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After quietly listening to Leticia's statement, Leyton leaned back in his chair, lost in thought.
She accidentally felt that the Mystery Pryer Pathway's Sequence 4 advancement ritual was too difficult, so she chose to risk stealing the "Book of Calamity," hoping to walk the Storm Pathway by relying on the Beyonder characteristic from the Queen of Calamity?
This was a bit too absurd. She was more like a tool person that the Hidden Sage had arranged long ago; from the very beginning, he had secretly influenced her, controlling the development of events. So, the essence of opportunity was a conspiracy?
As he pondered, his spiritual intuition was suddenly touched.
Leyton turned his head to look at the bay window, where a majestic figure, covered in black armor and wearing a dark crown, emerged.
"Long time no see, Hero Bandit 'Black Emperor.' Your business has expanded quite quickly; you've even come to the sea."
Leyton suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth and greeted Klein, who was dressed as the Hero Bandit Black Emperor.
The majestic figure that emerged from the bay window remained silent. He floated in mid-air, quietly watching Leyton.
Is this why the divination showed no danger? Although there was indeed no danger, I'm about to die of embarrassment!
Fortunately, after accommodating the black emperor card, my Spirit Body was covered in a layer of armor, so at least he couldn't see my face. Klein silently complained inwardly, then nodded expressionlessly towards Leyton, and his figure instantly vanished.
Leyton withdrew his gaze and casually said to Leticia:
"Your mission is complete. In return, which Pathway's Beyonder do you wish to become? I can promise you Beyonder characteristics up to demigod and the Sequence 4 advancement ritual."
Leticia then seemed to snap back to reality, realizing what she had just said, and her face instantly turned pale.
Her eyes held an undisguised fear, and after a long while, she murmured:
"Mission? Reward?"
Leyton nodded gently:
"You can understand it as everything you've done being a secret mission, starting from when you discovered information about the 'Book of Calamity.'"
"Whose mission is this?"
Her face was a bit pale, but her tone wasn't very confused; she seemed to have already guessed something.
"Haven't you already guessed?"
"Have you decided which Pathway's Beyonder you want to become?"
Leyton raised an eyebrow slightly, asking two questions in a calm tone.
Leticia shook her head, somewhat conflicted, rubbing the back of her left hand with her right. Then her gaze fell on Leyton, and she pondered before speaking:
"I don't know. Do you have any recommendations?"
"My recommendations?"
"Mystery Pryer, Savant, and Reader. By walking on the path of seeking knowledge, you will receive more favor than others."
Leyton rubbed his chin with his right hand, offering his recommendation.
"Reader?"
Leticia pondered for a moment, seemingly not understanding why Reader was an option. I remember that the only Pathway adjacent to Mystery Pryer is Savant. Is this an expansion of his authority?
She quickly reined in her thoughts; these were not matters she could casually speculate on.
After quickly thinking it over in her mind, she made her choice:
"I choose the Reader Pathway."
Leyton looked at Leticia with some surprise, said nothing, but simply nodded in response.
He extended his right hand, raised it, and pressed it against his glabella. An eye pattern, composed of brilliant starlight and without eyelashes, appeared before him.
As he pushed his hand forward, this condensed Eyes of Mystery Prying automatically flew towards Leticia, merging into the center of her right palm.
Leticia reflexively raised her hand to examine her palm. An eye pattern without eyelashes flashed across it, and after that, no matter how she observed, she found no trace of it.
Leticia pondered for a moment, then asked thoughtfully:
"This is… the Eyes of Mystery Prying?"
Leyton was not surprised that Leticia recognized the Eyes of Mystery Prying. Although she was an ordinary person, she was, after all, a member of the Moses Ascetic Order.
He nodded gently:
"Yes, it can be used for contact, and it also makes it convenient for me to find you."
"I will collect the materials for your Reader potion in the next few days and give it to you. Before that, you'd best not leave the Rorsted Archipelago, otherwise it will be a bit troublesome for me to find you."
"Okay."
Leticia nodded slightly. She opened her mouth, somewhat confused as to how the other party had arrived so soon after she obtained the "Book of Calamity."
But as far as her eyes could see, the other party's figure had already rapidly faded, and in the blink of an eye, only she remained in the room.
In the Spirit World, Leyton wandered amidst layers of rich color blocks.
His goal was clear: the ancient elf ruins where Leticia obtained the "Book of Calamity."
Before he could even get close, an aura of rage and madness permeated the surrounding Spirit World area, spreading outwards like gathering gales.
Leyton's intuition suddenly warned him, and his figure halted abruptly.
Rumble!
A silver-white bolt of lightning, as thick as a bucket, struck down, grazing his foot and splitting towards an unknown area of the Spirit World.
Rumble! Rumble!
One silver-white electric light after another fell.
Leyton clenched his left fist, and specks of starlight emerged. Then, he slammed it forward with force.
The barrier between the Spirit World and reality was broken by him, and those silver-white electric lights fell into reality one after another.
Deep in the jungle, in a sky without a single cloud, thunder boomed out of nowhere, startling nearby animals to scurry away quickly.
Leyton, in the Spirit World, paused slightly. He sensed that he had been locked onto by an intensely malicious and angry will.
"Kalvetua?"
Muttering softly, Leyton moved away from the Spirit World area where the ancient elf ruins were located.
Specks of starlight appeared around him, shielding his aura and that of the "Book of Calamity" in his hand, while also accelerating his speed of wandering in the Spirit World.
On a reef in the Rorsted Archipelago sea area, Leyton's figure quickly emerged.
The specks of starlight floating around him rapidly condensed, forming a high-backed chair and a desk standing on the reef.
He sat down calmly and began to flip through the yellowish-brown ancient parchment book in his hand.
The content of the ancient book was written in elf language, recording many songs and delicacies favored by elves, and also depicting some scenes: magnificent and wondrous underwater palaces, lightning leaping in the high heavens, and elves singing loudly on coastal reefs...
After flipping through the entire "Book of Calamity," Leyton did not sense any aura of the Queen of Calamity, or any information related to her.
Is it hidden well, or is this book just a medium?
After pondering for a moment, Leyton chanted a honorific name in ancient hermes:
"Left Hand of God, Agent of the Lord, Viceroy of Heaven."
"I have obtained the 'Book of Calamity.' I wonder if you are interested in it…"
After finishing his prayer, he waited quietly for half an hour.
The winds and waves on the sea surface suddenly diminished, gradually solidifying, and the light also dimmed at this moment. The originally blue seawater was covered by a layer of shadow.
Black feathers fell from the sky, landing in the dark seawater, splashing out wisps of black smoke that gathered and writhed on the sea surface, condensing into a figure clad in a black robe and holding a dark staff.
This shadow's face was indistinct, without even details, like a pure, materialized shadow condensed from shadows.
His gaze lingered on the "Book of Calamity" in Leyton's hand for a moment, then he said calmly:
"This book does not contain the characteristic of Calamity. It is more like a medium, a medium through which Hohxnern establishes contact with the outside world and exerts influence."
After a brief pause, he continued:
"There is a part of her will inside."
Leyton nodded without surprise. The moment he obtained this "Book of Calamity," he knew that the characteristic of Calamity was not in this book.
"Can this book be used as a contact to find her?"
"That Queen of Calamity should still retain a portion of the Calamity characteristic."
Sasrir stepped forward two paces, took the "Book of Calamity" from Leyton's hand, and gently tapped the cover of the "Book of Calamity" with the dark staff he held.
From the yellowish-brown "Book of Calamity," dark, viscous liquid suddenly flowed out. This liquid constantly distorted and dripped downwards, resembling a distorted, pained human face.
"Ah!!"
A soul-shaking scream suddenly erupted from the "Book of Calamity," which was covered in dark liquid. A very ferocious, distorted human face emerged, then, like wriggling tentacles, it continuously struggled outwards, seemingly wanting to break free from this dark restraint.
Leyton was somewhat dazed by the scream just now. By the time he recovered, the surroundings had become quiet.
The "Book of Calamity," covered in dark, viscous liquid, was pierced by the staff held in Sasrir's hand. Dark tentacles hung down, struggling weakly for a moment.
Leyton opened his mouth, just about to ask a question, when he heard a "ding~" sound in his ear, followed by warm liquid flowing out, and the surroundings became deafeningly quiet.
Did that sound just now pierce my eardrum? Leyton reacted somewhat sluggishly.
He reached out and wiped away the scarlet liquid flowing from his ear, then gently rubbed his hands together. Specks of brilliant starlight floated, scattering threads of starlight, rapidly dissolving the blood he had shed.
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