Chapter 537 The Possibility of the Person in the Mirror
Angel turned away reluctantly, and only asked after Anderson had gotten up awkwardly:
"Are you willing to sell the Sequence 6 potion formula?"
This direct attack seemed to have troubled the "strongest hunter," and he was clearly not as lucid in his dream as Angel, who was carrying the "Secret Holy Emblem." He laughed strangely, brushing off the dust on his body as he stepped forward, staring at Angel for a moment, and said,
"Strange, could it be that because I lost so much money on this adventure, I imagined a lady who was willing to buy the potion formula?"
"I hired the 'Future'."
"Okay, okay, I know what you're going to say. You want to leave me alone in this sea to die, right?"
Angel slightly changed his expression, and Anderson immediately raised his hands in surrender. He seemed to have remembered that he had played a bad joke here and was almost killed as an out-of-control Beyonder, and he quickly regained his composure.
"The Sequence 6 potion for the Hunter Path is 'Conspirator,' but aren't you a witch? Why did you buy this formula?"
He asked back with a puzzled look on his face.
"This is for a friend who's an arsonist. She's about to get a promotion."
"She? Could she be the captain of the 'Redhead'?"
"You know her?"
Now it was Angel's turn to be surprised.
"Of course, there are many hunters roaming the Five Seas, but there aren't many women, especially those who have become Mid-Sequence Beyonders at such a young age." Anderson smiled proudly at his well-informed knowledge. "Although I've always wanted to meet that lady, the price is right. 2,000 pounds, and the formula is yours."
2,000 pounds... Angel calculated her savings with some heartache. After leaving this sea area and paying the balance of the "Admiral of the Stars", she would only have 3,500 pounds left. Although 2,000 pounds was not expensive for a Sequence 6 potion formula, she was still a little hesitant.
After some back-and-forth with the hunter who seemed to be quite excited in his dream, the other party was unwilling to give in when the price reached 1,800 pounds.
"If it's less than this amount, I'd rather not sell it."
Anderson snorted coldly, stopped talking, and walked to the side to observe the mural.
Seeing this, Angel didn't try to persuade him to stay. She planned to first ask Danitz if he had obtained the formula for Sequence 6, or try to find the "Red Priest" card. If she couldn't find any clues, she would go back and buy it from this unlucky and greedy hunter.
But within a few minutes, Anderson was running back to the hall.
"Be careful! Someone's coming!"
Anyone there?
Angel became alert and looked in the direction the other person was running from. Not long after, with the sound of a door opening, a black-haired man in a short robe ran into the hall at a very fast speed. Wrinkles and sweat were mixed together on his face, as if he was being chased by an evil spirit.
“Help! Help!”
He shouted and ran towards Anderson, who dodged gracefully, passed between two murals, and hid behind the stone wall, as if he was standing by and watching.
The black-haired man turned his gaze towards Angel again, only to find that her figure had disappeared at some point.
“…”
After being stunned for a second with his mouth open, he took another step and ran towards the gate of the Black Monastery.
Behind him, the sound of metal colliding with the stone floor was heard, and a tall figure emerged from the darkness.
He was a greatsword warrior wearing black full body armor and a helmet of the same color. The eye sockets under the visor flashed a deep red light. He stared straight at the black-haired man in front of him. He was not interested in Anderson who had poked his head out again and Angel who came out of invisibility.
Bang, bang.
Amid the stomping sounds of metallic boots, the man and the armored warrior disappeared into the mural hall one after another, leaving Angel and Anderson looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Not someone from the 'Future'?"
Anderson asked.
"I haven't seen him."
Angel answered honestly, but he also felt that these two people were somewhat similar to the "Black Saint" and his "mirror image" that Klein had mentioned.
Maybe they hold clues to the "man in the mirror"?
Angel had an idea and chased in the direction they left.
Returning to the square in front of the Black Monastery, she found that the pirates who were drinking and chatting here had been scared away by the black-armored warriors. Only the somewhat irritable Nina threw away the bottle of wine and wanted to go up to fight, but was completely ignored by the other party. The two figures quickly chased out of the square and ran towards the edge of the cliff.
Amidst the chaos, the black-haired man in a short robe ran twice around the boulder on top of which Cattleya sat. Finally, he found his opportunity and shouted towards the Giant King's Court on the other side of the cliff:
"O Lord, the Creator of All, You are the All-Knowing and the All-Powerful, You are the Source of All Greatness... Ah..."
He was nearly struck by the giant sword of the black-armored warrior. He let out a strange cry and ran even faster.
"...You are the beginning and the end; you are the God of gods, you are the ruler of the vast starry sky!"
As the name recited in the ancient Hermetic language, which clearly pointed to a certain existence, came to an end, the cliff separating the "Giant King's Court" and the "Black Monastery" revealed its true appearance in the sea of clouds. It was a bottomless and wide gap, as if someone had chiseled a crack in the earth that went straight to the center of the earth.
The huge palace opposite was emitting a dusk-colored light, which seemed to be shooting towards this side to create a passage!
Except for the black-armored warriors and the black-haired man who were still surrounding the boulder, everyone present turned their eyes to the magnificent palace opposite.
…and then nothing happened.
The black-haired man who was being chased and jumping up and down seemed unable to accept this fact, and looked at the other end in a daze.
"My Lord...ah!"
He jumped up nimbly, avoiding the huge sword that was slashing towards him, but he also found himself trapped between the rocks and the cliff, with almost nowhere to hide.
Swish, vines emerged from the ground and grew wildly between the two men, forming a lush forest almost instantly, separating the entire land in front of the monastery and all the people there. The black-armored warrior angrily chopped the vines with his giant sword, chopping the peas on them all over the ground, but he was unable to break through and kill the black-haired man.
"This Aurora Society's 'Black Saint,' Leo Master,' is very similar to you. He encountered an object that could create 'mirrors' in a certain ruin, and as a result, he was split into two different personalities," a familiar voice suddenly sounded beside Angel. She turned her head and saw it was Bernadette, who had changed into a skirt and trousers combination. "But the difference is that he was 'split' in reality, and the split was a 'kind personality.'"
"Are you saying that the black-armored warrior is his true self? And the black-haired man being hunted is his 'mirror image'?"
Angel asked in surprise, and then a strange thought came to his mind:
If the Aurora Saint's kind personality is that of the black-robed man being chased, then what he just chanted, could it be the name of the "True Creator" that the Aurora Society believes in? But I remember it wasn't "The Lord behind the veil of shadows, the fallen nature of all living beings"...
And if the "evil entity" is killed in a dream, can the "Black Saint" become a "good person" who has eliminated the evil in his heart?
Could this be what the "man in the mirror" intended to do to me before... She suddenly felt a little relieved.
As if she understood her thoughts, Bernadette shook her head and said:
"Real things must be resolved in reality. To kill his 'real body', we need to go to that dangerous ruin. Anyone who enters will be 'copied' in the same way... except you."
Except me... because I have solved the problem "in advance" in the dream, and when other people, especially kind people, arrive at the ruins, the evil "man in the mirror" will appear?
Angel was guessing, and suddenly found that the vines around him began to drill into the ground, as if they had accomplished their mission.
"After we leave this sea area, you and I will go find Annie together."
Leaving behind these words, Bernadette beside him disappeared as if blending into the surrounding dusk light.
Disappearing along with her were the "Black Saint" and his "mirror image" separated by vines. Only the pirates who were watching the fun halfway through only to find it suddenly ended, and the "Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya who looked over here thoughtfully, were left.
…
After leaving the dream, the "Future" continued to sail in the calm sea, passing one strange-shaped ruin after another that no one dared to explore, and soon arrived at the place where they entered, the ruins that they had avoided at the beginning.
But what was different from the day he arrived was that there was a three-masted sailing ship about forty meters long parked next to the ruins.
“Get ready!”
Boatswain Nina shouted, and all the sailors still on deck took up combat positions, watching the sailboat vigilantly.
But until the two ships passed each other, there was no movement over there, and the deck was empty, as if it was a ghost ship.
Cattleya walked out of the cabin and came to the side of the ship, looking at the sailboat. She took off her thick-framed glasses with a serious expression, and a light flashed in her deep purple eyes. Soon, a pair of huge eyes of the same color appeared above the sailboat, as if they were an extension of the pirate general's gaze. They circled the deck, found a hatch and crawled in.
Everyone, including Angel, waited with bated breath for the results of her exploration.
"It's very strange there..." After a moment, Cattleya put on her glasses again and said, "They seem to be here to explore the legend of the 'Fountain of Youth', but everyone on the ship is gone, there's blood everywhere, and..."
She seemed to find it difficult to describe it in words, so she took out a handful of colorful powder from the inner pocket of her robe and sprinkled it in front of her, outlining a clear picture on the deck.
This is much more powerful than magic mirror divination... Angel stared at the "high-definition surveillance footage" in amazement, and found that it showed an exquisitely decorated room, most likely the captain's room. There were many bloodstains on the floor inside the room, and a word in Feysac was written on the ground in blood:
"Fountain of Youth——"
The long bloodstain at the back seemed unfinished and was dragged to the door.
Angel immediately imagined the scene where the captain of the ship, after being seriously injured but not yet dead, used his own blood to leave clues to the "Fountain of Youth" for future generations, but before he could finish writing, he was dragged away by the enemy.
"I didn't expect that the legendary 'Fountain of Youth' is actually in this sea area?"
Anderson, who had entered the country just to hunt for treasure and almost lost his entire army, said excitedly.
"I wonder if drinking this can make me younger..."
An obviously older pirate took over the conversation expectantly.
"Who would leave behind any clues for finding treasure before they die? His crew is all dead, and the next people to find him won't be his friends or family. If it were me, I would just leave the murderer's name."
Nina stood aside and watched the scene, then sneered.
Her words seemed to awaken everyone. After a brief debate, most agreed with the boatswain. The bloody words "Fountain of Youth" were either left by the murderer to attract more prey, or they were a misleading message that hadn't been erased. In short...
Run!
Following the order from the "Admiral of the Stars", the "Future" bypassed the three-masted sailing ship that had become a coffin and fled the sea area at the fastest speed.
…
After experiencing the falling and rising cliffs in the sea again, the "Future" returned to the normal sea area. Behind it was the continuously falling sea water, in the distance was a storm that covered the sky, and above its head was a crimson full moon.
Listening to the pirates' cheers on the deck, Angel came to Klein's room and said to him in surprise:
"I'm going to be gone for a few days."
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