Chapter 59:An Attempt

'This is impossible, I have nothing that can connect me to Sefira Castle and I never said Zhou's honorific, so why the fuck am I here?' thought Adryan in complete alarm as the couple in front of him tried to talk to the hidden and stunned Zhou.

Adryan's pupils shrank and horror grew rapidly in his heart.

'I am the carrier of the City of Calamities so how will Sefira Castle react to that? Is it going to 'clean' me for being a virus or is it going to expel me from here? I don't even know if I can revive if my soul is destroyed here!!' All of Adryan's alarm bells were ringing loud but before he could have a fit he realized that nothing had happened to him so far.

'Why am I still here? Doesn't Sefira Castle mind having another Sefirot so close to it? Doubt filled Adryan and before he could continue thinking he heard a chuckle, turning around he saw that it was coming from the hidden Zhou.

Zhou spoke in a low but heavy tone, he spoke calmly as if he was answering a visitor's question.

"An attempt"

'By attempt you don't mean an accident right?' Adryan thought with a blank face as he watched Zhou's performance.

'I must admit that if I didn't know that this is a hoax I would have fallen for that, that Faceless talent even shows now' thought Adryan and he began to look around.

"Sir,is the attempt over? Might you permit our return?"He heard the woman ask in a somewhat perturbed way.

Turning his gaze back to the trio, Adryan roughly saw the silhouette of a tall blonde girl but couldn't make out any better details.

'So this is Audrey...'

Shifting his gaze to the side he saw a man with dark blue messy hair and of medium stature that wasn't considered stout.

This man was watching Audrey's talk like a silent spectator, not even bothering to look at him.

'And you are Mr. Overthinker Alger'

The two of them looked considerably incorporeal, stained with a crimson red tint.

Before he could see more Zhou again let out another chuckle while nodding mildly.

"Of course, if you make a formal request, you can come back at this right time."

Hearing this Audrey breathed a sigh of relief, calmer now she began to look at this space around her.

"This is such a wonderfull experience....Yes,I have always been hoping that something like this would happen.I mean-I like mysteries and supernatural miracles.No my point is-What I mean is that Sir,what can I do to become a Beyonder?" She said in an anxious,anticipative and tempted manner,the more she spoke the more excited she got,so much that she was fumbling over her words.

'Audrey if this was a true God or even an angel, you wouldn't be so happy I say this from experience' Adryan thought as he remembered the Rap he was forced to listen to.

Suddenly the gray mist began to churn, giving Audrey and Alger a shock while Adryan only had a sharp smile.

'About time, I was getting bored of seeing so much fog'

In an instant they saw stone pillars surrounding them. Above them was a vast dome that encapsulated them.

This entire building looked magnificent, grand and lofty, just like a legendary palace of giants.

Directly below the dome where the gray mist gathered, a long, bronze table appeared with 10 high-backed chairs on either side in a symmetrical order. The backs of these chairs glowed softly with crimson red, drawing the outlines of different constellations that differ with reality.

Audrey and Alger sat facing each other next to the Seat of Honor while Adryan sat in a chair in the middle of the table well away from the trio.

Adryan gazed in admiration at the bronze pillars and table as his eyes sparkled.

'This is the wet dream of any architect!'

When he extended his hand to touch the table he saw in surprise how his hand had the black cracks again and that he had a sleeve of some kind of black tunic.

'What?'

Looking at his arm and body he saw that he also had the same crimson red glow as Audrey and Alger but he was wearing a black robe that covered most of his body.

Looking closer he saw how this robe seemed to be made of illusory black liquid and was dripping but before touching the ground the gray mist washed away the black drop.

'One enters the Sefira Castle with their spiritual body and my spiritual body is broken, is this robe in charge of keeping me together and protecting me from the cleaning of the Sefira Castle?'

While looking at this robe he heard Alger speak.

"Are you a Loen?"

Turning his gaze towards the trio, Adryan saw how Alger was talking to Audrey while Zhou touched the bronze table and watched everything.

"If you want to become a beyonder, join the Churches of either the Evernight Goddess, Lord of Storms, or the God of Steam and Machinery."

"The majority of us will not meet a Beyonder in our entire lives.This caused Churches,and even some clergymen within some of the biggest Churches to suspect the same.While this is the case,I am certain to tell you that Beyonders still exist in courts,tribunals,and execution agencies.

Thet are still fighting against the dangers that grow in the dark,only that their numbers are much fewer as compared to before and during the early days of the Iron Age."

Audrey listened until Alger finished speaking and just sighed.

"Mister,I know all about what you just said:I even know more than that,including the Nighthawks, Punishers and the Machinery Hivemind, but I don't want to lose my freedom."

As she said that the trio heard a soft but provocative laugh from the man who was sitting furthest away from them...