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Second, the ability of [Madman on the Right] has been greatly enhanced to a certain extent in "Inside Sefirah Castle".

Although [Mad Man on the Right] has an effect close to the law of causality, in actual use, the harder it is to reverse the result, the more terrifying the unknown danger will be - every time.

Just like this time, after reversing Leodero's Thunder, he directly took him back to two hundred years ago, so Edward would not easily use this ability unless it was absolutely necessary.

After logging into Sefirah Castle, as long as [Madman on the Right] is used inside Sefirah Castle, most of its "negative effects" will be borne (grafted) by Sefirah Castle for Edward - the amount of the negative effects will be determined by the role that Sefirah Castle can play during the "reversal".

For example, if Edward simply wanted to kill someone, he would not need to bear much cost by borrowing the status of Sefirah Castle, because this was an ability that Sefirah Castle itself possessed, and he just leveraged this ability through [Madman on the Right].

However, if one were to resurrect a person out of thin air, turning an ordinary person into a demigod or even an angel in an instant, this would in some sense exceed the "capability range" of Sefirah Castle.

To sum up in one sentence, destruction is much simpler than creation.

However, the problem lies in this "internal use", which is literally limited to the internal use - that is, Edward is inside the Sefirah Castle, and he can use [Madman on the Right] on the target inside the Sefirah Castle to let the Sefirah Castle take the responsibility for him.

Therefore, if you really want to kill someone with [Madman on the Right], the first step is to pull the opponent into Sefirah Castle.

How should I put it? The enhancement of this ability made Edward fearless of anyone below Sequence 0 in Sequence Castle. If Amon dared to break into Sequence Castle like he did to Klein, Edward could easily crush him with [Madman on the Right] and only pay a small price.

But it has no effect outside of Sefirah Castle.

No matter what, at least we don't have to worry about Amon stealing our home.

"The next step is..."

Edward stood up and looked through the endless gray fog into the depths of the mysterious space in the distance. He stepped forward and walked towards the stairs of light that led to heaven.

One floor, two floors...

Six steps.

He stepped onto the condensed gray cloud, then leaped up and stepped on the cloud formed by the gray fog.

A brilliant light gate stained with a hint of blue-black came into view. It was composed of countless layers of light balls. The main body of each light ball was a pile of twisted worms huddled together. Some of them were transparent, and some were translucent.

Above the light gate, thin black lines hung down, suspending one almost completely transparent "cocoon" after another.

"Sure enough, after Sequence 4, any member of the Gou San family can come to this large-scale 'bacon' scene."

Edward walked through it,

I saw these "cocoons" swaying gently, each wrapping a different soul. Some were black, some were yellow, and some were white. Some were wearing jeans, some were holding mobile phones, some were wearing bright clothes, and some had beautiful facial features. They all had the breath of life, but their eyes were closed.

Until he stopped in front of two broken "cocoons", which were empty and swaying in the wind - the Dark Goddess and Emperor Roselle left from here and were thrown into reality.

Then, connected to these two broken cocoons is...

I saw a slightly plump man with black hair, wearing a T-shirt and casual pants, who was dropped into a transparent cocoon. He had his eyes closed, as if he was fast asleep, and there was no sign that he had been hanging here for thousands of years.

——Klein.

Chapter 458 Three-paragraph summary

No, to be precise it should be Zhou Mingrui.

"Hello, Lao Zhou... our first meeting really happened much earlier than I thought."

Edward waved and greeted him, half jokingly and half with an exclamation.

"I don't know. If I release Zhou Mingrui from the 'cocoon' now, what will happen? Oh, that would be a real mess. So messed up... I don't even know how to 'fix' it."

It's better not to do anything stupid.

Walking around these hundreds of cocoons, Edward could roughly judge from their attire that they were hung up at about the same time. Just from the mobile phones they were holding, there were no epoch-making changes.

This can also roughly infer the time of the last world "destruction".

The reason for its destruction was nothing more than a struggle between the two pillars, and the "doomsday" more than ten years later was actually a similar situation - it makes people despair just thinking about it.

After walking around, Edward returned to the entrance. He glanced at Zhou Mingrui and said, "Klein, see you in two hundred years."

Back in the magnificent palace above the gray fog, Edward began to summarize what it meant to him to enter Sefirah Castle:

"Being able to enter Sefirah Castle is indeed a good thing for me, but I can only use its high status to divine and communicate with spirits. Isn't it a bit of a waste?"

Klein's greatest use of Sefirah Castle was the Tarot Club. He gathered a group of people and obtained all kinds of intelligence and knowledge, which enabled him to grow rapidly.

Then, should I follow Klein's example and bring a group of people up as well?

However, when Klein founded the Tarot Club, he was not even a Beyonder, so the Tarot Club was able to provide him with such great help. But as a Sequence 4 himself, what kind of people should he bring up to help him?

Should we follow the example of the ancient sun god and create a rose of redemption for an angel of average strength?

Hey, this needs to be done carefully - no matter how powerful [Madman on the Right] is inside Sefirah Castle, it can only be used once a day.

"However, there are still certain benefits to pulling people in."

Not to mention being able to gather a group of people to help me find Lilith, just pretending to be profound and mysterious is also extremely helpful in playing the role of a mystic.

Edward leaned back in his chair and put his legs on the bronze table. "Of course, I still have to solve a problem before that. That is... as the 'half-master' of Sefirah Castle, can I use the same three-step method as Klein to make others pray to me?"

First of all, it is my "divine name". It is impossible for me to carelessly use the title "Tower" to refer to myself, but there is no other more suitable card in the Tarot - uh, why do I have to argue with the Tarot?

Whether it is Klein's Fool, the Goddess of Night, or the Lord of Storms, they basically refer to the names of their respective path sequence 0, and I have two paths.

One is the Gate Path, and the other is... well, I really don't know what path it is, but its Sequence 9 is Fool - so it's the Fool Path?

ah!

Kill me.

Although the words "fool" and "idiot" have similar meanings, there is a world of difference between them.

If I really gave myself the divine name of "fool", then I would be a real fool.

So, we can only start from the door way?

Even though Mr. Men has not been promoted to Sequence 0, he must be the one closest to the Sequence 0 Gate. Starting from this direction, no matter how you think about it, it will lead to Mr. Men.

Besides, I don't know Mr. Men's prayer, otherwise I would have summoned him directly and asked him about Lilith.

Edward scratched his head, "What should I be called then?"

Huh?

He suddenly remembered a few key words that Adam had told him before his "death" about the person who was supposed to contain the uniqueness of the gate path:

"An outsider, the source of the end of the world, the initiator of everything, the savior."

He frowned and thought for a moment:

I am, of course, an outsider from a mysterious world.

Although the source of the Doomsday is unclear, the Elf Queen asked meaningfully when she mentioned the Doomsday: "Are you talking about yourself?"

At that time, Edward was thinking, could it be because he was a "reader who traveled through time", the so-called high-dimensional overwatcher that the squid mentioned? But even if that was the case, he would not be the source of the doomsday, let alone the initiator of everything - the high-dimensional overwatcher was at best one of the several outer gods surrounding the earth, not even a pillar.

However, outsiders did give me some inspiration.

Compared to the fools who "do not belong to this era", I am indeed an "outsider" - both to the mysterious world itself and to the current era.

"Then... a visitor from outside the world and time?"

Edward racked his brains and thought, "It seems that it should be able to point to me."

"But the first sentence is a bit low. Let me think, outside of the world and time... we can put it another way. The world + time combined together - dimension?"

"Yes! From outside the dimension... No! A visitor from above the dimension? That's a bit weird. He's already above the dimension, but he's still just a visitor?"

Edward scratched his head, and suddenly a word popped into his mind: latitude...dominance.

"The Lord above the dimension... the Eternal Lord."

This sounds a lot more awesome, but... can the word "dominate" really refer to me?

What about the second paragraph?

Klein is the "mysterious master above the gray fog", which makes him more targeted. What about me?

What description would be more accurate for me?

Perhaps, we can start from my other "fool" approach,

When I was a nerd at Sequence 6, I gained the ability of [Bookfish], which allows me to eat extraordinary words and gain extraordinary power. It is a core ability of mine at least in the early and middle stages of the path.

Simply put, I can draw strength from stories and words, so the second sentence can be:

"A recorder of stories and words? No, it's too bland."

Edward shook his head. "Then... the creator of the story?"

That's not right, I didn't create the story.

He scratched his head. What could that be... Oh, my Sequence 3 is called [Deconstruction Scholar], and the ceremony to advance to Sequence 3 is "Deconstruct a story and bring it into reality."

"So, the second sentence could be... the deconstructor of the story, and with an awesome prefix, it would be... the deconstructor of the endless story. Hmm, how about that for now?"

There was only one sentence left, and Edward's thoughts suddenly became clear:

"I came from the future to nearly two hundred years ago. I exist in the past and the future. I am not bound by time like other people or even gods. So the third sentence should be... a person who transcends the past and the future."

Edward smiled, and the three paragraphs together read:

"The eternal ruler of the dimension,

"The Deconstructor of the Endless Story,

"Transcendence of the past and the future."

He snapped his fingers, and the sound echoed in the empty palace, "That's it!"

He took his legs back from the bronze table and sat up straight:

"The next step is to find a 'lucky audience' and try to see if these three steps can successfully point to me."

Edward pursed his chin, "Who are you looking for?"

...

"A-choo! A-choo! A-choo!"

Bernadette sneezed several times in a row, she rubbed her nose and continued eating.

Matilda immediately touched her forehead and asked, "Are you sick, Bernadette?"

"No~"

She shook her head. "My nose just itched suddenly. It's nothing. -Qi.Sheng.Xiao*Shuo+蛧_,Zhui/Zui_Xin/Zhang/Jie~"

As soon as she finished speaking, her right eye twitched inexplicably, and a strange feeling came over her:

"Why...I suddenly feel like something bad is going to happen?"

It must be an illusion!

She took her own small knife and fork and painstakingly cut off a large piece of beef. She nodded with satisfaction and was about to fork it up to eat when she heard a shout from behind: "Ha!"

Bernadette was startled and turned around hurriedly, just in time to see her father Roselle leaning over and swallowing the beef she had cut with great difficulty.

"Mmm~ It's delicious. It's no wonder that my baby cut it for me personally."

"!!!"

Bernadette was furious, "Dad, you are so insidious!"

"I call this wisdom~"

Russell chewed the beef proudly, sat down in his seat, yawned, picked up a glass of sweet iced tea and drank it in one gulp, then yawned refreshingly.

Bernadette snorted, "Did Dad go to a cocktail party at noon?"

"No!"

"Your nose has gotten longer!"

"Really not. If you don't believe me, ask mom."

Matilda smiled gently. She had always been a very simple and innocent woman. She knew very well what kind of person her husband was like in daily life. But as long as the family could sit together for dinner, she would be very satisfied and happy.

Russell really didn't lie this time, and he wasn't in the mood to attend any cocktail party.

Since he discovered the suspected time traveler last night, he did not sleep well the whole night. The next morning, he went to the newspaper to post the reward, and then sat in the study room waiting for the time traveler to come for the appointment.

Unfortunately, a whole day passed and I didn't see even a single person.

It was not until it was dark that he suddenly felt hungry and remembered that he had not eaten all day, so he came to the restaurant following the smell.

After eating a large piece of steak and roast chicken, the warmth and satisfaction in his stomach immediately restored Russell's spirit, and he began to think about the matter of the "time traveler" again.

He was both disappointed and relieved that the time traveler did not show up.

Disappointed that he was still alone in this strange world, but relieved because if another time traveler did appear, but with bad character...

As the saying goes, when fellow villagers meet, they stab each other in the back.

"Bernadette."

Russell looked at his daughter and said, "Has your Uncle Green come to see you today?"

"…"

Bernadette raised her head and looked at her father strangely - she was now very sure that the person who gave her Pinocchio and the Little Mermaid was not Uncle Green at all.

But Dad seems to want to pretend to be confused, that's not right!

It's like calling a deer a horse!

She bit her fork, hesitating in her heart: Should I tell my father about the mysterious man?

Chapter 459 The First "Believer"

If you tell your dad, he will definitely find a way to catch that person, and not only will your nose become longer, but there will also be no more magical dolls like that.

But if I don't tell Dad, what if that person wants to harm Mom and Dad? — No, don't worry at all! Dad is so powerful, he is the only one who wants to harm others.

She quickly went through a "brainstorming" in her mind, and finally decided to keep it secret - it seemed to be a decision made after careful consideration, but in fact it was the inevitable result of the influence of her [Secret-Keeping] ability.

Thinking of this, Bernadette shook her head, "Uncle Green never came to see me."

"oh."

Russell nodded casually, "Okay, you guys take your time eating, Dad has things to do. Let's go to the restaurant soon-"

"Goodbye, Dad."

Bernadette turned to her mother again, "Mom, I'm full~"

She jumped off the chair, ran out of the restaurant, and then went all the way back to her room. After making sure that no one was following her, she closed the door, locked it, and took out the Little Mermaid doll from the small cabinet under the bed.

Then touch it gently and "come" to the increasingly beautiful island again.

Just like before, the little mermaid sang a song and then swam back to the beach. Then her beautiful fish tail quickly turned into legs and she walked towards Bernadette.

"ah!"

Bernadette was stunned, then she said anxiously: "No! Don't go ashore, the prince doesn't even know that you saved him!"

At this moment, the Little Mermaid's figure twisted and turned into Edward's appearance: "It's me."

"…"

The anxiety on Bernadette's face froze, and she grabbed a handful of sand and threw it at him angrily, but Edward's figure seemed transparent and allowed the sand to pass through.

"Why are you here again?"

Bernadette muttered, "Don't you know that men can't enter a girl's room casually? How annoying!" After a pause, "It's been three times, and you still haven't told me who you are and what you want to do in my house."

"I said it at the beginning. I just wanted to see the legendary 'Son of Steam'. It just happened that you found me. I came here just to see if you kept your promise to me."

"Why can't you see my dad through normal channels? You are definitely not a good person!"

"Haha, I'm just an ordinary person, but your father is a famous figure in Instee and the church. How can I see him whenever I want?"

Edward walked over to her and sat down. "Since you think I'm not a good person, why aren't you afraid of me?"

"Why should I be afraid of you?"

She snorted, "You approached me only to harm Dad and use me to deal with Dad, but I am safe until you take action."

"But my dad is the most powerful man in the world! He's not afraid of your schemes! As long as you expose them, he'll catch you in a minute! So, I advise you to give up all your inappropriate thoughts. Just give me all the magical dolls, and I can help you speak well of them in front of dad and let him reward you."

Her words were indeed "well-founded", and she even used threats and inducements at the end, but the only problem was that she seemed to have too much faith in Roselle's ability.

It's not her fault. After all, she's only five or six years old, which is the age when she thinks her father is omnipotent - not to mention, Russell has indeed acted quite "omnipotent" over the years.

"Don't worry."

Edward smiled and said, "I never thought of doing anything bad to your father. I am more interested in you than in Russell."

"…"

"???"

"!!!"

In an instant, Bernadette's expression changed three times. She quickly moved away from Edward and stared at him warily with her blue eyes: "You are really a pervert!"

Bang!

"Ouch!"

Edward teleported over and tapped her on the head, "What does Russell usually teach you? Is there any father like this?"

She immediately became angry and looked like she was going to pounce on me: "Don't you dare say bad things about Dad!"

"Okay, okay, Roselle is the best, okay?"

Edward was too lazy to argue with the kid, so he just said something perfunctory and got to the point, "Bernadette, I need you to do me a favor."

"Hehe, you said you didn't want to harm dad, but now your fox tail is exposed, right?"

Bernadette narrowed her eyes. "Do you want me to help you drug Dad, or secretly put something on him? Or, reveal his secret itinerary to you?"

Was the mysterious queen's mind so complicated when she was a child?

"It has nothing to do with your father."

He was a little helpless. "Just follow me and say three sentences."

"What?"

Edward read in Hermetic language: "The first sentence is, the eternal ruler of the dimension."

"???"

Bernadette blinked in confusion, "I don't understand what you are saying."

Oh yes, Hermetic is a mysterious language, so it's normal that she hasn't learned it at such a young age.

However, seeing the confusion on her face, Edward began to doubt whether she really had never learned it or was just pretending to be stupid.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just remember the pronunciation and repeat it."

Bernadette frowned and thought for a moment, "Say it again."

"The eternal master above the dimension."

"The eternal... master... above the dimension."

Edward continued: "The Deconstructor of the Neverending Story,"

"The deconstructor of endless... stories."

Last sentence:

"Transcendence of the past and the future."

"The past and the future... the transcendent."

Watching her mumbling to herself, Edward couldn't help but recall that not long ago, he and Bernadette were in the God-Forsaken Land. At that time, he also recited a sentence and she repeated it, but the only difference was that she was reciting the Fool's Prayer.

Edward did not add any flowers or herbs to the end of these three paragraphs. In fact, those are only symbolic. Only the first three sentences can really play a role.

After reading the last sentence, she asked in confusion, "What do these three sentences mean?"

Hearing the voice of little Bernadette, he smiled slightly: "It is a spell to contact me. If you need to find me in the future, just recite these three sentences."

"Ah? But I didn't remember."

"Then I'll repeat it again, don't forget it." Edward said, "The eternal ruler of the dimension, the deconstructor of endless stories, the transcendent of the past and the future."