Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1321 "Destined Madness"

Similar to the situation of the "Hidden Sage", by solving the "Original Moon" believers and Sua and Tolzna, the Outer God "Mother Tree of Desire" can lose most of its power within the barrier. In this matter, whether it is the Church of the Orthodox God, or the "True Creator" Grisha, and the "Error" Amon, their interests are consistent with Angel and Klein.

When the "evil god" Suea escaped from the North Sea, Bonois Gustav had left key "information" on him to track his location. This information, like a Trojan virus, could expose Suea's location at the critical moment, allowing Bonois to find him at any time.

Of course, the Outer Gods will definitely do their best to stop this. When Angel breaks into the "Utopia", in addition to the "Fallen Mother Goddess" with a vested interest, there are also the "Super Star Overlord" and "Eternal Whisper" cooperating in the attack barrier, forcing the gods of the Earth to guard the star realm and unable to withdraw to participate in the battle.

If the Bound God faces a similar threat, the Mother Tree of Desire may also be able to receive assistance from other Ancients.

Fortunately, Angel, the King of Angels, can still gain the upper hand against the believers of the Original Moon even without the help of the gods.

"I don't know where Adam... Grisha Adam and Amon are hiding. During the battle with the 'Hidden Sage', Roselle went to the astral realm to help maintain the barrier. The two true gods didn't show up either, as if they are no longer in this world..."

Angel frowned, his tone clearly filled with distress.

Klein forced a smile and guessed:

"Maybe he is plotting against me... The three true gods Storm, Wisdom, and Fiery Sun should be paying attention to the actions of 'True Creator' Grisha. After all, this concerns their vital interests. But Amon... No matter who wins between me and him, a 'Lord of Mysteries' will be born. This is a happy result for all the gods waiting for the source essence...

"Of course, they also have their own inclinations. The Goddess of Night has made a big bet on us and is completely on our side. The three 'all-knowing and all-powerful' gods will also stop Amon from seizing Sefirah Castle in order to prevent him from becoming the Lord of Mysteries and helping his father. The God of Steam should return the favor after hiding the Sage this time... In general, I have an advantage in external assistance, but my own strength is inferior to Amon, who is about to become a dual-path true god."

Listening to Klein's analysis, Angel nodded and added:

"If I were Amon, I would choose to challenge you directly when you are performing a ritual and trying to accommodate 'uniqueness'. No matter how much defense you have taken at that time, you must focus on the ritual itself. As a true god of the 'wrong' path, He is best at finding loopholes in the rules."

"This requires something to attract the attention of Him and the True Creator, so that they won't be able to stop me when I perform the ritual. Or, I can ask the goddess to provide help with her 'secret' authority," Klein tapped the table with his fingers and continued, "Regarding this, when we were dealing with the 'Hidden Sage' and the Outer Gods were attacking the barrier, some external forces infiltrated into reality..."

As the ruler of the spirit world, Klein, who controls the "Source Castle", sensed that some powerful and unfamiliar auras had entered the interior through the gaps in the barrier when the barrier was crumbling. Perhaps they had used the rituals of the evil god's believers around the world at that time to come to the interior of the earth in the form of "blessing" or "descent" and hide themselves.

Of course, even he was aware of it. The gods in the astral realm, half of the "Lord of the Astral Realm" Grisha Adam must have known about this matter. It's just that he didn't know whether they would send their angels to deal with it, or wait and see, and wait for the outer gods to invest more power before catching them all in one fell swoop.

After all, compared to local forces such as the "Hidden Sage" and the "Bound God" that have been contaminated by foreign gods, the power that enters the barrier in the form of gifts and advents truly belongs to the foreign gods. Once they are intercepted in the barrier, it will undoubtedly be a powerful blow to the foreign gods. It is completely worth it for the gods to devote some of their energy to solving these troubles.

"If that's the case, the great dragon scholar Letitia who escaped from the Utopia might also play a positive role. She has become an angel, but was contaminated by the hidden sage. She might even be a believer of the Outer Gods..."

Angel suggested, thinking of the "sage" who had returned from the dead and whose whereabouts were unknown.

“Well, the premise is that we can find Him,” Klein nodded. “Also, we can use Zaratul’s existence to attract Amon’s attention.”

Zaratul? Isn't He dead? You ate all His characteristics... Angel was stunned, and then he thought of a certain ability represented by "Miracle Master" and guessed:
“He is also resurrected?”

“Not necessarily, but at least there is a way to resurrect… After Zaratul’s death, his Beyonder characteristics should have returned to his spirit body in a certain historical fragment in the mist of history, and the spirit body of the Sequence 1 ‘Secret Servant’ is a flesh and blood body, which is equivalent to a complete resurrection… But I intercepted that characteristic in the mist of history and prevented the process, making it impossible for him to be resurrected. He could only die obediently.”

Klein explained patiently.

"During this process, I discovered that the 'Secret Servant' only contained the complete characteristics of Sequence 9 to Sequence 1, and Zaratul should have had an additional 'Miracle Master' like Antigonus."

Angel immediately thought of the still-alive "former Servant of Mysteries" Antigonus, and suddenly realized, "After we stole the Sequence 1 characteristics, Antigonus was able to continue to exist with the 'Miracle Master' characteristic. Zaratul should be able to do the same... He anticipated the risks of this operation and separated a Sequence 2 in advance as a means of resurrection?"

"That should be it," Klein nodded in agreement, "but it's definitely not a direct resurrection, otherwise it might have been affected by your chain attack. I guess He hid this 'miracle worker' in some way and made a lot of cover-ups. After His death, He guided a specific target to resurrect Him, similar to how Mr. Azik was guided by his own memories to resurrect the 'God of Death' Salinger."

"Those fortune tellers in the secret society?"

Klein hummed and analyzed:
"Unless He has blood relatives, the Beyonders of the Secret Order are undoubtedly the best resurrection vessels. As fortune tellers, they can contain high-level characteristics of the same path, and they are also sufficiently concealed that even if they become resurrection vessels, they will not be easily detected by others... In addition, I have also captured traces of the directional transmission of certain secret information in the spiritual world.

"'Orville' and 'Dylan', just these two words.

"Does it sound like the 'Honakis' and 'Fregera' I heard before?"

Like a place name? Zaratul controls the "Secret Society" and will most likely set up a resurrection backup in Intis, but it is definitely not a random location on the map. I can ask Glade Soran to find some clues. He is a "weather sorcerer" and is just right for dealing with Zaratul who has a secret puppet and a clone... Tsk, it's too difficult to completely kill a high-ranking fortune teller... Angel couldn't help but complain in his heart, looking at Klein with sharp eyes, making the latter feel uncomfortable all over, and he felt that the spiritual insects that made up his body were tumbling.

Was this how Mr. Door, Amon, and Antigonus felt when they faced the Blood Emperor Tudor? He muttered, shrank his neck in the gray mist, and continued:
"By the way, you mentioned before that there was a Level 0 Sealed Artifact you wanted me to see?"

His purpose of pulling Angel into the gray fog was certainly not to tease Leonard about his chance to become a "witch", but rather it was a request made by the other party.

After being reminded by him, Angel put away his dangerous eyes and took out a silver curved-necked water bottle. The surface of the bottle was covered with densely packed bumps, and on each bump there was a deep crack. Inside, countless black and white eyeballs were slowly turning.

Suddenly, all those eyeballs stopped at one angle and looked at Klein who was looking at him curiously. The latter immediately felt a large amount of useless knowledge turning into information flowing into his mind, but was blocked by the gray fog and scattered everywhere.

"It's called 'Destined Madness'. It's a sealed artifact left behind by one of the founding members of the Moss Ascetic Order after he lost control and died suddenly. It can continuously guide various kinds of knowledge to pursue their goals, and can also 'mysteriously recreate' certain dangerous and terrifying scenes."

Angel explained and handed the seal, which was not at peace even in the gray fog, to Klein. Klein took it, held it in his hands, looked at it carefully, and asked casually:
"What's wrong with it?"

"Of all the Level 0 Sealed Artifacts owned by the Witch Church, this is the only one I dare not leave in churches around the world." Angel stared at the strange eyeballs of "Destined Madness" and said, feeling complicated knowledge flowing through his mind, "This is not only because the method of sealing it is very difficult, but also because... a certain scene it reproduced makes me a little worried."

"The miniature sun?"

Klein recalled the "scene" that Angel used this seal to release when he was fighting with Toriopo, the leader of the Moss Ascetic Order, and the strange shadows under the holy, scorching sunlight.

He had speculated at the time that this scene was most likely created by the founding member of the Ascetic Order after he studied secret historical materials and glimpsed the truth of the "Feast of Betrayal". For the "Secret Peeper", the more secret the history, the more powerful the magic created.

The process by which the gods of the sun, storm, and wisdom shared the body of the "ancient sun god" and became gods on the spot is undoubtedly one of the most secretive knowledge in the world.

But the "Eternal Sun" should be the purest light, so how could it form a strange shadow visible to the naked eye? Could it be the power of the "Hanged Man" path? The scene that was reproduced was not the feast of betrayal, but the scene of the ancient sun god Grisha, who was the true god of both the "Sun" and the "Hanged Man" paths, suddenly appearing?
Thoughts kept popping up in his mind, and Klein also became a little curious about the origin and hidden secrets of this sealed object. He looked at Angel who was looking at him expectantly, rubbed his hands eagerly, mobilized the power of "Source Castle", and silently recited the content of the divination in his heart:
"The true source of power of this seal."

After getting ready, he leaned back in his chair and fell into a dream, and after a moment he opened his eyes with a strange look on his face.

"The secret held by this seal may give me an advantage in the battle for Sefirah Castle."

He looked at Angel and spoke carefully.

(End of this chapter)