Lord of Mysteries: Yao Guang

"……what you up to?"

The brass-haired lady raised her hand little by little, slowly stepped back, and distanced herself from Esther, who was holding up the revolver.

Esther raised her chin in the direction away from the bushes:

"Wait until you leave, ma'am, I've already told you."

The lady glanced at the revolver in Esther's hand reluctantly: "My gun..."

"That's unnecessary. We're not familiar with each other, so there's no reason to return it."

Esther's finger pressed on the hammer, which made the lady who was still thinking of luck give up other ideas.

She decisively leaned down to pick up the beads on the ground, and then quickly walked out, quickly staying away from the back of the house, not even caring about leaving the direction of her back to Esther.

There was a strange and hidden force exerted on Esther. She glanced at the gun in her hand and realized that she had lost the desire to attack this woman.

Esther shook her head: "By giving extraordinary abilities to my things? It's really distressing that one and two of them are so smart. Is it true that only the 'Hunter' path produces idiots?" *

Daniz counts as one, and the red-haired lady who is being targeted counts as half. They all feel very easy to take advantage of.

A few light spots fell from Esther's hair, briefly outlining a circular wheel in the nearby air and then immediately disintegrating.

She did not take away the harvested revolver, but directly stuffed it under the bush, and then left here.

Esther did not eliminate the occult traces of the revolver itself. If the woman came back and found the gun herself, she would not be able to find Esther, whose contact had been severed.

But if the man comes back to search the scene and finds the revolver, it will eventually be traced to the woman and has nothing to do with Esther.

On the way back to the hotel, Esther didn't run into the group of "punishers" again, and she wasn't interested in finding out why they came to the island. She found a restaurant and ate a grilled dish of stewed mushrooms and fruits. Cake, and soon return to the hotel where we stayed.

When Esther walked into the hotel, the boss at the front desk looked at her suspiciously because he had no impression of seeing this lady staying there.

Esther grabbed it casually, and during the trance when the boss lost his memory, she leisurely walked up the stairs and returned to her room.

Sitting by the bed until three o'clock in the afternoon, the familiar light enveloped Esther's eyes again.

——

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"

The brisk voice of "Justice" sounded, and Klein, hidden by the gray mist, smiled and nodded, responding to her.

Klein decided to communicate with "Lover" through "The World" today and give the badge with the symbols of "Destiny" and "Hidden" to Esther.

After receiving Mr. Azik's reply two days ago, Klein has confirmed that the organization affiliated with the "Stealers" pathway does indeed exist. It is said to be the remnants of the "Stealers" families in the Fourth Age and calls itself "The Hermit of Destiny."

Although the Jacob family and the Zoroastrian family lost news after the "War of the Four Emperors", judging from the effectiveness of this badge, the spread of this channel has transferred from the public to the underground, leaving only A secret inheritance.

After learning this information, and based on Esther's description of the situation and her own experience, Klein suspected that they were doing this to avoid the "blasphemer" Amon.

The ability of the "parasite" is so weird that even extraordinary people with the same path must be extremely vigilant.

The "stealer" who was parasitic on Leonard went to a meeting. If Esther wanted to seek the extraordinary characteristics of the "parasite", this channel was the most suitable for her.

The badge itself is harmless, and attending the party has clear benefits for Esther. The danger is very low. The pendulum divination results gave Klein enough answers, so he had such a plan.

However, Klein also checked in advance. The next time for this "Thieves" gathering is at nine o'clock in the evening on June 6th. It is only January, and there is still a lot of time. Esther doesn't have to worry at all.

In this tarot meeting, only "Magician" and "Moon" each handed over two pages of Russell's diary. After seeing "Magician" requesting to accumulate their contributions, "Moon" naturally chose to follow her lead. Do.

Since several transactions had just been concluded at the last tarot meeting, the trading session this time was not so enthusiastic. Only the little "Sun" wanted to buy the fruit of the Glorious Spiritual Tree, "The World" wanted to buy the eyes of the six-winged gargoyle, and the others There are no new requirements at the moment.

When "The Hanged Man" suddenly applied to communicate with Esther alone, she was at a loss for a moment.

"Miss Lover, the bounty issued by the church has arrived in my hands. I will sacrifice three thousand gold pounds to Mr. Fool after the Tarot session ends today."

Esther immediately sat up straight: "Okay, but I probably won't be able to hold the prayer ceremony until tomorrow. Can Mr. Fool do it?"

"The Fool" nodded leisurely, indicating that it didn't matter.

But "The Hanged Man" did not intend to end this exchange directly: "Miss Lover, I would like to ask you if you know the situation of 'Flame'? He has caused big trouble this time."

Although Esther once helped Klein write a stack of "small advertisements", she really didn't know what happened after that: "Danitz? What happened to him?"

Hearing Esther's answer, "The Hanged Man" had some doubts in his heart: "Are you not in Bayam now?"

"No, I took the last ferry to Simim Island yesterday, and I haven't gone back to Bayam yet." Esther didn't think it was inconvenient to say it. She didn't have a head worth more than four thousand gold pounds.

"I see, you are really lucky." "The Hanged Man" pondered for two seconds, and then gave "The Lover" a reminder, "The official and the church are searching for suspicious people in Bayam, and the investigation may cause the 'Poseidon' The source of the madness in Kavituwa, the risk of activity in Bayam will be higher these days.”

Esther nodded immediately: "Thank you for your advice, but...I won't hide it from you. My friend is still over there, and I have to go back to meet him."

"Okay, then you should pay attention to yourselves." "The Hanged Man" is still not sure about the scope of "Lover's" ability. Now that she has made up her mind, he has nothing to say.

It's a pity that the "lover" doesn't know the specific situation. He can't find out more inside information, but maybe the friend of the "lover" is with "Lie Yan"?

Thinking of this, "The Hanged Man" glanced at the "world" at the end of the table, and then turned back to "The Fool": "I have no other questions, thank you."

Esther also paid tribute to "The Fool" who provided the opportunity for individual communication: "Thank you very much."

In the subsequent communication session, "Justice" shared part of Backlund's follow-up handling of the "Great Smog Incident", including the fact that the Church of the Goddess of the Night had somehow established several additional new churches in the East District, and many nobles had participated in fundraising.

"Magician" has just been promoted these days and is not very familiar with the changes in the outside world, but "Moon" has added side information. According to him, many civilians are still slightly infected, and the plague spreading among the cities has not yet completely ended. .

But everything seemed to be getting better, but Esther's heart was still a little empty when she heard the final count of more than 3,000 deaths and even missing persons.

Forget it, she just tried her best and never expected to save everyone... But there was still some resentment lingering in her heart, making Esther's hatred of the "witch" even deeper.

The information provided by "The Sun" was further away from everyone. He said that the "Chief" of Silver City had led an exploration team and the little boy Jack to find a route to the seaside.

The "Hanged Man" and the "Lovers" kept silent about Bayam's affairs in a tacit understanding, but the reasons were different. The "Hanged Man" was out of worry about the follow-up situation, while the "Lovers" was out of concern for the situation. The information is not complete.

"The World" remained silent as always, and only applied to "The Fool" for an opportunity to communicate alone with "Lover" after everyone else had spoken.

The hoarse voice of "The World" came from under the cloak, and the aura on his body was still so gloomy: "If you are still looking for news about the extraordinary characteristics of the 'Parasite', I have a clue."

Because of her excitement, Esther subconsciously leaned forward and stared in the direction of "The World": "Mr. World is very efficient. What kind of news is it? Do you need me to pay gold pounds?"

"No need, because I don't know the internal organization of the 'Stealers' organization. If you can participate, I would prefer you to find out some information."

"The 'Stealers' organization? It seems that only I can give it a try, and the risks involved are all borne by me, right?"

"The World" chuckled gloomily twice: "You can also seek the blessing of Mr. Fool."

This is something I didn't expect. Could it be that "The World" is not the real client, but Mr. "The Fool" is also interested in that organization? Esther suppressed the urge to turn towards the head of the long bronze table.

There is no need to observe Mr. Fool's face. His face is completely covered with gray mist.

There are risks, but it proves that there may also be opportunities. Esther sees this very clearly.

After weighing it for a few seconds, she nodded towards "The World": "I can agree to this task, but I am at sea now."

"Don't worry," The World's voice lowered again, "According to my inquiries, their next gathering will be in June, and it will take me some time to get the voucher for participating in the gathering."

Of course, Esther didn't become suspicious. After all, this commission came from "the world", and of course it was all decided by him.

And Klein, who controlled the "world" to have this conversation, went in such a big circle, also wanted to delay the process of this matter for a while, and then hand over the badge to Esther in two weeks, for "World" creates a reasonable mission to act outside.

In this way, from Esther's perspective, there will be a further information gap between the identities of "the world" and "Gehrman". The greater the gap between them, the harder it will be for Esther to overcome them in the real world. Ryan's identity becomes suspicious.

It must be incredible for Esther that her fellow villager is playing the role of a god here.

Klein raised his hand and announced to the Tarot Club:

"That's it for today."

"I will obey your will, Mr. Fool."

Under the leadership of "Justice", everyone stood up and saluted the gods in the gray mist.

"The Fool" nodded, and their figures dispersed from the gray mist.

*Only represents the stereotype of "Stealer" Esther and does not represent the author's personal views. After all, there are still Anderson and Xiao Lu working hard to raise the "Red Priest" average line.

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