Chapter 21: The Trojan Horse of Fate
Looking at the half of the "Fool" on the huge stone chair, Klein's mind flashed through the scenes related to the Night Country that he had just experienced, and he felt a little touched for a while.
He didn't know much about Antigonus, and even almost got "Hornakis" several times because of the other party...... Fregela ......" is out of control, so I don't have any sympathy at the moment, just a little empathy:
That haunting dreams is undoubtedly one of the best memories of the past.
Even if he was born a transcendent species, Antigonus seems to be deeply nostalgic for the small and peaceful closed country that was once peaceful.
Crane exhaled slowly, taking his eyes off the man with the thick black wolf hair on his face, and landed next to the large stone chair.
A book of thin brass sits silently there, with three rules of mercury-colored writing alternately emerging on it.
"0-02", "Trenthorst Brass Book".
Using a similar ability to "graft" to complete the seal?well, it seems to go one step further, not only connecting the beginning directly to the closing rules, but also fooling the intelligence of the "Trenthorst Brass Book" into ignoring the skipped middle part, making no attempt to make changes, repeating it again and again...... Klein glanced at "0-02" and muttered a few words to himself thoughtfully.
This gave him a certain guess as to what the "fool" would be capable of.
Without much thought, Klein asked the "Secret Attendant" puppet to "graft" the beginning and the end together, walked to the huge stone chair, and picked up the "Trenthorst Brass Book".
On the one hand, he was trying to eliminate possible interference, and on the other hand, he was testing Antigonus' current state.
Seeing that the half of the "Fool" was still asleep and could not get rid of eternal sleep, Crane breathed a sigh of relief and asked the secret puppet to retreat to the entrance of the palace with the "Brass Book of Trenthorst" and wait there.
The reason why he didn't let the clone get this "0" level seal was because he was worried that the "Trenthorst Brass Book", which had a certain connection with essentia, would show a passive negative impact at the critical moment when he contained the uniqueness of the "Fool", causing the situation to plummet in a bad direction.
- In terms of avoiding the negative effects of seals, the secret puppet is definitely stronger than the clone.
This is also the reason why Crane did not carry the "Star Staff", he could not keep a time bomb by his side.
Normally, he can rely on his personality, level, and ability to forcibly suppress the "Star Staff", but in the process of accommodating the uniqueness of the "Fool", he will be very vulnerable, unable to interfere with the people and things around him, and the slightest accident may get out of control on the spot.
In order to deal with the situation that the "Source Fort" was sealed and he could not borrow power, Crane had to bring a seal that could provide the ability to "teleport", so he chose "Wriggling Hunger".
At this moment, facing an angel king who controlled the uniqueness, Crane felt the human leather glove in his left palm instinctively tremble.
He then stroked the "wriggling hunger" with his right hand and whispered in a joking tone:
"Don't worry, you're just an image in a hole in history. ”
After dissolving the excess tension in this way, Crane looked around and confirmed that there was nothing else to deal with.
Immediately afterwards, he put his hand to his chest and solemnly saluted Antigonus.
When he straightened up and raised his head, a complex, mysterious, illusory imprint stood out from the center of his eyebrows.
This imprint was like a strange light gate stained with a little blue and black, constantly emitting a faint gray mist around it.
In the next second, Crane stretched out his right hand, not too far but definitely not close, to "contain" Antigonus's body between his five fingers.
His fingers quickly closed and his wrist twisted, completing the "steal".
He gained nothing.
This time the attempt failed.
Unfrustrated, Klein once again began stealing Antigonus' identity, fate, and self-perception.
Although he is already the king of angels among the king of angels, his abilities in stealing are all from the "Source Castle", and there is currently only a sequence 1 level, while Antigonus is the king of angels who has been polluted by the "Lord of Mystery" and accommodates the "uniqueness", and there is still a clear gap between the two.
Therefore, even though Antigonus had entered a brief state of eternal sleep and was powerless to resist, Crane had failed many times in a row.
For this situation, he was not nervous, let alone disappointed, because this was all expected in advance, anyway, as long as the "stealing" was not completed, the "Goddess of the Night" would not lift the secret, let the fate of this place communicate with reality, and there would be no external interference, Klein had plenty of time and a stable environment to try.
After failing many times, Klein suddenly had an inspiration and foresaw something.
He reached out his right hand again, closed his five fingers, and twisted them slightly.
Suddenly, he felt something invisible detach from Antigonus and float towards him.
At the same time, there seemed to be a long river of countless tributaries that was difficult to describe in words.
The illusory river continued to flow forward, flooding tributary after tributary and returning them to their main trunk.
It is a symbol of "fate", and it also has many different images, such as a roulette wheel that slowly rotates into multiple grids and a giant serpent that touches each other. At this moment, when fate changed, Crane saw the long river of light.
In the next second, Klein's mind was filled with fragmented images one after another:
A newborn, eight-legged demon wolf lying on the hill, with one transparent and twisted worm swimming back and forth between the thick black short hairs on the body, he was the young son of the ancient god Freguerra, a natural mythical creature, at this time, he was looking at his sister, brother and some of his kindred playing in the pile of bones, and he had a certain disdain for the simple and rough way they handled their prey, he thought that it was only in his identity to hang the prey and enjoy it slowly;
The demon wolf who can be called a god is most afraid of his father, the powerful, terrifying, crazy old god - although Fregela has instinctively intersected and multiplied, created many offspring, and separated many extraordinary characteristics, but it is uncontrollable, and there is no way to guarantee progress, so he is still crazy, cruel, bloodthirsty, full of destruction and destruction instincts, and has even killed several descendants;
This can only work miracles, and the demon wolf that grants all kinds of wishes chases its prey, bites or kills them, and enjoys pure pleasure;
He was not too impressed by his father Freguera's gods, and what he remembered most clearly was that he hated the "God of Wishes" Kotal, even if it was also a demon wolf;
In addition, he doesn't like the "god of the dead" Salinger, he thinks he is gloomy, withdrawn, and exudes a rotten and disgusting smell all over his body, but the "goddess of doom" Amanisis, who has both the aesthetics of a demon wolf and a human, has a gentle personality, and is very good at calming the soul, not so annoying to wolves, however, this woman rarely appears from the gods, always like a shadow, hiding in places that are not easy to be discovered, of course, the demon wolf remembers that several of his sisters and brothers are quite repulsive to Amanisis and want to seize his place;
The demon wolf witnessed the fall of his father, the mighty old god, and saw the blood of the old god spilled all over the body of Amanisis, the "goddess of doom", and in that chaotic occasion, a uniqueness and a Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics were pulled into his hands and fell into his hands;
He and one of his sisters fled the land where the demon wolves lived, and went into hiding;
Without their father's protection, the wolf and his sister learned that the unbridled life of the past was not the norm, and that pain and danger were the themes that ran through everything, and eventually, they crossed the sea to the Northern Continent and established a hidden kingdom in the uninhabited mountains of Honakis;
He and his sister did not dare to expose themselves, so they could only gather a small number of believers and gather a population, so he invented the city of the dead coexisting with the land of the living, and made the dead believers his secret puppets to complete the promotion ceremony;
Although these years were full of worries, it was the best time in the memory of this demon wolf, watching his sister's more and more believers, watching his secret puppet town become more and more perfect, he seemed to forget the troubles and dangers of the outside world, and obtained the first peace since he was born;
Under the influence of the believer's cognition, He and his sister gradually became more so-called human;
After the Cataclysm, he was finally promoted to the rank of "Secret Attendant", transformed himself into a human being, took the surname Antigonus, left the Honakis Mountains, and returned to the real world outside the hidden realm;
From this moment on, Antigonus's memories and cognitions became more and more fragmented and fragmented, and many times, he himself felt a little strange;
This situation became worse when He accommodated the uniqueness of the "fool......
In the flashes of pictures, Klein quickly developed a realization:
I am Antigonus, I am half a "fool"!
Suddenly, his body changed one after another, sometimes he was black-haired and brown-eyed, with a bookish aura, and Klein Moretti, who appeared and fused with Zhou Mingrui's appearance, sometimes Antigonus, who had long hair and half white hair and a thick black wolf on his face, and sometimes wore a dark black cloak, making people unable to see his face, and constantly extending his slippery tentacles to the side.
At this moment, Klein's mind was extremely confused, and his mental state was completely unbalanced.
He could only barely maintain a certain self-awareness, and he was crumbling under the impact of the two spiritual storms like stormy waves.
At the same time, he also inherited the fate of Antigonus's out-of-control madness, and his body began to collapse little by little.
Prayers, praises, and prayers rang in his ears, and they intertwined to form an illusory image that joined the chaotic battlefield.
............
Rorsted Islands, Byaam, on the bell tower of the Church of the Fool.
A young man wearing a peaked cap and monocles suddenly appeared, standing behind a railing and looking down on the city.
"Wrong" Mr. Amon!
In the next second, he saw Byam disappear at the same time as the new silver city and crescent city in the distance, as if someone had erased it off the map with an eraser.
"It's boring. Seeing this scene, Amon smiled and shook his head, not disappointed at all.
He just wanted to see if Klein or the "Goddess of the Night" had fixed a "bug" here:
After ringing the bell, he is already the "angel of time" of the "fool" to some extent, and can take advantage of this loophole to steal part of the opponent's anchor directly.
This kind of stealing is of little value in normal times, but can be very useful at critical moments during ceremonies:
The sudden reduction of the anchor will inevitably lead to the balance being broken, making Klein lose control on the spot!
Amon then withdrew his gaze and raised his hand to straighten the monocle he was wearing in his right eye.
On the glasses made of crystal, it seemed that the light from the starry sky suddenly lit up.