Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 844: A Glimpse of the Truth

"Yes, I have gathered all the ingredients for the 'immortality' potion."

To Klein's surprise, Angel simply nodded calmly, skipped this important news, and continued:
"Also, I found a trickster in the Fountain of Youth... a trickster who was completing the promotion ceremony of the Ancient Scholar. After an unpleasant exchange, I dealt with her and conducted spiritual communication with her."

Ancient scholars... Klein's thoughts paused for a moment before he became confused due to surprise.

He hesitantly asked back:
"So, you... asked for the potion formula of the 'Ancient Scholar'?"

"Unfortunately, no."

In the next few minutes, Klein heard from Angel the entire process of her exploration and battle in that special mirror world today. In addition to the most important goal, the dead branches of the ancient tree next to the "Fountain of Youth", which was easily obtained, he also gained various sequences of extraordinary characteristics, which made him sincerely happy for Angel.

Of course, the most important thing to Klein is the "ritual" mentioned by the strange wizard Sophia.

"Being completely out of touch with reality for 300 years, taking the potion after you become history and no longer belong to the present era..."

Repeating the promotion ceremony of the "Ancient Scholar", Klein fell into an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

The concept of “not belonging to the current era” immediately reminded him of the honorific name “Fool” he made up, the first sentence of which is “The Fool who does not belong to this era”.

In the understanding of other Tarot Club members, this was naturally a description of themselves by a resurrected ancient god. Klein also intended to guide them to think in this direction, but he himself knew that this sentence was completely a ridicule of "Zhou Mingrui" who traveled to this world and had a wandering soul. It was also a summary of his own identity at the time.

But after choosing the "Fool" card at the circus on Iron Cross Street and becoming the "Fool" above the gray fog, and choosing the "Fortune Teller" path under the influence of Roselle's diary, and finally seeing the blasphemous card representing his own path, Klein had a strong sense of fate in his heart after choosing the "Fool" card. He knew that many of his choices had already been influenced by many forces.

He had comforted himself that all these were changes brought about by his own choices, and that he had exerted his "subjective initiative" to achieve a two-way rush. However, after learning about the promotion ceremony of the "Ancient Scholar", the feeling of being surrounded by fate and walking step by step on a path that had already been marked returned to Klein.

Angel didn't seem to notice his trance, or perhaps she thought it was a normal reaction of a "weird wizard" hearing about an almost impossible promotion ceremony. She just smiled and continued:

"Fortunately, Sophia pointed out a clear path for us. This should also be what her teacher, the Zaratul you met, prepared for her... Continuously soaking in the 'Fountain of Youth' can keep the body in the best condition and survive the difficult three hundred years. After completing the ritual and taking the potion, the longer life force of Sequence 3 will offset the 'loss' of these three hundred years... This may not be the best way, but it has indeed been proven to be useful."

No, Angel, I don't need...

If I was really destined to be here, if I had already accepted someone's "gift", then I should have been able to take the "Ancient Scholar" potion directly after I prepared it, because I was suspended on that light gate for many times longer than three hundred years...

Klein heard his own voice in his mind.

At this moment, he could no longer conceal his frustrated expression, and he didn't even want to use the characteristics of the Faceless Man to conceal it.

All that remained in his mind were the choices he made after coming to this world. Pictures kept flashing through his mind: joining the Nighthawks, choosing the "Fortune Teller", meeting Angel, being attracted to him, trying to integrate into this world, but dying in the conspiracy of Ince Zangwill, being resurrected again, and meeting Angel again...

Are these so-called “choices” and “decisions” really your own ideas?
Has he been part of some kind of "arrangement" since the moment he became "Klein Moretti"?
Suddenly, Klein felt his upper body tighten, and was tightly embraced by Angel's hands.

He also heard the other party's soft voice beside his ear:

"It's okay. I will always be with you... In the 175 years that Sophia has been guarding the Fountain of Youth, only three 'immortal' witches have been promoted there, which means that this sequence has a long life. Once you have digested the magic potion of the 'weird wizard' and made all preparations, we will go there together and spend this not-so-long time."

Angel...

Klein pursed his lips, stretched out his hands, and hugged her tightly.

He knew that the other party must have misunderstood his expression and thought that he was despairing about the rigorous promotion ceremony of "being out of reality for three hundred years". This was indeed a big difficulty for a normal "trickster", and it might even be more difficult than collecting potion materials, but for him, it was a problem that had already been solved and did not need to be worried about.

Just like the promotion ceremony of the "immortality" potion... Wait, why can Angel bypass this so easily? She doesn't seem to be worried about the long time required for the "mismatch of age and mentality" required for "immortality"?
I spent a long time hanging on the light gate. Could it be that she...she completed the ritual by chance due to a change of identity as Ince Zangwill said, or is it because...she does not belong to this era either?

Thinking of the three empty light cocoons he saw above the gray fog, and the last unknown "traveler" besides Emperor Roselle, Klein's heart became conflicted again.

On the one hand, he hopes that Angel is the last "companion" he is looking for, which will add another bond to their already extremely close relationship. On the other hand, he is worried that his guess is not correct. In addition to disappointment, it may also expose Angel's unwillingness to reveal secrets and affect their relationship.

This made him extremely hesitant, and he never dared to take this step and open his mouth to test it.

Seeing Klein gradually "calming down", Angel breathed a sigh of relief. She hugged him tightly again, loosened her arms, and used invisible silk threads and a ritual knife to quickly set up a spiritual wall in the bedroom. Then, under Klein's gaze, she took out the materials she had prepared long ago.

The blood of a centenarian, the dead branches beside the "Fountain of Youth"... and finally the "immortality" properties packed in a small wooden box.

After putting them one by one into the small pot used to prepare medicine, various solids or liquids such as blood and dead branches were mixed together, completely dissolving the extraordinary properties that kept attracting the two people's attention. The red and gray in the pot continued to merge, gradually deepening, and finally became a pure black viscous liquid.

Although Angel knew the potion had been successfully prepared after seeing the Beyonder characteristics fully integrated, she still performed a divination and came to the conclusion that the potion in front of her was extremely dangerous, but acceptable. Klein also threw out the amethyst pendant and solemnly performed a pendulum divination, and obtained the same result.

He was about to try another method to confirm it again when he heard Angel's calm but hesitant voice:

"If the promotion fails, I will try my best to suppress myself for a while before losing control. You should immediately turn me into a puppet and then remove it. This way, I won't be a threat to you or others... Anyway, based on the previous situation, the probability of my 'resurrection' is still quite high..."

As she spoke, she laughed dryly, but Klein did not see any smile on her face.

She was also unsure whether she could be promoted successfully, or whether she could be resurrected after death... Klein's heart tightened, and he wanted to dissuade Angel from being promoted for the time being, but he didn't know how to start.

Although the two of them solved Ince Zangwill, the problems they faced were no less than those in the middle sequence. The truth about the "big smog", the covetousness of the "blasphemer" Amon, and the existence of the "witch sect" all required them to face them with greater strength.

Moreover, unlike the "fate" that Klein suspected, Angel had truly received the attention of the "Imaginary Angel" Adam and became the favored one of the goddess. The Church of Evernight gave her the extraordinary characteristic of "immortality", which was definitely not for her to make it into a magical item for her own use, but for her to upgrade her sequence as soon as possible and become the real "Shadow of the Goddess"...

Klein took out a gold coin he carried with him and threw it up with a "ding" sound. His shaking hands almost failed to catch the falling coin.

Just as he looked down at his palm, Angel had already taken a deep breath and drank the potion.

……

The black potion seemed to become mist, completely surrounding Angel.

She could feel the liquid entering her mouth instantly soaking her torso and limbs. The biting cold made her skin tense all over, and it seemed as if something was slowly crawling behind her head.

Those hairs became thicker and thicker, with the tips looking like eyeballs, snake heads, and tentacles.

This was a sign of losing control...Angel immediately calmed himself down and tried to control the changes in his body, restoring his hair to its smooth, light golden color.

Then, the black mist around her faded away, revealing different pictures.

It was the year 2055, the day he, Angel Grey, was born.

It was a scene when his parents died in childhood due to strange events that suddenly appeared around the world.

It was a picture of being taken in and trained by the church's institutions, and eventually joining them to become the Knights Templar.

It is a scene where the whole world unites to fight against the evil that emerges from all over the world, but inevitably moves towards doomsday step by step.

That was the scene when he accepted the order and led the team to hold back a certain demon, but was pierced through the body by a flaming spear thrown by the other party and died unwillingly on the street.

This time, Angel was able to glimpse a clearer picture from the blurred memories in his mind, and recognized the flaming spear that was now extremely familiar to him.

That is the flaming spear condensed by the "Arsonist" controlling the flames!
It turns out that, at that time, I already had some kind of connection with the extraordinary power of this era, although it came at the cost of my life...

Angel suddenly realized, and watched the scene beside him gradually emerge, then gradually disappear, and finally stop on the lonely street in the city, and on Angel Gray's body that seemed eternal and unchanged without the slightest change.

She knew that it was no longer "reality" but "City of Disaster".

I lay there, in the City of Disaster, for an incalculable amount of time, until the outside world was destroyed and reborn, until four long epochs had passed, until the fifth epoch when the gods no longer existed and humans dominated the earth, until... the day Cole Granger died...

Angel stared at his own body quietly until a new image emerged from the black fog.

It was a dark basement. A naked girl with long golden hair was lying quietly on the blood-stained floor. Beside her stood two figures, a man and a woman.

The man was a middle-aged man wearing a simple white robe, with a light blond beard and a warm expression. He had a silver cross pendant hanging on his chest and his hands hanging naturally. It was Adam, the "angel of fantasy" that Angel had seen several times.

Beside him, the woman whom Angel had observed in the dim light but had never been able to identify her true appearance, finally no longer concealed her face in the black fog.

She was not very old, and was wearing a classical hooded robe. Her long black hair hung down from both sides of the hood. Her black eyes were emotionless, and her face was beautiful but a little dull.

This time, Angel also recognized her identity.

She once expelled "Lady Despair" Panatia during the Backlund Great Smog, helping herself to be temporarily promoted to the Witch of "Pain" and stop the spread of the disease;

She had helped Mr. Azik stop the fusion of his memory with the god of death in the "Salinger Mausoleum" deep in the Raging Sea, and gave him the opportunity to choose his own life;
Her statue appears in a mysterious foggy town and is called "Mother of Heaven";
She is the vessel that the "Goddess of Night" descends into when she walks in the world!
(End of this chapter)