Mystery: Lucky One

Almost there... Alice glanced at Klein. Although she couldn't see his reaction, she was also worried about going too far, so she denied what she had just said without hesitation:
"Actually, I was just teasing you, that's not what the gesture meant.

"Of course, it can't be said to be completely wrong... This is actually a provocative gesture, but someone did use it as a prayer gesture - His name is Medici, the red angel under the Creator's seat."

“……?” Klein looked at Alice hesitantly.

He was indeed relieved by Alice's change of heart, but when Alice pointed the finger at Medici, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

I wonder if Medici will know... Well, she is not afraid of the current Medici, so she can put that aside for now. Instead, I wonder if anyone who is related to Medici will...

As his thoughts turned, he raised his hand and patted Alice. Alice subconsciously closed her mouth and looked back at him. He turned to the high priest Nim and asked:
"I have some questions for you about this barrier."

Nim was not surprised. He calmed down and replied:
“That’s why I came here… A’dal and the others told me that you caused this barrier to react.

"This is something we have not done in the past 3,722 years..."

Klein nodded slightly without explaining. He just asked:

"When did you start trying to open this barrier? What did you gain?"

High Priest Nim said frankly:
“It was originally an oracle from the Lord, who told us to try to find a way through this fog while we were on guard.

"After the earth was cursed, we took this as our main direction in order to find hope, but we never gained anything substantial. No matter what method we used, this piece of solidified fog did not respond..."

Alice blinked.

The last time she came, she didn't ask too many questions about the barrier. The only information she knew was what Nim told her. After all, she was not unaware of the origin of the barrier.

However, it is understandable that they did not gain anything. After all, this is...

While Alice was thinking, High Priest Nim hesitated for a moment and added:

“It’s not that there’s no reaction at all, but it’s not the reaction we want.”

Ok?
Alice pricked up her ears, and Klein also perked up. He continued to ask:

"What was the reaction?"

High Priest Nim did not speak. He first glanced at Alice, who was rarely focused, and then turned to Merlin Hermes, took a deep breath and said:

“More than 1,730 years ago, the high priest at that time had an inspiration when faced with the cruel fact that Moon City had been trying for nearly 2,000 years without any results.

“He felt that he couldn’t simply treat this fog as a barrier that needed to be opened or a seal that needed to be broken, but rather as a great existence.

"He designed a name, prayers and corresponding symbols for this piece of fog, and held ceremonies here again and again, trying to communicate and pray."

This... this idea... Klein glanced at Alice in surprise, asking her what she thought.

This is indeed an extraordinary way of thinking. Alice raised her eyebrows in surprise, and then couldn't help laughing:

"You are all aware of this thing that is difficult to communicate with... Oh wait, this barrier doesn't seem to be aware either?

"Alas, but I have seen one whose first reaction was to design a name and a prayer... As for the corresponding symbols, he already knew them..."

Alice's expression was a little nostalgic. Klein silently withdrew his gaze. He thought he knew who Alice was talking about—most likely the source of her original name, Will Auceptin.

He shook his head and asked High Priest Nim for confirmation: "Did you have any reaction afterwards?"

Nim replied in the affirmative with a nasal voice, and then said:

"Once, the high priest changed the first sentence of the honorific name to 'Eternal Mist'. Then, during the following ceremony, he vaguely heard a series of sounds coming from the depths of the seismic energy at the end. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear them clearly and couldn't try to interpret the specific meaning.

"From then until now, we have held countless ceremonies, and we have found that not every time there is a response, and even if there is a response, it may not be so timely, so we need to wait patiently."

Alice's eyes lit up, and she looked at Klein and said, "There is a signal, but it's not very good!"

Klein understood what she meant. This was pretty much what he was thinking. He tried to ask more questions to infer the reason for the poor signal and find a way to enhance the signal:

“How many times will it take to succeed?”

"There is no pattern. Sometimes we succeed in one try, but sometimes we may not get any feedback even after a month," High Priest Nim sighed. "We have made many improvements, but none of them worked."

“Did you hear clearly what those voices said later?” Klein asked.

"No, maybe our sequence is not high enough, and our strength is not strong enough." Nim shook his head and glanced at Alice obscurely.

——In his opinion, among the people present, there would be no one who was at a higher level than Miss Destiny.

Klein also looked at Alice with a questioning look in his eyes. Alice hesitated for a moment and then replied:

"Let him perform the ceremony first to see the effect... there must be a reaction."

Klein had no objection. He thought the same thing, so he turned around and said:
"Can you perform the proper ritual again? I want to hear those voices."

Nim did not refuse. He replied: "Yes, but many materials are in Yuecheng. You will need to wait for a while."

This was not a problem for Klein. He thought about it and asked, "Have you ever used those materials?"

"Yes," Nim said, a little confused.

Klein nodded indifferently and said, "Then just do it. Tell me when was the last time you used those materials and where in the vicinity."

Although Nim was puzzled, he still answered the question truthfully. After listening to the answer, Klein nodded, walked a distance to the side, half closed his eyes, and sensed it quietly.

Alice looked at the people from Yuecheng next to her and made a "hush" gesture with her hand. Of course, this was unnecessary, because without her gesture, the people from Yuecheng would have held their breath and dared not say anything more.

They waited for four or five seconds, and Klein suddenly stretched out his right hand and slowly turned it towards the air in front of him.

In fact, Amon seems to be stealing things in this posture...

Alice shook her head, dispelling the image of the monocle in her mind, and looked at Klein's hand.

A stone altar then fell from nothingness into reality, with three candles made of oil and seven or eight kinds of spiritual materials placed on it. Nim, a Sequence 4 demigod, was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't believe his eyes.

——The altar, candles and spiritual materials were exactly the same as he remembered!
That's what he used!
This is the power that comes from history and time... In addition, this Fool should also have some authority over fate...

Nim looked at Alice again, combined his own knowledge, and made a preliminary inference based on the Fool's Messenger and Son of God.

At this time, Klein turned around and looked at the high priest and said:

“You can start now.

Nim took a deep breath quietly, and under the watchful eyes of a group of people behind him, he walked step by step to the altar and created a spiritual wall.

After taking a look at the symbols, logos and patterns engraved on the altar and confirming that there were no problems, he performed the ceremony with great skill according to the process that had been engraved in his memory.

At the end, he lowered his head and recited in a low voice:
“The everlasting mist;

“A barrier that solidifies time and space;

"An existence that embraces everything..."

Before the prayer was over, Klein had already focused his attention on the gray mist, hoping to hear a sound coming from deep inside.

Alice was similar, but relatively speaking, she was not as focused and still paid some attention to Nim.

It's a bit difficult to interfere with whether he can get a response...

Alice retracted her attention and quietly passed the information to Klein:

"I don't think it will work this time."

As expected, there was no response to Nim's prayer. Klein, who had been warned, was not surprised. He looked at Nim calmly and said:
"Again."

Nim did not resist. He kept trying until the projection of the altar disappeared, then he said carefully:
"If it doesn't work today, you can try again tomorrow. The longest time will not exceed two months."

Could it be that the ritual failed because of the perfunctory use of historical porous images?
Klein looked at Alice with a questioning look. Alice shook her head slightly and stared at the mist.
"Do not.

“He has succeeded.”

Klein suddenly became serious. He focused his thoughts and listened attentively.

Alice closed her eyes. Nim was not lying. In her ears, she could hear faint calls.

I can't hear clearly. I need to concentrate...

Alice blinked slightly, but ignored the overlapping prayers and tried to penetrate the gray mist.

——This is her purpose. Listening to the sound is Klein's business!
As the prayers echoed, the fog seemed to be shaking and rising. Unfortunately, the gray and white color was endless, and no matter how hard Alice tried, all she could see was fog.

After several attempts, Alice wanted to give up. She simply let her consciousness sink and stopped struggling.

Maybe this method still doesn't work... Um, wait?
When her consciousness fell to a certain level, there seemed to be a flash of light. Alice stopped suddenly, but it seemed too late. She had to try to use her consciousness to continue to shuttle through the gray mist, looking for the source of the light.

The second time, the third time, the fourth time...

The beginning is always the most difficult. After the first time, it seemed easier to capture that ray of light, but it just flashed by several times. Alice had no time to identify what it was and could only sense a throbbing feeling.

Well, very tempting...

Alice licked her lips instinctively. Even though she hadn't seen it, she guessed where the light came from.

That has something to do with the "Key of Light"... The "Lord of Mysteries" seems to have separated the Western Continent from the long river of destiny outside the Western Continent. The consciousness of the "Key of Light" is also sealed inside, and even if it is revived, it cannot escape from the Western Continent... He was able to come out, probably because of me.

I saw it when I was promoted to "Doom Mage"... I passed through a gray fog barrier, and the fog should be related to the barrier of the "Lord of Mysteries"... "Key of Light" relied on me to send out part of its power? It should still have consciousness... I just don't know how much consciousness it has.

The barrier contains remnants of the "Key of Light"... Was it intentional or unintentional? Never mind, it doesn't matter. If I want to do something, I must try to contact it... Can I really just ignore it? Avoiding a problem won't solve it, but it can delay it...

Forget it, He probably won’t give me that much time… If I wait until the new “Lord of Mysteries” is born, or the old “Lord of Mysteries” is resurrected, it will probably be too late for Him… Haha.

However, you can try other methods. There is no harm in trying them all...

Alice withdrew her attention thoughtfully and opened her eyes.

She became more and more determined to let Klein become the "mother". If Klein was just one of the options at first, now he is the only one, or in other words, the future "Lord of Mysteries".

There is no other reason, mainly because she saw that the "Lord of Mysteries" in the past had suppressed the "Key of Light" tightly, so she hoped that the "Lord of Mysteries" in the future could help her suppress the "Key of Light" again.

After all, if my guess is correct, there must be something wrong with the god-making ceremony... If there is no source of the same level to help, even if I manage to avoid the gaze of fate when I become a god, I will still be in danger later...

Alice sighed and opened her eyes to look at Klein. Klein seemed to have just regained his attention. After just one look, Alice frowned and began to whisper in front of the people of Moon City in their unique way:
"what happened?"

Klein exhaled. He still looked calm, at least on the outside. With a normal expression on his face, he turned around and said to Moon City High Priest Nim:

“I heard those voices clearly.”

"...What are they talking about?" Nim's gray eyes suddenly widened, and uncontrollable excitement appeared on his wrinkled face.

The reactions of other Yuecheng people were similar. Some were so serious that their bodies even showed obvious tremors.

This is a problem that has troubled the residents of Yuecheng for more than a thousand years. In their hearts, solving this problem has become a symbol of escape from their current situation!
Klein took a deep breath and said in a charlatan tone, "They are praying to our Lord."

Alice felt as if a heavy hammer had hit her forehead. She immediately understood the source of Klein's complicated emotions. Taking advantage of the fact that people from Moon City couldn't understand Chinese, she asked the spell that she had heard more than once:

"...Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun?"

Having watched Klein enter the "Source Castle", Alice knew that this was the last of the four spells and also the one that impressed her the most.

——Klein told her that this was the origin of the "yellow and black king who controls good luck." (End of this chapter)