Mr. Fool

Max observed and Klein continued to read the pages, almost completely engrossed in them. Somehow, he still retained enough peace of mind to maintain his composure in front of the people present.

And yet, he completely forgot about Max, and the conversation he oh-so-desperately wanted to have with him.

Putting down the six diary pages, Klein tapped his right index finger on the edge of the long bronze table, slowly moving his gaze from Miss Justice to The Hanged Man, and then to The Sun.

'Right, in the diary just now, there was a line Emperor Roselle described: "God who created all the deities, an omnipotent and omniscient God" This is very similar to the customs of the City of Silver. Where did he hear this from? Could it be from that most ancient and secret organization which controls the world from behind the scenes? This organization was established before the Forsaken Land of the Gods was forsaken? Hmm...'

Suddenly, Klein had a new idea. He said with a low and gentle smile, "Roselle mentioned some hidden history in his diary, and mentioned some simple general knowledge. The latter reminded me of something that I don't recall informing you all."

Audrey suddenly fell into a trance. She immediately turned her body around and looked at the very top of the ancient long table in pleasant surprise.

'Mr. Fool is taking the initiative to mention the contents of Roselle's diary? What would it say?'

She was so excited and thrilled that she completely forgot that she was a Spectator. Compared to her, The Hanged Man, Alger, was much more composed. However, the subconscious straightening of his back heartlessly betrayed him.

Only The Sun, Derek, had always believed that the items of interest to Mr. Fool contained many mysteries, but he didn't know anything about Emperor Roselle and didn't know what this name represented in the Northern Continent.

Thus, he just found it difficult to hide his curiosity and didn't reveal any unusual behaviour.

"Mr. Fool, did Emperor Roselle mention some general knowledge? I'm willing to pay for this information," Audrey couldn't help but say.

'However, I want it to be communicated to me privately!' She added silently in her heart.

Klein chuckled and said, "There's no need. This is very simple general knowledge."

"After reading this part of the diary, as the summoner of the Tarot Club, I feel it's necessary to let all of you know this. Of course, I'm very certain that some of you are already aware of this."

He was mainly referring to The Sun. The City of Silver had a history of two to three thousand years, so it was impossible for them to not discover the Law of Beyonder Characteristics Indestructibility.

Moreover, they were in a relatively extreme environment. Even if the surrounding areas had no lack of monsters in the darkness, there would still be times when they failed to obtain the corresponding materials.

In order to pass on their heritage, in order for their city to continue on, using the Beyonder Characteristics of the remains of their predecessors to create a potion wasn't particularly unacceptable.

To them, this was perhaps a sacred and glorious ceremony. Of course, Klein could see from a previous exchange that The Hanged Man knew something.

'It's a pity that Miss Justice cannot always be made to pay in gold pounds and transfer the money to my adorers. My adorer can't appear any less impressive. I mustn't destroy the image of the powerful man that Mr. Azik has created. Yes, I'll give it a try when I have the chance. After all, no matter how powerful a being is, they'll have subordinates that run errands. For instance, the Evernight Goddess's Sleepless. No one would ever suspect that the Evernight Goddess isn't a true deity just because the low-level Nighthawks are weak.'

Klein sighed silently.

"Thank you very much! Mr. Fool, you are just too generous!" Audrey replied in joy. She was originally feeling three seconds of regret for the coarse action of using cash to purchase the information.

Klein stopped rapping the table and described with a calm voice, "The first piece of general knowledge—Law of Beyonder Characteristics Indestructibility. The characteristics of a Beyonder is never destroyed or reduced. It's only passed from one carrier to the next."

Without realizing it, I used Captain's tone... Klein's lips subconsciously curled upwards. It cannot be destroyed or reduced. It just transfers from one carrier to another...Audrey ruminated over Mr. Fool's description, feeling that there was too much meaning in that simple sentence.

Her emerald green eyes turned, and when she saw that neither The Hanged Man, The Sun, nor Death showed any signs of surprise or contemplation, she immediately understood that these two members of the Tarot Club had long known of this law.

'Only I didn't know.' She thought, feeling somewhat aggrieved, but she quickly began to praise Mr. Fool for his kindness.

At this point, Klein added, "After a Beyonder dies, they will leave behind an item of Beyonder Characteristics. It could be the main ingredient, or it could be a mystical artifact that requires sealing. An ordinary Beyonder's death results in similar results. However, the item left behind will be equivalent to the corresponding potion without the supplementary ingredients. Of course, the item alone will contain Beyonder powers. They can be used as a half-mystical object."

The plain and indifferent words instantly echoed in Audrey's mind. Layers stacked upon layers and, bit by bit, it eventually reached a crescendo. Audrey thought of cannibalism and the question—would a Sequence pathway be severed if the source of Beyonder materials ceased to exist— she had asked The Hanged Man previously came to mind.

Now, she knew the answer, but she would've rather not heard it. She felt like she was having a nightmare! How can it be so cruel? Why is it so dark? Audrey had previously seen some bad situations that involved Beyonders, but those situations were only caused by a person's own perverse and evil nature.

While Audrey was having her mental breakdown and recovering what was left of her world-view, Klein finally noticed Max, who was just sitting there with a casual smirk on his face, making his heart skip a beat.

He quickly recalled the conversation and the plan he had in place to deal with this fellow. Most importantly, he was sure that he had not activate the crimson star connecting to Mr. Death, hoping to contact him after the Tarot Club to have a proper conversation.

'How did he even get into this castle?!!'

Alarm-bells sprang off in Kleins mind, but he maintained his composure on the surface and continued in a calm tone, "The second piece of general knowledge—Law of Similar Sequence Beyonder Characteristics Conservation."

Law of Similar Sequence Beyonder Characteristics Conservation... The Hanged Man slightly changed his sitting posture. He felt that he understood something, but he was unable to fully understand what this law represented and what it consisted of. Justice and The Sun shared the same feelings as he did. They were unable to directly understand the true meaning behind this law.

"Why Similar Sequence?" Alger couldn't help asking.

Klein smiled, in a surprisingly natural way and replied, "What do you wish to pay for the answer?"

All-the-while, Max was smiling for a particularly different reason. He had waited till 3, but he had not been summoned, and understood that Klein wanted to keep him away for some reason. Likely to question him separately after the Tarot Club.

But he did not want to miss this opportunity to see his shocked face.

This, he first tried to [Fool] the Sefirah Castle into bringing him in, but that failed since its sequence was a bit too high for his normal Beyonder abilities to work.

As such, he next tried to use the Unity energy to [Fool] the Sefirah Castle, and it was surprisingly possible, but the consumption would be insane, almost as much as when he was [Fooling] Evernight's unconscious attention.

Thus, he then tried something interesting. He had noticed the black unity energy that had been slowly oozing out from behind his seat, and collecting on the floor, almost the point that it touched his legs on the ground.

Thus, he used a bit of that energy to directly [Fool] Klein into pulling accidentally touching his crimson star to bring him into the Sefirah Castle of his own accord.

And this had given him a lot of Digestion of his potion. Clearly not as much as the Goddess, but it was pretty close to what he had received from [Fooling] Azik Eggars, and this was perhaps due to Klein's unnatural connection to the Sefirot, and how he was inside it and wielding its powers when he was [Fooled].

Though, just this small action had caused nearly 1/3rd of the black Unity energy to be used up in the process. That amount was already around a few months' worth of Unity energy from within another Sefirot, wasted away in a largely unnecessary experiment.

Though, he at least learned that he could affect things within this Sefirot, which meant he could do a lot of things in the future, most not beneficial in any way to Klein, in fact, a lot were quite the opposite.

But now was not the time for it. Instead, now he had to display his best personality to Klein and hope to become his friend and gain his trust early-on.

That way, once Klein matures in the future, and becomes the scheming and naturally vigilant person, he would have already infiltrated his inner circle and be able to stab him in the back at the perfect moment after the other Sefirots were unsealed.