Olson slept through the night, but when he woke up the next day, his head still felt somewhat swollen.
His brain felt sluggish until the maid knocked on the door and politely asked if he wanted breakfast brought to his room. Only then did he feel slightly better.
"No need, wait a moment, I'll be right there."
He looked somewhat listless as he walked out of the room, just in time to see Tang walking over from not far away.
"Good morning."
Olson greeted him without much energy.
Tang, who had just finished his morning exercise, glanced at Olson. "Still feeling unwell?"
"Sort of." Olson yawned, rubbing his eyes. "The effects of losing control are more serious than I thought."
He had thought his loss of control was only minor, but it seemed the murmurs he had heard yesterday had a greater impact than he had anticipated.
Tang glanced at Olson again.
"What are you looking at?" Olson asked strangely. "Is there something on my face?"
"No, nothing." He shook his head.
He had just suddenly thought of a very big problem.
Returning to his own room to rest briefly, Tang stood by the window, deep in thought.
Knowledge Follows the Person was mainly directed at the struggling Trick Sorcerer and the 'Never-Ending Theater' as the manipulator behind the scenes. Although his voice at that time was extremely sanity-draining for Olson and Owen, Owen was even a sequence lower than Olson. Even if Owen had a Sequence Four Extraordinary item, the difference in their conditions shouldn't have been this significant.
That Mr. Door of the Abraham family...
He thought, "I'll ask Olson about it later. The Abraham family suffered heavy losses during the Fourth Epoch War. Although many high-sequence Extraordinary individuals have fallen, some should still remain."
Had those high-sequence Extraordinary individuals already begun to be affected by the murmurs?
If so, then Olson, being Sequence Five, should also be affected in his current state.
Combining what Olson said yesterday about 'hearing voices,' this probability was quite high.
Mr. Door and Antigonus had joined forces to kill Old Zaratul, and were subsequently expelled from the real world by the Goddess of the Night and the Lord of the Storms.
After that, the Abraham family suffered the curse of bloodline and murmurs. By the Fifth Epoch, this family, which had produced an Extraordinary individual closest to a True God, had completely faded from the Extraordinary world, retaining only a small number of Extraordinary individuals, with the majority being ordinary people who didn't even plan to touch the supernatural in their lifetime.
During the Fourth Epoch War, being banished together by two True Gods, before or after this, this 3+1 Angel King was contaminated.
Some time had passed since the Fourth Epoch War... If He could emit murmurs and curse the Extraordinary individuals of the Abraham family to death from afar, then it proved that He had been completely contaminated and had split personalities.
Saying things like 'Save me, save me' on one hand, and 'Don't save me, don't save me' on the other.
Tang frowned, recalling the state he was in when he entered the 'Knowledge Follows the Person' BUFF and the countless images he saw.
Although those images were also compressed to the Sequence Five level by the System along with his own sequence, and many he couldn't remember or wasn't allowed to remember...
But that last image gave him a creepy feeling.
"Mr. Door will be replaced by Amon upon his return because his own advancement to Sequence Zero will cause the apocalypse to arrive early."
"In short, just don't let Him come back."
"System, is there a way to isolate Mr. Door's murmurs?" Tang asked cautiously.
He did know one way, which was to collectively move the Abraham family above the gray fog.
The murmurs would greatly intensify during the full moon. The high-sequence Abrahams, who could usually resist the murmurs with acting, willpower, their own sequence, and mystical items, would probably go mad one by one at that time.
Even the enhanced version of the murmurs 2.0 couldn't penetrate the gray fog.
However...
He wasn't the master of the gray fog, and he didn't want that someone to awaken within him.
"The Never-Ending Theater?"
Because it was contaminated by the power of the night, this Sealed Artifact formed by the aggregation of the Miracle Invoker's Extraordinary characteristics simultaneously possessed the ability of 'concealment.'
Regarding Tang's question, the System was concise: 'Optimization required.'
Tang understood.
This meant it was feasible, but the System would have to add some of its own things. The theater without the 'Craftsman's' processing might not be able to completely shield it.
The concealment of the Night pathway should also be able to achieve isolation, but it would probably require the Goddess of the Night or a Sequence Two of the Night pathway to take action.
The way contamination was transmitted was similar to Knowledge Follows the Person. To spread contamination, both sequence and pathway were indispensable.
Sequence was penetration, and pathway was the channel.
And the effect of the latter was far greater than the former because Mr. Door was 3+1. There was no existence higher in sequence than him in the Apprentice pathway. The 'divinity' that appeared in demigods, plus perhaps Mr. Door leaving something special in his bloodline, these two channels allowed Mr. Door to backwash contamination, causing Abrahams to go directly mad upon advancing to Sequence Four...
Tang was still thinking about this even after breakfast.
'Extraordinary characteristics of Alchemist have been separated and submitted.'
'Host, Extraordinary characteristics of Knowledge pathway Sequence Five to Sequence Nine have been separated. Do you want to put them in storage?'
The System suddenly popped up with this message.
Obviously, it only needed one Sequence Four Extraordinary characteristic. The Sequence Five to Sequence Nine Extraordinary characteristics separated from it flowed back down.
Sequence Four was a qualitative change, the System was right about that.
'The 'Craftsman' module is upgrading. Upgrade time: 3:59:58. Please pay attention, Host.'
Four hours.
Tang looked at the state of the Meatball. The impure thing originally formed by the aggregation of various Extraordinary characteristics was now scattered and floating around the screen. Each Extraordinary characteristic was more or less stuck to a piece of corpse flesh, and an invisible force prevented the law of Extraordinary characteristics aggregation from occurring, keeping them in a state of mutual independence and non-interference.
Hundreds of Extraordinary characteristics floated in the dark void. This scene was obviously quite shocking.
Throwing the separated lump of Extraordinary characteristics that condensed the Knowledge pathway Sequence Five to Sequence Nine into storage, Tang was somewhat worried about what to do with them.
Clearly, his storage couldn't hold so many Extraordinary characteristics.
Letting them float on their own and leaving them with the System wasn't entirely impossible...
"System, if I open the Never-Ending Theater in the real world, what will happen to these Extraordinary characteristics?"
Tang suddenly asked.
'They will still be in a separated state, but will be independent of other parts of the theater, stored separately in a space.'
Then he would wait for the 'Craftsman' upgrade to finish and see what would appear after the System's optimization.
Putting down his cutlery, Baron Ramd pushed a box towards Tang at this moment.
"This is for you. Perhaps it will be of some help."
Tang took the box and opened it, seeing a strange upside-down cross pendant inside.
'Identifying. One identification次数 has been automatically consumed. Remaining identification次数: 34 times.'
'Host, this item belongs to Sequence Four of the 'Secret Suppliant' pathway, the Extraordinary characteristics of the Black Knight.'
(End of this chapter)