Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

“Moon” Eamonn was stunned for a moment after hearing “Hermit’s” answer, then he suddenly looked at “Hermit”: “Mr. ‘Hermit’…”

Before he could finish, Odyss raised his hand slightly and said, “I have limited related information and cannot trade information about the ‘Progenitor of the Blood Clan’ with you.”

Eamonn quickly said, “However much you have, I'll trade for it!”

Odyss thought for a moment and then said, “That's possible, but it will cost 4,000 pounds, because some information is too valuable.”

Eamonn opened his mouth, but then immediately said, “I will raise the money as soon as possible.”

“Don't be in a rush.” Odyss said, “In fact, knowing some things when your Sequence is not high enough is not necessarily a good thing.”

Although “Moon” nodded in agreement, everyone could see that he was absent-minded and didn't listen to “Hermit’s” words at all.

Klein, behind the gray fog, felt a little helpless. He originally wanted to bring up the topic of “God's Apostle of an Ancient God” again, but he didn't expect to help “Hermit” close a deal.

So he manipulated “The World” to ask “Hermit”: “If I want to trade for clues about ‘God's Apostle of an Ancient God’, how much will it cost?”

Odyss thought for a moment: “Do you want to hear it in detail? Or do you want to hear a summary? A detailed explanation will cost 6,000 pounds. If you just want me to tell you their names and titles, it's 1,500 pounds.”

That's so expensive!

Klein thought to himself: Just some Apostles…

At this moment, he immediately realized: It seems it's not as simple as just Apostles…

So he asked “Hermit” again: “How much do you know about the ‘Angel Family’?”

New member “The Priestess” Cattleya looked at “The World”. She also knew some things about the “Angel Family”, but she noticed that “The World” seemed more interested in the “God's Apostle of an Ancient God”.

As for the Apostles of the Ancient Gods, she only knew two or three.

Odyss thought for a moment and then said, “My research on the history of the Fourth Epoch allows me to know most of the Angel Families.”

“A detailed explanation would cost 4,000 pounds, but just helping you sort it out would be 1,000 pounds.”

Klein slowly nodded: My feeling is correct, there are indeed some big secrets hidden in the “God's Apostle of an Ancient God”!

Then he manipulated “The World” and asked: “What if I want to know about the Zaratul family and the Antigonus family separately?”

Odyss thought to himself: You're very much like the type of guy who rushes into a store, asks for all the prices, and then buys nothing!

However, he still patiently replied: “The former is 800 pounds, and the latter is 1,200 pounds.”

As Odyss expected, Klein manipulated “The World” to say “Oh” and said nothing more.

At this time, Fors, the “Magician” who had been listening, asked: “Mr. ‘Hermit’, what about trading information about the Abraham family separately?”

Odyss thought for a moment and replied: “1,000 pounds.”

Fors also said “Oh” and had no intention of continuing the transaction.

“Justice” Audrey showed no interest in this. At this time, she was thinking about trading information about the Tudor Empire, and trading information about the Four Emperors first.

The question-asking session ended here. Everyone exchanged some recent news. Klein felt that the time was almost up, so he ended the gathering.

…

On the violent sea, the surface of the sea rose and fell with the wind in the storm.

“Star Admiral” Cattleya returned to the real world and carefully savored the gathering just now.

The first thing she thought of was: At this gathering, such high-level secret history was actually traded!

Recalling “Hermit’s” every move again, she still couldn't guess the other party's background and identity. In addition, the other members obviously had their own special backgrounds and channels.

However, what Cattleya cared about most was “Hermit” and “Hanged Man”. “Hermit” was a Beyonder of the same pathway, and “Hanged Man” was obviously mixed up at sea and was a member of the “Storm Church”.

Cattleya decided to test these two members at the next gathering.

Then she looked at the bookshelf and was silent for more than ten seconds. She took out paper and pen and wrote carefully: Recently, someone has been consciously collecting the Emperor's diary.

She didn't dare to involve the Tarot Club's information in the letter, fearing that Mr. “Fool” would punish her.

After folding the letter, she took out a delicate harmonica she carried with her and blew it.

In the blink of an eye, she saw the letter disappear strangely.

…

Lasha Island, Emerald Palace.

Odyss returned to the real world and stared at the ceiling for a while as usual.

Then he took candles and mystical materials and used the “Travel Ring” to come to a deserted island again. After confirming that no one was disturbing him, Odyss set up the altar and waited for “Fool’s” notification.

This time, the waiting time was a little longer, about half an hour, before “Fool” notified him to perform the “Granting” ritual.

Odyss immediately performed the ritual according to the steps and quickly obtained the gold pounds and Beyonder materials obtained from this gathering.

Seeing the large stack of gold pounds, Odyss sighed: Now the Tarot Club has become an important source of income for me.

The information transaction at this gathering, regarding the Solomon Second Empire, earned him 1,830 pounds, and he also received an additional 800 pounds from Cattleya, and an additional 300 pounds from Eamonn.

The total income was 2,930 pounds, plus 5 Sequence 9 Beyonder materials.

Odyss thought to himself: One more Tarot Club meeting and I can repay Bernadette's debt without any pressure.

In a good mood, Odyss completely destroyed the altar, returned to the Emerald Palace, and continued to modify the “Wisdom Helmet”.

Before dinner, Odyss finally completed the modification.

At the moment of completion, Odyss suddenly felt that the potion had signs of digestion.

He thought to himself: This is pretty good. As long as there are any research results, I can digest the potion, and work and digestion can be done at the same time.

At this time, Odyss realized that he had never considered the digestion of the potion.

After advancing, he found that he had digested most of the “Scroll Professor’s” potion in advance, and because there was no pressure to advance for the time being, he didn't even think about digesting the potion at that time.

But now I should consider it. First of all, I already have the potion formula, and the advancement ritual is also settled, so I should also consider the advancement plan.

Odyss sat at his desk and fell into deep thought. He believed that the focus of digesting the Sequence 6 potion should be on “Professor”.

After all, Odyss's understanding of “Scroll” is somewhat different from most people's understanding of scroll, but it doesn't seem to have digested more potion because of this.

Then “Professor” should be the key direction for digestion. Professors first do research work, and Odyss has been doing this, and there are still many problems that need him to research and solve in the “Knowledge Wilderness”.

So I should be able to continue to digest the potion continuously on the path of “research”.

For this reason, Odyss plans to write another book about scrolls. He doesn't plan to publish this book publicly. The writing direction is tentatively set to summarize his research.

Such content is very valuable. Odyss doesn't even plan to make a copy and put it in the “Knowledge Wilderness”. In the future, if he finds someone who can be made, he can use this book to help him digest the potion.

As for the name of the book, Odyss tentatively set it as “Scroll: From Beginner to Mastery”.

The reason for choosing this name is that Odyss wants to distinguish between the ordinary “Scroll Professor’s” understanding of scrolls and his own understanding of scrolls.

In his opinion, the “Scroll Professors” who only know how to use the knowledge given by the potion can't even be considered beginners.

Being able to use one's own knowledge to invent scrolls with new abilities can be considered an entry.

And only those who know “Gael Runes”, understand the meaning of each character on the scroll, and use a lot of knowledge that is not given by the potion to increase the power of the scroll can be considered proficient.

After determining this goal, Odyss thought of another possible way to digest: teaching students.

After all, another role of a professor is to teach students while doing his own research.

But for Odyss, the biggest difficulty with this approach is to first have a student.

Odyss thought that Kana in the Buckland Gael herb shop is the first choice for students. He is hardworking and relatively smart.

But the other party has a poor family to support, so it is unlikely that he will come to the sea to be a pirate with him.

And if Odyss recruits students in the colonies, Odyss doesn't trust the people on the sea very much.

After thinking about it for a while, Odyss decided to put this matter aside for now and try to digest the potion by means of research.

Around six o'clock in the evening, Odyss went to the restaurant for dinner.

Bernadette was also there today. She glanced at Odyss who came in: “Your hair seems to have fallen out a lot during this period of time.”

Odyss sat in his seat and smiled helplessly, telling the truth: “There is a sealed artifact whose negative effect is hair loss.”

Bernadette nodded slowly, put down the cutlery in her hand, and snapped her fingers at Odyss.

Odyss felt that a lot of his hair suddenly grew out, and it became lush again in a while.

Bernadette said: “In the future, as soon as one of your hairs falls out, another one will grow out immediately.”

“Thank you!” Odyss thanked sincerely and touched his hair.

He didn't expect that the problem that had been bothering him would be solved so easily for Bernadette.

Odyss sat in his seat in a very good mood. While the maid served the pre-dinner wine, he took the initiative to say: “The first information exchange meeting I hosted ended successfully.”

“But because it was the first time it was held, everyone was watching and didn't trade too much important information.”

Bernadette nodded slowly, she had already heard Prismo mention this matter: "Things are always difficult at the beginning."

Then she asked with some concern: "Have you encountered any trouble?"

"Although I encountered some minor troubles, I solved them myself." Audis smiled and said, "Those who trade fake information right away don't have very deep backgrounds."

Bernadette "hmm"ed and picked up her cutlery to eat.

Because Audis arrived a little late, his dishes were a little slower than Bernadette's. Bernadette was already eating the main course, but Audis was still drinking the appetizer soup.

While drinking the soup, he said: "However, I still obtained some information about recent events in the Berserk Sea from the exchange meeting. It is said that a split has occurred within the 'School of Life', and some members have defected to the 'School of Roses'."

"This was originally an organization that combined several pathways," Bernadette commented, "They have already split several times."

"In my opinion, an organization pieced together solely with ideas lacks sufficient cohesion."

"Their 'Speaker' has a good idea. Since the Fifth Epoch, the orthodox churches are gradually compressing the living space of wild extraordinaries and secret organizations. Wild extraordinaries should unite to seek a way out."

"However, if the pathways within the 'School' are too mixed, there will inevitably be huge conflicts in which direction to develop. For example, extraordinaries of the 'Apothecary' pathway cannot invest in the 'Monster' pathway."

"Fortunately, after several splits, most of their councilors have become extraordinaries of the 'Monster' pathway. Only after having extraordinaries of the main pathway will they tend to develop in a stable direction."

Audis slowly nodded, feeling that the "Mysterious Queen's" analysis was very insightful.

Before this, he didn't know much about the "School of Life." He only knew that their "Speaker" had recently "rebooted" and was in a weak state, which allowed some "Apothecary" pathway extraordinaries in the "School" to join forces with the "School of Roses" and attack some members of the "School of Life."

Bernadette took a sip of red wine and continued: "The most recent split occurred about a month ago. I heard that some 'Apothecary' pathway extraordinaries defected."

Audis' roasted chicken came up, and he took a bite of the chicken before saying: "An extraordinary of the 'Monster' pathway contacted me, hoping I could provide him with some help."

"Help," Bernadette said immediately: "As far as I know, three of the 'School of Life's' seven councilors are in the Rothd Archipelago."

"Because there are only extraordinary forces from the Storm Church and the military here, and the situation is relatively chaotic, it is easy to hide oneself."

"Their strength here is stronger than that of the 'School of Roses.' Of course, that's assuming the 'School of Roses' hasn't secretly sent demigods."

"As long as it's not too dangerous, such a favor can be done."

Audis sighed: It's good to have a "big shot." These are pieces of information he wouldn't know even with "God's perspective."

Of course, Audis also knew that it was because Bernadette appreciated him very much that she was willing to tell him these things.

He had learned from chatting with Alia before that, apart from public banquets, Bernadette rarely dined with her subordinates. If they had the opportunity to have a meal with the "Mysterious Queen," they would regard it as a great honor.

What made them a little jealous was that Audis actually lived in the Emerald Palace. As long as Bernadette was in the Emerald Palace, the two of them would eat together.

After hearing Alia talk about this, Audis didn't mention eating with Bernadette in front of the "Mysterious Queen's" subordinates.

After thinking wildly for a while, Audis asked again: "If I need your help, how should I contact you on Blue Mountain Island?"

"You can have my messenger send me a letter," Bernadette said: "If you think your actions are very dangerous, I can go to Bayam after your actions begin to taste the grilled fish there."

"But if that's the case, you'll have to pay some remuneration, or provide a certain amount of merit in the future."

Bernadette looked at Audis with a smile. She actually wanted Audis to owe her more favors and merits, so that she could firmly bind him to "Dawn of the Elements."

Audis "hmm"ed: "I'll reassess the danger level of this action. In my opinion, it shouldn't be too dangerous, but you can never tell."

Bernadette asked: "When will your action begin?"

"Thursday."

"I see." Bernadette changed the subject: "How is the progress of shipbuilding currently?"

The two began to talk about shipbuilding again, and Audis took the opportunity to mention his plan to use the "Helmet of Wisdom" to teach the scholars.

The "Mysterious Queen" had no objections.

After dinner, the two chatted over tea, and returned to their respective residences after eight o'clock.

On Tuesday morning, the scholars of Raxia Island came to a side hall of the Emerald Palace at the time agreed upon yesterday to attend class.

As soon as they entered the door, they found a uniquely shaped helmet on Audis's desk.

When everyone opened their notebooks and prepared to start class, Audis stood up and said: "I have good news to tell you."

He smiled and said: "Recently, my research has made a breakthrough, which has given me a way to share my knowledge with you."

The scholars were first slightly stunned, and soon one by one showed joy.

"But what I want to tell you is that because only one round of experiments has been conducted, it is impossible to determine whether there are any major side effects, so please consider carefully whether to use that method," Audis explained clearly first:

"The only known unavoidable side effect is that there is a certain probability of experiencing headaches, which will disappear in about ten minutes."

Everyone thought, what kind of side effect is that?

One of the scholars said: "It's far worse than the negative effects of sealed artifacts!"

Everyone nodded in agreement. First, the side effects were indeed not significant, and second, they really didn't want to live such a miserable life anymore.

Seeing that everyone did not object, Audis began to briefly describe the operating principle of the "Helmet of Wisdom" and then demonstrated its usage to everyone.

In fact, extraordinaries are more receptive to this way of acquiring knowledge than ordinary people. After all, they are very clear that using extraordinary power requires enduring the negative effects it brings.

Seeing that the process seemed harmless, everyone gathered around and received the knowledge transfer one after another.

The process went smoothly. Only two scholars experienced mild headaches, but because they were all extraordinaries, they returned to normal after one or two minutes.

After completing the process, Audis helped them master the knowledge by asking them questions.

Gradually understanding the whole picture of Audis's new ship design, the expressions of the scholars gradually became solemn.

During their previous studies, although they had been exposed to some of Audis's core research, they knew it was very advanced, very high-level, but they had never seen the whole picture of the new ship.

When the previous trial run was successful, they thought they had understood Audis's design, understood how advanced the extraordinary knowledge was.

But at this time, after seeing the whole picture of the new ship clearly, they immediately realized that they were still ignorant. The advanced nature of the new ship had completely exceeded their imagination.

After a brief moment of astonishment, they began to listen attentively. Audis was a little worried that they had not grasped the knowledge firmly enough, so he sorted out the key points of the knowledge for them.

Soon he discovered a problem: the knowledge about the new ship was instantly transmitted to these scholars, but they still needed some guidance in terms of logic and calculation.

That is to say, they now understand all the knowledge of the new ship, but because they lack sufficient logic, they only understand it, but they don't know how to use it. Audis needs to use logic and calculation to help them digest the knowledge, so that the knowledge can be fully utilized by them.

Audis was also observing and trying to find a way to solve this problem. Fortunately, the whole process of guidance was relatively smooth. It took a morning for everyone to fully understand all the designs of the new ship.

So in the afternoon, Audis led everyone to the shipyard and began to arrange magic arrays on the new ship.

Because the 12 scholars who had been studying with Audis had obtained all the knowledge about the new ship, Audis only needed to give some guidance at this time, and they would understand what they were going to do.

Audis arranged all the magic arrays in pieces and asked them to draw the magic arrays with soft brushes first. After they finished drawing, Audis checked and confirmed that it was correct, and then they could start carving.

This made the progress of arranging the magic arrays several times faster. By around dinner time, most of the magic arrays had completed the carving process.

After dinner, after a short rest, Audis led everyone to continue working, striving to complete the carving of all the magic arrays today.

At this time, Audis was relatively idle, only needing to look around at the progress of the work.

At this time, Alia, who had been following Audis, received a notification that all the parts Audis had ordered from the foundry had been made.

And in order to prevent possible carving errors, they made three extra sets and gave them to Audis for free.

After Audis asked them to transport them to the Emerald Palace first, he began to consider carving the parts for the "Extraordinary Puppet."

If he slightly taught the 12 scholars who were currently busy, they could also complete the carving process.

But the problem is that the craftsman Diff already has the blueprints for making the "Wisdom Cube" and the "Signal Processing Crystal." Audis doesn't want the blueprints for other parts of the "Extraordinary Puppet" to be mastered by them as well.

Audis took a deep breath, but he didn't have time to carve it himself right now.

At this moment, Audis thought of Keina in Backlund. Now the "Heart of Machinery" was likely monitoring him, but Audis wasn't too worried about this. He could simply have Keina do the work.

Because the most important parts of the "Extraordinary Puppet" were the "Wisdom Cube" and the "Signal Processing Crystal." Without these two things, even if he obtained the magic arrays on the other parts, it would be useless.

Thinking of this, Audis suddenly sighed: He had to establish his own Extraordinary team as soon as possible. He couldn't outsource everything.

But that was something for later, at least after he set sail. For now, he had to solve the problem of carving the "Extraordinary Puppet" parts first.

Audis walked around the big ship again, and after seeing that there were no problems, he asked Elia to find him a quiet office.

He first wrote a letter to Keina, then lit a candle and summoned a messenger in Ancient Hermes: "I!

"In my name, I summon:

"A spirit wandering in falsehood, a messenger belonging solely to Audis Gahl."

The candlelight suddenly expanded, and the skeleton messenger wearing a lady's hunting outfit came from the spirit world to Audis.

Audis handed the letter to the other party: "Please send this letter to 51 Henry Street in Backlund, to Keina in Gahl's Herbal Shop."

According to the time, Keina should be cleaning at this time.

The skeleton messenger opened its mouth: "Okay."

Audis added: "Please wait a moment and let the other party read the letter. The other party will give a reply, please relay it to me."

"No problem." The messenger took the letter and returned to the spirit world from the huge candlelight.

…

Backlund, Gahl's Herbal Shop.

After finishing today's work, Keina was cleaning the herbal shop with his sister.

Suddenly, the two of them felt that the room had become very gloomy.

They subconsciously looked at the door, because it was still January, and the wind outside Backlund was still very cold, but the door was closed.

Just as the two of them didn't care much and were about to continue cleaning, Keina saw that there was suddenly a letter on the counter.

He immediately realized that the appearance of this letter was very abnormal, so he asked his sister to clean the backyard before she saw it.

Only after he was alone here did Keina pick up the letter and see that it was for him, and that it was Mr. Gahl's handwriting.

Keina quickly opened it and read it quickly. Mr. Gahl said that he was now at sea and that it was very warm there.

Then he got to the point. It turned out that there was a batch of parts that needed to be carved. There were 43 sets of this type of parts. Mr. Gahl planned to pay 1,200 pounds and hoped that Keina could take the order.

Finally, Mr. Gahl said that as long as he was willing to take the order, he should put down the letter and say "Willing." If he was not willing to take the order, he should say "Unwilling," so that Mr. Gahl, who was far away at sea, would know.

The reason why so much money was needed was because some expensive spiritual materials were needed to fill in after the carving.

Audis was very clear about the prices of those spiritual materials, and left Keina about 100 pounds of profit.

Keina hesitated slightly, then put down the letter and said, "Willing."

Immediately afterwards, the gloom in the room quickly disappeared.

Only then did Keina realize what he couldn't see had appeared in the room just now.

Recently, Keina had been living a very fulfilling life. In the morning, he prepared herbs, in the afternoon, he learned the knowledge and skills of collecting intelligence from Mr. Max, and in the evening was the busiest time for the herbal shop.

Through recent training, Keina realized that he seemed to be being monitored. He guessed that the person monitoring him should be looking for Mr. Gahl's whereabouts.

At this time, Mr. Gahl contacted him in such a mysterious way and entrusted him with an order, which meant that he was not afraid of being discovered by those monitoring him, so he boldly accepted the order.

…

Lasha Island.

After Audis received Keina's reply, he asked the messenger: "Is he being monitored?"

"Yes." The messenger opened its mouth with only teeth and replied: "But those monitors are not strict. There is only one Sequence 9 and two ordinary people."

In fact, she didn't have to open her mouth, but it might have been a habit to speak like that.

"Thank you." Audis thanked him and said, "I may have to summon you again later."

The messenger hummed and returned to the spirit world.

Audis thought to himself: He didn't expect that in less than a month, the people from "Heart of Machinery" would no longer pay much attention to his departure from Backlund.

He was sure that the people monitoring Gahl's Herbal Shop must be from the "Heart of Machinery."

Military Intelligence 9 would not, and would not compete with the "Heart of Machinery" for this monitoring position.

This gave Audis the illusion that he might not be that important to the God of Steam and Machinery.

He didn't think about this issue, but for him, this was a good thing. He could safely use the messenger to contact the contacts in Backlund.

Audis didn't continue to think about this matter, but returned to the big ship and continued to supervise the arrangement of the magic arrays.

It wasn't until about ten o'clock that everyone finally completed the carving of all the magic arrays according to Audis's requirements.

Everyone was very tired, and Audis generously told them to come back at ten o'clock tomorrow.

After returning to the Emerald Palace, he first checked the parts delivered by the foundry, then wrote another letter to Keina and provided the corresponding blueprints.

Then he summoned the messenger again, pointed to the parts in the yard, and asked the skeleton messenger wearing a lady's hunting outfit: "Can you take these things to Backlund?"

These parts were packed in a full ten heavy wooden boxes.

"Okay."

Audis took out the prepared letter and asked the messenger to send it to Gahl's Herbal Shop in Backlund again.

The messenger raised her hand slightly, and a layer of hazy light surrounded the wooden boxes. They seemed to suddenly lose their weight and slowly floated up.

Immediately afterwards, they seemed to have a little wisdom, lined up in a team, and followed the messenger into the spirit world.

Just as Audis was about to go back to the house, Bernadette, wearing a loose nightgown, suddenly appeared on the courtyard wall: "What was that just now?"

Audis was slightly stunned, and immediately realized that the "Mysterious Queen" had noticed the messenger's arrival.

He told the truth: "I just asked the messenger to help me transport some things."

Bernadette said "Oh", didn't say anything, and jumped back to her yard from the courtyard wall.

She frowned and thought: Is the level of a messenger so high?

This suddenly reminded Bernadette of the mighty figure who had helped Audis in Backlund.

She took a deep breath and suddenly realized that Audis was unlikely to be bound by her with merit and debt.

…

Seeing Bernadette go back, Audis didn't take it too seriously. He could just tell the truth about this kind of thing.

The next morning, although the scholars could come back around ten o'clock, Audis still came to the shipyard early.

He directed the workers to hoist the assembled weapons to the correct positions. After the scholars arrived, they connected the weapons to the magic arrays of the big ship and carried out some debugging.

After that, they began to fill in the spiritual materials, and while filling in, they used a tugboat to pull the big ship out of the shipyard. The second round of sea trials would be conducted this afternoon.

The main purpose was to verify the weapon system of the big ship.