Chapter 2 "Miracle Master" (Monday Recommendation Ticket Monthly Pass)
As soon as the bottle of "Miracle Master" potion entered Crane's stomach pouch, it immediately differentiated into countless cold "worms", swimming towards every part of his body.
Suddenly, Crane's spirit was torn apart, turning into countless small pieces, combining with different "spirit worms", and there was no longer a distinction between who was the main body and who was the dominant one.
At some point, he entered the gray mist, and his body under the half-height silk top hat and long black trench coat quickly disintegrated, crawling out one transparent and twisted worm after another.
These worms quickly flew towards the depths of the fog of history, each occupying a different "fragment of light", overlapping with their own image in the pores of history.
In just two or three seconds, all that was left of Klein's place was a half-floating trench coat, shirt, top hat, socks, leather shoes, and underwear that had lost all their support.
"I ......"
"Who am I......"
"Who's ...... me?"
"I am the main ......"
......
The "spirit worms" flashed different but similar thoughts, none of them were willing to take the initiative to return to the "body", but had a strong hostility towards other kinds, just because of the residual spiritual influence of Crane, they did not make radical moves for the time being.
At this moment, circles of invisible ripples appeared in the gray mist.
The ripple didn't happen to emerge, it had existed in the fog for a long time, but it was faintly visible to Crane as a whole, but it was obvious enough for a "spirit worm".
It comes from a history recreated in the current era, symbolizing the end of the Second Age and part of the fragment of light in the Third Age, symbolizing the more than two thousand years that Silver City held out in the darkness.
This forgotten history has collided with the current era, and in the formation of corresponding historical pores, it has opened up one circle after another ripples that are difficult to describe concretely.
Such ripples seem to have a strong attraction to the "spirit insects", making them poke their heads out of the fragments of history.
After a short period of solidification, one of the "Spirit Worms" was half impatient, half affected by Klein's residual consciousness, crawled out of the spot of light it had occupied before, and "flew" to the core of the ripples.
Immediately afterward, one after another "Spirit Worms" returned from different places in the fog of history, and came to the fragments of light formed by the history of Silver City in the current era.
When they got close to each other at a certain distance, the strong cohesive force finally came to the fore, pulling countless "spirit insects" together and blending them into one.
This is not an effect that can be produced by the proximity of two or three "spirit worms", there must be enough of them to appear.
And when that part of the "spirit worm" reformed into a whole, Klein's fragmented consciousness completed the patchwork of the ego, and things finally changed in a simple direction.
The "spirit insects" formed a transparent and huge vortex, which exuded a strong cohesive force, sucking the remaining "spirit insects" that were hesitant and unwilling to return, and were not far away.
By the time the Spirit Worm had returned more than two-thirds of the way, slippery and transparent tentacles had grown into the whirlpool.
They stretched out into the Second Age, the First Age, and even the old cities of the prehistoric era, catching the last part of the "Spirit Worm" one by one and stuffing them back into the whirlpool.
In more than ten seconds, the whirlpool began to stretch, turning into a terrifying figure formed by transparent twisted worms, and invisible tentacles naturally extended from the figure's body.
The tentacles pulled in items such as trench coats, top hats, socks, and leather shoes floating in the fog of history, and placed them in different locations of the terrifying figures.
The figure composed of countless "spirit insects" immediately pressed the top hat on his head, causing the transparency on his body to fade quickly, condensing a layer of flesh-colored skin, and growing short black hair and brown eyes.
This is what Klein Moretti looks like, but he is 1.8 meters tall.
Klein, who had finally regained his self-consciousness and pieced together a complete spiritual body, felt two abnormalities at the same time before he had time to examine his current state:
An extraordinary characteristic that came from the fusion of his body, a strong, terrifying, high-minded, irresistible thought seemed to awaken a little, and conveyed one picture after another, some of which were occult knowledge of the "miracle master", some of which were of dust ignited into the sun, and magnificent scenes of various stars, all of which carried the spiritual imprint of recklessness, indifference, cruelty, madness, condescension, and emotionlessness, rapidly assimilating Klein's spirit, making it difficult for him to change his state uncontrollably;
The other is the crimson stars and a large number of bright points of light that appear in front of Klein's eyes: the prayers of the Tarot members such as "Justice", "The Hanged Man", and "The Moon" are heard in those stars, and the prayers of the residents of Moon City are mainly echoed in the points of light, and together they create an image, shrouded in gray mist, looking at the world with pity, the image of the supreme and great hidden being.
The two anomalies reacted to Crane's body separately, covering the left side of his body in a gray mist, revealing only a slightly smiling, deep and far-reaching eye, causing his right body to disintegrate again, turning into a clump of transparent twisted worms and a bloodshot eye full of madness.
At this time, the right part continued to erode towards the left, and the gray mist was gradually compressed to the extreme.
Without hesitation, Crane raised his left hand with a slight difficulty, and summoned a white bone scepter with a blue-blue gem on the top from within the fog of history.
Around this "Poseidon Scepter", one prayer point after another was surrounded, and with the help of that medium, it was transmitted to Klein's body.
Lightning bolts jumped from Klein's right body, surrounded by invisible winds and illusory waves, which helped the gray mist resist the erosion of pollution on the left, and the whole was delicately balanced.
By this time, Crane had finally regained his humanity and memories little by little, and had initially recovered his pre-dose state.
He has finally been promoted to Sequence 2 and has an angelic personality, and is a true "miracle master".
Originally, "Source Castle" was about to be triggered by his changes, but as his thoughts turned, all the anomalies returned to calm.
This proves that he has truly mastered the "Source Fort" and has become the master of this "essentia", as for how much power this can exert in the real world, he is still unable to assess.
Call...... Fortunately, I am bringing the history of the Silver City representative back to reality, which is powerful enough, if the ritual effect is a little worse, I will collapse here out of control today...... Crane raised his hand and rubbed the corners of his forehead, exhaled slowly, and had a further understanding of the anchor:
The anchor is not a tool to help him maintain his humanity, but its main role is to form corresponding cognitions, orientations, and images, and to maintain a delicate balance against each other with the spiritual imprints within the extraordinary characteristics.
Under this balance, Klein's own humanity can barely be maintained, and it will not be seriously affected by either side.
In other words, there is a difference between the perceived deities and the actual deities, and if there is no spiritual imprint within the extraordinary characteristics to counter this influence, the image of the deity in their minds will gradually overshadow the true appearance of the deity.
Again, this is a pollution.
It was only at this time that Klein understood the reason why the gods had human statues in the first place, but later they all became holy emblems, which could prevent the believers from having a unified image cognition, and better play the role of the anchor on the initial residual spirit of the antigen, rather than subtly changing themselves.
As for why it took the gods a decade or two to figure this out, Klein quickly figured it out for two reasons:
The first is that he has the image of the righteous gods in the past and the present state to compare it, the diary of Russell the Great as a reference, and the corresponding occult knowledge to provide inspiration, and the second is that the mythical biological form of the "soothsayer" tends to be divided and is very sensitive to similar influences.
"This balance is not very stable, and it often deviates to a certain extent, which causes me to be unstable and frighten the people around me from time to time, but luckily this can be predicted in advance and can be effectively avoided...... Also, when you are in a delicate balance, try to show your human side as much as possible to strengthen your self-awareness in this area...... This seems to be the common choice of many angels, and the indulgent desires of the Rose School are also ......
However, how can Amun's followers maintain a balance?
"Could it be that the mythical creatures born with 'uniqueness' themselves have a primordial fusion of wills, and Amon has long been accustomed to a half-mad state, no, this is his normal state...... It is the image that every Amun voted for......
"This is a way of thinking, I can form a group of secret puppets, so that each puppet is a believer in the 'fool', and use my truest appearance as the image of the gods, which can effectively provide the best anchor...... It's no wonder that Zarathu and the Dark Demon Wolf don't have many followers...... Uh, when the residents of Silver City have converted to the 'Fool', you can consider separating the incarnation of the 'Sea God' and not using it as your own anchor, which is too contradictory to the perception of the rest of my believers, and cannot be truly unified......" Crane thought a lot in an instant, and then his thoughts turned and went directly back to the gray mist.
When he becomes a "miracle master", becomes Him, and becomes the master of the "Source Fort", he can easily return here without having to take four more backward steps, chant mantras, or have all the Tarot members pray.
However, it seems that the role of the "Source Castle" that can be played is not enough, and he can still only enter with the spirit body, and cannot bring the physical body with him.
After sitting in the position belonging to the "Fool", Crane did not rush to check the changes in the "Source Fort", but first confirmed his own improvement and digested the occult knowledge he had just gained:
"Well...... the extraordinary ability of the 'Miracle Master' comes from two aspects, one is the further exploitation of the fog of history, and the other is the newly added core ability of 'Wish'.
"Further exploitation of the fog of history includes several abilities:
"One, resurrect with the help of the past 'Spirit Worm', but it will be invalid after four times, I have used it three times so far, and the 'Miracle Master' stage can only be resurrected once, and when I am promoted to the 'Mysterious Attendant', there should be a corresponding promotion; The dice of probability are not comparable to Will', and third, what is summoned from the hole in history is no longer just an item, but can be some scene that is familiar to oneself.
"Well, the total number of items and scenes I can summon now is nine, but there are still only three at the angel level......
"'Wishes' are already standard divine powers, but it's a bit strange that only by satisfying the wishes of others can we satisfy our own desires, and only by realizing small wishes can we gradually realize big wishes......"
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