Mystery: Lucky One

Following Silver City's practice, Lovia was quarantined for two weeks. When he came out, Derrick and Hillmon had already completed their promotions.

Lovia was not willing to lag behind. She was promoted to "Black Knight" the day after she ended her quarantine. As she said, she had obtained the potion materials and formula, and the ritual had been completed. The only thing left was to take the potion.

The three of them spent some time steadying their spirits and familiarizing themselves with their energy. Alice took this time to outsource the task of bringing people here to Klein.

Alice told Klein that as long as he enveloped the residents of a city with spirituality and then raised the "Star Staff", he could move the entire city's residents over. Of course, it would be best to gather them together beforehand so that it would be easier to operate.

Klein believed it, but when the time came, he realized that in reality, he had no way of wrapping up everyone with his spirituality!

Fortunately, in this respect, the "Star Staff" is completely consistent with other methods of movement. It regards multiple connected things as a whole, even if they are many individuals.

So he had to let everyone grab each other, and in this way, he brought everyone back to the Silver City.

Alice rolled on the ground laughing as she listened to this story. It was obvious that she had expected this to happen. So Klein looked at her expressionlessly until she laughed until her stomach hurt. Then she stopped and asked Klein:
"In that case, why don't you bring them back one by one? Or summon a few more historical projections of the 'Star Staff'..."

……Neuropathy!

Klein turned around and left, determined not to waste time talking to her, and rushed to the next city without stopping.

Residents who did not belong to Silver City should be quarantined underground after entering Silver City. Most of the underground of the tower in Silver City could not accommodate so many people. Alice did not have the patience to wait for them to be quarantined, so the chief explained the situation. This group of special guests seemed to have been anticipated. They stayed a little further outside Silver City, which was the area visited by the patrol team on a daily basis.

There they pitched their tents and lit a campfire, apparently intending to set up a short camp.

The second wave of people followed suit, and then there was the third wave, the fourth wave…

The people of Moon City were the last to arrive. After the High Priest Nim of Moon City had finished communicating with the Chief of Silver City Colin, he was about to leave with his people when Alice suddenly called him.

"Where is your sealed artifact?" she asked, "the one that has the characteristics of 'Doom Mage' and part of 'Chaos Walker'."

Nim was stunned for a moment, then turned to the member responsible for carrying the seal. A middle-aged man came out and told Alice:
“Here I am.

"Do you need it, Miss Fortune?"

Alice shook her head, and then said, "Take it out and let me see it."

There was nothing to be embarrassed about. The middle-aged man immediately reached out to his body, then his expression changed. He carefully touched it again and again, and finally raised his head and spoke in a confused and hesitant tone:

"It seems... lost..."

After a pause, he turned to the Moon City High Priest Nim and other Moon City residents with a serious expression, but before he could speak, he was stopped by Alice:

"Do not blame you.

"It's normal that you didn't notice the influence of the angel of 'fate'."

After saying this, she walked out regardless of the shocked looks of the others.

During the day, Alice visited several camps that had arrived earlier and asked them if they had any items related to the "Destiny" path and whether they were still preserved.

She quickly confirmed that Moon City was not a special case. There was another city that held a sealed object related to the "Chaos Walker", which was also lost today. It was said that it was lost by the hunting team that took the sealed object out.

Alice also left behind the information that the matter had been interfered with by the angel of "fate", and then left with her hands covering her twitching eyelids.

"Will..." Alice stopped walking in an empty corner, sighed softly, looked up at the starless sky, and whispered, "Are you nearby?"

When they were hiding something from each other, it was actually difficult for Alice and Will to discover each other's existence. Unless their lives were in danger, they would probably only realize that they were so close when they were face to face.

But this time, Will seemed to have no intention of concealing anything. He took away the seal of the demigod-level "Destiny" path, without disguising his purpose or hiding his existence - although it was impossible to hide the loss of the seal, it was still possible to erase his own traces.

After bullying the ground for more than ten minutes, Alice concluded that it was caused by her staying too long. Considering that Klein had brought all the people here and Silver City was almost ready, Alice immediately stated that she would set off for the "Giant King's Court" immediately.

Under Klein's persuasion, the matter was postponed until the next morning. Colin Iliad had no objection to this result. After all, this was something that had been planned for a long time and most of the preparations had been completed.

The next morning, they met in the chief room at the top of the round tower. When Colin saw Merlin Hermes come in, he was about to say hello, but his expression suddenly froze.

He watched Merlin Hermes walk in, smiling and nodding at everyone. The blonde girl followed behind with her eyes closed, holding Merlin Hermes's forearms with both hands as if she was holding a cane.

No, this...

Chief Colin's mind went blank for a moment. He looked at Merlin Hermes, who had no abnormal expression and even calmly pushed Alice down and pressed her into the seat. Finally, he coughed twice and was about to look around at everyone, but Alice suddenly sat up straight.

She opened her eyes after sitting up straight. After looking around, she looked at the chief who should be the source of the sound, covered her chest, and said as if relieved:

“I was scared to death…

"So it's not the teacher... Damn."

Klein looked at Alice expressionlessly, feeling extremely ashamed.

The Chief coughed again. Alice tilted her head and looked at him intently, as if she was going to listen carefully. So the Chief looked at Derrick, the third shortest person in the room, and asked solemnly:

"Are you ready?"

Alice also looked over. Derrick was holding a giant hammer. The handle of the hammer was shaped like a leg bone. The surface of the hammer was dark blue and surrounded by electric light.

Alice stared at the blue-purple electric light without blinking. Klein pulled her aside and asked in a low voice:

"What are you planning again?"

"Does that sound like static to you?" she whispered back.

Klein glanced at the giant hammer and asked after a few seconds of silence:

"…Will it have static electricity?"

"What is static electricity?" Derrick couldn't help but ask.

The chief stopped talking and looked at them. Lovia and the others also looked at them vaguely, as if they were very curious about this. Alice hesitated for two seconds and then said:

"This is a unique creature that lives in autumn and winter. They... Ouch!"

Klein slapped her on the head, interrupting her nonsense. He ignored her angry look, shook his head and explained:

"It's a phenomenon that sometimes when you touch something, you feel like you've been electrocuted." He didn't explain too much, and made it clear that he didn't want to go into detail. The others nodded thoughtfully and stopped asking questions. The chief looked at Derrick again and asked:

"Are you ready?"

Derrick nodded heavily and said, "I'm ready."

Colin then moved his gaze to look at Lovia and asked the same question:

"are you ready?"

Alice also looked at Lovia and found that she was no longer wearing the black robe with purple patterns as usual, but was wearing a dark armor.

Alice stared at the armor again. Lovia didn't notice. She moved her head slightly and said:

"No problem."

Colin Iliad once again looked at the other people in the room and asked them one by one, even Merlin Hermes. It was not until Alice that he showed a little hesitation.

The pause made Alice notice that the questions and answers that had been going on at a similar frequency had been delayed. She temporarily withdrew her gaze from Lovia's armor and looked at Chief Colin.

The chief met her gaze and asked calmly:
"Are you ready?"

Alice blinked and followed the others in replying:

"Ready."

After a pause, before Colin could speak, she curiously asked:

"What would you have done if I or anyone else had said that I wasn't ready?"

"I'll send him back to prepare," Colin explained calmly, "and then I'll ask who in the city is ready."

Alice returned to her seat silently.

Colin looked at Alice thoughtfully, and her shocking words from a long time ago, "Do I want to give birth too?" suddenly popped up in his mind.

...Your Highness is sometimes quite well-behaved.

After a silent sigh, Colin Iliad slowly walked to a wall, took down the two straight swords hanging on it, and carried them behind his back.

Alice looked at the two swords thoughtfully. She asked curiously:
"After you became the 'Silver Knight', did your attack power increase? What would happen if you hit me with your sword now?"

Chief Colin felt his brain go blank for a moment. He turned around and saw Alice asking sincerely. After two seconds of hesitation, he replied:
"I can try if you need me to."

“……?” Alice opened her mouth slightly and then closed it, then pulled Klein in front of her.

"Try him." She said seriously.

“…I haven’t become an angel yet, so I can’t be used as a reference.” Klein made way, allowing Alice to reappear in front of Chief Colin.

Alice and Colin looked at each other and blinked innocently, pretending to be stupid. Colin then said to the others:
"Set off."

His voice was calm, without much emotion. He simply gave an order and walked out of the room.

But the others did not move, but looked at Alice and Klein. Alice blinked and looked at Klein, who smiled slightly and followed. Alice hurriedly followed behind him.

Lovia and Derrick then led the team. Amid the sound of armor clashing, the team walked out of the room and went down the stairs.

The residents of Silver City gathered at the bottom, some leaning on the railings, or waiting at the stairs. They all stared at the team in front of them, but no one made a noise.

Alice spotted the members of the Silver City's "Six-Man Council" in the crowd, including the newly promoted "Silver Knight" Hillmon. They were not very close to the front, and most of the people at the front were young people.

Looking at Hillmon and then at Colin, Alice suddenly felt that she understood why the Chief wanted to wait for Hillmon to be promoted to "Silver Knight".

——This is to leave a spark.

She sighed imperceptibly, and after her eyes wandered between the two of them for a few seconds, she slowly retracted them.

...If he went on this exploration with the determination to die, then it would be a surprise if I brought him back alive and brought everyone back safe and sound, right?

I should like this kind of unexpected drama the most...

She lowered her head, pursed her lips, and began to make excuses for her sudden kindness.

A very light yet very heavy voice sounded in the gap between her thoughts. Alice looked up blankly and saw the Silver City resident beside her raising his right arm and putting his fist to his forehead.

Seeing Alice looking over, he didn't say anything, but forced a smile. Seeing this, Alice was silent for two seconds, then shook her head away with a snap.

She didn't look, but the Silver City residents around her were still doing so. As the team moved forward, more and more Silver City residents raised their right fists to their foreheads, like a silent farewell ceremony.

There was admiration and expectation in their eyes, but no one spoke. Only when they raised their right fists and lit the lanterns, a little sound was made.

Alice didn't like this atmosphere very much. She forced herself to walk out of the city wall. She finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked up, only to find that all the members of the exploration team from Silver City turned their heads back at the same time, even Klein.

“……?” Alice turned around.

The residents of Silver City did not leave. They all stood near the city gate and looked at them.

All of a sudden, the crowd of people raised their right arms and put their fists in front of their foreheads.

Alice pursed her lips and looked at the chief. Colin Iliad stared at him silently for a few seconds, closed his eyes, raised his right arm, and swung it forward:
"set off!"

Alice breathed a sigh of relief and turned around quickly. This action was not abrupt. Derrick and others also turned around quickly after this sound. Without any hesitation, they held the animal skin lanterns with firm movements and set out on the road ahead.

It was not until she had walked a few hundred meters with the team and could no longer see the scenery inside the City of Silver that Alice suddenly stopped, slapped her head as if awakened from a dream, and exclaimed:
"its not right!

"I could have taken you directly to Afternoon Town, to the Giant King's Court... Why should I leave?"

She blinked and looked up at the others in the team. (End of this chapter)