Mystery: Lucky

Anthony truthfully conveyed Alice's reminder, including the part about Will Asceptin. After coming out of the office, Leonard greeted the others with a normal expression and then walked towards the bathroom.

After closing the bathroom door, he relaxed and asked eagerly:

"Old man, what should I do?"

After Alice made trouble several times, and with the appearance of Dwayne Dantès, Leonard already knew the identity of Palles and the relationship between him and Amon, but he was still more accustomed to calling Palles "Old man".

Palles himself was more accustomed to this title. He was already used to it and did not correct him. He just said in a tone that Leonard could not hear the emotion:

"She's really capable of getting into trouble."

Leonard smiled awkwardly.

After a while, Pales continued:

“No need to worry too much.

“On the one hand, according to your archbishop’s description, Amon has just been ‘pregnant’ with a ‘mercury snake’, and his current energy should still be focused on that ‘mercury snake’ and your goddess’s illegitimate daughter.

“On the other hand, you are currently in Backlund, and Amon does not have the courage to do something in Backlund.

"However, for safety reasons, you'd better find a way to leave Backlund and go to a safer place, such as Winter County where the Serenity Church is..."

…

On Monday morning, Alice woke up with a start.

Klein...?

She frowned. The connection between Klein and her was cut off, which frightened Alice to wake up and sit up suddenly from the bed.

Immediately afterwards, boundless sleepiness enveloped her, and Alice noticed that there was power dragging her into a dream. After struggling for a while, she realized that this was the power of the goddess, and quickly gave up her resistance.

A deep blackness swallowed her up. When she opened her eyes again, she saw a Gothic palace that seemed to be integrated with the surrounding darkness. It had exquisite details and dull colors, but it was still gorgeous.

Alice lowered her head, and there were clusters of night herbs and sleep flowers around her. They stood quietly in the dark night, telling welcome.

She tilted her head, raised her feet and stepped over, walking through the clumps of flowers and entering the palace.

In the deepest part of the hall, the "Night Goddess" sat on an ancient high-backed chair, still wearing the layered but not complicated black dress.

The dots of brilliance on the long skirt reflect each other with the brilliance on the palace dome, walls and columns, creating a quiet and dreamy starry sky.

The "Night Goddess", whose face seemed to be covered with layers of gauze, slowly stood up, walked down the steps, and walked in front of Alice.

Alice looked up at him and asked impatiently:

"Is Klein at your place?"

This was exactly what she had just thought of - Klein should have already entered Chanis Gate at this moment.

"Yes." The voice of "Night Goddess" sounded gently, like a quiet serenade.

Alice breathed a sigh of relief, put Klein aside, looked at the rare "Goddess of the Night", and began to ask questions:

"Goddess, I remember you also came from that past era, right?"

"Night Goddess" nodded, and then asked her:

"Is there anything you want to ask?"

Alice quickly replied:

"Yes... I want to ask you, have you ever heard of a book called "The Lord of Mysteries"."

She wants to verify whether she is the only special case among these "travelers".

"No." "Night Goddess" replied without hesitation.

Alice then asked:

"What about Adam! In other words, does the Creator of Silver City, the one you have cooperated with, know?"

"I don't know," "Night Goddess" replied without emotion, "Maybe you should ask Him yourself."

Ah, the goddess doesn't know... Alice blinked her eyes, looked at the goddess who could not see any emotion at all, and after pondering for two seconds, she asked:

"Is Archbishop Anthony sleeping?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Alice felt inexplicably that the phantom of the goddess in front of her became a little solid.

She blinked, and the "Night Goddess"'s indifferent gaze fell on her. Alice noticed a weight in her gaze, and she subconsciously clenched her fists.

The "Night Goddess" didn't care about her changes, and a voice that had no change sounded:

"The sleep needs of saints are far less than normal people. They can sleep for several days."

I know this! Why don't you answer me directly... Alice stared and asked persistently: "So is Archbishop Anthony sleeping?"

The shadow in front of him was silent for two seconds, and then the still calm voice sounded:

"For Nightmare, entering other people's dreams is also rest."

Alice blinked and suddenly realized:

"So, the demigods in the church really don't sleep and are 007 every day?"

The vocabulary in the second half of the sentence seemed a little trendy, and "Night Goddess" repeated: "007?"

Alice blinked. She looked at the "Goddess of the Night" for two seconds and realized that there might be a generation gap between them, so she explained:

"I go to work at 0 o'clock every day and get off at 0 o'clock the next day, working seven days a week."

The projection of the "Night Goddess" was quiet for a long time. It was so long that Alice almost thought that the dream was about to end before she spoke:

"...I remember the church didn't have such a rule."

"I know," Alice nodded convincingly, "They do it voluntarily - just like when I was in school, every time I made up classes during holidays, I volunteered!"

The projection of the "Night Goddess" stopped talking and just looked at Alice.

This didn't look like a sign of happiness. Alice became nervous and hurriedly changed the subject:

"By the way...how old were you before? What did you do?"

This is a good question. The projection of "Goddess of the Night" slowly answered:

"I can't read Russell's diary."

Can't read Roselle's diary? The goddess is not Chinese!

Alice's eyes widened.

Seemingly sensing that her question was getting closer to nonsense, the "Night Goddess" did not wait for her to come up with the next question, and only said coldly: "If you have nothing else to do, go and get Will Aucetin." The matter with Amon has been resolved."

Alice suddenly felt guilty. She glanced at the shadow in front of her and remembered the flowers that had passed through her when she stepped on them. She gave up the idea of ​​stepping forward, stood up straight, put her hands behind her back, lowered her head and shouted:

"goddess……"

The voice she spoke was no longer as lively as before, with a sense of depression, but the "Goddess of the Night" didn't seem to care. She only glanced at her and ended the dream.

Alice sat up from the bed again, looked around, blinked, and remembered the goddess asking her to ask Adam directly for a reply. She opened her mouth to try it, but then thought of another way.

... Did the Creator of Silver City leave any words? Diary or notes?

After Alice pondered for two seconds, she realized that this was not entirely the other way, because if the notes left by the creator of Silver City could be in the hands of anyone, they would only be Adam and Amon.

Obviously, Alice doesn't want to see Amon... No, wait.

...Did the goddess ask me to resolve the matter between Will Asceptin and Amon?

Alice gritted her teeth, having no idea how to solve this matter.

She is not worried about Amon turning to help Will Asceptin, or in other words, even if Amon is on Will Asceptin's side, it is impossible to help Will Asceptin become a god.

On the one hand, she was the one selected by the "Key of Light". Whether it was Will Asceptin or Ourolyus, they all had little hope of becoming gods. The time they stayed in Sequence 1 was The best evidence.

After learning the truth behind the adjacent paths, Alice understood that Amon had nothing to do with the "destiny" path. Normally, he was too lazy to pay attention to other "destiny" paths.

The reason why she is special, or in other words, what is most attractive about her to Amon, is actually the "Wheel of Fortune" ritual - this may be the simplest and most difficult ritual among the 22 paths.

On the other hand, Alice believes that if the friendship between past colleagues is not taken into account, for now, the one between her, Will Asceptin and Ourolius, who is suspected to have been eliminated, is the one whose character is most in line with Amon's aesthetics. It's herself.

But this does not prevent Alice from not knowing how to solve this matter. After all, she does not understand why Amon would be willing to help her and "steal" Will Auceptin.

She didn't believe that Amon was really doing it for their friendship, or that he was planning to pay her a good reward - judging from Amon's past behavior, he wouldn't be willing to make a good deal for something that could be deceived.

Just like the news about Leonard.

Alice also didn't know what exactly Will Asceptin exchanged with Amon, and how balanced their alliance was - God knows, she didn't think about these troubles at all when she wrote the letter to attract Amon. .

She couldn't think of anything for a while. Alice struggled in bed for a long time and finally decided to get up and have breakfast.

There hasn't been any breaking news in Backlund recently, and its level of excitement is not even as exciting as the tidbits about Klein in the entertainment section. When Alice finished browsing the news without interest, she had not yet finished chewing a Dixie pie.

She finished chewing the pie while wandering around, and when she was about to go out with a cup of sweet ice tea, gray-white mist suddenly appeared, and at the same time, Klein's excited voice rang out:

"I'm back!!!"

Alice opened her eyes wide, took a big sip of sweet ice tea, then put down the sweet ice tea and headed above the gray fog.

She walked down the steps and saw the familiar palace in front of her. Klein was sitting on the chair that belonged to the Fool, holding a piece of paper in his hand.

Seeing her coming, Klein waved to her to come over and said to her:

"I got the magic potion formula of the 'Cunning Mage'!

"You will never imagine who I met and what I experienced!"

"What?" Alice walked over and asked, "The connection with you was suddenly broken. I woke up and originally wanted to find you, but the goddess appeared..."

This was an explanation for her lack of reaction. Of course, Alice guessed that even if she did, it would be useless. After all, the goddess was already a true god.

Klein showed a slight surprise, then shook his head and said:

"I know you shouldn't be able to contact me... I tried to enter Source Castle inside, but failed.

"It's like the plug-in was suddenly blocked... Does this really have something to do with the goddess?"

Alice was slightly startled, then opened her eyes wide after realizing:

"Can the goddess cut off the connection between you and Origin Castle?!"

"Why are you so surprised?" Klein asked confused.

Alice took a breath. For a moment, she had a lot to say to Klein, but she didn't know how to say it.

For Klein, the fact that the goddess could block his connection with Sefirah Castle seemed a slightly exaggerated but not too outrageous news.

After all, Klein didn't know the existence of the Pillars and the Old Ones.

But for Alice, it wasn't like that. Since she knew about the nine Sefirahs, the Old Ones and the Pillars, Alice regarded Klein, who was closely connected with Sefirah Castle, as the "Lord of Mysteries" to a certain extent - she thought Klein's status was so high.

But now it seems that this is not the case. Otherwise, the goddess with only the status of a true god would never be able to block the connection between Klein and Sefirah Castle.

As for the possibility that the goddess has actually been promoted to the Old Ones, Alice has never considered it at all - the remaining seven Sefirahs are still sealed in the Western Continent!

Moreover, Alice soon realized another more dangerous possibility. She frowned and asked Klein:

"You said, if the goddess can block the connection between you and Sefirah Castle, can Amon steal this connection?"

Klein was slightly stunned.

The more Alice thought about it, the more she realized the seriousness of this matter. Amon was not like them. He was one of the three paths of the "Lord of Mysteries", and it was a "wrong" path - this was too dangerous.

She took a breath and finally thought about the goddess' words.

Closing her eyes, Alice put this matter aside for the time being and asked Klein: "What is the potion formula?"

"I was just about to tell you." Klein handed over the paper.

Alice took the paper and checked the potion formula of "Trickster":

"Sequence 4: Trickster.

"Main ingredients: the main eye of the Trickster, the real soul of the spirit world plunderer.

"Supplementary materials: 200 ml of the blood of the trickster, 30 grams of the dust of the spirit world plunderer, 10 grams of the bark of the red birch, a piece of golden grapevine, and a finger-sized homemade lemon peel mask.

"Promotion ceremony: mainly relying on one's own strength and planning, in front of many audiences, direct a grand drama to murder a demigod or an equivalent supernatural creature, and then, at the end of the drama, take the potion. "

As she expected, she didn't know the monster above, and she didn't care much, but focused on the ceremony.

The promotion ceremony of the "trickster" is not as metaphysical as the "fate" path, it is still clear, but the emphasis is on performance.

But Alice is very concerned about one thing, she looked up and asked:

"Are you sure it's not really called a circus?" (End of this chapter)