Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1312 I'll Help You (Two in One)

Targeted by the "knowledge" that was originally chasing Angel, the two Sequence 2 "sages" also hesitated for a moment. Even though they had already become angels, they could not forget the pain and fear of being influenced by the whispers of the "hidden sage" and being chased by endless knowledge.

Taking advantage of the moment when Toriopo and Letitia's expressions and mentalities changed, Angel briefly entered and exited the mirror world, and almost flashed in front of the "Dragon Scholar", slashing at the opponent with the black flame daggers in both hands.

The black flames carrying the power of "Chaos" frightened Letitia to death. She immediately woke up from her panic about "knowledge". Several fragments obtained by the power of "prophecy" flashed through her mind. Some of them showed that He was cut in half with both his body and mask, or that His whole body was burning with flames of destruction that annihilated spirits and destroyed information. All of them showed that He was doomed to die.

But as a "sage", He still caught a glimmer of hope in the prophetic information, and without hesitation, He made the surface of the mask on His face light up, and His two eye sockets flashed with dark light.

This is a Level 0 Sealed Artifact obtained by the Moss Ascetic Order during the chaotic period of the Four Emperors' War. Named "Solomon's Mask", it is a mask cast in black gold, with the left and right sides extremely unequal, one eye socket larger than the other, the nose bridge half collapsed and half straight, the cheekbones and chin in a messy shape, and filled with unspeakable madness.

With the help of the seal, Letitia "enlarged" the distance between "Him" and Angel, making the latter's unstoppable attack fail. She used this moment to enter the complete form of the mythical creature.

His body expanded rapidly, tearing his originally loose robe. His neck stretched out, his two palms turned into sharp claws, his lower limbs bent back, lifting his body up, his coccyx extended out of his body, becoming a tail covered with joints and barbs, and his entire body was covered with dense red scales.

His mythical creature form is actually a giant dragon!
This is the special power of the Mystic Angels. With their control and utilization of information, they can add appropriate mystical knowledge to themselves in the form of information without destroying their own balance, thereby completing the transformation of the body or fixating a certain spell.

The "dragon scholar" Letitia, through hundreds of years of research on dragons, has gradually transformed herself into a dragon with a body and vitality far superior to those of other creatures.

At this time, the only part of His head that still retained its human form was still wearing the "Mask of Solomon", with two eyes with vertical pupils appearing behind a large and a small hole. In the gaps between all the scales on His body, eyeballs without eyelashes and equally cold appeared, looking at Angel whose distance from Him had been "magnified".

Then the giant dragon Letitia opened its bloody mouth and spewed out dragon breath, which, together with the many spells cast by these eyeballs, turned into complex information, passed through the "knowledge" that was still chasing after it, and fell on Angel.

Once hit by this "information flood", even if the enemy's body can withstand it, the brain will not be able to process so much information and will immediately fall into a state of overload.

But the next second, these condensed torrents of information returned along the original path like light reflected by a mirror, and almost hit Letitia herself.

Mirror reflection... The "Dragon Scholar" had seen many high-level witches in his long life and was not unfamiliar with the abilities of this path. He immediately changed the concentrated attack to scattering, allowing the cold eyes under the countless scales on his body to spread the "torrent of knowledge" outward again, turning himself into a sun with countless radiating lines in an abstract painting.

Some of these fine "rays" hit Toriopo beside Him, some went into the depths of the endless wilderness, but some fell on Angel, who had adjusted his position with the help of the mirror illusion.

Suddenly, a lot of strange knowledge appeared in Angel's mind.

The distribution of ancient dragons in the Second Era, determining the age of dragons based on their tail vertebrae, the possibility of recreating this creature using the remaining biological information... Useful and useless information flashed through Angel's mind, causing his brain, which was focused on the battle, to feel a little hot.

Fortunately, when fighting with Zaratul, Angel had been instilled with useless knowledge by the "Knowledge Emperor" Roselle, so she was prepared for this kind of attack. She immediately emptied her mind and executed the tactics that had been decided long ago. She took the initiative to leave a stand with a dull expression as if it was overwhelmed by knowledge, and she appeared in front of the "Dragon Scholar" Letia again.

Then, she adjusted her position and took advantage of the moment when the opponent "enlarged" the distance to come behind the dragon.

Get rid of one... She muttered to herself, and swung the Blade of Destruction in her hand towards the fragile neck of the artificial dragon with rose-red scales, about to cut "Him" and the mask in half.

In a flash, Toriopo, the leader of the "Moss Ascetic Order" who had been deliberately ignored by Angel and was planning to save his life for the time being, raised the silver water bottle in his hand.

The densely packed bumps that originally only grew on its surface have now appeared on the back of the hand and arm of the black-robed old man holding the bottle, and more black and white eyeballs have grown out of the bumps.

And from the bottle mouth that was curved like a gooseneck, a golden, hot, pure sunlight gushed out, completely illuminating the dark, dead wilderness, and holding up a miniature sun that was slowly rising.

Angel's blade of destruction that was slashing towards Letitia stopped instantly. He felt as if he had arrived on the surface of the sun. The scorching air surrounded his entire body, and the skin facing the miniature sun felt like it was burning with pain.

Was it the purification of the Darkless One? No, compared to this sun, even if a Sequence 4 Darkless One completely ignited himself, he would only be a candle flame under the blazing sun. Even the Light Chaser Viev, whom Angel had fought on the battlefield, did not have such pure white, blazing sunlight.

Pure white... "Mysterious reappearance"... Could it be the reappearance of the secret history after the "Banquet of Betrayal" when the pure white angel devoured the remains of the ancient sun god and became a god on the spot... In this light that makes it hard to open your eyes and makes you feel that all the dark sides of your heart are purified, Angel has some guesses.

Of course, even a level 0 seal could not reproduce the power of the gods. The purifying and scorching sunlight ignited another mirror substitute of Angel, and her real body appeared in the abdomen of the giant dragon Letitia, avoiding the miniature sun in the sky.

It was not until then that Angel noticed that the dragon scholar also revealed a distorted and painful expression in the sunlight. The countless "Eyes of Mystery" on his body melted in the heat wave, and the originally rose-red scales on his back turned charred, like half a burnt Oravi lobster.

The most important thing is that a shadow that made Angel feel cold and weird appeared on His abdomen. This dragon-shaped shadow seemed not to be afraid of the purifying sunlight at all. It instantly wrapped around Letitia's two legs with bent joints, and climbed up like a sticky and slippery liquid, trying to erode His insides.

This made Letitia, who had already noticed Angel's figure appearing under her belly, be bound to the spot by the shadow and was stunned for a moment.

The dark side of the light? How could such an evil shadow appear under such scorching sunlight? Could it be that He was too deeply corrupted by the Hidden Sage? But this was a bit like the corrupt power of the Hanged Man path... Angel had several thoughts in her mind, but she did not forget her main purpose. She raised both hands at the same time, and a pair of daggers condensed by the flames of destruction directly pierced into the scale-covered abdomen of the Dragon Scholar.

The power of "Chaos" penetrated deep into Letitia's body, causing burns on her back, a hole in her abdomen, and her feet bound by shadows. The concept of "ending everything" prevented her from even escaping from this place by incarnating as an information stream, and she was pierced through by the black flames of destruction in an instant.

Sticky black flames flowed out from every part of the dragon's body, and this transformed body that could live for another entire era lost all vitality.

Angel kicked the limp Letitia away, and then pulled the miniature sun that was still hanging in the sky and illuminating the surrounding wilderness into the mirror world, ending the purification that made her quite uncomfortable as she had a lot of dark sides in her heart.

The only light in the wilderness disappeared in an instant, but layers of glass cracks remained in the sky, as if the sun, unwilling to enter the mirror world, was trying to shed its last rays of light into reality.

If I had just been promoted to Sequence 1 through a trick and had not yet stabilized my own state, I might lose control in this purification. It depends on whether Toriopo, who is holding the Sealed Artifact, can catch up with me, and whether he has a chance to survive my instant counterattack... Thinking of this, Angel looked at the president of the Ascetic Order who was holding the silver water bottle.

The latter had just been shocked physically and mentally at the "mysterious reappearance" of the Eternal Sun Deification Ceremony. The black robe he was wearing had turned to ashes in the high temperature, and his upper body was naked, but it was not a human body, but a collection of various concrete or abstract things, including ferocious wolf heads, asymmetrical symbols, and clusters of maggots... These things symbolizing information from different sources had melted a lot, and even the eyes on the wolf head became clearer in the purification.

This guy wouldn't think I'm a "witch", so he should be hurt the most after this purification... Angel thought, and no longer tried to hold back. His eyes reflected the strange figure of Toriopo, and he was going to take advantage of His weakness after being "purified" and destroy the opponent's body.

But this "sage" immediately woke up, and the moment Angel locked onto him, he transformed into a pure stream of information, and fled into the depths of the endless wilderness with the precious seal.

He didn't even dare to cast a spell to attack Angel.

It just so happens that I was originally planning to “let Him go” like this…Angel smiled as he entered the mirror world, following the stream of information that was as brilliant as a rainbow but had hidden shadows inside.

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Above the gray fog, Klein was paying attention to the situations on multiple battlefields.

As expected, his secret town was attacked, and the attacker was Zaratul who had issued the "surrender declaration" instead of Amon who had been missing. So, it is very likely that Zaratul surrendered to the Outer Gods. He surrendered at that time just to draw my attention to Adam... Fortunately, I left the most powerful lady "Warrior" in the town. She can completely deal with Zaratul's projection and even have a chance to chase the real body. Even if Adam and Amon come in person, they can retreat to the "City of Disaster" and at most give up Yharnam...

Klein simply glanced at the crimson star belonging to the Chariot and stopped paying attention to the battle.

He roughly scanned the stars of the other Tarot Club members and found that everything was normal in the New Silver City where "Sun" Derrick was, but there was some unrest in Bayam, which was protected by "The Hanged Man". It seemed that the followers of the Outer Gods were carrying out terrorist attacks, but no high-ranking Beyonders appeared.

Except for them and Cattleya, the "Hermit" who had just escaped from the "Utopia", the remaining members of the Tarot Club gathered in the safety of Backlund, so as not to become prey and shake the anchor of "The Fool".

So far, everything is going as planned. The "Mysterious Queen" also arrived in time and even brought her brother Bonois Gustave, which prevented me from having to rescue her and expose my existence... The only problem is the trace of the "Hidden Sage", which requires the efforts of Angel...

Klein tapped the long bronze table rhythmically with his fingers, making a sound that only he could hear, calming his somewhat anxious heart.

His gaze lingered for a long time on the star representing the "Queen". His sight penetrated the gray fog and the snow-swept North Sea, entered the dark side of the "Utopia", and landed in the boundless wilderness.

A higher perspective makes all secrets visible. He soon discovered that Toriopo, the president of the Ascetic Order, was running away and occasionally splitting out some information to block the pursuers behind him. He was running towards a collapsed location in the wilderness.

It was like a black hole leading to another world, filled with hazy fog, and even the true vision of "Source Castle" could not penetrate it.

Without the need for divination to confirm, Klein could be sure that it was the help given by the "Hidden Sage" to his believers. Only He who was named "Hidden" and possessed the corresponding authority could do this.

If he had not been waiting for this moment, with Angel containing two "Doomsday" characteristics and controlling the corresponding unique power, Toriopo would have followed his vice president Letitia a few minutes ago.

Seeing that the "Hidden Sage" finally took action, Klein no longer hesitated and quickly grabbed the "Witch" card on the long bronze table and infused it with a trace of spirituality.

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In the Trier Cathedral area, inside the Steam Church Cathedral, a small mirror that had been placed high up by Saint Bonois himself not long ago suddenly became dark and deep.

This caused countless steam pipes above the cathedral's dome to roar in unison, and the mist of water vapor almost covered the entire District 18.

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In a star realm filled with abstract concepts, distorted and chaotic, a space filled with hazy light, projecting human civilizations of different periods and technologies of different stages, a seemingly thin but actually extremely thick scroll slowly rises.

In front of it is a vaguely visible astral barrier, and outside it is enveloped by crimson moonlight like a tide. Behind it is the abstract concept of "Earth", like a small blue ball with a mottled surface and uncertain outline.

The scroll left the light and projection representing its own kingdom of God, and was about to fall to the coordinates just transmitted from the Church of the God of Steam in Trier.

Long before the candidate for "Destruction of the Scourge" used the secret ceremony to contact the Western Continent, "God of Steam" Yorgos Stiano had come into contact with the people of the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

Although communication across the barrier was difficult and it was hard to trust each other, they still reached a consensus on how to deal with the "Hidden Sage" contaminated by the Outer Gods.

With the help of the "Heavenly Master", the "God of Steam" obtained a little breath of the "Wild Knowledge" in the underground seal of Trier. This was not enough for Him to get close to the source material at this time and get used to and control this power in advance, but after it was digitized, it could be used to track down the "Hidden Sage" who had been deeply contaminated by the source material.

Of course, this also requires the "positioning" authority of the "Gate" path. Although the power of this path has fallen into the hands of "Blaster" Amon, the "Fool" can also do this with the help of the source.

The most important thing is that all of this cannot be done in advance and must be done in a very short time. Otherwise, the "Hidden Sage" will feel threatened and stay away from danger under the guidance of the prophecy, causing Him to lose this precious opportunity.

All kinds of thoughts turned into information lingering in the scroll. The "God of Steam" was about to project his power into the dark side of the "Utopia" to participate in the positioning of the hidden sage, when he was suddenly enveloped by a crimson light.

Outside the barrier, the blood moon grew bigger and rounder, and the crimson light became extremely dazzling, sprinkling across the starry sky and illuminating all abstract concepts, including the kingdom of God that symbolized the authority of "civilization" and "information."

That magnificent picture had to return to its original position, and together with the concepts of "darkness", "storm", and "scorching sun", it was placed on the inside of the barrier to resist the impact of the outer gods.

Although this kind of attack will not cause the barrier to break, it will undoubtedly bring about the end of the world earlier than expected. Moreover, the cracks in the barrier will allow the Outer Gods to infiltrate more of their own power into reality, grow stronger like a snowball, disrupt the situation, and pose a threat to the gods.

Moreover, the "God of Steam" discovered that it was not only the most powerful Old One, the "Fallen Mother Goddess", who attacked the barrier, but the two great beings, the "Super Star Lord" and the "Eternal Whisper", were also assisting in their own ways.

They actually united together briefly even after losing the "Uncertain Fog"!
The "God of Steam" understood everything after a little thought. To these two, the symbol of "Wild Knowledge" was exactly what they wanted to complete. At a time when the "Hidden Sage" was likely to fall, they were naturally willing to contribute their part to make it difficult for the barrier to give birth to the Old One that could accommodate this source of essence.

boom--

A star was pulled towards the earth by the "Super Star Master", causing the invisible barrier to emit an illusory creaking sound. Imperceptible cracks appeared everywhere, and crimson, iron-black, and mercury-colored forces penetrated into the interior of the barrier. However, under the influence of the abstract concept of "rambles", the gods were unable to extricate themselves and could only try their best to maintain the barrier.

At this moment, a giant figure appeared in the star realm. He wore a gorgeous cloak and black armor. His expression seemed to be distorted and unclear, but his blue eyes could still be vaguely recognized.

In the astral world full of abstract concepts, He is like an alien that doesn't fit in.

But several gazes expressing inquiry and doubt fell on the giant, and he quickly identified his identity.

"Black Emperor" Russell Gustav!

Looking at the crumbling barrier, the gods who were unable to escape, and the distorted faces clinging to the outside of the barrier and spying on the earth, Roselle laughed loudly, his eyes fixed on the scroll projecting scenes of civilization and technology.

Then, He stretched out His hands and walked forward steadily, instantly closing the cracks in the barrier and greatly relieving the pressure on the six gods who were struggling to hold on, as if He had returned to the time when seven gods were still jointly maintaining the barrier.

And this new deity can maintain his power without moving his kingdom into the astral plane.

Because the "Black Emperor" belongs to reality, and as long as the order He created still exists, the whole world is His kingdom of God!

With Roselle's support, the "God of Steam" was finally able to escape from the attack of the three Old Ones. A dim glimmer of light fell from the astral realm, passed through the cracks in the spiritual world that hid the "Utopia", and fell into the dark and boundless wilderness.

(End of this chapter)