The Goddess of the Night nodded, said nothing more, and reached forward, lightly pulling as if pinching a corner of the void.
A thin layer of "Nightfall" drifted down gently, covering Klein, and silently permeated into him.
Klein quietly felt this blessing from the dream for two seconds, then placed his hand on his chest and bowed.
He then took two steps back and left the Astral World.
The Goddess of the Night stood at the edge of her Divine Kingdom, watching him go.
The next second, Klein landed within the projection of the "
Then, just like
Through this door, Klein entered the Land of the Forsaken, and following the guidance of fate, directly "Wandered" to the peak of a mountain range.
There stood a huge cross, shrouded in a faint, indistinct shadow.
Klein gazed at this shadow for a few seconds, sighed slightly, bent down, and picked up an ancient silver mirror that was lying near the huge cross.
Then, he turned around and disappeared from the Land of the Forsaken.
At the same time, the "
Bernadette was there flipping through a newly published album of paintings from Intis. She had just sensed something when she saw Gehrman Sparrow handing her the "Wishing Lamp".
"Thank you," Klein said in a moderate voice, very normally.
Bernadette parted her lips as if to say something, but in that moment, a flash went through her eyes. It seemed she had seen something again, predicted something. So she silently reached out and took the "Wishing Lamp".
Klein then took out an iron cigarette case with traces of corrosion on its surface:
"This is the payment."
Even without using her "Mystery-Prying Eye," Bernadette could feel the "uniqueness" of this iron cigarette case and could probably guess what kind of erosion it had suffered.
But she didn't choose to accept it for this reason; rather, she suddenly felt she had no reason to refuse.
She hesitated only for a moment before calmly taking the iron cigarette case.
If he were still in that earlier, crazier state, Klein would definitely have said with an exaggerated smile in that moment of hesitation: "Your uncle gives it to you, so you take it!"
But now, he only had the last bit of sanity left. He was trying very hard not to fall asleep and had no impulse to play the clown at all.
After leaving Bernadette's
"I finally felt that opportunity."
The opportunity to accommodate the Uniqueness of the "Pathway of Fate."
Klein squatted down and said with a blank expression:
"I am here precisely to help you accommodate it.
"I will steal your childhood and adolescence, making you grow up instantly. Then, relying on a status that has surpassed the Sequence but hasn't yet reached an Old One, I will forcefully help you accommodate the '
"Of course, just this alone won't succeed. It also requires a 'Fooling' and an exploitation of a 'bug'."
"So those two choices are actually the same."
Normally, to accommodate the Uniqueness of one's pathway, one is either born with it, asks an existence of Old One level for help, or relies on a simplified advancement ritual. There are no other possibilities.
His focus before had been on holding the simplified ritual, that is, waiting for a fateful opportunity. Who would have thought that the opportunity was Klein having a status close to an Old One, which in essence was the second method.
Thinking of this,
"Make the demigod of the School of Life send over the '
Will stopped, looked at Klein for a while, and said with a slight sob:
"Forget it. Let's wait for the next opportunity.
"With your current state, forcefully helping me accommodate it is a huge burden. You might lose control on the spot. I don't want to face that '
"Yeah, next time. I have a premonition..."
Having said this, Will looked into Klein's eyes and said:
"I have a premonition that the next opportunity will be better."