After some fussing, Klein initially figured out the abilities of the "Sea God's Scepter": It can create tsunamis, summon hurricanes, produce rainstorms, bring lightning strikes, allow people to fly in the sky or walk on the seabed, almost without any restrictions.
It is nearly indestructible and can directly smash an enemy's head. It allows the holder to never get lost without other strong factors stacking. It provides unimaginable balance, drives many seabed creatures, responds to the prayers of believers, and grants strength like a sea monster, making one the master of a sea area.
This for Klein truly belonged to the divine level. Even on Earth, it could counter an aircraft carrier formation!
Even though he is currently Sequence 6 and has many useful extraordinary abilities, in the eyes of ordinary people he is a true strong person, a character from legends, but essentially still fragile, still closer to a "person." Under suitable circumstances, a revolver could finish him off. Of course, dying and resurrecting, rising from the coffin, is another matter.
But what the "Sea God's Scepter" possesses all surpasses the "person" level; it is in folk stories, in the minds of the people, undoubted divine or demonic power.
No wonder from Sequence 4 onwards, it's called half-god half-human; truly more god than human... Klein sighed silently, then laughed self-deprecatingly: "If I could use the 'Sea God's Scepter' normally, I could already serve as a senior deacon of the Nighthawks, becoming one of the most powerful people in the church, twenty or so... If
"But can I use the 'Sea God's Scepter' normally?
"No..."
Klein had just discovered that the negative effects of the "Sea God's Scepter" were astonishingly great. Within the Church of the Night, it would definitely easily receive a "1" level sealed artifact evaluation, and who knows how many researchers would die before figuring out the best sealing and usage methods.
The "Sea God's Scepter" had three negative effects in total: First, it makes the holder irritable, easily angered, and hot-headed; Second, periodically it causes the thoughts of all creatures within a certain range to freeze and drains their blood, including the holder. As for the range size and specific period value, Klein, not a professional researcher, found it hard to give precise descriptions; he could only roughly estimate the range as 600 meters to 1 kilometer, and the period as 20 to 35 minutes; Third, it gathers and presents the prayers of believers, with both sound and images. This easily causes holders who are not demigods and lack strong spirituality to directly break down and lose control.
"The first is okay; if used only for a short time, anger and irritability are acceptable. Simply put, with such a strong sealed artifact, you just go all out...
"The third actually has a way to circumvent it. The 'Sea God's' response to faith has a distance limit. That is, as long as you leave the
"And when I respond, I can use the power of the 'Sea God's Scepter'...
"The biggest problem is the second. I myself am fine; when I transform into the Black Emperor, I'm a wraith, no blood, not afraid of being drained, but the creatures around me suffer. It doesn't distinguish friend from foe, and the period is hard to grasp... I can't encounter dangerous situations and first negotiate with the enemy to change the time and place, right?"
Klein thought carefully, envisioning several scenes for using the "Sea God's Scepter", but they all depended on the environment and accurate advance judgment, making them hardly viable.
"Ha... Is its fate to stay above the Gray Fog, and when someone like
"By the way, there's another use. When Miss 'Justice' and Mr. 'Hanged Man' pray for help, I no longer only have the option of the paper angel; I can also provide rain, blow some wind... Of course, this can be done with the paper angel as a carrier, like the purification ability of the '
"Think seriously, with the 'Sea God's Scepter', above the Gray Fog, I can appear like a true demigod..."
Klein's mood gradually lightened because he found that the "Sea God's Scepter" was not completely unusable at present; it could add a few more of his flashy moves.
He withdrew his attention and looked again at the white bone short rod embedded with turquoise "gems" on top, pondering another question: whether to respond to the prayers of the "Sea God's" believers.
"Kavitua is dead; there's no need to provide a target for faith for those people...
"But even if the still-living priests and rebel leaders notice the anomaly and no longer receive responses, for a long time they won't truly accept the worst outcome. People always cling to wishful thinking, habitually self-comforting and self-hypnotizing, especially in a harsh environment where no dawn is seen, like Silver City, after more than two thousand years, still worshipping that 'Creator', believing they were only abandoned and neglected, hoping one day to receive a response again...
"That is, after the fervent believers of the 'Sea God' don't get responses, they won't believe Kavitua has fallen and stop the blood sacrifices; instead, they will intensify their efforts, hoping to regain the favor of the god... Without years of propaganda and crackdown, it's hard to wake them.
"When the rebels no longer have the support of the native god Kavitua, they will likely fall completely to Feynapotter or Intis. At that time, with their extreme faith, they might be driven to do inhumane things, such as attacking places crowded with civilians, or letting children with still naive eyes lead the way...
"I need to give them some guidance, tell them what the correct way to believe is, but not create a burden for myself; help within my ability is enough... I am not responsible for saving their fate..."
Klein tapped the edge of the mottled long table with his fingers and suddenly chuckled: "Isn't it about acting as a real person? The 'Sea God' Kavitua is a good target.
"I just don't know if it counts as being cut off by the Gray Fog, unable to receive feedback.
"Hehe, I have to try it out to find out."
Klein quickly made a decision and felt inexplicably refreshed.