In the Astral World, formed of symbols and Authority.
"The Fool," Klein, wandered leisurely.
He had long since grown used to the various abstract things here, like a child's scribbles.
He paid no attention to those things that gathered together heaps of concepts and symbols.
Nor did he heed the invisible gazes.
Some of those gazes came from regions protected by the world barrier.
Others originated from broader places, all carrying obvious malice.
Unfortunately.
Gazes could not kill Mr. Fool.
But Klein did not provoke those things either.
The time had not yet come.
A moment later.
He arrived outside a dark kingdom planted with Night Incense Grass and Deep Sleep Flowers.
There.
He saw the Evernight Goddess sitting amid the flowers, wearing a layered gown adorned with stardust, like a lazy woman resting in her garden in the afternoon.
Her face was still covered by a thin, translucent black veil, but she wore a bird-shaped golden ornament on her head.
Klein looked toward the bird-shaped golden ornament. Within the bronze-like eyeballs on its head, layers upon layers of Illusory Doors emerged.
"Your condition looks quite good."
"Have you completely mastered Sefirah Castle?"
The goddess spoke in a soft voice.
Klein smiled and nodded. "It took some time, but yes, I have completely mastered Sefirah Castle."
The Evernight Goddess spoke as though she did not know why he had come. "Even if you have mastered Sefirah Castle, do not immediately attempt to advance to a Great Old One. You need a suitable opportunity."
"What is a suitable opportunity?" Klein asked.
The Evernight Goddess replied in the professional tone of a mystical charlatan, "Wheel of Fortune will tell you."
"When that day comes, I will bestow a certain blessing upon you."
Klein smiled and said directly, "I discovered that the Artificial