Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

“When it comes to natural elements, people generally use ‘pentagram’ or ‘hexagram’ arrays.” Because the person sent by the “Mysterious Queen” had too poor a foundation, Audis had no choice but to start with the basics:

“The ‘pentagram’ array is used because, before the Third Epoch, extraordinaires believed that the world was composed of earth, air, water, fire, and aether.

“The ‘hexagram’ array is used because, by the Fourth Epoch, extraordinary scholars believed that the basic elements constituting the world should also include metal.

“Or rather, ‘metal’ should be differentiated from the original ‘earth.’ At the same time, it is said that the ‘pentagram’ array would occasionally summon demons, so the ‘hexagram’ array was widely used.”

The lady who came to learn no longer had any contempt: “I heard that the Baelia family in the Blood Sect has the element of ‘pentagram’ in their family crest.”

Audis nodded: “I have also seen similar information. The change of the magic array from ‘pentagram’ to ‘hexagram’ should have a certain relationship with them.”

As he spoke, he drew two isosceles triangles with the same center but facing different directions on the paper, which was the “hexagram.”

Audis drew a small circle in the center of the triangle again: “The symbol in this circle is very important. In this magic array that I am going to talk about, the common symbol representing fire cannot be used, but this symbol must be used.”

He first drew a trapezoid, and then drew an instruction symbol that curled up layer by layer on each of the four sides of the trapezoid.

The lady was slightly taken aback: “I have never seen this symbol, but looking at the shape, it is very similar to the symbol representing fire.”

“This is a symbol I derived from 6 applications of the fire symbol.” Audis said.

“Can mystical symbols be derived?”

Audis did not directly answer this question, but asked: “Have you heard the legend about the origin of mystical symbols?”

The lady nodded: “According to legend, these symbols are a set of mystical symbol systems created by the early people imitating some of the symbols on the ‘Blasphemous Stone Slab’.”

Audis said: “This legend has fabricated elements. The symbols on the ‘Blasphemous Stone Slab’ will never be so crude.

“Don’t ask me how I know, I won’t say even if you ask.”

He knew that the fonts on the “Blasphemous Stone Slab” were the kind of characters that could only be understood intuitively, and might not even have a fixed form. How could this kind of thing be imitated?

“This should be a batch of symbols that can trigger certain reactions of extraordinary characteristics that the early people found unintentionally.” Audis said: “According to my research over the years, this set of symbols is very incomplete.

“So I have derived a batch of new symbols, which have been verified to be more useful than the original mystical symbols.”

The lady belatedly thought of a question: “Why do mystical symbols have a certain reaction with the extraordinary?”

“This involves the question of the ‘essence of spirituality’.”

“The essence of spirituality?”

Audis smiled: “As an extraordinary person in the scholar-type pathway, you wouldn’t not have thought about what spirituality is, right?”

The lady immediately felt like an ignorant elementary school student: “Spirituality… isn’t it just spirituality?”

Audis said: “This question is not part of this transaction. We will have a chance to discuss it later.”

The lady was immediately a little disappointed.

“Let’s continue. Outside the small circle are the instruction symbols in four directions…” Audis continued to explain the magic array used in the weapon.

From the instruction symbols outside the small circle, to the symbols in the hexagon, to the circle of mystical symbols outside the big circle, the magic array he drew was very similar to the classic “hexagram” magic array, but there were many different details.

In Audis’s explanation, it was as if he had opened a new door for the lady. It turned out that the magic array that had not been valued had so many mysteries and uses!

Finally, Audis began to explain the paint used in the magic array in the weapon.

The entire magic array should use dark red paint, and the symbol in the middle should use bright red paint.

In addition, the six symbols in the “hexagram” should use bright yellow, and the outermost circle of mystical symbols should use black.

These paints must be added with “lava spar powder” and “red crown fairy grass powder” in a certain proportion. These two spiritual materials are auxiliary materials for the “Hunter” pathway to advance to Sequence 7 “Pyromaniac” and are not common spiritual materials.

So each maintenance of the weapon will cost 80 pounds.

After the magic array was drawn, the lady still had many things she didn’t understand, but Audis only briefly explained some basic principles and didn’t talk about too many details.

As he said before, that was not part of this transaction.

At five o’clock in the afternoon, Audis announced the end of today’s course, and will come again the day after tomorrow morning to learn how to disassemble and assemble the weapon.

The lady stood up and said: “Teacher Gahl, my name is Ailiya. I hope I will have the opportunity to ask you about mystical symbols in the future.”

She realized that the knowledge that Audis had mastered was very important to the “Scroll Professor”, and might even cause a qualitative change in her abilities.

Audis smiled and said: “Okay, we will talk about it later if we have the opportunity.”

One mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one content, one look!

Ailiya asked again: “Does this weapon have a name?”

Audis scratched his head: “I hate the naming process the most, so I just gave it a code name.”

“Such a creative weapon should be given a resounding name!” Ailiya thought for a while and said: “How about ‘Flame Arrow’?”

Audis nodded: “Okay.”

He has always been very easy-going when it comes to naming.

After Ailiya bid farewell again, she left Gahl’s herbal medicine store and took a carriage to a small villa in the Joe Wood district.

The servants in the villa had been taking care of the fireplace. The burning flames dispelled the dampness and severe cold of the city. Ailiya quickly came to her study and first wrote down everything she had learned today in a notebook.

While she was thinking about the question of the “essence of spirituality” raised by Audis, the flames in the fireplace suddenly turned emerald green and cold, and even came out of the fireplace.

Ailiya knew that the “Mysterious Queen’s” “messenger” had arrived, and she stood up immediately.

Whoosh~

After a violent flame burned, Ailiya felt that there was suddenly one more person in the study. The flame in the fireplace then turned into a normal color, but there was only a cloud of air in front of her, not even a figure.

“How is the progress of today’s study?” The voice of the “Mysterious Queen” came from the air, as if the Queen was in front of her.

Ailiya bowed slightly to the air: “I only learned the principle of that magic array, but Audis did not explain the inner theory in detail.”

At the same time, she realized that the “Queen” was very concerned about what she was doing.

“Did he explain those unfamiliar mystical symbols clearly?”

Ailiya probably understood that the “Queen” had noticed the most important part of the magic array: those derived mystical symbols.

When she learned that those unfamiliar mystical symbols were actually derived by Audis, Bernadette herself in another direction of the city thought: Are the requirements for opening a herbal medicine store so high now? You even have to derive mystical symbols?