The scene was unparalleled.
Tang silently put his jaw back into place and carefully examined the scene before him again.
He found that he could freely adjust the surrounding scenery according to his thoughts, distorting the scene in front of him and switching the objects he needed to observe.
This was almost instinctive, knowledge carried by the level itself, just like automatically comprehending how to contaminate others with knowledge after entering the 'Knowledge Devours the Person' state.
Previously suppressed by the System, releasing and maintaining this level for a period of time, or encountering specific situations, he should be able to figure out some of the extraordinary abilities this level could bring.
...Although that was the case, the entire Tingen was still too large. Trying to examine everything in detail with his Sequence Five spirituality alone was impossible.
"Sequence Four is a threshold." When he reached Sequence Four, this state would probably undergo a qualitative change.
Tang thought.
He could feel his spirituality rapidly depleting. Just seeing this scene was constantly eroding his own spirituality. Soon he would leave this state and return to his body.
Letting out a breath, Tang swept his gaze around, preparing to see the limits of this state's 'observation.'
With the mad knowledge carried by his spirit body, which was also rapidly depleting at this moment, used to resist the prying of those unknowable and imperceptible things, it was actually relatively safe.
While his spirituality hadn't completely run out, Tang curiously looked around.
Then, he saw a person.
It was a person with black curly hair, black eyes, wearing a black soft hat, and a monocle carved from crystal on his right eye—
Amon???
The immense shock made Tang's hands and feet instantly ice-cold.
"What's going on? Why is Amon here? Is he targeting me? Or does he want the Miracle Worker's Sealed Artifact?"
This was a fear originating from the depths of his memory, the impression of Amon from reading the book, coupled with the unease after the characters in the book became reality after entering the world of Mysteries, turning into a small shadow in his heart.
Now that he really saw this King of Angels appear before him, Tang felt like he suddenly had monocle PTSD.
Although he had considered how to counter Amon, how to use the System to fight this King of Angels, and how to safely escape the other party's gaze, the impression of this King of Angels in his memory still made him subconsciously hold his breath, his hair standing on end.
This was the person who snatched the Sefirah Castle from Klein Moretti!
But this was his own overthinking, scaring himself.
The Amon wearing the monocle did not notice his observation.
Tang's level in this state was quite high, and the state was quite special. Only the main body Amon might be able to detect the prying from a different space directed at him. Similarly, without a channel, Amon could not enter this completely different space through parasitism or theft.
Tang quickly calmed down, and he also confirmed his current safety.
"This space is safe, a bystander mode that only I can enter."
Looking at Amon again, Tang saw that the other party's location was far from his own territory, in the residential area where Tingen's nobles and wealthy merchants lived.
His spirituality was rapidly depleting. Tang saw Amon attached to a young man, parasitizing the other's spirit body. This was the Extraordinary ability of the Sequence Four Parasite of the Thief pathway.
"Not strong." Tang could observe the other party's essence. It was a Time Worm, not the main body.
"A demigod-level avatar, huh."
He wanted to continue observing, but at this moment, he already felt his spirituality about to dry up.
Tang immediately noted down the specific address of Amon's location, preparing to draw a red cross on that place when he returned.
He wasn't planning to go to Tingen for quite some time... ah, it wasn't because he was afraid of Amon.
At the last moment before his spirituality returned and his spirit body returned to his physical body, Tang heard a voice ring out.
"Tch, Fabaoti is really getting worse as he lives."
Tang: ...?
What did he just hear?
Looking again, the surrounding scene suddenly shattered. Tang only felt a splitting headache. The sun scepter in his hand fell to the ground, and Tang knelt on the ground, retching for a while.
His spirit body returned, landing in the Never-Ending Theater.
The feeling of exhausted spirituality was really unpleasant. The depleted spirituality made his head feel like it was about to explode. At the same time, the System's voice suddenly rang out.
'Host, host, where did you just run off to?!'
The System's electronic voice was as if a loudspeaker had been turned on. Tang covered his head, not wanting to speak at all, feeling sickly.
This was the result of exhausted spirituality, and he needed to rest for a while to recover.
'Host? Host, answer me, host——' The System, with no sense of propriety, was still super loud, 'Ahhhhh, host, how did you exhaust all your spirituality!!'
'Was it that bastard! Yes, it was that bastard! Host, tell me, I'll immediately hang that bastard up for you to play with as a marionette, ahhh, host, don't die! Don't force me to kneel down and beg you... at least advance to Mystic or Alchemist before dying, okay?'
'If you die, I won't live either, sob sob, I'll make the entire theater be buried with you!'
The theater core watching the show: 6.
Tang: "..." Why didn't you say you'd make everyone in Tingen be buried with me?
The theater core turned a blind eye and slipped away.
Tang didn't want to bother with the System at all. He went from kneeling to lying down, lying on the ground and looking at the sky, wanting to sleep but unable to, his head full of buzzing.
This effect could be dispelled by making a wish to the theater core.
Tang raised his hand and used the Proprietor's Ring's ability to make a wish to the theater to calm the negative effects brought by the exhaustion of his spirituality. Only then did he feel much better.
Seeing that its host had finally come back to life, the System mumbled for a long time before finally highlighting something for Tang to see.
The negative effects of the sun scepter had changed.
'Negative Effects: Will attract the sun to ascend!'
Now, a small new paragraph had appeared below this text.
'Remaining usage times before the next sun ascension: 53!'
In other words, after using the sun scepter 53 more times, this kind of thing would happen again?
Tang fell silent.
'Host, don't worry,' the System explained, 'the first time was the most violent, and each subsequent ascension will be much weaker.'
'Moreover, as long as the Extraordinary characteristics of the mystical item are fully supplemented and balanced is achieved, the sun will not ascend for a very long time.' The sun scepter in this state would approach a stable state, only then would it be considered a demigod-level mystical item without major negative effects.
That is to say, it was necessary to continue collecting the Sequence Four Extraordinary characteristics of the Reader and Tyrant pathways.
'It's better not to use it before it's fully supplemented, okay?'
The next time, the main System wouldn't come to help.
But Tang wasn't focused on this point. "Are you saying that as long as it's not fully supplemented, it will continuously cause the sun to ascend?"
He pondered.
(End of this chapter)