Chapter 21: Fate Trojan Horse



Looking at the half of The Fool on the huge stone chair, Klein's mind flashed through the scenes related to the Kingdom of Night that he had just experienced, and he felt a little touched for a moment.

He didn't know much about Antigonus, and even nearly lost control several times because of the other party's mumbling "Honakis...Fregera...", so at this moment, he couldn't say that he had any sympathy, but he felt a little empathy:

What always lingers in my dreams is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful memories of the past.

Even though he was born into an extraordinary species, Antigonus seemed to be deeply attached to the peaceful and secluded little country he once was.

Klein exhaled slowly and shifted his gaze from the man with thick black wolf hair on his face to the side of the huge stone chair.

A thin brass book was quietly placed there, with three rules written in mercury silver constantly appearing on it.

"0-02", "The Brass Book of Trunsoest".

Using a similar ability to "graft" to complete the seal? Well, it seems to have gone a step further. Not only did it directly connect the beginning part to the ending rules, but it also fooled the intelligence of the "Brass Book of Trunsoest", causing it to ignore the skipped middle part and not try to make changes, repeating it again and again... Klein glanced at "0-02" and muttered to himself thoughtfully.

This gave him some guesses about what abilities The Fool would possess.

Without giving it much thought, Klein asked the Secret Servant puppet to "graft" the starting point and the end point together. He walked to the huge stone chair and picked up the "Trunsoest Brass Book".

On the one hand, he was eliminating possible interference in the future, and on the other hand, he was testing Antigonus' current state.

Seeing that half of the Fool was still asleep and unable to escape from eternal sleep, Klein breathed a sigh of relief and asked the secret doll to take the "Brass Book of Trunsoest" and retreat to the palace entrance to wait there.

The reason why he didn't let his clone take this "0" level seal was because he was worried that the "Brass Book of Trunsost", which had a certain connection with the source material, would show passive negative effects at the critical moment when he accommodated the uniqueness of "The Fool", causing the situation to plummet in a bad direction.

When it comes to avoiding the negative effects of the seal, the secret doll is definitely stronger than the clone.

This is also the reason why Klein did not bring the "Star Staff". He could not keep a time bomb next to him.

Normally, it's okay, as he can rely on his status, level, and abilities to forcibly suppress the "Staff of the Star", but in the process of accommodating the uniqueness of the "Fool", he will be very vulnerable and unable to interfere with the people and things around him. He may lose control on the spot at the slightest accident.

In order to deal with the situation where "Source Castle" was sealed and he could not borrow power, Klein had to bring a seal that could provide "teleportation" capabilities, so he chose "Creeping Hunger".

At this moment, facing an angel king who controls uniqueness, Klein felt the human leather glove on his left palm tremble instinctively.

He then stroked the "creeping hunger" with his right hand and whispered in a joking tone:

"Don't worry, you are just an image in the gap of history."

After relieving his excessive mental tension in this way, Klein looked around and confirmed that there was nothing else that needed to be dealt with.

Then he placed his hand on his chest and bowed solemnly to Antigonus.

When he straightened up and raised his head, a complex, mysterious, and illusory mark appeared between his eyebrows.

This mark is like a strange light gate stained with a little blue and black, constantly emitting a thin gray mist around it.

The next second, Klein stretched out his right hand and "enclosed" Antigonus' body between his five fingers at a distance that was not far but definitely not close.

He quickly closed his fingers and twisted his wrist to complete the "steal".

He gained nothing.

This attempt failed.

Undeterred, Crane once again sets out to steal Antigonus' identity, destiny, and self-perception.

Although he is the Angel King among Angel Kings, his stealing abilities all come from the "Source Castle", and he is currently only at the Sequence 1 level. Antigonus is an Angel King who has been contaminated by the "Lord of Mysteries" and contains "uniqueness", so there is still a clear gap between the two.

Therefore, even though Antigonus had entered a brief state of eternal sleep and was unable to resist, Klein failed many times in a row.

He was not nervous about this situation, nor was he disappointed at all, because this was all predictable in advance. Anyway, as long as the "stealing" was not completed, the "Goddess of Night" would not lift the secrecy, allowing the fate here to communicate with the real world, and there would be no external interference. Klein had enough time and a stable environment to try.

After failing countless times, Klein suddenly had an inspiration and foresaw something.

He stretched out his right hand again, put his five fingers together, and twisted them gently.

Suddenly, he felt some invisible thing detaching from Antigonus and floating towards him.

At the same time, a long river of light with countless tributaries seemed to appear before his eyes, which was difficult to describe in words.

The illusory river water continued to flow forward, flooding one tributary after another and making them return to the main trunk.

This is the symbol of "fate", and it has many different images, such as a slowly rotating wheel divided into multiple grids and a giant snake connected end to end. At this moment, when fate changed, Klein saw a long river of light.

The next second, fragmented images emerged in Klein's mind one after another:

A newly born eight-legged demon wolf was lying on the hill. Transparent, twisted worms were swimming back and forth and burrowing in and out among the coarse black hair on its body. He was the youngest son of the ancient god Fregola, a natural mythical creature. At this moment, he was watching his sister, brother, and some of his kind playing in the pile of bones. He had a certain contempt for their simple and rough way of dealing with prey. He believed that hanging the prey and slowly enjoying it was in line with his status.

The demon wolf, who could be called a descendant of the gods, feared the most about his own father, the powerful, terrifying, and crazy ancient god. Although Fregola had created many offspring through instinctive reproduction and reproduction, and separated many extraordinary characteristics, it was uncontrollable and could not guarantee progress. Therefore, He was still crazy, cruel, bloodthirsty, and full of destructive and annihilative instincts, and had even killed several of his descendants;

This can only create miracles, and the demon wolf that grants all kinds of wishes chases its prey, bites or kills them, enjoying pure joy;

He did not have a very deep impression of his father Fregola's subordinate gods. What he remembered most clearly was that he hated Kotar, the "God of Wishes", even though he was also a demon wolf;

In addition, he did not like the "God of the Dead" Salinger, thinking that he was gloomy, aloof, and exuded a rotten and disgusting smell all over his body. On the contrary, the "Goddess of Doom" Amanesis, who had the aesthetics of both the magic wolf and humans, had a gentle personality, was very good at soothing the soul, and was not so annoying to the wolf. However, this female deity rarely appeared, always like a shadow, hiding in places that were not easily discovered. Of course, the magic wolf remembered that several of his sisters and brothers were quite repulsive to Amanesis and wanted to take her place;

The Demon Wolf witnessed the fall of his father, the powerful ancient god, and saw the blood of the ancient god spilled all over the body of the "Goddess of Doom" Amanesis. In that chaotic scene, a uniqueness and a Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristic were attracted and fell into His hands;

He and one of his sisters fled the country where the wolf tribe lived and hid everywhere;

Without the protection of his father, the demon wolf and his sister realized that the wanton life they had in the past was no longer normal. Pain and danger were the themes that ran through everything. Eventually, they crossed the sea and came to the northern continent, where they established a secret kingdom in the uninhabited Honachis Mountains.

He and his sister dared not expose themselves, and could only collect believers in small numbers and gather the population. Under such circumstances, he invented the City of the Dead that coexists with the Kingdom of the Living, and made the dead believers his secret puppets to complete the ascension ceremony;

Although this period of time was filled with worries, it was the happiest time in the memory of this demon wolf. Seeing his sister's followers increasing in number and his own secret doll town becoming more and more perfect, he seemed to have forgotten the disturbances and dangers of the outside world and gained peace for the first time since his birth.

Influenced by the believers' cognition, He and His sister gradually gained more so-called humanity;

After the Great Cataclysm, He was finally promoted to the "Servant of Mysteries", transformed himself into a human, took the surname Antigonus, left the Hornachis Mountains, and returned to the real world outside the Hidden Kingdom;

From this moment on, Antigonus' memory and cognition became increasingly fragmented and broken. Oftentimes, he himself felt a little strange.

After He accommodated the uniqueness of The Fool, this situation became even more serious...

As the images flashed by, Klein quickly came to a realization:

I am Antigonus, I am half a "fool"!

Suddenly, his body changed repeatedly. Sometimes he was Klein Moretti, a man with black hair and brown eyes, who had a bookish air and looked like a fusion of Zhou Mingrui. Sometimes he was Antigonus, who had half-white hair and thick black wolf hair on his face. Sometimes he was a mysterious man wearing a dark cloak that made it impossible to see his face, and who kept extending slippery tentacles to the side.

At this moment, Klein's thoughts were extremely confused and his mental state was completely unbalanced.

He could only barely maintain a certain level of self-awareness, and was on the verge of collapse under the impact of two mental storms like raging waves.

At the same time, he also inherited Antigonus' fate of losing control and going crazy, and his body began to collapse bit by bit.

Prayers and praises immediately rang in his ears. They intertwined together to form an illusory image that joined the chaotic battlefield.

…………

Rorsted Archipelago, Bayam, on the bell tower of the Church of Fools.

A young man wearing a pointed hat and a monocle suddenly appeared here, standing behind the railing and overlooking the entire city.

Mr. "Error" Amon!

The next second, “He” saw Bayam and the New Silver City and Crescent City in the distance disappear at the same time, as if they had been erased from the map with an eraser.

"Boring." Seeing this scene, Amon smiled and shook his head. He was not disappointed at all.

He just wanted to see if Klein or the "Goddess of Night" had fixed a "bug" here:

After ringing the bell, He, who has become the "Angel of Time" of the "Fool" to some extent, can take advantage of this loophole and directly steal part of the opponent's anchor.

Such theft is of little value in normal times, but it is very useful at the critical moment of the ceremony:

The sudden reduction of the anchor would inevitably lead to a breakdown of balance, causing Klein to lose control on the spot!

Amon then retracted his gaze and raised his hand to adjust the monocle on his right eye.

The light from the crystal glasses suddenly lit up, as if coming from the starry sky.


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