Mystery: At the start, you gain the uniqueness of the thief.

Chapter 72 Naive Azik

Azik couldn't help but take a half step back.

Rosen, however, wouldn't let him off the hook. His speech, though not fast, was like sharp blades cutting into Azik's heart, one cut at a time:

"The shadow of death will haunt you. He wants to be reborn in you. The night wants to exploit you. You are the key to His unique access to death. Even the part of you that you lost wants to reunite with you. He wants to erase your humanity and become the master of everything. And those other demons and monsters will not let go of taking a piece of your flesh whenever they have the chance."

Azik's lips trembled; he seemed to want to say something, yet couldn't utter a single word.

"Rosen..." Klein felt a little sorry for him, but Rosen glared at him and said irritably, "You listen to me properly, do you think you're any better than him?"

After lecturing Mr. Fool, Rosen turned to Azik and said, "You're too naive, Azik. Those who want to use you have protected you so well that you've forgotten that everything comes at a price. A person who possesses great treasures can enjoy a peaceful life, but if he isn't powerful enough, it's just the calm before the storm."

"..." Azik fell silent, like a statue. After a long while, he finally said, "I'm sorry, I was indeed too naive. I forgot that this world is never gentle..."

Klein couldn't help but sigh. He pursed his lips, thinking of his possible fate, the old era that the Creator had so easily ended, and the Outer Gods who were still eyeing Earth from beyond.

Rosen is right. In this world, if you are not powerful enough and possess great treasures, you can only let others control your fate.

Even if it's a choice made out of necessity, becoming stronger at least allows you to protect those you want to protect.

Azik was like that, and so was he in the past.

"...So, what kind of price do you want me to pay?" Azik finally raised his head and looked at Rosen. His tone was not intense; it seemed to be just a simple question.

Although Rosen's attitude was almost cold, the fact that the other party specifically pointed these things out clearly meant that they were trying to help him.

"First, I need some powerful allies, and if you work hard, you might be able to become one of them. Even if you can't, a Sequence 2 can be a good helper."

Rosen spoke very frankly: Azik, as the most promising offspring of Death, if he could resolve the resurrection plot left by Death on Him, becoming an angel king, if not a god, would be no problem.

Even if Azik could only exist as a Sequence 2 character, he would still be a decent tool.

In this world, Sequence 2 is already capable of solving most problems. In most churches, Sequence 2 members are also at the highest level, and matters involving higher levels are only a minority.

Azik looked enlightened, but also somewhat relieved. He could tell that Rosen wasn't lying.

"Secondly, my foolish friend has a deep entanglement with you in terms of fate, and I don't mind him having another anchor point, which will help him defeat some powerful figure in the future." Rosen glanced at Klein as he said this.

"No, what do you mean by a stupid friend?" Klein pointed at himself incredulously. Although he didn't consider himself a smart person, he wasn't stupid either, was he?

"Sorry, I misspoke. It's my smart friend," Rosen corrected himself without any sincerity.

"You might as well call me an unlucky guy!" Klein said irritably.

"I think some facts don't need to be emphasized repeatedly," Rosen said seriously. "For example, you're unlucky, you're poor, or you're clumsy."

At that moment, Klein felt his fist harden. He suddenly understood why Amon always fought with Rosen whenever he saw him.

Who could possibly resist that?

Rosen glanced at him, naturally noticing his eagerness, and said with a smile, "If you want to refute me, please make sure that next time you make a rag doll for me, Mr. Zhou, it looks like a person. You know I had nightmares after I got home that day? My dreams were full of that weird-looking rag doll."

Klein immediately fell silent.

So Rosen boldly gave him a peace sign right in front of him.

Rosen wins today!

"...You two have a really good relationship." Watching their interaction, Azik couldn't help but smile, and his mood seemed to lighten up a bit.

Rosen chuckled at this, glanced at Azik, then shoved the useless Mr. Fool towards him, saying irritably:

"Mr. Fool, quickly activate your invincible divination and divine the location of that unfortunate son of Azik. I remember the remaining half of the characteristic we found on Ince, is it with you?"

"Oh, I'll be right there, wait a minute, I put that thing on the gray fog..." Klein looked around and, after confirming that there was no one else besides the three of them, immediately went up to the gray fog and took down the half of the Death God's Descendant's characteristics that he had previously plundered from Ince.

—Although Adam took 008, he didn't touch anything else on Ince's body. So Klein and Rosen still managed to loot quite a few things from Ince and his base.

Of course, Klein didn't forget that while in the gray fog, he had casually used the half-resource of the Death God's descendant to divine the location of the other party's tomb.

"Mr. Azik, this is your child's...skull." Klein nervously handed the skull, which was in a metal box, to Azik, saying at the same time:

"Although half of its properties were taken away, fortunately the skull itself is still intact, and Ince Zangwell didn't have time to destroy it."

"Thank you, Gehrman." Azik took the box and said gently. Although he didn't understand what Ince Zangwell was, he could roughly guess what it was about based on the previous description.

He then looked at the skull. Of course, one couldn't tell anything from just a bone, but Azik was momentarily lost in thought. He suddenly remembered a scene: a child who aspired to become a knight gave his father a happy smile.

Azik felt sadness at that moment.

He lost the child, both in reality and in his memory, he couldn't even remember the child's name, and he couldn't even protect the child's body.

Klein watched quietly as Azik fell into his memories. He couldn't help but sigh. Once Azik seemed to have calmed down a bit, he said, "Mr. Azik, I've divined his location. Would you like to go see him?"

"I'm going!" Azik nodded heavily. He was going to face that child and find the part of himself that he had lost.

The three of them soon arrived at the town of Ramd, northwest of Tingen. The town was located in a relatively remote area, so it did not show many signs of urbanization and many places still retained their original characteristics.

The three's target was undoubtedly the abandoned castle in the town, which was Azik's former residence during one of his reincarnations, and is now the location where the vengeful spirit of Azik's unfortunate son lingers.