Lord of Mysteries: The Color of the Stars

Chapter 62 The Sealed "Starlight"

"Why won't they let Dunn go?"

Daly was also somewhat confused by Julian's words.

"If Hainas Vancent is indeed a follower of an evil god, then it is possible that he possesses certain countermeasures against interrogation."

Julian sighed: "Under these circumstances, if Dunn rashly uses his 'Nightmare' abilities to investigate him, he is very likely to suffer some adverse effects."

"Believe me, I've seen many similar things when I worked at the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom."

He paused, then added, "Even if we are to investigate Hynas Vancent, we should try to avoid using this method of direct contact between the mental and spiritual bodies."

"You make a good point."

Daly Simone glanced quickly at Julian before saying, "I'll pass your opinion on to Dunn."

Personally, she had always liked Dunn; publicly, she didn't want anything to happen to the captain of the "Night Watch".

"That's good."

Daly's statement put Julian at ease a little.

He had been worried that Dunn would use his "Nightmare" ability to enter Hynas Vancent's dream and see the image of the "True Creator," just like in the original story.

Julian knew that Klein had likely already revealed the existence of the "acting method" to Dunn Smith, and at this critical juncture, Dunn could not afford to get involved in anything that could lead to contamination.

Julian had already resolved the Antigonus Family Notes incident, and he also confirmed that the notebook had been contained according to proper containment procedures. Dunn had not directly come into contact with it, so it should not have been contaminated.

In this situation, if Ince wants to continue down the path of polluting Dunn, he will inevitably seize every possible opportunity.

Therefore, Julian had to give Dunn special advice to prevent him from falling into this unfavorable possibility.

With 0-08 monitoring the entire situation, it would be extremely difficult for Julian to counter Ince Zangwell's arrangements in a relatively covert manner.

Knowing that 0-08 cannot fully control himself, he must rationalize all his actions, at least with a plausible reason, in order to lower Ince's guard and avoid immediately provoking his counterattack.

If his arrival at Klein today was somewhat "accidental," then his current attempt to have Daly warn Dunn against using "dream entry" to invade Haynes Vancent's dream is now rather risky.

Therefore, he had to use his own experience in Azshara as evidence to make the whole thing seem more reasonable—after all, those things happened before he traveled through time, and it would be difficult for Ince Zangwill to verify their authenticity.

Even so, Julian still strongly suspected that he had become Ince's target for elimination—whether it was the dangers he encountered earlier at the Antigonus family ruins or the "True Creator" appearing directly in front of him just now, there was an extremely high risk of his death.

In the Antigonus family ruins, the "Emperor of the Underworld" Salinger that Julian encountered was merely a historical projection. This historical projection was simply not enough to contend with the living Sequence 0 true god "Goddess of the Night," so it is understandable that Julian survived.

But the fact that he survived his encounter with the "true creator" is somewhat uncanny.

Because the true god of Sequence 0 not only did not seem to have any intention of killing Julian, but even used a stumbling but still logical language to tell Julian to go to the "Sanctuary" to worship Him after he gained divinity.

The "True Creator" even intervened to confine most of the "Star's Color" power to Julian's shadow, only loosening it when he was in danger.

No matter how you look at it, there should be no intention to kill him. In fact, the "true creator" even expressed a certain degree of goodwill.

Thinking about this, Julian felt that the current situation was a bit of a headache, and his head, which had been a little sore, started to ache again.

He desperately wanted to go back to sleep, but that made his earlier eagerness to have Klein help him answer questions about Quaternary history seem rather pointless.

Therefore, Julian insisted on accompanying the three "Night Watchers" back to "Blackthorn Security Company." Only after Klein had finished writing the incident report did he find Klein again.

"Julian, you don't seem to be feeling well. Why don't you go back and rest?"

Klein glanced at Julian, who was holding Ethan and drinking a cup of strong coffee, and asked with some unease.

"fine."

Julian shook his head, then added, "This morning I found a site where I saw some Quaternary period murals."

He then highlighted some key points about the murals related to the "War of the Four Emperors," the Antigonus family, Mr. "The Door" Bethel Abraham, and the ancestors of the Jacob family, before seriously asking Klein for his opinion.

Klein was already very interested in the deeds of these nobles from the Fourth Epoch, so when he heard Julian's words, he naturally showed an interested expression.

"Where is that ruin?"

"Klein asked."

"Northern outskirts of Tingen—but there seemed to be very dangerous supernatural forces there, so I retreated."

Julian shook his head and sighed, "The reason I came to you is to ask you what those things are, because my mental state has been very poor since I came back, but I don't have any obvious curse on me, so I suspect it's a problem with the ruins themselves."

Julian never mentioned Mr. Azik's involvement with the "historical fog" because his main purpose in telling Klein about these things was simply to rationalize his actions from the perspective of 0-08.

Although he distorted some of the facts in his account, that's okay.

Because of the "reorganization" and historical mysteries involving the angelic level in the Antigonus family ruins, as well as the "hidden" power of "Goddess of Night" Amanisis, even if 0-08 could learn some of the events that happened in the ruins, that information would most likely be distorted. This gave Julian room for a second interpretation.

Klein subtly tapped his brow twice, then looked at Julian.

In this way, he was able to more comprehensively determine exactly where Julian's problem lay.

"Hmm—the aura emanating from Julian seems to have changed in some way?"

Using "Spirit Vision" in reality and "above the Gray Fog" will have completely different effects, but this does not mean that Klein is completely unable to see Julian's aura once he leaves "Source Castle".

It should be noted that the neon-like light that surrounded Julian earlier was a light that jumped out of his astral body and surrounded him. Therefore, even if you observe carefully with ordinary "spiritual vision", you can glimpse a tiny bit of it on the outside, even if it is not very obvious.

Klein had already confirmed this in secret, but the current situation is very different from before.

Because the neon colors surrounding Julian seemed to have completely disappeared!