Mystery: A Spark

The talking next door stopped abruptly.

……

Monday, Queens Backlund, Earl Hall.

Having just finished a lunch party, Audrey practiced the piano for a while before heading back to her bedroom, keeping track of the time.

As she passed by her father, Earl Hall's, study, she saw the door ajar and a thick stack of documents on the desk.

“This wasn’t there before…” Audrey’s curiosity was suddenly piqued.

She slowed her pace and winked at Susie, the golden retriever.

Having become an Extraordinary, Susie has gained enough wisdom that she can often understand what her master wants her to do with just a little hint.

Of course, if we're talking about intelligence, the little white dog that often comes to our house to play is actually more impressive. It's already as intelligent as an adult and can even understand books about sociology.

Having received the coded message, Susie jogged into the study, then stretched out her two front legs, braced them against the edge of the table, and stood upright.

It glanced quickly at the first page of the stack of documents, then returned to Audrey's side and said in a low voice:

“A survey of the living conditions of various social strata in the East District, the dock area and the factory area.”

"Audrey, what does this mean?"

A survey on the living conditions of all social classes in the East District, the Dock District, and the Factory District? Why would Dad suddenly conduct this survey? I don't remember mentioning anything like that to him... Audrey was puzzled and didn't have time to answer Susie's question.

She glanced around and saw that the servants were all in their places and not paying any particular attention to her. So, she slightly raised her head, calmly and naturally turned and entered Earl Hall's study.

Reaching the desk, Audrey looked down at the investigation report and found that the title did indeed match Susie's description.

"Hmm, it's a document typed out. The investigator is a journalist named Mike Joseph, and there's the goddess's emblem at the bottom... Was this commissioned by the goddess's church? But why give Dad a copy? Hmm, Dad is a believer in the goddess, and the church wants him to provide some support in this matter? That's a good thing..." Audrey made her initial assessment.

She had originally considered asking someone to conduct a similar investigation, but she felt that it did not align with her intention to subtly guide others and would easily make her stand out from the other nobles, so she hesitated to try it.

Audrey reached out and flipped through the documents, discovering that Mike Joseph's report on the East District, the Dock District, and the Factory District was not the only one; many others had conducted on-site investigations from different perspectives.

Several of these reports even mentioned the spread of cults and collusion between some extraordinary individuals and gangs.

In addition, some people mentioned that an organization called the Security Team had appeared in the East District. They were doing things like maintaining order and helping poor workers get their wages back.

The security team? That's a strange name. It doesn't seem like a gang or anything like that... Audrey glanced at the clock in the study and saw that it was almost three o'clock, so she gave up on reading it carefully and put the document back to its original state.

Before leaving, she randomly picked up a book and used it as a pretext to show why she had come in.

……

At exactly three o'clock, while the chimes of the clock were still echoing, Audrey appeared in the majestic palace, beside the ancient long table, bathed in the deep red, illusory light.

She smiled, rose, and bowed to the person at the head of the table, saying:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"

After receiving a slight nod in response, she greeted the other members of the Tarot Club and then noticed that Little Sun seemed both happy and conflicted.

"What's wrong, little sun?" Audrey asked.

This meant that Klein, who had also noticed that Little "Sun" was not in a good condition, didn't need to speak up himself.

Having entered this mysterious space ahead of time, he tidied up the items on the table, throwing miscellaneous things such as the Azik copper whistle, the biological toxin bottle, and the Spirit Cult copper whistle into a corner, and completely covered them with a thick gray fog.

Now, on the table in front of him, there is only a "Black Emperor" card, which is an item that matches the identity of "The Fool"!

Because they felt that the ambush of the Rose School's indulgent members would definitely attract an investigation from the Church of the Righteous God, he and Arthur tacitly avoided going to the Brave Ones Bar.

Moreover, Klein believed that Sharon and Marich would certainly not go there recently.

It's estimated that it will take another one to two weeks for the rumors to die down before the spoils can be distributed.

“Um, Miss Justice, I haven’t been able to talk to the elder about the psychologist’s materials yet,” Derrick said somewhat embarrassedly.

For matters related to transactions, he prefers to consult with the chief analyst.

However, as soon as the chief returned, he went straight into the dungeon and locked himself up, which prevented him from having a chance to tell the story.

"It's alright, little sun, I haven't finished digesting the mind reader's potion yet," Audrey said nonchalantly.

Derrick breathed a sigh of relief and then said:

"Another thing is that our chief has returned, but he has locked himself in the dungeon."

Huh? What?!

Arthur, who was deep in thought, suddenly looked up and stared at Derrick in surprise.

Make a slight modification to the code name.

I thought about it and felt that Hugh's role as an executor didn't quite match the codename Rum.

After all, Rum has always appeared in a behind-the-scenes role.

Therefore, Hugh's codename was changed to Gin, and Rum was someone else.

Judging from hair color, the earliest version of Gin was actually blonde, as was Hugh. However, Gin's hair turned white later because there were too many traitors.

In addition, since both of them are executors, they seem to be quite compatible.

Besides height.

Chapter 173 I'm Amazing!

After being engulfed in the gray fog, Arthur couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

His appearance should have attracted Klein's attention.

However, because Derrick's emotions were more obvious, Klein's attention was drawn to the boy.

Arthur fell into deep thought because of a reminder he had recently received from Bishop Utravsky.

In other words, Arthur needs to kill all the members of the Blood Cult and the Rose School's indulgent faction who have had close contact with him.

At the time, Arthur couldn't figure it out because he didn't know what connection the two organizations had.

If we really had to find a connection, it would be that Arthur had provoked them all.

However, it simply doesn't make sense for Bishop Utravsky to remind himself that he needs to kill all the members of these two organizations he has come into contact with just because Arthur provoked them.

After all, he wasn't Tang Shenwang, so naturally he wouldn't do something like "you have already chosen your own death."

In reality, Arthur had no personal conflict with the Blood Cult. He did not even have any contact with members of the Blood Cult, nor did he have any direct conflict with them.

His initial suggestion to Bonova to use the demonic pathway as fuel was not out of personal grudge, but simply because he wanted to promote the birth of psionic energy, and the demonic pathway just happened to be inhuman.

Furthermore, before accepting Klein's invitation to ambush Steve and his group, Arthur had no contact with the Rose School.

If killing the demigod Zartwin necessitates eliminating all members of the Rose School who had contact with him, that doesn't make any sense.

It's important to understand that Bishop Utravsky, or rather, the Earth Mother, said to kill them all. This means that even if someone is a Sequence Four demigod or even a higher sequence, Arthur must find a way to eliminate them if he has had any contact with them.

This action doesn't seem to stem from any hatred; rather, it suggests that Arthur possesses something he doesn't want them to discover.

When Arthur arrived above the gray fog and regained his memories, he immediately realized the commonalities between the Blood Cult and the indulgent faction of the Rose School.

That is, these two organizations believe in the same external god, the Mother Tree of Desire.

In the original story, Klein received information about the Outer God from the Yellow Light Venetian of the Seven Lights of the Spirit Realm.

They learned that this Outer God's full name was 'Mother Tree of Desire', 'Father of Demons', 'Eternal Howler', and 'God of Loss of Heart', and that he possessed the extraordinary paths of "Prisoner" and "Criminal".

This is why Thorzner, the angel king of the "Prisoner" pathway and originally the god of faith of the Rose School, was able to be corrupted by this Outer God when problems arose.

Moreover, they were forced to give birth to a disgrace among the angels, the "God's Abomination" Siea.

As a result, members of the Rose School were influenced, and many began to abandon their original restraint of desires and instead sought unrestrained indulgence, thus turning the organization into a bloody shoe cult.

Similarly, the true god Shadow King of the Demonic Path was also controlled by the Mother Tree of Desire, and the Blood Cult became the lackey of this Outer God.

But the key issue is that I'm just a nobody transmigrator, so how did I get involved with something like the Mother Tree of Desire...? Arthur couldn't help but scratch his head.

If he truly possesses something of immense value enough to attract the attention of the Outer Gods, it is most likely his mysterious cheat ability.

After all, he didn't have anything special about him besides that.

It couldn't possibly be that the Mother Tree of Desire was lusting after his body and wanted to have a child with him, could it?

Whether it was the trial illusion in the emblem that seemed like another world, the warlock knowledge passed down from who-knows-where, or the ambiguous fel energy, all of them were shrouded in mystery in Arthur's eyes.

Previously, the only thing he was certain of was that the Demon Hunter insignia was likely man-made.

Of course, this is actually a pointless statement, because many of the protagonists' cheat abilities in online novels can be said to be artificial.

For example, a ring containing the old man's soul, a bottle that can accelerate the ripening of elixirs and herbs, or a certain fire poker, etc.

Now, Arthur can confirm one more thing: the Mother Tree of Desire is very likely craving his cheat ability.

Rounding it off means you're basically craving something from him.

Arthur plans to prepare for both possibilities.

It can be inferred that the Mother Tree of Desire probably did not know that the Demon Hunter's Mark was on Arthur, or that Arthur might not even exist.

After all, since the Earth Mother Goddess advised him to cut off the eyes and ears of the Desire Mother Tree instead of telling him to find a place to hide, it means that this matter is still a secret at this time.

Since it remains a secret, Arthur can prevent the information from being leaked in two ways.

On the one hand, it is naturally as Bishop Utravsky said, to cut off all the eyes and ears of the Mother Tree of Desire that we encounter.

On the other hand, one should try to avoid going to places where the followers of the Mother Tree of Desire are active, so as to avoid encountering these guys who like to have sex.

Although sex is very attractive to Arthur, the feeling of having sex and being sexed is definitely different, and Arthur prefers to take the initiative.

Leaving aside the Blood Worship Cult for now, these inhuman rats may appear anywhere, but they cannot be exposed to the light, otherwise they will attract the siege of the True God Church.

The Rose School is mainly active in the southern continent and at sea. Their previous visit to Backlund was primarily to hunt down Sharon and Marich, so the chances of them encountering them again are slim.

Besides these two secret organizations, there is another secret organization that appeared in the original work and is also a follower of the Mother Tree of Desire.

That is the naturist sect.

In the original story, this organization nearly caused a major incident on the island of Oravi, almost taking control of Admiral Emilius, the local governor of the Kingdom of Rune.

This is a demigod of the Judgement path, holding a high position and great power in the Kingdom of Rune. If he were to be controlled by an organization that worships Outer Gods, the consequences would be very serious.

However, Klein happened to be nearby at the time and signed a contract to impersonate the Faceless Man and Admiral Emilius, taking the blame for him.