With the Klein in front of Amon turning into The Fool card, the room shrank and revealed its original appearance.
It was an iron cigar case that had marks of being corroded slightly. It had fused with the aura of Sefirah Castle.
Kleinās figure appeared out of nowhere as the entire divine kingdom of The Fool collapsed. As the magnificent palace reappeared, he grabbed the vessel that carried The Fool card and Amonās true body and suddenly closed it.
He didnāt have hopes of using this item to seal Amon, who wielded the corresponding authority of the Door pathway. All he wanted was to buy some time and find a chance to throw Amon out of Sefirah Castle and retrieve the initiative.
But at that moment, Klein, who was wearing a black trench coat, paused.
His other hand took out a crystal monocle from the void with his other hand and placed it in his right eye.
Behind him, Amon, who was wearing a pointed hat and a classic black robe, quickly outlined āHisā figure. āHisā eyes were dark and wild as āHeā laughed.
āWhat made you think that I didnāt use an avatar?ā
Before āHeā finished his sentence, Kleinās figure that had been parasitized rapidly turned thin, turning into a crude paper figurine.
Klein was cautious and hadnāt used his true form either. He relied on a Paper Figurine Substitute that had Spirit Body Threads āGrafted.ā
He knew very well that he would rather give up an opportunity than make mistakes when fighting Amon. Once he made a mistake, under the suppression effect of a Bug, it would be very difficult for him to turn the tables.
With regards to the situation of the prey turning into a paper figurine, Amon didnāt seem to be surprised. All āHeā did was raise āHisā hand to touch the crystal monocle.
At the other end of the grand palace, Klein, who was wearing a top hat and a trench coat, uncontrollably walked out of The Foolās automatic concealment.
He raised his right hand and took out a crystal monocle from the void with great difficulty, slowly moving it towards his right eye.
During this process, Kleinās expression was filled with resistance and rather warped, as though he couldnāt control his hand.
The half-crazy Amon smiled leisurely.
āYou can use paper figurines to replace you, but so can paper figurines replace you.
āIt being āParasitizedā is equivalent to you being āParasitized.ā
āEverything is relative, and all of them have loopholes. No Beyonder power is uncrackable. They can be used in any suitable situation.ā
āHeā made use of the relationship of the Paper Figurine Substitute and the main body to create a bug.
Although Amon looked like āHeā was unable to control āHisā desire to speak due to āHisā madness, it didnāt stop āHimā from corroding Klein with āHisā full strength. āHeā strengthened the āParasitizingā bit by bit, making Klein truly wear a monocle and become āHim.ā
At that moment, Kleinās body suddenly collapsed. He had taken the initiative to do so.
He split into countless transparent maggots that swam in all directions.
Among these Worms of Spirit, there were a few Worms of Time with twelve segments mixed in.
Strictly speaking, Amonās Worms of Time could forcefully āParasitizeā very tiny creatures like the Worms of Spirit. However, when Klein split up, he took the initiative to use his āFoolingā authority to confuse the order of time. He āFooledā the few Worms of Time, making them split up only towards the end. Unable to find the cluster of Worms of Spirit, they lost their target for āParasitizing.ā
In the next second, the scene in Sefirah Castle changed again. Klein once again used the Realm of Mysteries powers to create a new divine kingdom for The Fool.
Amon instantly entered a room.
This place was covered with a thick yellow carpet with a crystal chandelier hanging from it. There was a door on each wall, and it was unknown where they led to.
At the same time, there were oil paintings depicting various eyes hanging from the four walls.
There was no need for any special scrutiny. With just a glance, Amon knew that the four doors corresponded to different effects. The main purpose was to delay āHisā actions and create enough time for Klein to make subsequent preparations.
The corners of Mr. Error curled up slightly as āHeā cast āHisā gaze to the ground.
āHeā extended āHisā right fist and stretched out āHisā fingers.
An illusory door appeared on the thick yellow carpet.
The door quickly moved for a second before it became fixed in place and silently opened.
However, with the opening of the illusory door, the doors around the room began to move strangely. The doors creaked and opened!
Almost at the same time, in the pitch-black wilderness, in a dark tower that led to the sky, Klein was holding the Magic Wishing Lamp and removing the effects of āFoolingā on the Trunsoest Brass Book.
The candlewick of the Magic Wishing Lamp lit up as it spewed out a sticky, pale-gold glow.
These rays of light transformed into a distorted, blurry figure.
Klein didnāt consider making a wish with the Genie to transfer Bernadetteās wishes onto him and change the ownership of the Magic Wishing Lamp. This was because there would only be one outcome. He would die on the spot and return from the fog of history with the Miracle Invokerās powers.
Normally, this was a good way to escape, especially since Klein could revive several times.
However, the situation this time was completely different from before.
Once Klein died, it would mean that he had temporarily given up on his identity as the owner of Sefirah Castle, making this place a paradise for Amon. āHeā could use this sefirah without any obstruction.
Under such circumstances, Amon could completely āFoolā history, interfere with fate, and suppress Kleinās resurrection, making him truly die.
The ones who were most effective against a Beyonder were definitely Higher-Sequence Beyonders of the same pathway.
Therefore, Kleinās current plan was to use the status of the Genie to better use the Trunsoest Brass Book.
If the Genie didnāt exert a certain influence, the rules set by the Trunsoest Brass Book definitely wouldnāt be biased towards Klein. It would only restrict all existences other than itself.
As the Genieās blurry, pale-gold figure took form, the Trunsoest Brass Book produced the sound of colliding metal and quickly flipped to the second half of the book that allowed writing.
Without any gap in time, new text appeared on the brass page:
āTheft is prohibited here!ā
If Klein had the choice, the most suitable rule would be āActs of theft are prohibited hereā because the former clause was a law. It couldnāt stop someone from committing theft ahead of time, and it could only deliver punishment after the act. Furthermore, punishment for first-time thieves was inevitably light, something the Amons could withstand. His idea restricted the possibility of such actionsāthere was no such thing as theft.
However, there was no way for the Trunsoest Brass Book to make such a rule right now. One had to wait until the provisions were watertight enough, and that it had awakened to a certain extent before that was possible.
Previously, the Genie had relied on āHisā close connection with the Trunsoest Brass Book, āHisā high status, and all āHisā strength before āHeā could enforce similar rules. At this moment, āHeā was already drained and unable to do such things.
At present, all Klein could do was try his best to stall for time so that the Trunsoest Brass Book could produce a sufficiently strict setup of laws to target Amon so as to act in concert with his āFoolingā authority.
At this moment, in the room that trapped Amon.
As the illusory door on the ground opened, the four real doors shook and cracks appeared.
This would bring about many unknown effects.
Suddenly, the sound of a bell rang out from an endless distance away.
At some point in time, Amon had transformed into an ancient, mottled stone wall clock. On the wall clock, the second hand formed by the Worm of Time suddenly paused.
Gong!
As the bell reverberated, everything in the room froze strangely, including the four doors.
The only exception was Amon. āHeā had transformed back to āHisā pointy-hatted, classic black-robed look. With a smile, āHeā calmly raised āHisā left hand and tightened āHisā five fingers.
In the next second, the strange frozen state was broken. The four doors that were about to open had closed again with a bang, leaving no gaps behind.
Amonās figure descended and burrowed into the illusory door that wasnāt closed.
Just as āHeā used this method to leave the room, āHeā discovered that āHeā had arrived in a pitch-black wilderness. There was a dark tower that seemed to pierce the sky in the distance.
Inside the tower, the Trunsoest Brass Book in front of Klein had formed a second rule:
āDeception is prohibited here!ā
Although Amon couldnāt see what was happening, it was as though āHeā had sensed something. After all, a high-ranking person who used the rules of deception as entertainment was undoubtedly able to sense the changes in the rules. Otherwise, there was no way of accurately finding loopholes.
āHeā immediately raised āHisā hand and adjusted the monocle stuck in āHisā right eye.
On the surface of the crystal monocle, a blinding, pure white light spewed out, illuminating the wilderness. There were no longer any concealed existences here.
This was the āeternal daytimeā that āHeā had previously given to Klein and retrieved from Kleinās āmain bodyā!
In such an environment, the dark tower melted inch by inch. Klein floated in midair with one hand holding the Magic Wishing Lamp, and the other holding the Staff of the Stars. In front of him was the open Trunsoest Brass Book.
Amon took the opportunity to stretch out āHisā hand that was holding onto the monocle. From a distance, āHeā gripped Kleinās projection to his palm.
Behind him, the shadow that had been dragged out by the āeternal daytimeā seemed to become fainter as it twisted with vitality.
Without a sound, Amon began āStealingā Kleinās various Beyonder powers.
āHeā didnāt deliberately seek out the āFoolingā authority. Instead, āHeā chose to be random to increase the success rate.
However, with a flash of light, what fell into āHisā palm was only a simple paper figurine.
Grafting!
Pa!
The shadow behind Amonās back was lashed by an invisible whip, and āHeā was completely unharmed.
āHeā created an error, letting āHisā shadow replace āHim.ā
Following that, Amon laughed as āHisā voice resounded in Kleinās ears.
āGenie, I can also promise to send you back to the cosmos.
āLook, I wasnāt punished. This means that Iām not swindling you.ā