Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 545 The Fool and the Waiter

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Antigonus was determined to die, and after receiving the promise from what he believed to be the Lord of Mysteries, he had nothing more to say. Klein was slightly affected by the other party's emotions and thought of his own affairs.

"Would your sister want you to do this?" Klein couldn't help but ask politely.

Antigonus smiled and shook his head:

"No one knows what my sister hopes for anymore."

After these words were spoken, Sefirah Castle fell into an unspeakable silence.

"I long to die, I long to sleep, I long to return... I long to truly become a part of history..."

When Klein heard these words, he felt numb.

Although comparing who was in more pain was a foolish and disrespectful act, after hearing this, Klein suddenly felt that Antigonus seemed quite similar to himself - both were people living in the past, their families and histories had completely disappeared, and they were both pursuing power to protect the people important to them. The difference was that Antigonus had everything taken away from him, until the end, only revenge and a desire to die were left, while he said goodbye to the people important to him in person for the sake of power, and now he had no relatives, but he still had to move on.

Thinking of this, Klein couldn't help but lower his voice and asked:
"What kind of death do you want?"

Realizing the emotion he was revealing, he quickly added nonchalantly after saying this: "This is also part of an equal exchange. Your death and dedication satisfy me, so I will try my best to make your death satisfy you."

Antigonus was not too surprised by this.

Rather than waiting to die without knowing anything, He would rather discuss with the other party how to die, so as not to feel uncomfortable even when dying.

"Actually, that's not important."

He said:

"What's important is that I don't have to live the rest of my life in pain and despair."

After that moment, He was liberated and fell into eternal peace.

His life ended here, and he lives forever in every unknown fragment of history.

In that stagnant world, He could play with His brothers and sisters beside His father without knowing it, He could fall asleep as He pleased while snuggling with His sister, He could overlook His own kingdom of the night from the top of the Hornachis Mountains, He could enjoy the night scenery while listening to His sister's lullaby, and run in the mountains accompanied by the breeze. No one would disturb Antigonus anymore, and Antigonus would not know how painful his future would be.

Precisely because he knew his own death very clearly and was even prepared for the nothingness after death, Antigonus did not want to receive hospice care.

Even if he was given a seemingly beautiful dream of reuniting with his family and sister, it was essentially a deception.

He didn't want to see this kind of thing, as it would be equivalent to tearing open His scars once again. Self-righteous comfort and sweet dreams would be like a blunt knife cutting the flesh.

Therefore, Antigonus suppressed the last bit of his instinctive desire to survive and the fear of the nihilistic death, and said:
"If possible, I hope you can kill me directly. But I also know that even if I become a puppet, my thoughts will slow down for a moment and I will be afraid instinctively... It is simply a luxury to die without any pain."

“Okay,” Klein said.

Seeing Antigonus looking up at him, he repeated it.

"Your request can be met."

"I will kill you silently, without any pain or even awareness of your own death."

The fact that the Demon of Knowledge wiped out Silver City and Moon City gave Klein some inspiration. The 20,000 people all disappeared in an instant, and they had no idea what they had experienced when they were "resurrected and reshaped" on the beach. Combined with Sefirah Castle, the first "painless killing" method that Klein thought of was to directly use the power of Sefirah Castle to stop Antigonus' will instantly, and then disappear, which was equivalent to killing him.

"Really? That's great. Thank you."

"But, before that..."

Klein did not intend to reveal his true control over Sefirah Castle. Although he was now basically equivalent to "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun", the Lord of Sefirah Castle, with full control and affinity, as soon as he took action, the other party would see that his use of Sefirah Castle's abilities was not strong enough.

As a fortune teller, Klein used Sefirah Castle most often for divination and blessing.

Klein hasn't been a "Master of Miracles" for 48 hours. As for the "Servant of Mysteries", "The Fool"... how will he play the role of "Servant"?How would you serve the mysteries without the Lord of Mysteries? What exactly does “secret” authority mean?Is it "creepy" and "secret", or "mysterious"? ... Not to mention the authority and extraordinary ability of the other two paths, they simply don't know anything about it.

...It was indeed correct to be the "door" for more than ten minutes, but I was soon scolded by the "door" itself. If I say that I have a deep understanding of how to use the power of the "door", it is absolutely impossible... Mystical knowledge requires a lot of accumulation. Klein does not want to use the "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun Authority Automatic Retrieval Device" to look at the cheat sheet in front of Antigonus, which will make his image weird and embarrassing.

But shouldn't the Lord of Mysteries know anything about his own path?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.

So, in order to avoid exposing his weakness, Klein came up with a solution.

He decided to use Antigonus.

"Don't you want to do it yourself?" he asked with a smile.

Antigonus frowned at first, then frowned even more tightly. He had no idea what Klein was talking about. "What do you mean? You don't have to insult a dying man like me. If I had the ability to take revenge, I wouldn't be lying half-dead now."

"Half a fool."

Klein emphasized the other party's title, and then spoke in a more meaningful and tempting tone:
"Don't you really want to avenge yourself? Don't you want to kill Bader Heil yourself?"

"Haha, didn't you take a gamble and choose to aggregate the Beyonder Characteristics when you were at the top of Mount Honachis? You wanted to use the power of uniqueness to aggregate the other two Beyonder Characteristics, become a crazy 'Fool', and then go fight."

"All the people and things related to the 'Fortune Teller' in the world are approaching you and worshipping you. It's such a grand scene."

It was indeed a grand scene, which could be said to occur only once in a hundred years, or even a thousand years, or even ten thousand years.

On Earth, there are few beings that possess uniqueness who dare to use the method of "releasing the influence of the original will in the body" to forcibly absorb characteristics. They would rather use the extraordinary aggregation principle to slowly search, because they can always find it anyway.

Klein's original intention was to provoke the opponent, but he accidentally made his words sound weird. Fortunately, Antigonus neither intended to refute nor thought that the Lord of Mysteries' personality was strange.

"But you didn't expect that even desperate aggregation still didn't make them appear."

“You just rushed forward like that, and then…” Klein laughed, “You were beaten half to death and almost reunited with your sister. You even needed Bethel to save you.”

"So, you don't want to do anything now?"

Antigonus took a deep breath. He now felt that his humanity and wolf nature were full, and he wanted to rush up and give him two breaths.

After enduring for a long time, He finally said:
"Just tell me what you need me to do."

...Klein rubbed his nose in his heart. Perhaps the life of a fortune teller is to scold the riddler, understand the riddler, and become the riddler. However, seeing that Antigonus still didn't understand what he meant, he felt that his goal was almost achieved. There was no point in continuing to riddle like this, so he said directly:
"Do you want to experience the power of the Fool at the end of your life?"

“Heh, don’t look at me like that. I just want to know, if I give up this seat, would you dare to sit on it…” As he spoke, Klein loosened his folded hands, looked into Antigonus’ eyes, and pretended to leave the Fool’s seat.

"Do you want to do it yourself, or do you expect me to avenge you and remain a 'half fool' until you die?"

Antigonus stared at Klein dully.

Klein still maintained his hidden smile, pressed his hands on the armrests of the chair, and stood up lightly.

In an instant, the gray mist covering him dissipated, revealing the true face of Klein Moretti.

The white shirt and dark vest were buttoned up meticulously. He wore a formal tuxedo and a dark red tie. The silver-white tie buckle was low-key and eye-catching, which further highlighted the formality of the clothes. The leather boots under the black suit pants were polished to a new shine. He was not wearing a hat, revealing his soft black hair and a young, bookish face.

Under the wispy bangs, a pair of black eyes looked at Him with a smile.

Such a face is suitable to appear in the library, in the clerk's position, in the university or on the streets of the city... The Lord of Mysteries has such a face, Antigonus couldn't help but frowned, but then he was relieved, after all, he is a faceless man.

It doesn't matter what the Lord of Mysteries looks like, he just wants to know what the hell this top riddleman is talking about.

Then, He saw Klein quickly stand to the side of the chair and perform a somewhat exaggerated salute to Antigonus who was sitting on the chair. Then Klein stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

Antigonus looked at him and felt that the other person's lofty and mysterious temperament disappeared in an instant, disappearing without a trace, leaving only a capable, refreshing and youthful aura.

——He suddenly became a “waiter”!
“So that’s how it is…” He muttered to himself as if he had realized something.

He felt like he understood something, and in an instant he had a deeper understanding of the role of Sequence One and Sequence Zero in this path, but he couldn't put it into words.

Lack of ability, pretending to be a ghost... Klein felt a little nervous. He was worried that even after he had done so much, Antigonus still wouldn't dare to act rashly. Even if he didn't feel embarrassed when he returned, it would be easy for him to be discovered if he used Sefirah Castle in front of a real veteran "fortune teller."

Fortunately, after Antigonus understood what he meant, he stood up without hesitation.

He strode to the seat of The Fool at the top, looked at Klein deeply, and said calmly:

“You are so confident.”

Confident that he is the incarnation of Sefirah Castle, the original will, he doesn't even mind inviting another high-ranking person to control the Sefirah - if this isn't confidence, what is it? This can even be called contempt! This proves that He doesn't care who comes, even if you are the King of Angels or a "half-fool", it will be of no use. He can take back Sefirah Castle at any time if He wants.

Klein just smiled and didn't answer:

"I'm just a waiter and don't understand what you mean."

"Please start, Mr. Fool."

Antigonus gave him a long look, then sat down squarely in the Fool's seat.

Klein secretly controlled the authority of the Origin Castle and gave more than half of it to Antigonus. Under the premise that Bethel, Amon, and Antigonus, the three unique holders, were still alive, although Klein had full control, there was not much he could give away.

As soon as Antigonus sat down, he instantly felt as if his body had become a part of this space. He could control the gray mist flowing around him at will, change the furnishings in this space at will, bring others to Sefirah Castle, use the status of Sefirah Castle to enhance his divination, and use the breath of gray mist to pollute others. Almost all of his extraordinary abilities were also enhanced.

"Half Fool" smiled softly, and he naturally found a more comfortable position on the seat, then stretched out his hand, and directly selected one of the crimson stars.

——It was His own body.

……

Without anyone noticing, Antigonus, who was thought to be in a state of near-death, very slowly opened one eye.

Antigonus was still in a dying state. The thin black line extending from his body went up all the way, piercing through the sky of the spiritual world, passing the seven lights, until it was connected to the fingertips of a great being with a tall figure sitting above the endless gray fog.

His dark wolf eyes rolled, scanning the spiritual sky, and then looked at Bethel Abraham in the distance.

Antigonus was not surprised to see that Bethel was also covered with gray mist, but Bethel himself seemed unaware of it. The mist surrounded His upper body, as if an invisible hand covered Bethel's eyes and ears.

"Fooling..."

Then, He began to look for the God of War.

The Warrior Path had a strong intuition, but it did not have a premonition of fatal danger. Therefore, Antigonus did not return to his body. Instead, he controlled himself from a distance with the Spirit Thread, turning himself into a secret doll while preventing Badhair from having any sense of crisis about this almost corpse.

He did not see the god of war, but Antigonus saw him clearly through the gray fog.

Badhair used the skill of turning into light to hide in the light of the spiritual world. He did not move at a high speed. Instead, he stood in front of Bethel and approached the opponent at a speed so slow that his movement was almost invisible.

Bethel's perception seemed to be slightly "faulty", and he was trying to use his mind and reconnaissance abilities to find Badhair. In theory, he should have discovered Badhair's location long ago, but he always strangely strayed from that area and knew nothing about it.

Above the gray fog, Antigonus thought for a moment and looked at Klein Moretti beside him.

Was Bethel “fooled” because the Lord of Mysteries wanted to kill Him?

Of course Klein didn't think so, so he still kept a smile on his face and acted as a quiet waiter without saying a word.

Antigonus looked at him for a few seconds, then turned his head away.

Without any hesitation, he delivered a message to Bethel, asking him to cooperate with his actions and try to kill Badhair as soon as possible. After all, Bethel also had a grudge against the Seven Gods who were hostile to him back then. Then he took away the mist that affected the other party's perception.

After receiving his message, Bethel's expression changed noticeably, as if he saw the endless gray fog and a certain existence above the gray fog overlooking him. However, Antigonus didn't know that what Bethel was thinking about was "Why did Klein suddenly appear in Sefirah Castle?" Although Sefirah Castle only belonged to him temporarily, he still felt relieved when he saw his old acquaintance change color.

"It's time to end it, Badhair..."

Antigonus thought viciously, completely unaware that his expression had turned hideous.

"What do eternal darkness and doomsday have to do with me?"

"I am just a wild wolf. All I want is life and revenge. Before I follow my sister's footsteps and leave, let me use the power of Sefirah Castle to pollute you, torture you, and kill you!"

"Go to hell, Badhair!"

TBC
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