Chapter 266

Klein, having ended this meeting, was currently sitting in the restroom, deep in thought.

Looking at the talisman in his hand that looked very much like a toy sticker, his brain experienced a prolonged system crash.

"Holy crap..."

After the long crash, he ungentlemanly uttered the words that had survived countless ages and remained standing.

"This sticker-like talisman can actually suppress loss of control and corruption..."

Klein found it very hard to comprehend at this moment.

Because of the repeated, cautious warnings from Old Neil and Captain Dunn, he had a very profound understanding of loss of control, which was why he could better understand how serious a situation loss of control was for a Beyonder.

Among these, corruption was even more serious than loss of control.

Yet, the loss of control and corruption that were almost unavoidable, unstoppable, and irreversible in the words of Old Neil and Captain Dunn now seemed to have an additional countermeasure.

That was the talisman lying quietly in his hand, which was abnormally ordinary.

He initially couldn't believe it, but after ending the weekly Tarot Gathering, he performed several more divinations above the gray fog to confirm, and the results of the divination were that this talisman indeed had the effect of suppressing loss of control and corruption.

This answer also made the worldview Klein had just established feel like it was about to shatter completely.

A casually crafted talisman could suppress loss of control and corruption; Klein only felt that those predecessors who had walked the path of loss of control and corruption had all become a joke.

"What a truly malicious joke."

Klein only felt an abnormal sense of irony. He exhaled gently, letting his mood slowly ease; he needed to think about another problem.

"Should I tell Captain Dunn about the talisman?"

Without a doubt, the existence of this talisman could greatly change the pitiful and tragic fate of Beyonders, but this talisman was also too easy to expose his identity.

Once Mr. Hanged Man and Miss Justice knew that the talisman was distributed from his side, then the identity he was trying his best to hide would be exposed in an instant.

"But if I don't tell Captain Dunn, how can I, who just joined the Nighthawks, come into contact with Beyonders who have lost control or are corrupted?"

Although the divination had already given an accurate answer, Klein still felt that he needed to verify it personally to be more reliable.

But the problem was, how could a rookie who had just stepped into the Beyonder realm verify it?

Klein couldn't help but feel distressed.

However, the problems causing him distress weren't just this talisman; there was also the arrival of a new guest above the gray fog, and a guest he was completely ignorant of at that.

Just thinking about it made Klein feel a bit creeped out.

If there were uninvited guests above the gray fog, didn't that mean his little secret was at risk of being exposed at any moment?

Of course, this was still not the most critical point.

The most critical point was that the uninvited guest could even control the area above the gray fog, and Klein even clearly remembered that guest saying the word "Sefirah Castle."

Klein didn't know if Sefirah Castle was the mysterious space he temporarily referred to as "above the gray fog." Because there was no way to confirm it.

But he instinctively felt that Sefirah Castle was the more formal name for "above the gray fog."

"Mysterious guest... Sefirah Castle... talisman... and Joker."

Others might not know, but he, a transmigrator, couldn't be clearer: Joker was one of the languages from a country before he transmigrated. However, this language system did not exist in this world; it could even be called a highly encrypted text, with encryption exceeding even Chinese.

The reason was also very simple: because such text did not exist in this world, and there was simply no such record.

It was also because of this term that Klein believed the other party should be the same kind of person as him.

These problems were now all lingering in Klein's mind, forming a big dead knot.

Without any clues, this dead knot could not be untied at all.

Klein, who was deep in thought, suddenly paused. He seemed to have forgotten a major problem; he had seemed to forget it just now, but at this moment, he reacted to it for no reason.

"And that inexplicable feeling."

That person's voice was like the whispers heard in his ears during the promotion period; no, it was even much more intense than that time.

It felt like the blood in his whole body was boiling, and his spirituality was about to be stripped from his spirit body.

When he was affected, Klein observed that Mr. Hanged Man and he had similar situations, but Miss Justice didn't seem to be affected.

Perhaps this was another piece of evidence confirming that Mr. Hanged Man was also a Beyonder.

Miss Justice didn't show similar symptoms, perhaps because Miss Justice was not yet a Beyonder.

"...That person's identity still needs further investigation."

Lowering his head to look at the talisman in his hand, Klein felt very distressed. How was he supposed to verify this thing?

He felt that if he were to go straight to Captain Dunn and say that this talisman could suppress loss of control and corruption, Captain Dunn might think that he was already in a state of loss of control.

After much consideration, Klein still didn't have a very good method.

Actually, Klein knew that praying for the help of a deity was also a method at such times, but the problem was, would the Goddess pay attention to him?

Furthermore, the Goddess wasn't his mother; would he get feedback just because he prayed? If he received negative feedback, wouldn't his situation be even worse?

After calming his emotions, Klein decided to hide the item for now and find an opportunity to test it later.

And just as Klein was about to put it down, the Evernight Goddess was also looking at the talisman sacrificed before her with a head full of question marks.

"???"

She looked at it for a long time, and her brain didn't react immediately.

"Can suppress loss of control and corruption? Has Klein's believer's brain gone wrong?"

The prayers of ordinary believers usually wouldn't attract the Goddess's attention; it was because she sensed the aura of Sefirah Castle that she was drawn to it.

And the content of the prayer made it even harder for the Goddess to describe it in normal language.

Asking whether the talisman before her possessed the ability to suppress loss of control and corruption?

It wasn't that there were no items to suppress loss of control, but where did the suppression of corruption come from?

As a true god of Sequence 0, how could she not know that there existed items in this world that could suppress corruption?

However, this also made the Goddess curious.

She probed the talisman before her, and then let out an exclamation that did not fit her status.

"Holy crap!"

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