It was three o'clock in the afternoon, Backlund time, above the gray fog.
In the crimson illusive light, a series of silhouettes covered the tall stone chairs. The affectionate Audrey smiled, stood up and saluted the leader:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"
Klein, who was sitting on the main seat, nodded slightly, and his eyes slowly swept towards the "Hanged Man", "Magician", "Judgement" and others, and finally stopped at "The World".
"Good afternoon, everyone."
He noticed that although Miss Justice's mood was relatively stable, her eyes were still looking at both sides of her desk uncontrollably, as if she was looking for something.
That's right, Miss Justice's background should be from a high-ranking noble in Loen. It is not difficult to know the details of the "Black Emperor" incident. It is easy to associate the Tarot Society from the leftover tarot cards and conspicuous clothing.
Sure enough, noticing the gaze of "The Fool", Audrey nodded slightly, smiled and said:
"Dear Mr. Fool, I have three new pages of Russell's diary."
Three more pages... Klein was delighted at first, then suppressed his inner joy and tapped his fingers on the table.
I hope it’s not the same diary as last time.
"What do you hope to exchange for three pages of your diary?"
Klein had probably guessed what the other party valued, so he was very confident when raising this issue.
Of course, it’s about the details of the ‘Black Emperor’ incident! A question that had already been decided appeared in Audrey’s mind, and she said reservedly for a second:
"Mr. Fool, I want to know the details about the 'Black Emperor' incident, and the blasphemy card you obtained. Can you tell me which sequence it belongs to?"
Regarding the details of the "Black Emperor" incident, but not necessarily all the details... Klein chuckled secretly, his voice low and gentle.
"Do you want this answer to be known only to you, or to be made public?"
"I know this alone, so I apply for a private communication." Audrey hesitated for a second and then made her decision.
The curvature of the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious. Klein blocked the senses of other members, picked up the blasphemy card on the side, and stood in Audrey's direction.
"Sequence Zero, Black Emperor."
Sequence Zero..."Black Emperor"!
Sequence zero refers to the level above sequence one...referring to the level that only gods can reach?
Although after several Tarot meetings, Audrey already knew that the magic potion system also has a certain effect on the true god, but this is the first time that the existence of sequence zero has been confirmed from the authority. The true god can also rely on the corresponding magic potion and
Ceremony promotion.
However, this card of blasphemy happened to be the "Black Emperor", and the thief was also the "Black Emperor"... There was a sudden connection between the few words she got from her father and friends, and Audrey recalled these things that she had not noticed before.
The contact was pleasantly surprised:
"The thief Black Emperor is one of your subordinates?"
Klein nodded slightly, "Yes."
Of course, he himself is his own scroller. This is absolutely true, and it is the same in the eyes of many beings.
Klein looked at Miss Justice, whose emotions were vaguely fluctuating, and answered her other question unhurriedly.
"Kaping was involved in some plans of the Loen royal family. They provided a large number of slaves for ritual magic and engaged in human trafficking."
"After determining the nature of the ritual, my scrollers destroyed Capin's mansion."
Klein hesitated for a moment before adding:
"Kaping has the support of MI9 behind him and is protected by extraordinary people at the mid-sequence level around him."
Kingdom planning, involving slaves and some ritual that sounds pretty bloody?
"Justice" Audrey, who was in a slightly lively mood just now, slowly froze her smile at the corners of her mouth, pursed her lips, and then hurriedly calmed down.
She tried hard to recall that when she communicated with Kangs today, he hesitated and remained silent, and she gradually came to believe that a notorious human trafficker like Capin was really involved with the royal government, and was even specially arranged for military intelligence.
The protection of powerful extraordinary beings in the nine places.
Besides, my father also mentioned that Kaping is involved with some of the higher-ups and nobles in the kingdom, and he is engaged in the slave trade...
"Dear Mr. Fool, I have no problem."
Audrey bowed slightly, and the three fully realized papers in front of her immediately flew to the top.
Not caring about Miss Justice's mental health, Klein took the diary in his hand and took a quick glance at it to make sure it was not the ones he had read before reading it carefully.
"February 23, 1143. It has been more than a week since I traveled to this world. I have to write something. After all, I have witnessed too many supernatural things recently. If I don't write about it, I feel like I will go crazy.
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"Hey, in order to keep it a secret, I decided to write these contents in simplified Chinese. After all, the characters used in this world are alphabetic characters. I heard that except for the primitive civilizations on some islands in the sea, almost no one uses hieroglyphics."
"This is very strange. After all, hieroglyphs come from original paintings, and logically they should have become the first language of mankind. On the contrary, the evolution of alphabetic characters will be more complicated."
"And I found that the various languages in this world seem to have something in common with each other. Perhaps this is also the reason why they chose alphabetic writing. These languages are all derivatives of a certain language?"
Compared with the previous diaries that recorded mystical knowledge or his own romantic life, this initial content seemed plain. Klein read these Russell's first thoughts about the world and couldn't help but nodded in agreement.
If we look at it from a historical and mystical perspective, the common languages of various existing countries in the Fifth Age do have something in common with each other, and this should be the result of the division of the Solomonic Empire in the Fourth Age.
Ignoring this question for now, he thought about it.
The following content is relatively useless, but it is very meaningful.
Russell, or Huang Tao, recorded the whole story of his time travel in his diary, emphasizing the mysterious silver medal, and wrote down his real name, as well as some minor complaints.
Seeing those complaining sentences about the lack of entertainment life in this world and Russell missing his hometown, Klein closed his eyes in silence, and after a few seconds, he slowly opened them.
Unlike Russell who was ignorant at that time, after talking with "Mystery", he knew clearly that he might not have the strength to return to that distant hometown.
The "mysteries" that have at least reached sequence zero, and perhaps even faintly surpassed it, have not done so.
Sigh... If we just look at Huang Tao and I, the time of arrival is almost two hundred years apart, which doesn't seem too far away. But if we include "Mystery" and the fallen Creator,
There may be other time-travelers who have been submerged in history. This time span is not generally large. Even if we go back, we may still miss the era we originally lived in due to reasons such as time turbulence.
From this point of view, "Secret"'s efforts to seek the authority of the "King of Time and Space" seem to subtly confirm my guess.
Klein's thoughts became more and more confusing. He took a deep breath and moved the diary page to the bottom, and continued reading:
"On October 27, 1143, I met Baimon again."
Hmm... Looking at this familiar name, Klein's spirit suddenly became tense.
"To be honest, even though we have been communicating through that strange messenger and letters for two months, I still can't help but feel nervous when I meet the real person."
"After all, he is a demigod who is more powerful than the Archbishop, and may even be an angel. Compared with him, I would simply lose face as a time traveler."
"But of course I still have advantages over him. At least I am richer than him and I don't have to make a fire to keep myself warm in the winter and hunt rabbits to eat."
"I think about the first time we met, he shot down the crows flying around my head like a savage. I was shocked and thought he was a savage from the mountains."
Looking at these fragmentary thoughts, Klein's depressed mood improved a little, and his fingers unconsciously tapped the mottled tabletop.
Mister "The Fool" seemed to attach great importance to what was recorded in that diary... Alger, the "Hanged Man" who had been ordered to wander near the Rhoside Islands recently, looked at the figure at the top of Mohu in a vague way.
He slowly straightened his body and leaned against the back of the chair.
Mr. "Fool" spent a little too long looking at these diaries.
"Regarding the previous question of alphabetic language, Baimon mentioned this question today. He did not tell me the answer directly, but gave me a new question."
"He asked me, after becoming an Extraordinary and mastering the ancient Fusac language and the ancient Hermes language, if I felt the connection between the many mystical languages."
"To be honest, I basically memorized these languages by rote thanks to the powerful memory given by the 'General Knowledge' potion. This is the first time I have summarized the commonalities between them."
"I tried to answer: These languages can leverage the power of mysticism. Sometimes a single word contains powerful power when referring to some specific things. I gave a similar answer. As a result, I was assigned some homework by Baimon and ordered me to
Relearning the language of the occult.”
"He said that the proliferation of alphabetic languages is basically an imitation of occult language. The pinyin text composed of letters can more conveniently present the syllables of occult language, thereby achieving the purpose of leveraging the power of occultism."
"And the various existing ancient languages have more or less something in common, which seems to be vaguely pointing to some more ancient languages. Of course, it is also possible that there is a common source."
"This is too bold. If this conclusion is true, wouldn't it mean that there was an era when people all over the world, or extraordinary people all over the world, spoke the same language?"
"This unscientific!"
There were obvious gaps in the diary at this point. Klein looked at the sentences that had no logical connection before and after, and after a little analysis, he found that this diary seemed to be spliced together from two records from different periods.
"Today Baimon told me that before the Fourth Age, the Creator really existed."
After eliminating the incorrectly transcribed words, this sentence is the only remaining part.
To put it simply, from the point of view and understanding of "Mystery" on Russell's performance, there seems to be a period of coexistence of occult languages in this world at first. However, I remember that the period when "Mystery" came was already the time of the dispute between the ancient gods.
era, then the era she described was even earlier than the birth of the ancient god?
The pictures he had seen in his notes were once again clear in his mind. After careful science popularization by Little "Sun", Klein was actually able to distinguish several mimetic figures that appeared in his memory.
For example, the Phoenix God Greykari and the Elf King Sunia Threm.
"Okay, you can communicate freely." Klein suppressed these doubts that could not be verified for the time being and lightly tapped the table.
As soon as he finished speaking, "Magician" Forsi pulled the corner of his friend's hand under the long table. Xio took a deep breath and said first:
"'Sun', do you have any news about the fear of demonic insects?"
When the exploration team entered the gray fog on their way back, Derrick the Sun, who was a little mentally exhausted, was stunned for a moment and recalled:
"We encountered this kind of monster during our exploration. If you need it, I can redeem it after the meeting."
As he said that, he thought for a while and added: "But I didn't find any trace of the Silver War Bear nearby."
"Don't worry, I hope you can redeem the eyes of the fear demon insect after the party is over," Xio glanced at Forsi, who was standing aside, and slowed down his speech: "This reward covers what the 'Magician' mentioned last time.
in the transaction."
After confirming with the "Magician", the little "Sun" nodded, seeming to be calculating whether his contribution was enough.
"By the way, I have already exchanged it for the soul eater's stomach bag."
Phew... still missing the blood of deep-sea marlin... Forsi immediately turned his head and looked at the "Hanged Man" who was observing silently.
"Mr. 'The Hanged Man', have you found any clues to the blood of the deep-sea marlin?"
Yesterday, Alger, who attended a local Beyonder gathering in the Rhoside Islands and just confirmed that a pirate captain was selling deep-sea marlin blood for 300 pounds, quickly replied:
"400 pounds. You know that the pirate conference was recently destroyed by the Loen military, and the extraordinary material trade at sea has been affected to some extent."
But where do I have 400 pounds now... Forsi, who can only spend more than 200 pounds at most, bit his lips and suddenly regretted his decision to accept the invitation from the Intis newspaper two days ago.
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However, Xio has recently taken on a good mission, which seems to be related to the Tarot Society. It shouldn't cause any danger. I can lend her some, after all, she already has a copy of the main material.
Although Forsi had accepted the price, he still haggled out of habit:
"Can't it be cheaper?"
In the gray fog of Mo Lake, the dark blue half-long hair of "The Hanged Man" swayed slowly.
"Okay, I accept this price." Miss "Magician", who was not very wealthy, sniffed her nose and said in a muffled voice.
Witnessing all this, Klein, who was at the top, slowly shook his head while no one was paying attention.
Miss "Magician" is still too young compared to "The Hanged Man". She and Miss "Judgement" can try to use Backlund's information to obtain a lower price.
"The World", which had been silent all this time, suddenly turned its eyes and regained its vigor.
He looked at the "Judgment" on his left, his voice hoarse.
"Does anyone need the characteristics of 'interrogator' and 'judge'?"