Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Bernadette looked at the goose meat on her plate. Using a knife and fork didn't seem very convenient.

But if she were to put the whole piece of goose meat into her mouth and spit out the bones like Audrys, it wouldn't be very elegant.

After thinking for a moment, she snapped her fingers, and the bones in the meat suddenly disappeared, as if they had never been there.

Only then did she use her fork to pick up the goose meat and put it in her mouth.

Immediately, Bernadette nodded. The taste was not bad, with the mellow aroma of stew, but not as greasy as ordinary stewed meat.

At this time, Audrys was focused on reading the information in his hand.

This information was high-level intelligence about the "Moses Ascetic Order" and the "Hermit," accumulated by the official Extraordinary.

According to the information, the top power of the "Moses Ascetic Order" is divided into two parts. One is the "Ten Pillars" that many Extraordinary have heard of.

The so-called "Ten Pillars" are actually ten demigods. This is the main force operating the "Moses Ascetic Order," and the leader is an angel.

As long as it is a force or industry related to the "Moses Ascetic Order," it can eventually be traced back to these ten people.

For example, Arvilas, who died today, was one of the "Ten Pillars." After his death, the "Ten Pillars" became the "Nine Pillars."

Audrys remembered that although Cattleya represented the power of the "Moses Ascetic Order" at sea, she only completely became a high-level member of the "Moses Ascetic Order" and one of the "Ten Pillars" after becoming a demigod.

The other part of the extraordinary power is rarely known. It is said to be led by an angel, with both demigods and "Middle Sequence" Extraordinary. This force is directly commanded by the "Hermit."

Audrys frowned at first, but quickly understood: There may be followers of other evil gods among the "Ten Pillars," and that secret force must be completely loyal to the "Hermit."

This proves that the "Hermit" is not completely indifferent to the infiltration of the "Moses Ascetic Order" by the "Whispers of the Evernight."

Continuing to read on, it was some information about the "Hermit."

The Church once conducted many experiments using captured Extraordinary criminals or wild Extraordinary, and finally concluded: The "Hermit" is a product of the activation of the Uniqueness. Although He has His own thinking and logic, it is very mechanical and cold.

Audrys estimated that the most likely to do these experiments should be the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, after all, the "God of Steam and Machinery" and the "Hermit" are adjacent pathways.

The information included two cases. One was that the Church hypnotized a "Low Sequence" wild Extraordinary of the "Seer" pathway, and made him pray to the "Hermit" every day.

After praying for more than ten days, he was subjected to the "Hermit's" knowledge infusion.

That is to say, the "Hermit" knew of the existence of this wild Extraordinary. Later, they experimented with making this wild Extraordinary pray with malice and disrespect.

This was ignored by the "Hermit," who still infused knowledge into that wild Extraordinary.

Such knowledge infusion made the wild Extraordinary suffer unspeakably. So, in a certain knowledge infusion, the wild Extraordinary completely opened his mind, allowing the "Hermit" to infuse at will.

But the "Hermit" sent down divine punishment, filling the Extraordinary's head with knowledge, eventually turning him into an idiot.

When the Church reviewed this experiment, they noticed that the knowledge the "Hermit" infused into the wild Extraordinary was all about escaping and dealing with Extraordinary of the "Reader" pathway.

It can be basically concluded that the "Hermit" could notice that this Extraordinary was being hypnotized by the Church, and should have felt the slight and maliciousness during those few prayers, but He still infused knowledge into that wild Extraordinary.

So the Church guessed that the process of the "Hermit" responding to prayers and infusing knowledge into ordinary Extraordinary should be a mechanical response.

The reason He gave a response may be because the wild Extraordinary at that time did indeed crave knowledge, and later he was punished because he did not respect knowledge enough when praying.

Combined with other experiments, the final conclusion was: The "Hermit's" judgment criteria are very mechanical. As long as it is an Extraordinary who craves knowledge, no matter what attitude they hold, He is willing to conduct "knowledge infusion." This is very different from other gods. He seems to only have divinity and no humanity, so He ignores the emotions of the prayer.

The following case illustrates some characteristics of the "Hermit."

That was a scholar of the "Seer" pathway of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery. Suddenly one day, people discovered that he had become a believer of the "Hermit."

The scholar did not notice this at all, which could be seen from his unbridled praise of the "Hermit." In his eyes, the "Hermit" was the "God of Steam and Machinery."

The Church established a very high-level investigation team and found that the scholar had reported very early on that he seemed to have been noticed by the "Hermit."

After a large number of investigations, the final conclusion was that because this scholar possessed a lot of knowledge that only he possessed, he was noticed by the "Hermit."

Later, it was also proven through some experiments that even if an Extraordinary had never heard of the existence of the "Hermit" and had not made any prayers to Him, the "Hermit" could still pay attention to people who possessed some unique knowledge.

Audrys was slightly stunned and seemed to understand why the "Hermit" would pay attention to him.

Because he possessed too much unique knowledge, that's why he was noticed, and it wasn't necessarily that the "Knowledge Moor" was detected.

However, it's hard to say. It can only be assumed that initially, the knowledge Audrys possessed allowed the "Knowledge Moor" to detect him. As for whether the other party noticed the "Knowledge Moor" later, Audrys had no way to verify.

Audrys continued to read on. At the end of this information, there was a summary of this case: The "Hermit" will pay attention to the knowledge possessed by someone, because to some extent, He is the "embodiment of knowledge."

After reading all the information, Audrys folded the information given by the official Extraordinary and put it back into the envelope, handing the information to Bernadette: "Thank you."

After all, this was a thank you gift from the official Extraordinary to Bernadette.

Bernadette smiled and said, "You have become an enemy of the 'Moses Ascetic Order.' It's never a bad thing to learn more about them."

She paused and added, "The information given by the official Extraordinary may not be completely accurate. For example, their description of the 'Hermit' does not match my observations.

"In my opinion, as long as someone possesses enough knowledge, the 'Hermit' can notice him.

"It's like every living being has a standard in terms of mastering knowledge. Exceeding that standard will attract the attention of the 'Hermit.'

"However, although the 'Hermit' can notice Extraordinary of many pathways, He can only affect Extraordinary of the 'Seer' pathway."

Audrys pondered for a moment before asking, "So, if an Extraordinary possesses knowledge that exceeds a certain standard, the 'Hermit' can locate him when infusing knowledge? And conduct targeted infusion?"

"Theoretically, that's how it is," Bernadette said. "But the Extraordinary pathway is the first element!

"As long as they are Extraordinary of the 'Seer' pathway, they will be pursued by the 'Hermit,' but in most cases, the infusion below Sequence 5 is basically unconscious infusion by the 'Hermit.'

"At this time, the knowledge has no focus, and the frequency of infusion is not high.

"It's different at Sequence 5. They start to be the focus of the 'Hermit's' infusion. Either they endure the pain of knowledge infusion, or they have to accept the 'Hermit's' transformation.

"If they possess a lot of special knowledge before Sequence 5, they will also be the focus of the 'Hermit's' infusion.

"This situation is rare, but if such a situation occurs, even without the Extraordinary's consent, the 'Hermit' can transform the other party, eventually becoming a devout believer of the 'Hermit.'"

Audrys suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

The "Mysterious Queen" looked at Audrys solemnly and said, "I estimate that with the unique knowledge you possess, you will be 'specially cared for' by Him when you become Sequence 6."

Audrys pinched his forehead: "Is there any way to avoid it?"

"The Church of the God of Steam and Machinery must have a way," Bernadette said faintly.

Audrys immediately knew why the Church wanted to give him the Sequence 6 potion formula. This not only expressed their goodwill, but also made Audrys seek their help after becoming Sequence 6, forcing him to join the Steam Church.

This cast another shadow over Audrys's plan to escape Backlund.

"Of course, I will also help you find corresponding methods," Bernadette said.

Audrys nodded: "Thank you."

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"As for your previous question about whether the 'Hermit' has authority in 'secrecy,' I think there is some, but not much," Bernadette continued:

"In my opinion, knowledge itself is in a hidden state.

"For example, people discovered that fire is very useful, so they learned how to make fire. This is the learning and mastery of knowledge.

"Nature only presents us with the characteristics of fire, but not how to use fire. Learning and summarizing the use of fire is the knowledge that people have mastered through constant observation and experimentation."

She paused and added, "I personally believe that this is the essence of knowledge. In the beginning, it is not directly presented to us, but needs to be discovered and thought about by people.

“To elaborate further, knowledge, in its initial form, is hidden within nature itself.”

Audrey slowly nodded: “That line of reasoning is quite astonishing.”

This is the knowledge accumulation of the "Mystic Queen." She is someone with a similar thought pattern to Audrey, so her thinking is similar to Audrey's, making her seem out of place in this extraordinary world.

For Audrey, these theories felt like finding a kindred spirit; in this unfamiliar world, she had discovered a sense of familiarity.

Subsequently, Audrey realized that she couldn't continue discussing this topic with the "Mystic Queen" because she had previously given too little thought to the "Hidden Sage."

He felt that this evil god was somewhat like an intelligent computer; all of its reactions were similar to those of a highly advanced artificial intelligence.

In the eyes of the people of this world, it was cold and mechanical.

However, this view couldn't be clearly explained; he couldn't exactly explain "intelligent computers" to the "Mystic Queen," could he?

So, they talked about other topics. Audrey took out the official Extraordinary's reward: “The official Extraordinary's reward is a total of 6000 pounds.”

“My distribution plan is that you and I each receive 2300 pounds, and the Extraordinary who provided the important divination and the informant who provided the detailed address of the altar receive 1400 pounds.”

In this operation, Bernadette was the main force in destroying the altar, while Audrey, based on a large number of clues, determined that the altar was roughly in the East Borough and used an array to block and seal the contamination.

The contributions of the two of them were similar, and Klein divined the specific clues. This divination was very timely, and Audrey believed he should be given 1000 pounds.

Finally, the informant who provided the detailed address would receive the remaining 400 pounds.

Bernadette didn't really care about these pounds: “I have no objections.”

Audrey “Mm”ed and counted out 2300 pounds, handing them to Bernadette.

This matter could be considered to have come to an end. The two of them chatted for a while while drinking, and soon a large bowl of stewed goose was empty.

Audrey went to get another bowl and then talked about Audrey's original intention for asking Bernadette to meet.

“I plan to draw some arrays in the East Borough next week,” Audrey said. “I need you to help me conceal my tracks and temporarily hide those arrays.”

This was a transaction that the two had discussed long ago. For this, Bernadette would receive a large ship with Audrey's core research.

She immediately agreed: “Okay.”

Then she asked again: “I still don't understand, what do you want to do?”

“I deduced from some information that the 'Witch Sect' seems to be planning some action in the East Borough,” Audrey said with a smile. “But I don't know if this information is true or not. To be on the safe side, I plan to make some preparations.”

After speaking, his nose actually lengthened again.

Bernadette said somewhat helplessly: “When communicating with you, I haven't used this spell for a long time.”

It was just that she was really curious this time about what Audrey was going to do. At the same time, she had a premonition that Audrey's actions were very dangerous, so she used this spell.

Who knew that Audrey couldn't withstand the test at all.

Audrey had no choice but to say: “I want to save people.”

His nose immediately returned to its original shape, and then he frankly said: “Sorry, I can't tell you the source of that information right now, so I can only tell a lie.”

Maybe he won't be able to tell Bernadette in the future either.

“Then I won't ask,” Bernadette said. “If you need my help, pray to me in advance.”

Audrey nodded: “Okay.”