Mystery: emerging from the wilderness of knowledge

Chapter 677: Fugen's Dog
Leonard originally thought that Pales would skip over or evade his question, but he did not expect that the other party would actually tell him the "wrong" deification ceremony.

After a brief moment of shock, he asked doubtfully:
"Replacing someone else's godhood ceremony? It's weird and evil just to think about it. And how can it be simple?"

Pales groaned, and said with a sigh and a gloating tone:

"There is no need to start a war that sweeps the entire world, nor is there any need to challenge a true god with a body that is not a god, and there is no need to fool time or fate. All you need to do is wait for someone who can challenge the throne of God to appear. Isn't that simple?"

"In a sense, this ritual of just waiting for the right moment is the simplest, but sometimes it is also the hardest because it is so uncontrollable."

“Look at that little Zaratul of the Secret Order. He spent hundreds of years preparing for his advancement to Sequence One. After he finally succeeded, he was easily sealed away by the Dark Night. After he got rid of its influence, he is now being used by the Dark Night as a tool to restrict Amon.”

"If you don't become a Sequence 0 true god, even if you are a Sequence angel, you will often become a pawn of the gods, helplessly being toyed with and calculated."

When talking about these things, the old man became more talkative. Leonard sighed in his heart and asked doubtfully:

"Haven't you been avoiding Amon? How do you know so much?"

Pales snorted coldly and said in a calm tone:
"With my knowledge and experience, as long as I have some key information, it is easy for me to make associations and inferences."

"Have you forgotten the sequence 'Cryptologist' mentioned by the little guy from the Jacob family so quickly? Restoring the truth of things from clues and foreseeing the development of things are the basic qualities of every high-sequence 'thief'."

After two seconds of silence, Pales suddenly exclaimed:

"Sometimes, even I have to admire the wisdom and courage of 'Night'. Even though it is not convenient for him to intervene in the real situation, he still dared to make so many arrangements and attract so many people to Backlund."

"I wonder how many arrangements and plots this 'Mother of Secrets' has made in secret, and how many secret agreements she has reached with others."

"What do you mean? What do you mean it's inconvenient to interfere in real life?" Leonard asked anxiously with some confusion.

Pales' tone suddenly became quite leisurely.
"You should pray to your goddess or the Fool for the answer, instead of asking a helpless old man like me."

After a pause, he continued, "But this may not be a bad thing for your goddess."

Deep in the spiritual world, close to where the gray-white mist was flowing, several figures were silently outlined.

Klein looked around and then his eyes fell on the gray fog in front of him. His intuition told him that this fog was the same as the one above the gray fog. They were the same thing. I wonder what this fog is?
"You will know the answer after you are promoted to 'Ancient Scholar'."

Renekton whispered to himself beside Klein. Facing his puzzled look, he smiled softly:

"It's easy for me to guess what's going on in your mind. This is an instinct that comes with being promoted to a 'sage'. With a large amount of knowledge and information, you can't help but build models in your mind for the people and things you know, and deduce all kinds of possible developments."

"You can understand that after being promoted to Sage, the Beyonders of this path become a humanoid, high-precision, high-intensity computer, calculating and deducing all kinds of information and knowledge all the time."

Klein nodded and did not continue the topic. He moved his body forward a distance, closer to the quietly flowing gray-white mist. He took out an iron-black square metal box from his coat pocket, removed the spiritual wall on it, and opened it.

A mysterious and strange aura emanated from it.

After a while, the quietly flowing gray fog in front began to move. A canine creature covered with short black hair, with dark red flames burning in its eye sockets and the corners of its mouth extending to the back of its head stood out from it.

Its body gives people a sense of unreality, yet it seems to belong to a real thing, which is extremely inconsistent.

Azik looked at the creature emerging from the gray fog and said in a very calm tone:
"It's the Hound of Fulgrim. Even in the Fourth Epoch when the gods walked the earth, they rarely appeared in the human field of vision. Even if they did appear, except for some special sequences, few extraordinary people could successfully capture them." Under the gaze of Renekton and others, this Hound of Fulgrim approached without any vigilance.

It circled around Klein a few times, sniffed him, glanced at the fluffy heart of the Mist Wolf placed in the open metal box, and then turned and left.

Left? I haven't made a trade request yet. Klein looked at Fulgrim's Hound in confusion as it disappeared into the gray fog, his head full of question marks.

He turned to look at Renekton behind him, as if to say, "That's not what you said before!"

About half a minute later, the quietly flowing gray fog changed again, and two Fulgrim dogs ran out of the gray fog, each of them missing an eye burning with dark red flames.

It understood my needs without me even saying anything. Isn't that so thoughtful? I wish all creatures on this path were so sensible.

After sighing in his heart, Klein took the eyes handed over by the two Mist Wolfs, and then handed over the Mist Wolf's fluffy heart in the iron box, saying:
"This is your reward, but there is only one. You can distribute it freely and decide who will become the 'Ancient Scholar' of Sequence Three."

The two one-eyed Fulgrim dogs looked at each other, their eyes burning with dark red flames revealing human-like excitement. They circled around Klein twice to please him, nudged the corner of his clothes with their heads, and even licked his hand.

Apart from its appearance, it really looks like the puppy I once raised. With a sigh in his heart, Klein handed the Mist Wolf's fluffy heart to one of the Fulgrim dogs and waved at them, indicating that they could leave.

The two Fulgrim dogs, each missing an eye, rushed back into the gray fog quickly with the volatile heart of the Mist Wolf.

After their figures completely disappeared, Klein said hesitantly:

"Will they fight for the Flocculent Heart of the Mist Wolf, or will they clash with other Folgen dogs?"

Renekton said thoughtfully:

"Normally, they would, but they are tainted with your scent, and the other Fulgrim dogs will most likely acquiesce to this."

Klein nodded, no longer questioning. He put the pair of eyes contributed by Fulgrim's dog into the iron box and sighed with relief:

"I only need one more drop of the 'Trickster' potion to start advancing to Sequence 3."
Renekton smiled and said:

"You can find someone who is very familiar with Amon and has a bad relationship with him, and wear a monocle in front of him or Him. Of course, don't really wear it, otherwise you will really become Amon."

I feel like you are implying Pales Zoroast. How dare you tease the grandfather in Leonard like this? My secret doll will definitely fail. Klein rolled his eyes in his heart. If Mr. Azik hadn't been beside him, he would have already complained loudly.

Backlund, after getting the eye of Fulgrim's dog, Klein returned to the metropolis again. He did not return to his residence immediately, but first came to where Leonard lived.

Looking up at the gray sky, he let out a long breath and whispered to the air beside him:
"Give me some secrets, and if Pales really gets angry, help me stop him."

"Oh, I thought you would firmly refuse. Poor old grandfather, always being remembered and persecuted."

Renekton's voice echoed in the air. He did not come to Backlund in person, but used secret techniques to separate part of his own information to form a temporary clone, which attached itself to Klein's body and provided the necessary protection according to his request.

This was a request Klein made temporarily after he learned that Pales had obtained a copy of the "Trojan Horse of Fate" and that his status had stabilized at Sequence 2.

(End of this chapter)