Lord of Mysteries

Chapter 1379 Changing the Plan

On Amon's face, which appeared in different "looks," the monocle, existing in different forms, simultaneously emitted a pure light.

This is the "Eternal Day" effect they stole from the depths of the ruins of the divine war, originating from the ancient sun god. It can purify impurities and evil, and awaken slumbering beings.

They "gifted" this gift to Klein.

This, combined with the ability to manipulate the seal's strength granted by the authority related to the "Apprentice" realm, is enough to break the state of eternal slumber.

In an instant, the spiritual imprint of Antigonus and the will of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" within Klein's body were fully awakened. Feelings of madness, desolation, cruelty, bloodlust, and ruthlessness raged through Klein's mind like an invisible storm.

Almost simultaneously, within the uniqueness of the "Fool" that was not yet fully contained on his face, the powerful will of the "Heavenly Venerable of Blessing and Profound Yellow" suddenly opened its "eyes" like a terrifying monster that had been sleeping in the darkness for thousands of years.

At this moment, the previous chaos and loss of control swept back, but Klein did not panic. Following a backup plan, he calmly used his "grafting" ability to guide Antigonus's spiritual imprint toward the "Celestial Venerable" will within the uniqueness of the "Fool," causing the two that had been entangled for one or two thousand years to collide again.

On the other hand, Klein, relying on his self-awareness and the anchors from the followers of "Fool" and "Sea God", actively balanced the part of "Celestial Venerable" will contained in his extraordinary characteristics, just as he did when separating the "Mysterious Servant" puppet.

If nothing unexpected happens, and things continue to develop this way, there is a certain probability that Klein will be able to achieve a balance between the two sides, fully accept the uniqueness of "The Fool", and enter the final stage of the ritual. However, how could there be no unexpected events when surrounded by the Amons?

Some of Amon strengthened the seals on the "Trensost Brass Book" and the "Wishing Lamp" to counteract the former's rule restrictions. When some of Amon gave "Eternal Day" to Klein, a small portion of them locked onto Klein and "stole" it.

What they want to steal is the clarity of the other person's mind.

One after another, Amon failed, but in the end, a few Amons succeeded, "stealing" Klein's consciousness for the next two seconds.

Klein's thoughts became blurred. Without the Antigonus spiritual imprint he had guided, the two parts of the "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" will and the anchor from the believers suddenly became unbalanced, frantically eroding, influencing and polluting each other.

Everything became extremely chaotic, and the loss of control seemed irreversible.

Klein's body then crumbled inch by inch, turning into clumps of transparent, twisted worms, which extended out even more slippery, sinister tentacles.

At this point, the rules in the "Trentost Brass Book" were erased, and writing began anew:

"Speechless here!"

"Attacks are prohibited here!"

Immediately following these two rules, familiar clauses reappeared:

"The following rules are invalid."

After the seal was strengthened, the "Book of Thorensost" seemed to have entered a new cycle, and the influence that the "Genius" could exert became quite limited.

Klein quickly regained consciousness, but the situation inside his body was completely chaotic and out of control.

This made it impossible for him to sort out the different influences and leave him powerless to find a new balance.

In other words, he will continue down a path of no return until he becomes a monster.

With almost no time to think, Klein relied on instinct and experience to make the decision to activate the last contingency plan.

He immediately gave up on trying to salvage his internal condition and stopped focusing on the matter.

Not only that, Klein also made the "Mysterious Servant" puppet transform into a worm vortex, carrying Zarathustra's spiritual imprint, and throw it into his main body, merging into it.

He's making things even more chaotic!

However, Amon's clones would not let him make any attempts. Apart from the part of Amon that fought against the "Wishing Lamp" and the "Trentost Brass Book," the rest began to "steal" again, trying to throw Klein's mind into chaos time and time again until it was completely out of control.

Amon, dressed in a postman's uniform, succeeded, but what he "stole" was not Klein's lucidity, but a drop of fresh blood.

The blood immediately seeped into the palm of the postman, Amon.

Immediately afterwards, the postman Amon's eyes turned crimson, and his belly swelled up at an unimaginable speed, beginning to writhe.

She appears to be pregnant!

What He just "stole" was the "original moon," which is the blood blessed by the "fallen mother goddess"!

After Klein stopped focusing most of his consciousness on balancing the Antigonus spiritual imprint within his body, the revived will of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun," and the anchor, he no longer needed to passively endure as before and could barely respond to Amon's "stealing."

He used "grafting" to alter the target that Amon "stole" to the inside of the Source Castle, to the pile of junk, and to the drop of blood blessed by the "Primordial Moon".

—This comes from "Witch King" Karaman.

There was undoubtedly a connection between Amon's clones, and none of them could possibly reach Sequence 0. Therefore, when Postman Amon was contaminated by that drop of blood, the other Amons all became somewhat confused. Some had their bellies bulge, some had their eyes turn crimson, and some were holding invisible infants, spinning in circles...

This inevitably led to the failure of the rest of the "stealing".

Klein seized the opportunity, relying on his inability to maintain consciousness for long, and mobilized the power of the "Source Castle," casting a shadowy curtain over the entire ancient palace.

This place has been hidden away once again.

Then, ignoring the Antigonus spiritual imprint, the Zarathustra spiritual imprint, and the two parts of the "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" will that were beginning to merge within his body, he had the clone standing not far away, which had not yet collapsed and whose face was blank, extend its palm towards the main body.

Its five fingers quickly closed, and its wrist twisted rapidly.

Because Klein's self-awareness did not resist and even actively cooperated, the clone, with the help of the "Source Castle," successfully stole the self-awareness, destiny, anchor, and most of the identity from the original body after only a few failures.

All that remained of him in his original body was the identity associated with "The Fool".

At the same time, he also "stole" the identity, destiny, and spiritual imprint of the ancestor of the Antigonus family—which was only possible with the cooperation of his own consciousness on several occasions.

As the shimmering river with its countless tributaries appeared, Klein's clone's face twisted and writh, transforming into Klein Moretti, who incorporated features of Gehrman Sparrow.

He has become his original form, a form without any extraordinary characteristics!

Of course, his self-awareness and anchor were still fighting against the spiritual imprint of his ancestor from the Antigonus family, but this was undoubtedly much easier to deal with than before.

Having already adapted to his identity as Antigonus, he quickly found a new balance, delaying and prolonging his out-of-control fate.

Although this is still unavoidable, it allows some time for subsequent operations.

On the other side, at Klein's original location, what remains is the uniqueness of "The Fool", all the extraordinary characteristics from "The Curtain", the extraordinary characteristics originating from Zarathustra, the small amount of extraordinary characteristics from other sources that Klein once consumed and digested, the revived will of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun", the remaining spiritual imprint of Zarathustra, and the identity of "The Fool".

Without the influence of Klein's self-awareness, Antigonus's spiritual imprint, and numerous anchors, Zarathustra's remaining spiritual imprint was quickly defeated and eroded by the resurgent will of the merging "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun".

The next second, Klein's "true form" suddenly went silent.

His physical breakdown stopped. He lowered his head, no longer extending his slippery, sinister tentacles around him, and became as quiet as if he had lost his soul.

In such a scenario, silence is more terrifying than madness.

That motionless body seemed to be gestating an extremely terrifying monster!

Klein ignored this and quickly grafted his connection with his "original body" onto the gray mist.

Then, he shifted his focus and locked onto Antigonus on the giant stone chair.

This former half-fool did not receive Amon's help and did not escape his eternal slumber.

Klein once again reached out his right hand and "stole" one of each of the other's remaining Sequence 9 to Sequence 1 extraordinary traits.

Although he now bears the identity and fate of Antigonus, such "theft" remains difficult, and failures inevitably repeat themselves.

At this moment, outside the "Mysterious Realm" created by the "Source Castle," Amon regained consciousness from the initial chaos.

They either raised their hands to adjust their monocles, making the crimson in their eyes disappear, or looked down at their bellies and reached out to touch them.

A second later, those protruding bellies split open, and one after another, babies with a faint pinkish hue emerged.

These babies did not cry or show any abnormalities. Each of them quite smoothly took out a monocle made of crystal from the void and put it on their right eye.

The number of Amon has increased.

He transformed the newborn babies into his own clones to prevent them from interfering with him, as they were somewhat corrupted by the "original moon".

At this time, the "Earth Mother Goddess" and the "God of Steam and Machinery" had gained certain, albeit minor, advantages on their respective battlefields, and were finally able to free up their hands to intervene in the situation inside the palace.

In an instant, some of Amon transformed into plants, blossomed and bore fruit, and returned to the earth; others became knowledge, information, and words, and were printed in illusory books.

However, some Amon managed to evade the influence of the two true gods by using "teleportation," exploiting loopholes, or deceiving the rules. While continuing to strengthen the seals on the "Wishing Lamp" and the "Trensost Brass Book," they opened "doors" in Klein's "Mysterious Realm."

At the same time, the angels also noticed the changes in the astral plane, but their gaze could not penetrate the natural barrier of the "Mother Earth" and the civilization scroll of the "God of Steam and Machinery," and they could not see the scene inside at all.

This means that even if they wanted to exert influence, they were powerless to do so.

Within the "Mysterious Realm" created by "Source Castle", after repeated failures, Klein finally succeeded in "stealing" one extraordinary characteristic from Antigonus from Sequence 9 to Sequence 1, as well as the extraordinary characteristics that had already been digested!

—The latter, due to the Law of Convergence of Extraordinary Characteristics, has attracted many extraordinary individuals of the same path throughout history. While turning them into Mystics, it also absorbed their extraordinary characteristics. Therefore, at this time, Antigonus still has a large number of extraordinary characteristics of the "Diviner" path, including one of the "Miracleist".

The dim points of light quickly merged into Klein's body, becoming one with him.

Because he is now Antigonus, and because those extraordinary characteristics were already digested by Antigonus, his uncontrollable fate did not accelerate, but maintained the same pace as before.

In this way, Klein became a Sequence 1 "Mysterious Servant" again, having digested the potion and whose fate was headed for an out-of-control ending.

Just then, his original "true form" raised its head, its eyes completely black.

Just from that one look, Klein's thoughts instantly slowed, his body turned cold, and he could barely muster the will to fight back.

The powerful will he was very familiar with began to rise little by little, attempting to influence "Source Castle".

The "Lord of Mysteries" has been initially resurrected within Klein's "main body".

The Fool has become a truly great being of resurgence, which coincides with the speculations of the Tarot Club members but contradicts the actual history.

Before his thoughts could stagnate further, Klein took the initiative to cooperate with Amon to deactivate the "Mysterious Realm," allowing the situation inside to communicate with the outside world.

He has flawlessly "fooled" history, just as he initially thought, but he has no good idea of ​​how to end things.

Based on the changing situation, the final contingency plan he activated at the critical moment was:

Leave no way out, from accommodating the uniqueness of the "fool" to becoming the true "fool"!

This can't be any worse than the previous situation.

(End of this chapter)