Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

Inside the rental house.

Janna cleaned the table, picked up the soy milk and meat buns that she had left for Franka, and said to Ludwig beside her:

"You can read and study now."

Ludwig's expression changed several times, and he argued:

"What's the use of my studying?

"If you want to master knowledge, eat scientists, and if you want to master abilities, eat extraordinary people!"

Janna smiled lightly and said:

"Studying is indeed not important to you, but it is important for us to let you study."

"..."Janna's frankness made Ludwig, who was already tongue-tied, completely unable to respond.

Janna pondered for a while and said:

"Although we don't know the specific process, and you should have forgotten it, it is a fact as hard as steel that you were sealed by the Church of Knowledge. What is the biggest difference between you and the clergy of the Church of Knowledge? It's the attitude towards learning! "

Ludwig was confused by what he said. He reluctantly but helplessly sat down at the table and spread out his textbook.

Janna returned to the master bedroom and closed the door.

Franca struggled to half sit up, stuffed a pillow behind her back, and said in a low voice:

"You are fooling Ludwig again. Trying to defeat the Church of Knowledge by learning is equivalent to competing with the other party on the track they are best at and under their favorite rules. How can you win? The best way is to play to your strengths.

"Hehe, 'witches' really have to be good at deceiving people."

Many "witches" have had the experience of deceiving others' feelings to digest the "pain" potion, and several of them also invested in it, and finally had to separate cruelly, so they also had the part that made them suffer.

Janna laughed:

"We have to find a reason for him, he just wants to find a reason."

Janna paused, and said thoughtfully:

"Besides, I think learning is still useful for Ludwig. You saw it during the battle last night. He looked like a monster, but the details of our daily interactions made me feel that he is a normal little boy except that he can eat, loves to eat, and must eat.

"This is due to the seal of the knowledge church, and it should also be due to the changes he has brought about by learning rules, morality, and common sense of human society."

While speaking, Janna put the plastic cup of soy milk to Franca's mouth and let her drink a sip, then handed the meat bun over and watched her chew until the filling part.

Franca had never enjoyed such treatment before, and her heart suddenly became happy.

She nodded thoughtfully:

"You mean, learning is one of the ways to integrate Ludwig into human society, and learning gives him some humanity?"

"Yeah. "Janna fed Franca breakfast while chatting with her casually. At the end, she used wet tissues to wipe Franca's mouth and wash her face.

After doing these things, Janna took the garbage out of the master bedroom.

After being busy for dozens of seconds, she sat next to Ludwig, as if supervising her child's study.

After looking for a while, she took out two packages from the "traveler's bag" and put them on the table.

They were two bags of rice crusts in simple packaging.

As Ludwig looked over in astonishment, Janna said with a smile:

"If you can pass my assessment later, they will be yours.

"Do you like spicy or original flavor?"

"I like both!" Ludwig buried his head again, his eyes extremely focused.

"I prefer the original flavor." Janna tore open the package, stuffed two pieces into her mouth, and chewed.

Ludwig looked at her with a half-open mouth and a blank expression.

Isn't this my reward?

"I'll eat something before you finish studying. Don't worry, I'll leave some for you." Janna smiled.

Franca, who was lying on the bed in the master bedroom, couldn't help laughing when she heard this conversation.

She suddenly thought that although Janna usually behaved very maturely, she was actually a girl who had just graduated from college according to her actual age. It was normal for such a girl to like snacks, and now she finally had such an opportunity.

The smile on Franca's face gradually softened, and a new conversation came from the living room outside:

"This is puffed food with corn soup flavor."

"This is cucumber-flavored potato chips."

"This is chocolate wafer biscuits."

"..."

"These snacks are not many in number, because they are not as cheap as staple foods, but they are all prepared for you, as a reward for your hard study and exams."

"You, eat less! I will work hard!"

Franca leaned against the pillow and slowly had a strange feeling:

I was the father who was recovering from illness, and outside were the greedy and school-hating children and the mother who supervised the children to do their homework.

If you ignore the words like "The corpse's finger is also your reward today", the daily life of the family of three is so warm and beautiful.

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Beep! Beep! Beep!

The horns kept sounding behind and beside the gray car, urging Lumian to drive faster, but Lumian was calm and completely ignored the noise around him, letting the car move forward steadily at the minimum speed allowed by the current section of the road.

Novice driver, safety first!

Anthony sat in the co-pilot, swiping his phone and reading the local news.

"What are you looking for?" Lumian glanced at his companion out of the corner of his eye.

Anthony should not have reached the stage of being addicted to the Internet, after all, he has just learned how to surf the Internet.

Anthony tilted his head and said solemnly:

"I still think that there are a few details in the battle last night that are getting more and more wrong the more I think about it."

"For example?" Lumian focused on driving.

Anthony said carefully:

"The second security guard who blew himself up, his state before the explosion was very similar to the 'Master of Secret Puppet' himself, but he blew himself up like that."

"The ability of the secret puppet to exchange positions with the main body? Do you suspect that there was indeed a demigod-level 'Master of Secret Puppet' assisting the secret puppet of Tianzun at the scene?" Lumian understood what Anthony wanted to express, "But we paid attention to the situation within a few dozen meters and found no traces. Could it be that the demigod-level 'Master of Secret Puppet' is in a state that we can't see, hear, or touch?"

"This is the most terrifying point, and if there really is such a 'Master of Secret Puppet', why didn't he save the resurrected female corpse later, and why didn't he spread our appearance and image characteristics later?" Anthony put his eyes back on the phone.

Lumian nodded slowly and said:

"Are you checking the relevant reports and private rumors about last night's incident to see if our information has been leaked?"

"Yes." Anthony's fingers kept sliding on the screen. "The current rumor is that a conflict at work caused one of the security guards to get a detonator, which killed his colleague and himself..."

Anthony stopped talking before he finished.

He frowned slightly:

"I saw a strange local news. This morning, a madman was found near the garbage dump near Mingyue Mall. He was a madman who had no reason and could not communicate. Then, he was sent to the hospital for treatment."

"Near the mall? Madman?" Lumian also noticed the strangeness of the news and asked sharply, "Which hospital was he sent to?"

Is this madman the "Master of Secret Puppetry" who hid last night?

He didn't intervene in the subsequent battle because something happened to him?

What happened? Why did it happen?

"The news didn't say it." Anthony continued to check the reports on this matter.

Lumian maintained the speed of the car and it took more than ten minutes to reach the destination.

After finding a parking space and parking the car with difficulty, he and Anthony walked to the "Star Dream Grocery Store" at the corner of the street.

The store was dark and narrow inside. The moment Lumian entered, it was like going from morning to night.

He looked at the tall shelves filled with exotic goods on both sides and walked to the cashier at the back.

A woman in a black dress sat behind the cashier. She leaned against the wooden cabinet behind her and lowered her head to play with her mobile phone. In front of her was a tablet playing a TV series.

Lumian said politely:

"Hello, I want to send a letter."

He actually said he was sending a letter in a grocery store.

The woman in the black dress playing with her mobile phone did not find it strange, and asked without raising her head:

"Where to send it to, to whom?"

"Send it to the Church of Tranquility, www.youxs.org." Lumian took out the letter to the major arcana cards.

The woman in the black dress was still looking at her phone. She spoke in a gentle and calm voice:

"There is a silver-studded black mailbox on the third shelf on the right. Just put the letter in it.

"Come and pick up the letter tomorrow."

"Thank you." Lumian breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the shelf.

What he saw at first glance was not a toy mailbox, but a brass-like book and a silver mirror with black eyeballs on both sides.

Lumian quickly scanned it and found classical feather pens, various strange dice and other products. If the owner was not playing with his phone and looking at a tablet, he would have felt that he had returned to the real world and returned to Trier.

The style of these items is different from the dream city, more like things from the northern continent!

After putting the letter into the silver-studded toy mailbox, Lumian turned his body and asked the owner:

"Can I see the goods here?"

The owner's voice was a little smiling:

"These are all for sale. "

Can it be sold? As a "witch", Lumian first picked up the silver mirror with ancient patterns and a black gem on each side.

In the mirror, Lumian's face quickly emerged:

The eyes were light blue, clear and deep, the face was slightly thin, almost perfect, the lips were neither thick nor thin, the color was light but moist, and there was a hint of light...

This is his female image.

It directly reflects my "witch" state... This mirror is really magical... Lumian just flashed this thought, and saw the mirror surface ripple with water light, outlining a row of bloody ancient Fessac words:

"I am the great Arrodes, I can answer any question you ask, but you must also answer the same number of questions from me, in the presence of at least one audience.

"If you refuse to answer or lie, you will be punished."

Arrodes, the great Arrodes? Lumian knew this name.

Franca mentioned that this was the magic mirror belonging to Mr. "Fool", and it answered questions most accurately, but every question it asked would cause the fortune teller to die socially.

Mr. Fool's magic mirror was actually in this grocery store in his dream? What does this mean and what does it symbolize? Lumian couldn't help but look at the shopkeeper, the woman in a black dress playing with her phone.

After a little consideration, Lumian said calmly:

"My question is, what do you want to remind me about awakening Mr. Fool?"

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