Chapter 111: A Miraculous Mushroom

Chapter 111: A Miraculous Mushroom

“Sequence 0: Fool!”

After clearly making out the words on that tarot card, Klein once again felt the same sensation he had experienced when he heard Zaratul speak His name.

At that moment, an intense sense of destiny surged within his heart. He felt as though everything had already been arranged from the very beginning, just as “0-08” would have done.

He began doubting his original judgment, suspecting that the female animal trainer from the traveling circus in Tingen City who had once asked him to do a tarot divination might not have been an ordinary person.

As his thoughts flashed rapidly, Klein approached the matter from another angle and formed a new idea. His terror, fear, and dejection gradually subsided.

“Perhaps it wasn’t arranged, but a change I brought about myself.

“Because of the ritual that caused my transmigration, I formed a connection with the mysterious space above the gray fog. My fate was naturally influenced as well. More accurately, as someone from another world, I originally had no ‘fate’ here. My current trajectory was forged jointly by my own personality, the original owner’s experiences, the influence of the gray fog, and the environment around me.

“That mysterious space above the gray fog clearly has a strong connection to the Seer pathway, and Sequence 0 of that pathway is called the Fool. Reflected into reality, if I divined my current state, I would inevitably draw the Fool card!

“Similarly, that also led to me later using ‘the Fool’ as my title.”

Klein’s emotions calmed bit by bit. He believed this was the most likely explanation.

If I use the razor to shave away all the currently unknown factors and still arrive at a reasonable explanation, that means the probability is not small…

Klein forced himself to stop thinking about questions he could not yet answer with certainty and turned his attention back to what had just happened.

“That gigantic chair and that cluster of transparent maggots are exactly what I saw during divination above the gray fog.

“Judging from the various details that make one’s hair stand on end once carefully considered, that is very likely an angel of the Seer pathway—an angel who lost control and became a monster!

“Zaratul Himself?

“Or the most powerful member of the Antigonus family from the Fourth Epoch?

“If it is the former, both the Magic Mirror Arrodes and the Snake of Mercury, Will Auceptin, have confirmed that Zaratul had reached Sequence 1 and lost control, going mad and collapsing into a monster. This matches… It also explains why Zaratul only asked for the ‘door’ to be opened. Once that ‘Door of Concealment’ was opened and the two sides of Him established a connection, He could break free from His current state and recover bit by bit. The repeatedly emphasized ashes were only a cover.

“But the problem is that the environment where the Magic Mirror Arrodes showed Zaratul to be now does not resemble that ancient palace on the mountain peak. Otherwise, I would have recognized it at the time.

“If that is a barely surviving angel of the Antigonus family, one who caused Zaratul—who obtained the notebook during Roselle’s era and came to the Hornacis mountain range in search of treasure—to suffer a loss, quietly cutting away a part of Him without His awareness and causing Him to go mad during advancement, then that one should at least be a Sequence 1 Attendant of Mysteries. After all, Zaratul was already a Miracle Invoker back then…

“From that perspective, Zaratul’s goal was most likely still to open the door, allowing the history and fate of the misty town to connect with the outside world so that He would no longer remain split apart…

“No matter what, that cluster of transparent maggots is very likely an out-of-control Sequence 1. No wonder the Demoness of Despair nearly collapsed from just seeing Him and was hung up after only a slight struggle, becoming an air-drying marionette. Thankfully, I did not have many…