The Master of the Strange Realm

The cat's face showed an expression of undisguised disgust, and Alexia captured this scene.

"Jenkins, doesn't the church give you any courses on politics?"

The short woman asked, glancing at the papers in front of her and lowering her head to deal with the bacon on the plate.

"How could the church offer such a course... But I have learned some political knowledge from other places. Some people want to hear about the feasibility of peasant uprisings and the historical process of overthrowing a decadent dynasty. Or policies to reform land and promote education and improve literacy rates?”

Jenkins was boringly picking up the food on the plate with his fork while searching for memories in his brain. When he looked up again, he saw everyone looking at him.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have played with food so rudely."

He immediately apologized.

"No, it has nothing to do with this. Jenkins, did you plan to overthrow the Kingdom of Fidictry?"

Alexia asked with a frown, she looked equally beautiful like this.

Some people come to a new world and want to establish a new order to benefit everyone who desires dignity; some people come to a new world and hope to live a different life; and others, such as Jenkins, Coming to a new world, I am eager to gather great power into myself, sublimate myself and transform the world.

But before he could achieve his goal, Jenkins felt that he had already begun to reverse the normal development direction of the times.

He originally thought that the knowledge he had memorized from classes and exams was useless, but Alexia and Dolores both believed that it was "systematic, complex, dangerous, and taboo" and should not be passed on. secret.

They were both smart girls, so they could better understand what Jenkins meant by his casual remarks.

Alexia is not worried about Jenkins using these means to change society. She knows that Jenkins is not a person who is passionate about power. But this does not mean that his knowledge is worthless. On the contrary, this is what Alexia wants.

"So I was forced to deal with paperwork until an hour ago. Even though I didn't understand the stuff, they still made me do things."

In the evening of that day, Jenkins and Hathaway were sitting in a separate box in the restaurant for dinner, and he recounted the aftermath of the morning's incident.

"Although I can say a lot of reasonable things, they are just theories memorized by rote. I have never practiced them personally. It is too hasty to ask me to help like this."

He complained slightly, cutting the steak on the plate with great force, treating it like one of those distressing documents. Hathaway nodded while listening, but her eyes were wandering and she didn't know what she was thinking.

The two chatted while eating, and Jenkins really hoped that Hathaway could tell him B-11-1-0299 [the story within the story], so that his true identity other than "Mr. Candle" could also be invited.

But Hathaway seems determined to never let Mr. Candle and Jenkins Willemt appear on the same occasion. No matter how Jenkins hints, "If you are in trouble recently, I can help you even in Loon." She just doesn't say anything.

Instead, she asked Jenkins for the keys to his home, saying she could hire help to clean and do yard work at set times when he wasn't home.

This is of course good, so Jenkins doesn't have to contact Dad specifically.

PS: The current year is 1867 in the universal calendar, and Jenkins arrived in this world in 1866.

Also: All the pinyin in this chapter are added by myself. I am not sure whether these are sensitive words, but safety first, safety first.

Chapter 1266 Chapter 1245 A long-lasting story (Part 1) (2/10)

Hathaway was in a good mood today. During the meal, she also told interesting stories about when she and Britney went to the theater today. After dinner, the two said goodbye. Jenkins looked at the sunset and saw that it was almost time, so he put on his black robe and walked to the city center, and then walked into the hotel where Miss Capet lived.

Of course, he didn't want to see Miss Capet, but Miss Stillwell happened to live here. As he climbed the stairs, he was still worried about meeting Miss Capet, but at least his luck was not bad today.

But unfortunately, when she knocked on the door, there was actually a guest at Miss Stillwell's place, and the guest was old Jack who was supposed to be in the Shire.

When a stranger came to visit, Old Jack left a small bottle of magic potion and left. When the two passed each other, Jenkins was still a little nervous. Fortunately, Old Jack didn't notice anything unusual.

"I thought you were in Loen now."

When Jenkins returned to his original appearance, the woman realized who he was. Jenkins joked while arranging the tea sets on the table, but Jenkins did not answer the question.

"If I weren't worried about you leaving early, of course I wouldn't risk coming back. So can we continue the last conversation, about Dad."

"You are really impatient. Does Dad like students like this lately? He used to often tell me not to be too hasty when doing things, but to be good at observing and thinking..."

She had already entered the kitchen carrying the teacup that Old Jack had just used, so Jenkins couldn't hear what happened next.

He sat on the sofa, and then looked at the bottle of potion left by Old Jack. Observing the dazzling color of the liquid gold, it immediately felt very familiar, and then he realized that this was the [Song of the Giver] that he participated in configuring last year, and his [Mechanical Light] also evolved from it.

"Are you interested?"

The woman came back soon with a new tea set, but Jenkins shook his head:

"I'm not interested in the potion, after all, this is what I configured. I thought it had expired, after all, it has been several months."

"Did you configure it?"

Miss Stillwell gave Jenkins a strange look:

"Now I understand why old Jack looked so envious when he talked about you just now. Okay, let's get down to business. Where did we talk last time?"

"I wanted to investigate you through my friends, and then you came for it yourself. Last time we talked about Dad's age, it is indeed very old, but this is not his most important secret. Also, we also talked about why you left Nolan, he hasn’t been back for so many years.”

Jenkins remembers the incident well.

"Yes, it did come to this... Let me think about where to continue this topic. Yes, it is better to start with the simplest one. I left Nolan and left the antique store, except for personal reasons. In addition to this, it is also because of an important task assigned by the church.”

She was wearing the same unique sacrificial robe that Jenkins wore when he met her last time, but she couldn't tell which church it belonged to.

"Of course, personal reasons also include some of Dad's reasons. 38 years ago (Chapter 56), in the Moon of Earth and Blossoms, Dad temporarily left Nolan and went with the team to the Third Republic of Sandwell - Cursed Forest - Witch Lake , he was the only one who survived that time, do you know this? "

Miss Stillwell inquired.

Jenkins wanted to say he didn't know, but then he realized he had heard about it before. That was half a year ago, when he went with his father to a castle in the countryside to do some shopping. Because he encountered a strange situation, his father asked a strange question.

"I've heard of it, but dad doesn't know the truth about that incident."

He replied.

"He just doesn't know part of the truth. Last time we mentioned that Dad became immortal due to an inexplicable curse. This is nothing, but mortal immortality comes with a price..."

Jenkins thought of old man Lane Sam.

"Longevity is a curse for short-lived species like us, and it is also a curse for my original father. Although I don't know what kind of strength my father was before he was cursed, but even if he is not a demigod, he is quite close to that threshold. Even so, such a long life is not what he originally had. The source of this immortal curse is actually a story a long time ago, when old Jack and dad were both very young..."

"Please wait a minute, are you saying that Old Jack is Dad's contemporary?"

Because of excessive surprise, Jenkins had to interrupt her rudely.

"That's true, but old Jack's immortality is not a curse. It is caused by the strange potions he prepared when he was young. Those who prepare potions will always come up with strange and unreplicable miracles, just like the alchemist. Same... In short, it was a story that happened more than a hundred years ago. That year, Dad and Old Jack went fishing on the river (Chapter 850)..."

Jenkins had heard the following story once from Old Jack. When he heard it again, he realized that when the old man told this story, he was definitely not really lamenting the past, but was reminding him.

"The two went fishing together. When they discovered the cave and entered it to find the treasure, the collapse had already occurred. The two of them each took away an item. According to my understanding, what Old Jack took was a notebook. But he was too hasty when he escaped, so the notebook was lost in the cave, and he took nothing. As for Dad, he took away a key, which is the source of the curse. "

After hearing this, Jenkins did not ask any more questions and was silently thinking about the matter. Miss Stivell was also silent until Jenkins spoke again:

"When did this happen specifically?"

"Sorry, I don't know such a specific thing, but that is at least the story before we were born. There are only two of Dad's students alive, and we are the closest people to him. I think except for the church's reference room or Old Jack, no one can answer your question."

The woman sighed, and seeing Jenkins' confusion, she continued:

"Dad only has four official students, and the other students he has mentored or accepted due to mission requirements are not counted. Our senior brother Larry Sheffield has never even met me. He died Very early; my junior brother, your senior brother Capello, died in the undead disaster thirty years ago. He was buried under the palace library. When he was an apprentice in Dad's antique shop, I had already left Nolan. Turin is the capital of the Chesland Kingdom, so in fact, you are the first junior brother I have ever met."

Chapter 1267 Chapter 1246 A long-lasting story (Part 2) (3/10)

Speaking of her father's students, even Miss Stillwell felt a little sad.

"I have heard of these two names, when I was in the mirror world..."

Jenkins spoke slowly, blurring out his experience in the mirror world (Chapter 941), and only told her the sentence [I'm sorry, Sheffield, Capello, Stiver... I'm really sorry...] when his father's mirror image was destroyed.

This woman, who was much older than Jenkins, actually showed some signs of wanting to cry.

"Everything originated from the key taken away by my father. In the years that followed, my father returned to that river beach countless times, but the traces of the cave disappeared completely. Including the time 33 years ago, yes, the place where my father and old Jack went fishing together was the Witch Lake in the Third Republic of Sanwell-Cursed Forest."

She raised her hand to wipe her eyes, indicating that Jenkins could ask questions.

Jenkins felt a little complicated. He thought about what happened to his father, but he didn't expect it to be so complicated.

"Is that key a strange object? What are its characteristics?"

"No one knows what the key is. The key itself has the ability to guarantee its mystery. The holder cannot tell everything he knows, and if you want to know the ability of the key, you must hold it. Over the years, only Old Jack vaguely knows that the key can open all objects with the concept of 'lock'. It is a veritable [master key]."

"But this shouldn't be its only characteristic, right?"

Jenkins asked immediately.

"Yes, from my current observation, the key also uses rules such as [cannot be discarded] and [cannot be traded]. In addition to cursing the holder to live forever, it should not have any adverse effects on the holder himself."

The woman replied, and Jenkins recalled every moment of his life and work in his father's antique shop. He had used his eyes countless times beside his father, but had never observed the key-shaped aura.

"This can only mean one thing, that key is far more powerful than me... Next time I enter the deified state, I must see Dad!"

"As for why I left Nolan and haven't been back for so many years... That key will affect the people around Dad. Anyone stronger than him cannot stay by his side for a long time, otherwise he will be cursed. Because he was worried that he would lose control after being affected by the key, Dad has been suppressed at the same level for so many years and dared not be promoted. It was only after I was promoted to level 4 that I figured this out from the sudden transfer order of the church."

Seeing Jenkins' puzzled look, she added:

"If you have checked the personnel transfers of the Nolan Church, you will know that no demigod stationed locally has stayed for more than eight years. The current Miss Befanna was transferred here four years ago, and generally speaking, a demigod like her who has just been promoted cannot be stationed in a large diocese alone."

"Being stronger than Dad will definitely be cursed?"

Jenkins confirmed again that when he first met Dad last fall, Dad was a level 5 gifter, and he is still at this level now. Although Jenkins falsely reported that he was level 4, he was actually level 5.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered (Chapter 1144) that after the angel fell not long ago, Miss Befanna said that the Vatican was considering transferring him to Beldiran to work. Perhaps this arrangement is because his level is close to that of my father.

"Because I don't understand the characteristics of the key, and the church seems to be helping my father to conceal it, this nature is my own guess. Maybe there are more complicated ways to judge, but it is generally correct."

The woman hesitated for a moment and revealed a more secret information:

"My father was not at the level he is now. He was quite powerful... This is not wrong, so even if my father carries such a curse, the church still lets him stay in a large diocese like Nolan, instead of being idle or arranging him to a remote overseas."

"This is really unimaginable... The father I know is an ordinary old man who drinks tea and reads newspapers on time every morning."

Jenkins sighed, and then found that he was not particularly surprised. He had long realized that his father's strength could not be limited to level 5. You know, he is also level 5 now, but he still feels very difficult about the homework assigned by his father, and sometimes even has to ask Alexia for help.

"I don't know how my father has changed from a demigod or close to a demigod to the current situation, but since he started studying with my father, his level has not improved at all in all these years, which is not normal in itself. Jenkins, I know some things about you, and I also know that your level has improved very quickly since you joined the scribes last year. At the current speed, in less than two years, you will be forced to leave your father and, like me, will not be able to return to this familiar city for a long time."

Miss Stiver sighed, thinking of her own affairs and feeling a little sad. But Jenkins still has more questions, the amount of information in those words just now is a bit too much.

"What kind of bad luck will I have if I insist on not leaving?"

"Have you read the book "Wrong Direction: Failed Evolution"? "

The woman asked.

"If you are talking about the third booklet on the right side of the bottom black bookshelf on the second floor of the Secret Library behind the Gate of All Things, I have seen it."

Jenkins nodded. He had a deep memory of that book. Some time ago, he read the book carefully in order to find the monster [Scarlet Floating] sealed in the red moon. It records the transformation of the essence of life, or the tragic situation of "lucky" creatures that suddenly gain a large amount of vitality. Even though the "theory of evolution" may not be true in this world, biological evolution is by no means accomplished overnight.

If you go in the wrong direction, it can be a disaster. He was considered lucky to have grown two extra arms, and Jenkins didn't want to remember the rest of the disgusting physical changes.

"As long as you have seen it, people who are stronger than dad, appear around him for a long time, and know him will lose control of their bodies and change in extremely weird directions. If you know the so-called 'abstract oil painting', you should be able to understand it better Good understanding of what I mean. So Dad doesn't work in a church, but on Fifth Queens Avenue, which is far away from the core of the city. This is partly why.

Ordinary scribes will not be affected, but those of us who have been around him for a long time must consider transferring away from him in time. "

Chapter 1268 Chapter 1247 Undercover (4/10)

Seeing that Jenkins was still looking thoughtful, Miss Stiver picked up her tea cup and took a sip. Then she thought of something and reminded:

"If you want to go to the Third Republic of Sandwell - Cursed Forest - Witch Lake to investigate, I advise you to give up. That forest is now a completely restricted area, and the 'treasure' that Dad and Old Jack encountered It's irrelevant. Thirty-five years ago, a battle broke out between the cultists of the [Light Chaser Club] and the cultists of the [Spring of Purification]. I don't know who used what trick. In short, since then. , a terrifying phantom has been wandering there, and except for Dad, no survivors of the investigation team can come out. "

"So did dad go there thirty-five years ago to investigate the cave again, or to investigate the phantom?"

"He originally thought that the phantom was caused by the cave, but later, after investigation by the church, it was determined to be the sequelae left by the cultists. But my father has never believed this, and it seems that he is still investigating the matter... "

This reminded Jenkins of last autumn. Even though he knew that he would be turned into a golden statue, his father still chose to ask about the origin of the phantom...

"Eh, isn't that right? In that strange situation last year, dad should have asked about the origin of the cave or the origin of the key! Why did he choose the next-level question instead?"

Jenkins realized this, and then told Miss Stillwell about the strange situation half a year ago.

Sure enough, she was also surprised by her father's choice, but she also couldn't guess what the reason was. Although Miss Stillwell knew more about Dad than Jenkins did, it was only a little.

Anyway, Jenkins spent a lot of time in Nolan on Monday night before returning to Loon. Before leaving, he also asked Miss Stivell if she wanted to visit her father. After all, there was no conflict between the two, but they could not see each other because of the curse.

But Miss Stillwell shook her head and said that she would leave here immediately. After all, she was performing an important mission, and leaving Turin without permission was a violation. If Jenkins did not show up again, she had planned to return to Turin first and wait until it was confirmed that Jenkins returned to Nolan.

"Speaking of which, although we can't meet each other, why have you rarely replied to daddy for so many years?"

Jenkins asked before standing up to leave, thinking of the Book Festival gift he found in his old notebook.

"Not long after I was transferred to Turin, I joined a secret mission. This mission lasted from more than thirty years ago to the present. During this period, I was not allowed to communicate with my past friends and relatives without authorization."

"What mission?"