Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1053 The Blessing of the Fool
After learning from Pallez Zoroast how to deal with Amon's clones and prevent them from transmitting information, Klein began to prepare this plan.

He spent two full days repeatedly using the Faceless Man's abilities to enter the City of Silver, discussing the details with Chief Colin, allowing Derrick to patrol the City of Silver using his position, while he used the vision of Sefirah Castle to look for other Amon clones.

This was not in vain. During his thorough search, he actually found two other "slippery fish".

Of course, Klein couldn't rule out whether there were clones of Amon hiding in the dark, but according to his guess, the clones in Silver City probably didn't even have Sequence 2. Otherwise, placing these "spies" here for a long time would be equivalent to leaving this part of the Beyonder characteristics idle, which would be a waste of "His" original strength. Moreover, the Beyonders in Silver City were not of high Sequence, and the most powerful chief was only Sequence 4. There was no need to leave an angel-level force to monitor this place.

After marking all the clones, the Chief gathered some residents in batches at the appropriate time and announced a plan to strengthen patrols on the roads leading to Afternoon Town, as well as to establish more outposts and supply points to support the "Giant King's Court" exploration team that would be formed later.

Among those summoned was naturally one of Amon's clones, but since there were hundreds of people involved and Silver City had organized several large-scale patrols before, this action was not abrupt and therefore did not alert the clones.

Of course, if Amon's clones found any problems, Klein, who was monitoring them at all times, would give up his disguise and launch an attack directly in the "Source Castle". The Chief promised to use a special seal in the Silver City to try to prevent the extraordinary characteristics of Amon's clone and the "Worm of Time" from returning to their original bodies.

Fortunately, the plan went smoothly. Amon's clone was tricked into going underground, and as we expected, he gathered all the forces in the City of Silver to strengthen their combat effectiveness and pass on intelligence... They probably didn't know how Backlund's companions were captured in one fell swoop, and they were not vigilant against similar methods...

Klein muttered in his mind as he threw away the "Luck Stealer" and "Petrification" spells that had been used and had lost their luster. He had just used the latter to attack himself, and then swapped his inevitable fate of death with Amon's clone, causing him to be completely petrified from the inside out and lose the ability to transmit information.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the attack, his body in the Silver City was a historical projection, the "Star Staff" in his hand used for a feint was a historical projection, and the two talismans were real objects brought directly from outside the city.

Under his cold gaze, Amon, whose body, black robe and even the crystal monocle in his eye socket turned into stone, fell to the ground without making any sound and shattered into stones of varying sizes. A thick "Time Worm" drilled out of the corpse, with a brilliant light flashing inside, and flew outwards at an extremely fast speed.

As expected, simple "petrification" could not solve the "worm of time" that caused Amon's clone to return to his original body... Klein was not surprised. Instead, he sent the "Staff of the Star" back to the mist of history as if he had been prepared. He reached into his pocket with his free hand and touched the other two talismans. Before he took them out completely, he had already infused them with spirituality and chanted in a low voice:
"betray."

"destiny!"

When he was attacked by "betrayal" and the "Luck Stealer" had not yet transferred its effect, Klein could even feel certain thoughts in his body beginning to stir, as if resisting his personality as "Klein" and were about to form their own thoughts.

But as fate changed, this abnormality soon disappeared, and the "Worm of Time" in the air suddenly stopped. The light spots inside that represented the extraordinary characteristics and the worm body that stored the information obtained by the clone betrayed each other, exploding into a small flame, and then lost power and fell back to the ground.

Until this time, the "Chief" Colin Iliad, who was hiding in the dark, walked out slowly. The straight sword he always carried with him was now inserted into the ground behind him. A little bit of pure and thick light appeared on the ground, walls and ceiling with his footsteps.

Klein guessed that this was the effect of one of the two "god-level seals" of the City of Silver, which was the seal numbered "0" of the Orthodox Church, but he was not sure about the specific method and effect.

Moreover, he had some doubts about whether this seal, which was likely to have only Sequence 2 power, had the ability to intercept the "Time Worm". After all, Pales said that in order to prevent the return of the Time Worm and the characteristics, in addition to using spells such as "betrayal", at least Sequence 1 power was required, and he did not think that the "God-Forsaken Land" still had such precious Beyonder characteristics.

Unless, although the Sealed Artifact only has the characteristics of Sequence 2, it has a higher status, just like the talisman created by the power of "City of Disaster"...

While thinking, Klein watched Colin approach the petrified body of Amon's clone, pick up the "Time Worm" that fell to the ground and the condensed characteristics, and come to him.

According to the agreement, the "Worm of Time" left by Amon's clone belongs to Klein, and the Beyonder Characteristics will be distributed according to their preciousness through negotiation.

Klein's gaze briefly lingered on the larger insect body formed by the aggregation of multiple clones, and then he looked at the group of extraordinary characteristics. Based on the attraction of the adjacent sequence aggregation instinct and the size of the characteristics extracted by Amon's clones that he had seen before, he judged:

"It should be Sequence 3, but there are more than normal... probably two. After splitting it, we can each have half."

This was consistent with his previous judgment: Amon did not station an angel-level clone in the City of Silver, especially at the critical moment of competing with Pales for the Sequence 1 characteristics.

But Colin shook his head and said in a low voice:

“The City of Silver will not keep this extraordinary characteristic. It will easily lead to disaster… Can I sacrifice it to Mr. Fool in exchange for a favor?”

In fact, I don't want to accept this feature. It has limited effect on weakening Amon's strength, but it makes it easy for the enemy to find me. It is safe to keep it on the gray fog, but it will completely lose its due effect...

Klein's expression was a little stiff, and after a moment he asked:

"Do you need the great Mr. Fool to give you a blessing to help you advance to the Sequence 3 Silver Knight?"

Even with the abilities of the Joker, Klein still felt his face getting hot when he talked about his "great self".

Fortunately, his action of directly exposing the thoughts of "Chief" Colin caused the latter to fall into silence for a short time, and his eyes dropped to the ground, as if he was looking through the floor to a place deep underground.

"Yes, the promotion ceremony of the 'Silver Knight' requires the blessing of the gods."

The demon hunter with white hair and beard and a vicissitudes of life in his eyes answered slowly. This is a small matter. The Fool has nothing else, but his status is still sufficient under the blessing of Sefirah Castle... Klein smiled and nodded.
"After I leave, you can arrange the sacrificial ceremony. I believe the great Mr. Fool will not refuse the request of a devout believer."

He was not prepared to receive the "Time Worm" and the extraordinary characteristics himself, because when the historical projection disappeared, nothing could be taken away except what he saw, heard and knew.

Thinking of this, he looked around and continued:

"Now that the matter of the 'Angel of Time' Amon's clone has been resolved, it's time for you to fulfill another promise.

Colin nodded, put away his extraordinary characteristics, and walked towards the exit of the basement:

"Come on, I'll take you to the library."

……

His thoughts returned to his real body. Klein did not delay and quickly came above the gray fog. Not long after, he heard the prayers from the City of Silver and received the sacrifice of "Chief" Colin.

Looking at Amont and the Time Worm lying obediently on the long bronze table, Klein curled his lips in disdain.

He could still make a powerful talisman out of the "Time Worm" that had lost its characteristics, which was considered to be making the best use of it. However, the Sequence 3 Beyonder characteristics that were brought together by Amon's power were a hot potato. He didn't dare to bring it into reality at all, because the characteristics that had reached this stage were enough to attract Amon's attention and easily expose his position, even if it was made into a magical item.

"It seems that we can only leave it to Pales. He should have a way to isolate Amon's perception... Well, I can ask Leonard to convey my intentions at the Tarot Club."

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Muttering, Klein threw this "Amon" into the pile of miscellaneous items behind the high-back chair, letting Him stay with other magical items and extraordinary characteristics. Under the suppression of the "Source Castle", he was not worried that this "Thief" Sequence 3 characteristic would do anything bad.

After dealing with the spoils, he once again cast his gaze towards the illusory halo created by Colin Iliad's prayer, watching the Sequence 4 Demon Hunter silently preparing for the ceremony, moving the remains of powerful creatures he had killed in the past, and setting up a complex altar. With the help of his spiritual intuition, he recalled what he had just read in the ancient books in the library in the spire tower of the City of Silver.

In the brief time before the historical projection disappeared, he selected several books with great purpose and read through them as quickly as possible, so that he could savor them carefully.

Most of the content was the history of the Second Era that he did not yet understand or was difficult to confirm. Unfortunately, there was not much of this content in the books in the City of Silver, and there was no information about the "Dark Angel" Sasriel that he was going to deal with. A small part was ancient myths and legends, and Klein got the information he needed from them:

Information about the "Dark Wolf" and "God of Wishes" Kotal.

Of course, many records in the book were not related to this "miracle worker", but were conclusions drawn by Klein through his own exploration. For example, the city-state ruins not far north of Silver City had a high-level existence of the "diviner" path hidden, which naturally made Klein think of Kotar, and the intelligence provided by the Goddess of Night did not mention this, which made him very interested.

In addition to these purposeful explorations, Klein also discovered some anomalies: the library of the City of Silver did not have any records about the two "god-level sealed objects", and when he tentatively asked the "Chief" why he did not use these two sealed objects as the source of the "god's blessing", the other party said that they would not bestow blessings.

"From the chief's expression, I can tell that they have a sense of dependence on the 'God-level Sealed Artifacts', but they are also deeply wary of them... This makes me even more curious. Unfortunately, as an outsider, I have no chance to touch the two sealed objects. Otherwise, even if I just took a look at them or touched them, I would be able to get help from them in the future with the help of historical projection..."

He actually suspected that the two sealed objects were kept deep underground in the Twin Towers, because when talking about the blessing of the gods, the "Chief" subconsciously looked in that direction.

Unfortunately, even the vision of Sefirah Castle could not penetrate that hidden area, unless he could personally go deep underground and pray to himself for a response.

Klein sighed with regret as he became more and more aware of the importance of "connections" to an ancient scholar. Seeing that the chief's ceremony was ready, he picked out the relatively exquisitely cut paper figure from the pile of miscellaneous items, attached the "Source Castle" and his own power, and threw it into the aperture.

Immediately, the holy light and angels with twelve pairs of wings surrounded the "demon hunter".

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Two days later, crimson rays of light flashed, and all members of the Tarot Club gathered again around the long bronze table.

After Justice led everyone to greet Mr. Fool as usual, Derrick the Sun stood up again, bowed to the head of the long table with some excitement, and said:

“Dear Mr. Fool, thank you for your help and blessing to the City of Silver. Our Chief has been promoted to Sequence 3!”

Alas, compared to exploring the "God-Forsaken Land" alone in the darkness, I feel more accomplished at this time... Klein smiled secretly behind the gray fog and nodded:
"one little thing."

Only then did he notice that the "Queen" Angel, who was sitting next to his left, was also looking at him.

A sense of tension immediately diluted the joy in his heart.

(End of this chapter)