Chapter 468: Klein Bravely Seizes Sea God's Scepter
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Before seeing the name Hobert, Ethel had been imagining that the favored of the "Creator" would have needs for wealth or power, or for Beyonder ingredients.
She certainly didn't expect that Hobert would make such a request!
After Hobert made the request, the positions of the two sides were different. Although Ethel still had a smile on her face, the words she spoke were already a bit aggressive: "As a baron, shouldn't you salute a princess?"
"I should," Hobert pointed to his mask and said, "But that's when I'm not wearing this mask."
"And when I wear this mask, you should salute me!"
Ethel asked, "What does this mask represent?"
"A favored one of the God!"
Ethel asked again, "I heard that in the Southern Continent, the great 'Creator' has many favored ones?"
"With your level, I cannot reveal this information to you."
"What level do I need to reach to know this information?"
Hobert smiled, "Have you fought for the 'Creator'?"
Ethel shook her head. On the contrary, the "Creator" had saved her life.
Hobert's aura gradually overwhelmed Ethel again: "Do you know how to please the 'Creator'?"
Ethel shook her head helplessly again.
"You don't have to help. I have other alternatives to choose from," Hobert said seriously, "But if I come to you again next time, and you are still unwilling to help, I will not come to you again."
Ethel fell into a brief contemplation. For her, the "Creator" had not shown the side of an evil god, and she was still more willing to maintain a good relationship with the "Creator."
"Okay, I will attend your wedding!" Ethel thought again that helping this "Favored" was equivalent to establishing a relationship with the "Creator's" favored ones, which might be a hidden help in the future.
And if she refused, she was not only refusing the opportunity to establish contact with this "Favored", but also refusing to repay the life-saving grace owed to the "Creator."
Hobert smiled, "I will be waiting for you in my territory."
Ethel quickly asked, "How can I become a favored one of the 'Creator'?"
"Believe in Him piously, and be ready to offer your heart to Him at any time," Hobert stopped there, and left using "Travel".
Offer your heart?
Ethel didn't know if this was a metaphor.
She looked at the invitation again and smiled unconsciously: "He is actually a favored one of the 'Creator', that's interesting."
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Jeffrey Territory.
Hobert encountered a new problem. The villa was built, but there was not enough time for decoration.
Nowadays, most Feynapotter families have abandoned the complex classical decoration style and turned to a bright and simple modern decoration style.
However, the villas for nobles are still mainly decorated in classical style. These villas are designed for nobles, so of course they must be decorated according to the needs of the nobles.
This means that there must be a lot of carving and murals, but these two types of workers are very scarce, and it is difficult to complete these detailed decoration works.
Hobert thought for a while, and simply became bolder. All the decorations of these five villas were changed to "Ming style"!
He had been exposed to some Ming-style furniture during his work in the Common Era, which were known for their simplicity and atmosphere. Relatively speaking, the patterns of Qing-style furniture are cumbersome, but they are far less dignified and atmospheric than Ming-style decoration and furniture.
Hobert made up his mind to do so. One is to use Ming-style furniture and decoration for emergency, and the other is that Hobert is preparing to try to establish his own unique aesthetic style.
Even if there is time in the future, he does not plan to change the decoration of these five villas. He will only use Feynapotter-style decoration when building new villas, so that nobles can choose between the two.
At the same time, Hobert also plans to adopt some Chinese decoration styles for other hotels and apartments to gradually establish the unique aesthetic and decoration characteristics of Jeffrey Territory.
However, as the only person in Jeffrey Territory who has seen Ming-style decoration, Hobert has to stay on the construction site almost every day. For this reason, he learned to draw woodworking drawings and decoration design drawings.
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Berserk Sea, Bayam.
The bad weather caused by the confrontation between "Sea God" and "Sea King" has lasted for several days, and Klein has been trapped in Bayam for several days.
In the middle of the night, Klein suddenly woke up, vaguely aware of something.
He turned over and got out of bed, came to the window, and opened the curtains.
The scarlet moonlight shone in all at once, covering everything like a layer of light-colored dye.
Those low-pressure clouds that had lasted for several days and gave people great pressure had disappeared. Does this mean that the confrontation between "Sea God" and "Sea King" is over?
Klein pondered for two seconds, closed the curtains, walked back four steps, and entered the gray fog.
He sat at the head of the bronze long table, conjured a coin, and muttered the divination language: "Kalvetua is completely dead."
"..."
After seven times, he flicked the coin, watching it jump up and roll down.
Pa~
The coin landed in Klein's palm, with the king's head facing up.
This means affirmation!
"Sea God" Kalvetua is almost completely dead!
Klein recalled his previous guess: "Sure enough, the ancient elf ruins on Symeem Island (the place where 'Book of Calamities' was discovered) are closely related to Kalvetua's hiding place!"
Then he recalled the "Emperor's" guess about Kalvetua at the previous Tarot meeting.
Based on Klein's adventure to sacrifice to Kalvetua yesterday and his understanding of him these days, Klein increasingly felt that the "Emperor's" guess was very accurate.
Kalvetua is a Sequence 3, and a Sequence 3 in very bad condition. Strictly speaking, he cannot be called a "God".
Suddenly, Klein realized that Kalvetua was dead, and the military and the Storm Church should not have found his location yet!
Klein has two ways to find Kalvetua. One is to divine the iron cigarette case he sacrificed to him, and the other is to ask "Hanged Man" for Kalvetua's location. At worst, he will pay "Hanged Man" some information fees at the Tarot meeting!
How could he miss such an opportunity to pick up leaks?
Klein divined again: "Official Beyonders have found Kalvetua's hiding place."
"..."
After chanting seven times, he flicked the coin, but the coin happened to fall into the cracks of his fingers and stood on Klein's hand.
This means the divination failed.
Klein guessed that it might be because he knew too few related conditions, or the official Beyonders had related anti-divination abilities and sealed items.
After thinking about it, Klein conjured the yellow crystal pendant and changed his thinking: "It is dangerous to explore Kalvetua's hiding place now!"
"..."
This involved himself, and the divination quickly had a result: the yellow crystal pendant rotated counterclockwise, not too fast, and the amplitude was not large.
There is danger, but it can be tolerated!
Klein immediately took action. He left the space above the gray fog, arranged the ceremony, and summoned himself.
Then he returned to the gray fog, Klein picked up the "Death" card and put it into his spiritual body.
Suddenly, Klein's spiritual body became solid, emitting a pale white light all over his body, as if he was death itself, the end of all life.
Wearing the "Creeping Hunger" glove, he put Azik's bronze whistle, biological toxin bottle and other magical items into his body.
Finally, he picked up the black hardwood cane and used it to find the "lost" iron cigarette case stained with the aura of gray fog.
Klein responded to his summons and stepped out of the "Gate of Summoning". Because he is now in a spiritual state, he easily entered the spirit world.
He held the cane upright and said in a voice full of death: "The location of my exclusive iron cigarette case."
"..."
After seven times, Klein released his palm and waited for enlightenment.
The black hardwood cane slowly floated in one direction. Klein grabbed the cane and completed the process of traveling in the spirit world just by standing in place.
Klein's spirituality realized that in the surrounding space, there were pairs of indifferent eyes looking at him.
This may be due to the relationship of the "Death" card. Although it can make the spiritual body very powerful, it will also attract some attention in the spirit world.
Klein looked down at his cane and dared not look at the surrounding gazes.
Fortunately, this place is not far from Kalvetua's "Temple", and this journey ended quickly.
Klein fell into the ruins of the collapsed building with anticipation. As described by the "Hanged Man", this ruin is at the bottom of the sea, surrounded by glowing coral.
Among the coral reefs, there is a semi-collapsed ruin, and Klein appeared directly in the main hall of the ruin.
He saw that there was a huge pillar in front of him, engraved with strange patterns and symbols, extending from the center to support the nearby buildings.
At this moment, a unwilling and painful roar echoed in the hall for a long time. The sound echoed back and forth without any weakening trend.
This is the resentful roar made by Kalvetua before his death.
But Kalvetua's body was not in the hall. There were many "Sea God" believers with shriveled faces and bodies, turned gray and black.
Kalvetua died, taking away most of the water in their bodies. In a state of half-life and half-death, these believers completely went crazy, similar to the state of living corpses.
Facing the rushing believers, Klein was about to wave his cane to launch an attack, but suddenly seemed to think of something and injected spirituality into the "Death" card.
The pale white light around Klein's body seemed to suddenly become agile. The aura of death and extreme fear spread out. The believers who were already in a half-dead state suddenly stopped. Their eyes, filled with numbness, madness or confusion, suddenly became fearful and awe-inspiring, and they slowly knelt in front of Klein.
Klein breathed a sigh of relief. He had previously discovered that the "Death" card was more restrained against undead or undead-like creatures than Azik's bronze whistle.
Especially these "Sea God believers" who have lost their wisdom, basically just knelt down.
In front of the Beyonders of the "Death" path, injecting spiritual power into the "Death" card can also form a huge sense of oppression to the other party. At least the Beyonders below the demigod will be in very bad condition, and sometimes they will forget to avoid the enemy's attack because of fear.
Klein easily passed these believers and entered a collapsed side hall.
What came into view first was a huge, unimaginable cyan sea snake. Its scales were smooth and covered with patterns similar to the various symbols inside the ruins.
Although Klein had already confirmed that the "Emperor's" guess was correct through the sacrifice to the "Sea God", he still couldn't help but admire the "Emperor's" erudition after seeing the "evidence" in front of him. At that time, he was only listening to the "Hanged Man's" description, and he could guess that Kalvetua was a sea monster.
At this time, the huge sea snake opened its huge mouth and bit a stone pillar. Its body below its head hung on the ground, entwining one-third of the hall, like an undulating cyan hill.
It has already precipitated cyan mysterious light, slowly converging towards a tooth longer than a human arm.
At this time, next to Kalvetua's body, lay an old man wearing a clergyman's soft hat.
He was gnawing on the flesh and blood of "Sea God" Kalvetua.
Several clergymen have already "died" from eating too much of the "Sea God's" flesh and blood. Kalvetua's Beyonder characteristics have not been completely precipitated, and his flesh and blood contain a considerable dose of Beyonder characteristics.
This caused these clergymen to collapse on the spot and die completely, either because of "potion" overdose or because of the conflict of Beyonder characteristics of different paths.
The only remaining priest seemed to realize something, raised his head and looked at Klein, an uninvited guest, with eyes flashing cyan light.
Klein did not hesitate and immediately threw out the "Biological Toxin Bottle", and then the "Creeping Hunger" turned golden and shone out a violent sunlight: "Purification Halo!"
The blue light in the priest's eyes also became more intense and purer. His belly, which had eaten too much flesh and blood, also became much higher.
Woo~
An ethereal but shrill sound came from his body, instantly covering the entire ruin.
The priest's body swelled instantly, like the resurrected Kalvetua. Cyan smooth tentacles drilled out from under his robe. The tentacles were surrounded by a layer of white lightning, waving around at an extremely fast speed.
Klein struggled to avoid it, but was still hit by a tentacle and flew out.
Before he could get up, tentacles surged again. Fortunately, Klein was in a spiritual state at this time, so he quickly flew up to avoid it. At the same time, a brilliant beam of light descended from the sky and hit the old priest straight.
The high temperature of the "Holy Light" caused the Sea God Priest's robe to burn, and the gray-black skin and flesh also melted a lot in the pure light.
When the robe disappeared, Klein realized that there was a face in the Sea God Priest's belly, trying to drill out.
Soon the Sea God Priest's tentacles resumed their rapid waving state, but a hand suddenly stretched out from behind him, grabbed a tentacle, and put it into a seriously deformed mouth with meat shreds hanging on the teeth.
That was another priest who had died next to Kalvetua just now. Although the "Death" card did not provide Klein with any abilities of the "Death" path, he had keenly discovered before that the "Death" card could create an environment that was more likely to form "living corpses".
Klein couldn't control these living corpses and could only let them attack indiscriminately.
However, at this time, Klein was in a spiritual state and had no flesh and blood at all, so of course the living corpses would not gnaw at him.
So, from the moment he realized the sea god priest's condition was off and that he might be his enemy, Klein had been creating an environment conducive to the formation of "living corpses."
Now, three corpses of the priests sat up from the ground. Their death process was similar to their loss of control. At this moment, they had basically turned into monsters, baring their fangs and claws as they charged towards the sea god priest.
After one hand grabbed a tentacle, another mouth came over and bit onto another tentacle of the sea god priest.
The lightning released by these tentacles didn't have any effect because the Beyonder characteristics of these living corpses hadn't completely separated. They were all Beyonders of the "Sailor" pathway before their deaths, and they had some resistance to lightning.
The sea god priest wrestled with the living corpses. They rolled around and crashed into the ruins, shaking the entire structure.
But neither could do anything to the other. The sea god priest couldn't shock or electrocute the living corpses to death, and the living corpses could only bite the sea god priest, unable to inflict serious damage for the time being.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Klein flew towards the snake tooth that had absorbed all the Beyonder characteristics.
As the Beyonder characteristics condensed, the snake tooth gradually straightened, becoming a white short staff. The top of the staff was inlaid with small cyan-blue "gems," some of which had a dark undertone in their cyan-blue color.
Before he even touched the scepter, Klein heard layers of overlapping prayers in his ears, and he seemed to see a hallucination, witnessing believers prostrating and praying.
This made Klein quickly retreat a few steps. He divined with his cane and received a revelation that he could control the scepter in his current state, but only for a few seconds.
So, Klein, in his spirit body state, suddenly rushed forward, trying to pull out the scepter.
At this moment, the battle between the sea god priest and the living corpses changed. The sea god priest's stomach was torn open, forming a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, dripping with cyan-blue pus.
This huge mouth let out a roar, and for a moment, the surroundings seemed to be filled with seawater, and a terrifying vortex formed at the mouth, creating a huge suction force on everything around it.
The three living corpses were pulled off the ground by the suction force, but they were still firmly grabbing the tentacles, still biting desperately.
Splash!
The seawater in the surrounding sea area suddenly surged. On the other side, Klein used force to pull the scepter from the stone pillar. The layered prayers once again drilled into his ears, immediately making him feel intense throbbing and dizziness.
Klein looked at the sea god priest and the three living corpses. The entire hall was suddenly filled with dark clouds, accompanied by thunder and rain.
Crack~
A bolt of silver-white lightning struck the sea god priest. This was different from the silk-like silver lightning on the sea god priest's tentacles. It was a giant lightning bolt that could cover the sea god priest and all three living corpses!
The terrifying vortex disappeared, and the surfaces of the three living corpses were burned into charcoal, falling straight down.
Crack~
Another silver lightning bolt struck the sea god priest, and the giant mouth on his abdomen was directly charred. The sea god priest's head was burned smaller.
He raised his face with only a few empty holes left, and "looked" at Klein in mid-air with his two empty eye sockets, and finally fell to the ground.
Klein, whose spirit was about to reach its limit, released the scepter, letting it fall to the ground.
Floating in mid-air for more than half a minute to recover, the throbbing and dizziness in Klein's head gradually disappeared, and the feeling of madness in his mind finally gradually subsided.
After recovering for another minute or two, Klein dragged his tired spirit body to search the battlefield, first recovering the "Biological Toxin Bottle," a Sealed Artifact that paired very well with the spirit body state.
However, this time the "Death" card played a huge role, and the effect of the "Biological Toxin Bottle" had not yet manifested before the battle ended.
Then, according to the guidance of his spirituality, Klein found the iron cigarette case he had sacrificed next to Kalvetua's corpse.
Just as he was about to leave with the scepter, Klein's spirituality sensed something and came to the sea god priest's corpse. The charred abdomen of the corpse moved around, as if something alive was about to break out of its shell.
Klein used his cane to pry open the charred abdominal muscles of the sea god priest and saw that the sea god priest's stomach was still basically intact. The stomach bag formed the face of a sea snake in its wriggling!
He could still hear Kalvetua's roar in his ears.
This... this is actually Kalvetua's spiritual residue. The power of a demigod's will far exceeded Klein's imagination.
Klein used his cane to dig out the sea god priest's stomach bag, then found a piece of rag to wrap it, preparing to take it back to the gray fog for research.
At this time, Klein also noticed that the three living corpses next to him had separated out Beyonder characteristics after being baptized by lightning.
However, these Beyonder characteristics had a cyan-blue light, and should have fused more than one Beyonder characteristic. This kind of Beyonder characteristic should cause loss of control if taken. Rather than being an Beyonder characteristic, it was more like a Sealed Artifact with extremely negative effects.
Klein thought that the "Emperor" had a way to remove the spiritual residue in the Beyonder characteristics, and he might buy this kind of Beyonder characteristic.
So, Klein used another piece of rag to wrap the three Beyonder characteristics, carried the two cloth bags, and came to the white scepter again.
Klein took a deep breath and rushed over, grabbed the scepter, and immediately ended the summoned state.
Splash~
Without the power of the scepter to support it, seawater poured into the ruins, submerging the place.
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Above the gray fog.
Klein, who had finished summoning himself to himself, used the level of the gray fog to divined the abilities and negative effects of the scepter in his hand, and named it the "Sea God Scepter."
Sitting at the head of the long table, Klein thought to himself: In the future, when the "Emperor" blasphemes the gods again, he will finally be able to give him a lightning strike. It's just that the "Fool" also likes to listen to the "Emperor's" blasphemous remarks, so the punishment of lightning can be recorded in a small notebook first, and then discussed later.
Then Klein looked at the stomach bag and the three obviously abnormal Beyonder characteristics and left the gray fog. The negative effects of these four things were terrifyingly high, and they couldn't be used at all.
Klein thought about it, and he could also try to sell the stomach bag to the "Emperor". He was knowledgeable and might find a corresponding use.
After doing all this, Klein returned to the real world and continued to sleep.
The next morning, before Klein got out of bed, he suddenly sensed something and opened his spiritual vision.
He saw a heavy coffin appearing in his bedroom, and a red invitation card floated out of the coffin and fell into Klein's hand, and the coffin immediately disappeared.
Klein was stunned for a moment before he understood that this was a messenger.
Opening the red invitation card, he saw: "Hobert is getting married! The bride is still Fors!"
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