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Clues on Both SidesChapter 1036 Clues on Both Sides

Seeing the letter in one of the heads of the headless messenger Renette Tinicole fall to the ground, Angel was about to take out the gold coin to pay, but he saw the four heads shook their heads in unison, and then spoke one by one:

"That…" "The woman on the boat…" "Already…" "Paid…"

The woman on the boat... Anne?

Angel was stunned for a moment, then realized that after several rounds of sending letters, Renette actually dared to secretly give the "Balancer" a nickname.

I wonder what my nickname is in His mouth... She muttered, picked up the letter and glanced at it, and found that it was written by Bernadette, not Anne who was staying in the "City of Dreams" Patis.

"...I have been tracking the Great Mother believers and Nast Solomon in Intis recently. I almost caught them several times, but without the help of prophecy and divination, I was always a step behind, leaving behind only innocent people who were polluted and ruined villages...

"...I suspect that there are some believers among them who have the ability to tell fortunes, or some extraordinary people who can see the future in the river of fate and respond in advance. During several failed captures, I learned from a local administrator who didn't have time to escape or committed suicide that there is a new secret organization that is cooperating with Nast and his group, the 'School of Truth'...

"...They believe in a pale white mist that has the ability to make both parties sign a contract and abide by the agreement to achieve their goals. I suspect this is related to the 'Arbitrator' path, but there is no true god on that path, and the characteristics of the three copies of Sequence 1 have not been lost..."

"...But the administrator mentioned the appearance of the leader of the 'School of Truth'. After investigation, it is very likely that he is a descendant of the 'Tamara' family. This is also consistent with the extraordinary power of the 'Arbitrator' path...

"I will continue my investigation in Intis and report the progress to you regularly through Anne."

After quickly reading Bernadette's "Investigation Report" and picking out the key points, Angel fell into deep thought.

She knew before that because of the involvement of the Outer Goddess "Fallen Mother Goddess", the divination and prophecy methods of the trackers were blocked, and the tracking of the followers of "Great Mother" would be difficult. But she did not expect that a month later, in the territories of the Church of the Eternal Sun and the Church of Steam, despite the efforts of Bernadette's "Elemental Dawn", they still could not find Nestor Solomon.

It would have been fine if the pirate king had simply slipped back to the sea and hid, but from Bernadette's narration, Angel could see that he and other believers had been secretly preaching in different locations, deceiving or misleading local residents to become believers of the "Great Mother" and join their sacrifices.

And now there is another "School of Truth"...

Angel still remembered when he first discovered Nast's trace in the village of Belon and destroyed the altar surrounded by deformed babies, in addition to the blood-red breath belonging to the "Fallen Mother Goddess", there was also a pale white smoke that left in a rage.

Is this the being that the Truth School believes in?

Was he some mysterious "arbitrator" angel, or an evil god like the "real creator" or the "original witch", or... the image of some outer god inside the earth, like the "original moon"?

In addition to the pale white mist, she was also concerned about the fact that the descendants of Tamara's family were also involved in Nast's plan.

According to the information obtained from Dorian Grey Abraham and Alysia Tamara, this angel family that existed in the Fourth Epoch has split into many different descendants. Some insist on taking the path of "Arbitrator", or "Judgment", and Alysia is obviously from this faction; some turn to the path of "Apprentice", and have close ties with the Witch Sect and the "Spiritual Knowledge Society".

Then, will the faction that Yalishia belongs to join the "School of Truth" and possess the power of "Arbitrator"?

The figure of the lady with strange clothes and old-fashioned face appeared in her mind again. Angel frowned and was about to write a letter to question her. Suddenly, she found that Renette was still floating in the air, as if waiting for her. She quickly picked up a pen and paper and wrote a reply to Anne and Bernadette.

"Leave it to the woman on the boat."

She said while holding back a laugh, handing the letter and a gold coin to the other party.

The content of the letter was very simple. In addition to replying to Bernadette and asking her to be careful of the contamination of the power of the "Great Mother" when tracking Nast, it also instructed Anne to be careful about whether the Amon clone beside her had any connection with the original body.

Although Amon's clone, who goes by the alias Geldruf, claims that an accident during parasitism caused him to possess the memories and personalities of both parties, Angel is still a little worried, especially now that Klein has arrived at the "God-Forsaken Land" but has never encountered Amon.

From the days that Klein had been wandering in the God-Forsaken Land, apart from discovering a few ruins that had been abandoned for at least a hundred years and preliminarily determining the location of the Silver City, he had not encountered any living people at all, not even a living Amon!

Not only Klein, but even Angel had a guess: Could it be that Amon, who claimed that his real body was in the God-forsaken Land, had already left that dark and desolate continent and returned to the prosperous North and South Continents?

If the real body appears, whether Amon's clone working in the "Dream City" will remain loyal, Angel and Annie are not sure.

Anyway, let Annie keep a close eye on him. Amon's real body should not try to attack the city protected by the "Hand of Order". This will not benefit him at all... Angel thought about it, and then wrote a letter, summoned the messenger belonging to Alicia Tamara with a spell, and asked to meet with the representative of the Tamara family.

After finishing all this, she called the maid and asked the chef at the Iris Winery to prepare a simple afternoon tea to satisfy her appetite.

After being promoted to a "disaster" witch, she no longer needs to eat in the traditional sense. She does this simply to maintain her previous lifestyle and to use food to maintain what she considers to be her "humanity," rather than being dominated by the desires of destruction and killing that repeatedly emerge in her heart after becoming an angel.

Angel had briefly discussed this with Anne, who was also an angel. Due to the special nature of the "Balancer", the latter did not need too much to maintain her own anchor, and she had lost most of her memories before becoming a ghost ship. She only remembered that her name was "Adele Trunsoest". Her entire life experience was spent in the form of a ghost ship. So, similar to many natural mythical creatures, the residual mental imprint within the extraordinary characteristics had very little effect on her.

Trunsoest... Could she really be the descendant of the Night Emperor? Originally, I thought Anne became the governor of the Dream City by chance. Now it seems that there may be the aggregation of extraordinary characteristics, and there may also be the influence of fate...

Enjoying the baked cookies and warm milk for afternoon tea, Angel's thoughts returned from Anne to himself.

After being attacked by the Witch Cult the moment she left the "God-Forsaken Land", she originally thought that she would face more attacks in succession, so she was always prepared for battle. However, she did not expect that after the "Blue Witch" escaped, the Witch Cult seemed to have given up and there was no movement.

Could it be that they were just testing me, rather than trying to tire me out with the continuous attacks and eventually kill me... But the actions of the "Blue Witch" also represent the purpose of the Witch Cult. They must be trying to get rid of me, the outlier among witches, for the "Original Witch" Chike...

But "White Saint" Katarina represents another faction. She had been trying to make overtures to me before, and a few days ago she directly revealed intelligence inside the sect, although it was a few minutes late... If I win them over and attack witches like "Gray" and "Blue", can I completely split the witch sect and make the "Original Witch" lose its anchor and have no time to care about me?

Thoughts kept flashing through Angel's mind, but they ultimately came down to one biggest problem:

just like the "Blue Witch" had to use the seal to attack Angel's stand, Angel had no way to completely kill the mirror figures of the "Immortality" and "Disaster" witches, which meant that he could not prevent their resurrection. Even if he found their traces and solved these witches in battle, it would be in vain to kill them.

For this problem, Angel's man in the mirror gave a solution: jump to the adjacent path and be promoted to "Conqueror". The "weakness detection" possessed by this sequence, combined with the attack on the main body, is enough to kill the witch's substitute for resurrection, the fortune teller's isolated main body controlled by multiple secret puppets, or the thief's endless clones.

Or, if he obtained the "Conqueror" characteristic of Trier in the Fourth Epoch, he might be able to achieve a similar effect through the preliminary application of extraordinary characteristics.

This conclusion made Angel even more worried, because the "Original Witch" Chick might have obtained the "Conqueror" characteristic that originally belonged to the Augustus family.

Did He intend to use this to advance to the "Old One", or had He anticipated this and was preparing to use it to kill Angel's mirror man hiding in the mirror image of the "City of Disaster"?

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A flash of lightning streaked across the dark sky, illuminating the barren land beside Klein and his army of secret puppets.

He drank the Black Bear Coke in his hand in one gulp, burped, threw the empty glass bottle away, and immediately exchanged positions with the secret doll on the other side of the team.

This was not him throwing garbage everywhere. In a few minutes, this empty bottle and the Coke he drank would turn into nothingness and return to the historical fragments to which they originally belonged.

But at least during this time, the sugar and carbonation could give him a false sense of happiness and satisfaction.

Looking up at the sky where the lightning was gradually stopping, Klein knew that another "night" was about to come.

Previously, from the narration of "Sun" Derrick, he knew that the lightning in the God-Forsaken Land had cycles of varying frequencies. Each cycle was roughly equivalent to a day in the outside world. Most of the time, the lightning frequency was dense, but there were also several hours when it completely subsided.

This period of time is called "night". Once you move away from the light source, you will be completely swallowed by the darkness.

It's time to take a break... Go take a look above the gray fog, do some divination, correct the direction, then take "disinfection" measures and change a batch of secret dolls to avoid being tracked by certain entities... He muttered silently, preparing to find a dry riverbed or a leeward place on the hillside as a resting place.

At this moment, the last flash of lightning before the darkness streaked across the sky, illuminating a city wall on the horizon and the densely packed buildings behind the wall.

In it, there stands a pair of twin stone towers, one with a spire and the other with a dome.

That was the Silver City that Klein had been searching for for a long time Sneaking into Silver CityChapter 1037 Sneaking into Silver City

From Sun Derrick's many descriptions at the Tarot Club, Klein already knew the approximate size of the City of Silver and the shape of its most distinctive twin towers. He just didn't know the exact location of the city. Even with Sefirah Castle divination, it took him nearly a week to get near it.

"Silver City is about the same distance away from the Giant King's Court, which means that the abandoned village where I entered the God-Forsaken Land might be not far from the Giant King's Court... This is consistent with the situation when Angel's poison needle dropped after hunting the black-striped shadow giant scorpion was picked up by the Silver City team exploring Afternoon Town...

"The dome belongs to the 'Six-Man Council', which keeps important magical items, formulas, and materials. There is also a dungeon below... The spire is the Silver City's library and the place where supplies are collected and traded. Most of the supplies that the Tarot Club exchanges from the God-Forsaken Land come from there...

"The head of the six-member council is Colin Iliad, a warrior saint. I heard from Derrick that he is likely to be promoted to Sequence 3 soon. With his many years of experience fighting in the God-Forsaken Land, combined with the geographical advantages and the cooperation with other council members, I may not be able to defeat him...

"Another person to watch out for is the elder in the council named Lovia Tiffany. She is a 'shepherd' and has apparently believed in the 'True Creator' during a certain external exploration of the City of Silver. She is a hidden lunatic, and that evil god is looking for the Fool, looking for me...

"Finally, Amon's clone sneaked into this isolated city and used Derrick to detect the movements of Sefirah Castle and me. Given His character, it is impossible that He only has this one clone lurking. There must be other spies in the city..."

Thoughts flashed through Klein's mind. He was cautious and did not approach the Silver City that appeared on the horizon. It was actually still a long way away. Instead, he followed his previous idea and found a sheltered place. He lit the real lantern and rested for a while under the protection of the faint light to restore his spirituality. Then, under the cover of the secret dolls, he took four steps back and came to the top of the gray fog.

Among the crimson stars in the sky, he quickly found the one that belonged to the "sun", wrapped it with his thoughts, transmitted the sounds and images that belonged to the "world", and let them descend directly into Derrick's brain.

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In the City of Silver, at Derrick Berg's home.

This young man, who was not yet an adult but already possessed the strength of a Sequence 5 "Priest of Light" and had become one of the main combat forces of Silver City, was maintaining his weapon under the dim light as usual.

On the surface, he looked very calm, as if he was just going through a routine task, but inwardly he had been expecting something for a few days and had been in a state of excitement.

Because at the Tarot meeting on Monday, he learned that Mr. "World" had come to the "God-forsaken Land"!

Not only did this make him excited to meet this "teammate" who had helped him a lot but whom he had never met in real life, it also gave him, and even the entire City of Silver, a glimmer of hope:

Since Mr. World could come here from the outside world, did that mean they could also go out through that passage? To another world where they didn't have to fear darkness and monsters, had enough food, and didn't have to endure the curse of parricide?

Unfortunately, he told me to wait quietly and not to tell the Chief... Thinking of this, Derrick's excitement was relieved by half. He hurriedly put away his well-maintained weapons and equipment, and came to the fire to bake mushroom bread.

This is one of the changes that the "world" has brought to Silver City. Different from black grass, this mushroom can be squeezed into milk or ground into bread!

After wolfing down the soft bread, Derrick sighed with a sense of unsatisfaction.

"It's a pity that the production of mushrooms is too small, especially the kind that can be made into bread. Each person can only get enough to eat for one or two days a week. The rest still depends on black-faced grass and those non-toxic monster corpses... When can we eat mushroom bread to our heart's content..."

He muttered, fetched a broken clay pot, drank today's portion of mushroom milk, and felt the sweet taste with a hint of fishiness lingering in his mouth. Just as he was about to go out for tonight's patrol, a gray fog suddenly appeared in front of him.

It's Mr. World!

Derrick stood up straight abruptly, listening carefully to what the other party said through Mr. Fool. After a moment, he picked up his weapon, extinguished the fire, and strode out of the room.

Keeping in mind the instructions of the "world", he first came to the tower in the north of the city, received some daily necessities from the tower on the spire, and spent a long time picking and choosing among a pile of materials that needed to be exchanged for contributions before he walked away. When he passed by the dome tower belonging to the "Six-Man Council", he seemed to remember something and walked into the tower.

After sharing the Fool's beliefs with the Chief, he had gone here quite often, either on his own initiative or by summons, so this action did not attract much attention.

After a brief interrogation and leaving his weapons behind, Derrick came to the chief's room at the top of the tower and met the "demon hunter" Colin Iliad with gray hair and scars on his face.

"Your Excellency, I have something to report."

He said briefly, then looked into the other's light blue eyes.

In the more than one year since he joined the Tarot Club, what he learned the most was that there is more to words than words, and that one should not say everything directly but rely on the other person to understand.

Especially when there is a high possibility that there is a clone of "Blasphemer" Amon in the City of Silver.

Sure enough, Colin nodded without any hesitation and said:

"You can just say it."

What he meant was that they would not be monitored by outsiders now... After being trained by The Hanged Man, Derrick instantly understood what the other party meant and continued,

"A person... who has good intentions towards Silver City has come to the vicinity of the city... He comes from the outside world, a world with sun and sea water!"

In an instant, he heard the Chief's breathing become heavy.

After a moment, Colin asked in a low voice,

"The one who provided those powerful spells?"

That's Miss Queen, maybe Mr. World's...lover... Derrick was stunned for a moment and shook his head:

"It's another one, but with the same faith."

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"Little Sun is very good now, thanks to the good teaching of The Hanged Man and I... If you chant The Fool randomly in Silver City, it might attract the attention of Amon's clone..."

Above the gray fog, Klein, who had been using Derrick as an anchor to observe the surrounding situation, no longer paid attention to the excited chief asking about the "newcomer". Instead, he cast his eyes around, focusing on the outskirts of Silver City far away from the Twin Towers, scanning every Silver City resident who was resting or working, looking for signs of being parasitized by Amon.

Not long after, Klein took a deep breath and returned his gaze to the Chief and Derrick.

He has found three "Amons"!

"I don't know how many more are there in the dark. According to Pales, "He" can even parasitize insects and bacteria. Of course, this kind of clone is difficult to observe the outside world, so it is meaningless and can only be used as a "backup"... I haven't met Amon during this period of time. I thought "He" was no longer waiting for me in the God-Forsaken Land. I didn't expect that he was waiting for me in the City of Silver..."

Smacking his lips in the gray fog, Klein observed the positions of the Amons and confirmed that they were not near the main gate of Silver City and were some distance away from the twin towers where demigods were stationed. Only then did he feel relieved.

"Proceed as planned, but still be careful..."

He muttered as he left the gray fog and returned to the desolate land where the lightning had almost stopped and was plunged into complete darkness. He "dismissed" all the remaining puppets, erasing all traces, and came alone to a location slightly closer to the City of Silver.

Then, he pulled out the "German Sparrow" from a few minutes ago from the gap in history, and then he himself dived into the fog of history, hiding in a historical fragment that only he knew clearly.

At the same time, the historical image in reality regained consciousness. He held the equally fake lantern in one hand, pressed the top hat on his head with the other, and walked quickly towards the Silver City.

After advancing for a distance at a fast pace, Klein stopped in the shadow of a boulder and waited for a moment. Five tall figures holding animal-skin lanterns and looking around vigilantly appeared on the other side of the stone.

"As Derrick said, an expedition team will return to the city now..."

Klein nodded secretly. His body was concealed by the "illusion" and he approached the team from behind. At the same time, his height and body shape changed, and he soon became the same as the last member of the team.

The "six-man" team quickly passed through the city gate, underwent a brief inspection, and then disbanded to return home. The figure that Klein transformed into stepped onto the main road of the city, observing the situation around him under the dim light of the lanterns hanging on the stone pillars on both sides.

They were all over 1.8 meters tall... Derrick said that this was still considered underage. If I didn't change my height here, people would immediately notice something was wrong... He looked around with tiny movements, having a brand new experience of coming to a new world.

This was the first city-state with people he encountered in the "Forsaken Land of Gods",

and the first group of living people he saw! The difference from those ruined cities was too big... There were at least several thousand people, and they had a complete living and working order. It was not far from the Giant King's Court. If someone in the "Forsaken Land of Gods" could find a way to leave on their own, it was likely from this city... Of course, my infiltration was a special case. Even Sequence 4 monsters were extremely rare in the "Forsaken Land of Gods", let alone the "Ancient Scholars" who were good at hiding. Moreover, they had "God-level", that is, "0" level seals to protect the city, and they were not afraid of ordinary saints...

As he paced, Klein came to the twin towers in the north of the city. He wanted to see if he could sneak into the library inside the spire to view the city's collection of books, but he found that "Sun" Derrick had already walked out of the dome tower with the fully armed "Chief" Colin Iliad.

They should be waiting for me. Should I go up and say hello?

Klein was thinking, and his eyes suddenly focused.

At the narrow window on top of the tower, he saw the woman with thick silver-gray curly hair and beautiful eyes and eyebrows.

She is the believer of the "True Creator", Lovia Tiffany!