Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 245 Survivor's Hidden Blade

The two of them returned to the social scene and became polite and courteous again, getting along well with the guests.

After dancing two dances, Adele politely said that she was a little tired from the long boat trip and declined the invitation of the men. Solar had to dance until the end of the dance, and Adele could even see the fatigue on his face when he left in the car.

As they danced, ate, and chatted, the party gradually came to an end and the guests left one by one.

Adele, who had already exchanged business cards with most of the noble families in Constantine, did the same, but before that, she had to say goodbye to Miss Audrey.

The hall soon became deserted, and Audrey Hall ordered the servants to clean up the room while motioning for Adele to come to her office.

"How does it feel?"

After both of them entered the office, Miss Hall sat down in her chair and motioned for Adele to find a seat as well.

"Are you talking about the ball or Sir Solar?" Adele asked.

"Both." Miss Hall nodded.

"As for the dance party, I am more familiar with it now than before. The Beyonders of the Witch Path seem to be very suitable for doing similar things, but I can't say whether I like it or not."

"I can see that." Miss Hall smiled. "Unlike me, you don't have a title that would scare those guys away. Just now, among the five gentlemen dancing with me, four of them were asking me about you in a roundabout way..."

"To be honest, this is not polite, but in front of the charm of a witch, such behavior is understandable."

Miss Hall winked at Adele playfully, causing Adele to look away somewhat embarrassedly.

The more I understand how powerful the charm of witches is, the more I care about Miss Audrey, a chosen person who is naturally more beautiful than a witch...

Adele looked down at the back of her hand with deep emotion. "Sir Solar's words are a bit like the official Loen caricature of the Sun's believers - arrogant, conceited, and lacking in manners. But I think this guy is very real in some ways."

"That's a good summary. He is indeed such a person."

The corners of Miss Hall's mouth curved up. "If you are self-centered, you will feel warm if you keep a certain distance from him. Being too far or too close will bring harm. You must keep this in mind in future cooperation."

Miss Hall played with the perfume bottle in her hands, letting the air flow from one side of the brown glass bottle to the other.

"You're going out to sea tomorrow?"

"Yes, the Witch Cult asked me to go to the Abyss Whirlpool to find the 'Fountain of Youth'."

Adele said frankly, "Originally, this kind of thing wouldn't require a member like me who just joined, but Tracy's ship isn't strong enough."

"That means, this time we are likely to, no, definitely run into the high-ranking officials of the Witch Cult?"

Miss Hall frowned. "Just in case, Tarot asked me to give you two things."

After saying that, she took out a dozen talismans made of pure silver and a small wooden box from the drawer and pushed them in Adele's direction.

"This is the Dream Stealing Spell I made myself. It can steal part of your memory after use. After a day, the stolen memory will slowly recover. You can use this to clear all the memories related to the Tarot Club to prevent the Witch Cult from finding out the flaws."

Audrey pointed at the pile of silver foil talismans. "There are twelve in total. The opening spell is 'forget' in dragon language. The validity period should be half a year."

"So what's in this box?"

Adele took the talisman, glanced at it, and put it in her pocket, focusing her attention on the wooden box.

"That is the magical item you need. It seems that Mr. 'The Hanged Man' came to your house personally and asked for it to be rushed, hoping that it can be delivered to you before you reach the Abyss Whirlpool."

Audrey smiled and said, "Open it and take a look."

Adele hesitated for a moment and opened the mahogany box in her hand.

The box contained a strange-looking weapon, consisting of a metal blade, coils, gears, chains, and a brown leather handguard. There was a metal bar connected to an iron hook at the top of the handguard, which seemed to be used for simple blocking.

The weapon has a folding mechanism at the bottom, which can be deployed like a miniature crossbow by pressing a button in the middle of the fixed disc.

"This was made by the craftsman based on the blueprint of a strange weapon preserved in the manuscript left by Emperor Roselle. Roselle called this weapon a 'weapon specifically for assassination.' Although he also believed that the use of this weapon requires cutting off the ring finger, I don't see why this is necessary."

"Its name is 'Survivor's Hidden Blade'."

Miss Hall explained to Adele, "According to the craftsman, the mechanical structure of this weapon is very sophisticated. There is an iron hook on the back to assist climbing, a folded crossbow arrow at the bottom, and the blade can be rotated 90 degrees along the central rotation axis to form a dagger blade."

"As long as the user carries this hidden blade, they can slowly accumulate luck and bad luck. Luck will be directly applied to you in battle, while bad luck will be formed into arrows dedicated to the crossbow at the bottom, which will add three minutes of bad luck to the enemy hit."

"Using different parts has different side effects. The hook on the back can increase your efficiency in climbing walls, but your purpose will be randomly distorted when climbing walls, such as climbing up a building that is not your original target. However, this can be offset by accumulated luck;"

"After the crossbow arrow at the bottom is fired, the bad luck will take effect on you in a relatively soothing way after twenty minutes until the effect completely disappears;"

"The negative effect of the dagger in the middle is that it makes you lose the ability to swim for a short period of time, and you sink as soon as you enter the water."

Adele carefully tied the hidden blade to her wrist and tried to swing it twice, switching its form like a child with a new toy.

“It looks great, but we’ll have to wait until we test it to see how effective it is.”

Adele commented, before she hurriedly thanked Miss Hall.

"You're welcome. Do you want to stay the night with me or go back to the ship? But I have to make it clear that those witches on the ship are not the kind of people who would stay still."

Miss Hall covered her face and chuckled, "So I still suggest you go back to the ship and take a look."

"You're right..."

Adele nodded slightly. She would not be as casual in front of Miss Hall as she was in front of Solar. Many of her habitual little movements as an assassin were forcibly changed by him.

"Then I'll take my leave now."

Adele stood up and left, her hands still seemingly unable to resist trying out various gestures of using the hidden blade.

(End of this chapter)