Volume 7: The Hanged Man Chapter 3: Urgency

　　After stabilizing the fragile balance between the anchor, the will of the “Heavenly Father”, and his own consciousness, Klein leaned back in his chair and examined the various abilities brought about by the extraordinary characteristics of the “Secret Servant”.

　　Among them, there were three major ones, all of which Klein had already mastered with the help of the “Source Castle” and the “Curtain”, but was not sure of the specific names:

　　The first one is “regeneration”: if an item’s constituent material once had a spirit body, then the “Secret Servant” could utilize its “regeneration” ability to transform the corresponding “spirit thread” into a “spirit body”. If an item was once composed of a spirit body, the “Secret Servant” can use its “regeneration” ability to evoke the corresponding “spirit body threads”, making the item its own secret puppet, and naturally transforming the spirit that has established a deep connection with the item into a secret puppet as well.

　　To put it simply, the “Secret Servant” can’t make things that don’t have a “Spiritual Body Thread” generate a “Spiritual Body Thread”, but it can make certain items that once had a “Spiritual Body Thread” that has long since disappeared. “The former is represented by steel products, gold coins and gold pounds, while the latter is dominated by food such as beef and fish – once a human eats food that has been turned into a secret puppet, he or she will also be transformed into a secret puppet, just as if he or she has been subjected to strong contamination.

　　The second is “reorganization”, also known as “tampering”: this is the ability to put many physical things or abstract concepts back together to achieve incredible results, as if tampering with definitions, logic, directions or rules.

　　The third is the “Realm of Secrecy”: this is an ability used to create a prototype of the Divine Kingdom, which can bring about a certain amount of secrecy.

　　”While Reorganization embodies the power of the realm of Change, the Realm of Secrecy focuses on the realm of Secrecy. Both elements of the “Fool” symbol are already in place. …… However, “reorganization” and “tampering” don’t sound good enough, nor are their meanings clear enough. However, “reorganization” and “tampering” are not catchy enough, and their meanings are not clear enough, so it’s better for me to choose “grafting”, so it’s clear at a glance …… Klein mumbled a few words in his heart, and then turned his gaze to the surroundings.

　　Now he has further control of the “Source Castle”, and can directly borrow the “Diviner” pathway to approach the ability of the sequence 0 frame, but also can use the “Stealer” pathway sequence 0 and “Apprentice” pathway. “Apprentice” pathway sequence 0 under most of the extraordinary ability, similar to the original “Dark Angel” Saslir.

　　Of course, Dark Angel Saslir can only indirectly utilize the power of the Sea of Chaos through the first Blasphemy Tablet, whereas Kraven is the owner of the Source Fortress. Klein is the master of the “Source Fortress”, but he has not yet completely mastered this source quality, so he is higher than the “Dark Angel” Saslir in terms of rank.

　　As for his strength, he is theoretically stronger, but his strength is affected by too many factors, and Klein, who has only stepped into the extraordinary path for a few years, does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to win against the Vice Ruler of Heaven and the Left Hand of God.

　　In short, he was now counted as the King of Angels among the Kings of Angels, very close to the True God rank.

　　”After mastering the ‘Source Castle’ even further, the various gaps between me here and in the outside world are also close to non-existent, and there won’t be a situation where I’m the King of Angels in the outside world, and back in the ‘Source Castle’ I’m a True God …… The biggest advantage of this place is that it provides a defense barrier that even True Gods can’t break, well, it’s still impossible to tell if the Outer Gods can do it or not …… “Klein slowly exhaled and shifted his attention to the current situation.

　　There were two things he was most worried about at the moment:

　　One was that the “Primordial Moon”, also known as the “Fallen Mother Goddess”, although it didn’t fully descend into the real world with the return of Mr. Gate, k had also intruded a little bit of power, and in the Night, steam and other five true gods under the attack, maintained for several seconds, whether this will bring some degree of influence on the surrounding environment, the corresponding pathway, part of the things, remains to be seen.

　　Secondly, the Time Angel Amon has stolen Mr. Door’s rituals, and has become the Stealer’s Pathway’s Sequence 0 “Error”. “k will be Klein’s most immediate and formidable enemy.

　　”I don’t know if Amon has accommodated the uniqueness of Mr. ‘Door’ and a copy of the Sequence 1 ‘Star Key’ extraordinary properties along the way, and if k has accomplished this step, then k will be the most powerful true god in the real world, hmmm, I don’t I wonder how it compares to the ‘Goddess of Darkness’. To what extent the goddess has accommodated the ‘God of Death’ pathway uniqueness and the ‘God of War’ pathway uniqueness, no one knows for sure.”

　　”Normally, it would have been too late for Amon to accommodate the uniqueness of the ‘Apprentice’ pathway, and while the return of Mr. ‘Door’ was tantamount to the ritual itself, the most important thing for Amon to do at that time was to replace Mr. ‘Door’, so that his own three copies of the Sequence 1 Extraordinary Characteristics and the ‘Stealer’ Pathway Uniqueness could be aggregated to produce a qualitative change, and he didn’t have the time or the ability to accommodate the ‘Apprentice’ Pathway Uniqueness, in addition, such an operation has a great probability of bringing about the awakening of the ‘Heavenly Father’, Amon would not take such a risk ……”

　　”That is to say, Amon’s focus after that is to accommodate the uniqueness of the ‘Apprentice’ pathway and become a True God of both pathways, otherwise, with the rest of the True Gods watching, it will be very difficult for k to tackle an Angelic King like me.”

　　”Moreover, even if k did make the risk and has succeeded, and has now accommodated the uniqueness of the ‘Apprentice’ pathway, he will have to slowly adapt and stabilize himself next, and won’t be able to deal with me in a short period of time.”

　　”I have to hurry up and become a ‘Fool’, only then will I be able to fight against Amon by virtue of the ‘Source Fortress’ and my own bit.”

　　”There’s not much time left for me ……,” Klein laughed silently to himself before leaning forward and tapping up the edge of the long mottled table.

　　He was analyzing his chances of becoming a “Fool” in a short period of time:

　　The digestion of the “Secret Servant” magic potion was relatively simple, and after Kraven was able to suppress the revived will of the “Forsaken Xuanhuang Heavenly Father” with the help of the anchor and his own consciousness, so as not to go out of control and go crazy or turn into another person, he could use the “Fortress of Origin” to help him to become a fool. “Fortress of Origin”, like Amon, he could create an alter ego, and then, let this alter ego mobilize the power of “Fortress of Origin” to steal the extraordinary characteristics of the “Secret Servant” from Charatru, which had not yet been digested by the main body. The extraordinary characteristics of the “Secret Servant” from Charatru will be stolen.

　　At this point, Kraven would immediately turn the doppelganger into a secret puppet to prevent it from mutating.

　　In this way, Kraven will be demoted to a “Sneaky Servant” that has fully digested the magic potion, and will have a “Sneaky Servant” secret puppet – this will be one of the main ingredients of the magic potion.

　　The “Secret Servant” who has digested the magic potion is qualified to take the “Fool” magic potion and become a Sequence 0 True God.

　　This operation is not too complicated, but it is easy to go wrong, and there is no way for a normal soothsayer to complete the double Sequence 1 King of Angels, unless there is a stealer who has a Sequence 2 Trojan Horse of Fate. Unless K has a “Stealer” pathway Sequence 2 “Trojan Horse of Fate” friend who is willing to sacrifice himself to help, and of course, a Sequence 1 “Worm of Time” friend would work as well.

　　Therefore, for Klein, the most troublesome thing is another two things: one is how to deal with the Antigonus family half of the “fool”, and the other is how to complete the “fool time, history or fate” ritual.

　　”With my current level and strength, it’s not impossible to deal with the ancestor of the Antigonus family, but of course, the prerequisite is to first familiarize myself with the corresponding extraordinary abilities and the changes in the ‘Source Fortress’ …… Hey! The ‘Fool’ ritual, I don’t have any thoughts at all right now.” Klein raised his hands and pinched the sides of his forehead, casting his gaze towards the grayish mist below the Source Fortress.

　　Between time, history and fate, he was undoubtedly more familiar with history.

　　Now he was able to directly influence the fog of history with the help of the “Source Castle”, making the corresponding ability of the “Diviner’s” pathway stronger or weaker.

　　This is the manifestation of authority.

　　”Fooling with history …… fooling with history ……” Klein once again tapped the edge of the mottled long table, his mind constantly flashing all kinds of ideas, and then constantly make a negative.

　　All the methods that can be realized, in his opinion, cannot meet the requirements of “fooling history”, because history will objectively record the things that happened, and whatever exists must be reasonable, and the ones that can meet the requirements, such as going back to the past, taking magic pills, and becoming a “fool” from history, are simply not possible. For example, going back in time, taking a magic potion, and becoming a “fool” from history could not be realized – at least Klein did not have the ability to reverse time, nor had he seen it before.

　　As his vision moved deeper into the mists of history, Klein suddenly had a feasible idea.

　　The current real history was like this: the members of the Tarot Club thought that they were following the “Fool” who did not belong to this era – a revived ancient god or an existence beyond the ancient gods, but in reality, Mr. Fool was originally just an old man who had been killed. In reality, Mr. “Fool” was just an ordinary man hanging on the gray mist, using all kinds of resources to pack himself and improve himself step by step.

　　Klein’s idea was inspired by Amon:

　　Utilizing the Fortress of Source, he created an alter ego, and with the help of the Fortress of Source, this alter ego stole the destiny, consciousness, anchor, and extraordinary properties of the Sequence 1 “Secret Servant” belonging to the main body, which belonged to Chaletu. The extraordinary properties of the body were stolen.

　　Thus, the body’s extraordinary characteristics would be composed purely of that “curtain” and the “Blessed Beings” would awaken little by little.

　　In this way, the perception of the members of the Tarot Society is correct: Mr. Fool is a great being who has been resurrected.

　　This is contrary to the real history, but it is a fact, and it fulfills the requirements of the ritual.

　　Of course, the prerequisite is that the incident of “stealing from a different body” has to take place within the “Source Castle” or in other hidden places, otherwise it will also be recorded by history and will not achieve the effect of “fooling”.

　　As for how to deal with the “Blessed Genjutsu Heavenly Father” when it awakens, and how to kill the main body and make a magic potion out of it, Klein doesn’t have a solution yet.

　　”The result of such an attempt would be tantamount to suicide… Heh, before being killed by the Heavenly Father, the extraordinary characteristics of the bilocation’s ‘Tricky Servant’ must have been digested as well… after all, he managed to resurrect the ‘Lord of Tricky’… … “Klein shook his head, leaving behind that thought process of just starting and not finishing.

　　Unable to come up with a solution on his own, he decided to consult a being who might know what to do.

　　There were two targets: Will Onsettin, the Serpent of Fate, and the Goddess of Night.

　　The former might have some ideas about “Fooling Fate”, and the latter probably knew what kind of rituals the ancestors of the Antigonus family relied on to accommodate the uniqueness of the “Fools” in the first place.

　　After stabilizing his mental state, Klein left the Source Castle and “teleported” directly to Birkeland.