Chapter 78: Humanity

Chapter 78: Humanity

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal about the marionette town, Klein began pondering Miss Justice’s experience.

“The operation against Ariehogg, that mind dragon, wasn’t arranged by Adam, but led by Hermes?”

“Otherwise, it would be impossible for Adam not to descend, and Ariehogg would not have been able to escape so easily. He would certainly need to borrow the second City of Miracles to have some hope.”

“If Hermes was the one leading this, then the development of the whole matter is logical… Hermes never intended to capture or kill Ariehogg. He only hoped to learn some information from that ancient mind dragon. Once Ariehogg said, ‘Adam is not necessarily Adam,’ the operation naturally ended.”

“Mm. From this perspective, Hermes had long held a certain suspicion regarding Adam’s true state. It is only that, due to the limitations of his own identity, he had no way to make Ariehogg voluntarily appear, so he made a circuitous use of Miss Justice.”

“Adam is not necessarily Adam. Ariehogg is not necessarily Ariehogg… That sentence is truly interesting. The higher levels of the Spectator pathway are even more mysterious than the Seer pathway. Back then, the Dragon of Imagination, Ankewelt, had clearly already occupied the Sequence 0 position, yet beside Him was also a son of the same pathway at Sequence 1, the Dragon of Nightmare, Alzuhod…”

“If Adam truly isn’t Adam, then who could He be? Is He the Adam from myths and legends before the First Epoch, or a portion of the Primordial? Or is He related to the resurrection arrangement of the ancient sun god? From this perspective, Medici calling Him ‘paranoid’ really carries profound meaning…”

Klein quickly manifested a gold coin and flicked it into the air with a pa, performing a divination.

The divination result showed that today’s events carried no danger.

Klein immediately dispersed the gold coin and prepared to sink his consciousness, returning to the true body sleeping beneath Saint Arianna Church.

At that moment, his movements slowed by a fraction:

Miss Justice encountering Ariehogg and Hermes, and that MI9 member returning to Utopia to appear in court and testify, had happened almost simultaneously.

Viewed separately, neither side presented any problem. Yet the word “simultaneously” made Klein vigilant.

He was extremely sensitive to phrases such as “just in time,” “coincidence,” “simultaneously,” and “about the same.” This was a mark left in his mind by all the experiences of the past.

His finger lightly tapped the edge of the mottled long table. Klein decided to make some preparations for his concern.

He quickly condensed a ray of light containing certain words and a particular will, then cast it into one of the prayer lights.

After doing this, Klein sank his consciousness, left Sefirah Castle, and returned his spirit to his true body.

Immediately afterward, he began influencing Utopia, intending to temporarily have the outsiders currently in the city “leave” through all sorts of arrangements.

This way, even if some accident truly happened, it would not affect innocents.

And this also meant that Klein was prepared to abandon Utopia and rebuild the marionette town elsewhere. After all, the ritual could be repeated many times, but once people died, they could only be revived one more time.

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“Rest well these next two days. It will still be some time before court opens.” Byers escorted Wendel to the entrance of the Iris Inn.

Wendel responded with a smile.

“I’m already feeling sleepy.”

At that moment, it was the middle of the night. Earlier, he had been too anxious and tense to sleep at all, so he had thought of walking around MI9 headquarters to ease his mood. As a result, he had heard the conversation of his night-duty colleagues, had his emotions completely detonated, and decided to return to Utopia to face the problem directly.

After checking in, Wendel, who carried no luggage, walked with light steps to the third floor and…