Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 318 Hunting with Gehrman Sparrow
Odysseus, the Hermit, explained, "I just heard that the Fountain of Youth is most likely a ritual for the ascension of the Undying King. It's a complete scam."

The other members were all stunned, and "Priestess" Cattleya immediately thought: Did the "Queen" tell him this?
After listening to Miss Justice's analysis just now, everyone actually felt that there was something wrong with the "Fountain of Youth", but they didn't expect it to be like this.

Emlyn the Moon asked, "Mr. Hermit, what sequence of advancement is this ceremony?"

"It's said to be a Sequence 4 advancement." Odysseus recalled, "The Sequence 4 of the 'Demon' path is called 'Devil'."

Klein the Fool thought to himself: This sequence sounds cunning just by the name.

Alger, the Hanged Man, was somewhat surprised: "The 'Undead King' is only a Sequence 5?"

Logically speaking, the "King of the Sea" should usually be a demigod.

Odysseus replied, "I heard that the 'Undead King' is indeed a Sequence 5, but his flagship, the 'Death Announcement', appears to be a demigod-level ghost ship.

"It's equivalent to a Sequence 5 holding a Level 1 Sealed Artifact."

Alger nodded slowly. That was equivalent to having the power of a demigod.

Although the other members were somewhat surprised by the news about the "Fountain of Youth" and the "Immortal King", after thinking about it carefully, they felt that the information provided by the "Hermit" was very reasonable.

After a few seconds of silence in the hall, Alger glanced at the Hermit and said, "I just received intelligence that the Argo and the Golden Dream reunited in the Sonia Sea last week and sailed east together."

Audrey, the "Justice," Fors, the "Magician," and the others all looked at the "Hermit."

According to recent conversations within the Tarot Club, they already have a good understanding of much of the information at sea. After all, of the nine members of the Tarot Club, four are currently at sea...

Actually, there are five, because Klein alone occupies two places, "The Fool" and "The World".

Because they all work on the sea, they often talk about some maritime intelligence during the communication process. After listening to it many times, they are very clear about some things on the sea.

For example, they knew that the "Argo" was the flagship of "Admiral Arcanum", also known as "Hermit", and the "Golden Dream" was the flagship of "Vice Admiral Iceberg".

Odysseus said frankly, "I also went to the 'Ruins of the War of Gods' for some business, and I met the 'Priestess' lady in the Sonia Sea."

Cattleya nodded, confirming what the Hermit said.

Because in a few days, the news that the fleet of three ships, "Future", "Golden Dream" and "Argo", appeared in the port of Toscat will spread to the Raging Sea, and the "Hanged Man" will definitely hear this information, so there is no need to conceal it.

Alger was stunned for a moment, wondering why the three "Pirate Generals" were going to the "Ruins of the Gods' War" together?
But after thinking about it, he felt that such speculation was meaningless, so he said: "I am ready. We can go explore Whale Island together."

Whale Island is the island where Deacon Dedil left his treasure. To be precise, Alger had explored it once in advance. When he encountered danger, he decisively stopped the exploration and prepared to explore it together with "The Hermit" and "The World".

Alger had been preparing for this treasure for a long time, and had already discussed with The World and The Hermit about exploring it together.

Odysseus thought for a moment and said, "I have time tomorrow."

Klein said, "I'm free tomorrow too."

Alger said, "You need to take a boat to Whale Island first. It's an uninhabited island in the middle of the Raging Sea, located..."

Odysseus smiled and said, "No need to bother. I'll take 'World' and 'Travel' to find you."

Alger, the Hanged Man, was stunned for a moment before saying, "Okay, okay."

Then the other members realized that the "Hermit" had a magical item that was comparable to the "Traveler" and could use the ability to "travel".

Klein and Magician Fors were aware of this and were not surprised.

Odysseus said to Alger, "Tell us the general situation so we can be prepared."

"Okay." Alger first asked The Fool to establish a private communication environment, and then said, "I have conducted preliminary exploration. There are some extraordinary creatures on that island, but they don't seem to be of very high level.

“But there is a strange stone on the island, and my soul feels threatened.

"And the animals on the island seemed to be in awe of the stone. When I approached it, they suddenly became very aggressive."

Klein manipulated the "world" to ask, "Any clues about where the treasure is buried?"

"No," Alger said, "I haven't dared to explore the entire island, so I don't know where the treasure is buried."

The World nodded.

Odysseus pinched his forehead and said, “Generally speaking, if there are strange sensations with the stones and trees on this kind of island, it’s not an easy problem to solve.

"We'll try to bypass that area and see if we can find a relatively safe road."

After a brief discussion, this private communication ended.

After returning to the discussion session, everyone chatted for a while before Klein said, "Let's stop here for today."

Everyone stood up and returned to the real world almost at the same time.

Odysseus opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling of the captain's room for a moment, then stood up to set up the altar, offering the extraordinary weapons he had prepared long ago and the extraordinary materials he had traded with Cattleya to The Fool.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the "Fool" informed Odysseus to perform the "Bestowal Ceremony". Soon, stacks of gold pounds and many extraordinary materials appeared on the altar.

这次奥狄斯进行了两轮情报交易，一次获得了4500的现金，以及10件序列9层次的非凡材料和6件序列8层次的非凡材料。

Another intelligence transaction resulted in £3000 in cash.

I also traded extraordinary materials with Cattleya and received 580 pounds in cash.

The extraordinary weapons traded with "Sun" Derrick obtained 11 pieces of sequence 9 level extraordinary materials.

所以最终，奥狄斯拿到了8080镑现金，以及21件序列9层次的非凡材料和6件序列8层次的非凡材料。

This Tarot Club was a great success, and Odysseus suddenly felt rich again.

Especially those extraordinary materials traded with the "Sun", once they were sold by Odysseus, they were worth about 5000 pounds, but it would take some time to cash them out.

With this money, the construction funds for Cruz Island will be almost enough. After all, the places to spend money will start to decrease, and only the construction site on Lighthouse Hill will continue for some time.

Cruz Island's current income mainly comes from magic potions and robbing merchant ships. With fewer places to spend money, expanding the magic potion business will basically be enough to cover daily expenses.

Odysseus would occasionally fight pirates and sell some intelligence to the Tarot Club, which was enough to cover the expenses of Cruz Island.

After putting away the cash and extraordinary materials, Odysseus came to the studio. He had some free time today, so he planned to design a new generation of "extraordinary puppets" with the help of the "alchemy glasses".

In the future, the use of "Extraordinary Puppets" will be greater, and "Extraordinary Puppets" that need to handle more complex problems must look more like real humans to adapt to more complex usage environments.

After dinner, Odysseus went to the deck and looked at the small port city in front of him. After saying hello to the crew on duty in the wheelhouse, Odysseus went ashore and planned to take a stroll on land.

After strolling around for dozens of minutes and tasting some local specialties, Odysseus entered a bar, but he found that although this should be the busiest time for bar business, there were not many people in the bar.

I went to the bar and asked, and found out that there was a fighting match next door, and many people went to watch it.

Odysseus had no interest in fighting competitions, so he ordered a beer at the bar and chatted with the other drinkers while drinking.

The drinker next to him didn't take it too seriously at first, but soon he became very respectful because he recognized that the young man in front of him was the "Mysterious General".

I had heard that the ships of "Admiral Arcana" and "Vice Admiral Iceberg" were docked at the port and were replenishing supplies in Tuscat Port. I didn't expect to meet such a big shot in the bar.

As they were chatting, Odysseus's spirit seemed to sense something and looked towards the door of the bar.

Squeak.

The door of the bar was pushed open, and a young man in formal attire and with a stern expression appeared at the door. It was none other than German Sparrow, played by Klein.

Odysseus smiled and waved: "Let's have a drink together."

Klein, who had just tried out his upgraded abilities, recalled how Captain Gar had made 900 pounds off him at today's Tarot meeting. So he asked, "You treat?"

"It's my treat." Odysseus smiled and said, "Order anything you want within 1 soli."

At this price, you can basically only order beer.

Klein didn't mind. He ordered a beer and was about to drink it when both of them felt their spirits touched at the same time and looked towards the door.

A man of medium build, purple lips and brown eyes appeared at the door. He turned out to be the second mate of the "Undead King" Agaritu, the "Slayer" Gilchies, who had a bounty of 9500 pounds.

Before Odysseus could react, Klein had already pulled out his revolver and shot Gilchias.

Gilchies simply dodged the shot by turning sideways and gave a malicious smile.

Of course, he also recognized Klein, or rather, recognized Gehrman Sparrow.

Just as Gilchies was about to fight back, he saw that the person sitting next to German Sparrow was actually the "Secret Admiral" Odysseus Gall!

Gilchiais immediately felt a strong sense of malice. As an "Apostle of Desire", he could immediately sense if someone wanted to harm him.

The reason why Gilchies did not feel such a great danger just now was mainly because the "Admiral of Mystery" had not recognized him yet.

At this moment, in Odysseus's view, the people standing at the door of the tavern were a pile of walking gold pounds.

Although Odysseus had enough money to spend, he certainly would not refuse the gold pounds since they were delivered to his door.

He immediately pulled out the "Staff of Gus" and poured the "Star Sand" into the staff, causing the crystal on the top of the staff to glow brightly.

In fact, Odysseus has a "grape leaf" that has a restraining effect on demons.

But the grape leaf can only be used a limited number of times, and as Odysseus's strength grows, if he uses the grape leaf again, he can deal with higher-level demons, so there is no need to waste it on Gilchies.

So when the drinkers were dodging in panic because of the sudden gunshots, Odysseus had already made a decision to use his extraordinary ability to deal with the "Apostle of Desire" in front of him.

After Gilchies saw the two people in front of the bar clearly, he turned around and ran without hesitation.

Behind him was a short-haired woman with two guns drawn, and a burly man wearing boxing gloves. Seeing the second mate's reaction, they seemed to understand something and followed him to escape.

Of course Odysseus would not let them leave. He used the extraordinary ability of the "Travel Ring" to "flash" to the door of the bar, raised the "Staff of Gus", and immediately on the crystal at the top of the staff appeared a number of Gal runes that looked like solidified starlight, and then a pure beam of light fell.

This is Odysseus's "imitation" of the "holy light" of the "Sacrifice of Light". Theoretically speaking, Odysseus's "imitation" of the "star sand" and the Gal rune cannot be compared with the real "holy light".

But after being strengthened by the "Staff of Gus", the beam of light that descended from the sky was almost the same as the real "holy light".

The "Holy Light" is very powerful in restraining the power of "Demons". Gilchies and his companions are all on the "Criminal" path, that is, extraordinary people on the "Demon" path. They are avoiding the "Holy Light" at the fastest speed.

But the woman with the two guns still ran a little slower and was affected by the "Holy Light". Amid her shrill screams, her exposed skin showed signs of melting like a burnt candle.

This made her rush into the shadows on the street, as if to avoid the sudden strong sunlight.

Odysseus took advantage of this opportunity, put on his boxing gloves, and punched Gilchias hard.

At this moment, Gilchias had just dodged the "Holy Light" in a panic, and was hit by a "Mind Piercing" attack from Klein who was following closely behind. He fell to the ground with a face full of pain.

Odysseus struck the second mate of the Deathly Hallows with a blow.

Harvest!

Gilchiais was instantly severely injured. His other gloved companion suddenly grew taller and larger, transforming into a demon in an instant.

He has a huge body of about three meters tall. His skin looks dull, but it is actually dark and evil. The curved goat horns on his head are covered with countless mysterious patterns. A pair of giant bat-like wings grow from his back, wrapped in light blue flames, and emit a strong smell of sulfur.

After seeing the Second Officer being besieged by Admiral Arcana and German Sparrow, the "devil" summoned a series of light blue fireballs and threw them at Admiral Arcana.

Just as Odysseus was about to throw a second punch, he had to stop attacking temporarily and fly into the air to avoid the fireball.

As he flew up, the "Staff of Gus" in his hand became brighter, and suddenly two small balls emitting starlight appeared. One circled around Odysseus, and the other flew towards Klein and circled around him.

These two balls of light are Odysseus's transformation of "witchcraft", which can prevent himself from having too big emotional fluctuations and effectively prevent Gilchis from controlling their desires.

This "witchcraft" is actually the "witchcraft" that Odysseus developed by studying the "demon" path and the corresponding abilities of the "broken-winged angel".

"Witchcraft" was originally invented to suppress the negative power of the "Faceless Pendant", and it was only later that it was thought of that it could be used to deal with the "Apostle of Desire".

It was not until this time that the people on the street began to react one after another. Regardless of whether they knew about the existence of extraordinary powers or not, their first reaction was to find a place to hide quickly.

In mid-air, Odysseus casually threw out an "Ice and Snow Scroll", and the fireball following it was directly frozen in the air.

Klein's attack on Gilchies followed closely, and the gloves on his hands turned golden, and another pure "holy light" fell.

A pair of bat wings suddenly emerged from Gilchies's back, and many light blue mystical symbols swirled around the second mate of the "Death Announcement".

He used his "demonized" body to resist the "holy light".

This caused his bat wings to collapse and evaporate a lot.

At this time, the "devil" came to help, holding a giant sword made of red magma and light blue flames.

Klein glanced at Odysseus in mid-air, immediately took a step back, and then looked at the "demon".

The next second, the "demon's" movements suddenly became slow, and Klein began to manipulate the "spiritual thread."

He just suddenly realized that neither he nor Odysseus had very high defense, and they had fought in a hurry, so it was obvious that Odysseus had not been able to wear all the magical items.

The opponent, after being "demonized", has extremely high attack and defense power. If he cannot deal with these two demons in a short time, they may be injured. So he simply delays the "demon" and hands the "Apostle of Desire" to Odysseus.

At the same time, Gilchias looked up at Odysseus in mid-air with a malicious look: "Die!"

A brilliant light immediately burst out from the "Staff of Gus" in Odysseus's hand, and the starlight attached to Odysseus's body surface, blocking Gilchias's "dirty words" from entering.

At this time, Gilchias flapped his wings, which had collapsed and deformed severely, and actually flew up. A big sword made of magma and flames appeared in his hand, and he rushed towards Odysseus in mid-air.

Odysseus took advantage of this opportunity and used a "Scale Armor Scroll" on himself.

The starlight on the "Staff of Gus" flickered, and a thick lightning bolt struck down from the sky, hitting Gilchies' head right on the head, knocking him to the ground with smoke coming out of his head.

Before Gilchies could launch a new attack, a beam of "holy light" like a beam of light fell again. As the second mate of the "Death Announcer" dodged in panic, his spirit seemed to suddenly grasp something, which was the desire of the "Admiral of Mystery" to win!

Gilchies gritted his teeth and endured the "Holy Light", detonating the desire of the "Admiral of Mystery".

The corners of Odysseus' mouth suddenly curled up, revealing a faint smile. At this time, he held the "Staff of Gus" in his right hand and a scroll that had just exploded in his left hand.

This scroll was made from the demigod-level spiritual material of the "Lawyer" path that he obtained from Admiral Amyrius through research.

It can cause the target's perception to become "confused" as required by the scroll user.

In the battle just now, Odysseus saw that he could not kill this "Apostle of Desire" quickly, so he first used "witchcraft" that could reduce emotional fluctuations.

Moreover, he was neither hurried nor slow in this battle, and tried not to have any desire. Of course, he would not have such an obvious desire when he had a clear advantage at this time.

It was the "Scroll of Chaos" that caused Gilchias to make a serious misjudgment. As a result, not only did he fail to detonate Odysseus's desire, he was also covered by the "Holy Light".

He originally thought that if he could hold on for two or three seconds, the power of the "Holy Light" would end.

But Odysseus continued to infuse spirituality into the "Staff of Gus", so the "Holy Light" lasted for 6 seconds, 7 seconds, 8 seconds, and ended at the 9th second.

Klein, who was standing by, saw this scene and couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Eternal Sun" forgot to turn off the flashlight!

At first he thought that Odysseus had some magical item from the "Sun" path, but now it doesn't seem like that.

When the bright light faded away, the whole body of Gilchias, who had just been "demonized" to be more than three meters tall, had collapsed. If he had not burned both of his "goat horns", his spirit would have been severely damaged and he would have become a fool who could only praise the sun.

Gilchies was not dead yet, but he was very weak at this time. He quickly turned into a ball of dark sticky liquid. This ball of liquid moved quickly, and he hoped to escape from here as soon as possible.

The starlight on the "Staff of Gus" was still shining, and beams of starlight shone around the viscous liquid, which solidified instantly and formed a dazzling "starlight cage" that temporarily trapped Gilchies.

Odysseus flew over and threw another punch with his hand wearing the "harvesting gloves".

Harvest!

The second mate of the "Death Announcer", who was extremely weak and seriously injured, was "harvested" by Odysseus on the spot. The liquid solidified and turned into a corpse like a melted wax figure.

Odysseus took a look at the "Staff of Gus" in his hand and felt the enhancement of his own abilities brought by the staff.

Then he looked at the "demon" controlled by Klein over there. Odysseus once again injected spirituality into the "Staff of Gus", and the bright starlight formed solid Gal runes on the head of the staff.

Suddenly, a light like the morning light gathered around the "Staff of Gus" and surrounded the staff, forming a sharp, broad giant sword emitting the light of the morning light.

Odysseus stepped forward quickly and chopped off the "devil's" head with one sword.

At this time, Klein and Odysseus both noticed that the woman holding two guns had escaped.

Odysseus flew into the air and looked for a while, then opened an illusory door in the air and disappeared into the air.

He reappeared a few seconds later, having thrown the female corpse, whose face had been somewhat "melted," to the ground.

The streets were still quiet at this time, but Odysseus and Klein were well aware that many eyes were quietly watching them from corners.

Odysseus looked at the three corpses in front of him and said, "The bounty on Gilchies is 9500 pounds. There are also bounties on his two subordinates. I'll go back and check."

Klein, who was well-versed in pirate bounties, said in a stern tone, "4600 pounds for one, 1000 pounds for the other."

Odysseus rubbed his hands and said, "What a great harvest!"

He paused and continued, "I'll go claim the bounty. I can get the full amount! As for the other three Beyonder Characteristics..."

Klein suddenly said, "I hope to obtain the Beyonder attribute of the 'Apostle of Desire' so that I can reduce the bounty."

Odysseus nodded. "This is a Sequence 5 trait after all. How about a discount of 8000 pounds? You'll save 4000 pounds on your bounty."

Klein said, "No problem. Wait for me."

As he spoke, he pulled up Gilchies's much lighter body and used the "flame jump" method to reach the corner of the street, and quickly completed the "grazing"

Odysseus went to search the other two bodies and collect the spoils. He took off the gloves of the "devil", and it was indeed a magical item.

And on the woman's body, Odysseus found a piece of loot that surprised him: a copy of "Combat Compendium".

Odysseus took a quick look and saw that the other party was reading very seriously. He even wrote down his own thoughts and admiration for the author in the blank space of the book.

Odysseus smiled helplessly and said to the female corpse: "Next time, if you take out this book earlier, you can save your life!"

But unfortunately, there will be no next time.

When Klein returned, Odysseus had already used "Star Sand" to deal with the corpse. Specifically, he used a beam of light to shatter the body below the neck, so that the Beyonder characteristics could be formed in advance.

After smashing Gilchies' body, Odysseus took off his windbreaker and put the three heads away as a bundle. He then pointed to the other two and said, "One has the characteristics of 'demon' and the other has the characteristics of 'serial killer'."

He asked Klein, "Do you have a way to sell these two features?"

Crane is still playing German Sparrow: "No."

"Neither do I." Odysseus smiled and said, "Maybe there's a chance to make it into a magical item. After all, the power of the 'demon' is quite useful.

"How about selling one to me for 3000 pounds and the other for 1000 pounds? That way you can get an extra 2000 pounds."

Klein really had no use for the two characteristics, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

Finally, it’s the boxing gloves. Odysseus has just identified them with the “Craftsman’s Pocket Watch”. This is a magical item that matches the “Arsonist” of the “Hunter” path.

"The negative effects aren't very strong." Odysseus said, "The estimated value is 1800 pounds. If you don't have any channels, how about I sell it to you?
"Well, you have two choices. One is to sell it to me now and get an extra 800 pounds in bounty. The other is to wait for a while and split it in half after I sell it."

Klein took a deep breath and said, "I'll take an extra 800 pounds."

He roughly calculated that he could still get more than 6,000 pounds in reward, so he made a lot of money by drinking this glass of wine today.

After quickly dividing the spoils, the two men quickly left separately.

Odysseus used "travel" directly to Cruz Island and handed the three heads to Tim, an officer sent by the navy, and asked him to exchange them for the bounty.

In recent times, the "Sword of Dawn" has launched continuous attacks, destroying several warships of the Fenaport Navy and repeatedly looting cargo ships passing through the Central Channel, causing considerable losses to Fenaport, Masi and other countries.

Admiral Amyrius was very satisfied with their contributions, which was why he had agreed to a semi-public meeting with Odysseus.

As the liaison officer, Tim also had the opportunity to be promoted. He attached great importance to the task assigned by the captain and said that he would receive the bounty tomorrow.

Back on the Argo, Odysseus was in a good mood and took out the demigod-level spiritual materials to study them.

Unknowingly, he had collected a lot of demigod-level spiritual materials.

The first scales collected were from the "former sea god" Kalvetua. Now Odysseus mainly uses these scales to make "scale armor scrolls".

After reaching Sequence 5, the power of the "Scale Armor Scroll" was further strengthened. Physical attacks below the level of Demigod were almost ineffective, and most Beyonder abilities below the level of Demigod could be defended.

Skills like "Harvest", which can ignore defense, or "Sword of Dawn" from the "Warrior" path, can also block one or two attacks.

Other spiritual materials include the "Stone of Iron Law" seized from the Abraham family's warehouse; the "Black Spider" previously seized from the church of the "Ancient Sun God";
Because he destroyed the trap of the "Rose School", he obtained the spiritual materials of the "Lawyer" path and the demigod level from Admiral Amyrius; and the spiritual materials of the "Monster" path from the "School of Life".

This time, we went to the "Ruins of the God War" and used the fruit of the "Healing Tree" to obtain spiritual materials at the demigod level of the "Reader" path;
Later on the island, the fruit that Bernadette obtained from the huge tree that reached into the sky was the spiritual material of the demigod level of the "audience" path.

These materials can be used to make scrolls with special abilities, which increases the number of high-level scrolls in Odysseus's bag and enriches the abilities he can use.

Previously, Odysseus had asked the two intelligent puppets in the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to write a lot of "common scrolls", and he originally thought that he would not need to write scrolls for several months.

But he didn't expect that after he went to the "Ruins of the War of Gods" and obtained the "Staff of Gus", he could "imitate" the abilities of many other methods and didn't need ordinary scrolls at all.

So these scrolls became inventory, just like the "thunderstorm bombs" before.

Odysseus thought about it and decided to open a "scroll shop" in Bayam to sell the inventory. Even if the inventory was sold out, he could write more and sell more.

So Odysseus made a general plan and planned to assign this task to Mandy after exploring the island that Alger mentioned tomorrow.

After a night's rest, the next morning, as the "Argo" and "Golden Dream" set sail, Odysseus used "Travel" to find Klein, and the two went to meet up with the "Hanged Man".

(End of this chapter)