It'd be best if I could cooperate with Ms. Exeggutor and obtain the relevant item from her. Otherwise, I could only try hunting members of the Rose School of Thought or picking a fight with some demon family. What a pity the Bound God has already been ravaged by the Mother Tree. Otherwise, an item related to Him would definitely be best...
Luo Lin thought this with some regret. Since the first two Sequences had both used items related to the Angel of Kings, he could now at most use ordinary materials related to Sequence 2. It never quite felt perfect.
"No, I can't get carried away! And it isn't like there's no chance at all..." Luo Lin muttered. Several plans flashed through his mind, but he was in no hurry to put them into action. After all, he was still far from advancing to Sequence 7.
Setting aside the matter of advancing to Sequence 7, Luo Lin could not wait to test his new ability.
With great interest, Luo Lin found a mirror. After washing his face, he looked at his naturally perfect features in the reflection, considered them for a moment, and began making subtle adjustments.
A few minutes later, a handsome man with night-black curly hair and eyes as golden as sunlight was born. After Luo Lin's adjustments, his features had become more mature. If his original appearance had made him look like a young man in his early twenties, he now appeared to be around thirty, with sharper contours and a touch more weariness in his eyes.
"Not bad. This only looks fifty percent similar to the original me..." Luo Lin nodded in satisfaction. He then found some cosmetics and skillfully applied them to his face. Before long, the man in the mirror, who had still borne some resemblance to Luo Lin himself, no longer seemed particularly related to him at all. Even face-to-face, no one would connect the two.
Luo Lin carefully put together an outfit suited to a mature gentleman from his wardrobe. Once dressed, he somehow produced a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and put them on, adding an air of refined depravity to his entire person.
Luo Lin then found a notebook that looked ancient and mysterious, opened it, and held it in one hand. With the other, he pushed up the glasses on his nose, then nodded at his reflection in satisfaction.
Luo Lin raised an eyebrow at the mirror, his frivolous smile tinged with teasing. He snapped the notebook shut, gave his reflection a slight bow, and said with a smile:
"Hello, Mr. Luo Lin Soroyastor. I would like to invite you to become the protagonist of a new script. Would that be all right?"
He then reined in his teasing expression and gave his reflection a gentle, brilliant smile. "Is it possible, Mr. Lucifer, that I was already the protagonist to begin with?"
That was right. The appearance Luo Lin had fashioned now was that of "Lucifer Soroyastor."
As for everything else, it was the persona Luo Lin had written for "Lucifer Soroyastor"—in Lucifer's backstory, He had once been a transmigrated young man who wanted to take it easy, but had unfortunately encountered Amon. Although He had ultimately escaped Amon's clutches, the experience had "Amonified" Him, turning Him into a true-blue prankster and pleasure-seeker.
Of course, to keep the "Lucifer" identity from degenerating into a villain, Luo Lin had still given Him certain moral boundaries. He was the sort of prankster with relatively solid moral principles.
At the same time, in the setting, the existence of "Jack Jones" was also a thread that kept "Lucifer" from falling completely. Jack Jones reminded Lucifer that He had once been a young man raised under the red flag. A fellow lost soul from the same era thus became Lucifer's last remaining conscience. It fit the trope perfectly, did it not?
I hope the Chillingers Incident doesn't get butterfly-effected away. After all, that's the moment I've planned for Lucifer Soroyastor's official debut, as well as my first appearance on stage as an actor...
Luo Lin seemed to think of something and smiled. Then he stretched and said, "But before that, it'd be better to join the Tarot Club first. I hope Miss Justice acts quickly. I can hardly wait to obtain Mr. Fool's honorific name..."
Luo Lin's expectations were not disappointed. Just two days later, he received an invitation from Viscount Glaint. The latter invited him, Fors, and Xio to his home to discuss some mysticism, offering to show them around his private library as payment.
It was an entirely reasonable invitation. As someone with one foot in the Beyonder world but still a novice in the field of mysticism, it was perfectly normal for him to seek some Beyonder knowledge from veterans like Luo Lin and the others.
And as the saying went, every profession had its specialty. As an aristocratic family with a long inheritance, the Glaint family's library surely possessed many secret records, histories, and other knowledge unknown to ordinary people like Xio and Fors, even if it did not contain many books involving mysticism. It was highly suitable as compensation.
It could be said that if Luo Lin had not already known what was going on, he probably would not have guessed that this invitation was Audrey's handiwork.
Naturally, Luo Lin gladly accepted. Together with Xio and Fors, he went to Viscount Glaint's villa. After sharing much knowledge about the Beyonder world with Viscount Glaint, the three were led by the thoroughly satisfied viscount to the family library.
"You may browse the books here as you please, as long as you don't damage them. If there are any you particularly like and wish to borrow, that's fine too, but remember to tell me beforehand," Viscount Glaint said generously.
Luo Lin and the others naturally accepted with pleasure, then dispersed to search the library for books that interested them.
Let me think. Which book would Audrey put Mr. Fool's honorific name in, based on what she knows about Jack Jones... Luo Lin's gaze swept across rows of titles on the shelves before finally settling on one of them.
—The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Epoch Solomon Empire
Luo Lin stepped forward and took out the book, which had clearly been handled recently. He flipped through it with an expression of mild interest and soon spotted a sheet of paper tucked between the pages.
Luo Lin deliberately showed a surprised expression and picked up the paper as if out of curiosity. Upon unfolding it, he saw several lines of text. The upper portion appeared to be copied from a page of Rosell's Diary, though it was rather nonsensical, while several lines in Hermes Language were written below.
Pretending to be interested, Luo Lin carefully deciphered them and muttered softly, "The Fool who does not belong to this era; the mysterious ruler above the Gray Fog; the King of Yellow and Black who presides over good fortune? Ah!"
He showed a blank expression, as though he had only realized what he had been reciting after fully speaking the honorific name. His eyes widened considerably. Belatedly, he covered his mouth and looked around.
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