Above the
At this moment, on the high-backed chair belonging to "The Fool", sat a "person" shrouded in gray-white fog.
As Klein returned to Sefirah Castle, that "person" instantly disintegrated, turning into transparent, twisted "Spirit
"Fortunately, the restriction of '0-02' only forbids disclosure and return; I haven't lost connection to these Spirit Worms guarding Sefirah Castle. Otherwise, they would have lost control and turned into monsters..." Klein sighed inwardly, sat down in the seat belonging to The Fool, and picked up the Fool card that had been offered earlier.
Since this "Blasphemy Card" had already been activated, he didn't need to find additional incantations; he only needed to infuse it with spirituality to see the corresponding changes.
The Fool Card quickly transformed into a miniature, illusory book. Guided by Klein's thoughts, it flipped pages continuously until it reached the last two pages:
"Sequence 1: Servant of Mysteries.
"This is an angel that serves mysteries, initially grasping the authority of the corresponding domain. It can evoke the existing 'Spirit Body Threads' of objects, and can combine many physical entities or abstract concepts...
"Potion Formula:
"Main ingredient: One Beyonder characteristic of Servant of Mysteries.
"Auxiliary materials: Nine specialties of the Spirit World.
"Advancement Ritual: Build a town purely composed of marionettes, design a fate trajectory for each marionette, and let them act out a true enough picture of life through their interactions, causing a corresponding region to be born in the Spirit World.
"The larger the town, the more marionettes, the finer the daily details, the more vivid and real the different fates, extending over a long time, the better the effect of the ritual."
"Sequence 0: The Fool.
"This is a true god. In a sense, He is the incarnation of the corresponding authority... He is skilled at fooling all things in various ways, displaying miraculous wonders...
"Potion Formula:
"Main ingredient: The Fool's Uniqueness, plus the remaining two Beyonder characteristics of Servant of Mysteries outside itself.
"Auxiliary materials: Control at least a quarter of the Mist of History.
"Advancement Ritual: Fool time, history, or fate once."
As he read, Klein gradually frowned and silently muttered to himself:
"Compared to the advancement ritual of 'Servant of Mysteries,' that of 'The Fool' is too abstract... How can one be considered to have fooled time, history, or fate? And how to verify success?
"Controlling at least a quarter of the Mist of History is relatively easy for me. On one hand, I know enough ancient secrets and have illuminated many historical fragments; on the other hand, I can directly influence the Mist of History through Sefirah Castle...
"Let's not consider becoming 'The Fool' for now; the current focus is 'Servant of Mysteries.' One must take it step by step. Well, of course, some lucky ones can fly directly...
"The nine specialties of the Spirit World are easy to find, whether by asking Miss Messenger for help or consulting the Seven Lights, that's no problem... That advancement ritual is close to the situation around
With that thought, Klein took off the citrine pendant wrapped around his left wrist and used divination to confirm the authenticity of the Servant of Mysteries potion formula.
It wasn't that he didn't trust Emperor Roselle, but that before making the "
Because of this, it was entirely possible for Roselle in his final stage to set traps in critical places within the "Blasphemy Cards."
In this regard, Klein was always cautious and careful.
"Speaking of the true body of the 'Primordial Moon,' the most powerful Old One, the 'Fallen Mother Goddess,' from the title, could the Emperor have already been unknowingly defiled... On the moon, there might be many younger brothers and sisters Bernadette has never seen—of course, not necessarily distinguished by gender...
"The marionettes needed for the 'Servant of Mysteries' ritual can be obtained from the Abandoned Land of the
As the fog receded, rows of brownish-yellow seats were revealed, each occupied by a figure.
Among those figures were giants in silver full-body armor, humans in linen clothes with malformed features, lumps of flesh covered in eyes... They sat quietly in their positions, staring at the mottled long table with dull and indifferent eyes, row after row.
These were all marionettes Klein had collected in the Abandoned Land of the Gods. Whenever he needed to move and couldn't carry too many, he would sacrifice a batch to the Gray Fog.
Of course, this had nothing to do with environmental awareness; it was because the encounter in Misty Town and the scenes displayed by Zaratul led Klein to intuitively believe that some later ritual would likely require many marionettes, so he had always been frugal in this regard.
As for why he didn't hang all these marionettes but instead let them sit in the manifested theater as an audience, it was because Klein thought the behaviors of the Antigonus family ancestor and Zaratul were a bit perverted.