Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1095 Customized Blasphemous Card

A few months ago, the evil spirit Soran, who accidentally ran into the "City of Disaster" and became a prisoner, was the ancestor of the Soran family of the Intis royal family. He was given the power of the "War Bishop" and left here to return to the real world to solve his family's problems and look for the trace of Fomonda Soran.

His original "Conqueror" status allowed him to receive the gift of Sequence 3 without any special characteristics of his own, and not be distorted or contaminated by the spiritual imprint contained therein. Angel could also take back this gift at any time, causing him to lose most of his power. Therefore, this Sauron could only cooperate with Angel and could not betray him.

But to be on the safe side, when Angel asked the other party about the promotion ceremony of the "Red Priest" path, he did not ask Him to answer yes or no, but asked for specific ritual requirements to avoid being deceived by the other party.

"Sequence 0, Red Priest, requires starting a war that sweeps across the continent and achieving enough victories... This is consistent with the record on the 'Blasphemy Card' and is also very consistent with the ability and authority of this path. Starting from Sequence 5, it requires forming a team, then gaining an advantage in battle, and finally a war that sweeps across the world..."

With the hoarse and disrespectful voice of the evil spirit Sauron still echoing in his mind, Angel fell into deep thought.

In addition to directly contacting the evil spirit Soran, who was now considered her "believer", Angel also wrote to the "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette to confirm that her father, Roselle Gustav, had indeed only made a complete set of "blasphemous cards". Although this deck of cards that recorded the secrets of all the divine paths did not contain specific extraordinary characteristics, it simulated the high-level status of the corresponding path through many precious materials. It could not only counter divination and prophecy, but also produce a clustering effect with the path after being unsealed.

Even with Roselle's power after becoming emperor, it was difficult to gather enough materials to make a second set, let alone let others forge it. But Bernadette believed that if someone knew the production method and had power similar to Roselle's "Knowledge Emperor" at the time, it was possible to make individual "fakes" with rare materials.

This immediately reminded Angel of the "Hidden Sage", the evil god who peeped into the secrets of human beings. He not only possessed the corresponding power, but also must have known the relevant knowledge.

But, He has no motive... Angel sighed and began to think about another question.

Compared to the "Red Priest", the "Witch" card is the biggest problem she faces, because according to her conversation with Vinsa and the results of a letter exchange with Catalina, part of the ritual recorded on this "blasphemous card" is wrong.

Both the man and the cat only provided rituals up to Sequence 3, namely "Pain", "Despair" and "Immortality".

And two of these three rituals are different from what is recorded on the "Witch" card!
According to the "White Saint" Katarina, the promotion ceremony of the "Despair" witch does require a plague that affects more than 3 people. Promotion takes place amidst the despair of these people. This is also the source of many recorded large-scale plagues in history.

The ritual of the "immortal" witch is to find the man in her mirror, enslave him, make him fall in love with her, or reconcile with him.

If the ritual of "despair" had been verified by the God of Wisdom and was almost certain to be correct, the ritual of "immortality" put Angel in complete confusion.

"Assuming that the ritual on the Blasphemy Card is wrong, when I was promoted to 'Despair', I accidentally replaced the despair of tens of thousands of ordinary people with the complete despair of a demigod... But the ritual of the 'Immortal' Witch cannot be explained...

"Before taking the Sequence 3 potion, I had never seen the person in my mirror. How could I enslave her or reconcile with her? At that time, I was completely relying on the memories of my two lives as an anchor to avoid losing control..."

Angel suddenly opened her eyes wide while muttering silently, remembering the warmth she felt on her right hand when she was about to be swallowed by the fog of memory during her promotion to "Immortality". It was that extra power that helped her to re-recognize the difference and unity between "Angel Gray" and "Angel Granger", integrating all her memories and successfully being promoted to a Sequence 3 "Immortality" witch.

Only after that did she realize that the person holding her hand was not Klein, but the person in her mirror.

"Because of my uniqueness, the 'Man in the Mirror' has already been waiting in the City of Disaster and has taken the initiative to reconcile with me? So I don't need to complete this seemingly difficult ritual and have already met the conditions for promotion?"

Thinking of this, Angel's eyes flashed, and he immediately entered the mirror world composed of the void space and the dark passage connecting all the mirrors, and then traveled to the mirror interior of the "City of Disaster".

As she expected, the person in her mirror was already waiting on the dilapidated street that they were already familiar with.

Seeing Angel slowly descending, the person in the mirror smiled welcomingly and approached him and asked:
"What's the matter with you coming here this time?"

I always feel like they are waiting for me to come home... Angel was stunned for a moment under the gaze of those eyes that were exactly the same as his own, and then he spoke in a deliberately cold tone:
"You should know the purpose of my visit. The 'Desecration Card' and the Ascension Ceremony. I should be able to tell you everything I have been investigating these past few days, right?"

Although the "person in the mirror" has always said that the two people's memories and thoughts are not connected, she, who is in the mirror world, has too many ways to understand everything the original body has experienced, whether it is divination or directly peeking in the mirror. The content of the believers' prayers will point to both parties at the same time, making it almost impossible to conceal.

On the contrary, because I, the original body, spend most of my time in reality, I am unable to understand the movements of the "person in the mirror"... Angel muttered in his heart, having the illusion that he was the person in the mirror and that the other person had more "power".

"Well, I do know everything, such as your communication with the evil spirit Sauron and asking the White Saint about the witch's ascension ceremony..." The man in the mirror admitted it straightforwardly, and his tone became serious. "The two 'blasphemous cards' were placed here before I came to the 'City of Disaster', as if waiting for us to open them... Do you know what the spells to open them are?"

"Bernadette?"

Thinking that this set of blasphemous cards was made by Roselle, and that he cared more about his eldest daughter than his other two sons, Angel naturally gave this answer.

"No, it's Angel, our name," the man in the mirror said slowly, "These two 'blasphemous cards' could not have been made by Emperor Roselle, unless he could accurately predict what would happen more than a hundred years later, knew of our existence, and set the corresponding opening spell in advance. Even if we are all time travelers, this is too bizarre." Indeed, it was as strange as finding a photo of oneself from unearthed cultural relics and seeing one's own name in an ancient book... Angel thought about it, denied this possibility, and continued:

"So when I came here after that death, I saw the opened 'blasphemous card'... Do you know the mistakes in some rituals of the 'witch' card?"

The person in the mirror shook his head:
"I know this with you, but if you consider that the makers 'designed' them specifically for us, these rituals are not mistakes, but optimizations."

"optimization?"

Angel asked subconsciously, and immediately understood what the other party meant.

The promotion of the "Pain" Witch requires self-harm and burning with flames for a quarter of an hour. This is not difficult for her. Even if she does not have the self-repair ability of the "Rose Necklace", she can find other alternatives.

However, the "correct" Sequence 4 promotion ceremony was a requirement that Angel could hardly complete on his own initiative.

Unless it was in a very special place like Morola where all the residents were serious criminals, it would be impossible for Angel to spread disease and create plague at will, involving more than 30,000 people in her rituals and using their despair to get promoted.

But if it were a demigod, it wouldn't be so difficult to accept...

"In other words, the person who created this blasphemous card anticipated that I would not be able to ascend by stepping on the corpses of tens of thousands of people, so he designed a 'wrong' ritual, secretly complying with the principle of 'quality over quantity', making it easier for me to become the Witch of Despair?"

Angel frowned and muttered.

Now she really felt the fear of seeing her name in ancient books.

“It’s not that it’s easier. Compared to killing a desperate demigod, spreading the plague is obviously more in line with the strength of a Sequence 5 ‘Pain’ Witch…”

The person in the mirror imitated Angel and frowned in evaluation.

But I would definitely choose to kill a demigod who has committed many evil deeds rather than tens of thousands of ordinary people... Angel argued in his heart, and then continued:

"The last one is the ritual of 'immortality'. This 'witch' card requires me to take the potion with a different mentality after a long time. It is almost a ritual customized for 'travelers'... Of course, from now on, this ritual is also exclusive to me. The purpose is to allow me to take the potion and advance directly without having to think too much..."

"And the real requirement of the ritual is to reconcile with one's own 'person in the mirror'. We have already done that." The person in the mirror took over the conversation and added.

This tacit understanding between them dispelled any doubts Angel had about the person in the mirror.

Regardless of whether the other party knew more information or was deliberately hiding something, she had indeed reconciled with the original body as she said, and had never taken any action to harm the original body.

Thinking of this, she smiled brightly, attracting the attention of the person in the mirror, who tilted his head slightly and smiled similarly.

But when their eyes met, they both thought of a key question at the same time.

In order to "formulate" the Sequence 3 promotion ceremony, the existence of these two blasphemous cards must have known Angel's identity as a "time traveler", otherwise it would be impossible to come up with such a bizarre condition of "experiencing a long time".

Among the currently known time travelers, Roselle died more than a hundred years ago. There may be a slight possibility that he will return now, but he can no longer affect reality; the Chernobyl researcher "Grisha" is most likely the ancient sun god, who also completely perished in the Third Era; Klein and Angel traveled through time on the same day. He was just an ordinary person at that time, and it was even more impossible for him to make any blasphemous cards.

The only ones who knew the secret of "time travel" were the two descendants of the ancient sun god, Adam and Amon.

Adam was one of the culprits who participated in erasing Angel's and the man in the mirror's memories and "arranged" her to take the path she is on today. He was one of the two people who stood in the basement of No. 6 Daffodil Street and talked in the few memories that Angel had recovered.

The other is the "Mother of Sky", the vessel of the Goddess of Night.

(End of this chapter)