Chapter 446: Sealed Artifact 0-08, An Ordinary Fountain Pen

Stunned—in this moment, countless people were stunned!

"Klein? Dead!?"

"No way? Klein is dead? What the hell!"

"Damn, no way? Klein just died like that?"

"For real or fake? Even a Child of Fate can die?"

"If he's dead, then he's dead; after all, he is a Child of Fate, so even if he dies, he will revive!"

"Right, even after death, he will revive! After all, he is a Child of Fate! Just like Shi Hao; Shi Hao has died before, hasn't he? Shi Hao died, yet he revived, and not just once or twice!"

"That may be true, but Shi Hao was already incredibly powerful; what strength does Klein have? Only Sequence 8, equivalent to possessing a sliver of supernatural ability, having just stepped onto the path of cultivation; if he dies like this, can he come back to life?"

"Damn it, though reluctant to believe it, it seems that if Klein is dead, he really is dead?"

"By the way, is there any possibility that Azik will rush over to revive Klein?"

"By the way, is there any possibility that the Gray Fog Space can revive Klein?"

"Hey, you're all talking about reviving Klein... have you considered that, in fact, the Child of Fate isn't Klein at all, but Leonard!?"

"Damn, I can't hold it in anymore; you're the devil, aren't you?"

"Hahaha, you're the devil, aren't you?"

"No, how did Klein just die? Look at how Leonard is crying... sigh, such a sunny child, such a confident child, has he just become withdrawn like this?"

At this moment, countless people watched the Great Dao Golden List, watching Klein's death within the vision...

One by one, they felt speechless, all sighing...

Just as everyone was discussing, the scene shifted...

It was in the outskirts of Tingen City.

A garden with emerald green lawns and a dark red chimney!

Inside the room, on the desk, lay an utterly ordinary notebook.

Then, a pale hand turned the notebook to its very first page...

At the same time, the crowd also saw the lines of text upon that notebook...

【Due to the influence of hallucinations, Reegan, a member of the Secret Order, mistakenly sold the Antigonus Family Notebook as an ordinary ancient book; this was a logical coincidence.】

【Called by the bloodline of the Antigonus family, the notebook subtly influenced its successive owners, eventually making its way to Tingen and falling into the hands of Sirius and Haines, members of the Jiguang Society.】

【After finishing reading the notebook and copying the corresponding potion formulas, Haines, fearing that members of the Secret Order skilled in divination would track him down, discussed the matter and decided to sell the notebook to someone else.】

【Through an introduction, Haines met Welch, a history student at Khoy University, and sold the notebook to him as an ordinary ancient book.】

【Afterward, Sirius, attracted by the possible treasure atop Mount Hornacis, began frequenting the library to consult relevant materials; he left his real address and name, believing this posed no problem, which fit his personality perfectly.】

【In this process, he met Lanierus, who was consulting materials in an attempt to carry out a fraud.】

【Lanierus's madness and cunning greatly impressed Sirius, who decided to recruit him as a member of the Jiguang Society.】

【Sirius revealed to Lanierus the evil ritual for praying to the 'True Creator' to descend a offspring; Lanierus expressed strong interest and, while planning to establish a steel company, also plotted to complete this ritual.】

【Lanierus sensed something was wrong with Sirius, but for his own purposes, he did not expose him.】

【He visited Hu De in the asylum; they had known each other long ago and were aware of certain details about one another.】

【After a black divination, the power of the notebook was fully awakened; Welch and his classmates died, and the survivor, Klein, driven by the notebook, delivered it to Reel's home—this was the destined ending.】

【What is puzzling, and for which there lacks sufficient reason, is that Klein did not commit suicide afterward and successfully survived???】

【Through the case of Welch, he met Deng En and joined the Nighthawks team.】

【Although this exceeded Zangwill's description, it did not affect the development of the story.】

【Bacus and his brothers saw their luck turn bad; they lost their last chip at the gambling table and incurred massive debts, so they decided to raise a sum of money by kidnapping and extorting a certain wealthy merchant.】

【When choosing their final hideout, they coincidentally targeted the room opposite Reel's house.】

【At this time, Reel had already been attracted by the power of the notebook and hoped to digest the legacy of his ancestors.】

【However, in his semi-mad state, he failed to make the safest choice; he abandoned his deceased mother yet remained in Tingen City, merely finding a more secluded place to perform the digestion ritual; tragically, if he had been slightly smarter, this story would have become far more complex, but his choice nonetheless aligned with his state and logic at the time.】

【Bacus kidnapped Elliot and brought him back to the room opposite Reel's house; the old butler Kelly, entrusted by his master, began seeking help from a security company.】

【Due to the Welch case, manpower in the security company and private detective industries was tight; Kelly accidentally encountered a food delivery waiter and coincidentally learned of the existence of the Black Thorn Security Company.】

【Leonard and Klein accepted the commission and, relying on their supernatural abilities, swiftly rescued Elliot, subsequently learning of the clue regarding the notebook hidden across the street.】

【Sealed Artifact '2-049' arrived in Tingen; with its aid, Deng En led the Nighthawks to locate Reel and interrupted his digestion process.】

【Reel transformed into a monster, and the situation spiraled out of control.】

【Ultimately, the highly coordinated Nighthawks dealt with the monster Bieber, but they immediately had to face an attack by members of the Secret Order.】

【Leonard, harboring secrets, was about to bring matters to an unblemished close, yet Klein, who should have died, once again incomprehensibly eliminated a Sequence 7 member of the Secret Order.】

【However, this did not affect the development of the story...】

【Deng En came into contact with the notebook, flipped through its contents, and was subtly contaminated a little!】

【Having completed his preparations, Lanierus bewitched Hu De into helping him perform the ritual, using his deceived fiancée, Missy, as a vessel to conceive the offspring of the 'True Creator'.】

【Lanierus had almost no chance of success; even with the protection of the ritual's power, Missy could not withstand the illusory projection of a deity, which would cause her to die upon the sacrificial altar.】

【At this moment, the kind-hearted Zangwill secretly aided Lanierus; he separated half of the characteristics of a Death God descendant he had gathered and implanted them into Missy's body slightly ahead of schedule.】

【Hu De induced a semi-comatose state in Missy, causing her to mistake the illusory projection of the 'True Creator' for Lanierus; under the resentment accumulated day and night in the factory district, the ritual succeeded, and Missy conceived the offspring of the 'True Creator'; this deity perceived the coincidences in the affair, but hoping to break through the blockade of the Seven Gods, He did not refuse.】

【After the ritual's success, Lanierus regained his sanity; if the deity's offspring were truly born into reality, he would become one of the sacrifices—how could a mortal possibly become the father of a deity's child? This would be a grave blasphemy!】

【Lanierus decided to leave Tingen and inform the Nighthawks, the Church of Storms' Punishers, and the Machinery Hivemind about this 'bomb,' letting them resolve the aftermath for him.】

【He decided to leave the letter in the house he rented, pretending to play a game with the official Beyonders; for this reason, he did not warn Hu De and took all the spoils with him.】

To be on the safe side, he also informed Cyril of the situation in a secure manner; the latter did not fully believe it, yet sensed a possibility of success.

……

Selena accidentally and coincidentally glimpsed the true incantation of 'Mirror Divination' from her occult teacher, Haines.

Her bold attempt happened to coincide with Klein's presence, and the latter successfully resolved this supernatural case that could have caused massive casualties.

Thanks to this, the Nighthawks team tracked down Haines, but as this member of the Jiguang Society had just received a reward, Deng En coincidentally saw a clear image of the 'True Creator' in his dream, suffering tremendous harm.

However, he did not become corrupted by it; yet this further aggravated the hidden corruption inflicted upon Deng En by the notebook, intensifying his symptoms of trance and omission, and he would step by step fulfill Zangwill's requirements.

……

Truly unbelievable! Klein perceived Zangwill's hidden influence and saw that dark red chimney.

This... this was due to the reminder from Azik, a lecturer in the History Department at Khoy University, who harbored many secrets within him.

Yet even so, while Klein could discover specific clues, the matter remained inexplicable.

Regardless of the reason, it is no major issue; the story continues...

Klein encountered Cyril by chance in the library and, unable to hold back, killed him; thus, half the clues regarding the Lanulus incident were severed, and the discovery of the problem was delayed, pushed back...

……

Klein encountered Megose, but his spirituality prevented him from investigating; moreover, he failed to notice that subtle anomaly afterward, which is quite logical—our story is not fabricated!!!

He gathered information on the Red Chimney, yet he would always choose routes that excluded the target; perhaps only after two or three months, when the final batch arrives, will he discover the true 'Red Chimney House'.

……

Deng En's condition has been alleviated! His state is visibly improving! He has actually mastered the 'Acting Method'!

And this was taught to him by Klein, inspired by the examples of Dai Li and Old Neil? No! Zangwill did not believe it, yet he could only slightly alter his original plan!

The story has taken a new turn.

In order to search for memories of his past, Azik decided to travel to Backlund.

It did not take long for Klein and Deng En to obtain clues from Hu De.