Having been traveling for a minute or two I felt the aura of the hermit increasing at an alarming rate.
I extended my hand out as if opening a door knob, the space contoured and distorted as the things around me began to collapse.
The colors began to take form as the blackish brown made its appearance, then a foggy white began to spread like noise.
"Is that the grey fog?" I muttered as the surrounding was manifesting around me.
As I left the spirit world I looked around.
As the scene burned in my retina, a chill ran down my spine.
I was in front of the Great Wall , the wall of history that divided the Western and Eastern Continent.
I quickly took out a historical projection of myself and hid inside a part of history only I knew.
I then manipulated this historical projection.
It is fine, on the contrary this makes the most sense, only near this barrier can a uniqueness be corrupted .
it's also possible that the uniqueness was attracted to this place rather than being here from the start.
Just as I was observing things around , I felt two purplish eyes prying in me as if staring at my sole.
"The Hidden Sage???".
Just as I took the name , the eyes averted their gaze.
"No not quite, it's still incomplete, had this been the real thing , I would have lost control by now".
I muttered as if thinking of a plan.
"Since the Uniqueness isn't as alive as I thought, it might be easier to deal with it by just sealing it."
I turned around , now my back faced the great wall.
Looking around trying to find the uniqueness and the characteristics.
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Having been walking around for the last 5 minutes, I still couldn't find it.
Using spiritual instinct wasn't even worth using , since it most definitely interfered with it.
The only other way I can find this thing is by divination , but I doubt it will work, then what else can be done .....
Ahh yes , lets see what the Hermit can actually do , this is an incarnation of a Uniqueness we are talking about, it might be using some ability of it
I closed my eyes as I divined the information from the wiki.
A book that merged seamlessly with the surrounding opened as the knowledge about hermit appeared on it.
Ahh yes clairvoyance, Bernadette was one , lets see ,the hermit might be using the future knowledge to hide from me ,there is also the possibility that it has become ethereal knowledge hidden around the surroundings and influencing the sprite world .
This makes this very difficult, I am not gonna trigger sefirah castle this close to the grey wall and hope everything goes well.
Furthermore I am on the Eastern Continent, this means if sefirah castle is activated Flegaria who might have doubts would most certainly be sure of this.
I looked around, trying to find clues but to no avail. The only way to solve this is to brute force.
I created a historical void projection of myself , before entering a void of History only I would know and hiding my true body there.
I made the projection to prepare an altar to pray to myself to analyse the situation from the sefirah castle and see if I found something.
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[Above the Sefirah Castle]
Tapping on the red orb that permeated with intense heat, I began the observations.
Huh , this is the best method I guess, I can see way more than I could before and a lot clearer in fact. I need to learn to use sefirah castle more precisely and make good use of it.
Looking around I found an intense distortion in space around a singular point.
Is that a black hole ?????
No thats not it, had it been a black hole it would have already devoured the earth.
I pondered for a moment before zooming my focus on it.
Just as my gaze locked on to this singular point, I saw two eyes looking back at me, filled with only one emotion, excitement, a different kind of excitement the kind you get when something new interests you.
Fuck , does it see me???
Quickly cutting the connection off so as to prevent that thing from harming me in any shape or form.
I need a plan, a good one at that , this reconnaissance mission is borderline failure since I could barely locate it.
In these aspects I am still very poor, I suppose only experience could really solve such problems.
Just as I was about to leave the sefirah castle , the crimson ball that represented Amanises began to glow.
I suppose a former Spirit Warlock would be the first to take notice of this situation.
Touching the glow orb, I let it expand as it turned into her silhouette and then color began to bleed into the crimson silhouette as it took the form of Amanises.
Looking at her for a moment before I sighed.
" The spirit world was in a rather tough spot but has been dealt with….,Now that you are here I have work for you"
Quickly grasping the severity of the situation.
She said "Go on, elaborate what I can help you with".
"As you have already seen , the spirit world has undergone a massive catastrophe.
While I have made the situation better than before, the root of the problem is still not solved"
"And what's this root?" she asked as she sat at one of the chairs in the castle.
"I assume it's the Hermits Uniqueness" I answered while thinking of any details I had missed along the way.
"I take it , that 'It' was able to latch onto you even in this place."
I nodded and continued pondering.
"But that should not be possible, even Grisha said he can't pry at you in this place."
This!!!!!!
Yes, even Grisha had issues finding me out, that is the nature of this place, only by existing outside of spacetime could one even locate this place.
But that's most certainly beyond the scope of Hermit.
"Yeah , that's what's bothering me as well," I answered while pondering further into this question.
"Should I try creating a concealment barrier to see if it still happens??" asked Amanises.
Hold one a moment , this is the second Epoch, this event should have happened at the end or beginning of the fourth epoch.
Therefore this entire thing is related to the lord of mysteries i.e. Sefirah Castle, furthermore this entire thing happened near the grey fog.
This implies that either the fog reacted when I pried at the hermit and it used that information to deduce my location even if it was not aware of who I am .
Or that It has some control over Knowledge Moor to be able to use omnipresence symbolism and figure out using that.
Let's observe the fog rather than Hermit for once, It might be of much more use.
"I think I might know why, but I will have to see and confirm it."
"Well then lets get going,standing here won't solve our problem"
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[Somewhere in Eastern Continent— near the grey fog]
I made the projection stand up from its position and dispel the barrier that I had created.
I then took out another projection from the void of history.
This time it belonged to Amanises.
The eyes of the Amanises darted around before suddenly dilating.
They then looked at me as she started floating.
She then said "Can this projection handle the use of angel level abilities??"
"Yes, it is the most battle oriented use of this ability" I said reassuring her.
"How broken can this even be, how are pathways all equal when there are beyonder that pull angels when they fight"
I chuckled before speaking "Shall we get going, I don't think the uniqueness is going to wait for us"
Amanises nodded and we departed towards the grey fog.
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[At the Edge of Eastern Continent]
"What the fuck is this" Amanises said in awe as she admired at this wondered.
Without waiting for me to answer she touched the grey foggy wall.
"It's as thick as concrete, It really is a wall" Amanises while trying to break this wall.
"What do you expect , after all this is the wall that seals the 7 of 9 sefirot"
Without missing a beat she asked "so can you open this???, Will I get the River of Eternal Darkness"
"Only after I become a true Lord of Mysteries, furthermore I would not recommend becoming a GOO this quickly"
"Yeah.. Yeahh… I know the remnants of the Oldest One are still very fresh, the protagonist also became LOTM only in the 5th epoch"
I nodded.
"So what's the plan, you plan to use this fog??" She was still looking around the grey fog.
I nodded in disagreement and spoke "No , I think the hermit is exploiting the changes in the fog to see if I gazed at him or not"
"Make sense , so are you going to conceal the info or just confirm your guess"
Just as she asked I smiled and said "Ohh just confirm my guess."
Amanises nodded, ignoring my smug face.
I then took out the scene of an altar that I had been using back in the town.
"The Fool that doesn't belong to this era"....
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[Sefirah Castle]
As I the main body pondered on what the hermit could really be, I decided to divine certain things related to me.
I took out a topaz necklace from the void of history.
"This matter is going to be a threat to me"...
The topaz began to rotate clockwise but the speed was relatively slow.
So the matter itself is not dangerous , but the consequences that might come from it might be.
That reminds me, I was able to use such high level wishes after fixing the famine in Oikos. Yes I was even able to dull the effect of the characteristics in Sterope.
All of these moments means that I have almost digested my miracle invoker potions and I have enough wishes that I can create 2 to 3 true miracles.
Furthermore my ability of wishing is more abstract since I am not quite facing the backlash that I had anticipated with the wish I made with Sterope.
Is this a benefit that only a born angel gets or is it something else? We didn't get to see much of Klein's performing a high level miracle , so my knowledge is lacking in this department.
I should try to contact Antigonus and see if he is willing to help me, his response seemed very interesting.
Just as I was pondering the orb that represented my marionette began to glow.
The red glow began to envelope my entire field of vision as a screen of sorts appeared in front of me.
The screen began to display the surroundings around my marionette.
Panning around the scene I looked around to see if the grey fog.
Let's see , I wonder if I can see through the grey fog.
Quickly the grey wall began to envelope my field before my moving had made no change in the scene.
Ahh, I suppose that was rather expected , if looking at the grey fog from the sefirah had any impact , Klein would have already explored it.
There is also a possibility that praying to it might yield a result but that risks us exposing ourselves to Flegrea, but considering the Sefirah Castle was activated during the disaster 'He' would have been aware of it.
Well I will try this after I become a Sequence 1, that way I can deal with the consequences much more effectively.
Panning back to see my marionette.
I quickly moved back to the place where I had previously gazed at.
Further retracing my steps, I once again saw the singularity.
This time I was prepared for a reaction.
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[The Sefirah Castle]
I could feel the gaze of the main body looking back at me.
Standing up and looking at Amanises , I said "It has begun, we are now going to observe the grey wall to see if it has any reaction that the Hermit can infer from."
Amanises nodded before staring at the grey wall.
"Looking at this wall, it makes me feel very small" Amanises she observed.
I myself waiting for a reaction spoke "Well , It is a reasonable reaction, think about, this wall serves as a barrier to keep the sefirots in check"
"Well I suppose that is one way to put it anyhow, what kind of reaction are we looking for, since I can't find one"
I waited for a moment before smiling "That kind"
The grey fog had begun to boil, while the boil was not too noticeable it was enough of a change for a sequence zero to notice and make predictions and infer my location.
Just as I was about to turn towards Amanises , my connection with the main body broke and so did Amanises' historical projection.
[Above the Sefirah Castle]
The purple eyes gazed back at me this time with a different emotion, a sense of familiarity.
Before long I could feel the connection from the real world separating, this was something not even a hermit could do.
No, not even a Demon of Knowledge could wield the power of concealing Sefirah castle.
Not unless the entire spirit world was devoured and both the river of time and fate were flooded for enough divergence that the symbolism of beacon destiny would itself isolate.
No this was something only a Lord of Mysteries could do.
Celestial Worthy of Heavens and Earth ????