Hearing Klein mutter to himself, Angel Gray gave him a somewhat surprised glance and nodded.
"It was indeed Emperor Roselle's work. Of course, it was his counterpart in the mirror, while he was still the 'Knowledge Emperor.' A Great Old One also helped.
"They made two additional Cards of Blasphemy, 'Demoness' and 'Red Priest,' but altered only a small part of the rituals to better suit her current circumstances."
Changing a plague involving thirty thousand people to making a demigod die in despair, and changing reconciliation with one's mirror person to living through a long stretch of time—after all, she was the 'mirror person'... Roselle probably came up with this way of exploiting loopholes... Klein assessed inwardly, then asked casually:
"Who was that Great Old One? The revived Ancient Sun God, or..."
"You, Klein Moretti, the future 'Lord of Mysteries.'"
Gray's answer was just as Klein had expected, and it brought an involuntary flicker of joy to his heart.
After all, he was currently only a Sequence 1 Mystic Seer, still some distance from Sequence 0, let alone defeating Amon, who controlled two pathways, and becoming a Great Old One who had accommodated Sefirah Castle.
The words of this "transmigrator," who had returned from the future to the present, undoubtedly set the tone for his fate.
Seeing that he had no further questions, Gray continued:
"In that timeline—that's what I'll call the experiences in my memories—you ultimately risked advancing to 'Fool' and defeated Amon, a dual-pathway true god, with Sefirah Castle's power. But that also awakened the Celestial Worthy's will inside you. With the Evernight Goddess's help, you had no choice but to enter slumber. You could only influence the outside world to a limited degree, and the Celestial Worthy could do the same.
"As for me, under the arrangements