Chapter 423: William I

The "Survival Act" was pushed by the two major Churches and the Dream Sect; no one could resist it, and the nobles could only accept it.

And once one accepts such things, there will be countless times; as long as the nobles accepted it once, it became very easy to make them make changes the next time.

Later, because of John Constantine's interference, the credit for the "Survival Act" went to the Churches, but after that, the legal reform, with the support of the two major Churches, became even more rigid, breaking through all the defenses of the landed nobles and conservatives.

Recently, Duke Negan died, and the conservatives lost their leader...

"The Augustus Family is plotting to become a god!"

Klein suddenly felt his heart trembling; he could be said to have seen a god-ascension ritual at close range in the Southern Continent, and that sense of shock had been buried deep in his heart.

"Sequence 1 'Hand of Order'... equivalent to the rules..." Concepts related to this kept flashing through Klein's mind.

"Wrong! I have always been focusing on George III, focusing on Adam, but the person who truly wants to become a god is the ancestor of the Augustus Family!"

"That 'Founder', William Augustus!"

The person in Loen who can achieve equivalence to the rules is not George III, but the Founder William I!

The original legal code of Loen's founding came from William I, William I's portrait is on Loen banknotes, William I's bronze statue stands on Order Mountain, and every law of Loen is engraved on the legal documents on Order Mountain, held in the hands of William I's bronze statue...

More than a thousand years ago, this origin of the Augustus Family had already subtly linked himself with legal rules; by now, it already had a bit of the feeling of the Evernight Church, having merged into the subconscious of the Loen populace.

"George III is just a spokesperson pushed to the front by William I; those things he said to me and the two Archbishops last time might not be untrue!"

He really was holding his own Angel ritual, and he truly became an Angel, but his Angel ritual was only an inconspicuous part of this legal reform.

Previously, Klein had divined above the Gray Fog, and the conclusion reached was wrong, but now it seems there might be other interpretations, pointing perhaps to the part that was concealed.

"Is all of this Adam's arrangement?" Klein suddenly felt a bit afraid, grabbed the Causality Thread of the Phosphor Worm Above the Gray Fog, and arrived Above the Gray Fog.

"Is it this perverted?" Klein only felt that everything he had done as John Constantine had been arranged.

"No, those were all things I wanted to do..." Klein's Spirituality did not give any premonition of being arranged.

But isn't that even more terrifying? Klein was speechless.

"Letting all my actions push the trend of the era, yet all of this still stems from my own will; is this... 'Imagination'?"

"Beware of the 'Spectator'." At this moment, Klein felt that Roselle's warning was truly too reasonable.

"William Augustus..." Klein thought of this "Founder"; he had now basically confirmed his conjecture.

Perhaps the "Hidden Angel" had long known the key to this, and only let him come to investigate and confirm it.

"Then what should I do next?" Klein suddenly felt a bit lost; a god-ascension ritual was not something he could influence, and the subsequent investigation would even require going deep into opposing the Storm Church.

"Or rather, what is the thing the 'Hidden Angel' truly wants to know?" Klein's eyes gradually brightened.

"The ritual and the matter of William I, the 'Hidden Angel' already knows; then what else is unclear?"

"The three Sequence 1 Characteristics and the Unique!"

This is another key in the god-ascension ritual.

"But how can I investigate?" Klein only felt it was thorny; this kind of hidden knowledge was not something he could know.

"I can only continue to get closer to the Augustus Family." Klein could only think of this in the end; key figures of the Augustus Family must know the corresponding matters.

"However, I can ask others..." Klein's first thought was of the Arrodes Mirror and the Snake of Mercury.

"Let's go find Him first." Klein returned to Reality from the Gray Fog; with a thought, the marionette in the Phantom Realm set out, finding a suitable location to outline the summoning symbols.

"Coming to find me so late, don't you know that an infant's sleep is very important!?" The infant's complaining voice appeared in the darkness.

Klein arrived here and saw the little infant sucking its thumb.

Is your mentality really that good?

"I'll bring you a few Dream Special, limited-edition ice creams tomorrow..."

"Good! Ask whatever you want to know!" The infant pulled the thumb out of its mouth, wiped it on its chest, and said with a solemn expression.

"..." Klein was speechless, but he also knew the attraction that ice cream had for this Angel.

That special edition ice cream was something he manifested by drawing with Dream Phosphor, which could be absorbed by this Angel without side effects; just this point made Him unable to refuse, not to mention that the ice cream was indeed delicious.

"I want to know the whereabouts of the three 'Hand of Order' Characteristics and the Unique."

"'Hand of Order' and the Unique?" The infant blinked its big eyes, looking at Klein.

"Fine, for the sake of the Dreamland Ice Cream..." He muttered softly, and then explained to Klein.

"You know the 'Night Emperor', right? After dying in the Fourth Epoch, His Characteristics scattered to all parts of the world."

"William Augustus of Loen obtained one, Castiya obtained one, and another was taken away by the Trensost Family."

Klein's eyes lit up; Castiya was the royal family of the Feynapot Kingdom, with a status similar to the Augustus Family in Loen.

"What's going on with the Trensost Family?" He asked sincerely.

"They are the 'Night Emperor's' family; after the 'Night Emperor' died, the Trensost Empire disintegrated, and as the imperial family, they were hunted by various clans and could only hide at sea; now they are probably in the Mist Sea." The infant used its chubby little hands to draw the outline of the ocean.

"Then what about the Unique?" Klein thought for a moment; this Characteristic would not be easy to find.

"The Unique was taken back by Dream!" The infant's big eyes reflected Klein's stunned expression.

"Taken back... by Dream?" Klein had not expected this answer.

"That's right, what do you think Dream used to establish the entire world's financial system? It's countless Characteristics!"

"Dream possesses the largest treasury in this world: the 'Black Emperor's' crown, the 'Perfecter's' scroll, the 'Judge's' Brass Book..."

"These things were all His collections! It's just that most of them were lent out by Him."

"It is no exaggeration to say that half of the wealth in this world belongs to Dream!"

Klein's expression gradually twisted.