Soon, the Church's Extraordinary individuals who had stayed in Tingen from other regions left one after another.
Tang could sense the approximate location of his marionette. The spirit thread extended infinitely in the spirit world, connecting him through the void and reality.
"Father has arrived in Backlund and has begun to draw aggro."
If a high-sequence Extraordinary individual tried to divine, and his father deliberately didn't set up defenses to interfere, the divination results for the Never-Ending Theater would very likely fall on him.
Through the Wraith marionette, Tang had a general understanding of the situation around his father.
The 'Bionic Marionette' module, in theory, as long as it wasn't in a place completely isolated from the spirit world, he could control the marionette equipped with this module. And even if he didn't issue commands, just maintaining the marionette's state, the marionette could act autonomously and make choices.
As long as he didn't act out of control and recognize the marionette as a real person, even without much acting, the Master of Marionettes' potion could be digested quickly after a period of time.
"When there are enough of these modules, no, as long as there are enough marionettes, I can also imitate Amon."
Openly place one marionette, and secretly have all of them be his marionettes.
Stabbing one marionette would be equivalent to stabbing a whole nest of marionettes.
For safety, after digestion is complete, he should also create a marionette of himself using the Faceless.
After advancing to Sequence Four, if he needed to act, by then his marionettes would be everywhere. If they all wore monocles at the same time, directly pulling off an Amon-style stunt, the digestion of the Trick Sorcerer potion would probably skyrocket.
Hehe.
'Host, you're so devious...'
"Only fools put all their cards on the table," Tang sighed. "At least I haven't gone mad enough to turn everyone around me into marionettes."
'Aren't you really afraid that Amon will come knocking...' the System muttered.
"I'm just a mid-sequence, and I don't have the gray fog. Amon shouldn't look down on me."
Tang was straightforward, "There's still an old man on the Thief pathway drawing aggro. Amon hasn't gotten all the Sequence One potions. He doesn't have the time to look for a small fry like me who isn't even a demigod."
As for really encountering him... he'd deal with it then.
As long as it wasn't the main body, it would be easy to escape using the Never-Ending Theater and the System.
As for the main body... he'd save up some knowledge fragments. If it was really the main body Amon, he'd pull a big one on him. Even if he couldn't fight, he'd use 'Knowledge Follows the Person' and the Never-Ending Theater to escape immediately.
Then he could only resign himself to fate.
Thinking of this, Tang glanced around. Hmm, good, no one suddenly took out a monocle and put it on, then said to him, "Do you really think so?"
Tsk tsk, just thinking about that scene made the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
In this world, apart from those high and mighty gods, the person Tang least wanted to face was Amon.
After all, he was the embodiment of deceit and mischief, and very wicked in his tastes.
"By the way, System, can you detect parasites?"
The Sequence Four Parasite of the Thief pathway, whether shallow or deep parasitism, was very difficult to detect.
None of the demigods from the Gou family were simple. Tang needed to figure out this issue.
'Abnormalities can be identified through appraisal, but the source of the abnormality cannot be determined to be a Parasite.'
Just like when Tang appraised the marionettes in the Never-Ending Theater before, interference would occur.
But whether this interference originated from a Parasite, relying solely on the current System, even after eating a demigod Extraordinary characteristic, couldn't be determined.
'Maybe, eat a few more Mystics?' More must come!
The System hesitated, Tang remained expressionless.
"How about we go find the Hidden Sage? And kill a God of Crafts while we're at it, turning the Seven Gods into six, to cheer you up, and then catch a few Parasites for me to play with?"
'Not entirely impossible,' the System, with its 'thick skin,' became instantly joyful, 'I'll locate them right away! You can have as many Parasites as you want then!'
You come back here!
He couldn't handle it if the Hidden Sage came!
The System, with its 'thick skin,' became even happier: 'Locating now~'
Damn System!
Sooner or later, I'll hang you up as a marionette!
Not many days later, Owen also planned to leave.
Tang also handed Owen a mask and said, "A mystical item made from the Extraordinary characteristics of a Faceless. The negative effects are very small, just don't wear it for too long."
Owen patted Tang on the back, then mounted his horse and left.
Everyone had their own battlefield.
Tang returned to the castle with Madam Boyanka and 'Baron Ramd,' who were standing not far away.
He also had his own battlefield.
'Side Quest: Establish/Join a Secret Organization.'
'With the fall of the God of the Pale Disaster, the orthodox gods have also gradually faded from people's eyes; the descent of evil gods, the great will is about to awaken, and in the future, when the orthodox gods die, when the unknown erodes the world, perhaps in the next millennium, or perhaps in the millennium after that, the world will eventually undergo unparalleled changes. Therefore, perhaps you, as an outsider, should make some preparations early...'
'Accepted, mission tendency selected!'
'Your chosen tendency is: Establish a secret organization.'
'Note: This mission is a phased mission. The next phase cannot be entered without completing the previous one!'
'Mission information updated.'
'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Phase 1).'
'Your final choice is to establish a new secret organization. Ah, of course, this doesn't mean your choice is wrong. Those older secret organizations always have many strange rules, and joining them might not be a good choice... So first, before establishing a secret organization, you always need some like-minded friends and a fixed place for communication to be considered a complete rudimentary secret organization?'
'Mission Reward: Surprise Gift Pack * 1'
"Surprise Gift Pack?" Tang looked at the mission reward, somewhat surprised.
After all, the System had never shown him the mission rewards in advance, and the mission rewards were mostly things like appraisal attempts.
"What is this thing?"
The System replied very officially: 'Surprise Gift Pack, as the name suggests, it's a very surprising gift pack. As for what is surprising, we need to have a good chat about the meaning of this word...'
Ah, what kind of nonsense literature is this?!
Tang swatted away the System, which had begun to ramble endlessly in his mind.
"Olson has been gone for a while now. He should be back soon."
His father had drawn a lot of aggro. As long as he didn't cause any major incidents, the Church's attention shouldn't linger in Tingen for too long, at most a routine garrison.
Then, his 'recruitment plan' should also be able to begin.
(End of this chapter)