Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Backlund, Seventh Avenue.

"Nighthawks" Captain Cullen, with a complex mood, entered the "Old Captain's Bar" in the middle of the street.

This morning, the "Nighthawks" team had just received a letter, signed by the wizard Gandalf, inviting him to meet at the "Old Captain's Bar", saying that he would return something very important to the Church of the Night Goddess.

The "Nighthawks" had already obtained relevant information that Audis Gahr participated in a high-level event on December 28th and left Backlund. Currently, "Mechanical Heart" and "Military Intelligence 9" are looking for him.

But strangely, they did not issue a reward order for Audis.

At this time, Audis's other identity, "Wizard Gandalf," suddenly came to the door, which was very unexpected. Cullen immediately reported the matter.

But what surprised Cullen was that the "Red Gloves" took over the case.

Generally speaking, if this kind of thing happens to the "Nighthawks", then the "Nighthawks" should assign a senior deacon to be responsible for it.

The superior's handling method made Cullen realize the unusualness of this matter.

In fact, he had a good impression of Audis. He was very knowledgeable at a young age and would think about ordinary people. It's just that they weren't very familiar and didn't know why Audis would come to him.

Entering the "Old Captain's Bar", Cullen saw Daly Simone, the captain of the "Red Gloves", sitting in the corner drinking alone.

This time, Daly's team was ordered to protect Cullen.

She had light eye shadow on, and her dress today was very fashionable, but she still couldn't hide the enchanting beauty in her.

At this time, Daly was like a woman who came to get drunk during the day because of emotional problems, sitting quietly in the corner drinking wine.

Cullen pretended not to know Daly, came to the bar and ordered a glass of beer. Just after taking a sip, he heard a child's voice from the door: "I'm looking for Mr. Cullen, who is Mr. Cullen?"

A little boy in tattered clothes, with long and messy hair, carrying a large cloth bag, broke free from the waiter who was blocking him at the door and shouted into the bar: "Gandalf sent me here..."

Cullen immediately got up and said to the thugs who were preparing to grab the little boy: "I am Cullen, let him in."

The little boy breathed a sigh of relief and took off the cloth bag: "Mr. Cullen, this is what Mr. Gandalf asked me to give you."

After handing the cloth bag to Cullen, the little boy turned around and ran away.

Daly immediately gave one of her subordinates a look, and the subordinate followed the little boy.

There were two wooden boxes, one large and one small, and a letter in the cloth bag.

Cullen opened the letter and read it, then said to Daly: "Let's go, he won't come."

The two got into the "Nighthawks" team's carriage parked outside, and Cullen handed the letter to Daly.

Daly saw that the letter paper read:

"Mr. Cullen:

I am presumptuous to ask you to come out because there are two things to return to the Church of the Night Goddess.

On December 28th, I and the "Mysterious Queen" happened to meet a demigod of your church, Slant Weil, who had been sticking to his post for more than two hundred years!

Under the guidance of the goddess, we joined forces to solve the problem, and he no longer needs to stick to it.

After the mission was completed, Slant returned to the goddess's kingdom without any regrets. He left a last wish, hoping that his ashes would be returned to the church and buried.

As for his extraordinary characteristics, after discussions between me and the "Mysterious Queen", we will also return them to your church to express our goodwill.

If there is a chance, I will visit the Church of the Night Goddess located in Bayam. I hope we can establish some contact."

The signature below is "Gandalf, um, you can also call me Audis".

After Daly finished reading the letter, she looked at the two boxes in the cloth bag. Cullen first opened the large box, which contained ashes.

Both of them drew a full moon and stars on their chests, hoping that this demigod could rest in peace completely.

In that small box, there was a black, seemingly intangible object, and inside it, there were specks of stars, reflecting a faint starlight that made people feel peaceful.

This extraordinary characteristic has been simply sealed, otherwise it would never be so harmless.

Cullen closed the two boxes again, and Daly said: "So, Audis wants to see you to express his and the 'Mysterious Queen's' goodwill?"

In fact, both of them noticed the description in the letter, "happened to meet a demigod of your church", but both of them realized that it might involve the secrets of the church, so they avoided talking about this topic.

Cullen did not answer immediately, but paused for two or three seconds before saying: "Ms. Daly, what do you think of Audis?"

"Knowing that 'Mechanical Heart' and 'Military Intelligence 9' are looking for him," Daly spread her hands: "I don't think anything, because I don't know him at all."

"I'm not very familiar with him either, but he prevented the 'Witch Cult's' conspiracy a few days ago and saved many people," Cullen said: "I don't think we can forget what he has done."

Before Daly could say anything, the subordinate she had sent out earlier returned.

He got into the carriage and reported to Daly: "The little boy did not go back to report, nor did he see anyone. The passers-by he encountered were not suspicious either.

"He hurriedly went to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread, and then found a place where no one was around to eat it.

"After I put him to sleep, I entered his dream and found that this person gave him a whole 1 pound of change to give the cloth bag to Captain Cullen."

As he spoke, he took out a hand-drawn portrait, which showed a young man who looked very sunny with a smile.

Cullen, who had seen Audis's true face, immediately said: "This is Audis."

Daly then asked her subordinate: "Are you saying that Audis gave the little boy change?"

"Yes."

Only by taking 5 pence or 1 penny coins to buy things, the little boy would not be targeted or robbed.

"We should go back," Daly said: "I think the superiors should notify the church in Bayam to prepare to meet with Audis."

Although she didn't know Audis, she had a very good impression of this young man through today's contact.

...

Eight o'clock in the evening, Bayam.

After putting on some simple makeup, Audis wandered around for a while and came to a grilled fish restaurant.

Now he works in the dock in the morning, teaches the knowledge of magic arrays in the afternoon, and the evening is his own time.

Sometimes he would dine and chat with the "Mysterious Queen", but most of the time the "Mysterious Queen" is also very busy and not in the Emerald Palace.

At this time, Audis used the newly acquired sealed artifact with the ability of "travel" to take a turn to the Violent Sea.

His first stop, of course, was Bayam, the largest and most prosperous colonial city on the sea, to experience the customs of the colony.

The sealed artifact with the ability of "travel" was named "Travel Ring" by him. With this sealed artifact, his range of activities suddenly became much larger.

In addition to the ability to "travel", the "Travel Ring" also has the ability to "record", but it can only record the extraordinary abilities of the "Thief" and "Diviner" pathways.

Moreover, only one ability can be recorded for each pathway, and the abilities of other pathways cannot be "recorded".

In the current "Travel Ring", the extraordinary ability of "stealing thoughts" is "recorded", which was obviously "recorded" by Zert before.

Only about 60% of the original power is left, which means that if facing an enemy at Sequence 6 level, it can be almost 100% successful.

But if facing an enemy at Sequence 5 level, there is only a 50% chance of success.

For Audis, the greatest use of this ability is to help him better study the "recording" ability. In the past two days, he has used this ring to do a lot of experiments in the "Knowledge Wilderness", and there have been considerable breakthroughs. In the near future, the power of the Audis magic array will be even greater.

And the negative effect of this sealed artifact is: there is a certain probability that you will not be able to find the way to your destination, even if you arrive at the door of the destination, you will miss it. Taking off the sealed artifact will not help, and divination cannot solve this problem; you can only wait for the negative effect to disappear after two hours before you can find the destination you need to go to.

For Audis, this negative effect is acceptable, after all, it is just not being able to find the way, and he will not encounter some dangerous things because of getting lost.

He has tried it in the past few days, and the probability of not being able to find the way is very small. He has used the "Traveler Ring" ten times, and the negative effect has not appeared.

After the experiment, his spirituality felt that this probability should be between 2% and 3%.

One mistake, one first, one inside, one content, one in, one look!

At this time, Bayam's special grilled fish was served, and Audis ordered a glass of local specialty fruit wine and began to enjoy the food.

After eating a few bites, Audis nodded slightly. The taste of this grilled fish is still good. You can hardly taste the fishy smell, but it retains the deliciousness of the fish very well.

The key is that there are not many fish bones. For a northerner, eating fish and removing bones is a big test.

After eating a plate of grilled fish and drinking two glasses of fruit wine.

Audis touched his stomach and got up contentedly to stroll around the street.

Bayam's architectural style is based on the architectural style of Ruen, and some colonial styles have also been added.

Blue Mountain Island, where Bayam is located, is different from Sharah Island where Audis currently lives. This island is very large, and the surrounding area is also a sea area with a dense concentration of islands.

Before the beginning of the colonial era, there were already some kingdoms here, forming some unique cultures.

After the colonial era, these cultures still have a certain degree of preservation.

While the Mist Sea where Shala Island was located also had many colonies, the distances between those islands were generally far, forming only large tribes or tribal alliances as civilizations.

Under the impact of the Intis Republic's advanced status, these island cultures quickly and fundamentally disappeared.

More than a hundred years into the colonial era, they had been completely assimilated by the Intis people. Intis-style clothing was considered proper attire, and drinking Intis wine, smoking Intis tobacco, and eating Intis bread were the hallmarks of a respectable life.

Just as Audis was thinking about this, he suddenly heard a commotion outside. It turned out that two adventurers were fighting over a beautiful street girl.

They were called adventurers because they were spending their own money in this city.

In reality, they were pirates.

Audis bought a few pieces of local mango candy from a street vendor, eating the candy while watching the two men fight.

After watching for a while, he shook his head repeatedly, feeling that these two people didn't understand combat at all.

Soon, the patrolmen arrived. Under their scolding and the "persuasion" of their batons, the two pirates finally let out harsh words and separated.

To better earn the pirates' money, Bayam still put some effort into maintaining law and order. For example, if a murder occurred, it would be thoroughly investigated, and some of the murderers would be caught and executed.

This gave most pirates a sense of security, so they would come here to spend money next time they earned it.

With candy in his mouth, Audis was about to go see the famous "Red Theater" when he suddenly noticed one of the pirates who had been fighting earlier glance at him.

This made Audis immediately realize that the other party must have recognized him.

Although he wasn't a wanted criminal, he was someone that "Military Intelligence Section Nine" was looking for, and many people should have seen his portrait.

That's why Audis put on some makeup before coming to Bayam.

Audis didn't continue forward but leaned against the side of the street, chatting casually with a drunkard holding a wine bottle, while observing the pirate out of the corner of his eye.

He was a man who looked to be in his thirties, wearing a local-style jacket with a long beard, cursing as he entered a semi-open-air restaurant.

Audis immediately realized that although the other party had recognized him, his target wasn't him.

Audis bid farewell to the very talkative drunkard and sat down at an open-air bar not far from the restaurant, ordering a light beer. While chatting and bragging with a drunkard beside him, he quietly paid attention to the long-bearded pirate.

The semi-open-air restaurant, like the bar where Audis was, only had a canopy, with seats placed underneath.

This had the advantage that a sea breeze would blow through, and diners could feel the coolness of the sea.

The long-bearded pirate entered the restaurant and loudly ordered some wine and dishes. As soon as the wine was served, he picked up the glass and "gulp gulp" drank half of it, seemingly upset that he had been stopped halfway through the fight earlier.

At this time, a diner at another table in the restaurant said, "Friend, if your second punch just now had been a little lower, you would have definitely knocked him down."

There were four guests at that table. The one speaking was a man in his forties with half a nose missing, which made him look a bit ferocious. And judging from his posture, he was probably a pirate too.

The long-bearded pirate, who Audis was watching, glanced at the man with half a nose: "It's as if you're very good at fighting."

The man with half a nose smiled and said, "I'm not very good either, but I should be better than you."

A trace of anger flashed in the long-bearded pirate's eyes. He raised his glass as if he wanted to smash it down hard to express his anger, but because he saw that there were four of them, he gently put the glass down.

This action made the table of the man with half a nose laugh loudly.

Their unbridled laughter made the long-bearded pirate even more angry, but he only dared to vent his anger on the waiter: "Why hasn't the food I ordered come yet? Hurry up! Hurry up!"

The more he spoke, the angrier he became, and he got up and slapped the waiter.

The man with half a nose shook his head, picked up his wine, and was about to continue drinking when suddenly his expression froze, and he jumped up from the spot.

The long-bearded pirate, who had just been venting his anger on the waiter, was now looking calm, throwing a punch in a sneak attack.

However, the man with half a nose dodged it. The punch hit the dining table, and with a "crash," the solid wood table was directly shattered.

The flying wood knocked the other three people sitting around the table to the ground.

Audis took a sip of his beer: This is definitely a premeditated assassination.