Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Audrey and her friends stood there dumbfounded for two or three seconds. He had vanished! Lelouch had disappeared right before their eyes!

“That’s unbelievable!” one of the noble scions said.

Another noble scion said, “He must be a Beyonder!”

At this moment, the pursuers chasing Lelouch finally arrived. They cautiously asked, “Everyone, are you alright? Did Lelouch hurt you?”

“No,” Earl Dannatt’s eldest son, Jols, said. “Hurry and help the others.”

After the guards left, the noble scions began discussing again, and Audrey was already impatiently looking forward to tomorrow’s newspaper.

Just then, a thunderclap suddenly rang out in the sky. In Backlund in November, during this snowy season, a torrential downpour began without warning, soaking everyone in the arena, but also extinguishing the fire.

However, the arena was already a mess. One of the arenas had collapsed, and the trees and flowers were almost completely burned.

…

When the Punishers arrived at the scene, the Nighthawks team had already conducted a preliminary investigation and sealed off the area.

Tonight, the Storm Church was holding a secret cardinal meeting, so the Archbishop of the Backlund diocese, “Singer of God” Ace Snake, did not arrive at the scene. The senior deacon of the Storm Church, Conatte, was in charge of the case.

Conatte asked Nighthawks team leader, Carl, with some surprise, “What are you doing here?”

This was the Punishers’ jurisdiction, and the deceased also believed in the “Lord of Storms.” Theoretically, other official Beyonder organizations had no right to interfere in the investigation of this case.

Carl briefly described their investigation into Lelouch’s case, and with the support of some nobles, the long-standing practice between the arena and official Beyonder organizations regarding criminal contestants.

Conatte knew about these matters, so he began to inquire about the case.

Suddenly, all the Beyonders looked up at the top of the arena, where a noble woman in an evening gown with a very elegant bearing appeared.

The Beyonders present greeted her. It was the royal family’s demigod, Georgiana Augustus.

Georgiana slowly raised her hand, as if in response. Then, her gaze slowly swept across the distance.

But after looking around, she didn’t find anything.

The next second, Georgiana appeared not far from Conatte and Carl. She said leisurely, “I don’t intend to interfere in this case. I just came to ask what happened here?”

So Carl told this demigod about the case, and at this time, the Punishers had already obtained some key clues from Bishop’s bodyguard, learning that the shield used by the murderer Lelouch had once undergone a "shelling."

The location of the murderer could be divined using the shed shell, but at the scene, the shield’s shell could not be found.

A member of the Punishers team came over to ask Carl if the Nighthawks had collected the shell first.

“It can’t be found,” Carl said.

“Can’t be found?” Conatte was a little surprised. “How could it not be found?”

Carl said, “I don’t know. Perhaps someone took it away. At the time, we had limited manpower and couldn’t seal off the scene immediately.”

Conatte frowned. “Does the murderer have accomplices at the scene?”

Carl fell silent, not participating in the discussion of this question.

Conatte thanked Carl for his description of the case and officially took over the case.

After Carl and the Nighthawks team members left, Georgiana suddenly said, “He lied when he talked about that key piece of evidence just now.”

Although the captain of the Nighthawks team hid it very well, Georgiana was a demigod of the “Arbitrator” pathway, and her spirituality was very sensitive to the lies of others.

Conatte was slightly stunned. “He knows who took the shield’s shell?”

Georgiana shook her head. Which aspect Carl lied about specifically required interrogation using Beyonder abilities.

However, even if she was a demigod, a duke of this country, she could not arbitrarily interrogate the Church’s Beyonders.

Half an hour later, the Punishers finally found the shield’s shell in the woods outside.

However, at this time, the murderer had already escaped for more than an hour and may have already left Backlund and made some anti-divination arrangements. This shield’s shell was no longer of much use.

Later, Dannatt guessed that the shield shell was very likely hidden in the woods at Carl’s instruction, or even by Carl himself, but because the scene was very chaotic, it was impossible to provide evidence for this guess.

By the time he thought of this, it had exceeded the time for some ritualistic magic, and he could not accuse Carl in a mystical way.

It’s just that Dannatt really couldn’t understand why Carl, who never showed mercy to Beyonder criminals, would help hide such a crucial piece of evidence?

…

After Odis used the “Teleportation Array” in his coat to leave the arena, he appeared in an alley on a street more than ten kilometers away.

It was only a little after nine o’clock in the evening, and there were still many pedestrians on the street, but they were all attracted by the explosion and fire in the arena. No one noticed that there was an extra person in the alley.

But Odis was still very cautious, hiding in the dimness of the alley, quickly using the “Space Array” to hide his backpack, waist bag, weapons, shoes, knight’s uniform, etc., in the “Knowledge Wilderness.”

At the same time, he took out the clothes, shoes, coat, and top hat that he had prepared long ago from the “Knowledge Wilderness.” After finishing the disguise, he simply climbed over the houses on one side of the alley and appeared in another alley.

Then he calmly walked out of the alley and hailed a rental carriage.

As soon as he got into the carriage, Odis felt as if a gaze was scrutinizing him from behind. Many pedestrians on the street also had similar feelings. They stopped and looked in the direction of the arena.

That was the scrutiny from a demigod. Not only could Beyonders feel it, but ordinary people with stronger spirituality could also feel it.

It’s just that as the scrutiny quickly disappeared, ordinary people would only think that it was their own illusion just now.

Odis didn’t take it too seriously, because he had already completed his disguise and could calmly face such scrutiny. At this time, being timid would attract the demigod’s attention.

After the carriage drove through seven or eight streets, Odis got out of the car, walked for a while, and changed to a rental carriage back to 77 Hailing Avenue.

Back home, he made himself some noodles for a late-night snack.

While eating the noodles, Odis was thinking again, wondering if the newspaper could withstand the pressure? After all, this was a scandal involving a noble, and ordinary newspapers would not dare to report it.

…

In the editor-in-chief’s office of the Daily Observer, the editor-in-chief, Regino, finished the work at hand and was about to turn off the lights and leave work.

At this time, Mike Joseph, a reporter with blue eyes and a handsome little mustache, came in with a thick file bag. “Editor-in-chief, when I went downstairs just now, I found this in the mailbox.”

He handed the file bag to the editor-in-chief. “I’ve read it. It’s the criminal evidence of Viscount Vede’s second son, Bishop, hiring murderers, harming young girls, and assassinating striking workers.”

The more Regino listened, the more frightened he became. He put on his glasses and took a quick look.

Everything was clear at a glance!

Then the editor-in-chief fell into deep thought. Mike did not urge him and stood there quietly waiting.

A dozen seconds later, Regino took a deep breath and said, “I will have a car accident in a while, and then I will go to the hospital and not know about this.

“And you don’t know that Bishop is the son of a viscount. According to the newspaper’s work system, adapt this information into a report, remove tomorrow’s front-page headline, and change it to this report.

“When we discovered all of this, it was already too late. You learned that Bishop was actually a nobleman, and you regretted it.”

Mike nodded. “This is the best way to handle it.”

According to past experience, if Viscount Vede learned that someone had put these materials in the newspaper’s mailbox tonight, he would probably send someone to come to the door. Whether Regino was at home or in the newspaper, he would have to face the pressure of a noble. Under the other party’s coercion and inducement, this report would probably come to nothing.

Therefore, in order to deal with such a situation, the newspaper had its own set of procedures: the editor-in-chief had to find a place to hide, and the entire operation was completed by the reporter.

This way, the other party would not be able to find the person in charge of the newspaper for the time being, and afterwards, they could also pretend to fire the reporter to give the noble an explanation.

Mike then said, “Please be mentally prepared.”

Viscount Vede would definitely make things difficult for the newspaper after seeing these reports.

“There’s no need to worry too much,” Regino said with a smile. “These old nobles pay the most attention to face. In order to show their generosity and kindness, they won’t do anything to us.

“Well, of course, if they have the opportunity to completely bankrupt the newspaper, it’s not certain.”

Then he took a deep look at Mike. “You also have to be mentally prepared.”

Mike smiled easily. “The era of the old nobles has passed. Viscount Vede’s ‘noble bloodline theory’ has long been outdated.

“People need to see the truth more, which helps to awaken the public’s minds and exert the power of public opinion.”

He glanced at the name written on the outside of the file bag and said, “There is more than one Lelouch in Backlund.”

…

77 Hailing Avenue.

After Odis finished eating the noodles, he went back to the bedroom to read a book for a while.

In fact, he was not in the mood to read, and he didn’t even understand a single word.

However, the experience of being monitored for a long time before had given Odis the habit of using reading as a cover to think about problems.

He was mainly thinking about whether there were any flaws in his actions? Or did he leave any clues?

The only thing he didn't have time to retrieve was the shield's outer shell.

However, with the protection of the "Wilderness of Knowledge," abilities like divination couldn't locate it.

After reviewing everything and confirming that nothing was missed, Audiss finally lay down on his bed to rest, entering the wilderness composed of illusory light and shadows, just like on a typical weekend.

He knew the way well and arrived at the depths of the wilderness, inside a tall tower made of glowing orbs.

This week, Audiss didn't plan to do any research; he intended to finish writing "The Fundamentals of Combat" in this space.

But before that, Audiss glanced at the three weapons he had seized in today's battle.

Alva had been the leader of the 3N Party for more than three years and possessed many good items, all of which Audiss had confiscated today.

The silver-white sword was a mystical item corresponding to Sequence 7, but Audiss's spirituality couldn't sense which pathway it belonged to.

At that moment, he suddenly looked at the glowing orb in the center of the room and had a bold idea.

So, holding the silver-white sword in one hand and pressing the other on the glowing orb, just as he had guessed, using the power of the orb and the authority of the "Wilderness of Knowledge," the abilities and negative effects of the silver-white sword became immediately clear.