Vol 4 Chapter 16 “Dark Emperor” Solitaire (End)

Another reply from Maric came much later than Grelint had expected.

After exchanging letters on Monday and negotiating, he and Carroll, Avra, and Tripp finally stopped delaying and started the next journey.

The end of this journey is Samoros, the southernmost point of colonial power, the end of the steppe, and further south is the pure indigenous area… After crossing Samoros, they start to turn northwest, passing three medium-sized cities , finally arrived at the “base” Sobia city of Grelint.

“We’re going to West Balam soon, and it’s almost a day’s journey from Sobia.”

On the small table in the carriage, there was a map that Greenlight had come out of MI9, and his fingertips ran across two of them, and said to the girl with short curly hair next to him, because she was just asking.

It’s been nine days since I left Slonsland.

In the past nine days, Greenlight has traveled while writing, and at the same time, he has to pay attention to Tingen and Anxi, not only staring at the “Black Thorn Security Company”, but also doing some basic investigations .

Nine days later, he finally completed the first draft of three articles, namely “On Class Contradiction”, “The Justice and Correctness of Anti-Exploitation and Anti-Oppression”, “Overview of Racial Equality, Anti-Colonial and Anti-Discrimination”… In order to define accurately , the argument is strong, and the number of words in most of the articles is large, like the first article, it exceeds 20,000 words. This is definitely not directly published. No newspaper society has published such large-scale articles, so Grelint will continue to streamline them, and at the same time divide an article into multiple parts, and then one by one. published.

In the new week’s Tarot Club, Grelint chose to take a leave of absence.

Apart from the divination enhancement of Cengyuan Castle, the Tarot Society really has nothing to help Grelint at the moment, and Audrey, Klein, and Alger are all on their own right track, and there is basically no need for him to provide help.

But he won’t ask for leave next week, because he estimates that little “Sun” and classmate Derrick should almost join in. If there are new friends at the meeting, he will always show up to get to know him. Besides, Grelint himself I also appreciate and sympathize with this simple and honest big boy – even more than the “protagonist” Klein.

People always yearn for things they can’t do.

Instead of participating in the Tarot Club, he attended the extraordinary party in the “Golden Age” bar, and according to the contract signed before, delivered a “living corpse” feature to the “craftsman”, and then got back two customized pieces. Magical item.

It is worth mentioning that his occult teacher, Joffrey, codenamed “Professor”, also attended the gathering.

He secretly glanced at the “assassin” several times, because he knew that the “assassin” was Grelint, who should be in the Southern Continent now… It was inconvenient for Grelint to meet him, so he had to turn a blind eye to his attention, pretending that he was not myself.

The first magical item Greenlett got was an iron conch, made with the “ocean singer” feature.

Its name is “Silence of the Singer”, and just by holding it, Beyonders can freely move in water within 30 meters of depth, and will not be affected in any way, even if it reaches a depth of 30-50 meters, it It can also supply oxygen to the holder and shield most of the effects.

“Silence of the Singer” has two active Extraordinary abilities, one is “Lightning Strike” and the other is “Wind Blade”.

This is in full compliance with Greenlight’s “attack tendency” that requirement.

Compared with those magical items that Grelint had been in contact with in the past, its negative effects were more serious.

The first negative effect is:

The person who holds it, as long as the whole person is not immersed in the sea water, will be very thirsty, and this thirst cannot be solved by drinking water.

The second negative effect is:

It has the characteristic of being alive, and it usually sings loudly from time to time, the frequency is roughly once a day, and when it is blown, within 24 hours, its singing will be extremely strong, and it will become once an hour. The song it sings will be accompanied by various gains or debuffs. In severe cases, it can even directly kill ordinary people or low-sequence Beyonders. This is unpredictable and difficult to block.

The most pitiful thing is that if there is no audience for its singing this time, the additional effect of its next singing will be significantly enhanced… Of course, there is a certain upper limit.

Compared with the “Silence of the Singer”, the second magical item made of “Apostle of **” is much more friendly.

It is called “Malicious Premonition”. It is a collar pin. Wearing it, you can intuitively perceive the maliciousness of others towards you. This perception includes two aspects, one is the strength of malice, and the other is its source. – so it can be used to locate enemies who are good at hiding.

And its negative effects are easier to accept:

When you perceive a target’s malicious intent towards you through the “prediction of malice”, your desire for revenge towards him will increase significantly.

…

At noon on the ninth day, Grelint finally waited for Maric’s reply.

Interestingly, the sender of the letter was Maric, but the letter inside was not written by him, because the handwriting was more beautiful… Although there was no signature, Grelint roughly guessed that it was Bernadette based on the language and tone inside. handwritten.

As he expected, Bernadette agreed to meet him, just this afternoon.

However, the meeting place she proposed was somewhat beyond Grelint’s expectations—Golden Rose Cafe.

This cafe itself is nothing special. Although the grade is not bad, the high-end coffee and tea in it are only the ones that Grelint usually enjoys when he was in Backlund… Especially its geographical location , it is next to the “Rosell Memorial”.

“So, Bernadette doesn’t know everything about the ‘Dark Emperor’ card, or the possible position of the ‘a certain’ blasphemous card.”

Grelint made a thoughtful guess.

Afterwards, he gestured to Carol with his eyes, then leaned back on the back of the car seat, closed his eyes and went into “sleeping”.

The signal to Carroll is to let her help take care of her body. If there is an emergency, she can wake him up in time and let him return his consciousness to his body as soon as possible.

During this time, Grelint almost always asked her to help guard when he wanted to manipulate Anxi while he was on the road during the day.

Ordinarily, Grelint can’t directly project his consciousness to the “Lord of Order” person, and someone needs to recite the three honorable names.

However, after he has a clone, he has a tricky method, because although he is not in a high position, he cannot share Anxi’s vision through prayer, but he can directly manipulate Anxi without vision and let him chant name, pull up your own consciousness.

Of course, there is a certain risk, because he has absolutely no idea what is going on with Anxi, and whether anyone is watching him.

…

Golden Rose Cafe.

Because the person who offered to meet was “Grillint,” not “Ellen Bieber.”

So Grelint took a lot of trouble and gave Anxi the “Chain of Mystery” first, and let him use the “Chain of Magic” in his hand to manipulate the “predator” to use “transformation” several times, and at the same time The process was “recorded” with the “Chain of Secrets”, and finally, the transcribed “transformation” was used, and it became the image of “Grelint”, but the clothes were still very ordinary, and they were changing. After the height, it does not seem to fit well.

There is no way, the “Chain of Tricks” only retains the ability to “manipulate the thread of the spiritual body”. As for the other skills of the “Trick Mage”, it is “The Secret Puppet, the master cannot use it”, only through “record” to do dolls.

Looking around, Grelint passed Anxi and looked down from above. He saw a woman with a delicate face, strange and gorgeous clothes by the window. She was quietly staring at the front left of him. There is the establishment of the Steam Church. The “Russell Memorial”… Strangely enough, with such an eye-catching image, she failed to attract anyone’s attention, as if there was nothing there.

Seemingly aware of Anxi’s sight, she turned her head.

“Viscount Grelint?”

She glanced at Anxi and said suspiciously.

Grelint felt that her state was very strange, but Bernadette felt that his state was even more strange.

In the eyes of this “Master of Prophecy”, the current “Grelint” is completely a monster in human skin, and even among the monsters, he is an extremely crazy type! She couldn’t figure out why “Grelint” could still stay there so well, not being influenced by madness, but only relying on instinct… Moreover, according to the results she found, this young viscount, His Excellency, entered the mysterious world, Shouldn’t it be less than a year? Why is there already a bit cell of sequence 4? And it’s not the “lawyer” channel that she found before, but the “arbitrator” channel, a “law decree”!

The most peculiar thing is that no matter what occult means she uses, the feedback she gets is:

This gentleman is indeed the Viscount Grelint.

Did he turn around? Become a demigod in six or seven months? But it doesn’t seem to be in good shape?

When she was thinking about it, Grelint manipulated Anxi to speak:

“Good afternoon, Your Royal Highness.”

He has determined that the space where Bernadette is located is very strange, and will not be seen or heard by outsiders. It seems that in the eyes of outsiders, there is nothing here.

Bernadette pressed her thoughts, nodded, and said bluntly:

“You shouldn’t have come for that crappy ‘prophecy’?”

lame…

Okay, you’re a “Master of Prophecy”, and if you say it’s lame, then it’s lame. Grelint was speechless for two seconds, for he thought he made it up quite reasonably.

Bernadette was very concerned about Roselle’s affairs. Seeing that Anxi didn’t answer for a while, she asked:

“Your purpose is the ‘Dark Emperor’ card?”

Anxi nodded and did not deny this, this was the pretense he used to win Bernadette’s trust.

He had the relevant information about Roselle, and was not afraid of Bernadette’s unruly behavior, so he said directly:

“In Roselle’s relics, there should be a manuscript that records some of his unfinished creations, and a bookmark with the emperor’s pattern in it is the ‘Dark Emperor’ card.”

“I need you to take it out for me, it shouldn’t be difficult for you.”

Bernadette frowned immediately.

She didn’t know why Grelint knew it so well, it was like watching her dad put the card in that “creative manuscript”.

Pulling her hands, she created a hazy shimmer the size of a basketball in front of her, like a miniature universe, with a little bit of light in it, which seemed to be countless stars.

Then, one of her hands stretched directly into the endless stars.

A miraculous thing happened, until Bernadette’s right arm sank into the “stars” shoulder-to-shoulder, and her hand hadn’t been exposed from the front, as if these shimmering lights and the stars were connected to a different dimension.

After a while, she withdrew her arm, dispelled the glimmer of light, took the bookmark with “Emperor Roselle”, and looked at it carefully.

“It doesn’t seem unusual?”

“Also, this shouldn’t be too difficult for you? Why did you ask me to help you get it? You’re not afraid that I’ll go back and just greedy this card?”

“Strictly speaking, it belongs to my father, and I have a more reasonable possession than you.”

Not seeing anything unusual, she threw her hand and let the bookmark fly to Grelint, as if she wasn’t worried that he would change his mind when he got the cards.

“Ha ha.”

Grelint chuckled softly.

“I really want to get it, but I definitely don’t have too much sex, so I don’t want to spend too much energy, but choose to find you to get it, and I’m not afraid of your greed… Another reason is that you should Don’t know its opening spell.”

As he said that, he glanced meaningfully at the “Queen of Mysteries”, holding the card between his fingers, and reciting to it in Old Fusac slightly narrowly:

“Bernadette.”

For a moment, Bernadette thought that the weird and mysterious Viscount Grelint was calling him.

But the next second, what made her stunned happened:

Above the bookmark, a bright and clean light came up little by little, and the image of Emperor Roselle outside took on a new look.

He sat on an ancient stone throne, wearing a black crown inlaid with various gems on his head, wearing jet-black armor, covered with a cloak of the same color, holding a scepter in his hand, and staring coldly.

In the upper left corner of the bookmark, the bright starlight condensed a line of text:

“Sequence 0: Dark Emperor!”

Immediately afterwards, the bookmark became three-dimensional, like a miniature book.

After a while, all the pages were turned over, and it was folded again and turned into a playing card. The difference was that it was not only the original “Emperor Roselle”, but sitting on the throne. “‘Dark Emperor’ Roselle”.

It turned out that the ancient Feysac version of “Bernadette” was its opening spell!

“dad…”

This big figure in the mysterious world, the “Queen of Mysteries” who has been in the world for more than 100 years, stood in front of Grelint, an outsider, without any gesture, his eyes blurred for a moment, his lips parted lightly, and he murmured.

Putting away the card with his backhand, Grelint looked at Bernadette with a complicated expression, neither comforting her nor stimulating her.

After a few minutes of silence, he opened his mouth and said:

“Then, ma’am, now it’s my turn to give the bid.”

Bernadette’s eyes gradually returned to clarity, but the corners of her eyes were still a little wet – she didn’t cry, she was no longer the little girl who was snuggling in her father’s arms back then, the person with broad shoulders who took care of everything for her is no longer there , she has long been accustomed to bear a lot of things alone.

It’s just… just a little uncomfortable.

She is obviously still a little out of her mind, but she has some expectations:

“If you can, can the price be replaced to explain my doubts?”

In fact, for her, the opening spell of this card was the best price… At least she already knew that even in the end, even after Roselle’s personality changed drastically, she still loved her deeply.

Before that, she had learned that Roselle, in his later years, was sometimes unusually indifferent, cruel, and sinful. Even her, the daughter he loved the most in the past, couldn’t get close to him, as if she had completely changed. ; Sometimes it seems that nothing has changed, and he is very affectionately boasting about the greatness of his moon landing, and his attitude is completely the same as when he told stories and boasted about his achievements before.

She was absolutely sure that this mysterious young viscount knew a lot about Roselle Gustaf, but he didn’t seem to have any intention of explaining it to herself.

Grelint also looked a little embarrassed. He didn’t answer, and the scene fell into silence and cold for a while.

“Hey!”

After a long time, he sighed and said:

“Ma’am, my price is to stay in Backlund before the end of the year, and you will have a chance for promotion.”

This is his real purpose.

Although he is now holding the “Oath of Yuno”, with his clone Anxi and several demigod-level magical items, he already has the strength to face Sequence 4 head-on, but this is in the “Backlund Great Smog” event at the end of the year. , is still a little too weak, at most one can only slap the “Desperate Nightingale”, which cannot control the situation.

That’s why he wanted to borrow Bernadette’s power by chance.

In addition, he has a little dark psychology that is unknown to him, that is, if Bernadette is targeted or even killed by him because of his involvement with George III, or if she fails to be promoted smoothly because of the insufficient effect of the ceremony…then You don’t have to think about how to face her when you become a **** in the future.

Even though the thoughts in his heart were still in chaos and confusion, and even if the sadness had not dissipated at all, there was still a hint of surprise in Bernadette’s eyes.

Can you really predict?

Grelint thought for a while, for fear that she would be obsessed with Roselle’s affairs and not pay much attention to it, so she added:

“Apart from the real gods and individual angels, there should be no one who knows more about Roselle than me at the moment… But you should know that there are some things that you don’t even have the qualifications to understand unless you are an angel.”

“If, I mean, if you still want to pursue those truths after your promotion is successful, I can tell you all of them… I think you have the right to know those things.”

“I just hope you don’t regret it.” – He didn’t say this.

He is not Klein, and will kindly hide from Bernadette the dirty things Roselle has done in order to get rid of pollution and become a god. In the “original book”, Klein helped Roselle by throwing all the blame on the “Fallen Mother Goddess”, making her think that Roselle was tainted by the outer gods and made those mistakes. But in fact, those things are precisely His sins, and the one who usually pretends to be normal is the tainted Roselle.

Roselle’s early years with those wives and young ladies were nothing more than the pickle, and Grelint was unwilling to use those vulgar things to slander Roselle and destroy his image in Bernadette’s heart.

But in order to become a god, he did no less evil than George III!

And this part involves the big right and the wrong, and he will never hide it for Roselle.

On the one hand, this went against the basic moral judgment of an ordinary person, and he had no friendship with Roselle. On the other hand, that’s not in Grelint’s principles—and certainly not in his interests.

If Roselle in Bernadette’s heart has always been that great, bright and righteous image, then she will definitely stop her desperately when she becomes a god, because she has enough reasonable and righteous reasons to do so Do.

This is both reasonable and reasonable.

But if she can clearly recognize the real Roselle, then as a daughter, it makes sense for her to obstruct herself, but since she knows what the real Roselle is, when she obstructs herself , I may not have a little guilt and hesitation in my heart?

This is reasonable, but not so reasonable.

After a long talk, Grelint controlled Anxi, and pulled the ancient lantern the size of the foot in front of him, and quickly faded away.

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ask for a recommendation ticket;

Ask for a monthly pass.

(Minor repairs completed)

“Brother Shen!”

“Um!”

Shen Changqing was walking on the road, and when he met someone he knew, he would say hello or nod to each other.

But no matter who.

Everyone’s face has no superfluous expressions, as if they are very indifferent to everything.

to this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Ministry of Suppression, it is an organization that maintains the stability of Daqin. Its main responsibility is to kill monsters and monsters. Of course, there are also some other side jobs.

It can be said.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone had a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The town magic department is very big.

Those who can stay in the Town Demon Division are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two occupations, one is the guardian envoy and the other is the demon slayer.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts from the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then he was promoted step by step, and finally he was expected to become a guardian envoy.

Shen Changqing’s predecessor was a trainee slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest-ranked slayer.

Has the memory of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Town Demon Division.

It didn’t take too long, Shen Changqing stopped in front of an attic.

Different from other places full of chills in the Demon Suppression Division, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, showing a different tranquility in the **** Suppression Demon Division.

At this time, the door to the attic was open, and occasionally people came in and out.

Shen Changqing just hesitated for a moment, then stepped inside.

Enter the attic.

Circumstances have changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood rushed towards his face, causing his brows to instinctively wrinkle, but then quickly stretched.

There is almost no way to clean the **** smell on everyone in the Zhen Mosi.