That part was basically saying someone was collecting the newspaper articles about Gerhman. We don`t know who is that yet.
They put a bounty on Gehrman at the end of vol 3. And it took them more than 1 whole volume before discovering that "Gehrman Sparrow" was a fake identity XD
I love that the rental system that they have now have the cross they should have begun to put more items in rental.
So some reveal about Abomination Pathway and the Rose School of thought. Renette was the earliest founding member of the Rose School of thought, which was created at the start of the 5th Era, following Death Sequence 0 Salinger's downfall and the collapse of his empire. Renette was likely touched by the Uniqueness of the Abomination Pathway, as a result became a God Blessed of the Abomination Pathway, she assisted her father in forming the Highland Kingdom and spread the teaching of the Rose School of Thought (Temperance). Then the mother tree ate the Abomination Pathway's Uniqueness and began posing as the Chained God, and the evil unrestrained desire branch of the Rose School of Thought gained power and began eroding away the Temperance Branch. Following that with the birth of Mother Tree's child Syah, who managed to became a Sequence 1 a few years before current events, the Temperance Branch could hold on no longer. Renette is Sequence 2 when she got ganged up by the other top members of Rose School, and got killed, but she was prepared for it, and ended up reviving in the spiritual world. (Just without her body, so she need to get one again to recover back to full power) Abomination Pathway's Demi-god sequence names are the following. Sequence 4 - Puppet Sequence 3 - The Thing of Curse (Formerly called Silent Disciple) Sequence 2 - Ancient Cursed Sequence 1 - God's Sin Mother Tree also likely holds a Sequence 1 characteristic of the Moon Pathway, which is what the Sanguines are after.
Some powers of Darkless One (Sequence 4 of Sun Path) - It have the power to cleanse residual madness and contamination in Beyonder Uniqueness. - Extremely powerful heat and sunlight power - Able to force out the Beyonder characteristics of other Beyonder (Permanantly decreasing the enemy's sequence) - Brainwash other people and inanimate objects into mindless believers of the SUN. Klein placed the Darkless One Cross with a his Thief Sequence 9 item, and it forced out the Thief characteristics and gave the item sentience. The item keep singing praises for the SUN, even when it is literally falling apart due to no longer having a beyonder characteristics. Another funny thing was that the Church of Storm have some Darkless One Sealed items (Due to the Tyrant path and Sun path being enemies), they have to keep switching the table that they placed the items on, because the table keep gaining sentience and began praising the SUN. They smashed and tortured every one of those tables to death.
So with Klein vs Herben Lanbis fight beginning, we get to see how Sequence 4 of Visionary Path fare against other Demi-gods. Visionary is pretty busted as well if you don't know how to defend against it. So Visionary Path Demi-god can do the following: - Consequence-free mythical form shift (into a dragon), while other Demi-gods require extreme mental fortitude to handle using their mythical form shift, Visionary Demi-gods don't need to worry about it since they can just smooth out their own madness (as long as they aren't in dragon form for too long). So you are essentially fighting a giant mind controlling flying dragon when you face Visionary Demi-god, who is super tanky. - Visionary Pathway also counters Fool Pathway, due to them able to easily distinguish puppets and the real-body, since puppets don't have a mind of their own, and they can easily track down the real-body's mind by following the strings that Fool path beyonder use to control their puppet. - Psychological Invisibility is unbreakable unless they attack (passive AOE of Visionary's dragon form don't count), not even Fool path's spiritual strings can track them, because it is essentially them forcing everyone to ignore them, even if you know you shouldn't, you can't stop it. So even if there is a giant dragon right in front your eyes breathing at your face, you still can't realize it until it chomp your face off. (its hearthstone's "you can't target this minion") - Lastly, you are on a time limit to defeat the Visionary path beyonder before they completely control your mind (similar to Fool path), only there is no stopping the mind control unless you break engagement. Klein bypassed this by guarding his mind with Grey Fog (which is at least Sequence 0 level), but other demi-gods wouldn't be so lucky, and they have to either beat a flying dragon before their mind turns to pudding or flee. The only counter for Visionary path is powerful blanket AOE, which is what Tyrant Path specialize in.
I wonder if the author is ever going to explain why the Fool pathway and the Visionary pathway keep countering each other.
Ingredient and Promotion Ritual for Seq 4 "Manipulator" of Visionary pathway: 1. Main ingredient: A full brain of an Elder Spirituality Dragon, or the Crystallized Heart of Treant Lecturer, or the Beyonder characteristic of a Manipulator. 2. Side Ingredients: 80 ml of Elder Spirituality Dragon blood, three Golden Leaves of Treant Lecturer, 7 drops of tear collected from different humans or humanoid creatures when they experience extreme feeling/emotions 3. Ritual Promotion: In a special situation happen before at least 10000 people, during the resonance of their extreme emotions, drink the potion. Some information about George the third: 1. Every King is under the influence of a "contract", which limits them at seq 5. George, under the aid of "Psychology Alchemists", bypassed this limitation. In fact, he already had a higher "status" (implying Demigod/Angel/Godhood - Idk how to translate it). All he needs is the "tide of new era" coming and he can reach his full power. 2. The tide of the new era is a world war (the promotion ritual of Red Priest pathway). 3. The method George the third used is the modification of his spiritual body, make his soul similar to one of his ancestor, then seek the similar/agreement of the "spiritual mark" inside high-level Beyonder characteristics/high level sealed artifact. However, the 'spiritual mark" will alter the soul and spirit of him, and break his sanity. 4. Inside the tomb of "Blood Emperor", there is a very very important thing that George wants to control. He needs tons of sacrifice to control it (I suspect it may be the Uniqueness Characteristic of Red Priest Pathway).
Looks like the Tarot Club is going to kill the King, which would be diffycult if he is an Angel. Can someone tell me who is Arianna and what was the warning she gives to Klein? I didnt understand it very well.
The war is not preventable nor can they kill the king, cause Adam need a world war for his advancement ritual to Sequence 0. Visionary ritual require one to guide the tide of the world to what one envisions, and Adam envisions war. Doesn't matter how Klein does it, Adam is going to suspect him if the king dies before becoming another crazy Red Priest. Arianna is the head priestess of the Evernight Goddess (And next in line to be the pope), one of the two Sequence 2 of the Evernight church, Secret Servant. She have been providing Klein with the protection of secrecy during his hunt of the demi-gods and Amon's clones, so that Klein don't need to worry about Adam or Amon hunting him down afterwards or learning about what he did. She warns Klein not to use Herben Lanbis as a puppet because that is pretty much asking Adam to kill him (doesn't matter how he disguise Lanbis, Adam can and will track him down easily). Since Adam allowed Fors and Xio to get the Ancient Sun God's Cross and gave it to The Fool, both as a gift and as a warning to stay away from whatever he is doing. Klein also can't use him to craft items or gave to anyone until the imprint mark Adam have on Lanbis dissipates, since Adam can spy on the mark anytime he wants. So Klein have to probably toss Lanbis's corpse and characteristics up onto the fog until Audrey is ready to become a demi-god.
Another thing that nobody has mentioned is that it has been revealed the identity of the president of the Psychology Alchemist, a man with many names and status: Erik Drake, a well know recluse of the Sunya Sea; Delphi Rau, royal doctor and former principal of the Becland medical school and Paul Hopkins one of the 4th Pirate kings and also called 'King of the Dark place' Although i am not sure if i translated the names correctly, feel free to correct me.