Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 181 You are awake, the operation was successful, you are now a girl

"Is it true that he is not dead?"

Azik, with a bronze complexion, held a bunch of white flowers and looked at Klein in the room.

On his left chest, the hideous wound and the missing piece of heart still retained a bright red color and were healing slowly and with difficulty.

The recovered flesh and blood squirmed like worms.

"That's right, Mr. Azik. I was the one who called you over with the copper whistle just now."

Looking at the Lord Archon of Death, Star suppressed the impulse of "Between Reality and Illusion" to follow Azik to find the uniqueness of "Death" and devour him.

Are you kidding? He just became someone's "God's Favored One" and in the blink of an eye he took away the God of Death's uniqueness, severing his thousands of years of planning to become the Old One.

If this feud is established, at least I will be skinned alive...

Star waited quietly as Mr. Azik stood in front of Klein's body, not knowing what he was thinking.

Mr. Azik thought about it and was silent for a long time. He seemed to be somewhat familiar with this kind of resurrection from the dead, but he couldn't figure out the specific stage when it happened.

So he finally sighed and said to himself:
"I'm sorry, I'm ten minutes late."

"But I should know who it is..."

He originally wanted to bend down and put down the bouquet of white flowers, but when he thought that Klein was not completely dead yet, he withdrew his hand in disappointment.

Facing Star, Azik inexplicably felt that he couldn't see through this man.

Just from what Klein had heard before, he knew that he was also an extraordinary person, and seemed to know a lot.

Now it seems that this person also has some hidden secrets.

For example, in one corner of this room, there is an extremely evil aura...

Even though it was sealed to a certain extent, Mr. Azik could still feel that kind of power, which made him wonder if it was guarding against him.

In order to show his sincerity, he spoke gently:

"Thank you for telling me those things."

"Nothing. To an 'immortal' of the 'God of Death' path, all I did was provide some information."

Star thought for a moment, then said with a smile.

Azik listened to this term, frowned and thought:

"you're right."

"I recalled a lot of things and learned that I had been in a sequence for a long time. That sequence was called 'The Undead'."

"I don't know what I have to pay for the information I received."

Azik looked at the face that perfectly met the public's aesthetic standards and left some words unsaid.

That is whether this person has used some disguise ability to adjust his face.

He remembered that he seemed to have had such an extraordinary item in the past.

At the same time, not knowing that he was once an angel, he wondered if Star was also a high-sequence Beyonder.
I always feel that he knows a lot.

In response to Mr. Azik's look, Star smiled and answered as if he had been prepared:

"There's no rush for this."

"In your case, it seems that you have lost your previous memories and are trying to find your past self?"

"Well, I'm going to hunt a pirate who has a nice magical item in the next few weeks. Maybe you can come and watch if you're interested."

"It may be helpful for your recovery to have more contact with different Beyonders."

Seeing that Mr. Azik looked grateful for his thoughtful consideration, Star nodded, chatted with him casually for a while, and then watched him leave Tingen City through the spirit world.

Seeing that Mr. Azik was finally able to use this skill skillfully, Star couldn't help but sigh that he wished he could be like this before.

However, considering that Ins will hold Mr. Azik back no matter what, it would be better to bring in Bernadette, the Sequence 3 "Master of Prophecy", while Star is fighting outside Tingen.

The result of the "dice divination" also showed that Ins had obviously been under the butterfly effect of Star early on, and had been considering how to deal with Mr. Azik's combat power.

Shaking his head, Sita could only stop thinking about it for the time being. Anyway, he would have to contact Bernadette sooner or later.

With this channel, it would be more convenient to collect some specific extraordinary characteristics and accomplish some things with her help.

The next plan is, since we have already agreed to kill Qi Lingos, let’s kill him.

As for Mr. Azik's nonchalant agreement to cooperate in hunting Qilingos, and feeling that he was taking advantage of his connections, Star was in a very good mood.

The highest level of asking someone for help is to sell him and have him help you count the money.

Star thinks so...

So he planned to pull Mr. Azik over and kill Qilingos just like Xiao Ke in the original development.

By then, Azik will have gained his memories, and as for the spoils, Star will accept them with a smile.

Of course, Mr. Azik also looked down on such vulgar things as gold pounds; for "Creeping Hunger", he had at least the combat power of a saint, so he did not need such mid-sequence things to assist himself.

Star is just making a reasonable deal.

With the favors he had accumulated, Star planned to use them to obtain the auxiliary materials for the Death Path Sequence 5 "Gatekeeper" from Mr. Azik.

In the next few days, Star should be able to become a Sequence 6 "Weird" who can "tamper" with the channel. Naturally, he needs to start preparing for the promotion to the next sequence.

The ingredients for the Sequence 5 potion of the “Tampering” pathway are: the source of the eternal realm — the Sequence 5 potions of the three pathways corresponding to the “River of Eternal Darkness”.

That is to say, he can choose one of the three options: Sequence 5 "Guardian" of the "Dusk" path, Sequence 5 "Gatekeeper" of the "Death" path, and Sequence 5 "Spirit Shaman" of the "Darkness" path as the sequence for his subsequent promotion.

However, Star's idea is to use "gatekeeper" as a direction for his own promotion.

After all, Star had the idea of ​​obtaining the potion from Mr. Azik a long time ago.

At that time, he thought of using Klein's hand, but plans cannot keep up with changes. Since Mr. Azik is now in front of him and can be contacted directly, there is no need to ask Klein to forward the message. He can just ask Mr. Azik directly.

Other options:

Most of the extraordinary materials of the "Darkness" path are in the hands of the Church of Night, and even the potion formulas are rarely exposed. At that time, he had no idea about it, and just felt that the "Spirit Witch"'s potion was really hard to get.

And the "Dusk" path, also known as the "Warrior" path, this...

In this version, is there anyone who still plays "Warrior"?
Anyway, Star skipped this option directly.

Even if there are clear clues to the formula of the "Guardian" potion, you can get it by directly finding "Little Sun" and contacting the Chief of Silver City.

Because the ability of the "Guardian" is to improve defense, Star is not interested in this improvement.

Even as a secondary channel, this ability is really useless.

Star even wondered if he really needed to defend himself in a battle, that is, when he was at the end of his rope, would there be someone, no, a "writer" who would secretly protect him from death, so that he would not be "released" from the "between reality and illusion" and given a "bad end" by everyone.

In this case, since it is difficult to die in vain, there is no need for Sta to increase his defense.

Functional sequences are what Star prioritizes. The abilities of the "Gatekeeper" and the "Spirit Witch" are not much different, both of them rely on contracts with other "living things", or "dead things".

That is, different kinds of spirits.

Compared to its predecessor, Sequence 6 Soul Requiem Master, the Spirit Shaman has greatly improved its control over spirits.

The strength of their power often depends on which dead and natural spirits they can find and command.

Compared to the "gatekeepers" of the "Death" path, the spirit witch is better at driving natural spirits. He can seal natural spirits and ghosts of resentful souls on his teeth, and release them by knocking his teeth to gain the help of these spirits, thus accomplishing two or even three tasks at once.

In other words, when Leonard and captain Dunn are promoted to this sequence in the future, they will have a mouth full of "gold teeth" - "gold teeth" with precious spiritual bodies.

The "gatekeeper" can sense the entrance to the underworld and drive the undead inside, just like guarding the gap between life and death.

Extraordinary people of this sequence can have their own undead prison in their bodies, which can also be called a small underworld, which can provide a good living environment for evil spirits.

Use your body as a cage to hold a certain number of souls, undead, and natural spirits, so that you have powerful helpers and use them to gain various unique abilities.

Comparing between the "Spirit Witch" and the "Gatekeeper", Star quickly made his choice.

Just choose "Gatekeeper"!

After all, the Phoenix ancestor Gray Carrie opened up the underworld, a special area in the spiritual world that depends on the existence of the spiritual world, so that the extraordinary people under her who are "corpse collectors" can gain great benefits from it.

Sta feels that this is a case of previous generations planting trees and future generations enjoying the shade?
With the Phoenix Ancestor's strengthening of the sequence itself, whether it is summoning the undead to sign a contract, or making limited use of the door between life and death to the underworld, the "gatekeeper" is more attractive than the "spiritual witch" on the next path.

It is also better to get potions from Mr. Azik than from the Church of Evernight.

After all, the favor owed to the Church of Night is owed to the Goddess of Night, a calculating deity. And from Mr. Azik's perspective, it is a matter of each party achieving their own goals within the scope of an equal and mutually beneficial transaction.

This "sick angel" obviously made Star feel more familiar with her than the goddess of night.

At least Mr. Azik, by comparison, is very human, easy to communicate with, and doesn't have many demands. He just wants to get his memory back.

Apart from this personal perception, the most important thing is that Star does not want the Goddess of Night to notice that he is embarking on the "dark" path to which She belongs.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to conceal the fact that Star took the potion through a different channel.

Or, he himself might be mistaken for an alien god from an adjacent realm who had bypassed the barrier and entered.

In matters like this, it would be better not to let others discover his specific details.

Even the signs he showed now made them wonder if he might be an Outer God who was still in the recovery period.

How else to explain the premonition that if Star was attacked, or even killed, something extremely bad would happen?

In addition to not wanting the Goddess of Night to discover this, Sta also had his own considerations.

The "Spirit Witch" is obviously a high-ranking member of the Church of Night. Even if he takes this path, with his status as a person favored by God, can he obtain this extraordinary material just by showing his face?
Moreover, the "spirit witch" needs the assistance of natural spirits. Star doesn't have a grandfather to guide him like Leonard. Collecting natural spirits is not as good as the "gatekeeper" who relies on the underworld.

Even without talking about the underworld, doesn't he have a good friend who is known as the "Lord of the Spirit World"?

At that time, with the help of the "Lord of the Spirit World", contracting spiritual creatures as a driving force would be like returning to one's home.

It is precisely because Star had already considered choosing "gatekeeper" as a direction for promotion.

Long ago, he learned more from the messenger lady whether there were any suitable spiritual creatures that could be used as future options.

When choosing an alias, the reason why he did not do it as "Kamen Rider" or "Masked Stranger" was to avoid suspicion and prevent the novelist's alias from being censored by the church.

This is also because Star is consciously playing the role of "gatekeeper" to a certain extent in advance -

The name "Ghost Rider" itself has a certain similarity with the "Gatekeeper" connecting to the underworld.

Even if there is no progress in the role-playing by then, Star is just trying it and there is no real loss.

Of course, being the "Ghost Rider" and writing stories in the style of "Masked Rider" is also Star's early role as the "Stranger".

I just don't know how much of an effect it will have.

And after reaching the Saint level, Star no longer needed a complete potion as a way to "tamper" with the potion, but only a pure extraordinary characteristic.

With regard to auxiliary materials, there are separate requirements for the “tampering” approach.

As for Sequence 4, neither the main material nor the auxiliary material specifically required for the "tampering" approach was difficult for Star.

After that, it became a headache for Star, so much so that he now wanted to consider standing in line and see how to obtain the materials for the potion afterwards.

Of course, when it comes to the step of advancing from Sequence 6 to Sequence 5, just like other paths, Star also needs the assistance of a ritual.

But unlike other Beyonders, the ritual for his advancement to Sequence 5 does not require a specific creature, but a human.

Need to step up and bring hope to many people.

Sta originally thought of completing the ceremony by spending money, but after the changes in Tingen City a few days ago, his thoughts changed a little.

Perhaps, we can go beyond just doing charity and use the money to support more meaningful causes.

Moreover, Star also suspected that just spending money to bring people this kind of hope might not be in line with the requirements of the ceremony.

It will allow the ceremony to be completed better and ensure the effectiveness of the ceremony, so why not do this?

As he was thinking, Star suddenly saw Klein's body move, as if he had completed the resurrection process.

With a sudden evil thought in his mind, Star put an item he got from Mr. Z on Klein.

Then, as Klein's consciousness gradually recovered, his body began to show some changes.

……

After a while, Klein gradually woke up.

Klein sat up, opened his eyes, and looked around in confusion. When he saw Star, he asked:

"What's the situation now?"

"You're awake. The operation was successful. You're now a girl."

Star looked at Klein and replied with a smile.

Great, it turns out I’m not dead yet… Klein thought with relief.

He laughed.

But this smile soon became exaggerated and distorted, and even disappeared.

"!"

"What!?"

As if realizing something, Klein looked at the mirror next to him.

All she saw in the mirror was an exquisite face, with a charm that even Melissa would envy.

But, damn, I wasn’t like this before I died!!!

(End of this chapter)