Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

The moment Audis' messenger, Ileberella Stiano, appeared, the sense of threat behind them vanished without a trace.

Before Audis could ask for help, the messenger lady raised her hand, and a ball of light flew from her palm.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak ~"

Audis immediately heard a sharp rat squeak from behind. He and Cattleya turned their heads and saw a huge rat wearing human robes, fleeing quickly.

It didn't crawl like an ordinary rat, but walked upright, except that its limbs were short and it walked relatively slowly.

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At this time, it was hit by the bright light emitted by the messenger. The light pierced through its body and emerged from its body, causing it to scream.

Immediately, the big rat was completely swallowed by the strong light. When the strong light dissipated, the big rat turned into dust, leaving only the extraordinary characteristics to quickly gather.

Audis turned his head and was about to ask the messenger Ileberella a few questions, but the messenger lady raised her hand first: "Wait a moment."

While speaking, she quickly walked into the glowing room, and then the light became even more dazzling.

This light still had a great attraction for Audis and Cattleya.

The two took a deep breath and hid in the corridor on the side, and the huge attraction weakened.

Audis pinched his temples: "I didn't expect that the monster was actually a rat in this space."

The "mental shock" just now still made Audis feel dizzy and nauseous. It would take a few days for such a shock to recover on its own.

Fortunately, the shock just now allowed him and Cattleya to get rid of that strange state all at once.

"It seems that the rat swallowed a demigod-level characteristic and survived by chance." Speaking of this, Cattleya pointed to the glowing room over there: "That is?"

"My messenger," Audis replied.

The two people with rich knowledge of mysticism immediately understood what was going on with the rat. It swallowed a characteristic of a "Mystic" and miraculously did not die in the loss of control.

However, it should have been a long time before it gained reason. The scratches in the corridor just now should be the traces it left during the frenzied stage shortly after swallowing the characteristics.

After the most difficult period, it was still no different from a beast. It went out to hunt from here, or brought its prey back, and enjoyed it in the narrow corridor just now.

I don't know if it was through reproduction, but later the rat's condition actually got better and better. It even put on clothes and walked upright, which shows that it at least had the intelligence of a normal person.

Just today, Bernadette and Bonova's appearance broke the rat's peaceful life. In order to drive away these two powerful enemies, it activated the magic circle in the outer space and hid here, waiting quietly for the people outside to leave.

Audis suddenly understood at this time that the reason why he appeared here should be because he was attracted by something inside, rather than being pulled in by the power of a certain magic circle.

After all, he has a certain connection with the "Knowledge Wilderness". Usually, this point will not be a problem, but when encountering relics related to the "Scholar" pathway, this connection may react with some things in the relic.

And that pulling feeling is likely to be the pulling generated by this reaction.

Because Audis was using the relevant ability of the "Travel Ring" at that time, Cattleya was also affected and pulled in.

The rat was not clear about Audis and Cattleya's details. After all, no one had been able to enter here for a long time. Suddenly two people came in, and it would always be a little worried.

So it didn't take action immediately after discovering Audis and Cattleya.

However, it knew that these rays of light were very dangerous, so it drove Audis and Cattleya over, preparing to use these rays of light to solve these two people.

Just as Audis was about to understand these, the light on the other side suddenly became very dazzling, but in the next instant, the light disappeared all at once, and the two people immediately felt that the attraction just now had also disappeared.

Audis now also understands why this ray of light has a inexplicable attraction. Those rays of light should represent adjacent pathways, at least demigod-level characteristics.

And he believes that it should be something similar to the messenger's body, which itself has certain abstract meanings, and can attract characteristics of the same pathway or adjacent pathways.

The attraction they felt came from the attraction of extraordinary characteristics.

After another ten seconds, Audis' messenger, Ileberella, walked over while moving her arms.

Audis was slightly stunned. At this time, although the messenger lady was still wearing hunting clothes, she already had flesh and blood.

Her appearance is exactly what Audis had just seen, the appearance of that female angel of the Stiano family.

Ileberella's appearance is not very beautiful, but her temperament is very good. This temperament reminds Audis of a young female teacher who was very good at professional knowledge when he was in college. The textbooks used by the students were all written by her.

That female teacher had a similar temperament, neither humble nor arrogant, neither hurried nor slow, with a feeling that "knowledge makes personality strong".

"You should have a lot of questions now, right?" Ileberella's voice finally became normal.

"Yes," Audis said: "Are you really Adam and Amon's mother?"

What?

Cattleya thought she had heard wrong: The "Hermit"'s messenger is Adam and Amon's mother?

"Sort of," Ileberella replied.

Then, before Audis could ask, she continued: "I know what your doubts are. The 'Ancient Sun God' can indeed conceive life on its own.

"But when it comes to Uniqueness, He must borrow another male or female individual in order to relatively smoothly excrete and produce corresponding life with a certain degree of humanity, rather than the Uniqueness itself producing wisdom."

Audis nodded slowly, finally dispelling the doubts just now: That is to say, if it is just excreting extraordinary characteristics, there is really no need to be so troublesome. But if excreting Uniqueness, even at the level of the 'Ancient Sun God', if it does not use the most basic laws of nature to produce life, the likely thing to happen is that the Uniqueness itself produces wisdom.

Audis is very clear that for the 'Ancient Sun God', the wisdom of life to control the Uniqueness is fundamentally different from the wisdom of the Uniqueness manipulating that life.

Especially Adam, that is a backup plan reserved by the 'Ancient Sun God', and there can be no mistakes.

And the other half who has children with the 'Ancient Sun God' can be male or female, but this old god also wants face and is unlikely to find a man to have children with, because in that case, who is the top and who is the bottom is not easy to explain.

Ileberella continued: "Some characteristics of the 'Perfectionist' pathway allow me to relatively easily accept the Uniqueness in the Ancient Sun God's body.

"And after the birth is over, I am not greatly affected.

"After all, in some respects, I was just a ball of light at that time."

Audis felt that useful knowledge had increased again. The "Perfectionist" pathway actually has such advantages.

And Cattleya on the side only reacted at this time: Really… The person in front of her is really the mother of two "Kings of Angels", this… Why can the "Hermit" find such a powerful messenger?

"The reason why I said 'sort of' is because some special reasons make my identity a bit awkward," Ileberella continued: "However, I am indeed Amon's mother."

Cattleya was stunned. She immediately realized that there should be some secrets here.

Audis immediately understood: How should I say it? I can only say that "the god circle is really chaotic"! A good son becomes a husband! The most important thing is that this is the most real description, without any falsehood or expression that violates ethics.

However, he immediately had a new question: "After you lost your extraordinary characteristics, why didn't you seek Amon's help? Or Adam should have helped you too?"

Ileberella said sternly: "I don't trust them, um… Although I said just now that I am their mother, please don't bring in the human concept of maternal and child affection.

"They are gods as soon as they are born, and they grow into adults in a month. They have no concept of mother.

"And to be honest, I didn't have the concept of becoming a mother at that time. I just felt that this was a task assigned by the 'Ancient Sun God'."

Audis probably understood what the other party meant. For him, there is a strong bond between mother and child, but in the eyes of the gods, this is just a cooperation that everyone can benefit from.

This topic ended, and Audis asked again: "Where is this?"

"This used to be the headquarters of the Stiano family," Ileberella explained: "And this space is a very special existence. After I was driven out of here, I had no way to enter here before I found my complete body.

"The only way to enter here is for someone to summon me from inside."

Audis understood: "Because there is a demigod-level monster inside, you plan to let me become a demigod before providing you with help?"

Ileberella looked around before answering: "The main reason is that once we appear here, the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery will definitely send angels to obstruct us.

"Although I can hold the other party back, the aftermath of the battle is not something that an extraordinary person below a demigod can withstand."

Audis nodded again. At the same time, he can basically be sure that the light clusters in the other room are another part of Ileberella's body.

And he probably guessed why that part of the body is here.

However, to be sure, he still asked, "I heard that everyone here before died?"

"They should all be dead," Aibilea said with almost no change in expression: "After all, Yuggs did something disgraceful here, and it's impossible to let anyone here live."

She smiled slightly: "You should have guessed it, right? That's right, he looked for the 'Uniqueness' of the 'Theologian' pathway in advance, so he needed the extraordinary characteristic in my body."

Speaking of this, Aibilea's expression changed slightly: "Originally, I thought he could talk to me properly about this matter, because I was already looking for a way to remove the Sequence 1 characteristic from my body.

"In this world, I am the one who supports him becoming a god the most."

Audis thought to himself: As expected.

Cattleya did not know the real name of the "God of Steam and Machinery", but after hearing this description, she also guessed some of the truth.

Then, she was shocked by her guess!

"Later, I realized," Aibilea continued: "He needs to use my death to show that he is breaking away from the 'True Creator', Adam, and Amon.

"And he must be the one to kill me, so that He can join the 'Six Gods' camp at that time."

Cattleya took a step back. Although she did not believe in the "God of Steam and Machinery", she also found this truth very blasphemous!

She thought to herself: Is this why 'Hermit' knows so much secret history? After all, not everyone can have a messenger from the Third Epoch, and who was once an angel!

Audis said: "I understand, thank you for telling me so much."

He took a deep breath and asked again: "Then, did I complete my help to you in advance?"

"No, this is just regaining my body. At present, I can only use the authority contained in this body to occasionally reach the level of an angel," Aibilea said: "I still need an angel-level characteristic to stabilize my state."

Audis twitched the corner of his mouth: "Doesn't that mean I have to wait until I become an angel to be able to help?"

"It's still possible when you are at the demigod level," Aibilea said: "Because I know the whereabouts of an angel-level characteristic, which is a characteristic that has not been mastered by the Steam Church."

Audis nodded: "I understand."

He took a deep breath and asked: "Can we leave here?"

Aibilea nodded and waved to the "Scholar of Mystery" characteristic over there. The characteristic immediately flew into his hand.

Cattleya opened her mouth, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

Audis had no choice but to say: "That characteristic..."

"According to our previous agreement, all the spoils here belong to you," Aibilea said: "But we will divide them after we get out of here."

Audis nodded. Suddenly, his and Cattleya's sight was covered by a strong light. When the strong light disappeared, they had already appeared in a hall.

Audis was not sure which floor this was, and there was no need to care about which floor it was, because he saw the magic circle at the exit.

Unfortunately, many important parts of the magic circle were built underground, and there was no way to see the full picture of the magic circle, and now it was not easy for Audis to study this magic circle.

He also didn't see where Aibilea injected her spirituality. The magic circle was activated just like that. In the blink of an eye, Audis had come to another space.

This was also a hall, almost exactly the same as the hall just now, but Audis's spirituality sensed that he had returned to the real world.

Aibilea was about to speak when a ray of light flew from a distance and stopped not far from them. The light stretched and widened, and Bonova walked out of it.

At this time, there was finally an expression on his face. He asked in surprise: "Your Excellency Aibilea?"

Aibilea was stunned: "The angels of the Steam Church actually know me?"

Bonova immediately lowered his head: "I have seen you in the murals inside the church."

Audis did not expect that the Steam Church even had murals about Aibilea!

At this time, a pair of illusory wings appeared not far from Audis and the others, and Bernadette also rushed over.

She first glanced at Audis and Cattleya, and after seeing that they were not injured, she went to look at Aibilea.

At this time, Aibilea was saying to Bonova: "It seems that Yuggs still remembers that he has an older sister."

Bernadette's eyes narrowed. She remembered that the "God of Steam and Machinery" was called Yuggs!

Aibilea added: "Go back and tell Yuggs that in the future, giving up the position of God is his only way out."

Bonova was slightly stunned, raised his eyes and glanced at Aibilea, then bowed and saluted, turning into light and leaving.

The people from the Steam Church had left, and Audis introduced to Bernadette: "This is my messenger, Ms. Stiano.

"Ms. Messenger, this is my leader, 'The Mystery Queen'."

The two nodded in greeting. Bernadette remembered that Audis's messenger seemed to be a spirit world creature in a bad state, but looking at this messenger, she seemed to be in good shape.

Aibilea was in a good mood today and joked with Bernadette: "You have a good eye for subordinates."

Bernadette was stunned for a moment and smiled: "You also have a good eye for contractors."

"You may not quite understand what I mean by this sentence," Aibilea only said here, without further explanation.

As she spoke, she spread out her right hand, and three things appeared from the faint light and handed them to Audis: "As we agreed before, all the spoils in the operation belong to you.

"In addition to the extraordinary characteristic of the 'Scholar of Mystery', there is also a characteristic of the 'Astronomer', and a magical item."

Audis took it unceremoniously: "Thank you."

"You also have the characteristics, work hard to advance," Aibilea smiled: "When you advance to 'Master of Divination', I may be able to provide some help."

After saying that, without even saying goodbye, she disappeared into the void.

After Aibilea disappeared, Bernadette asked: "Who helped you find this messenger?"

"I summoned her myself," Audis smiled helplessly: "At the time, I also thought her condition was quite strange, but I really didn't expect that it was actually an angel in a strange state."

Moreover, this angel has recovered to a state stronger than Sequence 3, but has not yet reached the angel level!

But now is not the time for small talk. Bernadette summoned the pumpkin-shaped carriage again. After the three people got into the car, they entered the spirit world.

In the carriage, Audis looked at the three spoils he was holding. He took out the "Scholar of Mystery" characteristic and handed it to Cattleya: "According to the previous agreement, this characteristic belongs to you."

In fact, Audis also struggled in his heart, after all, this was a "Scholar of Mystery" characteristic. If this characteristic was crushed, there was a high probability that he could get a "Astrologer" characteristic.

But in the end, he decided to give the characteristic away. After all, Bernadette had helped him a lot, and it had been agreed in advance that this characteristic belonged to Cattleya, who provided the location of the island, so he felt that he could not break his promise because of greed.

The moment he gave it away, Audis felt relieved in his heart: One still has to have a bottom line in life, at least that way, there is no psychological burden.

"Thank you," Cattleya said: "The actual situation has changed to a certain extent from our previous plan. I owe you a favor."

Bernadette also said at this time: "You should put away the remaining two spoils, after all, they were given to you by the messenger."

She paused and then said: "As Cattleya said, there has been a certain change from our previous plan, and the spoils cannot be divided according to the previous agreement."

If it was according to the previous agreement, all the spoils except the "Trick Flying Horse" and the "Scholar of Mystery" characteristic would belong to "The Mystery Queen".

This time Audis was not polite and put away the two spoils, because his spirituality felt that both of these spoils were things that he could use.

At this time, the pumpkin carriage returned to the real world, and the three people appeared at the place where they started, on the boulder outside Wilchard Port.

Bernadette then said to Cattleya: "I will help you repay the favor."

Then she said to Audis: "I will convert this favor into merit. The merit you have accumulated can already allow me to help you prepare for the 'Astrologer' advancement ceremony.

"In addition, you have two choices. The first is that I give you a 'Astrologer' characteristic and a Sequence 4 level potion formula.

"Second, I just got information about the location of a 'Shimmering Starlight Tree'. I can provide you with that location and provide you with the location of an extraordinary creature with a Sequence 4 'Scholar of Mystery' main ingredient."

Although Audis gave a demigod-level characteristic, because the coordinates of that island were provided by Cattleya, and it was said in advance that this characteristic belonged to her.

So Bernadette's repayment is just right.

Audis almost immediately made a decision: "I choose the 'Shimmering Starlight Tree'."

With the "Astrologer" characteristic, advancement is indeed convenient, but he still does not have the "Fruit of the Shimmering Starlight Tree", this kind of auxiliary material that is not easy to trade.

He could buy it from Bernadette, but Audis still hoped to get the entire "Shimmering Starlight Tree" and a clue to an extraordinary material at the Sequence 4 level, because that meant he could also harvest a batch of spiritual materials.

And these spiritual materials related to the "Seer" pathway are excellent ingredients for making scrolls. For Audis, it is more cost-effective to obtain the main potion materials.

Because reaching Sequence 5 brings a great demand for scrolls, and also allows for the creation of more powerful scrolls, the need for these extraordinary materials will only increase.

"Alright." Bernadette nodded: "In a moment, I'll have my messenger deliver the location of the 'Gleaming Starwood Tree' to the 'Argo' studio."

Cattleya was suddenly a little surprised: "'Argo'?"

Then, she resisted the urge to slap her forehead, bearing the banner of 'Dawn of Elements'; possessing strange weapons; having just set sail;

Now, every clue aligns perfectly with 'The Hermit,' it's just that she didn't think of it right away, hence the involuntary exclamation.

No errors, all first releases, all content is authentic!

Cattleya saw the gazes of 'Queen' and 'The Hermit' and smiled somewhat embarrassedly.

With the spoils divided, Audis took his leave first.

After he entered the spirit world, Cattleya asked: "Your Majesty, he…"

Bernadette raised her hand, interrupting Cattleya: "He is a person who can change the world's landscape."

Cattleya was somewhat shocked internally, never expecting 'Queen' to have such a high opinion of 'The Hermit'!

…

In the 'Argo' studio, a phantom door suddenly appeared, and Audis pushed it open from within.

He poured himself a glass of water, took a couple of sips, and then sat down on the chair to review the previous action.

Although this exploration was a bit thrilling, there wasn't any intense fighting, making it a rather special exploration for Audis.

Then he smiled and thought: It's just like the 'prophecy' of the 'Mysterious Queen,' encountering high-level enemies, but overall the danger is minimal.

After waiting for a while, a letter appeared on the workbench in front of Audis.

Audis said to the air: "Thank you."

In fact, he didn't know if Bernadette's messenger had already quietly left. He had tried to observe with the 'Eye of Secrets' before, but still couldn't see the other party's messenger.

Opening the letter, it contained a hand-drawn sketch, with the names of two islands as reference.

A map of the Rage Sea immediately appeared in Audis's mind, and he finally understood why he had chosen the 'Gleaming Starwood Tree' without hesitation.

Because the coordinates of this island were actually the island that the 'Argo' was about to explore!

Audis also noticed when he advanced to Sequence 6 that, generally, when his decision-making process was very smooth, there was spirituality 'secretly supporting' him.

That was the spirituality sensing that such a choice was beneficial to Audis.

It's just that Audis's level at this time was far from reaching the point of having obvious feelings, only becoming aware after making a decision.

Taking a deep breath, he thought: In that case, the process of collecting the 'Gleaming Starwood Tree' should also be relatively smooth.

And the 'Scroll Professor' potion will be completely digested in the next few days, so I need to consider advancing.

After resting for a while, Audis came to the 'Knowledge Wilderness' again.

First, he planned to take a look at the spoils, and second, to continue writing "Scrolls: From Beginner to Master."

Audis still planned to finish this book when he was at Sequence 6.

He first came to the spoils, where the corpse of the 'Trickery Pegasus' lay.

This kind of horse is smaller than a donkey, only a little bigger than a dog, with a pair of pure white wings on its back, but without a horn, so it doesn't have the feeling of a unicorn.

Audis put the corpse of the 'Trickery Pegasus' on the workbench, fixed it, and then used a tool to take out its pituitary gland.

At this time, all the extraordinary characteristics on its body had gathered on the pituitary gland, making the small pituitary gland shimmer with starlight, looking like a piece of crystal with fragments of stars.

Audis put away this main material for advancement, and then collected the extraordinary materials bit by bit.

Then he went to look at the extraordinary characteristic that the messenger gave him. It was indeed a 'Astronomer' characteristic, and if crushed, it could also crush out many lower sequence characteristics.

He now has the three 'Artisan' characteristics that Bivis needs to advance.

Finally, Audis looked at that mystical item.

The shape of that mystical item was a pair of classic glasses, binocular glasses, not a monocle.

When Audis got it just now, he realized that this was a level 1 sealed artifact, or rather, a demigod-level sealed artifact! It was comparable to Sequence 4 'Alchemist' of the 'Scholar' pathway.

Audis felt that this should be the 'unexpected harvest' in the 'Mysterious Queen's' words!

Audis, carrying the sealed artifact, came to the 'Central Simulator' and, borrowing the authority of the 'Knowledge Wilderness,' learned that its abilities were: It can use extraordinary characteristics to create mystical items; it can give life to materials, causing them to undergo magical changes; it can make all inanimate objects within three kilometers obey the holder.

Audis excitedly spun around in place. The last ability was useless, but the first two abilities were simply "godsend" for him now!

His spirituality could feel that the negative effects of the mystical items created using this sealed artifact, as long as the level was below demigod, were acceptable.

Audis glanced at the characteristics of the 'Witch' and 'Prisoner' pathways. He seemed to see a 'mystical item wholesaler'!

The characteristics of these two pathways don't sell for much on the market, but they are completely different when turned into mystical items!

And the second ability would also be of great help to Audis, which would make the extraordinary weapons he created more powerful and give him broader ideas.

Audis just held these glasses in his hand, and some of the problems with the 'land-based spirit wave cannon' had already been solved!

At the same time, he could also manufacture higher-level extraordinary parts, which would provide great help for his further research and practice.

After being happy for a while, he went to look at the negative effects: After accumulating 1 hour of use, you must rest for 6 hours, otherwise, there will be permanent damage to the brain; after using this sealed artifact, there will be two consequences, either losing all vision for 1 hour, or seeing a spirit world creature that will bring harm, only one of the two consequences will occur.

Audis was stunned, barely within the acceptable range. The point of losing vision could be adjusted by adjusting the time, losing vision during a time period when danger was unlikely to occur.

But the second consequence needed to be paid attention to. Audis felt that he could prevent seeing things he shouldn't see by sealing his eyes.

However, before advancing to Sequence 5, Audis felt that he could use it in the 'Knowledge Wilderness,' so he could ignore its negative effects.

Finally, Audis named this mystical item 'Alchemist Glasses' and placed it on the shelf, in a separate space.

After calming down, Audis went to continue writing the book, but when he started writing, there was still a smile on his face.

…

Cruz Island, tavern.

Rupert Sean, the first mate of the 'Dawn Sword,' pushed open the door and entered the tavern: "I heard someone was looking for me?"

Hunter quickly said: "Yes, Mr. Sean, this gentleman is looking for you."

While Hunter was introducing him, Rupert was already sizing up the other person. He noticed that the person looking for him was wearing the uniform of the Feynapotter Kingdom Navy, wearing glasses, and was currently looking at him with a smile while holding a glass of wine.

In a previous meeting, the captain had talked about the Feynapotter Navy possibly sending someone over, so Rupert wasn't surprised or flustered. He stepped forward and asked: "May I ask who you are."

"Abel." The other person was in his thirties, with a long face, and looked very easy-going: "You don't seem surprised or panicked to see the navy?"

Rupert also sat at the bar: "Hunter, a beer."

He said when the beer arrived: "Why should I panic?"

"Because you are pirates."

Rupert took his beer and smiled: "You've got the wrong person. I'm the acting mayor of this island."

This answer made Abel stunned for a moment before saying: "You… indeed don't look like pirates."

Originally, he wanted to say "You are much more professional than Egbert and them," but it wasn't appropriate to say such things now, so he changed his words.

Then Abel said again: "I hope to talk to your captain… oh, no, the mayor."

Rupert was a little wary: "This island is not under the jurisdiction of the Feynapotter Navy."

Audis had also instructed him to pretend not to know that the 'Deep Blue' pirate group's background was the Feynapotter Navy.

"It's not to ask you to hand over taxes, but another matter." Abel smiled: "Well, something that is beneficial to everyone."

Rupert thought for a moment before saying: "Okay, you wait here for a moment."

"No problem."

Seeing Rupert go out, the smile on Abel's face disappeared: According to the intelligence just received at noon, the captain of the 'Argo' appeared on Norhaus Island yesterday. Even if he set sail this morning, he wouldn't be back.

He guessed that this captain should have a sealed artifact that could travel through the spirit world.

Such a pirate ship captain who could slip away at any time was very troublesome.

…

When he received Rupert's signal, Audis was already in Bayam.

After writing the book in the 'Knowledge Wilderness' for a while and feeling a little tired, he planned to go outside for a walk. The first thing he thought of was Bayam, asking Basel to book a hotel and prepare to settle Mandy and the others.

Just as Audis was walking on the streets of Bayam, eating the snacks he bought, he felt the signal sent by Rupert.

He immediately used the 'Travel Ring' to come to Cruz Island and handed a skewer of grilled seafood to Rupert: "Finish eating before you go."

Rupert, taking the seafood, was a little dazed. After taking a bite, he exclaimed, "'Travel' is really convenient."

Odyss, however, smiled and said, "Soon everyone will find it very convenient."

Rupert didn't quite understand the captain's meaning. He ate the seafood and spat out a shrimp shell before saying, "The Fenipot Navy has sent someone, named Abel, seems to be an officer."

Odyss 'hmm'ed and looked at the 'Ghost' in the harbor: "What do you think of this ship?"

"Excellent," Rupert said. "It doesn't require too many people to operate, and it has the ability to create fog and release the undead from the underworld."

Odyss then asked, "If we sell it for 20,000 pounds, do you think it's appropriate?"

Since the other party sent someone to negotiate, instead of directly dispatching warships, it means they know that the 'Argo' is flying the flag of 'Elemental Dawn'.

For the Fenipot Navy, whose naval power is the weakest among the 'Four Great Nations', they would rather not offend such a powerful secret organization if they can avoid it.

"You want to sell it." Rupert opened his mouth, and finally ate another bite of seafood before saying, "That price is hard to refuse."

After all, it's just a ship, and the 'Dawnbreaker Sword' pirate group is the kind of small but elite pirate group, more than capable of operating the 'Argo'. Now that they occupy Cruz Island, they can just send people to stay behind.

Now that they also have the 'Ghost', they obviously don't have enough manpower. This ghost ship can only be temporarily docked in the harbor.

It's indeed better to exchange it for gold pounds, but Rupert is somewhat reluctant, after all, ghost ships are rare... well, difficult to capture.

The two finished the seafood in their hands before leisurely arriving at the tavern.

Abel stood up and said, "Hello, Captain Gal, I thought I wouldn't see you today."

After all, he was still hundreds of nautical miles away yesterday. Today, he only came to arrange a time for a formal discussion.

"Please sit down." Odyss also sat down: "Hunt, a glass of your own brewed beer."

Hunt immediately said, "Okay, Mr. Mayor."

Odyss did not immediately talk to Abel, but asked Hunt: "How's business lately?"

"Much better, sir." Hunt smiled and said, "The council members and officers all pay for their drinks now."

It's just that they deliberately pay less, which is unavoidable. There's really too little cash on Cruz Island.

The reason why the officers are starting to pay now is only because Odyss has started paying them wages. They have money now, so of course they will be more generous when paying.

Odyss took the beer, took a sip, and said to Abel, "The beer brewed by the tavern owner himself is very unique."

Abel was stunned for a moment before smiling and saying, "I'll try it later."

Odyss then asked, "Have you been to the beach? There's a beautiful stretch of coastline in the south of the island."

Abel clearly felt that this captain was more difficult to deal with than the previous Mr. Sean, and had no intention of taking the initiative to talk about business.

After chatting for a few more sentences, Abel had no choice but to say, "Mr. Gal, I'm here today because I have something very important to discuss with you."

Odyss took a sip of beer, and said as if he didn't care much, "Then speak."

"I heard that you just got a ghost ship."

Odyss glanced at the other party: "That ship is not docked in the port of Midway Island."

Rupert smiled beside him: "Mr. Abel, that ship wasn't snatched from your navy, this kind of thing doesn't seem to be your business, right?"

Abel's smile stiffened, feeling as if Rupert's words had pierced him, but he quickly returned to his normal smile: "That's right, we just happen to need a ghost ship and hope to buy that ship."

Odyss pretended to be surprised: "The navy also wants to equip ghost ships?"

Abel smiled: "We have other uses for it."

Odyss pondered for a moment and said: "Selling is not impossible, 40,000 pounds."

Bang!

The glass Hunt was wiping fell to the ground, and he quickly said, "Sorry, sorry..."

40,000 pounds!

Hunt felt completely lost the concept of such a sum of money.

"Your asking price is too high." This little episode did not affect their conversation. Abel countered, "I think 10,000 pounds is a more appropriate price."

He smiled and said, "You may not be very clear, 40,000 pounds is enough for 4 main fleets to sail on the sea for a month."

Odyss, however, didn't seem to hear the threat in the other party's words, and only said, "I heard that the Fenipot Navy's several first-rate sailing battleships cost more than 80,000 pounds to build?

"Ordinary cruisers also cost twenty to thirty thousand pounds, right?"

Abel took a sip of his drink and smiled somewhat proudly: "Almost."

In his opinion, such strength is incomparable to pirates.

"If you send the navy to snatch away the 'Ghost'," Odyss's smile was also very kind, "I will sink at least three of your cruisers in retaliation, causing you far more than 40,000 pounds in losses."