Volume 7: The Inverted Man Chapter 26: Joining Forces
The “curtain” that had covered Antigonus’ palace instantly disappeared, and a certain ineffable aura returned to reality, causing the entire Astral World to seemingly shake for a moment.
Outside the cracked world barrier, those horrifying faces that were difficult to describe in normal terms appeared to move at the same time.
The invisible barrier began to tremble violently, as if it would collapse inch by inch at any moment.
Every continent of the inner planet experienced earthquakes, not serious but more noticeable ones.
Above the five seas, waves surged, as if experiencing a sudden tidal gravitational pull.
In the sky at “noon”, the Crimson Moon suddenly appeared, its color became extremely rich, and exaggeratedly swelled up, as if hanging on the roof of every house, in addition to the Brown Star, Orange Star, Red Star, Venus, Blue Star, etc. simultaneously brightened up, emitting different textures of light.
If one looked down from the starry sky, the entire Earth shook in place as if it had been involved in an unseen storm.
This was a slight change brought about by the Outer Gods trying to break through the barrier.
The aura emanating from within the ancient palace floating in the star realm reminded the k’s of that terrifying existence at the same time, and in response, either raging or going crazy, they all attempted to prevent the other from resurrecting.
Compared to the k’s who were blocked out of the real world, the first to react was the “Wishing Lamp” inside the pocket of Klein’s “body”.
The viscous light of light gold violently penetrated Amon’s strengthened seal and transformed into a blurred and distorted figure.
With a stretch of its arm, it took the “Brass Book of Trenthorst” into its palm.
The previously written rules all disappeared, and a new text instantly took shape:
”The resurrection of the dead is forbidden here!”
A thin gray mist flashed, and the familiar text appeared in front of this rule:
”The following rule is invalid!”
Even though he hadn’t been resurrected yet, and hadn’t yet absorbed the uniqueness of the “Fool” and the extraordinary characteristics of the two copies of the “Soothsayer” pathways from Sequence 9 to Sequence 1, the “Blessed Life Xuanhuang Heavenly Body” within Klein’s “main body” had not yet been resurrected. The “Blessed Being” can also control the “Source Castle” and call upon its power by means of the realm.
At this time, the existence of k interacted with the fog of history, and the pieces of light were twisted, sometimes connecting as one, and sometimes falling apart, unable to completely form a piece of history.
There was an irreconcilable self-contradiction in that history!
The real history was that Klein Moretti, who had fused the souls of prehistoric humans, assumed the role of the Fool, formed the Tarot Club, and became stronger one by one, eventually reaching a level close to that of the real Fool, but now the history was that the Fool had become the Fool. “Mr. Fool is the great being who has been revived, the “Blessed Genghis Khan” from the ancient times, and he has finally been revived!
At this time, although the rule restriction accomplished by the “God of Lights” using the “Brass Book of Trenthorst” had worked for less than a second, it still allowed the “Lord of Secrets” within Kraven’s “body” to be restrained by the “Lord of Secrets”. The will of the “Lord of Mysteries” was weakened, as if it had suffered a fatal blow.
The “Mother Goddess of Earth” and the “God of Steam and Machinery” both gave up their interference with Amon’s doppelgangers, as if they wanted to free up Mr. Mistake to deal with the revived “Lord of Secrecy”. The “Lord of Mystery”.
However, the K’s, who clearly had some strength left, did not try to affect Kraven’s “body”, but continued to suppress the “Original Witch” and “Hidden Sage”.
The latter two attacks and interferences were also no longer intense, as if waiting for a result.
As far as the K’s were concerned, the resurrection of the “Lord of Secrecy” would also serve their purpose:
The birth of a “pillar” in the shortest possible time; not letting those who hated themselves become the “Lord of Secrecy”.
In addition, the paths that the Ks are in do not belong to the three paths dominated by the “Lord of Secrecy”, and the Ks do not have any grudges or conflicts of interest with the other side.
Amon, who was no longer affected, immediately changed his target and put most of his attention on Kraven’s “body”.
No one else needed to explain, the k’s already clearly understood that this was their biggest threat!
Without hesitation, the Amon simultaneously raised their right hands, gently clasped them, and solemnly “stole” the “eternal day” effect from their target.
However, the Amon also did not give up their influence on Kraven, and the K’s, with enough of their own, separated a small number of members to look at Kraven, who is currently a Sequence 1 “Secret Servant”, and carries the identity of Antigonus.
The monocle of these Amon suddenly lit up, and utilized the authority associated with the Gate to move Klein out of the real world and into the starry sky.
Inside the dark and vast universe, Klein’s figure emerged and then instantly thinned into a paper figure.
This paper person first distended its stomach and gave birth to a paper baby, then quickly decayed and rotted into dust.
Klein utilized “grafting” and “paper double” to block the attacks of the Amon.
At the same time, the other Amon succeeded in stealing the “eternal day” effect from Kraven’s “body”.
However, in the next second, the “Daylight” effect was “stolen” back by the other party.
This is how the “Lord of Secrecy” controls the ability of this pathway, even if K has not really been resurrected, but has only begun the process.
The eyes of the Ammonites flickered slightly, and they immediately abandoned Kraven’s side and shifted their focus to three things:
Most of them continued to “steal” the “eternal day” effect given out to fight against the “Secret Lord”, while a small number of them locked onto Antigonus on the huge stone chair and, in no particular order, “stole” the “eternal day” effect. A small portion of them targeted Antigonus on the huge stone chair, and in no particular order, they “stole” the “eternal sleep” status of the other party.
In addition, all of the Amon had lifted the strengthening of the seal, and even made a certain weakening.
Klein, who was no longer being attacked by the Amon, also did not counterattack the other party, and his attention was also focused on his own “body”.
The “Lord of Secrecy” that resurfaced there was the biggest problem!
In an instant, an illusory mark protruded from the center of Kraven’s brow, a strange light door tainted with a little green and black, constantly filling out a thin gray mist.
Klein began to snatch the control of the “Source Castle” with the “Lord of Secrecy”, so that the other party would not be so easy to use the realm and call for power!
In the case that the “Lord of Secrecy” has not yet been resurrected and has not yet accommodated the uniqueness and corresponding extraordinary characteristics of the “Fool”, it can effectively reduce the strength of the other party, so that the failure rate of many of K’s operations will increase, and the effect will significantly deteriorate.
With his participation and control of the Source Castle, the “Fool” of the “Tron Solstice Brass Book” was immediately weakened, and the success rate of the “theft” of the Ammonites was reduced. The success rate of the Amon’s “theft” also increased.
Almost in no particular order, within the God’s Abandoned Land, under the feet of the ancient sun god’s huge light shadow, on the surface of the sea that embraced all colors, a passage written in the oldest language quickly appeared:
”This resurrection of the ‘Lord of Secrecy’ has ultimately failed due to interference from many parties.”
As the words took shape, and as Krynn fought for control of the Fortress of Sources, the Amon once again “stole” the “eternal day” that had been attached to the “Lord of Secrecy”. The “Forever Day” effect on the “Lord of Secrecy” was stolen by the Amon.
On the other hand, the K’s also “stole” Antigonus’ “eternal sleep”.
Without a moment’s hesitation, the Amon transferred the “eternal sleep” state to the “body” of Krynn and to the “Lord of Secrecy”.
The ancient being’s revived breath fell silent, but soon rebounded.
At this very moment, the corresponding article on the “Book of Trenthorst Brass”, which had been weakened by the seal, took shape once again:
”The resurrection of the dead is forbidden here!”
Suddenly, the terrifying will within Klein’s “body” rapidly weakened, creating a strong tendency to fall asleep again.
However, this will was so strong that even a long period of time could not completely wear it down, and under the twofold restriction, it was still resiliently growing and reviving little by little, and trying to use “tampering” and “fooling” to relieve the current predicament.
Klein sensed that the other party was invoking the power of the “Source Castle”, and immediately focused his mind and interfered.
At the same time, the “Goddess of the Night” floating above the ancient palace slightly relaxed its control over Amon’s real body, drew back the bird-shaped gold jewelry, and pointed its head downwards.
Inside the bronze eye of this bird-shaped golden ornament, illusory layers of doors surged out, allowing a drop of colorless water with a strong aura of eternal silence to fall towards the “body” of Kraven inside the ancient palace.
It was a drop of water from the “River of Eternal Darkness”!
While the “Goddess of Night” was doing this, Amon’s attempts to open the “door” to escape were silently slowed down.
The drop of liquid water fell so fast that the natural barrier constructed by the Mother Goddess of Earth and the civilization scroll presented by the God of Steam and Machinery simultaneously contracted a little, making way for it.
The water of the “River of Eternal Darkness” accurately dripped on the top of Kraven’s head, and drilled into it without a sound.
The breath of the “Lord of Secrecy” that was growing a little bit immediately fell back, lost its fluctuations, and fell into a state of eternal sleep.
But this state was very unstable, and seemed to be broken at any time.
At this time, the last empty hand of the “Goddess of Night” drew out a huge long sword from the void.
The surface of this long sword was covered with an orange-red light, emitting an aura of the coming dusk and the decline of all things.
This was the symbol of the “Dusk Giant”.
The arm of the “Goddess of Darkness” covered with short black hairs spread out and slashed the exaggeratedly huge sword downwards.
There was still power left in it, as if it had been prepared for this moment!
At the strange sound of the void breaking and decaying, the long sword covered in dusk light chopped through the dome of Antigonus’s palace, sending a hanging body to the ground.
Then, it struck the “body” of Krynn, who had not yet escaped from his eternal sleep.
The part of the will of the “Lord of Secrecy” that had been revived died rapidly, and the body also decayed and collapsed with an unstoppable trend, and along with the uniqueness of the “Fool” on his face and the two extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence 9 to Sequence 1 in his body, they also collapsed and merged together. The Fool’s face collapsed.
Kline saw this, did not do any thinking, according to the plan, called the “source of the fortress”, pulled down a quarter of the history of the fog, encompassing the mass of things.
In the gray fog, the uniqueness of the “Fool” and those extraordinary characteristics completely converged.
They frantically absorbed the surrounding historical mist and turned into a dark and deep liquid with no fixed form.
The liquid stretched and shifted as if it were about to form a translucent cloak with a hood, or a man emptied of his guts and flesh.
”The Fool’s Potion!
The Amon reached out their right hands at the same time and “stole” the potion.