Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 275 274 The Witches' Plans
"The Witch Cult has been making quite a few moves lately, whether in Backlund, Trier, at sea, or elsewhere."

After seeing off the White Saintess Katarina, Nikolai looked at the person in the mirror who was now hanging up as a puppet, belonging to the White Saintess Katarina.

The male Katarina's mirror image was not freed from its puppet-like state, and the partial power of the Primal Witch's descent did not grant this mirror image the ability to break free from its constraints.

He was still a puppet manipulated after undergoing rapid pseudomorphosis.

Inside the dean's office through the floor-to-ceiling windows, the male figure in the mirror, belonging to Katarina, gradually stopped swaying. The illusory black threads that had been pulling him up by the neck had silently released, allowing the figure to land steadily. His expression, which had previously shown struggle, pain, pleasure, and joy, gradually transformed into a calm smile.

His bloodshot eyes turned into a deep, seemingly bottomless ocean of darkness as he landed.

The person in the mirror approached the reflection in the floor-to-ceiling window and slowly walked out from it.

The person in the mirror has become the person outside the mirror.

"Yes, of course, the Witch Cult's unrest may also be related to the impending apocalypse."

"The prophesied year 1368 is drawing ever closer to the end times. Before the end times arrive, everyone will inevitably go on a frenzy of ascension. The King of Angels will try to become a true god, and the true god will try to occupy adjacent paths. It's a very normal mindset for self-preservation."

The person in the mirror seemed to still be adapting to their body: "And I must say, the person in the mirror of the ageless witch is quite an interesting thing."

"The ritual by which the White Saintess chose to become the Immortal Witch must have involved enslaving or bewitching her reflection in the mirror, which is why her reflection still appears as a male figure."

Of course, whether it's reconciliation, enslavement, or seduction, all Tang and Nicholas need to do is manipulate and parasitize this mirror puppet. They can then manipulate it in sync, and once the puppet loses its original protection, it will become the White Saintess Katarina in sync with the puppet.

This is a manifestation of deception and the power of error. Without the constant protection of a true god, the Time Worm alone, along with the power of rapid mysticization and deception, would be enough to deal with this Sequence 3 Immortal Witch.

Nikolai looked at the person in the mirror who had stepped out of it and raised an eyebrow slightly. "The Witch Cult is now in place, and Triss has also entered Tingen ahead of schedule. Is the True Creator still proceeding according to the original plan?"

"Of course, Adam has already paid the appropriate reward. I am not a person who goes back on his word, and I am also looking forward to seeing what the true creator, who has left behind humanity and is out of control, will do."

The person in the mirror smiled and said jokingly, "In general, Adam, who retains some of the divinity of the ancient sun god, is much easier to communicate with than the real creator who went mad because of his humanity. After all, this imaginary angel isn't exactly an unruly angel king."

"After a better plan was developed, one that required less sacrifice and was made sure it was for the end times and to fight against the Outer Gods, in some ways the imaginary angel Adam was more trustworthy than the Lords of the Storms."

Tang is willing to accept limited cooperation.

After all, the fortune teller's path and the audience's path are not on the same sequence that can be interchanged. Since there is no fundamental conflict between the paths and the path to godhood, Tang has no need to be ready to slap Amon as soon as they meet.

Of course, there is some overlap between the predetermined path of the Supreme Being and the visionary's "proclaimed future will inevitably become reality," but it is not significant, and there is no need to consume the visionary to complete the authority.

"If it's a collaboration with the Witch Cult, they most likely want our two extraordinary conqueror traits."

Nikolai stated it in a straightforward manner.

His gaze fell on a woman in a pristine white robe standing outside the floor-to-ceiling window at the entrance of St. Peter's Hospital.

Although they did not make their own demands, Nikolai did not believe that the ancient and secretive organization that had developed from a witch family into a witch cult since the Fourth Age would let go of these two extraordinary characteristics belonging to the conquerors.

Of course, this is under the condition that both of these extraordinary properties exist in the form of sealed objects, rather than being used as promotion materials.

"To be precise, there is only one available on the surface... and if we can steal it, I'm sure He wouldn't mind losing a few high-ranking witches, or even letting his own children die along with him."

This fourth era, who had a child with the Blood Emperor, then dragged the entire witch family along with his grandfather who died thousands of years ago, and led the entire Southern Continent to challenge the Seven Gods, and finally became a true god who was beaten half to death, Tang Zhencheng thought that the Primordial One was seriously insane.

The person in the mirror rested their chin on their hand, also looking at the White Saintess outside.

Their purpose is clear: to reclaim the conquerors' extraordinary traits, force their way into the city where "0-01" is located, reclaim the uniqueness of the Red Priest's path, and help the original achievement of "Destroying the Cataclysm, the Root of Calamity" or something like that...

Currently, none of the three extraordinary properties of the conquerors are easy to obtain; two have clearly defined locations, while the other is located in the underground Trier of the Fourth Epoch.

Over the course of a thousand years, the extraordinary characteristics of the Red Priest pathway Sequence 1 Conqueror, belonging to the Einhorn family of the Fusak Empire, had long since fallen into Tang's hands due to the War of the Oath.

This extraordinary property, with its clear and specific attribution, fell into the hands of Miskatonic University, which is equivalent to the extraordinary property obtained by Nikolai Flamel, the being who killed Amon and ascended to the path of the thief to become the King of Angels.

The second one belongs to the Augustus family of the Rune royal family, and the Augustus family also has Sequence 1 Extraordinary beings. The founding emperor, Augustus I, would never easily give it up.

As for the remaining extraordinary characteristics left in Trier... two hundred years ago, Vermonda Champagne Soren, then a member of the Soren family of the Intis Empire, became the conqueror. He went into a state of madness and entered the underground Quaternary Trier, where he perished...

This step was certainly also influenced by Nicolas Flamel, Don, Zarathustra, and Russell Gustave.

And now, this extraordinary quality that originally belonged to the conquerors of Vermont Champagne Soren is also in Tang's hands.

"In addition to the long-term strategic cooperation with the god of knowledge and wisdom, and through that overly radical George III on the Rune side who doesn't care about human life at all, the third conqueror and uniqueness are pretty much locked in our hands."

The first two extraordinary traits of the Conquerors were clearly known to belong to the Witch Church, but the extraordinary traits belonging to Vermonda Champagne Soren were much more difficult to obtain because they involved the special Quaternary ancient building beneath Trier, the capital of the Republic of Intis. In addition, due to Tang's deliberate misleading and blockade, the information they could actually obtain was very limited.

Therefore, the witches could hardly perceive that the giant lurking in the underground Trier was actually just a false conqueror with the power bestowed by the "Observer"—well, in essence, still a puppet…

"Moreover, they've already used up all the extraordinary abilities they knew about, and even those they didn't know about."

Brooks went to outer space, and with a barrier in between, plus the limitation of distance, even the Primordial Witch could not be sure whether the Conqueror had been born.

As for that extraordinary characteristic from Backlund, isn't that a plan to steal it... oh no, to negotiate with Augustus and his people?
The person in the mirror sighed, "What would the Witch Cult do if they knew they'd come up with nothing?"

"Perhaps they'll get angry?" Nikolai put his hands behind his back, admiring the morning scenery with his reflection. "Then let them sulk."

After all, there's a 90% chance that the Witch Cult won't get a single one of the Conqueror's extraordinary traits before the apocalypse.

Even if the Primordial Witch finds out, so what? How can she steal it?
Even now, if they want to seize the extraordinary conqueror characteristics of the Einhorn royal family of the Fussac Empire, besides the deal, do they want to exchange blows with the two angel kings, and originally also with the goddess of night who has a clear stance, and several angels?
Not afraid of being turned into a secret doll on the spot, hanging it up to cook its extraordinary properties...

"In that case, I'm a little curious about what it feels like to manipulate a True God-level puppet. Has the difficulty of operation increased?"

The person in the mirror of the White Saintess Katarina seemed to have thought of something, and a sweet smile appeared on her lips, a smile that seemed somewhat incongruous due to her masculine features, yet it was just like the White Saintess Katarina herself.

There's a kind of distorted, pieced-together sense of madness.

These mirror figures, born from the problem of their origin, all have a strong desire to replace their counterparts outside the mirror. Each time, the witch's mirror doppelganger causes these mirror figures to die once, which leads to these mirror figures, whether ordinary or special, being mad beasts.

The person in the mirror, bored out of their mind, thought about these occult knowledge belonging to the witch's path.

"Oh, by the way, speaking of the Primordial Witch, what I'm more curious about now is how she managed to swim and dive freely in the Chaos Sea..."

Tang knew about the ascension ritual of Sequence 0 of the Witch Path, but he was more curious about this than about manipulating the true mystic puppet of Sequence 0.

This ritual requires a witch who controls chaos, which refers to the chaotic sea...

It's really strange. Did God secretly send his own message through both paths of disaster?

Ah, this is truly a world with underlying rules that are both insane and chaotic.

"Perhaps you could ask him again after you've made him your secret doll?"

Nicola adjusted his black silk hat, and his figure gradually transformed into countless transparent insects with twelve segments, about to dissipate.

"Too."

Although, in comparison... it seems like Zun Zun Bao is really useless...

The male figure reflected in the mirror, belonging to the White Saintess Katarina, gradually calmed down, his face regaining its human radiance.

He was fitted with a "bionic puppet" module and integrated into the happy family of Tingen City.

The director of St. Peter's Hospital, who had remained silent throughout, rose and smiled slightly at the person in the mirror who had begun to bow to her.

"Come with me."

“After all, there are quite a few people like you in Tingen.”

-

Klein returned to 32 Red Rose Street, the headquarters of Night Watchers in Tingen City, and Blackthorn Security Company, and happened to run into Rosanne, who was on her way to work at that very time.

Rosanne is a native of Tingen. Her father went to the Church of the Night in Backlund five years ago. Based on the basic principle of protecting the families of Night Watchers, Rosanne quickly became a clerical worker in the Tingen Night Watchers after coming into contact with the occult circle.

Klein heard that she could have gone to Backlund with her father to take up a job, but the pay for the Night Watch in Tingen was so good, and since it was a city protected by the gods, Rosanne and her mother stayed in Tingen to work and live.

This makes her poor old father seem a bit dull...

"Good morning, Klein. What brings you back today? Is there something important you need to discuss with the captain?"

Rosanne clearly knew that Dunn had granted Klein five days of paid sick leave, but Klein simply couldn't bear to stay cooped up at St. Peter's Hospital any longer. After telling Rosanne he wasn't sleeping well in the hospital, he saw a look of surprise on her face:
"But it's paid leave! You have no idea, I wish I could lie in the hospital all day."

"Well, if you're just going to leave like this, are you planning to stay here and rest for the next two days?"

Rosanne quickly found an excuse for Klein to slack off on the spot: "Uncle Collier's cooking is always good; the staff cafeteria has braised beef for lunch today!"

Miss Rosanne, why are you so familiar with the sick leave process? And why do you always manage to bring up food in the conversation?
Klein thought with a sense of helplessness.

After saying goodbye to Rosanne, Klein went straight to Captain Dunn's office.

He knocked on the door, and after hearing a "Come in" from inside, Klein pushed the door open and entered. He saw Captain Dunn Smith and Leonard Mitchell, who was wearing a monocle, looking at him.

"Hey, what's gotten into our busy man this time?" Leonard habitually adjusted his monocle and said with a hint of teasing.

“I didn’t sleep well at St. Peter’s, and I saw the doctor. He said I was fine, so I’ve decided to be discharged.” Klein smiled slightly shyly, then, as if he had thought of something, asked, “Captain, are the next two days still considered paid sick leave?”

Leonard chuckled, and Dunn rubbed his temples in exasperation, but still nodded.

"It was Rosanne who told you, wasn't it...?"

Klein smiled.

Ah, as long as I don't dream tonight, we'll still be good friends.

(End of this chapter)