Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1148: Characteristics of the "Secret Servant"

The effect of the aggregation law will still be in effect even at high sequences, and judging from the experiences of Angel and Klein, its effect is even stronger than at medium and low sequences!
Therefore, when discussing how to deal with "Half Fool" Antigonus above the gray fog, Klein proposed the possibility of using the source substance "Source Castle" and the aura of the velvet curtain that contains the fortune teller's full sequence characteristics to attract this Sequence 1 characteristic. This is not the only solution, but it seems to be effective at the moment.

What surprised the two even more was that in addition to the loss of stability, the "Mysterious Attendant" characteristics that emerged from the pile of worms formed after Antigonus lost control, the "Blasphemy Card" that was floating in the air and seemed to be attracted by two parties at the same time was also floating towards the gate following the "Mysterious Attendant" under the breeze.

It undoubtedly contains the complete "Fortune Teller" path potion formula and rituals!
The moment Angel discovered this, a clay soldier who was a member of her "legion" jumped up, grabbed the card with Emperor Roselle and the dog on it, and the word "Fool" written in starlight, and threw it out the door.

Then, the soldier was overwhelmed by the rushing worms, which frantically chased the floating "Mysterious Attendant" characteristics, as if it was an instinct from their hearts.

Seeing this, Klein, who was standing by the door, pressed the open door without hesitation and closed it. At the same time as the characteristics of Sequence 1 and the "Fool" card flew out one after another, he closed the door.

In the last second before the door closed, what remained on his retina were tentacles waving and hitting the invisible barrier that suddenly appeared, a translucent mask that floated up from a twisted and transparent group of worms and was engraved with half the symbols of an "eye without pupil" and half the "twisted line", and the sudden arrival of deep darkness.

The mask seemed to want to follow the "Mysterious Servant" feature and fly out of the door, but was blocked by the night and fell to the ground as if it had lost its activity. The worm group formed by the crazy Antigonus also stopped all movements and shrank back into the gorgeous stone chair, forming a figure curled up in the chair.

He was a young-looking man with long half-white hair, thick black wolf hair on his face, and fairly good facial features.

He is Antigonus... Just as Klein had made his guess, the door slammed shut, isolating everything in the ancient palace.

The illusory castle on the top of the Honachis Mountains suddenly disappeared, and the night that enveloped everything became fainter, and crimson moonlight and starlight appeared in the sky.

This means that the "secret" of the Goddess of Night has ended, and the aura of "Source Castle" will be leaked to the outside world, which will undoubtedly attract a large number of followers, such as Amon, Zaratul, and even the "Mother Tree of Desire" and other outer gods' believers on Earth.

Klein had no time to analyze what he had just seen. His historical projection suddenly vanished into nothingness, and his real body emerged from the mist of history. With one hand, he picked up the "Mysterious Servant" attribute that had just flown to his side and had turned into a ball of dark liquid without any shape. With the other hand, he grabbed the dispersing "Salinger Blood Flag" projection, threw the brass book back into the mirror world, and came to Angel beside him.

The next second, the two figures faded and disappeared, and were "teleported" to an unknown location.

The ruins of the "Kingdom of Night" created by Antigonus and the "Mother of Sky" in the Fourth Era returned to peace, with faint black fires burning everywhere on the ground, quickly covering up all traces of the battle.

About a minute later, a figure wearing a pointed hat, a black robe, and a crystal monocle in his right eye walked out of a building that had collapsed in many places. He looked out at the magnificent palace where the battle had taken place not long ago, and kept muttering:
"Tsk, I'm a step too late. It seems that the night has completely turned to his side..."

The eye with the monocle kept flickering, as if he was trying to find some traces on the battlefield to track Angel and Klein who had just left, but suddenly he felt something and looked towards a dead tree in the distance.

A crow there quacked and flew up, quickly flying away into the distance.

"Oh, interesting..." Amon pushed the lens in his eye socket, lowered his head and said to the dressing mirror in his hand that was flashing blood-red light:
"Look, if you don't place some big bets, the 'mystery' might show up."

The red light constantly switches between light and dark, seeming to echo the red moon in the sky.

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After several twists and turns, Angel and Klein eliminated all traces and hid back in the hotel behind the Saint Samuel Church in Backlund. They came to the gray fog again and finally got out of the brief but fierce confrontation with the "Half Fool" and breathed a sigh of relief.

Sitting on his own sofa in the gray fog, Angel looked at Klein in confusion and asked:
"What did you see just now? Why did you run so fast?"

Klein also made a cup of coffee with lingering fear to calm himself down before speaking:

"At the moment the door closed, a translucent mask emerged from Antigonus's out-of-control body. On it was the symbol of praying to the Fool that I told you about. It flew towards me as if it was attracted to me."

It was the combination of the "Eye without Pupils" and the "Twisted Thread", a symbol that symbolizes secrecy and change... Angel recalled the time when Klein the Fool first displayed the symbol, and asked with enlightenment:
"You mean, you've seen this symbol two years ago when you were still Sequence 8, and thought it was the sign of the Fool?"

"This is all destined by fate. If the goddess hadn't sealed the palace again and blocked the mask inside, I'm afraid it would have been directly put on my face, and the 'Sky Lord' would have woken up immediately..." Klein replied, handing Angel a cup of mellow and rich Saint Desi Mountain coffee, and took a sip himself before continuing:
"...Based on the fact that the mask was pulled away from Antigonus by the aggregation, and the Goddess's cautious approach, I believe it is the Path of the Diviner, which is also the 'uniqueness' embodiment of the Path of the Fool, and is the basis for Antigonus to be called 'half-fool'."

Dice, battle flags, brass books, and now masks. How come the "uniqueness" of various paths all take on such strange forms? Angel complained in his heart, and turned to look at the "Fool" card on the coffee table, which showed Roselle preparing to wander with his puppy.

It is placed together with other blasphemous cards collected by the two, such as the "Black Emperor", "Witch", two "Red Priests", "Tyrant", etc., as if it is a display of the different psychological states of this time-traveling emperor.

As Angel focused his gaze and infused his spirituality into it, the blasphemous card quickly turned into an illusory book. In it, the "fortune teller" Roselle holding a crystal ball and the "master of the secret puppet" Roselle pulling a puppet kept turning the pages until the penultimate page.

"Sequence 1: Mysterious Waiter.

"Main material: one copy of the 'Mysterious Attendant' Beyonder characteristic; auxiliary materials: nine specialties from the spirit world.

“Promotion Ceremony: Build a town composed of puppets, design the destiny of each puppet, and let them interact with each other to interpret a realistic picture of life until the corresponding area is born in the spirit world. The larger the town, the more puppets there are, and the more vivid and realistic their destinies are, the better the effect.”

This undoubtedly reveals why the "Dark Wolf" Kotal collected secret dolls to build his own castle, and why the "Half Fool" established a secret doll town in the Kingdom of Night.

Judging from Antigonus' subsequent experiences, He must have successfully completed the ritual, been promoted to "Servant of Mysteries", and embraced that uniqueness, becoming the King of Angels.

Oh, yes, uniqueness...

Thinking of this, Angel raised his head and continued to ask:
"The reason the goddess blocked that 'uniqueness' is because she is worried that you will fall into madness like Antigonus?"

Klein shook his head, his tone more positive than doubtful:
"I don't think so. There may be other reasons for the Half Fool's loss of control. According to historical records, He was normal at least during the entire Tudor Empire period, or appeared normal on the surface, until the Four Emperors War occurred and the Blood Emperor Tudor fell... I guess at that time, the Kingdom of Night was also destroyed by the Church of the Night, causing Him to lose a lot of the 'anchors' that maintained His humanity, and then He became crazy and lost himself...

"Moreover, I learned from the Seven Lights of the Spirit Realm that after entering the Fifth Epoch, the spiritual imprints of the Prime Creator and His different aspects that remained in the Beyonder characteristics gradually faded. Now the risk of me accommodating Sequence 1 characteristics and Uniqueness has been reduced to a minimum."

Then why did the goddess block the uniqueness... Klein could have taken it first but not contained it or touched it, until he became a true "Attendant of Mysteries" and stabilized his own state, and then tried to contain the mask... Angel muttered silently, and suddenly opened his eyes wide as if he realized something.

"The goddess... is withholding that uniqueness as a bargaining chip for us to satisfy Her demands in the future?"

she asked cautiously.

If they were not in the Kingdom of the Fool, protected by the power of the Source, she would not have dared to say this.

Klein nodded without saying anything. Instead, he picked up the "Mysterious Servant" attribute that seemed to be constantly changing and had no fixed form. He used the power of the gray mist to initially seal it to prevent it from merging with the "curtain" of another Sequence 1 attribute.

This time he got the "Fool" card, a "Mysterious Attendant" feature with less hidden dangers, and he was already satisfied.

As for how to help the goddess find the "River of Eternal Darkness" in exchange for the uniqueness of "The Fool", he decided to consider it after becoming Sequence 1.

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At the top of the Honachis Mountains, in the "hidden" palace hall.

The man on the huge stone chair, with a young face and half-gray hair, giving people a contradictory feeling of being both young and old, opened his eyes.

PS: Thanks to the big guy "Youkionna" for the reward (づ￣ 3￣)づ~☆

(End of this chapter)