Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 994 Seeking Death Again
But the next second, Klein frowned again.

"The Beyonder characteristic of the Planeswalker hidden in the Ghost Empire was actually contaminated, and it also affected other angel characteristics... Angel did not elaborate on the source of the contamination, but as angels, she and Annie were unable to solve it, and Amon's clone couldn't figure out the situation. It can be seen that the contamination came from at least a certain evil god, or even the Starry Sky that Ms. Arianna avoided talking about..."

He paced back and forth in the shabby safe house in the East District, regretting that this path to promotion was blocked.

He didn't dare to take the risk of using the contaminated Beyonder characteristics, even if Angel believed that he could use the status of "City of Disaster" to completely crush it and separate the pollution.

"Just treat it as a last resort... Consider other options first. Miss Magician should respond to the Abraham family's attitude soon. With the help of the Fool's identity, I have a high chance of getting the Planeswalker's formula. There's also a chance that the Sealed Artifact in their hands... According to the plan, I will go to the gray fog to do a divination, using the Antigonus Family Notebook that I once touched as a medium, to divine the ancestor of this family, a holder of the Mysterious Servant trait. This is likely to be counterattacked, but the gray fog can help me resist most of the damage, just like peeping at the Eternal Sun and the True Creator... At the same time, I can gain some mystical information."

He recalled the experience of being burned black by the sun and driven crazy by the whispers of the true creator. His face showed a twisted and struggling expression, but he finally made up his mind, walked four steps backwards to the gray fog formed by the "Source Castle", and sat on the high-backed chair belonging to "The Fool".

He was willing to take risks and endure the pain to spy on Antigonus, who was called "half-fool" by Pales Zoroast in the Fourth Epoch but had gone mad and disappeared. Not only was it because of his desire for his own strength and a sense of crisis about the existence of Zaratul, Amon, Adam and others who were eyeing him covetously, but he was also worried that if he delayed too long at Sequence 3, or had to take risks to obtain the characteristics in the hands of other gods or angel kings, Angel would jump to another path for him and change from a "witch" who could not continue to advance to a "hunter"!
Klein knew that the three "Conqueror" characteristics were all in an ownerless state, making them safer than the Witch Path, which was occupied by the "Original Witch" at the top of the path. The only problem was that starting from Sequence 4 "Iron-Blooded Knight", the Beyonders on this path would inevitably become male when they were promoted.

A male Angel... Klein's eyes went dark. He felt that even if he faced Amon and Adam directly, he would not want to see such a thing happen.

Gathering his thoughts, he reached out into the depths of the gray fog, and in his hand appeared a notebook with a pure black cover.

This was the cause of everything, causing "Klein Moretti" to commit suicide and allowing him to "travel through time" with the Antigonus family notes!
Of course, now that he knew the truth about the time travel, Klein no longer thought it was just a coincidence. When the Source Castle and the gray fog released him from the cocoon of light, they would definitely choose a recently deceased person who was close to the power of the Fortune Teller. And this notebook, which possessed a certain power of "half a fool", was undoubtedly the first choice.

I was influenced by you back then, and now I’m going to fleece you... Fortunately, I’m an “ancient scholar”. As long as I come into contact with this notebook, it’s equivalent to owning it forever... Various thoughts flashed through Klein’s mind. He placed the notebook on the long bronze table, wrote down the divination content of the “original owner of the notebook”, leaned back in his chair, and entered a dream.

Immediately, a towering mountain appeared before his eyes, and a dilapidated palace on the top of the mountain appeared. It seemed to be separated from the reality by a transparent barrier, blurry and hazy.

It was the scene he had seen in the mutterings of "Honakis and Fregola," but it was clearer now. His sight was able to penetrate the gray fog, enter the palace, and land on a stone throne inlaid with gems and gold.

Countless transparent worms huddled together inside the throne, twisting and growing constantly. Tentacles stretched out from the edges, caressing everything around them unconsciously.

Various complex runes emerged on the surface of the transparent worms, causing Klein to stare at them involuntarily, trying to take everything into his brain, understand, and absorb the knowledge within them.

But the next second, his consciousness collapsed, and his spirit body scattered on his own high-back chair into transparent "spiritual worms", crawling everywhere on the chair, the table and the ground, just like the "Half Fool" he was spying on.

The palace above the gray fog began to shake and sway. The fog enveloped everything, eliminating any external counterattacks.

After a long time, the wriggling little bugs finally gathered into Klein. He had a painful look on his face and a blank look in his eyes. It took him several seconds to regain his thoughts and remember what he had just done.

“I felt like I had become an idiot at that moment, daring to keep staring at those divine patterns… Was this some kind of ‘fooling’?
"It seems that the uniqueness of the 'Fortune Teller' path is most likely in the out-of-control Antigonus. This is why he is called 'Half Fool'. The characteristics of Sequence 1 plus uniqueness seem to be stronger than the Angel Kings with two or even three characteristics but no uniqueness. The unconscious counterattack can penetrate deep into the 'Source Castle', which is almost the same as the true God... Well, this is also because of the same path. Other Angel Kings definitely can't do it...

"Fortunately, the danger is great, but the rewards are great. In the brief glimpse just now, I saw the complete formula of the 'Miracle Master'..."

Using self-talk to ease the severe pain of all the spirit bugs collapsing and scattering, Klein summoned a pen and paper and wrote down the potion formula in his mind:

"Main material: a heart of the Dark Wolf (also known as the God of Wishes), or other characteristics of a 'miracle worker'; auxiliary materials: 300 ml of the Dark Wolf's blood, one Time Worm, and one Star Worm.

"Promotion Ceremony: Let a lost piece of history return to the present era." Looking at the last sentence, Klein's expression changed uncontrollably. It seemed that he had just missed the best opportunity for promotion.

That is the "Ghost Empire" that left the real world at the end of the Fourth Epoch and hid in the gap between the spiritual world and reality, but returned to reality again not long ago!
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"Ghost Empire? Isn't that a rumor? I remember there were at least six rumors of this kind at sea."

Putting down the Dixie pie and the empty Coke bottle in his hand, Hugh Dillcha, with a satisfied look on his face, looked at his good friend, Fors Wall, who was lazily leaning on the sofa, and asked in confusion.

"No, this time it's probably true..." Fors got up from the sofa and said excitedly, "I've been resting in the Rorsted Archipelago these days... No, when I was collecting materials, I heard some sailors who were urgently summoned saying that they were going to send a large amount of goods to an uninhabited island deep in the Violent Sea. They said that a huge city had appeared there... They all suspected that the 'Ghost Empire' from the Fourth Epoch had reappeared in the world!"

"Maybe it's just a small island that rarely communicates with the outside world. Because of the war, they were short of supplies, so they urgently ordered some from them..."

Xiu thought of a more reasonable reason and then asked:
"And what does this have to do with you? Are you planning to take over your pen pal's job and continue the legend of Miss Queen yourself? Even if so, the chapter of Ghost Empire has already been written, right?"

She is also a loyal fan of the "Great Pirate Angelica" series. Whenever she thinks of the "Queen" lady of the Tarot Club becoming a saint and an angel step by step, and the novel with her as the protagonist becoming popular all over the country, she feels a less moral pleasure in her heart.

Hearing her friend's question, Fors quickly shook her head and said:
"No, it has nothing to do with this... I haven't digested all of the 'recorder' yet, but I've already been to all the major cities and scenic spots. If I continue to go to hidden towns and abandoned villages in the same way as before, it will probably take several months to complete the role-playing. But this will frequently trouble Mr. 'World', and it will be easy to run into Miss 'Queen' in real life...

"But if the Ghost Empire is indeed from the Trunsoest Empire in the Fourth Age, recording the local customs and folklore there will definitely give me strong feedback and help me digest the last potion quickly! This way, I will only have to trouble Mr. World once, or at most twice, and I won't have to worry about being stared at by Miss Queen with that scary look."

I always feel that Fors has fallen into a strange state. She is obviously particularly afraid of the Queen because she secretly wrote a novel with extra content about her, but she is unwilling to stop writing. Emperor Roselle seems to have used a strange word to describe this state...

Looking at his friend who was chattering non-stop and in a state of excitement, Xio couldn't help but sigh.

She was also worried about the role of the "Judge" potion. Although Backlund's counter-espionage operations were in full swing, and the recent urgency in hunting down intelligence personnel and spies from Intis, she had a lot of cases on hand that could be used to digest the potion herself, but her identity as a peripheral member of "MI9" meant that she could only help out and could not get real support.

Fortunately, things have taken a turn for the better recently. After the previous King George III of Loon exploded in public, his quick successor, Edessaac Augustus, seemed intent on redressing many "wrong cases" caused during George III's reign, including the "rebellion" of Hugh's father Mason Dill.

The MI9 liaison officer has invited Xio to join them as a formal member, and claimed that even if her father's case does not change, the new king will not pursue the problems of other family members, so she does not need to hide her identity anymore.

This made Xio quite interested. If she could become a formal intelligence officer, with her strength of Sequence 6, she would soon be able to become a backbone and enter the "Abnormal Affairs Court" that specializes in handling Beyonder cases, and give full play to her ability as a "judge" and play her role openly.

If she could advance to Sequence 5 before the war became intense, she would have a chance to protect her family and her most important friends in the chaos!
Just as Xio's thoughts were wandering, her most important friend heard the sound of a letter being stuffed into the mailbox outside the door. She hesitantly got up from the warm and comfortable sofa, walked into the porch, and returned to the living room a moment later with an opened letter, her face half happy and half sad.

"The teacher actually agreed to Mr. World's request..."

She murmured, her eyes lingering on the letter for a long time.

This means that she will meet the cold, ruthless and taciturn Mr. "World" again!

(End of this chapter)