Mystery: Lucky One

"Next... Next, let's talk about the story of the master of Sefirah Castle!"

"Master of Sefirah Castle? Who is that?"

In the summer of 1368, sixteen-year-old Alice Moretti stood on the rockery in the back garden of the Church of Light Monastery, looking at the dozen or so children who formed a semicircle below, and smiled mysteriously:

"Master of Sefirah Castle...should we start by talking about what Sefirah Castle is?

"It is said that Sefirah Castle is located in the legendary spirit world. Have you heard of the Seven Lights of the Spirit World? Have you not learned yet? Well, it doesn't matter. These are the seven managers of the spirit world. You should have learned what the spirit world is? Yes, you can regard them as the strongest existence in the spirit world...

"And the Seven Lights of the Spirit World are nothing more than servants of Sefirah Castle!"

"Wow!" The children exclaimed in unison, discussing among themselves, "The owner of the Sefirah Castle must be very powerful!"

“Of course,” the silver-haired and silver-eyed girl curled her lips. She wore a hooded robe of the same color, barefoot, and her facial features had a sense of compassion. The red mole between her eyebrows made her look as if she had just walked out of a religious painting. “Then do you know why ‘He’ is so powerful and able to become the master of Sefirah Castle?”

"I don't know!" The children all shook their heads.

"Well... because..." The girl blinked gently and glanced in the direction of the garden entrance. "The owner of this Sefirah Castle once visited the Star Realm and visited the Lord of the Star Realm. It is rumored that he and the Lord of the Star Realm once shared the joy of life..."

"The joy of life?" a child asked in confusion, "What is that?"

The girl glanced at the garden entrance again before tilting her head and speaking:
"It is said that if you do this, you can personally give birth to a child and feel the joy of the birth of life~"

"Is it like drinking the sacred object of the Church of Mother Earth, the legendary water from the Mother and Child River that you mentioned before?" the child asked again.

"It's different, it's different," the girl took a step back and jumped off the rockery. Her voice came from behind the rockery. "If you drink the water from the Zimu River, both men and women will get pregnant. It's a special gift. The joy of life, in most cases, can only make women pregnant."

"Then there are special circumstances?" the child insisted.

"Yes~" the girl nodded gently, her voice still retreating, "But, I'll tell you next time~"

Then, as the children looked on in amazement, the girl leaped lightly, placed her hands on the wall, and pulled herself up to the roof.

Then, she stood on the wall, turned back and smiled at them:
"If I don't run away, my dear Pope will come and take me back. Bye!"

After saying that, she jumped off the wall and disappeared, leaving behind a dozen children looking at each other in bewilderment.

They stared at each other in silence. Before anyone could speak, a silver-haired figure appeared at the door like a ghost. He was wearing a linen robe with a silver cross on his chest. He had a beautiful face and soft features, just like the angel with mercy in every religious painting.

He was also barefoot, but he treated the stones and dirt on the ground as nothing. When the children saw Him, they all held their breath, stood in a row, and saluted respectfully, saying:

“The Pope.”

——This is the Pope of the Church of Light, Ouroboros.

To these children who grew up in a church monastery and knew about extraordinary existence since childhood, the Pope has another identity - He is an earthly angel, a real mythical creature!

The young-looking Pope glanced at them calmly, nodded slowly, and spoke in an extremely cold voice:
"Have you seen the Saint?"

The children looked at each other, and some of them glanced guiltily at the wall where someone had just climbed over. Ouroboros noticed this, and he stared at the child and asked:
"Where did she go?"

“Saint, Saint Lady, she, uh…” The child being stared at lowered his head guiltily and stammered, “She, uh, she climbed over the wall and ran away…”

"..." Ouroboros looked at them quietly and disappeared on the spot.

The children were not surprised by this. They all breathed a sigh of relief, as they were accustomed to this strange scene.

They knew very well that even the girl who had just left, the Saint of the Church of Light, climbing over the wall and leaving was just an appearance. Every child who grew up in the church knew that the Saint of the Church of Light was an angel on earth and the incarnation of their Goddess of Light walking on earth.

This was written in the holy scriptures, and even apart from this, they had seen with their own eyes that the saint walked out of her own portrait while praying and asked them what they were doing.

……

"Going to the Church of Fools? Of course... Oh, sorry, I remembered that I have something else to do." The young coachman with a monocle on his right eye and black curly hair suddenly changed his tone, rejected his guest, and drove away without hesitation, leaving the guest confused.

The young coachman didn't care about the expression of the passenger just now. He turned around and pulled the carriage into an alley. He turned back and pulled open the curtain of the carriage. A silver-haired girl was sitting in the carriage, smiling at him.

"When you're silent, you actually have some of the aura of the Holy Maiden of Light," the young man shook his head and sighed, "Who's looking for you this time?"

"Of course he is your former and current colleague, and also your brother in a sense," the girl spread her hands and replied, "My dear Pope is dissatisfied with me for fabricating rumors about his Lord, and is looking for me everywhere."

"Oh, how pitiful," the young man responded without any emotion, "you made me miss a customer."

"......?" The girl was stunned. "Do you have to act so... attentively? My dear angel of salvation?"

"Then what should I do?" The young man raised his eyebrows at her, "Are you going to make me your new Pope, great goddess of light?"

"...If your dream of becoming the Pope is not over yet, I recommend that you go back to your father," the girl rolled her eyes. "I think He is the only one who might agree to your request."

“Pa, pa, pa,” the young man clapped his hands nonchalantly. “That’s what your mother taught me, the Goddess of Light.”

The girl wanted to say something else, but suddenly, as if she realized something, her face changed drastically: "...I'm leaving first, bye!"

"......?" The young man raised his eyebrows in surprise, watching the girl's figure fade away on the spot, "Is she... playing hide-and-seek?"

It is now 1368, and the barrier outside the earth was forcibly broken by the "Fallen Mother Goddess", and six years have passed since the war broke out. At that time, the Goddess of Light had already contained the "Key of Light" and became the Old Day, and contained an extraordinary characteristic of the "Angel of Redemption". In that war that should have represented the end of the world, with the help of the "Lord of Mysteries", He obtained the corresponding uniqueness and the remaining two Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics.

The "Ring of Fate" that has lost all of this is now sealed, and the Goddess of Light has not yet tried to contain it.

As the Pope of the Church of Light, Ouroboros is just a Sequence 2 angel. If this goddess of light who has the title of saint but is actually a deity herself really wants to hide, how could she be found?

The young man, Amon, who had gained the extraordinary characteristic of "Angel of Redemption", smiled and looked at Ouroboros who was chasing him and said:

"You are late."

Watching Ouroboros disappearing from the spot, Amon shook his head slightly and said thoughtfully:

"As I recall, she should be able to give out a copy of the Beyonder characteristic of the 'Angel of Redemption'..."

This is the Sequence 1 corresponding to the "Ring of Fate". Amon set his sights on this path after heading to the starry sky, because the abilities of Sequence 2 and Sequence 3 of this path are, in a sense, very suitable for Him.

The "Sufferer" of Sequence 3 can inflict the suffering he has endured on the target, that is, reproduce the attack he has suffered, and the "Sinner" of Sequence 2 can return his state to any moment in the past. Although the consent of the current holder is required when it comes to the power of uniqueness, I think his father will help him solve this problem.

Just, just...

As the end of the world approaches and the barrier outside the earth becomes increasingly thin, the "Ring of Fate" finally joins forces with other outer gods to infiltrate the earth in advance. Before the end of the world, a Sequence 1 archangel descends into the barrier and plans the "Key of Light" in advance.

Amon saw this opportunity and wanted to exchange the fate of the "Angel of Redemption" to accommodate the Beyonder characteristics of the "Angel of Redemption" and jump to Sequence 1 corresponding to the "Ring of Fate". However, he did not expect...

The "Lord of Mysteries" opened a gap in the barrier of the Western Continent, and Alice, who claimed to be the Goddess of Light but was actually the "Wheel of Fortune", entered the Western Continent. When Amon was ready with the help of his father, the new "Key of Light" was born, and fulfilled the "Light of Redemption" she wrote in the Holy Scripture, swallowing the extraordinary characteristics of the "Angel of Redemption".

All his preparations were in vain, and he was even ridiculed. Of course, Amon would not be happy. But after laughing at Amon, Alice gave him a new option:

"If you come here and become my angel, I will consider giving you a Sequence 1 copy later. I don't need that many copies anyway~
"How is it, my 'Angel of Redemption'?"

Looking at Alice who was standing in front of Him and holding out her hand, Amon shook that hand without hesitation and responded with a smile: "Okay~"

So, the deal was done.

The Lord of Mysteries, or Klein, was actually very dissatisfied with this. He once privately asked Alice why she did this and got a reasonable answer:

"Hey, don't you think it would be fun to let the embodiment of fraud and mischief be the 'angel of salvation'? Just imagine, when you think you are finally going to be saved, you find out that it is all a prank..."

Then, Klein covered his face and left to ask Grisha Adam for advice on parenting.

Soon after Amon returned, he met his former and current colleague Ouroboros, who had been transferred to become the Pope. After a brief thought, he looked through the Holy Scriptures of the Church of Fools. When he realized that the "Angel of Time" was still among them, Amon did not hesitate to find the "Lord of Mysteries" and asked him if he had any idea of ​​replacing the Pope, and frankly stated that he was interested in this position.

...Then, the Lord of Mysteries deleted Him from the Holy Scriptures and replaced Him with Pales Zoroast.

……

Alice was still enjoying this game of hide-and-seek. As Amon guessed, if she really didn't want to be found by Ouroboros, it would be easy.

In the final analysis, the reason Ouroboros was able to come to her so quickly was because she was spreading rumors while broadcasting live to Ouroboros...

Although Grisha Adam had reminded her not to be too lively when facing Ouroboros, it was obviously of no use.

The main reason here was that Grisha Adam had no time to take care of her. After asking Alice what she thought about those strange words, Grisha Adam went to Klein again with a heavy heart. No one knew what they discussed, but Grisha Adam and Klein left the "Source Castle" with solemn faces and entered the mirror world together.

Afterwards, they saw what it truly meant to “When yin and yang combine, all things come to fruition.”

The original creator is the collection of all contradictions in the world. He is all possibilities and impossibilities. He is both crazy and rational, eager to gather and split, full of self-destructive desires, and yet...

Desire to survive.

The "City of Disaster" is such a special existence. Its two subordinate paths, the "Hunter" path symbolizes war and destruction, and also symbolizes the positive side of the Original Creator; the "Witch" path symbolizes disaster and doomsday, and also symbolizes the negative side of the Original Creator.

And the "Original Witch" Chike, together with the "Blood Emperor" Tudor, actually planned to combine the negative and positive aspects of the Original Creator into one, so that a rational and sober Original Creator could be born!
——He even created a prime creator in the mirror.

Of course, when Klein and Grisha Adam discovered all this, the Prime Creator in the Mirror had not yet been truly born and was only a prototype. However, Chick had already changed his fifth honorific name to "The Prime Creator in the Mirror", which made people doubt how much sanity He still had.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but Chike's fourth honorific name is "the female body of the original God", and the "City of Disaster" also has traces left by the "Original God", which makes it particularly difficult to deal with this matter. The "City of Disaster" is like a bomb at this moment, and it may explode if you don't know which wire is cut wrong.

When Alice learned of this, she responded:

"No wonder the old names of the 'City of Disaster', 'Destruction of the Natural Disaster' and 'Origin of the Disaster', are actually a bunch of bullshit, right?

"But I'm still very surprised. I originally thought that the reason why the 'Original Witch' was hostile to all female witches was because of her jealousy. I didn't expect it was because of the original creator in the mirror?
"Tsk, this is not fun anymore..."

She shook her head and sighed in disappointment, leaving Klein, who had accepted Grisha Adam's advice and came to inquire, with nothing to show for it. (End of this chapter)