Chapter 47 Lin Ruo: I have a long way to go
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"I understand, thank you, Lin Ruo!" Klein, comforted by Lin Ruo, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He wasn't really that upset, after all, his mental fortitude was quite strong. However, he was still very touched by Lin Ruo's concern, so he naturally wouldn't try to expose it. Instead, he nodded, indicating that he had been comforted.
Lin Ruo, seeing what Klein was thinking, smiled and said, "It's good that you're okay... By the way, hurry up and perform a spirit channeling on him. He should be a Magician of the Seer pathway, Sequence 7. You can try to get the potion formulas for Sequence 8 and Sequence 7 of the Seer pathway from him. Don't worry about safety, I'm here!"
Lin Ruo had naturally already taught Klein the techniques of spirit channeling. He even applied to Dunn Smith for the materials needed to hold a spirit channeling ritual in the name of practice, just in case a situation like today's occurred.
Klein nodded, first laboriously dragging the swallow-tailed tuxedo clown to a place where something provided shelter from the rain. Then, he took out a small metal bottle containing Saint Night Powder from the inside of his black trench coat pocket.
Afterwards, Klein unscrewed the lid of the metal bottle and poured some "Holy Night Powder" into his palm. Then, as he calmed his mind, Klein's eyes became deep and profound.
Next, Klein put away the metal bottle, pinched the powder, infused it with spirituality, and sprinkled it on the ground.
He walked and sprinkled, erecting an invisible wall of spirituality around the swallow-tailed tuxedo clown's corpse.
After the wall of spirituality was established, Klein took out another metal bottle and dripped liquids like Amantha extract around the perimeter in sequence.
This was to prevent the swallow-tailed tuxedo clown's residual spirituality from being disturbed by the surrounding things and to create an environment that barely met the needs of the ritual.
After doing all this, Klein put away the materials, maintained a meditative state, and chanted the incantation written in Hermes language in a low voice:
"I beseech the power of the night;"
"I beseech the power of concealment;"
"I beseech the favor of the Goddess."
"I beseech you to allow me to communicate with the spirituality of the cultist within the altar."
As the incantation echoed in the sealed environment, Klein suddenly felt the arrival of a vast, terrifying, and hidden power.
His eyes turned completely black, as if he had lost his pupils and the whites of his eyes.
Outside the wall of spirituality, Lin Ruo, watching this scene and already starting to use spirit channeling and dream divination to get the formulas, couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
Just then, Lin Ruo heard a noise. He wasn't surprised. He looked over and saw Dunn Smith jumping down from the second floor of the villa.
"Honored Patron, how is the situation?" Dunn Smith naturally saw the situation at the scene at a glance. He looked at Klein, who was safe and sound and obviously in the middle of spirit channeling, and breathed a sigh of relief while asking.
"Don't worry, the enemy has been dealt with. The other party is a Magician of Sequence Seven, and the Antigonus family's notebook is on him," Lin Ruo said with a smile. After using Wraith Possession on the swallow-tailed tuxedo clown, he confirmed that the Antigonus family's notebook was on the other party.
"Did you kill him?" Hearing this, Dunn Smith wasn't too surprised, he just continued to ask.
"Klein killed him, I just provided some... insignificant help!" Lin Ruo smiled and said, "With this contribution, perhaps you can consider making him a full member of the Nighthawks team..."
Dunn Smith was immediately a little surprised. He glanced at Klein, then nodded thoughtfully and said, "I will consider it."
Lin Ruo didn't say much more on this topic, but instead asked, "How is the battle situation on your side?"
"It's not over yet, but there's basically no problem..." Dunn Smith paused here, organized his words, and said: "There are not only members of the Secret Order in the villa, but also a member suspected of being from the Knowledge Church. I have to say, she caused us a little trouble..."
Dunn Smith briefly described the battle, then said:
"If I haven't guessed wrong, they should have originally wanted to pretend to break through from the other side with the notebook, attract our attention, and then let the person actually carrying the notebook leave from Klein's weak point. I guessed this, so I rushed over..."
"That's called feinting to the east and attacking in the west," Lin Ruo said with a smile, translating the idiom "feinting to the east and attacking in the west" into Loen common language.
"Feinting to the east and attacking in the west..." Dunn Smith chewed on the words, and suddenly thoughtfully said, "A very appropriate description."
"By the way!" Dunn Smith suddenly thought of something and said with a slightly apologetic tone: "Honored Patron, the rat you controlled unfortunately sacrificed himself in the battle just now, I am very sorry."
"It doesn't matter, this was supposed to be his end," Lin Ruo nodded without any surprise. As a user of the fallacy [Mental Distortion], he could naturally sense the situation of those being controlled and was clear about the other party's recent death.
But for a cultist who was not worth pitying, Lin Ruo naturally wouldn't pity the other party's death.
He would sigh for the misfortune of innocent ordinary people, but he would never pity a perpetrator.
And just then, within the wall of spirituality, Klein, who was originally performing spirit channeling, opened his eyes. There was some joy in his eyes, obviously he had obtained what he wanted.
However, happy as he was, Klein still didn't forget to tap his chest four times first, completing the daily check-in to praise the Goddess.
Then he quickly ended the ritual in order and dispelled the wall of spirituality.
"Captain, has the battle on your side ended?" Seeing Dunn Smith standing not far away, Klein's excited expression froze, and then he couldn't help but ask.
"Almost," Dunn Smith nodded.
This was the truth, because during the time the two were waiting for Klein to finish spirit channeling, the sound of battle on the other side of the villa had already stopped, obviously the victory or defeat had been decided.
"How was the spirit channeling result?" Dunn Smith then asked.
Hearing this, Klein first glanced in Lin Ruo's direction, and then said, "I got the potion formulas for the Clown and the Magician."
"Clown and Magician?" Dunn Smith obviously thought of something and asked, "Subsequent potion formulas for the Seer pathway?"
It was not surprising that he could guess this, after all, the Secret Order itself was mainly based on the Seer pathway. Since Klein obtained the formulas after killing a member of the Secret Order, then the possibility of it being the Seer pathway was very high.
"Yes!" Klein nodded, and didn't hide it, saying, "The Clown is Sequence 8 of the Seer pathway, and the Magician is Sequence 7 of the Seer pathway."
Silly child, this way you won't be able to eat one contribution twice... Watching this scene, Lin Ruo, unable to remind him, could only sigh in his heart.
He was clear that at this moment, Klein's saying that he got the potion formulas for the Clown and the Magician could indeed add weight to this contribution of killing the swallow-tailed tuxedo clown, but after all, it was not as effective as only saying one formula, and then saying another formula next time.
It could only be said that the current Klein was indeed naive and had not yet realized the core spirit of "Get the best deal."
He, as a teacher, really had a long way to go... Thinking this way, Lin Ruo's smile also became subtle.
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