Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Aftermath of the War Front (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

"Don't save me...... Don't save me......"

Crane, who was in the "Source Castle" and contained the "Fool" card, already had the status of the King of Angels, and would no longer be directly polluted by Mr. "Gate's screams", but the content of those words made his scalp slightly numb, his pupils dilated, and it was difficult to contain the sudden panic in his heart.

He originally thought that Mr. "Door" had been calling for help, but now what he heard was:

"Don't save me!"

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In Klein's silence, the faint but faint voice like a steel needle piercing a spirit shouted for more than ten seconds, and suddenly changed:

"Help me...... Help me ......"

This time, the language used has also changed to a certain extent.

...... Crane leaned back in his chair expressionlessly and listened for nearly ten seconds.

Then, he lifted the maintenance of the historical pore images of the "Master Key" and the "Crimson Mooncrown", and completely returned the space above the gray fog to calm.

Call...... He exhaled, his fingers habitually tapping the edge of the long mottled table, and muttered to himself silently:

"Mr. 'Gate' is indeed half-crazy, but the crazy part is not that of him when he screams hard, but of him who seems to be calm and can communicate with people reasonably...... Can the latter influence the former in some way, distorting the content of His cries?

"When he was sober, Mr. 'Gate' actually shouted 'Don't save me'...... This is definitely not a normal reaction for an angelic king who has been banished and sealed away for more than a thousand years, unless he thinks that returning to reality will bring disaster that he himself does not want to see...... A king of angels who is completely out of control?

"Combined with the fact that Mr. 'Gate' has been inducing him to go to the moon occupied by the outer gods when he communicates with the Emperor, there are other possibilities for this matter:

"The banished Mr. 'Gate' has not been protected by the barrier left by the original creator, and has been eroded by one or even several outer gods, and has lost most of his sanity, and is only in a slightly better state than the 'bound god'......

"The 'Apprentice' path allows you to roam the starry sky in Sequence 3, and Mr. 'Gate' also has the title of 'Leader of the Endless Starry Sky' in his honorific name...... Does this mean that the king of angels may have been in contact with the outer gods and had been influenced to a certain extent before he was banished?

"Well, what does Miss 'Magician's last sight of the crimson earth, the pyramid-like buildings, and the starry sky in different positions) represent? This is not like the mausoleum that the 'Black Emperor' needs in the current galaxy...... One of the anchors of one of the outer gods who influenced Mr. 'Gate', or the legend that Mr. 'Gate' left behind on other planets with living creatures when he became 'Traveling Mage......'?

The more Klein thought about it, the heavier his heart became, because this might be a true manifestation of the coming of the end in some way.

The end is definitely not not not to think about it, pretend not to know, it will not happen!

It is no wonder that "Yellow Light" Venetam prophesied that the day the curse was lifted was the beginning of the real disaster for Abrahams...... and Mr. "Gate" kept calling for help, resulting in the Abraham family not being able to produce another demigod, perhaps in some sense of protection...... While this would have made the Abrahams lose their status and most of their precious things, becoming mediocre, at least the bloodline would be preserved...... Hehe, in that prophecy, the solution to the curse was in the hands of an "apprentice" who had been helped by a hidden being...... Klein chuckled and had an idea of how to respond to Miss "The Magician".

He intended for "Magician" Furth to tell her teacher only part of the truth:

The first is to emphasize that Mr. "Men" is half-insane and very dangerous, and even if you talk to Him, there is a great risk, and the second is not to mention the second curse-lifting ritual that is easier to achieve, but only the one that sacrifices one demigod each of the "soothsayers", "thieves", and "apprentices".

With the first point, Abraham could understand why the patriarchs persisted in crying out for help because He had lost his mind and could do anything terrible.

This would have effectively eliminated the Abrahams' heart sickness, prevented them from helping Mr. "Gate" out of trouble, and allowed them to begin to believe in "fools" more and faster.

The second is to dispel the luck of a small number of extreme Abrahams, because they are not capable of performing such a ritual.

At the same time, the informing ritual itself strengthens the Abrahams' trust in the "magician" Forth.

"Not to mention the question of how many 'secret mages' there are, the demigods who can become 'secret mages' must be more difficult to catch one by one, and most of them are concentrated in the secret order, dealing with them is to provoke Zarathu, even if the Abraham family itself still has demigods, they can use the '0' level seal in a short time, and they can't complete the preparation of the ceremony so easily, well, it is the most dangerous to deal with the 'parasite', and if you are not careful, you will target Amon's clone, and when the time comes, it will be equivalent to sending Amon desserts......

"Also, after that, in the tone of 'World' Gelman Sparrow, remind Miss 'Magician' to beware of the extremists of the Abrahamic family......" Klein thought for a moment and began to respond to the prayer of "Magician" Forthth.

............

After returning to the real world from the fog of history, Crane boarded a steam train and arrived at Conston City, the capital of Makai County, once the second largest city in Rune and the front line of the war.

“...... The damage was severe......" After getting off the train and off the platform, Crane stood on a high place and looked out at the purely industrial city.

Although he was here for the first time, he had seen various photographs of Constance in the past from newspapers and magazines.

The photographs are all in black and white and document every aspect of the city.

Among them, there are three points that impressed Klein the most:

First, there are chimneys and blast furnaces, as if a forest has been artificially created, which is very visually striking, and represents industry more than Beckland;

second, the extensive use of concrete and steel bars in the building, which was higher, larger and denser than its counterparts in Beckland;

Third, many places are contaminated with coal ash, including human bodies, but the air quality is better than that of Beckland because of the strong sea winds.

Now, the towering blast furnaces, chimneys, and tall buildings have become quite sparse, and all that remains is a pile of ruins.

However, relatively speaking, the factory area suffered less damage than the residential area, as many of the steel mills and arsenals were equally important to the Vrsacks.

"The death toll here is definitely in the hundreds of thousands......" Crane sighed to himself, carrying his suitcase, and walked down the stairs down the steam train station to truly enter Conston City.

On the way to the hotel, he continued his role as a "miracle master", randomly selecting a man in his early thirties.

"I'm a wandering magician, and what I'm best at is satisfying everyone's wishes, would you like to give it a try?"

The strong man glanced at him, waved his hand impatiently, and said:

"Can you bring my father, mother, two brothers, and a child back to life?"

With that, without waiting for the magician on the other side to respond, he walked to the nearest public carriage stop with a little irritability, and struck his left chest with his right fist.

Crane stood still, smiling slightly upturned, quietly watching the man leave.

He remembered a magazine he had seen on the steam train, with several pages of photographs showing the current state of the cemeteries in Conston City.

The tombstones are like the chimneys and blast furnaces that were originally lined up, and the shelves where the ashes are placed are like tall buildings that have not collapsed......

The entire city of Constance seems to be buried in the cemetery.

Rescuing his smile, Crane walked around the fountain in front of him, which had long since dried up, and walked to the hotel not far away.

On the way, he heard a number of passers-by discussing where the neighborhood was haunted and where terrible monsters had appeared:

"When I was passing by the Maris River, I heard a lot of people crying in the water, and I didn't dare to look at it, and I ran back into the city like the wind......"

"What is this, I saw something even more terrible at 9 Hyacinth Street! There is a face on the window! a very pale face!"

"Behind my house, several passers-by went missing, and the blood trail dragged all the way to the nearest rubble, but the police did not find the body......"

"It's terrible, may the goddess bless us!"

"Storm above, keep these ghosts and monsters away from us. ”

"By the way, the city hall posted a notice saying that it had found something similar and immediately reported it to the police station. ”

It seems that the previous meat grinder-style war made many corpses too late to be requiemed and turned into ghosts, whew, many times, some of the deceased may not have corpses that can be kept...... Well, there must be no shortage of extraordinary people who have suffered mental breakdowns or physical disabilities...... Also, the vast majority of those who don't follow the normal process of taking potions are out of control...... "Night Watchers" and "Punishers" will definitely clean up these events gradually, but at least in Conston City, people may have to live with otherworldly events for a long time, after all, some ghosts and monsters are good at hiding and dodging, and they are instinctively cunning...... As he walked without squinting, Klein gained a new grasp of Conston as a whole.

Here, encountering extraordinary events is no longer a coincidence, but a daily routine with a certain probability.

At this moment, Klein saw a group of "night watchmen" wearing red gloves and black trench coats walking past the intersection ahead, but he didn't know any of them.

Sure enough, the Church of Tranquility sent a more mobile "Red Glove" team to help...... Uh, what's wrong around there? Crane nodded imperceptibly, following his spiritual instincts, and set his gaze on some apartment-like building behind a pile of ruins.

There, on the fourth floor, behind a bay belly window, a highly decayed face was staring out against the glass, drops of yellowish and black liquid sliding down the window.