At this point, Klein had broadly understood what was going on:
Based on the Law of Convergence of Beyonder Characteristics, the moment he entered the outer area of Caldeon, which didn't even have normal undead, this Spirit World Plunderer had set its sights on him. First, it moved a golden disk of unknown origin to the route he was predicted to take, letting him see it through his puppet, thus shifting his attention to Caldeon's transformation of living things. Next, by using a Giant Blacksmith which wasn't its split soul, it further numbed his vigilance, quietly sneaking within control range and succeeding in the "one strike."
"If I hadn't seen those dead hanging like wind chimes in the small chapel back then, instinctively fearing high Sequences of the Seer Pathway, and prepared several ways to interrupt control without help, I would have already become a split soul of the Spirit World Plunderer… Honestly, I should have thought of the Law of Convergence of Beyonder Characteristics before entering… After taking the Sea God Scepter, even with the suppression of the 'Tyrant' card, I was still a bit reckless, actually missing such an important detail…
On the surface, I am indeed as cautious as ever, but I've unwittingly become reckless without realizing it myself…" As these thoughts raced through his mind, Klein once again raised the arm holding the Bone Scepter, intending to continue his area attack with "Lightning Storm."
Once wasn't enough, so twice. If twice wasn't enough, then three times. In short, seize this opportunity and not let the Spirit World Plunderer escape the coverage of his firepower!
This was the safest method and the fighting style Klein most admired. If it weren't that the lightning was greatly weakened in Caldeon City, he suspected he could already go pick up the Beyonder characteristic.
And his spirituality, having digested most of the Sequence 5 potion, was still sufficient to sustain this!
Just at this moment, the surface of the "Invisible Being" clad in a translucent white robe suddenly ignited with pale flames. A few hundred meters away, a similar torrent of flames leaped straight into the air.
The Spirit World Plunderer, using a "Flame Jump" far superior to Klein's, instantly distanced itself!
At the same time, from amidst the rubble where it had been hiding, a four-meter-tall cyan-black giant staggered to its feet.
The giant's chest and abdomen were wide open, its organs invisible, but like a great mountain or a fortress, it stood between the "Tyrant" and the Spirit World Plunderer, blocking all sight.
And in Klein's eyes, the opponent's "Spirit Body Threads" gathered together, extending entirely towards the distant Spirit World Plunderer, clearly belonging to a split soul.
At the tip of the "Sea God Scepter," a cyan-blue gemstone lit up. Several bolts of lightning leaped out of thin air, twined into a bundle, forming a silvery-white giant arrow, and in an instant struck the cyan-black giant's head.
All the invisible defenses shattered like paper. The giant's head exploded, splattering countless charred chunks of flesh in all directions. Its headless body emitted a pale grey gas tinged with a touch of gloomy green, which rose and dissipated, taking all vitality with it.
All this was but the work of an instant. Klein, wearing a triple crown and papal vestments, raised the Bone Scepter higher.
Rings of cyan-blue light rippled outward, and a howling wind lifted his cloak.
Over a large part of the outer area of Caldeon, dark clouds swiftly converged and pressed down, making the place even more gloomy and oppressive.
Smack, smack, smack! Raindrops the size of soybeans struck the ground one after another, kicking up the accumulated dust of time.
Splatter, splatter! The rain grew heavier and denser, turning into a catastrophic downpour.
The rain extinguished clusters of pale flames, converged into streams, surged downwards, rushing straight to the lowest point of the entire city, straight to the end of the deep underground pit.
In such weather, Klein's "Flame Jump" was completely disabled, and so was the Spirit World Plunderer's!
However, for the "Tyrant," his spirituality spread outwards through the dark clouds, as if he had transformed into a deity looking down upon the earth.
Every dark cloud, every raindrop became Klein's eyes, easily allowing him to find the Spirit World Plunderer within the region where the heavens had changed.
This "Invisible Being" draped in a translucent white robe was now hiding behind a broken, pale giant pillar, not having moved far from the outer area into the core zone.
Boom! A deafening thunderclap rang out. Bolts of lightning interwove into a beam of silvery white, shooting out from the dark clouds towards the Spirit World Plunderer.
Relying on its powerful spiritual intuition, this "Invisible Being" burrowed into the ground half a second early.
One, two, three thick silvery-white beams struck the area densely, melting the earth, forming a concave, charred pit.
The Spirit World Plunderer emerged from another spot and hurriedly scurried towards another shelter, sometimes veering right, sometimes left, slithering like a snake.
But no matter where it fled, the silvery-white lightning beams always caught up to it, even blocking its path in advance, crushing its plan to leave the rainstorm area.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The "deity" looking down at the Spirit World Plunderer from the clouds was like a "Tyrant," brandishing a silvery-white scepter, striking the target again and again, each time barely missing.
Klein grew increasingly anxious, wanting to end the hunt immediately, so he urged the "Sea God Scepter" without reservation, making the lightning strikes fall more and more frequently.
Suddenly, he felt an intense fatigue.
This jolted Klein awake, making him realize something was wrong:
Given that the Spirit World Plunderer clearly had a chance to retreat into the deeper levels of Caldeon from the very beginning, why was it still lingering nearby?
It was clearly a spirit world creature, without a physical body. It could burrow deep into the earth, dodge the lightning, and evade the gaze of the "Tyrant." Why did it keep popping up and circling around?
It was luring me to attack! It detected from my "Spirit Body Threads" and the details of controlling the puppet that I haven't reached the demigod level myself, and it wants to exhaust my spirituality! Klein was taken aback, and combining this with his first encounter, he truly understood that the Spirit World Plunderer was a highly intelligent and rather cunning creature.
At the same time, another problem occurred to him: