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"Alright, I've completed my advancement. It's your turn."
Hearing Lin Ruo's words, Klein couldn't be bothered to dwell on the annoying "Cat Klein" nickname the other party had used. He took a deep breath, recalled the Faceless potion formula in his mind, then opened the box containing the Beyonder ingredients and began to meticulously prepare it.
Starting with the Thousand-Faced Hunter's blood, one by one, Materials were tossed by Klein into the glass vessel for preparing the potion. When the Faceless characteristic, serving as the main ingredient, was dropped in, accompanied by a truly marvelous transformation, a completed potion appeared before the two.
Unlike the Judge potion, which resembled a metallic flower blooming in water, the Faceless potion was overall a dark green, like something alive, with eye-sized bubbles leisurely rising within it from time to time.
But these bubbles could not truly float to the surface, for they would burst immediately upon contact with the surface, simultaneously reflecting light, various colors of light. Reflecting various colors.
These colors collectively outlined different facial features, as if the facial features were randomly combining.
It must be said, regardless of the taste, the Seer Pathway's potions generally looked quite good.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it just still doesn't look like something you can drink." Lin Ruo pinched his chin, commenting with interest, then saw Klein cautiously take out his yellow crystal pendulum, which he had carried with him since Tingen, and began to perform a Divination.
After confirming that the Faceless potion was successfully prepared and had no issues, Klein did not rush to consume it. Instead, he sat down and began to adjust his state through meditation.
Lin Ruo, beside him, also quieted down at this moment, preparing to help Klein stabilize his state at any time, while waiting for the latter to take the potion.
After all, Klein was different from him. His true body was unknown, and drinking potions was like drinking water to him, so preparation didn't matter. But Klein, as an ordinary person, no matter how much of a Genius, still needed to prepare well when advancing to Sequence 6.
After all, for most Beyonders, this Sequence was already a hurdle they could not overcome.
It was under these circumstances that Klein spent about ten seconds adjusting his state. Then, he ended his meditation, suddenly picked up the cup of Faceless potion, and tilted his head back to drink it down.
Lin Ruo quietly watched this scene, and then saw a marvelous change appear on Klein's body. His eyes were melting, his mouth was melting, his nose was melting, and his entire face underwent a marvelous transformation.
Undoubtedly, this was a very sanity-draining scene. If an ordinary person saw this, they would probably scream in fright.
Lin Ruo, who was mentally prepared, didn't feel surprised, because he knew this was something that had to be experienced when advancing to Faceless.
More precisely, even when he himself had just advanced, his physical body had also undergone different but similarly transformative changes. It was just that Lin Ruo didn't have to rely on his own will to endure it like ordinary Beyonders, with even his spirit body being permeated and transformed by the potion.
If Lin Ruo were to describe his state when consuming the potion, it would probably be—his body was transformed by the potion, but his spirit body remained independent.
"This body of mine is becoming more and more like a temporary vessel… Tsk, maybe it really is a vessel. Perhaps in the future, I can even form a vessel group with the Mother of the Sky."
Lin Ruo clicked his tongue inwardly, but his gaze never left Klein.
He waited, and sure enough, after a short while, Klein's melting state began to improve. Finally, when Klein opened his eyes, the melting state on him had disappeared, but he still looked very Cthulhu-esque.
Dense, light-colored flesh buds almost covered Klein's face and exposed skin. This was a sight that would make a normal person lose their sanity just by seeing it.
Ah, there it is, the flesh-bud version of the cat-worm… As a person with normal aesthetics, Lin Ruo naturally felt some discomfort with Klein's current appearance. However, he immediately automatically replaced the scene in his eyes with the silly pictures he had seen before, and without changing his expression, picked up a mirror from beside him, but did not hand it over, instead saying:
"Klein, honestly, you look quite scary right now."
"Ah…" Klein was stunned for a moment, then took the large mirror from Lin Ruo's hand. Because Lin Ruo had already given him a heads-up, Klein wasn't scared by his reflection in the mirror, but he still immediately put the mirror aside with a thwack and began to use meditation to gather his spirituality and alleviate his mental fatigue.
After adjusting for about ten minutes, the light-colored flesh buds on Klein's body finally disappeared, completely merging into his flesh and blood. The surface of his skin returned to normal, and Klein opened his eyes again.
"Come, try out your new ability. Change into this."
Just then, the large mirror and an open magazine appeared before Klein. The latter was stunned for a moment, and almost instinctively used his Faceless ability to transform.
After he finished transforming, looking at the valiant black-haired lady in the mirror, Klein suddenly reacted, his expression darkened, and he changed back to his original appearance.
"Lin Ruo!"
"I'm here." Lin Ruo responded without any guilt, looking at Klein's darkened face, and said righteously: "Why such a big reaction? Don't you know that a major point in digesting the Faceless potion is to overcome your own gender barriers?"
He wasn't making this up. In the original work, after Klein broke through his own bottom line and disguised himself as the red-haired Elaine, the potion digestion progress began to advance a bit.
En, although Lin Ruo also admitted that he was purely persecuting him just now, his mindset was similar to wanting Roselle to drink the Witch potion.
"Huh?" Hearing his self-righteous words, Klein was stunned for a moment, and for a while, he couldn't quite tell if Lin Ruo's words were nonsense or not.
No, even if what he said was true, he must have been deliberately persecuting me just now…
Klein suddenly realized something and was about to say something when he saw Lin Ruo smilingly close the fashion magazine and say:
"To act as a Faceless, the most important thing to remember is that you can portray anyone, but you can only be yourself."
Hearing this, Klein almost instinctively began to ponder. Because this time he had forgotten to commune with Master Luo, Klein had never heard this common core rule of the Faceless before today.
After Klein digested this sentence, the anger from being persecuted naturally vanished without a trace. He also didn't rush to feel the changes in his abilities after advancing to Faceless—after all, Klein already knew that compared to a Magician, a Faceless, besides gaining a core ability to change appearance, had no other new abilities; it was merely an enhancement of existing abilities.
Klein simply looked at Lin Ruo and said: "Lin Ruo, that mystical connection between us… is it an Anchor?"
Lin Ruo's smile froze for a moment, then he nodded and said: "En, to be honest, although I expected it, this operation of being Anchors for each other… Tsk!"
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