Mystery: Lucky One

Alice was also confused.

Anyone would feel briefly confused when seeing a giant snake transform into a baby in front of them. Alice became even more confused, especially after figuring out the reason behind it.

Even Ouroboros stopped where he was, his eyes fixed on Will Auceptin for a long time.

As the only victim, Will Auceptin was naturally terrified. He remembered Alice's joy just now and the current scene, and subconsciously felt that these two people were teaming up to harm him.

But Will Auceptin quickly dispelled this speculation, because he felt that Amon had probably planned to do this when he stole this stage of his life.

At that time, Amon had not yet had the chance to have an affair with Alice.

Therefore, this was probably a spontaneous action of Amon. As for the purpose...

Will Auceptin didn't care, He only wanted to do one thing now.

So Alice watched as the baby, who was a snake just now, looked at her hand blankly, then suddenly fell to the ground and burst into tears.

The crying of the baby seemed unusually loud in the silent "God-forsaken Land". Even Alice found it a little hard to accept this scene.

If I become a god, the war between gods recorded in the church’s scriptures will be like this...?
This overly bleak future made Alice take a step back, which alarmed Ouroboros. His indifferent silver eyes fell on Alice. In a brief moment, Ouroboros appeared in Alice's original position. Alice continued to run away without hesitation.

——He has no intention to kill, but He really comes here to kill people!
This scene was actually far from the deification ceremony that Alice had imagined. After all, from the beginning to the end, she thought that the giant snake that was chasing her and forcing her into a desperate situation should be Will Auceptin.

But Will Auceptin…

Thinking of the baby crying on the ground, Alice was silent for a moment.

Amon obviously returned the stolen time or life stage to Will Auceptin, and the operation of returning is different from stealing - there is no hindrance!

Alice, who had not thought of this kind of fighting style before, raised Amon's threat level again, then stopped abruptly, looked back at Ouroboros, and jumped into the river of fate.

She didn't intend to continue this meaningless chase. If she went on like this, it would only delay time and cause more variables. She had to take action!
Alice swam all the way to the gray mist, looked at the mist that almost sucked her in, took a deep breath, hugged the "blasphemous slate" in her arms, and recited the spell for the second time:

“Fusheng Xuanhuang Immortal Lord;
“Blessed be the Heavenly Sovereign Xuan Huang;
“Blessings beget the Dark and Yellow God;
"Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun."

The suction force came from the gray mist again. This time, Alice no longer chose to resist. She followed the attraction, intending to touch the fleeting silver light.

When the spirit finally completed the capture, Alice suddenly had a premonition, a strong, imperceptible attraction, spreading from her along with her thoughts.

……

Ouroboros cautiously stopped where he was and did not immediately chase after him. Normally, he should have sought the guidance of fate to confirm whether he should continue chasing, but...

Fate did not respond, so Ouroboros entered a brief hesitation - why was it brief? Because after hesitating for a while, he decided to continue to act according to the previous guidance.

Leaping into the long river of fate, Ouroboros also swam towards the gray-white barrier.

This was not a good choice, because Ouroboros soon had a strange feeling, as if he was dissolving in the silver river and becoming a part of the river - no, not him, but something in his body!
Due to his control over his own extraordinary characteristics, Ouroboros quickly realized that this was not dissolution, but stripping - some force was stripping the extraordinary characteristics from "Him" and accommodating them.

As a senior Angel King, even if he had not experienced it personally, he had seen this way of fighting the enemy. This was undoubtedly using the influence of the aggregation of extraordinary characteristics to directly obtain extraordinary characteristics.

However, it is enough to aggregate the extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence 1 level...

Without any warning from fate, Ouroboros immediately realized who and where this gathering came from. At the moment when fate was temporarily unable to give any hints, Ouroboros did not hesitate to abandon the two extraordinary characteristics of the "Mercury Serpent" and returned to his master.

……

The two biggest threats were away from him, and Will Auceptin naturally stopped crying.

The three-head-tall baby moved his chubby arms and short legs and wiped away his tears.

He was pretending to cry at first, but as he cried, he thought about the tragic experiences he had during that period of time, and the possible outcome he might face, and he couldn't help but feel sad from the bottom of his heart, and he actually cried.

Will Auceptin didn't stop crying until Ouroboros and Alice left, and thought about what to do next.

"I'm obviously just a baby..." He curled his lips, supported himself with his short legs and stood up, his eyes naturally looking towards the west, in the direction of the "Giant King's Court".

At this moment, Will Auceptin was no longer worried about Amon, because he knew that Amon would definitely not take care of him. What he should worry about now is how to preserve his extraordinary characteristics.

He looked at the wasteland in the east with a puzzled expression, took a few steps with his short legs, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and crawled up from the ground.

He couldn't crawl for long, because he felt a strange attraction. It was different from the urging that lingered in his heart before. This was a strong pulling force. If he could still resist it with his will before, now...

From the body to the mind, everything was being pulled forcefully in that direction.

Will Auceptin's expression suddenly changed. He certainly knew the existence of the source substance, and he naturally thought of the answer at this moment.

It was at this moment that He finally confirmed the reason why He had come to this point.

"I'm so stupid, really..." He muttered to himself, glanced in that direction with a puzzled expression, and restarted on the spot without hesitation.

Alice's guess was not entirely correct. Will Auceptin was indeed replenishing his extraordinary characteristics, but his purpose was not to accumulate strength for another "restart".

Because He had never thought of such a possibility!
He originally thought that the ritual chosen by fate for Alice was to be devoured by Him and then resurrected in His body.

Will Auceptin had of course also experienced the dream that Alice and Ouroboros had experienced, but he did not see it from the perspective of the snake, the devourer, as Alice had guessed.

He was also a bystander. But when he first had this dream, Will Auceptin's understanding was completely different from that of others. He thought this was a revelation from fate and the opportunity he had been waiting for. He was briefly excited and then began to plan.

Following the guidance of the dream, Will Auceptin wanted to feed Alice's sequence higher, even if not to the top, at least to the level of demigod, so that it would be in line with the "reaching the top" in the dream.

But things were not quite as He imagined. From the moment Alice from Sequence 5 took the "Dice of Probability", things were completely out of His control.

Coupled with Alice's subsequent verbal provocations and fate's repeated bias, Will Auceptin couldn't help but suspect that there was something wrong with his interpretation of the revelation.

After all, there is nothing wrong with the revelation of destiny. The only ones who have problems are those who see and interpret the revelation.

——How could the question be wrong? It must be my fault!

With this mindset, Will Auceptin re-examined his original prophecy.

He has never been able to figure out who the giant snake with a fierce look in its eyes is, or rather, He is unwilling to think in that direction, because once he thinks so, it means that He, Ouroboros, and even all the extraordinary people on the "Destiny" path have lost the possibility of becoming gods.

- What if the giant snake that coiled at the top of the path, waiting to devour anyone who reached the top... was actually the "Key of Light"?

The most terrifying thing is that the deification ceremony of the "destiny" path seems to be a strong evidence of this conjecture - the so-called deification at the right opportunity, what is the right opportunity, isn't it determined by fate, by the incarnation of fate?
The honorific name of "Key of Light" includes "the embodiment of destiny"...

Out of fear, Will Auceptin was hesitant to speculate in this direction. He could only avoid and refuse to think, looking for a way out for himself and the people behind him.

The people behind him were still okay, but as for himself... To be honest, Will Auceptin really couldn't think of a suitable way out.

If necessary, abandoning the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics and running away is of course an option. Although this option is ranked very low, it is ultimately among Will Auceptin's alternative plans.

But the problem is, He doesn't know how to throw it away.

Angels have sufficient control over their own extraordinary characteristics. Having stayed in the archangel for many years, they can naturally expel the excess extraordinary characteristics in their bodies, but first of all, they must be redundant, and secondly, the highest one that determines their own sequence cannot be expelled.

In other words, He has no way to eliminate the extraordinary characteristics of the "Mercury Serpent" unless He has a power similar to that of the "One Without Darkness".

Of course, other external forces could also help, such as Amon’s theft. If “He” had not resisted, he could probably have stolen the Beyonder Characteristics.

——Although Will Auceptin didn't trust Amon at all.

Without the courage to cooperate with Amon, and unable to find a suitable Beyonder through the “Sun” path, the newly born “Fool” stood on the side of his opponent without hesitation. As for other methods, each had its own problems, which resulted in “He” not being able to find a suitable candidate.

As for this path...

Theoretically, Extraordinary people will expel their Extraordinary characteristics after death, and "restart" can also be considered a kind of death, but in practice... Well, Will Auceptin really tried it, but not recently, but in the past thousand years.

When He first became an archangel, He was indeed curious about this and conducted similar experiments, but they were not successful.

Therefore, this option was not considered by Will Auceptin from the beginning, but at this moment, Will Auceptin found that it became feasible.

Under the influence of the aggregation of extraordinary characteristics at the old level, if He did not take the initiative to go there, it would be that the extraordinary characteristics in His body would be stripped away and aggregated over there, and this stripping process would be from high to low.

Therefore, after using the power of "restart", He can strip away the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 1 and escape with the other Beyonder characteristics. As for the selection of new parents...

Will Auceptin has a choice that will definitely surprise his former friends.

……

After "witnessing" all this, Amon gently turned the monocle on his right eye and smiled.

Although the deification ritual of the "Destiny" path has its problems, it is a very suitable alternative.

Because He had sensed it as early as when they first met. Unlike other people who were struggling to find an opportunity, for Alice, whose origins were difficult to determine, the right opportunity seemed to be always there.

Fate indulged her to the extreme, as if she could become a god at any time as long as she wanted. It was no exaggeration to say that fate was feeding her food - although she didn't seem to appreciate it at all and even spit it out.

Moreover, no matter how many problems and dangers there are, they are only in relation to the path of "destiny". The "Key of Light" is to be resurrected, so what does "mistakes" have to do with it?

But Amon was not in a hurry. To him at that time, it was more important to find the owner of Sefirah Castle and seize it. Moreover, Pales had not been found yet. Even if he had a suitable deification ceremony, it would be useless.

However, He could indeed make some preparations in His spare time. This inspiration was given to Him by Alice.

When the clone stole Alice's destiny and the original lost contact with the clone, Amon was terrified. But when Alice cut off the connection between the original and the clone and pretended to be her to steal the donation box of the Storm Church, Amon was left with only surprises.

She and He were so similar in character and behavior, and when she pressed against His body...who could say that she was not Him?

So, if He and she were connected deeply enough, and she trusted Him enough, as long as He had the power of destiny within Him...

Who knows if He is her in disguise?

Of course, this is just a plan, and its implementation requires many steps, such as how to guide Alice to trust herself, or at least to have trust and acquiescence in the matter of having her fate stolen, and how to strengthen their connection with each other - mainly the connection of fate.

Also, how to obtain the power of destiny...

Each step requires specific adjustments, and Amon was doing this during his free time while searching for the "Source Castle".

Pales' clue was a pleasant surprise, but as fate would have it, fate had given him the last clue about the "Worm of Time", making the possibility of stealing the "Source Castle" without taking any risks almost zero.

He had no choice but to postpone the plan to steal the "Source Castle" and shift his focus to becoming a god. (End of this chapter)