Southern Continent, in a village on the west side of the Star Plateau.

Bruna, the former princess of the Bailang Empire, is sitting on either side of a stone table with Bernadette, the "mysterious queen", each holding a chess piece and playing backgammon.

Bruna was clearly no match for Bernadette and quickly conceded defeat.

"Is there any trick to playing this kind of chess?" Bruna wrinkled her face, completely devoid of her usual sense of dignity, and asked as she looked blankly at Bernadette on the other side.

"Nope." Bernadette, who wore an old-fashioned gauze hat and had beautiful long chestnut hair, said with a flat expression.

Bruna didn't believe it, and wanted to ask again, but suddenly raised her head and looked into the air, where a figure flew at a very high speed, and in the blink of an eye, she came to the courtyard where they were.

I looked at the woman falling from the sky with brown eyes, and saw that she had black hair and blue face, dressed in a long black skirt and boots of the same color, with a beautiful appearance, elegant manners, and full of intellectual beauty.

Bruna raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Isabella, even if you are no longer a princess, you are still so capable of pretending." ”

The person who came was none other than Adevina's mentor, the eldest princess of Lenburg, Lady Isabella.

"Bruna, you're as rude as ever." She glanced at Bruna, then turned her gaze to Bernadette, smiled a very standard smile, and greeted, "Long time no see, Bernadette." ”

Bernadette returned the dress and responded to the greeting, then she turned her eyes lightly, looked at Bruna, and said calmly: "Aunt Bruna, since Aunt Isabella is here, can you tell me what you are asking me to come here for?" ”

"Are you waiting for me? But I'm here for Lyon......" Isabella said, slightly confused.

Bruna sneered, "Why don't you foresee it with your hunch? And Leon is no longer here, it should be on the Northern Continent by now.

"Do you think it won't foresee you coming? Obviously, it doesn't want to see you, and it even interferes with your prophecies. ”

Isabella frowned slightly, then regained her composure, looked at the former Bairan Imperial Princess in front of her and said, "Bruna, Russell is no longer there, there is no point in you provoking me." ”

"But I still don't like you very much." Bruna muttered, then cleared her throat and got down to business: "I found a tomb of the Black Emperor, which contains traces left by Russell...... Are you going to go and see it together? ”

"The Mausoleum of the Black Emperor?" Isabella, who originally wanted to turn around and leave to chase "Leon", her eyes lit up, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "Is it Russell's, or Solomon's." ”

Bernadette didn't speak, but she just looked at Bruna quietly, as if expecting something.

"Look at the coat of arms, it should be Solomon's...... But Russell must have been there, and maybe there would be some clues. Bruna affirmed.

"How can you be sure that Russell has been?" Isabella's tone was still calm, but her eyes were noticeably brighter.

"Because now you need three blasphemy cards to enter that mausoleum......," Bruna said, pausing. And he added, "At least three." ”

"Why do you say that?" Ms. Isabella asked.

"As far as I can see...... Well, and with what I know about Russell, the traps he designed will certainly not be that simple, and maybe different combinations of cards will take us to different locations in the mausoleum...... To fully explore the mausoleum, you'll probably need to collect all 22 blasphemy cards. ”

Bruna said, summoning a necromancer and pulling a card out of its mouth...... The surface of the card is printed with the image of an angel with the face of Russell, full of artistic temperament, but bound by bandages......

It's a "Bind" card!

"This card was left by Russell to Maria, but unfortunately it was a great danger for her to carry the card with her, so I kept it for her." Bruna added.

Seeing this, Isabella hesitated for a while, and finally made up her mind, recited the incantation, and performed some kind of "secret magic", then she unbuttoned her collar, put her hand on her chest, threaded it, and quickly took out a card from it.

The sun with Russell's face painted on this card is clearly a "sun" card.

"This is the last time I saw him, he gave me ......," Isabella said, pursing her lips and buttoning her collar.

"I have to say that the secret technique developed by Russell to store items is really obscene...... And you actually learned! Sure enough, you're pretending! Bruna glanced at the card and turned her attention elsewhere.

Isabella glanced at Bruna's chest and said lightly: "People without capital can't learn this ......", and then ignored her and looked at Bernadette instead.

Hearing this, the smile on Bruna's face was visibly frozen.

Bernadette ignored the smell of gunpowder between the words between the two aunts, nodded and said, "I have four cards in my hand, which are the Hermit, the Wheel of Fortune, the Grim Reaper, and the Inquisitor. ”

Before Jane left the Southern Continent, she had already handed Bernadette the Blasphemy Tablet from the depths of the "Daniel's Labyrinth".

"In this way, we have ...... Well, how many combinations are there, and how many places can I go to in the mausoleum? Bruna wanted to do the math, but she couldn't get an answer for a while.

"C6, 3, 20, very simple math problems." Isabella said lightly, giving an answer in an instant.

Almost at the same time, Bernadette also affirmed: "The result of the exhaustive is 20." ”

"Well, the reader is the way to learn and apply knowledge, and the voyeur is the way to knowledge itself, and you must be right in your conclusions." Bruna lightly brought her "weakness" in mathematics to the forefront, and continued, "I can take you to see the mausoleum now, and as for how to explore it, I think you must all have your own ideas, and we'll discuss it later." ”

The two in front of him, one is a "prophet" and the other is a "master of prophecy", and they must be more professional than herself, the "ferryman", in perceiving danger, breaking the ban, and using rituals, which is one of the reasons why Bruna called them.

"Where's that mausoleum?" Bernadette was silent for a few seconds before asking.

"At the junction of the Polar Sea and the Sea of Mist."

……

Beckland, steam station.

Jane got off the steam train with her luggage, looked around for a while, and then sighed: "Beckland is still the same!" ”

"You seem like you've only been gone for a little over a month? How can there be any big changes in this time? The lion crouching at Jane's feet snorted.

The travelers all walked past it, but they all ignored the beast.

"Rest for the night, and then buy a ticket to Makai County tomorrow, if nothing else, you should be able to arrive in Indo on Wednesday." Jane whispered, then discerned the direction, and was going to go to the "Brave Bar" for a casual night, and come to buy tickets tomorrow morning.

But as soon as a man and a lion walked out of the station, they saw several policemen knocking down a man, and all the people who had been around him scattered away, only a girl wearing long gloves and a bearded man stood not far away, as if pointing at the arrested man and saying something.

It's as if the police are catching the liars...... Jane had a liar in mind, and quickly withdrew her gaze, wanting to walk the lion through the streets with her.

But when she looked down, she found that the lion was no longer around, but came behind the bearded man at some point, shrugging his nose and sniffing the smell.

The bearded man seemed to sense something, and when he looked back, he saw only an orange kitten lying on his lap.

He was stunned, then took a piece of meat from the pie in his hand and placed it at his feet.