Chapter 23: "Fooling" (Asking for a Monthly Pass in the Last Two Days of February)
After returning to Biles's home, without waiting for Roy and the others to ask anything, Klein pulled a chair, sat down, and made a wish to himself quite reverently:
"I hope my spirituality is restored. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, allowing this wish to be fulfilled and his spirituality back to the level it had been in perfect condition.
Immediately after, he stretched out his left palm, preparing to end the maintenance of the historical projection of the "curtain", and then summon another piece to continue to block the corresponding spiritual area of Beldan, so that the Patriarch of the God of War Church, Lariaon, would not have a chance to escape.
"There's no need, miss this time, and there will be a next time. At this point, Arianna slowly shook her head, signaling that Crane no longer needed to summon the "curtain" from the dark wolf.
One limitation of the "Wish" ability is that the "Miracle Master" cannot fulfill multiple similar wishes of the same invoker in a short period of time, which means that for the next hour or two, Klein will not be able to regain his spirituality through this self-wishing method.
Of course, there are ways to circumvent this restriction for a qualified "soothsayer" angel, for example, by having Pasha, Roy, Phil, Biles, and Arianna take turns making wishes for Klein Moretti to restore his spirit, and then fulfill them as a "miracle master".
But the problem is that even if he can recover his spirituality so many times, he will not be able to maintain the "curtain" with the sequence of 1 person for more than an hour, and "0-02" erases the rules and rewrites it, and needs to wait for an hour.
Klein pondered for a moment, bowed his head slightly, and responded with a smile:
"Try it first, anyway, it's more idle now, wait until the last time you regain your spirit and then give up, well, it depends purely on the luck of the Patriarch, maybe in the process, he is out of control because of anxiety, irritability, and nervousness?"
As he spoke, Klein lifted the maintenance of the original "curtain", and his left hand stepped forward tightly, dragging out a new "curtain", allowing it to appear in the corresponding spiritual realm of Beldan City.
In the place where the color blocks overlapped, Lalion, who was wearing a white robe on a black background and a square hat, had just felt the restriction disappear and was about to shuttle away, when he saw a new "curtain" fall, isolating the area again.
The slight smile on his face froze.
Call...... After a few seconds, Lalion exhaled slowly, adjusted his mental state, and continued to wait calmly.
In the next few dozen minutes, the Patriarch of the Church of the God of War experienced the frustration and pain of several times when hope had just appeared and then been extinguished.
He tried to find the pattern, trying to figure out the corresponding time interval, grasping the fleeting opportunity, and breaking out of the barrier at the moment when the old "curtain" disappeared and the new "curtain" was not created.
However, he eventually discovered that the pattern of time intervals is that there is no pattern, and that the blocker does not recover until his spirit is about to be exhausted, and sometimes the other party will be much earlier.
If it weren't for the fact that the people were not forced to change their faith in the god of war in Fersak, and the order for Larion to be declared apostasy had not been widely disseminated, the earth angel might have lost control on the spot.
As the minutes ticked by, Lalion once again sensed the disintegration of the old "curtain".
However, this time there was no new "curtain".
He's finally at his limit...... Larion was overjoyed, and without thinking about other issues, he rushed out of the rudimentary form of the kingdom of God that was collapsing.
In the next moment, he saw a headless woman with four blonde hair and red eyes and a long gloomy dress, an unknown being wrapped in bandages and a yellow-brown liquid flowing all over his body, and many strangely shaped but extremely powerful spirit creatures......
The "curtain" that Klein summoned several times before was the historical pore image that had been infected with the breath of the "Source Castle", which could naturally attract things that were sensitive to it, even if Amon appeared in this team, he would not be surprised!
The slight smile on Lalion's face froze again.
............
Beldan City, inside a rental house in Byles.
Klein suddenly raised his head, looked at the sky, and whispered to himself:
"It's still very powerful......
He then fell silent again, until the "magic mirror" emitted a flood of water, reflecting the current state of the billboard.
The rules and regulations on it are disappearing from back to front in the order in which they appear.
This means that "0-02" begins to erase the previously established rules and is ready to start all over again.
When the "curfew" was abolished, Klein, who was highly concentrated, immediately pulled Ms. Arianna and appeared outside the shrunken Beldan City Library through the "flame jump".
At a glance, he found that on the brass page of "0-02", the rules had been erased extremely quickly, and it was only a blink of an eye, and only the clause "the following rules are invalid" was left in the second half.
Immediately after that, the clause disappeared, and a new rule popped up without the slightest interval:
"The 'Trenthorst Brass Book' is the most precious thing, and no living creature or thing can touch it without its permission......"
Before the rule could be revealed, Arianna's figure appeared at the rectangular table, her fingers touching the brass pages.
With a click, the leader of the ascetics of the Church of the Night's neck suddenly tightened, as if suspended by an invisible rope.
As an angel, He had broken bones and had trouble breathing.
Hanging!
However, as Arianna's fingers slid with a little difficulty, the first rule of the new students was directly erased by the "eraser" before it was fully revealed, and it entered a "hidden" state.
And all the rules formulated by "0-02" must be publicized or informed before they can really take effect!
With a bang, Arianna grabbed the "Trenthorst Brass Book" and threw it to Klein outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
Crane had already anticipated the possible next developments in the previous hour, and discussed them with Arianna accordingly, not nervous and flustered at all, and took advantage of the fact that "0-02" was still in the air, and dragged himself out of the void wearing human skin gloves.
Then, he grabbed the "Trenthorst Brass Book" and used his historical projection to "teleport" away.
When his figure disappeared in place, Arianna fell back to the ground with a thud, leaving a deep scar on her neck.
In a few seconds, Klein, holding "0-02", appeared at the top of the main peak of the Hornachis Mountains, and used the "spiritual vision" of the angelic level to see the ancient palace with collapsed walls, dilapidated and shrouded in mist.
Without hesitation, Klein let his historical projection take the "Brass Book of Trenthorst" and "flash" to the main entrance of the palace, reaching out and pushing it open.
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 Antigonus family, the half of the "fools" who have gone crazy out of control!
Sensing the opening of the door, sensing the approach of the projection of Crane's history, the worm mass suddenly left the stone chair and waved its slippery tentacles violently, causing them to frantically rush towards the doorway, as if affected by some invisible suction.
Similarly, at the bottom of the stone seat, a tarot card with the image of Russell the Fool and words written in starlight flew towards the door.
Just by seeing this scene, Klein's historical projection has a tendency to collapse and disintegrate, but fortunately, he himself has no intelligence, and is manipulated by Crane's body hiding in the distance, and there is no negative situation of confusion and mental derangement, nor does he freeze in place, unable to make any movements.
Before it dissipated, the historical projection threw the "Trenthorst Brass Book" in its hand towards the horrific pile of worms.
The transparent and slippery tentacles sensed the danger and instinctively responded: they wrapped around at the same time, binding the seal "0-02".
In this kind of interference, in the invisible "wind", the "Fool" card arrived at the door before the weird tentacles.
Crane's historical projection was already half of the collapse, and when he saw this, he mechanically reached out his right hand, grabbed the "blasphemy card", and threw it backwards.
In the next moment, the slippery tentacles that had been re-separated extended to the doorway, but they were blocked by the fog and could not get out, so they could only whip up the barrier frantically.
The open door then closed little by little, hiding the scene.
Klein, who was hiding somewhere on the mountain, frowned slightly, and his heart was filled with emotions of joy and relaxation, but also inevitably with strong doubts.
"In other words, I exchanged '0-02' for the 'Fool' card? The goddess doesn't need me to go to Calderon for clues to the 'River of Eternal Darkness' for the time being?" Crane muttered to himself silently, walked out of the hidden place, came to the ancient palace not far away, and bent down to pick up the "blasphemy card".
The card depicts Russell Gustav wearing an ornate headdress, multicolored clothing, carrying a cane and luggage, with a vision for the future in his eyes and a puppy behind him.
In the upper left corner of the board, Bright Starlight outlines a few words:
"Sequence 0: The Fool!"
............
Inside the old palace, the "Brass Book of Trenthorst" fell to the ground and spread itself out to the first page of the second half.
New rules start to build:
"...... 'Trenthorst Brass Book' is the most precious thing, and no living creature or anything can touch it without its permission, and the offender will be sentenced to death!
“...... The state of the 'Trenthorst Brass Book' cannot be changed in any way, and the offender will be sentenced to death!"
As soon as these two rules emerged, and before the owner was "informed" here, a line of words suddenly appeared between the first half and the second half:
"The following rules are invalid. ”
An hour later, the two rules were erased and new rules were written, but only two later, they were preceded by a clause that said "The following rules are invalid" - "0-02" seemed to jump from the basic blank status quo to the state where the pages were filled.
Again and again, the "Brass Book of Trenthorst" fell into an endless loop.
PS: Ask for a monthly pass for the last two days of February~