The enormous black cocoon swiftly vanished after splitting apart, contracting into a necklace set with five gemstones.
"Fallen Morning Star!" Klein, who had once used the necklace, recognized it at a glance and quickly scooped it up.
"Good thing this item wasn't damaged by the lightning. If it had been completely lost, Mr. Fool would really lose face!" Klein muttered self-deceptively, then turned his gaze toward the quill pen soaking in the blackish-red viscous fluid.
He hesitated, but still forced himself to reach for it despite his disgust, repeatedly steeling himself: It's just a spirit body... It's just a spirit body...
Yet, to Klein's surprise, the instant his fingers touched the quill pen, it vanished without warning, as though it had never existed.
"What's going on?" Klein froze for a moment, then quickly realized, "A Grade 0 Sealed Artifact wouldn't just disappear. Someone must have swapped it out while we were fighting Ince!"
Though he found that outcome somewhat regrettable, Klein did not feel much disappointment. He knew very well that even if he obtained 0-08 now, he would not be able to keep it.
"So, the only gain from this battle is Ince Zangwill's Beyonder Characteristic..." Klein thought as much, but after glancing at the blackish-red viscous fluid, he found himself in a difficult position again.
Clearly, Ince Zangwill himself had been completely destroyed by the Lord of Storms' lightning, even blasted into a "gaseous state"... It was only the power of Fallen Morning Star that had "liquefied" him again, leaving him in his current state...
And Ince's Beyonder Characteristic had naturally "dissolved" into that pool of viscous fluid.
If Sharron "possessed" that disgusting liquid, the characteristic should be separated out quickly... But Klein was unwilling to let Sharron do that... He could not bear to.
Just as he