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"I will not abandon my descendants, nor will I abandon this opportunity."
With those words, Bethel Abraham's figure abruptly vanished from the Spirit World, effortlessly taking his Twilight Greatsword with him as he concealed himself completely within it.
He could also search for Klein's location along the way, because Klein's concealment methods looked extremely crude to him. He simply borrowed Sefirah Castle's power to hide himself; where there should have been technical skill, there was Sefirah Castle's aura, and where there should have been proficiency, there was his level. Looking at him, Bethel felt as though he were looking at a delinquent student who had skipped an entire semester but was exempted from exams through his relationship with the teacher.
What displeased him even more, however, was that compared with Klein, his own connection to Sefirah Castle was indeed relatively weak after being "remade" by the Demon of Knowledge. He could not use its power as easily as Klein did.
But Klein had already told him, in full, the price of wielding Sefirah Castle as freely as his own limbs.
Even Bethel could not entirely turn a deaf ear to those words.
Reestablishing the connection was somewhat difficult, too. During this time, Bethel had tried some simple rituals and had even used his own methods to obtain the Mysterious Silver Medallion that had once belonged to Roselle Gustav. This medallion, believed to possess special powers, had been stored in the vaults of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery. After obtaining the information, he had acquired it without much effort.
Yet Sefirah Castle would only give him some relatively simple responses, which made no sense at all given Bethel's identity and level.
Sefirah Castle seemed to be shirking its work, or perhaps using this method to tempt