Although it might seem like stealing the spotlight, Lynn's timely assistance was undoubtedly crucial.
After the wraith Steve was taken down, Klein chose to help Maric against the werewolf Tyre without hesitation.
With Klein, equipped with both the Creeping Hunger and the Devil Revolver, joining the fray, the battle, initially a stalemate due to the Blood Moon, quickly turned in their favor. With Lynn's occasional financial support, the werewolf Tyre and the Zombie Jason were soon defeated.
As Sharron and others quickly cleaned the battlefield and retreated with their spoils, Klein and Lynn also fled after Klein completed the final act.
Unlike in the original story where Klein hid in the Steam Church, this time, he chose nearby Saint Samuel Cathedral.
Being a Nighthawk and an official informant of the Evernight Church, entering the church felt like coming home. There was no tension from their recent deeds; instead, Lynn even casually chatted with the priest.
As their counterattack concluded and the temporary team dispersed, Lynn's divine avatar had already dealt with the Sequence 4 puppet. However, he didn't leave immediately. While extracting the Beyonder characteristics from the puppet and sensing the faint connection to an Outer God, he waited leisurely.
Lynn was waiting for the Storm Church's Archbishop.
It wasn't for anything specific; with the upcoming gathering of the gods in the Fourth Epoch, Lynn wanted to greet the Lord of Storms.
Naturally, if someone from another church came, Lynn wouldn't mind meeting them either.
Therefore, when Archbishop Ace Snake of the Holy Wind Cathedral arrived at top speed, he didn't find a battlefield in disarray or secret organization members fleeing from official Beyonders. Instead, he saw a masked, leisurely blonde man leaning against an ancient tree, playing with a jelly-like substance.
Archbishop Snake halted in mid-air instantly, recognizing the figure below as an angel due to the deliberate display of his divine aura. This made the usually irritable archbishop uncharacteristically calm.
Despite their usual irritability, the members of the Storm Church knew when to be cautious. An angel, in the context of the Fifth Epoch where gods couldn't descend, was a significant presence, almost the highest level of combat power.
Although the Holy Wind Cathedral could deal with a typical angel by paying a hefty price, the aftermath would be catastrophic for Backlund, with countless casualties.
For the sake of himself, the church, and the innocent civilians, Archbishop Snake repressed his temper, scrutinizing the mysterious angel and trying to deduce his identity, sequence, and intentions.
'The angel didn't seem to belong to a corrupt or evil pathway… He's holding a Beyonder characteristic, possibly of Sequence 4, and seems to be from a rare pathway?'
Archbishop Snake pondered, suddenly hearing the angel chuckle softly.
"I thought you'd greet me with a lightning strike. It seems you Storm Church folks have some patience after all."
Archbishop Snake: …
It's not that he didn't want to; he just couldn't afford to!
Starting an angelic battle would be disastrous!
"…Sir, who are you, and what's your purpose here?" Archbishop Snake eventually decided to ask directly, as he wasn't adept at analyzing. Such tasks were typically left to his church's partners from the Reader pathway.
"You can call me the Angel of Secrets." Lynn casually gazed at Archbishop Snake in the sky, exuding a mysterious aura. "As for my purpose…"
Lynn paused, then smiled. "Convey my regards to the Lord of Storms. I look forward to our conversation at the upcoming gathering."
Archbishop Snake's pupils contracted, shocked by the angel's words and unsure if he was being truthful about his connection with the Lord of Storms.
"Who exactly are you…" Archbishop Snake tried to ask further, but he received no answers. Lynn's figure blurred and vanished, taking the ancient tree with him, revealing the puppet's corpse, a demigod from the Rose School of Thought.
"Wait!" Archbishop Snake surged forward but failed to catch even a trace of Lynn's figure. Left bewildered, he could only frown at the corpse on the ground.
"Zetwen of the Rose School of Thought…"
As a high-ranking member of the Storm Church, Archbishop Snake was familiar with the Rose School of Thought's higher sequences Beyonders.
While Archbishop Snake frowned, other church leaders finally arrived, albeit later due to the location's proximity to the Storm Church and its ambiguous jurisdiction. Though jointly managed, the area was predominantly overseen by the Storm Church.
"What happened, Snake…"
Archbishop Anthony Stevenson of the Saint Samuel Cathedral asked, as he lacked flight abilities and had to be brought over by a spirit. He discreetly examined the scene, trying to infer the events from the remnants.
(End of Chapter)
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