villages. Under such circumstances, merchants, laborers, travelers, and similar groups would come and go extremely frequently, and their interactions with the marionette town’s residents would be quite numerous.

Under the influence of all kinds of strong interaction, it would not take long before the marionette town gave birth to a corresponding region in the spirit world. Once the residents’ paths of fate became detailed and real along with it, Klein could consume the potion and advance to Sequence 1, Attendant of Mysteries.

The time required from beginning to end might be less than three months.

The problem was that this plan could not be kept secret.

In the current era, a town suddenly appearing somewhere could not be hidden at all. Government employees, police, and journalists would soon come to investigate. And the strong interactions afterward would likewise let more and more people learn of this city and understand it. This was a problem illusions could not solve, unless the marionette town had no interaction with surrounding cities, towns, and villages, or only very little interaction. But that would violate the requirements of the ritual.

Once news of the marionette town spread, Klein would undoubtedly draw the attention of enemies such as Zaratul and Amon’s true body. At that time, destruction would certainly be easier than protection. He would have no choice but to move his marionette town elsewhere. That would cause the earlier interactions to lose effect, just like what had happened to the Dark Demonic Wolf.

Therefore, Klein had only listed such a plan. He basically would not choose it, unless a certain Visionary was willing to provide help and make all living beings on the Northern and Southern Continents take it for granted that there had indeed always been a town there, rather than that it had suddenly appeared.

Taking into account all kinds of external factors and the Beyonder powers he possessed, Klein’s safest choice was to build the marionette town on an uninhabited island that deviated from safe sea routes and was sufficiently hidden, then use Sefirah Castle to make arrangements for anti-divination and anti-prophecy.

At the same time, relying on that “curtain,” Klein would graft a certain node of certain roads, rivers, and railways to the area outside the marionette town, making it one stop in the journeys of certain people.

This would not be completely secret. But by the time the “strange phenomenon” spread and possibly drew the attention of Zaratul and Amon, Klein could easily remove the original grafting and irregularly change the “entrance.”

Under this strategy, what moved would only be the “entrance,” not the marionette city itself. The effects produced by various interactions in the spirit world could be preserved and would not be interrupted, allowing the ritual to advance steadily.

Of course, this plan also had major problems. The field of interaction would be limited and could not produce deep, daily effects in every aspect. In addition, the frequency and strength of the interactions would not be very high.

Choosing this plan meant that Klein would have…