Xio was in a trance for about ten seconds before she remembered to respond. She looked at the man with the golden mask, nodded and said:
"Okay, I'll keep an eye on who Viscount Stratford has come into contact with."
The man with the golden mask seemed not to notice her absence and said:
"There is another mission. The Red Gloves of the Church of Evernight are investigating matters related to the Spiritual Cult. If you get any relevant information, contact me immediately."
Quinn hummed, still unable to shake off the emotion he just felt.
The golden masked man was silent for a few seconds, then he spoke carefully:
"Are you interested in joining MI9 directly?
“You can still be who you are now and be active in the East End.”
Xio was stunned for two seconds, his mouth opened, unable to make a decision.
The man with the golden mask did not ask her to answer immediately, but smiled and said:
"Don't worry, wait until you become an interrogator before telling me the answer."
After saying that, he stepped back step by step and merged into the shadows at the other end of the alley.
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On the same night, Klein woke up from his dream again.
The spiritual mark he had placed in the sewers of Böklund Street had been triggered!
Who else is not sleeping in the middle of the night...Hazel isn't afraid of being possessed by evil spirits? Klein sighed helplessly, took out the iron cigarette box wrapped in the "Spiritual Wall" from under his pillow, and walked to the balcony with the curtains closed.
The "Ghost" Senior quickly jumped onto the surface of the gas street lamp surrounded by metal fences, then passed through the manhole cover and went deep into the sewer.
Not long after he walked forward, Klein used the eyes of the secret doll to see Hazel in civilian clothes.
The girl was walking towards her destination cautiously. Her left hand unconsciously raised to touch the necklace inlaid with seven emerald green stones hanging on her chest, while her right palm tightly grasped a golden talisman.
Although this spell has not yet been activated, it gives people a warm feeling like sunshine and a bit of the freshness of morning dew.
Seeing this scene, Klein suddenly remembered what happened during his morning walk:
Hazel got up early and wandered around her garden!
Was she collecting materials for making the Sun Domain spell? The morning dew? Klein guessed uncertainly, feeling a little strange about this, because Hazel was not only semi-illiterate in the mysterious field and didn't know a lot of common sense, but she was also a believer of the Goddess of Night.
There will basically be no response for such an extraordinary person to pray to the "Eternal Sun". Even if a special, low-probability event occurs, he should be punished!
"Because she hasn't gone to the sewers to dig and search for a long time, the Beyonder who guided her through dreams became anxious. So, with the help of dreams, he reversely indoctrinated her and taught her how to make talismans of the Sun Domain? Well, the corresponding path starts from the 'thief'. The high-level representative Amon is also known as the 'blasphemer'. Does this mean that when this path reaches a certain sequence, one will be able to disguise oneself as a believer of other gods, bypass defenses, steal responses, and make various types of talismans? This is indeed consistent with their usual performance..." Klein watched Hazel walk step by step into the depths of the sewer through the vision of the "ghost" Senior.
According to his spiritual intuition, although the talisman of the sun field was aimed at "ghosts", it was still far from being able to truly threaten a Sequence 5. At most, it could cause a certain amount of damage. After all, Hazel couldn't obtain very high-level materials. However, Klein did not let his "ghost" possess the other party again, for fear of disturbing the Beyonder who was influencing Hazel with dreams. When the Tarot Club was over tomorrow, he should be able to obtain low-level items from the "thief" path and conduct corresponding investigations. Before that, maintaining "normal" was the best option.
Of course, the premise is that he is sure that Hazel will not be able to dig out anything in a day or two, and he has plenty of time to prepare.
As a "fortune teller", there are many ways to confirm, the simplest one is to go above the gray fog.
After taking back the secret doll, Klein walked four steps backwards and came to the ancient palace supported by stone pillars. He produced a pen and paper and wrote down the corresponding divination statement:
"Something big has happened on Böklund Street in the last three days."
With the help of the citrine pendant, Klein received a negative revelation, that is, within three days, Boklund Street would not be hit by a major accident.
As for the possibility that Hazel really dug out something but it only affected herself, it was a trivial matter for Boklund Street, and he didn't care, because a trivial matter meant that it would not interfere with his subsequent plans, and he didn't have the belief that he had to stop it.
He had already reminded her through hints at the dance. If Hazel didn't understand or didn't take it to heart, that was her problem. Klein wouldn't feel any psychological burden because of it.
After returning to the real world, he waited for nearly three quarters of an hour until Hazel came out and there was no change underground. Then Klein lay back on his bed and fell asleep quickly through meditation.
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Monday afternoon, three o'clock sharp.
Deep red rays of light rose from both sides of the long bronze table and appeared in the eyes of Klein the Fool, Derrick the Sun, and Gehrman Sparrow the World.
Audrey, Justice, was still in a good mood. She saluted the figure shrouded in gray mist and said:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"
Klein nodded with a smile, responding to the girl who always made people happy.
At the same time, Audrey glanced around and found that there was an extra card next to Mr. Fool's hand!
A new "blasphemous card"? I wonder which way it came from... I really hope it belongs to the "audience"... Audrey's heart moved, and she turned to greet the other members.
When everything calmed down, she looked at the top of the mottled long table before the Hermit Cattleya and said:
“Dear Mr. Fool, I have collected three pages of Roselle’s diary.”
This was actually obtained by the "Loen Antiquities Collection and Protection Foundation", but as the initiator and main funder, she easily had the opportunity to copy it.
Audrey was very proud of this and felt that it was a wise decision to set up such a foundation. Unfortunately, in order not to reveal her identity, she could not share this matter with other members of the Tarot Club.
“Very good.” Klein nodded with a smile, signaling Miss Justice to materialize the diary.
At this time, Cattleya did not interrupt and seemed not to have received the new Roselle diary.
Did the Mysterious Queen not reply to her yet? Or was she focusing on something else? Klein watched thoughtfully as Miss Justice reproduced the three pages of the diary and let them jump into his palm.
After a quick glance, Klein's mouth almost curled up, because he encountered the familiar story of Roselle's hunting for beauties again.
Compared to the diaries that the "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette carefully selected and contained a lot of information, the parts obtained by the other members were often not that important, and the content was more inclined towards Roselle's daily life. The three pages provided by Miss "Justice" were such a case. Klein flipped through them casually and found that only one diary was worth reading carefully. As for the others, they either recorded fooling around with a certain lady or a certain lady, or despised certain guys who survived by their status rather than their IQ, and even expressed their yearning for witches because of certain ** rumors.
Soon, Klein focused his attention on the most valuable diary entry:
“…Some information obtained from the church shows that spiritual stitchers really exist.
“After a high-sequence expert dies, the Beyonder characteristics that are released will have their own spiritual imprints left behind. This is very strong and very tenacious. If it relies solely on time, it may take hundreds or even thousands of years for it to completely disappear.
“When the extraordinary properties combine with the surrounding materials to form a magical item, it must be used by a sufficiently similar spirit. Otherwise, the negative effects will be beyond imagination. And when the extraordinary properties are preserved and become the main material of the potion, the person who takes it must also have a similar spirit to withstand it. Otherwise, there is a high probability of failure.
"In the field of mysticism, failure to advance is often equivalent to loss of control or death. Only a very few lucky ones can be pacified and maintain a delicate state. However, I heard that some special seals can pull out the unfused Beyonder characteristics and recombine them, making the failure equivalent to not taking the potion, but just enduring a mental storm. But according to my guess, there should still be some residual mutations at the genetic level, because the data mentioned that most of the failed promotions who survived by similar methods will suffer from terminal illnesses within the next five years.
"So, taking a 'magic potion' that is similar to one's own spiritual body can effectively reduce the difficulty of advancement, but it will also be affected by the spiritual imprint left in it, causing one to unconsciously develop a split personality and gradually evolve into a spiritual stitched monster, just like the original High-Sequence Expert was resurrected in his body, resurrected...
"Thinking about it carefully, it's really a bit scary... However, the church told me that there are two or three ways to remove the high-sequence spiritual imprints in the Beyonder characteristics. As for what they are, they didn't say. It doesn't seem that easy. No wonder the Soran family likes descendants who are similar to their ancestors and calls them talented. Ha, talent, I have to say, I feel a little sympathetic for Florent."
Mental stitching... high-sequence mental imprints... sounds a bit scary... So high-sequence potions have this kind of problem. Well, the church should have a way to solve it. They have no shortage of angels and '0'-level seals. They can break up the Beyonder characteristics and reassemble them to complete the purification... Those ancient families may not be the same. They may not have the protection of angels. They may have one or two '0'-level seals, but they are not so easy to use. Moreover, different '0'-level seals should have different functions, and they may not be good at this aspect... Klein's thoughts turned, and he made the diary in his hand disappear directly. Then he looked at Miss Justice and asked with a chuckle:
"What do you want in exchange?"
Audrey was just waiting for potion ingredients. She didn't need anything for the time being, so she undoubtedly chose to satisfy her curiosity first:
"Dear Mr. Fool, is the extra card in your hand the 'Card of Blasphemy'? Which one?"