Mystery: Becoming a Creator Through the Doorway

As for what to do after Klein boards the "Fool"?

The real and the fake Monkey King, the real and the fake Fool?

An Ruowang could only say, "You are the one who came."

I imagine Klein will probably think he's a fake, but then accidentally receive a prayer pointing to the real one, and get scared half to death.

Abraham thought "The Fool" was Antigonus, but Klein knew he wasn't, and had even stolen the other's name.

Haha, anyway, I wasn't the one who got scared.

"Is this... a request from 'The Fool'?"

Upon hearing An Ruowang's suggestion, Dorian's first reaction was not surprise, but an instinctive wariness, like seeing a snake.

Praying to a great being is dangerous; this is one of the most basic common sense facts in the occult.

As a member of an ancient family, Dorian knew all too well how dangerous it was to have faith in an unknown being, even if that being had some connection to the Abraham family.

It's normal for the Fool to need an anchor since he's not in a good state, but Abraham might be burdened with other curses because of the Fool's solution to Mr. Door's delirium.

An Ruowang shook her head, giving Dorian a heads-up:

"It's not a request, nor is it that the 'Fool' will necessarily respond just because you pray. It's not even certain that He will accept your prayers."

"In this most critical moment, since we're all going to die anyway, why don't you give it a try? It's just a suggestion, a last resort."

"you're right……"

Dorian nodded, agreeing that it made a lot of sense: "If I really can't hold on any longer, I will try to believe in your Lord."

No, you've misunderstood.

An Ruowang immediately shook his head:

"You're wrong. My faith is in the goddess of night."

As he spoke, he tapped his chest four times clockwise.

Fool?

Irrelevant.

Dorian was bewildered: "?"

Not a buddy?

You work for the "Fool," yet you worship the "Goddess of Night"?

Moreover, if he remembered correctly, Antigonus's Night Kingdom was destroyed by the Church of the Night, right?

Could there be some hidden story behind this...?

Or is it that "The Fool" has a special fondness for Aleister, that there is something special about him that makes "The Fool" so forgiving?

It seems that the thoughts of a great being are beyond his comprehension.

An Ruowang did not offer much explanation for this.

He wrote the Fool's three-part honorific name on the paper in Old Hermetic, then folded the paper and handed it to Dorian:

"Inside is the honorific name of 'The Fool'."

Dorian took the folded piece of paper, but instead of unfolding it, he carefully and solemnly tucked it into his bosom and placed it close to his body.

An Ruowang watched him finish doing all this and then asked:

"Now, can you give me what I want?"

Dorian paused for a moment, then nodded:

"……Can."

He pointed to a decoration on his classic robe, a "gate" pattern made of three rubies, three emeralds, and three diamonds.

"This is a magical item that can teleport," Dorian explained, "and its corresponding attribute is Sequence 5 'Traveler' in the Apprentice Path."

He borrowed it from another member of the family, Vidur.

Dori paused for a moment, raised his arm, and smiled:

"Please hold my arm tightly, I'll take you to get it now. If you don't mind, you can stay for dinner there. Abraham's other people also want to get to know you."

"OK."

An Ruowang nodded, feeling there was no problem.

He stood up and straightened his clothes:

"Please wait a moment. I usually go to the restroom before leaving the house, and then I need to inform the servants."

"...Please go ahead." Dorian naturally had no objections.

An Ruowang turned on the tap, letting the cold water wash over her fingers.

He looked up at his reflection in the mirror above the sink and asked softly:

"When you're in the shadows, can you be teleported with me?"

Although "vengeful spirits" can freely enter and leave the spirit world and move freely within it, they do not have the ability of "travelers" to locate their own place and sense the outside world.

In the mirror, An Ruowang's face rippled, gradually transforming into Sharon's face.

She nodded and replied:

"Can."

When she hid in An Ruowang's shadow, it could be considered a certain degree of "possession," thus allowing her to move with An Ruowang's movements.

An Ruowang turned off the tap, took a towel and wiped her hands:

"Is there anything you'd like to ask?"

Sharon's eyes flickered slightly: "..."

She did have many questions: Tamara, Abraham, the Fool, stellar pollution, and whether there was any connection between the "Full Moon Whispers" and the "curse of the Prisoner Path Beyonder becoming stronger during the full moon"...

She had so many questions she didn't know where to begin.

Finally, she simply shook her head, and the image in the mirror faded and disappeared.

Before long, An Ruowang returned to the living room, grabbed Dorian's arm, and prepared to teleport.

Dorian took a deep breath, raised his other hand, and gently tugged at the "door"-shaped decoration.

Almost instantly, the classic robe tightened.

An invisible force surged in from all directions. Dorian felt his muscles being squeezed and bulging, his bones making a slight cracking sound, and his breathing becoming extremely difficult.

Just as Dorian's ribs were about to break, the two figures gradually faded and disappeared from the spot.

In the basement of a house in South Wales.

As soon as the two figures came into view, Dorian bent over, his hands on his knees, panting heavily, as if he had finally recovered from suffocation.

An Ruowang released her grip, looking at his face, which was slightly pale from the pain, and was somewhat taken aback:

"...Does this happen every time I teleport?"

After taking several deep breaths, Dorian straightened up, enduring the pain and sweat beading on his forehead.

His right rib was still throbbing, and each breath felt like a punch landing there. He answered with great difficulty:

"...If I had a magical item that could enhance my physical abilities, it would be much better."

An Ruowang's expression became somewhat subtle:

"...Why didn't you ask me for the Sword of Law?"

Dorian looked at him, paused for a second, and then gave a weak smile:

"It's already yours. If you try to get it back before the teleportation, I'm afraid you'll misunderstand."

An Ruowang sighed, took out the "Navigator's Hat" from the small world, put it on his head, and then infused it with spirituality.

Immediately afterwards, he raised his hand, making a gesture of covering Dorian's right rib area.

Fine, pale blue specks of light appeared from his palm, as if drawn by some force, and slowly drifted toward Dorian's wound.

They seeped into Dorian's body without wetting his clothes, like water seeping into parched land, silently and imperceptibly.

At the same time, Dorian felt a cool, warm current flow into his right rib, and the stinging sensation was visibly subsiding.

Of the four elements—earth, water, wind, and fire—water is probably the one that people associate with healing.

The Sailor pathway Sequence 7 "Navigator" does indeed possess water-based healing abilities, though not particularly powerful, they are at least sufficient.