Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1250 Queen Roselle

That is……

At this moment, Angel thought of the mysterious "Chaos Witch" and her black statue deep in the mirror world, the leader of the "Man in the Mirror", and the scene where Syrio Soran was suddenly annihilated by the same strong light when he was being channeled.

She flew towards the passage in the mirror without hesitation, quickly entered it, and chased the figure in the black dress that was getting farther and farther away.

In the mirror world, even the power of the "Fool" is of no use, and there is no time to pray to other beings. Angel can only rely on his own strength now.

Of course, as a "disaster" witch, her control over the mirror world is no less than anyone except the "original witch", and as long as she catches up with the opponent, her advantage in frontal combat ability can be fully utilized...

But as she chased, Angel discovered that the lady in the black dress who killed Moran had just as much control over the power of the mirror world as she did. She even had the energy to take her around in circles in the mirror passage near Trier, as if teasing her as a pursuer.

She, no, He is also a witch angel with a color as a code? But I have the help of the source power, it is impossible for me to catch up with a witch of the same sequence... Is he really the leader of "The Man in the Mirror"?

After realizing this, Angel found that the other party did not use the mobility advantage in the mirror world to escape, but was hanging around her from a distance, not knowing what he was waiting for.

With a thought, she, along with the lady in black dress who was within her sight and had not yet escaped her control, went into the depths of the "below" in all the mirror worlds, and entered the outer area of ​​the "City of Disaster" shrouded in thick fog and with black and red passages circling around.

As she expected, after noticing the sudden change in the environment around her, the lady in the black dress did not flee in panic, but slowly stopped and turned to face this side, as if she had been prepared.

She is tall, with a curvy figure under her black skirt. She wears a crown made of gold inlaid with various gems. Her long chestnut hair is slightly curled at the ends, her eyes are blue, her nose is high, her lips are thin, and her facial features are perfectly integrated on her delicate face. She has the beauty that only high-ranking "witches" have, which makes any creature fall in love with her.

He smiled slightly and took the initiative to speak:

"I thought it would take you longer to figure it out."

What do you want to understand… He wants to use the fog of war outside the “City of Disaster” that can block the sight of the true God and even the Old Ones to communicate with me privately?
Angel muttered something, pretending to be confident:

"I'm just observing if you have any ill intentions."

"As long as you don't pose a threat to Roselle Gustav, there will be no irreconcilable conflict between us." The lady in the black dress wearing the female crown said, "Also, I want to thank you for helping Bernadette last time."

Last time... when Nast tried to use the gaze of the "Fallen Mother Goddess" to pollute Bernadette? Angel nodded in realization and asked in confirmation:
"So, you are Roselle's 'Man in the Mirror', the 'Knowledge Emperor' who helped him build a mausoleum in the mirror world?"

The "Queen" Roselle nodded calmly and said:

"It seems that you have gone to the only remaining mausoleum in reality and met another me."

"He is still trapped by the pollution in his body. Even after using the special properties of the Black Emperor to be reborn, he still cannot get rid of it. So he asked us to seal him... Bernadette and Anne also saw him for the last time."

Angel said, realizing that the "man in the mirror" did not share memories with the original body, and cautiously did not say that he was also a "traveler", and instead raised another question:
"You can't leave Trier's 'special mirror world'?"

She made this guess for two reasons. The first was that even though the other party had taken a "detour", he had not left the vicinity of Trier. The second was that if this "man in the mirror" who knew his own true self well was able to move freely, he would have found the location of the last mausoleum long ago, and the School of Truth would not have to entrust the "King of the Five Seas" Nestor to go out to sea.

As expected, Queen Roselle chuckled and said:
"That's true. We, the mirror humans who were born due to the pollution in Trier's underground, can only stay here. We can only move freely if we replace our original bodies."

The latent Nighthawk informant Danio also mentioned this point, and it is more difficult for those "Mirror People" with divinity to leave the mirror world... But the Nighthawk senior deacon Pierce who failed to be promoted to demigod and was replaced by the "Mirror People" did not have this characteristic, and the "Mirror People" was still alive after the original body died... Angel thought about it and continued to ask:
"You are talking about everything here, is it because the 'fog of war' can prevent certain entities from snooping?

"Are you controlled by the 'Original Witch', or the terrifying being deep in the mirror?"

Hearing the question she was trying to ask, Queen Roselle looked up at the endless fog that surrounded the two of them and blocked their vision and spiritual penetration, and said:
"That is indeed part of the reason, but the main reason is still Bernadette. Otherwise, although the mirror world must have a master, it doesn't matter to us who it is."

The ruler of the mirror world... This is the description of Witch Sequence 0 on the "Blasphemy Card". It seems that the "Original Witch" really controls the fate of all the people in the mirror. But if this is the case, why would Queen Roselle take the risk to talk to me? According to Her, whoever wins the battle between me and the "Original Witch" will not affect Her existence... Angel just had some doubts, and the female version of Roselle, wearing a crown and a fluttering black dress, continued:
"In addition, I do need to obey the orders of the ruler of this special mirror world, the 'Original Witch'. I cannot disobey Him, but His orders sometimes contradict and conflict with each other, which gives me and other people in the mirror a little freedom."

"It's contradictory... Does this have anything to do with His current state?"

Angel immediately asked.

Queen Roselle nodded slightly, her movements were graceful and her temperament was noble. The jewel-studded crown rested steadily on her head, which was completely different from the other queen who once wore the "Pale Crown".

"In addition to the one believed in by the 'Witch Cult', there is another 'Original Witch'. She seems to be formed by the splitting of the original body. Except for wearing a black dress, she is no different from the original one. She can also control the mirror world. However, she is restricted by the original body. Most of the time, she sleeps in the deepest part of the special mirror world. Occasionally, she will issue some instructions and try to develop her own believers.

"This is also the reason why the 'Original Witch' cannot leave the mirror world. The external manifestation is that after the Pale Disaster, the state of this deity has deteriorated, and she only occasionally responds to the prayers of her believers."

Black skirt… A flash of lightning flashed through Angel’s mind:
"Does He have a statue similar to the 'Original Witch', but in black?"

"Indeed."

Queen Roselle admitted it straightforwardly.

It seems that these people in the mirror of Trier and the other "original witch" mentioned by Queen Roselle are the gods of the black statue believed by Wensa and "White Saint" Catalina... Angel was thoughtful.

Seeing that Russell's "man in the mirror" answered all her questions, she decided to ask some in-depth questions:

"What is the purpose of the Mirror Man infiltrating reality and even cooperating with the Outer God believers like the 'School of Truth'?"

"Oh, purpose?"

Queen Roselle seemed to have heard something funny. She sneered and her expression became dark, with some anger and dissatisfaction:

"Including me, all the 'people in the mirror' were born in the dark mirror world. If we don't replace our own bodies, we won't even have the chance to step into reality and enjoy normal sunlight and fresh air.

"The fact that they have it and we don't is the greatest injustice. Breaking this injustice is the greatest goal. Do we need any other reason?"

"Since you have some memories of the original body, you should know that he is also... well, innocent." Angel frowned and defended Roselle Gustav and countless other bodies that were contaminated and appeared as people in the mirror.

At least from the perspective of creating the "Man in the Mirror", Russell is indeed quite innocent.

But this sentence made the chestnut-haired empress, whose eye color, nose bridge, and lips were almost identical to her original body, only slightly softer, even more angry:
"Innocent? Am I not innocent? Just because of his arbitrary exploration, an adventure that ignored the advice of the Steam Church, I was born in the dark Trier. And because I have divinity, I can't even leave here for a short time like other people in the mirror and go to the real world...

“He has Bernadette, Charles, Anne, and Bonois, who is gradually losing his humanity but still respects him very much. What do I have?
"I could only secretly watch them in the mirror, imagining the content of their conversation, imagining the bright sunshine and the infinitely vast world..."

As he spoke, Roselle's eyes turned cold and his tone became serious. "You ask about the purpose? Our ultimate goal is to make the world in the mirror become another reality, even better than the real world you are in.

"Everything he has, I want to have!"

His thinking is so extreme. Is this really the "man in the mirror" of Roselle... Angel muttered silently, then frowned and asked:
"Let the world in the mirror become reality? How is this possible?"

In Angel's cognition, the "mirror world" is essentially a special space similar to the spiritual world, which is equivalent to a "subset" with unique rules and scope. Even the spiritual world cannot be completely integrated into reality. The two are clearly separated, so how could it be possible for the mirror world?

Roselle in the mirror also calmed down, his expression returned to that faint smile with a bit of majesty, and said:
"I don't know how to do it, but this is the purpose of the 'Original Witch' and the dream of her incarnation. It is the only consensus between the two witches...

"Since you are a witch, you should know that the 'Witch Cult' has been hunting down witches who have been promoted from women. This is because they will form mirror people who are also women in the mirror world, and this will attract the attention of a special existence deep in the mirror world, another 'Original Witch'.

"And it is possible for the person in the mirror to merge with the real body."

Integration? Not reconciliation, not confrontation? Angel was stunned.

Could it be that the reason why the other "original witch" deep in the mirror spies on the promotion of female witches is because she covets the "person in the mirror" of women, and once she reaches the "immortal" stage and the original body needs to reconcile with the person in the mirror, "She" can replace the original body and merge with it to enter the real world?

This did achieve His goal from another perspective, although it would abandon the other "People in the Mirror" and Chick... No wonder the "Original Witch" was worried that female witches would be promoted to immortality, which would cause the part of Him that split away to abandon Him, which would be equivalent to losing part of His power... Thoughts kept emerging in Angel's mind, and he quickly pieced together a possibility.

But this can't be called "Great Terror" in any way. Chick himself was not given such a title, so how could a part of him be called that? Unless this clone descended into reality and caused a huge disaster worldwide...

Gathering his thoughts, Angel looked at the female face whose features and outlines were somewhat similar to those of the Emperor Roselle in his memory, but also somewhat different. With a thought, he asked:

"Why did the pollution in Underground Trier make your gender the opposite of your original body?"

Even the person in the mirror of a witch will not have such a "reversal". Although a male person in the mirror will appear when a male instigator is promoted to a witch, this is entirely because another self appeared in the mirror world before the promotion, and his original body was still male at that time. Another example is that after a female instigator is promoted, the gender of the person in the mirror will not change.

But since Emperor Roselle is not a "witch" and has not temporarily changed his gender, why is the person in the mirror who is copied from his original body an "empress"?
Hearing this question, the female Roselle looked down at her curvy body covered in a black skirt and said with a smile:

"The deepest power in the mirror world has influenced me, because it contains the original feminine and masculine power, and the mirror image means the reversal of everything... Of course, most people in the mirror don't face this problem. They just have their hearts on the right side, their dominant hand has changed, and their gender has not changed."

The original feminine and masculine power... Is this the reason why "Witches" and "Hunters" would force a certain gender to be fixed during their promotion? Angel nodded, realizing that apart from some questions that might expose his identity as a time traveler, he didn't have much to ask, so he smiled and said:

"Do I need to let Bernadette know that I have such a 'mother'?"

This teasing question softened Empress Roselle's expression. Her and Bernadette's blue eyes revealed a hint of longing. After a moment, she shook her head and said:

"Forget it. If I have the chance, I will go see her myself, as well as Anne and Bonois...

"Although I hate my original self, my emotions in other aspects are the same as his, even more extreme and irrational. This is also the characteristic of all 'Mirror People'... I am worried that seeing Bernadette now will scare her."

Extreme, irrational... Was this the reason why the man in the mirror kidnapped Bonois Gustave last time? Angel recalled the attack he encountered when he came to Trier to solve the "man in the mirror" problem, and the silver mirror that teleported him to Trier in the Fourth Epoch.

But she thought of the person in her mirror, the "Angel" who was more stable and sharper than herself, and her obviously distant attitude towards Klein. She began to doubt the characteristics of the person in the mirror that Empress Roselle mentioned.

Humph, maybe only my "person in the mirror" is special... She smiled smugly, and when she saw that Queen Roselle seemed ready to leave, she spoke again:

"Whether you are willing to help us deal with the 'Original Witch' or not, I need to thank you. Without the two 'Blasphemy Cards' you made, it would be difficult for me to get to this point now."

Roselle's figure had already floated upwards, and gradually left the area after Angel suppressed the "Fog of War". Hearing this, he looked down at her with a somewhat surprised expression:

"The Blasphemy card? 'Red Priest' and which one?"

"Of course it's the 'Witch' card. You also improved some of the rituals, which benefited me a lot."

Angel answered, lowered his head and took out two "blasphemous cards" from the mirror space that were originally hidden in the "City of Disaster", with pictures of Roselle the Chariot and Roselle in women's clothing.

But when she raised her head again, she found that Queen Roselle reached out and pressed her full breasts, and took out a palm-sized card from the valley between the neckline and the peak of her black dress.

It depicted a charming chestnut-haired woman wearing a black dress and a crown, exactly the same as the empress in front of Angel.

In the upper left corner of the card there is a line of text written in the form of bright stars:
"Sequence 0: Original Witch."

Wait… Another “blasphemous card”?
Angel opened his eyes wide and looked at the chest that showed a hint of white skin... the blasphemy card above, and suddenly the words spoken by Emperor Roselle in the mausoleum of the Black Emperor flashed through his mind:
"The image of the 'Witch' card is also wrong... It should be a complete woman, not a man in women's clothing like it is now.

"Both of these 'Red Priests' are real, but I only really made one...

"During the production process, not only the power of the 'Knowledge Emperor' was required, but also the influence of the 'Original Moon', which gave it the anti-divination and anti-prophecy properties that even the gods could not find..."

She murmured:

"You didn't make this 'Witch' card?"

Queen Roselle was obviously a little confused. She stopped in the air and raised her hand to take in the "Witch" card of Roselle, who was wearing women's clothes but had a male face, which Angel had released. She observed it carefully and shook her head after a moment:

"My original body only made a deck of 'blasphemous cards'. He left the witch card with me, saying that it was drawn in my image... But I don't have the ability to make such a strange thing. It requires..."

"We need help from a power higher than the gods..."

Angel took over the conversation and spoke in a tone so cold that he could hardly detect it.

Only then did she realize that she had overlooked something.

In addition to Roselle who was polluted by the "Original Moon", there is another existence that possesses the power of the "Knowledge Emperor" and has the help of beings above the gods, that is, the "Old Ones".

That is because the Luo Cult, which believes in the "Mother Nest" in the Western Continent, broke through the ancestral temple of the "Heavenly Master", causing the source "Knowledge Wilderness" to be polluted and activated, and the uniqueness of the "Hermit" was activated...

"Hidden Sage"!
PS: I will most likely have to take a day off tomorrow, my waist is still not healed, I gritted my teeth and finished coding this chapter, I need to rest early...

(End of this chapter)