Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Upon hearing that "Rear Admiral of the Deep" wanted to buy a "Portable Spirit Wave Cannon," Odis said, "This cannon is quite expensive."

He wasn't planning on selling the "Spirit Wave Cannon" right now because, as it stood, this cannon was still a strategic weapon.

"How much?" "Rear Admiral of the Deep" Hal asked persistently.

After experiencing the power of the "Spirit Wave Cannon," he felt it was worth any price!

Odis then bluntly said, "From my observation, that rock hasn't been completely destroyed yet. I'll fire another shot."

Hal knew that the other party didn't want to sell, so he stopped saying anything.

If it were someone else, he could still try to snatch it, but he obviously couldn't beat "Admiral of Mystery," so he could only think of another way.

The "Spirit Wave Cannon's" rest period ended, and Odis said to the pirates who had just crawled out of the sea and were still somewhat doubting their lives, "I'm going to fire the cannon."

This time, including Hal, no one hesitated and immediately lay down on the beach.

Odis pressed the button and then pressed the launch button again.

Rumble~

Another explosion that shook the earth resounded. A dozen seconds later, the shockwave from the explosion ended, and everyone looked up, seeing a large pit blasted around the rock!

At this time, the rock had also been burned into a black crystal by the violent explosion, suspended in the center of the pit.

Odis's spirituality could sense that the black crystal was very weak at this time. Another shot would be enough to take it down.

Just then, the huge, colorful viper that had appeared before swam vigorously towards the black crystal, opening its mouth to suck it into its belly.

Odis immediately said, "Stop it!"

After speaking, he drew out the "Gustav Staff" and used "Flight" to immediately fly towards that side.

Klein had heard Odis say that the "Spirit Wave Cannon" also had a rest period. At this time, he was the first to react and followed closely.

Hal Constantin and Alger glanced at the "Spirit Wave Cannon" before seeming to understand something and also used flight to follow.

The launch point of the "Portable Spirit Wave Cannon" was still some distance away from the rock. The time it took for Odis and the others to fly over would be enough for the viper to swallow the crystal.

Fortunately, the two "Spirit Wave Cannon" shells from just now had injured the viper, making it appear to move slowly.

As Odis and the others chased to a certain distance, they suddenly felt pushed away by a huge force, as if they had crashed into a transparent wall.

The four people immediately understood that the black crystal inside the rock not only could have a huge gravitational force but also a huge repulsive force.

Odis had no choice but to raise the "Gustav Staff." The head of the staff immediately became dazzling, and a bolt of lightning fell towards the viper, but it was deflected by the huge force and did not injure the viper.

Klein also tried using "Air Bullet," but he couldn't attack the viper either.

At this time, the viper was already close to the beach. If that "Crystal" escaped into the sea, it would be very troublesome.

Odis then threw out a scroll with a white light and recited a spell in Ancient Hermes: "Doom!"

This was a scroll he had made using demigod-level materials from the "School of Life"'s "Monster" pathway.

A white light exploded, and the viper immediately writhed in pain. At this time, it was entangled in "Misfortune." The crystal it had just swallowed cut through its internal organs, causing it to writhe in pain.

However, the viper immediately seemed to receive some kind of order and continued to crawl forward despite the severe pain.

It didn't notice that there was a sharp broadsword on the ground ahead. The viper swam towards the broadsword, and then there was a sound of scissors cutting through thick cloth. The broadsword cut a large gash in its abdomen.

The style of that broadsword looked a bit like an elf weapon. It might be something Deakin Dedier left behind, which had long been buried by vegetation.

But the explosion just now had turned it out of the soil. The viper, which had been enduring the severe pain, didn't see it and suffered a fatal injury because of it.

The "Crystal" that had been swallowed by the viper also had bad luck and slid out of the large gash in the viper's abdomen.

It was just that it was still maintaining the repulsive force field, making it still difficult for Odis and the others to get close.

So Odis threw out another high-level scroll: "Chaos!"

The "Crystal's" limited intelligence instantly became chaotic, and the force field disappeared immediately.

Around the "Gustav Staff" in Odis's hand, the light of dawn immediately condensed, forming a sharp, heavy two-handed greatsword.

Odis held the sword in both hands and flew over suddenly, stabbing towards the "Crystal."

The "Crystal" seemed to sense the danger and immediately flashed with a bright light, but in the next second, Odis's greatsword struck the "Crystal."

The greatsword with the light of dawn paused for a moment, and with a soft "snap," the "Crystal" was finally stabbed into two pieces, and the light in the "Crystal" quickly dimmed.

Odis and the others' spirituality instantly felt that the "extraordinary feeling" from the rock to the "Crystal" had disappeared.

Before the four people could say anything, their spirituality suddenly sensed danger, and they looked towards the sky in unison.

Seven or eight small fireballs streaked across the sky, flying towards this side.

Those were meteors, meteors summoned by the "Crystal" before "dying!"

Meteors in the daytime weren't really anything to look at, especially meteors that were crashing towards you, which were even less pleasant to look at.

There was no time to escape from here using "Flight" now, so Odis quickly put away the "Gustav Staff," opened the "Phantom Gate," placed one hand on Klein's shoulder, and the other hand on Alger's shoulder, and the three of them entered the spirit world together.

Just as they entered the spirit world, a hand landed on Odis's shoulder.

He turned his head and saw that it was Hal grabbing his shoulder. The four of them entered the spirit world together.

Generally, when using "Travel," it could only maintain three people traversing the spirit world.

Now that four people had come in together, it was considered "severely overloaded."

Odis persisted for two or three seconds before they returned to the real world from the spirit world again.

However, these two or three seconds were enough for them to move a distance in the real world, appearing in the sky not far from Whale Island.

The moment they returned to the real world, they just happened to see the meteors falling. The first meteor blasted the viper, which hadn't completely died yet, into pieces of meat.

Thump~ Thump~

As the meteors landed one by one, several large pits were smashed out of the place where they had been just now, and the topsoil was lifted, revealing the rocks beneath the soil.

Many of the pirates on the beach were shaken and fell by the violent tremors.

A large number of trees were pushed down and ignited by the shockwave. The small Whale Island once again suffered a not-so-small disaster.

The four people breathed a sigh of relief. Although they were a bit embarrassed when escaping just now, the problem was finally solved.

They flew back to Whale Island. Odis saw at a glance that his "Portable Spirit Wave Cannon" had only been knocked over and hadn't suffered too much damage.

As for "Rear Admiral of the Deep's" subordinates, they were just about to meet their captain when they saw the captain and the other three flying over from behind.

Afterwards, Hal took people to the scene to take another look, while Odis asked Alger and Klein to help dismantle the "Portable Spirit Wave Cannon" and put it back into the "Space Array."

When dismantling the "Spirit Wave Cannon," Klein reminded, "This kind of thing must not fall into the hands of 'Secret Organizations.'"

If such a cannon were fired in Backlund, who knew how many people would die.

Odis smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have a design to prevent accidental injuries for this kind of cannon. And so far, only 'Dawn of Elements' can make 'Spirit Wave Cannons.'"

Also, recently, Odis completed the modification of every "Spirit Wave Cannon." He placed a signal receiver in every "Spirit Wave Cannon."

This signal receiver was the design from his pocket watch before. As long as he pressed the button, his pocket watch would light up.

After advancing to "Astrologer," Odis could "remotely send" more complex signals and could issue two commands to each "Spirit Wave Cannon": "Prohibit Launch" or "Self-Destruct."

With such an arrangement, he dared to mass-produce "Portable Spirit Wave Cannons."

Hearing Odis's answer, Klein "hmm"ed and didn't say anything more.

The three people put away the cannon, and Hal also came back with his people, holding two palm-sized black crystals in his hands.

Odis said, "One crystal is enough for you to go back and report. Give me a crystal. I'll take it back and study it."

Hal was stunned for a moment before saying, "This can't be given to you. Although it no longer has any extraordinary reactions, it will be affected if it is in contact with it for a long time."

Odis said, "Don't worry, I have a way to solve this problem."

Hal glanced at Odis's leather bag, recalling his scrolls with demigod-level power, then handed it to Odis and repeatedly instructed, "Don't be in contact with it for a long time."

Odis "hmm"ed, took a crystal, and casually put it into the "Space Array."

At this time, Hal's first mate rowed over with 1,000 pounds, and "Rear Admiral of the Deep" handed the pounds to Odis again, "You are here for Deakin Dedier's treasure, right?"

Odis smiled and didn't say anything.

"My companions also found Whale Island and discovered that stone through some clues left by Deakin Dedier's subordinates." Hal Constantin bluntly said, "Given your help just now, you can take away some of the wealth in Deakin's treasure."

Because of the experience of fighting together just now, Hal took the initiative to talk about the treasure, "But the property belonging to the elves in Deakin's treasure, you can't touch."

Audis recalled Daiken's last words, which seemed to mention that there were relics of the "Elven King" in the treasure.

That should be the more valuable item in the treasure, so he took the gold sovereigns handed over by Hall and said, "The treasure on the sea belongs to whoever finds it.

We can search separately. If you find the treasure first, we don't want those Elven relics."

Hall corrected, "That shouldn't be called 'relics,' it should be called 'property.'"

As he spoke, he chanted a few sentences in Ancient Hermes.

Audis and Klein suddenly had a bad feeling.

After Hall finished chanting, his ears suddenly began to become pointed and elongated, eventually turning into the pointed ears unique to the Elven race.

Although he had a premonition, Audis was still stunned for a moment and asked, "You... you are an Elf?"

Hall looked at the surprised expression of the "Admiral of Mysteries" and smiled, "It seems your knowledge of mysticism history needs to be strengthened."

Then he put away his smile and said, "Constantine is an 'Elven Prince'!"

Audis was even more surprised: "One of the 'Ten Pillars' of the 'Moses Ascetic Order' is actually an Elf?"

Hall smiled and said, "Who said Elves can't join the 'Moses Ascetic Order'?"

Audis was stunned for a moment again after hearing the other party's question before asking, "Is Constantine a Beyonder of the 'Seer' or 'Scholar of Yore' pathway?"

Hall seemed to recall for a moment before saying, "I heard that in the beginning, there were no pathway requirements for joining the 'Moses Ascetic Order.'"

Audis nodded: "So that's how it is."

He also recalled the conversation with Theresa, the "Librarian," who said that the initial members of the "Moses Ascetic Order" were all people, or rather, living beings, who had seen the first "Blasphemy Slate."

At the time, Audis didn't take it seriously, but now he realized that the "Moses Ascetic Order" was not necessarily all human.

Hall chanted a few more spells, and his ears slowly became smaller and rounder again, eventually turning into normal human ears.

Audis took a deep breath and asked, "Now, in the human world, are there still many Elves?"

In ancient times, Elves were mainly distinguished by their temperament and ears.

Over the long years, through intermarriage with humans and advancement through consuming magical potions, the temperament of Elves had become similar to that of humans.

If their ears could also be hidden, it would be basically impossible to distinguish the Elves hidden in the human world.

"There aren't that many," Hall Constantine said, "The descendants of the Elven race still have the characteristic of pointed ears when they are first born. Before they learn to use their own spirituality, they cannot come into contact with the outside world, so it is still very inconvenient.

"Moreover, this secret technique is difficult to deceive demigods and cannot be used to worship the Seven Gods, making it difficult to truly integrate into human society."

The bottom layer of current human society is basically a "church society." Believers with the same beliefs establish connections through worship or religious gatherings, helping each other and introducing needed channels.

Without such a process, it is easy to be excluded in human society.

And pretending to believe in one of the Seven Gods makes it easy to be exposed.

Apart from the Church of Storms, the other churches would not care about having an extra Elven believer, but for them, even if they have no malice towards the Elf, they must investigate the Elf's background.

This is unacceptable to most Elves.

Hall Constantine continued, "Therefore, I, and the Constantine family, have sufficient control over those Elven properties, and the final right of ownership."

Audis laughed and said, "We are 'Pirate Generals,' not a group of law-abiding gentlemen."

Hall was stunned for a moment, wondering how the "Admiral of Mysteries" managed to switch between "Extraordinary Scholar" and "Pirate" so quickly?

He cleared his throat and said, "Given your contribution just now, I will allow you to explore with me."

Speaking of this, Hall smiled and announced, "Only Elves can open that treasure."

He looked at Alger: "And your companion is only a 'Half-Elf' and cannot meet the requirements to open the treasure."

"You don't need to worry about opening the treasure," Audis said with a smile, "Since we found this place, we have of course made full preparations."

Although Alger and Klein both appeared quite calm, they knew in their hearts that they really had no such plans.

The reason Audis said that was because he was confident that he could use the magic circle to bypass the "identification system" of those mechanisms. He had done this kind of thing more than once or twice.

Hall frowned: "Where did you find the Elf blood?"

In fact, opening that mechanism only required the use of Elf blood, not necessarily the presence of an Elf.

However, if Hall had said this from the beginning, it would have been easy to be besieged and have his blood taken.

That's why he planned to talk about how to divide the treasure first, and then confess this matter after finding the treasure's mechanism.

Audis smiled: "If only Elf blood is needed, then I am even more confident."

Hall Constantine realized that he had misspoke, and he quickly said, "All the treasures that Daiken Dertiel robbed can belong to you, but you cannot take away anything that belongs to the Elven race."

He paused and said, "This is also for your own good. Do you want to be targeted by the people of the 'Church of Storms'? They have always investigated the property of the Elven race to the bottom."

Then, as if he remembered something, he added, "Moreover, there may be no Sealed Artifacts inside, just some bows and arrows and other things that the Elves used, which barely count as antiques.

"We are looking for these things because of nostalgia. Are you going to offend the Church of Storms for a few antiques?"

Audis and Klein and others were all stunned. They had always thought that the Elven heritage would be some magical items of the "Sailor" pathway. If there was really no extraordinary effect, then it wouldn't matter whether they wanted it or not.

However, to prevent Hall from lying, Audis said, "What if there are magical items inside?"

"Then the four of us will divide it," Hall smiled, "If it's not something you urgently need, I can buy your share with gold sovereigns."

Audis knew from Hall's expression that there was likely nothing magical in the Elven heritage in the treasure.

Moreover, Daiken Dertiel was fighting against the Church of Storms at the time, so he probably wouldn't put magical items in the treasure.

Daiken Dertiel also died in the hands of the Church of Storms, so his characteristics would not be in the treasure either.

That treasure may only contain some wealth.

Thinking of this, Audis exchanged glances with Klein and Alger, then smiled and said, "No problem, the treasure inside and the extraordinary creatures hunted along the way belong to us, and the Elven heritage... I mean the Elven property belongs to you.

"If there are magical items in the property, we will discuss it separately."

Hall Constantine immediately said, "Okay."

As he spoke, the two shook hands, indicating that both parties could accept the outcome of the negotiation.

Audis smiled: "Then, let's talk about the clues we each obtained. The clue we obtained is that the treasure may be in the pool on Whale Island."

Hall Constantine smiled: "We also obtained similar clues."

Then he asked, "Where did you get the clues from?"

Audis did not hide anything: "From Daiken Dertiel's last words."

Hall was stunned: "Do you understand 'Ancient Elvish'?"

He hadn't even been able to learn it.

Audis said vaguely: "Someone I know understands it."

Klein noticed that "The Hermit" used "someone I know" instead of "friend." He thought to himself: He didn't lie either, he just understood "Ancient Elvish," and of course he knew himself.

Then Audis asked, "Where did you get the clues from?"

Hall didn't hide anything either: "One of Daiken Dertiel's subordinates was once protected by the Constantine family. Not long ago, we accidentally obtained his remaining notes and learned that the treasure was here."

Audis exchanged glances with Klein and Alger. They estimated that there might indeed be no extraordinary characteristics in the treasure. The "Rear Admiral of the Deep Sea" had "internal information," but he still decided to only take the Elven property, and he was even willing to divide the magical items among them, which meant that there was indeed nothing extraordinary in the treasure.

After a brief communication, the "Rear Admiral of the Deep Sea" gave a few instructions to his subordinates, and then went to the pool on Whale Island with Audis and the other two.

The four of them came here by flying. They looked into the pool around it. This pool was indeed very deep. They couldn't see the bottom as far as the eye could see, but they could see many fish swimming.

Alger looked down and deliberately said in a hoarse voice: "It should be below."

Audis said: "I feel some danger below."

Klein slowly nodded, he also had this feeling.

Audis asked Klein: "Do you divine or do I divine?"

"I'll do it," Klein silently recited the divination statement, flicked a coin, caught it with his hand, and looked at the color of the coin: "There is some danger, but within an acceptable range."

Before Klein advanced to Sequence 5, he could only use coins to make affirmative or negative divination results, but after advancing, he could use coins to divine more information.

Hall Constantine frowned: "The notes didn't say there was any danger in the pool."

Audis said, "Daiken Dertiel seems to have been dead for more than a hundred years, right?"

“Deep Sea Admiral” understood that “Admiral of Mysteries” meant that many changes should have occurred over the past hundred years.

“Since it’s within the ‘acceptable range,’ we can just be careful,” Audis said with a smile. “Perhaps some extraordinary creatures already live here.”

“With the four of us working together, we should be able to handle it and also obtain extraordinary materials.”

Everyone showed slight smiles. The combined strength of the four of them was indeed very strong. Problems below the level of demigod should be relatively easy to solve.

Then, the four of them had a simple discussion. Harle and Alger would go into the water first to scout the way, while Audis and Klein would provide support by the pool.

The two Beyonders of the “Sailor” pathway hardly hesitated and immediately jumped into the water.

Almost instantly, a layer of illusory scales appeared on their bodies. They were as agile as fish in the water, and in a short while, they had already gone deep into the visual limit of Audis and Klein.

After about seven or eight minutes, the two quickly swam back.

Alger merely wiped the water off his face and said, without blushing or panting, “There’s an opening down there. It’s isolated from the seawater. We found some ‘Ancient Elven’ symbols deep in the cave.”

Audis asked, “Did you encounter any extraordinary creatures?”

“No,” Alger said, somewhat strangely. This was a bit different from “The World’s” divination results.

The two had been cautious all along, but they hadn’t encountered anything.

Audis thought for a moment before saying, “First, draw those ‘Ancient Elven’ characters for me to see.”

Alger agreed, picked up a branch, and drew the “Ancient Elven” characters he had seen one by one.

Harle, who was on the side, then realized that the one who understood “Ancient Elven” was actually “Admiral of Mysteries.”

In his impression, only the elders in the family understood this ancient writing, and those elders were also scholars in the family, each of whom looked steady and experienced.

Looking at “Admiral of Mysteries” again, he was not only young, but sometimes when bargaining, he would almost immediately deny what he had just said.

This gave Harle a bit of a disconnect.

Audis looked at the “Ancient Elven” characters while translating, “The first two sentences are still encouraging the Elven race to fight against the Storm Church. The latter says that at the very bottom of this pool, there’s an extraordinary mechanism. Open the mechanism in the correct way, and you can find the path to the treasure.”

After translating, Audis asked Harle Constantine, “Does the notebook say how to open the mechanism?”

Harle shook his head. “No, it doesn’t even say there’s a mechanism.

“It only says that only the Elven race can trigger the path to the treasure.”

Audis nodded. “It seems that only Deacon knows how to open the mechanism.”

He paused for a moment and said, “I’ll go down and take a look. Maybe I can find a way to open the mechanism.”

Since the final hint in the cave didn’t mention how to open the mechanism, then it should be opened with some kind of “universal” method. Otherwise, Deacon wouldn’t have given his compatriots any hints.

Since there was no need to guard outside the pool, Klein also had to go into the water.

So, the two prepared. Audis used a “diving scroll,” while Klein had a pipe that allowed him to breathe underwater.

Although the two swam a little slower in the water, they could still move underwater for a while.

After Audis used the scroll, two gills grew under his ears, and long flippers appeared on his feet. After jumping into the water, although he wasn’t as agile as Alger and Harle, he swam relatively fast.

Only Klein didn’t have any obvious changes. Jumping into the water was about the same as a normal person’s diving speed.

This time, the action wasn’t urgent, so the four of them slowly descended.

After diving to a certain depth, the surrounding light began to dim. Diving down a little further, it was as if darkness had arrived ahead of time.

When even the surrounding stone walls could not be seen clearly, Audis took out the “Spirit Storage Crystal” that he had prepared earlier to illuminate the surroundings and continued to dive.

Just as he swam down twice, he suddenly heard a voice say, “Give me this crystal.”

Audis was stunned. He looked at Harle on the left and then at Klein behind him. It wasn’t them speaking. Moreover, this was at the bottom of the water. Even if they spoke, Audis shouldn’t be able to hear what they were saying.

So, Audis thought in his mind, Who are you?

But there was no response.

Audis was stunned. Was the voice not communicating in a spiritual way?

At this time, he heard the same voice again, “This crystal is so beautiful.”

Audis stopped abruptly and began to search around.

Harle noticed Audis’s hesitation and opened his mouth to ask, “What’s wrong?”

Audis was stunned for a moment and gestured with his hands, asking, Can you speak underwater?

Harle quickly understood Audis’s “sign language” and said, “’Ocean Singers’ can communicate normally underwater.”

Audis seemed to suddenly understand something. He raised the “Gus’ Staff.” The staff first flickered with brilliant starlight, and then turned into a bright light, enough to illuminate the entire pool.

The sudden strong light made the eyes of the four people feel a little uncomfortable.

But soon, the others understood why Audis did this. At the moment when the strong light appeared, a golden jellyfish hid into a cave on the rock wall.

Harle recognized it at a glance: “That’s a ‘Golden Aftersound Jellyfish’!”

The other party had just disguised itself as a normal sea creature, and it had no intention of attacking Audis and others, so their spirituality had not noticed it.

The brilliant starlight on Audis’s staff reappeared, and the surrounding seawater suddenly receded rapidly, forming an oxygenated space supported by bubbles underwater.

Without Audis saying anything, Alger had already used “Wind Riding” to fly over. He realized that it was likely one of the main materials for advancing to Sequence 5.

Audis also used “Flight” to fly over. He shone the staff on the cave where the jellyfish had burrowed. This cave was only as thick as an adult’s arm, and it was very winding. He couldn’t see where the end of the cave was.

The “Golden Aftersound Jellyfish” had already burrowed deep into the cave, and he could no longer see its trace.

Audis asked Harle, “Do you have any way?”

At this time, because it was in the “bubble” in the water, Audis’s voice still had a bit of an echo.

Harle pondered for a moment, grabbed a stream of seawater from outside the “bubble,” and under his control, the stream of seawater burrowed into the cave.

A few seconds later, Harle pointed to the bottom of the rock wall and said, “It’s probably in that position, but it also has a strong advantage in the water. I can’t pull it out.”

“It’s easy to handle if we roughly know where it is.” Audis pushed the surrounding “bubbles” down, roughly pushing them to the position Harle pointed to.

He raised the “Gus’ Staff” in his hand, and a starlight hit the rock, forming a brilliant vortex. The rock was drilled open by Audis’s “Star Beam” like tofu.

Soon, a deep hole was drilled out, and the “Golden Aftersound Jellyfish” was found.