Chapter 5 Drawing Cards
By the time Leonard reacted, towering stone pillars had appeared in front of him, standing above the endless gray mist, supporting the majestic palace like the abode of giants.
After a second of stunned green eyes, Leonard realized that he had sat on the side of a mottled old bronze table, and beside and opposite him was a high-backed chair that gave a sense of majesty and solemnity.
At the top of the mottled long table, a figure was shrouded in a thick gray mist, leaning back in a leisurely posture, as if looking down on everything in the world.
As soon as this figure caught Leonard's eye, it was as if he had boarded a passenger ship, facing the abyssal sea with no edge or bottom in sight, or out of the city and into the suburbs, looking up at the towering peaks.
In an instant, one thought after another flashed through Leonard's mind, and he had a rough guess about his situation, and as an extraordinary person of the church, a believer who was sure of the true existence of the gods, he could not resist the feeling in his heart, and subconsciously wanted to leave his seat and worship the existence in front of him.
The power of the gods is like a mountain and a sea!
Leonard just stood up, but was pressed back by an invisible force, and a low and flat voice echoed in his ears:
"Don't bother.
"You can call me Mr. 'Fool'. ”
Fool ...... Really...... Leonard's heart that was originally afraid of the unknown suddenly settled, although he was still worried about what would happen next, but he was no longer so nervous, no longer so restless, and his mouth was dry.
He half got up, put his hand on his breast, and saluted:
"Dear Mr. 'Fool', why did you summon me?"
As a "night watchman" with many years of experience, and as a "red glove" who has been involved in many major cases, Leonard knows how dangerous it is to establish contact with a hidden being, and understands that he has begun to slide from the edge of the abyss and has no chance to be saved.
The moment he decided to recite the name of the "Fool", he was able to foresee the tragic end, but for the sake of revenge, he nevertheless made a choice.
However, people have an instinct to survive, and thinking that Klein Moretti, who believed in the "fool", was not only alive, but even became a demigod, Leonard inevitably had a glimmer of hope.
At this time, he heard the "fool" shrouded in gray fog chuckle:
"Since you have prayed to me for help, you must give something according to the principle of equal exchange. ”
Leonard's body trembled a little, and his head was buried even lower:
"What do you hope for?"
After a short interval, the voice of the "fool" sounded again:
"Don't be in a hurry, maybe in the future it will allow you to do something and provide some help to some people.
"Sit down. ”
Leonard breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, looked left and right, and said:
"Has he, Klein Moretti, been here like me?"
The "fool" in the gray mist said in a tone that did not rise or fall too much:
"Not the same way. ”
A different way...... Sure enough, Klein didn't enter here by reciting his honorific name, but by being guided by the "Archon of Death" by Azik Eggers, a follower of Mister Fool...... Leonard couldn't help but look around again, and found that there were twenty-two high-backed chairs around the mottled long table.
Corresponding to the twenty-two extraordinary paths, or the twenty-two tarot cards ...... "fools...... As soon as Leonard had a guess in his heart, he heard Mr. "Fool" chuckle and say:
"There are other beings besides you who have been pulled here for a variety of reasons.
"They implore me to hold regular gatherings to exchange information, buy and sell materials, trade recipes, and help each other, which will help them quickly rise to become high-level people. ”
This is a bit different from the secret organization I imagined with the tarot card as the codename, and what is the purpose of Mr. "Fool" agreeing to such a request ...... loosely? After coming to this ancient palace above the gray mist, Leonard's spirit has been highly tense, making his mind much quicker than normal, and thinking of many questions.
After successful revenge, he was actually depressed and empty for a while, and seemed to have lost his purpose in life, but he quickly cheered up, because Dali's death told him that he was not strong enough, and if he wanted to reduce the number of casualties among his companions in future missions, he no longer had the ability to save, and he had to at least improve to Sequence 4 and become a demigod and half-human existence.
Therefore, the words of the "Fool" just now made his heart move, and he felt that this was an opportunity, and at the same time, he also thought that joining the party and gaining a deep understanding of the situation inside this secret organization would help him avoid the dangers of establishing contact with the "Fool" to the greatest extent in the future.
After a moment's deliberation, Leonard asked:
"Is Klein Moretti part of that regular meeting?
"He owns a chair here?"
The "fool" replied nonchalantly:
"Yes. ”
Leonard was silent for a second and said:
"Dear Mr. 'Fool', can I join that regular meeting?"
The "fool" shrouded in gray fog said with a smile:
"Yes.
"But when you go back, remember to mention it to Pales Zoroaster, and don't try to hide it from him. ”
He...... The old man really is an angel! No wonder the "Stealer" spell is so magical...... Although Leonard already had a certain understanding, he was still shocked after being confirmed by Mr. "Fool".
He hesitated for a moment and said:
"Why do you have to tell Parles Zoroaster?"
Although he and Parles Zoroaster got along well and had established a certain amount of trust in each other, he still had a lot of vigilance in his heart, and the reason why he took the initiative to ask just now was to balance the potential danger posed by the ancient parasite by joining Mr. "Fool's" secret party.
He immediately heard Mr. "Fool" laugh:
"A lot of times, deterrence is more useful than fighting. ”
Deterrence is more useful than combat...... Also, forcibly balancing is likely to irritate the old man, no matter what, the final battlefield will definitely be in my body, which is very unfavorable to me, and deterrence can make him recognize the situation, even if there is malicious intent, he will think of another way, another way out...... Leonard suddenly bowed his head and said:
"Dear Mr. 'Fool', I have no problem. ”
The "Fool" at the top of the bronze table showed a deck of tarot cards, raised his finger and pointed:
"They each picked a tarot card for their codename, and you can also draw one.
"The cards that have owners have been eliminated from this. ”
Sure enough, it is codenamed with tarot cards...... Leonard exhaled and couldn't help but ask another question:
"Which card did Crane Moretti draw?"
"The world. "The Fool" said lightly, "that's him, and it's not him." ”
What do you mean...... Leonard didn't dare to ask more, but stretched out his right hand and drew one from the tarot deck.
When he opened it, he saw a sky full of stars and a goddess pouring holy water.
"Star" card!
This was not quite in line with Leonard's taste, but since he had completed the ceremony in the presence of Mr. "Fool", he had no choice but to accept it.
"Go back, Beckland time, every Monday at three o'clock in the afternoon, on time. The Fool, shrouded in the "gray mist", raised his hand, and let Leonard, who had hurriedly saluted, disappear into the ancient palace.
"Fool" Crane then chuckled and flipped all the tarot cards to the front.
They have the same image, the same stars.
Each one is a "star" card!
After laughing for a while, Crane refocused his gaze on the crimson star that represented Leonard.
When trying to pull the poet into the gray mist, he made a careful observation in advance, and found that Leonard Mitchell had a ball of light hidden in his body, which seemed to be composed of countless insects, hidden deep in the spirit body.
This made Klein confirm that Parles Zoroasd was only a preliminary parasite, and did not control Leonard's mental body, astral spirit body, etheric body, and flesh and blood body, and that he was promoted to a demigod and had a deeper grasp of the mysterious space above the gray mist, and he was able to make effective divisions and selections when pulling people, no longer only for the soul as a whole.
Therefore, Klein decided not to move Leonard's spirit body and only pull his astral spirit body above the gray mist, which would avoid irritating Parles Zoroaster or bringing him to this mysterious space with him, of course, the Sequence 1 angel of the "thief" path must be able to detect what is happening.
And the ability of the "Night" Pathway Extraordinary to enter other people's dreams originates from the astral spirits, which does not affect Leonard's ability to play his best in this mysterious space.
"Hopefully he'll be able to get rid of the parasitic ...... of Parles Zoroaster step by step," Klein sighed suddenly.
The reason why he brought Leonard into the Tarot Club was to help this teammate grow stronger and escape the shadow brought by Parles Zoroaster.
If the angel of the "thief" route had no ill will, let Leonard help him hide from Amon and help him recover, otherwise force him to find another parasite.
Retracting his gaze, Crane thought about it, threw the potion recipe of the "Hunter" route sequence 6 "Conspirator" into the point of light that represented Daniz, and ordered him to leave the Southern Continent and return to the "Golden Dream" in the tone of Gelman Sparrow.
............
"The compound eyes of hunting black spiders, the brain of a human lion ......" Daniz stood up happily as he recalled what he had just "seen".
He decided to say goodbye to Anderson Hood and flee the perilous Southern Continent.
Coming to the door of the strongest hunter of the Misty Sea, he knocked lightly and saw the wooden door open backwards.
Anderson didn't even close the door!
Daniz was surprised for a moment, and hurriedly looked at Anderson with a short blade, gesturing on his stomach.
PS: Yesterday I went to the Chinese Valentine's Day, cough, change it first and then change it~