Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1146 Half Fool

In the night, among a majestic mountain range, Angel and Klein walked out of the spirit world and landed on the top of the highest mountain.

This is the Honachis Mountains on the border between the Kingdom of Loen and the Republic of Intis. The area near the main peak is nearly 6,000 meters above sea level, with steep terrain and no one living there. Even during the war, Intis did not touch this area, so it has retained its pre-war "original ecology".

After sending the historical projection of Creeping Hunger back to its original location, Klein pointed to the part of the mountaintop hidden in the clouds and said:

"That's the palace of Antigonus. It's located between reality and the misty town I've been to. It should be under the influence of the goddess's 'secret' power. Ordinary people can't find it at all. They can only explore the ruins of the secret town on the periphery."

Following Klein's instructions and using dark vision to eliminate the influence of the environment, Angel discovered that there was a small town on the top of the mountain illuminated by the crimson moonlight. It had become dilapidated due to the wear and tear of time, but its past glory could still be seen from the towering dome and huge stone pillars.

Strangely, these dilapidated buildings are surrounded by a piece of open space covered with weeds, rather than the magnificent palace imagined.

"You need to use spiritual vision."

Klein reminded.

Angel nodded and turned on his spiritual vision. As expected, he discovered that in the originally empty town center, a palace with collapsed walls and covered with moss appeared in many places around the high ground. The huge main door and surrounding windows seemed not to be built by humans, which reminded Angel of the castle of the "Dark Wolf" Kotar in the God-forsaken Land.

According to the information collected before, the Angel King "Antigonus" and the "Mother of Heaven" were once members of the Demon Wolf Clan, so it makes sense that they continued the architectural style of the ancient era. The ruins in other places outside the main peak are towns of the "Kingdom of Night", built by human believers who believe in the Mother of Heaven... Secret doll towns... Could it be that the residents of the Kingdom of Night will gradually become secret dolls, migrate to the top of the peak, and become a part of this place... Angel recalled this information in his mind and frowned and asked:

"How do we get into that palace?"

"This shouldn't be difficult. The easiest thing is to have the goddess hide us and lead us into the misty town, which is connected to Antigonus's castle. Secondly, I think that with my status as a 'miracle worker' and the aggregation effect of Sequence 1 and uniqueness of this path, I can already make the castle tilt towards reality and open the door for us to enter."

Klein explained in an analytical tone as he walked forward. Angel followed him and soon entered the abandoned puppet town. They walked past the collapsed stone pillars and domes and approached the palace that could only be seen by clairvoyance and was located between reality and "secret".

Sure enough, as Klein approached, the walls began to collapse and the palace, most of whose ancillary buildings had disappeared in the long river of time, began to appear. It appeared abruptly in the center of the town, as if it had always been there, but was shrouded in the surrounding fog.

Of course, Angel suspected that this was also because the goddess took the initiative to release the "secret" authority. Otherwise, let alone the two angels, even the angel king like Amon would not be able to see this palace when he came here.

Otherwise, with his abilities and character, he would have come to steal Antigonus' extraordinary characteristics long ago, cutting off Klein's path to advancement.

Standing in front of the huge palace and looking at the tightly closed double doors, Angel and Klein did not rush in, but began to make preparations.

Angel summoned the projection of the "Blood Flag of Salinger" and inserted it in the open space at the door, letting the flag stained with dangerous blood spots flutter in the wind. A deep atmosphere that made people want to kneel down and surrender instantly filled the entire town.

In her hand was a thick book made up of pages of thin brass sheets.

That is the Sealed Object "0-02", the Brass Book of Trunsoest!

The book was now turned to the center. On the left were gray-black rules of the underlying world, and on the right were mercury-colored words that slowly formed the first law:
"The Brass Book of Trunsost and the rules it contains are the most precious things. No one is allowed to modify or destroy them, except Lord Angel Granger and those He allows."

Hey, why has this thing become so obedient? Is it not going to tie up my limbs and hang me to death?

Angel was somewhat surprised to see that the brass book had only written the first law and then stopped, as if waiting for her order, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

Could it be that the person in my mirror has already trained it? What on earth did it experience in the "City of Disaster"... As she was thinking, she suddenly had some ideas about how to use the "Trunsost Brass Book".

That was something the man in the mirror stuffed into her head as a "gift".

It will now instinctively fear me and the person in the mirror, but if the conditions are right, it may rebel... The holder can write laws with his mind, one per minute, and cannot obviously violate the underlying rules unless a strict system is gradually formed... The range of influence is currently only ten kilometers, because it is in a low activation state...

Thinking about these rules, Angel did not immediately write the new laws in the brass book, but looked at Klein beside him. The latter was also ready to enter the palace. He first pulled out his own projection from ten minutes ago, and asked the other party to summon the projection of the "Star Staff" again, ready to use him as cannon fodder to test the state of the palace.

In this way, even if the "half-fool" of the Antigonus family affected the Star Staff in some way, Klein's real body would be able to end the summoning of the projection and make everything disappear without affecting himself.

After doing everything, he entered the pores of history and gave the projected Klein his own life. He then nodded to Angel, walked to the double doors, and slowly pushed open the heavy, rusted iron door.

With a harsh friction sound, the door was pushed open a corner, and the scene inside the palace came into view of the two people.

Behind the door was not the narrow porch commonly seen at the main entrance of a castle, but a hall connecting three floors. Countless corpses were hanging from the sky. There were both men and women, dressed either gorgeously or casually, with their eyes closed, cheeks pale, and limbs drooping.

Behind each hanging corpse is a slippery, transparent tentacle with complex patterns on its surface. They all come from a huge, ancient stone chair deep in the hall.

On the stone chair was not a giant demon wolf, nor a humanoid "ancestor of the Antigonus family", but a group of twisted transparent worms. Some of them grew into corpses with slippery tentacles reaching out to the sky, while others twisted freely but had no intention of leaving the stone chair.

Without Klein's reminder, Angel knew that this group of worms was the complete mythical biological form of the "Fortune Teller" and was the product of the madness of the "Half Fool".

At the same time as she understood this, the transparent, twisted worms also sensed that the door had been opened and that a "miracle worker" was approaching. They left the stone chair and expanded to several times their previous size. They landed on the floor of the hall like a tide and rushed towards Angel and Klein.

At the same time, a thin, palm-sized piece of paper flew up from the stone seat base as if attracted by the worms and Klein, allowing Angel to see the image drawn on it clearly.

It was a man named Roselle who wore a gorgeous headdress, colorful clothes, and carried a cane with a bag hanging on it. He looked into the distance with longing. There was a white puppy at his feet, and above his head was a bright light outlining a line of words:
"Sequence 0: Fool."

It was a blasphemous card. It was also affected by the law of aggregation. It was attracted by Antigonus and Klein and flew towards the door!

But it was blocked by countless slippery tentacles and twisted worms. The mysterious words that emerged on the surface of the tentacles caught the eyes of Angel and Klein, immediately making their heads confused and their thinking slow, as if their IQ had dropped significantly.

Fortunately, this scenario had already been envisioned by the two of them. After studying the "curtain", Klein had already made some guesses about the various abilities of Sequence 1 and had made corresponding preparations.

According to the previous arrangement, Angel mechanically grabbed the "Salinger Blood Flag" in front of her, letting the invisible and colorless flame burn through the crack of the door into the inside, while the "Trunsoest Brass Book" in her other hand automatically wrote a line of text:
"The ability of the 'Secret Servant' here can only be exerted at the level of a 'Miracle Master'."

She did not directly restrict all of the opponent's attacks, or let the battlefield be downgraded to a mid-sequence conflict as the Dark Wolf wished. That would inevitably violate many underlying rules and would also be disadvantageous to her and Klein, because those hanging corpses were obviously puppets and were all helpers of An Banyu.

Under the restrictions of the brass book, the patterns of mythical creatures that could "fool" the observers immediately became much dimmer, and reason returned to Angel and Klein's heads.

Klein's historical projection immediately made room for an opening in the door, allowing invisible flames to pour in and surround the first few tentacles that slapped over.

But the flames did not ignite them. Instead, they exploded strangely on Angel's body, causing her, who was holding the brass book, to twist and deform, and melt into drops of liquid glass.

At this second, Angel's mirror stand-in was "grafted" together with those tentacles. If there were no restrictions of the brass book, what was grafted would not be the stand-in, but her real body.

Fortunately, the ability of the "Secret Servant" was restricted from the beginning... Angel's real body was outlined from the other side of the door, and his eyes subconsciously swept across the brass book in his hand, only to find that the line of mercury-colored laws he had just written was disappearing quickly, like a drop of water evaporating in the sun.

Did the brass book betray? No, this was obviously interfered by external forces, it was Antigonus' "wish"!
Angel realized immediately that it would take more than half a minute for her brass book to write another rule, and she didn't know how much accumulated willpower the "Half Fool" had left.

She immediately grasped the "Blood Flag of Salinger" and with a flash of thought, the floor of the hall inside the palace gate was arched open by the soil underneath. Two-meter-tall clay dolls emerged from it, their blood-red eyes opened, weapons made of fire appeared in their hands, and their momentum rose.

But the next second, the movements of these puppet soldiers that had reached the saint level became sluggish, and their spiritual threads floated upwards, about to merge with the corpses hanging from the ceiling.

Swish, the black lines suddenly turned and returned to the bodies of the soldiers, forming flawless circles.

That was the spiritual thread that Klein was controlling and protecting!
(End of this chapter)