Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 50

"300 gold pounds!"

After reacting, Grelint directly quoted a relatively high price.

Hastur once told him that the price of the potion formula of Sequence 9 is between 200 and 300 gold pounds.

The pharmacist's potion formula is more expensive, about 250 gold pounds.

"You are generous and a good deal."

As Maric said, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Grelint, and said: "If you can't gather the extraordinary materials on it, you can come to seek my help, of course, I will charge a certain amount of hard work .”

Greint took the paper with a smile, and said a little excitedly: "It should be, it should be."

He didn't have any doubts about the authenticity of the pharmacist's potion formula. He didn't believe in Maric, but in Hastur's reputation.

If Hastur wanted to lie to him, he would have given him a fake potion formula from the apothecary, and there was no need to wait until now.

"You have better luck than me."

Hastur gave Greint a reassuring look, Maric and Sharon are still trustworthy.

"Ha ha……"

Grelint laughed for a while, and hurriedly asked the servant to go down to prepare some things for Maric and Hastur to stay for dinner.

Maric is in the sequence of living corpses. He doesn't need to eat much, so he politely refuses to leave.

Naturally, Hastur couldn't just slap his ass like Maric and leave. He had to thank Grelint for giving him some face today, and at the same time he had to answer some of Grelint's doubts.

After all, he can be regarded as the leader who led Greint into the extraordinary world.

After the dinner, Grelint took Hastur to his study to chat and ask some questions about Extraordinary materials.

Hastur only recommended him a trustworthy black market for Extraordinary material trading, and he believed that Grelint would not be so stupid as to take the risk himself every time.

When it comes to buying Extraordinary materials, he can definitely send someone he can trust to buy them.

At the end of the conversation, Greint mentioned that there was going to be a small private party this week, saying it was to give him a little shock.

"Could you have invited Miss Audrey?"

Hastur casually guessed that he noticed something wrong with Audrey's expression the last time they met.

"... Hastur, can't you be a little stupid now and then?"

"Greyint, I also hope that you will become smarter."

"Oh, there is no way to be a friend."

Grelint sighed, but his depression was quickly dispelled by the joy of the pharmacist's potion formula, he smiled and kept Hastad talking for a while.

Before leaving, Hastur specifically asked Grelint not to tell others about the resurrection ceremony he had held, otherwise it would cause trouble.

Grelint, who has already half-stepped into the extraordinary world, is now beginning to realize how terrifying it is to hold a resurrection ceremony.

Although the ritual ultimately failed, it was still terrifying.

Hearing Hastur's instructions, he quickly complied and promised not to tell anyone else in the future.

……

Back home, Hasta looked at his pocket watch. At around 09:30, he asked someone to prepare a full-bodied supper.

When I came to the bathroom and was about to take a shower, a slim figure appeared in the mirror in front of me.

She was wearing a gothic court dress of a different color from this afternoon, and a small black gauze hat. Her azure eyes were like a pool of clear water without any ripples.

Seeing Hastur looked over, she held the skirts on the left and right sides with both hands, performed court etiquette gracefully, and then disappeared from the mirror.

Hastur didn't have time to say anything, he could only feel that the extraordinary ability of Wraith Soul is really elusive and preventable.

Fortunately, I was still wearing clothes. If Miss Sharron suddenly appeared in the mirror while I was taking a shower, it would really scare people.

But Miss Sharon wouldn't be so boring, would she?
Hastur tried to call twice in a low voice, but he was relieved when he didn't get a response.

Pausing in front of the mirror for a while, Hastur mobilized his spiritual power to formulate a new rule for this bathroom.

"Invisibility is prohibited here! Hiding is prohibited!"

After the rules were generated, Hastur turned on his spirit vision again, checked back and forth carefully, and found no trace of Miss Sharon.

He couldn't help being amused, it was just a bath, why did he look like a thief.

Being a thief in your own home is really a new feeling.

After taking a bath and having a delicious supper, Hasta was extremely excited. He looked at his pocket watch, and it was more than an hour before 11:30.

He came to the study and began to study advanced legal books.

With the physical bonus of a barbarian, he is very energetic now, even if he reads these tedious and boring legal provisions, he will not feel tired.

It wasn't until two hours later that he put down his books, stretched himself and went back to the bedroom to rest.

After lying on the bed for a while, he entered the Hall of Stars, with two chains of order hanging on his sides, dangling slightly.

Hastur stared at the star where the lamp god was for a long time, but finally resisted the idea of ​​whipping him a few times.

I am used to smoking, but I still feel a little uncomfortable for a while.

Sighing, he turned his gaze to the star where the Mother Tree of Desire was located, then retracted his gaze, and began to think about what kind of rule the second chain of order should formulate.

With the first rule in place, he can now think more freely about rules other than combat power, such as fate.

Since he was born in the mysterious world, it seems that he has a deep relationship with the word fate.

The name Hastur Campbell itself is not a simple name in mysticism. Regardless of whether the king in yellow exists or not, it is something that needs to be vigilant.

A person's name may affect a person's fate. In mysticism, the two are more closely related.

And he has carried this fate.

Voltaire Campbell, a gambler, seemed to be cursed by the Extraordinary in the Path of Fate, which made his gambling luck extremely unlucky. In the end, he lost his family property and drowned by the river.

Andrew came to blackmail himself, and behind him was the shadow of the Extraordinary of the Path of Destiny.

This series of things are connected, it seems that his fate has been arranged by someone somewhere.

So can you use the Hall of Stars to let yourself escape the influence of fate as much as possible?

Make a destiny that jumps out of destiny?

This is obviously impossible, because no matter what kind of fate it is, it is still fate, and there cannot be a fate beyond fate.

Then you can only reduce or get rid of the effect of fate on yourself as much as possible.

How should such rules be formulated?
Hastur was in trouble again, lost in thought.

This is not something he can determine in a day or two, and he still has time to think slowly.

……

At six o'clock in the morning, Hastur woke up from a deep sleep. With the physique of a barbarian, his sleep time can be greatly reduced, and four hours of sleep a day is enough.

When he got up, he went to the study and continued to read legal books.

Around 08:30, after breakfast, Hastur asked the coachman to go to the countryside.

With nothing to do, he planned to go to the village where the old man lived and erect a monument for him. This was the only thing he could do for the old man.

In the story told by the old man, he has no relatives, friends, or children and grandchildren, but lives alone in a secluded small village in the suburbs.

The distance in the outskirts is a bit far, and with the bumpy carriage, it took nearly four hours for Hastur to arrive at the small village.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and adjacent to water on one side, it is indeed a place suitable for the elderly.

However, for the villagers here, such a terrain pattern is the root cause of their poverty and backwardness.

There are many mountains and few plains, and there are no rare mines nearby, so no company will come here to invest and build factories to stimulate economic growth.

The arrival of Hastur has attracted the attention of many people. This place is quite a distance from the city, and few nobles would come to this place on weekdays.

I heard that Hastur came to look for the old man, and the villagers were discussing in private, could it be that the grandson of the old man came to look for relatives?
A young man in charge of leading the way was very talkative. He didn't need Hastur to speak too much, he would tell everything he knew one by one.

The old man can be regarded as a strange person in the village. Although he came from a foreign country and lived alone, there was always enough meat at home.

According to the hunters who went to the mountains to hunt, the old man was very familiar with the mountain environment and was very good at hunting. As long as he wandered around the mountains, he could have enough meat for a week.

On weekdays, the old man would occasionally exchange his prey with the villagers for some daily necessities. The price was very fair, so the villagers had a pretty good relationship with him.

Under the leadership of the young man, Hastur came to the old man's house and opened the door. There were not many things in the room, but everything was neatly arranged.

Hastur thought to himself that this should be a habit cultivated by the old man for many years in the military.

He didn't bother the old man's house too much, but asked the young man to help him get a set of old man's clothes, and bought a small cemetery, buried the clothes in it, and erected a monument for the old man.

It read: A Penitent, A Warrior Forever.

After finishing all this, Hastur took out 1 gold pound and handed it to the busy young man, and then returned in a carriage under the strange eyes of the villagers.

As for lunch, he bought some local bread in the village, dealt with it a little, and had a big meal when he returned.

On the carriage, Hastur looked at the mountains in the distance and thought about it.

It is very difficult for him to play the role of a barbarian in the metropolis of Backlund, and it is easy to attract the attention of others.

But if he was in the suburbs, close to the mountains, would it be easier for him to act as a barbarian?
For barbarians, wildness is also a very important point.

Nothing liberates the wild like a natural setting.

It's just that in the suburbs far away from the urban area, the risk factor is relatively high.

You can consider letting Maric act as your bodyguard for a period of time. If Miss Sharon is also willing to come, it will be safer.

Hasta thinks this method is very feasible. It just so happens that he also has a large manor in the outskirts of the country, and he hasn't visited it yet.

Just go and have a look, don't be ruined by mosquitoes, snakes and rats.

(End of this chapter)