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Watching Lin Ruo and Medici leave using Traveler, Klein breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a bit of pity.
After all, he still really wanted to observe—cough, no, he was very worried about Lin Ruo's safety. What if Lin Ruo really got beaten black and blue…
Klein almost subconsciously imagined Lin Ruo beaten black and blue in his mind, and his worrying lips curled up, nearly laughing out loud.
Of course, Klein's attitude was also because he knew Medici wouldn't actually go hard on Lin Ruo.
Given his consistent attitude towards Lin Ruo, at most, he would just teach him a lesson for Lin Ruo's increasingly unrestrained prankster behavior lately, but there wouldn't be any serious problems.
In fact, compared to Lin Ruo, who was about to be punished, Klein felt he should perhaps worry more about his own future.
After all, even with Lin Ruo watching, Medici would definitely use public office for private revenge against him within the limits Lin Ruo could accept.
"Forget it, I won't think about these things for now; it's time to do proper business…" Klein shook his head, suppressing the jumbled thoughts in his mind, and began to set up the sacrificial ritual.
Because Medici had been by his side earlier, Klein naturally hadn't sacrificed the item extracted from Sea God Kalvetua—temporarily named the sea god scepter—to Gray Fog, nor had he put on his Sea God persona to trick the Rebel Army, who were mostly Sea God Sect believers, as planned.
Now that Medici had left and Lin Ruo had entrusted him with this matter entirely, Klein naturally had to take action.
After sacrificing the sea god scepter, a Sequence 3 level Sealed Artifact, to Gray Fog—which Medici had forcibly suppressed and personally sealed in a box to prevent negative effects from causing trouble—Klein then walked four steps backward, and he himself arrived above Gray Fog.
Seated on the high-backed chair belonging to The Fool, Klein then opened the box containing the sea god scepter and picked up this Sequence 3 level Sealed Artifact.
The sea god scepter was not a large Sealed Artifact; its length was about thirty to forty centimeters, embedded with countless blue-green "gems," and its overall color was milky white.
Just by its appearance, it looked like a work of art.
And around this Sealed Artifact, Klein could also see countless light spots floating, which he knew represented every believer praying to the Sea God.
Without rushing to contact the Rebel Army using the sea god scepter, Klein first used his divination ability to investigate the abilities of this Sealed Artifact.
Creating tsunamis, conjuring fierce winds, generating torrential rain, bringing lightning strikes, allowing people to fly in the sky, walk on the seabed, never get lost, controlling numerous deep-sea creatures, responding to believers' prayers, granting people strength like sea monsters… Klein listed these abilities, and his eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Because he had a teacher like Lin Ruo, Klein had naturally come into contact with quite a few high-quality Sealed Artifacts.
Even now, Unshadowed Crucifix and inhibiting magic scepter were still in the pile of miscellaneous items specifically for Lin Ruo's things above Gray Fog, and before this, Klein had also come into contact with life scepter as a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact.
But life scepter was not their own thing after all, and its main ability was primarily healing, while Unshadowed Crucifix and inhibiting magic scepter were only at the Sequence 4 level, completely incomparable to the sea god scepter in terms of destructive power.
It could be said that the sea god scepter was the Sealed Artifact with the most astonishing direct destructive power Klein had seen so far.
With such a Sealed Artifact in hand, Klein instantly felt his confidence increase significantly.
The only problem was probably that the sea god scepter's negative effects were also considerable.
It would both make the wielder irritable, easily prone to anger, and prone to acting impulsively, and it would periodically cause the thoughts of creatures within a certain range to condense and drain their blood.
At the same time, because a Sequence 3 level could already initially respond to prayers, the sea god scepter would also present the sounds and images of believers' prayers in the user's mind.
It could be said that based on this alone, if Klein were just an ordinary Sequence 6, he probably wouldn't even have the qualification to pick it up.
"Everything else is fine, it's just the negative effect of draining others' blood… I don't know if Mr. Bornova can avoid it after re-forging it."
Although the negative effects were very tricky, Klein wasn't overly worried, because he knew Lin Ruo intended to crush the sea god scepter into characteristics and have Bornova re-forge it.
With a Sequence 2 Knowledge Instructor personally taking action, even if he couldn't forge the sea god scepter into a miraculous item with extremely low negative effects, he should at least be able to greatly reduce these negative effects or transform them into something more acceptable.
However, this matter was put on hold until Klein had initially arranged the believers of the Sea God Sect.
After all, the Sea God Sect had just lost their God, and it was precisely the time when Klein needed to put on his persona and appease them.
"…Phew!" And after confirming the abilities of the sea god scepter, Klein took a slight breath, grasped the scepter, and began to work.
He was going to put on his Sea God persona and start tricking people.
…
At the same time, on a certain uninhabited island—
"Swish—"
Accompanied by the whooshing sound of a heavy object cutting through the air, Lin Ruo's figure flew backward, closely followed by Medici, who was moving so fast he was almost a blur.
The latter met the flying Lin Ruo, raising his fist to smash towards the other's cheek.
However, just as the punch was about to land, Lin Ruo's figure blurred for a moment and appeared several meters away; this was the short-distance flash ability of the Traveler pathway.
Lin Ruo stood on a tree several meters away, and in the next second, a silver-white lightning spear condensed in his hand.
Then, pushing off with his feet, he actually actively met Medici.
"Ha—"
Medici laughed, his meaning unclear.
The next second, the two collided, red flames and silver-white lightning clashing, creating an explosion-like effect that startled a flock of birds.
"Crackle—"
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps a minute, or perhaps ten minutes, at the base of a certain mountain wall, accompanied by a dazzling firelight, a flaming spear almost grazed Lin Ruo's waist and was pinned into the mountain wall.
And a few meters away, Medici, who was clearly still calm and composed, flicked the spear in his hand, pointing it directly at Lin Ruo's neck.
His lips curved, and his smile was more unrestrained than usual.
"Are you still going to be naughty later?"
Lin Ruo blinked, secretly shifting his body to distance himself from the flaming spear, which, though its heat was mostly contained within the spear body, still made him feel dangerous.
At the same time, he put on a harmless and docile smile and said:
"No more naughtiness, no more naughtiness. Believe me, big brother, I really won't be naughty again."
After a contest, although some of his body's combat instincts were awakened, Lin Ruo, who still couldn't beat the other party, decisively chose to yield.
Hearing his words of surrender, Medici didn't rush to let him go but pouted and said:
"Don't think I don't know that you're already thinking about how to persecute me."
"Nonsense, of course I am. I'm such a vengeful person…" Lin Ruo muttered to himself, but he showed no sign of guilt from being exposed.
Instead, he blinked again and said, "After all, it's hard to change one's nature…"
"Big brother, don't you understand me? If I can't do things like persecution, I'll die." His tone was incredibly righteous.
"Ha! You have a point?" Medici was probably angered, letting out a cold laugh.
The flaming spear in his hand then slammed onto Lin Ruo's head.
The force of this blow wasn't heavy, but the effect of fire meeting hair, those who know, know.
So when the flaming spear in Medici's hand disappeared, Lin Ruo jumped up.
"Holy crap, my hair…"
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