Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 424 William I

The Survival Act was implemented by the two major churches and the Dream Cult, and no one could resist it; the nobles had no choice but to accept it.

Once you accept something like that once, you'll do it countless times. Once a nobleman accepts it, it becomes very easy for them to make changes next time.

Later, due to John Constantine's meddling, the credit for the Survival Act was attributed to the Church. However, after that, legal reforms, with the support of the two major churches, became even more forceful, breaking through all the defenses of the landed aristocracy and conservatives.

With the recent death of the Duke of Negan, the conservatives have lost their leader...

"The Augustine family is plotting to become gods!"

Klein suddenly felt his heart tremble. He had witnessed a godhood ceremony up close in the Southern Continent, and the shock he felt had remained deep in his heart ever since.

"Sequence One 'Hand of Order'... is equivalent to rules..." Klein's mind kept flashing with related concepts.

"Wrong! I've always been focused on George III and Adam, but the one who truly became a god was the ancestor of the Augustus family!"

"That 'Founder of a Nation,' William Augustus!"

In Loen, the one who could act as if he were on the same level as the rules was not George III, but the founder William I!

The original legal code of the founding of the Kingdom of Rune came from William I. Rune banknotes feature a large portrait of William I, and there is a bronze statue of William I on Mount Order. Every law of Rune is inscribed on the legal documents of Mount Order and held in the hands of the bronze statue of William I...

More than a thousand years ago, the origins of the Augustus family had already subtly linked themselves with the rules of law, and now they have taken on a similar feel to the Church of the Night, becoming part of the subconscious of the people of Rune.

"George III was merely a mouthpiece pushed forward by William I; what he said to me and the two archbishops last time might not have been untrue!"

He was indeed performing his own angelic ritual and truly became an angel, but his angelic ritual was just an insignificant part of this legal reform.

Klein had previously performed divination on the gray fog, and his conclusion was wrong, but now it seems there may be other interpretations, possibly pointing to the hidden part.

"Was all of this Adam's arrangement?" Klein suddenly felt a little scared, grabbed the causal thread connecting him to the phosphorescent insects above the gray fog, and came to the gray fog.

"Is it really that perverted?" Klein felt as if everything he had done as John Constantine had been orchestrated.

"No, those are all things I want to do..." Klein's spirituality gave no indication of being arranged.

But isn't that even more terrifying? Klein remained silent.

"To have all my actions propelled the tide of the times, yet all of this still stemmed from my own will—that's... 'daydreaming'?"

"Watch out for the 'audience'." At this moment, Klein felt that Russell's warning was absolutely right.

"William Augustus..." Klein thought of this "founder of the nation," and he was now basically certain of his guess.

Perhaps the "Hidden Angel" already knew the key, and was just sent to investigate and confirm it.

"So what should I do next?" Klein suddenly felt a little lost. A godhood ritual was beyond his control, and the next investigation would even require him to delve deeper into the fight against the Church of Storms.

"Or rather, what is it that the 'Hidden Angel' truly wants to know?" Klein's eyes gradually brightened.

"The 'Hidden Angel' already knows about the ceremony and William I's affairs, so what else is unclear?"

"Three sequences, one property, and uniqueness!"

This is another key aspect of the deification ceremony.

"But how can I investigate?" Klein felt a sense of unease; this kind of confidential knowledge was beyond his reach.

"The only thing we can do is keep getting closer to the Augustus family." That was the only thing Klein could think of in the end. The key figures in the Augustus family must know the relevant information.

"But we could ask other people..." Klein immediately thought of the Mirror of Arodes and the Mercury Serpent.

"Let's go find Him first." Klein returned to the real world from the gray fog. With a thought, the puppet in the illusion was activated, finding a suitable location to draw the summoning symbol.

"Why are you looking for me so late? Don't you know that a baby's sleep is important?!" The baby's complaining voice came from the darkness.

Klein arrived here to find a baby sucking its thumb.

Do you have such a good attitude?

"I'll bring you some special, limited-edition ice cream tomorrow..."

"Alright! Ask me anything you want to know!" The baby pulled his thumb out of his mouth, wiped it on his chest, and said solemnly.

"..." Klein was speechless, but he knew the ice cream was very attractive to this angel.

That special edition ice cream was materialized by his dreamlike phosphorescent painting, and it could be absorbed by this angel without any side effects. That alone made it impossible for Him to refuse, and to be fair, the ice cream was indeed delicious.

"I want to know the whereabouts of the three 'Hand of Order' traits and uniqueness."

"'The Hand of Order' and uniqueness?" The baby blinked its big eyes, looking at Klein.

"Alright, for the sake of the Dream Ice Cream..." he muttered to himself, then explained to Klein.

"You know the Night Emperor, right? Since his death in the Fourth Epoch, his characteristic has been to scatter to all parts of the world."

"William August of Rune got one, Castia got one, and the other was taken by the Trensust family."

Klein's eyes lit up. Castia was a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Feneport, and his status in Rune was similar to that of the Augustus family.

"What's the story with the Terensost family?" he asked earnestly.

"It's the family of the 'Night Emperor.' After the 'Night Emperor' died, the Terensost Empire collapsed. As royalty, they were hunted by various races and could only hide at sea. They're probably in the Misty Sea now." The baby drew the outline of the sea with its chubby little hands.

"What about uniqueness?" Klein thought for a moment, realizing that finding such a characteristic was not easy.

"Uniqueness has been taken back by Dream!" The baby's big eyes reflected Klein's astonished expression.

"Taken back by Dream...?" Klein hadn't expected this answer.

"That's right. What do you think Dream World used to build its entire world's financial system? It's countless features!"

"Dream possesses the world's largest treasure trove: the crown of the 'Black Emperor,' the scroll of the 'Perfect One,' the brass book of the 'Judge'..."

"These things used to be His collection! But most of them were loaned out by Him."

"It's no exaggeration to say that half of the world's wealth belongs to dreams!"

Klein's face gradually contorted.

(End of this chapter)