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: Amon's AttackChapter 1041: Amon's Attack

"Is it unsafe for you to stay in the basement of the church?" Pales Zoroast asked, then he made a "tsk" sound and answered seriously, "Those people didn't even notice that the characteristics and seals were stolen, because even the idea of ​​suspicion was stolen by me… You continue to stay here, and there will be no problem once I completely absorb the characteristics."

"clear."

Leonard nodded in response, sat back at his desk, and casually pulled out a research report on the "Tarot Club". He pretended to concentrate on studying it, but in his heart he was quite looking forward to the sealed object that would soon belong to him.

After an unknown amount of time, a grayish-white mist appeared before his eyes. In the mist, a figure that seemed to be in a dark wilderness bowed his head and prayed:

"Respected Mr. Fool, please convey this to Mr. Star… Does he know how to eliminate those clones of Amon the Blasphemer without alerting his real body?"

This is the voice of "World" Klein... Clear the clones!

Leonard, who was holding the research report in his hand and thinking about the actions of the Pallez clone, suddenly became nervous when he heard this phrase, and his body, which was sitting in the chair, straightened up.

Could it be that Klein met Amon in the "Forsaken Land of Gods"... The old man had said before that Amon would definitely try to wait for him in that land, capture him, and use this opportunity to do something to Mr. Fool...

Leonard waited for the gray fog that conveyed the information to dissipate, stood up from the chair, locked the door, and then called out in a low voice:

"Old man? Are you done?

"Old man?"

"I'm busy. I'm picking a nice name for your sealed item. What's up?"

The old voice in his head made a nasty joke.

"That's it..." Leonard ignored the other party's sarcasm and conveyed Klein's request to Him, "Besides the method you used to eliminate Amon's clone in Backlund last time, do you have any other methods?"

"How can it be so easy to deal with an avatar of the Angel King without leaking any information?"

After a long pause, Pales continued to answer.

"The reason we were able to succeed last time was because he prayed for the power of the Secret, which gave me the opportunity to activate the Aggregation and absorb the characteristics of all of Backlund's Amon clones and the Worm of Time. Otherwise, any clone would get a response from the original body as long as they said their honorific name. If they have reached the status of an angel, they can even skip this step... So, can your former colleague get the help of the Secret this time?"

"It should be difficult."

Leonard recalled the various anomalies in the "God-Forsaken Land" and the out-of-control divine power revealed by Klein, and shook his head.

"Then let him go around. Even if he can kill a clone in a sneak attack, the remaining Beyonder characteristics will take away all the information when they return to the main body. He can't stop it."

Pales paused again before answering.

The old man really looked busy... But would answering Klein like this disappoint him too much... Leonard walked back and forth in the office a few times and continued to test,

"Is there no other way?"

"The return of the clone's characteristics is a process of 'stealing' and 'returning'. It cannot be stopped by ordinary methods. At least the power of Sequence 1 must be possessed, which is not much different from Amon's original body, in order to destroy those Time Worms and intercept the Beyonder characteristics..."

Pales answered much faster this time.

"Well, you tell him that if the strength of Amon's clones has not reached Sequence 2, they can use the same high-level spells that you used against the Black Knight in their attacks. This will hopefully severely damage the Time Worm in the clones and prevent the transmission of intelligence.

"But there are too many risks involved. To stop the clone from reciting the Honorable Name, we need to capture all the clones nearby. Missing one would mean leaking information... It's better to let him go around."

Leonard carefully took note of Pales' words, repeated them in his mind, and asked in surprise:

"Isn't this what Angel did when he eliminated Backlund's Amon clone?"

"That's right. But if I hadn't had 'Convergence' at that time, most of the Time Worms and Beyonder characteristics would still have run away. Of course, your former colleague had the help of 'The Fool', so perhaps the result would have been better."

Pales commented on the result of Angel's last battle, and then said:

"Well, the characteristics left by the Jacob family belong to me."

So fast... Leonard was a little happy at first, but then a feeling of loss surged in his heart.

He knew that the completion of this task meant that the old man was one step closer to leaving him.

"Why, are you worried that I will recover and leave you?" The old voice in his mind sounded again, "You don't need to worry about this, because it is bound to happen… But I still need to slowly digest the characteristics of this Sequence 2 and truly use it for my own benefit. You should just focus on completing your role and ascend to Demigod."

The old man meant that He would not leave until I became a demigod...

Leonard felt a little relieved as he packed up his documents and left the office. He walked out of the basement like he usually did after get off work, said hello to a few colleagues he met, and walked towards Pinster Street.

When he got home, he relayed the information to Klein. He had Angel's help, so he had no shortage of high-level spells... Haha, he had to get another "Disaster" this time. Hmm, should he give this one to Sherman?

With ideas running through his mind one after another, Leonard happily pushed open the door of No. 7 Pinster Street, hung his windbreaker on the porch, and went to the living room with a fireplace.

The fire was burning, and a warm feeling came over him, but Leonard felt cold from head to toe.

Sitting on the rocking chair that belonged to him was a black-haired young man wearing a classical black robe and a wizard's hat, sitting with his legs crossed and reading a newspaper.

Under Leonard's horrified gaze, the other party raised his head, and the crystal monocle in his right eye socket reflected the light of the fire.

This is the Blasphemer Amon!

Amon, who was supposed to be waiting for Klein's arrival in the God-Forsaken Land and spreading his clones everywhere to look for clues, appeared in Backlund, and was even sitting cross-legged in his house reading a newspaper!

In the battle to eliminate Backlund's Amon clone, Leonard had seen the appearance of the Angel King and knew of his various evil deeds and horrific methods, but his sluggish brain refused to understand the situation, and his body froze in place, as if his ability to move had been stolen.

He could hear a series of whispers, as if countless Amons in the air were talking to him at the same time:

"Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"

"You thought I was still in the 'Forsaken Land'? He can't run away, so why should I stay there all the time?"

"Compared to the fight for Sefirah Castle, the characteristics of the last Sequence 1 are what I need most right now."

"The disappearance of Backlund's clone made me suspicious, and the subsequent investigation gave me some guesses... but in the end, what made me sure that you were hiding in Backlund was the treasure of the Jacob family."

"Why do I know about that treasure? Of course, it's because I am the ancestor of Jacob's family."

"Haha, for quite a long time, I was both Amon of the Amon family and Jacob of the Jacob family. This state lasted for hundreds of years before the 'Worm of Time' truly belonged to me. Naturally, I was aware of all their arrangements."

"I left a hidden clone there that no other clone knows about, except for the original. His only purpose is to guard the 'Fate Horse' feature and see who will come to steal it..."

"When your clone couldn't resist greed and followed those guys from the Fate Hermit Society into the treasure, the ending was already determined."

"You must be wondering now why I dare to enter this city in my original form without worrying about the arrival of the gods at any time..."

One sentence after another of mumbling entered Leonard's brain, making his mind chaotic. His spirit and body were almost out of control. The former showed signs of splitting, and the latter was wriggling and mutating. Black wolf hair grew on his face, and his waist and ribs under his shirt bulged as if he was about to stretch out new arms.

At this moment, his mouth suddenly opened uncontrollably, and the almost unbearable pain deep in his throat burst out as a roar, but at the last moment it turned into a word in Giant language, which was stolen and taken back three times, echoing in the living room:

"Leodro!"

"Do you think I would come here without making corresponding preparations?"

Amon pushed his monocle and stood up from the rocking chair. The newspaper on his knees slipped off and fell onto the neatly inlaid stone floor, where each tile was larger than the entire living room.

Around the two men, dark stone pillars had been erected one after another, forming a magnificent church that was hundreds of meters long, wide, and equally astonishingly high. The surrounding walls and the vaulted ceiling were embedded with countless bones, looking down at the tiny Leonard and Pallez Zoroast who temporarily controlled his body.

Isolated by this "Church of Bones", the name of "Lord of Storms" that Pales shouted in Giant language disappeared in the empty church hall before it could be heard out.

"With this church of bones that I stole, it will take the Tyrant and the Night at least thirty seconds to find out what happened here..."

Amon smiled, his eyes fixed on Leonard, as if he could see through Leonard's body the "Time Worm" characteristics that would soon belong to him.

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"The 'School of Truth' is also looking for Roselle's tomb... What is their purpose? Are they trying to revive the 'Black Emperor' or replace him? What's so special about the 'Wishing Lamp'? Is there another 'Ancient Scholar' who has completed his role and is waiting to be promoted besides me?"

Klein, who had summoned his historical projection once again to explore the area around Silver City, was analyzing the information Angel had conveyed earlier when he suddenly heard a prayer from Leonard's voice.

He responded so quickly, so it should still be afternoon over there... He looked up at the dark sky that was almost no longer flashing with lightning. Klein skillfully entered the mist of history, took four steps backwards and arrived at the palace in the gray fog. He was immediately startled and broke into a cold sweat.

He had been on high alert, racking his brains to figure out how to deal with Amon's real body, but he had already secretly left the God-Forsaken Land and used the traps that had been set in the Jacob family's treasure in the Fourth Epoch to find Pales Zoroast hiding in Backlund?

If Pales hadn't thrown Leonard out of the Church of Bones at the last minute, giving him the opportunity to pray to the Fool, by the time he discovered this, Amon would have digested all of his characteristics!

This was certainly due to Amon's careful planning and Pales's inability to resist temptation, but Klein's own "viewpoint" undoubtedly played an important role.

If Klein hadn't mentioned to Leonard that Amon would be waiting for him in the God-Forsaken Land, Pales, the archangel who had carefully hidden for a thousand years, would never have dared to easily get involved with the "Trojan Horse of Fate" feature. It would have been a better choice to wait for a thief to swallow it as a magic potion and then take it away after confirming that there was no risk.

But it was too late to say anything now... Looking at the figure of Leonard who was pushed out of the "Church of Bones" and landed on the street, praying desperately, inside the crimson star that belonged to the "Star", Klein's mind flashed one thought after another, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.

The next second, he suddenly picked up the "Star Staff" from the pile of debris, and with a flash of thought, a message was transmitted to Leonard's star:

"Go to church and pray to the night."

Then he thrust his jeweled staff into the image of crimson stars.

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Go to church...

Leonard heard Mr. Fool's instructions. He took a last look at the closed door of 7 Pinster Street. It was as peaceful and quiet as every time he returned home. It was nothing like the hundred-meter-high church of bones where two Sequence 1 Time Worms were fighting fiercely.

He took a deep breath and quickly summoned the spirit stored on the surface of his teeth, which wrapped him up and sank into the ground, rushing towards the church not far away at a speed far exceeding that of a steam train.

The moment he disappeared, another figure emerged in the air amidst the twinkling starlight. His long hair was as thick as a poisonous snake and draped behind his head. His eyes turned completely purple and his whole body exuded endless charm. Even the white bones of different races on the surface of the "Church of Corpses" were awed by him.

He looked around and immediately fixed his eyes on the main entrance of the Church of Bones.

This is Angel, manifested by Klein using the power of the Star Staff.

And it was Angel's "Mirror Man" who had restored the strength of the Sequence 1 "Doomsday" witch in the mausoleum of George III!

If Klein was in the real world and tried to summon Angel's Mirror Man with the "Star Staff", he would almost certainly fail. Because he had never actually seen the "Mirror Man" who temporarily restored his strength with the "Yesterday Reappearance" spell. Even if he had seen it, it would be difficult for him to perfectly reproduce all the details in his mind, especially those abilities whose principles he did not understand.

However, when he is inside the "Source Castle", his status will be improved accordingly, and he can also get help from the power of gray fog when using the seal of the "Apprentice" path. Only by using Angel's body, which has entered and exited the gray fog space many times, as a template to manifest the "Man in the Mirror" will there be a high probability of success.

When this "Doomsday" witch descended on Backlund, even though he was in Sefirah Castle, Klein felt his spirituality draining away as quickly as if a faucet had been turned on.

This is the price of Sequence 3 summoning Sequence 1!

He clenched the Star Staff and looked at Angel's "Mirror Man" floating on Pinster Street through the vision left by Leonard's prayer. The latter's eyes and the eyeballs on his snake hair were looking at the door of Leonard's house and the surface of the "Church of Bones".

The personhood of Sequence 1 "Doomsday" itself will become one of the symbols of the authority it represents, just as the appearance of the "Red Angel" means that the war it represents has come to Loen, and Angel's "Man in the Mirror" also brought the disaster of Doomsday to Backlund.

But under His conscious control, the "disaster" was only reflected on the dark, bone-covered surface of the church, and concentrated on the tightly closed main door.

In an instant, the bones turned into ashes, the black stone pillars and walls turned gray, and the entire wall where the main entrance of the church was located collapsed rapidly.

The barrier that blocked the communication between the spiritual world, the astral world and reality was broken, and the closed internal scene was finally revealed to the "Man in the Mirror" and Klein.

Inside the church, which should have been pitch black, bands of light with faint glows swirled and gathered, and together with the shadows they cast, condensed into a transparent crystal column. Inside, the "Time Worms" that Klein was familiar with kept wriggling.

It was held in the hands of Amon, who wore a pointed hat and a monocle in his right eye.

Looking at Angel's "Man in the Mirror" who destroyed the main entrance of the Church of Bones that he had stolen with one strike, the blasphemer smiled, as if he knew very well that he was facing only a false projection summoned by the "Star Staff" and could only launch one attack.

He held up the extraordinary characteristics left by Pales in one hand, and placed the other hand on his chest. He bowed slightly, as if he was taking a curtain call and bidding farewell after a performance 1042: The cooperation is not very goodChapter 1042: The cooperation is not very good

Less than 20 seconds had passed, and Pales Zoroast, who was also Sequence 1 like Amon and had recently recovered most of his strength, was just like that... dead?

Klein was stunned as he looked at Pinster Street through the prayer light in the gray fog. He suspected that what appeared before him was just an illusion of Amon's mischief. He was actually still fighting with Pales for the qualification of Sequence 0 of the "Thief" pathway.

However, his spiritual intuition, enhanced by the Sefirah Castle, told him that the person standing in the "Church of Bones" that he had seen once during the battle between Adam and Ouroboros was Amon's real body, and what He held in His hand was the Beyonder Characteristics that originally belonged to Pallez.

From the information obtained from Leonard's brief, anxious prayer, as well as the scene he saw after "arriving at the scene", Klein was able to infer the general course of the battle based on the results:

before Leonard returned home, Amon had already used the arrangement in the Jacob family treasure to lock onto the Pales clone who stole the "Fate Trojan Horse" feature. He ventured into Backlund without any delay, and based on his spying on fate and predictions of Pales and Leonard's movements, he arrived at No. 7 Pinster Street in advance, waiting for the prey to fall into his trap.

The moment he discovered Amon, Pales ended the parasitism and left Leonard's body. He pushed Leonard out of the blockade area at the moment when the "Corpse Church" blocked the reality, the spirit world and the astral world. He stayed behind to fight Amon and meet his own fate.

On one side is the Angel King who has been planning for a long time and has absolute power advantage, while the other side has not yet fully recovered its strength and was distracted and let Leonard go. The outcome of the battle can be imagined.

His thoughts gradually became clear. On the one hand, Klein felt sorry that the last conscience of Pales, the thief, was devoured by Amon. On the other hand, he felt that the arrival of Amon in person was a great opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the opponent.

This is Backlund, ruled by darkness and storms. At this moment, a wall of the "Church of Bones" has been broken, and the God may appear at any time!

Thinking of this, he immediately waved the "Star Staff", and Angel's beautiful face appeared in his mind again, outlining all the familiar details, and then connected it with the man in the mirror who exposed his identity as the "Fool". With the connection between the gray fog and the prayer light, he summoned the projection of the "Doomsday" witch on Pinster Street for the second time.

——The first person who smashed open the Church of Bones was no longer able to launch another attack and disappeared on his own.

But just as the new Angel "Man in the Mirror" focused his gaze on Amon, wanting to bring inevitable destruction and doomsday to this "blasphemer", the latter did not resist at all, but gracefully waved the hand holding the "Worm of Time" crystal column, causing the undamaged corpses of various races, the dark walls and stone pillars, and the towering dome around him to collapse as if they had lost their support, and dissipated before they hit the ground.

The same is true of His own body.

Obviously, this was a "mistake", which allowed His true body to become an illusion along with the Skeleton Church that ended its materialization, and thus leave Backlund.

"Don't be complacent. Angel's destructive power can be used in conjunction with 'Harvest' and 'Precision' to attack the clone and harm the original body!"

Klein thought viciously, the corpse of Zaratul falling in front of him appeared in his mind. Just as he was expecting something, he found a black cloud gathering over Backlund, with lightning flashing inside. A ball of lightning fell towards Pinster Street like a cannonball, passed through the church of bones that had not yet completely collapsed, and hit Amon's still smiling face.

His pointed hat turned to ashes, cracks appeared on his crystal monocle, and his body flashed with lightning, allowing Klein to almost see the "Time Worm" wandering inside.

But as the surrounding church of bones completely turned into an illusion, his body also disappeared in the lightning with the help of "error".

The real house at 7 Pinster Street was revealed. Behind the open door, there was a human-shaped scorch mark on the porch. It was the corpses left by countless Amon clones killed by lightning.

Then, they, along with the entire house, turned gray and white under the gaze of Angel's "Man in the Mirror", and then turned into powder, meeting their own end.

The lightning that was still crawling on the ground, searching for its target, paused noticeably and then became dim. The dark clouds above also quickly dissipated, revealing a dim sky.

On the messy Pinster Street, the "Man in the Mirror" silently looked up at the sky. It was unclear whether he was looking at the clouds from which the "Lord of the Storm" was sending down his power, or at Klein on the ground through the gray fog. Then he also disappeared like a bubble.

"The coordination this time wasn't very good... or rather, it was awful. The lightning was clearly the power sent down by the 'Storm Lord' Leodro, but since He was not there in person, He could only kill His clones to vent His anger, and He couldn't leave His real body behind... And the man in the Angel mirror who had the chance to 'follow the network cable' lost his target because all of his clones were killed...

"It would be easy if it was the goddess who came. Her 'secret' ability should be able to prevent Amon from taking advantage of the 'error' she caused to leave, and she might even have a chance to snatch the Sequence 1 Thief's characteristic... Unfortunately, the first and only one to react was the 'Storm Lord'. She must be worried that after Amon and Adam both become gods, they will settle accounts with their father's former subordinates one by one...

"It seems that the goddess is in a very bad state now. She can't even descend to Backlund. It's okay to deal with a few Amon's clones, but it's difficult to deal with Amon's real body... Fortunately, I have come to the Land of the Gods, otherwise in Backlund, the goddess might not be able to protect me..."

After throwing the Star Staff back into the junk pile, Klein sighed as he looked at the razed No. 7 Pinster Street. He knew that since Amon had successfully escaped this time and had taken away the last Thief Sequence 1 characteristic, it wouldn't take long for him to become a true god, and a true god who was not restricted and could walk on the ground.

At that time, the "Fool", who is essentially not even Sequence 2, will become His first target.

"I hope the 'Thief's' godhood ritual is difficult enough so that I can have more time to improve my strength... I can ask Pale about this... Sigh..."

Klein muttered, then changed to the deep and serious tone of The Fool, and said something to the star that belonged to Leonard:

"No need to pray to the night."

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No need to pray...

Leonard had just run underground to the vicinity of the church and was about to rush into the prayer hall when he suddenly stopped, thinking about the words that appeared in his mind, with a look of loss and disappointment.

He lowered his head slightly, his lips moving, wanting to call out "old man" as usual, but he never opened his mouth.

It seemed that as long as he didn't shout out loud, Pales was still in his body, silently helping him observe his surroundings as usual, and only spoke to remind himself at critical moments.

"Old man…"

He finally called out in a low voice, as if saying goodbye.

"I'm busy. I'm checking to see if there's anything valuable in your collapsed house. What's going on?"

The old, tired voice that suddenly popped up in Leonard's mind made him raise his head sharply:

"Old man, you are not dead?"

Then he looked around suspiciously and walked towards St. Samuel Church, suspecting that the voice in his head was Amon, who had already devoured Pales, playing a prank.

"Don't worry. The lightning strike just now should have come from the 'Storm Lord'. In order to resist this attack, Amon should have abandoned all the clones gathered in Backlund and protected his own body to leave," Pales explained unhappily. The familiar tone made Leonard breathe a sigh of relief. "As for me, I died once, but I was 'resurrected' again."

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"I didn't expect that Pales actually left a part of the Time Worm in Leonard's body. After dying at the hands of Amon, he was able to give up the characteristics of that Sequence 1 and resurrect as a Sequence 2 in Leonard's body, which was considered his clone… The thief is really hard to kill, and has the same function as the puppet of the Fortune Teller…"

Klein, who was still above the gray fog, had not had time to leave when he received Leonard's joyful prayer, knowing that Pales had left half his life in a "self-degrading" way.

In this way, the question of why the battle ended in a short time that he had previously wondered about was answered:

Amon probably saw Pales's "escape route" and did not stop him from pushing Leonard out of the battlefield. In this way, Pales, who had a chance to survive, would not be determined to fight to the death, allowing him to have a greater chance of quickly obtaining the characteristics and leaving, so as to avoid being blocked in Backlund by the Storm Lord sent by God.

"He used my information about the God-Forsaken Land to paralyze Pales, and then surrounded Leonard, the means of his resurrection, and finally found a chance to escape from the attacks of the Lord of Storms and the Man in the Mirror... He is indeed one of the oldest angel kings..."

Even though Amon might be Klein's most formidable enemy in the future, he was still somewhat impressed by his opponent's methods.

Fortunately, the surviving Pales asked Leonard to bring some important information, including that Amon's body was likely severely damaged by the Storm Lord's attack, and he had to prepare for the godhood ceremony, so he probably had no time to care about Klein recently; it also included the key ritual content for Sequence 1 "Time Worm" to be promoted to Sequence 0 "Error":

In other deification ceremonies, he would take the other person's place.

"Will this not become the other's path? Or will they still maintain their own path after taking over? Recently, it seems that only Adam can use the 'trend of the times' to become a true god. I hope that their relationship is just a fake brotherhood, fighting each other for rituals until they are bloodied..."

Klein cursed a few times, left the gray fog and returned to the pitch-black "God-Forsaken Land". He looked towards the Silver City not far away again.

Since Amon's original body has been severely damaged at this time and there is no time to take care of his whereabouts, the plan to eliminate Amon's clones in the city can be put on the agenda.

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At the same time, Angel, who had just returned to Backlund after finishing her conversation with Alysia Tamara, sensed that someone was praying to her.

She entered the "mirror world" and found the prayer light among the many accumulated ones. She discovered that it was the red-haired, soft and handsome Elaine Soren who was chanting her name and offering a prayer.

"The 'witch' Tia who escaped from the Witch Cult and later joined Elaine's fleet wants to see me?

"And is she related to the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom