Mystery: A Spark

Someone like that, with nothing better to do, would come out late at night just to take a stroll after a good meal? It's obviously impossible.

But Bernadette really couldn't understand why she had come, because she only stood there for a while and left without doing anything.

Such behavior makes it hard not to suspect that she was simply there to watch the show.

But what decent person would go out in the middle of the night to watch people fight?

Apart from Bernadette.

……

A dozen minutes after Arthur and his companions left, a small team of Mechanical Hearts carried a box to the abandoned West Bayron Shipyard.

Somewhat strangely, they did not investigate the scene, as if they did not care about what happened here tonight.

They simply placed the box on the ground, put the corpses inside—including a badly wounded body, a headless body, and a charred body that was completely unrecognizable—and then left without a word.

……

"Speaking of which, where did you get that Yangyan Talisman?" Klein asked curiously on the way home.

When Arthur gave him a wink earlier, he understood what Arthur meant: to use the strongest attack to kill Zatwin instantly.

Therefore, Klein immediately thought of the two Yang Flame Talismans in his hand.

However, to his surprise, Arthur also used a Yang Flame Talisman.

That's why he was a beat too slow, which resulted in Arthur taking over Zartwin's shirt pocket, so he could only stuff the Sunfire Charm into Zartwin's pants.

"Oh, you're asking about that? Well, that's a long story." Arthur began to dodge the question.

"Then let's get straight to the point," Klein said, glancing at Arthur.

"Well, it's like this, those two talismans you have, I had them for a while before, didn't I?"

“That’s true,” Klein nodded.

This was taken from his body by Arthur after he was killed, which prevented the spell from being discovered by the Night Watchers.

After his resurrection, Arthur returned the two talismans to him.

Arthur shifted slightly to the side, then smiled and said:

"You don't know this, but the two talismans in your hand are actually a male and a female. And when I got them, they had just given birth to two baby talismans, twins at that. Isn't that a coincidence?"

Klein: ? ? ?

Are you treating me like a fool?

"Ahem, Detective, based on your performance in the battle tonight, I've come up with a rather imposing and powerful title for you. Would you like to hear it?" Arthur began to use the art of changing the subject, trying to gloss over the matter of the talisman.

Besides, he still remembered Klein's earlier teasing, and now was the time to retaliate.

"What title?" Klein sensed that this guy was probably up to no good, but he couldn't help asking out of curiosity.

"What do you think, ha, what do you think of the title 'Roast Beef Master'?" Arthur said, barely suppressing a laugh as he recalled the gruesome state of Zartwin's corpse.

Klein's face immediately flushed red, and he argued somewhat hastily:

"What kind of 'roast beef man' is that? I only did that to make the attack on him more thorough, just in case."

Then came some difficult-to-understand phrases, such as "Release the tiger back to the mountain, and the consequences will be endless" and "Being prepared is better than being caught off guard," which filled the journey home with a cheerful atmosphere.

……

After returning home, Arthur first searched the house for the puppies, but couldn't find them.

This relieved him, because using Deathstroke had created a weakness for him.

This weakness happens to be a fear of dogs.

"Sigh, it looks like the little guy won't be able to sleep with me tonight. How am I going to sleep through this long night?" Arthur couldn't help but sigh.

Since he transmigrated here, his sleep has been terrible, to the point that he can't fall asleep at all unless he enters the trial illusion.

It wasn't until Arthas arrived that Arthur was able to get a peaceful sleep with Arthas by his side.

Now that Deathstroke has given him a weakness for dogs, it looks like he'll have to rely on the Trial Illusion to get through tonight.

Arthur let out a soft breath, took the Deathstroke Revolver from the emblem and placed it on the table, then summoned the Skull of Gul'dan.

He was promoted to arsonist around mid-August, and after more than two months of acting, he finally digested the arsonist potion in his body at the end of October.

Because he did not use physical flames to burn the potion for his role-playing, but instead used a method of igniting the inner fire of others to digest the potion, the potion in his body was not digested in a large way like it was during the Provocateur period, but was slowly worn down little by little.

Everyone he came into contact with during this process, including Huang Beibei, Leonard, and Klein, made significant contributions to Arthur's potion digestion project.

Oh right, we can't forget those three guys from the underground ruins; they should be the biggest contributors.

Unfortunately, Arthur couldn't give them a banner as a token of his gratitude, so he could only silently wish them to stay in prison forever and never come out.

After killing Zartwin tonight, Arthur felt the potion in his body completely digested. He guessed that this was because he had completely ruined the Rose School's plan to capture Sharon and Marich tonight.

In any secret organization within the mysterious world, a Sequence Four demigod is undoubtedly a high-ranking member.

After all, the mysterious world is different from other worlds. The strong people here are limited, and there won't be a situation where it's hard to find strong people in the early stages, but later "great gods are as common as dogs and strong people are everywhere".

No matter how powerful the Rose School is, there wouldn't be so many demigods that they would be used as consumables.

The death of a demigod will surely cause them pain for a while, and things should calm down considerably, so Sharon and Marich will naturally be safe.

Now that the potion has been fully digested, Arthur naturally needs to begin preparing for his advancement to Sequence Six Schemer.

The auxiliary materials for the Schemer's Potion were already prepared, and the main ingredient was simply the Deathstroke Revolver.

It's a pity that after I got my hands on this Deathstroke revolver, I only fired it once. What a waste... Arthur muttered to himself.

Of course, this shot was actually quite effective, as it took down a Sequence 5 vengeful spirit.

However, compared to the glorious achievements of the mad adventurer played by Klein in the original work, the Deathstroke Revolver was truly a waste of his talents.

"Deathstroke, I will miss you. Rest in peace." Arthur silently mourned over the black revolver on the table, then picked up Gul'dan's Skull and dismantled it.

With a thunderous roar, Gul'dan's skull spat out the remains of the disintegrated Deathstroke Revolver:

A bunch of colorless small crystals... I misspoke, it should be five gem-like extraordinary properties from sequence nine to sequence five.

The Schemer and Reaper traits are what Arthur needs, but he hasn't figured out how to handle the other three traits yet.

So Arthur put them into the emblem, and then took out the various auxiliary materials needed for the Schemer's Potion.

Just as he was about to start mixing these materials into a potion, he suddenly felt a strong sense of unease.

Arthur frowned and stopped mixing the potion, which immediately lessened the unease that had been gripping him.

What's going on? Should I be concocting potions for advancement at this time...? Arthur couldn't help but feel a little confused.

Logically speaking, he has now completely digested the arsonist's potion. So, while there is still a certain risk of losing control when concocting potions to advance to the level of a schemer, it shouldn't cause him to feel this intense unease.

This heart-pounding feeling was as if telling Arthur that continuing to advance would surely lead to his death, leaving him somewhat bewildered.

Chapter 166 The Greatly Clever Em Zero

Read the entire original book.

Those extraordinary individuals who mastered the art of acting.

While it doesn't guarantee a 100% chance of promotion, the safety factor is much higher than for others.

Klein encountered some problems when he was promoted from Joker to Magician, and from Magician to Faceless Man, but he eventually succeeded in the promotion.

Now that Arthur has finished digesting the arsonist's potion, he has a bad feeling when he tries to concoct the next series of potions.

But the key point is that he actually has no ability related to fate at all, so where does this sense of unease come from?

Among the twenty-two extraordinary paths in this mysterious world, many are connected to fate in some way.

For example, the Gou family, the White Pagoda among the five families, the two knowledge families, the prisoners and criminals, and the orphan path that holds the power of destiny, the Wheel of Fate.

The power of fate has been dispersed into many extraordinary paths, making it seem as if anyone can get a piece of it.

However, coincidentally, the hunter's path that Arthur was on had no sequence related to fate from beginning to end.

So logically speaking, things like foresight and premonition should have nothing to do with Arthur.

But since I just had this feeling of unease, there must be a source, and the most likely one is this... Arthur's gaze fell on the emblem on the back of his hand.

Arthur had always wanted to figure out the true nature of this cheat, but he hadn't succeeded.

He guessed that he would probably have to pass through the Dark Temple in the Trial Illusion to figure out what it was all about.

The problem is that the Dark Temple is too difficult to conquer.

With his current Sequence 7 combat power, he's still only grinding mobs and hasn't even seen the first boss yet.

As for those big bosses, there's probably not much hope. Not to mention he hasn't even reached the first boss yet, even if he did, he'd probably get beaten to a pulp.

"Tsk, things have reached a stalemate." Arthur frowned.

To go further in the Trial Illusion, you must improve your rank.

However, he is currently unable to get promoted, and he doesn't even know why.

So what should he do now?

"Forget it, I'll go to sleep first. We'll talk about the promotion tomorrow." Arthur put the materials into his badge and planned to take a shower and go to bed.

However, he did not intend to start the event just like that; instead, he planned to visit the Harvest Church and the Church of St. Hillan the next day.

He believed that after going through this round of visits, he should be able to find out the reason why he couldn't get promoted for the time being.

After all, he has a powerful backer behind him, so it's always a good idea to ask him for help.

……

Silent all night.

The next morning, Arthur, who had been fighting all night in the trial illusion, opened his eyes and saw a small white fur ball lying on his chest.

"Luckily you're still small, otherwise you would have crushed me," Arthur said, poking the little furball.

"Tch~ You're not that easy to crush." ​​Arthas patted Arthur's chest with his paw. "You went out to fight last night, how are you? Not hurt?"

"Hmph~ How could a few members of the Rose School possibly be a match for me? I regard them as mere weeds, and I could take them down in the blink of an eye." Arthur said with a wicked smile and an arrogant expression.

"Look at how capable you think you are. I bet you just went there to make up the numbers and get some assists, right?" Arthas said, twitching his cute little ears.