The Master of the Strange Realm

Jenkins originally thought that Miss Bronyance would first ask about the sacrifices of believers in lies, and even personally divine the authenticity of the corpses. But she asked nothing and seemed to have no interest in the death of the lie believer.

Jenkins had already picked up the file. The report was very thick. He turned directly to the last part to read the conclusion. Miss Audrey said while he was reading:

"The prophecy [when the dream wakes up, the day when the bell rings] has come true, which indirectly proves the reliability of this divination. Therefore, I think the other parts of the content are not low in authenticity. Even if it is interrupted midway, this divination It can be considered a successful divination.”

Miss Bronyance's divination mainly focused on the eight-story metal tower. Based on the conclusions obtained by Miss Magic and the tower in the north, she further discovered that the order of the towers was disordered.

In other words, although the characteristics of each floor can be seen from the outside, the thematic order of the strange situations encountered after entering the tower is probably not the same as the order of characteristics outside the tower.

In addition, divination also shows some characteristics about the details of the mystery. Because the divination has not been carried out to the end, those chaotic revelations cannot be discerned. We can only say with certainty that no matter what the theme of each layer is, each layer will definitely be related to machinery.

And more importantly, maybe those strange places are not pure strange places.

"What's the meaning?"

The document didn't go into detail about the incident, so Jenkins could only ask the soothsayers. Miss Bronyance still looked a little weak, but she still answered Jenkins' question:

"Time, halfway through the divination, I discovered that there is the power of time in the tower. It should be said that this was not even discovered by me through divination, but when my consciousness tried to see through the fog, I naturally felt the horror behind the curtain. "

"I never heard that the Difference Engine has the power of time... Okay."

The other party did demonstrate the power of suspending time today. The origin of this power was the clock that was damaged last autumn.

"Jenkins, since you have joined the school, I think Audrey should have talked to you about some time-related topics. The origin of the school is an outstanding ancient diviner. She pointed out that divination and prophecy have a certain meaning. There is also interference with time because we are observing the future.”

Jenkins has indeed seen this point of view more than once in the notes of the soothsayer girl Ovia.

"So, when you deeply understand the knowledge and power inherited by the school, you will find that our inheritance also involves part of the understanding of time. My understanding of that tower is that it contains the power of past time."

"I still don't understand."

"We don't understand either."

Miss Audrey said:

"So, you need to understand this yourself. After all, you are the savior, right?"

Combining the information currently obtained from the frozen tower, the magic lady, the fortune teller and the [A4-type arithmetic auxiliary external machine], Jenkins already has a very preliminary understanding of the nine-story metal tower (currently eight stories).

Each level of the tower corresponds to a mystery, and the theme of each mystery is the "rebellion" savior ability. The nine treacherous realms are connected to each other. Except for the first and last one, the exit of each one is the entrance of the other.

The nine deceptions form a larger deception, so that the ability can only be used once in the nine deceptions, instead of being recalculated in the next deception.

In addition to the "rebellious" savior ability, the nine deceptions also include mechanical power and power from the past time. This makes the already dangerous situation even more difficult to deal with. As for the Difference Engine, there is a high probability that it will be at the end of this super-large-scale mystery, waiting for Jenkins after he has exhausted almost all his abilities.

Therefore, unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not consider letting himself enter that tower. This is obviously a trap, a chess game set by the Difference Engine in order to truly become a beast of disaster.

"So, as long as I don't enter there, we won't have to deal with the beast of disaster."

He came to this conclusion but asked himself:

"But now the Difference Engine has twice tried to use other methods as a means to promote the beast of disaster, and there may be a third method. And if it really uses the third method - the possibility has already shown that this is very likely. Possibly—promote, and use the Fate-Rebel Ritual as a way to absorb more power under the identity of the Disaster Beast, so what should I do?”

It is already past midnight. Everything that happened yesterday, whether it was the strange and huge dream or the three announcements to the world, may have caused it to break through its own essence, but some of them were destroyed by Jenkins.

"So, it was frightened by the God of Lies, so it gave up waiting for all the nine-story towers to rise, and instead immediately used other methods to advance, and then deal with the savior... Thinking about it this way, instead of this Is everything caused by me?”

The more I think about it, the more I feel that it is for this reason that the Difference Engine suddenly changed its established strategy, especially the first battle yesterday, which was the battle with the robot inside the giant brass door on the coast. Thinking about it now, it looks like the opponent. Testing the power of the savior to determine which method to use for promotion.

"On the one hand, it is frightened by the God of Lies who should not appear in the material world at this time. On the other hand, it has found out that there is actually only one savior, and this person is very powerful... It will not be really frightened. Are you here?”

He gradually confirmed his idea and wanted to stop the Difference Engine from using the third method to promote himself, but he didn't even know what the other party wanted to do. The plan of the Difference Engine has been planned for thousands of years, and tomorrow, Sunday, Jenkins has only been in this world for a year. If it weren't for fate playing a joke, there would be no value in comparing the two sides.

It was already three o'clock in the morning, and Jenkins was still not sleepy at all. He stood in the corridor, looking at the oil painting on the opposite wall, not knowing what he should do at this moment. Time was running out, but he could do nothing but wait for the other party to make a move, which was the most sad thing.

He rubbed his face, went to the kitchen to make some midnight snacks, and ate some food with Chocolate, who was "awakened" by the smell of the kitchen. Then he came to the Gate of All Things and met the keeper.

The keeper that Jenkins was most familiar with was Mr. Smith, but the old man had been stationed under the metal tower recently, so the female keeper, Granny Alia, was stationed here at the moment.

Although the Gate of All Things directly projected the internal space into the air, the real door underground still existed here, and it was opened about 60 degrees. Just looking inside, all you can see is complete darkness.

"You can also go back directly from here."

The keeper introduced, and then asked Jenkins why he came here.

"I want to ask, does the church have a way for people to learn abilities directly? Dad told me that there is a way that can be achieved at the cost of a blank bubble. But this sacrifice is too great. May I ask if there is a way with a lower cost?"

"What ability do you want to learn?"

"The blessing of books."

Jenkins did not intend to lie:

"The church has prepared many times before, but it encountered problems every time. And now, it is even more impossible to coordinate the venue and personnel to arrange a ceremony for me in the chaos, and I don’t think it will succeed... But I really need this ability, so I want to ask if there is a way."

The keeper nodded, lowered his head and thought for a long time:

"What kind of sacrifice can you accept? Or the price?"

This must be thinking of There is a way, Jenkins answered with certainty:

"First of all, it cannot affect my own power, otherwise it will be meaningless to exchange power for power. I cannot sacrifice my feelings or close people. Apart from these... Although it sounds bad, I can sacrifice anything."

"Then there is no way, Saint William, you know the meaning of ability to the gifter. If you want to gain ability, you must lose something. If it is easy to let the gifter learn abilities that they cannot learn, then whether it is the church or the cultists, there is no need to train young people with specific talents.

The method Oliver said is actually a relatively cheap method. If it is [Blessing of Books]... sacrificing five bubbles should be about the same."

Chapter 2063 Chapter 2032 Chocolate's Doubts

The cost of five bubbles is very high for anyone. Ordinary gifters have one more bubble for odd levels and two more bubbles for even levels. Five bubbles are equivalent to the gains of three or even four levels. Although Jenkins has doubled his upgrade, he only has two left now, and one of them has to be reserved for [Uncrowned King].

Even if he wanted to ask the [Church of Death and the End] for the [Water of the Styx] to wash away his current abilities, the [Water of the Styx] could not be used multiple times in a short period of time, otherwise even Jenkins would be at risk of amnesia.

Although he was very disappointed, he also thought that it would not be that simple. So he said goodbye to the keeper and returned to the ground again. Then he thought that he did not seem to see the girl with a fish-shaped hairpin who saved him and his father from the monsters of the shadow world yesterday morning among the people participating in the negotiation.

Not every false god cult has demigods, such as the music cult to which Hathaway belongs, but there are four or five level seven gifters among them. Therefore, among the more than one hundred false god cults, Jenkins did not look at the registration records, but used his eyes to distinguish them. He only distinguished more than ten demigods, but these more than ten obviously did not include the girl.

"Is she lying?"

Thinking of this, his mood, which was not very good to begin with, became even worse. At this time, the chocolate that was "sleeping" in Jenkins' pocket squirmed uneasily.

"Or, she encountered an accident on the way here and failed to reach the church... But she is so strong, who can stop her?"

Thinking in his heart, he asked Mr. Gilbert about the situation of the church and the cultists fighting during the day. This is the purpose of the bait plan. Although from a strategic level, the church failed to prevent the difference machine from weaving a big dream with those riots as the content of the ritual, from a tactical level, the number of cultists eliminated and arrested today can be compared with the results of three years in peacetime.

The captured captives contributed a lot of valuable testimonies, and they proved that today's plan was planned by the tree house. And this time, the tree house contacted too many organizations, and the cultists were born with distrust of others, and did not completely trust the tree house. As a result, some of the information of the tree house was obtained by those cultists, and the most important point was-

"They only have four demigods left."

This is the information obtained by Jenkins. The church did not reveal which evil god's believer provided it, only saying that the reliability of this information is very high.

Jenkins was surprised, but what surprised him was not that there were so few four, but that the other party actually had four demigods. In the past year, the number of Tree House demigods who fell to him indirectly and directly and were solved by the church had already approached double digits, but he didn't expect that there were still three left.

You know, even the Twelve Orthodox Churches, the number of demigods who can maintain combat effectiveness, on average in this era, is only about 30, and a secret illegal organization like Tree House can actually have more than ten. Even if the other party does everything to gain power, this number is very surprising.

"It really deserves to be an ancient organization with a deep foundation... The purpose of Tree House is to let its people become saviors to save the world and become gods, so they must have their own thoughts when helping the difference machine, instead of really wanting to bring the world to doomsday... I don't know what kind of plan this group of people has. If they can backstab the difference machine before the decisive battle, and then one side is seriously injured and the other side is annihilated, it would be best if the gear craftsman can be buried with them, that would be great."

Although it is impossible to think about it, people always have to have dreams, and even Jenkins is no exception.

Jenkins didn't care about the cultists for the time being. After all, the Artisans and the Tree House only provided a way to summon A and B numbered items, and then instigated the group to charge. Jenkins was concerned about whether the lady with the fish-shaped hairpin had appeared. He had a hunch that this issue was very important to him.

But the church's report did not mention the news that the demigods of the False God Cult had taken action in the city, and Jenkins was very sure that the lady was definitely not a member of the Orthodox Church-

"Very familiar, really familiar, as if it was right under my eyes..."

He lowered his head and happened to see Chocolate sticking out his little head from his pocket. Jenkins and the cat stared at each other for a long time, and both were motionless. Chocolate's amber eyes were very beautiful. Because of the cat's racial talent, the proportion of the eyes occupying the face is much larger than the proportion of the human eyes occupying the face area.

Jenkins could see his own appearance reflected in those ignorant eyes. Similarly, Chocolate could see himself in Jenkins' eyes.

But it couldn't read Jenkins's emotions at the moment, and had some doubts in its heart. Did Jenkins know it a long time ago, but just didn't want to believe it, didn't want to face it, didn't want to... It had heard Alexia say that Jenkins probably had serious mental problems. Reliance on oneself is just an external manifestation. In essence, it is a lonely drowning person desperately grabbing the only trustworthy floating board.

"Meow~"

What if the floating board is not a floating board, but the back of the crocodile? Even if the crocodile is very friendly, I'm afraid the lonely drowning person can't accept it. So, even if you find something strange about the floating board, you won't think about it. Because you dare not think about it, you dare not think about it.

Chocolate suspected that Jenkins had guessed everything, but it couldn't read the young writer's thoughts as casually as it did a year ago. He looked at Jenkins nervously, but in the end, Jenkins just looked away carelessly:

"Where would she go?"

He muttered and walked back to the corridor. Chocolate came out of his pocket and climbed onto Jenkins' shoulder neatly. It really didn't know whether Jenkins knew everything.

Miss Bevanna returned to the church from outside at more than four o'clock. As for the son of the mist that appeared in the thick fog, of course it had been eliminated. This was not the first time to face this kind of monster. The church had already understood their characteristics, so it could arrange a very targeted response strategy, and it didn't need to be almost out of control like the first time.

There was still some time before breakfast. Miss Bevanna heard that Jenkins had not slept all night, so she suggested that he go to rest. Jenkins agreed on the surface, but in fact, after entering the room assigned to him, he came to the outside of the church through the projection.

He had no purpose for the time being, just wanted to walk around the city and see the current situation.

Chapter 2064 Chapter 2033 The Giant Whale in the Clouds

Although the black clouds covered the sky and the fog was scattered, the city was not completely blocked, but a curfew was adopted. The curfew time was from 10 pm to 4 am the next day, a total of 6 hours, and this was just the end of the curfew.

Ordinary people didn't know that the end of the world was coming, and they were still running for their livelihoods. Even if it was only a little after four o'clock, pedestrians could be seen on the street. Because of the flower girls' union, the flower girls no longer had to get up early to buy goods, so the little girls were not seen.

Jenkins first came to the pier from St. George Street near the pier. He stood on the beach and felt the strong wind. He watched the roaring waves in the distance. Soon he lost interest and turned to the city.

After a while, "snowflakes" floated in the sky. Jenkins thought it was really snow, but when it fell into his hands, he found that it was white ash, ashes with temperature.

He stood on the street and looked up at the sky with the people. The ashes fell from the black clouds, and it was impossible to see where they came from.

"This..."

In the eyes of reality, these ashes were like the fog in the air and the black clouds in the sky, with black aura. And scanning the sky, Jenkins actually saw a huge monster with black aura flashing behind the black clouds.

From the shape, it turned out to be a giant whale.

"Whale in the cloud? Hasn't the cloud whale beast been sealed? Wait, I really think I have seen something similar in the dream of the differential engine..."

People didn't know that there was such a giant beast swimming above their heads, and Jenkins, who discovered this thing, would not pretend that he didn't see it.

But he did not act immediately. Instead, he first returned to the church and found Princess Sophia.

It was still early and Princess Sophia was sleeping soundly. Jenkins didn't want the church to know that he was related to "Miss Fabry", so he secretly wanted to climb in through the window, so he almost got into a fight with Anastasia.

"Why did you come in through the window?"

The gas light in the room was turned on, and Anastasia asked, standing barefoot on the soft wool carpet in her pajamas, with her long hair hanging behind her back and no trace of messiness at all.

"There is something important, and I said last night that if there is an emergency, I will knock on the window and then come in through the window. I just knocked on it and waited for five minutes before opening the window... .Why are you here? Isn’t your room in another building?”

The church certainly wouldn't arrange for Jenkins' friends to live with followers of lies.

"I... couldn't sleep at night and wanted Sophia to tell me a story."

Yinlong argued forcefully and rushed Jenkins to the bathroom attached to the room without giving him time to speak. It took a while before he was allowed to come, and Princess Sophia had already changed her clothes.

"Miss Fabry is going to show up in a moment. No, it's not you, it's me. So, I hope you won't be seen by anyone then."

"No problem, leave it to me. No one can see Sophia except me."

Silver Dragon said.

First, he asked the silver dragon to take Princess Sophia away, and then used Hathaway's spell to disguise himself with a face exactly like "Miss Fabry". Jenkins also left the room and found the church:

"You saw the ashes outside, and I don't think we can watch this happen."

"Do you know the origin of these ashes?"

"There is a big guy behind the black cloud. I plan to go up and take a look. As for you, do whatever you want, just don't hinder me."

As we all know, among the top combat forces of the Righteous God Church, only the Sage Son Jenkins cannot fly. So when Jenkins rode a unicorn and flew high into the sky in the church garden, he was not worried at all that the church would find him, that is, Jenkins to participate in the action.

His eyes tracked the trajectory of the huge whale behind the black clouds, and found that it was just patrolling in the sky above the Nolan area, following a fixed trajectory.

He tried to fly higher, wanting to enter the black clouds to see what the other party was. But the unicorn was very resistant to entering the dark clouds, and stopped taking off when it could smell a stronger smell of fireworks at high altitude.

It wasn't until Jenkins inspired the power of [World Tree Seedlings] to let the abundant vitality protect them that the little beast was willing to enter the dark clouds at high altitudes.

After coming into contact with the black cloud, Jenkins' whole body began to smoke due to the passive effect of [Hero]. His vision was gradually lost, and everything around him became indistinguishable, as if there were only these black clouds left in the world. Even after a few seconds, Jenkins could not distinguish the up and down direction by gravity.

He understood that this was the characteristic of these clouds, so he took out his monocle, held the unicorn's neck and raised it to its eyes. The unicorn relied on its glasses to regain its direction, but instead of taking Jenkins to continue traveling through the fog, it took him out of the fog area from below.

Just as they regained their sight, Jenkins saw the aura of the huge whale passing above them.

Because when he broke into the clouds and fog just now, [Hero] made part of the underlying black clouds disappear, and more fog had not had time to make up, so Jenkins could clearly see the whale's lower belly.

It was a metallic brass color, and various delicate parts were combined together to form the huge belly of the whale above Jenkins' head. Although only a small part was exposed outside the clouds, because of the hollowing out of the metal parts themselves and the gaps between other parts, Jenkins could clearly see the more complex mechanical structure inside the whale.

The surface of the brass-colored parts has patterns of different shades. These patterns combined together make the whale's belly look like there is a layer of mantra graffiti.

The huge belly flashed past, and soon disappeared into the higher clouds, continuing to patrol along the established route.