"Mystical Reenactment: Calling a Deer a Horse" combined the Authority of Distortion and Fooling. It could change something into whatever form its user declared, then make both the thing itself and anyone who saw it believe it had always been that way.
But the target was an item formed from a Sequence 1 characteristic. The Mystical Reenactment Abner could Simulate wasn't enough, so he had to ask Bernadette, an Angel of the Mystery Pryer Pathway, to do it.
Of course, he could have gone to Yaluolan instead. But since he had borrowed the Pale Death from Bernadette, he might as well ask her to finish the job.
"It can hold this form for six hours... provided I don't encounter an enemy and have to fight in the meantime," Bernadette said evenly. She handed the Pale Death, now shaped like a scalpel, to Abner.
I've already recorded this form. I can pull it out of history whenever I want.
Abner kept that thought to himself and accepted the Pale Death. The surgery he was about to perform on Medici and the others would consume a great deal of Spirituality. Maintaining another Historical Projection would still be a heavy burden.
"Thank you... I promised you more information about the Central Kingdom. I'll prepare it and tell you when I next visit." Abner put away the scalpel before leaving.
You could just write it down and give it to me. There's no need to come in person... Bernadette thought. She did not object, merely giving a slight nod.
It was a quiet night, close to dawn, inside an empty workshop at a garment factory in Saint George Borough.
A clearing had been made there. Nearly ten mysterious figures stood in it, dressed in black robes with their hoods raised.
At their center