Hearing Klein's own words, Angel Gray glanced at him in surprise, nodded and said:
"It is indeed the work of Emperor Roselle. Of course, the one in the mirror is still 'Knowledge Emperor'. In addition, there is also the help of Great Old One.
"They made two additional Card of Blasphemys, 'Demoness' and 'Red Priest', but only changed a small part of the ritual to make it more suitable for her now."
It changed from a plague involving 30,000 people to one Demigod dying in despair, and from reconciling with Mirror Person to going through a long time. After all, she is "Mirror Person"... This method of exploiting loopholes is most likely what Roselle thought of... Klein commented in his heart and asked casually:
"Who is that Great Old One? The revived Ancient Sun God is still..."
"It's you, Klein Moretti, the future 'Lord of Mysteries'."
Gray's answer was just as Klein expected, and it also made him feel a little happy in his heart.
After all, he is now just "Mystic Seer" of Sequence 1, which is far away from Sequence 0, let alone defeat Amon who holds Dual Pathways, and become Great Old One that accommodates "Sefirah Castle".
And the words of this "traveler" who returned from the future to the present undoubtedly set the tone for his fate.
Seeing that he stopped asking questions, Gray continued:
"In that Timeline - let's call the experience in my memory - you finally took the risk and were promoted to 'Fool', relying on the power of Sefirah Castle to defeat Dual Pathways's True God Amon, but this also caused the will of 'Celestial Worthy' in the body to revive, and had to go into deep sleep with the help of Evernight Goddess. It could only affect the outside world to a certain extent, and that Celestial Worthy could also do the same.
"And I, under the arrangement of Adam who merged with and dominated 'True Creator', was promoted to Demoness of Unaging, and entered your dream together with several other 'Great Old One remnants' who were released by you from Sefirah Castle and had a chance to be resurrected, and tried to wake you up."
"My dream?" Klein opened his mouth, but couldn't help but interrupt the other party, "What is that situation?"
Gray raised the corners of his mouth slightly, as if he remembered something happy, and replied:
"It was a dream formed from Zhou Mingrui's experience, located in the modern city of China at the beginning of the 21st century.
"You are an employee of a large company, you call yourself a social animal, and you live an ordinary life."
This is what I was tired of before, but now I can't wait to go back to those days... The social animals are better than now. It would be perfect if I could bring Angel back to those days... Klein was in a trance for a while and asked:
"Your mission is to wake me up who lives a boring life but doesn't want to wake up?"
From the other party's experience, Klein knows that he on the other Timeline has not met Angel. There is a high probability that he will be single until he becomes "Fool" and falls into a deep sleep. He may not be willing to wake up from the dream.
"Bored? "Gray chuckled and shook his head, "Because of the importance of 'Lord of Mysteries', your dream has long been like a sieve. Local God can enter, and Outer Deity believers can enter. You Those Tarot Club members have also watched your life closely, and they know that 'Fool' is Zhou Mingrui, 'Gehrman Sparrow', 'Sherlock Moriarty'...
"By the way, you also drank 'Assassin' Potion, which was just a hair away from becoming 'Witch'."
This... Klein suddenly felt that he was no longer interested in that dream, and even felt a little panicked.
It's like the fear of being stripped naked and surrounded by people you know.
Fortunately, he had already experienced being stripped naked in front of Angel, so he quickly adjusted his mentality, grasped the key points and asked:
"'Assassin' Potion? Didn't you say that my dream is a modern city?"
"That's just the surface. The entire dream world is a stage for the confrontation between you and 'Celestial Worthy'. As an ordinary person promoted to God, you prefer that the dream world be in a state without extraordinary power. That is more beneficial to you. For the born Mythical Creature'Celestial Worthy', it is an away battle."
Gray replied quickly, as if she had gone through these things countless times in her mind and had a rough draft.
"Of course, he is not without the power of resistance. After adjusting his state, 'Celestial Worthy' gradually exerted an influence on Dream City, allowing extraordinary power to gradually appear there, which will have an impact on your cognition after losing your memory.
"As you learn that this is an extraordinary world, and gradually realize from the 'assassin' of Sequence 9 to Sequence 0, divinity will gradually grow stronger and overwhelm human nature, and this is the most beneficial to 'Celestial Worthy'."
This... in the dream, it is still a balance between "human nature" and "divinity"... Klein sighed with emotion. Although he could not imagine the specific situation of Dream City, he believed that this matter must not be simple, otherwise there would not be many forces entering into it.
Of course, since "Angel Gray" has returned to the present and has help from his future self, his plan to awaken himself must have been successful.
As if to confirm his thoughts, Gray continued:
"With the help of several Gods and the efforts of the Major Arcana brand, we finally found a way to wake you up. That is to let the 'world' return first. He has not been '' at all. Celestial Worthy', and you continue to fight with 'Celestial Worthy' in the dream until you both confront and merge with him, becoming the real 'Lord of Mysteries', but mainly biased towards you."
"The World" is indeed an important character, and my efforts to manage his image are worthy of my efforts... Klein took a deep breath and did not dwell on the dream that both interested him and frightened him, but asked in a deep voice:
"Then what?"
As soon as he asked this question, he noticed a hint of Affliction on Angel Gray's face.
"Then it failed..."
she murmured.
Failure... Klein's heart tightened, and then she realized that the "Timeline" that the other party was originally on must have some kind of irreversible crisis that forced her to leave.
Otherwise, why would she travel back in time?
He waited quietly until the expression of the woman who looked the same as Angel softened, and then asked softly:
"What kind of failure?"
The latter looked over with his purple eyes, was silent for a moment, and replied:
"Everything failed.
"Because of Promotion Ritual's problem and Adam's desire to try the 'Yin-Yang Harmony' method, I jumped from 'Unaging' to Jin Rise to 'Weather Warlock', and then compete with Medici for 'Conqueror', or design to kill Cheek to get his 'Apocalypse' characteristic, but such promotion plays into the hands of Cheek and Tudor. They are waiting for a person with Tudor breath, City of Calamity power of Angel, so that Tudor can be resurrected, so that they can combine in the mirror to become Original Creator.
"Your timely awakening prevented all of this. As soon as Cheek inserted the 'Apocalypse' characteristics into my body, allowing Original Creator's Feminine Aspect to integrate, the ceremony was destroyed, but everything is irreversible...
"The melee between God made the barrier more fragile. Outer Deity took the opportunity to launch an attack, and 'Mother Goddess of Depravity' directly entered the barrier. At the same time, there were problems with the only two beings on the earth who had the power of Sefirah and the personality of 'Great Old One'."
"Me and Adam?"
Klein asked with enlightenment.
Gray nodded.
"You reached a temporary agreement with 'Celestial Worthy' and woke up early to support the barrier, but this gave him an opportunity to take advantage of it. In order to have the power to fight when Apocalypse came, Adam also merged with 'God Almighty' in advance to compete for dominance.
"This results in your power being incomplete and unable to become the real Great Old One when the barrier is completely broken. The most important thing is that in order to fight each other, 'God Almighty' and 'Celestial Worthy' both quietly reached an agreement with Outer Deity. Their conditions are to make the other party unable to recover, and secondly to allow themselves to recover.
"This resulted in that until Apocalypse came, no complete Great Old One appeared on the earth.
"That is the real world Apocalypse, and I am from Apocalypse."
After a while, Klein finally calmed down.
The scene about Apocalypse that Angel continued to tell made him feel despair even though he had not experienced all this. It was just like the first time he heard that there were nine Outer Deity waiting outside the earth, and he had no idea what the earth could do to prevent the arrival of Apocalypse and change the fate of everyone's death.
Of course, the people of "Timeline" also made a lot of efforts, such as using Vortex Project, which was also initiated by "Uncertain Mist" believers, to severely damage the Great Old One, leaving one less enemy outside the barrier, and making it difficult for other Great Old Ones to unite. However, compared with now, there will be one more Great Old One called "Goddess of fate" in the future, which makes up for the number.
The contact with the Western Continent was not fruitless. Just like now, Dao Integrator, Celestial Master, Underworld Daoist, Celestial Thearch, etc. are also working hard to help several local "" appear as soon as possible. Great Old One" prepared, but due to the actions of Cheek and Tudor trying to resurrect Mirrored Original Creator, the barrier was broken earlier than the predicted time, and all efforts faced failure before harvesting results.
"So, you, no, future me and Adam both think that the key issue is the behavior of 'Primordial Demoness' Cheek?"
After clearing up his somewhat depressed mood, Klein asked.
This is probably the reason why Angel Gray accomplished his mission in one battle and used many arrangements to stop Cheek and kill God.
Gray nodded first, then shook his head and said:
"This is just one reason. Another important issue is that neither you nor Adam can defeat the remaining will of the Pillar-level Great Old One in the body and truly gain their power."
"So this is why you said you wanted to help me become the real 'Lord of Mysteries'?" Klein suddenly realized, "And Adam... no, Grisha's fusion order has also changed this time?"
He still remembered what Gray said just now that Adam's "accommodation order" is based on Him, rather than following "True Creator".
Apart from the fact that he didn't encounter the butterfly effect produced by Angel, the most important difference between the two Timelines is probably this.
"Yes," Gray forced out a smile and replied, "The moment the barrier was broken, Adam·Grisha, the 'God Almighty' with incomplete authority, and you, the sometimes crazy and sometimes sober 'Lord of Mysteries', knew what would happen next. The earth would not be spared, and everyone would die, including them."
"At that moment, they made a decision, using the calculation of 'Omniscient and Almighty', the power of 'Dominator of the Spirit World', and the special characteristics of 'City of Calamity' and my Mirrored Original Creator half, to send me back to the past.
"Mother Goddess of Depravity and other Great Old One did not stop it. The real 'God Almighty' and 'Celestial Worthy' also sat and watched all this happen, because this could make the earth completely give up resistance... And this is not relying on the past to change the future, but coming to another 'Timeline'... If you have seen a lot of time travel works, you should understand what this means, right?"
She said this to "Zhou Mingrui"... Klein was stunned for a moment, nodded, but then asked unwillingly:
"You really can't change what happened in the past?"
"The efforts we have made have only changed the 'future' of this Timeline, because it has not happened yet, and for the future where I am, everything has become a foregone conclusion."
Gray said slowly, her expression not changing much. It seemed that she had thought about this matter many times and did not hold out any hope.
"Even if this world is finally saved, you and Adam in the future will face a hopeless Apocalypse. They just want to retain a little Tinder, or a little light in despair...
"Even so, it is extremely difficult to go back to another Timeline past, which involves City of Calamity's Sefirah'Catastrophe' rights The characteristics of the handle 'Ever-Present' are also the reason why the city deep in Mirror World has a partial mirror image of the city in Apocalypse from all eras, even in the future.
"In the calculation of 'God Almighty' Adam·Grisha, there is even a chance to travel to a longer past through City of Calamity, but this requires The nearly infinite Spirituality is unbearable even for you, 'Lord of Mysteries', and the person sent back to the past needs to leave the mark given by City of Calamity in advance. Spirituality and branding are indispensable."
This is consistent with the conditions she told Angel... A light flashed in Klein's mind and she blurted out:
"June 28, 1349!"
That was the time when "Angel" Spirit Body, who was saved by City of Calamity, entered the body of the just-dead Cole Granger, which was the first mark she left on the world.
Gray showed a smile for the first time in a long time, nodded slightly and said:
"No matter how early the time is, even Spirituality of Great Old One cannot bear it, and I am the only one who can satisfy the brand, City of Calamity's favored one and 'Original Creator' status at the same time.
"Of course, if Oldest One Creator really revives and takes back all authority, he will naturally have the ability to reverse time and space and change the past. However, this will also lead to the destruction of the universe. Everything will be Reincarnation again, which is meaningless to any of us."
Klein took a long breath and said:
"So you use these powers to go back to that day with your memories."
"To be specific, it was half an hour before this Timeline Angel woke up. My return also caused the leakage of the power of all the 'City of Calamity' marks, which indirectly caused the failure of a certain senior deacon Promotion Ritual... In order to come to this point in time, I abandoned my body and the 'Apocalypse' characteristics, leaving only Spirit Body and the Sequence 1 Characteristic through the 'Chaos Sea' authority Imagination."
In this way, she will only be "Apocalypse" Demoness in the future, and has not had time to be promoted to Sequence 0... "Yesterday Once More" is a reproduction of her state in just half an hour?
Klein realized something and signaled the other party to continue.
"The moment we arrived on June 28, I followed the plan of you and Adam, shouted out His name, and recited Honorific Name of Goddess. Not only are they the 'Great Old One' candidates for this time and space, but they are also time travellers, making it easier to communicate and believe everything I say."
Gray's tone became much calmer, as if he had recovered from his sadness for "Apocalypse".
"You should be able to guess what happened next. Adam's Sequence 1 Characteristic of Imagination disappeared, and my memory was sealed before I became an ordinary person, and then Spirit Body, who had just accepted us, used the gift given by 'City of Calamity' to belong to 'Unaging'Demoness killed Angel Granger who was resurrected by his ability. This would consume an opportunity for 'resurrection', but more importantly, it gave me the opportunity to replace the main body as 'Mirror Person' and become the main body. Then the resurrected Angel Granger became my 'Mirror Person'.
"This is different from Mirror Person, who has to actually kill her own body in order to 'turn positive'. Moreover, her memory has not been modified in essence, and she is not afraid of Sefirah Castle's 'anti-virus'..."
Klein added dumbfoundedly, sincerely admiring the plans of his future self and Adam.
"So, after that, you stayed in 'City of Calamity', pretending that you were 'Mirror Person', and waited for Goddess and Adam, who knew the future direction, to make changes?"
"It's not pretending," Gray shook his head. "When I lost the relevant memory, I really thought that I was the unlucky Mirror Person who was imprisoned in Mirror World. And before I truly 'reconciled' with her, I couldn't leave there. This naturally avoided the possibility of being watched by Outer Deity after my memory was restored."
"And Amanises and Adam began to take the initiative to arrange everything after that. Adam separated a copy of the 'Assassin' from the 'Witch' characteristics that separated out after another death, and put it back into Angel's body, allowing her to wake up as Sequence 9 to prevent her from accidentally jumping to other Pathway. Goddess's 'investment' in you and Angel was more decisive, which made her not follow Madam Sharon, but took the initiative to report the other party, thus joining Nighthawks."
This is the point of disagreement in "this Timeline"... Klein nodded secretly, and immediately had a new question:
"Adam has been exerting influence on Angel so early? So the meeting between her and me, and everything that happened after that... was also planned?"
Gray glanced at him and replied in a funny way:
"As you control the power of 'Sefirah Castle', you should know that this is impossible. Otherwise, every time Angel comes to Gray Fog, there will be memory loss and misalignment, and problems will be discovered immediately... And if He really arranges for your meeting and love, it will cause an unbridgeable conflict after you know everything, and even affect your role as an anchor for each other...
"However, her meeting you so quickly and joining 'Tarot Club' was indeed beyond His expectation. He appeared once in Enmat Harbor and Bayam, both to 'correct' the direction. Apart from that, there are not many arrangements for Angel."
Huh, that's good...Klein's sighing sound can even be heard by himself.
However, Enmat Harbor's encounter with Adam and Angel did show memory confusion when he returned to Tingen to participate in Tarot Club question, and Bayam... Adam showed up specially and said so many unintelligible words to Angel. Is it actually to speed up the digestion process of her Potion? Because with me, she hasn't experienced much enough to play "Affliction" Demoness? I don't know how she digested Potion in another post Timeline...
Thoughts in Klein's mind continued to surge, and it was not until Gray continued to speak that he restrained himself.
"In addition, a major problem with 'Mirror Person' is that the success rate of promotion when taking Potion is only half that of the original body. This causes her to be on the verge of losing control every time she is promoted, and she can only rely on external assistance... Fortunately, every time she is promoted, there is someone to protect her, or 'Luck' is in her body, and she passes the ceremony by luck.
"In addition, although her body was formed by Cole Granger's promotion to 'Witch', because she became 'Mirror Person', in the eyes of Mirrored Original Creator, it was the pure that she needed Female Witch, so Amanises needs to use his own 'secret' authority to cooperate with him to cover up with the help of 'Fool' Uniqueness's 'Fooling' ability, and this method needs to be rearranged after each death."
So after she died in the hands of Ince Zangwill for the first time, she was immediately taken over by Arianna to Holy Cathedral and got "Hidden Holy Emblem". The second time she simply died in front of Goddess's Divine Descent Vessel... Klein suddenly realized, and at the same time understood the reason why Cheek didn't realize that the other party was "Mirror Person" when she first dragged Angel into Mirror World, and instead regarded her as her true body.
In front of God, who dominates the "secret" power and can also use part of the power of "Fool", even Master of the Mirror World cannot see through these arrangements.
It wasn't until the "body" appeared in front of Cheek that he discovered the anomaly. However, at this time, the plan spanning two Timelines had come to an end, and the fall of "Primordial Demoness" was inevitable.
While he was thinking, Gray was still talking endlessly:
"As for the other arrangements Adam and Goddess made in secret, I am not sure, but a few drops of blood belonging to Angel fell into the hands of 'True Creator' Grisha, which helped him understand certain facts with the help of corresponding authority, and finally competed for the first piece of 'Blasphemy Slate', Adam did not stop everything Tingen did, Backlund's Great Smog, and even George III's actions, and even contributed to it...
"Oh, I can just imagine what He would say: these are necessary sacrifices.
"So in this world, it should be a good thing for the more humane 'True Creator' to dominate after the fusion. This is also the fact deduced by 'God Almighty' Adam·Grisha. It is difficult for him with more divinity to gain an advantage in the confrontation with the Pillar.
"And you... in the process of being promoted to 'Fool', it is extremely important which part of the characteristics of 'Mystic Seer' should be accommodated first. The future you will get the curtain first without killing 'Demonic Wolf' Cottar, which leads to Sequence 2, You used all the characteristics of Sequence 1, Beyonder Characteristic, which has never been accommodated, only Celestial Worthy will and Mental Imprint, plus the attack of Amon when you accommodated Uniqueness, so you can only be promoted to Sequence 0 in an emergency, and your condition is very poor..."
All of these are the changes brought about by "Angel Gray", which give the Timeline I am living in a hope of fighting against Apocalypse... Klein pursed his lips, looking at Gray who couldn't stop chattering, and suddenly felt that the other party was not easy either.
He traveled alone from the "future" to the "past", and his memory was sealed again. He stayed alone in "City of Calamity" until the memory slowly recovered, but he could not tell anyone about it... He took a deep breath, carefully put away the sympathy that surged in his heart, and when the other party finally stopped, he asked:
"'True Creator' took the lead in the fusion as you expected, and 'Primordial Demoness' Cheek also fell without causing a bigger problem. This is all good... But, what is the status of Angel now?"
Angel Gray raised his eyebrows, looked at Klein, and answered after a moment:
"The 'Hidden Holy Emblem' on her wrist is an insurance policy for Amanises. When Mirrored Original Creator may wake up in her body, it will put her into a deep sleep and prevent the situation from worsening.
"Your Angel, like you in the future, is now in a dream.
"There, she has to fight against the consciousness of 'Original Creator'.
"Our most important task next is to wake her up and let her dominate the confrontation."
PS: Because if this plot is divided into chapters, the reading experience will be degraded, so it is combined into one, and there is no one at night.