Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 151: Encountering a Witch in the Wilderness

Faced with Miss Eleanor's sudden attack and the tense atmosphere, Odysseus remained calm: "I was just curious. I went to the village that was burned down twenty years ago. That shouldn't be Miss Eleanor's home."

Eleanor looked at Odysseus for a few seconds before saying, "That was once my home."

Odysseus volunteered, "But it was destroyed by an accidental fire, wasn't it?"

He noticed that when Eleanor was speaking, the servants around her looked cautious and did not dare to speak. Even Brad, the owner of the castle, did not dare to join in the conversation between the two.

"It wasn't an accident!" Eleanor suddenly took a deep breath and said, "Someone set the fire on purpose. They wanted to burn me to death! They wanted to burn me to death!"

Brad looked horrified: "Oh my God, there is such a thing.

"Fortunately, fortunately you escaped."

Eleanor regained her beautiful smile: "Yes, luckily I escaped."

Odysseus noticed that the atmosphere around him was finally not as tense as before.

He had just breathed a sigh of relief when Eleanor suddenly asked, "You are a wizard, right?"

Odysseus smiled and said, "It's just a few tricks."

"Brad said your witchcraft is powerful."

Odysseus laughed and said, "No matter how powerful the witchcraft is, it is just witchcraft."

Eleanor nodded: "That's right."

Then she looked straight at Odysseus and said, "Did you come up with any results from your investigation this afternoon?"

Seeing that beautiful look, Odysseus's mind suddenly went blank: "There's a result..."

He was surprised to find that he had to tell the person in front of him all the results of his investigation.

Her charming eyes were fascinating, and her beautiful face made people's hearts flutter. Odysseus felt that he could not bear to deceive such a beautiful girl.

But Odysseus's inner alarm bells were ringing. He knew that there was something wrong with this woman, there must be something wrong.

So Odysseus paused and tried to look away. Just completing this action made him sweat profusely.

At this time, Eleanor suddenly stood up. Some of the servants around her took out their knives, while others picked up vases and other decorations around them as weapons and slowly approached Odysseus.

Odysseus realized the danger and quickly put on the black glove he named "Hand of Judgment" (Note 1). Suddenly, he exuded a subtle majesty.

Eleanor was slightly stunned and sat down again. The servants around her also slowly retreated and returned to their seats.

With the help of the gloves, Odysseus dared to look at Eleanor again.

"I...my investigation results show that everything here is normal." Odysseus forced a smile.

After learning that Eleanor was not a ghost, Odysseus guessed that she was an extraordinary person from the path of 'Death', but he just realized that he was wrong, and very wrong!

Eleanor also smiled and said, "What a reassuring result."

As she spoke, she looked at Brad who was standing beside her. The lord, who had been in a daze just now, seemed to come back to his senses suddenly: "That's great, I can finally be at ease with Miss Eleanor."

Odysseus suddenly stood up and said, "I'm sorry, my appetite is not very good, so I won't eat dinner."

Then he said to Brad, "The investigation here is over. I will leave early tomorrow morning."

He actually said this to Eleanor. He knew that Eleanor was under pressure from the "Hand of Judgment" gloves and did not intend to fight him immediately.

So Odysseus took the initiative to admit defeat, hoping to delay time.

After saying this, Odysseus returned to the second floor, to his room.

He breathed a sigh of relief and looked at his pocket watch. It was only 6:20.

Then Odysseus paid attention to the situation outside while wondering what kind of extraordinary person Eleanor was?
Judging from Eleanor’s performance just now, she should be an extraordinary person of the “Witch” path, but why are the servants controlled by Eleanor?

Suddenly, Odysseus recalled the disturbing symbol on the altar on the mountain top. He guessed that Eleanor's strange ability must be related to that symbol. (Note: 2)

Boom~
Suddenly, a huge noise was heard in the mountains. Odysseus quickly looked out the window. It was already dark, but he could still vaguely see a cloud of dust floating on the road leading from the castle to the outside world.

He immediately had a bad premonition.

dong dong dong~
Soon there was a knock on the door.

Odysseus asked, "Who?"

"Mr. Wizard, it's me."

The voice belonged to the head butler. He said, "Mr. Brad asked me to tell you that there was a sudden landslide. We can't leave here for the time being. I have no choice but to ask you to stay here for a few more days."

Odysseus replied gloomily, "I know."

The first thing that came to his mind was that Eleanor had learned that he had asked for help from the official Extraordinary, so she blocked the road and prevented the official Extraordinary from arriving.

But Odysseus thought about it and realized that they were official extraordinary people, not eighty-year-old old ladies. Even if a landslide occurred and blocked the road, they would immediately abandon the car and rush to support as quickly as possible.

It was only ten or twenty minutes later than expected.

If Eleanor was trying to delay time, he should have taken action immediately after the landslide.

But she did not rush up to fight, but just asked someone to tell her that there was a landslide.

So Odysseus thought that Elinor's action was just to prevent him from escaping. But a new question arose: why did she keep him?

After thinking it over again and again, Odysseus thought that it might be because he was an extraordinary person. Odysseus had heard from Max that some believers of evil gods not only liked to use ordinary people as sacrifices, they also preferred to use extraordinary people with stronger spirituality as sacrifices.

Odysseus smiled helplessly. He originally thought that he was here to destroy a vengeful spirit or ghost, but he didn't expect that the situation was completely out of his control.

As Odysseus thought about it, he took off his loose wizard robe, revealing the knight's uniform underneath that was convenient for him to move in.

But Odysseus did not take off his hat. He could feel that he had lost a lot of hair because of wearing the "Hand of Judgment". He used the hat to hold the hair back to prevent it from falling and being used by others.

At the same time, Odysseus replaced several of the extraordinary weapons he had taken out before. Originally, all his preparations were to deal with the extraordinary people from the "Death" path, but the problem was that the opponent was not an extraordinary person from this path.

After making preparations, Odysseus planned to jump out of the window and leave to meet up with the official Beyonder.

It would be even better if Eleanor caught up with him. After Odysseus met up with the official Beyonders, he could turn around and give her a head-on attack.

dong dong dong~
Just then, there was another knock on the door.

Odysseus ignored him and was about to jump down when he opened the window when he heard Brad's voice outside: "Mr. Wizard, it's me! Open the door quickly, I have something very important to talk to you about."

Odysseus was slightly stunned, drew his sword with one hand and opened the door with the other.

Brad hurried in and said in horror, "I saw and heard everything just now!

"Eleanor has become the master here, and the servants all obey her orders..."

Odysseus looked at the lord coldly. In the afternoon, he noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the head butler, so he did not let the head butler report to the "Mechanical Heart" and told the head butler that he had found nothing.

Just now, he had clearly felt that there was something wrong with everyone in the castle. They had all become Eleanor's spies and puppets.

Brad saw Odysseus's expression and suddenly realized something. He quickly took out a pendant with the "Holy Emblem of the Night" from his clothes: "I have this!"

He said, "This was given to me by the pastor of the Church of Darkness. He said it can help me ward off disasters and evil temptations.

“Today I realized that it was this pendant that kept me sane.

"From just now on, I have been pretending to be a puppet. In fact, I have never lost my mind."

Odysseus took a look at the pendant and smiled, "I didn't expect you to have such a skill."

Brad asked, "What should we do?"

"What else can I do?" Odysseus spread his hands and said, "I am no match for Eleanor, so I plan to escape overnight."

"Please take me with you!" Brad said, "If you can help me escape, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

Odysseus said: "It's already very difficult for me to escape by myself..."

"800 pounds!"

"Yes, sir." Odysseus smiled and said, "I have a way to get you to leave here with me!"

Brad breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great."

Odysseus suddenly said, "How about we go hide in Lady Eleanor's village?"

Brad was a little surprised: "Why go there?"

"Emperor Roselle once said that often the most dangerous place is also the safest place." Odysseus smiled.

In fact, he thought of using this method to attract Eleanor's attention and continue to delay time.

Brad nodded: "The wisdom of the Great Emperor is always admirable."

"Let's go." After saying that, Odysseus put on his cloth bag, sprinkled a handful of powder, grabbed Brad's collar, and jumped out of the window.

Brad opened his mouth and screamed. Just when they were about to fall to the ground, Odysseus suddenly stretched out his legs and walked forward leisurely. The two of them seemed to draw a beautiful parabola and flew towards the woods.

In the castle, Eleanor watched all this quietly, and the corners of her mouth suddenly curled up into a smile.

On the other side, Odysseus took Brad quickly into the woods and climbed towards the top of the mountain.

Soon, a thin mist rose in the woods, but the two men did not slow down and ran towards the top of the mountain.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Brad, panting heavily, stretched out his hand to support a tree and said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

Odysseus turned around and asked: "You can't run anymore?"

"No... no," Brad said breathlessly, "Didn't you notice? We're lost."

Odysseus smiled and said, "Let's go, we are not lost."

Brad pointed to the tree branch in front of him: "I've seen that tree three times..."

slap~
Something suddenly fell and hit his outstretched arm.

Brad looked down and saw what looked like a shoe.

Then he suddenly looked up and saw a corpse hanging above his head. It was missing a shoe and was swaying in the breeze, as if it was doing a strange dance.

　Note 1: Uh, the name of this sealed object has been changed.

　　Note 2: The setting is that Odysseus has only read "Lord of Mysteries" and has not read "The Ring of Fate", so he does not know the information about the "Giver".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)