Part 5 The Red Priestess Chapter 158 The Contradiction
Silence returned to the gray mist, as if the previous gathering had been a mirage.
Klein flexed his fingers and tapped the edge of the long mottled table, so that the Rossel’s diary, which had just been dedicated by “The Hidden One” Gadelia, appeared again.
In an unspeakable solidarity, Klein looked rather solemn as he cast his gaze on the first paragraph of the first page:
”September 27th, met Miss Ithaca once again, had a tense and exciting but good enough experience with her, I really do prefer women of this age, it’s not just in nostalgia for my youth, but it hasn’t changed after all these years, huh, what a dedication.”
…… I’m reading your diary so earnestly and seriously, and this is what you show me? The corners of Klein’s mouth twitched slightly as he spat at the great emperor who had only seen portraits.
He whirled around to collect his fuming thoughts for a moment, and his gaze began to move.
……
St. Samuel’s Church underground, in a rest room.
After opening his eyes, Leonard Mitchell deliberated for a moment and lowered his voice:
”Old man, it seems that Charatu of the Order of the Secret Doctrine is also in Birkeland.”
Within his mind, the slightly aged voice quickly sounded:
”Sure enough ……”
Hearing such a reply, Leonard immediately pursued:
”Old man, are you familiar with that Charatu? Didn’t you say that the Zoroaster family and the Charatu family are both great nobles of the Solomon Empire?”
In his opinion, the old man and Charatu had a side-by-side friendship as former colleagues, so how could they not be familiar?
Palles Zoroaster let out a “heh”:
”The Charatu I was familiar with had already fallen in the ‘Battle of the Four Emperors’, and this one now should be his offspring, which I may or may not have seen back then.
”Hey, the Chalatu at that time had already gotten the second copy of the clue of the extraordinary characteristics of Sequence 1 from the ‘Real Creator’, and was waiting for the end of the ‘Battle of the Four Emperors’ to go searching for it, and if it succeeded, k could be considered as the King of the Angels, but alas, the In the ‘Battle of the Four Emperors’, k directly encountered the one from the Antigonus family, which is known as half of the ‘Fools’, and Bertram Abraham was also involved, k can appear anywhere at any time, and if not for the fact that k was quickly banished by the night and the storm, I’m afraid I would have been able to support myself. , sealing, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to support the end of the ‘Battle of the Four Emperors’.”
Half a “Fool”…… Leonard’s eyelids fluttered at this title, inexplicably thinking of the one above the gray mist.
He then forced himself to control himself and turned his thoughts to something else:
Even if you just listen to the description of the bystanders, Mr. Door in the King of Angels is obviously among the top of the existence of ah, the two true gods joined forces, but also to expel and seal k, uh, probability is that k especially can run, very difficult to kill, and at that time the war situation is tense, as soon as possible to eliminate a threat to the enemy must be eliminated as soon as possible! ……
Oh, the old man is recalling the past, the mood is a little unsettled ah, actually said so much in one breath ……
Between the thoughts, Leonard suddenly opened his mouth:
”I was left in Bekrand because I wanted to use you to draw Amon here?”
The sentimentality in Palles Zoroaster’s tone disappeared for a moment and he tsked:
”Who made that guess? I don’t think it was you.
”Still, it’s not bad to know how to utilize one’s own resources to find out the truth of the matter.”
I’ve been good at that since I joined the Night Watch! Leonard replied in his mind, but did not say it out loud.
Palles Zoroaster continued:
”That’s what I suspected.
”Frankly speaking, the relationship between your former colleague and the Black Night really confused me a bit, and I wouldn’t have dared to speculate so much if it wasn’t for the hidden power that appeared that day that felt familiar to me.
”Oh, Charatu and I are in Bekrand, and Amon is about to come as well, it’s really a perfect triangular balance that has been struck.”
What do you mean …… the hidden power that dealt with Amon that time came from the Realm of Darkness, not Mr. Fool? Does this mean that Mr. Fool and the Goddess are cooperating to a certain extent, or is it actually Mr. Fool who is believed in by the church hierarchy? Leonard suddenly felt a strong sense of confusion and bewilderment about his own position.
Seeing that Pallas had also stated that he was confused, he collected his thoughts accordingly and did not open his mouth to ask questions in this regard, frowning slightly, he said:
”Two Sequence 1 angels and a King of Angels, will this bring devastation to Berkland?”
He remembered that Amon was the kind of terrifying existence that could kill countless people without a sound and could still experience life happily with the identity of the victim.
Using this as a reference, Charatu, who had a similar pathway, must also possess extremely terrifying and frightening abilities. If K and Amon were to clash, half of Beckland or the whole of Beckland would be turned into the “Capital of Death” or the “Capital of Weirdness”!
Palles Zoroaster gave a laugh and said:
”Balance means that everyone will be restrained, besides, Amon probably won’t let his main body enter Beckland, at most, he will gather a lot of doppelgangers to come here, after all, just because there’s no way for the night doesn’t mean that the storms and steams can’t possibly be god-damned.”
”What do you mean?” Leonard keenly grasped the key point in the old man’s words.
Palles Zoroaster’s tone became rather laid back for a moment:
”Whether it’s because of the war, or for some other reason, the Darkness shouldn’t be able to intervene in things on the ground at the moment, or else why bother luring Amon here to form a balance?k Lay out a trap directly, and you might be able to capture Charatu, or scare the cowardly ‘Diviner’ away. ”
”Is something wrong with the …… goddess?” Leonard tensed suddenly.
The slightly older voice replied:
”Not necessarily bad, it could be good.”
Without waiting for Leonard to ask again, Palles Zoroaster sighed again:
”Amon was drawn to Berkland by me, what about Charatu? What about me?”
”Charatu should be because of you as well, and you because I’m in Birkeland ……,” Leonard responded thoughtfully.
”Hey, why do you think you’re in Belklend?” Palleson snickered.
Leonard instantly replied:
”It’s the Church’s arrangement. It can’t be the influence of the Law of Convergence of Extraordinary Characteristics, can it?”
”That’s not necessarily so.” Palles’ tone was slightly more serious, “Very often, the Law of Extraordinary Characteristic Aggregation doesn’t directly manifest where you can notice it, it’s more about influencing destiny, just like if you boarded a train but suddenly felt that the scenery was beautiful somewhere in the middle of the way, so you got off the train early and lingered on in a small city, it might be because there are Extraordinary People of similar pathways or magical objects.”
”That is to say, there is something else about Berkland that drew you and Charatu here, and through you influenced my destiny, causing me to be placed by the Church, for the most part, in Berkland?” Leonard sought up confirmation with some clarity.
Palles Zoroaster said with a slow sigh:
”Don’t rule it out.”
……
Above the gray mist, Klein quickly turned to a page of valuable journal entries:
”On November 21st, because of too much preparation in advance, I got that chaotic and terrifying ‘0’ level seal sooner than I thought.
”Then, after a difficult contest, with help gained, I finally reduced it to its pure Sequence 1 extraordinary properties.
”In a few days, when the ritual preparations are complete, I should be able to advance to Sequence 1 ‘Emperor of Knowledge’ of the ‘Secret Peeper’ pathway.”
”November 26th, clear and breezy.
”The ceremony went well, I digested it thoroughly enough, the anchor was even more solid, and there weren’t many difficulties encountered during the whole process.
”I am already an Angel of Sequence 1, the Emperor of Knowledge, and Bernadette need not henceforth worry about the ‘Hidden Sage’ influence, and can continue on this path observing the motto, ‘Do what you will, but do no harm!
”At the same time, the angelic rank of Sequence 1 means that I can largely fight off the stares and pollution from the stars and travel to the red moon above to see what’s really there now.
”Whether or not ‘Mr. Door’ is lying, everything points to the Red Moon as the key to the problem, and I have to find out why if I want to become a true god.
”Three more days of preparation and I’ll attempt to land on the moon!
”It’s a small step for me, but a big step for mankind! Haha, that’s not what I said.”
Seeing this, Klein remembered Rossel’s hysterical diary page, more and more suspicious that it was recorded after the emperor’s “moon landing”.
Putting down the rest of the diary, Klein began to recall the contents of the previous year through “dream divination”, trying to find clues that Russell’s mental state was abnormal in his later years by comparing the past and present.
It wasn’t long before he saw a few lines of text in his dream, which belonged to the theoretical last diary entry of Russell:
”I can’t make specific suggestions, because I can’t see the seven gods, I can’t see the true face of those evil gods, which may be related to part of the second ‘blasphemous tablet’ hidden by that ancient organization, unfortunately, I just roughly guessed that there is a hidden part, and can’t get confirmation. ”
–In this diary entry, the Archon also solemnly warns his possible “companions” to beware of the moon.
The dream was shattered, and Klein awoke with a start, his eyes visibly alarmed.
He clearly remembered that Russell had confirmed that the second Blasphemy Tablet had a hidden part long before that:
”July 19th, the night of the blood moon.
”Mr. ‘Door’s’ answer made me certain of one thing; the second Blasphemous Tablet I saw within that ancient hidden organization was not complete!”
Did this …… great emperor forget? No, how could such an important matter be forgotten? He clearly seems to be just a little bit paranoid and a little bit extreme, not too much of a problem, why would he be like this …… Klein could hardly contain his silent self-talk, and actually had a kind of inexplicable and terrible feeling:
The Rossel the Great who wrote the last diary entry, or rather the one who wrote that sentence looked like a different person.