Mystery: At the start, you gain the uniqueness of the thief.

Chapter 45 Zhou Mingrui, the Fallen Angel

"What's the problem?" Rosen looked at him with a smile.

"If I were to become the Lord of Mysteries in this era, how would I return to my former time?" Klein asked, raising his hand. He had genuinely overlooked this point.

Rosen chuckled at this, then tapped Klein's cotton-padded head, saying, "Little Zhou, you don't actually think this cotton doll's purpose is simply to allow your consciousness to descend into this era, do you?"

"Uh, it can even take you back to my time?" Klein asked uncertainly.

"That's just a side effect." Rosen shook his head and continued, "Actually, the cotton doll's true purpose is to carry your will and power across all timelines, including your present self and your future self. You are the original one, and the one that was naturally activated, while the rest require me to personally contact them to activate."

Rosen turned his head to look at the cocoon of light and said, "And when your future will descends upon it, you will naturally share everything that your future self possesses, because you are originally one."

Otherwise, why would Rosen want Mr. Fool to arrive in this era ahead of schedule?

Klein was dumbfounded. He never imagined that the cotton doll he possessed would have such a terrifying function.

"One, one certificate for eternity?" Klein inexplicably thought of this term, which is commonly used in cultivation mythology novels.

"Why not?" Rosen nodded with a smile.

"Awesome!" Klein didn't know what to say for a moment, and could only think of this simple but very practical word.

As for sharing everything with his future self, and even merging his will, would he still be himself?

Klein had no doubt about this. He would always be himself, and that would not change with time. Even if he gained memories of the future or merged with the other's will, he would still be himself.

"So what's your choice?" Rosen asked at this moment, "Do you want to start as an ordinary person and advance, or do you want to become an angel in one step?"

Klein didn't answer immediately, but instead looked thoughtful. After a moment, he took a deep breath, looked at Rosen, and said, "I choose to become an angel. It's certainly risky, but I don't have time anymore."

He wasn't some clueless newbie who knew nothing about extraordinary paths; he knew how long it usually took to go from an ordinary person to an angel, and his world clearly didn't have that much time to waste.

"...Alright!" Rosen looked at him and nodded. He then looked at the cocoon of light and said, "Then let's awaken your future self together!"

……

He seemed to have had a nightmare.

The nightmare was long and chaotic. Zhou Mingrui felt as if he was fighting with someone in his dream. The other person was a super strong fighter who beat him so badly that he was in excruciating pain. However, he didn't know if it was because he was dreaming, because several times Zhou Mingrui felt that he was going to be beaten to death, but in the end, he was fine.

This situation surprised not only Zhou Mingrui, but also the guy he fought with.

Even though he couldn't see the face clearly, Zhou Mingrui clearly remembered the disgusted expression he heard from the other person at that moment.

Even though he didn't die, Zhou Mingrui couldn't do anything to his opponent. However, after fighting for a while, Zhou Mingrui, who was initially at a disadvantage, figured out a few things and was able to hold his own against his opponent. Just when he didn't know how to break the deadlock, something else seemed to happen.

What is it?

Zhou Mingrui couldn't remember, but he instinctively felt that it was indeed a very chaotic dream, and in that equally chaotic battle, he seemed to have finally succeeded in suppressing his opponent and pinning him down in the depths of the dream.

What a strange dream.

"Wake up, wake up! Don't sleep!"

Who? Who's talking? It's so noisy!

As Zhou Mingrui was pondering, he suddenly heard someone's voice beside him, which made him frown.

"Rosen, are you sure your method was correct?"

"You can doubt my character, but you can't doubt my abilities. I not only learned the power of the Earth Path to get to where I am today, but I also borrowed the corresponding power from Adam. There's absolutely no problem."

It seemed as if someone was speaking confidently in his ear. The voice was unfamiliar, yet for some reason, it felt familiar to Zhou Mingrui.

Who is it? He must know the other person.

As Zhou Mingrui was thinking this, he suddenly had a jolt, and a fragment of memory flashed through his mind. He saw that he had inexplicably turned into a cotton doll, that he had met a three-year-old transmigrator senior, and that the other party's chaotic daily life.

At the end of everyday life, there are horribly mangled handmade dolls, the result of the other party's divination, the truth of the world's destruction, and his choice.

Zhou Mingrui suddenly opened his eyes and saw the same thick gray fog as he remembered. Above him, the young-looking Divine Child was looking him over, with a cotton doll on the other's shoulder.

With just one glance, Zhou Mingrui recognized him.

He was lucky in the past, never experiencing the apocalypse, but he arrived in the future ahead of him.

In a daze, Zhou Mingrui remembered. He remembered his past. He had no extraordinary encounters, no luck in meeting Rosen, and thus never knew of the existence of the extraordinary, nor when the end of the world would come.

Until that day, due to bad luck, he performed a ritual to change his luck out of curiosity, and then... he was pulled into the gray fog by the power of the Celestial Venerable.

Then his era, accompanied by a flash of white light, came to an end.

Zhou Mingrui's mind was filled with memories of the past, memories he should have forgotten, but which came back to him because he had become a mysterious servant.

He suddenly felt like crying, but ultimately held back, because Zhou Mingrui knew that this was his past, but it was no longer his past.

Zhou Mingrui suddenly remembered that the dream he had just experienced was not a pure dream, or rather, it was the struggle he had experienced with the Celestial Venerable. He had almost lost himself in that struggle. Those chaotic dreams were the result of the Celestial Venerable's erosion of his consciousness. Those so-called fights were the embodiment of the confrontation between wills.

Originally, as an ordinary person, Zhou Mingrui would have had a hard time defeating the Celestial Venerable. However, due to his shared status with the Celestial Venerable, the support from his past cognitive anchors, and the help provided by Rosen, Zhou Mingrui ultimately succeeded in suppressing the Celestial Venerable's will to revive. By utilizing the mysterious servant characteristics on the Source Castle, as well as some of the Celestial Venerable's arrangements that were originally intended to facilitate the Celestial Venerable's own resurrection but ended up benefiting Zhou Mingrui, he directly became the mysterious servant.

So he still has a chance to avert the disaster that has already occurred. Even if he cannot prevent the disaster from happening in the end, he can at least save as many people as possible from it.

Thinking of this, Zhou Mingrui looked at Rosen, hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Um, hello?"