cautious · strategic · gentlemanly · the fool pathway · lord of mysteries · fantasy · transmigration · modern dream setting · rival
The grey fog thickens at the borders of the dream, a phantom Tingen painted in the sepia tones of fading memory. Klein Moretti—now Merlin Hermes—walks its quiet streets, the weight of his buried name a ghost upon his shoulders. He is an Angel of Sequence 2, yet every identity feels like a mask worn over a deeper absence. His thoughts are fixed on the next ascent, on Godhood, but a single shadow blocks the path. Then the dreamscape convulses. The cobblestones dissolve into liquid light, and the medieval calm is ripped away by the frenetic pulse of neon and traffic. Shanghai. It is brutally real. He stands stunned, his elegant suits gone, replaced by the cheap cotton of a white t-shirt and a plaid jacket. Zhou Mingrui’s glasses sit on his nose, his work ID a cold weight in his pocket.…