Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 385 After the Tarot Meeting
In order to take care of Xio's physical condition, the pace of communication among the Tarot Club members was faster than before. A lot of information mentioned by everyone was glossed over, unless other members expressed interest in certain information, they would focus on it.

Recently, the "Hermit" Cattleya has been following the arrangement of the Moss Ascetic Order and traveling south along the coastal area of ​​East Chester County. She said that she was spreading the alienated holy emblem of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, but in fact she was slacking off. At the same time, she was observing the starry sky from different locations, trying to find the "Magician" lady who was still missing.

Her Sequence Five is called "Astrologer". She is an expert in observing the starry sky and is also in touch with the mysterious angel queen Bernadette who is on the same path. She is indeed the most suitable person to do similar things in the current Tarot Club, so Adele and others don't have to give her too many instructions.

Emlyn the Moon shared some information about the logistics base, which made Adele feel more intuitively that the Loen military really wanted to end the war quickly this time.

Apart from other things, just from the number of people, the number of people mobilized by Loen this time reached 37,000, accounting for 80% of the existing troops in the southern continent. The previously dispersed legions were reorganized on a large scale based on the two relatively intact Leonard and Avila units, preparing to directly decide the outcome in the next wave of offensive.

In fact, if it was just against the natives of the southern continent, the war would have ended long ago, and the hidden Rose School members had little impact on the war situation. If the Loen army had not opened the champagne too early and was busy dividing the fruits of victory in advance, but was caught off guard by the Rose School's counterattack, Leonard's vanguard troops would have pushed to the polar coast.

Wouldn't it have been over if they had fought like this earlier... Adele shook her head as she listened. She felt sorry for the corruption in Loen's military and political institutions and was angry at them for not fighting back.

Good news came from the Sun Derrick. After Feysac gave up the fight for Indor Port a while ago, Vinata contacted the headquarters of the Church of Fools through Audrey, and passed the news to Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina Edwards through Danitz.

With Tracy's precedent, the originally tense atmosphere between the navy and the pirates became subtle. Pirates like the "Undead King" who did all kinds of evil were still a problem, but for a female Extraordinary like "Vice Admiral Iceberg" who was more like an adventurer than a pirate, cooperating with official forces was actually a good choice.

After all, the invention of ironclad ships did deter most pirates, and under the pressure of the increasingly powerful kingdom navy, the decline of the pirate industry was inevitable, especially for those small pirate groups other than the four kings and seven generals, which would be basically extinct within twenty years.

As for those pirate groups with demigods, although they are not too afraid of ironclad ships, for the demigods with long lives, these twenty years of decline are just a blink of an eye. Instead of enjoying the last dividends in a declining industry, it is better to change their appearance in time.

Since Duo Port is currently an unmanaged area with no official intervention, the cooperation between adventurers and multinational corporations does not sound so unacceptable.

——After all, if a human trafficker like Vice Admiral Disease can cooperate with the Kingdom, then scholars like Vice Admiral Iceberg will face even less resistance when cooperating with the Kingdom.

Sun Derrick said that Admiral Iceberg had sent a letter saying that she would be stationed in Indo Port in the near future, but because she was still in contact with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, she would not accept Loen's canonization for the time being and would only engage in business cooperation. In exchange, Audrey would try to influence the Loen officials to cancel the bounty on Admiral Iceberg.

Vinata really did a lot of things...

Adele was moved by Sun Derrick's description. After being promoted to a conspirator, Vinata's overall view had a qualitative leap. She thrived in the cracks between various forces, which made Adele sigh how right it was to let her stay in Indo Port.

- In comparison, Adele's quick wit can only allow her to remain neutral among the major forces, but if one wants to achieve the neutrality of an organization, it still requires Vinata to do it.

The story told by the Hanged Man Alger was rather boring. The Blue Avenger had been cruising near the sea line since its repairs were completed, and a floating platform was built on the outskirts of the fog. The Hanged Man's fleet transported supplies back and forth to maintain the operation of this outpost.

By the way, the outpost was in charge of the two demigods of the Psychological Alchemy Society who were captured before, the ladies Greed and Sloth. The ocean was extremely vast, and without Alger's guidance, even if they could transform into dragons, they could not fly out, and could only stay on the floating platform.

Perhaps because the last time he was promoted, Miss Magician went missing, Mr. Hanged Man has become more and more cautious, so cautious that he hardly looks like a Storm believer...

Adele complained in her heart, but she also knew that the Hanged Man was no longer the Bishop of the Church of the Storm, but the Pope of the Church of the Sea God, so it was naturally important for him to be prudent.

After everyone had finished talking about their recent situation, it was finally Adele's turn.

She opened her mouth, but for a moment she didn't know where to start.

I feel like I’m in this state before every Tarot meeting. So many things have happened around me that I don’t know which one is more worth talking about in detail…

After sorting out her thoughts, Adele straightened her body and said:
"I was transferred from the Navy last week, and my focus shifted to the police department to investigate the ayahuasca matter."

"Ayahuasca? Is it what the priest you mentioned took during the previous Tarot meetings?"

Alger interjected that Adele had brought a lot of information these past few times, and he found that this kind of item that had become the focus of discussion at previous tarot clubs, now he couldn't quite remember what it was.

"That's right. According to my research, ordinary ayahuasca is just a hallucinogenic drug. It doesn't have any magical effects. To make a person mutate, it needs to go through a special processing process."

Adele explained, "These are the intelligence I got from the killed Intis intelligence officer. The accuracy should be trustworthy. The other party is a Sequence 5 'Puppet Master' with a very high level of confidentiality. I saw a lot of things."

"As I recall, you were still Sequence Six a month ago?"

Xio, who had been absent from several meetings, asked in surprise, "And now you can kill the Sequence Five 'Master of Secret Puppetry'?"

Thinking back to when he was at Sequence 6, he was almost defeated by Viscount Stratford's counterattack despite launching a sneak attack. However, the "Queen" was able to kill a Sequence 5 alone at Sequence 6, and she was also a "Master of Secret Dolls". Xio felt a little unreal.

In fact, it was not her fault. Although she had not yet joined the Tarot Club when Gehrman Sparrow was active at the level of a Secret Master in the "World", she had lived with Fors for a long time after all. Later, when she also joined the Tarot Club and there was no need to keep it secret, Fors told her a lot of things about Gehrman Sparrow, exaggerating and telling her to be careful of this gloomy gentleman.

It was precisely because of these that when the “Master of Secret Dolls” was mentioned, the first thing that came to her mind was the invincible Gehrman Sparrow. Adele, who was able to kill “Gehrman Sparrow’s Level 1 warrior” alone at Sequence 6, also became terrifying in her mind.

In fact, it was mainly due to Frank Mushroom...

Adele complained in her heart, then said modestly: "I also used very powerful props and relied on sneak attacks to deal with all of them."

However, the Tarot Club members, who were once the main customers of the "Lemano Travel Notes Rental Service", did not underestimate Adele's strength. After all, having channels to obtain powerful props is also a skill.

Moreover, Audrey had informed the members of the Tarot Club of the news of Gagran's awakening long before the meeting began. Now there is a true angel behind Adele, and such a person deserves the respect of others in any secret organization.

"By the way, I also have a copy of the 'Sun Priest' Extraordinary Characteristics, a copy of the 'Instigator', a copy of the 'Generalist', and a copy of the 'Sailor' Extraordinary Characteristics. Does anyone need any of them?"

Seeing that no one had any intention of commenting on the information about Ayahuasca for the time being, Adele began to promote it, focusing on the two leaders of the forces, Cattleya, the Hermit, and Alger, the Hanged Man.

"I paid 2,500 pounds for the Sun Priest's characteristics."

What Adele didn't expect was that the first person to speak was Mr. "The Sun" sitting next to her.

Isn't he already a demigod of the Sun Path, and does he have subordinates of the same path?
Adele didn't ask any more questions. She nodded to the "Sun" and said, "I will pass it to you through a ceremony after the meeting."

Derrick nodded. Since he succeeded the position of the elder of the Six-Man Council of Silver City, many young people in Silver City have chosen the "Sun" path out of admiration for him. Unfortunately, the main materials of this path are still in the hands of Intis, and there is Loen, Feynebott and the entire Rorsted Islands between it and Bayam. Now that Adele has it, he naturally wants to help the residents of Silver City buy it.

Not only did she defeat a Puppet Master, but also so many Beyonders?
Cattleya raised her eyebrows, a little surprised, but soon she remembered the characteristics of the Secret Puppet Master and calmed down a little.

There should be quite a few people who were puppets of the puppet master. After the puppet master died, they also lost their lives and were picked up by the "Queen" lady...

While Cattleya was still thinking, she heard Adele say, "The Master of Secret Dolls has extraordinary characteristics. I plan to find a craftsman to make a magical item. Ms. Hermit, can you still contact that craftsman?"

"What do you want?" After calming down a little, Cattleya asked in return.

"I hope this magical item can be easy to carry. It can be a female product or jewelry. It would be best if it can retain the ability to manipulate the spirit thread."

Adele thought about it and chose her favorite ability.

"Yes, but it may not succeed." Cattleya answered truthfully, "For magical items of this level, trying to accurately fix a certain ability will affect the probability of success. If successful, I will take the remaining three extraordinary characteristics as a reward."

"Is there still a chance of failure?"

Adele's face suddenly turned bitter. "Ms. Hermit, I have been affected by the side effects of a certain magical item recently. My luck has not been very good. Will this affect the processing of the magical item?"

"…Theoretically, yes."

Cattleya paused. "But this is easy to solve. Ask Miss Judgment to notarize it and let you transfer the property to me for one gold pound. Then my luck will be used during the processing. When the magical item is completed, the transfer can be completed in the same way. I can also add a few ritual magic to increase my luck, so it will be foolproof."

Is this still possible? Adele was a little surprised, so she nodded to Cattleya, indicating that she would follow her arrangements.

"In that case, I'll go find Frank after the meeting and ask him to contact the craftsman." Cattleya nodded slightly.

Frank? What does this have to do with him?
Adele was startled when she suddenly heard the name of the strange mushroom man. Fortunately, no one noticed her loss of composure in the gray fog.

"He and the craftsman...get along well."

As if she had noticed Adele's reaction, Cattleya hesitated for a moment and said comfortingly, "There is no problem with the processing. At least there are definitely no mushrooms in the craftsman's workshop."

That's good……

Adele breathed a sigh of relief and began to wonder what kind of person could get along well with Frank.

Could it be that Frank unilaterally thinks that the two of them get along well? Adele couldn't help but complain in her heart.

……

After a while, the Tarot Club came to an end and Adele returned to the real world.

While Leila was not back yet, he quickly prepared for the sacrifice ceremony, sacrificed the extraordinary characteristics of the "Sun Priest" to Mr. "Sun", and obtained a large amount of gold pounds prepared by him.

As for the remaining extraordinary characteristics, she planned to wait until tomorrow, when her condition had further recovered, and then continue the transaction with Ms. Hermit.

As expected of an important member of a powerful faction, he was able to get more than 2,000 pounds in cash in less than ten minutes. In other words, the 2,500 pounds in cash was most likely placed next to him...

After sighing twice, Adele quickly cleaned up the ceremony venue, put most of the cash into the safe, and took some for herself and put it in her handbag.

After becoming a witch, she could no longer wear canvas trousers with many pockets in formal occasions as she did before, because that was not decent enough, and most evening dresses did not have pockets, so she could only carry a small handbag. When she first became a witch, she made a lot of jokes because she was not used to it.

Twenty minutes later, Leila opened the door and found Adele sitting in a chair, reading documents carefully. Seeing Leila come in, Adele waved to her.

"Come over here, I have a task for you."

(End of this chapter)