Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Audis, as if taking a leisurely stroll down the street, asked Bernadette, who had suddenly appeared beside him, "How long have you been here?"

The "Mysterious Queen" said, "I came to Awwa a few days after leaving the 'Argo'."

She pointed ahead: "The desserts at the café there are quite good. How about we go there to eat and chat?"

"Sure," Audis said, continuing the previous topic. "Why did you suddenly decide to leave Backlund and come to Lennberg?"

He remembered that Bernadette should have been staying in Backlund for a while.

"Didn't I say? There's an opportunity I'm waiting for here," Bernadette said vaguely.

Actually, after spending time with Audis, Bernadette found herself bored alone in Backlund.

She didn't know when the opportunity she was waiting for would come. When she bid farewell to Audis last week, she heard that he was coming to Lennberg, so Bernadette decided to come to Lennberg first, which led to the scene of them meeting on the street earlier.

For Bernadette, this trip to Lennberg was more like a change of scenery. She suddenly realized that she had been working hard for so long and still hadn't found an opportunity for advancement, so she might as well wait and see.

Since she felt quite happy when she was with Audis, she might as well spend more time with him.

Arriving at the café Bernadette had pointed out, she skillfully ordered coffee and desserts. Soon, what they had ordered was brought up. Audis took a sip and felt that the cherry cake here was indeed quite good.

The two began to chat idly. Audis said, "You seem quite familiar with this place."

"For a while, I suddenly missed my student days, so I studied for two bachelor's degrees here," Bernadette said casually. "The academic atmosphere at Lennberg University is the best."

Audis was taken aback: "Why study two?"

"Because one person can only study two at the same time," Bernadette said casually.

Audis was taken aback again: "You don't seem to understand what I mean. I didn't expect you... you could study for two degrees at once. It feels very impressive."

Bernadette said indifferently, "At that time, I was already a 'Master Diviner'."

She meant that her being Extraordinary gave her a stronger ability to understand, so two degrees were not stressful for her.

Audis sighed inwardly, "Don't explain, you're just a genius," and then changed the subject, talking about how the rental carriages actually charged gold pounds.

"Lennberg has close commercial ties with Ruen, and relatively speaking, the fluctuation of gold pounds is relatively small. In large cities like Awwa, gold pounds are the second currency here," Bernadette explained.

"The local currency is called Sasen Gold. I remember a few decades ago, about 2 Sasens could be exchanged for 1 gold pound, but now it takes 5 Sasens to exchange for 1 gold pound."

"However, the currency system designed by the Church of Knowledge is much more reasonable than the gold pound, divided into gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins. Gold coins are what we said before, Sasen Gold."

"Or rather, the entire currency system is called 'Sasen', just like Ruen's gold pound, it's a name."

"Gold coins are Sasen Gold, silver coins are Sasen Silver, but locals call 1 gold coin 1 Sasen, while silver and copper coins have no other names."

"The three currencies are all decimal."

Audis immediately compared it with the gold pound he was most familiar with. 1 Sasen was roughly equal to 4 Sules, 1 silver coin was roughly equal to 5 pence, and 1 copper coin was roughly equal to half a penny.

This decimal currency did save a lot of brainpower when converting.

Audis took a sip of coffee and asked, "How can I quickly understand this city?"

Bernadette thought for a while before saying, "Why don't we just wander around?"

Actually, she didn't know much about this city either. When she came to study, she simply came to study.

"Okay." Audis, while paying for the coffee and desserts, also inquired about the location of the market and commercial street from the waiter.

In his opinion, these two places were the easiest places to reflect the characteristics of a city.

Originally, Audis thought that Bernadette would be very unfamiliar with places like commercial streets. She should rarely visit such finished product stores, but would go to custom stores.

Who knew that when they arrived at the commercial street, the "Mysterious Queen" suddenly pointed to a three-story building and said, "That seems to be one of my houses."

Audis was stunned for a moment. Bernadette explained, "I bought it when I was studying. At that time, Awwa happened to have a plague, and the house prices were cheap, so I bought a few."

Audis twitched the corner of his mouth: "You don't even know how much property you have, do you?"

Bernadette paused obviously before saying, "I have arranged for someone to manage the properties in various places."

"Don't skip my question." Audis then sighed, "Is this the difference between nobles and ordinary people?"

Originally, he felt that he was already very awesome to have raised nearly 100,000 pounds to build Cruz Island, but now it seemed that he was still far behind this "Intis Princess".

Immediately, Audis suddenly recalled: There was also a treasure in Lennberg! It was said that there were many treasures inside. If he needed money in the future, he could take people to dig it up.

Speaking of which, the location of that treasure was left by Rosell. Audis obtained the treasure map from a "Rosell Relic". Because he had never been too short of money, he had not excavated it.

"Don't be discouraged either," Bernadette comforted.

"Thank you," Audis said with a wry smile. The other party's words did not comfort him.

However, Audis quickly adjusted his mindset, began to observe the lives of the people in this city, and inquired about local prices. Compared with Backlund, the prices here were slightly higher.

This should be because Lennberg's industry is not as developed as Ruen's, or rather, not perfect enough.

After observing for a while, Audis heard the locals using Ruenese, the local language, and Intisian when buying goods.

Bernadette, who was beside him, seemed to notice Audis's doubts, and explained, "Lennberg has three official languages, namely Ruenese, Intisian, and Zuanese."

"Well, the so-called Zuanese is more like a dialect of Feneportese."

Audis was stunned for a moment: "Wouldn't that be very inconvenient?"

Bernadette said, "This is the sorrow of a small country."

Audis immediately understood the "Mysterious Queen's" words. This was a manifestation of surviving in the cracks between great powers.

The two strolled around slowly. The more Audis looked, the more he felt that the biggest feature of this city should be the figures who were seriously reading books in the streets and alleys.

It was even exaggerated to the point that even a homeless person would take out a dirty book from his tattered pocket and read it with relish under the sun.

Not far from leaving the commercial street, Bernadette brought Audis to a classical small villa: "Let's stay here for the next few days."

This villa was built with red bricks, but it should be repaired frequently, and there were no signs of dilapidation.

The villa had a small yard, and there was also a large terrace on the second floor.

Audis simply didn't ask whether it was rented or bought, and followed in.

There was a female housekeeper and two maids in the villa. Bernadette introduced, "I basically live here when I come to Awwa."

So the female housekeeper and maids here knew Bernadette, but they couldn't help but look at Audis, because this was the first time the hostess had brought a guest.

The two sat on the sofa in the living room, and the maid immediately brought black tea. Bernadette then asked, "How was the talk with the Church of Knowledge?"

Audis roughly talked about the process of the conversation and the results of the negotiation.

Bernadette nodded: "These bookworms are still quite discerning."

"So, you're going to the western part of Lennberg? I heard it's very chaotic there."

"More than chaotic," Audis said with a smile, "It is said that several governors have died."

Bernadette tapped the armrest of the sofa casually, seemingly thinking for a while before saying, "I'll go with you."

"I don't need protection," Audis said, "Let them come and assassinate this governor!"

The more they come, the more I earn.

Bernadette smiled and said, "When you were almost buried alive by the cracks in the earthquake last week, why didn't I hear you say such a thing?"

Audis suddenly felt a little short of breath: "No... it's different. There won't be enemies that are too high level in the west."

"I'm not your bodyguard, why would I protect you?" Bernadette raised her chin: "I heard a long time ago that the snow mountains there are quite beautiful."

"It just so happens, I'm going to take a look this time."

Audis was stunned for a moment before asking, "Are you not busy recently?"

Bernadette frowned: "What does it have to do with you whether I'm busy or not? Even if you don't go to those states in the west, I'm planning to go on vacation."

"It would be best if we could go together, of course," Audis said truthfully, "I would feel very at ease with you by my side."

Bernadette nodded with a smile: "That's more like it."

She paused and said, "I'll have someone buy lamb chops this afternoon."

Audis immediately understood what the other party meant: "No problem, I'll make roasted lamb chops."

He had made roasted lamb chops once before, and Bernadette was very satisfied with his craftsmanship.

Then, Bernadette asked the maid to take Audis to see the room prepared for him. It was not bad, with all the furniture and furnishings.

Audis lay on the bed, staring blankly at the roof. At this time, he himself seemed a little unaccustomed to the fact that he was about to start a new journey.

At a little after two in the afternoon, Audis met near the Saint Chester Cathedral as he had agreed with Edwina before.

As soon as they met, Edwina said, "Bishop Douglas asked me to tell you to go to the administrative hall at eight o'clock tomorrow morning to take the exam."

"Thank you," Odyss then asked, "What will the exam be about?"

Edwina thought for a moment, "I heard it's about how to govern and how to solve some people's livelihood problems, etc. You have experience in managing Cruz Island, so most of the test questions will not be difficult for you."

This is also why Bishop Douglas didn't arrange tutoring for Odyss.

Hearing that the exam was about these questions, Odyss breathed a sigh of relief, chatted for a couple more sentences, and then used "Travel" to send Edwina back to the ship.

Then Odyss returned to Cruz Island and checked the construction progress of several construction sites.

After that, he could only come once or twice a week.

Finally, he looked at the progress of the port town's renovation at the pier. Just as he was about to leave, Tim, the sailor sent by the navy, happened to see Odyss and quickly called out to him, "Captain, the admiral has an urgent matter to see you."

Odyss was stunned, "What is it?"

"I don't know," Tim quickly ran to the pier and said, "The letter said it was quite urgent, let's go to Bayam now."

Odyss was stunned again. Although the headquarters of the Loen Navy in the Raging Sea was in Bayam, Admiral Amyrius's defense zone was not here, so he rarely appeared in Bayam.

The sudden request to meet in Bayam probably meant there was indeed an urgent matter.

Just as the two were about to enter the spirit world, Rupert, the first mate stationed on Cruz Island, called out to Odyss again, "Captain, I have an urgent matter to see you!"

Odyss was stunned. Why did everyone have urgent matters?

He waited for Rupert to run to the pier before asking, "What is it?"

Rupert didn't speak immediately, but looked around. During the day, some workers were doing the final construction work on the pier.

The three of them went to a secluded place, and Rupert then said, "Today we caught two suspicious people."

"They didn't know that our workers all have rosters and employee numbers, and they wanted to sneak into the construction site, but they were caught by the staff."

"But when I received the notification and rushed there, the two people were already dead. The preliminary determination was suicide, and the poison may have been hidden in their mouths."

Odyss frowned. This was the first time Cruz Island had caught spies, and they were spies like suicide bombers: "What do you think?"

"I think they are most likely sent by the Fenapot Navy," Rupert said.

Previously, the Fenapot Navy had lost face, and recently they had caused them some losses. They were likely to consider using tough methods to retaliate against Cruz Island.

Odyss thought for a moment before saying, "Investigate to see if there are any other spies."

He planned to talk to Grosell and others after meeting Admiral Amyrius, and ask them to provide some support when needed.

With Grosell and others around, unless the Fenapot deployed demigods, Odyss was still quite confident in Cruz Island's safety.

After talking with Rupert for a few more sentences, Odyss went to Bayam with Tim.

And in the villa belonging to Admiral Amyrius, he met this demigod of the navy.

After the two exchanged a few pleasantries, Admiral Amyrius suddenly said, "I am going to be transferred back to Backlund."

Odyss was stunned for a moment, "Why so suddenly?"

He did remember Amyrius being transferred back to Backlund, and soon after returning, he began to be responsible for the work of the Ministry of Defense, but he really didn't expect it to be so sudden.

Amyrius smiled slightly, a rare occurrence, "It's not that sudden."

After his governor brother was suddenly dismissed, he had expected this.

This time, Admiral Amyrius called Odyss here for another matter: "Are you interested in going to Backlund with me?"

He wanted to cultivate Odyss into his own direct line.

Odyss pretended to consider it carefully and politely declined the other party's invitation.

Then he sighed in his heart: Suddenly there is a feeling of "the end of the song."

After that, the two talked for more than an hour. It could be seen that Admiral Amyrius really hoped that Odyss could go to Backlund with him.

But Odyss's focus recently was to develop in Lennberg.

Leaving Admiral Amyrius's official residence, Tim was already waiting outside: "I've already heard that His Excellency the Admiral has been transferred to Backlund."

Odyss "Mmm"ed: "Have your tasks changed?"

"No, they haven't," Tim smiled, "His Excellency the Admiral has greeted the new admiral, and my tasks and strategies against the 'Dawn Sword' pirate group will continue."

Then he asked Odyss, "Do you want to visit the new admiral?"

One wrong word, one wrong sentence, one wrong content, one look!

"No need," Odyss smiled.

Before long, the new admiral will send someone to visit him.

After a brief chat, they each used "Travel" to return to Cruz Island.

Odyss went to the construction site and met Grosell and the other five "People of the Book", explaining his request to ask them to help when in danger.

Previously, they had felled too many trees and made too many planks, which they couldn't use up for a while, so now they came to help at the Lighthouse Mountain construction site.

Of course, Grosell and the others readily agreed to Odyss's request.

Just as Grosell and the others were resting, Odyss chatted with them.

He first asked Snowman: "In your era, what role did the 'Moses Ascetic Order' play?"

"That was the only organization recognized by the 'Omniscient and Almighty Lord'," the ascetic Snowman from the Third Epoch replied: "But they do not preach or manage worldly affairs.

"They will use all their wealth to build libraries and do their best to spread knowledge to everyone in this world, whether it is a king, a missionary, or a beggar. As long as they enter their library, they have equal rights to learn knowledge.

"In addition, they not only practice asceticism, but also focus on traveling.

"And the way to travel is to drive carriages full of books to one city and village after another, explaining the knowledge and mysteries in the books to people.

"Explain the law to the citizens, the growth rules of crops to the farmers, morality to the officials and merchants, how to piously believe in the gods to the priests, and how to fight against loss of control to the Beyonders."

Odyss was stunned for a moment: Isn't this the idea I gave to Rosalind, one of the ten pillars of the current "Moses Ascetic Order"? Great minds really think alike!

Then he felt that this way of life was indeed very attractive, being able to travel around, see different scenery, and spread knowledge and do some noble things.

At this time, Mobert from the Solomon Empire in the Fourth Epoch said: "In the era I lived in, there were still such mobile libraries.

"They have special passes issued by the empire, and in theory, they can get corresponding help in any part of the empire.

"I heard that before the establishment of the Solomon Empire, people in the Southern Continent were also doing the same thing, but after the Balam Empire unified the Southern Continent, they drove them away."

Odyss asked: "Why?"

"I heard that the 'Nether King' had conflicts with the 'Moses Ascetic Order's' philosophy," Mobert spread his hands: "I'm not very clear about the specifics.

"However, when I was a child, I once heard my ancestors say that after the 'Great Cataclysm', the order of mankind almost collapsed, and it was the members of the 'Moses Ascetic Order' and their mobile libraries who had been guarding the bottom line of order.

"Under their efforts and appeals, human civilization did not experience a significant regression.

"But it was very chaotic at that time, and it is said that many people from the 'Moses Ascetic Order' died."

Odyss was stunned: "Didn't the 'Sage' protect the members of the 'Moses Ascetic Order'?"

"I don't know," Mobert said: "I have only heard the name of the 'Sage' in legends, but I have never seen such a miracle left by the gods…

"Oh, the Fifth Epoch is a bit different from the Fourth Epoch. In the Fourth Epoch, the gods were still walking on the land, and you could often encounter miracles left by the gods."

At this time, the ascetic Snowman from the Third Epoch said again: "In our era, the 'Sage' would also disappear for a period of time every once in a while.

"According to some records, He disappears for decades to hundreds of years each time. Many people speculate that this should be the 'Sage's' asceticism.

"By the way, the 'Sage' likes people to call Him 'He', but unconsciously, we still call Him 'He'."

Mobert sighed: "What a gentle god!"

Odyss probably understood what was going on: In the Third Epoch, the "Sage's" state was not very good, and He often fell into a state of sleep and fought against divinity. It seems that as time goes by, the time He sleeps is getting longer and longer.

By the Fourth Epoch, the situation may have been even worse, and He rarely appeared.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief: This god is really maverick.

At this time, Mobert said again: "If Shatas didn't also know the 'Sage', I would have suspected whether the 'Sage' was really as famous as the 'Ancient Sun God'."

Shatas glared at him, and seeing the Fifth Epoch noble shrink his neck, she said: "The 'Sage' often visits the elves as a guest. The 'Elven King' and Queen will warmly welcome Him every time.

"It was He who popularized the way to advance through potions among the elves, and advocated using asceticism to fight against madness and irritability.

"The 'Elven King' doesn't seem to agree with this point, but he is still very welcome to the 'Sage' to be a guest, and a prince accepted the 'Sage's' point of view and joined the 'Moses Ascetic Order'."

Audis nodded, confirming the information he had previously obtained from "Rear Admiral of the Deep Sea."

"It's not just elves," Xiatasi said without concealment. "The founders of the 'Moses Ascetic Order' are creatures willing to follow 'The Sage' and who have seen the 'Blasphemy Slate.'"

"They are willing to actively fight against the madness and distortion within the extraordinary, but most of the members are human, and they hope to control the extraordinary in order to gain more rights for their own race."

Audis nodded slowly: at that time, it was also an organization that tended to protect humans.

Then he took out the "Gust Staff" from the leather bag hanging on his waist and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

Xiatasi glanced at Audis and said, "This is the 'Gust Staff'!"

She recognized it the first time she saw Audis and once thought that Audis had stolen it from somewhere, because only important figures of the "Moses Ascetic Order" were qualified to hold this kind of staff.

Now that Audis asked, Xiatasi said, "With your level, you don't seem to be able to master such a weapon yet. Where did you get it from?"

Audis explained: "You may not be clear, some changes have taken place in the 'Moses Ascetic Order', and most of the 'Gust Staves' have been lost."

Xiatasi was obviously stunned for a moment: "The 'Ten Pillars' would lose the 'Gust Staff'?"

"It is said that it was lost in the battle with the Outer Gods," Audis said. "The one in my hand was given to me by one of the 'Ten Pillars' during the Fourth Epoch."

Xiatasi sighed: "Yes, the battle with the Outer Gods is too dangerous."

Mobet on the side was a little surprised: "The 'Moses Ascetic Order' has fought with the Outer Gods?"

Audis explained: "As far as I know, in the Second and Fourth Epochs, the power of the Outer Gods penetrated into the real world.

"However, in the Third and Fifth Epochs, the infiltration of the Outer Gods was not so serious."

Mobet nodded: "This reminds me that in the education we received, there was indeed how to guard against the followers of the Outer Gods.

"But Snowman and Longzeer obviously do not have this knowledge."

Snowman nodded slowly, indicating that Mobet was right.

Audis then asked: "I heard that these staffs were made by the elves?"

"That's right," Xiatasi said. "It is the work of a high-ranking elf. During the production process, the 'Elven King' once sent me to inquire about the progress.

"I almost ran into the scene of dealing with the flesh and blood of the Outer Gods. If it weren't for the protection of that high-ranking elf, I would have lost control on the spot."

She paused for a moment and then said: "This is a very advanced weapon. Below the level of a demigod, they may not be able to exert even 'one in a hundred' of its power."

Audis was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood that the other party meant "one percent," but in ancient times, it was obviously not described using percentages.

He sighed: "This is really a good thing."

This strengthened his idea of trying to recover more "Gust Staves" whenever he had the time or opportunity.

Then Audis asked again: "Why was it handed over to the elves to make?"

"I heard Mobet and Longzeer talk about your impression of the elves," Xiatasi explained. "The main body of the elves is indeed extraordinary people of the 'Sailor' pathway.

"But we also have extraordinary people of the 'Reader' and 'Scholar' pathways, especially that high-ranking elf of the 'Scholar' pathway, who was a relatively unique existence at the time.

"Even at the beginning of the establishment of the 'Moses Ascetic Order', there were no extraordinary people of this pathway."

Audis recalled that his impression of the elves was indeed somewhat contradictory. While they were irritable, they seemed to be holding very delicate weapons.

"It is said that 'The Sage' can also make very sophisticated weapons," Xiatasi said. "But I don't know why He would entrust this task to us."

Audis said "Oh", realizing that this might involve some high-level transactions.

It's okay to understand this kind of problem if there is a chance, and it doesn't matter if there is no chance to understand.

After chatting here, Audis talked to Longzeer Edward alone. Seeing that the other party was ready to go to Backlund to find relatives, he used "Travel" to take Longzeer to Backlund and handed him over to Hugh.

After meeting, Hugh and Fors looked Longzeer up and down, as if asking with their eyes: Is this the soldier who has been missing for more than a hundred years?

After briefly introducing them to each other, Audis exhorted Longzeer: "Be careful and try not to be targeted by official extraordinary people."

Longzeer nodded: "Okay."

At this time, he was somewhat excited and a little bewildered, perhaps suddenly not knowing how to face the descendants of his family.

After that, Audis used "Travel" to return to Isara, to the room Bernadette had prepared for him, and then smiled helplessly: I feel like I traveled around the world this afternoon.

At more than six o'clock in the afternoon, Audis went to the kitchen to make lamb chops.

Like in Backlund, Audis was busy in the kitchen, and Bernadette chatted with him, which made the hired chefs and helpers a little at a loss.

Audis made the main course of this meal, and the side dishes were still to be completed by the chef.

After making the roasted lamb chops, Audis and Bernadette went to the restaurant for dinner first.

The maid had already poured the pre-dinner wine first, and Audis sat down and took a sip before saying: "We have arrived in the West, and we may not have such good conditions for a long time."

Bernadette smiled and said, "Do you think that my requirements for life are very high?"

Audis glanced at the golden tableware on the table and said very reluctantly: "No!"

"Your nose will grow longer if you lie!"

Audis couldn't help but touch his nose and smiled: "I'm just afraid that the conditions in the West are too difficult."

Bernadette said: "I have a 'small dining table', you can come to me if you can't eat."

Audis recalled the magical "small dining table" of the "Mysterious Queen" that could provide unlimited food and drink, cut a piece of lamb chop with a knife, tasted it and said: "I will try my best to make you eat richer."

"Didn't you understand what I meant?"

"Your meaning is your meaning," Audis smiled: "It is my honor to travel with the 'Queen', of course I have to try my best to make your quality of life not drop too much."

Bernadette smiled: "You should have followed Amyrius to Backlund. With your conversation, you might be able to become a general in the future."

Audis also laughed: "If you give me a king to be, I might consider it."

"Ha! Your nose will also grow longer if you talk big."

The atmosphere at the table became more and more harmonious.

After dinner, Audis returned to his room, rested for a while, and used "Meditation" to enter the "Wilderness of Knowledge."

He has been preparing to write his new book in the past few days. Two "intelligent puppets" are responsible for sorting out the information for him. Audis can integrate these materials and start writing.

Audis plans to name the new book "Book of Astrology", which mainly has three parts. The first part is how to interpret astrology, which is divided into active interpretation and passive interpretation.

The so-called "active interpretation" refers to the use of "astrology."

"Passive interpretation" is to quickly interpret the revelation of the astrology after suddenly seeing the astrology in the starry sky.

The difference between the two is that "astrology" is to actively carry out divination, interpret the astrology in the night sky, and the results obtained tend to be revelations.