At the deepest level of the Underground Catacombs, in the cavern physically connected to the buried Fourth Epoch Trier.
The "Genie," his body radiating golden light with a bluish-white glow within, was gradually becoming more solid amid the Gray Fog. The blank features on his face were slowly taking shape as well. Having been sealed off from the outside world for so long, he was readapting to and modifying the rules, allowing more of his Great Old One-level status to become actual power.
Because aside from his status, he had nothing left.
Beside him, Klein, dressed in a trench coat and top hat just as he had been upon returning to Daffodil Street, and Angel, wearing only a long black dress without a single piece of jewelry, silently watched his movements.
Finally, the Genie's golden, flowing-water-like outer skin merged with the bluish-white light within. His outline became clear, and his entire body resembled that of an adult whose gender and age could not be discerned. His facial features consisted only of several black holes, lacking any distinctive appearance.
This was already the limit of what he could achieve without restoring his complete Mythical Creature Form.
Klein and Angel, who were present, were not their true bodies either. If the two Great Existences, the "Lord of Mysteries" and the "Calamity of Destruction," wished to descend into reality, they would have to devote a considerable amount of attention to suppressing the naturally occurring changes in rules and symbolism around them. It would not instantly destroy the entire Earth, but it was inconvenient nonetheless.
Just like Klein—who was currently at 6 Daffodil Street in Tingen City, telling his two daughters about the million gold pounds that had suddenly vanished—and Angel, who was carefully making a stew, the versions of them here were also