Being stared at by so many focused eyes and surrounded by a smile with eight teeth, Wandering Magician Merlin Hermes did not panic at all. He just looked at the only private Detective Sherlock Moriarty in the Prayer Hall who maintained his own expression and movements, and his assistant Irene Watson.
In his Spirit Body Threads vision, the thin black lines emerging from all the "Actor" bodies in the room were pointing toward the sky as if floating, and immediately gathered in one place, controlled by him.
These people are all Marionette, and they are all following the control of this powerful Marionettist. All actions and words are just part of the script.
Only Sherlock and Irene are not. The former's Spirit Body Threads entered Spirit World as soon as it left the body surface and was controlled by another powerful existence. Merlin is completely unable and does not dare to move at all. The latter has no Spirit Body Threads at all, as if it is just a false mirror image.
He stood up together with Vivian next to him, bowed deeply, as if to bid farewell to Spectator, and then asked in a pious tone:
"The great Mr. Fool, and the kind-hearted Goddess of Calamity, are you satisfied with the drama just now?"
As he spoke, Sherlock had taken off the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the beard around his mouth penetrated into the skin of his chin, making him look younger and more bookish. The black hair of Irene beside him turned to light gold, and his deep purple eyes were like the most dazzling gems. His round face also became thinner, and his facial features were slightly changed, but extremely feminine.
Upon closer inspection, they looked very similar to the Dorothy and Christina sisters who had just been sent away by Merlin with a snap of his fingers.
"Sherlock", who was much younger and looked like a freshly graduated college student, looked around, nodded slightly, and replied:
"It's not bad. I was able to arrange such a drama in a short period of time. It uses all the relationships that can be used in Marionette. It is sudden and suspenseful. It also mixes elements such as secret room murder and love tragedy. It is not too complicated for teenage girls to understand. I am very satisfied with it."
As soon as he finished speaking, all the Spirit Body Threadss around him that were originally controlled by Merlin Hermes returned to him, like giant Errors that suddenly appeared.
Merlin, who had Marionette wiped out, did not complain at all. He just put on a submissive expression of listening to the teachings and accepting the guidance, and did not even subconsciously hide his Spirit Body Threads behavior.
After all, these Marionette do not belong to him in the first place, and facing the Great Existence at the top of his own Pathway, a "Mystic Seer" does not even dare to have the thought of resisting.
That's right, Merlin Hermes who seems to have been watching this "stage play" is not Magician who settled in Yarnam City, but Bayam who tried to use free tickets to persuade Christina and Dorothy to enter "Night Theater" "Antigonus failed in his first trip, and the Vivian beside him was hypocrisy Ring who borrowed the "flame" Denise who was trapped in a nightmare and couldn't extricate himself, and transformed into "Mother of the Sky" Philanias, the assistant of Magician.
The two Angel were not discouraged after a failure, and quickly came to the next scheduled venue. The "Mystic Seer" Antigonus that had already accommodated their original share of Sequence 1 Characteristic quickly took over the place. Some citizens of Marionette City arranged an interesting stage play, and his sister checked for omissions and filled in the gaps, using "Lucid Dream" that is integrated with reality to ensure that there will be no accidents in the script, and to prevent ordinary people who have settled in this city from accidentally entering the stage.
This is their tacit understanding of cooperation for many years in Bayam and Night Theater.
Antigonus knows that if Mr. Fool wants to control his Spirit Body Threads and turn himself into Marionette, he doesn't even need to pull the black lines on his body.
"Antigonus" in Historical Void is a better choice. Just find out your existence from the historical fragment and turn it into Marionette.
Antigonus in the past became Marionette, and of course it will be the same now. This is fate.
And "Sherlock", that is, "Irene" next to the great Mr. Fool, is even more terrifying. This Goddess of Calamity does not even need to move, everything in his sight will fall into the most complete Calamity Among, they suffered ruthless destruction, including not only Antigonus and his sister Philanias who are here, but also other selves among Marionette and Historical Void located elsewhere, and even them in the future.
As long as this Goddess is willing, everything will belong to Chaos, from entities to concepts, they will no longer exist.
Fortunately, both Great Existence are kind-hearted and full of humanity. The only purpose of appearing this time is to provide their daughters with a little fun during the journey...
... No, that is a trial for future Angel or even God. It cannot be taken too seriously... Antigonus immediately corrected his Error idea in his mind.
I don't know if I have glimpsed his inner thoughts, but the mirror image that came here Goddess of Calamity pursed its lips and smiled, and commented in a soft tone:
"But there are some flaws in the script. Even Tina can see the problem."
"This allows Spectator to use his brain to think about problems and have some sense of participation. Some directors always want everything to be perfect, but they lose room for adjustment and lack a bit of humanity..."
"Sherlock" explained.
"That's exactly what I thought."
Antigonus quickly took over the conversation, fearing that Goddess would be dissatisfied.
Of course, after spending so many years in the human world, He is well versed in the art of upward management and understands that nothing can be done too perfectly, and leaders must be given some room to find fault.
When he saw all the believers and clergy inside the Prayer Hall looking at him with strange smiles, Tina thought he was dazzled.
But the next second, the scenery in front of her changed, from a closed church to a sunny sky, to a noisy street, to a bustling crowd.
A chatter in a somewhat chatty language came to her ears.
It's Intisian...Tina, who didn't understand but had a basic understanding of the pronunciation, immediately realized that he had really arrived in another country. He quickly looked around and found that his sister Dorothy had also followed him. The two were not separated.
Secretly breathing a sigh of relief, she looked around and found that she was on an old street with a rather dated architectural style. The road sloped upward gently, leading to a huge square.
In the direction of the downward slope, there are continuous Intis style buildings, with red walls and green tiles, recessed statues, arched windows and blinds. They are obviously part of a big city.
"That Magician Merlin actually sent us to Trier..." Dorothy looked around like Tina and said with emotion, "I thought he cheated even a penny."
"Then you still give him the money..."
Tina muttered, looking at the road signs on the street, and found that they were all Intisian in squiggles, and unlike Bayam and Southern Continent, which had multi-language signs, they couldn't be understood at all.
"I'm afraid that you will directly agree to the other party and then become more and more reckless. It's better for me to do this kind of thing, so as to avoid my parents..." Dorothy argued, but finally stopped and changed the topic as if he realized something, "Where is the last location specifically?"
"Genie said it was Purgatory Square from Observatory District, entering a Underground Catacombs." Tina repeated the "mission location" this time, but his expression became more and more painful.
She can't understand Intisian.
By the way, you can ask the magical Magic Wishing Lamp... His eyes lit up, Tina patted Sealed Artifact in his bag, and called Genie in his heart:
"You have left the church of Church of the Fool, you don't have to be afraid anymore..."
"Hmph, you think I'm afraid of that Fool? Yes, I am indeed afraid, but that's not the main problem. You have no idea how terrifying and dangerous the situation just now is..."
Sure enough, as soon as he left the church, Genie became active, and the magnificent but not overlapping voice appeared in the minds of Tina and Dorothy at the same time.
"This is Observatory District of Trier, not far from the Underground Catacombs entrance below Purgatory Square... I have Distortion what you saw and heard, and now you should be able to understand the words on the street signs."
As soon as he finished speaking, the strange words written on the sign hanging on the old building with a pediment and a gabled roof in front of Tina changed into Tina's familiar Loenese.
"Different" dance hall.
The road signs pointing to both sides next to the building also showed the location of their last destination, pointing to the huge square.
"Purgatory Square".
Wow, it's so convenient. If I hadn't planned ahead, I would have even wished that I could recognize all the words in the world... Tina sighed with emotion, and was about to pull Dorothy towards the uphill square, but was blocked by a speeding carriage that stopped quickly.
The memory of her being kidnapped came to mind, and her limbs suddenly became stiff and unruly, and she couldn't even escape from the carriage.
Fortunately, after the carriage stopped, the door opened, and there was no invisible giant hand pulling the sisters into the carriage. Instead, three passengers, one man, two women, dressed strangely, stepped out.
They were all wearing dark short suits and trousers of the same color. They looked nondescript under the scorching sun. They walked past them at a very close distance as if they didn't see Tina and Dorothy, and stood in front of the "different" dance hall.
About to enter the main entrance that looked like a huge open mouth, the three of them took out a monocle from their pockets in unison, put it on their right eyes, squeezed their eyes, put it on firmly, and then disappeared into the dim door.
When they entered, Tina noticed two similarly dressed guards with monocles on their right eyes hidden at the door of the dance hall. The interior decoration was very strange. There were connected light strips that looked like electric lamps and glass, and there were spheres hanging on the ceiling that reflected brilliant light. The ground was filled with rectangular spots of light emitted by the spheres. More than a dozen people of different genders, ages, and sizes, wearing short suits and monocles, danced to the rhythmic music in the hall.
What a strange place... The textbook said that Trier is the birthplace of modern art, and it is indeed "different"... Tina made a sharp comment, withdrew his gaze, and had no intention of following up curiously.
She guessed that to enter this dance hall, you need to wear the same suit as the three people just now and buy a pair of monocles to wear. This is like a kind of admission ticket, which means that you have the same interests as them.
Dorothy It might be interesting to wear a monocle, but I can't imagine her wearing men's clothes... Well, we can use dad as a model... Tina The image of his father, Klein, wearing a crystal-ground monocle on his right eye and smiling at the corner of his mouth, made him shudder.
As soon as he left the door of "Different", a man who looked young but gave off a calm feeling walked out of another bar diagonally opposite the cabaret hall.
He has short black hair, sparkling light blue eyes, and deep facial features. He has a romantic temperament unique to Intis people, but his expression is very serious, and his eyes are fixed on the door of the song and dance hall that just "swallowed" three people.
It couldn't be a male model from some magazine... Tina stared at the man for several seconds before realizing that he was a little rude. As soon as he looked back, he heard the other man snort and say in a bad tone:
"How come there are still little kids wandering around in this old street? Are they lost?
"Leave quickly, this is not a place for you to play around."
It wasn't until the man's eyes rested on him that Tina realized that those two sentences were referring to himself and Dorothy.
This made her slight fondness for the man because of his appearance disappear without a trace. She stuck out her tongue provocatively at the man, then pulled Dorothy and walked quickly towards the end of the street.
"It's such an unfriendly city. My mother often said that the food in one city in Trier is better than that in the entire Loen. She wanted to take us here to have fun when she had the opportunity, but I didn't expect that the people here were not friendly at all..."
As they walked, Tina complained to his sister in a voice that was just right for the man to hear.
Although she was talking about Loenese, with the help of "Genie", the other party would definitely be able to understand her sarcasm.
Dorothy looked back at the "Distinct" dance hall and the signboard with the words "The Solitary One" written above the bar where the man entered again, and explained in a calm tone:
"His tone was bad, but he probably just wanted us to leave this street quickly, especially to avoid that strange dance hall just now... I think you can also see that there must be something weird there."
Actually, I didn't see it... Tina had just been focusing on the appearance of his sister and father wearing monocles. At this time, he couldn't help but lower his head when he heard Dorothy's explanation.
But she quickly got rid of her slight depression, looked at Purgatory Square not far away, and continued to lower her voice and said:
"None of these are important. The important thing is that there is only one last place left before the seal of 'Magic Wishing Lamp' is truly unlocked. Maybe in an hour, we can truly realize our wish and return to Tingen City's home before mother comes back... Hum, after this, Empress Borough of Backlund will be our home."
As she spoke, her excited tone changed again, adding a hint of concern and concern.
"But, can 'Magic Wishing Lamp' and the Genie inside really fulfill my wish? Will it be like in those fairy tales, after the seal is lifted, Devil will escape from it and harm the world, and we will become an accomplice?"
she muttered.
"Are you just thinking about this now? "Dorothy stopped, put his hands on his hips, and was about to strengthen his momentum, but found that Tina had already taken a few steps, so he had to follow in a hurry, "Since there are so many Saint and Angel on the road who did not stop us or express their opinions on this, it means that the problem is not big."
Also, Mr. Azik that touched Sealed Artifact recognized "Magic Wishing Lamp" from Anne Gustav from the Trensoest Empire, and Arianna from Church of the Eternal Darkness, Glaide Sauron who was with them briefly, and even "Chariot" who looked similar to her mother didn't see the problem... Tina was relieved and subconsciously reached out and touched the satchel around her waist.
The originally bulging satchel was suddenly shriveled and there was nothing inside.
Her "Magic Wishing Lamp" disappeared again!