Monday, afternoon of January 3, 1350.

Outside the window, it was dark, but there was no fog that Crane was familiar with, and the waves came in waves, blowing away all the haze, and causing the clouds to roll up and line up in various shapes, reflecting the golden red sunlight.

This is the Port of Prieze, the largest and busiest port in the Kingdom of Rune.

Crane, dressed in a light vest and white shirt, stood by the window and stared at the outside world for a while, until his pocket watch urged him to return to the mahogany table. With the warmth of the fireplace, he picked up his dark black round-bellied absorbent pen, unfolded the letterhead, and slowly wrote a letter to Mr. Azik.

On the table is a pale yellow identification card, which is required to purchase ocean tickets through official channels.

For this reason, he went to Sharon and got a new identity through the other party's circle. This identity belongs to the bounty hunter, a madman who wants to venture out to sea in order to get rich, and according to Klein, his name is Gelman Sparrow.

After writing the letter, Crane immediately drew the curtains and took four steps backwards, entering the gray mist.

With some time left before the Tarot gathering, Crane hurriedly pulled out the 'wriggling hunger' and tried to free the 'Faceling' he had imprisoned.

It is not only to fulfill the promise he made to these imprisoned innocent souls, but also to obtain some information, such as mermaids.

Sadly, however, the Faceling's answer was the same as the information he had received from other sources - except for those raised by the Church of the Night Goddess, he had only sailed from the Gargas Islands to the depths of the Sunia Sea for at least a week.

The hapless 'Faceling' ventured out to sea in pursuit of a mermaid, only to die at the hands of Lieutenant General Chillingus.

"The Church of the Night."

Klein tapped his fingers lightly on the tabletop, but for a long time he gave up on the tempting choice.

Although there is no need to go to sea so troublefully to find the Night Church, and there are embers to match, the Night Church should not refuse. But first, he didn't want to owe Ember any more favors, and secondly, there was one thing that Klein never figured out, that is, what role the Night Church played in the 'Black Emperor' incident.

On the other hand, judging by Ember's attitude, he doesn't trust the Night Church that much. And Klein, you yourself have personally experienced the invasion of the goddess above the gray mist, so Crane has actually been wary of the Night Church.

The Church of Tranquility is the headquarters of the Church of the Night! He, the 'leader of the cult', ran over, didn't he fall into the net?

Although overseas mermaids have to find them by themselves, at least they already have relatively precise targets and locations, so it may not be so difficult.

The only problem is that this 'fool' seems to have been exposed to many beings, and who knows if they will suddenly come to the door?

"Let's take it one step at a time."

Crane twitched out of the corner of his eye, sighed, took out his pocket watch, and looked at it.

Seeing that the time was about the same, he first sent a message to the little 'sun', who was in the forsaken land of God and could not accurately discern the time, to prepare for the meeting.

However, at this moment, his gaze noticed a crimson star, which was shrinking and expanding one after another, not by a large margin, but persistent.

Klein hesitated, a little hesitant.

As a nascent 'god', his 'existence' is actually quite secretive.

The original members 'Justice', 'The Hanged Man', and 'The Sun' were all unintentionally pulled into the gray fog by him, and only Ember was actively contacted by him, and the rest of the 'Judgment' and Miss 'Magician' were based on Ember's introduction, which also caused his honorific name to spread only in a small area.

And Klein himself also strives to keep a low profile, not wanting this 'cult' to be exposed in the eyes of the major churches. Therefore, all this time, he did not take the initiative to ask the members of the Tarot Society to spread the faith for him.

However, due to the fact that the little 'sun' had crossed paths with the members of the exploration team who had been contaminated by the 'true creator', he performed a sacrificial ritual and recited the honorific name of the 'fool', resulting in the name being exposed to 'Amun' and the 'true creator'.

Up to this point, everything was normal, and the spread was still not widespread.

However, for some reason, the group of madmen of the 'Aurora Society' actually used the name of 'Fool' to search for the traces of the 'Fool', resulting in the secret circle of this honorific name Beckland is no longer a secret, almost everyone knows it, and the extraordinary people of the three major churches are of course no exception.

Although most people know that they can't pray to unfamiliar gods, there are some people who are not afraid of death who have to pray to him. As a result, Crane has been hearing prayers quite frequently lately, and in order to avoid being missed for 'justice' their prayers, Crane has to go to the Grey Mist every time to listen. Most of the time it turned out to be trivial, which undoubtedly annoyed Klein.

Crane sighed anyway, carefully unfolding his spirituality, spreading towards the crimson. As soon as the two came into contact, his mind suddenly buzzed, and he saw a blurry and distorted picture-

It was a brown-and-yellow haired boy with both knees and wearing a black tight-fitting suit, which was completely different from the fashion trend in the Kingdom of Rune, and it was also quite different from the traditional clothing of foreign countries such as the Vorsack Empire and the Republic of Intis that Crane had seen in magazines.

His surroundings were dim, the tables and chairs were old, and they were lit by the flash of light from time to time, but Crane could not hear the roar of thunder and the dripping of rain.

In the picture, the young man clasped his hands against his forehead, his body arched forward, and he was praying, and his thick voice buzzed in Klein's ears:

"O fool who does not belong to this age;"

"You are the mysterious lord above the gray mist;"

"You are the king of yellow and black who rules good fortune."

"I am your faithful servant, and I pray that you will hear, for there are traitors at your side who want to murder you!"

——

Beckland North End, St. Samuel's Church, inside a quiet room.

One of the thirteen archbishops of the Church of the Night Goddess, the head of the Diocese of Beckland, the Sage Anthony Stevenson, looked at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him, and a smile gradually appeared on his face, as if he was not surprised by his appearance.

Ember looked at the old man in front of him with no beard, deep eyes but a gentle smile, and asked in a calm tone:

"The Black Emperor is dead, does the goddess have any new instructions?"

Archbishop Anthony shook his head slightly:

"Your Excellency, in fact it has been a long time since I have received an oracle from the Goddess, and all oracles are delivered by Her Highness Arianna. As for the Black Emperor, it was never an instruction to His Excellency, just a reminder. If you are feeling lost about the way forward, I may be able to give you a piece of advice. ”

Anthony paused for a moment, then said slowly, "If Your Excellency has chosen the path, then whether it is right or wrong, the best option is to keep going and see what the end of the road is. ”

——

"Traitor ......"

A famous quote subconsciously came to Klein's mind:

There are always people who want to harm me!

The corners of Klein's eyes twitched slightly, and he felt quite outrageous, because the picture of prayer in front of him was quite familiar!

Isn't this the picture when the little 'sun' prayed to himself?

Whether it is the clothes on the other party or the environment they are in, it can prove that the other party's location is Silver City, and even the age and hair color of this teenager are almost exactly the same as Xiao Sun!

But here's the problem, the crimson star represented by the little sun is not this one at all!

He had just communicated with Little Sun, so it was impossible to be mistaken.

But the problem is that even the little sun's prayer is just an accident, how did the young man in front of him find him?

Although Xiao Sun is naïve, it does not mean that he has a low IQ, and with his honest character, he will never reveal his honorable name at will!

Even if the young man in front of him is Xiao Sun's twin brother, Xiao Sun will definitely ask the 'fool's opinion first.

What's more, Little Sun has no twin brothers at all, and his parents have long since died.

So the question is, where did the young man who was praying to him learn about the honorific name of the 'Fool'?

This is not a difficult question to reason, in the case that the little sun could not voluntarily reveal it, there are only two people in the 'Godforsaken Lands' who know this honorable name - one is Amun, and the other is the true creator.

The True Creator has spread His name widely in Beckland, but no followers of the True Creator have ever prayed to Him. This shows that this evil god is still quite particular, and what is happening now is obviously not his doing.

Then, there is only one possibility left:

Amon.

"In other words, Amon found someone who is very similar to the little sun in terms of hair color, hairstyle, body shape and age to pray to me? Did he think I would mistake him for Little Sun and pull him into the gray mist? ”

"If I do that, then Amon will be able to use this boy as a springboard to invade the Grey Mist again."

Klein's expression twitched slightly, was he a dignified 'fool', in Amon's mind, so much like a fool?

If he can even admit that Little Sun is wrong, then he deserves to be invaded by Amon.

Klein decisively withdrew his spirituality and cut off the prayer screen without hesitation.

No matter what Amon wanted to do, he would never let the other party succeed.

As for the person who was branded as a 'traitor' by Amon, it is not difficult to guess, there is no doubt that it is Ember.

Of course, this baseless slander was directly ignored by Klein. Because in Crane's mind, Amon is the biggest traitor, and he doesn't want to invade the gray fog all the time. And the purpose of this prayer is to be revealed—Amon is trying to sow discord between him and Ember.

Although Ember wants to burn himself for a day or two, isn't it not yet burned?

Klein felt that he was still very open-minded, and as long as Ember didn't actually burn himself, then they would still be good friends.

Well, although Ember may not recognize the 'Fool' as a friend......

Shaking his head, Crane put all these thoughts behind him and officially set about gathering the members to start this tarot meeting.

The figures of the members of the Tarot Society appeared one after another, and the girl's crisp greeting sounded in their ears:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."

Neither the 'Hanged Man' nor Ever was surprised by this, and it had become their custom to greet Miss 'Justice' as if they were a dish-name. The first must be Mr. 'Fool', the owner of the Tarot Society, and the second must also be Mr. 'Lover'.

But unexpectedly, this time there was an accident.

Audrey did not rush to greet the 'lover', but solemnly saluted the 'world':

"Good afternoon, Mr. World, thank you for your help. If it weren't for your intelligence, we might not have had time to stop this catastrophe, which would have resulted in at least hundreds of thousands of deaths in Bakeland! And of course, thank you for your help, Mr. Fool. ”

"In fact, it saved myself, too." Klein manipulated "the world" and laughed hoarsely.

Except for the parties involved, the rest of the Tarot Society was a little confused, and their hearts were full of questions:

"Who am I? Where am I? What happened to Bakeland? What the hell are they talking about? ”

"This young lady."

Emlyn White, who had just joined the Tarot Society, couldn't help but ask, "What the hell are you talking about?" What disaster? Why would hundreds of thousands of people die? ”

He'd been living in Beckland all along, but he hadn't noticed anything big had happened in Beckland!

The 'Fool' smiled and introduced:

"This is a new member, Mr. Moon."

"This is Miss Justice."

I thought it would be a lady who chose the moon card...... Audrey thought about it with some relief, and said politely:

"Good afternoon, Mr. Moon. Please ask questions later, it's Mr. Fool's time. ”

She turned to the 'Fool' and added:

"Mr. Fool, I'm sorry, because the three major churches and the military are cleaning up Beckland, I can't get the follow-up Russell Diary, please wait another week."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Furth woke up and hurriedly looked at the top of the bronze table:

"Dear Mr. Fool, I have received three pages of Russell's diary."

There is no doubt that Miss 'Magic', who is backed by the Abrahamic family, has come out of the blue, replacing Miss 'Justice' as his most stable provider of Russell's diary, which is very good! Klein was in a pretty good mood, and said lightly:

"Good."

Russell's Diaries? 'Moon' Emlyn felt as if she had heard something terrible again.

In his puzzled gaze, Furth revealed three pages of his diary and passed them to Mr. Fool.

The first page is not nutritious, but it also lets Klein know that the 'Hunter' pathway is in Sequence 4, where women will be transgendered into males - the exact opposite of the Witch sequence, with one transgender in Sequence 7 and the other in Sequence 4.

Crane thoughtfully flipped to the second page of the diary:

"On the 5th of May, the unspeakable organization called for another gathering of its members.

"I'm blown away every time by the way they gather their members, it's a miracle, no, a miracle.

"After the previous observations, I raised some questions at this gathering, such as the desecration of all the names of sequence 0 on the slate are sufficiently personable, only the red priest appears unique and not tall enough, and the old gentleman sitting next to me told me that red refers to the red of war, and the priest can be understood as the priest of the essence of power.

Some objected to him, believing that the priesthood of the Red Priesthood was the priest of the original Creator.

I leaned towards the former, and whispered the old gentleman's name, for I did not know the identity of each member here, or even some of them.

"The old gentleman smiled and answered me, and he said his name was Hermes."

Happy New Year

(End of chapter)