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Hobert stalled Amon for almost half a minute, successfully creating an opportunity for Klein to accommodate the Uniqueness.
Now, there's only one final step before Klein becomes 'The Fool': 'Stealing' a copy of each Sequence 1 to Sequence 9 characteristic from Antigonus.
Hobert took a deep breath, he had to stall Amon for a while longer!
Klein raced against time. The illusory brand on his forehead emitted a faint, grayish-white mist. The slippery tentacles extending from his back once again began to 'steal' Antigonus's Beyonder characteristics.
Amon noticed Klein's plan. He and his avatars also began to 'steal'.
Because their 'numbers' were too great, they would definitely succeed before Klein.
So, Hobert immediately 'tampered' with the number of Amon's avatars, 'tampering' it from over a thousand avatars to '-1'. This was the capability of the Symbolism of Distortion that was enhanced by a Sefirah.
That's right, after becoming a 'Black Emperor,' Hobert could 'tamper' something into a negative number.
That large group of Amons vanished instantly, even Amon's main body disappeared along with them, because it was '-1', so Amon still 'owed' an avatar, thus his main body went to 'fill' that number.
But quickly, Amon's main body opened a door between the mathematical world and the real world, and he escaped the abstract attack of mathematics.
Hobert once again avoided his sharp edge, having himself, Klein, and Antigonus return to the astral world, leaving Amon alone in the 'shadow'.
Here, Hobert's main body would try its best to stall Amon, while a substitute of the same level as Hobert continued to protect Klein's advancement in the incomplete 'Nation of Disorder'.
Amon's main body in the distance sighed, "I must say, your Exploit of the 'Black Emperor' ability is truly eye-opening.
"I don't remember Solomon being this strong back then, hmm… even considering the 'Nation of Disorder' factor, you are more difficult to deal with."
Hobert laughed, "Thank you for the compliment, how about we find a place to sit down and have a couple of drinks?"
"Sorry, no time today." As he spoke, countless doors opened around Amon. These doors with abstract meaning could all help him leave the 'shadow'.
But almost at the same time, Hobert 'distorted' the space behind the doors into another 'shadow', after all, his ability also had the authority of abstraction.
Amon smiled, "I have an advantage you don't have, and that is: the superposition of two Uniquenesses!"
Another illusory door opened in front of him, a flaw in the 'shadow': "Black Emperors" can walk in the 'shadows' of the universe's order, but Amon is not a 'Black Emperor', so he cannot be in the 'shadow'.
Amon's figure became illusory and quickly disappeared through the illusory door.
Hobert's eyes narrowed. At this moment, with the help of the same level substitute, Klein finally 'stole' the Beyonder characteristics of the 'Seer' pathway from Sequence 1 to Sequence 9.
Under the effect of the 'Fool' Uniqueness, these characteristics instantly merged into one, becoming a 'Fool' potion.
After Amon emerged from the 'shadow', he slightly raised his hand, and the ancient first 'Blasphemy Slate' suddenly emitted a colorful light, as if a illusory sea was surging.
The surging 'illusory sea' impacted the realm that seemed to contain countless 'distortions' and 'disorder'. Hobert's incomplete 'Nation of Disorder' suddenly shook, revealing even greater flaws.
At the same time, one after another python-like black tentacles extended from somewhere in the astral world.
Each of these tentacles had an eye at the end, either closed or open. Anything seen by them would instantly turn into grayish-white stone. Everything they touched would twist and stretch out limbs and heads, turning into women, large or small, and quite good-looking women.
The Primordial Demoness seized the opportunity created by Amon and took the chance to sneak into the 'Nation of Disorder'.
For Cheek, this was the advancement of a 'Creator' ally, and the 'Creator' seemed to be helping Medici become a god recently, so if there was a chance, She had to come and sabotage it.
Amon realized that Hobert, empowered by the 'Nation of Disorder', although not at the level of 'Quasi-Great Old One', was more difficult to deal with than ordinary gods.
So, he simply stirred up the situation, letting the gods waiting outside also participate.
At the moment when the 'Primordial Demoness' rushed from the astral world, She saw a vague figure.
This figure wore a layered but not complicated long black dress, dotted with countless stars. His face seemed to be covered with a thin black veil, making it impossible to see his appearance clearly. One could only see that his eyes seemed to condense the starry night sky, making people feel peaceful while also feeling an uncontrollable fear.
It was the Evernight Goddess who had been waiting outside.
She raised a huge, deep black scythe. This scythe quickly became illusory, as if turning into a coffin made of thick black mist.
Those women transformed from the 'Primordial Demoness's' hair were touched by the 'Primordial Demoness's' hair and instantly aged, died, and disappeared. Even the 'Primordial Demoness's' tentacle-like hair was affected by the aura of 'withering', becoming listless and no longer as flamboyant and 'exploring' as before.
The 'Primordial Demoness' ignored the death of those 'Witches'. She stared at the location of Hobert and Klein, bringing a collapse-like destruction to all things, turning the main peak of the Hornacis Mountains in the direction of the giant stone ball.
At this time, clumps of wheat, flowers, and trees instantly grew on the mountain peak. They intertwined with each other, layering one on top of another, forming a natural barrier, sealing Antigonus's palace inside, no longer affected by the 'Primordial Demoness's' erosion.
In the next second, a 'light' fell straight down from a high place, hitting the natural barrier based on plants.
This light had no substance, as if composed of a stream of complex information. In an illusory posture, it penetrated the gaps between the plants like a torrent, heading straight for the hall.
It was the 'Hidden Sage'!
Whether it was the 'Creator' or the 'Fool', they both supported Roselle, which put a lot of pressure on the 'Hidden Sage'. So, like the 'Primordial Demoness', he supported Amon to become the new 'Lord of the Mysteries'.
At this moment, a hazy light burst out from the void and displayed a series of projection-like scrolls outside the natural barrier.
Some of them recorded the scenes of human beings surviving in the wilderness, some described the relevant decrees promulgated by the 'Black Emperor', forming strange and bizarre folk customs, and some were depictions of the current world, composed of huge machines spewing steam and increasingly tall buildings of various kinds.
These contents seemed very thin, but they gave people an extremely heavy feeling, because what they carried was civilization.
After the 'Hidden Sage' chose to be an enemy of Klein, the God of Steam and Machinery finally chose to support Klein's apotheosis.
The complex and terrifying torrent of information was loaded into those illusory paintings. It expanded rapidly, trying to tear apart the 'cage'.
But thousands of years of civilization were so thick and broad that it was completely enough to carry the 'Hidden Sage's' torrent of information.
Over there, the Evernight Goddess and the Earth Mother were besieging the 'Primordial Demoness', putting this huge Demoness into a very passive situation.
At this time, on every leaf, every flower, and every fruit in the natural barrier constructed by the Earth Mother, black spots appeared.
These black spots expanded rapidly. The wheat turned from golden yellow to black, and the flowers also turned from colorful to all black. The same was true for the trees.
In the all-black jungle, a blurry, viscous figure appeared. He seemed to symbolize all depravity and corruption. Any creature could be immediately affected by him and become an alien in nature.
This is the 'Dark Side of the Universe'!
The 'Creator' supported Farbauti, so he must stand in the opposing forces of the 'Creator'.
The black corruption began to affect the Earth Mother in reverse, but the Mother waved her hand, and all the black plants withered instantly, returning to the earth, while the life and spirituality of the 'Dark Side of the Universe' also flowed away rapidly, as if returning to the embrace of the earth.
At this time, a bottomless crack suddenly opened on the ground of the main peak. Inside the crack were clusters of viscous liquid, and these liquids seemed to be wrapped in endless evil and depravity.
The 'Dark Side of the Universe' summoned a part of the 'Abyss'!
Even the Earth Mother could feel a force of 'erosion' from the 'Abyss' was eroding herself.
But in the next instant, the dark liquid in the 'Abyss' suddenly boiled, and a huge demon 'swam out' from inside. This demon was between illusory and reality, with an illusory face, evil light flashing in his eyes, and a layer of illusory coat composed of mysterious symbols around his body.
This is the 'Devil Monarch' Farbauti!
His appearance was equivalent to formally declaring to the 'Mother Tree of Desire' that the part of the consciousness in the 'Dark Side of the Universe' belonging to Farbauti was a tool to deceive the Outer Deities.
In the same 'Dark Side of the Universe' as the black liquid, a strange branch suddenly emerged. It only had the shape of a branch, but it grew pustule-like tumors, and the leaves had different patterns with strange colors.
Some of these patterns could make people lustful, some would make people be trapped by vanity, some would make people's hearts be filled with a desire to express themselves, some would make people very greedy, and so on, in short, would make people make wrong choices because of various desires.
At this time, after the 'Dark Side of the Universe' showed this branch, it allowed the 'Mother Tree of Desire' to descend a little power here.
Farbauti's eyes narrowed, and the huge illusory demon instantly turned into a bubble.
But when he left, he also took away the 'Abyss', so that the power of the 'Dark Side of the Universe' was reduced again.
In fact, Farbauti's current state is not very good, especially after encountering the power of the 'Mother Tree of Desire', he has basically no power to resist.
But he still chose to participate in the war, more like a statement, because he urgently needs Hobert's help at this time!
As the 'Devil Monarch', he is cunning and treacherous. Perhaps because of this, he is more sober than the 'Primordial Moon' that, since you are asking for help, you must first have an attitude.
Without the state and power of a True God, don't put on the airs of a God.
With the departure of 'Farbauti', a three-on-three situation temporarily appeared outside the palace.
Inside the palace, Amon's plan to disrupt the situation failed. He did not expect that the battle outside would not even affect the inside of the palace.
Taking advantage of the opportunity that Hobert continued to stall Amon, Klein successfully used the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Convergence and swallowed the potion in one gulp.
In the "Forsaken Land of the Gods," beneath the immense light and shadow formed by the ancient Sun God, a language written in the most ancient tongue rapidly took shape: Antigonus's attempt to advance to "The Fool" ultimately failed due to various reasons.
The reason He didn't use the name Klein Moretti was because the latter had "stolen" Antigonus's identity and destiny.
If it were in the name of Klein Moretti, what relationship would his advancement failure have with Antigonus becoming "The Fool?"
If Klein didn't abandon Antigonus's identity and destiny, then He would be confined by this sentence.
If he abandoned Antigonus's identity and destiny, then within the Uniqueness that he had just barely accommodated, the mental imprint of Antigonus and the "Celestial Worthy" mixed together, which had just calmed down, would definitely "awaken" again, starting a new tug-of-war with Klein's consciousness.
Now was the crucial moment for taking the potion, and such a tug-of-war was extremely terrifying. Even the "Bell of Order" might not be able to exert much effect.
In that case, Klein would either lose control or be in very poor condition after advancing.
Klein's situation was not quite the same as Hobert's. The mental imprint in the "Black Emperor" potion that Hobert consumed was not very deep. As long as he guarded against the momentum of the "Celestial Worthy's" revival, he wouldn't have too much mental pressure after advancing.
But the Uniqueness that Klein had just accommodated had a very strong mental imprint. Even in the best condition, he should spend some time, like Hobert, gradually accepting the "Uniqueness" before attempting to advance.
However, Klein didn't have that much time. Amon had clearly already become a "Dual Pathway True God." Unless Hobert lived in the "Sefirah Castle," Klein had to advance immediately.
Although Amon was entangled by Hobert's substitute and Hobert himself, a mottled clock suddenly appeared behind Him. The huge clock hand trembled slightly, and in the next two seconds, Amon's main body became a temporal "error," gaining double the time.
That is to say, as far as the entire universe was concerned, the next two seconds were two seconds, but for Amon, it was four seconds.
Hobert immediately realized this and, risking the "theft" of his substitute at the same level, intensified his offensive.
But Amon still gained 1 second of time. On the monocle made of crystal, the figure of Klein was reflected.
In the next second, the monocle bloomed with pure light.
This wasn't "stealing," but "returning."
Amon chose to return what He had once "stolen" from Klein! It was the thought of suicide that Klein had!
When Klein was first captured by Amon in the "Forsaken Land of the Gods," he tried to commit suicide many times but failed. At that time, the corresponding thoughts were "stolen" by the other party.
Although the divinity in Klein's body wouldn't allow Him to commit suicide, this idea would definitely make Him have the thought of giving up.
Hobert had no choice but to immediately "bestow" these "suicidal" thoughts to a huge stone pillar in the hall. The stone pillar seemed to have its own consciousness, and it distorted left and right, actually breaking itself.
At this moment, Klein's thoughts, having taken the potion, had already become chaotic, and the thought of giving up disappeared as soon as it appeared.
His advancement process had reached the most critical moment. While his thoughts were chaotic, they also spread out, as if encompassing the entire planet.
At this moment, Klein felt that he was within different believers, scattered in the fog of history, scattered in the passing time.
The experience at the level of divinity further eroded Klein's thoughts, and it seemed that only that kind of indifference overlooking all things remained.
Even this indifference was collapsing bit by bit.
Adam's "Prophecy" were taking effect. Before long, Klein would completely lose himself and be dominated by the various mental imprints within the "Fool" potion, becoming a monster in the true sense.
This overlapped with Antigonus's fate of losing control and going mad, accelerating the fate of losing control and madness.
Dong~
Seeing that Klein was at risk of collapsing, Hobert's main body immediately appeared in the "Nation of Disorder" and rang the "Bell of Order!"
The bell echoed throughout the main peak of the Hornacis Mountains. After hearing the bell, the "Primordial Demoness" shattered instantly, but in the next moment, She leaped out from a shattered mirror and reappeared in front of the other gods.
The obscurity around the Evernight Goddess also fluctuated, as if it would be unable to continue hiding in the next second and would completely expose its specific location.
The other gods were also affected by the "Bell of Order," and the battle of gods even paused for a second or two because of this.
Klein in the palace suddenly became much clearer. At this moment, He felt something uncoordinated and abnormal.
In the fog of history, there were a small number of projections twisting and unable to be combined, and there seemed to be an essential contradiction between them.
Those were the imprints generated when Klein previously "fooled" Roselle's fate, history, and reality!
Klein immediately seized this incoordination and abnormality, regained a little self-awareness, and with this little self-awareness as the core, He quickly gathered his scattered spirit.
At the same time, Amon seized the opportunity the moment the bell ended and stole Hobert's substitute at the same level as the "Black Emperor," and the "Book of Law" fell to the ground as a result.
Originally, Hobert was fighting Amon two-on-one, but now the situation changed. The substitute was instantly parasitized by Amon, turning into Amon fighting Hobert two-on-one!
Unfortunately, a considerable "error" occurred in the ability of "Shadow," and Hobert couldn't end the summoning of the substitute at all.
Dong~
Hobert could only ring the "Bell of Order" again. The "errors" in the hall were basically eliminated, and Hobert's substitute at the same level disappeared instantly.
But Amon, as the symbol of "error," wasn't greatly affected.
Or rather, at Hobert's current level, there was no way to greatly affect Amon.
Amon waited again for the bell to end before reaching out to "steal" Antigonus's sanity, and succeeded in one fell swoop.
At this time, as long as Antigonus lost his sanity, it would be equivalent to Klein losing his sanity.
Hobert hurriedly used the ability of "Distortion," and the stolen sanity of Antigonus turned into the hair on Antigonus's face.
Klein suddenly became bald, without even a single eyebrow left.
The "Book of Law" that fell on the ground began to write on its own: Theft is prohibited here!
At this time, Klein had theoretically passed the most dangerous period of advancement, but at this time, the "prophecy" of the ancient Sun God came into play again, Antigonus completely lost control and went mad, and Klein's body collapsed once again.
Without hesitation, Klein, who had regained most of his sanity, immediately Released part of the "stealing" effect, returning Antigonus's identity, fate, and self-awareness to the original owner.
On the huge stone chair in the depths of the hall, Antigonus slowly opened his eyes, looking around at everything with a blank expression.
He didn't immediately lose control, because the main reason for his loss of control and madness was that the will of the "Lord of the Mysteries" had largely revived, and now, the "Fool" Uniqueness and most of the Beyonder characteristics that carried that will were no longer in his body.
After a brief daze, Antigonus immediately seized this opportunity to use his own will to resist the tendency of madness, trying to salvage the fate of losing control.
It's just that Antigonus, who had long hair and short hairs like wolf bristles on his cheeks, suddenly became bald.
The "prophecy" of the Ancient Sun God was thus fulfilled: Antigonus indeed failed to advance to Sequence 0 "The Fool."
And after Klein lost Antigonus's identity, the imprint of the "Celestial Worthy" immediately began to erode Klein's consciousness and showed signs of revival.
A voice actually sounded in Klein's ear: "Give up…"
"Hand everything over to me…"
"This time, I will no longer accommodate other Sephirot…"
"I will not help the beings you want to protect, but I will not harm them either…"
"This place will be the forbidden area for Outer Deities…"
Whispers after whispers caused Klein to fall into a certain degree of chaos again!
"Bullshit!" Hobert in the "Nation of Disorder" cursed loudly: "What do you think you are? You are just a persona of the Original Creator, and you really think of yourself as a person!"
It turned out that because of the "Celestial Worthy's" arrangement in the "Black Emperor" and "Justiciar" pathways, Hobert could also hear the voice of the "Celestial Worthy."
He was very annoyed by the "Celestial Worthy's" actions, and now he finally had a chance to vent, so he cursed very harshly.
But at the same time, Hobert felt that a certain thought in his consciousness seemed to be awakening, which was the "Celestial Worthy" mental imprint that had been suppressed by using the "Genie."
So at this time, Hobert only dared to hide in the "Nation of Disorder" to curse, while also trying to resist the erosion of the "Celestial Worthy" mental imprint.
Fortunately, Amon, as the adjacent pathway to "Seer," wasn't in a good situation either, and was also affected to a certain extent.
Hobert beckoned, and the "Book of Law" returned to his hand, looking like he was reading out some document: "The 'Lord of the Mysteries' in the First Epoch seriously deviated from the expectations of the Original Creator.
"Only by promoting the brilliance and diversity of life can there be a chance to 'tame' the cold Beyonder characteristics.
"But the original 'Lord of the Mysteries' has been trying to revive, putting heavy mental pressure on the people who resist madness and distortion! They have to prioritize fighting Him!
"He is powerful and inhuman, and cannot represent the will of living beings at all, and cannot realize the ideals of the Original Creator!
"The existence of such a god is the real end of the world!
"Hereby, I announce the verdict on the 'Lord of the Mysteries' of the First Epoch: He must never truly revive!"
For a time, the power of the "Nation of Disorder" became unprecedentedly surging, and Hobert immediately realized that this was not only judging the pillar, but also the opportunity to accommodate the "Nation of Disorder"!
At this moment, Hobert is challenging a former Great Old One, one of the Pillars of the universe, challenging the seemingly cold and unchanging rules of mysticism!
At the same time, a illusory force is surrounding the "Book of Law," greatly increasing its compatibility with Hobert!
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