At the summit of the Hornachis Mountains stands an ancient palace shrouded in mist, dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

Ember appeared in front of the side of the palace, glanced at the ancient palace, and got up and walked towards the main entrance.

The demigods of the 'Apprentice' and 'Thief' paths have all been caught, and now only the demigods of the 'Fortune Teller' path remain.

It's a pity that the demigods of the 'soothsayer' path may be lacking in combat, but their talent in escaping is definitely full. Even if Crane could locate them briefly with the help of Arodes, a minute or two would not be enough, and they would soon be able to find a new identity to hide themselves, so even Ember would have a hard time finding them.

In particular, the return of Zarathu has silenced those sophists who belong to the 'Esoteric Society', and they are already frightened birds, and it will only be more difficult to catch them if they cannot be accurately located.

Therefore, instead of wasting time looking for these magicians, Ember directly targeted the 'Fools' -

Half of the 'fools' of the House of Antigonus.

Ember slowly walked to the main entrance of the palace, stretched out his hands, and slowly pushed the heavy stone door.

With the sound of Zazaza's rubbing, the door opened little by little, revealing a path for one person to pass through, and also revealing the scene inside.

What appeared before his eyes was a hall of many corpses, each of which was different, male and female, dressed in magnificent clothes, simple, delicate, or casual.

Behind these hangers, there is a transparent and slippery tentacle with intricate patterns, all of which come from the depths of the hall, from an ancient stone chair there.

On the huge stone chair, transparent and twisted worms hugged together and grew wantonly, extending one strange tentacle after another towards the surroundings.

This is the half of the 'fools' of the House of Antigonus, the half of the 'fools' who have gone out of control and gone crazy!

He who contains the uniqueness is the well-deserved king of angels, and the half-mad 'fool' is even more terrifying. Because although 'half-madness' means that this half-'fool' has lost control and gone crazy, it also means that his self-knowledge can no longer suppress the will of the 'mysterious master' in his body, and the two spirits are stitched together, reflecting the most primitive, instinctive, bloody, and crazy side, which makes him far more difficult to deal with than when he is awake.

But for Ember, this half-'fool' is the best thing to deal with.

After all, He won't run.

Ember slowly walked through the gate and stepped into the palace.

Sensing the opening of the door, sensing the approach of the embers, the worm clump left the stone chair and violently waved its slippery tentacles, causing them to frantically rush towards the doorway, as if affected by some invisible suction.

But it was all fleeting, and in the blink of an eye, the wriggling shot, the huge throne, and the mass of worms disappeared at the same time.

In front of the embers, there was only a dark scene, and even the light could not illuminate it in the slightest.

But soon, the darkness rippled and the surrounding scene changed.

Buildings emerge all around, figures walk on the streets, and words spread out, making the whole environment suddenly vivid and noisy.

People ignore the embers standing in front of them, and go to different places on their own, talking to each other about various things.

They and the buildings were dull in color, close to black and white, like an old photograph from the depths of history, suddenly brought to life.

Ember had no intention of communicating with them, either, and just walked down the gradually ascending street.

And the closer you get to the heights, the more magnificent the building becomes, with its exaggerated dome supported by massive stone columns.

The people living in this 'old black and white photograph' are generally tall, seemingly studying, working, and resting normally.

The scene here changes continuously, showing the birth of a baby, the growth of a child, the ignorance of youth, the troubles of adulthood, the stress of middle age, and the sadness of aging, and after death, turning into a secret puppet and confidently going to the palace at the summit......

This is the Land of Night.

It belongs to the 'Mother of Heaven' and also belongs to the half of the 'Fool'.

The living believe in the 'Mother of Heaven', and the dead serve the 'fool' as a secret puppet.

A set of processes runs smoothly, and the way of squeezing out believers is even praised by the capitalists.

Ember once again set out on the way up the mountain, into the grand palace dedicated to the gods.

In the depths of the palace, on the huge stone chair, a figure rested its elbows on the armrests, its head resting on the back of the chair.

His face was quite young, but his long hair was half white, half hidden and half obvious; He was a man in appearance, his eyes darker than those of Zarathu, and contained indescribable vicissitudes; His facial features are not bad, but a handful of thick black short hairs like wolf hairs have grown on his cheeks, giving people a contradictory feeling of being old and young, rational and crazy.

This is the ancestor of the House of Antigonus, and this time, instead of taking on the form of a mythical creature, he sits on a huge stone chair in his original form.

At this moment, His eyes were half-open and half-closed, as if he were resting, and inside the hall hung a corpse of rudimentary or ornate clothes.

They are like inverted forests, gently swaying in the wind.

Although it was the second time he had 'gone up the mountain', Ember was not surprised by what was happening in front of him.

He knew that he was in a dream, in the dream of the ancestor of the House of Antigonus on the stone chair, half of the 'fools'.

The Land of Night and the City of the Dead that he had just seen, all the scenes he saw were Antigonus' dreams.

Thousands of years of dreams.

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.

For him, the one that lingers in his dreams is undoubtedly one of the best memories of the past.

But alas, it's all in the past.

It used to be the Land of Night, ruled by the 'Mother of Heaven' and half of the 'Fool'.

And now, it's 'night'.

The 'Night Country' has been completely destroyed, and the 'Mother of Heaven' has become a seal '0-17', a vessel for the goddess's arrival. And half of the 'fool' was also out of control and half insane, and was sealed in this ancient palace forever.

And the initiator of all this is the goddess of the night.

The moment the embers appeared at the top of the peak and opened the gates of the ancient palace, the goddess of the night had already sensed it.

The reason why Ember entered this dream was undoubtedly the guidance of the Goddess of the Night.

For in dreams, a half-'fool' who falls into eternal sleep is far easier to deal with than a half-mad one.

As for why the 'Goddess of the Night' chose to seal instead of directly killing half of the 'Fool', the reason is also very simple:

Because for half a 'fool', death means a new life.

Sequence 2 of the 'Fortune Teller' path is called 'The Miracle Master', what is a miracle?

Resurrection from the dead is a miracle!

Of course, the essence of this miracle is the deep exploitation of the power of the past.

So when a miracle master dies, the extraordinary properties contained in their destroyed bodies will unwittingly enter the pores of history, and combine with the projections of 'spirit worms' from the past, giving them the substance to emerge from the fog of history and reassemble their bodies in the real world and resurrect.

The only problem is that there is a limit to the number of times this 'resurrection' can be made, and a miracle master can only resurrect a maximum of four times.

If you can become a Mystic Attendant, the number of respawns will be reset to four.

Because when a 'miracle master' or 'secret attendant' is cornered, they can also kill themselves to survive.

And for this kind of miracle of 'resurrection from the dead', unless it is a higher order extraordinary person in the same path, it is difficult for even a god to stop it.

Therefore, whether it is for half of the 'fool' or 'Zarathu', the choice of the goddess of the night is a seal.

And if you want to stop their resurrection, it is almost impossible to do it.

While it is theoretically possible to stop the Immortals of the higher order of the same path, one of them is already the 'Mystic Acolyte' of Sequence 1, and the other is the King of Angels who have fused their uniqueness, and unless they can be killed, it is almost impossible for a higher order to exist than them - the only exception is the Source Castle.

Crane, who is in control of the Source Fort, can prevent their resurrection, but only if Crane is already at least a Sequence 2 Miracle Master.

Because only if his strength is strong enough, can he pry enough power belonging to the Source Castle, and can he rely on the suppression of his personality to forcibly extract the extraordinary characteristics in their bodies little by little.

And once they lose their extraordinary characteristics, they also lose all the extraordinary abilities they possess based on their extraordinary characteristics.

So in the final analysis, the process of 'resurrection from the dead' is still irreversible, and this method of forcible aggregation is completely from the bottom of the kettle, completely cutting off the hope of the other party's rebirth before he dies.

But now Klein is only Sequence 5, not even a demigod, and his personality is far from being able to suppress a Sequence 1 angel.

But embers can.

Even though he is only a Sequence 5 'Traveler', the person of the First Fire is still above the essentia.

Half of the Source Fort has now taken the shape of the First Fire.

This means that Ember can use the First Flame Profile to mobilize the power of the Source Castle.

On the same path as the half-'fool', a personal oppression is formed.

Ember took his eyes off the man with the thick black wolf's hair on his face and landed next to the giant stone chair, where there was a tarot card with the image of Russell written in starlight.

Obviously, there was an unlucky guy who got the 'tarot card', under the influence of the law of extraordinary characteristics aggregation, took the initiative to come to this palace and became one of the upside-down corpses hanging on the top.

And this tarot card also fell into the hands of half of the 'fools'.

And just like half of the Fool itself, this Fool card has its own role.

So, Ember put away the tarot card without any psychological burden.

During the whole process, half of the 'Fool' was still asleep, unable to escape from the eternal sleep imposed by the 'Goddess of the Night' herself.

Silently, the flames began to spread out of nowhere, eroding the dream little by little. What started as a small flame quickly spread to a monstrous flame that plunged the entire palace into flames!

The raging sea of fire came to an abrupt end in front of the high platform.

Neither the stone chair itself, nor the half of the 'fool' sitting on it were affected in the slightest.

The flames surround it like a pack of wolves, but the flames do not move lightly until they receive the orders of their masters.

Finally, when the entire dream was in flames, only half of the 'fool' on the stone chair remained.

The left half of the vortex was a slippery tentacle with teeth and claws, while the right half was completely covered by flames, as if the tentacles formed by the flames were still standing still, and it seemed extremely quiet.

And in the center of that half of the 'flame' vortex was a strange light gate phantom. Transformed into a strange shadow of a door of light.

And even the light door, half of which is also covered in flames, is perfectly symmetrical to the left half!

The light gate did not move, the vortex turned sharply, and the terrifying suction raged, sucking everything around it into it. Whether it's the flames that cover your dreams, or the half-'fool' who falls into eternal sleep on top of a stone chair!

Under the double suppression of the person and eternal sleep, the extraordinary characteristics in the body of half of the 'fool' were precipitated little by little, faster and faster.

The light of the extraordinary properties converged in the air, and finally turned into an object like a heart, which was as transparent as crystal, but from time to time it emitted small bubbles, each of which seemed to hide an illusion.

That's the extraordinary trait of Sequence 2 'Miracle Master'!

This change was a little surprising to Ember, because it was supposed that the uniqueness of the 'Fool' or the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 'The Mysterious Attendant' would be extracted the most, but now it was the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 2 'The Miracle Master......

Ember frowned slightly, but soon his brow relaxed.

Because he figured out the reason - this half-'fool' most likely swallowed two copies of Sequence 2's extraordinary properties.

The extraordinary properties of one of Sequence 2 are closely integrated with the others, like an impregnable skyscraper. And the extra one is free from the building, like the building's security booth.

Therefore, it was this 'security booth' that was the first to be drawn.

Shout!

As soon as the extraordinary properties of the 'Miracle Master' took shape, they quickly flew towards the light door.

But before that, Ember suddenly reached out and held it firmly in the palm of his hand!

The Light Gate is the manifestation of the person of the 'Source Fortress', and Ember is only borrowing its 'person' suppression to forcibly aggregate extraordinary characteristics, but it does not intend for the 'Source Fortress' itself to have any extraordinary characteristics.

Putting away the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Miracle Master', soon another 'galaxy' was drawn from the body of half of the 'Fool', slowly converging into a bright light.

And this time, it is the uniqueness of the 'fool's path' that is precipitated!

Like the extraordinary properties of the 'Miracle Master' that had been precipitated before, the uniqueness quickly flew towards the Light Gate as soon as it was revealed.

And at this moment, in this dream of only the eternal 'fool', an old man wearing a black robe with a hood, his eyes were as dark as the surface of the water, and the white beard on his mouth and face was long and dense, suddenly appeared on the side of the stone chair, and looked at the uniqueness of flying in the air towards the light gate with the embers!

(End of chapter)