Across several floors of ceilings, Zarathus could feel that the being standing in his Derrenburg hall was caught in a tug-of-war with the divinity within his body.
This is partly due to the induction between the two Pathway Sequence 1 Beyonder, as well as the aggregation effect that cannot be ignored, but the most important reason is that among the three "Mystic Seer" characteristics that make up Klein, one originally belonged to Zarathus. In order to combat the influence of "Original Creator" and "Celestial Worthy", Klein has never truly erased that part of Mental Imprint.
And this gave Zarathus an opportunity to sense the current state of Klein. The guy who called himself "Fool" obviously underestimated the impact of a pure Beyonder Characteristic inside Mental Imprint that had not been accommodated by anyone. Although he had barely regained his balance, it would take a short period of time to truly get rid of the current state.
This is the perfect opportunity for Zarathus.
This is not the instigation of Outer Deity, but the spontaneous behavior of Zarathus's consciousness hidden in this "Miracle Invoker" characteristic.
He understands that as long as Klein, who can discover the "Orville" and "Dilan" messages he conveys, stabilizes his own state, he will inevitably completely destroy the "Mystic Realm" between this reality and Spirit World, find out this characteristic, and cut off the hope of his final resurrection.
Rather than waiting for death in silence, it is better to fight to the death. He Zarathus was reduced to relying on deceiving other Seer to inherit the "Dilan" castle and use his own characteristics to be promoted to resurrect. This does not mean that he does not have the courage to fight for the last time!
Thoughts kept flashing through his mind, Zarathus turned on Spirit Body Threads's vision, and found the only target that he could control easily in the castle hall where Marionette's corpses and Beyonder Characteristic's corpses were scattered everywhere:
The appearance is Marionette, a body of Gehrman Sparrow.
In an instant, he controlled a few Spirit Body Threads and took over the control of the body. Zarathus exchanged places with it, entered his carefully decorated hall, and came to "Fool".
The enemy who had easily walked into Historical Void to block his return to Beyonder Characteristic's body was now stiff, with the middle line of the bridge of the nose as the dividing line, showing two different states on the left and right:
On the right is a man with human facial features, skin and flesh still intact, wearing a windbreaker and a top hat, but his shape is not fixed. Sometimes his black hair is mixed with silver threads, and there are subtle wrinkles around his blue eyes. Sometimes he looks elegant, with obvious bags under his eyes, and some fat on his chin.
The left side has completely lost its human appearance, its face is illusory and transparent, and its body seems to be composed of countless Distortion worms, with slippery and evil tentacles extending around it.
Even Zarathus, looking at this half of the body, I feel that my thinking is a little Slowing, Spirit Body has become sluggish, as if my intelligence has declined to a certain extent.
He quickly moved his gaze away, looking above the spliced body, and locked on the Spirit Body Threads whose ends were curled back into Klein's body.
At this time, these black lines were already showing signs of loosening, and the parts that circled back into the body lost their protection, fluttering outward, completely exposed to Zarathus's sight.
Zarathus did not hesitate to grab hold of these Spirit Body Threads, which represented his hope for survival, represented King of Angel Marionette, and represented "Sefirah Castle" Sefirah, and began to seize control of them.
In an instant, Klein, whose thoughts were extremely confused and almost split into two personalities under the impact of "Original Creator" and "Celestial Worthy" Mental Imprint, realized that his Spirit Body Threads was no longer under his control, and noticed that the Marionette in front of him began to prepare to control the master's body.
This is... my Marionette was stolen? Did Amon do it? No, if He has this opportunity, He will definitely parasitize me directly, not my Marionette... The only other person who can do this is Zarathus. When was He resurrected? When my Marionette was controlled by Him, I didn't notice anything unusual? Bubbles kept popping up in Klein's mind, and thoughts flashed one after another, but they were still unable to form concrete thoughts, as if they were affected by some kind of force "Fooling".
There is no doubt that this interference comes from "Celestial Worthy".
After realizing this, Klein began to relax its power against "Celestial Worthy", and instead pulled up the Spirit Body Threads that were constantly flying towards Marionette in front of him, trying to circle them back into his own body, forming Closed Loop that was difficult to control.
At the same time, his somewhat stagnant thoughts began to look for solutions to the current troubles.
Give up this promotion and return to "Sefirah Castle"? There is a high chance that this will go out of control, but at least I can keep the "Mystic Seer" characteristics in my body. After that, if I commit suicide or let Angel kill me, I can get rid of most of the unfavorable conditions through resurrection... But Promotion Ritual has started, and "Mystic Realm" has spontaneously formed around me that is immune to most influences. Within a few seconds, I couldn't let my flesh and blood body transform into Spirit Body, and enter Gray Fog...
What about Angel Gray? Although she can't detect the situation inside Derrenburg, if I don't succeed in promotion in a short time, she should be able to find the abnormality and come in to check... This is not a change that can occur in a few seconds, and it only takes a few seconds at most for Zarathus to control my Spirit Body Threads...
Each and every idea was self-denied by Klein before it was put into practice. The image of his body that had barely maintained one half on one side gradually changed. The part representing "Celestial Worthy" eroded to the right, occupying almost four-fifths of the area. Klein's images belonging to himself and several personalities in his memory were compressed to the edge of his body, which was in danger.
This change was noticed by Zarathus. He sneered, while speeding up the control of Spirit Body Threads to resist Klein's self-rescue behavior, while using the "" in his body The connection between the characteristics of "Miracle Invoker" and the "Mystic Seer" contained by Klein activates Mental Imprint, which was formed from the strong emotions before his death.
Originally, Klein was using the spirit and consciousness remaining in the two copies of Sequence 1 Characteristic, Antigonus and Zarathus, to fight against " Original Creator" and "Celestial Worthy", let the two get entangled, while I have the energy to slowly accommodate the third copy of Sequence 1 Characteristic, Zarathus This approach undoubtedly caused an inner ghost to appear in this part of his power, and the balance was immediately broken. Celestial Worthy's consciousness that was in urgent need of resurrection rushed towards Klein like a mad Storm rain, so that he could only give up the action of controlling Spirit Body Threads and use all his power to guide the image formed by his own anchor to resist the influence of this Pillar.
But even so, without the help of "Zarathus", it was difficult for him to restore the balance he had barely reached. Less than one-fifth of the "human" image left continued to be eroded by the surrounding translucent Distortion worms, and he was about to turn into a faceless image wearing a cloak.
Seeing this, Zarathus let go of the influence of "Mystic Seer" on himself, allowing the Mental Imprint inside to instinctively continue to fight against the "Celestial Worthy" consciousness, giving Klein a little help.
After all, it is not the purpose of Zarathus to make the "Fool" in front of him truly become Celestial Worthy. Once the latter recovers, even if he only has one copy of Sequence 1 Characteristic in his hand, he is not Zarathus can deal with it, and if "Fool" loses control and dies, a miracle will happen. Beyonder Characteristic will return to a body in Historical Void, and it cannot be intercepted with its current power.
He glanced at Klein, who was gradually regaining his balance due to his "help", and whose human face was gradually increasing, and held all of his Spirit Body Threads in his hands.
Klein, who had a tense expression and stiff body, relaxed as if he had taken a breath, and no longer continued to fight against "Celestial Worthy", and the consciousness belonging to Celestial Worthy seemed to be at the same time. The space was no longer aggressive and was quickly overwhelmed by the parts belonging to Zarathus and Antigonus. The human image with black hair and brown eyes and a slight bookish atmosphere covered the half formed by the worm, completely returning to its original state.
Then, "Fool" Klein took off the top hat on his head and threw it aside. He took off his windbreaker, grabbed an ancient style cloak from the void beside him and put it on himself, raising the hood.
The face under the brim of his hat also changed. His young skin gradually gained wrinkles, his smooth chin grew a white beard, and his brown pupils darkened and turned into pure black.
He, no, he looked at "Gehrman" Marionette who was holding Spirit Body Threads in front of him. He moved his limbs and confirmed that he truly had a body of flesh and blood, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised.
Being able to turn Klein, who was about to become the real "Fool", into Marionette, and transfer his current state "Grafting" to himself, turning himself into King of Angel that holds three copies of Sequence 1 Characteristic, completely exceeded Zarathus's initial expectations.
His original goal was just to regain his share of "Mystic Seer", resurrect and become Sequence 1. If he could not do this, it would be a suboptimal result if the opponent's promotion would be frustrated, his state would be unstable, and he would not be able to interfere with his own resurrection.
If both goals cannot be achieved, it is not unacceptable to use these "miracle" minutes to escape Derrenburg and retain the characteristics of Sequence 2.
However, he carefully maintained a balance in the confrontation between "Fool" and "Celestial Worthy", and finally turned the being who controlled "Sefirah Castle" and was about to become God into Marionette, which was a gain that he could not even imagine.
"Celestial Worthy" should also know that if he tried to resuscitate the moment I took this body just now, it might lead to the death of "Fool", trigger a miraculous resurrection, and make him fall short... This is also an excellent opportunity for me, an opportunity to directly ascend to the throne of God. Yes, when I become the real "Fool", other God can only admit this fact. They still need me to lift the seal of the Western Continent, get the opportunity to become Great Old One, and resist Outer Deity...
While thinking, Zarathus stretched out his somewhat dry palm, reached into Historical Void, and took out the "Fool" Uniqueness that Klein had hidden inside.
As soon as this translucent mask returned to the current time, it had an irresistible attraction for Zarathus, making him unable to resist wearing it on his face.
He did not resist this tendency of aggregation, but smiled as he looked at the final puzzle piece that became Sequence 0.
From his father's mouth, Zarathus learned about the ritual of becoming "Fool", and has been thinking about Fooling's destiny, time or history.
Now is undoubtedly the best opportunity. This "Fool" has its own power, beliefs and legends, and is already well known. If you make the other party Marionette and use Grafting to replace the other party's Zarathus, you will also be "Fool" at this time. Your fate will be cheated by Fooling to some extent!
This is my route to becoming a god... He grabbed "Fool" Uniqueness and put the mask on his face under the hood.