Tang returned to the castle and found Owen, who was fiddling with new mystical items.
"Owen, do me a favor."
Owen put down the gauntlet part of the armor he was holding, looking somewhat puzzled. "What happened? Tang, being so flustered doesn't seem like you."
"Now is not the time to worry about that. Take me with you for a spirit world transfer to Tingen." Walking and carriages definitely wouldn't make it in time. Tang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Over there, I'm afraid a Sequence Two Sealed Artifact has gone out of control."
"Pfft." Owen almost choked, coughing several times before calming down. His face suddenly turned serious. "Sequence Two? Are you sure?"
"Most likely not mistaken, Owen. Hurry, this mystical item you have has the Extraordinary ability of spirit world transfer."
"If we don't hurry, I'm afraid countless ordinary people will become part of that Sealed Artifact."
Without further explanation, Tang urged him while showing Owen the specific coordinates he had extracted from the System.
The System was monitoring the situation over there, but from the looks of it, it had already developed into a very dangerous state.
"All the audience members are constantly shouting 'miracle.' That's probably the last roar of the Extraordinary characteristics left by a deceased Miracle Invoker. It's obsession, a kind of crazy spiritual imprint of the potion itself, a kind of delirium, or perhaps something at a deeper level."
When he heard Olson's description, Tang's inspiration was triggered.
Countless marionettes, deformed monsters, the supreme dome, the boundless space, and the Extraordinary people within who were constantly being selected to the stage and asked to display miracles—it was like a performance that could never stop.
Tang used dream divination to ask his spirituality, and a term suddenly appeared in his mind.
It was a Sealed Artifact that had only appeared by name in the original work, a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact controlled by the Church of the Storm, "0-32, The Never-Ending Theater."
It appeared during the War of the Four Emperors and was a terrifying Sealed Artifact formed by the Extraordinary characteristics of a fallen Miracle Invoker.
Specific description: Unknown.
Specific abilities: Unknown.
Specific sealing method: Unknown.
The System's current energy reserves and sequence power made it very difficult to accurately locate and use appraisal to determine information. This approach would be completely offset by the suppression belonging to the Miracle Invoker sequence.
"The Night Goddess Church, the Lord of the Storms Church, and the God of Steam and Machinery Church in Tingen don't have particularly powerful Extraordinary individuals stationed there. If they need to transfer someone from Backlund, then the probability is..."
The worst outcome was that the entire Tingen would be turned into a part of that Sealed Artifact, and then... destroyed by the churches along with the entire Tingen.
Of course, this wasn't 100% accurate. Perhaps the Miracle Invoker was digesting the potion, or perhaps other Extraordinary individuals were trying to set up a promotion ritual. But after careful calculation by the System, the latter two and other possibilities were extremely small.
Even if it was really the latter two, or other possibilities, pulling so many ordinary people in to make them marionettes, killing so many people to turn them into part of a ritual, he didn't believe that Miracle Invoker, that Extraordinary person trying to advance, would stop.
At this moment, Owen, fully dressed, suddenly reached out and grabbed Tang.
Without saying a word, he directly pulled Tang into the spirit world.
The surroundings lit up with red, white, and multicolored blocks, splashed around like paint in an oil painting, dense and chaotic to the extreme.
The spirit world of mysticism was a special space without direction or distance, composed of various symbolic representations that had materialized.
Above the endless expanse, seven clear rays of light of different colors, containing countless knowledge, flickered. And deeper...
Owen was somewhat clumsily leading Tang through the spirit world.
When they reappeared, the two were in Tingen.
However, they were still some distance away from the circus Tang had visited before.
Tang said nothing. He blew a copper whistle, and white bones gushed out from the ground, stacking on top of each other to form a skeleton with black flames burning in its eyes.
The Bone Messenger looked directly at Tang, who handed over a pre-written letter. Without waiting for the Bone Messenger to leave, he immediately looked at Owen.
He had notified his father and also needed to make other preparations.
"The situation inside is probably very complicated, Owen. You stay outside. If things go wrong, immediately notify the churches."
If he couldn't solve it, he could only pray that the people from the orthodox churches could quickly deal with this Sealed Artifact.
"You don't have to go in," Owen said in a low voice. "Directly notifying the churches won't be a problem. Let them send high-sequence Extraordinary individuals. At most, some people will die. This won't affect us. We don't need to take risks."
Although the brothers often bickered, Owen was genuinely worried about Tang's safety.
"That's very likely a Sequence Two of the Seer pathway," Tang stared at Owen and said seriously, "This is a rare opportunity, and I have to try."
When he realized that this was very likely a high-sequence Seer Sealed Artifact formed during the War of the Four Emperors, Tang had already made this plan.
With the System, he had a way to separate at least one serving of each potion from Sequence Two to Sequence Nine from the Sequence Two Extraordinary characteristics. This meant that as long as he could obtain this Sealed Artifact, as long as his ritual was correct and he could digest the potions and knew the supplementary materials, he wouldn't have to worry about finding the main ingredients.
As long as he had time and there were no other dangers, he would definitely become a Sequence Two Miracle Invoker, which would save a lot of time searching for potions.
This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
And in the future, he probably wouldn't have such a lucky coincidence.
In this era, being weak meant that his future would be quite dangerous.
Hearing this, Owen couldn't think of any words to persuade him for a moment.
Sequence Two...
Tang smiled again. "Don't think I don't have any trump cards. If there's absolutely no possibility, I would never risk doing this. After all, a magician never performs unprepared shows."
He had the System, which very likely originated from a part of something... above the True Gods. This was his biggest trump card.
'Wuwuwu Host, I'm so touched.' The System instantly burst into tears.
"I can trust you, right?" Tang thought to himself.
'Of course you can! Then... then Host, can you choose Mystic/Alchemist?'
Tang: "..."
Let's not talk about this topic, and we're still good friends.
System: 'Hehe.'
Tang's eyes looked towards the domed building not far away. "How about you go head-on with that Sealed Artifact? Once you do, I'll switch pathways."
System: '...No hehe.'
Just then, a figure stumbled and ran over from not far away.
Olson was unusually disheveled. His eyes lit up when he saw Tang.
Ignoring the bloodstains on his body, he ran over.
"Tang! Tang! It's so great to see you here!"
Olson was in tears. He only calmed down after a guy in armor grabbed his collar and lifted him up, preventing him from hugging Tang and crying his heart out.
"Olson, what's the situation inside?"
(End of this chapter)