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Where Medici GoesChapter 347 Where Medici Went
Richardson... It was because I saw you coming that I deliberately put on this secret puppet show... Klein smiled and disappeared into the room. Richardson believed in the god of death, but it was obvious that his faith was not firm, so he could be developed into a believer of the true creator.
Logically speaking, directly transforming into a secret doll is the most convenient way, but Klein is unwilling to turn those innocent people into his secret dolls, so he can only resort to the second best and use faith to tie his personal valet to his chariot.
This would make it easier for Klein to act later on. The people of this era were more resolute in their beliefs than Klein had imagined.
Dwayne Dantes cleared his throat and coughed,
"Come in."
Richardson pushed open the door and walked in tremblingly. He looked at his employer and felt a brief sense of nervousness in his heart.
Dwayne Dantes obviously noticed the nervousness that seemed to be about to leak out of Richardson, and spoke to him gently.
"Don't be nervous, Richardson. I believe you just overheard our conversation."
"You just said that you wanted to know our Lord?"
"That's right." Richardson swallowed. Although Dwayne Dantes had told him not to be nervous, he still rubbed his hands nervously.
After all, he used to believe in the "God of Death", but could the Creator really tolerate his behavior?
However, whenever Richardson thought of his miserable childhood and his mother who were slaves at that time, he was fascinated by the "Heaven on Earth" created by the Creator. The beauty of that world was beyond Richardson's imagination.
He could only say to the god of death he believed in in his heart:
Lord...
Why does your promise of equality require us to die before we can achieve it?
Richardson calmed down for a moment and said to Dwayne Dantes:
"I am very sorry, Mr. Dantès. I was just trying to tell you about the arrangements for today, but I overheard your conversation with Miss Trevor."
The secret maid, Telai, stood aside without saying a word, like a competent maid.
"It's okay, Richardson." Dwayne Dantes said to Richardson in front of him with a smile on his face, "The Lord is merciful."
"Then please allow me to introduce you to my Lord, the great 'Creator'..."
…
Klein controlled the secret puppet "Dwayne Dantes" and stood in the Creator's Church on the second floor of Backlund. The area of this church was even larger than that of the Storm Church, but the Storm Church did not react more after the Creator Church came to Backlund, which made some of Backlund's Storm believers even a little dissatisfied.
However, if the high-dimensional observer were to comment on what the Church of Storms is doing now, he would probably say this:
- What a joke. Now the Real Creator is worried that he has no excuse to cause trouble for the Lord of Storms. If the Lord of Storms really allows his believers to attack the Creator Church, then maybe the Real Creator will really cause trouble for Him.
Well, proclaim Him, proclaim Him vigorously (Note 1)
The Lord of Storms did not want to be like his colleague, the "Pure White Angel", who was turned into a herded soul by his old boss and had to serve his master once again in a new way.
...Even if he had to serve, it would be better to serve him while he was alive, or he could simply take advantage of the opportunity of George III's war to capture Lenburg and force another "old friend" of his to surrender his characteristics.
For the Lord of Storms, this is the only way to contend with the ancient sun god who not only grazes the "Eternal Sun", but also has his good eldest son Adam and his rebellious son Amon.
Of course, the Lord of Storms is still unaware that the God of Knowledge and Wisdom has already knelt down at the speed of light before the High-Dimensional Overlord, and now he only asks for the position of an angel. He is just silently thinking about countermeasures in the Abyss of Storms.
The only ones who can guess that the authority of the "White Tower" has changed hands now are the true Creator and the Goddess of Night. Unlike the time when the higher-dimensional overwatch accommodated the "Hermit", the authority of the "White Tower" has not left the Earth.
On the one hand, it is impossible for the high-dimensional overlooking people to create another Backlund catastrophe to take away a piece of "uniqueness" from the earth - firstly, there is no opportunity as good as the Backlund smog, and secondly, there is the real creation watching the high dimension, so that the high dimension cannot take away new authority now.
As long as the "White Tower" remains on Earth, even if the higher-dimensional overwatchers have already accommodated the "White Tower", the true creator still has a chance to remedy the situation.
The second aspect is the tacit understanding between the Outer Gods and the Old Ones on Earth. Not only the High-Dimensional Overlookers, but even the Fallen Mother Goddess did not take the authority of the "Mother" away from the Earth after obtaining the "Mother".
They knew that their power was too great, and the gods on Earth would naturally be extremely wary and vigilant of them. However, neither the High-Dimensional Overlooker nor the Fallen Mother Goddess took the hidden hostility of the gods on Earth to heart.
After all, compared to the ordinary Old Days, the Fallen Mother Goddess, as a pillar, was much stronger than the ordinary Old Days. In her eyes, the alertness of the gods on Earth was nothing more than the mischief of children. Under the absolute gap in strength, their fear and hostility became cute in the eyes of the Fallen Mother Goddess.
As for the one looking down from a higher dimension, on the premise that he wants to complete the goal of upgrading himself and returning to his original dimension, his enemies are the old days of the entire world. For him, the worst case scenario is that he is surrounded by enemies everywhere.
The hostility of one or two more gods is meaningless to those looking down from higher dimensions.
"…Great Creator, you are the father of all things and our salvation."
"You are the savior, the ark of doomsday..."
Seeing Richardson's expression becoming more serious and pious, Klein also controlled the Dantes doll beside him to close his eyes, put his hands on his chest, and began to pray with all his heart.
He himself remained invisible using his ability to create illusions, and slowly walked forward. Klein walked around the group of people who were praying, and Mr. Z and his wife, who were praying more devoutly than the church's trainee bishops, and walked toward the back of the church.
After a short wait, a lady dressed in a pitch-black nun's uniform walked into the room where Klein was. She was wrapped quite conservatively, wearing a long dress that outlined her body curves. Only her bare hands and face could be seen.
"Hello, Pope Moriarty. Saint Cosma Cathedral welcomes you. The Lord has commanded us to do our best to cooperate with your actions in Backlund."
The lady said so, and Klein, who had changed his face and was wearing the face of "Sherlock Moriarty", looked at the nun in front of him, nodded slightly, and asked:
"What's your name?"
"D." Ms. D, one of the Aurora Society's messengers, spoke respectfully to Klein in front of her. She did not panic and ask for forgiveness from the Lord like the messengers Klein had seen before because of Klein's honorifics. Instead, she respected Klein even more because of his compliance with the Lord's doctrine of "humility":
"I am the 26th messenger of the Aurora Society and the current acting archbishop of the church. You can just call me D."
It is worth mentioning that the Aurora Church now has its own churches in Loen, Intis, Lemburg, Balam, and the Kingdom of Silver, named after the Dark Saint Cosma, Pope Gorvi Cecil, the Secret Saint Butis, the Black Saint Leomaster, and the White Saint Mr. A respectively.
When he learned that the cathedral in the Lord's sanctuary was named after him, Mr. A immediately lit a large torch in the church with a half excitement and a half fear. Then his adopted daughter, Aya, the girl who had supported the entire church in the Silver City with Mr. A in the beginning, was rushed to the bell tower of the monastery to serve as a light bulb.
So, that day, the people of the Silver Kingdom saw that the sky over the entire Silver City had turned into daytime.
After that, Mr. A thought about it for a long time, and finally, under the revelation of the oracle sent down when even the true Creator God could not bear to see the situation, he reluctantly changed his code name to "Alpha", a name that sounded slightly more like a normal human being, and used "Saint Alpha" as the name of the Silver City Church.
However, after receiving the name from the oracle of the true Creator, Mr. A was also a little excited. The light he emitted reduced the mushroom harvest in Silver City by half this month. This also led to Mr. A still taking time out every day to cultivate mushrooms with the flesh and blood of the "Rose Bishop" to compensate for the previous losses.
As for why Mr. A developed an extreme aversion to mushrooms in the future, that's another story.
"...So, what do you need?" Ms. D asked tentatively. The Backlund Parish was supposed to be the area under the charge of "War Angel" Medici and "Dark Saint" Cosma. Her sequence was not high, so logically speaking, she should not be the one who appeared here now.
And now, Medici went to Intis for church business and has not returned yet. After leaving Backlund, he transferred Cosma away. Therefore, the Saint Cosma Cathedral can only let Ms. D, who has the highest sequence and no disguise mission, temporarily serve as the archbishop of the Backlund diocese.
This put Ms. D under a lot of pressure recently. Although she had used the power of the church and her own contributions in the church to be promoted to the fifth-level "Priest of Light" after the True Creator herded the "Eternal Sun", it was still difficult for Ms. D to cope with a lot of church affairs.
Therefore, when His Holiness Pope Moriarty returned to the Aurora Church and the Lord delivered the oracle, Ms. D felt a little more at ease, as if she had taken a reassurance pill.
Although she was not clear about Pope Moriarty's strength, she heard that the combined strength of the two popes could deal with the combined attack of angels from any other church.
"His Highness Medici and Archbishop Cosma are not here?"
Klein carefully looked at Ms. D in front of him and asked her. Ms. D's expression suddenly became a little strange. She looked at Klein in front of her and seemed to make up her mind after a moment:
"I'm very sorry, Pope Moriarty..."
"According to the information sent back by Archbishop Saint Cosma, His Highness Medici seems to be obsessed with provoking members of the Soran family in Trier, the capital of Intis, together with Pope Cecil, and trying to dig up the underground ruins in Trier." Ms. D took a deep breath:
"In their spare time between these two tasks, they seem to be discussing whether to go to the Feysac Empire to capture members of the royal family, that is, members of the Einhorn family…"
Even with the Joker's enhanced ability to manage facial expressions, the corners of Klein's mouth twitched violently and he felt a black screen in front of his eyes. He seemed to think of the scene where the two men grabbed members of the Einhorn family like catching jellyfish.
He rubbed his temples: "Master Kesma didn't bring them back?"
"Lord Kosma tried to persuade him, but it didn't work. Instead, he was persuaded by His Highness Medici." Looking at Klein's expression, Ms. D said cautiously,
"His Highness Medici dug up many items from the Fourth Epoch underground in Trier and sold them to the nobles of Intis, making a lot of money—they even dug up the corpse of a Sequence 2 witch and said they would bring it back for a traveling exhibition."
"Because the church doesn't seem to have sufficient funds...so, Lord Kosma also went to dig up the ruins."
"..." Klein was silent for a long while. After a long silence, he coughed and said, "Don't worry about them. Did they say when they would be back?"
"It should be within three days." Ms. D simply calculated the time and said to Klein, "Mr. Medici will return to Backlund in about three days."
"So fast?" Klein thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. In his opinion, if even Xesma was convinced, then the proceeds from selling the unearthed artifacts should be very high.
——It made him a little jealous.
"... we have finished digging." Ms. D felt it was a bit difficult to talk about this matter: "Mr. Kosma said that they have dug out all the underground areas in Trier that are not a safety hazard. The remaining areas can be given to His Majesty Cecil and His Majesty Gustav to develop the tourism industry, and the Aurora Church can get a share of it..."
"Who would go to a place like that?" Klein couldn't help but ask, "Are the people in Trier so free?"
"Reporting to the Pope, His Highness Cosma said that we can collect a lot of money just from the ticket fees of those idle college students in Trier who want to explore. We even hope to use the 'ticket package' charging method to cover the church propaganda expenses in the Trier area..."
Klein thought about it, and fell silent again after he felt that college students seemed to be able to do such a thing.
When the bell rang to signal the end of the mass, Klein coughed and said,
"Okay, that's it."
"If anything happens later, I will hand it over to you, Cosma, or His Highness Medici."
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Klein's mouth twitched as he muttered to himself:
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"How do you feel about today's Mass, Richardson?"
Looking at Richardson in front of him, Klein controlled the Dantes puppet in front of him and asked him in a gentle tone.
Richardson was somewhat flattered by Mr. Dantes' gentle question:
"I think it's great. I never thought I would have such a...beautiful, equal belief. But I can't make up my mind yet."
After hearing Richardson's answer, Dwayne Dantes paused for a moment and said, "Don't be impatient, Richardson. Faith is a very serious matter. Before you make up your mind, I don't want you to rush into deciding your faith."
Richardson lowered his head: "I understand, Mr. Dantes."
Dwayne Dantès, who was controlled by Klein, looked at the state of Richardson in front of him, and just laughed and let Richardson follow him into the carriage.
The so-called faith is a spiritual pillar for the human beings in this world, especially the people of the southern continent who have been oppressed for many years. It is also a poison worth everything they have to pay for. Klein knows what the residents of the southern continent have experienced, and the only thing that can support them is the "peace after death" which belongs to the belief in the god of death.
And now, when the people of the Southern Continent, who have always prayed to go to the kingdom of the god of death and find peace after death, see that there is a belief that pursues "equality for all in the world" rather than "peace after death", will they be overjoyed to the point of going crazy?
After all, all the people Richardson met now believed in the Creator - even wealthy people like his employer were kind to others, not as terrifying as the master he had seen before.
After all, unlike other churches, the Creator Church does not need the support of the nobles. The fact that the god they believe in is the only god on this planet with two paths of authority makes them fearless of the hardships on the road.
This is "God". If the real God appears, then no matter rich or poor, noble or humble, human beings can only bow down in God's sheepfold.
Because He was born to be the king of the world; because as long as He wanted, the world would be the Eden where He planted the forbidden fruit.
Although the real creator is not God yet, and although God's will is partially restricted by the higher-dimensional overseers, the act of herding the "sun" still brings the shadow of God into the creator's teachings.
——Just like the first "Ancient Sun God" who walked out of the Chaos Sea ten thousand years ago.
And shaking the anchor of the god of death to "find peace after death" will not shake the goddess of night who is now trying to merge with the uniqueness of the "god of death".
In fact, the teachings of the Goddess of Death now conflict greatly with those of the God of Death, placing more emphasis on "life" rather than "death."
Although this would make it more difficult to accommodate the uniqueness of the "God of Death", the "anchor" created in this way would be more solid for the Goddess of Night and would be more helpful in accommodating the "River of Eternal Darkness".
…
At the entrance of the sewer, a petite-looking figure stood there, wearing a full-body black robe—this was the clothing that Klein had asked Ms. D for according to his size when he left the Aurora Church. It was considered the standard uniform of the original Aurora Church.
"When I go out wearing this, I always feel like I'm the villain…" Klein muttered softly, controlling the secret puppet Trey to skillfully lift the manhole cover and climb down step by step along the ladder welded to the side.
The sound of running water rang in the ears of the secret puppet Trey, and the vibration along the spiritual line was fully reflected in Klein's ears. Klein stood on the ground, carefully controlling this "witch of pain", just like playing a third-person game on Earth.
Although the "Weird Mage" already has more precise control over the secret doll, there is still no sense of reality when controlling the secret doll... Klein let the secret doll, Trey, move forward carefully, and suddenly felt a little emotional in his heart.
While feeling the sound coming through the "Spirit Line" in his ears, Klein completely immersed himself in the action of "operating the secret puppet."
After these people were transformed into puppets, each puppet was me, but they were not me either...
During the manipulation process, Klein felt that his "Weird Mage" potion had shown signs of being slightly digested, and he had some enlightenment in his mind.
Unlike the "Master of Secret Dolls", the "Master of Tricks" must add a "setting" of his own to each of his secret dolls and each identity during the process of controlling the secret dolls, just like I did before. This will not only help the "Master of Tricks" to digest the secret dolls, but also help him to master the secret dolls!
Unlike Tracy, who has been transformed into a secret doll by himself, the secret doll Terry can be said to be a completely new identity with his own life experience and his own story.
Although he has no thoughts of his own, the secret puppet Trey, who has a "soul worm" in his body that contains a part of Klein's soul, can be considered an alternative "Klein".
As Klein thought about it, he continued to write and perfect the life of the secret doll Trey in his mind according to his previous reasoning so that the secret doll Trey would have a suitable reason to appear in his social circle and become his personal maid.
While exploring, Klein also felt that his potion was being digested bit by bit, which made him sure of his guess.
The secret doll Trey used his slender hands to gently press on the wall and stopped himself. Looking at the scene in the distance, Klein completely immersed himself in the perspective of the secret doll.
"This is..."
After Klein was completely immersed in the feeling of controlling the secret doll, he felt as if he had turned into Miss Trey, who was born into a family that was considered impoverished aristocracy in the previous generation and had to work as a maid to make a living because of her family's decline.
He controlled the power of the "Witch of Pain" and suddenly opened the "Aura of Pain" forward!
In Klein's spiritual intuition, what appeared before him was a huge creature with great malice!
Although Klein's perspective was now on the body of the secret doll Trey, his real body was still hidden on the ground, and the vision of his real body's "Spirit Line" was still in the field of vision of the secret doll.
In addition, "Fortune Teller" is one of the strongest channels of spiritual intuition, which allows Klein to quickly identify individuals who have malicious intentions towards him.
Although this huge creature had hidden its breath quite well, in Klein's eyes, the place where it was hiding was still quite obvious.
Is it a spider? Klein saw a little red light that looked like a burning flame appear in front of him. The next moment, Klein saw a huge silhouette.
The spider was completely black, as if it had been burned by fire. On its body were eight eyes that shone like flames, and now they were all staring at the secret puppet, Trey, in front of them.
The next moment, the spider's legs quickly spread out and pounced towards the secret doll Terry.
Soon, a spider leg burning with flames appeared in front of Klein. Klein smiled and jumped back swiftly, avoiding the attack of the spider leg.
A monster equivalent to Sequence 7... Well, a little stronger than Sequence 7, but not very strong! Klein thought calmly in his heart while controlling the body of the secret puppet Trey to deal with the spider.
While controlling this secret puppet to fight, Klein gradually regained some of the feelings he had when he was sitting in front of the screen and controlling the undead or hunters to defeat powerful enemies.
Of course, if the hunter encounters a powerful enemy that is difficult to defeat in the game, then the spider monster encountered by the secret doll Trey is like an ordinary monster blocking the road, and poses no threat to the secret doll at all.
After testing the witch's abilities, Klein took two steps back and used the abilities of his "Assassin" stage to gather all his strength. With the help of his "Spirit Line Vision", he accurately avoided the spider's attack and sent the blade made of hair in his hand into the spider's eyes.
After unleashing an attack that gathered all its strength, the spider trembled violently, staggered and fell backwards. Klein withdrew his hand and clenched his fist with a little excitement.
The feeling of playing an assassin is indeed a rather novel experience... Well, if I had not had the diary written by Huang Tao to remind me when I traveled to this world, and had not had the opportunity to join the Nighthawks, and could only collect potions by myself, I might have really chosen the more popular "Assassin" potion...
Why? Because "Assassin" is a cool name!
Thinking about the transformation of the "Assassin" into a "Witch" at Sequence 7, Klein couldn't help but shudder.
As Klein thought about this, he waited for the spider monster's extraordinary characteristics to slowly emerge.
A moment later, a sphere that looked like a compound eye appeared in front of Klein. There were red cracks on the surface of the sphere, like cracked magma.
Klein raised his hand and took out a stone box from his pocket, then carefully put the contents into the box.
To be cautious, Klein simply sealed it with the Spiritual Wall and put it into the pocket inside his black robe. He did not take out the pendulum for divination on the spot.
However, Klein speculated that this should be the extraordinary main material of a certain path, and it was even almost equivalent to a complete extraordinary characteristic.
"There are indeed traces of mysterious power here... Could this be the material for the 'Hunter' path potion? This spider monster has the ability to control fire..." Klein thought of this possibility, and after a little thought, he looked at the wall in front of him and continued to walk forward.
According to his spiritual intuition, Klein did not feel that there was much danger ahead, so he patiently continued to move forward.
After possessing some of the characteristics of mythical creatures, Klein is closer to a god than a human. His need for sleep has decreased a lot. In this case, Klein is not worried that tonight's exploration will cause him to be sleep deprived.
As he continued to move deeper into the sewer, Klein once again controlled his secret puppet, Trey, to kill several black spiders that looked almost the same as before. The only difference between them was a slight difference in strength.
However, the number of encounters caused Klein's brows to gradually frown.
Regardless of which path these spiders belonged to, the fact that so many spiders were gathered here, whether they were artificially released or gathered naturally, meant that there were high-sequence items or Beyonders related to a certain path in Backlund's underground.
This is very wrong!
After realizing this, Klein was very cautious and did not continue to explore. He controlled his secret puppet to retreat to the rear, preparing to explore again later.
He needed to seek help from several high-level extraordinary people he knew before he could figure out what these things were and make corresponding plans accordingly.
It is not easy to obtain this Sequence 5 secret doll. Klein does not want to completely destroy his secret doll just a few days after obtaining it. God knows what the extraordinary traces that appear here will be, and in what inexplicable ways they will affect him.
Even though Klein has become a demigod now, he does not think that he has enough strength in the extraordinary world to allow him to act recklessly without caring about the dangers here.
In any case, let my secret puppet leave here first, and then go to the gray fog to perform divination on the extraordinary characteristics left by these spiders, find out which path the extraordinary traces that appear here belong to, and then further investigate the problem.
Klein controlled his puppet and thought to himself:
If I remember correctly, many shelters were built underground before the destruction of old Backlund, and some places in the new plan may also be connected to these excavated shelters...
In other words, it is possible that the sewers are connected to facilities that I am not familiar with and that may have been abandoned. In this case, things inside are much more complicated than I imagined.
This exploration was not completely fruitless. On the contrary, it was a great gain for Klein.
Judging from the strength of the sources of these extraordinary characteristics, they are at least Sequence 7, and can even serve as the main ingredients for Sequence 6 potions.
...After I figure out the sources of these extraordinary characteristics, I will see if I can give them to the church in exchange for a batch of contributions, and use them to exchange for the materials I need or directly exchange them for money.
Dawn, a rich man, is living a life of burning money all the time...
Klein retreated as he thought about it. When he left the sewer, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but through the perspective of the secret doll he caught a glimpse of a crow taking off.
Klein was startled when he keenly noticed the abrupt white circle on the crow's eyes.
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