Lord of Mysteries: The Outer God is Me

Chapter 261: Chapter 261 World



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"Judging by your expression, did you get it?" Seeing Klein's joyful smile, Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow, asking the obvious.

In fact, he already knew the result, because before the skill results came out, Lin Ruo's Truth had already reminded him that the thing he had just written had taken effect.

"Yeah, I got two skills. One is the Faceless ability, similar to the previous one, and the other is the Marionettist's skill to control spirit body threads." As Klein spoke, he couldn't hide the smile on his face. Although he only got two skills, he definitely made a profit this time.

"Then, is there any difference between your spirit body thread control skill and a proper Marionettist?" Lin Ruo asked. This was what he was concerned about. After all, controlling spirit body threads was the core skill of a Marionettist. Besides strong control, it also allowed the Marionettist to control puppets belonging to them. He was also curious about the effect of the skill spawned by the Creeping Hunger.

"I feel that the difference isn't that big. With the Creeping Hunger, I can see and control the spirit body threads at distances of 100 meters and 5 meters respectively. To initially complete the control of a target takes 20 seconds." Klein naturally didn't hide anything from Lin Ruo's question, explaining each detail.

"I can even use the Creeping Hunger to turn a controlled target into my marionette, but I can only have one at most. Also, because I'm controlling the marionette through the Creeping Hunger, the consumption of spirituality should be huge. I probably can't maintain it all the time, at most only during battles to pull some temporary marionettes. Considering the spirituality and time required to convert a marionette itself, I feel that it's not as useful as I imagined."

"Well, that's not necessarily true." Hearing this, Lin Ruo stroked his chin and shook his head.

If a normal Beyonder obtained the Creeping Hunger, it wouldn't be very convenient to use it to control marionettes. After all, as a Sequence 5 mystical item, the spirituality consumption of the Creeping Hunger was not something to be taken lightly. Spending five minutes to obtain a marionette with it, you might as well just kill the enemy directly in that time. It's quite uneconomical.

After all, a proper Marionettist can use their marionettes permanently after obtaining them, but a Beyonder using the Creeping Hunger can't keep it active all the time. And once they stop using it, unless they're a cheat-like player, the marionette they just obtained will be basically useless.

So, even if a lucky Beyonder gets the skill to control spirit body threads from the Creeping Hunger, its main use would probably be for strong control. The truly core marionette ability would be difficult to use.

But Klein is a cheat-like player!

Thinking of the marionette preservation method in the original story, Lin Ruo immediately said with a smile: "Although it's not 100% certain, you might be able to try sacrificing your favorite marionettes to the gray fog in the future. That should have a preservation effect."

"Preservation?" Klein was immediately confused.

Lin Ruo explained: "Your gray fog seems to have a special effect on the preservation of spirits. If the marionette is sacrificed to it, it will most likely be able to maintain the state of the spirit without dissipating, so you should be able to continue using it next time."

A prerequisite for a Marionettist's ability to control spirit body threads is that the target must have a spirit body, because only spirits have spirit body threads. Therefore, Marionettists cannot control pure corpses. And the marionettes they control, although they are also dead in a sense, their spirits are actually bound to their bodies by the Marionettist's Beyonder abilities.

For example, the Admiral Hell who became Klein's marionette because of Mr. Azik's words in the original story, his spirit was obviously bound to his corpse after he became a marionette, and Mr. Azik promised him that he could be released after being a marionette for only one year.

— Although in the original story, Admiral Hell didn't even last a year before being ruined by Klein.

And once a marionette is separated from the Marionettist's control, it will become a pure corpse, and the spirit it contains will naturally gradually dissipate, making the marionette useless.

So, relatively speaking, if you can ensure that the marionette's spirit remains intact after it is separated from the Marionettist's control, it will naturally have a preservation effect, making it convenient for reuse.

"Is that so?" Recalling the daily routine of the Tarot Club members meeting in the gray fog in spirit form, although he hadn't tested this aspect yet, Klein immediately realized that the gray fog probably really had this function.

As for why Lin Ruo knew even though he didn't — it's normal. As a big shot, Lin Ruo obviously knew more about the gray fog than he did. He even knew what the gray fog was, but he couldn't tell him for some reason. It was normal to understand some of the characteristics of the gray fog.

"Doesn't that mean I can develop a permanent marionette? Except for sudden encounters, I can take the marionette down from the gray fog in advance for other battles." Klein immediately thought of the convenience brought by the gray fog's preservation function.

"More than that, with the gray fog's preservation function, you can also try to act as a Marionettist in advance." Lin Ruo said with a smile, paused, and said: "However, with your current spirituality, you probably can't last long if you act normally, so do what you can…"

After all, Klein is only Sequence 7. It's okay to use the Creeping Hunger to control marionettes during occasional battles, but acting normally probably won't last long.

After thinking about it, Lin Ruo added: "After a while, I may have to go to sea, and you can come with me to pick a suitable marionette…"

Klein nodded. He naturally had no objection to Lin Ruo's arrangement.

Although he really wanted to have a new marionette immediately, Klein was not a vicious person, so he would naturally not attack innocent Beyonders for the sake of a marionette. And in this situation, going to sea was the best choice — there was never a shortage of Beyonders who deserved to die there.

"By the way, don't forget about creating a small account. Do you want to try it out on the gray fog now?" Lin Ruo suddenly said with a smile. He had been looking forward to the birth of the World for a long time. It could be said that a large part of the reason why Lin Ruo was so eager to kill Master Luo was to create conditions for the birth of the World.

"Why do I feel like you're more enthusiastic than me?" Klein glanced at Lin Ruo with a subtle expression. Although he really wanted a small account, he wasn't as enthusiastic as Lin Ruo.

This made Klein instinctively smell some persecution.

"That's just your illusion." Lin Ruo's expression remained unchanged.

"...At least we have to deal with the corpse first, right?" Although he felt that Lin Ruo might be up to something, Klein obviously couldn't give up creating a small account because of this. He just glanced at the corpse on the ground and said.

"Leave this to me." Lin Ruo actively took over the task.

So, a few minutes later, the Sherlock Detective Agency returned to its usual appearance, making it impossible to tell that a battle had just taken place here.

Above the gray fog, in the giant palace, beside the bronze long table, there were three figures.

They were the Fool Klein, the Chariot Lin Ruo who strongly requested to watch under the guise of guidance, and the newly baked small account, the Dummy.

"Welcome, new member, come and draw your Tarot card!"

The Fool Klein said with a chuckle. Then, under his control, the alt account drew a card from the pile in front, and when unfolded, it was the goddess's pattern surrounded by a green ring.

— The World card!

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