Klein walked towards the direction of the church wearing a suit that fit him well as a deacon of the Church of the Night.
He still maintained the face of Gehrman Sparrow, and walked into the church step by step with a stern expression. Then, under the guidance of the bishop, he turned around this side of the church and walked toward the secret room at the back of the church.
There are many mermaids who believe in the goddess of the night living on this island. Klein walked down the stairs. Under the slightly dim light, he felt the moisture around him becoming heavier and heavier.
As he walked down, he could even hear some long-lasting singing gradually starting to echo around him.
The song was a little ethereal, slender and sharp, and Klein felt like the voice he heard was drifting from the sea, echoing in the narrow, dark corridors in between.
Is this the sound of a mermaid? Klein resisted the urge to divine for himself. He walked downwards without changing his expression.
These mermaids who believe in the Church of the Night are quite safe and docile compared to their wild counterparts. Moreover, the mermaids here are closer to the image of mermaids in fairy tales than their counterparts in the sea.
After Klein continued to walk down, the already somewhat erratic lights around him went out in an instant. The mermaid's song suddenly became louder, as if she was singing softly in Klein's ears.
When he felt his spirit body being struck by these notes, Klein's senses were suddenly in a daze, but he quickly controlled himself.
Klein took two heavy steps downward to control the movements of his body.
When he completely walked out of the downward stairs, what was revealed in front of him was a platform made of black and gray bricks, and the platform was shallowly submerged by water. This was also the source of the moisture. .
Not far from the platform, there is a reef shrouded in darkness. Sitting on the reef is a pure-looking figure. Her body is covered with dark red scales, and her lower body is a huge fish tail. .
This fish tail bounces rhythmically, like a metronome, beating the time of its own singing.
There was only a slight sound of water flowing further away. Klein speculated that the place he was in now was an underground cave. This cave was connected to the water outside. Not only could the mermaid enter the cave through this tunnel to serve as the Church of the Night, It provides some help with members' promotions and can also be their refuge when necessary.
Klein looked at this mermaid and felt that she had a kind of beauty that was strange to humans.
When she heard someone's voice, the mermaid slowly raised her head and looked at Klein in front of her.
There was a glint of excitement in her eyes, and she opened her mouth slightly, revealing the fangs that looked like sharp needles.
Hiss, the appearance of this mermaid is very characteristic of this world. No wonder it is called a sea monster and a man-eating monster in folklore... It is indeed an extraordinary creature with crazy and twisted characteristics...
Klein's expression remained unchanged, he took off the captain's hat on his head, and saluted the mermaid in front of him in a gentlemanly manner.
"Messenger of the Lord, are you here?" The mermaid's tone contained a little excitement. She looked at Klein in front of her, "The Lord told me that your promotion ceremony requires our singing."
"Yes, please."
Klein pretended to have a stern expression and said to the mermaid in front of him, "I am the messenger of the goddess. Are you here to help me complete my ritual?"
"Yes." The little mermaid said proudly: "I am the best mermaid among our tribe. I heard the voice of the Lord. This is really glorious for me."
"It is my pleasure to serve you."
For the mermaids in captivity, being able to dedicate themselves to the goddess of the night is the whole meaning of their lives.
"Excuse me." Klein nodded and took out a portable crucible from his suitcase. "Please wait a moment while I prepare the magic potion I need."
"Um."
The mermaid said softly, her upper body standing above the water, and her tail swaying gently under the water.
Klein first put the auxiliary materials just taken out from the Church of Night's warehouse into the crucible according to the formula of the potion. He took a deep breath and waited for the auxiliary materials to gradually merge.
Soon, the color of the potion, which lacked the main ingredients of the potion, turned into a dark golden color, giving people a feeling as light as air.
Klein's movements did not stop at all. After confirming that the potion materials had been completely integrated, he held the eyeball on the black glove of his left hand with his right hand, and controlled the "squirming hunger" to start to separate it.
After controlling his "creeping hunger" to separate the eyeball from the main body of the glove on his left hand, Klein ruthlessly reached out and cut off the few black blood vessels still connected to it, and pulled it off.
After accompanying Klein through several stages, "Rosago's Furious Eyes" can finally retire at the end of his life.
Soon, the black eyeball merged with the dark golden liquid. After about ten seconds, the potion took on a strange black color.
There seemed to be quite a few tiny insects swimming rapidly among these completely black potions. Klein quite naturally thought of the gnats (mosquito larvae) growing in the water in summer, which made his scalp tingle.
His occult knowledge and corresponding spiritual intuition told him that this tiny bug was related to the mythical creature form of the diviner's path. Klein no longer hesitated, and after doing a simple divination, he reached for the crucible and poured the potion into the bottle.
"Are you going to start? Can I ask you a question?" The Little Mermaid was already lying on the black-gray stone platform that was partially submerged in the water. Dark red scales wrapped her body to prevent her from directly touching her skin. rubbing against the rough rocks on the platform.
"Okay." Klein nodded coldly.
"You're obviously going to drink the potion soon, so why bother pouring it into the bottle? Wouldn't it be more convenient to drink it directly?" The Little Mermaid was a little curious.
"..." Klein was silent for a few seconds after being asked this question. His hand shook slightly, and if it weren't for the fact that the potion had the same properties, he almost dropped a drop.
After a moment, Klein calmly replied:
"It's a habit."
"Drinking potion from a bottle feels like a ritual to me."
Klein couldn't help but imagine the scene the Little Mermaid mentioned in his mind. If he put a cauldron to his mouth and started drinking the potion, the painting style would be so beautiful that he couldn't even imagine it.
"ok, I get it."
The Little Mermaid curled her lips and looked at Klein: "Are you ready to start your promotion?"
"Yeah." Klein nodded.
"Then I will sing for you."
The Little Mermaid left these words and stepped back a few meters. She jumped up from the water and sat on the protruding smooth rock, as light as a flying bird. This unexpectedly lively mermaid gently closed her eyes and opened her mouth.
A melodious singing voice suddenly came from her throat.
When facing the mermaid's song, Klein almost lost control of his body and ran forward. But he quickly calmed down, put the potion to his mouth, and began to advance to Sequence Five amidst the mermaid's singing.
The potion made his body stiff like a rusted machine, and with the mermaid's singing that could arouse other people's desires, the "Puppet Master" potion that made his body stiff was gradually absorbed by him.
As Klein's body broke away from the stiff, doll-like state, he slowly opened his eyes.
Although it sounds simple, after Klein took out his pocket watch and looked at it, he found that nearly an hour had passed. He nodded to the little mermaid who sang on the rock for an hour without complaint:
"Thanks a lot."
Klein is now a Sequence 5 "Secret Puppet Master". He looked at the threads spreading out from the little mermaid across from him with deep eyes.
He stayed there for a few seconds before he restrained his urge to turn the little mermaid in front of him into a Marionette.
"You're welcome." The little mermaid watched the Beyonder in front of her return to normal before swimming a certain distance forward. When she stopped in front of the platform, she looked at Klein in front of her with her own eyes:
"I want to thank you. If it weren't for your need, my Lord would not personally give me the oracle, and I would not have the chance to hear the Lord's voice."
"..."
After hearing what the mermaid in front of him said, Klein nodded silently.
"May the Lord and the Goddess bless you."
He watched the mermaid in front of him disappear from his sight, and then walked toward the stairs on his shoes that were wet with water.
After being promoted to Sequence Five, Klein can use the crystal ball on the Origin Castle to mobilize more of the power of the Origin Castle.
Just now, Klein felt that his connection with Source Castle was more stable and more appropriate than in the Sequence Six period, and the range of gray mist he could mobilize in reality had also expanded many times.
Although it did not allow him to maintain the same state in reality as in Source Castle as he imagined, it could still temporarily create a divination effect close to that of Source Castle when Klein needed it.
But in the same way, Klein believes that when he calls upon the power of the Source Castle in the real world, if he is surrounded by extraordinary people with high-sequence three paths in the mysterious realm, he has a high probability of being discovered by these extraordinary people.
Once he fell into that situation, Klein thought that he would not be able to escape.
Therefore, he now secretly decided that if he could not confirm that the surroundings were completely safe, he would try not to let more than a certain amount of Source Castle power wrap around his body.
Klein thought as he walked back along the way he came.
But when Klein reached the stairs, a gentle voice suddenly came from beside him:
"Zhou Mingrui."
When he heard his name before time travel, Klein's body suddenly stiffened. He looked at the owner of the voice next to him. Soon, his brows relaxed and a smile appeared on his face:
"Goddess, why are you here?"
"You can just call me Amanisis." Amanisis, the goddess of the night, shook her head softly at Klein:
"Gaowei has launched a party, and I hope you can come to it."
"Lao Gao wants us to come to the party?" Klein became more relaxed: "Of course I will come, but the few on my ship now are because of the 'Superstar Master'..."
Klein had no intention of keeping it a secret. After all, the people on the ship had now arrived on the island of Denos, which belonged to the territory of the Night Goddess. Even if he wanted to keep it a secret, there would be no way to hide it.
"I will help them cover up their whereabouts." The goddess of the night nodded: "As you thought, the Seven Gods are indeed in a lot of conflict now because of the matter of the Super Star Lord."
"...The Super Star Lord killed an Archbishop of the Eternal Sun Church?" Klein was silent for a moment: "But for the Seven Gods, this shouldn't be..."
Klein, who was quite familiar with the Night Goddess, had no intention of shying away. He wrapped the power of Origin Castle around himself to isolate the possibility of his thoughts being spied on by others.
Seeing this scene, the goddess of the night nodded, acknowledging Klein's caution in front of her. He explained to Klein according to the rhetoric he had prepared earlier:
"The reason why the Seven Gods are panicking is not because the Super Star Master can kill Sequence Three saints at the Sequence Four level. Many extraordinary people can do it, which is not surprising. What the Seven Gods are really worried about is that after he swallows After absorbing the power of the sun path, I can still escape from the hands of the eternal blazing sun with the power of sequence three."
"In addition, there are inevitable conflicts between the seven gods in adjacent paths, so some gods have become cautious."
"...Escaped?" Klein looked at the goddess of night in front of him. The goddess of the night nodded slightly:
"That's right, after the Eternal Fierce Sun descended with the help of the body of one of its angels, it still allowed the Super Star Master to escape into the Sea of Mist."
"You must know that he only has Sequence Three, and he is not the only outer god outside the earth."
After hearing that only the Sequence Three Superstar Lord had escaped a divine attack from a true god, Klein was silent for a moment, and the tragic scene when Cattleya was attacked reappeared in his mind.
Maybe after a while, maybe after a long time, Klein raised his head slightly and looked at the goddess of the night in front of him.
He looked at the goddess' eyes covered by darkness and suddenly realized something.
This time he spoke in a very serious tone:
"Amanisis, what do I need to pay in exchange for the support of the church?"
He looked at the goddess of the night in front of him very seriously, but the goddess of the night had a smile in her eyes and said softly:
"I want you to help me get the water from the River of Eternal Darkness after you are promoted to a high sequence."
"I'm not destined to be visible (secret), but I hope you can help me in this regard."
"This is why I am willing to keep investing in you."
(End of chapter)
