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Leyton watched Crow Anu's unfortunate encounter, his lips twitching slightly, and he turned his head to look at Bugs Bunny beside him, asking in confusion:
"Did you roll the Die of Probability?"
"No, it wasn't me." Bugs Bunny shook his head repeatedly, waving his hands.
Leyton didn't pay attention to Bugs Bunny's reaction. His gaze fell on Crow Anu, his eyes suddenly becoming deep, seeing the interfered fate on Anu's body. He frowned unconsciously and mused:
"Then spin it once now. Anu has a lot of bad luck Entanglement around him, to the point where he'd choke even drinking water."
"Hmm, bad luck?" Bugs Bunny mumbled, then took out the small square iron box Leyton had given him.
After taking out the Die of Probability from inside, he casually tossed the dice towards Crow Anu. The milky white dice landed on the floor, bounced a few times, and quickly stopped after hitting Anu's wing. Six dots facing up!
Bugs Bunny is truly the lucky one; the Die of Probability always lands on six in his hand. Leyton's gaze swept over Bugs Bunny, then landed on Crow Anu. His eyes appeared calm and profound, as if he could peer into the river of fate.
In Leyton's sight, the bad luck Entanglement around Crow Anu rapidly disintegrated and dissipated after the Die of Probability showed six dots, like small ice cubes thrown into a raging fire, leaving not even a trace of water vapor.
As the bad luck on his body was dispelled, Crow Anu felt his body instantly lighten. He quickly flapped his wings, stood up from the small round table, and a human-like fear appeared in his dark eyes, saying:
"Boss, I just met a strange person and he shot me with a revolver!"
Bugs Bunny carefully examined Crow Anu and then spoke:
"You don't have any wounds or injuries on your body. Bumping into the window just now doesn't count!"
"The bullet might not have caused real damage, but rather the intense bad luck that was on its body just now."
Leyton said thoughtfully, then reached out and retrieved the Eyes of Mystery Prying placed on Anu's body.
A cold, indifferent, eyelash-less eye, seemingly condensed from countless brilliant starlight, rapidly reflected out of Crow Anu's eye, then quickly materialized and appeared in Leyton's hand.
As he clenched his right hand into a fist, this eye, condensed from starlight, rapidly shattered, turning into specks of starlight that surged into Leyton's body.
He then closed his eyes, receiving the information from this Eyes of Mystery Prying. Images appeared in his mind:
There were strange mushrooms spread throughout the Paz River Valley area, and people picking and eating mushrooms in twos and threes, as well as members of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom and Numinous Episcopate collecting and processing these mushrooms.
Leyton manipulated the floating images in his mind, quickly skipping over unimportant ones.
Soon, he saw some terminally ill vagrants lying haphazardly in the street corners of Inpace, having lost their ability to move and speak, with only their occasionally opening and closing lips proving they were still alive.
Similar scenes quickly passed until the last segment of the image, where Leyton saw several vagrants who should have died from illness mysteriously recover. Their bodies even became much healthier than before, their complexions rosy, and their spirits more vibrant.
They were proclaiming something to others who had similar experiences, but the Eyes of Mystery Prying did not have the ability to record sound. Leyton could only roughly deduce from their opening and closing lips and body movements:
"Great Mother... Second Life... Gracious Mother of all spirituality... Truly benevolent and caring for every follower... Great Mother..."
The image recorded by the Eyes of Mystery Prying quickly shook, as if Crow Anu had encountered an emergency.
As the image stabilized again, he saw the previously revived vagrant suddenly transform, staring at the sky with gloomy and crazed eyes, staring at Crow Anu circling in the air.
His lips moved slightly, and although there was no sound, Leyton immediately understood the meaning he conveyed:
"I've been seeing this crow's figure lately. Are you looking for me through it? Or monitoring me?"
It's him, the Blessed of the Primordial Moon. Will all those who ate the mushrooms eventually become his puppets? No, impossible. Such a widespread dispersion of one's spirituality would only lead to loss of control and madness. Are those just potential puppets?
As the thought surfaced, he saw the vagrant in the image pull out an ancient-looking revolver from his ragged coat and pull the trigger at him.
A dull-colored bullet clearly entered Crow Anu's eye. It quickly flapped its wings to gain altitude, but the bullet bizarrely distorted in mid-air, striking Crow Anu directly.
The image recorded by the Eyes of Mystery Prying seemed completely unaffected, rapidly rising and moving away from the area.
The Eyes of Mystery Prying's image stumbled for a long time. Apparently, Crow Anu's journey back was not peaceful due to bad luck, until it hit the hotel's glass window, and the image then abruptly stopped.
Reopening his eyes, Leyton realized what he had overlooked before. Among the Followers of the Primordial Moon, there were some Beyonders of the Fate pathway who had defected from the Life School of Thought. How could he have overlooked them before? With fate's favoritism, no wonder the Blessed of the Primordial Moon dared to cause trouble so brazenly.
As thoughts swirled, his gaze fell on the Die of Probability still standing quietly on the floor. He approached, bent down, picked up the Die of Probability, and examined it carefully in his hand for a while, muttering to himself:
"I always feel like all of this is inseparable from you. What do you want to do? Are you the Die of Probability or the incarnation of the Key of Light now?"
The milky white Die of Probability lay quietly in his hand. It had no mouth and couldn't speak, but even if it could, Leyton didn't think it would bother with him. People of the Fate pathway are all charlatans!
After a moment of quiet contemplation, Leyton, without any clues, turned and returned to his desk, beginning to write a new letter. He planned to ask Klein to help him inquire Arrodes about the whereabouts of three Knowledge Emperor characteristics.
He casually tore off a blank piece of paper, wrote two sentences on it, and then, using the still-lit candle, dripped essential oil and hydrosol into it again, summoning Klein's messenger:
"I;"
"I summon in my name:"
"Spirit wandering in emptiness, a friendly creature that can be commanded, the exclusive messenger of Gehrman Sparrow."
Soon, a translucent woman emerged from the passage created by the ritual.
First to emerge was a body wearing a complex, luxurious, dark, and gloomy black long dress. As Bugs Bunny curiously observed the messenger, Reinette Tinekerr's headless body fully emerged. Her drooping hands held four golden-haired, red-eyed, brightly beautiful, identical heads.
Bugs Bunny's expression instantly froze, changing from curiosity to terror. He seemed to recall his fear of vengeful spirits and immediately pounced at Leyton's feet, burying that bag deep into his trouser leg.
Reinette Tinekerr's four golden-haired, blue-eyed heads curiously observed Leyton, speaking word by word:
"You... summoned... me... to do... what?"
Leyton handed the newly written letter to the other party, chuckling:
"Please help me deliver a letter to Gehrman Sparrow, cash on delivery. Uh, that is, the gold coins will be given to you by him after the letter is delivered."
Reinette Tinekerr extended her right hand a short distance forward. One of the heads she was holding directly opened its mouth and bit the letter Leyton handed over, holding it tightly in its mouth, while the remaining three heads spoke in turn:
"Cash on delivery? No problem."
With that, Miss Messenger turned and walked back into the passage created by the ritual. Her figure quickly disappeared from Leyton's sight, and the passage created by the ritual closed with her.
"Alright, she's gone now." Leyton shifted his right foot, reminding Bugs Bunny.
Bugs Bunny cautiously raised its head, looked around, and, confirming that the terrifying woman had left, it breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"Boss, why not let that book or the Dumb rabbits deliver messages? Why summon Klein's cold messenger?"
"You're not with Klein, I can't locate him, so I can only have his messenger deliver the letter."
Leyton explained calmly, pulling Bugs Bunny up to stand properly, and then said:
"I'm going to the New Church to find Leomaster. Are you staying at the hotel or coming with me?"
"Stay at the hotel!"
Bugs Bunny and Crow Anu said in unison.
Leyton nodded, not caring about these two who didn't want to go out. As he turned, his figure instantly became transparent, then transformed into brilliant starlight, surging and entering the Spirit World.
On the Gargas Archipelago, east of the Rorsted Archipelago, Klein, maintaining the appearance of Gehrman Sparrow, disembarked from the passenger ship. He planned to find an opportunity here to act as a Faceless while also trying to hunt some pirates to replace the souls pastured in the Creeping Hunger.
Soon after disembarking, he felt his spiritual perception stir. He subtly scanned his surroundings with a casual gaze, discreetly activating his Spirit Vision.
As soon as he activated Spirit Vision, he saw Miss Messenger, dressed in a complex black court gown and carrying four heads, appear before him. One of the heads held in her right hand was tightly biting a white piece of paper.
My letter? With this casual style, I don't even need to think to know who it is. He muttered inwardly, then extended his free left hand to take the paper from Miss Messenger's mouth, casually shaking it open to reveal the letter:
Please ask Arrodes for the whereabouts of three Knowledge Emperor characteristics for me, the more detailed the better!
Knowledge Emperor? Is that the name of the Hermit Pathway Sequence 1? The Emperor of knowledge? As thoughts floated, he saw Miss Messenger still standing quietly beside him, her four heads all staring at him.
A strange chill crept up his spine. Klein, feeling a bit uncomfortable, took two steps forward and lowered his voice, asking:
"Is there anything else?"
"Strange guy... with very... bright eyes... He said... cash on delivery, one gold coin."
The four heads held in Miss Messenger's hand spoke in segmented phrases.
Klein's expression froze for a moment. Cash on delivery? Did this guy treat Miss Messenger as a delivery service? I never bought cash-on-delivery products when I shopped online before.
Klein complained inwardly, then expressionlessly pulled out the gold coin he occasionally used for divination from his pocket and handed it to his messenger.
One of Reinette Tinekerr's heads opened its mouth and bit the gold coin Klein handed over. Then, her figure quickly became transparent and disappeared into the bustling street.
On the south bank of the Paz River Valley, this area is occupied by the Intis Military forces, and the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery also preaches here.
In a coffee bean processing factory, brilliant starlight surged and emerged from the Spirit World, re-condensing into Leyton's figure.
As his figure solidified, the shadow in front of him suddenly writhed, surging like water, quickly twisting into a male figure.
His forehead, eye corners, and mouth had deep wrinkles, but his hair was dark and shiny, without a single silver strand. It was Leomaster, the "Saint of Darkness," the person in charge of the Aurora Order's missionary affairs in the Southern Continent.
His brows and eyes appeared quite weathered. After a slight nod towards Leyton, he said nothing more, directly leading the way and bringing Leyton to his office in the factory.
After placing the brewed coffee in front of Leyton, he sighed and said:
"You arrived earlier than I expected. What new actions have the Primordial Moon's pawns taken?"
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