Chapter 807 Hunter and Prey
Klein took a deep breath, his eyes widened slightly, and the images in his mind dissipated like fog.
He continued to stretch his limbs a few times, slowly turned around and left the balcony, asked his personal servant, "Winner" Enuni to draw the curtains, and then prayed to the "Sea God" facing the wall in the corner of the room, like a believer with a secret faith, and slowly walked into the bathroom.
All these actions were so natural, as if they were done every day, without showing any impatience or anxiety.
It wasn't until he locked the bathroom door, walked four steps backward through the gray fog, arrived at the towering palace, and sat down on the high-backed chair belonging to the Fool that Klein truly breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the non-existent sweat from his forehead.
He casually summoned the "Scepter of Poseidon" from the pile of debris at the back, and with the help of Enuni's prayer, he brought the carriage that passed by his door and stopped at Senator Macht's house into his sight.
Although Hazel was not as beautiful as the witches and Miss Justice, she was still a rare beautiful girl. She got off the carriage, smiled, and walked briskly back home.
In the carriage behind her, sprawled on the cushions wasn't a gray mouse, but a young man with black hair and eyes, black clothes and pants, and a black hat. He wore a crystal monocle in his right eye and a smile on his lips as he observed the Macht Mansion outside the window. It was none other than the "blasphemer" Amon whom Klein had met at the Elk Manor.
Amon's clone really found this street!
This didn't surprise Klein. Rather, it felt a bit slow for them to find this place only today. It was so slow that Klein's original plan to lure Amon's clone with himself was impossible to implement. In the end, he chose to use the "Parasite" gloves and Angel as bait, exposing her to danger.
Unexpectedly, when everyone was ready, he arrived at Boklund Street in another way... Klein stared at Amon, who was leisurely in the carriage, while pondering his motives for coming here.
He revealed too much information in his contact with Hazel's family and the "thief" demigod mouse. Those details that were originally thought to be insignificant now became clues for Amon's clones to track down the abnormality.
As for the leak of this information, it must have originated from the gray mouse, from the "thief" demigod who was on the verge of madness that night and was overwhelmed by Klein's countless secret puppets.
Judging from Amon's current situation where he appears as a black-haired young man but is mistaken for a gray mouse by everyone, he undoubtedly stole the demigod's fate and identity before his death, and even became Hazel's teacher and accompanied her back home.
Something worse than death would be someone dying, having their Beyonder traits taken away, and even their identity passed on to someone else... Hmm, that seems to be what I did, except that Klein Moretti was actually dead at the time...
I shouldn't have used Arrodes to scare the demigod, threatening him with "a thieving angel lingering nearby" and forcing him to leave for the suburban manor... Amon's clones would surely be interested in the non-existent angel and begin a thorough search of this street... Klein muttered, scanning the surroundings for any trace of the other Amons.
He didn't believe that only one clone of Amon came here.
But after a careful investigation, Klein frowned.
The coachman driving the carriage, the maid following Hazel, the other servants of the Macht family, even the passers-by on the street, the residents of other houses, even the horses pulling the carriage and the birds in the sky, were not parasitized and their "destiny was not stolen."
This is not right. According to Pales Zoroast, when you find an Amon, there may be thousands of Amons around... Because he knew that Angel rushed directly into the church of the Goddess of Night and knew that he was likely to be targeted by the church, so even if there were many suspicious points on Boklund Street, he only sent the bravest clone to investigate. If he died, he died, right?
Based on his own experience as a "trickster," Klein quickly came to this seemingly correct conclusion. However, he did not trust his own judgment. Instead, he made the "world" appear at the other end of the long table, bowed his head and prayed, then split the image in two and cast it into the crimson stars representing "Queen" Angel and "Star" Leonard.
"...Amon appeared at 39 Böklund Street, replacing the identity of the 'thief' demigod from last time, but there were no other clones around..."
The low voice of "World" echoed in the palace and penetrated into the stars, but Klein had long since forgotten about it.
In the vision of this "sea god", Amon followed Hazel back home with an unchanging smile on his face, his hands in his pockets, and his right eye wearing a monocle slightly narrowed.
Small translucent worms with twelve segments crawled out of his body, wriggling in all directions, and then disappeared.
This made Klein, who was above the gray fog, feel cold all over. He almost wanted to use his lingering vision to attract a powerful lightning bolt to kill Amon and his "Time Worm".
This "blasphemer" indeed only had one clone, but the vast majority of Amon's power in Backlund must have been concentrated within his body, allowing him to split into countless Time Worms, parasitizing all the targets he saw!
This... I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until the "Wednesday or Thursday" scheduled by Will Auceptin. Is it that fate has deviated, or can Amon even deceive the "Snake of Fate"?
Without further hesitation, Klein quickly returned from the gray foggy space to his bathroom and then to his bedroom.
He didn't make any move. Raphael, the "Admiral of Hell" who was guarding the door, took a step forward, quickly walked downstairs, left through the back garden, and went into the nearest sewer. Enuni took over his job and waited outside the door, making the bedroom Klein's private space.
Then, the "weird wizard" began to organize his equipment, and took out the black gem-like Night Emblem that he had always carried with him, and held it in the palm of his hand.
He knew that once the "plague-like infection" was activated, Amon would quickly be able to obtain the information he needed from the minds of the servants and residents around him, and would know that "Dwayne Dantès" who lived at No. 160 was the biggest "anomaly" on this street!
This wouldn't take long, leaving Klein perhaps less than an hour.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought about leaving at this point, abandoning everything that belonged to Dwayne Dantès. As long as he activated "teleportation" and performed counter-divination, using the faceless man's ability to change his identity, even if he returned to Backlund again, these Amons would never be able to discover his existence.
But the Macht family, other neighbors, and his own servants would inevitably become Amon's targets.
Anyway, all the preparations were done, and Angel and Leonard had been notified... He took a deep breath, made up his mind, pinched the "creeping hunger" in his hand, and touched his forehead with his ungloved hand, feeling his body temperature gradually rising.
At this moment, the contact between him and the "secret doll" Enuni outside the door was cut off.
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"Amon appeared at 39 Böklund Street..."
A familiar voice rang in his ears, and the figure of "World" Klein appeared before his eyes. Angel immediately stopped what he was doing and listened carefully to the other party's words.
A moment later, the message conveyed by The Fool ended, and Angel walked out of the bedroom on the second floor of the ambush site, pausing at the window and looking towards the direction of Böklund Street in the distance.
A few hundred meters away, there was a clone of Amon hiding.
He didn't expect that after all the preparations he had made here, Amon would appear on the street where Klein lived... Angel lamented that plans could not keep up with changes, but he immediately understood what was happening over there.
Unexpectedly, Amon's clone, which had been silent for a week, still found its way there. Did Klein ask Mr. Fool to convey the message that he should act at his house and capture the lone Amon clone?
After thinking for a moment, Angel did not immediately enter the mirror world and go to Boklund Street. Instead, he first entered the spiritual vision, sensing the "seeds of disease" that he had already buried in the bodies of several targets, and slowly ignited them.
After completely digesting the "Despair" potion, her "disease" was no longer limited to the infectious diseases spread directly around her. Instead, she could infect the target in advance through various means and detonate it when needed, just like the "Apostle of Desire" she had killed.
These non-fatal illnesses will serve as a connection between her and her teammates.
After finishing everything, Angel was ready to leave the house full of mirrors.
She didn't go to the scene immediately because she was worried that the disturbance in the mirror world would attract the attention of Amon's clone. She had failed in this kind of thing before and would not make the same mistake again.
Therefore, this time, after Angel confirmed that Klein was still normal by using "illness", he planned to take a carriage to Boklund Street and pretend that he was just a passerby.
This way, Amon shouldn't find me...
She thought, looking toward the window one last time.
A wild cat with yellow and white fur, which can be seen everywhere, lay quietly at the window, its vertical pupils narrowed, staring at Angel.
Its right eye narrowed even more tightly, as if it was wearing an invisible monocle.
Angel's gaze froze instantly. The mirror closest to her flashed a dim light, opening a passage to the mirror world. But after shaking her body, she did not immediately rush to the passage in the mirror, but stood there without moving.
Her thoughts were stolen again.
"Curious how we found you?"
The wild cat spoke in human language, with a hint of joking, just like the Amon that Angel met on the banks of the Tussock River late at night.
"There are clones lurking in every area of the city. You should have only exposed the seal for a few seconds, but that was enough for them to confirm the approximate distance and direction. After that... it's just a simple calculation problem."
It was not the wild cat who took over the conversation, but another figure who pushed the door open.
He was wearing a work suit stained with oil and a black soft hat, like a worker who had accidentally entered someone else's home. He had a broad forehead and sunken eye sockets, and he was not wearing a crystal monocle.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot."
He smiled apologetically, fished a monocle from his pocket, placed it in his right eye socket, and bowed gracefully.
"Hello again, Miss Witch of the Kuroyoru family."
The worker Amon in front of him, the wild cat Amon beside him, and the Amons outside the doors and windows, whose voices seemed endless and even partially resonated, spoke in unison.
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