Mystery: Shadow of Order

"I!

"I call in my name:

"A spirit roaming in the void, a strange spirit with wisdom, the messenger of Dorothy Loveless."

Jamil stood in front of the temporary altar and recited the sermon in ancient Hermes.

Not far behind him, "Craftsman" Scharf's face paled a little, and beads of sweat gushing out from his forehead rolled down his tanned skin, and his chapped lips trembled a little:

"Why didn't you tell me that Jamil is the son of Countess Loveless?"

Countess Lovelace? Rawls raised his eyebrows and sneered:

"Heh, have you been with him for two days? Didn't you ask his last name?"

No... Sharf felt a little bitter in his heart. He was either identifying those Extraordinary items or discussing Extraordinary knowledge with Jamil, and Jamil knew his origin, how could he dare to ask more about Jamil? What about related news?

Looking at Jamie standing in front of the altar, the information on Jamie's mother flashed in his mind, that is a "prophet" of Sequence 4, also the countess of the Maxi Kingdom, and the advisor of the royal family Gonzalez. , responsible for teaching the children of the Gonzalez family.

In Lenburg, Masi, and Segal, which are small countries that believe in the **** of knowledge and wisdom, the rulers of the country are not only the royal family, but also the power of the Church of Knowledge. To be precise, divine power is greater than royal power.

In these kingdoms, everyone must be taught by the Church of Knowledge, including the royal family. Everyone in the royal family, especially the successor, is often taught by the Archbishop of the Church of Knowledge. The Apostolic Church of Knowledge is crowned.

But Countess Dorothy Loveless is an exception. She is not a member of the Church of Knowledge, but she is a demigod of the "Reader" pathway, but her status is higher than that of the archbishop in charge of the Marcy Kingdom. It all comes from her vast knowledge.

According to rumors, she once asked this earthly angel during an academic discussion with Albert Mendoza, the Apostle of the Church of Knowledge, who was respected as the "Great Teacher".

But these were not enough to frighten Sharf. What he feared was Dorothy's rumored terrifying research spirit. As a woman and a demigod, it is actually difficult for such an existence to combine with men. But she chose an ordinary person as her husband and gave birth to a child.

And the reason she did this was because she wanted to use the 'simulation' ability of the "reader" pathway Extraordinary to create a normal life that only an "ancient alchemist" could create, but she didn't know why she chose to create a stone golem . But Dorothy didn't give up her research because of this. She let the stone golem act as her child's nanny and used her child to cultivate the stone golem's emotions.

And this lady likes to collect books and notes of Emperor Roselle very much. Relying that she is not a member of the Church of Knowledge, she has visited the Church of Steam many times on the grounds of academic exchanges, and wants to communicate with the Gustav family like Sharf. The descendants communicated, but they were all rejected by the Steam Church for reasons.

Later, she even wanted to marry a Gustav descendant. If there was another senior in her family who blocked her, it would be impossible to say... If Dorothy Lovelace knew that she was Gustav The descendants of the family, I am afraid that they will definitely be captured.

However, judging from Jamil's current reaction, I'm afraid he doesn't know these things... That's right, after all, as a mother, Dorothy would never tell her son these things no matter how irresponsible she was.

The candles on the altar swelled up, turning from dim yellow to silvery white.

Immediately afterwards, as if the bookshelves had collapsed, hundreds of books with different covers, thicknesses, and sizes fell from the air, extinguished the burning candles, and scattered them on the long table that served as a simple altar. These books were quickly stacked to a height of more than two meters, and although the stacks were uneven, they strangely did not fall down.

As the books piled up to the ceiling and could no longer be raised, they collapsed. Just when Rawls and Sharf thought that these books were about to bury Jamil, the collapsed books were restrained by some invisible force and flew in. A creature that didn't know when it appeared next to Jameel.

The creature's body was illusory, as if the real world did not exist. It has no head or neck, and its body is square. It has a pair of slender arms that look like bamboo sticks in the position of normal human hands. It wears a pair of cotton white gloves. The palm is much bigger.

It's about the height of Jamiere, but its long arms allow it to reach Jamiere's head, gloved hands rubbing his hair, and his bare feet tap the ground in an incomprehensible burst. the sound of.

"Okay, although we haven't seen each other for a long time, don't touch my head like this!"

Jamil knocked off the hand on his head, turned to look at the two people who were a little stunned, and raised his chin:

"This is my mother's messenger, you can call him Brooke."

The strange creature moved its two palm-sized feet little by little, revealing its frontal appearance... Rawls and Sharf looked at each other, restrained their smiles and greeted the creature:

"Hello, Brooke."

It's like the bookshelf has become refined, no, it's actually no different from the bookshelf, except that Brook, who has more arms and feet, made a sound, and the books on the surface of his body were quickly arranged and combined, using the different colors of the book crest to form a smiling face. It reaches for a book and flips it open to reveal a blank sheet of paper with lines of printed words on it:

"Hello, I'm Brooke, are you friends with little Jamil?"

The thirst for knowledge of the Church of Knowledge has already made the messenger a bookshelf... Recalling the incantation that just summoned the messenger, "A strange spirit with wisdom", Rawls was a little speechless, winked at Jamil, and patted again. He patted Sharf on the side and motioned them to solve the problem of finding the messenger.

Jamil was also very eager to get a messenger of his own. He took Brooke's hand and pleaded:

"Brook, my friend wants to use a 'necromancer' trait to find a messenger, can you help me?"

Rawls nodded to Brook, and began to think about how this strange creature with a demigod level in Jamil's mouth should deal with the enemy. Is it to summon a pile of books to smash the opponent to death?

Brooke's voice suddenly became a little excited, and he turned out another blank page from the book in his hand, and densely printed words appeared from it:

"Okay, since it's a friend of little Jamil, it's Brooke's friend. I must help. Brooke knows many friends in the spiritual world. They are Brooke's friends, that is, Jamil's friends. Of course, they can be with Jamil's friends. friends be friends...

By the way, it doesn't seem to be Winston here, little Jamie, are you hanging out with your friends? Ms. Dorothy would actually allow you to come out and play? Then have you written a travel note or diary? If you write it, you can hand it over to Brook for safekeeping, and Brook will definitely be able to take care of all the books for you..."

Rawls straightened up, pushed his glasses up with his fingers, and pinched the corners of his eyes. These words were small and dense, and there were many repeated words, which really made him feel a little uncomfortable, so he simply moved out of the way and let Jamil and Sharf respond to the chattering messenger Brook.

The two and one bookshelf soon entered the stage of theoretical discussion. A lot of professional terms made Rawls's head explode. Obviously, he was just looking for a messenger. Why are you discussing the relationship between incantations and spiritual world creatures?

…

Chorwood District, in the house that Hugh and Fors rented.

Fors just got inspiration from the meeting between Dorian Gray and Lawrence Nord the day before yesterday, and decided to add a plot to his novel. Two old friends had not seen each other for many years because of a misunderstanding, and finally met Ms. Sissi. With the help of Olvia, they solved the misunderstanding and told them about the weakness of witches.

Just as she was about to reward herself with a cigarette, she felt a little melancholy when she thought that she suddenly had two more teachers in charge of teaching her extraordinary knowledge and finding a way to act quickly. But Teacher Dorian was arranged by Alysia, and she couldn't refuse at all.

But this is not without merit. Since she has two teachers, it is unlikely that Yalishia will pay attention to herself often, and will not notice that she has joined the Tarot Club again. Fors also consulted Mr. Fool for his opinion and obtained his approval and permission.

At this time, Xio pushed the door and entered the study.

"Smoking is harmful to health." Xio sniffed.

Forsi saw the doubts on her face, so she didn't argue, and instead asked:

"Why did you come here? Is your prisoner finished?"

Xio scratched his rough blond hair and sat down on the chair next to him:

"I have a new task and was transferred to a secret group, and I asked the people in the same group, basically all the newcomers who have just joined. It is said that it was ordered by our Mr. Director himself."

Forsi put down the lady's cigarette in her hand and was a little puzzled:

"Your director? Why did you suddenly transfer a group of new people to form a secret group? And you will be transferred in, so you are not afraid of being implicated by your IQ, causing the entire group to be completely destroyed? Or is he aware of your intentions... Uh, what? Task?"

Xio has long been used to being attacked by her friends, ignoring her previous words, and directly answering the latter two questions:

"It's unlikely. We are all new recruits. If we had noticed, we would have been executed or interrogated long ago. As for the task, it is to investigate who has inquired about Kapin recently."

"Caping? That trafficker who should be hanged, no, should be burned at the stake?" Although Fors was not a bounty hunter, it was a writer's instinct to collect materials, so she often asked Hugh to tell her stories and rumors.

Xio nodded: "It's him, but he's already dead, and he seems to have died worse."

"How did you die? Was it cut to death by a knife?" Fors asked happily and curiously.

"We didn't get the specific information, maybe tomorrow's newspaper will tell, otherwise how would I have time to come here." After thinking for two seconds, "But someone in the group mentioned the special circumstances of the scene, saying that Kapin's body It was sprinkled with tarot cards, and his face was covered with 'Judgment' and 'Emperor' cards."

"The meaning of the 'Judgement' card should be 'Judgment on Cappin, and the result is the death penalty'. What does the 'Emperor' card represent? The murderer, no, the identity of the hero?"

Best-selling author Fors instinctively interprets the unique arrangement of the eucalyptus location, and suddenly, she froze for a moment.

Tarot cards? "Emperor" card?

Is it Mr. "Emperor"?

As soon as the idea came up, Forsi gave up on it. She remembered it very well. Although Mr. "Emperor" did not directly reveal his identity, he almost tacitly accepted that he was a high-level MI9...

Even if such a person executes Kapin, there is no need to hide anything, let alone MI9 investigates who killed Kapin!

But if it weren't for Mr. "Emperor", who would it be?

Forsi's thoughts were tumbling, with surprises and worries. But since Hugh is in the investigation team, he can definitely know the follow-up situation...

Suddenly, an idea suddenly appeared in her mind. Could it be that Mr. "Emperor" in MI9 knew about this, so he set up an investigation team to arrest people?

Ke Xiu said that the investigation team was formed by the director of MI9, and that was a demigod!

…

Queens, in the luxurious villa of Earl Hall's family.

Audrey was waiting for the maid to cut the food, when she suddenly heard a laugh from her father, Earl Hall, who was accustomed to reading newspapers at breakfast:

"Kapin is dead. UU reading www.uukanshu.com"

"Who is he?"

Audrey was shocked. She had heard about this name from Mr. Emperor at the previous Tarot meeting, and she had also hired detectives to investigate Kapin. However, as a well-behaved daughter, she still kept her eyes wide open, cooperating with her father, who had an obvious desire to communicate.

This is not only a daughter's specialty, but also the instinct of a "mind reader".

"A rich man who may be a human trafficker in private, he has a good relationship with some people, huh..." Earl Hall chuckled, "He was killed last night, there are obvious traces of trial at the scene, and all the newspapers called him That murderer is the robber, the robber 'Dark Emperor', well, it's named after the code name of the ruler of the ancient Solomon Empire."

Rogue? Rogue "Dark Emperor"? "Dark Emperor"... Audrey instantly thought of the blasphemous card currently belonging to Mr. Fool, and Mr. Emperor sitting opposite her.

She suddenly became interested in the killing of Kapin:

"Sounds interesting, even though it's illegal, I still want to say, that robber did a really nice job, um, dad, what about the process?"

"The police and church counterparts didn't disclose specific details, and I haven't met them yet. It was described in the newspaper that the robber wore black armor, a jet-black crown, and a cape of the same color behind him. He entered the card. Ping's villa, not only stole all the belongings in the safe, but also stole the lives of Kapin and his evil men, and rescued the girls who were locked in the dungeon, he sprinkled the tower all over Kapin's body Luo cards, the most conspicuous are the two on the face, one is 'Judgment' and the other is 'Emperor'." Earl Hall held the newspaper and described with a smile.

Tarot cards..."Judgment" card and "Emperor" card, Mr. Emperor...Audrey's eyes suddenly lit up.