Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 360: Lieutenant General of Disease's Intention to Cooperate
At the Tarot Club, everyone was discussing an important research of Odysseus: using the "Gal Rune" to "express" extraordinary abilities.

This gave the other members a huge shock, because before this, they all felt that the extraordinary abilities of different paths were the result of extraordinary people utilizing the extraordinary characteristics of different paths.

This process is more like a "backroom operation". After becoming a Beyonder, everyone will naturally understand how to use the abilities of Beyonder characteristics.

But today, the "Hermit" suddenly said that it is possible to use the "Gal Rune" to perform certain calculations and arrangements, and ultimately "express" an extraordinary ability.

Even the "Priestess" Cattleya fell into deep thought, because in the "Scroll Professor" sequence, the scroll was written with mystical symbols, and the process was very similar to using mystical symbols to "manifest" an ability.

Odysseus continued, "It's not enough to just know how to use 'mystical symbols' to 'express' different Beyonder abilities. You also need the help of Beyonder characteristics to release this ability.

"Take my research on the 'Recorder' as an example. The 'occult symbols' arranged in a certain order actually serve as a guide. The specific 'implementation' still requires Beyonder characteristics.

"It's as if those 'occult symbols' are providing an instruction manual for Extraordinary Characteristics. Following these 'instructions', Extraordinary Characteristics can release their pre-recorded abilities.

"This requires certain Beyonder characteristics, and ordinary Beyonder characteristics cannot achieve this."

At this time, the only ones who could keep up with Odysseus's thinking were Klein the Fool, Cattleya the Priestess, and Alger the Hanged Man.

The other members were trying hard to understand and keep up with the description of the "hermit".

Odysseus continued, "Let me explain this another way. Sequence 7 of the Secret Peeper pathway is called the Wizard, and can use a variety of witchcraft.

"During my wizard phase, I invented over eighty kinds of witchcraft..."

Cattleya unconsciously revealed an expression of surprise, because at the "wizard" stage, she only knew 26 kinds of "witchcraft", which was already a very talented extraordinary person among "wizards".

"...The process of performing 'witchcraft' is to use spiritual materials and spells as a guide, allowing Beyonder characteristics to burst out with corresponding abilities, forming the effect of 'witchcraft'." Odysseus continued:
"In this process, the mantra and spiritual materials are the 'instructions'.

"And the 'Wizard' can not only use fire, but also ice, water, and fly. This is a display of the diversity of extraordinary characteristics.

"The 'Recorder' trait of 'Apprentice' and the 'Scholar' trait of 'Reader' both have similar characteristics."

"Justice" Audrey and other members nodded in agreement, now they understood.

Odysseus did not continue speaking, but gave everyone a few seconds.

After figuring it out, Emlyn asked, "What does this have to do with the 'miracle drug'..."

He was stunned for a moment before saying, "I understand. You used 'mystical symbols' to simulate the 'processing' process of the 'pharmacist' on the herbs. In this way, as long as you have enough spiritual power, you can continuously produce 'miracle medicines'!"

Odysseus smiled and nodded: "Yes, but this process also requires the help of the Beyonder characteristic of 'Pharmacist'."

Alger sighed, "That's a good deal! A feature like this would only cost 300 pounds at most, but the value it could create is simply immeasurable!"
This made Emlyn sigh: "Pharmacists are going to be out of work."

He himself is not too worried because he no longer relies on his ability as a "pharmacist" to make money.

"There's a difference between me and a real 'pharmacist,'" Odysseus said. "I can only sell certain medications in bulk, and I produce them before selling them. I'm not as flexible as a 'pharmacist.'"

The medicines sold in the "Magic Medicine" store now are all medicines for treating common diseases in the Five Seas and the North and South Continents. The vast majority of other medicines still need to be diagnosed by a "pharmacist" before a prescription can be issued.

It may take a long time to sell a dose of medicine to treat such diseases, so it is better to leave a way out for the "pharmacists".

When Klein heard this, he suddenly realized: I hadn't thought before that the "Hermit" was preparing to popularize the "miracle drug"!

He had thought of a problem a long time ago. Although there are many magical extraordinary powers in this world, these extraordinary powers are basically not popularizable, or in other words, the convenience brought by the extraordinary powers is basically difficult to benefit ordinary people.

The emergence of the "miracle drug" seems to be just the beginning.

According to the "hermit's" theory, there should be more things in the future that allow ordinary people to enjoy extraordinary convenience.

At this time, Cattleya asked again, "How do you solve spiritual problems?"

It's impossible to have a Beyonder constantly feeding spiritual energy into that "Pharmacist" characteristic, right? That would be no different from a normal "Pharmacist".

Odysseus said, "I discovered a way to change the path of spiritual transmission a long time ago. Using a magic circle, I can continuously supply spiritual energy."

However, this magic circle requires a large area.

Cattleya was stunned for a moment before she said, "Now I understand why you must cooperate with the Church of Knowledge."

After being reminded of this, the other members gradually understood the significance of the "Hermit"'s actions, because the applications of his research could bring about subversive changes to the world.

Such huge benefits will definitely attract the attention of many extraordinary organizations, and cooperating with a true church is indeed the best way.

In a previous conversation, "The Hanged Man" Alger had also talked about this matter. Although Odysseus did not say it explicitly at that time, he was already preparing for cooperation with the Church of Knowledge.

Magician Fors suddenly thought of several science fiction novels he had read recently: At the time, he thought the settings of those science fiction novels were quite magical, but if he thought about it carefully, those settings could actually be accomplished more easily with Extraordinary.

However, Fors had never had this idea before, always thinking that scientific products and extraordinary things were two different things.

The grand hall was silent for a moment before Odysseus said to Cattleya, "I just forgot something. I hope to trade the locations of those elven islands with you."

In a previous Tarot meeting, Cattleya mentioned that in the depths of the Raging Sea, in some relatively less dangerous waters, there were still some remnants of the elves living.

At that time, Odysseus could hear that Cattleya knew the exact location of those elves.

Cattleya was stunned for a moment: "What do you want the locations of those islands for?"

"There is an elf who wants to 'visit relatives'." Odysseus said with a smile, but did not give a detailed explanation.

No detailed explanation was needed. Cattleya immediately recalled the ancient elf who had appeared in yesterday's battle: "I know that there are still elves on the islands in the dangerous waters of the two Raging Seas."

"What kind of reward do you need?"

"Consider your description of your research as payment," Cattleya said.

Odysseus did not refuse: "Okay."

After obtaining the Fool's consent, Cattleya "materialized" the coordinates of the two islands and passed them to Odysseus.

Afterwards, "Justice" Audrey asked about the details of Odysseus's work as governor. These were not things that needed to be kept secret, so Odysseus briefly explained them.

When everyone heard that Odysseus gathered the leaders of the bandit army and the nobles and killed them together, they were stunned: Does being a governor need to be so violent now?

Seeing everyone's expressions, Odysseus explained the current situation in Wotai Province. Everyone then realized that the behavior of the two nobles was actually similar to that of the bandit leader.

Later, everyone was very interested in the process of suppressing bandits.

Klein and Alger, who had seen the "portable spiritual wave cannon", could already imagine the despair of the bandits when faced with the explosion of the "spiritual wave cannon".

The members who had never seen the power of the "Lingbo Cannon" thought that the bandit troops were too weak. They surrendered after just a few shots from a distance.

After discussing a few more topics about Lomborg, Klein announced the end of this Tarot Club.

……

Odysseus returned to the real world and was in a daze for a while as usual. Then he stood up to set up the altar on the desk and took out the extraordinary weapons he had prepared in advance from the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

A few minutes later, Odysseus was informed by The Fool and first performed a sacrifice ceremony, sacrificing the bound extraordinary weapons to The Fool.

He then prepared a gifting ceremony and received 2700 pounds in cash and a large amount of extraordinary materials.

He would later have a messenger deliver some of these extraordinary materials to Hugh and Alan and ask them to sell them on his behalf.

He will also sell some of them in the "Scroll Shop" and open up another "sales channel".

……

After Cattleya returned to the real world, she first glanced around, then immediately stood up, dressed a little, and headed straight to the trading area.

The magical item that matched the Sequence 9 "Thief" that she saw yesterday was still there. After buying it decisively, she walked slowly to the "Scroll Shop".

At this time, the "Scroll Shop" opened for business and a long line had formed.

However, "Pirate Generals" and "Big Pirates" can use their identities as standing committee members and committee members of the Pirate Alliance to enter without queuing.

Just as Cattleya was about to enter, she noticed something was wrong.

Cattleya immediately took off her glasses and glanced at the door with her "Eye of Prying Secrets". She discovered that there was actually a space tunnel there, but it was so hidden that no one noticed it.

In other words, only those at the Sequence 5 level can detect it.

After making sure there was no danger, Cattleya stepped inside.

After entering, she became more certain that she had passed through a shorter space tunnel before entering the real "Scroll Shop".

This made Cattleya sigh: "The Hermit" is very careful!

Even if the "Scroll Shop" is attacked, the safety of the "Scroll Shop" can be ensured by simply disconnecting it.

And this way no one would know the location of the scroll shop.

After that, Cattleya began to check out the merchandise in the "Scroll Shop." The first thing that caught her eye was the piles of scrolls placed on small wooden tables. On one side of the table were written the function and price of the scroll.

Some scrolls are almost sold out.

For example, "Flying Scroll", "Invisibility Scroll", "Explosion Scroll", etc. are all very popular scrolls, and there are only a few left on the corresponding wooden tables.

At this time, Cattleya saw that the "Lieutenant General of Disease" exuded a sense of beauty in every movement. He was like shopping in a mall, picking up a few scrolls here and there, and had already filled a basket.

The basket was the shopping basket that the waiter distributed when one entered the door, and Cattleya also had one in her hand.

The other pirates who entered here also took as much as they could within their financial capabilities. After all, the products of "Professor Scroll" were very scarce in the Extraordinary World.

Although this thing can only be used once, it has no negative effects and can surprise the opponent.

However, there are very few "scroll professors" selling scrolls, because the materials of the scrolls have to go through complicated processes, which is very costly and time-consuming overall.

The reason why Odysseus was able to produce in large quantities was mainly because he mastered the "technology" of using high-quality parchment to make various scrolls.

This "technology" was obtained by Odysseus from the "Wilderness of Knowledge". At present, this key "technology" has not been made public. He only wrote it in his book "Scroll: From Beginner to Mastery".

Another reason for mass production is the two "intelligent puppets" that Odysseus obtained in the "Wilderness of Knowledge" after he was promoted to "Astrologer".

Odysseus only needs to provide the best parchment and spiritual materials, without wasting his time and spiritual energy.

Cattleya didn't really have much need for the scrolls, but she still took a few and planned to go back and study them.

Continuing to walk in, she saw many "low-sequence" level extraordinary materials, and it was clear that these were traded by "Hermit" from "Little Sun".

At the Tarot Club, a Sequence 9 material from "The Sun" was worth 70 pounds, but "The Hermit" sold it for 150 pounds.

And that was the payment for replacing the "Extraordinary Weapon". Cattleya estimated that although the asking price of an "Extraordinary Weapon" was 50 pounds, the cost was at most 20 pounds.

You can make money from both directions.

Continuing to walk in, Cattleya saw some magical items placed on the wooden table. She was stunned for a moment and hurried closer to observe.

These magical items are really sold like goods in a department store, with specific functions and negative effects written on the front of the wooden shelves. At a glance, there are about twenty or thirty items!
For a moment, Cattleya was a little skeptical: Could it be that the "Hermit" could even mass-produce magical items?

When I heard her "Hermit" say that the "Scroll Shop" would sell magical items, I thought that the "Hermit" was planning to sell a few unused loot with large negative effects. It turned out that there were so many, and the negative effects were all within an acceptable range.

Cattleya looked at the magical item display for a while and figured out what was going on.

Most of these mystical items matched Sequence 9 and Sequence 8 of the Prisoner pathway, with only three matching Sequence 7, Werewolf. This reminded Cattleya of how the Hermit had dealt a heavy blow to the Rose School of Thought in Bayam over a month ago, presumably seizing many Prisoner pathway attributes during that battle.

She recalled that the third mate of the "Sword of Dawn" seemed to be a "craftsman", and perhaps there were more "craftsmen" among the followers of the "Lord of Mysteries".

These magical items should be the works of "craftsmen" practicing their skills!
Cattleya's guess was basically correct. Odysseus had indeed seized too many Beyonder traits from the "Prisoner" pathway, and was not confident in using them to cultivate Beyonders.

Because the "Knowledge Wilderness" has the ability to shatter Beyonder characteristics, and at that time there were as many as seventy or eighty "Low-Sequence" Beyonder characteristics, they planned to make them into magical items.

Cattleya didn't care about magical items of this level, but she still bought a few of them to reward her subordinates in the future.

价格很公道，对标序列9的神奇物品买350镑，对标序列8的神奇物品卖800镑，对标序列7的神奇物品是1800镑。

This is the lower level of price in the market price of magical items.

However, this is much better than directly selling Beyonder traits, because the demand for Beyonder traits of the "Prisoner" path is very small. A Sequence 9-level trait may only be sold for around 260 pounds, and there are still few buyers.

But after it was made into a magical item, Cattleya was sure that it would be sold out before evening.

For ordinary pirates, magical items are extremely precious. After all, the probability of them being "naturally formed" is very low, so they will scramble for even magical items of the "low-sequence" level.

At this time, a quarrel was heard from the door.

Cattleya glanced over there and saw a pirate who was about to leave when he was stopped by a waiter who said he still had some merchandise to pay for.

The pirate denied it and raised his hands to let the waiter search, but if nothing was found, he wanted compensation.

The waiter then explained, "Sir, every item here carries a special spirit. That spirit is only erased by the device at the front desk when you pay. Otherwise, we can always find the lost item."

Cattleya and several big pirates who were shopping were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect such an operation to happen.

The pirate who was about to go out was also stunned for a moment, perhaps recalling the situation when the "Sword of Dawn" caught the thief who stole the street lamp, and took out two scrolls from his seemingly ordinary pocket.

Cattleya pondered it for a moment and felt that this operation wasn't difficult. The "Astrologer" could easily retain a touch of spirituality on an object for a period of time.

But the problem is that the waiter who collected the money was obviously an ordinary person. How did he eliminate that spirituality?

Cattleya carefully observed the device. It was about the size of a small oven, with two crystals on top and a lever on the left. The door to open the device was in the front.

After the waiter placed the two scrolls into the device, he pulled a lever. After one of the crystals lit up, he turned on the device and handed the scrolls, after erasing the spiritual power used for anti-theft, to the pirate who had already paid.

Cattleya figured it out: This was probably another application of the magic circle. The two crystals acted as indicator lights. One lighting up meant the spiritual power had been successfully removed, while the other lighting up indicated an abnormality.

She realized that these magic arrays could save a lot of manpower of extraordinary people.

Otherwise, at least one or two extraordinary people would be needed here.

After strolling around the "Scroll Shop", Cattleya sighed: The goods here can at least provide the "Hermit" with tens of thousands of pounds of income. After a pirate convention, this guy should be able to earn hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This is the income during the pirate conference. In the next one or two months, everything about this island will spread quickly among the pirates, creating a very stable income for the island.

Cattleya thought: From now on, "The Hermit" will be the "money bag" of their organization.

……

Odysseus watched as Kena directed two "extraordinary puppets" to put a cart of gold pounds into the huge safe.

At this moment, Odysseus felt very satisfied. He never thought that one day he would have to push his money in a wheelbarrow.

However, these gold pounds cannot be left here. They must be invested and spent as soon as possible.

In addition to using it to build railways, Odysseus also plans to use it to improve the business environment in Wotai State, build water conservancy projects, etc.

Just as I was thinking about this, the waiter came to report that the "Sick Lieutenant General" wanted to see me.

Odysseus hummed, withdrew his gaze from the gold pounds, and returned to his office.

Then the waiter brought "Lieutenant General of Disease".

Vice Admiral Tracy, with her graceful figure and sharp, bright eyes, smiled and said, "This 'Pirate Convention' is truly wonderful. No convention has ever been as successful as this one."

Odysseus gestured for a seat on the sofa: "With your approval, I feel relieved."

After a few pleasantries, Lieutenant General Disease finally got to the point: "I'd like to purchase a batch of 'Soul Storage Crystals'."

Currently, Odysseus uses the "Soul Storage Crystal" on various extraordinary weapons and tools, but for ordinary extraordinary people, the biggest function of the "Soul Storage Crystal" is to store spirituality in advance and use it at critical moments.

Especially at the Sequence 7 level, most Sequence 7 paths will possess some extraordinary abilities with the characteristics of each path. However, the spiritual power at this level is limited, and many abilities will become unusable after only a few uses due to spiritual exhaustion.

At this time, if you have a "spiritual storage crystal", you can use the spiritual power stored in advance to release more abilities.

In this way, you can defeat enemies that you could not defeat before.

You couldn't escape before, but now you can.

Therefore, the "Spirit Storage Crystal" plays a very important role in the extraordinary world.

Odysseus asked, "How many batches are you talking about?"

Tracy said, "100! You'll need more later."

Another big deal of 3 pounds.

Odysseus smiled and shook his head: "Everyone who sees me wants a batch of 'Soul Storage Crystals'. I can only give you 20. I will give you the remaining 80 in a month."

This is not Odyssey's hunger marketing, but the inventory of the previous few months has been sold out, and there is no way to expand production capacity for the time being.

Even Odysseus was considering dismantling the street lamp first and selling the "Soul Storage Crystal" inside.

Lieutenant General Disease didn't express dissatisfaction or bargain: "Okay, I'll pay you the 20 yuan later."

Then she asked, "I heard you fought against the Rose School in Bayam before?"

The battle to cover Klein's evacuation from Bayam caused a huge commotion, and many Beyonders saw the crew of the Sword of Dawn.

"Yes," Odysseus said, "We don't agree with many of the ideas of the 'Rose School'."

He was being too polite. In fact, he was ready to kill the indulgent faction of the "Rose School" if he saw them.

"We can provide the necessary assistance," Tracy said with a smile. "We happen to have control over several Rose School strongholds. I wonder if you might be interested?"

Odysseus looked at the beautiful face before him and knew that he had finally come to the point: "Tell me your conditions."

He didn't have a good impression of the "Witch Sect", but it wasn't to the point of "killing them on sight" like the "Rose School".

It would be great if we could use the "Witch Sect" to consume the "Rose School".

Tracy smiled and said, "I can't tell you the specific terms yet, but you won't suffer any loss. And if you handle it properly, no one will discover our cooperation."

Odysseus shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, your conditions are too general. I can't promise whether you will cooperate or not.

"Well, if you think it's too early to tell me now, you can establish a transaction intention first, and then officially start the transaction when you think the time is right."

He knew very well that a deal from the "Witch Sect" would not be a good thing, but he planned to establish a transaction intention first and then decide on the content of the deal later.

If you are about to do something harmful to the world, report it to the church immediately.

Odysseus was not afraid of offending the "Witch Cult" at all, or in other words, after having the "Hermit" card, as the ability of the "Lord of Mysteries" was further strengthened, he was no longer afraid of ordinary extraordinary organizations.

You know, the "Lord of Mysteries" has now killed three demigods in total, and the arrival of more people is nothing more than delivering spoils of war.

Tracy said, "I didn't expect that we could reach a deal so quickly."

"Whether we can cooperate depends on what you want me to do." Odysseus smiled and said, "If it goes against my principles, I won't continue the transaction."

"Of course." Tracy said this, but in her heart she thought: After knowing the content of the transaction, even if you don't want to continue the transaction, we will let you complete the transaction.

Then, while unbuttoning her clothes, she said, "As a reward for concluding the deal, I'll let you experience some real pleasure."

"Wait a minute." Although Odysseus clearly refused, his eyes never left Tracy's increasingly exposed tender skin.

Tracy smiled somewhat domineeringly and said, "How about it? I have a better figure than all your women, right?"

Odysseus swallowed his saliva. Tracy's figure was not extremely plump, but just the right amount of plump.

Tracy looked at Odysseus with a smile and said, "Come here and carry me to your lounge."

Odysseus clenched his fists and tried his best to suppress the desire to get up. He wanted to turn his head away, but found that he couldn't do it at all. He really wanted to admire Tracy's graceful figure again.

He knew that this wouldn't work, as he would gradually fall prey to Tracy's "charm," and eventually his psychological defenses would collapse and he would fall completely.

Just as Odysseus was about to pretend to pray and enter the "Wilderness of Knowledge" to calm down, he suddenly thought of a way. An "Invisibility Scroll" suddenly flew out from the briefcase on his desk and exploded next to Tracy.

This was beyond Tracy's expectations. She couldn't dodge and her graceful figure disappeared in front of Odysseus.

Odysseus breathed a long sigh of relief. The ability he just gained was his combined application of "witchcraft" and "scroll".

This was an ability he had thought of long ago after he invented the "Flying Witchcraft".

As long as it is a "scroll" written by him, he can use the "flying magic" to make the scroll float to the designated location and then detonate it.

However, Odysseus had never encountered such a serious "mental attack" before, and this was the first time he used this ability.

Then Odysseus felt that if he had not been educated conservatively on gender issues when he was young, he might have compromised just now.

Then he sighed with emotion: How did Klein remain calm when facing the witch?
But then Odysseus suddenly thought: No, no witch would take off all her clothes in front of Klein, so he resisted.

If Tracy hadn't taken off all her clothes so quickly, Odysseus would have been confident that he could withstand her "charm".

Tracy also realized that she seemed to have been passively "invisible".

She looked at Odysseus in surprise, because the scroll was beyond her expectations. If it was an "explosive scroll" or some other scroll, it would be difficult for her to dodge it.

Odysseus said coldly: "Put on your clothes. I don't like being so passive."

Seeing that Odysseus did not continue to use his ability, Tracy smiled charmingly and said, "I understand."

As she was getting dressed, she said, "Remember our conversation. I'll come find you when the time is right."

Odysseus said "hmm", indicating that the conversation was over.

After Tracy put on her clothes, the effect of the "Invisibility Scroll" had not yet ended. Of course, Odysseus would not tell her that the invisibility effect would end as long as she used her extraordinary ability casually.

Just as Odysseus was about to issue another order to expel them, Tracy said, "Please tell the 'Mysterious Queen' that we still hope to cooperate with her, and we have prepared her compensation."

She then said in a serious tone, "We found something underground in Trier that would surely interest her."

After hearing what Vice Admiral Tracy said, Odysseus was stunned for a moment before asking, "Are you going to cooperate with me? Or with the 'Mysterious Queen'?"

In fact, Tracy's mission was to seek cooperation with the "Mysterious Queen" through the "Admiral of Mystery", so they carefully prepared the transaction conditions for the "Queen".

After arriving at Cruz Island and witnessing the "Lord of Mysteries" take action, Tracy discovered that the information obtained by the "Witch Cult" was wrong, so she had to temporarily change her plan.

(End of this chapter)