Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 21 Ash Black

Embers joining Tarot will give Crane a sense of urgency.

On the one hand, he hoped to gain useful intelligence from Ember and did not regret the decision.

On the other hand, it was not convenient for him to have much communication with Yu Jin.

After all, he was the Fool in the Tarot Club, so asking directly would be too cheap.

To this end, he tried to make a vest for himself, but ultimately failed.

At the same time he also heard the prayer of a crimson star.

Due to language barriers, he gave up responding to the other party's prayers.

And even if he responded, it would be useless because he was not a real god and could not solve the other party's problem at all.

After doing all this, Klein fell into a dilemma again.

He now suspected that the 'girl' he met was most likely the former 'instigator' Tris.

Because the appearance and temperament of both parties gave him almost the same feeling——

She has a round face, narrow eyes and a gentle temperament.

They are almost identical except that one is male and the other is female.

But he had no evidence to prove his 'guess', and it was difficult to explain the reason to the captain -

Could it be said that he got the information from the Tarot Club?
After hesitating for a long time, Klein finally made a decision.

Just say it's your intuition.

It's just a guess anyway, and revealing it can provide more clues, and it won't be easily doubted if you say it's intuition.

It is the intuition of a fortune teller after all.

Moreover, maybe we can use a fortune teller as a cover?

Just say it was the result of your divination.

"Well, just do it!"

Klein nodded solemnly, then hesitated for a moment before taking out the crystal pendant and doing some divination first.

……

So when he went to work the next day, Klein took the opportunity to reveal his guess about Tris's identity.

"You mean."

Dunn frowned slightly. "It is possible that Tris managed to escape our pursuit because he turned into a woman? And he met you before, but you didn't recognize him at that time?"

"Yes."

Klein nodded and put forward the story he had prepared long ago, explaining, "In fact, when I met that 'girl' that day, my spirituality gave me a hint, but I was focused on capturing Tris at the time and didn't connect the two people."

"But when I was looking up information about the Witch Cult yesterday, I stumbled upon the fact that the Witch Cult is almost entirely made up of women."

"So I speculated that it is possible that at a certain stage in the assassin's path, one would become a female due to the influence of a potion, such as Sequence 7."

“Sequence 7?”

Dunn pondered for a moment.

According to their speculation, Tris was indeed on the verge of promotion at that time.

Otherwise his abnormal behavior cannot be explained.

In other words, the other party had indeed begun to advance to Sequence 7 after arriving in Tingen.

The only problem is that they don't know the name of the potion for Assassin's Path Sequence 7.

“This is indeed a direction for investigation.”

Dunn thought for a moment and slowly said, "The information you provided is very valuable. I will have someone start investigating immediately."

Although this was just based on Klein's intuition.

But for extraordinary people, so-called intuition often comes from spiritual warnings.

And spiritual warnings are often more accurate than their own judgment.

So Dunn chose to accept it without hesitation, and they really had no other ideas for investigation at the moment.

And considering that Klein's extraordinary path is a fortune teller, his "intuition" will be more valuable than that of ordinary people.

After reporting the situation, Klein was finally satisfied.

In the evening, he attended the welcome party held by the team for him.

Klein was satisfied because his weekly salary increased to £4.5.

Perhaps the only regret is that Old Neil was unable to attend his welcome party.

"I've found the whereabouts of Miss Justice's mind reader formula, so it's time for me to go find the Joker's potion formula."

Klein sighed in his heart. If he continued like this, he would be at the bottom of the Tarot Club.

Can you believe that the leader of a mysterious organization is actually the last among its members?

At the same time, in Backlund Saint Samuel Church.

Yu Jin also made a "representation" to Archbishop Anthony.

"If I want to purchase potion formulas of other sequences, what will it cost?"

"cost?"

Facing Yu Jin's question, Anthony was stunned for a moment, then quickly drew a crimson moon on his chest and said, "Then according to the market price, Sequence 9 8 pounds, Sequence 7 pounds, Sequence pounds, how about that?"

After a pause, Anthony continued, "Of course, I can only provide low- and medium-sequence potion formulas, and I can only ensure the completeness of low-sequence potion formulas."

If it was an ordinary night watchman.

They don't need to pay gold pounds, they just need to make enough "contributions" to the Church of Darkness.

When their contributions are sufficient and meet the promotion requirements, the Church of Evernight will naturally provide them with the corresponding sequence of formulas.

But if it was what Yu Jin wanted, and he was unwilling to spend time making a 'contribution'.

Taking into account his status as a follower, he can be given certain special treatments and be allowed to exchange it with gold pounds.

"enough."

Yu Jin nodded slightly. All Miss Justice wanted was a Sequence 8 mind reader.

However, even Sequence 8 would still cost 400 pounds—

This is not a small amount of money.

Even with his weekly salary of £100 plus the £100 from Anthony, it would take at least three weeks to save enough.

However, perhaps we can wait until the next time Tarot will let Miss Justice pay part of the money first.

After all, she didn't seem to be short of money.

…Wednesday, July 7th.

Backlund, Crown Racecourse.

Ember stood in the VIP box, looking at the horses and riders sprinting below.

Two days have passed since I attended the Tarot Club.

These days, he followed Archbishop Anthony's advice and frequently participated in gatherings among Backlund's upper class nobles.

But sadly.

The highest rank of those attending the meeting was viscount or even heir.

According to Yu Jin's idea, the person who knows the "Black Emperor" should at least be an earl or above.

However, he had just started attending gatherings among nobles, and his status was not particularly noble.

It is normal for him to come into contact with the upper echelons of this country.

But as long as you attend more parties, everything will be fine.

Thinking of this, Yu Jin suddenly turned around and looked at the girl beside him.

The girl had dazzling, soft blonde hair. She wore a white long dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, ruffles, and lace on the chest. She also wore a gauze hat inlaid with blue ribbons and silk flowers on her head, and light-colored tulle gloves on her hands.

At this moment, the other party was staring at the embers intently.

"Is there a problem?"

Ember asked politely.

I don't know why, but this girl has been staring at me since a while ago.

"No, it's nothing."

The girl was startled by Yu Jin's sudden gaze. She could no longer maintain her previous attitude of being aloof like a spectator, and instead lowered her head in panic.

In the end, she felt that her appearance was a little too suspicious, and her earlobes could not help but turn red, and she ran away.

"Ok?"

Yu Jin looked puzzled, feeling that the other party's actions were somewhat inexplicable.

But it didn’t receive much attention.

Because although he could feel that the other person's soul was stronger than that of an ordinary person, it was also limited.

It's not even worthy of being used as firewood.

No, let alone being used as firewood, the other party doesn't even have the qualifications to be burned into ashes, he will only be burned into air.

"Audrey, what's wrong?"

The thin young man noticed Audrey's sudden panic and moved closer to her and asked with concern.

"nothing."

Audrey had regained her composure by now, and she shook her head and asked, "Glarint, what do you want?"

Grellant was her friend, and it was not clear whether to say he was lucky or unlucky.

His father died early, but he inherited the title at an early age.

And with her gift as an audience member, Audrey was able to tell that the other person must be asking for something when he came to her.

"Audrey."

Upon hearing Audrey's question, Viscount Glint lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "I know a true Beyonder, an Beyonder who does not belong to the royal family."

You say that every time.

"really?"

Audrey smiled elegantly and politely, but she was actually not interested in what he said.

"I swear on my father's honor, this is absolutely true!"

Viscount Greylint nodded solemnly and said with a serious face.

"So."

Audrey wanted to show a surprised expression, but then she hesitated and pointed at the embers not far away. "Viscount Glint, do you know him?"

"I've met him twice."

Viscount Greylint glanced at it and nodded, "Ash Black, a fallen noble. I heard that he just came to the capital recently, so he has been attending gatherings among the nobles in the capital frequently these days."

"He attended my party two days ago, but you didn't come that day so you didn't see him."

After a pause, Greylint added, "There will be a salon at my house tomorrow afternoon. If I invite him, he should come as well. Of course, there will also be the extraordinary person I mentioned."

"Ash Black?"

Audrey's jewel-like eyes sparkled.

From the first moment she saw Yu Jin, she felt that this gentleman looked very familiar—

He was very similar to Mr. 'lover' she met at the tarot meeting the day before.

The reason why the two can be linked together is also due to the audience's talent in observing and comparing the body shapes and temperaments of both parties.

But the main reason was that the dazzling array of rings on the other person's ten fingers were so impressive.

After all, even the nouveau riche in the royal capital rarely wear rings on all ten fingers.

So far, Audrey has only met two people who would dress like this.

One is the 'lover' and the other is this Mr. Ash Black.

……

Tingen city.

In the morning, Klein went back to the university to visit Mr. Azik.

In the afternoon, he divined that the formula of the clown potion was related to Sirius Apyris.

Feeling that the fortune teller was really weak in combat, Klein decided to buy himself some materials needed for ritual magic, so that he would not be left without the materials when he needed them and could only wait to die.

So, he then went to the underground market to purchase.

As he was leaving, he saw a young lady in a light green dress also preparing to leave.

Klein felt that the lady's back looked familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

After all, he had more important things to do, so he didn't care about this little thing, but quickened his pace to the library.

His intuition told him that he should be able to get information about Sirius Apyris there.

This makes sense.

(End of this chapter)