Chapter 72 The Second Insurance
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"Well, that's it for today's lesson, Klein. Remember to review and consolidate properly when you get back. Mysticism is unlike other subjects; if you don't study hard, you'll be the one who suffers."
With only a few minutes left before the two-hour time limit, Lin Ruo ended today's lesson right on time, instructing Klein.
"Got it, I'll review properly…" Although it wasn't the first time he'd heard this, Klein nodded obediently, not annoyed by Lin Ruo's repeated reminders.
He knew that the other party was doing it for his own good.
Lin Ruo was naturally satisfied with Klein's good student behavior, and then, as if remembering something, said, "Oh right, Klein, there's something I need you to pass on to Captain Dunn."
"What is it?" Klein asked curiously.
"It's like this, when I passed by the town of Tingen earlier, I noticed that there was an aura of evil spirits in an abandoned castle there, but due to some special reasons, it's not convenient for me to deal with it. So please tell Captain Dunn to send someone to deal with that place, we can't just leave it unattended." Lin Ruo said with a smile.
Klein nodded. Although he was a little curious about the reason Lin Ruo mentioned that made it inconvenient, he didn't ask further, and said, "Okay, I will."
"Oh right, you haven't really seen an evil spirit before, have you? Why not apply to go along this time and broaden your horizons." Lin Ruo said with a teasing smile, "And if I'm not mistaken, you should be using Sealed Artifacts from the Sun domain to deal with the evil spirit. It's a good opportunity to let you see how much Sealed Artifacts from the Sun domain like people praising the sun."
Klein was stunned. Thinking of the little knowledge about each pathway that Lin Ruo had taught him before, his expression suddenly became a little subtle.
However, Klein didn't think too much about it, and said, "I'll apply. Is there anything else?"
"Nope, that's all!" Lin Ruo raised his right hand and waved it, making a farewell gesture, "Goodbye!"
"Goodbye!" Klein also said goodbye.
Then, Lin Ruo in front of him disappeared instantly as usual.
Klein didn't rush to leave the records room, but first organized the notes he had taken earlier. After confirming that there were no problems, he turned and walked towards the office on the second floor.
He was going to see the Captain.
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Backlund—
The returning Lin Ruo stood up as usual, stretching lazily.
Then, sitting down again, he raised his hand. As the Truth Pen condensed, he wrote without hesitation:
[Klein will discover Azik's portrait from the abandoned castle.]
This was the purpose of him suddenly mentioning Tingen to Klein just now. Lin Ruo hoped that Klein would go to the town of Tingen, find Mr. Azik's portrait there, and then pull Mr. Azik into the camp against Ince.
Now that Megose has conceived the evil god's offspring, Lin Ruo can basically confirm that in the abandoned castle in Tingen, the remains of Mr. Azik's former offspring have been ruined by Ince, that dog thing.
After all, the remnants of the Death God's descendants are almost a prerequisite for Megose, as an ordinary person, to bear the evil god's offspring, and it is also necessary for Ince, that dog thing, to switch from the Death God pathway to the Darknss pathway and advance to a Nightwatcher demigod.
In the original work, Ince, that dog thing, ruined the remains of Mr. Azik's son and took away his skull, leading to the birth of the evil spirit, leaving Mr. Azik's son unable to rest in peace even after more than a thousand years.
This is also one of the main reasons why Azik and Ince confronted each other in the original work. And now, what Lin Ruo is doing is to show Ince's nasty deeds to Mr. Azik in advance.
Lin Ruo believed that, stimulated by this incident, Mr. Azik would remember many things from the past, and would also restore part of his strength as a former Big Shot. Judging from the situation in the original work, reaching the demigod level would not be a problem.
And Azik, whose son's remains were ruined and his skull was taken away, would definitely not give up investigating the murderer—that would be the time for him to appear.
This was the second insurance that Lin Ruo had added to the hunting Ince operation.
He didn't believe that a Storm demigod, a former Death Consul, plus him, a 90-second full sequence demigod, and many official Beyonders, couldn't deal with Ince, who only had 0-08.
That dog thing hasn't gone to heaven yet!
Lin Ruo's only concern now was what attitude the unspeakable Big Shot held in this matter.
Lin Ruo hadn't failed to notice the shadows belonging to the Evernight Goddess and Adam in the original Tingen incident, otherwise he wouldn't have been bearing the identity of the Goddess's Blessed, but still hadn't borrowed any power belonging to the high-level members of the Evernight Church in this matter.
He couldn't figure out what attitude the Evernight Goddess held, so he adhered to the mentality of continuing to make trouble as long as the other party didn't stop him, and had been tossing about until now.
But what about Adam? This former Creator of the City of Silver, now a King of Angels with only divinity and no humanity, what is he thinking?
Lin Ruo was very clear that all of his current plans would be vulnerable if an existence at the Angel King level came forward to stop him.
He couldn't fight a King of Angels right now.
But even so... "As expected, I still have to do it!" Lin Ruo said, a smile curling up on his lips.
"I can't bear to watch them die in front of me."
Then Lin Ruo confirmed the next action plan in his mind again. While basically confirming that there were no problems, he felt a strange feeling for some reason.
"Strange, I always feel like I've overlooked something…" Lin Ruo reviewed the plan in his mind again, repeatedly confirming the details.
"I shouldn't have forgotten anything…"
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Dusk, Tingen—
Klein, who had already eaten dinner, was pulling people everywhere in the town of Tingen, asking about the abandoned castle.
The evil spirit in the castle had naturally been dispelled by Dunn using Sealed Artifact 3-0782, but because the Nighthawks noticed that the evil spirit was only recently born, and the head of the evil spirit's remains had been taken away recently, it was very likely that someone wanted to use this thing to do something, so they didn't rush to leave and planned to investigate further.
This was also the reason why Klein was pulling people everywhere to ask at this moment.
After Klein finished asking a middle-aged man in his forties with yellow hair, just as he was about to leave, he heard the man say:
"Officer, are you interested in this castle? My family has a portrait of the castle's first Baron. A very, very, very long time ago, one of my ancestors took it from the castle. It is said to be a portrait of the first Baron Tingen."
"Do you want it? This is a real antique!"
Antique? If it was a real antique, you would have sold it long ago!
Klein naturally found his obvious attempt to deceive people a little funny, but with the thought that it wouldn't hurt to take a look, he said:
"Bring it out and let me see."
Hearing this, the yellow-haired middle-aged man immediately returned to the house with a smile. After a long while, he came out holding a painting.
Klein's gaze fell on the painting, and his originally nonchalant expression suddenly froze.
On the painting, the first Baron, wearing a white curly wig, had gentle features, bronze skin, and eyes that hid an unspeakable vicissitude.
It was Mr. Azik, who had commissioned him to find the past.
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