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Leyton directly reached out and took the Book Messenger into his hand, saying, "Leave some of your paper for me. I'll use it to set up a ritual. Later, help me scatter all these papers around the Spirit World area corresponding to that villa."
As he spoke, Leyton had already started tearing off one-third of the blank paper from the Book Messenger.
"No more tearing! I'm going bald, I'm going bald!"
The Book Messenger fled from Leyton's hand as if for its life, wailing as it ran back into the Spirit World.
Leyton glanced at the direction the Book Messenger fled, then weighed the papers in his hand. "Hmm, that's probably enough. I'll let it go."
He then spread all the papers flat on the floor of the room, took off the bone staff disguised as a cane hanging from his waist, and swiped it through the shadows in the room.
The invisible shadows were torn open like a dark curtain, and a humanoid figure made of dark shadows took out a pile of materials from within the shadows.
Leyton skillfully took out the materials he needed and mixed essential oils, hydrosols, herbal powders, and spiritual blood to create ink for ritual magic.
He took out the ritual silver pen, dipped it in the prepared ink, and began to draw strange mystic symbols on the papers spread out on the ground.
These symbols interconnected, forming a larger, complex pattern like layered wings.
"Snap!" Leyton raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Then, with a whoosh, a whirlwind swept through the room, and the papers laid flat on the ground were carried into the air, swirling as they disappeared into the Spirit World.
Having made his preparations, Leyton looked up at the sky outside the window again. The once bright sky had already darkened, and the dim yellow streetlights around could be vaguely seen.
Leyton walked over to Bugs Bunny, who was sprawled on the windowsill, and asked, "Have those deep sleep flowers bloomed?"
"They've started growing, but it will be a while before they bloom. The pollen of the deep sleep flower has a slight scent, so if they bloom now, they might be discovered by the people in that villa," Bugs Bunny explained with a solemn expression.
Leyton, quite surprised, patted Bugs Bunny's head under his hat and said, "Ho! You've improved! You're becoming more and more like a mature Beyonder rabbit!"
Clatter!
The door was pushed open from outside, and Klein walked in with a heavy expression.
"Capim indeed has support from people in the kingdom. I just caught someone leaving the villa and performed some divination."
"In the divination scene, I saw a Lower House Member who frequently appears in newspapers, and I saw someone referred to as a Deputy Director, which is a high-ranking official in the police department."
"This isn't too surprising news." Leyton nodded slightly, turned, and walked towards the room door, saying, "Let's go, we'll have dinner and then make our move when the night is quiet."
"This is Backlund; the Royal Family will quickly notice something is wrong and send support."
At midnight, Capim's luxurious villa was still brightly lit.
In the villa's garden, in wall cracks, and along the fence, faint purple deep sleep flowers quietly bloomed, dotting the area.
A faint, calming fragrance with a soothing effect filled the villa and the surrounding area with the evening breeze.
The guards, servants, and even the vicious dogs in the villa seemed to notice nothing, continuing their respective tasks.
"What's wrong with them? Why don't they notice such an obvious anomaly?" Klein asked from the window, leaning against the sill, gazing at Capim's villa in front through the crimson moonlight.
"It's a psychological cue. The seeds scattered around the villa by birds all carry a psychological cue that weakens their sense of presence," Leyton said, standing on the other side of the window.
Leyton looked straight ahead, his gaze piercing through the dark night of dim yellow lights, and saw the corresponding Spirit World of this area.
A golden book fell from the Spirit World Depths, and with a rustling sound, the book began to flip on its own.
Pale yellow papers, drawn with strange symbols, were shaken off, scattering across this Spirit World area.
After doing all this, the Book Messenger quickly left this Spirit World area.
The scattered pale yellow papers seemed to be attracted by an invisible force, spreading in all directions, and curiously forming a circle.
The strange symbols drawn on the papers seemed to come alive, beginning to twist and wriggle.
Slowly, strange symbols began to emerge from the papers, like little worms, scurrying around this Spirit World area, more and more of them, eventually forming a complex, exaggerated large net that ensnared the Spirit World in this area.
"We can act now." Leyton patted Bugs Bunny, who was dozing on the windowsill.
"Waaah! Boss, let me sleep a little longer!" Bugs Bunny groggily pushed away Leyton's hand, rolled over on the windowsill, and smacked his lips twice.
Klein glanced at the sleepy-eyed Bugs Bunny, then turned to Leyton, his eyes signaling: Is this rabbit of yours reliable?
Shaking his head with a hint of exasperation, Leyton explained in a low voice, "He's just here to make up the numbers. You go ahead and act, I'll be your backup!"
Klein nodded lightly, took out Holy Night Powder, scattered it around the room's walls, and sealed the room with a Wall of Spirituality.
Then he quickly set up an altar and began the ritual:
"I!"
"In my name, I summon:"
"The The Fool who does not belong to this era, the Mysterious Ruler above the Gray Fog, the King of Yellow and Black Who Wields Good Luck."
With the ritual complete, Klein immediately walked four steps counter-clockwise, entering the Gray Fog, preparing to respond to himself.
Above the Gray Fog, Klein picked up the black emperor card, allowing his Spirit Body to envelop it.
Suddenly, Klein's Spirit Body rapidly solidified, as if it had flesh and blood.
Dark, illusory mist permeated the surroundings, clinging to the surface of his Spirit Body, forming an armor full of majesty.
A dark crown appeared on his head, and a long black cloak emerged behind him.
At this moment, Klein's Spirit Body resembled an emperor about to embark on a campaign.
Klein, in his Black Emperor Spirit Body guise, stepped forward and entered the illusory door he had summoned through the ritual.
Leyton, following his spiritual intuition, gazed at the illusory rift Klein had created through the ritual.
The next moment, a Black Emperor-clad Spirit Body stepped out from it.
With just a glance, Leyton was astonished to find that all his premonitions and intuitions vanished without a trace on the other party.
"Black emperor card?" Leyton murmured softly, then his tone shifted to a teasing one, saying, "I have a reasonable suspicion that Roselle made twenty-two skins for you."
"This is just an accidental coincidence!" Klein's Black Emperor-clad Spirit Body explained in a deep voice.
"Actually, what I wanted to exclaim was: I wonder what kind of outfit you'd have if you used a Demoness Card!" Leyton did not hide the mischievous glint in his eyes.
Klein was silent for a moment, then directly, in his Spirit Body form, charged through the wall and flew towards Capim's luxurious villa.
Leyton reached out and pressed on Bugs Bunny, roughly shaking him awake from his deep sleep.
With one hand twisting Bugs Bunny's ear and the other holding his tall top hat, Leyton stepped into the shadows in the room, and the shadows writhed, swallowing Leyton's figure.
Using the ubiquitous shadows of the night, Leyton easily entered Capim's villa.
He put down Bugs Bunny, whom he had been holding by the ear, and put his hat on him, saying, "The concentration of deep sleep flower pollen here should be about right. Hurry up and get to work."
Bugs Bunny rubbed his somewhat groggy eyes and then slapped his own head twice with his paws.
After surveying the surroundings, Bugs Bunny immediately changed his posture, squatting on the ground, placing his paws on the floor, and softly chanting a spell in ancient hermes.
The scattered faint purple deep sleep flowers around began to sway in the windless night. This swaying had an inexplicable meaning, as if it could soothe people's minds.
The faint floral scent in the air gradually intensified, and a deep drowsiness lingered in everyone's mind.
"Slumber!" Before the Beyonders in the villa could react, Leyton softly chanted a Dragonese word.
Invisible waves, along with the swaying of the deep sleep flowers, and their fragrance, quickly spread to every corner of the villa.
Inside the villa, all the ordinary people at this moment fell into a slumber from which they could not be awakened by the outside world for a short time.
Klein, in his Spirit Body form, silently passed through the door and the wall, entering the hall.
"Slumber!" A voice with a strong hypnotic effect echoed in Klein's ears.
Klein felt his mind reel for a moment, as if he was about to fall into a deep sleep at any moment.
Fortunately, the target of this spell, which carried the power of slumber, was not me; otherwise, I'm afraid I would have collapsed on the spot like these people.
Temporarily suppressing his thoughts, Klein looked around, then quickly passed through the wall and entered the dining room.
In the dining room, everyone, including the Beyonders, had fallen into a deep sleep.
However, Klein could tell through his Spirit Vision that the three Beyonders named Heras, Katie, and Parker were struggling and would soon break free from their slumber.
"Hmm?" Klein looked in a certain direction outside the villa with a puzzled gaze.
His spiritual intuition conveyed a dangerous signal, and the temperature in the dining room also began to drop at a visible rate. A thin layer of mist appeared on the wine glasses containing red wine.
"What is this? What did Argan do?" Klein was slightly puzzled.
"Mmm~" The woman named Katie made a sound of struggle.
Klein had no time to ponder what was happening outside. He immediately approached and touched Katie's body, and a layer of white frost spread over Katie's body.
The intense stimulation made Katie break free from her slumber, and she tried to open her eyes.
The next moment, a sound wave inaudible to humans exploded directly in her ear, reverberating throughout the entire dining room.
This was "Spirit Scream," an ability evolved from a soul-attacking spell-like ability, directly harming the souls of living beings, empowered by the black emperor card's blessing on the Spirit Body.
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