After finishing the coffee break, Shaun and the other four split up, Richard went to the police station to check out the information about Genesis company, Chloe and Lola went to the Rhine to check out the location and surroundings for a possible handover in the evening, and Shaun took the initiative to make a trip to the Spirit Realm to see if there was any noteworthy information, in fact, he did it because he cared about the Black Flame and the embodied revolver, and he wanted to find out from the gatekeeper to ask for clarification. After everyone agreed to meet at the Hohenzollern Bridge bridge at 19:00, they left on their own.
Shaun walked to Breite Street, another shop-lined pedestrian street in Cologne besides Hohe Street. Shaun went to a supermarket on this street to buy a couple of bottles of German homegrown niche craft beer, then walked another ten minutes to Kettengasse, where the small half-timbered house looked even more incongruous with the surrounding buildings in the daylight.
Shaun walked up to the door of the small house and tried to push on the door, it opened. Shaun breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid before that the original secret stone would lose its effect because of the black flame.
Once inside Shaun closed the door and walked down the basement steps below the small staircase.
Like before, the old man sat behind the basement table with a beer, looking at Shaun and smiling, wordlessly picking up the bottle and raising it towards Shaun.
Shaun walks over and puts a couple of bottles of beer he just bought in front of the old man and says in German: "Don't just drink the Lager, also try the Ale ."
The old man was a little surprised and said, "Oh, thank you!"
It was the black door in the basement that had energised and turned into a portal.
Shaun entered the portal and came into pure white space.
The light ball gatekeeper was already waiting there, and unlike before, the light ball kept blinking, much like a computer on standby.
Shaun said, "Hello Gatekeeper."
The Gatekeeper said:"Hello Agent 22. You have encountered an extremely special situation and the Spirit Realm Guardian is considering what to do about it."
Shaun was shocked and thought:Surely the Spirit Realm can grasp my state.
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The gatekeeper continued:`But don't you worry, apart from being able to use the abilities of a magical spirit agent, your sea of consciousness is not contaminated and there is no danger of demonisation. Otherwise the old Hans outside the door would have cleared you out."
Shaun was a little curious and asked: "Is Old Hans a human or a spirit?"
The gatekeeper said, "He was originally a cathedral gatekeeper spirit for five hundred years, and after the Spirit Realm was established, the Spirit Realm guardians transferred him here. The space in the basement is actually a boundary that overlaps between the Spirit Realm and the real world, so he can be a human-like being there."
"Are all portal guardians spirits?" Shaun thought of Friar Rossi at the Milan portal.
"Not necessarily, many humans." The gatekeeper replied, "But they all have great power within that small boundary."
"Oh, okay, thanks for answering." Shaun said, "Has what I encountered happened to no other agent before?"
The orb of light shimmered with a rare moment of silence before saying, "Not since the establishment of the Spirit Realm, before that time there have been instances of apostles of both light and darkness being tainted or purified."
Shaun pondered and said, "Is the fact that my sea of consciousness was not contaminated due to the power of the secret stone, which neutralised the power of the demonic spirits?"
The ball of light flickered for a moment and said, "I can't answer that question, except to say that I think it's highly probable. The Spirit Realm Guardians are pondering what to do with you. Until then, if there is anything out of the ordinary with you, return to the Spirit Realm immediately."
Shaun nodded and said, "So, can I use my Magic Spirit System skills while on a mission?"
The ball of light flickered for another moment before answering, "Yes." Shaun thought back to the scene where the Black Flame Revolver was materialised and asked again, "Can I get some advice on the use of magic spirit power?"
The light ball gatekeeper flickered and replied, "'This is the same as the stacking effect of the secret stone ability, you need to figure it out yourself."
After flickering for a moment the light orb added: "However, due to the unknown consequences, it is recommended that you use the magic spirit power as little as possible to prevent demonisation."
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After saying that the space in front of Shaun slowly condensed a translucent orb the size of a ping pong ball.
"This is a Spirit Realm item, the Coffin of Stasis, effective for holders of the Original Secret Stone, the effect is equivalent to a small static force field, it is a protective item given to agents carrying out missions of level 3 or above, if you do not die instantly, even in a state of near-death, as long as you crush this small orb, the Coffin of Stasis will instantly encapsulate you, static all the movement of the matter within the Coffin on a particle level, fixing every particle fixed in place, and instantly teleport to the Spirit Realm, allowing a greater probability that a seriously injured and dying agent can be saved and live." The ball of light said.
"Given your current situation, this Coffin of Stasis can be very helpful. You are already a level two agent and can use the appropriate spiritual power, if you detect any signs of being contaminated and demonised, don't hesitate to use your fire spiritual power to conduct it to the orb immediately."
Shaun plucked the small ball from the air in front of him, and immediately established a sense of association with the small ball, which was slightly heavier than a ping pong ball, and was considered very light. In the eyes of a psychic vision ability like Shaun's, there was a hidden energy fluctuation slowly flowing in the centre part of the translucent sphere.
"Thank you, Gatekeeper." Shaun put the small ball and the original secret stone together.
"Okay, Agent 22, please be safe. The Spirit Realm Guardians will summon you when they have considered their options for dealing with the situation." The Orb Keeper said.
Shaun exited the portal and said to Old Hans, "How's that beer I brought?"
Old Hans said with wide eyes, "So there are other flavours of beer in the world, I thought there was only Cologne in the world before! Thank you so much!"
"Oh, then I will bring you other flavours of beer next time." Shaun looked at the gatekeeper spirit who only drank one kind of beer for hundred years and felt something in his heart.
Leaving the Kettengasse, Shaun bought a German curry-topped kielbasa with Dutch-style chunky fries from a small sausage shop not far away, the most popular easy street fast food among Germans, where you can either eat it on the go after buying it, or stand somewhere and concentrate on enjoying the delicious kielbasa.
Shaun stood on the side of the road, eating while watching the road bustling with pedestrians, thinking about the experience of the past few days, and then remembered the life before becoming an agent, simple and warm, although working as a tour guide is a bit hard, but for that age, hard work is a factor that can almost be ignored.
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He also recalled the scene five years ago when he returned to the real world from the Spirit Realm after the accident, appeared in front of the group members and told them that he had survived by returning to the ground through the emergency exit, the group members hugged him and cried and laughed. Then there was the time when his mum and dad wiped tears from their eyes and told him they didn't want him to be a tour guide anymore after he returned home.
But by then his fate was sealed.
Shaun had seen some darkness in the ensuing five years that regular people didn't get to see, but two days down the line, Shaun felt once again that he had underestimated the complexity of the world.
Underestimating the complexity of the world.
If you want to protect the beauty in front of you, you need someone to walk through the mire.
Looking at the young handsome men and women walking in front of him, Shaun sighed in his heart.
At that moment Shaun saw a young man and woman in front of a shop window across the street looking at the goods in the window. They were flanked by another young man about to pass behind them.
But to Shaun Shaun, the young man's body movements, the position of his hands, and the look in his eyes all revealed his target:the wallet in the trouser pocket of the male of the young pair.
"The newly acquired ability of fire, I still don't know exactly how to manipulate it and how far the limit distance is, now is the right time to practice." Shaun thought to himself.
Before that young man's hand reached for the man's wallet, Shaun's intention had already been conveyed to the elements in the air around the young man, the spiritual power disturbed in the air, all kinds of elements rapidly polymerised, and then burst into flames under the pressure of the spiritual power to ignite a clump of extremely small, but extremely pure sparks of extremely high temperature.
The matchhead-sized sparks accurately landed on the back of the young man's hand that had just been extended. The young man's attention' was focussed on the man's wallet, suddenly the back of his hand felt like it had been stabbed by a red-hot needle, the young man screamed out in pain, scaring the pair who were looking at the window.
The thief apologised lamely and then hurried off in a cloud of dust.
Shaun smiled and wanted to see how far he could control the flames, the strike he had just made was around five metres, so Shaun extended his intention into the air, trying ten metres, twenty
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metres, thirty metres and forty metres respectively.
At fifty metres in the air, the air was much cleaner, unlike the space close to the surface where there was a lot of dust, and there were fewer elements suitable for combustion, Shaun controlled his mind remotely from the ground, and it took him ten times longer than collecting elements ten metres from the ground before he could gather enough elements.
"Poof weng" sound, fifty metres from the ground space burst out a fireball, the fireball instantly extinguished, no one to see.
"Fifty metres is the limit of fire control, any further distance would take too much time and be meaningless." Shaun concluded in his heart. "The ability of the Secret Stone of Fire alone is already cool and cool, and I don't know that the combination of the Secret Stone of Fire and other Secret Stones can bring those stacked effects." Shaun thought with anticipation, "I'll have to ask Richard about this, I'll have to drag him for a couple of drinks after this mission."