Besides the "universal key" and the silver watch set with diamonds, which the thief has taken, everything else still retains the appearance I saw in my dream divination... Crain surveyed the room, taking in the black iron pot, glass jars, and the bronze lamp stand holding numerous candles that had long since gone out. His spiritual sight and intuition told him these were ordinary objects, lacking any subtle spiritual radiance. Yet, compared to before, there was something a little different. Crain extended his left hand, gloved in black, and gently touched the surface of the long table. His fingers immediately picked up a distinct layer of dust. He carefully searched the room and performed an initial divination, finding no hidden chambers or secret compartments. His attention then turned to the brown notebook. With careful attention, he opened it, and the first page came into view: "This will be the story of a cursed family rising once again!" "I will record every key moment!" "May my every word that follows be remembered by your descendants!" ... Alas, you died suddenly, just after consuming the Sequence 9 potion, and the glory of the Abraham family remains only spoken, not realized. Klein muttered under his breath, continued reading, and swiftly flipped through the pages. Once the value was confirmed, he would take the notes and leave without lingering. "The Abraham family was among the foremost noble houses of the Fourth Age, a principal supporter of the Tudor dynasty. During that era, whether it was the Augustus family of Run, the Einhorn family of Fyresk, or the Thorin family of Intis, or the Castellia family of Feneport, they could only look up to us." "Indeed, they were strong then, but we were even stronger!" "Even the legendary Antigonus and Charathus families were said to fall short of us." "Unfortunately, the family's glory faded during the War of the Five Emperors. Our ancestor, Bertel, vanished without a trace in that war, where the deities themselves personally intervened. All the high-tier强者 who remained perished." "Since then, the Abrahamic family has been plagued by a terrible curse. Every generation of ancestors who have tried to revive the family has inevitably gone mad—losing control. Some fell mad before attaining high-tier status; others remained only at Tier 8 or Tier 7." "Each time a member loses control, the family suffers a near-catastrophic disaster. The cursed individuals forget their family name, mercilessly harming their kin—by now, they are truly monsters!" "To ensure the family's survival, the Abrahamic descendants made a painful decision: to disperse, no longer living in close clusters. Instead, they migrated as small families across the northern continent. This way, even if someone goes mad and causes bloodshed, the lineage will not be severed." "My father fears curses and has chosen to be an ordinary man. If the name in his bloodline weren't still glowing, he wouldn't even tell me about these things. I will record them. I will revisit them often, so that I may remember the glory and the disasters of the Abraham family. Will every extraordinary one eventually lose control—none escaping? The curse of the Abraham family is even more terrible than that of the Silver City... Wait. They should all have come through the 'Apprentice' path. Could it be that they heard the 'Gate' man's plea? No—this isn't a plea at all. This is a death spell! According to the 'Magician' lady's account, she didn't begin hearing those phantom murmurs at the full moon because she became an 'Apprentice.' Rather, it started when she wore the bracelet on her wrist. After that, no matter whether she wore it or not, she could never shake it off. What then is the cause for the Abraham family's extraordinary ones? Perhaps the curse has nothing to do with the 'Gate' man at all?" Well, the notes mention that Abraham's ancestor, Bethel Abraham, went missing during the "Four Emperors' War." Could it be that he is precisely the "Gate" figure? He was exiled from the real world, lost deep in darkness, and trapped within the storm? There's a strong possibility. His most natural appeal would have been to descendants of the same lineage, sharing the same extraordinary path but at a lower sequence. Unfortunately, with all the powerful figures having perished, his calls instead brought upon a curse that lasted for over a thousand years—nearly causing the entire lineage of Abraham to vanish. That's precisely why the "Gate" figure knows so well about the Fourth Age's history and the detailed course of the "Four Emperors' War." If my hypothesis is correct, I can only marvel: the Abraham family truly seems to have been rather unfortunate. I wonder whether the events mentioned by the note's owner have been slightly altered over the course of more than a thousand years and due to the family's dispersion across various regions. Did the deities themselves personally step in during the "War of the Four Emperors"? Kline furrowed his brow, flipping through the pages faster and faster: "... My father, who had chosen to become an ordinary man, ultimately succumbed to illness, which deeply affected my mother and caused her to pass away soon after. This meant that I gained my freedom. Yet what troubled me was that, in order to prevent me from inheriting the cursed path, my father had kept me in the dark about many things concerning the extraordinary. I had to discover them on my own, through direct experience and exploration. Fortunately, he had not dared to defy the elders' orders and, even in his final days, entrusted me with the recipes for the apprentice's elixir, the master magician's potion, and the astrologer's remedy." "I'll rewrite these three recipes once more, just to be safe," he said. "Sequence 9, 'Apprentice'..." "Sequence 8, 'Magician'..." "Sequence 7, 'Astrologer'..." Flipping through the pages, Caine roughly pieced together the extraordinary journey of this descendant of the Abraham family: after the passing of his parents, he began reaching out to the esoteric circles, gathering information on the sequence potions and procuring the corresponding extraordinary materials. After nearly two years of persistent effort, documenting numerous—some true, some not—esoteric insights, he finally succeeded in formulating the "Apprentice" potion. In the final entries of his notes, he wrote: "Based on the esoteric knowledge I have acquired, the night of a full moon is when the spiritual realm most closely overlaps with the material world—the time when spiritual vitality thrives most, making it the most favorable for consuming the potion and achieving promotion." "I will become an 'Apprentice' at the next full moon!" "I will steadily grow stronger, restoring the glory of the Abraham family." "When I reach the level of Sequence 7, according to family protocol, I will begin reaching out to the elders." "The method of contact is already embedded in my mind—this is a secret that cannot be recorded." "Would you take the apprentice potion during the full moon to ascend? Kline was left utterly stunned, instinctively tapping his chest four times in a clockwise motion, drawing a crimson moon: 'May the goddess forgive your ignorance.' He now had a clearer sense of why the other had broken down on the spot! Based on his earlier speculation, the curse that had plagued the Abraham family for over a thousand years likely stemmed from the rescue cry emitted by 'Mr. Door' during the full moon. Yet, that very person had chosen to take the apprentice potion precisely at the full moon. Consequently, he probably heard the phantom murmurs while still under the lingering effects of the potion, his spiritual state highly unstable. And thus, he had burst into chaos—'Phew,' Kline murmured under his breath, recalling that the phrase he had first heard—'Hornachis... Freglah...'—hadn't been life-threatening at all. Immediately, he pondered the oddity of the "Universal Key," and gradually formed a hypothesis: beyond the exceptional gathering of "apprentices," the presence of the "Gate" gentleman's fantastical murmurs also played a role—thus, the accidental disorientation it caused became quite dangerous, consistently leading the holder into unsuitable settings! This was indeed a curse! Connecting the dots, the likelihood that the "Gate" gentleman was an ancestor of Abraham's family, specifically from Bethel, grew substantial. Huffing out a breath,克莱恩 felt relieved—he no longer lingered, took the brown notebook, and left the basement. As he walked, he tossed the Azkai copper whistle, then retraced his steps to the balcony. There, he raised his left hand and snapped his fingers once. The matches scattered on the stairs instantly flared to a bright crimson glow, then quickly extinguished, leaving only faint traces of charred remnants. ……… Circumnavigating the eastern district, Klein returned to Minsk Street before dawn. He ascended into the gray mist, first verifying with the灵摆 method that the three recipes were genuine. Then, he materialized the dummy figure "World" across from him at the weathered long table. As Klein prepared to manipulate the figure, he suddenly raised his hand and tapped his forehead: "I've completely forgotten!" "I've brought the 'Eye of All Black' back into the real world..." After another flurry of activity, he once again summoned "World" into the grand palace, arranging a setting resembling a regular room around him. Then, he had "World" adopt a posture of devout supplication, his voice hoarse as he said: "O fool of a time unconnected to this era..." "Please convey to the 'Magician'小姐 that I have obtained the recipe for the 'Master of Illusions' potion." "I hope she can exchange for an item from the domain of the Sun, one particularly skilled in purification and exorcism. If the value differs, I'm willing to make up the difference in gold pounds." Having maneuvered the "World," Caine transformed the just-observed image into a flowing beam of light and transmitted it into the deep red star representing the "Sorcerer." He clearly remembered that when Miss Thew had previously sought someone for purification and exorcism, Miss the "Sorcerer" had been present at the scene!