From the looks of it, I've found the target … Klein retracted his gaze and made a rough judgment.
As there were no portraits, and the dead adventurer's face had been charred black, Erland clearly didn't recognize him as one of his targets. After observing the situation and listening to the creepy laughter for a few seconds, he pointed at the three or four military personnel lying not far away from the house and said in a deep voice, "Drag them back first.
"Drag them back first and wait for the other teams to arrive before launching the attack.
"Or …"
He hesitated for a moment and looked up at the approaching dark blue airship.
Erland didn't say anything else, nor did he instruct Klein and Dhaniz. He ran towards the military personnel who had fainted from the cold and had purple faces.
Tap. Tap. Tap … The closer he got, the weaker his footsteps became. Eventually, his body turned stiff, and every step he took was abnormally difficult.
As a former boatswain of the Royal Navy, Erland was experienced. He made a prompt decision and stopped moving forward. Instead, he slowly turned around and walked back.
The more he walked, the smoother it became, but his body was still trembling uncontrollably. His eyebrows and sideburns were covered in a thin layer of frost.
A quick freeze that defies common sense … A catastrophic extreme cold … With Erland's attempts, Klein grasped the danger level of the area and sighed inwardly.
Unfortunately, the Brooch of the Sun can't produce true heat. It's a mental stimulation. Although it will also cause an obvious reaction in the body, it will at most allow a person to last three or four seconds in such a cold disaster …
Glancing at Erland, who wanted to say something but couldn't open his mouth, Klein swept his gaze towards Dhaniz.
He threw away his cane and said in a deep voice,
"Fire."
Fire? Dhaniz was taken aback at first, but he quickly understood what German Sparrow meant.
He had also seen the entire process of Erland's failed rescue attempt!
Dhaniz condensed a scarlet flame in his right palm and threw it not far from the military personnel.
The fireball traversed nearly twenty meters and landed on the ground. It didn't produce an explosion as it quietly rose into the air.
The scarlet pillar of fire emitted a sizzling sound as it shrank and dimmed rapidly.
Suddenly, it expanded, as if it was struggling on its deathbed.
Klein, who was wearing a black coat, jumped out and landed right next to the military personnel.
He bent down, stretched out his hands, and grabbed her clothes.
Then, he pressed his feet against the ground, exerted strength from his waist and back, and fiercely threw himself outwards.
The military personnel immediately soared into the air and flew out smoothly. He landed ten meters away from the area where the chill was the most severe.
After doing all of this, Klein snapped his fingers, and before the chill seeped into his flesh, he lit a match that he had specially separated from his pocket.
The scarlet flames surged out like water and instantly drowned him.
By the time everything dimmed, Klein had already disappeared.
Flames leaped out, sometimes bright and sometimes extinguished. With Danitz's fireball and his own matchstick, he constantly flashed in the extremely cold region and easily threw the few military personnel out.
After two to three relays, he carried the last military personnel back to his original position.
Erland had clearly calmed down as he gave him a thumbs up.
"I'm very glad and honored to have made the decision to seek your help today."
Captain, I like your tactful praise … Also, remember to increase the pay … Klein nodded politely, turned his body halfway, and looked at the open windows of the house. He heard the laughter inside turn stranger.
Dhaniz curled his lips and cursed Erland inwardly.
Didn't you see my contribution?
Although my fireball has become like a prop for a magic show, it's still a real contribution!
This fellow's nickname is the Just Erland, but he's actually not just at all!
As he muttered, a shadow enveloped the area as the airship arrived in midair.
"Evacuate the people in the surrounding houses!" an officer on the airship shouted from afar.
After Erland and the two other teams cleared the nearby houses, the airship lowered its altitude and adjusted its cannons.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The cannons fired continuously, blasting at the house from which the strange laughter came.
Hearing the explosions and seeing the intense flashes of fire, Klein held his cane and felt a little wistful.
This was the "firepower coverage" tactic he advocated. He had once proposed it in Tingen City, but he had never been able to put it into practice. But today, the overseas colonial military had shown him the real scene.
Amidst the deafening cannons, Erland and the others stood guard in different positions, preventing the people inside, or rather, the monster from breaking out.
The house quickly collapsed, and smoke emanated from the piles of bricks and wood. All the snow and ice had already dissipated.
Suddenly, a thick bolt of lightning flashed and struck the airship with bared fangs and brandished claws.
Klein frowned as he saw the airship come to a complete stop. He heard the steam boiler emit a jarring sound.
The dark blue monster in the air seemed to have lost control. It emitted a sizable amount of smoke as it floated to the side.
From the looks of it, there's an external layer of protection from the ammunition … I thought it would explode and blow the airship into pieces … Klein turned his attention back to the collapsed house.
When he first felt the deep cold and saw the charred male adventurer, he thought that he had encountered another Demoness. He had the Witch potion formula, and having dealt with the Demonesses a few times, he knew that Beyonders of this pathway could control frost and black flames from Sequence 7 onwards.
However, the lightning had made him reject this judgment. He believed that Leticia was indeed a member of the Moses Ascetic Order or the Element Dawn, and that she was a genuine woman.
Just as Klein had this thought, the pile of bricks and wood was lifted. A figure mixed with bright red and charred black crawled out with her elbows.
She was a woman and could vaguely distinguish Leticia's original appearance. This made Erland and the others surprised to find that their target had been found. But compared to before, Leticia's current state was both terrifying and miserable.
Her body was covered in black spots. Bright red wounds had been torn open by the cannonballs, and inside were white fascias that seemed to have a life of their own squirming.
The top of her head had split open, and brain juice gushed out, sticking to the surface like a child's palm.
Her greenish-gray eyes had lost focus. One pupil hid flames, and the other flashed with lightning.
On her abdomen, below her chest, were two heads that were screaming in pain. They were the other two male adventurers.
Not only is she out of control, but she also feels like she's being corrupted … She's already seriously injured after that round of bombardment, and her aura has dropped to the extreme … Klein didn't take action. He watched as the military Beyonders launched their attacks.
Psychic Piercing, Whip of Pain, purifying bullets, small-caliber cannon fire … With this round of attacks, the Rampager Leticia, who only had time to dry up the ground and spread outwards, completely disintegrated and turned into a dismembered corpse.
Pa!
Her torso fell to the ground, and the heads of the two male adventurers rolled out.
Klein narrowed his eyes and found a yellowish-brown sheepskin book hidden in the flesh of Leticia's abdomen.
On the cover of the book, there was a line of words written in Elvish:
"Book of Calamity."
Why do these books and notes always end up in other people's stomachs? It was the same with the Antigonus family's notebook last time … Klein lampooned before suspecting that this Book of Calamity was an item that the pseudo-archaeologist, Leticia, had taken away from the Sea God ruins.
At this moment, a military personnel grabbed the heads of the two male adventurers, as though they could still speak.
"What did you do in the Sea God's ruins?"
"The ruins of the Sea God …" One of the male adventurers answered in pain and confusion. "We've never been there …"
He tried to move his eyes to check the condition of his neck and below.
"Sea God's ruins on Symeem Island," the military personnel reminded him.
"No … no …" The male adventurer wanted to shake his head but was powerless. "We went to the ancient elven ruins … Leticia found a book inside … She liked it very much … She quickly began to study it. She, she went crazy! She's crazy! "
The male adventurer screamed, and the remnants of his mind completely dissipated.
It's not the lost temple of the Sea God, but the ruins of the ancient elves? This is different from what I imagined … Klein was about to listen carefully when Erland walked over and politely asked him and Dhaniz to leave the interrogation scene.
Turning into another street, Klein slowed down and thought about the entire matter.
Why did Leticia's taking of the Book of Calamity from the ancient elven ruins cause Sea God Cavituis to no longer be able to maintain "His" existence and gradually collapse? What's the connection between the two?
Elves … Sea God … According to Little Sun, the ancient god, Elf King Soniathrym, wields the authority of the present Lord of Storms. In other words, there's no doubt that the elves have a Sequence 3 Sea King, as well as an even higher Sequence 2 …
Could it be that this sea serpent, Cavituis, happened to discover an elven ruin at the bottom of the sea and directly devoured the Beyonder characteristic left behind by a high elf, and he was lucky enough to survive the sudden death and loss of control before successfully obtaining the status of a demigod, gradually gaining the faith of the natives of the Rorsted Archipelago?
Klein slowly came up with an idea, and he had no choice but to thank Mr. The Hanging Man.
Initially, Little Sun didn't reveal the corresponding authorities of the eight ancient gods. Later, under the guidance of The Hanging Man, he explained some of them, including the general situation of Elf King Soniathrym.
As for directly devouring Beyonder characteristics or the corresponding ingredients to advance, it wasn't something that had never happened before. Before the potion system was perfected, human ancestors had made similar attempts in order to obtain Beyonder powers. However, only a small group of extremely lucky people survived and became Beyonders. They didn't turn into monsters or lunatics, nor did they die on the spot with their flesh and blood collapsing.
The success rate of such an attempt was one in a thousand, one in ten thousand, or even lower. After the potion system was established, no one was willing to take such a huge risk.
If that's really the case, then Cavituis was indeed very lucky back then … Of course, there's also the factor of his sturdy body … However, his intelligence doesn't seem to have increased much. He can only deceive people's faith, and he actually didn't discover that there was an elven ruin on Symeem Island. Furthermore, it's closely related to the ruin he was hiding in …
After Leticia and the others took away the Book of Calamity, the ruin collapsed, causing Cavituis's hiding place to undergo an anomaly, causing it to be unable to maintain its feeble existence? This can explain why Leticia and the others were able to succeed so easily. There weren't any Resistance or Sea God believers guarding the place. It wasn't until something happened that Cavituis discovered the problem and realized that the two ruins were related.
Based on his previous train of thought, Klein tried to explain the part of the entire matter that puzzled him.
And this included why Sea God Cavituis, who was struggling on his deathbed, didn't let his believers become carriers. This could reduce many accidents and make things simpler. With the brutality that Cavituis had shown, it was only natural for him to make such a choice.
The answer that Klein thought of was that the body that Cavituis wanted to corrupt and occupy had to have a certain amount of elven bloodline. Only then could it withstand the transfer of Beyonder characteristics to a certain extent.
And when he touched it, due to the gray fog and its uniqueness, Cavituis found a better target.
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