Suddenly, a silver-white lightning shaped like a tree branch appeared in the early winter night.

It did not fall, but simply penetrated the air, illuminating the area around where Klein had just stood as bright as day, with every detail clearly visible.

The Singer of God, Ace Snake, retracted his gaze and whispered with a gloomy face:

“Rose School?

"It's not a 'wraith', nor is it a true undead creature..."

A mature middle-aged man with a pair of golden eyes turned his head to look at Kapin's body and said:

"I covered the target's body with tarot cards...

"This is the second time a similar case has occurred in the past two months."

"When was the first time?" Cardinal Snake asked in a deep voice.

The mature middle-aged man in a neat suit coughed lightly and said:

"The time when the True Creator tried to come through a trickster."

"Then it's not the Rose School." Cardinal Snake made a positive judgment.

Although those organizations that believe in evil gods don't like each other, they will not deliberately sabotage similar things. Instead, they have a mentality of welcoming the situation and waiting for the other party to mess up the situation first.

"I think so too. Perhaps it is a newly emerged secret organization. Their characteristic is to sprinkle tarot cards all over the target." The mature and handsome middle-aged man smiled and said, "The different ways of presenting tarot cards seem to express different meanings... There are only two cards covering the face of this corpse, one 'Judgement' and one 'Emperor'. 'Judgement' is the motivation and purpose, and 'Emperor' is the organization code name of the person just now? Of course, this may also be a ritual."

Cardinal Snake did not answer, but looked around and said:

"Let's see what's going on here."

It was not until this time that the first group of punishers arrived at Kapin's villa.

…………

Above the gray fog, Klein, who had only used the "paper substitute" three times and had not yet reached his limit, was using divination to confirm Daisy's subsequent safety.

"Daisy can return home safely." He held the pendulum in his left hand, closed his eyes and recited the sentence silently.

After seven times, Klein opened his eyes and saw the topaz pendant rotating counterclockwise, but the amplitude was very small and the speed was very slow.

This meant that Daisy's journey home would still have a few twists and turns, but they were almost negligible... After Klein interpreted the revelation, he put aside his last worries.

He then looked at the two objects placed in front of him, both of which exuded a strong spiritual aura.

One of them is a light blue translucent hexagonal prism, with tiny flashes of light flashing through it from time to time, as if coming from the depths of consciousness. This is the extraordinary characteristic left by Ms. Katie.

The other one belonged to Parker, who had not been able to play a role in the previous battle. His extraordinary characteristics condensed into a ball, like a child's fist.

This "fist" is made up of three colors, iron black and dark red surrounded by large areas of silver-white.

Klein did not hesitate and immediately produced a pen and paper, ready to use the two Beyonder properties to divine the corresponding potion formula.

Before he was promoted to Sequence 7, he could hardly use this divination formula because the Beyonder characteristics he had left behind had too many additional effects. Even with this mysterious space that eliminated interference and improved his divination ability to a certain extent, it still didn’t work.

Therefore, in the past, Klein only had the method of "spiritual communication".

After becoming a "magician", he initially acquired the ability to use the remaining extraordinary characteristics to tell fortunes above the gray fog, but the probability of success was high.

This time, without exception, Klein failed miserably.

However, he also gained something, which was to figure out the sequence names corresponding to the two groups of Beyonder characteristics.

"Parker is a Sequence 8 'Sheriff', Katie is a Sequence 7 'Interrogator'... Isn't this the 'Arbitrator' path? This path is controlled by the royal family, the military, and a small number of the older noble families in Loen, and they have strict control over the leakage of formulas and extraordinary materials... Could it be that some of the girls kidnapped by Kapin will be sent to the manor of a noble?

"But they don't need to send four Beyonders to help Kapin just for fun. This is obviously not equal... Heras is much stronger than Katie. He may be a Sequence 6 on this path. After wearing the glove, he may even reach Sequence 5... Could it be that some bloody and evil sacrifice is involved, and the target of the pursuit cannot be exposed?

"In addition to the kingdom, Feynaporte's Castilla family also has access to this extraordinary channel and has passed it on to their military and intelligence systems... Is this another espionage case involving something unknown?"

Klein tried to divine a few of his own guesses, but failed again.

He temporarily put the matter aside and tapped the edge of the bronze table, muttering to himself:

"As long as there are formulas and corresponding auxiliary materials, these two Beyonder characteristics can respectively enable a person to become a Sequence 8 'Sheriff' and a Sequence 7 'Interrogator'... Miss Magician's friend named Xio seems to be lacking Beyonder materials for the 'Sheriff'...

"Next time, I can sell Parker's share to Miss Magician through the World, and quickly save up the materials needed for my subsequent Faceless Man sequence... It doesn't seem appropriate to always go through the World. This time, I deliberately left the Tarot card. If Miss Justice hears about this, she will definitely think that it was done by my Favored One... So Mr. Fool will help him sell it..."

Klein quickly finalized the plan and let the extraordinary characteristics of the "Sheriff" and "Interrogator" fly to the corner and hide in the pile of debris.

“I don’t know what the Sequence 6 and Sequence 5 of the ‘Arbitrator’ pathway are called… It feels like using order and law… ‘Judge’?” Klein retracted his thoughts, half-closed his eyes, and carefully examined his own condition.

He felt his spirit come alive again, the potion being stirred, digestion speeding up.

This time, he believed intuitively that he had summarized most of the "Magician's Rules". It would be better if there were some remaining details, but it didn't matter if there were none, as it would not affect the progress of digestion too much.

Manifesting a round fountain pen and parchment, Klein wrote as if reinforcing his memory:

"Magician's Rules:

“1. Don’t perform without preparation;

“2. Challenge the impossible, even if the final result is just false;”

Klein believes that the above are the two most core points of the "Magician's Code". Grasping them means grasping the key, and the rest are supplements and improvements to them.

“3. Do more active performances;

“4. Try to get the audience’s applause;

“5. Take control of your target’s attention.”

…

Putting down the dark red round-bellied fountain pen, Klein glanced through the entire book and made his own judgment:

"Daily acting combined with three or four active 'performances' is enough for me to digest the 'magician' potion before the New Year. If I do another impossible 'performance' in the middle, the progress will be even faster... This is about the speed I hope to achieve."

At this time, there were still about two months until January 1, 1350.

After doing all this, Klein rubbed his forehead and prepared to return to the real world.

After putting away the Black Emperor cards, biological toxin bottles and other items, he suddenly laughed and said self-deprecatingly:

"Challenging the impossible...isn't that the same as courting death?"

As soon as the voice came back, Klein's figure disappeared into the gray fog.

In the cheap hotel in the Backlund Bridge area, he suddenly opened his eyes and saw the candlelight of his own summoning ceremony.

After quickly dealing with the aftermath, Klein put on the thicker work jacket he had just bought for 4 soli and walked to the window.

He picked up the sweet iced tea he had bought earlier, looked at his own blurry figure reflected in the window, smiled sincerely, and whispered to himself:

"cheers."

As soon as he finished speaking, he touched the glass with the cup in his hand, then raised his chin and drank it all in one gulp.

Then he leisurely left the hotel. The nearby gas street lamps were already on, and the pedestrians and carriages were busy passing by, unaware of the explosion at the junction of Cherwood District and the West District.

Klein strolled around the Brave Bar, wandered around for a while, and knocked on the door of the Extraordinary gathering of Mr. Wisdom Eye at 7:58.

He put on the iron mask and the hooded robe and acted like a normal, ordinary person.

…………

At the same time, Hugh, who would go to different places every night to check some contact marks, saw a sign that had never appeared before.

It belonged to the man with the golden mask who sold her the "Sheriff" formula through someone else at the party convened by Mr. A.

It's a sign of an emergency meeting!

"You didn't look for me before, and I pretended nothing happened. How come you suddenly..." Xiu thought about it and decided to go and take a look.

——The man with the golden mask promised to give her some tasks, so that she could save up enough money and exchange it for the corresponding extraordinary materials from him.

So, Xio moved to another place and marked the time and place for the meeting.

Half an hour later, in a remote but well-connected alley, Xio, who had been observing secretly for a while, came out of his hiding and walked towards the man wearing the golden mask.

The man was still wearing a black tuxedo. His light brown eyes swept over Xio's head and said:

"I have a task for you."

"Difficulty and reward?" Xio asked familiarly.

The man pushed the mask that looked like it was made of gold:

“It’s not dangerous, but it could be very dangerous, it all depends on what you do.

"The initial reward is 30 pounds. If you can get useful information, I can even give you an extraordinary material corresponding to the 'Sheriff'."

"What mission?" Xiu Wei frowned.

The man wearing the golden mask looked gloomy and said:

"Use your channels to find out who has inquired about Kapin recently."

"Kapin? The human trafficker?" Xio asked in surprise.

The man wearing the golden mask nodded:

"Yes."

"I refuse this mission, I hate him!" Xio refused immediately.

The man opposite snorted:

“Not working for Capin.

"Because he is dead."

"Dead?" Hugh was a little confused.

"He died in his own home, with his body covered with tarot cards. There were two faces, one was 'Judgement' and the other was 'Emperor'. By the way, you should also pay attention to any incidents involving tarot cards in recent years that have not been reported to the police department." The man in the golden mask added.

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