Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1273 From Doomsday (Two in One)

Hearing Klein's mumbling, Angel Gray looked at him with some surprise and nodded:
“It is indeed the work of Emperor Roselle. Of course, it was the one in the mirror who is still the ‘Emperor of Knowledge’. In addition, there is also a helper from the past.

“They created two additional blasphemous cards, ‘Witch’ and ‘Red Priest’, but only changed a small part of the ritual to make it more suitable for her now.”

From a plague that affected 3 people to a demigod dying in despair, and from reconciling with the person in the mirror to going through a long period of time. After all, she was the "person in the mirror"... This method of taking advantage of the loophole was most likely thought of by Roselle... Klein evaluated it in his heart and asked casually:
"Who is that Old One? The resurrected ancient sun god, or..."

"It's you, Klein Moretti, the future 'Lord of Mysteries'."

Gray's answer was exactly what Klein had expected, and it made him feel a little happy.

After all, he was only a Sequence 1 Servant of Mystery, which was quite a distance away from Sequence 0, let alone defeating Amon who possessed dual pathways and becoming the Old One who housed Sefirah Castle.

The words of this "time traveler" who returned from the future to the present undoubtedly set the tone for his fate.

Seeing that he stopped asking questions, Gray continued:
"In that timeline - let me call the experience in my memory like this - you eventually took the risk of being promoted to 'The Fool', and relied on the power of Sefirah Castle to defeat the dual-path true god Amon, but this also caused the will of the 'Celestial Lord' in your body to revive, and you had to fall asleep with the help of the Goddess of Night. You can only influence the outside world to a certain extent, and that Celestial Lord can do the same.

"And I, under the arrangement of Adam, who merged with the 'True Creator' and took the lead, was promoted to the Immortal Witch. I entered your dream together with several other 'Old Ones' who were released from Sefirah Castle by you and had the opportunity to be resurrected, and tried to wake you up."

"My dream?" Klein opened his mouth, but couldn't help but interrupt him. "What was that like?"

Gray's mouth curled up slightly, as if he remembered something happy, and replied:

“It is a dream formed by Zhou Mingrui’s experience, set in a modern Chinese city in the early 21st century.

"You are an employee of a large company, calling yourself a social animal, and living an ordinary life."

This is the life I was tired of before, but now I can’t wait to go back to those days... Being a corporate slave is better than now. It would be perfect if I could take Angel back to those days... Klein was in a trance and asked:
"Your mission is to wake me up from my boring life but unwilling to wake up?"

From the other party's experience, Klein knew that his other self in the other timeline had not met Angel, and there was a high probability that he would remain single until he became a "fool" and fell into a deep sleep, and he might not be willing to wake up from the dream.

"Boring?" Gray chuckled and shook his head. "Because of the importance of the 'Lord of Mysteries', your dreams have long been like a sieve. Local gods can enter, and believers of foreign gods can enter. Your Tarot Club members have also watched your life up close, and know that the 'Fool' is Zhou Mingrui, 'German Sparrow', 'Sherlock Moriarty'...

"By the way, you also drank the 'Assassin' potion, and you were just one step away from becoming a 'Witch'."

This... Klein suddenly felt that he was no longer interested in the dream, and even felt a little panicked.

It's like the fear of being stripped naked and surrounded by people you know.

Fortunately, he had the experience of being stripped naked in front of Angel before, so he quickly adjusted his mindset and grasped the key point and asked:

"'Assassin' potion? Didn't you say that my dream was a modern city?"

"That's just the surface. The entire dream world is the stage for the confrontation between you and 'Tianzun'. As an ordinary person who has been promoted to a god, you would rather the dream world be in a state without any extraordinary power. That would be more beneficial to you. For the natural mythical creature 'Tianzun', you are fighting away from home."

Gray answered quickly, as if she had gone through these things in her mind countless times and had prepared a draft in mind.

"Of course, He is not without the power to resist. After adjusting his state, 'Tianzun' gradually exerted influence on the dream city, allowing extraordinary power to gradually appear there. This will affect your cognition after you lost your memory.

"As you realize that this is a supernatural world, you will gradually move from a Sequence 9 Assassin to a Sequence 0. Your divinity will gradually grow stronger and overwhelm your humanity. This is the most beneficial to the Celestial Sovereign."

This... even in the dream, it is still a balance between "humanity" and "divinity"... Klein sighed. Although he couldn't imagine the specific situation of the dream city, he believed that this matter must not be simple, otherwise there wouldn't be so many forces entering into the struggle.

Of course, since "Angel Grey" has returned to the present with the help of his future self, his plan to wake himself up must have succeeded.

As if to confirm his thoughts, Gray continued:
"With the help of several gods and the efforts of the Major Arcana, we finally found a way to wake you up. That is to let the 'world' return first. He is a character that is completely unaffected by the 'sky master'. And you continue to fight with the 'sky master' in your dreams until you both confront and merge with him, becoming the real 'Lord of the Mysteries' who is mainly biased towards you."

The World is indeed an important character. My efforts to cultivate his image are worth it... Klein let out a long breath. He did not dwell on the dream that both interested him and frightened him. Instead, he asked in a deep voice:

"and then?"

As soon as he asked the question, he noticed a hint of pain on Angel Grey's face.

"And then, it failed..."

she murmured.

Failure... Klein's heart tightened, and he realized that the "timeline" that the other party originally came from must have some irreversible crisis that forced her to leave.

Otherwise, why would she travel back in time?
He waited quietly until the expression of the woman who looked like Angel eased a little, then he asked softly:

"What kind of failure?"

The latter looked over with his purple eyes, was silent for a moment, and replied:
“Everything failed.

"Because of the problem with the promotion ceremony, and Adam's desire to try the 'Yin and Yang' method, I jumped from 'Immortality' to 'Weather Warlock', and then I will compete with Medici for 'Conqueror', or plan to kill Chik and obtain his 'Doomsday' characteristics. However, this promotion is exactly what Chik and Tudor want. They are waiting for an angel with Tudor's breath and the power of the City of Disaster so that Tudor can be resurrected and they can combine in the mirror to become the original creator.

"Your timely awakening prevented all this. Chike had just inserted the 'doomsday' feature into my body to allow the feminine side of the original creator to merge, and the ritual was destroyed. But everything is irreversible...

"The battle between the gods made the barrier even more vulnerable. The Outer Gods took the opportunity to launch an attack, and the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' even directly entered the barrier. At the same time, the only two beings on the Earth side who possessed the power of source and possessed the status of 'Old Ones' both encountered problems."

"Me and Adam?"

Klein asked back with realization.

Gray nodded.

"You reached a temporary agreement with 'Tianzun' and awakened early to support the barrier, but this gave Him an opportunity to take advantage of you. In order to have the strength to fight when the end of the world comes, Adam also merged with 'God' in advance to compete for dominance.

"This has resulted in your powers being incomplete, and you are unable to become true Old Ones when the barrier is completely broken. Most importantly, in order to fight each other, 'God' and 'Tianzun' have secretly reached an agreement with the Outer Gods. Their condition is to prevent the other party from reviving, and then to revive themselves.

“As a result, until the end of the world, no complete Old One appeared on Earth.

"That is the real end of the world, and I come from the end of the world."

……

After a while, Klein finally calmed down.

The doomsday scenes that Angel continued to describe made him, who had not yet experienced all of this, feel despair. It was just like when he first heard that there were nine outer gods outside the earth eyeing them covetously. He had no idea how the earth could prevent the coming of the doomsday and change the fate of everyone's death.

Of course, the people in that "timeline" also made a lot of efforts. For example, they used the Vortex Project, which was also initiated by the believers of the "Uncertain Mist", to severely damage the Old One, reducing the enemy outside the barrier and making it difficult for other Old Ones to unite. However, compared to now, there will be one more Old One called the "Goddess of Destiny" in the future, which will make up for the number.

The contact with the Western Continent was not without results. Just like now, Heavenly Master, Underworld Man, Heavenly Emperor and other people of the same Dao were also preparing for the appearance of several native "Old Ones" as soon as possible. However, due to Chick and Tudor's attempts to revive the original behavior in the mirror, the barrier was broken earlier than predicted, and all efforts were faced with failure before they could bear fruit.

"So, you, no, my future self and Adam both think that the key issue lies in the behavior of the 'Original Witch' Chick?"

After calming down his somewhat frustrated mood, Klein asked.

This is probably the reason why Angel Gray used all his efforts to stop Chick and kill the god in one fell swoop.

Gray nodded first, then shook his head and said, "This is just one reason. Another important issue is that neither you nor Adam have been able to defeat the remaining will of the pillar-level Old Ones in your body and truly obtain their power."

"So this is why you said you would help me become the true Lord of Mysteries?" Klein suddenly realized, "And Adam... No, Grisha's fusion order has also changed this time?"

He still remembered what Gray had just said about Adam's "order of accommodation" being based on Him, rather than on the "true Creator."

Apart from the butterfly effect caused by him not encountering Angel, this is probably the most important difference between the two timelines.

"That's right," Gray replied with a forced smile, "The moment the barrier was broken, Adam Grisha, the 'God' with incomplete authority, and you, the 'Lord of Mysteries' who was sometimes crazy and sometimes sober, knew what would happen next. The Earth would not be spared, and everyone would die, including Them."

"At that moment, they made a decision. Using the calculations of the 'Omniscient and Omnipotent One', the power of the 'Ruler of the Spirit World', and the help of the 'City of Disaster' and the special features of the half of the original Creator in the mirror on my body, they sent me back to the past.

"The Fallen Mother Goddess and the other Old Ones did not stop it, and the real 'God' and 'Tianzun' also watched all this happen, because this would allow the Earth to completely give up resistance... And this is not about changing the future by relying on the past, but coming to another 'timeline'... You should understand what this means after watching many time travel works, right?"

She was talking to "Zhou Mingrui"... Klein was stunned for a moment, nodded, but then asked unwillingly:
"Is it really impossible to change what happened in the past?"

"All we have done is only to change the 'future' of this timeline, because it has not happened yet. As for the future I am in, everything has already been determined."

Gray said slowly, her expression not changing much, as if she herself had thought about this matter many times and did not hold out any hope.

"Even if this world is finally saved, the future you and Adam will face a hopeless doomsday. They just want to preserve a little spark, or a little light in despair...

“Even so, returning to the past of another timeline is extremely difficult. This involves the 'eternal' nature of the source 'disaster' power of the City of Disaster. This is also the reason why the city deep in the mirror world has partial mirror images of cities from all eras, even those in the future that are in doomsday.

"According to the calculations of 'God' Adam Grisha, there is even a chance to travel to a more distant past through the City of Disaster, but this requires almost infinite spirituality, which is difficult for even you, the 'Lord of Mysteries', to bear. In addition, the person sent back to the past must be marked by the City of Disaster in advance. Spirituality and mark are both indispensable."

This is consistent with the conditions she told Angel at the beginning... A light flashed through Klein's mind, and he blurted out:

"November 1349, 6!"

That was the time when Angel's spirit, preserved by the City of Disaster, entered the body of Cole Granger who had just died. It was her first mark left on the world.

Gray smiled for the first time in a long time and nodded slightly.
"At an earlier time, even the spirits of the old days would not be able to bear it, and I am the only one who meets the requirements of being the Brand, the Favored One of the City of Disaster, and the 'First Creator'.

"Of course, if the original creator truly revives and takes back all authority, he will naturally have the ability to reverse time and space and change the past, but this will also lead to the destruction of the universe, and everything will be reincarnated again, which is meaningless to any of us."

Klein let out a long breath and said:

"So you used these powers and returned to that day with your memories."

"To be specific, it was half an hour before Angel woke up in this timeline. My return also caused the power of all the 'City of Disaster' marks to leak, which indirectly caused the failure of the promotion ceremony of a senior deacon... And in order to come to this point in time, I discarded my physical body and the 'Doomsday' attribute, leaving only my spirit body and the Sequence 1 attribute that I imagined through the authority of the 'Sea of ​​Chaos'."

This means that she will only be a "Doomsday" witch in the future, and she has not had time to be promoted to Sequence 0... "Yesterday's Reappearance" is a reproduction of her state in just half an hour?
Klein understood something and motioned for the other party to continue.

"The moment I arrived on June 6, I followed your and Adam's plan and called out His name and chanted the Goddess' honorable name. Not only are they the 'Old Ones' of this time and space, they are also time travelers, so it's easier for them to communicate and believe everything I say."

Gray's tone became much calmer, as if he had recovered from his sorrow about the "end of the world".

"You should be able to guess what happened next. Adam sealed my memory before the fantasy Sequence 1 characteristic disappeared and I became an ordinary person. He then killed Angel Granger, who had just accepted our spirits and resurrected with the power of the 'immortal' witch bestowed by the 'City of Disaster'. This would consume one chance of 'resurrection', but more importantly, it gave me the opportunity to replace my original body as the 'Man in the Mirror' and become my original body. The resurrected Angel Granger then became my 'Man in the Mirror'.

"This is different from the person in the mirror who needs to kill her true self to become a regular person. Her memories have not been modified in essence, so she is not afraid of Sefirah Castle's anti-virus..."

Klein added in astonishment, genuinely impressed by his future self and Adam's plan.

"So, after that, you stayed in the 'City of Disaster', pretending that you were the 'Man in the Mirror', waiting for the Goddess and Adam who knew the future to make changes?"

"I'm not pretending," Gray shook his head. "After losing the relevant memories, I really thought that I was the unlucky person trapped in the mirror world. Before I truly 'reconciled' with her, I couldn't leave there. This naturally avoided the possibility of being watched by the Outer Gods after my memories were restored."

"And Amanesis and Adam began to take the initiative to arrange everything that happened next. Adam separated the 'witch' characteristics that were released after his death into an 'assassin' one, and put it back into Angel's body, allowing her to wake up as a Sequence 9 to prevent her from accidentally jumping to other paths. The goddess was more decisive in her 'investment' in you, in Angel, which prevented her from following Madam Sharon. Instead, she took the initiative to report her and joined the Nighthawks."

This is the divergence point of "this timeline"... Klein nodded secretly, and immediately had a new question:
"Adam has been exerting influence on Angel so early? Then her meeting with me, and everything that happened afterwards... was also planned?"

Gray glanced at him and replied with amusement:
"You control the power of Sefirah Castle, so you should know that this is impossible. Otherwise, every time Angel comes to the gray fog, he will have memory loss and dislocation, and he will immediately find the problem... And if "He" really arranged for you to meet and fall in love, it will cause irreconcilable contradictions after you know everything, and even affect your role as anchors to each other...

"However, her meeting you so soon and joining the Tarot Club was beyond His expectations. He appeared once in Enmat Port and once in Bayam, both times to 'correct' the direction. Apart from that, He did not have many arrangements for Angel."

Phew, that’s good… Even Klein could hear the sound of his own breathing.

But when she met Adam at Enmat Harbor, Angel did show some memory problems when she returned to Tingen to attend the Tarot Club. And Bayam... Adam showed up on purpose and said so many nonsense things to Angel. Was it actually to speed up her digestion of the potion? Because she hadn't experienced enough to play the role of the "painful" witch when she was with me? I wonder how she digested the potion in another timeline...

Klein's mind was full of thoughts, and he only calmed down when Gray continued to speak.

"In addition, a big problem for the 'person in the mirror' is that the success rate of taking potions to advance is only half of that of the original body. This causes her to be on the verge of losing control every time she advances, and she can only rely on external forces for assistance... Fortunately, every time she advances, there is a certain existence to protect her, or she is 'lucky' and passes the ceremony by chance.

"Also, although her body was formed by Cole Granger's promotion to a 'witch', she became the 'Mirror Person'. In the eyes of the original creator in the mirror, she is exactly the pure female witch that He needs. Therefore, Amanesis needs to use his own 'secret' authority to cooperate with Him to use the 'fool's' unique 'fooling' ability to cover up. Moreover, this method needs to be re-arranged after each death."

So after she died at the hands of Ince Zangwill for the first time, she was immediately taken to the temple by Arianna and obtained the "Secret Holy Emblem". The second time, she died in front of the goddess' divine vessel... Klein suddenly realized, and at the same time understood why Chick didn't realize that Angel was the "person in the mirror" when he dragged her into the mirror world, but instead mistook her for the real person.

In front of the gods who dominate the "secret" authority and can use part of the power of "the Fool", even the ruler of the mirror world cannot see through these arrangements.

It was not until the "real body" appeared in front of Chick that he discovered the abnormality, but by then, the plan spanning two timelines had come to an end, and the fall of the "Original Witch" was inevitable.

While he was thinking, Gray continued to talk:

"As for the other arrangements that Adam and the goddess made in secret, I'm not too sure, but a few drops of Angel's blood fell into the hands of the 'True Creator' Grisha, which helped Him understand certain facts with the help of the corresponding authority, and ultimately gained an advantage in the fight for the first 'blasphemous slate'. Adam did not stop everything that '0-08' did in Tingen, the great smog in Backlund, even what George III did, and the outbreak of the war, and he even continued to fuel it...

"Oh, I can imagine what He would say: these are all necessary sacrifices.

"So in this world, it should be a good thing that the more humane 'True Creator' takes the lead after the fusion. This is also the fact deduced by 'God' Adam Grisha. It is difficult for Him with more divinity to gain an advantage in the confrontation with the pillar.

"And you...during your promotion to The Fool, it was extremely important which copy of the Servant of Mysteries you contained first. The future you obtained the Curtain first and did not kill the Dark Wolf Kotar. This resulted in you using the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 2 and Sequence 1 that had never been contained before, and only had the Beyonder characteristics of the Will of the Supreme and the spiritual imprint. In addition, Amon attacked you when you contained the Uniqueness, so you had no choice but to be promoted to Sequence 0 in an emergency. Your condition is very poor..."

All of this is the result of changes brought about by Angel Grey, which gave me hope of fighting the end of the world in this timeline... Klein pursed his lips and looked at Grey, who was chattering nonstop. He suddenly felt that his life was not easy for him either.

He traveled alone from the "future" to the "past", and his memory was sealed. He stayed alone in the "City of Disaster" until his memory slowly recovered, and he couldn't tell anyone about it... He took a deep breath, carefully suppressed the sympathy that surged in his heart, and when the other party finally stopped, he asked:
"'True Creator' took the lead in the fusion as you wished, and 'Original Witch' Chike also fell without causing any bigger problems. This is all good... But, what is Angel's current condition?"

Angel Gray raised his eyebrows and looked at Klein. After a moment, he replied:
"The 'secret holy symbol' on her wrist is a safeguard from Amanesis, which puts her into a deep sleep when the Prime Creator in the mirror may awaken in her body to prevent the situation from getting worse.

“Your Angel, now and in the future, is trapped in a dream.

"There, she will confront the consciousness of the Prime Creator.

"Our most important task next is to wake her up and let her take the lead in the confrontation."

PS: Because the reading experience would be reduced if this plot is divided into chapters, it is combined into two chapters and will not be available at night.

(End of this chapter)