Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1330 This is my path to becoming a god

Through several layers of ceilings, Zaratul could feel that the being standing in the hall of his own Dilan Castle was caught in a tug-of-war with the divinity within his body.

This was partly due to the induction between the two Sequence 1 Beyonders of the same path, as well as the aggregation effect that could not be ignored, but the most important reason was that one of the three "Mysterious Servant" characteristics that made up Klein originally belonged to Zaratul, and in order to fight against the influence of the "Prime Creator" and "Celestial Lord", Klein had never truly erased that part of the mental imprint.

This gave Zaratul the opportunity to sense Klein's current state. The guy who called himself "The Fool" obviously underestimated the impact of a pure Beyonder characteristic that had never been contained by anyone. Although he managed to regain his balance, it would take some time to truly get rid of his current state.

This is Zaratul's perfect opportunity.

This was not an instruction from the outer gods, but a spontaneous action of the consciousness of Zarathu hidden in the characteristic of "miracle worker".

He understood that as long as Klein, who was able to discover the information about "Orville" and "Dilan" that he had transmitted, stabilized his own state, he would definitely completely destroy the "mysterious realm" between the reality and the spiritual world, find out this characteristic, and cut off His final hope of resurrection.

Rather than waiting to die silently, it is better to fight to the death. The fact that He, Zaratul, has fallen to the point of relying on deceiving other fortune tellers to inherit the "Dylan" castle and using his own remaining characteristics to advance and resurrect does not mean that he does not have the courage to make one last fight!

Thoughts kept flashing through his mind. Zaratul opened the Vision of the Spirit Thread and found the only target that “He” could easily control in the castle hall, which was littered with puppet corpses and Beyonder characteristics:

Appears to be a secret doll of German Sparrow.

Instantly controlling a handful of spiritual threads and taking over control of this body, Zaratul exchanged places with it, entered the hall he had carefully arranged, and came before The Fool.

The enemy who had easily walked into the mist of history to block His Beyonder Characteristics from returning to His body was now stiff, with the middle line of the bridge of his nose as the dividing line, showing two different states on the left and right:
On the right is a man with human facial features, flesh still intact, wearing a windbreaker and a top hat. However, his appearance is not fixed. Sometimes his black hair is mixed with silver threads, and there are fine wrinkles around his blue eyes. Sometimes he looks gentle, with obvious bags under his eyes and some fat on his chin.

The one on the left had completely lost its human appearance, its face was illusory and transparent, and its body seemed to be made up of countless twisted worms, with slippery and evil tentacles extending around it.

Even Zaratul, looking at this half of the body, felt that his thinking was a little slow and his spirit became sluggish, as if his intelligence had declined to a certain extent.

“He” quickly shifted his gaze and looked above the spliced-together body, locking onto the spiritual threads that curled back into Klein’s body.

At this time, these black lines have shown signs of loosening. The parts that were wrapped back into the body lost their protection and floated outwards, completely exposed to Zaratul's sight.

Without hesitation, Zaratul grasped these spiritual threads that represented his hope of survival, a puppet of an Angel King, and the source of the "Source Castle", and began to seize control of them.

In an instant, under the impact of the spiritual imprints of "Prime Creator" and "Tianzun", Klein's thoughts were extremely confused and almost split into two personalities. He realized that the thread of his spiritual body was no longer under his control, and noticed that the secret puppet in front of him began to prepare to control the master's body in turn.

This is... my puppet was stolen? Was it Amon who did it? No, if He had the chance, He would definitely parasitize me directly, not my puppet... The only other person who could do this was Zaratul. When did He resurrect? When my puppet was controlled by Him, I didn't even notice anything unusual? Bubbles kept appearing in Klein's mind, and thoughts flashed through his mind one after another, but he could never form a specific thought, as if he was "fooled" by some kind of power.

There is no doubt that this interference comes from "Tianzun".

After realizing this, Klein began to relax his resistance to the power of "Tianzun" and instead pulled the spiritual threads that were constantly floating toward the secret puppets in front of him, trying to wrap them back into his body to form a closed loop that was difficult to control.

At the same time, his somewhat stagnant mind began to look for a solution to the current trouble.

Give up this promotion and return to Sefirah Castle? There is a high probability that I will lose control, but at least I can keep the "Mysterious Servant" characteristic in my body. After that, I can commit suicide or let Angel kill me, and I can be resurrected to get rid of most of the unfavorable conditions... But the promotion ceremony has already begun, and the "Mysterious Realm" that isolates most influences has spontaneously formed around me. It will be difficult for me to transform my flesh and blood body into a spirit body and enter the gray fog within a few seconds...

Where's Angel Gray? Although she can't detect the situation in Dilan Castle, if I don't succeed in the promotion in a short period of time, she should be able to find something unusual and come in to check... This is not a change that can occur in a few seconds, and Zaratul only needs a few seconds at most to control my spirit line...

Klein denied his ideas before they were implemented one by one. The image on his body that was barely maintained on one side gradually changed. The part representing "Tianzun" eroded to the right, occupying almost four-fifths of the area, causing the image of Klein belonging to himself and the several personalities in his memory to be compressed to the edge of his body, which was in danger. This change was noticed by Zaratul. He sneered, and while speeding up the control of the spirit line to resist Klein's self-rescue behavior, he used the connection between the "miracle master" characteristic in his body and the "secret servant" that Klein had taken in to activate the mental imprint formed by his strong emotions before his death.

Originally, Klein was using the remaining spirit and consciousness in the two copies of Sequence 1 characteristics of Antigonus and Zaratul to fight against the "Prime Creator" and "Celestial Lord", letting the two entangle each other while he had the spare energy to slowly accommodate the third Sequence 1 characteristic. Zaratul's actions undoubtedly caused a traitor to appear in this part of his power, and the balance was immediately broken. The consciousness of Celestial Lord, which was in urgent need of resurrection, pounced on Klein like a storm, forcing him to give up the action of controlling the spirit line and use all his strength to guide the image formed by his own anchor to resist the influence of this pillar.

But even so, without the help of "Zaratul", he could hardly restore the balance that he had barely achieved. Less than one-fifth of his "human" image was still being eroded by the translucent twisted worms around him, and he was about to turn into a cloaked figure without a face.

Seeing this, Zaratul released the influence of his "Secret Servant" on himself, allowing the internal mental imprint to instinctively continue to fight against the "Celestial Lord" consciousness, giving Klein a little help.

After all, it was not Zaratul’s purpose to turn the “Fool” in front of him into a true Celestial Lord. Once the latter revived, even if he only had a Sequence 1 characteristic, Zaratul would not be able to deal with him. And if the “Fool” lost control and died, a miracle would occur, and the Beyonder characteristic would return to a body in the mist of history, which would be impossible to stop with His current strength.

He glanced at Klein, who was gradually regaining his balance due to his "help" and whose human face was gradually increasing, and grasped all of his spiritual threads in his hands.

Klein, whose expression was tense and body was stiff, relaxed as if he had breathed a sigh of relief. He no longer continued to fight against "Tianzun". At the same time, Tianzun's consciousness seemed to no longer be aggressive and was quickly suppressed by the part belonging to Zaratul and Antigonus. The image of a human with black hair, brown eyes, and a bit of bookish air covered the half formed by the worm, completely returning to its original state.

Then, Klein the Fool took off his hat and threw it aside, took off his windbreaker, grabbed an ancient cloak from the void beside him, put it on, and raised the hood.

The face under his hat brim also changed. Wrinkles gradually appeared on his young skin, white beard grew on his smooth chin, and his brown pupils became dark and dull, turning into pure black.

He, no, He looked at the "German" secret doll in front of him that was still grasping the spirit thread, moved his limbs, confirmed that he truly had a flesh and blood body, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

Being able to turn Klein, who was about to become a true "Fool", into a secret puppet and "graft" his current state onto himself, making himself an Angel King with three copies of Sequence 1 characteristics, was completely beyond Zaratul's initial expectations.

His original goal was just to take back his share of the “Secret Servant”, revive and become a Sequence 1. If he failed to do so, causing the opponent’s advancement to be thwarted, his state to be unstable, and unable to interfere with his resurrection would be a suboptimal result.

If neither goal can be achieved, it is acceptable to use these few minutes of "miracle" to escape from Dilan Castle and retain the characteristics of this Sequence 2.

However, he carefully maintained a balance in the confrontation between The Fool and The Celestial Lord, and ultimately turned the being who controlled the Source Castle and was about to become a god into a secret puppet. This was a reward that He had never dared to imagine.

The Celestial Lord should also know that if He tried to revive the moment I seized this body just now, it might lead to the death of the Fool, triggering a miraculous resurrection and causing Him to fail… This is also a great opportunity for me, an opportunity to ascend directly to the throne of God. Once I become the real Fool, other gods will have no choice but to acknowledge this fact. They still need me to lift the seal of the Western Continent, gain the opportunity to become the Old One, and resist the Outer Gods…

While thinking, Zaratul stretched out his somewhat dry palm, reached into the mist of history, and took out the uniqueness of "The Fool" that Klein had hidden inside.

As soon as this translucent mask returned to the present time, it exerted an irresistible attraction on Zaratul, making Him unable to help but put it on His face.

He did not resist this tendency to aggregate, but smiled as he watched the final puzzle piece that would become Sequence 0.

From his father, Zaratul learned the ritual of becoming a "fool" and has been thinking about how to fool fate, time or history.

The present moment is undoubtedly the best opportunity. This "Fool" has his own power, beliefs and legends, which are already widely known. Zaratul, who made the other party into a secret doll and used grafting to replace the other party, is also a "Fool" at this time. Fate will be fooled and deceived to some extent!

This is my path to becoming a god… He grasped the uniqueness of The Fool and put the mask on his face under his hood.

(End of this chapter)