Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 522 Source Castle and Celestial Venerable

Click.

The gears of time are stuck.

Time-stop pistol, Red Dead Redemption.

However, due to the weakening effect of the external force, Klein's time stop lasted for less than a second, just enough for him to escape from the floor.

Klein turned the head in his hand slightly to the other side, so that the angry face was facing forward.

boom!
The pure pillar of fire covered the spot where Klein had been trapped.

Klein violently tore through the restraints and appeared in a flash.

Ding.

A crisp sound of a gold coin being tossed into the air rang out.

Then came the ticking of the pocket watch and the sound of banknotes.

A brass pendant appeared in Klein's mouth.

It hangs vertically downwards, swaying gently.

Klein's other faces simultaneously opened their mouths, chanting in an ethereal, aria-like tone:
"The crown of the fool is revealed here, a thread hanging down from the gaps in history."

"God so loved the world."

"With three thousand years of slumber as the key, the curtain of spirituality is unveiled here."

"The echoes of history and the future intertwine here."

"Truly, we are slumbering in delusion."

"Listen to the lies that turn established facts into falsehoods."

"Witness this: this is a 'miracle' that comes at a price."

"There are always things that matter more than others."

The rules of the world have been fooled, space itself has been fooled.

The boundary between the spirit world and reality has become blurred.

An ancient castle, hidden in a gray-white mist, appeared above Klein and Zarathustra.

Yuanbao!

card wipe.

The mysterious realm of Zarathustra emitted the sound of shattering glass.

This scene far exceeded Zarathustra's expectations.

He never expected that Klein, who had been forcibly elevated to Sequence Two with the help of external forces but whose essence was only Sequence Four, would be able to pull the Source Castle into reality.

"Ah!" A shrill scream rang out.

Zarathustra swiftly broke free from the fog of history, his body sinking downwards as he plunged into it.

Klein instantly teleported below the Source Castle, and his body immediately underwent another transformation, turning into a vortex of worms with countless slippery tentacles extending out. In the center of the vortex was a strange phantom of a portal of light.

The portal remained still, while the vortex spun rapidly, unleashing a terrifying suction force that forcibly extracted the extraordinary properties from Zarathustra's body bit by bit.

Forced aggregation based on position!
Zarathustra, shrouded in the mists of history, was pulled out and appeared in the air, his body covered in numerous points of light that converged toward Klein.

Zaratu watched helplessly as his extraordinary abilities flew out, faster and faster. By the time Zaratu broke free from the freeze of time and the explosion of his mind, he was no longer able to detach himself. He could only watch with despair and sighs as his body was completely lifted up and fell into that deep, dark worm vortex.

In the mists of history, Zarathustra’s figure appeared time and again, but none could reclaim his extraordinary qualities from him, and he could only fade away in obscurity, unable to be fully resurrected.

Unfortunately, these extraordinary traits are merely historical projections drawn by Zarathustra, not true extraordinary traits.

Zarathustra's status rapidly declined, and his body was torn into pieces.

"Ugh……"

A soft sigh escaped Zarathustra's lips.

But to Klein's surprise, despite his special sensitivity to emotions, he didn't detect fear in the sigh. Instead, he heard an inexplicable, vague sense of helplessness. This feeling seemed quite peculiar…

Zarathustra's body appeared out of thin air in front of Klein.

This seems to be a similar ability to Klein's resurrection, a kind of Noble Phantasm.

Zarathustra was once a miracle worker and also possessed the ability to resurrect.

Unlike Klein's resurrection, which involved sacrificing parts of his body for data, Zarathustra's resurrection seems to have actually made him more powerful.

The suppression of Him by Klein Source Castle has actually been weakened.

I don't know which legend this comes from.

Klein knew very well that Zarathustra was also a miracle worker, and based on this concept, it was within Klein's expectations that Zarathustra possessed a Noble Phantasm with the concept of resurrection.

Klein's vortex of tentacles once again transformed into a doll holding its head.

This time, Klein, with the help of the Source Castle behind him, "dominated" Zarathustra from a higher position.

Zarathustra's eyes glowed red as he stared directly at Klein.

It was a starry sky.

The secret arrives.

Klein's pupils contracted at the feeling; it felt somewhat familiar, as if he had sensed a similar aura before.

Goddess of the Night? Similar... but not exactly...

What is it?
Klein suddenly couldn't remember...

Could Zarathustra's Source Castle be related to the goddess? But...

Klein felt as if his mind was shrouded in a fog, unable to figure out the pros and cons.

As he pondered, Klein's body quickly faded, as if an image had been erased by an eraser.

The connection between Klein and the Source Castle was temporarily concealed, while the extraordinary properties that had just been injected into Klein's body rapidly expanded.

They didn't disappear; instead, they became more real.

For the Lord of Mysteries, truth can become falsehood, and falsehood can become truth.

However, Zarathustra clearly does not possess such an ability.

Therefore, there is only one truth...

A cloud of black mist emerged from Zarathustra's body, bypassed Klein, and headed straight for Source Castle.

Heavenly Lord!

Zarathustra's Noble Phantasm is actually related to the Celestial!
No wonder Zarathustra was reluctant to use his Noble Phantasm during the battle just now!

Even at the risk of being killed by Klein, he refused to use his Noble Phantasm!
This is a Noble Phantasm that was sublimated from a certain period of history from the future or a parallel world, under the manipulation of an unknown force.

Zarathustra returned from the dead and merged with a body named "Loki," becoming the Celestial's attendant and changing his name to "Laki."

Noble Phantasm Name: [Mysterious Servant]

Type: Anti-personnel Noble Phantasm;
Scope; 1 person;
Registration: EX
Effect: Resurrected as the Mysterious Servant after Zarathustra's death. He is a true "Mysterious Servant," not merely the name of the potion. The Celestial's consciousness will also reawaken to some extent within him.

Klein instinctively wanted to use his pistol to stop time, but he quickly discovered that his time-stopping pistol had been suppressed by Zarathustra's "wish" after its previous use and had lost its effect.

Klein tried to incite resistance from the Source Castle, but found that the Celestial Venerable had far greater authority over the Source Castle than he did.

The entire battle just now was guided by the Celestial's instincts. From Estádio facing off against Zarathustra, to Zarathustra choosing to seal off the divine kingdom in the face of Klein, and then to Klein manipulating space, causing the Source Castle to leave the spirit world, blurring the boundary between reality and the physical world.

Even now, Klein used the Source Castle to kill Zarathustra.

This is the "Master of Mystic Puppet" of the Old Days.

Even during death, one can instinctively orchestrate a brilliant "puppet show" to aid in one's resurrection.

(End of this chapter)