Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 680Chapter 72 Urban Planning
Emlyn's change of mentality could not be hidden from others. Fors glanced at the vampire and couldn't help but laugh:
"Mr. Moon, wait a little longer, and maybe you will become the Archbishop of the Church of the Earth. No, you should be the Church of the Earth's plenipotentiary representative to the vampires."

"Why?" Emlyn asked in confusion.

He obviously hadn't yet realized the potential impact of the changes in the Church of Evernight.

Leonard smiled and explained, "Since the Goddess of Night no longer has the title of 'Lord of Crimson', the Mother Earth will soon have a similar title, and it will be impossible to hide it from other churches."

Emlyn finally reacted. He nodded slightly, thinking of the scenes:

His fellow tribesmen who previously mocked his belief in the "Mother Earth Goddess" will now line up in front of him and receive his baptism.

Thinking of this, Emlyn felt extremely happy and couldn't help but raise his chin slightly.

The discussion of this matter ended here, but the Tarot Club did not end there. After the others had some exchanges, Klein stayed alone in Sephira Castle, pressing his forehead with a headache.

He did not ask Zaratul any questions, because he already had an overall plan for the matter, which was to return to the real world, prepare for the construction of the Secret Doll City, and wait for Zaratul to come to him.

However, before that, Klein still had to confirm some things with Alice. He returned to the real world and shouted:

"Alice?"

No one paid any attention to him, which was not surprising to Klein. He switched to Hermetic and shouted, "Alice!"

"Yes." Alice responded.

Klein sighed at the convenience of the True God, and then asked:

"Logically speaking, Zaratul should be hunting me at this time. Arrodes also confirmed this, but I have never met Zaratul. Does it have anything to do with you?"

"He just has bad luck and always misses it. How can it have anything to do with me?" Ellie retorted without hesitation.

Klein immediately understood what was going on, but he didn't argue with Alice. He just asked, "Then can you make "Him" luckier, or make me unluckier, so that I can meet him..."

Alice burst out laughing. She couldn't help but say, "Well, although I can indeed have an impact on this, I have to remind you that you may need good luck... After all, being caught up by him is a good thing for you."

“Sometimes I really hate talking to you,” Klein rolled his eyes. “It feels like I’m chatting with a polemical person… and I just can’t win the argument.”

Alice didn't respond, so Klein could only sigh and talk about his plans and needs. He still planned to learn all kinds of complicated knowledge first, and then let Zaratul come to him after the construction of the Secret Doll City was basically completed. After listening to Alice, she commented:
"Then you really need good luck, and not just ordinary good luck, otherwise you won't be found at the time you think is most appropriate... Well, what I mean is, Mr. Fool, do you have a 'Yesterday Reappearance' spell? Can you give me one?"

“…You can help even without the spell!” Klein exclaimed in shock, “You can even change your own birth time at will!”

"It's not that easy, actually. It's still quite troublesome..." Alice muttered, "But compared to a 'Wheel of Fortune', if I can't be born at the right time and in the right way, it might bring even greater trouble to my destiny..."

"What is the right time? What is the right way?" Klein asked.

"I think so," Alice replied.

Klein couldn't hold back any longer. He retorted, "Isn't it because you haven't chosen yet?"

Alice coughed lightly, then continued, "Well, that's part of the reason, but...how can it not be part of fate if I didn't choose well?"

"...I really hate talking to you." Klein was tired, so he decided to change the subject. "You... forget it, I can't give you the talisman now, right?"

"Just eat it," Alice said carelessly, "If you eat it, I can get it."

“…?” Klein didn’t understand. His eyes were full of doubt. “This isn’t something that can be eaten, right…?”

"Come on, you're an angel, don't interpret the concept of 'eating' in such a mortal way..." Alice complained, "Anyway, just eat it in, I can... well, have you heard of the Kingdom of God?"

"You want to put it into the Kingdom of God?" Klein asked curiously.

"That's right," Alice replied vaguely.

She didn't intend to give a detailed introduction, so Klein understood that she didn't want to say more for the time being. He didn't ask any more questions, but instead made a "Yesterday Repeat" spell.

He did not prepare this kind of talisman on himself, because it had no effect on him, and was mostly used for trading. Alice looked at him with a distorted expression as he took the Soul Bug, and asked curiously:
"It shouldn't hurt as much for you to kill the spirit bug now, right?"

“It hurts, too!” Klein said confidently, “There’s no one watching, so why should I endure it?”

It made sense, Alice agreed. She didn't say anything else until Klein swallowed the talisman he had just made. Then she spoke lazily:
"OK, goodnight."

Afterwards, she didn't say anything about the result and just fell silent.

After calling her a few times in Loenese and Hermes, Klein gave up trying and returned to land.

In a hotel, Klein entered the "Source Castle" again. He sat on the high-back chair that belonged to the Fool and leaned back in it. Then, one after another, spirit insects crawled out of his body and transformed into human forms.

The remaining twenty-one seats were not enough for so many clones, and Klein did not intend to keep such a scene. He smiled slightly, and the ancient palace turned into a modern library in his memory. They were sitting in a huge reading area. As for the books standing on the rows of bookshelves, they were from historical projections. "The only flaw is that these books don't match this library. Maybe I should manifest Loen's library..." Klein muttered, and walked away with his clones and picked up his target books.

Some people chose "How to Brew Fine Wine", some chose "A Complete Guide to Dessert Making", and some chose "Self-cultivation of Clergy"...

These books are all professional books from various industries. Klein flipped through them to prepare for the construction of the Secret Doll City.

If it were just a matter of memorizing this knowledge, it would not be difficult for Klein, but he had to truly master it and be able to apply it. Moreover, he could not confuse the roles and let a burly and strong, low-paid switchman blurt out the moisturizing effect of a certain skin care product or the defects of a certain silk.

If such a situation occurred in a novel, drama, or opera, it might create a peculiar attraction, but if it were put into reality, it would be obviously distorted and not conducive to the advancement of the ceremony.

In order to avoid similar problems, Klein had to study hard here to make his acting perfect and make each role real, full and appropriate.

This was undoubtedly boring. Klein gradually understood Alice's aversion to learning. He thought that perhaps this was reasonable. After all, as an adult, he could not endure such long-term, boring learning.

Fortunately, there weren't many people in a town who really needed to master the corresponding professional knowledge. Most residents were semi-illiterate or even illiterate, living on experience and in a muddle. For these characters, Klein had relatively little to learn, just like the workers who had simple training or no training before going on the assembly line.

However, this also brought some troubles, because different people have different ways of speaking, behaving, and using different languages. These semi-illiterate small town residents are very different from Klein's habits. They don't care about gentlemanly etiquette, but they are not as reckless as Alice.

Klein needs to pay attention to this. He even has to consider arranging small habits for each person to make the character more realistic...

Writing the script and the characters, Klein couldn't help but feel fortunate for his decision. He didn't aim too high and think of building a city as big as the Capital of the World—well, that wasn't realistic either.

Klein only planned to build a small town with a population of about 5,000. This greatly reduced the difficulty of his preparations. After learning the knowledge, the only issue would be the location.

The simplest and quickest way is undoubtedly to build a secret doll town in a city overnight and connect it to the surrounding areas through rivers, roads, etc. Such strong interaction will surely allow the town to leave traces in the spiritual world at the fastest speed. The only problem is that this kind of strange news is likely to attract the police and reporters, and if things go wrong, there will be visits from extraordinary people.

Unless Adam is willing to provide some help to future Fools.

Regardless of whether Adam was willing or not, the gate to the "God-Forsaken Land" was still tightly closed, and the matter between Adam and the "True Creator" was clearly not over yet. Klein knew that he would not be able to seek protection if he came to the door at this time, because he could not see the owner at all.

Compared to this radical approach, Kotal, you chose an overly conservative approach - He built his own secret doll town in the "God-forsaken Land" where the spiritual world cannot be contacted at all.

Klein couldn't judge this behavior because it was obviously too conservative to meet the requirements of the ceremony, but it did give him a reference. He thought that uninhabited islands could be considered.

There are many such islands in the sea. What needs to be worried about is the problem of connecting with the outside world. Klein is not worried about this because when he boarded the "Source Castle", he could use the ability of the "Mysterious Attendant". Klein named this ability "Grafting" - he was not yet a "Mysterious Attendant" and did not have the corresponding knowledge, so he had to name it himself.

This ability can "graft" things that cannot be directly connected under normal circumstances together to achieve incredible effects. Klein has never discussed this ability with Alice because he is not sure whether Alice has seen NTR-type works - he does not really want his ability to be associated in this way.

Although he seemed to have already made this association.

Well, let's get back to the issue of the uninhabited island. Klein can use "grafting" to make his secret town become every part of other people's journey, such as a station or a stop...

This is far less radical than the cities that have sprung up from the ground, especially since he can cancel the "grafting" at any time, which can play a role in selecting customers - for example, Zaratul will not be welcomed in as a customer by him.

Correspondingly, the disadvantage of this plan is that the ritual process will be relatively slow.

Of course, there is actually a compromise solution, which is to use a real city in reality as a model, and use the ability of "grafting" to allow people coming and going to enter the real city or the secret city respectively.

But it goes without saying that this would inevitably result in the city's existence not being distinct enough, which would affect the final effect of the ceremony. After hesitating for a while, Klein finally chose the second option.

After all, Alice hasn't even started picking a date for her birth, she still has to tweak her face... Well, if it doesn't work out then I'll suggest she change her name and put it off for a while.

And as for the third option, Klein suspected that both Zaratul and Antigonus did the same thing. These two seemed to have gone a step further and silenced the witnesses of the real city.

Klein didn't want to do such a thing. To him, Zaratul was no longer a threat. Although he was only a Sequence 2 instance, with the help of Sefirah Castle, he was undoubtedly the King of Angels and had enough power to suppress Zaratul.

Besides, if it really doesn't work, he is pregnant with a real god...

Under this premise, the biggest problem with the current ceremony is that Klein hopes to complete all of this before Alice is born.

After deciding on the plan, choosing a location became much easier. After all, Klein didn't have the same difficulty making decisions as Alice. He quickly chose an uninhabited island that was isolated by storms all year round. There was no sign of human life, only forests and wild beasts.

After inspecting the area, Klein picked an open area, placed his left hand on his chest, and prayed devoutly, "I hope there is a city here that is suitable for 5,000 people to live in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Klein raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.

Suddenly, this open area became extremely flat, and the surrounding forests also "retreated" a lot, providing a large number of trees, stones and soil.

Almost at the same time, buildings started to rise from the ground. They were a mixture of stone and wood, with the highest not exceeding four stories. Their style was similar to that of the Disi Bay in the Kingdom of Loen.

In the blink of an eye, residential houses, libraries, police stations, telegraph offices, municipal councils, small hospitals, candy factories, water plants, gas companies, steam train stations, parallel railway tracks and plantations outside the city were formed, and the streets were paved with cement or bricks.

Finally, next to the square in the center of the town, a spire church emerged from the ground and stood proudly.

(End of this chapter)