The moment Anthony saw that face, he broke out in a cold sweat.
"Did my appearance startle you?" The mechanically cast face produced the sound of scraping metal, yet its tone was unexpectedly gentle. "Please don't be afraid. I am a spirit who once served at the Lord's side, granted passage into reality by His grace."
This body had been built using simple mechanical structures. If any "expert" from the Church of Steam and Machinery examined it, they would all reach the same conclusion:
How on earth did this thing move?
Sefirah Castle-amazing, wasn't it?
This mechanically cast body possessed little more than the most basic joints-in Trier, where Steam and the Sun were the dominant faiths, obtaining these parts wasn't difficult, but making a machine capable of moving freely was quite another matter.
So Nimrod chose a simple, brute-force solution:
Just as he had done when leaving Cordu Village, he hid his body in Sefirah Castle and infused this shell with his Spirit Body, strengthened by Sefirah Castle, forcibly controlling its movements.
The idea sounded fantastical, but pathways specializing in Spirit Bodies and powerful vengeful spirits could accomplish the same thing. "Wraith possession," for instance, could produce a similar effect.
He did this for two reasons. The first was to disguise himself as a follower of an Outer Deity-although those followers themselves only knew that they served some "great being," the information he provided was more than enough to earn the trust of the amateurs surrounding Hugues Artois.
The second reason was more closely related to Nimrod's own needs:
He needed to "digest" his potions, wearing away the mental imprints of the "Circle of Inevitability" and the "Key of Light" within them.
Combining these two objectives, Nimrod devised a concrete background for this assumed identity, one that even a