Above the gray mist, Crane was at the head of the bronze long table, and in front of him was a notebook made of hard paper, completely dyed black, with an ancient and distant note.

Klein is all too familiar with this notebook!

"Notes from the Antigonus Family."

Klein muttered under his breath, his gaze a little complicated.

It all started with this notebook.

'Crane Moretti' died because of this notebook, so he was able to resurrect in Crane Moretti's body. And it was through his connection with this notebook that he was able to join the Night Watch and become an extraordinary, a soothsayer.

And this notebook itself is also part of Ince Zangwill's conspiracy.

It all started with this notebook, and the moment he stepped into the extraordinary world, it was already destined for an indissoluble bond between him and this notebook.

Klein took a deep breath and resolutely opened the notebook:

"Let me see where your limits are!"

He knew that Antigonus's family notes contained the recipe for potions for the 'soothsayer' path, but he didn't know where the sequence was highest.

If it's only Sequence 5, then this note doesn't mean anything to him.

Luckily, judging by the results of the divination, the potion recipe recorded in this notebook was at least as far as sequence 4.

Crane now only wants it to be able to record Sequence 3 or even higher potion recipes, so he doesn't have to worry about potion recipes anymore.

"Sequence 4: Sorcerer.

"Main Material: The Eye of the Sorcering Monster, the True Soul of the Spirit Marauder.

"Auxiliary materials: 200 milliliters of blood from tricky monsters, 30 grams of dust from spiritual marauders, 10 grams of birch bark, a golden vine, and a homemade rubber mask the size of a finger.

"Promotion Ceremony: Relying mainly on his own strength and planning, in front of a large audience, directs a grand play to murder a demigod or equivalent transcendent being, and then, in the closing part of the play, administers a potion."

Hardly any obstacles, Crane successfully obtained the potion recipe for Sequence 4.

But at the same time, there was something else pouring into his mind!

Klein felt his head swell, a tendency to be torn apart, and there were countless ghosts in everything, and there was an ethereal whisper in his ears from something else:

"Hornachis...... Fregra ...... Hornachis ...... Fregra ...... Hornachis ...... Fregra......"

The gray sky and earth cracked, and he saw a towering mountain.

At the top of the mountain, there is a collapsed and decaying palace, the walls are overgrown with weeds and moss, and obvious holes have appeared.

In the halls of the palace, at the top of the hall is a huge seat carved out of stone, which is inlaid with dull gold and precious stones, mottled and damaged.

It's not like a seat for humans, where countless transparent maggots are huddled together, densely intertwined, slowly wriggling, and constantly growing.

And the whisper resounded around the seat.

The sound seems to come through a long time and history, illusory, ethereal, and reverberating endlessly:

"Hornachis...... Fregra ...... Treasure...... Fool ......"

Klein's forehead tingled, and his heart was quickly filled with the urge to vent, to destroy.

Although he is already a faceling, his self-control ability is far from what he was at the beginning. But the negative emotions brought about by this whispering are far stronger than at the beginning!

"Treasure!"

Crane gritted his teeth and shouted two words, and at this moment he felt like a grunt with the One Ring, greedy and ugly.

And these are the emotions that the notes instilled in him!

Syllable!

Crane endured his discomfort and closed the note.

Almost instantaneously, he was sure that the notebook had lost its value, that the potion recipes contained contained were only up to Sequence 4, and that it would do him no good to watch them again.

The subsequent potion recipes are hidden in the 'treasure' recorded in the notes, and the only way to obtain the potion recipes of Sequence 3 or higher is to find the so-called treasure.

And if you want to get the treasure, you must go to the main peak of the Honakis Mountains and visit the 'Night Country' at the top!

"Your destiny is on the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains."

Klein was reminded of the prophetic words of the 'Queen of Mysteries' Bernadette.

He had been a little skeptical about the so-called language, but now he was completely sure—

The Antigonus family's notes only end in Sequence 4, and judging by the current level of loneliness of the Esoteric Order, most of them do not have the potion recipe of Sequence 4.

It's not surprising that any of the forces have the same attitude towards high-order potion recipes.

That is, only the finished potion is provided, and the recipe of the potion is completely secret.

There may still be a small number of sophists in the Esoteric Society, but they certainly don't have the potion recipe corresponding to the 'sophisticer' in their hands, and the higher-order potion recipes are not even considered.

The only two who could potentially master the recipe of a higher-order potion were only two people—

The transparent worm on the throne of the Night King, on the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains.

and the head of the Tantric Order, Zarathu.

But Zarathu was already crazy because he was out of control, and he was probably in a state similar to that transparent worm.

Many members of the Esoteric Order were killed by the mad Zarathu, and looking for him was no different from looking for death.

But in the same way, going to the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains is also looking for death, and that mass of transparent worms does not look like a friendly existence.

"Let's take it one step at a time."

Klein rubbed his temples, it was useless to think about it so much.

It's better to be honestly promoted to Sequence 4 first-

Still.

Crane's eyes moved slightly, and under the potion formula, the corresponding sentence was written.

Then, he summoned a pendulum from the pile of debris, held it in his left hand, and began divination.

It didn't take long for Klein to open his eyes and see the citrine pendant turning clockwise.

This means that the recipe for this "trickster" potion in his hand is correct!

Call...... Klein exhaled, just fine.

The notes of the Antigonus family uneased him, and although everything seemed normal, he always felt that there was a hole in it.

For example, that so-called treasure is definitely a big pit!

Klein thought for a moment, took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, there were ten minutes left until three o'clock in the afternoon.

——

Somewhere in the Sunia Sea, the Future sailed through the rough sea. Gardelia stood by the window, looking out at the expanse of the landscape. On the foredeck, Nina's angry voice could be heard from time to time, and she was angrily scolding Frank Lee for making a bunch of beef-flavored mushrooms that multiply very fast and love to eat fish.

Today is the day of the Tarot meeting again, and last week's conversation with the 'mysterious queen' Bernadette made Gardelia's mood a little complicated. Both pleasantly surprised and somewhat disappointed.

At this moment, her inspiration suddenly struck, and she looked down at the desk, only to see that there were a few more yellowed papers there.

"The Emperor's Diary...... She's finally sent a messenger over......"

Cordelia turned around happily and picked up the small amount of paper, which was more like an early temptation.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, she had forcibly memorized the symbols and saw an illusory crimson glow drown herself in a tidal wave.

Under the towering dome supported by stone pillars, Gardelia the 'Hermit' saw similar crimson light rise up and turn into a blurred figure.

She didn't look closely, and found that the familiar pair of glasses on the bridge of her nose had naturally appeared, which seemed to be a perfect replica of the outside world.

Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Miss 'Justice' get up gracefully, and greet the top of the bronze table in a brisk tone:

"Good afternoon, Mr. 'Fool'~"

Crane seemed to be infected, and nodded with a smile, which was considered a response.

When Miss 'Justice's greeting was over, the "Hermit" Gadelia looked at the top of the bronze table and said:

"Dear Mr. 'Fool', I have collected five pages of Russell's diary."

Here it comes...... Klein's heart moved, and he said calmly and naturally:

"Very well, you can think of a request."

"Yes, Mr. Fool."

Gadelia replied without finding the slightest fault, and then asked for the contents of the diary to be revealed.

Seeing her behave like this, and thinking about her in her dreams, Klein was quite gratified, just like the homeroom teacher successfully made a student well-behaved and sensible.

Crane didn't have to wait long for the three-page diary to materialize and reach him.

"February 9, today is Bonova's birthday, he is already a healthy, strong, honest, kind young man, he is so devout that he is valued by the church."

“……”

“…… Lovely angel, hehe, really lovely angel.

"Is that what you're guarding against me?

"Is this how you're trying to control me?

"No, you probably can't understand the pride in my heart, and what about the gods in my opinion? I can take my place! ”

"Brother Emperor can be the Ohm Messiah, but I can't be the Lord of Steam?"

“……”

Looking at the diary submitted by the 'hermit', Klein secretly said in his heart.

He had wondered why Russell the Great's diary had not become a demigod queen's account?

It can't be because Russell didn't become a demigod.

At that time, he was already the consul of the Republic of Indis, and later forcibly turned the republic into an empire and became emperor himself. If you want to do all this, it is impossible to crush without absolute strength.

At that time, Russell the Great was at least an angel.

So why isn't there a diary about this part of the diary?

Ruling out the possibility that Russell the Great did not keep a diary, the only option left is that someone hid the diary.

And the person who hid these diaries now has the answer, and it is Bernadette.

She collected the diaries, but she couldn't read the words in which they were written, and she couldn't understand the meaning.

In addition, he also read between the lines of the first two diaries the depression and resentment of Russell the Great, and used the reading comprehension skills he had exercised in his previous life to taste some information hidden under the content:

After becoming an angel, the Emperor seems to be restrained and guarded against by the Church of Steam, and the 'God of Steam and Machines' exerts a certain influence on his youngest son, Bonova, making him the most devout believer who can enter the 'perfect place' and become an angel in the future.

However, this not only did not make Russell the Great give in and scruples, but provoked him to fight and want to replace him.

For this reason, the Emperor, who was already an angel on the path of the 'Perfect' at that time, chose to turn to the path of the 'Voyeur'. Because he judged that the 'Hidden Sage' was the product of the unique activation of the 'Voyeur' pathway, which means that the sequence 0 of this path was still in an empty state.

But judging from the records of the third diary, the emperor has suffered a greater change -

The third page of the diary has no date and is widely spaced.

Because it is the original, it is also obvious that the weight of the pen is extraordinary!

Klein glanced at him, and the contents of the yellowed paper came to mind:

"Nope! No way!

"How so!

"If my guess is correct, I should be the only one who has suffered that kind of thing in the first place!

"Nope! No! How so!

"What I see is telling me that everything is going to be destroyed, and so is everything I have created! No! I don't accept such an ending!

"We must work hard to save ourselves and stop placing our fantasies on the Seven Gods!

"Only by ascending to the throne of sequence 0 can I save myself and those I value!"

"Am I trying to pull Mr. 'Door' back into the real world? No! Although He claims to have only Sequence 1, I don't think He is any ordinary Sequence 1! It's likely to bring me an unexpected disaster! ”

"Rakad! Right! Rackard! I can also get Rackard for help! ”

"No! Can't find Rackard! He also comes from ...... Outside of heaven, He's in league with those things! ”

"I'm on my own!"

The kanji, which was much larger than the previous two pages, occupied the yellowed paper in a sparse and messy manner, and there was not much actual content, but Klein's head throbbed for a while.

"What did the emperor see that made him so emotionally intense and his attitude a lot more extreme?

"No, the sense of agitation and impulsiveness between the lines is a bit abnormal, not in line with the image of a person who has been in a high position for a long time, and even less in the person of an angel. At that time, the Great Emperor was probably already the 'Emperor of Knowledge' of Sequence 1, what could make an Angel of Sequence 1 so out of control?

"Even in the last days, when the emperor said what would be the flood after my death, he did not lose his temper and be so excited.

"Who influenced him? Or is it polluted or eroded by something? ”

"This pollution comes from 'out of the sky', so he doesn't trust Mr. 'Gate' and he doesn't trust 'Laycard'."

"For one of them is outside heaven, and the other is out of heaven."

"But the Emperor still instinctively thought of them, which shows that before this, they were trustworthy in the Emperor's heart."

"At least when the Emperor was in charge of Intis, they were of great help."

"Correspondingly, the Emperor didn't mention the Steam Church and Zarathu, which also proves that they are not credible."

"But although Mr. 'Gate' and 'Lacard' are credible, they are both related to 'Outside the Sky'."

"And just this little relationship is enough to make the Great Emperor give up asking for help from these two beings who once trusted incomparably."

"That's why the Emperor is so desperate, hysterical!"

"What's out there? What did he really see? ”

Countless questions swirled in Crane's mind, and he finally forcibly suppressed the doubts and looked at the fourth page of the diary—

Like the third page, the fourth page is extremely brief and undated.

Only this time the font is no longer as heavy as before:

"The God of Knowledge and Wisdom, I didn't expect it to be Him!"

"He is willing to cooperate with me, at least to help in any way he can."

"That's probably the only thing to be thankful for, though that kind of help seems better than nothing."

"But anyway, it's better than nothing, right?"

(End of chapter)