But the next second, Klein frowned again.
"That Planeswalker beyonder characteristic hidden in the Ghost Empire really was corrupted, and it even affected the other angel characteristics... Angel didn't explain the source of the corruption in detail, but neither she nor Anne could resolve it despite being angels, and even Amon's Avatar couldn't figure out what was going on. That means the corruption came from at least an evil god, or even the 'cosmos' that Arianna avoided discussing..."
He paced back and forth in his crude safe house in the East Borough, regretting that this route to advancement had been blocked.
He didn't dare risk using a corrupted beyonder characteristic, even if Angel believed she could use the City of Calamity's status to shatter it completely and separate out the corruption.
"I'll leave that as a last resort... I'll consider the other options first. Miss Magician should soon report back on the Abraham Family's response. Using my identity as the Fool, I have a good chance of obtaining the Planeswalker formula in an exchange. There might also be a chance to acquire the Sealed Artifacts in their possession... As planned, I'll go above the Gray Fog and perform a divination. I'll use the Antigonus Family Notebook I once came into contact with as a medium to divine this family's ancestor, the holder of a Mystic Seer characteristic. There's a very high chance of a backlash, but the Gray Fog can help me withstand most of the damage, just as it did when I spied on the Eternal Blazing Sun and the True Creator... At the same time, I can gain some knowledge of mysticism."
Recalling how that Sun had burned his entire body black and how the True Creator's ravings had driven him mad, his expression twisted with inner conflict.