Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 473 Mr. Men's Promotion Sequence 0
“Uh…” Rowling blinked and said frankly, “I forgot.”

Bethel: ?

Bethel was somewhat amused and exasperated, but ultimately said nothing more, only saying, "So when are you going to take care of my little hairy problem?"

“If you have no problem, we can do it now,” Rowling said with a smile.

“Then please give me some time to finish grading these papers,” Bethel said with a smile. He was clearly a very responsible person, so he wouldn’t leave halfway through grading the papers to do something else.

“Sure!” Rowling nodded, then, as if remembering something, asked, “Do you need any help?”

“If you would like,” Bethel said, without refusing.

……

After grading the papers, it was already quite late, so Luo Lin didn't rush to perform surgery on Bethel. Instead, he let Bethel rest for the night and adjust his condition.

Luo Lin also chose to get a good night's sleep to get himself into the best condition.

The next morning, after breakfast, Rowling and Bethel arrived at the familiar alternate dimension.

Because Rosell was with them.

The reason for inviting Rosell was to prevent any accidents from happening during the treatment. After all, as a Sequence 0 and the previous patient, Rosell could both stop Bethel from going berserk in time and provide some reference as a guinea pig.

The surgery proceeded smoothly under these circumstances, and when Bethel awoke from his coma, the contamination on his body had become harmless, just like Russell's.

"Brother, how are you feeling now?" Russell leaned closer to Bethel, waved his hand in front of Bethel's eyes, and then pointed to Rowling beside him when Bethel's gaze followed, asking, "Do you feel any fear when you see this face now?"

Bethel hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's alright. There's some instinctive fear, but it's very mild and can be suppressed by reason."

"Hiss, is this how patients are treated? It's definitely different from guinea pig number one." Rosell gasped dramatically.

Roland glanced at him and said irritably, "Don't you have any idea why you're the number one guinea pig? If you weren't so bad, if you hadn't engaged in colonial rule and done all that mess, with the technological advancements you've guided, you wouldn't have ended up as the number one guinea pig in my hands."

"Ah, this..." Rosell chuckled awkwardly, not refuting anything, after all, He really wasn't a good person, never had been.

Ignoring him, Rowling looked at Bethel, his tone unusually concerned: "Is everything alright?"

“No, I feel great right now.” Bethel smiled, then his expression turned serious. “So I’ve decided to advance to Sequence 0 now.”

"So soon?" Luo Lin raised an eyebrow, not too surprised.

“Time is running out in this world, so advancing sooner is better for everyone,” Bethel sighed and said.

“Alright, I respect your wishes.” Rowling nodded; he always respected his friends’ choices.

On that day, all the doors in the world reacted miraculously at a certain moment, a resonance brought about by the birth of the true God through the doors.

The land forsaken by God, where the true Creator resides—

While Amon was enjoying the free rein of his third father to observe the desecration of the stone slab, he suddenly looked up in a certain direction. As the King of Angels who was the thief's way, he could naturally sense the birth of the "door".

“Bethel…” Amon raised his hand and pushed up his monocle, his expression slightly complicated, but not much regretful.

He knew that now that Bethel had taken this step, He probably really had no chance.

Firstly, while Amon might resent others, he respected his old colleague Bethel. Secondly, Amon had long known he couldn't become the Lord of Mysteries, so he accepted it relatively well. "That's fine..." Amon suddenly smiled, a smile tinged with relief, and prepared to continue studying the Profane Tablet.

The true creator, who had been quietly waiting in the shadows, suddenly spoke up at this moment: "If you had possessed humanity like you do now before, perhaps that position would have belonged to you."

"Spare me, I can't bear that responsibility, even in my current state." Amon's true form shook his head and said, "Don't have too high expectations of me. I am not a good person like you, the true creator."

The true Creator seemed to sigh, then remained silent for a few seconds before suddenly saying, "Isn't it Third Father?"

Amon paused for a moment before saying, "I'll deal with that guy sooner or later."

This naturally refers to Little Amon.

The true creator smiled upon hearing this and said, "But isn't He also you?"

Amon himself did not refute this and continued to study the blasphemous tablet.

The true Creator seemed somewhat pleased and quietly went back to the shadows to grow mushrooms.

……

"Tsk, Bethel has also been promoted!" On a battlefield in Intis, Medici, who was commanding the rebel army, obviously sensed something as well. He clicked his tongue, somewhat dissatisfied, but not with Bethel's promotion, but with the fact that he himself was still stuck at the level of Angel King.

Fortunately, He will be here soon.

Thinking of this, Medici's lips curled up into a carefree smile.

During this period, with His help and that of the Republic, the uprisings in various countries have progressed smoothly. Soon, this transformation that has swept across the north and south continents will come to an end, and at that time, Medici will naturally complete the ritual of advancing to Sequence 0.

As for Medici's missing Sequence 1 trait—during this time in Intis, Medici did more than just command battles; he did something else entirely.

Soon, Medici will be able to obtain the Conqueror's characteristics from the Mirror World.

And another characteristic of the conqueror...

“The Primordial Witch…” Medici narrowed his eyes as he thought of the recent intelligence sent by William I.

That guy hasn't been behaving himself lately; perhaps he should make some preparations in advance.

……

"Mr. Bethel, you've been promoted to Sequence 0?"

When Bethel and Rowling returned to Abraham's camp, Little Keton, who had been waiting there, came up to them and asked with some anticipation.

As the owner of the Source Castle, he was actually somewhat aware of what had just happened.

"Well, it went fairly smoothly." Bethel nodded with a smile, then hesitated for a moment before saying, "If you're willing, I'll try to initially integrate with the Source Castle over the next period of time."

Although Bethel has not yet acquired the uniqueness of the error and the sequence one property, nor the uniqueness of the Fool and the sequence one property, just as Klein became the master of the Source Castle in the original work when he was in sequence 2, Bethel can naturally try to accommodate the Source Castle in the beginning after becoming sequence 0.

“Of course I would!” Little K nodded quickly, without a second’s hesitation, and said, “If there’s anything I can do to help, Mr. Bethel, please don’t hesitate to ask.”

(End of this chapter)