Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

“The Fool” Klein saw that “The Hermit’s” image seemed to have changed slightly.

He opened his Spirit Vision and indeed saw that the depths of “The Hermit’s” spiritual body were more illusory than before, with sparse specks of light occasionally lighting up within.

Klein immediately realized: “The Hermit” had actually advanced again!

He was well aware that when The Hermit first attended the Tarot Gathering, she was only a Sequence 9!

Now, only about a month had passed, and she had already advanced twice in a row!

Carefully examining “The Hermit’s” spiritual body again, he found her condition to be very good, with no signs of losing control.

Klein frowned: How did she do it?

The other members could also sense a change in “The Hermit’s” aura, but they didn’t immediately associate it with advancement, after all, when “The Hermit” was buying the main materials for the Sequence 7 level before, she didn’t seem hurried or eager to advance.

After the greetings at the Tarot Gathering concluded, “The Hanged Man” Alger first sacrificed two pages of Emperor Rosell’s diary.

“The Fool” Klein asked: “What do you wish to obtain?”

Alger lowered his head slightly and said in a devout tone: “Great Mr. Fool, I accidentally obtained a piece of information about ancient times and hope to verify its authenticity.”

Behind the gray fog, Klein’s heart pounded, but on the surface, he said calmly: “Speak.”

Alger looked at the other members, cleared his throat, and then said: “I learned from a document that the elves came from the West Continent. Is this true?”

In his opinion, “Justice,” “The Sun,” and “The Magician” had set a very bad precedent, asking questions so openly, and even Miss “Justice’s” paid question was described by “The Hermit” in front of everyone.

This made Alger feel very passive. Unless it involved personal privacy, he had to ask questions publicly, otherwise, the other members would feel that he was stingy and didn’t know how to share.

And his question had already revealed the main information. Whether the answer was “yes” or “no,” everyone already knew about the elves.

Klein breathed a slight sigh of relief, because the question about the origin of the elves had appeared in Rosell’s diary before.

Rosell had obtained some information on the “Black Throne,” a legacy of the Solomon Empire that he had discovered, including some descriptions of the West Continent. Based on speculation, this question could be given an accurate answer.

Klein still said in a very relaxed tone: “Yes.”

Alger was slightly stunned, and then respectfully said: “Thank you for your answer.”

Then he looked ahead, indicating that he had no more questions.

The other members, “Justice” Audrey and “The Magician” Fors, were somewhat bewildered. In their minds, the elves were like a race in stories. They didn’t expect them to actually exist and come from the “West Continent”?

The “West Continent,” to them, was also a legendary continent. They had only learned of such a place in a few words and phrases, and before this, they had completely regarded it as a legendary myth.

They didn’t expect that the “West Continent” actually existed?

“The Sun” Derrick, while consulting ancient records for Mr. “Fool,” recalled seeing records of elves, but that ancient book didn’t say where the elves came from?

“The Hermit” Cattleya and the marionette “World” had no reaction to this question, as usual.

Alger’s sacrifice reminded Cattleya that she also had two pages of Rosell’s diary, but in terms of the God of Steam and Machinery and the “Hidden Sage,” “The Fool” couldn’t help much at the moment.

So Cattleya planned to accumulate them and sacrifice them to “The Fool” when she needed his help in the future.

Next was Mr. Fool’s reading time. After two or three minutes, Klein finished reading the two pages of the diary and then said to everyone: “You may begin.”

Cattleya was the first to speak: “I have a mystical item for sale, corresponding to the Sequence 8 ‘Sea Rover’ of the ‘Sailor’ pathway. Its shape is a metallic gauntlet.”

This gauntlet came from the “Briber” who was killed by her using the “compound array” on Riverbay Avenue. Because she felt it was useless, she planned to sell it first.

As Cattleya expected, Alger was the first to ask: “How much are you planning to sell it for? What are its specific abilities and negative effects?”

“800 pounds.” Cattleya continued to describe: “The main ability is that it can accumulate one’s own anger and power, allowing one’s attack to produce a burst of effect in an instant.

“The negative effect is: it is easy to be rash due to anger. If you swim for half an hour every day, the negative effect can be greatly reduced.”

The negative effect wasn’t very strong, so Alger immediately said: “I’ll buy it.”

Generally speaking, mystical items corresponding to Sequence 8 are between 600 and 800 pounds.

But there is also a scarcity issue. For example, at sea, mystical items and extraordinary characteristics related to the “Sailor” pathway are more expensive than on land.

Extraordinary characteristics at the Sequence 8 level generally sell for about 600 pounds, but the extraordinary characteristics of a “Sea Rover” can sell for at least 800 pounds at sea.

Correspondingly, mystical items will be even more expensive as long as the negative effects aren’t very strong.

Alger could earn dozens or even hundreds of pounds by buying it for 800 pounds and reselling it.

Cattleya smiled and nodded: “Good.”

Then she added: “I also have an extraordinary weapon here, a revolver. It only needs to be loaded with ordinary bullets, and it can attack the target’s spiritual body while hitting the target, requiring the target to use corresponding ritual magic to heal before the spiritual body can recover.

“It can still be used for 9 months, 300 pounds.”

This extraordinary weapon was seized from the fighting arena. Cattleya had no shortage of extraordinary weapons. She also had many weapons that could attack the spiritual body, so she didn’t need this revolver.

Alger was slightly stunned: Did “The Hermit” kill one or several extraordinary people last week? Seizing a Sealed Artifact and an extraordinary weapon?

Klein had a similar idea, because there were very few transactions of mystical items at the Tarot Gathering. Generally, they were brought here for trading after they were seized and it was inconvenient to sell them in the real world.

Audrey was very interested in this revolver, but she thought that she didn’t need it and it wasn’t convenient to take it out for use, so she didn’t speak.

Derrick was also very interested in this weapon, but there were no so-called revolvers in Silver City. If he used this weapon, he would expose himself, so he didn’t initiate a transaction.

Klein had the ability of “Air Bullets,” and Fors was short of money, so no member inquired about this transaction.

Cattleya had no choice but to say: “I have a way to prevent the spirituality of this weapon from being lost. If anyone needs it, they can contact me at any time. The usage period is still 9 months.”

The other members said that if they had such a need, they would initiate a transaction with “The Hermit.”

Then Alger spoke: “Does anyone understand Elvish? I mean the ancient Elvish, not the Elvish that is still occasionally used by some people in the extraordinary world.”

He asked this question mainly to “The Hermit” and “The Sun.” The former seemed to have a very deep study of writing and language, and the latter could consult many ancient documents, perhaps understanding some of the lost Elvish.

Cattleya smiled and said: “The ancient Elvish you are talking about can also be called the mystical symbols used by the elves.

“I dare say that currently in the North and South Continents, there are definitely no more than twenty people who understand this language!”

The key point is that it doesn’t include the West Continent, the “Land Abandoned by God,” and the Astral World. Another key point is “people.”

Cattleya paused and then said: “Coincidentally, I am one of them.”

Alger looked in the direction of “The Hermit”: “I have a document that needs you to translate. How do you charge?”

“I just helped a client translate a document in ancient Dragon language last week and charged the other party 100 pounds.” Cattleya smiled and said: “This charge is relatively reasonable.”

Klein thought: Does translation work make so much money?

Fors also had the idea of learning an ancient language. This was much faster than her writing books to make money.

Alger immediately said: “Deal!”

He had consulted many people, and even asked people to consult the descendants of elves hidden on a certain island.

But he got the same answer, they couldn’t translate it.

If no one at the Tarot Gathering could translate it, Alger planned to hand over the document to the Church to earn merit.

But that way, he would miss out on that treasure.

The other party agreed so readily that Cattleya felt: It was too little, the charging standard should be increased.

“Mr. Fool, please materialize it for me.” With Klein’s help, Alger materialized the document in ancient Elvish on a somewhat illusory piece of paper, and in the next second, it appeared in Cattleya’s hand.

Cattleya stared at the characters on the paper, which were clearly different from the currently used mystical symbols, and said after looking at it for a minute or two: “Okay, should I write down the translation for you or read it to you?”

“Read it to me.” Alger was sure that this was a key clue to a great treasure, and the owner of this treasure was a pirate who was active at sea more than three hundred years ago. It was said that both Loen and Intis had once ennobled him, so reading it out publicly might allow other members to know some clues about this pirate.

Cattleya translated: “All my wealth has been placed in the eyes of the whale. Descendants, use them to revitalize our race!”

“The enemies were too powerful. I foresaw my inevitable defeat, so I hid them all away in advance. There are even relics of the great Elf King among them!

“We were once the overlords of the sea. Under the leadership of the great Elf King and the ‘Calamity Queen,’ we were one of the most powerful races in this world.

“But look at us now. We are forced to live in a corner of this world, hiding from the pursuit of the thugs from the ‘Storm Church.’

“Go and fight the heretics of the ‘Storm Church.’ The position of ‘Lord of Storms’ was also seized through despicable means. That divine seat should have belonged to the great Elf King!

“Vanquish this evil god and reclaim everything we have lost!”

The hall fell into a brief silence. After a long while, Alger finally reacted: "…Divine seat…seized through despicable means…"