<h4>Chapter 543: The Reality That Exceeds Expectations</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios
<i>The target appears to have been found... </i>Klein looked away and made a rough judgment.
As there were no portraits, the dead adventurer’s face was burned ck, which meant that End clearly didn’t recognize this as one of their targets. After observing the situation and listening to the creepyughter for a few seconds, he pointed to the three or four military personnel lying outside the house.
“Drag them back first, then wait for the other teams to arrive beforeunching our attack.
“Or...”
He hesitated for a moment, then he raised his head to look at the approaching dark-blue airship.
Without another word, and without instructing Klein and Danitz, End ran to the unconscious military personnel whose faces were purple.
<i>Tap. Tap. Tap... </i>The closer he got, the weaker his steps became. In the end, his body became stiff and every step he took became extremely difficult.
End, who had been the boatswain of the Imperial Navy, was experienced, He decisively stopped moving forward and turned around slowly, walking back one step at a time.
The more he walked, the smoother it became. However, he was still shaking uncontrobly, his eyebrows and temples were covered in a thinyer of frost.
<i>A quick freezing effect that defiesmon sense... An extreme cold reminiscent of a disaster... </i>With End’s attempt, Klein was able to grasp the danger level of this area, and he could only sigh inwardly.
<i>Unfortunately, the Sun Brooch isn’t able to produce actual heat. It’s only a stimtion of one’s mind. Although it can make a body generate clear effects, it will only allow a person to withstand this cold for three to four seconds at most...</i>
Looking at End’s chattering teeth and how he was unable to open his mouth despite wanting to say something, Klein’s gaze swept over Danitz.
He threw his cane and said in a low voice, “Fire.”
<i>Fire? </i>Danitz was stunned at first, but he quickly understood Gehrman Sparrow.
He had also witnessed the entire process of End’s failure!
A scarlet fireball that couldn’t be considered bright formed on Danitz’s right palm, and he threw it towards the nks of the military personnel.
The fireball traveled for nearly twenty meters and thennded on the ground without creating an explosive sound. Instead, it quietly rose into the air.
The scarlet pir of fire emitted sizzling sounds as it continuously shrank and quickly dimmed.
Suddenly, it expanded, as if it was in a desperate struggle before it perished.
Klein, wearing a ck tweed coat, jumped out andnded right next to the military personnel.
He bent down and reached out with both hands and grabbed the man’s clothes.
Then, he pushed his feet against the ground, exerted strength at his waist, and threw the man out.
The military personnel immediately flew into the air, smoothly flying out beforending ten meters away from the area, escaping the region with the coldest chill.
After doing this, Klein snapped his fingers and lit a match in his pocket before the chill seeped into his body.
The scarlet streams of mes gushed out like water, instantly enveloping him.
By the time everything faded, Klein had disappeared from his location.
mes leaped out, flickering and extinguishing from time to time. With the help of Danitz’s fireballs and his own matches, Klein constantly phased around in the extremely cold area, easily throwing out several military personnel.
After two to three attempts, he carried thest member of the military back to his original position.
End had clearly recovered as he gave a thumbs up.
“I’m very d and honored to have made the decision to ask for your help today.”
<i>Captain, I like your tactful praises... Also, remember to raise the remuneration... </i>Klein nodded politely, half turned, and looked at the open windows of the house. He heard theughter grow stranger.
Danitz pursed his lips to the side and silently cursed End.
<i>Did you not see the contribution I made?</i>
<i>Although my fireball has be something akin to a prop for a magic show, it still made actual contributions!</i>
<i>This guy’s nickname is Just End, but he’s not just at all!</i>
As he muttered, a shadow loomed over the area, and the airship had arrived in the air opposite them.
“Evacuate the people in the surrounding houses!” an officer shouted from the airship.
After End and two other teams cleared several nearby buildings, the airship lowered its altitude and adjusted its cannon muzzles.
<i>Boom! Boom! Boom!</i>
The cannons fired continuously, bombarding the house which was still filled with creepyughter.
Hearing the explosions and seeing the shes of mes, Klein sighed as he held his cane.
This is the firepower bombardment he advocated. He had once proposed it in Tingen City but was unable to put it into practice. And today, however, the overseas colonists were producing the real scene before him.
End and the others stood guard in different positions under the deafening sound of the cannons, so as to prevent the people or perhaps monsters inside from breaking out.
Soon the house copsed, and smoke rose from the piles of masonry. All the snow and ice was gone.
Suddenly, a thick bolt of lightning shed, openly striking the airship.
Klein frowned. He saw that the airship waspletely still and heard a steam boiler produce a jarring sound.
The dark-blue monster in the sky lost some control. Significant amounts of smoke began to billow out as it began descending to the side.
<i>Seems like they’re being shielded by ammunition and being protected by an outeryer of air... I thought it would cause an explosion, sting the airship to pieces... </i>Klein turned his full attention back to the copsed house.
When he initially felt the extreme coldness and saw the male adventurer’s charred body, he thought he had met another demoness—one who grasped the Witch potion form. Having dealt with demonesses several times, he knew that Beyonders of this pathway could control ice and ck mes from Sequence 7.
But that sh of lightning had made him reject this judgment. He believed that Leticia was indeed a member of the Moses Ascetic Order or Element Dawn, a real woman.
The moment Klein arrived at this conclusion, the pile of bricks and wood were immediately lifted away. The bright red and charred figure crawled out, with its elbows used to prop it up from the ground.
She was a female and Leticia’s original appearance could barely be recognised. This made End and the others shocked to discover that they had already found their target. However,pared to before, Leticia’s current state was both terrifying and miserable.
Her body was covered in ck spots. The artillery shells had torn open red holes that lined her body. White fascia that seemed to have a life of its own was squirming inside her body.
The top of her head had split open, and her brain came oozing out, sticking to the surface like the palms of children ovepping each other.
Her gray eyes were out of focus, one of them zing with fire, the other shing with lightning.
Two heads that were screaming in pain were embedded at her abdomen below her chest. They were the other two male adventurers.
<i>Not only has she lost control, but she also appears to be corrupted... She was already severely injured from the previous bombardment, and her aura had dropped to an extreme level... </i>Klein didn’t take action and instead watched as the Beyonders from the military began to attack.
Psychic Piercing, Whip of Pain, Purifying Bullets, and small-caliber gunfire wereunched... With this series of attacks, Rampager Leticia, who only had enough time to crack the ground and spread the crack outwards,pletely broke down and became a dismembered corpse.
<i>Pa!</i>
Her torso fell to the ground, and the heads of the two male adventurers rolled out.
Klein’s eyes slightly narrowed. He discovered that there was a yellowish-brown book hidden within the flesh and blood of Leticia’s abdomen.
On the surface of the book, there was a line of words written in Elven: “Book of Cmity.”
<i>Why do these books and notebooks always find themselves in the stomachs of people. It’s the same as the Antigonus family’s notebookst time... </i>Kleinmpooned, then he suspected that the Book of Cmity was the item that the fake archaeologist, Leticia, had taken from the ruins of the Sea God.
At this moment, some military personnel grabbed the two male adventurers’ heads who still seemed capable of speaking and hurriedly asked, “What did you do in the ruin of the Sea God?”
“Sea God’s Ruins...” One of the male adventurers answered with pain and confusion, “We haven’t been there...”
He tried to move his eyes, to check the situation below his neck.
“The Sea God ruin in Symeem Ind,” the military personnel reminded him.
“No... We didn’t...” The male adventurer wanted to shake his head, but he couldn’t do so. “We went to an ancient elven ruin... Leticia found a book there... She liked it very much... She quickly began to study it, then s-she went mad! She’s crazy!”
As the male adventurer shouted out, whatever was left of his mindpletely dissipated.
<i>It’s not a lost temple of the Sea God but a ruin of the ancient elves? This is different from what I imagined... </i>Klein was about to listen carefully when End came over and politely asked him and Danitz to distance themselves from the interrogation.
Turning into another street, Klein slowed down and thought about the whole thing.
<i>Why would Leticia’s act of taking the Book of Cmity out of the ancient elven ruins cause Sea God Kalvetua to be no longer capable of maintaining its existence, slowly bringing it to the point of breakdown? What’s the connection between the two?</i>
<i>Elves... Sea God... ording to Little Sun, the ancient god, Elf King Soniathrym, wielded the present authorities of the Lord of Storms. That is to say, the elves no doubt possess Sequence 3 Sea King, or an even higher Sequence 2...</i>
<i>Could it be that it was by chance that this sea serpent, Kalvetua, discovered a ruin of the elves at the bottom of the sea, directly devoured the Beyonder characteristics left behind by a certain high elf, and was lucky enough to survive the two possibilities of death and losing control? As such, it seeded in acquiring the rank of a demigod and gradually gained the faith of the Rorsted Archipgo’s natives?</i>
Klein slowly came to a realization, and he had to thank Mr. Hanged Man for this.
Initially, Little Sun didn’t reveal the corresponding authorities of the eight ancient gods, butter, under the guidance of The Hanged Man, he exined some things, including the Elf King Soniathrym general situation.
As for devouring Beyonder characteristics or the corresponding ingredients to advance, it wasn’t something that didn’t happen. Before the potion system was fully constructed, the human ancestors had made simr attempts to obtain Beyonder powers. However, only a very small group of extremely fortunate people had managed to survive to be Beyonders without bing monsters, lunatics, or dying on the spot, with their flesh and blood falling apart.
Such an attempt had a one in a thousand chance of sess, or even a one in ten thousand chance. After the potion system was established, no one was willing to take such a great risk.
<i>If that’s the case, then Kalvetua was indeed very lucky back then... Of course, there’s also the factor of its strong physique... However, its intelligence didn’t seem to increase much, only being capable of deceiving its believers. It didn’t actually find any traces of the elven ruins on Symeem Ind, and how it’s closely rted to the one it’s hiding in...</i>
<i>After Leticia andpany took the Book of Cmity, that ruin copsed, causing Kalvetua’s hiding spot to experience abnormalities, resulting in the barely surviving Kalvetua to be unable to hold out any longer? This can exin how Leticia andpany managed to easily seed. There aren’t any members of the Resistance or the Sea God’s followers defending the area. Only when something happened did Kalvetua discover the problem and realized the connection between the two ruins.</i>
With what he just gathered, Klein tried to exin what he had been wondering about the whole time.
This included why the dying Sea God Kalvetua didn’t allow its followers to be carriers—it would’ve reduced most of the idents and made things easier. With the brutality Kalvetua disyed, it was only right that it made such a choice.
The answer Klein arrived at was that the body Kalvetua wanted to corrupt and possess had to have a certain amount of elven blood, and that was the only way to survive the transfer of Beyonder characteristics up to a certain level.
However, when Klein touched it, due to the gray fog and his uniqueness, it allowed Kalvetua to instantly find a better target.