Looking at the gold coins scattered on the ground that the old geezer had dropped, Tang picked up the sapphire and light gray gemstone brooch that was shimmering.
The moment he touched the gemstone brooch, Tang felt an uncontrollable urge to burst into song. Fortunately, he already knew about this and forcibly suppressed it using the extraordinary abilities of the Faceless and the Clown.
Without injecting spirituality, just carrying it, the negative effects of this magical item wouldn't be too high.
"It's just that this level of negative effect isn't too harmful, it just makes people uncontrollably want to live on another planet."
If someone were to howl like that in the middle of the night, the fun would be great.
Tang held the Sun Scepter, the twisted sun symbol at the top of the scepter reflecting the image of the gemstone brooch.
He could sense some of the characteristics of this magical item. The Sun Scepter was craving completeness, craving this Sequence Five level magical item.
The five pathways of Omniscience and Omnipotence, excluding Tyrant and Reader, had extraordinary characteristics mixed together that reached the demigod level, a manifestation of the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Aggregation to complete itself.
When Tang noticed the Sun Scepter having problems, he didn't immediately put it back into the System warehouse.
He placed the sapphire and light gray gemstone brooch in his right hand and looked up at the Sun Scepter he held in his left.
"You want this thing?"
As the time node for the sun to rise approached bit by bit, Tang could vaguely sense that this thing had begun to show 'living' characteristics.
Normally, it didn't show it, and could even be said to be quite well-behaved and handy. This might be because the Sun Scepter often entered and exited the System space and Euclid's space, the former being a smaller version of the Knowledge Wilderness, and the latter being a higher level, possibly close to the power of the True Gods of the Old Days.
These 'living' characteristics naturally had their pros and cons, and with its 'living' characteristics, it feared the System and Euclid's space, not daring to casually harm Tang due to its activity. After all, it couldn't afford to provoke either the System or Euclid's space, being just a demigod-level extraordinary item.
The situation leaned towards the good, so Tang hadn't bothered with it.
"As for completing its extraordinary characteristics..."
Tang played with the sapphire brooch with his Clown abilities. Black sunlight faintly appeared on the Sun Scepter. It slightly moved its staff body, and when the sunlight filled with twisted sun symbols was almost overflowing, the blue gemstone in Tang's hand suddenly disappeared.
Sun Scepter: ?
Then the blue gemstone suddenly appeared, and then disappeared again.
Sun Scepter: ??
The blue gemstone in Tang's hand flickered rapidly. The Sun Scepter stood there dumbfounded and motionless, as if completely stunned.
What was that thing blinking there?
Finally, with limited time, Tang stuffed the Sun Scepter and the extraordinary item made by the Ocean Singer into the System warehouse together, to study later.
"System."
'Host, you go about your business.' The System rubbed its hands in anticipation.
Normally, it didn't have much fun besides assisting its host. The core of the theater hadn't been that fun since it went on strike, and now there was this... Anyway, as long as the sun didn't rise, it was invincible in its own storage space.
The Sun Scepter could only stare blankly at the extraordinary characteristics so close yet so far, glaring at the System.
If it could curse, it probably would have.
Are you human? Are you even human?
System: 'How do you know I'm not human?'
It really wasn't human.
'Hehe, big greedy girl, just keep drooling. You can see it but can't eat it, hehe.'
Sun Scepter: ...Hehe your ass.
Knowledge Wilderness: ??
Tang directed his newly obtained marionette to clean up the extraordinary items on the ground. Before the extraordinary power that the Sun Scepter had applied to the others in the manor was解除, Tang and the new marionette had already cleaned up the mess and restored the battle scene.
At the same time, Tang used the Theater Owner's Ring to pray for a miracle to the core of the theater in Tingen, using the power of a Sequence Two Miracle Worker to create divination-level interference.
"This is still the border guarded by a Sequence Four demigod. Although the position of colonel is neither high nor low in the entire Loen military system, Whistlek Bernstein himself is also a Sequence Six Extraordinary, and there might be other Extraordinary individuals paying attention to him."
Necessary interference measures couldn't be lacking. At the same time, Tang also needed to quickly familiarize himself with the colonel's style, otherwise even if he turned him into a marionette, his puppet show would be exposed.
Returning to the study that seemed unchanged, Tang stood in front of the French windows, looking at the books on the bookshelf. While setting the marionette's persona based on the 'life resume' he saw in Euclid's space, he also assessed the digestion progress of his potion and the gains from this battle.
"The digestion progress has increased by three percent, not bad."
The only regrettable thing was that he had consumed a Yesterday Once More charm in Euclid's space.
Just a few minutes of battle had exhausted all the spirituality of a Sequence Five Extraordinary. The spirituality consumption of 'Dimensional Reduction' in Euclid's space was ridiculously high.
"However, separated by this layer of space, my safety is also greatly guaranteed. Hmm, this also meets the acting requirements of a Trickmaster."
An untraceable Master of Marionettes was much more terrifying than a traceable one.
If he reached Sequence Four and could master the method of precise marionette deployment, being able to shuttle back and forth between the real world and Euclid's space through the ability to exchange positions with marionettes, then the extraordinary power of the Trickmaster would be infinitely amplified.
On the surface, an enemy might discover a marionette and joyfully eliminate it, but in reality, Euclid's space would be filled with marionettes, ready to crawl out and slap others in the face at any time.
'It's the temptation given by the mantis~' the System passionately sang.
Tang: "System, how many Ocean Singers have you eaten?"
Having basically grasped the persona of his new marionette, Tang turned his gaze back to the books on the bookshelf.
"However, having somewhat impulsively marionetted and eliminated this scum, there are also things I must consider next."
Such as whether to install a 'Bionic Puppet' module for this marionette.
His current 'Bionic Puppet' modules could only be used on three marionettes. One was the mission reward from the previous Never-Ending Theater mission, and two were opened from surprise packages.
Two of them had already been used. He couldn't stay here for a long time. If he wanted to plant a seed within the Loen military, with Owen around, this didn't seem like a necessary choice.
So, this marionette didn't seem necessary for him.
"Let's consider it again when I leave. Maybe this Colonel will 'disappear and die' during this mission targeting the Dark Side of the Universe."
He still had a use for the third 'Bionic Puppet' module. Keeping it was much more cost-effective than wasting it on a Sequence Six.
(End of this chapter)