Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1145: The Plot of the Man in the Mirror?

There was suddenly an "outsider" among the three followers of the Goddess of Night, which immediately made the situation a little awkward.

Naturally, the goddess's oracle "going to the Hornachis Mountains" could not be mentioned again. Angel glanced at the heads that Reinette was holding and spoke first:

"Larion didn't cause pollution to the surrounding area, did he?"

The Patriarch had already shown obvious symptoms of being out of control before his death, and there was a high possibility that the Beyonder characteristics or the remaining parts of his body had caused a certain amount of pollution to the surrounding area.

The headless Reinette shook her empty neck, and several heads also shook, speaking one after another:
"Pollution..." "Concentrated in..." "Characteristics..."

The last head opened its mouth, letting the palm-sized bone crown fall. It was caught by Angel with an invisible thread. The thread that touched it immediately changed significantly, turning into a fragile thin line with an orange-red dusk glow, which could collapse at any time.

"Be careful..." the last head warned.

Thinking of the oracle of the Goddess of Night, Angel swung the silk thread and handed the contaminated "Glory One" characteristic to Ms. Arianna beside him. The latter glanced at the crown from a distance, and it disappeared into the air as if it was erased by an eraser.

After being purified, this Beyonder characteristic should be given to a Sequence 3 Saint, such as Archbishop Anthony Stevenson, so that he will have the opportunity to be promoted to Sequence 2.

It should be considered Angel's trophy, but on the one hand, she already has a "Sword of Glory" and does not need to train subordinates of the "Dusk" path, so she has no demand for the corresponding characteristics. On the other hand, the goddess actually exchanged this characteristic for the sealed item "0-02". The uniqueness of the contaminated and activated "Judge" is much more valuable than the ordinary Sequence 2 characteristics. Naturally, she has no objection.

After handing over the spoils, the four heads of Renette Tinicole looked around, rose high into the sky again, slowly blended into the night, and left this place with the help of the reopened spirit world.

I feel like Klein and I owe this messenger lady a lot of favors. What she needs most is to solve the problem of the "Rose School" in the southern continent, and then restore the strength of Sequence 2. She may need our help in these two things in the future... Angel watched the intricately designed court dress disappear into the night sky, and lowered his head again to find that Arianna had left at some point.

He was still the same as before, coming quietly and leaving quietly, as if he never asked for anything, as if he was really just a "secret" servant...

After sighing inwardly, Angel turned his gaze to Klein and found that the latter was also looking at him. He asked:
"Have you resolved the issue with Intis?"

"Well, the disaster giant that roamed Trier in the Fourth Epoch has died, and I got the extraordinary characteristic of the 'Conqueror'."

Angel nodded in response. Seeing that Klein's eyes were still on him, as if he was quietly observing him, he smiled as if he had figured something out and continued:

"What? Are you trying to see if I have taken on that trait and become a 'Conqueror'?"

Klein remained silent, but his slightly stiff expression and curious eyes said it all.

Angel straightened his back, pushed up the clothes on his chest that had many holes due to the "whipping" to make them fuller, and joked:

"Although I think it's not bad to become a two-meter-tall, red-haired 'Hunter' and take the path of Angel King, my spiritual intuition tells me that something bad will happen if I jump to that path, so I won't do it for now."

For the time being... After taking a look at Angel's deliberately revealed feminine features and feeling the witch angel's irresistible charm, Klein also "temporarily" put his mind at ease. His expression softened, and he said:
"Although the crisis in Beldan has been resolved, I still owe a few wishes. It will take some time to finish them. We will meet there later."

——After he took the initiative to admit his identity as “The Fool”, the gray fog became the best place for the two to meet and communicate.

Angel also wanted to meet the person in his mirror to see if "0-02" had been safely controlled. So after watching Klein's figure "teleport" away, he also entered the mirror world. After feeling a phantom pain in the part that had just been "whipped", he flew towards the projection of the City of Disaster.

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After a busy meal, Angel and Klein came to the gray foggy space that had been transformed into the living room of No. 2 Daffodil Street, and began to discuss what had happened in the past day in a familiar and warm environment.

"So, you originally intended to use the asymmetrical and aesthetically pleasing rules to have the 'Trensost Brass Book' write all over your body, thereby achieving the condition of 'invalidating the rules'?"

After listening to Klein's experience in Beldan City, Angel asked thoughtfully.

She had just learned the detailed information about the Level 02 Sealed Object numbered "0" from the Man in the Mirror. By comparing it with the information, she discovered that Klein's method could indeed change the situation at the time.

Simply put, the first half of the Brass Book records the underlying rules of the world, which generally cannot be changed, while the second half will be freely activated by it to compile a set of strict laws. As the laws are improved, its degree of activation will gradually deepen, and eventually it will be able to affect the underlying rules of the first half.

Once the entire book is written and has not achieved its purpose, it will erase all the contents of the second half and try again until there is a complete law that can interfere in all aspects.

From the point of view of "liking to build laws", it has a certain degree of similarity with the characteristics of the Hand of Order that guards the "Dream City", perhaps the style of the "Judge" path. The loophole that Klein found was to summon the projection of the Night Emperor Memorial Hall in the style of the Fourth Epoch, so that the brass book that hated the rules without aesthetics would continue to add new laws to resist, and finally make the full book "cleared", thereby controlling the seals that had not had time to formulate new laws.

"Yes, but unfortunately the progress was not ideal. We could have been punished by a second 'curfew' at any time. I happened to notice your arrival, so I asked Ms. Arianna to find you."

Klein nodded in response and poured a cup of coffee for himself and Angel.

Above the grey fog, he could summon a full coffee cup with just a thought, but he always felt that doing it himself had a sense of "ritual", which helped to maintain his abundant humanity.

"So, I misunderstood Ms. Arianna's meaning. She wanted me to cooperate with you to speed up the process, but I directly 'broke' the rules in a physical sense and achieved the goal of 'zeroing' from another perspective?"

Sitting back on the sofa, Queen Angel took a sip of the coffee Mr. Fool offered her and said with emotion.

"No, that kind of 'hanging' based on the rules cannot be sustained for long even with the physique of an angel. Your destructive strategy is correct."

Klein commented, realizing that his "Fortune Teller" path's fighting style was completely different from the frontal combat paths of witches and hunters, but it seemed that they could complement each other very well.

Thinking of this, he also picked up the coffee cup and took a sip of the Feynaport Saint-Desi Mountain coffee, which he had never bought even at Dwayne Dantes's house and could only enjoy here, and asked Angel about how he got the "Conqueror" trait.

"It turns out that the disaster giant was one of the root causes of the decline of the Sauron family. Roselle was just the last straw that broke the camel's back... The 'old days' of the witch and the red priest were called the Scourge of Destruction and the Root of Disaster... The second blasphemous stone tablet turned out to be the fuse for the struggle between the gods of the Fourth Epoch. Did Adam's 'world trend' start from that time..."

After Angel finished his narration, Klein muttered to himself, subconsciously letting the gray fog in front of him block his expression and movements, just like the "Fool" on the bronze table.

In the past, when he hid behind the gray fog like this, was he always laughing or muttering silently? And we, the members of the Tarot Club, thought that Mr. Fool was unfathomable... Angel thought about it for a moment, and countless similar scenes emerged in his mind. He was so angry that he kicked Klein under the coffee table.

The latter then noticed that he had accidentally entered the "Fool" mode, and quickly hid the gray fog, revealing an awkward smile. After Angel's anger subsided, he continued:

"From the information on the blasphemous slate, our previous guess that the goddess had gathered most of the conditions for the 'Old Days' was correct. She now only lacks the 'River of Everlasting Darkness' as the source. Is this why She asked me to go to the Hornachis Mountains? She wants to use Antigonus's 'Secret Servant' and the corresponding uniqueness in exchange for my promise to find the source for Her?"

"I thought so too, but there may be another reason," Angel nodded. "He, like the True Creator, doesn't want you to take the risk of using the Sequence 1 feature in the Curtain just because you can't find Zaratul. That would greatly increase the possibility of the Celestial Lord waking up."

"And he is most likely the first traverser that Sefirah Castle let go, a remnant of the past who was hung in a cocoon of light by Tianzun. Naturally, he would not want to see him return."

Klein added that the ideas became clearer during the discussion.

"Then, let's not delay any longer and go to the Honachis Mountains first?"

He stood up from his chair and looked at Angel eagerly.

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In the projection of the "City of Disaster" surrounded by disasters such as volcanoes, storms, and earthquakes, a thin brass book is spread out on an empty street.

The left page of the book is composed of gray-black words, describing different underlying rules. On the right, mercury letters are constantly oozing out, slowly forming a new law:
"The 'Brass Book of Trunsoest' and the laws it promulgated are the most precious things. No creature or force is allowed to have any impact on them without permission. Violators will be sentenced to death!"

Before the newly formed law was "publicized" in some way and made effective, a chaotic vortex containing all colors appeared on the surface of the brass page. Although it was not large in area, it instantly stirred the already formed mercury-colored words into independent letters, then swallowed them all, and quickly shrank and disappeared.

The "Brass Book of Trunsoest" seemed to have never anticipated such a thing happening. It took a long time before it began to condense a new line of rules:
"The Brass Book of Trunsoest and the Laws it promulgated..."

The man in the mirror who looked exactly like Angel, who had been standing nearby, crossed his arms, smiled, and watched with interest as the seal wrote the rules in vain, only to be destroyed by the power of "chaos", repeating this cycle over and over again, never getting tired of it.

After a moment, her eyes moved to the other half of the book, and the gray-black rules representing the underlying operating logic of the world came into her sight:
The person in the mirror can also be promoted by taking magic potions, but the success rate is only 50% of the original body.

"Did she see this rule at the time? Would she have any idea about it..." The man in the mirror muttered, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared. "If '0-02' is fully activated, it should be possible to make some changes to this rule, such as increasing the success rate..."

Her words were drowned out by the rustling sound of writing in the Brass Book of Trunsoest.

(End of this chapter)