Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 993: Sequence 2 Honorable Name

Unlike Sequence 3, when Angel was limited to certain areas, after becoming an angel, Angel can respond to prayers from anywhere in the world. With the help of certain special methods, such as the historical aperture images of the "Ancient Scholars" or the mirrors that have a mystical connection with her, Angel can quickly cross long distances and descend to the side of the person praying.

But as a price, Angel's body and self-consciousness were inevitably affected by the residual mental imprint within the "Disaster" witch's extraordinary characteristics.

On the one hand, a certain superior and irresistible consciousness awakened a little in her body. This existence regarded human beings as ants and believed that brilliant civilization was just an insignificant ripple in the long river of time. While providing Angel with various knowledge preserved in the potion, it always had the violent impulse to trigger meteorites, earthquakes and storms and destroy everything around it. It also had the idea of ​​showing off its feminine charm, seducing everything, and then falling.

On the other hand, the "anchors" that Angel felt when she was promoted kept resurfacing in her mind. The Nighthawk teammates in Tingen City, the neighbors she had little contact with but left an impression on, the members of the Tarot Club and the Beyonders in Backlund, the residents of Constant City and the City of Dreams, as well as Klein, Dunn, Daly, Melissa, Sherman, Elaine, and even Triss... In their eyes, Angel was either dressed in a cool and neutral outfit, or had black hair and a round face with a resolute expression, or had blonde hair and a sharp gaze, or was gentle and kind...

Different images converged into the multifaceted "Angel Granger", allowing her to resist the crazy erosion of her extraordinary characteristics and maintain her self-stability.

This is the biggest reason why Extraordinary beings with angelic status need their own honorable names and believers: to form a corresponding image, cognition, and positioning, to maintain the self, and to resist the pollution of the spiritual imprint of Extraordinary characteristics.

The previous discussion among the Tarot Club members that "the gods need an anchor to maintain humanity" cannot be said to be wrong, but it is rather one-sided.

With this knowledge flashing through his mind, Angel looked at Anne Gustav, who had become a "Balancer" during the Trunsost Empire, and asked carefully:
"What are the special features of an angel's honorific name? Will it have any impact if I continue to use the previous name 'Golden Queen'?"

The girl, wearing a simple dress and standing barefoot on the carpet, was obviously quite human. She smiled and replied:

"It's not a big problem to continue using the previous honorific name, but the main purpose of your designing the honorific name must have been for the needs of the ceremony or to allow others to accurately locate you, so there will be a deviation in the description...

"This won't have any impact at Sequence 3, but when you become an angel and need to use faith as an anchor to fight madness, it will become a hidden danger."

"Hidden danger?" Angel asked, subconsciously glancing at Amon who had relaxed and sat back at his desk. "Will it allow some people with ill intentions to use your honorable name to influence me in the opposite direction?"

Attracted by Angel's pointed remarks, Amon's clone took off his monocle, wiped it on his sleeves with a breath, and said with a click of the tongue:
"Why do you think the true gods all had their own specific images in the Fourth Epoch, and even spread them widely, but in the Fifth Epoch they were all changed into holy emblems?
"Like the spiritual imprints left in the Beyonder characteristics, the image of the gods in the eyes of believers is also a kind of 'pollution'. After being honored with a name and guided by a statue of a specific shape, it can gradually cover up the true appearance of the gods.

"So the honorific name must point to the source of one's power and the scope of one's authority, and cannot be exaggerated or deviate from the original. The holy emblem can prevent believers from having a unified image perception, and use them as an anchor to fight against madness, but will not be subtly changed by believers."

Angel thought of the statues hidden in the underground ruins of Backlund, the goddess of night with the full moon as her pillow and the stars as her clasps, the plump and graceful mother earth holding a baby, the lord of storms with his feet on the waves and his halberd in his hand...

So that’s why the gods hid their original images after entering the Fifth Era and changed to the current system of holy emblems... But the Fourth Era has a history of more than a thousand years, and their images may have been fixed by the appearances of those statues...

Subconsciously drawing a crimson moon on his chest to replace the hazy but extremely beautiful goddess in his mind, Angel continued to ask:

"So besides my honorable name, I also need to design a holy emblem of my own? But most angels don't do that..."

Anne shook her head when she heard this:

"That's because the angels' 'anchors' are not rich enough to be picky. Not to mention using holy emblems to replace specific images to avoid being polluted by believers' cognition, many angels can't even maintain their corresponding humanity and will inevitably slowly approach madness.

“The same is true for gods like the True Creator. Their number of believers is even less than that of the patron saints of some churches, so they need specific images to spread their faith, rather than using holy emblems as a substitute.

"At this stage of your life, it is a good idea to use your own image and certain texts and graphics to expand the group of believers. As for the holy emblem, you can consider it after you are promoted again."

Text... She hadn't read the "Great Pirate Angelica Series"... Angel felt her face getting hot, which made her confirm that her "humanity" was still abundant, and she asked:
"But you don't seem to need too many followers to maintain yourself, nor do you use these carriers to fix your image?"

Before Annie could answer, Amon, who was sitting next to her, sneered and said:

"Oh, that's because she's special. The authority of order and the ability to balance different forces that the Balancer possesses can reduce the influence of her internal crazy tendencies when believers are scarce and the Anchor is almost completely lost. Otherwise, how could a ghost ship that lost its crew and left the fleet still maintain its identity after a thousand years?"

No wonder after being exiled by Emperor Roselle and leaving Intis, Anne did not fall into madness because of losing all her "anchors". It turned out that this was related to the special nature of the "Arbitrator". Of course, she might still have a few stable anchors like Bernadette to maintain the last bit of "balance"...

Angel seemed to have realized that the two most powerful "anchors" she felt when she was promoted were Klein and the person in her mirror. The others were mostly just images created by their own actions and deeds, and they had not yet reached the level of true "believers."

If it weren't for the witch's peculiarities, I would have lost control without the "Man in the Mirror". Klein alone is not enough... Thinking of this, she looked at Amon again, somewhat curious about what kind of followers this Angel King hiding in the dark had.

"Me? My believers are all myself." Feeling her gaze, Amon smiled again and spoke to himself.

Being your own believer... It sounds like a joke, but it might actually be a thrilling story... Angel took a deep breath and stopped communicating with this "blasphemer" whose spirit might have been alienated and influenced by the crazy thoughts of the Beyonder. Instead, he used the mirror illusion to erect a transparent curtain wall and pondered his own name.

Since he was still a favored person of the Goddess of Night, the "Shadow of the Goddess" of the Church of Night, and had indeed received considerable favor and help from this deity, Angel quickly finalized the first sentence of his honorific name:
"The scarlet and hidden shadow."

This even has a bit of a "mirror world" meaning... Angel wrote this sentence on the "curtain wall" with black flames with satisfaction.

To her surprise, Amon scratched his chin and agreed:

"That's a good sentence. It touches upon the status of the Night. If He is willing to help you publicize your deeds in the Holy Scripture, the effect will be very good."

I thought you would be sarcastic... Angel was stunned for a moment, and then wrote the second sentence:
"The Queen of the Five Seas."

This not only inherits the faith foundation laid by the "Golden Queen", but also changes the name from "Queen" to "Queen" which is more in line with Angel's status, and also echoes the code name in the Tarot Club.

The most important thing is that compared with the previous sentence, the direction of this honorific name is extremely clear and it is almost impossible to make a mistake.

Looking at the two honorific names formed by black flames, Annie, who was also preparing to make a plan, spoke up:

"The third sentence would be best accompanied by a corresponding description of authority and power."

The corresponding power of the witch... Different descriptions such as "destruction", "plague" and "despair" emerged in Angel's mind, but he found that if he used these, there was a high probability that the name would point to the "Original Witch" at the top of the Witch Path. After all, as far as these powers were concerned, He was the real controller.

Just as His noble name says: the source of all disasters, the symbol of destruction and doomsday.

My only advantage is...

As he pondered, Angel waved his fingers, letting the black flames form the last sentence of his honorific name:
"The nature of the disaster in the mirror."

This means that she is the actual controller of the "source essence", that is, the "City of Disaster" located deep in the mirror world. Apart from her, not even the "Original Witch" has this qualification!

With Angel completing the addition of "The Noble Angelica Sage", this set of three-part plus name-referenced honorific names was officially completed.

After trying to use the mirror as a substitute to recite the Honorific Name and finding that it could successfully point to himself and the prayer sound coming from it was very clear, Angel finally felt relieved, but another thought came to his mind:

"Will the word 'disaster' be detrimental to the spread of faith? After all, no one wants to believe in an existence that controls disasters and misfortunes..."

"Night also has the description of 'disaster and fear', and Storm directly points out the authority of the 'Lord of the Disaster', but their believers don't care. In other words, the reason why many sailors and pirates believe in Storm is because He controls the disaster and is the 'Emperor of the Sea'."

Amon replied with a smile on his face, and when he mentioned "Emperor of the Sea", he looked up.

Had he been struck by lightning from the Lord of Storms before because of this tone of voice? After all, they were all "blasphemers"... Angel laughed secretly and decided on this honorific name in his heart.

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"The phantom of scarlet and secret, the queen of the five seas, the essence of disaster in the mirror, the noble Angelica Thatch..."

Repeating the honorific name that Angel had passed on to him through the messenger Reinette, Klein leaned back in his chair with emotion and closed his eyes.

"I'm so envious...but why is she still using the name Angelica? Is it because of the continuation of the 'Golden Queen', or...is the 'world' still Gehrman Sparrow?"

Thinking of this, the corners of Klein's mouth curled up slightly.

(End of this chapter)