With the full level of enlightenment, you can rub the fruit of transcendence with your hands!

Chapter 604: What to do if you get caught just after starting your journey

On the roof, a visitor in a black cloak stood at the edge of the eaves, as if he would fall off with a breeze, but he stood firmly.

Hagen took a quick look and then curled up in the corner, which was a blind spot for the visitor but also blocked his sight at the same time.

He only saw that the man was wearing a strange half-face mask, which tightly wrapped the lower half of his face and chin, and the tight straps were almost tied to his ears, as if he was afraid that his chin would fall off.

The keen insight that the painter gave Hagen and his years of understanding of the human body structure made him realize something was wrong. Although the man tried to keep his muscles as tight as a bowstring, he could not hide his loose muscles, as if... as if he was a dead person!
Especially the pale and bloodless face made Hagen's heart sink. He was not ready to deal with other extraordinary people, at least he did not expect that they would come so soon.

Boom!
There was a slight sound of landing, followed by the sound of unhurried footsteps. Hagen held the spiritual scroll tightly. He did not have much strength, not enough for him to squander it, and perhaps it would have a miraculous effect if he caught the enemy by surprise.

"Friend, I don't know why you are here, but I am just a poor homeless man. You have found the wrong person," said Hagen.

A light laugh was heard and the footsteps stopped. The distance was just above Hagen's psychological defense line. If he got one step closer, he would no longer endure and would explode.

"No, I'm looking for you. You should be the transcendent who awakened during this full moon. I can smell the spiritual scent that has not yet subsided in you."

The voice came, a little low: "Just now it was just a test from me. I am very sorry if I scared you, but you are in danger now."

Hagen condensed a palm-sized spiritual mirror, which refracted a faint glow to capture a figure not far away. However, as soon as a blurry figure appeared on the mirror, the figure quickly dodged, but no longer moved forward, but shifted sideways.

"I'm sorry, the conditions for activating the abilities of a superhuman being are strange. Without reaching a certain cooperation intention, I cannot let you spy on me through that mirror that condenses spirituality." The man said.

Cooperation?

This was a signal of goodwill, but Hagen did not dare to relax: "Danger? Unknown friend, where is the danger? And what is the cooperation you mentioned?"

The man said, "Perhaps you don't understand that among supernatural phenomena such as evil spirits and anomalies, the death rate in major cities has gradually increased. However, the contribution of certain data does not only come from them, but also from human factors."

Hagen inexplicably thought of the tragedy that ended his happy life. The strange forced self-mutilation and the weird arrangement of the bodies seemed like a sacrifice to the evil god.

"You mean, there are still people imitating the Anomaly and killing people?" The man nodded, and realizing that Hagen couldn't see, he said, "It's more accurate to say sacrifice. If you understand human nature well enough, you will understand how absurd this world is. In addition to depravity and indulgence, this soil is also fertile ground for the growth of various beliefs."

"The followers of the Mechanicus, the orcs, the immortality of consciousness, the electronic soul, and all kinds of doomsday theories. Originally, the chaos of this world was only in the mind, and faith had nowhere to rely on, like a grass without roots. But now it is different. The appearance of evil spirits and anomalies has brought the extraordinary, and those stupid souls can offer their faith to the unconscious dead things, go crazy for them, and die for them. When they receive the real extraordinary things, the passion bursting out is enough to make them crazy."

"There is a group of people, or rather, cultists who worship evil spirits and anomalies. They preach death, sing praises of destruction, and firmly believe that anomalies will bring an end to the world where everything will return to unity, and everything will fall into eternal sleep."

The visitor sang in a cadence like an aria: "They are committed to bringing chaos and destruction to everyone. The way they think of is to perform sacrifices through various unorthodox rituals in order to please the unknown existence they believe in."

"So a considerable number of the tragic cases posted online are imitations of this group of cultists. When the first extraordinary person appeared among them, things got out of control. Their leaders discovered through research that endless pain and impending death can give people great power, and strong emotional fluctuations can also give rise to new extraordinary people. I think you should understand this."

Not only did he know that Hagen was even an affected person in an irregular sacrifice by the cultists, he clenched his fists and said, "What do you want to do when you come to see me, my friend? I have important things to do and can't delay for too long."

The man took a tentative step forward, and when he saw Hagen's tacit response, he stopped: "Because you are in danger now. The spirituality of mortals is completely inferior to that of newly awakened extraordinary beings. In order to please the great existence, the cultists will focus on marking extraordinary beings, capturing them, and sacrificing them. If they can't find them, they will even use various cruel means to force the birth of new extraordinary beings. After all, they no longer regard those mortals as their own kind, but as pieces of delicious flesh and blood."

"According to the secret-keeping regulations, the extraordinary becomes stronger due to cognition, but it also increases the pollution and distortion of the extraordinary. As an elder on the path of the extraordinary, I need to spread our ideas to you and curb the leakage of the extraordinary. At the same time, it is also for you to live better and not be distorted into an irrational monster. After all, cleaning up the crazy things left behind by the extraordinary is also one of my jobs."

Hagen licked his lips. He indeed lacked sufficient information. At the same time, the knowledge brought by spiritual feedback also made him realize how dangerous the path to transcendence was.

"Okay, I'll trust you for now, but how can you guarantee my safety?"

The man was stunned for a moment, then raised his lips and said, "It seems that you are not a complete low-class person. Perhaps you have a relatively glorious past? As for your safety..."

His tone revealed a hint of coldness: "There are no protective measures. Your safety is insignificant to me. I even have the ability to kill you right now. If you don't believe me, you can use the spiritual items at hand to give it a try."

"In fact, we don't care too much about how the world is, but the extraordinary sequence needs a realistic anchor point, and it also needs a sufficiently perfect concept as a spiritual pillar to protect the sanity of the extraordinary people from sinking quickly. Order and protection are our concepts. We firmly believe in and agree with them, so we came out to clean up this mess. The same is true for that group of cultists, but their philosophy is chaos and destruction. At the same time, they do not restrain themselves from falling into madness, and they don't care whether they still have a human form. So on the road to the extraordinary, they walk faster and die faster."

"Now, my friend, make a choice. Either you come out obediently or I deal with your extraordinary legacy. I am talking so much nonsense with you because we need more people of the same faith and to avoid additional battles and casualties, but I will not back down because of these."

(End of this chapter)