Mystery: Lucky One

Arrodes' expression caused the two people who were still arguing to fall into an eerie silence for a moment, followed by Alice's laughter:
“Pfft, pfft, hahahahahaha, it’s quite pitiful. Please take care of it, Mr. Fool.”

Isn't it your fault that I ignored it... Klein refuted in his mind, but did not say it out loud. He continued to read the file that Arrodes had stolen from somewhere:

“For ordinary nobles and people in Feysac, there is no need to publicize the fact that the goddess has replaced the ‘God of War’. Let them still retain their faith in the ‘God of War’. On the one hand, this will help us and the surrendered priests and bishops take over the cathedrals and stabilize the situation in Feysac as quickly as possible. On the other hand, it will also prevent the goddess from being disturbed by beliefs that she cannot handle before she fully grasps the authority of the ‘God of War’.

“We will make the replacement when the new oracle comes down, and now we are just making corresponding plans.

"...Try not to provoke strong resistance from Feysac and other countries. We have lost too many Beyonders and soldiers, and consumed a lot of resources and items. Whether it is the church, the country, or the people of different classes, they are all very weak. It takes a period of peace and stability to recover... It is best for us to unite the Storm Church, the Knowledge Church, the Earth Church, Feynaport, Renburg and other countries to force Intis and Feysac to surrender unconditionally and get what we want from the negotiation table. In this process, we can use the purge of stubborn elements to exert pressure.

“When dealing with domestic situations and taking over the blank areas left by the Steam Church, we must give the Storm Church enough respect and even make concessions on certain matters. This is the will of the Goddess.

"Finally, from now on, reduce the number of times the red moon appears in preaching, sacrifices, masses, etc., and in the official text, no longer mention the goddess 'Crimson Lord'..."

“Alice,” Klein shouted, “You no longer mention the title of ‘Lord of Crimson’ and you mention the Red Moon less often. Does that mean… uh, can you see it?”

“Yes,” Alice replied calmly, “I also saw you, Mr. Fool, drink more than a dozen cups of sweet iced tea and eat four or five cups of ice cream in three days, saying you wanted to give them to me to try. Oh, and there were also Dipsy pie and apple pie…”

“Cough cough!” Klein suddenly started coughing violently.

Alice sighed and didn't continue to order his food list. She just sighed:
"Honestly, I'm surprised that the spirit worms in your body didn't change into the color or taste of these foods... Oh no, I haven't tasted them."

“Cough, cough, cough!” Klein started coughing again, and this time it was real.

Alice stopped provoking him and reminded him:

“That’s a good thing.

"The losses of the Church of Storms and the Church of Night should be considerable... You can take this opportunity to formalize your Church of Fools."

"...Don't you need believers?" Klein asked in a questioning tone.

Alice said "Oh" and explained:
"I haven't figured out how to write about the origin of the 'Goddess of Light'... Eh? Arrodes, can you help me? You come from the 'Chaos Sea', so the power of the 'Writer' should be reflected in you, right? Hmm? Wait, does 'Writer' add writing ability?"

"No." Arrodes dutifully revealed the text.

This made Alice a little disappointed. She sighed, then became happy again:
"It doesn't matter if you don't add it, right? I see you're quite good at talking. Besides, you can change it to the goddess of fate like the last version... just change it to the goddess of light, Arrodes?"

She shouted loudly, and Arrodes shook the screen, showing a line of silver text: "Do you have any other requests?"

"Not yet," Alice replied.

So Arrodes promised: "I will finish it as soon as possible."

Seeing that they had almost finished their conversation, Klein said to Arrodes, "It's your turn to ask questions."

"Supreme Master, please continue asking, and I will ask all the questions at the end." Arrodes replied.

This surprised Alice for a moment, and she interrupted, "So you can save up questions? Your mechanism is so flexible? Well, let's put it this way..."

Alice paused for a moment and said thoughtfully, "It seems that you really don't remember all the questions as questions."

"Great Goddess of Light, I am a mirror of wisdom." Arrodes responded.

The name "Goddess of Light" made both Klein and Alice feel speechless. Alice was speechless because she was called that in person, while Klein simply could not accept this title until now.

"Do you really have to call it this?" Klein asked Alice, "Don't you think it's inappropriate?"

"I don't think it's inappropriate," Alice said confidently. "It's such a beautiful name. I think you're just jealous of me, you fool!"

“6.” Klein said expressionlessly.

The mirror of Arrodes dimmed, and the entire mirror seemed dead.

Noticing that Alice stopped talking, Klein reorganized his goals and then asked Arrodes:

"What is Zaratul doing now?"

"He is looking for you, my master." Arrodes replied.

Before Klein could respond to this answer, Alice laughed out loud: "Klein, I find that you can indeed be called something other than a fool... I mean a fool."

“What?” Klein didn’t learn from his mistakes and decided to listen patiently.

"You can call yourself Voldemort," Alice suggested sincerely, "that way you can have a name for your Beyonder team, Death Eaters - you can have all your followers call you Master."

“…” Klein closed his eyes. “I shouldn’t have believed you.”

After saying that, he ignored Alice and looked at the silent Arrodes, thinking.

He originally planned to find Zarathu's location through Arrodes and check Zarathu's situation, but Arrodes confirmed his previous thoughts. Zarathu was indeed looking for him, or hunting him, although he was unaware of it.

In this case, he does not need to take the initiative to look for Zaratul. He only needs to continue to act step by step, and then prepare for the promotion ceremony of the "Secret Servant", and wait for Zaratul to come to him.

...If I can't wait, I can probably talk to Alice about this. Klein nodded thoughtfully, then said to Arrodes, "You can ask questions now."

In an instant, excited and thrilling blood-red words appeared on Arrodes's mirror:

"Supreme Great Master, where are we going next? What are we going to do?"

...I always feel like this font is pink.

Klein shifted his gaze with mixed feelings, then chuckled and said:
“Let’s find a suitable location to build a city.

"Well, maybe there's somewhere you want to go?"

"Trier, no, I will go wherever you want me to go." Arrodes answered humbly in words.

This answer had already exposed his purpose. Klein smiled and was about to stand up after picking up the mirror when Alice said in a low voice:
"Won't you consider Trier, Mr. Fool?"

"Are you interested too?" Klein asked in surprise.

"...Dirty eyes," Alice replied, "Besides, I'm suggesting that you go - Mr. Fool, don't you think you'd be very welcome in Trier? After all, the 'Faceless Man'... you know what I'm talking about... Hiss, wait a minute, is this why Zaratul stayed in Trier before?"

“…?” Klein took a deep breath. As he walked out with the mirror in his hand, he sighed with mixed feelings, “You should be thankful that He can’t beat you… By the way, are you about to be born?”

As the saying goes, a pregnancy lasts ten months. It is already February now. Eight months have passed from June to now. It has only been a month or two since Alice was born.

Klein was confident that he could digest the Miracle Master potion within a few days—this was a feeling, and he believed his feeling was reliable.

This also means that Klein has less than two months to build the Secret Doll City and hunt Zaratul. Otherwise, he may have to give up this month...

"Oh," Alice's voice interrupted his thoughts, "There's no rush for this. I haven't picked a date for birth yet... I mean, Nezha has been pregnant for three years. If you don't mind, it's feasible for me to stay with you for three years."

“……?” Klein took a breath, “Huh???”

"What's all the fuss about..." Alice replied in an unhappy tone, "Being born early is a bit troublesome. A short period of advance is not a big deal, but a long period of advance... Fate is not so good at advancing time, especially when I am still weak. But going back is much easier, it's just a 'restart' - if you don't mind, I can rely on you until you become a god."

After a pause, she added: "Of course, the premise is that I haven't picked a birth date yet."

Klein was no longer so anxious. He was now in a state of panic. He swallowed hard and asked with difficulty, "So, when can you pick a date of birth?"

"I don't know," Alice replied, "You have to wait until I finish pinching my face, right? I'm still pinching my face!"

Klein didn't say anything. He was thinking that since Nezha had memories, he might really be a "mercury snake."

——After all, Bernadette has verified that the legends of the past were most likely true.

Klein was terrified at the thought of having Alice stay with him for three, five, or even ten or eight years. He silently added a clause to the plan to help Alice choose a date of birth.

…However, I’ll have to wait until I’m promoted to Sequence 1 before choosing.

The sense of urgency in his heart mostly dissipated. Klein took Arrodes with him and strolled on the street while thinking about his promotion ceremony.

The ritual requirement of the "Mysterious Servant" is to build a town composed purely of secret dolls and design the destiny trajectory for each secret doll, so that they can interpret a sufficiently real picture of life through mutual interaction and give birth to the corresponding area in the spirit world.

The requirements are very specific, but also difficult, because in order to provide a larger scale, more detailed daily life, and a more vivid destiny, it means that Klein needs to have a sufficient understanding of different fields so that he can play each role well.

In addition, this would bring special risks, because it was not difficult to see from the requirements of the ritual that this secret city would better be able to interact with the surrounding environment and intelligent life. In addition to finding a suitable reason for a city that suddenly appeared, this also meant that Klein had to ensure that the interaction process was real enough.

Such complex and vivid secret dolls require such a large number, which means the risk of losing control is greatly increased!

In the process of playing the role of a "miracle worker", he actually transformed a lot of secret puppets such as rats, cockroaches, mosquitoes and flies. These secret puppets served as his eyes and ears, effectively helping him to explore the environment. Nowadays, Klein's number of secret puppets is not too much short of it.

“However, I still need some supplements…” Klein muttered to himself, “In fact, the most troublesome thing is authenticity… For the needs of the ritual, I can’t hang up the secret dolls like Zaratul when they are idle. They need to have real lives. Wait, does this mean that if they are husband and wife secret dolls, they have to… Oh no, I haven’t had that myself…”

Klein's voice suddenly stopped. He had a bad feeling. As expected, Alice continued his words:
"...If you want to experience it, you can go find a witch and try it...Oh, you should mind the witch's original gender? Wait, speaking of which, if your own doll does that kind of thing with your own doll, isn't it actually the same as...that is, the doll should be considered a part of your body, isn't it actually the same as...uh...

"Self-abuse?"

“Thank you for choosing a relatively polite word,” Klein gritted his teeth, “but please don’t think in that direction—if you must think about it, please change your association to drawing little people on your fingers and acting!”

“But I won’t let the little man on my finger…Okay, I won’t say anything more.” Alice closed her mouth amid the increasingly boiling spiritual worms in Klein’s body. “So, do you want to experience that kind of thing and accumulate some experience? If you have this plan, please remind me. I think minors shouldn’t see this kind of scene…”

“Shut up!!!” Klein gritted his teeth and spat out his final decision.

Alice fell silent again. Klein gritted his teeth and inexplicably looked forward to Alice's birth.

...You can beat him as soon as he's born!
With such sad and angry thoughts, he exhaled, and then said thoughtfully:

"However, in order to play a more detailed role, maybe I should read more books...Okay, let's do it step by step...Let's replenish the secret dolls first...Well, killing too many bugs is not good, it's easy to damage the ecological environment...I can go to the sea to see...Although there are not that many pirates, I can collect the bounty by the way, and I can also catch some fish..."

He muttered, his figure faded as he took steps, and disappeared from the spot. (End of this chapter)