Mystery: Lucky One

"Wow!" Alice looked into the collection room with a look of delight and amazement, "What a feat!"

It's like this again... Edwina frowned again as she looked at Alice's reaction.

Too vivid, too lively, and too fake.

Edwina glanced at Alice, thought for a moment, and reminded her, "You should at least start to marvel after seeing what's inside."

It seems so... Alice thought what Edwina said made sense and looked inside.

She regained her expression of amazement.

There were several tables placed randomly in Edwina's collection room, with several cabinets standing next to them. There were many things in the cabinets and tables, and the collection was rich and diverse.

Alice's eyes searched the collection room and fell on a huge black iron key.

The key was casually placed on a wooden table. Alice pointed at the key and asked, "Is that the 'Key of Death'?"

"Yes," Edwina nodded slightly, "Here are some of the gains from our previous treasure hunts. You can look around."

Alice immediately ran over as if she had received permission and looked at the "Key of Death".

The key was more than one meter long. Even without considering its weight, Alice felt it was a bit too strange to lift it in her hands. She thought about it for a moment, recalled the way people held a guitar in TV dramas, and picked up the key.

The key was iron black and dull all day long. Alice silently memorized the pattern on it, and then began to explore the origin of the key using the method that a charlatan should use.

With her keen spiritual intuition, Alice did not look closely at the unimportant pictures and only focused on the most important frame.

It was dusk.

In the frozen dusk, there stood a magnificent complex of buildings. Alice could not see the details clearly, but she could feel the ancient atmosphere of the building.

Alice made those images disappear from her eyes, put the key back in its place, and decided to go back and ask Little Sun.

After thinking for a while, Alice turned her head again and said in a disembodied voice: "Dusk."

Before Edwina could say anything, Alice decisively withdrew her gaze and continued searching the table.

Next to the "Key of Death" was a book bound in parchment. There was a line of ancient Feysac language on the dark brown cover:

"Groselle's Travels".

"Groselle's Travels!" Alice's eyes lit up. "Is this the travelogue whose owners all disappeared?"

"German mentioned it to you?" Edwina nodded. "We found this travelogue in a sunken ship. It has been submerged for 165 years, but it is still intact."

Alice lowered her head in shock at the book in her arms, and remembered her outrageous words: "What's left after burning is the 'Blasphemy Card'."

She thought for a moment, then opened the book to a page, grabbed the two halves of the book, and tore it apart with force.

——She failed.

After two seconds of silence, Alice raised her head, looked at Edwina innocently and asked, "Do you know what this book is about?"

Edwina ignored Alice's attempt to tear up the book. She glanced at her and said, "Maybe you would prefer to read it yourself... This is a novel." It was actually a travel novel... Alice blinked, lowered her head and began to read.

The book's protagonist is a giant named Grosser, who decides to go to the Land of Icebergs to hunt the "King of the North," a powerful dragon...wait, why would he do such a thing?
Alice turned the page again in confusion, and found that the author had not written it.

Yeah, that's fine too...

Groselle met his first companion during his journey, a female elf named Siatas. How... how did they suddenly become familiar with each other?!

Alice was shocked. As she continued reading, she discovered that this was not an isolated case.

Groselle met many companions along the way, including the female elf Siatas, the devout ascetic Snowman, the noble of the Solomon Empire Mobet Zoroast, and the Loen soldier Longzel.

The book does not describe how the protagonists became familiar with each other. They met suddenly, became familiar with each other, and then decided to go together to fight the "King of the North". Alice thought she had missed something several times and went back to read it again.

The story comes to an abrupt end after the protagonists meet the "King of the North". Alice looks at the last few pages stuck together and falls into deep thought.

...The dog who stopped updating!

She gritted her teeth and looked up at Edwina, who explained:
"It was like this when we got it. The last few pages of the book were difficult to open no matter what we did."

"On the bright side," Alice cursed venomously, "the author may die of hunger before he finishes the work."

Edwina felt that she fully understood Alice's resentment, and she advised:
"Perhaps you could try to open it somehow, you're still on the ship after all."

Alice closed the book angrily, completely forgetting her previous speculation that the previous owners of the book might have traveled into the book, and cursed with gnashing teeth:
"There is no logic in this book! What a rubbish! The author must have starved to death!"

Edwina shut her mouth.

Alice threw Grossel's Travels back on the table and continued searching the room.

"This is a gold coin from the Solomon Empire in the Fourth Epoch." After noticing that Alice's eyes fell on a gold coin in a photo frame, Edwina took the initiative to introduce it.

Commemorative coins issued by the Solomon Empire... Alice automatically translated Edwina's words into a language she could understand, and moved closer to observe it carefully.

It is dark gold in color as a whole, as if it were made up of two semicircles of inconsistent sizes. It is extremely asymmetrical, and a pointed crown is engraved on its surface.

Quite beautiful... Alice looked at Edwina with sparkling eyes.

After looking at her for two seconds, Edwina took the initiative to suggest: "If the price is right, I can consider selling it to you."

Alice silently withdrew her gaze.

This is because she is unwilling to spend money... But she is actually quite obedient? Well, that's normal, after all, it's the "fate" path... Edwina looked at Alice thoughtfully and continued:
"All the collections in this collection room are like this, including the 'Key of the God of Death' and Groselle's Travels."

Alice began to think about the possibility of robbing the Church of the Lord of Storms again.

Or maybe I could instigate Amon to rob... No, that would have nothing to do with me, taking money from the Angel King of "Thieves"... Ahaha.

Alice was thinking about random things while looking around the room. Suddenly, her spirituality was touched and she subconsciously looked in the direction of the spirituality. (End of this chapter)