Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1042: The cooperation is not very good

It was less than 20 seconds, and Pallez Zoroast, who was at the same Sequence 1 as Amon and had recently recovered most of his strength, was... dead?
Klein was stunned as he looked at Pinster Street through the prayer light in the gray fog. He suspected that what appeared before his eyes was just an illusion played by Amon. He was actually still fighting with Pales for the qualification of Sequence 0 of the "Thief" pathway.

However, his spiritual intuition, enhanced by the Sefirah Castle, told him that the person standing in the "Church of Bones" that he had seen once during the battle between Adam and Ouroboros was Amon's real body, and what He held in His hand was the Beyonder Characteristics that originally belonged to Pallez.

From the information obtained from Leonard's brief, anxious prayer, as well as the scene he saw after "arriving at the scene", Klein was able to infer the general course of the battle based on the results:
Before Leonard returned home, Amon had already used the arrangement in the Jacob family treasure to lock onto the Pales clone who stole the "Trojan Horse of Destiny" feature. He ventured into Backlund without any delay. Based on his observation of fate and prediction of the movements of Pales and Leonard, he arrived at No. 7 Pinster Street in advance, waiting for the prey to fall into his trap.

The moment he discovered Amon, Pales ended the parasitism and left Leonard's body. He pushed Leonard out of the blockade area at the moment when the "Corpse Church" blocked the reality, the spirit world and the astral world. He stayed behind to fight Amon and meet his own fate.

On one side is the Angel King who has been planning for a long time and has absolute power advantage, while the other side has not yet fully recovered its strength and was distracted and let Leonard go. The outcome of the battle can be imagined.

His thoughts gradually became clear. On the one hand, Klein felt sorry that the last conscience of Pales, the thief, was devoured by Amon. On the other hand, he felt that the arrival of Amon in person was a great opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the opponent.

This is Backlund, a place governed by darkness and storms. Right now, a wall of the "Church of Bones" has been broken, and the gods may appear at any time!
Thinking of this, he immediately waved the "Star Staff", and Angel's beautiful face appeared in his mind again, outlining all the familiar details, and then connected it with the man in the mirror who exposed his identity as "The Fool". With the connection between the gray fog and the prayer light, he summoned the projection of the "Doomsday" witch on Pinster Street for the second time.

——The first person who smashed open the Church of Bones was no longer able to launch another attack and disappeared on his own.

But just as the new Angel "Man in the Mirror" focused his gaze on Amon, wanting to bring inevitable destruction and doomsday to this "blasphemer", the latter did not resist at all, but gracefully waved the hand holding the "Worm of Time" crystal column, causing the undamaged corpses of various races, the dark walls and stone pillars, and the towering dome around him to collapse as if they had lost their support, and dissipated before they hit the ground.

The same is true of His own body.

Obviously, this was a "mistake", which allowed His true body to become an illusion along with the Skeleton Church that ended its materialization, and thus leave Backlund.

"Don't be complacent. Angel's destructive power can be used in conjunction with 'Harvest' and 'Precision' to attack the clone and harm the original body!"

Klein thought viciously, the corpse of Zaratul falling in front of him appeared in his mind. Just as he was expecting something, he found a black cloud gathering over Backlund, with lightning flashing inside. A ball of lightning fell towards Pinster Street like a cannonball, passed through the church of bones that had not yet completely collapsed, and hit Amon's still smiling face.

His pointed hat turned to ashes, cracks appeared on his crystal monocle, and his body flashed with lightning, allowing Klein to almost see the "Time Worm" wandering inside.

But as the surrounding church of bones completely turned into an illusion, his body also disappeared in the lightning with the help of "error".

The real house at 7 Pinster Street was revealed. Behind the open door, there was a human-shaped scorch mark on the porch. It was the corpses left by countless Amon clones killed by lightning.

Then, they, along with the entire house, turned gray and white under the gaze of Angel's "Man in the Mirror", and then turned into powder, meeting their own end.

The lightning that was still crawling on the ground, searching for its target, paused noticeably and then became dim. The dark clouds above also quickly dissipated, revealing a dim sky.

On the messy Pinster Street, the "Man in the Mirror" silently looked up at the sky. It was unclear whether he was looking at the clouds from which the "Lord of the Storm" was sending down his power, or at Klein on the ground through the gray fog. Then he also disappeared like a bubble.

"The coordination this time wasn't very good... or rather, it was awful. The lightning was clearly the power sent down by the 'Storm Lord' Leodro, but since He was not there in person, He could only kill His clones to vent His anger, and He couldn't leave His real body behind... And the man in the Angel mirror who had the chance to 'follow the network cable' lost his target because all of his clones were killed...

"It would be easy if it was the goddess who came. Her 'secret' ability should be able to prevent Amon from taking advantage of the 'error' she caused to leave, and she might even have a chance to snatch the Sequence 1 Thief's characteristic... Unfortunately, the first and only one to react was the 'Storm Lord'. She must be worried that after Amon and Adam both become gods, they will settle accounts with their father's former subordinates one by one...

"It seems that the goddess is in a very bad state now. She can't even descend to Backlund. It's okay to deal with a few Amon's clones, but it's difficult to deal with Amon's real body... Fortunately, I have come to the Land of the Gods, otherwise in Backlund, the goddess might not be able to protect me..."

After throwing the Star Staff back into the junk pile, Klein sighed as he looked at the razed No. 7 Pinster Street. He knew that since Amon had successfully escaped this time and had taken away the last Thief Sequence 1 characteristic, it wouldn't take long for him to become a true god, and a true god who was not restricted and could walk on the ground.

At that time, the "Fool", who is essentially not even Sequence 2, will become His first target.

"I hope the 'Thief's' godhood ritual is difficult enough so that I can have more time to improve my strength... I can ask Pale about this... Sigh..."

Klein muttered, then changed to the deep and serious tone of The Fool, and said something to the star that belonged to Leonard:

"No need to pray to the night."

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No need to pray... Leonard had just run wildly underground to the vicinity of the church, and his figure suddenly stopped as he was about to rush into the prayer hall. He recalled these words in his mind, with a look of loss and disappointment.

He lowered his head slightly, his lips moving, wanting to call out "old man" as usual, but he never opened his mouth.

It seemed that as long as he didn't shout out loud, Pales was still in his body, silently helping him observe his surroundings as usual, and only spoke to remind himself at critical moments.

"Old man..."

He finally called out in a low voice, as if saying goodbye.

"I'm busy. I'm checking to see if there's anything valuable in your collapsed house. What's going on?"

Leonard suddenly raised his head as an old, tired voice popped up in his mind:
"Old man, you are not dead?"

Then he looked around suspiciously and walked towards St. Samuel Church, suspecting that the voice in his head was Amon, who had already devoured Pales, playing a prank.

"Don't worry. The lightning strike just now should have come from the 'Storm Lord'. In order to resist this attack, Amon should have abandoned all the clones gathered in Backlund and protected his own body to leave," Pales explained unhappily. The familiar tone made Leonard breathe a sigh of relief. "As for me, I died once, but I was 'resurrected' again."

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“I didn’t expect that Pales actually left a part of the Time Worm in Leonard’s body. After dying at the hands of Amon, he was able to give up the characteristics of that Sequence 1 and resurrect as a Sequence 2 in Leonard’s body, which was considered his clone… The thief is really hard to kill, and has the same function as the puppet of the Fortune Teller…”

Klein, who was still above the gray fog, had not had time to leave when he received Leonard's joyful prayer, knowing that Pales had saved half his life in a "self-degrading" way.

In this way, the question of why the battle ended in a short time that he had previously wondered about was answered:

Amon probably saw Pales's "escape route" and did not stop him from pushing Leonard out of the battlefield. In this way, Pales, who had a chance to survive, would not be determined to fight to the death, allowing him to have a greater chance of quickly obtaining the characteristics and leaving, so as to avoid being blocked in Backlund by the Storm Lord sent by God.

"He used my information about the God-Forsaken Land to paralyze Pales, and then surrounded Leonard, the means of his resurrection, and finally found a chance to escape from the attacks of the Lord of Storms and the Man in the Mirror... He is indeed one of the oldest angel kings..."

Even though Amon might be Klein's most formidable enemy in the future, he was still somewhat impressed by his opponent's methods.

Fortunately, the surviving Pales asked Leonard to bring some important information, including that Amon's body was likely severely damaged by the Storm Lord's attack, and he had to prepare for the godhood ceremony, so he probably had no time to care about Klein recently; it also included the key ritual content for Sequence 1 "Time Worm" to be promoted to Sequence 0 "Error":

In other deification ceremonies, he would take the other person's place.

"Will this not become the other's path? Or will they still maintain their own path after taking over? Recently, it seems that only Adam can use the 'trend of the times' to become a true god. I hope that their relationship is just a fake brotherhood, fighting each other for rituals until they are bloodied..."

Klein cursed a few times, left the gray fog and returned to the pitch-black "God-Forsaken Land". He looked towards the Silver City not far away again.

Since Amon's original body has been severely damaged at this time and there is no time to take care of his whereabouts, the plan to eliminate Amon's clones in the city can be put on the agenda.

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At the same time, Angel, who had just returned to Backlund after finishing her conversation with Alysia Tamara, sensed that someone was praying to her.

She entered the "mirror world" and found the prayer light among the many accumulated ones. She discovered that it was the red-haired, soft and handsome Elaine Soren who was chanting her name and offering a prayer.

"The 'witch' Tia who escaped from the Witch Cult and later joined Elaine's fleet wants to see me?
"Is it related to the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?"

PS: Thanks to the two leaders of "永永之亭" for the reward (づ￣ 3￣)づ~☆

(End of this chapter)