Three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two years... As expected, he was sent here when the Ancient The Sun God was still alive... With the City of Silver having stood firm in the darkness for over two thousand years as a reference, Klein could easily verify the words of the Moon City High Priest Nim.
He nodded slightly and asked:
"Are you guarding this fog to prevent it from undergoing any abnormal changes?"
High Priest Nim of Moon City, wrapped in dark brown animal hide, shook his head:
"The divine message we received was to watch daily and see if anyone emerged from the fog."
Emerging from the mist... Did the Ancient The Sun God foresee a person emerging from this mist? If the mist, or the other side of the mist, truly lies the " Western Continent," does this indicate that life, civilization, might still exist there? Klein felt an indescribable surge of emotion, yet he also deeply understood a fact:
Even Amon's father, the second-generation Creator, couldn't open this gray-white mist and had to send someone here to guard it!
Is there a specific way to pass through this invisible barrier? Uh, Mr. " The Hanged Man " mentioned that " Queen of Calamity " Cohinem said it might require a spell or a password, and also, the prerequisite is that " the Western Continent " has reappeared... Klein looked at the Moon City High Priest with obvious wrinkles on his face and said calmly:
"I think they've already introduced me to you. I'm a missionary, here to spread the Lord's glory."
High Priest Nim of Moon City remained calm, looking at Klein with his grey-white eyes, the same color as his long hair, and said:
"Sir, to whom do you worship?"
Klein instinctively wanted to answer directly, but considering his pre-set identity as a "missionary," he suppressed his shame and used his " Clown " abilities to control the muscles in his face, revealing a slightly fanatical expression as he said:
"Please allow me to introduce you to my Lord, the Savior of this land, the great ' The Fool '..."
" The Fool "... High Priest Nim of Moon City and Adal and the others never expected to hear such a word. At one moment they found it strange, and at the other moment they felt that it contained infinite philosophical implications.
Ultimately, their attention remained focused on that description:
"The saviors of this land."
Nim couldn't help but glance at Adal and the others, taking in their radiant faces.
As a Sequence 4 Demigod, he knew very well that this was a sign that the toxins and pollution accumulated in his body had been Purification. Furthermore, the members of the hunting team had received excellent treatment. If he hadn't watched these young people grow up and remembered what they looked like before their mutation, he certainly wouldn't have been able to confirm that they were residents of Moon City.
Seeing the high priest looking over, Adal immediately said with slight excitement:
"Lord Sparrow's prayers were answered by the gods, and they saved us."
"Yes, we saw the light! We felt the warmth!" Xin, who had no nose, quickly added.
Having just undergone the baptism, she had unknowingly developed a certain degree of faith in the Lord that Gehrman Sparrow spoke of.
Compared to Creator never answers prayers and ignores the suffering of Moon City, this being is more like a god!
Ruth and another member of the hunting party who had returned to Moon City to inform the High Priest looked Greed at their former companions, both envious and longing for their new lives.
High Priest Nim withdrew his gaze and looked again at Gehrman Sparrow was dressed in strange clothes and wearing a strange hat, and said:
"Is the great ' The Fool ' a god beyond this world, no, beyond this cursed land?"
Klein nodded solemnly and slowly:
"Yes."
"Then... what about the great the Sun God, the Lord Who Created Everything?" Nim hesitated for a moment, but still asked the question he most wanted to know.
Klein switched to a charlatan's tone and said:
"The kings betrayed that being, and blood, rage, filth, and shadow began to flow across this land, thus beginning a great catastrophe."
Nim's pupils dilated slightly, as if trying to absorb more light to see the world clearly.
He asked with difficulty, as if trying to suppress something:
"You mean, that the Lord therefore, therefore fell?"
"Not only did they perish, but their flesh and blood were also devoured by the traitors, thus cursing this land." Klein boldly uttered these words, taking advantage of being in the Forsaken Land of the Gods.
He didn't deliberately distinguish between the Amon brothers and the other six Angel King, intending for the residents of Moon City to believe that all Angel King were traitors, so that they wouldn't be deceived by Amon in the future.
--The arduous journey and various experiments over the past six months have convinced Klein that the Forsaken Land of the Gods is truly sealed, or rather, isolated from the outside world in every way. The only connection points are either the exit of the " Giant King's Court " or things at the level of the Sefirah Castle. Therefore, when Klein uses the " Staff of the Stars " here, he can only move within the area and cannot go to the outside world that he has imagined in his mind.
Furthermore, even the Historical Void images within the " Box of the Great Old One " were suppressed and isolated. As soon as Klein successfully summoned it, the projection was immediately swallowed up by the environment and could not be used at all.
This made him suspect that the third level of the " Box of the Great Old One " was dangerous even to the True God and the " True Creator ".
Upon hearing Gehrman Sparrow's words, High Priest Nim of Moon City swayed slightly, his deeply lined face instantly turning ashen.
The expressions of the Beyonder behind him also changed, as if they had suffered an extremely serious blow, and some even showed signs of losing control.
Seeing this, Klein reached out again, pulling the " Staff of Life " out of the void and propelling it through the air, where it accurately struck its target.
The Beyonder's signs of losing control vanished instantly, his forehead drenched in sweat, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.
As Klein released the maintenance of the Historical Projection, the " Staff of Life " quickly faded, and the Beyonder of Moon City finally broke free from the "bad news." Some were full of doubt and unwilling to believe it, some wept softly, and some cast bewildered glances at Gehrman Sparrow, as if he were their last hope.
High Priest Nim had closed his eyes at some point, but after two or three seconds, he opened them again and looked at Gehrman Sparrow, saying:
"Is there anything else you'd like to ask?"
In less than a minute, he seemed to have aged ten or twenty years in an instant, his body exuding a sense of decay and despondency, but not utter despair, as if a tree rotted away but began to nurture new hope and new life.
Klein half-turned around and pointed with the lantern he was carrying at the solidified Gray Fog:
When did you start trying to break down this barrier? What have you learned?
High Priest Nim said frankly:
"It was the Original a divine revelation from the Lord, who instructed us to keep watch while trying to find a way through this fog."
"After the earth was cursed, we focused our search for hope on this, but we made no real progress. No matter what methods we used, this solidified fog remained unresponsive..."
At this point, Nim hesitated for a moment and said:
"It wasn't completely unresponsive, but it wasn't the response we wanted."
Klein suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, and maintaining his normal speaking pace, asked:
What was the reaction?
Seeing that the high priest hesitated and did not answer immediately, Xin took the initiative to speak:
"High Priest, Lord Sparrow has already parted part of the fog, going much deeper than we have in the last two or three thousand years!"
Nim couldn't help but stare intently at Gehrman Sparrow again, then said:
"More than 1,730 years ago, the high priest at the time had an Spirit Intuition in the face of the cruel reality that he had tried in Moon City for nearly two thousand years without success."
He felt that he couldn't simply treat this fog as a barrier to be opened or a seal to be broken, but rather as a great entity.
"He designed a name, prayers, and corresponding symbols for this fog, and held ceremony after ceremony here, attempting to communicate, attempting to pray."
... This is truly a thought process that no normal person would consider... I hadn't thought of that before... Indeed, over the years, Moon City must have produced quite a few people with unique ways of thinking... Three thousand years of time haven't been wasted... Klein sighed inwardly and nodded slightly.
"Was there any feedback afterwards?"
Nim gave an affirmative answer with a nasal tone, and then said:
"Once, the high priest changed the first sentence of the honorific name to ' the Eternal Unchanging Fog...', and then, in the following ceremony, he vaguely heard sounds coming from the depths of the mist at the end, but unfortunately, he couldn't make out the details and couldn't try to interpret them."
"Since then, we've held countless ceremonies, and we've found that not every one receives a response, and even when there is, it's not always timely; we need to wait patiently."
Klein's mind raced, and he asked as he pondered:
Approximately how many attempts will it take to succeed?
"There's no pattern. Sometimes it works on the first try, sometimes we don't get any feedback even after a month," High Priest Nim sighed. "We've made quite a few improvements, but none of them have worked."
"Did you hear what those voices were saying later?" Klein asked, turning the question to him.
"No, perhaps our Sequence isn't high enough, or our strength isn't strong enough." Nim shook his head.
If that's the reason, then I can give it a try... Klein hesitated for a few seconds, then politely requested:
"Could you perform the proper ceremony again? I want to hear those voices."
Such politeness left Nim with no choice but to accept it, nor did he dare to.
He hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Yes, but many materials are in Moon City, so you'll need to wait a while."
Klein thought for a moment and then asked:
Have you ever used those materials before?
"I've used it," Nim said, slightly puzzled.
Klein nodded indifferently and said:
"Then let's proceed directly. Tell me when you last used those materials, and where in the vicinity."
PS: Updated first, then revised.