After the Moon City residents left the Forsaken Land of the Gods, Klein once again summoned Leyton's Historical Projection from the historical void.
After a brief silence, Leyton projected his consciousness over, glancing at Klein with a hint of helplessness in his tone:
"Going to find Dark Demonic Wolf?"
Klein nodded, his tone calm:
"Yes, I've already made arrangements for the residents of Moon City, telling them to wait a bit longer. Next, it's time to try hunting Dark Demonic Wolf to help the City of Silver open up the Giant King's Court."
He paused, then added: "Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?"
"None, but I do have some information."
As he spoke, Leyton raised his right hand and pulled streams of information from the void, condensing them into a spherical ball of illusory light.
He casually tossed the light sphere, and it bloomed in front of him, transforming into a silver screen of light and shadow.
Within the light and shadow, the solidified gray mist appeared. After a few seconds, the mist suddenly surged, spitting out a black shadow that resembled a velvet curtain.
It descended in a translucent state from mid-air, growing larger and larger until it landed on the ground, completely covering a hill below.
The hill vanished instantly, leaving only a deep pit in its place.
The image swayed slightly, showing a subtle change, causing the curtain and the hill to reappear in a transparent form.
Then, a Demonic Wolf covered in dark short fur with eight legs arrived. Its pure black pupils stared directly at the secret hill, as if examining something.
A moment later, It tilted its head and roared, yet eerily, no sound was produced.
Around It, some Monsters hidden in the darkness were transformed into marionettes and walked towards the curtain in front.
After continuous attempts, Dark Demonic Wolf finally got its hands on the curtain, but this also triggered an anomaly in the gray mist.
The nearby gray mist quickly wriggled, forming a giant vortex, attempting to suck Dark Demonic Wolf and the curtain into it.
The shifting light and shadow stopped there. Leyton looked at Klein, who was deep in thought, and reminded him:
"These are some scenes I saw through 'Prophecy' when I was here last time. They occurred two years ago, more specifically, on June 28, 1349."
Klein was stunned for a moment, his eyes wide in disbelief as he looked at Leyton and said:
"Is the anomaly here related to me? Also, did that Dark Demonic Wolf finally succeed in getting that curtain? Which is the Characteristic of the Attendant of Mysteries?"
Without waiting for Leyton's reply, he continued to mutter to himself:
"Is this why the third Attendant of Mysteries Characteristic has been missing since the second epoch? Was it attracted and gathered by those gray mists?"
"I previously asked Arrodes about the Miracle Invoker and Planeswalker. His answer was that one Characteristic each of the Miracle Invoker and Planeswalker were also missing. Were they all gathered into that curtain?"
"It wasn't gathered by the Gray Fog, but by something above the Gray Fog," Leyton corrected him, then continued:
"As for the missing Planeswalker, Miracle Invoker, and Trojan Horse of Destiny Characteristics, they were made into a wishing lamp to seal that unlucky Genie."
"Seal the Genie?" Klein murmured, then remembered the description of the wishing lamp when he had previously inquired about the Miracle Invoker's information.
After a brief silence, he sighed with a wry smile:
"To be able to produce Sequence 2 Characteristics of these three Pathways simultaneously, and use them correctly, was this done by the previous owner of Sefirah Castle?"
The previous owner of Sefirah Castle had actually left many traces, but they were difficult to discover without understanding. Adjusting his emotions, Klein spoke again:
"Was the marionette city I saw earlier Dark Demonic Wolf preparing for its advancement ritual? In this situation, It should be even more cautious. If I use the aura of Sefirah Castle as bait, will It run even further away instead?"
Leyton pondered and said:
"Under normal circumstances, It should not be able to resist the temptation of Sefirah Castle. It's worth the risk."
"Not only because of Sefirah Castle's rank, power, and significance, but also because of the Convergence effect between high-level entities. Driven by destiny, It will gradually convince itself to try to take control of Sefirah Castle."
"If Amon interferes, some unexpected changes might occur, but the probability is not high. Dark Demonic Wolf, who possesses a Characteristic of the Attendant of Mysteries, will not be so easily caught by Amon."
Klein thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "Let's go somewhere further away. Trying here might affect Moon City."
Leyton said nothing more, directly transforming into a torrent of information with Klein and quickly surging away towards the southwest.
After moving far away from Moon City, Leyton found a ruined city and set Klein down there.
Klein cautiously summoned his Historical Projection, then hid his main body in the historical mist.
After doing all this, he looked at Leyton again and said:
"Please take this Historical Projection of mine even further away, ensuring that even if something goes wrong, it won't affect my main body."
"You really are treating me as a mode of transportation, aren't you?"
With a sigh, Leyton once again transformed into a torrent of information, taking Klein's Historical Projection a bit further away.
By the edge of a dry riverbed, torrents of information quickly surged and converged, reassembling Leyton and Klein's figures.
After setting Klein down, Leyton's figure once again became ethereal, disintegrating into torrents of information, disappearing from Klein's sight in the blink of an eye.
After two seconds of silence, Klein, holding a dim yellow lantern, surveyed his surroundings, taking in the cracked riverbed, the strangely distorted plants, and the Monsters hidden in the darkness.
He exhaled a long breath, found a large rock nearby, and sat down. He placed the lantern beside him and softly chanted a honorific name in Jotun:
"Lord of darkness, who exists with history, embodiment of countless miracles, the God who controls wishes..."
As the prayer ended, not long after, Klein felt a subtle gaze fall upon him from an unknown place.
He showed no change in expression or emotion and continued to chant the honorific names of other existences, delaying Dark Demonic Wolf's observation time:
"Eternal Blazing Sun, You are the undying light, You are the embodiment of order, the God of contracts, the Guardian of commerce..."
"Lord Who Created Everything, the ruler behind the shadow curtain, the dominator of the spiritual world..."
"Erudite who upholds truth, You are the essence of all knowledge, the source of endless mystery, the radiance of all civilizations."
As the last word fell, a pair of cold, indifferent, lashless eyes, containing countless brilliant stars, emerged from behind Klein, staring unblinkingly at the darkness above his head, and meeting the gaze of Dark Demonic Wolf, who was looking through the prayer light points.
Almost simultaneously, streams of information, forged by Leyton, were transmitted along the connection of the prayer light points to Dark Demonic Wolf, and through the connection between Its main body and Historical Projection, the information spread to Its main body hidden in the historical void.
The moment It realized something was wrong, Dark Demonic Wolf directly extinguished the prayer light point.
Klein's Historical Projection, who was praying, also simultaneously became faint and rapidly disappeared into the deep darkness.
Deep within the undulating mountain range, in an ancient and magnificent castle that resembled a Giant's dwelling.
Giants, elves, humans, and Vampires were active in the castle, serving as guards, gardeners, cooks, valets, maids, and other positions. They lived in harmony, even exchanging a few words when they met, appearing very lively and spiritual.
But upon returning to their rooms, they would immediately become sluggish, their eyes no longer moving, their bodies uncontrollably floating upwards until they hung from the ceiling.
In the deepest part of the castle, in a dark and spacious hall, the light from the silver-white lightning outside the window illuminated the area, and a gigantic figure abruptly appeared.
Its body was as massive as a small mountain, with eight legs, covered in dark short fur, and its black pupils occupied at least three-quarters of its eyes. There was also a tuft of gray fur on its forehead, like a distorted and enlarged wild wolf.
As soon as It appeared, Dark Demonic Wolf Kotar immediately began to clear Its various connections with the outside world, erasing the traces It had left, preparing to abandon this place and establish Its marionette city elsewhere.
Those strange eyes It had just seen made It feel an intense unease, as if It had been targeted by a terrifying existence.
The next second, a scene suddenly appeared in Its mind, a scene from Its own intuitive premonition!
It was above this castle, where countless pale blue stardust flew out of the void, rapidly constructing a pair of double doors covered in Mystic patterns and sparkling with brilliant starlight, from which countless complex and pure information surged out.
Kotar, regaining his senses, instinctively looked up. His body instantly vanished, and a dull, spiritless elf appeared in the center of the hall.
Above the Gray Fog, Klein gazed at a new illusory star that appeared above the boundless Gray Fog. This was a connection established by Dark Demonic Wolf's recent prying into him, a connection Dark Demonic Wolf hadn't had time to erase.
Without any hesitation, Klein reached into the historical void and pulled out a Worm of Time corpse from Amon. With his other hand, he picked up the ornate staff placed on the bronze table.
As spirituality was infused, the staff, embedded with numerous azure gems, radiated a clear starlight.
At the same time, Klein's eyes turned azure, covered by a layer of starlight.
At that instant, he mastered a great deal of high-level knowledge, knowledge belonging to the domain of time!
He used the Worm of Time from Amon to leverage the power corresponding to the Marauder Pathway within Sefirah Castle, simulating and releasing a Beyonder ability that both Amon and Pallez had once used.