Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1313 Scream (Two in One)

The dim light carrying a huge amount of information had just left the astral world and entered the spiritual world when it was captured by Klein, who had been prepared.

He did not try to intercept the light, but with the help of the "Source Castle", he used his "grafting" ability to integrate the positioning authority of the adjacent "gate" pathway into that information.

If the other party only accommodates the uniqueness of the "Hermit" path, even if this information is sent by the "God of Steam", it may not be easy to find the Angel King who can use the power of concealment to hide himself. However, the Hidden Sage is formed because the "Knowledge Wilderness" sealed in the Western Continent was polluted by the "Mother Nest" and thus activated. The relationship between him and the two source substances is very close. This brings him a higher status, but also makes it difficult for him to resist the influence of the source substance itself.

With the help of the heavenly master, the torrent of information mixed with various powers finally penetrated the astral world and the spiritual world, came to the depths of the dark side of the "utopia", and fell into the huge vortex.

In an instant, the vortex hole that was originally shrouded in mist and made it impossible to see the inside suddenly emitted a dazzling light, causing Toriopo, the president of the "Moss Ascetic Order" who was about to jump in and escape from this place with the help of the "concealment" power to get rid of pursuit, to freeze in place.

The scene deep in his mind that had predicted his successful escape from the terrifying witch behind him suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a series of tragic endings.

More information was hidden and not revealed until now? This caused my prophecy to be off... Is He using me as bait?

Toriopo immediately guessed part of the truth.

The next second, his brain became chaotic, all the ending scenes converged into one, and his fate also came to an end.

This moment of pause was enough for Angel, who was following behind, to lock onto this "sage", detonating the many contradictions and imbalances in his body, bringing him destruction from the inside out.

Black flames burst out from Toriobo's body, which was composed of ferocious wolf heads, strange symbols, twisted worms, etc., which symbolized the mixture of different powers, destroying his body, spirit, and the "information" that constituted his existence.

The silver revolver in his hand fell gently to the ground. The seal that had just emitted scorching sunlight to form a miniature sun was now extremely quiet, as if it was indifferent to the death of its owner.

Angel had no time to deal with the seal, and didn't even have time to confirm whether Toriopo was really dead. Instead, he immediately entered the vortex hole that was locked by the hazy light that fell from the sky and whose interior became clear.

This was originally just a safe exit deep in the dark side of Utopia, an escape route opened up by Toriopo with the help of the power of the "Hidden Sage". But now, with the cooperation of the "God of Steam" and the "Fool", it has been "grafted" to an unknown place with the help of the high-level connection of the source power.

As soon as Angel stepped into the whirlpool, he felt that the endless dark wilderness in his sight disappeared in an instant. Mountains rose from the ground, lava flowed on the top of the peaks, the ground was covered with cracks, and sea water poured in.

At this moment, she seemed to have returned to the doomsday place of the "City of Disaster" in the mirror.

Among these peaks and valleys, an illusory light composed of complex and diverse information was floating like a torrent. He had predicted the danger, but did not know where it would come from, and was busy hiding himself and the entire area.

Having just fought with two angels who could transmit information, Angel immediately understood that the light with a huge amount of information was the "Hidden Sage" he was looking for.

He has no real entity, but is composed entirely of information and concepts.

And it's not just him. This unknown land that is neither in reality nor in the spiritual world or the astral world is also made up of information. Therefore, the moment Angel appeared, a change occurred, from a completely dead and dark wilderness like the dark side of an utopia to an environment mixed with concepts such as "doomsday" and "destruction".

As a result, the many powers held by Angel were exposed to the "spying" of the hidden sage.

This is one of His important powers.

Of course, the Hidden Sage did not use the information and intelligence to launch a counterattack at this time. The arrangements He began to make the moment He predicted his own danger were essentially to allow Himself to successfully escape from this place, rather than to confront an Angel King who possessed the power of the Source.

What's more, since the other party could find this place, they must have been prepared for a fight, and the Hidden Sage had no confidence in defeating them.

As long as they destroyed the hiding place and created chaos, they could leave with other information backups, escape from the other party's lock using the source material, and continue to hide... The information flow that shuttled between the volcano and the rift like a torrent continued to converge into a complete idea. The hidden sage had just made a decision when he found that the unknown land seemed to be wrapped in black velvet, and a thin gray mist filled the air.

As the embodiment of occult knowledge, the Hidden Sage of the activated "Hidden" uniqueness immediately understood what was happening:
The "Fool", who has not yet ascended to the throne of God but has already mastered the power of the source, has trapped Him here by using the "prototype of the Kingdom of God" and the "seal" authority of the adjacent paths!

If a god from the "Gate" path came in person, he could use the power of sealing to trap even an "Old One" who did not resist fiercely for a short period of time. Klein's use of the power of Sefirah Castle was more than enough to trap and kill an Angel King.

This is also the reason why he did not transform into German Sparrow and enter Utopia with Angel to look for the hidden sage. This is not only to create the illusion that "the only enemy attacking the headquarters of the Moss Ascetic Order is the King of Angels", but also because the "Fool" hiding above the gray fog plays a much greater role than German.

Seeing that the retreat was blocked, the "Hidden Sage" did not panic too much. His informationized body, which had been coiled between the mountains and valleys like a giant snake, suddenly stopped and turned into a black shadow with countless black and white eyeballs on its surface.

The shadow was human-like, but had two heads and three arms, as if it was poorly imitating a real human. Countless eyeballs moved rapidly, condensing a large number of complex illusory symbols on the surface of the human-shaped shadow, stuffing countless useful and useless knowledge into Angel's brain, who had just escaped from the vortex and landed in an unknown place.

Potion formulas, ritual steps, methods of making talismans, postpartum care for supernatural creatures... the huge amount of diverse knowledge made Angel's figure stiffen instantly, and then exploded into a ball of dazzling fireworks from his head to his body.

Shards of glass fell like starlight, and Angel's real body appeared in the mirror world. Only then did he realize that although this unknown land existed in the mirror world, it was mapped in the form of information under the distant ocean and the sea water that flowed back into the valley. Although it still existed independently, it could be perceived and defended.

Sure enough, countless eyes on the humanoid Hidden Sage locked onto Angel again, and more knowledge chased her and was about to enter her brain.

At this moment, an ancient and melodious bell sounded from the sky of an unknown land.

when--

As the bell rang, the information flow that was originally approaching Angel at the speed of light became slow, as if it was stagnant in mid-air. The magma gushing from the mountains and the sea water pouring into the valley also became the frozen scenery in the portrait at this moment.

Only Angel and the Hidden Sage were outside the time stop and still had their own thinking and action abilities. The former immediately broke away from the sea and returned to reality. His deep purple eyes locked onto the Hidden Sage, who was covered in black and white eyeballs and was about to transform into an illusory torrent of information again.

The ocean, frozen in the cracks of time like frost, became like a mirror, reflecting His distorted figure.

Although the informationized battlefield makes the "world in the mirror" visible and loses its concealment, it also makes this world on the same level as reality, allowing the entire sea surface to be used as a mirror to lock on and curse the enemy.

This nature of the unknown land makes it easier for the hidden sage who is rich in mystical knowledge and has the power to "see the secrets" to deal with the enemy, but he is not the only one who can use it, Angel can do it too!
boom--

Black flames burst out from every eyeball of the human-shaped shadow with two heads and three arms. It twisted and deformed, and quickly returned to the state of illusory information torrent, but the inside of its giant snake-like body was still rolling with refusing to extinguish black flames. The complex and huge amount of information was also mixed with noise symbolizing "destruction" and "chaos".

For the first time, the Hidden Sage experienced the pain of being burned in flames firsthand, rather than just hearing about it.

His body quickly faded away, and countless information was about to disperse and leave, clearing away the erroneous information in the body at the same time. However, a vortex composed of liquids of all colors suddenly appeared inside the giant snake's body. It was only a point at first, but quickly absorbed the surrounding information to expand its own existence, and soon formed a huge hole that almost cut the snake's body in half.

The surrounding information was attracted by it, collapsed and reaggregated from a separated state, and then was completely swallowed and destroyed by the vortex. The torrent of information that originally illuminated the surroundings was annihilated in an instant. A little hazy light and crimson fragments sprayed out and were absorbed again. In the end, only a black vortex floating in the air was left, which was slowly dissipating.

That was the manifestation of the power of "Chaos", a disaster and doomsday created by Angel using the internal imbalance that occurred when the Hidden Sage was burned.

But as the vortex dissipated, the extraordinary characteristics and corresponding uniqueness that constituted the "Hidden Sage" did not appear.

He has not really fallen yet... Angel immediately used the mirror world that was spread throughout the unknown land and was informationized as sea water to look for the other party's figure, and soon found the illusory light that suddenly appeared among the mountains and magma.

The latter replicated itself almost instantly, generating new information and spreading into an illusory light that looked like a giant snake.

Information duplication... Is this how the Hidden Sage is resurrected? As long as there is a backup, killing the original body is meaningless... There shouldn't be too many such backups, otherwise the Hidden Sage himself would be invincible and wouldn't need to hide at all... As soon as this thought came to Angel's mind, it was washed away by all kinds of complicated and useless knowledge. The figure next to the newly born Hidden Sage who flashed in the mirror world that looked like the ocean also froze in place.

This time, the Hidden Sage did not directly use knowledge to instill knowledge into the opponent's brain, but changed his battle strategy. The countless eyeballs that re-condensed on the surface of his body once again highlighted illusory symbols, but they were not complex shapes containing various knowledge, but two extremely simple numbers:

0 and 1.

In the knowledge system of the Moss Ascetic Order, any number has spirituality and independent symbolic meaning, and these two numbers are the most special. "0" represents the chaotic unknown, which is before everything happens, and "1" represents the beginning and the beginning, symbolizing the Creator.

The 0s and 1s in those eyeballs were connected end to end, constantly changing with each other, rapidly replicating and spreading, and reflected on everything they saw.

This includes the unknown land itself, the gray fog and the "Kingdom of God" that block the area, and of course Angel, who is unable to move under the onslaught of knowledge.

In her blank eyes, on her fair skin, and even on the surface of her long skirt made of black flames, tiny worms kept crawling and wriggling. Upon closer inspection, these worms were made up of the numbers 0 and 1. Under the control of the "Hidden Sage", all the "1"s on Angel's body were rapidly turning into "0". Chaos and the unknown took over, causing her body, which had just been separated from the ocean of knowledge, to collapse and turn into tiny starlight.

Not only her, but also the countless mirrors representing Angel's mirror self deposited under the sea surface were shattered and turned into nothingness in the chaos.

By utilizing the information transmission between the original body and the mirror image, the Hidden Sage destroyed all of Angel's mirror doubles in the blocked area at once!

This certainly couldn't really kill an Angel King of the Witch Path, but by the time the other party was resurrected from his mirror self that was isolated from all mystical connections and located in a secret and safe place, the Hidden Sage would have already left here and hidden somewhere that no one could find him.

A hint of "pride" appeared in the new torrent of information. The hidden sage quickly gathered his thoughts and continued to drive the spiritual numbers on the gray fog that spread across the surface of the unknown land, changing "1" to "0", preparing to completely destroy the seal and escape from this place.

But before his black and white eyeballs could continue to move, ripples appeared on the surface of the sea below, and a graceful figure with fluttering black skirt floated out and came in front of the hidden sage again.

Angel was resurrected in the mirror.

For the witch who has mastered uniqueness, the entire mirror world is the basis for her resurrection. It is impossible to truly kill her without destroying the mirror world.

The hidden sage who was proficient in mystical knowledge subconsciously ignored this point due to the influence of some force. He did not realize it until the new Angel appeared in front of him. His eyeballs kept turning and he felt frustrated.

He couldn't fight or escape, the only thing he could do now was to commit suicide, destroy his current body, activate his uniqueness and extraordinary characteristics in the backup information, and be reborn somewhere else.

But this must be done secretly and naturally, otherwise there is a high probability that the Fool who is proficient in "positioning" will track it down and dig out more hidden information, and it will have to commit suicide to escape. If multiple copies of information are backed up and activated in a short period of time, it may cause information entropy to increase and errors. Even the uniqueness of activation cannot avoid this law.

Once He reaches that point, He will be able to destroy Himself without the need for an enemy to attack Him.

With this in mind, the Hidden Sage immediately locked onto the newly appeared Angel, with countless "0"s and "1"s all over his body. At the same time, he also tried to change the environment of the unknown land, making the sea deeper and narrower, and filling the sky with volcanic ash and haze to reduce the chance of his reflection on the "sea surface".

At the same time, He continued to secretly drive the "1" on the gray fog barrier to change to "0", preparing to destroy the seal at the critical moment, then "die" reasonably, and be reborn from the backup information.

Crash—Angel once again turned into star fragments all over the sky. His mirror self walked out of the mirror world, his eyes locked on the Hidden Sage, ready to trigger the increasing "errors" within Him and bring about his doom.

At this moment, she realized that she had been secretly contaminated.

This comes from the knowledge that the hidden sage has instilled many times and the information mixed in the spiritual attacks. It represents the authority of "rebirth" and is undoubtedly the power of the "Fallen Mother Goddess".

Sure enough, the "Hidden Sage" was activated on the surface because the mother nest polluted the wilderness of knowledge, but in fact it had been controlled by the outer gods. No wonder the fallen mother goddess outside the barrier would try to launch an attack, trying to suppress the gods and save this subordinate... Angel understood in his heart, cursed himself, let his body be destroyed again, and then resurrected from the mirror world.

With the power of the "City of Disaster", she used it to clear the pollution in her body that had not yet spread.

If it were an ordinary angel, or even a Sequence 1 archangel, without the protection of the gods and the power of the source, it would have been secretly contaminated by now, and would have blossomed and borne fruit at a critical moment, posing a huge threat, such as the unfortunate Roselle and Bethel Abraham... She muttered to herself, and once again locked onto the fleeing Hidden Sage, completely destroying this piece of information.

……

Above the gray fog, Klein was concentrating on observing the battle between Angel and the Hidden Sage in the unknown land.

He had long discovered that the "mysterious realm" he had set up was printed with countless "0"s. It seemed stable, but in fact it was on the verge of collapse. However, he did not try to reinforce it, but patiently waited for the hidden sage to escape the seal.

I pretend not to know, He pretends not to know, and I pretend not to know... Klein smiled, and joked in his heart to calm his anxious state of mind. In his hand, he stroked the translucent mask engraved with the "Fool" mark. It was the uniqueness that he had obtained from the Goddess of Night a long time ago, but had never been able to accept.

With its help, Klein can truly master the power of "The Fool", including the most important "Fool".

This includes the fog of history, historical projections, fate, change and various hidden forces, and also symbolizes "blindness and stupidity". Simply put, it can make the enemy become mentally retarded, ignore the existence of certain facts, and do things that are not in line with their IQ.

It turns out that "Fool" does not refer to this path itself, but is a simple symbol of power that turns the other party into a fool... Klein, who has recently tried to review English with Angel, made a homophonic joke and cast his eyes again on the crimson star representing Angel. He finally discovered that the gray fog seal that had been in danger for a long time collapsed under the efforts of the hidden sage. The gray fog and the velvet black curtain curled up together, erupting a terrifying storm. The unknown land that was originally isolated from the outside world finally returned to reality.

The torrent of information that had already contained many "errors" in multiple resurrections stopped resisting without any hesitation and turned into complicated information in the "chaos" that followed Angel.

Strands of fragmented information spread out in a way that was imperceptible to normal people, and rushed to hidden backup locations around the world. As long as any strand of information arrived, the "Hidden Sage" would be reborn again.

Amid the disturbance of the storm that destroyed the seal, He did not have to worry about being located by The Fool. He could hide himself and wait for the next opportunity, the day when the barrier was broken and the Great Mother descended.

But could it be that... everything is going a little too smoothly?
At the moment when his body had been destroyed by "chaos", the "deception" suffered by the Hidden Sage finally disappeared, making him realize that something was wrong.

At this moment, in the "perfect place" in the star realm that constantly projects the history and picture of human civilization, a hazy light different from the previous one flashed. In this kingdom of God, cooperating with other gods to support the barrier and resist the attacks of foreign gods, the "Black Emperor" Roselle's eyes fixed, and he immediately turned back and looked towards a place on the blue planet.

He stretched out his black-armored arm forward, clenched his hand into a fist, and twisted his wrist lightly.

"distortion!"

The tremendous power from the astral world instantly came to reality and distorted a certain behavior.

The body of the "Hidden Sage" has been annihilated, and he is running towards the backup after his consciousness and spirit have been digitized. He is surprised to find that although the distance between himself and those backups is shortening, he is not moving towards them, but they are moving towards him!

It was a conceptual rather than physical proximity, which meant that hundreds of copies of Him hidden around the world were connected to Him at that moment.

A connection was established... This most powerful secret peeper, the King of Angels who was extremely proficient in mysticism, seemed to have understood something and could not help but "look" into the depths of the astral realm.

The huge black-armored figure shrouded in mist looked back and sent a message with thoughts and symbols:
"This is the price you pay for 'harassing' Bernadette."

Do not!
The informationized "Hidden Sage" tried his best to stop the "resurrection", but this process, once started, would not stop and could not be diverted by His will.

Over the North Sea, amidst the streams of information that were rapidly dispersing in different directions, came the desperate and fearful voice of the Hidden Sage:

“I just want to pass on the knowledge to her!

“Please let me go, I once helped you in my dream!
"I can talk too. I can become a god who protects the world!"

The overlapping information reached the minds of Roselle and Angel at the same time. The former smiled contemptuously, while the latter shook his head and responded softly:

"too late."

As she spoke, she detonated all the "errors" contained in the information flows that had not yet escaped within her visual range, destroying them completely from the inside out.

These errors stem from the multiple resurrections of the "Hidden Sage" in the unknown land, and from His ignorance after being fooled.

Under the power of "distortion", a reverse connection was established between Him who had not yet been resurrected and all the backup information. Angel's destruction of Him was equivalent to destroying all the backup information.

In the mountains of the northern and southern continents, at the source of rivers, on the uninhabited islands within the five seas, and in the depths of the ocean, one piece of backed-up information after another suffered the same "chaotic" power damage under the connection of mysticism. The information structure was destroyed, deleted, and quickly disappeared.

When all this was over, a scream that no one could hear spread over the North Sea, which was covered with fog and dark clouds.

"..."

That was the last message that the Hidden Sage sent to the world.

(End of this chapter)