Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 149: Mastering the "Black Emperor" Path (Two in One)

Max Livermore was shocked when he saw this scene.

When he saw the finger just now, he had confirmed through his monocle that the finger was not a spiritual creature.

Combined with the life hint given by the "building block" seal and the strange differentiation of flesh and blood on the finger, Max immediately realized that this was the ability of the "Rose Bishop"!

In a sense, the flesh and blood differentiated from the "Rose Bishop" himself is equivalent to a small clone.

These flesh and blood clones can use some of the power belonging to their masters, including but not limited to spying and causing damage!
If something like this were to escape into the Kingdom Museum, it would definitely cause huge trouble for the "Mechanical Heart" team!
"Chase!"

Without thinking, Max immediately ordered the two "Mechanical Heart" team members behind him to chase the finger.

There were two other patrol members who tried to join the search for Finger, but they were stopped by Max and transferred to the second floor to assist in the defense.

Although the fingers of the "Rose Bishop" are extremely evil and could cause serious damage, it cannot be ruled out that someone is trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain!

Under the gaze of Max and the other two, the eight short legs that grew from under the fingers ran very fast. Relying on its own "size" advantage, it crawled under a classical furniture table from the time of Emperor Roselle, and then jumped to the top of the bookcase.

One of Max's men seized the opportunity and immediately stretched out his right hand wearing a white glove and grabbed in mid-air.

At the same time, he pronounced an obscure word in ancient Hermetic language:

"captivity!"

In an instant, the strange finger with eight legs was confined to a small space.

It immediately let out anxious cries and rushed around, but was unable to escape from the controlled area.

That white glove was a magical item made by a "craftsman" of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery using the extraordinary properties of "Judge"!
Max breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

As long as the flesh and blood differentiated from the "Rose Bishop" is sealed, it generally will not cause any major damage.

Just as he was about to command his team to seal the finger, the finger suddenly stopped moving.

Instead, the flesh at its top began to differentiate again, and within two seconds, a cherry-like mouth grew out.

Max and the others were slightly startled by this strange scene, but before they could impose any new restrictions, the little mouth above the finger began to sing a melodious and beautiful song:

“Are you going to Bayam Market on this trip?
"It is she who awakens the blue Sonia Sea

"And it just slept through a long night
Hypnotized by the swirling clear water and lulled into a dream..."

Bayam Bazaar?
What the hell is Bayam Market?

Max immediately recognized the origin of the song.

But now he can't do anything.

Not only him, the two members of the "Mechanical Heart" team next to him also felt their thoughts sluggish, as if they had not slept a full night's sleep for several days.

……

The second floor of the Kingdom Museum, the Roselle Memorial Hall.

The four members of the "Mechanical Heart" team who were guarding here were watching the movements on the "building blocks" when they suddenly felt something unusual.

They all raised their heads and looked around.

A thick fog had filled the exhibition hall at some point, reducing visibility to a large extent.

"has a problem!"

The four members of the "Mechanical Heart" team immediately noticed something was wrong.

But before they could use their extraordinary abilities to dispel the fog, their minds became stagnant at the same time!
In the fog, Roger Abraham, wearing a black windbreaker and a wide-brimmed hat, walked out slowly, and a tabby cat was walking leisurely in the fog not far away.

Roger did not take the "Card of Blasphemy" bookmark immediately, but took out several bookmarks first.

This was a means of obfuscation to strengthen the "Conspicuous Bag"'s ability to counter divination. Even if someone with a higher sequence than Roger used divination to verify Roger's purpose afterwards, the possibility of obtaining a valid result would become extremely small.

Finally, he came to the bookshelf where Emperor Roselle's unfinished manuscript was stored and reached out to the "Card of Blasphemy".

But at this moment, the loud and shrill cry of a baby suddenly echoed in the exhibition hall.

"Wow! Wow! Wow~!"

The sound was extremely unreal, as if it came from an infinitely distant place.

Roger's body temperature immediately dropped and his movements became much slower.

At the same time, dark cracks appeared one after another around him, and deep blood-red eyeballs peeked out from them, staring at him.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Roger heard a soft bang right above the bookcase.

He tried to look up, but saw a pair of slender legs in black leather boots hanging down and swinging, gently bumping against the bookcase with the heels.

“Why did you only take the bookmark?
"How did you know to get a bookmark?"

Although the voice was hollow and distant, Roger immediately recognized it as the voice of the "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette.

Roger smiled slightly and didn't answer.

"Tell me, how did you know to get a bookmark?"

Seeing that Roger didn't speak, those eyes widened in an instant and stared at Roger with extremely fierce eyes, as if they wanted to see through his inner thoughts.

"Miss."

Roger used his "Singer" ability to create a voice that didn't belong to him and spoke:
"I advise you not to do this, it will hurt you.

"As an experienced 'secret peeper', you should know that curiosity kills the cat."

As soon as he said this, Bernadette immediately felt an extremely strong premonition of danger!

As a result, she stopped trying to gain further insight into Roger, and the cold feeling Roger felt also subsided.

“I said, you and I have no conflict of interest.

"Don't you really want the emperor to return?"

Hearing this, Bernadette was immediately stunned.

"You are……"

She immediately realized that the man in front of her was the "Roger Abraham" she had met that morning!

Roger nodded and smiled, not letting Bernadette continue.

Then, he snapped his fingers under the latter's gaze.

In the foggy darkness, a half-grown tabby cat suddenly jumped out.

It gently bit the bookmark with its fangs and landed on Roger's shoulder.

Bernadette had a complicated expression at this time, but she did not take any action to stop the man and the cat.

She watched Roger throw a dice, and then saw the cat on his shoulder lift its right front leg and make a very human "curtain call" gesture.

As a breeze blew by, the fog quickly dissipated, and the man and the cat disappeared into the dark exhibition hall.

"..."

Bernadette's eyes moved slightly, and then she sighed.

While the "Mechanical Heart" team was still unable to react, she once again turned into nothingness and left the scene.

Roger and Bandit had just left one layer of fog when they were surrounded by another layer of fog.

The mist made Bandit sneeze twice in succession.

"Roger, where is this?"

"Spirit world."

Roger answered while feeling his current fortune was steadily rising.

In fact, he came to the spirit world on purpose, hoping to use the cover of the spirit world to escape possible tracking by the "Mechanical Heart" team.

As for the finger, it had already run to a safe place and self-destructed after the control of the "Judge"'s extraordinary power was relaxed.

Since the "Judge" power contained in the white gloves used by the "Mechanical Heart" team members is not complete, they must maintain their attention to maintain the "Imprisonment" sentence.

When he heard the "middle voice singing" without any preparation and was influenced by it, the "captivity" was lifted.

Roger looked around. This time he came to a place that was obviously different from the previous two times.

There was fog above, in front of and below him, but he could still vaguely see that there was a cliff in front of him and he didn't know where it led to below.

"Fortunately."

He couldn't help but think of the strange, heart-pounding hissing sounds he heard the first two times he came to the spirit world, and he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

But as soon as Roger said this, he felt an inexplicable palpitation.

At the same time, his fortune declined rapidly, as if something terrible was approaching.

Roger's face changed drastically, and he immediately took out his "life-gambling revolver".

He loaded three bullets into the revolver, then adjusted the cylinder and aimed at the artery on his left hand.

Unlike before, Roger was now a "Rose Bishop" who was extremely skilled in using flesh and blood magic. He could instantly repair any physical damage that wasn't immediately fatal. This also gave him greater courage to exploit the "Life Gamble Revolver" bug!

Fortunately, nothing happened as the hammer was struck.

Roger's fortune immediately improved significantly!

He immediately hugged Bandit tightly, and then used the "Traveler's Dice" to roll out "1"!
Roger and Bandit immediately disappeared and returned to their own workshop at 15 Minsk Street.

"Huh, huh."

He wiped the cold sweat from his head, and Bandit ran away as if frightened.

What the hell is going on? Why do I always encounter strange things every time I touch the spirit world?
Roger shuddered, tore off his "Wanderer Mask," and tried to calm himself down for a moment before pulling out the "Card of Blasphemy" from his pocket and uttering the word "Bernadette" in ancient Feysac.

The next moment, the "Card of Blasphemy" unfolded, revealing a complex message.

"Lawyers, barbarians, bribers, corrupt barons..."

Roger read the information carefully, memorized it, restored the bookmark, and put it into a small bag.

Then he opened the door of the studio and went downstairs to the living room.

"You're back?"

When Klein saw Roger appear, he immediately stood up and looked at him.

"Well, take a look."

He handed the small bag to Klein and added, "Very interesting artifacts."

Klein understood Roger's words and knew that he had completely mastered the "Black Emperor" method, and immediately relaxed.

"Thank you for your hard work. Where's Bandit?" he asked.

"Upstairs, frightened."

Roger sat on the sofa and added:

"By the way, that guy has probably already digested the 'Master of Magic' potion."

A kitten used a trick to steal the "Card of Blasphemy" in front of a High-Sequence Beyonder. This feat was enough for it to digest the Sequence 8 potion!

In addition, Roger has already mastered the "Black Emperor" method, so the overall gains are indeed not small!

"Fortunately, I had contact with Bernadette once before during the day.

"Otherwise, in a situation like just now, if she was really determined to stop me, I would probably have no choice but to use the power of 'Oneness of All Things' to leave.

“If that’s the case, it will be troublesome to face Zatvin later.

"But then again, this also counts as getting to know Bernadette... and it can be considered an encounter. After all, who could have known that the 'mysterious queen' of the sea would actually come to Backlund alone to see an exhibition?"

Roger stood up and poured himself a glass of red wine. After taking a few sips, he finally calmed down.

"Right, Roger."

Seeing that his roommate was feeling a little better, Klein spoke again:
"In the afternoon, Mr. Leppard received a letter from the same city saying that my bicycle and your phonograph are almost finished and asked us to come and have a look when we have time."

Roger was stunned for a moment when he heard this:
"So fast? Mr. Leppard is quite efficient."

He had originally thought of buying an old hand-cranked phonograph to use as a makeshift, but it seems that this is probably not necessary.

He continued:

"If you're free tomorrow morning, we'll go check it out."

Klein nodded, indicating that he had no problem.

After a while, Bandit ran downstairs again.

"Meow, I just took a nap and now I'm almost refreshed.

"Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry, meow."

The cat circled around Roger and Klein and asked.

"There are some dried fish I just bought in the cupboard, help yourself."

Roger pointed to the cabinet, and Bandit quickly used his "apprentice" ability to take out the bag of dried fish and devoured it.

Seeing that Bandit had eaten and drunk his fill, Roger asked again:
"Has the 'Master of Magic' potion been digested?"

"Meow, I've digested it and can be promoted at any time."

After saying this, Bandit asked again with doubt:
"I remember that I still had about half of the potion undigested. How come I completely digested it just by going out with you to steal something?"

"Yeah, nothing much. I'll explain it to you when I have time."

Roger glanced at Ms. Sharon in the bay window, shook his head, and immediately changed the subject:
"You need to digest your food first. I'll help you mix the Sequence 7 potion in half an hour."

Bandit had previously read the Abraham family's notes, so he knew that the name of the potion for Sequence 7 of the "Apprentice" pathway was "Astrologer".

Roger returned to the studio, prepared all the necessary materials, and began to prepare the potion using a beaker.

After all the auxiliary materials were in place, Roger took out an eye-sized, diamond-shaped object that reflected brilliant light from a small glass jar and threw it into the beaker.

This is the extraordinary characteristic of "Astrologers"!
Soon, the liquid in the beaker solidified into a jelly-like substance that sparkled like a gem. Roger hurried downstairs and poured the potion into the Bandit cat's food bowl, which had been cleaned in advance.

Bandit slid over, came over three times and finished the potion in two gulps.

Since Roger and Klein had taught the tabby cat how to meditate last time, it sat down with ease, closed its eyes and began to meditate.

Roger and Klein both stared at Bandit nervously. Even Ms. Sharon in the bay window cast an unusually fresh and curious look at him.

After a long while, Bandit opened his eyes:

"All right."

"What new abilities did you gain?" Klein asked curiously.

"Well, who of you has a crystal ball?" Bandit thought for a moment and asked.

"Here you go, it's all ready."

Roger pulled a tiny crystal ball from his bag, perfect for cats.

Bandit's eyes lit up, and he placed his paw on the crystal ball. Soon, many strange lights and symbols appeared on it.

“Meow, you can feel the influence of stars and interpret their meaning.

"I now understand the astrological knowledge that I had read in Roger's notes before but couldn't understand."

Bandit meowed as he described his astrological abilities and feelings, then continued:
"My spiritual intuition has become stronger, and I can interfere with other people's spiritual intuition and divination. If I were given someone's blood, I could even track their whereabouts.

"There's no special buff in terms of combat, except that the Trickster's abilities have been further enhanced."

Klein's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he gave a thumbs-up:
"sharp."

At this moment, even Ms. Sharon couldn't help but emerge:
"Oh my god, this is the first time I've seen a Sequence 7 cat..."

Roger smiled, rubbed Bandit's head, and then realized something.

He opened his mouth and said:

"We need to find a small bag for Bandit to carry with him that has storage capacity.

"This way, it can carry the crystal ball with it, which is much more convenient."

Klein touched Bandit and said, "Let me do it."

He thought of the lady with the "craftsman" behind her at the gathering of the old man "Eye of Wisdom".

"it is good."

Roger nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said:

"I'm going back to bed now. I'm exhausted. We'll go to Mr. Leppard's tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock."

Then he went upstairs, took a hot bath to relieve his fatigue, and fell asleep on the bed.

Early the next morning.

After breakfast, Roger and Crane went to Mr. Leppard's house in St. George's district.

After knocking on the door, they heard Mr. Leppard's voice:

"Here we are, it's noisy so early in the morning."

When he opened the door with an impatient look on his face and saw Roger and Klein, he was slightly stunned and his expression changed at the speed of light.

"Good morning, you two."

Leppard smiled and nodded:
"Your product has been trial-produced. Please follow me."

The two of them excused themselves for disturbing him and followed Leppard into the house.

Inside the room was a device with a base about the width and height of a cookie tin, topped with a brass speaker.

This must be the phonograph that Leppard had improved.

Not only was this modified product significantly smaller than the old phonograph, but Roger noticed at a glance that there was a clockwork knob on the square base underneath!
(End of this chapter)