Phase One.

Chills travelled up Cheek's and Dumbledore's spine but the man cared little for it and conjured a cane in his hand that produced a crisp *TAK* as it was tapped on the ground while he walked away.

"That's your punishment for hurting my blessed! Be careful next time, I might not let you leave with your sanity intact."

And before Cheek could recover from her shock or react to what had happened in any way shape or form, the man vanished from in front of her eyes as if he were the wind.

As if he never existed.

Beside her Dumbledore was watching with furrowed brows as he mumbled, "He didn't have a body of heart and mind?"

A few meters away inside the castle, the man appeared out of thin air and before anyone could see him, he went on his merry way, walking towards the second floor.

Once in front of room 2-21, he easily unlocked the door just by tapping his wand and letting out a bit of his spirituality in a particular pattern.

He entered the room, locked it just like it had been a few seconds ago and stepped in front of the body of a young boy who was standing in a weird posture. It looked like the body was postured and frozen while mid-stride.

Suddenly the cane, the monocle and the clothes the man was wearing vanished, creating a peculiar outcome as his facial structure changed and now looked completely different than it did before.

The peculiar thing about the frozen boy inside the room was that he looked like a nearly exact replica of the naked boy who had entered after his face morphed.

The naked boy quickly set up an altar and performed a sacrificial ritual, his item to sacrifice was the body of the boy who was standing frozen in a weird posture.

Taking four steps counter-clockwise, the boy's spirit body vanished as he entered the sefirah castle.

*GASP*

As soon as the naked boy entered the sefirah castle he gasped and took a deep breath.

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! I FREAKIN' DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Dropping to his knees, Loki let out a guttural shout that stirred the grey fog, causing it to rumble as waves spread out around him.

Loki hadn't felt so much joy in a long time. He almost felt he'd fall unconscious because of how happy he was feeling and how much adrenaline was being pumped around his body right now.

Quickly responding to the crimson star which was pulsating to represent his prayer, Loki moved into the real world and picked up the sacrifice he had made, his older body, while leaving behind all the clothes on it, and brought it into the Sefirah Castle.

With his old body back in his grasp, Loki started to relax since there was not much that could go wrong from now on.

Looking at his hands Loki continued to repeatedly clench and unclench them.

'I can't believe I did it!'

'I can't believe I pulled that off!'

Loki's plan had been simple.

From the moment he figured out the answer to the question, 'What was 'Adam' waiting for from 'Her' and the Aurora Order?', Loki had immediately thought of his plan.

It was a gamble, one that Loki was literally willing to bet his life on.

His plan was simple.

He would swindle the Primordial Demoness and the True Creator by using the Charm that Salazar Slytherin had given him and use the new body of the True Creator as his own body.

This was possible because Salazar Slytherin had handed him the Fate Siphon Charm. He would use it to swap their fates during the True Creator's time of rebirth.

The plan was a gamble.

But a gamble that Loki did his best to turn into a perfect plan.

To swindle the Primordial Demoness and the True Creator, he first needed to distract them because he could in no way shape or form put up any resistance if they actually tried to capture or harm him.

And his distraction was simple.

It was Dumbledore.

He would use the coin that Mr. X had given him to corrupt Harry and make the Primordial Demoness control him to bring him into the Whomping Willow.

And if Harry went into the Whomping Willow, that was where Dumbledore would go.

Then he would use a sacrificial ritual to float out of the castle using his spiritual body and float over to the spot where Dumbledore, Cheek and the True Creator were meeting after having accommodated the Error Card of Blasphemy to forcefully rise to Sequence 6 Prometheus.

Once there, he would just have to find the opportune moment to activate the charm and switch his fate with the True Creator and take over his body.

The plan wasn't foolproof, yet.

It had too many variables, one of them for example was that either Cheek or Dumbledore would attack him and blow his cover when he wouldn't be able to defend against them.

But Loki was slightly prepared for this.

Physical attacks like the one Cheek pulled off by transforming her spider webs into spears wouldn't work because he was in his spirit body.

Another variable was that Cheek and Dumbledore would recognise that he wasn't a True God because he had no suppression aura.

But Loki fixed this by using the Error Blasphemy card. Simply by using this card, he immediately gave himself a partial divinity aura that would stand surface-level inspection.

But what about magical or Beyonder attacks that could touch his spirit?

Loki covered that aspect too, because holding onto the Card of Blasphemy for the Error Pathway, bumped his own sequence up by one.

It gave him the ability of the next sequence, Prometheus.

It gave him the ability to steal Beyonder's abilities, which was how he managed to steal Cheek's black flames.

He could also now see the runic composition of spiritual abilities like Beyonder abilities and Magic! So when combined with his eloquence of languages, he could see their weaknesses.

Allowing Loki to catch onto the weak point of Dumbledore's spell and redirect it by tossing it in a different direction.

But there was a problem that Loki hadn't considered.

Loki assumed that the corruption induced in him by Cheek would be enough to hold the True Creator back after he swapped bodies with him and so activated the charm.

What he hadn't anticipated was the True Creator resisting the effects of the charm and managing to overpower it to obliterate Loki when his soul tried to wrestle away the control of 'His' body.

Once Loki was in the body of the baby, he immediately felt a second consciousness inside the body, the consciousness of the True Creator.

And so did the True Creator.

But the True Creator was slightly shocked to discover that there was someone else inside the body he had spent months fleshing out to be his perfect vessel.

Loki used this moment of shock to use the baby's body to kick Cheek on the inside and then focus entirely on the concealment rune to keep his mind shut from any corruption that might get induced by the True Creator's screams.

But Loki knew this wasn't enough.

His soul which was right by the soul of the True Creator was laid bare and helpless, waiting to be attacked and killed or worse, corrupted.

But it was at this point that Loki felt a calming wave of energy pass over him.

It was Dumbledore, who at the last moment of his transformation attempted to attack him with a mental attack.

But because Loki's Body of Heart and Mind was concealed with the concealment rune and the True Creator's soul was that much more prominent, the attack fell on the True Creator.

It forced 'Him' to shift his attention and Loki used this moment in full stride as he took direct control of the baby's body while Dumbledore's attack duked it out with the True Creator.

Others would've claimed that Loki stealing Cheek's ability and being able to deflect Dumbledore's attack and Dumbledore's mental attack helping him was lucky.

But it was not.

Or rather, it was not unplanned luck.

Since Loki had drunk a partially enhanced Felix Felicis, the luck potion, before he embarked on this journey. However, the potion wasn't complete in the traditional sense since it took nearly six months to make the potion using normal methods.

Loki only had half a month, but with his mastery of potions, it was perfected differently.

The potion he made was perfected to work only in conditions when death was a guarantee if it didn't work. So the potion would always save him until he was on a path of sure death.

It was a delicate balance and a nerve-wracking adventure that Loki did not want to go on again.

'I don't know if I was just really lucky or not. But whatever it was, I don't want to do it again.'

'But this is just phase one!'

'Now I need to go through with Phase Two to perfect my alibi!'

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