Mystery: Lucky One

Those who are confident that they are special are ultimately a minority. After thinking for a while, Verdu finally believed that the reason why he was targeted should be his ancestors.

Or, to be more precise, this lady of destiny seemed to want to gain something from her ancestors, so she was willing to help, and this might be hidden from the Fool...

At one time, many ideas surged in Verdu's mind, but he did not adopt any of them because he did not think he could survive the game between the two great beings.

——He didn't pray.

Alice was very disappointed with this choice. She almost wanted to tamper with Verdu's fate and change Verdu's choice, but she didn't do it in the end because - something seemed to have happened to Klein.

Since he didn't hear the call, Klein was probably safe. After all, there weren't many difficulties at the moment that made Klein unable to even shout for help. If there were, it would probably be useless for her to go. Therefore, Alice was not too worried. She secretly glanced at Verdu, and finally turned her attention back to Klein.

Interpreting a town is a burden for Klein, but it does not require him to exert all his strength.

But the goddess's weakness gave Klein inspiration. In the past six months, Klein has been pretending that he has no energy to take care of other things. He has entrusted most of the things to the members of the Tarot Club to solve, and his real body has been staying in the church and has never appeared.

——In fact, he even had the energy to argue with Alice.

With Alice disappearing after becoming a god, Klein hopes that this method will make Zaratul let down his guard.

This was not safe. Klein had used the authority of the Planeswalker to record the "restart" from Alice in advance - in fact, for the Planeswalker it should be called "reappearance". For this, he paid two spirit insects and asked Miss Justice to sacrifice ice cream in the tone of the "world".

——Why "the world"? Because it sounds too embarrassing for Mr. Fool to rely on ice cream to coax his children. In comparison, it is much more reasonable for "the world" to need ice cream to ask Miss Fate for help.

"Restart" is enough for Klein to deal with most crises. If one time is not enough, then twice. If two times are still not enough, then he feels that he can prepare to commit suicide.

In addition, Klein also considered the helpers that Zaratul might invite... although in the end he found that "He" didn't seem to have anyone to invite.

Of course, Klein did not let his guard down because of this. The recorded “restart” was the best proof. He was even mentally prepared to fight again if he couldn’t defeat the opponent after being promoted to Sequence 1.

——In fact, if he had time, Klein wanted to wait for a while longer, until Utopia had a deeper intersection with the outside world. That would be safer. Moreover, a hasty promotion like this would mean that his preparations would be in vain. He still had to use the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic that came directly from the Lord of Mysteries to advance.

Of course, the safest option is to wait for dozens or even hundreds of years, allowing the fate of all the puppets to have a beginning and an end, and for everyone to die of old age... If the apocalypse wasn't only a dozen years away, Klein would have really thought about doing this.

In case of emergency, the only option is emergency preparation, which means spending half a year to a year to ensure that other conditions meet the requirements of the ceremony, and then directly giving the town a meteorite, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption to force an ending to the story.

Such situations also exist in reality, so it is certainly feasible. He can even ask Alice for help and make this uninhabited island really disappear in a disaster - he has confirmed that Alice can really do such a thing. To be more precise, as a true god, she can even make a planet disappear due to a sudden disaster.

However, according to Alice, this method of operation actually has serious drawbacks, that is, the type of disaster, the scope of impact, and the subsequent radiation all need to be determined by her one by one, otherwise...

In Alice's original words, the initial recovery was also a kind of disaster. Although the probability of changing this event alone was difficult, this event was indeed included in the disaster. As the overall probability increased, no one knew what would happen.

Back to the point, when Alice came back, Klein had already used "Restart" to end the crisis he encountered. He sat on the "Source Castle" and suppressed Zaratul at the level of the Angel King.

Alice realized that this had nothing to do with her, and she was happy to watch the fun. Klein didn't even need her to stop Zaratul from escaping, because as the owner of the "Source Castle", Klein could completely forcibly extract the extraordinary characteristics of the "Mysterious Servant"!

Especially when the target is a "secret servant" who will choose to cut off his tail and survive without hesitation when he sees the situation is not good.

Everything went smoothly. After Klein cleaned up the mess, Alice asked, "Do I need to congratulate you, Mr. Fool?"

"Do I have a gift?" Klein asked bluntly.

"Hmm..." Alice hesitated, "What kind do you want?"

This aroused Klein's interest. He asked curiously, "Do I really have it?"

"Not now," Alice replied coldly.

Klein's mouth twitched, and he had to change the subject:
"Wait another month or two, and I can prepare a disaster for Black Utopia to make this city disappear."

Alice hummed, and did not comment on the matter. She only suggested: "So are you going to deal with Verdu Abraham now?"

Thinking back to this incident, Klein frowned slightly and shook his head.

"I haven't figured out how to deal with him yet... I definitely can't just kill him. Although the Abraham family has a certain degree of trust in me, it doesn't mean they will harm their own people for this. And if I do this and I'm not discovered, it's fine. But once I'm discovered..."

He paused and added:
"Besides, Verdu Abraham didn't do anything bad. He just wanted to bring back his ancestors. Frankly speaking, after hearing that voice of 'Don't save me', I was a little... I know that saving Him is very difficult. Even if He looks normal after being saved, there is a high probability that something is wrong inside. Moreover, He probably hopes to keep the disaster outside the earth rather than being saved. But...

“At least, I hope to remove the curse on Him. Even if it has nothing to do with Him, the Abraham family is now my believers.

"Besides, as you said, I will have to deal with this matter sooner or later. I don't think it's necessary to hurt Verdu Abraham for this, but leaving him outside is indeed a hidden danger... We can't let Mr. 'The Hanged Man' keep an eye on him, right?"

"I went to see him," Alice said slowly, "I told him to pray to me if he really wanted to save Mr. Door, but he ignored me."

“……?” Klein stopped moving. “Is he still alive?”

"...Of course I'm alive!" Alice shouted angrily, "Who do you think I am?"

"Sorry," Klein apologized without any sincerity, "Does he need to see a psychiatrist?" Alice hesitated for a moment. She recalled Verdu's condition at the time, and then hesitantly replied, "I think he looks fine..."

Klein became even more worried after hearing this. Just as he was about to say something, Alice added:
"However, since you think so, why not leave him to me - I mean, before you decide to fulfill his wish, I will try my best to ensure that nothing unexpected happens to him."

Klein swallowed hard and asked tentatively, "...try hard?"

Alice didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and she responded as a matter of course: "You know, I usually don't use affirmative words for anything - including this sentence."

Klein shook his head slightly and said, "Then what do you plan to let him do? Mr. 'The Hanged Man' told me before that he has been studying the mysticism. Do you want to watch him learn the mysticism?"

Alice was silent.

Klein continued, "Besides, fulfilling his wish... involves the pollution of the Fallen Mother Goddess. I think there must be a force of the same level to fight against it, right?"

"But..." Alice hesitated, "Klein, I just thought of a question... Mr. Men is different from Emperor Roselle. The control of the Fallen Mother Goddess over Him seems to be very deep..."

She paused for a few seconds to give Klein time to think. Klein also frowned. He suddenly realized something and asked in the gap Alice gave him:
"You mean, the process of negotiating with Mr. Men might have been mixed with the attention of the Fallen Mother Goddess? In other words, if we fight against the contamination in Mr. Men, whether we bring back Mr. Men alive or his Beyonder characteristics, the Fallen Mother Goddess will be aware of it, and even..."

"Maybe he can take this opportunity to infiltrate the barrier..." Alice added.

“More than that,” Klein said with a serious expression, “If that’s the case, then… we both cannot be involved in this matter.”

"Why?" Alice asked puzzledly.

"The Outer Gods are surrounding Earth in order to attack it and seize its essence," Klein said with a frown. "They definitely don't want pillars to be born inside Earth... No one knows if the Outer Gods are really unable to break through the barrier. Maybe they just want to attack Earth in the best possible condition, and breaking through the barrier requires a huge price."

Alice was stunned when she heard this. She realized something and asked, "You mean, if you and...if you really control the power of the pillar level, it would be inappropriate for you to fight against the 'Fallen Mother Goddess'?"

“Unless we are a complete pillar,” Klein shook his head, “complete and in relatively good condition… but this is obviously impossible. What I’m worried about is that the Fallen Mother Goddess is cautious enough, and the aura of half a pillar is enough for Her to take the initiative to attack. Then…”

"If they really have a way to break through the barrier, then we're doomed," Alice added. "In that case, it shouldn't be you or... it'd be better to let someone else go, but..."

Alice paused for a few seconds, then said hesitantly, "You said, after Adam and the True Creator merge, can the first Blasphemous Slate still use the power of the Chaos Sea?"

“…I don’t think you should ask me this question. If you must ask, I think it should be possible.” Klein looked hesitantly in the direction of the “God-Forsaken Land” before hesitatingly saying, “After all, they were originally split…”

Alice was silent for a few breaths, and suddenly reminded: "Actually, I'm not sure if our conversation will be heard."

"..." Klein ignored her and did not speak. He had a blank expression on his face, like a dead man.

Seeing that this did not arouse Mr. Fool’s emotions, Alice had to give up and change her method. She suddenly spoke in an excited tone:

"I understand! I can let Verdu take the first blasphemous slate to save his ancestor and let him realize his wish himself!"

“…” Klein rolled his eyes. “Just telling him what ‘Fallen Mother Goddess’ means is enough to kill him.”

"I can not tell him... ahem," Alice wanted to argue, but stopped after feeling the fluctuations of the Spirit Bug. "Okay, okay, we'll discuss who will go later. Verdu can be put aside for now... ahem, are you going to become a god next? How are you going to handle the godhood ceremony... By the way, what is your godhood ceremony?"

Here it comes... The anticipated question did not cause Klein to panic. He was as calm as the spirit worm in his body and said calmly:

“Actually, I should consider how to deal with Antigonus first, but you are right, the apotheosis ceremony is indeed a problem, and this ceremony... well, it is not easy to handle.

"The ritual requires me to fool history or time once... Well, why not fool fate? In that case, I can just fool you."

"?" Alice was extremely surprised. "I've been so good to you, and you actually wanted to lie to me?"

If you knew I had put it into practice, you would probably be even angrier... But since she said so, fooling her should really be the same as fooling fate... Well, I'd better confirm it again.

Klein shook his head and said:

"How could that be? If the ritual requires this, then I have no choice. Besides, I'm just lying to you, nothing will really happen... You will understand, right?"

"Go away." Alice responded coldly.

It seems like it might be a bit troublesome to coax her after deceiving her... Klein chuckled and immediately asked out of curiosity:
"Okay! But can you tell me first, is fooling yourself really the same as fooling fate?"

"...Isn't this really your ritual requirement?" Alice suddenly became alert. "You haven't tricked me into performing the ritual? Is this fake ritual your scam?"

...It's really hard to cheat.

Klein remained calm and replied, "How could that be? Why would I ask you this question? Isn't this meant to arouse your suspicion?"

"That seems to make sense..." Alice murmured, "but I always feel like something is not right..." (End of this chapter)