Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 164 163 Playing Cards with the Fortune Teller
"Zaratul has always been carrying that Secret Order artifact, a Level 2 Seal belonging to a Sequence 0 Miracle Master of the same Path."

"For an unprepared magician, encountering an ambush in a sufficiently safe and relaxed environment, the ambushed magician's sanity will naturally decline to its lowest point due to the constant, forced battles and the inability to prepare for the performance in a timely manner."

"And the high-ranking individuals of the three Gou clans, especially those of the diviner clan, had no prior rehearsal. Their reactions to this situation would obviously be inconsistent with the cunning and terrifying nature they normally display."

The extraordinary people of the Diviner's Path naturally understand the extraordinary nature of the Diviner's Path better.

My weaknesses are also your weaknesses, and my weaknesses are naturally your weaknesses.

"When entering the secret base of the Order, the main body is deep in the mists of history. Unaware of any anomalies, Zaratul will be relatively relaxed. His spirit will be influenced by other high-ranking individuals, disrupting his diviner's intuition. However, because this concerns his own safety, his spirit will involuntarily become alert... Zaratul, who has detected some anomalies deep within his spirit, will attribute these anomalies to other causes."

"As an ancient scholar, Zaratul was clearly extremely confident in the fragments of light he controlled within the mist of history. He didn't realize that above the mist of history, beings in higher dimensions had already quietly cast their gaze upon it."

"The Dark Wolf Kotal, as an angel equally familiar with the Mist of History and a higher order angel, this God of Wishes naturally possesses a greater control and mastery over the Mist of History than even the ancient scholars."

"The law of Beyonder characteristics convergence is even more materialized among high-ranking individuals. It's not just a matter of fate intertwining... Well, I'll have to pay attention to this in the future. However, I think that before long, all high-ranking individuals in the Diviner's Path who don't exist with Beyonder characteristics will be twisted into my appearance."

Black words danced on the paper. Tang sat in the Euclidean space. The moment Zaratul stepped into this city and entered the mist of history, he used the miracles accumulated in the never-ending theater and made a wish to the theater, allowing the puppets to replace the living beings here and weave a real and false world in Indo City.

And those ordinary people who were replaced silently will return to the real world after Zaratul leaves and lose their memories for a period of time.

With such a big movement and so many secret dolls, as a strong man of the same path, Zaratul should not be able to detect this abnormality.

Unfortunately, Tang's secret puppets are very different from normal secret puppets. Just by looking at the abnormality of the spirit thread, it is difficult to detect that these secret puppets have been suspended in the air for a long time and are puppets belonging to other people.

As for the extraordinary ability in the field of divination, haha, at the same time there is another ancient scholar, there is the "0" level seal of the Never-Ending Theater, and there is the existence of Kotal, the God of Wishes. Isn't it a very reasonable development to be interfered with?
"I don't know if my future self ever obtained '0-08', or even briefly possessed this '0' level sealed artifact."

He felt that he had great talent as a writer.

Putting down the quill and looking at the parchment in his hand, Tang looked towards the city of Indo, which was outside the Euclidean space and completely overlapped with this world.

This place has become a kingdom of puppets, and everyone is a puppet. When Zaratul realizes this, he should immediately use the seal composed of the extraordinary characteristics of the Miracle Worker that he has been carrying.

'Wish Upon a Star'.

"This is a sealed artifact composed of the Beyonder characteristics of a Sequence 2 Miracle Artist of the Diviner's Path. Normally, it does not exhibit unusual movements or significant activity."

"When a living being with a soul and a strong desire appears near this sealed object, it will gradually revive and gradually take the initiative, showing a tendency to gather towards other living beings or creatures with strong desires."

"When in a low-activity state and not properly and completely sealed, this seal will quietly influence nearby spirits with strong wishes, using the promise of fulfilling their wishes as bait to lure them into making a wish."

When a wish is fulfilled, the activity of this seal will increase, and then it will quietly turn the person who made the wish into its secret doll, which will be hung in the space formed by the seal and become a new star.

The real world has many cities.

The dark wolf Kotar appeared from the cracks in history and looked at Zaratul. The suitcase in Zaratul's hand had quietly opened a gap.

In the cracks, there seemed to be countless twisted and swirling worms forming balls of light. Those balls of light were tiny and dense, like the flourishing stars under the night sky.

There seems to be a complete galaxy in the suitcase, and each star symbolizes a wish made by a wisher in the past.

Those wishes may be ordinary, or involve the extraordinary, or just want some food, or want certain people to die. The various wishes intertwine and form a brilliant starry sky.

Tang saw clearly that those stars were indeed the embodiment of the wishes made by the wishers.

"But let's not call this sealed artifact 'Star's Wish', let's call it 'The Wish of the Heavenly Lord'."

Indeed, those stars are wishes themselves, but inside they are corpses.

Wrapped in the honey are all corpses that have become secret dolls after actively or passively making a wish to this "0" level seal.

They shrank, and were hung on the curtain of what seemed to be a complete world inside the suitcase, becoming one of the many stars.

They are all secret dolls who make wishes to this sealed object.

Ah, the influence of Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun is really terrible. All the high-ranking people in the fortune-telling path like to hang up the secret puppets and treat them as bacon... What, I like it too, then it’s okay.

After deciding to use this "0" level seal with a terrifying negative impact, Zaratul immediately made his first wish.

But he didn't make the wish on his own.

In the pocket of this ancient scholar of the secret order, a paper figure suddenly came to life. Three slits were cut into the flat surface of the paper by something sharp, symbolizing two eyes and a mouth.

Its sound was so faint and faint, but it made the twinkling stars in the suitcase shine even brighter.

This is one of the legacies left by old Zaratul, the Sequence 1 Mystic Servant. It can graft the fate of some users, allowing some of the terrible negative effects of the seal to be borne by the paper figurine.

This is also one of the ways to use paper substitutes at the angel level.

This is the grafting ability of the Mystic Servant.

"I wish I could get away from all the pursuit right now and leave here."

He gave up the many spirit insects he had hidden in the secret doll, gave up this stronghold, and planned to leave here immediately. He used the extraordinary ability of the faceless man to interfere with the tracking through other seals on his body and hide himself.

The suitcase seemed to contain an entire world, with countless stars twinkling brightly, echoing each other. Suddenly, the figure of Zaratul, who was surrounded by the secret puppets, faded rapidly, like an image from a historical pore that did not belong here in the first place, and was about to escape.

'Wish on a Star', fulfilled Zaratul's wish.

The dark wolf Kotal also extended his claws.

The angel didn't attempt to stop the other's miracle, but instead made a wish. "I wish I could travel with this ancient scholar."

This miracle worker also made a wish to himself, and his figure also faded.

Two figures disappeared from Indo City one after another, and the countless secret puppets here also faded away after the two high-ranking fortune tellers disappeared. The real residents of Indo City were once again thrown into this city.

They still maintain what they did and what they were going to do. Perhaps one or two people will find that a period of time in their short and hurried lives has disappeared without a trace for some reason, but they have no time to delve into such unanswered questions, nor can they examine the hidden meanings...

Zaratul, who used the seal to try to escape the pursuit, appeared on the beach of Jianhai County. The suitcase had been locked, but the paper figure in the pocket that went to make a wish to the seal had its neck broken. An illusory and transparent black object floated out of it and entered the closed and locked suitcase, forming a small star that was neither bright nor dazzling.

The danger is not over yet.

This ancient scholar of the Esoteric Order immediately pulled out a pore image from history. This was an apprentice-level Sequence 4 Saint, a mystic master who possessed extraordinary abilities in many spatial fields.

The Mystic Master's Historical Projection grabbed Zaratul's shoulders and quickly took him into the spirit world, attempting to travel through the spirit world and leave Loen.

But in the spiritual world, in a world where countless colorful oil blocks overlap each other, the dark wolf Kotal appeared in it at some unknown time, and two unusual Fulgrim dogs also appeared here.

The Dog of Fulgrim is the guardian of Sefirah Castle, and Sefirah Castle is the source substance above the spirit world and the ruler of the spirit world.

Trying to travel through the spirit world right under the nose of Fulgrim's dog?
"exile!"

The Mystic Master's Historical Aperture Image pulled by Zaratul gave up the control of the spiritual world's travel, and his hands were aimed at the Dog of Fulgrim and the God of Wishes in front of him.

The space fluctuated, but in the next moment, some more powerful force offset the extraordinary ability of Exile.

The saints who belong to the same apprenticeship path, hiding in the unknown space, intervened with the extraordinary power of the historical porous images.

Anjie was hiding in the Euclidean space. When she saw the historical mystic trying to use the extraordinary power of the apprenticeship path, she immediately reduced some of her abilities to respond.

Historical pore images are, after all, images from historical pores. Even if they are deeply entangled with ancient scholars, they cannot fully display the complete power of High-Sequence Beyonders.

In the clash between Anjie and the mystic's historical projection, it was the historical pore image that Zaratul pulled out that was banished to an unknown space, while Zaratul took the opportunity to return to the real world.

Although his first attempt failed, Zaratul was not discouraged.

He had secretly transformed the marionettes around the landing point, and they all reached out their hands to pull out other historical pore images.

Ancient scholars could only draw three historical projections, whether they were people or objects, angels or saints, or ordinary things, there were only three.

The effectiveness of this extremely powerful and high-ceiling extraordinary ability depends on the ancient scholar's own insights and communication.

"Karls has been parasitized by Amon. I don't know why the Angel King didn't chase him, but we must prepare for the worst."

Zaratul controlled the puppets around him, but that terrifying situation appeared again, as if something saw through everything about him, dissected all his thoughts and preparations, and had already blocked any possibility of his struggle.

The same was true for those ordinary people whose spiritual threads were controlled. When his spiritual worm entered the other party's body, these ordinary people who had been transformed into secret puppets made a pulling action together.

But what they pulled out was a huge curtain.

The curtain seems to imply the power of "secret", like a curtain lowered to block the audience's view during a huge performance. After breaking away from the pores of history, it quickly took shape and expanded wildly in the sky.

Zaratul's pupils dilated, and the marionettes that were parasitized by his spirit worms, like the marionettes in Indo City, turned their heads one after another. Their faces were ordinary, yet appeared indifferent and calm, like a pool of bottomless stagnant water.

This was a situation Zaratul had never seen before.

But he didn't have time to think about why this happened. His hands had become heavy, as if he had pulled a huge monster.

High-Sequence Beyonders, especially those on the Diviner Path, like to take one step and look three steps ahead.

After having already encountered a collective rebellion of the marionettes, how could Zaratul not be on guard?

The moment the huge curtain took shape, the spirit insects that entered the bodies of the marionettes and gave them power suddenly went crazy.

These insects huddled together as if they had encountered an incomprehensible, indescribable contamination. Their transparent bodies rapidly shriveled up, forming crazy, terrifying, suffocating monsters with faces, hands and feet.

The curtain's formation was severely damaged, and Zaratul dragged out the images from the historical pores he had summoned.

This is Zaratul!

Sequence 1, the mysterious servant, the one who was sniped by Antigonus and fell, old Zaratul!

"interesting."

Tang adjusted the monocle in his right eye socket. The ancient scholar who had entered the Euclidean space and met up with Tang stretched out his hand and also began to pull the historical pore image.

"It's as if I didn't have it."

I will produce a miracle worker, and you will take care of a sealed item.

You produced a historical projection of a mystic, and I produced a secret puppet of a mystic.

You pull a mysterious waiter historical projection to try to win, and I throw a mysterious waiter future projection to overturn the table.

It’s just playing cards, but he is an old fortune teller.

(End of this chapter)