Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 214 213 In My Name
Fooling both time and fate.

This is the simplified version of the deification ceremony that Tang chose for himself.

In order to ensure that the ritual can play a sufficient role and maximize the role of the ritual's essence when conditions are met, this is the basic quality of a fortune teller's angel.

Magicians never perform unprepared performances.

"The past, present and future are intertwined, which fools time."

The invisible holy light that was pulled out from the historical pores and images turned into a dazzling light after entering the real world. This light penetrated the walls of the hall and the thick darkness here, and radiated crazily to the entire foggy town with the church as the center.

In the misty town that was no longer hidden, the red moon above was suddenly obscured by the dazzling light.

The bright light instantly engulfed the entire foggy town. This was the 'City of the Dead' created by Antigonus. It was the night city that the former fortune teller and angel king ruled together with the 'Mother of Heaven' before he went mad.

The stars in the sky keep twinkling, like one blinking eye after another.

Now, in the world engulfed by brilliant light, the broken walls and ruins were being repaired, weathering disappeared, collapses were restored, and the rotten marionettes that had fallen on the streets stood up again one after another. The rotten flesh and bones on their faces and bodies were recovering, and the rotten clothes were being reshaped.

The ashes reappeared their original plain appearance on their bodies, restoring the 'City of the Dead' that belonged to the Marionette.

Rather than saying that this is an image of historical gaps dragged out by ancient scholars, it is better to say that the time of the entire "City of the Dead" is rapidly regressing.

Ben lost control, and the puppets that had fallen to the ground and turned completely into corpses stood up again.

They are no longer as stiff as before.

There were sincere smiles on their faces.

The marionettes who believed in the Mother of Heaven were manipulated by the threads of spiritual order before their death, and walked into the City of the Dead in a tight and orderly manner, becoming the marionettes of Antigonus, and 'living' in this not-so-big town.

The former city of the dead once again appeared under the cover of countless lights.

This fooled time, causing the scene that had been destroyed a hundred years ago, the City of the Dead when Antigonus was not crazy, to emerge on the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains in the Fifth Age!
"I am the Attendant of the Mysteries, the angel who serves the mysteries, the Most High, the Observer."

And this, this fooled fate.

After being promoted to Sequence 1, the seedling in Tang's body, symbolizing his 'self', began to grow rapidly. It took root in his spiritual body, absorbed nutrients, and grew vigorously.

He is him, but he is not just him.

The holy light that was pulled out did not just represent such a near-miraculous reversal of time.

Nicholas looked around, and then the angel king who was the thief's path looked up, at the sky, as if he had penetrated through layers of barriers and saw an unknown existence.

In the starry sky, within the invisible barrier.

The illusory, ostentatious, supreme, great figure that seemed to overlook the entire world opened its arms, looked at the endless starry sky, and quietly accepted the countless strange faces and countless crazy gazes outside the barrier.

There were countless Old Ones who were attracted by the Essence, or who had lost their own Essence and were staying here, trying to get the food back.

That is the most powerful Outer God in the entire universe. He stands at the pinnacle of all things, a symbol and a pillar.

"I am the past, the present, and the future..."

'It's the cause, the result, and the process...'

"I am both high above and hidden from the world..."

'I have witnessed creation, and I have also witnessed destruction...'

"I, in my own name—"

"The master of time and space, the highest dimension, the destiny—"

Wrapped in an invisible force that continuously radiated in all directions, the illusory figure passed through the barrier that protected the entire world but had already cracked, and slowly stepped into the real starry sky.

Those countless distorted faces, crazy spirits, pieces of swollen flesh and explosions of desire...all of them rolled towards him madly, but passed through them and collided with the invisible barrier.

They could not penetrate the barrier and follow the route taken by the other party to go deeper into it.

Why why why—

Who is who is who——

Catch it...

Catch him——!
This discovery angered the beings living on certain planets, and when they focused their attention on the ethereal figure walking out of the barrier, the other party's body had already begun to disintegrate piece by piece.

Countless brilliant fragments merged into the starry sky above the astral realm, and turned into nutrients for something within the object protected by the invisible barrier, helping it to flourish, grow more branches, and extend upward.

The sapling in Tang's body grew bigger, and the Euclidean space was vibrating. It was rising, covering the high-dimensional space of the whole world, and was eroding outward bit by bit.

It was beating and trembling, as if at this moment, in this eternal and unchanging space, something even more terrifying and incomprehensible was being conceived.

It needs nutrients, nutrients that can help it grow again!

The main peak of the Honachis Mountains, in the foggy town.

In the hall, the mask with half a pupilless eye and half a twisted line symbol engraved on it was gradually merging into Tang's body, enough to serve as the unique containment ritual for the deification ceremony, and the ceremony was completed quite perfectly.

He fooled both time and fate at the same time. At this moment of interaction, if Tang had the Beyonder characteristic on Sefirah Castle in his hand, he might have become the Fool.

A new 'Half Fool' was about to be born. At this moment, Tang took out a crystal-carved monocle from his pocket and put it into his right eye socket.

Nicolas Flamel, the Sequence 1 Angel King, perfectly completed a BUG with such a symbolic action.

He replaced Tang's identity, he parasitized his own puppet master, and through the connection of mysticism, he stole the other party's authority and identity at an extremely fast speed, replaced the other party's ritual effect, and prepared to begin to accommodate the uniqueness of the thief's path!
A clone belonging to Nicolas Flamel, who was standing not far from Tang, also raised his hand. He was ready to steal the Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic and the mask that had just been taken into Tang's body, as well as all of the Beyonder characteristics from Sequence 2 to Sequence 9.

'Resurrection from the dead' is a miracle. Tang is ready to die, and through the miracle worker's four chances of resurrection from the dead, he is resurrected again and stops his own move to accommodate uniqueness!

But the translucent mask was out of control at this time. Not only was it not controlled by Nicolas Flamel's clone, but it also did not leave Tang's face regretfully because Tang was replaced and lost its object.

The uniqueness of the Diviner's Path had been absorbed into the parasite, Nicola Flamel, the King of the Thieves. Nicola, having replaced the host, discovered this, but he wasn't surprised by the sudden change, as if he had already predicted it.

"The will of the Celestial Lord is clearly evident in Antigonus. This Lord of Mysteries clearly knows what I intend to do. How could he so easily let go of the uniqueness of the Diviner's Path, which is deeply bound to Antigonus?"

As a top-level fraudster, Tianzun behaved so obviously, there was only one possibility.

This is an open conspiracy. The other party has observed the ripples of fate and is certain that he will use the uniqueness of the fortune teller's path as a medium and a simplified version of the deification ceremony to accommodate the uniqueness of the thief's path.

So, whether you resist or cooperate, the final result will be like this.

This situation is the same as that in the Western Continent. Everyone knows that it was the work of the Heavenly Venerable, but they cannot prevent the birth of a new Lord of Mysteries, giving the Heavenly Venerable Fusheng Xuanhuang the opportunity to return.

“The most sinister conspiracy is often an open conspiracy.”

Even if you know that there is something wrong with this matter, you have to jump into the pit, just like everyone knows that the Lord of Mysteries must be born, otherwise no one can escape the coming of doomsday.

Now, Nicholas has replaced Don's identity and destiny, and is about to use Don's rituals to accommodate the uniqueness of the thief's path.

The translucent mask is about to be completely integrated into Tang's body.

The parasite has completed the parasitism, and Nicola's clone is ready to steal Tang's extraordinary characteristics and bring him back to life.

At the same time, at this moment, a bright light flashed in Tang's eyes.

Countless brighter crystals appeared around him, enveloping his body and forming a cube that floated in the air and emitted a faint glow.

Tang put himself in the 'cat box'.

"After entering the unobservable state, the 'cat box' entered a superposition state of two possibilities: I could accommodate the uniqueness of the diviner's path, and Nicholas could accommodate the uniqueness of the thief's path."

The former will result in him becoming the 1+1 Angel King of the Fortune Teller Path, while the latter will result in Nicholas becoming the 2+1 Angel King.

Only Nicholas, who entered the Thief's Path through the uniqueness of the Diviner's Path, could make the Will of the Celestial Lord expand and activate in an instant, allowing the other party to have a deeper impact on the Source Castle, and thereby recover the extraordinary characteristics of Tang the Mysterious Servant and the Mysterious Servant's extraordinary characteristics in Antigonus.

In this way, the return is completed.

This is the consequence of one of the possibilities in the 'cat box' superposition state, so equilibrium occurs.

"However, before the 'Cat Box' is released, I can use the abilities of Nicholas Sequence 1 Angel King and the newly acquired power of the Mystical Servant."

He is both himself and now also Nicolas Flamel.

Since he had decided to confront the Lord of Mysteries, a top-level fraudster, Tang would not underestimate the incarnation of the original will personality, the master of Source Castle, and one of the most powerful pillars.

Even though He has long since died, His will and spirit remain forever in the bodies of all Beyonders and cannot be erased.

"Now I am in the superposition state of two unique containment rituals," Tang pinched the monocle in his right eye socket, but he was not panicked at all, and communicated with Nicholas who parasitized him.

The worst that could happen was that they just couldn't accommodate it. It wasn't a big deal if he and Nicholas gave up the ritual and just used uniqueness as an extraordinary item.

"If it weren't for the fact that my acceptance of uniqueness prevented my past self from directly accessing the historical pore images of the future, becoming a 'half-fool' wouldn't be such a big deal."

He looked at Nicholas's clone outside the 'cat box', then knocked on the barrier of the 'cat box' and asked Nicholas, "What is the essence of the incorrect apotheosis ritual you mentioned?"

"Creating a massive mistake, replacing the other person's fate, identity, and personhood, and using the other person's fate, identity, and personhood to fulfill one's own fate and misplaced position... From an occult perspective, as long as the person being replaced possesses an extremely high status, this ritual can also be completed."

Rituals are not the goal, and not all rituals are set in stone.

As the angel king of thieves, Nicholas obviously understood the role of the apotheosis ceremony.

Theoretically, unique accommodation can be achieved by designing an equally effective ceremony.

Why would he replace the Angel King, who was in the middle of a promotion ceremony? It was because he was closest to the pinnacle of the Sequence Path at that moment, but hadn't yet reached Sequence 0.

The apotheosis ritual failed, and the person being replaced perished or had their status lowered. As a bug that had become a true god, all the wrong incarnations could naturally exclude the replaced person's three Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics and the uniqueness of this path.

If the person being replaced is a true god, then the wrong deification ceremony can also be performed.

However, this method of becoming a god, not to mention how high the possibility of completion is, becomes a bug of Sequence 0. If the Sequence 0 that is replaced is not the Apprentice or the Diviner's path, then it is very likely that it will have to bear all the Sequence 0 extraordinary characteristics and uniqueness that accommodate the Sequence 1 of two different paths.

Unable to expel the extraordinary characteristics and uniqueness that do not belong to this path in a short period of time, half-madness is the best outcome.

"Well," Tang sighed, "Thinking about it, Tianzun is pretty miserable."

Ah, think about it, in such a short period of time, he deceived Tianzun twice or three times?

At this moment, above the unreachable starry realm, in the vast starry sky.

"I am the past, the present, and the future..."

'It's the cause, the result, and the process...'

Magnificent and overlapping sounds echoed in the 'cat box'.

“Look, isn’t this a ready-made ritual?”

Tang, who was in the superposition state of the 'cat box', once again pinched the monocle in his right eye socket and said mockingly.

His simplified version of the deification ritual fooled time and fate.

When fate intertwined and diverged, Tang was now both his Sequence 1 self and the illusory projection from the 'future' that served as nourishment.

That illusory projection possesses the status, authority and power of the realm of destiny.

"How can this not be considered as me replacing myself, and me, at a certain moment, replacing someone from the past?"

Since there is something wrong with him as a fortune teller, wouldn't it be enough to just find a replacement?
It's not like this is the only alternative.

(End of this chapter)