Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 312: The Earl's Knight
Cecilia readily agreed to Azik's conditions.

The extraordinary people of the Demonic Path are now hated by everyone, and even the Storm Church was forced to revise the part about Matafarri in the scriptures, changing "He is an angel who surrendered to the Lord of Storms in ancient times and was responsible for guarding the Abyss of Storms" to "He is an angel captured by the Lord of Storms in ancient times and was suppressed in the Abyss of Storms."

Moreover, even before Matafari was captured and brought back to the Mother Tree of Desire, the Storm Church positioned him as just a thug, and the anchors he received from the Storm believers were pitifully few.

Therefore, the fact that Azikken made such a guarantee to Cecilia who had lost her power showed his sincerity. Moreover, with his status in the Church of Fool, if he asked Cecilia to swear in front of the witness of the Fool, it meant that the Church of Fool would provide shelter for Cecilia.

——At least, that's what Cecilia herself thought.

When Azik saw Cecilia's reaction, he knew that she had misunderstood what he said, but he was too lazy to explain.

"Okay, now that the terms are agreed, you can leave. Just don't wake anyone up on your way back."

Azik waved his hand, making a gesture to send the guest away. It was not until the human figure made of blood collapsed and flowed out through the crack of the door that he adjusted his sitting position and continued to study the report.

As for Sophie's matter, since the members of the Tarot Club had already promised to help solve it, there was no need for him to directly ask Cecilia to leave her current body. After all, Cecilia was no longer the Blood Duke, and changing bodies was not as easy as pulling out a pin.

……

On the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the city of Constance and Hall House.

"Miss Hall, is there any news about the 'Honeysuckle Queen'?"

Although it was already late at night, after receiving the message from Miss Hall, the anxiously waiting Lorota rushed to Audrey Hall's residence as soon as possible.

"Sorry, it's not good news."

Miss Hall, wearing a black silk pajamas, sat down opposite Lorota, with a table between them. She pushed a newly printed telegram over, her face heavy, and watched the other party's reaction.

"A ship appeared out of nowhere south of the Rorsted Archipelago. Several crew members on board were missing, and most of the surviving crew members had lost their memories?"

Lolota took the telegram and read it carefully, but after reading only a few lines, she couldn't help but scream out in surprise.

"Sounds magical, doesn't it?" Miss Hall's face showed sympathy, and her sadness didn't seem fake. "But the South Continental Army did give a similar answer."

"The Witch Cult hijacked the ship. Britton discovered this and followed the ship. We don't know how much happened during that time. All we know is what I just told you... I'm sorry."

Lolotta's expression froze. She held the thin piece of printed paper in silence for a long time. It was not until Miss Hall stood up worriedly that she woke up from her dream.

"How... is this possible?" Lolota forced a smile on her face. "Peter is Red Gloves, the most elite deacon in our team. Rather than believe that he will disappear, I would rather believe that there are two suns in the sky..."

"However, before the Honeysuckle Queen appeared, a second sun did rise above the sea surface of the southern continent, and it rushed straight into the depths of the starry sky from the sea surface."

Miss Hall sighed and rang the bell, and soon her personal maid came in, bowed respectfully to the two of them, and waited quietly at the door.

"Lolota, I know this may sound a little inhumane, but it is true. When I was organizing disaster relief in Backlund, I heard similar news every day."

After spending this period of time together, her relationship with Lorota became much closer. She no longer called her "Mrs. Britton" on weekdays, but called her by her name "Lorota" directly.

"Due to the appearance of the sun, our fleet suffered some damage and was forced to reintegrate the Honeysuckle Queen into the battle sequence. Adele will not be able to return for a while." Miss Hall assured apologetically, "It's already late today. You should go to rest with the maid. Tomorrow I will give you triple compensation as usual."

"No, I have a feeling he's not dead."

To Miss Hall's surprise, after hearing her comfort, Lorota's tone became even more determined.

"I don't need compensation, I just hope you can continue the search. I will inform the local church about the witch sect, and I believe I will get a response soon. He is my husband, and I know that."

"But you're not..."

The light of the red moon shone into the room through the transparent glass, making Miss Hall's thin figure even more fragile.

"Yes, my marriage to him is just a formality."

Lolota put the telegram into her pocket, bowed slightly to Miss Hall, and without even looking at the beautiful maid at the door, she went straight to open Miss Hall's bedroom door.

As she was about to leave, she turned around and said to Miss Hall, who stood up to say goodbye to her:

"Even so, he is still my husband."

……

After Lorota left, Miss Hall stood silently in front of the desk for a long time until the maid asked her timidly if she had any other instructions. Then she waved her hand to let the maid leave.

"Is this what you want?"

A familiar voice came straight from her mind, sounding exactly like her.

"I've been wondering when you would come, but I didn't want to wait until now."

After hearing the voice, Miss Hall was not surprised, but showed an expected expression and slowly turned around. Standing in the corner of the room was Audrey, wearing a dark blue traveling cloak, and something seemed to be burning in her green eyes.

Another Audrey Hall.

The real Audrey Hall.

The two people's eyes collided in the air, almost creating sparks.

"Why are you doing this?"

After a long silence, Audrey, the "Justice", broke the silence first. "In the original plan, you didn't need to do these things. There are naturally many people who are eager to do the task of reviving Jianhai County. They can be factory owners of the New Party, old nobles, or children of the royal family. Countless people want to grab a piece of this cake. Why do you have to..."

"It can be a factory owner of the New Party, an old noble, or a royal family member, but not me?"

Miss Hall said sarcastically, "As for the reason...you stuffed all those cowardly, sentimental emotions that you wanted to abandon into my head, but you took the power away."

"You told me that I was Miss Hall, the youngest daughter of Earl Hall. You told me to act more like a spoiled child to my father. You told me to slowly enlighten my mother. You told me to make Hibbert laugh. You told me to advise Alfred to find a good wife so that he would not take risks..."

Miss Hall's face showed a painful expression. "But you still told me that we have grown up and are no longer little girls."

"You left me this kind of life and these kinds of memories, but you expect me to pretend I know nothing, live a happy life, and be a good child to my parents?"

After Miss Hall finished speaking, she pursed her lips tightly, her expression sad but determined.

"I'm telling you, it's impossible. Just like you couldn't stand the despair of being a spectator forever, I can't stand it either."

She raised her arms slightly, and a cold and illusory black armor covered her body. In a blink of an eye, her body was completely covered by the solid black armor, with only the scarlet light flashing where her eyes were.

"what have you done?"

Even Justice Audrey Hall couldn't help but be a little surprised. When she created this clone, she only set her strength to the level of Sequence 5, thinking that this would be able to solve all the extraordinary events encountered by the Hall family.

And now, the other party's appearance obviously cannot be explained by a simple Sequence Five or a magical item. The only possibility is that his clone has also been promoted to a demigod in some way.

"It was Hermes and Ouroboros." Miss Hall said succinctly, "They gave me new power. Now even you can't easily take back this clone."

"I would rather be a knight than a spectator."

"You have to know that even a Sequence 4 Black Knight is not difficult for Dream Weaver to deal with."

"Justice," Audrey said after a moment's silence.

The atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point because of this sentence. illusory dragon scales appeared on the surface of "Justice", and the shadow behind Miss Hall became thicker and thicker, as if it were real.

However, a few seconds later, Miss Hall's aura suddenly disappeared, the black illusory armor disappeared, and she returned to her previous appearance, just wearing an ordinary pajamas, facing "Justice" Audrey calmly, who was close to a real angel in her every move.

"You won't do that, trust me."

Miss Hall calmly walked up to the silent Audrey, grabbed her hand covered with egg white phantom scales and placed it on her heart.

"You won't kill Miss Hall, because that would destroy everything you've done here. As the Justice of the Tarot Club, you can't step up and take responsibility for these obvious problems. Everything you want to do with your family needs to be done by Miss Hall. You are Justice Audrey, and I am Black Knight Hall. There's nothing wrong with that."

"What you separated from your body was not only me, but also your weakness, your hesitation, your insecurity, and the remnants of humanity that your 'justice' does not need."

Miss Hall stared straight into Audrey's calm green eyes and said word by word, "You can't kill me... Only when you become a true angel can you surpass Hermes' priority and forcibly take back this part of my humanity."

"I will not obey Hermes' orders, but I will not obey you completely either. I am the youngest daughter of Earl Hall, and I will use my own way to keep my parents away from the disputes I bring. Even 'justice' cannot stop me."

The room was once again in deathly silence, and the dark clouds completely covered the red moon. Miss Hall subconsciously turned her eyes away and looked at the moon outside the window.

"It's another blood moon tonight..." she murmured to herself. However, when she turned her gaze back, she found that the real body of "Justice" had disappeared, as sudden as her appearance.

Miss Hall stood there for a while, then slowly sat down on the chair, as if she was thinking about something. An indistinguishable sigh was heard in the quiet night, and finally everything returned to calm.

……

In the captain's room of the Future, Admiral of the Stars Cattleya was performing a ceremony in the manner commonly used by members of the Moss Ascetic Order, attending the meeting of the Ten Pillars in the form of a spirit.

As the herbs in the altar burned and the pure dew evaporated, Cattleya quickly made her soul leave her body and projected it into the secret stone palace of the Pillar Conference.

This stone palace is one of the venues for the Pillar Meetings of the Morse Ascetic Order, located near the Odrak Islands in the Republic of Intis.

The mysterious Queen Bernadette Gustav was there recently to meet Hugh. In order to disguise herself from the outside world that she had a bad relationship with her, Cattleya had her fleet bypass the polar sea and sail into the cape near the Antares Mountains. While not heading to the coast of Intis, she found a place far enough for her to descend and attend the Pillar Meeting.

However, when the illusory figure made of pure spirituality first appeared in the gathering, Cattleya discovered that it was different from the past.

In previous Pillar meetings, she was basically the pillar who attended the meetings and had the highest ranking, because Albert Gnostic who was ranked before her and another angel whose name she didn't even know rarely attended the meetings.

But today, there were only five of the ten pillars present, including her, and among these five was Albert Gnostic, an angel on earth famous for his expertise in numerology and secret rituals. This made Cattleya feel a little uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.

"Look, our Pirate Queen is back."

A frivolous laugh was heard, but it was quickly stopped by Albert North's gaze.

"Welcome back, 'Queen of Stars'. Congratulations on your advancement to Sequence Three and officially joining the ranks of the Four Kings."

The Gnostic's voice was low and magnetic, triggering waves of insincere applause around the long table.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Holiness." Cattleya was a little uncomfortable with the other party's concern and replied, "But the theme of this meeting is obviously not to celebrate for me, right?"

"of course."

Albert North nodded, "This time we chose those who have developed power in the outside world. Those who have devoted themselves to digesting the power have no experience in similar things."

After saying that, he materialized a huge symbol in the space between the few people. The symbol was composed of countless tiny words. Even though Cattleya had a higher sequence, she felt dizzy after seeing it for a long time.

If Azik were here, he would probably recognize it immediately. This was the variation of the pattern reported by the gang members, a mixture of all possibilities, concentrating all the chaotic lines into the same symbol.

"I need you to spread this symbol as quickly as possible, the sooner the better." Albert North said firmly.

(End of this chapter)