In the ruins of the Nation of the Evernight.
Klein's true body had been found in the Historical Void by a High-Sequence Beyonder of the Seer Pathway hiding in the shadows. He had been dragged out and swapped places with his Historical Projection.
The Historical Void was a favorite hiding place for High-Sequence Beyonders of the Seer Pathway.
Beyonders of other Pathways at the same Sequence could do almost nothing to them.
But another Seer could pursue them into the Historical Void.
If both Seers knew a period of history, they could find each other in its Historical Void. Only a stretch of history unknown to the other Seer was safe, because the other Seer could not find it.
Klein had hidden in the Historical Void corresponding to the Solomon Empire during the Fourth Epoch. To his "surprise," he had been found at once and dragged into the Real World.
Klein was about to enter the Historical Void again, but the moment he opened a gap in history, slick tentacles thrust out and forced him back.
His escape route had been cut off.
An old man emerged from the depths of the church. He wore a hooded black robe, his eyes as dark as unlit water, and thick white hair covered his cheeks and chin.
Young Zaratul!
Yet Klein showed no panic. Instead, he smiled.
Before Young Zaratul's Marionettes could attack, Klein opened an iron cigarette case sealed with a Wall of Spirituality. A tiny figure, barely four or five centimeters tall, jumped out.
It was a miniature Odys.
He had altered his body's parameters, turning himself from an ordinary-sized man into someone small enough to hide inside the cigarette case.
Everything Klein had done tonight, and even over the past several days, had been meant to draw out Young