Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 168 Another Choice
Roger was slightly stunned when he heard Klein's words.

In fact, Roger himself also mastered the complete "Fortune Teller" path, but Klein did not know this information, so he did not mention it.

Now that the other party has taken the initiative to propose it, it is clear that they are willing to share the relevant potion formula to give the children of Abraham's family another choice.

After hearing this, the four children were all confused.

Except for the "Secret Prayer" path which obviously seems to have traps, the other three paths all have their own merits.

"Cousin, once we choose a path, is it impossible to regret it?"

Sam frowned and continued to ask:
"To be honest, if it weren't for the 'Blood Moon Curse', I would really like the 'Apprentice' path..."

As soon as Sam said this, Roger knew that he didn't know that Beyonders could jump to adjacent pathways.

But this is not surprising. Jumping paths are a high-level knowledge of Extraordinary beings, and not many people know about it, even among the adult Extraordinary beings in the Abraham family.

This is because adjacent pathway jumps usually only occur at high sequences, and the "apprentices" of the Abraham family, who have difficulty even advancing to the middle sequence, naturally have no use for this knowledge.

Facing Sam who looked troubled, Roger smiled and said:

“In fact, even if you don’t choose the ‘apprenticeship’ path now, you will still have the opportunity to become an ‘apprentice’ again in the future.”

Seeing that Sam's curiosity was aroused again, Roger told him that the three paths of "Fortune Teller", "Thief" and "Apprentice" could be jumped to each other.

Unlike outsiders, Roger naturally cared for these children of Abraham's family, so except for the more dangerous knowledge, he told them everything he knew.

Because in order to revive the Abraham family, they must have a group of reliable extraordinary people as their backing, so that they can accumulate small amounts into large ones and gradually grow stronger.

After all, the essence of a family is also an organization, and the most important asset of any organization is people. Without reliable people, everything Roger says is empty talk.

So Roger wanted to clear their doubts as much as possible, which would also help these children establish the correct extraordinary worldview in the future.

"That's it, that's it..."

The knowledge Roger told Sam answered many of the confusions that had existed in his heart for a long time.

To outsiders, the Abraham family seemed to only have Extraordinary people at the "apprentice" level, but this was actually incorrect.

Putting aside those tribesmen who were born with a small amount of "apprentice" extraordinary characteristics, it is not uncommon for Abraham and others in history to have considered taking other paths.

What is somewhat counterintuitive is that there are actually many such people, and quite a few of them are successful.

Not only did some members of the Abraham family obtain low- to medium-sequence "Judge" path potion formulas from the Tamara family, but one branch even became attached to the Zoroaster family, which controls the Thief's path, through marriage and became a "Thief."

According to Sam's understanding, these people's original idea was also for the family - but until today when he talked with Roger and learned about the path jump, he could not really understand the considerations behind it.

Even so, these people were all excluded from the core of the family without exception, gradually becoming side branches or even completely separated from the Abraham family.

This is incomprehensible to ordinary people, but it is easy to understand if interpreted from the perspective of aristocratic families.

For such an ancient family that had produced an Angel King and had been passed down since the Fourth Epoch, becoming an "apprentice" meant accepting the family's heritage and glory.

Whether it is the disappearance of ancestor Bethel Abraham or the shadow of the "Blood Moon Curse", they are huge stumbling blocks on the road to family revival.

In other words, choosing the "apprenticeship" path means accepting the responsibility of family revival and becoming a truly responsible pillar of the family, rather than an opportunist who has a wide range of retreat options, depends on others, and can always stay out of things.

However, things do not always go as planned.

If the members of Abraham's family were able to survive the "Blood Moon Curse", then the "Ghroth Blood Moon" in early July was undoubtedly a heavy blow to these conservatives.

Most of them didn't even have the chance to regret before they perished under the light of the blood moon.

For girls like Cecilia who don't know much about their family's history, and younger children like Alister and Perseus, the family's sense of mission is not so deeply engraved. In addition, they have witnessed the death of their relatives on the "Apprentice" path, so they have no psychological pressure to choose other divine paths.

But Sam was different.

This young man, who is well-versed in various occult books and has a deep understanding of the glorious history of the Abraham family, has the same vision of reviving the family as Roger.

The "Blood Moon of Ghroth" completely crushed his last bit of unrealistic fantasy, and the "Fortune Teller" potion formula that Klein now possessed undoubtedly put the option of "saving the country by a roundabout way" at the crossroads of family history again.

In this way, he can embark on the "Fortune Teller" path and avoid the "Blood Moon Curse" in the low-sequence and mid-sequence periods.

At High Sequence, Sam can consider jumping back to the "Apprentice" path, but the prerequisite is that the "Blood Moon Curse" has been resolved.

At least according to his cousin Roger, the "Blood Moon Curse" will definitely be resolved, and it won't take too long.

On the other hand, it is fortunate that Sam does not have to be controlled by others like the Abrahams who depended on foreign races in the past. At least his cousin Roger is also a direct descendant of the Abraham family. This situation is undoubtedly much better.

In the end, Sam and Perseus chose to become "fortune tellers", Alister chose "lawyer", and Cecilia chose "corpse collector".

This made Klein quite emotional. He looked at Cecilia carefully for a long time, then said to Roger:
“I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but I think she does look a bit like Ms. Daly.

"I don't know what's happening with the captain and Leonard..."

Hearing Klein's words, Roger smiled without responding. He then stood up and followed Sam's guidance to the treasure house in the Abraham family's residence.

To Roger's surprise, the password to unlock this treasure house was exactly the same as the password to unlock the treasure house in the base where he was originally located. It seemed that they both originated from the same standard of the Fourth Epoch.

The Abraham family's treasure house is generally divided into four layers, storing general treasures and cash, low-sequence, medium-sequence and high-sequence seals and extraordinary materials respectively.

Because Roger is a direct descendant of the Abraham family and has reached adulthood during the "Blood Moon of Ghroth", he knows the passwords to the first three levels of the mid-series treasure house.

He collected all the materials that could be used for his own and those around him to advance, and also took out several extraordinary items that could be used by Sam and others.

Soon, after excluding those items that could be temporarily placed in the family treasury and were not in a hurry to be taken away, as well as those items that were not of much help to Roger and his friends at the moment, Roger basically gathered together the auxiliary materials needed for several children to become extraordinary people.

To his surprise, Roger also discovered two special extraordinary items, corresponding to the characteristics of "fortune teller" and "corpse collector" respectively.

The former is a white crystal pendulum used for divination, while the latter is a pair of burial gloves that are not stained with blood, secretions and the breath of the dead. They seem to be collections acquired by the Abraham family long ago.

According to Sam, he used this pair of gloves to move the bodies of Abraham's family members who had died suddenly and began to stink, thus creating a safe environment for his brothers and sisters.

For Roger, who possesses the "Parasite Gloves", the extraordinary properties separated from these two extraordinary items can be used to become a "Fortune Teller" and a "Corpse Collector" to complete his promotion!
In this way, all they need to do is find one more "Fortune Teller" Extraordinary Characteristic and one "Lawyer" Extraordinary Characteristic, or the corresponding main ingredients of the potion, to help Alister and Perseus complete the promotion.

The two brothers did not seem to be particularly anxious about this matter. Although they did not feel much honor in the "apprentice" path, for them, embarking on other extraordinary paths was also a possibility they had never encountered before.

In contrast, Sam and Cecilia, the two older siblings, becoming Beyonders first would be a good example.

As long as they can master their extraordinary power, they will naturally be able to reduce the fear of Alister and Perseus and arouse their yearning and sense of participation.

In the treasure house on the third floor, Roger set up two sets of equipment for preparing potions.

These equipment were taken from the alchemy room with Sam's help. They were two sets of beakers, corresponding stands and alcohol lamps.

The reason for preparing potions here is, firstly, because there is a very large and sturdy table suitable for preparing potions, and secondly, because it is very close to the treasure house on the fourth floor.

Roger planned to take advantage of the time when Sam and Cecilia were meditating and mastering the power of the potion to enter the treasure room on the fourth floor to get the sealed object, so that if anything happened to Sam and Cecilia, he could help them in time.

That high-sequence sealed object contaminated by Mr. Door!

Due to the deep secret connection guided by the power of Yog-Sothoth's "Key to the Gate", even though there was obviously a seal on the door of the fourth-floor treasure room that could block the power fluctuations of the sealed object, Roger could still feel the breath of the sealed object very clearly!
After confirming that Sam and Cecilia were ready, Roger immediately put on the "Parasitic Gloves" and grabbed the "Pendulum" and "Corpse Collector's Gloves" respectively.

In an instant, two Beyonder's with different lusters fell into Roger's hands.

Especially the "Fortune Teller" feature that emits brilliant crystalline light. The moment it came out, it showed some kind of inexplicable restlessness, and the brilliant light in it flickered rapidly, as if something nearby was attracting it.

Roger naturally knew that this was the combined effect of the low-level Beyonder traits of "Magician" Klein and "Astrology Cat" Bandit. Without hesitation, he immediately gave the "Fortune Teller" Beyonder trait to Klein to configure the "Fortune Teller" potion, while Roger himself configured the "Corpse Collector" potion.

As various auxiliary materials and main materials were added in turn, two potions of different colors were prepared.

After Roger and Klein briefly explained to the children the things they needed to pay attention to during meditation, including but not limited to the content of their imagination and not being disturbed, they asked Klein and Bandit to accompany Sam and Cecilia to complete the transformation from mortals to extraordinary beings.

Roger himself strode towards the heavy wooden door of the fourth-level treasure house, which was flashing with golden sealing light.

Arriving at the gate, Roger took a deep breath and used his Parasitic Gloves to "steal" the gate. He wanted to steal the gate's concept of 'closing'!
But as Roger expected, this attempt ended in failure.

Roger tried again to "steal" the password to open the door, but still failed.

"That's right. After all, this is a fortress passed down from the Fourth Epoch. I can't believe it doesn't have some angel-level sealing mechanism..."

As Roger muttered to himself, the aura around him suddenly rose, and in an instant it reached a level that even the extraordinary people at the angel level could hardly perceive!
The ability of "All things become one"!
He is the “Key to all doors” and truly the “Lord of all doors”!
Roger knew the password to open the fourth level of restriction in an instant, but when this moment came, it didn't matter whether he knew the password or not.

Because the golden light seal had quickly faded, the door had already opened to both sides on its own!

If we were to use a metaphor to describe this scene, it would be like the princes meeting an emperor with unparalleled power, and they could only bow their heads and line up to welcome him.

Then, Roger straightened his clothes as the two Alister brothers stared at him with their mouths wide open, and walked into the treasure house on the fourth floor as if no one was around.

Although there were no lights on in the treasure house on the fourth floor, Roger, who was in the "ring" perspective, immediately realized that there were two high-level sealed objects inside.

The first item is called "Raziel's Star Compass", which is an extraordinary item corresponding to the "Apprentice" path sequence 3 "Wanderer".

The function of this extraordinary item is very simple, which is to allow the holder to travel to the starry sky and go to different star fields. It can also store the coordinates of nine different celestial bodies, allowing the holder to travel there instantly.

To be honest, if Roger had become an angel and contained the essence of Ghroth, he would really dare to go directly to the astral realm to say hello to the Fallen Mother Goddess and other Old Ones.

But considering that Roger only has status at the moment and he has not yet reached the level of an angel or even the king of angels in the true sense, he naturally does not plan to go to the astral realm to fight against the Fallen Mother Goddess and other big guys.

But compared to those things, there was another thing that Roger cared about more.

That is, he could sense that "Raziel's Star Compass" was already filled with 9 different star coordinates!

"Who stored these nine coordinates? Was it Bethel Abraham, or another ancestor of the Abraham family?"

Roger couldn't figure it out for a moment. He shook his head slightly and pointed at the palm-sized compass made of silver that was sparkling with bright starlight, and the latter flew over.

Roger caught the compass, weighed it, and put it in his bag.

"The second high-sequence extraordinary item..."

Roger turned his head and looked at an extremely small imperial ring in the darkness, which was inlaid with various diamonds and colored gems.

It was an extraordinary item corresponding to the "Balancer" sequence 2 of the "Judge" pathway, the "Law of Balance"!
"Interesting. Is this something the Tamara family brought?"

The corners of Roger's mouth curled up in surprise, but then he felt it was reasonable.

The Tamara family is one of the five angelic families that support the "Blood Emperor" Alistair Tudor in the Tudor Dynasty.

This family originally controlled the "Judge" path, but later intermarried with the Abraham family several times, eventually changing the family's path sequence to the "Gate" path, and thus experienced a change in the family crest.

For any Divine Path, there can be a maximum of nine Sequence 2 Beyonder Characteristics, and a minimum of six.

Even if one counts Drinker Augustus, William Augustus I, and the Castilian family that rules Feynaporthe, it would still be difficult to gather six Sequence 2 "Balancer" Beyonder traits.

In Roger's opinion, it is most likely that some kind of deal was made between the Abraham family and the Tamara family, including but not limited to providing resources or shelter, etc., in order to obtain this seal.

Of course, it is not ruled out that the "Law of Balance" has other origins, but due to the incompleteness of his own "ring", Roger has no way of tracing it back to such a long past.

On the other hand, Roger could clearly feel that this "Law of Balance" maintained the seal of the entire treasure house and even the defense rules of the entire Abraham family fortress.

Considering that there are many other sealed collections in the treasury, Roger thought carefully and finally decided to leave the "Law of Balance" behind for the time being and only take away the "Raziel's Star Compass".

Anyway, he had already marked this location using the "Traveler's Dice", so whenever he wanted to come back, he could open the door to the treasure house on the fourth floor again.

But to be on the safe side, Roger still used the power of the "Key to the Gate" to strengthen the defense of the "Law of Balance" when he left.

In this way, without Roger's consent, outsiders will no longer be able to enter the treasure house or even the entire fortress.

This is to prevent potential people who covet the seal of Abraham's family from plotting any harm.

With the heavy sound of the door closing, the golden light once again flowed on the door of the fourth-floor treasure house.

Not only that, there are also some starlight on it. At first glance, it looks like a golden nebula in the universe with stars as the backdrop.

Roger let out a long breath and turned to look at Cecilia, who had stood up and was experiencing her "clairvoyance" ability, and Sam, who was learning "Pendulum Divination" with Klein.

The pendulum in Sam's hand at this moment was the white crystal pendulum that had previously sealed the extraordinary characteristics of the "Fortune Teller".

Although it no longer possessed any extraordinary properties, it somehow retained its original texture and shape intact.

Therefore, the two charlatans, Klein and Bandit, agreed that this pendulum was destined to Sam, or had a mystical connection, so they directly suggested that the latter use this pendulum as his divination enlightenment teaching tool.

After a long while, the boy and girl finally became familiar with how to use their abilities and both withdrew from their spiritual concentration.

All this made the brothers Alister and Perseus very jealous.

You have to know that to them, Sam and Cecilia, who had lived with them for three months, were just ordinary people a few minutes ago - even if they had some extraordinary items in their hands, it still could not change their nature as ordinary people.

However, in just a dozen minutes, these two older brothers and sisters both became extraordinary people and displayed all kinds of incredible abilities before their eyes. How could they not feel envious?

Klein naturally saw what they were thinking and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, this is just due to limitations. Once your eldest brother takes you back to Backlund, there are a hundred ways to make you Beyonders within a day."

Even Sam began to speak to them:

"Don't worry, let me first get familiar with the feeling and ability of the 'diviner'. That way, when Perseus becomes a 'diviner', he can get some experience directly from me."

Originally, Sam was still a little uneasy about becoming a "fortune teller", but at this moment, when the extraordinary ability was truly in his hands, the young man felt unprecedented peace of mind.

Everything in expectations and promises is empty. Only things that you can control are real.

After hearing what Klein and Sam said, Alister and Perseus finally relaxed a lot and followed Roger back to the restaurant where they had eaten before with great anticipation.

"Let's make a plan next."

Roger touched Bandit who had jumped onto the table, then held his chin with his left fist, looking thoughtful.

After a moment, he spoke again:
"After we return to Backlund, Sam and Cecilia will temporarily help me take care of the portable phonograph business. Once you find a better job opportunity that's more suitable for 'acting,' you can do what you want."

"You two have reached the minimum working age stipulated by the kingdom, so I am not employing child labor."

Roger laughed, but Cecilia blinked her eyes:

"Cousin, this isn't considered employment. Your business is the family business, and we're helping your family."

Although Cecilia didn't understand what Roger meant by a portable phonograph, she was very good at speaking.

As expected, Roger laughed at Cecilia's statement.

He nodded and continued:
“As for Alister and Perseus, you are still young and not suitable for work. You still need to continue learning cultural knowledge.

"However, considering your backgrounds and your upcoming Beyonder status, a regular school probably won't be able to accommodate you. So I will hire a tutor for you."

When they heard that they needed to hire a tutor, the two brothers' faces immediately fell and they looked like they were unwilling to learn.

But they seemed to be very afraid of the power of their cousin Roger and should not say no, so they could only nod in the end.

"Well, there's one more thing."

Roger clapped his hands:

"After you get out, you'd better change your alias, or at least stop using Abraham's last name. It's too dangerous at this stage.

"Does anyone have any good suggestions in this regard?"

(End of this chapter)