“The origins of this drop of golden liquid.”
After reciting the divination statement seven times, Klein held onto the goatskin and the illusory golden liquid before leaning back in his seat.
He didn’t know if he could divine with the item that was instantiated based purely on a feeling. All he could do was make bold assumptions and carefully seek confirmation.
In seconds, Klein’s eyes darkened, turning from brown to black as he entered a state of Cogitation.
His eyelids drooped down and he “saw” the illusory yet blurry dream.
In the blurry world that looked in shambles, a golden, glaring sun suddenly appeared!
A low grunt resounded across the void. The pure and clean light suddenly lit everything up as the gold and burning flames swept outwards.
Klein was instantly expelled from his dreamworld and flipped onto his side as he shivered. His body seemed to become a huge bonfire which burned with a raging flame.
At that moment, his thoughts were all over the place. No proper idea could form from the chaos in his mind.
The mysterious space above the gray fog shook violently, and the lofty palace collapsed inch by inch. The ancient, mottled bronze table broke into a few pieces.
The terrifying changes only continued for three seconds before the world above the gray fog returned to tranquility as though nothing had happened.
The gold flame on Klein gradually extinguished. He rolled around on his charred skin as he groaned in pain, until he eventually regained his ability to think.
He supported himself on the armrest of the high chair and stood up with great difficulty. He was terrified and confused about what had just happened.
He had never imagined that a mere divination would result in such consequences!
He panted and lifted his head to survey his surroundings. He realized that the lofty palace and ancient bronze table, which looked like they had stood unchanged since ancient times, had been damaged. In the world above the gray fog, which had never experienced any abnormality, it was simply an unprecedented level of damage.
Klein felt more fear as he thought about it. He felt that he had nearly died.
Having come to this realization, Klein’s body had already returned to normal. It was no longer charred, but compared to before, he was dimmer and more incorporeal than before.
He lifted his hand to massage his temples and commanded with his mind to restore the palace and the long table.
Then, the palace that looked like the home of a giant and the long table cast out of bronze returned to normal. Everything looked like it had before.
Klein sat down and leaned against the back of the chair. He mocked himself and said,
After a while, Klein’s expression turned odd because some knowledge was reverberating in his head.
Yes, knowledge!
In the short time he had spent with what appeared to be Eternal Blazing Sun, Klein was constantly in his divination state. Hence, he could instinctively divine certain matters and knowledge from the being that he was looking at.
He quickly used a dream divination to recall and organize what he had gathered that wasn’t his primary objective. He picked up the black fountain pen and wrote one line after another.
“1. Do not look directly at God.
“2. Pure white angel.
“3. The technique of making a Flaring Sun Charm… It’s a relatively high level charm in the domain of the Sun. Its potency can last a year before it deteriorates… There’s no need for a ritual to pray to the Eternal Blazing Sun, but the procedure requires the Sealed Artifact 3-0782 to take the ritual’s place. It will siphon power from the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem…
“4. Extremely hostile towards Lord of Storms and God of Knowledge and Wisdom.
“5. Bard potion formula:
Main ingredients: a Crystal Sunflower or an adult Flint Bird’s tail feather or a Fire Bird’s tail feather… A piece of Siren Rock or a Singing Sunflower…
Supplementary ingredients: a blade of Midsummer Grass, 5 drops of July Wine Juice, a blade of Elf Dark Leaf…
“6. Light Suppliant potion formula:
Main ingredients: a piece of Brilliance Rock or powder of Dazzling Soul or… Blood of a Mirror Hedgehog or the Heart of a Magma Titan…
Supplementary ingredients: a Golden-edged Sunflower, three drops of Aconite Juice…
“7. Priest of Light potion formula:
Information of main ingredients missing.
Supplementary ingredients: 5 grams of Rosemary, 7 drops of fingered citron juices, Rock Water…
“8. Sequence 4, Unshadowed potion formula. Main ingredients could be the golden blood of god extracted from the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem. It could also be replaced with three adult Sun Divine Bird’s tail feathers and a piece of Holy Brilliance Rock.
Information of supplementary ingredients missing…”
After writing down the eight lines, Klein couldn’t help but rap the edge of the long bronze table.
He had gained way more than he imagined!
He was already satisfied with surviving his reckless divination earlier, but now he had received an unexpected “survival reward.”
From the confidential information he received from the Nighthawks, he knew that the Sequence pathway that the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun held was called Sun, and its Sequence 9 was Bard. It would allow the Beyonder to imbue courage and strength for themselves and their allies through their singing, a “job” that brought about devotion and submission. Their slogan was “Let us praise the Sun!”
The corresponding Sequence 8 was Light Suppliant. They could cast spells and hold rituals from the Sun’s domain which were very effective against corpses and spirits. Sequence 7 was called Solar High Priest, which greatly enhanced the spells and rituals within its domain.
He had originally planned on seeing if The Hanged Man could solve the request of the young man from the City of Silver. After all, the Church of the Lord of Storms and the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun were the most ancient orthodox sects. They had fought against each other for thousands of years, so it would only make sense for the two churches to have learned the initial sequence of each other’s pathways.
He lowered his head and looked at the records on the goatskin before him. He thought of another formula.
Klein massaged his forehead regrettably. He saw that there was no other movement in the world above the gray fog and finally relaxed. He confirmed that the Eternal Blazing Sun hadn’t managed to track him down.
…
As these mixed thoughts filled his brain, Klein felt the emptiness and an aching pain in his head. Plus, he felt that too much time had passed. He had to return to the outer world, just in case someone discovered anything amiss.
Back then, he thought it would take a minute or so to divine two or three times in the mysterious space. Plus, there was a spirituality wall isolating him from everything else. Once it was touched, his body in the world above the gray fog would sense it. Hence, he felt utterly safe, but he hadn’t considered the possibility of having some sort of accident. In the end, he nearly lost his life and that wasted quite a bit of time.
Due to the fact that he was afraid that he would be greeted by a Light of Purification beam or discover that the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem was damaged, he enveloped his body with spirituality before he stimulated a descent with his heart in his mouth.
The crimson moonlight reflected in his eyes, and there was a darkness hidden within. Klein saw the sparse forest and the weeds before him, as well as the intact Sealed Artifact 3-0782 in his hands.
After a few seconds of breathless anxiety, he finally believed that he was safe.
