As he spoke, Klein raised his right hand.
At some point, a mass of pitch-black, filthy flesh had appeared in his palm, wrapping around an indescribable madness.
"The answer is the corruption of 'The Hanged Man'," Klein said with a smile to his "Shadow".
What he had that his "Shadow" did not was precisely the erosion left by the "
And Klein was sure of one thing: that before meeting the "Dark Angel"
Therefore, he deliberately let the eroded parts of himself be infected by the "Mental Plague", disguising it as an illusion of his impending loss of control, and by manipulating the "Spirit Body Threads" indiscriminately, he concealed the fact that his real target was the "Spectator Saint", and when the other party launched a further attack, he successfully put him into a sluggish state, creating an opportunity for the "Silver Knight" marionette.
The result was just as Klein expected; the eroded parts of him contained the seeds of the "Mental Plague", preventing the negative effects from erupting.
During this process, the "Shadow", worried about the influence of the "Mental Plague", distanced himself from Klein early on, failing to detect the anomaly in the "Spectator Saint"'s "Spirit Body Threads" in time.
Was Klein not well aware of how cautious and careful he himself was?
Of course, once he met the "Dark Angel" Sasrir, what changes the corruption would undergo, whether the "Mental Plague" contained within would leak out and cause a certain influence, Klein could not predict, and could only focus on solving the immediate problem.
Hearing his words, a crimson fiery stream suddenly surged from the pure "Shadow", covering it in an instant.
At the edge of the "Domain of No Darkness", near the giant king's dwelling, a cluster of flames shot up rapidly, and the "Shadow" emerged.
He unhesitatingly chose to flee, fleeing towards the palace where the "Dark Angel" slept, completely ignoring Enyuni and the "Sun Saint"!
Klein, using his "Virtual Persona", was a little stunned by this, couldn't help curling up the corners of his mouth and his "Spirit
He suspected that the separated "Shadow" had taken away most of his caution and carefulness, leaving behind mostly impulsiveness and recklessness for himself.
Crack!
A sharp silver-white ray lit up, cutting down on a crimson fiery stream that fell out of nowhere outside the "Domain of No Darkness", slicing apart the pitch-black "Shadow" that had just emerged inside it.
Klein was not delayed by his muttering; he had long since manipulated the "Silver Knight" marionette, predicting the few places the "Shadow" would jump to next based on the distribution of flames and his own habits. Then, he condensed his "Silver-white Rapier" in advance, unleashing a slashing strike through the air the moment the fiery stream descended.
—The "Domain of No Darkness" had no barrier boundaries in the physical sense; anyone could directly leave or exert influence on the outside.
However, the torn "Shadow" ultimately turned into thin shreds of paper and quickly disappeared.
Several more burning crimson fiery streams fell. The pitch-black "Shadow" used them to make consecutive jumps, approaching the open gate of the giant king's dwelling. The successive silver-white rays only tore apart his "Paper Substitute"—the "Warrior" Pathway had the ability to see through illusions starting from Sequence 5. Without the aid of "Psychological Invisibility" type techniques, the "Paper Substitute" is clearly more useful than "Creating Illusions". It was only when two "Seers" fought each other that layers of phantoms would easily shatter.
In just two or three seconds, one crimson pillar of fire after another rose outside the giant king's dwelling, as if releasing fireworks to welcome an honored guest.
The next moment, the "Shadow" was about to jump into one of these pillars of fire, to hide inside the place where the "Dark Angel" slept.
But just at that moment, a figure was rapidly outlined in front of the crimson pillars of fire.
He wore a long black trench coat and a half-top hat, his right face normal, his left face formed by transparent, twisting worms. It was Klein's main body.
Klein's mouth curled up again, and he snapped the fingers of his already raised right hand.
Snap!
The crimson pillars of fire all went out. The pitch-black "Shadow" was forced to materialize mid-jump, returning to the steps bathed in the light of dawn.
"Flame Controlling"!
Klein was able to arrive outside the giant king's palace ahead of time to stop the "Shadow" because, once the other party fled decisively, he could no longer interfere with Klein summoning images from the cracks in history. Klein easily took out "
"Being too cautious isn't always a good thing either." Klein said to his Shadow with a big smile, while bending his knees and hunching his back.
As he bent over and crouched, his figure suddenly transformed into the knight clad in silver armor.
The knight drove his greatsword into the crack in the ground, creating a barrier of nothingness, sealing the gate to the "Dark Angel"'s resting place.
In that instant, Klein had swapped positions with his "Silver Knight" marionette, posing to his "Shadow" that if he could just break this barrier originating from the "Guardian", he would be free to enter the giant king's palace.
Of course, his main body would interfere with the "Shadow"'s summoning of historical projections and manipulate the "Spirit Body Threads".