Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1041: Amon's Attack

“Is it unsafe for you to stay in the basement of the church?” Pales Zoroast asked, then he made a “tsk” sound and answered seriously, “Those people didn’t even notice that the characteristics and seals were stolen, because even the idea of ​​suspicion was stolen by me… You continue to stay here, and there will be no problem once I completely absorb the characteristics.”

"clear."

Leonard nodded in response, sat back at his desk, and casually pulled out a research report on the "Tarot Club". He pretended to concentrate on studying it, but in his heart he was quite looking forward to the sealed object that would soon belong to him.

After an unknown amount of time, a grayish-white mist appeared before his eyes. In the mist, a figure that seemed to be in a dark wilderness bowed his head and prayed:

“Respected Mr. Fool, please convey this to Mr. Star… Does he know how to eliminate those clones of Amon the Blasphemer without alerting his real body?”

This is the voice of "World" Klein... Clear the clones!
Leonard, who was holding the research report in his hand and thinking about the actions of Pales' clone, suddenly became nervous when he heard this phrase, and his body, which was leaning back in the chair, straightened up.

Could it be that Klein met Amon in the "Forsaken Land of Gods"... The old man had said before that Amon would definitely try to wait for him in that land, capture him, and use this opportunity to do something to Mr. Fool...

Leonard waited for the gray fog that conveyed the information to dissipate, stood up from the chair, locked the door, and then called out in a low voice:
"Old man? Are you done?

"Old man?"

"I'm busy. I'm picking a nice name for your sealed item. What's up?"

The old voice in his head made a nasty joke.

"That's it..." Leonard ignored the other party's sarcasm and conveyed Klein's request to Him, "Besides the method you used to eliminate Amon's clone in Backlund last time, do you have any other methods?"

"How can it be so easy to deal with an avatar of the Angel King without leaking any information?"

After a long pause, Pales continued to answer.

"The reason we were able to succeed last time was because he prayed for the power of the Secret, which gave me the opportunity to activate the Aggregation and absorb the characteristics of all of Backlund's Amon clones and the Worm of Time. Otherwise, any clone would get a response from the original body as long as they said their honorific name. If they have reached the status of an angel, they can even skip this step... So, can your former colleague get the help of the Secret this time?"

“It should be difficult.”

Leonard recalled the various anomalies in the "God-Forsaken Land" and the out-of-control divine power revealed by Klein, and shook his head.

"Then let him go around. Even if he can kill a clone in a sneak attack, the remaining Beyonder characteristics will take away all the information when they return to the main body. He can't stop it."

Pales paused again before answering.

The old man really looked busy... But would answering Klein like this make him too disappointed... Leonard walked back and forth in the office a few times and continued to test the waters:
"Is there no other way?"

"The return of the clone's characteristics is a process of 'stealing' and 'returning'. It cannot be stopped by ordinary methods. At least the power of Sequence 1 must be possessed, which is not much different from Amon's original body, in order to destroy those Time Worms and intercept the Beyonder characteristics..."

Pales answered much faster this time.

"Well, you tell him that if the strength of Amon's clones has not reached Sequence 2, they can use the same high-level spells that you used against the Black Knight in their attacks. This will hopefully severely damage the Time Worm in the clones and prevent the transmission of intelligence.

"But there are too many risks involved. To stop the clone from reciting the Honorable Name, we need to capture all the clones nearby. Missing one would mean leaking information... It's better to let him go around."

Leonard carefully took note of Pales' words, repeated them in his mind, and asked in surprise:

"Isn't this what Angel did when he eliminated Backlund's Amon clone?"

"That's right. But if I hadn't had 'Convergence' at that time, most of the Time Worms and Beyonder characteristics would still have run away. Of course, your former colleague had the help of 'The Fool', so perhaps the result would have been better."

Pales commented on the result of Angel's last battle, and then said:

"Well, the characteristics left by the Jacob family belong to me."

So fast... Leonard was a little happy at first, but then a feeling of loss surged in his heart.

He knew that the completion of this task meant that the old man was one step closer to leaving him.

“Why, are you worried that I will recover and leave you?” The old voice in his mind sounded again, “You don’t need to worry about this, because it is bound to happen… But I still need to slowly digest the characteristics of this Sequence 2 and truly use it for my own benefit. You should just focus on completing your role and ascend to Demigod.”

What the old man meant was that He would not leave until I became a demigod...

Leonard felt a little relieved as he packed up his documents and left the office. He walked out of the basement like he usually did after get off work, said hello to a few colleagues he met, and walked towards Pinster Street.

When I got home, I relayed the information to Klein. He had Angel's help, so he had no shortage of high-level spells... Haha, he had to get another "Disaster" this time. Hmm, should I give this one to Sherman?
With thoughts running through his mind one after another, Leonard happily opened the door of 7 Pinster Street, hung his windbreaker on the porch, and went to the living room with a fireplace.

The fire was burning, and a warm feeling came over him, but Leonard felt cold from head to toe.

Sitting on the rocking chair that belonged to him was a black-haired young man wearing a classical black robe and a wizard's hat, sitting with his legs crossed and reading a newspaper.

Under Leonard's horrified gaze, the other party raised his head, and the crystal monocle in his right eye socket reflected the light of the fire.

This is Amon the Blasphemer!
Amon, who was supposed to be waiting for Klein's arrival in the God-Forsaken Land and spreading his clones everywhere to look for clues, appeared in Backlund and was reading a newspaper with his legs crossed in his house!

In the battle to eliminate Backlund's Amon clone, Leonard had seen the appearance of the Angel King and knew of his various evil deeds and horrific methods, but his sluggish brain refused to understand the situation, and his body froze in place, as if his ability to move had been stolen.

He could hear a series of whispers, as if countless Amons in the air were talking to him at the same time:
"Are you surprised or surprised?"

"You thought I was still in the 'Forsaken Land'? He can't run away, so why should I stay there all the time?"

"Compared to the fight for Sefirah Castle, the characteristics of the last Sequence 1 are what I need most right now."

"The disappearance of Backlund's clone made me suspicious, and the subsequent investigation gave me some guesses... but in the end, what made me sure that you were hiding in Backlund was the treasure of the Jacob family."

"Why do I know about that treasure? Of course, it's because I am the ancestor of the Jacob family." "Haha, for quite a long time, I was both Amon of the Amon family and Jacob of the Jacob family. This state lasted for hundreds of years before the 'Worm of Time' truly belonged to me. Naturally, I know all their arrangements."

"I left a hidden clone there that no other clone knows about, except for the original. His only purpose is to guard the 'Fate Horse' feature and see who will come to steal it..."

"When your clone couldn't resist greed and followed those guys from the Fate Hermit Society into the treasure, the ending was already determined."

"You must be wondering now why I dare to enter this city in my original form without worrying about the arrival of the gods at any time..."

One sentence after another of mumbling entered Leonard's brain, making his mind chaotic. His spirit and body were almost out of control. The former showed signs of splitting, and the latter was wriggling and mutating. Black wolf hair grew on his face, and his waist and ribs under his shirt bulged as if he was about to stretch out new arms.

At this moment, his mouth suddenly opened uncontrollably, and the almost unbearable pain in the depths of his throat burst out in a roar, but at the last moment it turned into words in Giant language, which were stolen and taken back three times, echoing in the living room:
"Leodro!"

"Do you think I would come here without making corresponding preparations?"

Amon pushed his monocle and stood up from the rocking chair, letting the newspaper on his knees slide off and fall onto the neatly inlaid stone floor, where each tile was larger than the entire living room.

Around the two men, dark stone pillars had been erected one after another, forming a magnificent church that was hundreds of meters long, wide, and equally astonishingly high. The surrounding walls and the vaulted ceiling were embedded with countless bones, looking down at the tiny Leonard and Pallez Zoroast who temporarily controlled his body.

Isolated by this "Church of Bones", the name of "Lord of Storms" that Pales shouted in Giant language disappeared in the empty church hall before it could be heard out.

"With this church of bones that I stole, it will take the Tyrant and the Night at least thirty seconds to find out what happened here..."

Amon smiled, his eyes fixed on Leonard, as if he could see through Leonard's body the "Time Worm" characteristics that would soon belong to him.

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"The 'School of Truth' is also looking for Roselle's tomb... What is their purpose? Are they trying to revive the 'Black Emperor' or replace him? What's so special about the 'Wishing Lamp'? Is there another 'Ancient Scholar' who has completed his role and is waiting to be promoted besides me?"

Klein, who had summoned his historical projection once again to explore the area around Silver City, was analyzing the information Angel had conveyed earlier when he suddenly heard a prayer from Leonard's voice.

He responded so quickly, so it should still be afternoon over there... He looked up at the dark sky that was almost no longer flashing with lightning. Klein skillfully entered the mist of history, took four steps backwards and arrived at the palace in the gray fog. He was immediately startled and broke into a cold sweat.

He had been on high alert and racked his brains to figure out how to deal with Amon's real body, but it turned out that he had already secretly left the God-Forsaken Land and used the trap that was set in the Jacob family treasure in the Fourth Epoch to find Pales Zoroast hiding in Backlund?
If Pales hadn't thrown Leonard out of the Church of Bones at the last minute, giving him the opportunity to pray to the Fool, by the time he discovered this, Amon would have digested all of his characteristics!

This was certainly due to Amon's careful planning and Pales's inability to resist temptation, but Klein's own "viewpoint" undoubtedly played an important role.

If Klein hadn't mentioned to Leonard that Amon would be waiting for him in the God-Forsaken Land, Pales, the archangel who had carefully hidden for a thousand years, would never have dared to easily get involved with the "Trojan Horse of Fate" feature. It would have been a better choice to wait for a thief to swallow it as a magic potion and then take it away after confirming that there was no risk.

But it was too late to say anything now... Looking at the figure of Leonard who was pushed out of the Church of Bones and landed on the street, praying desperately, inside the crimson star belonging to the "Star", Klein's mind flashed one thought after another, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.

The next second, he suddenly picked up the "Star Staff" from the pile of debris, and with a flash of thought, a message was transmitted to Leonard's star:

"Go to church and pray to the night."

Then he thrust his jeweled staff into the image of crimson stars.

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Go to church...

Leonard heard Mr. Fool's instructions. He took a last look at the closed door of 7 Pinster Street. It was as peaceful and quiet as every time he returned home. It was nothing like the hundred-meter-high church of bones where two Sequence 1 Time Worms were fighting fiercely.

He took a deep breath and quickly summoned the spirit stored on the surface of his teeth, which wrapped him up and sank into the ground, rushing towards the church not far away at a speed far exceeding that of a steam train.

The moment he disappeared, another figure emerged in the air amidst the twinkling starlight. His long hair was as thick as a poisonous snake and draped behind his head. His eyes turned completely purple and his whole body exuded endless charm. Even the white bones of different races on the surface of the "Church of Corpses" were awed by him.

He looked around and immediately fixed his eyes on the main entrance of the Church of Bones.

This is Angel, manifested by Klein using the power of the Star Staff.

And it was Angel "The Man in the Mirror" who had restored the power of the Sequence 1 "Doomsday" witch in the tomb of George III!
If Klein was in the real world, holding the "Star Staff" and trying to summon Angel's mirror man, he would almost certainly fail. This is because he has never actually seen the "mirror man" who temporarily restored his strength with the "Yesterday Reappearance" spell. Even if he had seen it, it would be difficult for him to perfectly reproduce all the details in his mind, especially those abilities whose principles he did not understand.

However, when he is inside the "Source Castle", his status will be improved accordingly, and he can also get help from the power of gray fog when using the seal of the "Apprentice" path. Only by using Angel's body, which has entered and exited the gray fog space many times, as a template to manifest the "Man in the Mirror" will there be a high probability of success.

When this "Doomsday" witch descended on Backlund, even though he was in Sefirah Castle, Klein felt his spirituality draining away as quickly as if a faucet had been turned on.

This is the price of Sequence 3 summoning Sequence 1!
He tightly grasped the "Star Staff" and looked at Angel's "Mirror Man" floating on Pinster Street through the vision left by Leonard's prayer. The latter's eyes and the open eyeballs on his snake hair looked at the door of Leonard's house and the surface of the "Corpse Church".

The personhood of Sequence 1 "Doomsday" itself will become one of the symbols of the authority it represents, just as the appearance of the "Red Angel" means that the war it represents has come to Loen, and Angel's "Man in the Mirror" also brought the disaster of Doomsday to Backlund.

But under His conscious control, the "disaster" was only reflected on the dark, bone-covered surface of the church, and concentrated on the tightly closed main door.

In an instant, the bones turned into ashes, the black stone pillars and walls turned gray, and the entire wall where the main entrance of the church was located collapsed rapidly.

The barrier that blocked the communication between the spiritual world, the astral world and reality was broken, and the closed internal scene was finally revealed to the "Man in the Mirror" and Klein.

Inside the church, which should have been pitch black, bands of light with faint glows swirled and gathered, and together with the shadows they cast, condensed into a transparent crystal column. Inside, the "Time Worms" that Klein was familiar with kept wriggling.

It was held in the hands of Amon, who wore a pointed hat and a monocle in his right eye.

Looking at Angel's "Man in the Mirror" who destroyed the main entrance of the Church of Bones that he had stolen with one strike, the blasphemer smiled, as if he knew very well that he was facing only a false projection summoned by the "Star Staff" and could only launch one attack.

He held up the extraordinary characteristics left by Pales in one hand, and placed the other hand on his chest. He bowed slightly, as if he was taking a curtain call and bidding farewell after a performance.

PS: I have been very busy with work recently. After yesterday’s big work on Su Huan, I also have to revise the outline for the rest of the chapter. So I will only have one chapter today. I am really sorry.

(End of this chapter)