Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 333 The Contained Divine Lamp
Resisting the urge to ask about Constantine and Wendy's gossip, Adele turned her attention back to her own affairs.

In addition to the gifts for Sophie and Venata, she could also choose one thing from the pile to keep for herself.

She personally wasn't interested in anything like that, but money was not something she could resist.

Each of these artworks is worth over a thousand pounds, so even just one of them would be a great trophy.

However, if you want to choose, it is better to choose something that is of practical use to you...

Adele paced back and forth in the room, deliberating carefully.

As for lack of money, she is not too short of it now. After all, she has spent more than ten years of her life in the East District. Even if she is allowed to let go and enjoy herself, she doesn't know what to do.

When working as a personal butler in Baron Sindras's mansion, in order to maintain his own dignity, Sindras prepared expensive clothes for his men and decorated the rooms gorgeously and luxuriously.

However, until Adele assassinated Baron Syndras and pretended to drown and left, the luxury goods and expensive clothes in her room were hardly touched.

Compared to the nobles who were used to a stable life and pursued excitement and paid attention to ostentation, Adele yearned for a peaceful and comfortable life, but unfortunately she had no choice.

Adele walked past the paintings of Renoir and the sculptures of Truitt, but she was not going to choose any of these because they would not be much better in her hands than in those sailors'.

-Besides, the style of these artworks did not match her small home in Indo Port, unless Adele planned to hang them in the toilet, which would be disrespectful and inappropriate.

Walking around, Adele suddenly discovered that inside the glass display case filled with various artworks, there was a book that was out of place with those ancient artworks that were quite contemporary.

It was a notebook with a lambskin cover, and something was written on the cover in the official language of Intis.

"Caesar's Diary..."

Adele read out the words in the book awkwardly, and her tongue almost cramped because of Emperor Roselle's awkward coined words.

The grammar of this word is completely different from the common language, and no matter how Adele spells it, it sounds weird. This system, like most of the systems promulgated by Roselle at that time, is incompatible with the ancient court.

"From the literal meaning, it seems that this is a book in which minor officials in the palace record the words and deeds of Emperor Roselle... Even this has been collected as a cultural relic?"

Adele was curious, so she opened the cupboard and took out the notebook to look through it.

The notes are obviously not the original manuscript. They have been copied and reprinted many times and are bound very beautifully.

Adele was also amazed by the content inside, which focused on the legendary emperor Roselle's every move in the palace from the time he suddenly had the idea of ​​setting up a daily record bureau shortly before he became emperor to his assassination.

Flipping through the book casually, Adele discovered that in his later years, Emperor Roselle often stood in front of the west-facing window of the palace and looked out, often standing there for a whole day. Then he would become extremely decadent, wasting the day in the palace, and then suddenly stand up, as if he had absorbed some kind of spiritual strength.

It is very likely that Roselle, like Wendy, is a person from the past... Then he has been looking westward. Does that mean he already knows that his hometown is in the Western Continent?
Adele pondered over it and felt that this was very possible. After all, Emperor Roselle was the one who truly opened the Age of Navigation, and it was possible that he had made some discoveries during the voyage.

Thinking of this, a person emerged in Adele's mind, that is the mother of the "Hermit" lady, the "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette.

There were rumors on the sea that she was the eldest daughter of Emperor Roselle, and she herself did not deny it. However, she did not need to deny such rumors, which did not mean anything...

Adele recalled the attitude of the Hermit towards Emperor Roselle at the Tarot meeting, and her reaction when she saw the Witch card. She believed the rumor about 80% of the time and planned to ask about it casually at the next meeting.

Among the original members of the Tarot Club, this was already common sense, but they had never mentioned it specifically to Adele.

Adele knew more or less about the identities of not only Adele but other members of the Tarot Club. After all, the Tarot Club was no longer a secret organization but a semi-public church tacitly approved by the Orthodox Church.

Although the members of Above the Gray Mist maintained a tacit understanding and did not call each other by their real names, even Adele, who had just joined, could more or less guess the true identities of these members from their action reports.

As one of the Four Kings, the Hermit had such a resounding reputation that she couldn't hide it even if she wanted to.

The Hanged Man was second in fame among the Beyonders, but Adele had a devout Storm believer as a neighbor, from whom she learned that an archbishop of the Church of the Storm had gone out to become the Pope of the Church of Poseidon.

As for Miss Audrey... she had no intention of hiding it from Adele from the beginning. After all, she was a dream weaver. Even if Adele wanted to leak the secret, could she do it?

The Sun is not very famous, but he works in the Church of Fools after all, and his physical features are so obvious that Adele knows the identity of this half-giant even without thinking about it.

"The Moon" Emlyn and "The Star" Leonard are currently colleagues of Adele. Even if Adele has never met "The Star", she can always figure out the identity of the other boss.

The identity of "Judgment" is relatively mysterious, but when she was in the Tarot Club, she once said that she was also a bounty hunter in Backlund... As an assassin, Adele also has some understanding of the Beyonders who were once active in the East District.

As for why he could tell that the other person was Xio… the gray fog could only obscure his facial features, but his figure was still very obvious.

It can't be that he is a child laborer of the Tarot Club...

In contrast, the most mysterious person in the Tarot Club is the "Magician" lady who disappeared at the beginning...

Adele suddenly discovered that although Miss Magician said at the beginning that she had written some novels telling the stories of Mr. "World", those were all written under a pen name, which made Adele unaware of her true identity.

Turning her attention back to the diary, Adele skipped the main text and found that there were dozens of color pages at the end.

However, after just one glance, Adele's gaze froze instantly.

The color pages after the main text seem to be partial photos of Roselle's manuscripts, which are used as documents. Among them, about 80% are Roselle's symbols!
Could these be... Roselle's notes?

Adele felt her breathing become heavy, and quickly flipped through the pages, finding that there were more than twenty pages recording the symbols that Roselle had "invented".

Unlike the large copies in Adele's collection that were copied by later generations and deliberately written for study by occultists, these are photographs of the originals and contain a great deal of information.

Originally, Adele didn't know any of this. She just collected some of Roselle's diaries out of respect for her. But now the situation has changed. She has Wendy, who is also a time traveler from ancient times, by her side. Although she still keeps this secret at the Tarot Club, it does not prevent her from privately taking these to Wendy for translation.

"We just have to find a way to avoid Constantine..."

Adele frowned. This was not easy because Constantine was full of the unrestrained enthusiasm unique to the people of the southern continent. Even Wendy, who knew nothing about love, was completely fascinated by him. The two of them were now like a pair of flies stuck together by salad dressing, always sticking together and making a sweet buzzing sound.

Forget it, that's all for the future, let's talk about it later...

Adele put the matter aside for the moment, walked out of the treasure house in the bottom cabin, asked Tracy to seal the bottom cabin again, and then called a sailor to ask him to notify the chef of the "Snow Wind" that the celebration tonight would go on as usual.

……

At the same time, on the Reflection Star.

A banquet was also being held here - however, compared to the banquet that took place on Earth, this one was obviously more high-end and closer to a miracle.

The gray-black church disappeared entirely, replaced by a huge white marble banquet hall.

There were red curtains, a shiny inlaid floor, and many tables placed between green columns, with white tablecloths shining with gold, silver, and glassware.

There was a long table on the platform, about a hundred feet long from one end of the hall to the other, and the rest of the tables were arranged in rows at right angles to the platform.

Two huge, magnificent chandeliers hung from the high, red and golden ceiling, with countless round lights made of frosted glass shining brightly. There were also ornately decorated wall lamps on the walls that sparkled brightly.

Walking among the banquet were servants whose faces could not be seen. Some of them served with golden wine vessels, while others danced in thin gauze skirts, surrounding Antigonus, Amon and Fors, who were sitting in the main seats.

This atmosphere made Fors feel quite uncomfortable. Although she had participated in many aristocratic balls in Loen, the atmosphere and scenes there were completely different from Antigonus's banquet.

——There, all the people were nobles, or at worst friends of nobles; but here, she was probably the only one who could be called a “human”, sitting trembling with fear with the two angels, carrying out activities that were meaningless to them.

Fortunately, eating and drinking were not what they really cared about, and this banquet was just an attitude of Antigonus.

In their eyes, the only things that really matter are those above the sequence.

"Tell me how you've been doing these years."

Amon still had that frivolous smile on his face, and his tone was casual, as if he was just asking what the other person had for breakfast today.

"..."

Antigonus thought for a moment and said, "How should I put it... Actually, I should have reminded the next Fool not to accept the gift from the Wishing Lamp, especially the Miracle Master attribute it offers. But since you are here, it means that the current Fool is not as stupid as you say."

"Perhaps what you see now is just a fraud on my part."

Amon's smile was still bright, but Fors felt that Amon was just being stubborn.

"If you say so, then that's it."

Antigonus nodded indifferently. "But I don't need to compete with you for the position of 'Lord of Mysteries' now. There is no other use for you to deceive me. It will only waste your time listening to my story."

Amon smiled and sighed, "Okay, you win, go ahead."

Hearing this, Antigonus' eyes became a little dazed. He recalled for a while and said:
"Before I was imprisoned by the Goddess of Night in the Hornachis Mountains, I actually used the power of half of the Fool to make a series of attempts to reverse my past and future. Creating this projection was only part of it."

"At that time, I had mastered some of the Fool's authority, fully realized the disaster we were about to face, and began to seriously think about whether I could cope with this disaster even if I became a real 'Fool'."

"So your answer is 'no'?"

Amon's expression was quite amusing, as if he had a morbid interest in seeing others admit their shortcomings.

"Whether it's 'fooling', 'grafting' or your 'mistake', there needs to be some connection and similarity between the two."

Antigonus stroked the short, coarse black hair on his cheek, his indifferent expression showing a hint of boasting.

"I needed new power, but most of the power I could obtain through normal means was in the hands of others. And that's when I discovered the 'Wishing Lamp'."

Antigonus smiled rarely when he said this:

"Oh, right? I haven't told you yet, have I? The lamp contains the consciousness of the Son of Chaos. And this planet is the embodiment of the Son of Chaos' authority, which is the Kingdom of Disorder."

"That Tianzun back then was truly a terrifying figure... Even a powerful Outer God like the Son of Chaos could have his spirit ripped out of its seal by him."

"'The Mother Tree of Desire' and 'Fallen Mother Goddess' will more or less affect the paths corresponding to the source essence they control, but the only exceptions are the two paths belonging to 'Child of Chaos', 'Black Emperor' and 'Judge'... This is the best evidence."

Antigonus pointed to his forehead, where there was a golden symbol that Fors had never seen before, which was similar to the combination of the "Sword of Judgment" of the Loen royal family and the "Crown of Thorns" of the Intis royal family.

"And if I want the authority of the Son of Chaos, I must create similarities between myself and the Son of Chaos."

"If I want to accommodate the authority of the Son of Chaos, I have to connect the Wishing Lamp with my authority. The method is very simple."

Antigonus slowly grinned, which made Fors feel inexplicably scary.

"The 'Wishing Lamp' you see is no longer the one that was originally sealed by the 'Lord of Mysteries'..."

"Because the original 'Wishing Magic Lamp' has already been contained by me."

(End of this chapter)