Under the leadership of Mr. "Gate" Bethel, Klein passed through the ethereal star realm. The surrounding scene was distorted in vain, forming an ethereal "starry sky". The stars flickered, and Klein appeared in various places in the world.
Doors of light opened one after another throughout the Loen Empire. In the hidden monasteries of the Church of the Night, nearly ten thousand believers are coming to the prepared ships one after another through the light gate.
Mr. "Gate" is not unable to use the "Gate" he created to directly send these people to the land abandoned by God. But the true Creator cannot open the door to the Land Abandoned by God. After all, there is still an evil spirit sealed there called "Sasril" that is contaminated by the Sea of Chaos and part of God's consciousness has awakened.
Moreover, once the door is opened, it will lead to the invasion of other gods.
Although none of the three paths belonging to the "Lord of Mysteries" have given birth to true gods, other true god-level beings that have emerged now also have the ability to seize loopholes and open doors.
For example, "Analysis" and "Omniscient" of the "White Tower" path. Even if the Land Abandoned by God has the seal of the true Creator, once it is discovered by the unreasonable omniscience of the "White Tower", the Land Abandoned by God will be breached over time.
In the midst of the strife of the gods, one cannot be too careful.
Moreover, during the process of transferring believers that Klein undertook, the goddess of the night also personally took action to hide the ships transporting believers. This is equivalent to a divine descent with smaller impact and less power. However, this still consumes a certain amount of money for the goddess of the night.
But it's all worth it.
If nearly ten thousand believers enter the Land Abandoned by the Gods, even if all the anchors of the Loen Kingdom are destroyed, the Goddess of the Night will have a chance to enter a deep sleep, allowing the people in the Land Abandoned by the Gods to turn their faith to the "Goddess of Death" .
In order to prevent the plan against the "God of War" from failing, the Goddess of the Night can take advantage of the opportunity of sleeping to directly accommodate the uniqueness of the "God of Death" path.
Although this will cause the goddess of night to directly enter a deep sleep that can take anywhere from a few months to a few years, there are two ways to do so, and the "River of Eternal Darkness" is in a state of being sealed by the "Origin Castle". With this state maintained, even the God of War, who fell to the Loen Kingdom, would not pose much of a threat to Amanysis after waking up.
It's just that the consequence of such a choice is that He will directly enter the second-class or even the worst choice of promotion to the old days. Later, when the Night Goddess accommodates the "River of Eternal Darkness", she will most likely lose most of her will.
Even with the best outcome, the character and image of the Night Goddess will most likely be biased towards the "God of Death", and the more evil and crazy parts of her remaining humanity will be highlighted.
After completing the tasks arranged by the Church of the Night, Mr. "Gate" Bethel stopped his movements. He looked at Klein with a slightly restrained gaze, and spoke to Klein in a gentle but unemotional tone. Ryan said:
"Is the matter here over?"
Klein nodded slightly and felt something in his heart: "Yes, thank you, Mr. Bethel."
Mr. Bethel, oh, no one has called me that for a long time, and no one has dared to call me that for a long time... A thought flashed through Bethel's mind, but it was quickly covered up by his own divinity.
After he lost his identity as Mr. "Door", he should not be able to obtain the anchors of the Abraham family again, but the high-dimensional overlooker seems to have used some method to pass the anchors that originally belonged to Mr. "Door" through the high-dimensional overlooker. The pollution that was left in His original body was transferred to Bethel.
Klein also felt a little strange about his conversation with Bethel. He and Bethel were talking in Chinese, which made Klein couldn't help but wonder whether Gao Wei taught Bethel this.
Unexpectedly, the "guard" beside Gao Wei is also an angel. He hides many secrets, well, many... He is even willing to teach Chinese to this angel named Bethel. It seems that they are also very good friends...
During the past few days of calmness, Klein also gradually recalled how he handled the confrontation with Gao Wei. The more he recalled, the more immature he felt in handling things.
But Klein has no regrets, although what Gao Dimension has done may be based on the optimal solution given by divinity. However, this "optimal" is definitely not correct. Klein still doesn’t understand what divinity feels like. He feels that he may pursue the “optimal” in everything after inheriting divinity, so as to avoid the harm caused to him by his enemies.
But Klein wanted to warn himself not to become like this.
Emotions, memories, personality; outlook on life, world view, values. If he loses these, is he really still Klein Moretti, is he really still Zhou Mingrui from the earth?
Of course, people will gradually change, but whenever Klein thinks that he may become an indifferent person who is completely different from himself, he will feel seriously uncomfortable.
Klein believes that even when he is accepting the expectations of his fellow villagers and heading towards the peak where he is destined to lose everything, he cannot forget his most precious emotions.
He will not forget that he is Zhou Mingrui from Earth; he will not forget his family who are still on Earth; he will not forget Ban who spent a short time with him but has a deep relationship with him under the influence of Klein's memory. Sen and Melissa; will never forget their short time as Nighthawks in Tingen.
He will also not forget the threats from the outside world, nor will he forget the two gods who did everything to protect the humans in this world.
He didn't want to see the disaster happen again in front of him. In this world, both natural disasters and man-made disasters are wars caused by gods. In a world with gods, disasters seem to be equivalent to wars caused by gods for profit.
And even if the war ends, everything lost will never come back; war has always taken away not only the lives of the dead, but also the souls of the survivors. (Note)
Klein remembers his joy when he saw Benson and Melissa living a good life thanks to his efforts, and his joy when he learned that Dunn and Ms. Daly were blessed by the goddess. .
These sincere emotions have always been the most precious gifts he received from this world.
Even if Klein does end up becoming a completely different person from who he is now, he hopes that it will be decided by himself instead of being maliciously shaped by others.
"Let's go." Bethel nodded and said to Klein.
"Okay." Klein replied.
How beautiful, Bethel thought.
How long has it been since I saw... such a bright and precious "humanity"? Did it start from the moment I left the earth and was polluted?
The familiar scene appeared in front of Klein's eyes again. It seemed that for a long time, but it seemed that in an instant, Klein reappeared on the familiar streets of Tingen City.
Here... Klein couldn't help but feel a familiar feeling hidden deep in his heart emerge from his heart. He turned his head and glanced at Bethel hesitantly, then took a deep breath and walked forward.
Bethel slowly changed his steps and disappeared through the door.
Arriving at the familiar door, Klein slowly opened his door. Looking at the familiar scene, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a strange smile.
He pressed his face with his hands and changed his appearance back to that of Klein Moretti.
"Benson, Melissa..."
Klein's throat squirmed as he tentatively called inside.
"You're back, Klein?" Melissa, who was sitting in the living room, said with some surprise: "We haven't seen each other for several months."
"Yes." Klein replied subconsciously, but his voice was as cold and hard as Gehrman Sparrow, and also had the depth of "The Fool". He looked at Melissa in front of him for a moment, coughed, smiled again, and said in a gentle tone:
"I'm back."
"You... seem to have experienced a lot." Melissa and Klein walked forward together, with a somewhat puzzled expression on her face: "Klain, what are you wearing?"
Klein was wearing a formal suit and a pair of bright red gloves on his hands - she had seen people dressed like this outside.
Klein said with a calm expression: "There is something I haven't told you. I will tell you when I see Benson."
"Well, okay." Melissa walked forward and said to Klein:
"Mr. Abraham brought us out of the Southern Continent and said that you had something to discuss with us. Klein, do you know that there are often large and small wars between Backlund and the Southern Continent?"
There was a trace of worry on Melissa's face: "I am still only at Sequence 8, and Benson has always been at Sequence 9, and there is no chance for promotion. Klein, sometimes I really worry that I can't protect him. Well, myself and Benson - ah, Benson can rely on me to protect him now. My sequence is higher than him."
Really... It seems that Gao Wei did not give them any more dangerous potions, allowing them to continue on their extraordinary path. This path is too dangerous. Even with high-dimensional protection, they are likely to lose control during the promotion process - it is good to maintain the current state.
Moreover, Gao Wei chose to let them take the path he took, it is possible...
Klein thought secretly, and followed Melissa into the room without changing his expression. Benson sat there, looking at Klein in front of him with gentle eyes.
He looked at his sister who looked a little proud, and couldn't help but feel helpless on his face.
"Melissa, I probably know what you and Klein said."
"After having the acting method, the 'Opera Singer' potion I drank before has already been digested. If it hadn't been for the fact that I couldn't find the potion materials to pass the next sequence, and I was also worried about being exposed in the Southern Continent. If I had my own information, I would have become a Sequence Eight Beyonder long ago."
"By the way, Klein. What level are you at now? You are more talented than us, so you should be promoted faster than us."
Benson said quickly without giving his sister a chance to refute him. As expected, Melissa opened her mouth, but her cheeks were bulging and she did not continue speaking.
"I am now a Sequence Five Beyonder."
Klein chuckled secretly, not hiding his secret between his brother and sister. He would then send Benson and Melissa to the Forsaken Land without worrying whether they would expose this secret and cause some misfortune.
He was ready and couldn't leave Benson and Melissa outside anymore.
"Sequence Five..." Benson felt himself in a trance and nodded slightly: "Oh, you are indeed the smartest among us. If I remember correctly, in the extraordinary path, as long as you reach the Sequence Four can become a demigod, that is, those, um, figures like the archbishop in every church?"
This was what Benson told him because of his limited knowledge of mysticism. His knowledge of mysticism was not much, but it was a very solid foundation for Beyonders below Sequence Seven.
"Actually, I am already a deacon of the Church of the Night. When I become a demigod, I can become the bishop in charge of a diocese." Klein decided to confess to Benson and Melissa the things that he had hidden from them before:
"Already in the beginning, I gave up interviewing for a professorship because I joined the church and am now a quasi-senior member of the church."
"But in the end, by mistake, under the arrangement of the church, I went to Miskatonic University to become a professor... My path was very suitable for hiding my identity, so I used another identity to hold the professorship. But the identity of the "professor" who greeted you Melissa before needs to be kept secret."
Of course, it's not the same church... Klein muttered silently in his heart.
"Very good...if you let your father know that you are now a servant of God, your father will also be happy."
After a long silence, Benson suddenly exhaled and sighed.
However, Klein was unable to respond. After all, the memory of his father in this body was already quite blurry in his memory. Naturally, Zhou Mingrui, who had both parents before time travel, could not regard this vague shadow as his real father.
Compared to this, Benson, who has lived with Klein, actually has a "brother like father" temperament. It was he who raised Klein and Melissa alone, and he relied on the legacy left by their father. Supply Klein went to college.
The Moretti family has always believed in the goddess of the night, including his father. Klein Moretti is obviously the member of their family who is closest to God (referring to himself as an evil god), and he is also the only cleric who has entered the church.
Although Benson and Melissa are both extraordinary now, in their minds, joining the church is equivalent to being with God, which is a great honor.
What would you think if I let you know that I actually know the goddess of the night, have met her, and am her favored one and friend?
Klein suppressed the desire to appear holy in front of his brothers and sisters, and decided not to reveal the shocking news to Benson and Melissa for the sake of their mental health.
He pulled a chair from the side, sat next to Benson and Melissa, and asked them solemnly:
"Benson, Melissa, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you when I come here."
After seeing the two people turn their eyes, Klein smiled and said:
"Are you willing to leave here and go to the kingdom of the goddess?"
Note: adapted from "White Olive Tree"
Will update at normal time tomorrow, save some to save first~
ps: Sad news: I can’t finish writing, I will probably update it in the afternoon.
(End of chapter)
