Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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"Your reasoning is basically correct. How is it? Has the Sequence 8 potion in your body been completely digested?" The crow, an avatar of an angel, said calmly.

Leyton nodded: "Is this also within your calculations?"

"I only provided the corresponding guidance. Being able to deduce the general outline of the event in such a short period of time is your own ability." The angel shook his head, answering Leyton's question.

Then he added: "The acting of a Student of Ratiocination requires you to discover and deduce things yourself. If others tell you the relevant information, it goes against the very essence of acting."

"Similarly, your previous idea of relying on instilling knowledge to digest the Sequence 9 Reader potion won't work either. The focus of the Reader is on reading and mastering, not simply possessing knowledge. Skipping the reading process directly won't achieve the effect of acting." The other party also took the opportunity to educate Leyton about his cheating idea of quickly digesting the Reader potion by instilling knowledge.

Leyton wasn't surprised at all that the other party knew about his previous attempt to digest the Sequence 9 potion by instilling knowledge. For an angel of the White Tower pathway, a single glance was enough to completely expose his information.

Sequence 3 of this pathway is called 'Cognizer.' It's hard to keep secrets from Beyonders of this Sequence.

"Was that person in the hospital just now a member of the Sanguine? Did he switch to Sequence 4 of an adjacent pathway: Classical Alchemist?" Leyton, taking advantage of the angel's high willingness to answer questions, asked other questions he was curious about.

"That's right. Did you guess it after discovering the stitching marks on the clown's body? Or did you infer it based on the phenomena after he lost control just now? He is a Sanguine with great courage, but unfortunately, he has been corrupted." The angel said.

"Both. I had some guesses after seeing the stitching marks on the clown and the strange attitude of the Church of the Earth Mother. I only confirmed it just now." Leyton replied.

Associating it with the abnormally strong desire he encountered on the way to the hospital just now, Leyton hesitated and said: "Is it the Primordial Moon?"

"Why do you think it's the Primordial Moon?" The angel didn't directly answer Leyton's question but instead asked curiously.

"Because of the abnormally strong desire I encountered just now, and you also said he was corrupted. Plus, the Sanguine have a habit of worshiping the moon, so I guessed it was the Primordial Moon. He might have had problems in his research and faith in the moon, leading to corruption by the Primordial Moon." Leyton stated his guess.

"Not entirely correct, but the corruption he suffered did come from the Primordial Moon. However, it wasn't that he was accidentally corrupted, but that he actively sought out the corruption. Generally, Sanguine won't switch pathways. This is equivalent to giving up their identity as Sanguine. For them, this is no different from betraying their faith." The angel denied Leyton's explanation for the Sanguine viscount's corruption.

Then he added: "But if you knew what the ancient name of Sequence 4 Classical Alchemist of the Mother pathway is, perhaps you could guess why the other party was willing to betray his faith and give up his identity as a Sanguine to switch to this pathway."

"Ancient name? 'Classical Alchemist'? That's not quite right. I remember there's another name, it seems to be 'Ancient Alchemist'! He wants to revive someone." Leyton looked at the crow, an avatar of the angel, and his eyes lit up, feeling that the truth should be as he thought.

"That's right. Is there anything else you want to know? My consciousness is about to leave. This location is very special. I can't be discovered and appear here casually." The angel's crow avatar nodded.

Leyton pondered for a moment, then asked tentatively: "Can I know your honorific name?"

The angel nodded in agreement almost without hesitation: "You may. I will give you my honorific name when I was at Sequence 3. I have similar avatars in many places. As long as you pray within the range where my avatar exists, I will be able to know."

"Beloved of Knowledge and Wisdom, Ancient Guardian, Eye that Understands the World, Sage Enthroned in the Sky, Guardian of Reason and Knowledge."

As the voice fell, the fluorescent light emanating from Yaz condensed into a mass of substantial brilliance. Then the angel flapped its wings and swallowed it directly into its mouth.

"Your reward will be delivered later by this avatar. This place is relatively sensitive, and my appearance here at this time is even more so. It will bring unnecessary trouble. I must leave. The following matters no longer require my participation." After the angel finished speaking, the crow's original blue-white eyes returned to their previous gold-plated color, and then it spread its wings and flew away.

Leyton noticed that Yaz, who he had thrown on the ground, showed no signs of waking up, but his chest was still rising and falling, indicating that he was still alive.

To be honest, Leyton was very curious about how the angel extracted the Beyonder characteristic from the living Yaz, and Yaz didn't seem to be losing control and going crazy at all.

High-sequence Beyonders of the Reader pathway really possess many strange and bizarre secret techniques.

Sitting on the ground to rest, Leyton could always hear buzzing sounds coming from the dense forest behind him, as well as the sound of soil being turned. Leyton intuitively believed that that area was not just a simple mutation of plants and animals, but rather that the area itself was undergoing a terrifying mutation.

Not daring to stay in place for too long, he picked up Yaz from the ground and carried him towards the Church of the God of Knowledge of Wisdom.

Before he had walked far, Leyton saw Captain and the others. Not only was Mr. Kosith there, but also Ms. Sia and Ms. Jessica had come, as well as some members of the Church of the God of Knowledge of Wisdom that Leyton didn't recognize. There were also some members of the Security Bureau around, assisting in the relocation of the residents here.

Most of the residents here did not look good, with haggard faces and deep fear in their eyes, numbly following the church personnel to walk away.

But there were still many people who didn't want to leave here. They believed that there was no danger here, only that some trees in the distance had suddenly grown a little too luxuriantly.

This place was not only their home, but also their greatest capital for surviving in this city. Leaving here, many of them simply couldn't afford the high rent and the living expenses of their families.

"No, I don't want to leave. There is clearly no danger here. Why do you want to deceive us into moving away with a non-existent excuse! This is our home!" A middle-aged worker tried hard to protect his wife and children behind him.

This was the place where his family had lived for decades. His income could only maintain the minimum living standard for his family. Without this home, they would soon become homeless.

He couldn't allow this to happen. He had to guard his home.

Such people were not one or two, but a common phenomenon. Many of them originally lived in the area further inside that was undergoing the mutation, rather than the periphery here. They were people who had been secretly transferred to the surrounding areas by the Church of the Earth Mother and the Church of the God of Knowledge of Wisdom together before.

Now, not only was their original home gone, but even this temporary place where they were housed was about to be gone. Most of these people looked numb, moving away from this area under the arrangement of the church personnel.

But Leyton couldn't see light in their eyes. They seemed to have lost too much expectation for the life ahead. This was not what they should have been like. Although their previous lives were not necessarily beautiful and happy, they at least still had the meaning of striving to live on. Now, the sudden change had extinguished the fragile light in their eyes.

At this moment, Leyton felt his heart heavy, as if he understood for the first time the meaning of that sentence in the original work: "This is the best of times, this is the worst of times."

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