Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1006 The Never-Ending Theater

After being promoted to demigod, Klein's puppet possessed all the extraordinary abilities of the original body. Naturally, he could use the power of the "Faceless Man" to transform into any appearance, but the overall "meat amount" could not deviate too much. Therefore, when Klein used the rabbit puppet to transform into a human form, he could only make it a hollow "balloon", maintaining the decency on the surface, but the inside was empty.

When the rabbit Hermann entered the Holy Wind Cathedral, he naturally attracted the attention of the priest at the door. The priest looked at the man in the windbreaker and hat who was walking unsteadily, hid his inner doubts, and asked:

"Sir, how can I help you?"

"I hope to pray alone and sort out the confusion in my heart."

Klein's secret doll said, raising his hand to his chest, and almost drew a scarlet moon in front of the storm believer. Fortunately, he was experienced in impersonating other gods' believers, so he tapped his chest at the last moment, then took out a ten-pound bill from the inner pocket of his windbreaker and stuffed it into the offering box held by the priest.

Of course, this banknote came from an image in the gaps of history, and was part of the many gold pounds that Dwayne Dantes had donated to the Church of Saint Samuel. It could only last for fifteen minutes. Its "body" had now either become the daily expenses of the Church of the Goddess of Night, or was locked in the vault behind the Chanis Gate.

After sending away the enthusiastic priest, Klein's rabbit puppet came to a corner of the prayer hall and sat down on a bench. After a slight hesitation, he bowed his head and prayed:

"Lord of the sky, Emperor of the sea, great god of storms, I beg for your attention and for your help...

"The 'Time Angel' Amon has been tracking me for some reason, and his brother will soon ascend to the throne of God. If I can advance to Sequence 2 as soon as possible, I will have the power to fight against them and thwart their ambitions..."

This was the strategy Klein had set before entering the church: not talking about whether he could give back, but only about "the greater good."

After all, Amon and Adam are both descendants of the ancient sun god. In the fall of the sun god, the God of Storms, who was then the "Angel of Wind", put in a lot of effort. Naturally, he would not want to see Adam become a true god and avenge his father.

Moreover, according to the law of aggregation, the "Dreamer" where Adam is located is adjacent to the "Storm" path, and they are naturally in an opposing state without any provocation. Klein believes that there is a good hope of persuading this god to give him some small help, increase his bargaining chips against Adam and Amon brothers, and indirectly slow down their pace.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Wasn’t this what Roselle said? After finishing his prayer, the rabbit Hermann sat there, as if in a daze.

Klein, who was outside the church and paying close attention to everything going on inside, raised his head and looked toward the sky.

Above the iconic spire of the Holy Wind Cathedral that pointed to the sky, a dark cloud suddenly floated over, blocking out the rare sun and plunging the surrounding streets into almost evening gloom.

No way, not only do you not agree, you also plan to kill my secret doll?

The corners of Klein's mouth twitched as he thought of the hand gesture in which he almost drew the Crimson Moon, the "Emperor's Gold Pound" in the offering box, and the storm path known as the "Tyrant."

But after waiting for a long time, no lightning fell from the sky. On the contrary, the dark cloud quickly drifted away with the wind, the sun shone on the earth again, and the terrifying haze disappeared.

From the perspective of the Rabbit Marionette, a large door deep in the prayer hall opened, and a middle-aged man with an astonishing aura walked out quickly. He had short, thick dark blue hair, large earlobes, and his eyes seemed to be flashing with lightning.

These electric eyes immediately locked onto the location of the rabbit doll.

It was the "Deep Blue Priest" Raydar Valentine who took over as the Archbishop of Backlund Diocese last year... Klein, who had some impression of this demigod due to the "Hanged Man" in the Tarot Club, immediately remembered his identity and watched him walk through the rows of benches and come to him.

Just as Klein was wondering whether there would be a battle or a deeper conversation next, the archbishop used his sturdy hands to rummage inside his robe embroidered with the storm symbol, and took out a piece of parchment with a serrated edge that was obviously torn from a book, and handed it to the rabbit doll.

As soon as the latter took it and hadn't said anything, Radar punched his left chest with his right fist, looked at the secret doll silently for a second, turned around and left.

This... why does it feel like an intelligence meeting... Klein was stunned for a moment, then belatedly asked the secret doll to tap his left chest in accordance with the Church of Storms etiquette. He put the parchment in his pocket and quickly left the Holy Wind Cathedral.

Before the time limit of this secret doll dragged out from the cracks of history expired, he came to an empty alley and directly sacrificed the parchment covered with words to "The Fool". Then he symbolically used the paper man to interfere with the divination before he disappeared into the air like a phantom.

Klein's real body came above the gray fog, sat in his own high-back chair, and cast his eyes on the parchment in front of him.

“Number: 32.

“Title: The Never-Ending Theater.

"Danger level: '0', extremely dangerous, the highest level of importance and confidentiality, cannot be asked about, cannot be described, cannot be spread, and cannot be spied on."

Klein was not overly surprised to see this. Judging from the timing of Archbishop Raydar's appearance, he had obviously received some kind of oracle, and Klein's "reasoning" prayer was for the seal formed by the "miracle worker" characteristics.

This is the first complete data I have seen about a Level 0 Sealed Object... He collected his thoughts and continued to look down. "Confidentiality level: Pope, Archbishop of Thunder Church and Holy Wind Cathedral, and the fourth group of researchers.

"Sealing method: Placed in the underground area of ​​Thunder Church, stored separately, activated inside a theater with enhanced protection, regularly replenished, and adjusted according to the performances, the guards need to be replaced every 72 hours. If the time limit is exceeded, they may become puppets of '0-32' at any time, and we will try to release them in every possible way. (Note: There are no special requirements for the expendable personnel, as long as the number of performers is met.)
“Description: This is an item formed by combining the extraordinary characteristics of a fallen ‘Miracle Master’ in the ‘Four Emperors’ War’ of the Fourth Era with a door panel from the Trier Theatre. It looks like half of a double-leaf wooden door with a corresponding door frame.

"Put 0-32 vertically on the ground and open the wooden door, and the corresponding complete area will become a theater controlled by it. The concept of a complete area is related to its location. There have been records of entire urban areas being designated as theaters. The corresponding risks can be avoided by opening it close to the wall of the enclosed area.

"The 'theater' will cycle through different plays, the content of which is related to the content recorded in '0-32'. It will select outstanding plays and performances from different eras based on its own aesthetics. The most recent ones are: Return of the Count and The Betrayer's Ring, and the earliest can be traced back to the Four Emperors' War.

"Once the show begins, the creatures within the range of '0-32' will become its puppets within 2 seconds, randomly entering the play as actors, performing in accordance with the role, and miraculously gaining the power that the role should have, until the end of the show. During the interval between the shows, the spirits and bodies of the 'actors' who died during the show will disappear, and the living ones will continue to participate in the next show.

"If there aren't enough creatures within the 'theater', it will continue to search for other creatures nearby based on the distance. Even Sequence 2 cannot avoid this 'grabbing' and can only delay time to leave the 'theater' range.

"For some reason, it currently only chooses humans as 'performers'."

"Note 1: The repertoire recorded in '0-32' can be adjusted according to certain means to establish advantages in favor of the user.

"Note 2: The whereabouts of the 'actors' who died in the theater cannot be detected or tracked by any means. They are not completely dead, but at the same time they have lost the concept of 'death'.

"Note 3: It was severely contaminated after the 'Four Emperors War' and can only be sealed and controlled. It is not allowed to leave the seal location and be used actively!"

Putting down the parchment, Klein took a long breath and closed his eyes. Based on these descriptions, he reconstructed the various characteristics of "0-32", the never-ending theater, in his mind.

He immediately discovered that this was a "0" level seal that was extremely powerful but also had many restrictions.

Compared to the sealed object "0-08" which can be taken away by anyone, "0-32" is described as a larger wooden door, including the external door frame. It is too large to be used by one person and must be transported by a team dedicated to it.

Moreover, once it enters the "theater" state, it cannot move and can only be effective within a designated range. Moreover, the effect does not distinguish between friend and foe, and it will capture all humans as actors for a never-ending performance.

"It sounds a bit like 'Secret Marionette'... but it's more aggressive, even angels can hardly avoid its effects. Could this be related to the pollution it has suffered... Summoning? Could it be 'City of Disaster'? This is also consistent with the pollution suffered by Trier in the Fourth Epoch, the site of the Four Emperors' War."

Klein muttered, his brows furrowed even more.

Because the purpose of obtaining this seal is to obtain the extraordinary characteristics of the "Miracle Worker", he does not care much about the purpose and negative effects of the "Never-Ending Theater". He just thinks and analyzes it subconsciously, but the contamination of "0-32" makes him very worried.

According to common sense, an angel's full-strength attack has a chance to destroy the seal and restore it to pure extraordinary characteristics. During this process, the pollution inside the characteristics will naturally separate and no longer aggregate with the characteristics.

But this only applies to general pollution. Klein has no experience and confidence in whether the same means can be used to deal with the pollution of the "source material".

"Even if Angel can use her control over the source material to solve the pollution of the 'City of Disaster', it seems that Trier in the Fourth Epoch has more than one kind of 'source material' pollution... Is it possible that I can only seek help from the gods? But the Lord of Storms asked Archbishop Raydar to hand over this information to me. The meaning of this may not be to inform me, but to 'dissuade me'... Is He implying that I can't use this seal at all?"

Looking at the parchment filled with words, Klein fell into deep thought again.

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Intis, a village of Belon near Olmert, the capital of the Champagne department.

Next to a house on the edge of the village, a faint light appeared on the surface of the glass window that was stained with a little dust, and two figures were outlined on the side.

They were of similar height, but one of them was slightly bent over, curled up in the arms of the other. When she suddenly fell to the ground, the former immediately broke free from the embrace, straightened up, and put some distance between them.

"Why do you react the same as Annie? As expected... cough."

Angel said while holding back his laughter, but immediately stopped smiling at Bernadette's gaze, and changed the subject with a light cough.

If you weren't so slow in traveling through the spirit world using those fairy tale magic, I wouldn't have taken you into the mirror world... She muttered, raising her eyes to look at the peaceful village in front of her.

Perhaps hidden within this is the pollution of the "Fallen Mother Goddess".

(End of this chapter)