The auction in the hall is in full swing.

The host revealed the ability of "new life" in the "Rose" card, which made the nobles and rich people present a little coveted.

After all, no one doesn't want to be able to live forever.

Even though this card was only a third-order card, as the white-faced man said, most of the people present, not even those who frequented the Sunflower Carriage and knew anything about the genesis card, had never heard of the "Rose" deck.

So even though the price of this card was much higher than that of the other deck's third-tier cards, there was an explosion of enthusiasm.

For these noble gentry, the problems that could be solved with gold coins were not a problem.

"Sir, I'm a little confused, but that [Black Raven's Gift] looks more like it has something to do with the 'New Life' than the 'Mother Goddess', and that 'Gift' card is of a higher rank."

In the face of the host's remarks about the "Rose" card, Martin was a little skeptical. He recalled the image on the "Libra" card, a coffin with a black crow about to fly, which he had envisioned as the key to "recovery."

"You're right, but not entirely."

Hines replied with a smile as he picked up a strawberry apple pie from his silver snack plate.

He put the fruit pie in his mouth and chewed it carefully, and then said:

"That [Undertaker] teammate of yours should know better than you about the effect of that 'Libra' card."

"The world knows that on Mount St. Athos is located the Monastery of the Immortal Bird, one of the three holy places in the mainland, and King Darius goes to the mountain every year to worship the immortal bird, which symbolizes death and rebirth, and discusses the secrets of death and death with the abbot."

"But other than that, ordinary people can't come into contact with the monks of the monastery at all, whether it is the [Black Crow Warrior Monk] wearing black robes or the [Peacock Deacon] wearing various feathers, they will basically stay on the mountain for the rest of their lives, it is said that this is due to the ban of the monastery."

Martin nodded, Hynes said something similar to what he had heard in his previous conversation with Eddie and Salomon.

"But is that really the case?"

Hines's voice drifted as he leaned back against the red velvet cushions, his cheeks dodging the flickering light of the candles and disappearing into the ubiquitous darkness of the box.

"Countless rounds of Prophet Cards have changed, and countless subtle or vague predictions have been made about what is happening on this continent and even on the stormy seas around it, as if nothing can escape the scrutiny of the [All-Seeing Eye]."

"But we found that there were three areas of the picture depicted on all the prophetic tablets that never appeared in any prophecy, not even vaguely mentioned."

Hines's gaze stabbed Martin from the darkness like a sharp sword, and Martin could feel the awe, shock, and even a vague hint of fear in his voice.

Any of these emotions are very rare to put on this old gentleman.

Either that means that these three regions have no influence on the development of the world as a whole, and that they exist as much as they do not, so [omniscience] ignores them. Either ......"

Hines's snort began to grow a little heavy.

"Either because these three areas are higher than omniscient, or at least capable of countering omniscient beings, these beings have denied omniscient access to them to the point that they are independent of all prophecies."

"Of those three areas, there is Mount Saint-Athos."

Hines turned his head to look at the lively auction scene below, and his tone was vague.

"There was once a sage of the [Fortress of Dawn and Dusk], the [Scourge Medium] of 'Compass' Heart IX, relying on a fragment of the skull of the former abbot of the Immortal Bird Monastery, who wanted to peek into the reason why Mount St. Athos was independent of [omniscient]."

"But before he could say the word 'weight', his two eyeballs were stripped alive by an unknown force and fell to the ground, and then, all the 'compass' cards on his body were repelled out, and his body quickly decayed."

Martin was shocked to hear this, an existence that could be called a demihuman and demigod with a ninth-order card actually died so miserably just because of a divination, what secret was hidden in that monastery?

"Weight ......"

He thought of the "Libra" deck in the hands of the Immortal Bird Monastery, the weights and the scales, and whether there was anything to do with that......

"There must be some secret hidden on the mountain of St. Athos, and this secret makes it impossible for all the monks of the monastery to go down the mountain easily, otherwise they will be burdened with a 'curse', and even death will not be able to free them."

"It is even possible that the so-called 'curse' itself has something to do with this secret."

Hines said quietly.

"According to your description, I, along with the rest of the club's advisors, have basically figured out how this 'life and death' deck works."

"[The Black Raven's Gift] can give people a chance to be 'reborn' after death."

Martin's brow jumped.

"Can you really be reborn?"

Hines smiled.

"Yes, but the original flesh has decayed, and the occupant will wake up in the body of a crow."

"Crows?!"

Martin instantly thought of the name of the "Libra" card, the crows that existed around every Goode in the portrait of the staircase, and the criticism:

"It's a gift and a curse."

He understood a lot.

"The structure of a crow's head is different from that of a human brain, and the person who accommodates it will lose most of its memories, emotions, and even personality when it wakes up after being reborn, and will completely lose its ability to think over time, becoming a real crow."

Speaking of this, Hines's expression became a little serious.

"No wonder it can make people reborn, the miracle deck that is equivalent to having two lives is only a fifth-order ......"

Martin lamented that this can indeed be called a rebirth, but the consciousness of being a human being is gradually disappearing, what is the difference between this and death? At best, it's just a lingering breath.

"But according to Henry Goode, his father had lived for hundreds of years by encroaching on the male bodies of the Goode family, and how did that happen?"

A "gift" certainly doesn't get that way, and it certainly has something to do with another "rose" card, but Martin doesn't know exactly how this deck works.

"We studied the effect of this 'Rose' card for a long time, and finally found a record of it in an ancient text, in addition to this card, it also mentions the [Rose Cross]."

"According to the ancient book, the members of the Rose Society believe in an existence that has been called the 'Mother Goddess', and they believe that the 'Mother Goddess' is the womb of the Creator, that all plants are blood vessels in the womb, and that all kinds of forbidden creatures are flesh and blood in the womb, and that they are all manifestations of the Mother God's authority to 'reproduce'."

"In a lost history, the 'Mother Goddess' was usurped and her body was cut into many parts for sealing, and we suspect that these 'corpse pieces' have become the reversal cards of the various ranks in the 'Rose'."

Martin thought for a moment, then thought of the other "Rose" card that Lady Lucia had mentioned yesterday, and added:

"I guess so, I heard from another secret organization that they had come into contact with a reversal card, and its name is [Mother God Corpse Piece 03 - Corpse Liquid Flower Bed]."

Martin informed Hines of the revelation yesterday that Lady Lucia was trying to build the "Unsinkable Ship" by the traitors of the Order of the Roses.

Hines had a serious expression, and he said thoughtfully:

"After you returned to the club that day, we returned to Goode Manor to check it out, and found a lot of special activity there, it must be the people of the [Rose Cross], they seem to be looking for something, and now I think about it, it should be the 'Mother Goddess Corpse' card."

"As the name and annotation of this third-order reverse card suggests, this card allows the mother to conceive in a special way, giving birth to a forbidden creature hatchling."

Hines's face became heavy.

"Forbidden creatures? Is it xenogeneous? ”

The term appears twice in Hines's account, and this is the first time Martin has heard the name, and immediately associates it with the "xenomorph" he's heard of.

"No, the forbidden creatures are different from the xenos we know, xenos are our umbrella term for the magical creatures that can contain the 'Pollution Cards', which match their body structure very well, as if the Creator had made them for them."

"Forbidden organisms, on the other hand, are generally created after humans have been contaminated. In addition to collapsing after transforming into various xenomorphs, the contaminated person may also combine with some special residues in the body or the surrounding environment to degenerate into a forbidden creature, although this is relatively unlikely. ”

Hines explained.

"The man who calls himself 'Boaz' uses this 'rose'

The card transforms the mother body he has chosen, and the final birth from the mother is probably a forbidden species that can evolve. ”

"Based on the information about the Goode family that the club has found from the Finglan premises, my guess is that this forbidden species was born in the form of a crow, and gradually changed from crows to humans as it grew up."

"In this way, Boaz was reincarnated when the species was still in the form of a crow, and he succeeded in preserving his personality by relying on the uniqueness of the forbidden creature, and it is possible that he awakened his personality after the creature grew up."

Martin was amazed at what Hynes had described, but on closer thought it made sense that it was feasible.

"That's why Boaz can survive for hundreds of years, as long as he finds a suitable mother to be reincarnated through rituals every time he ages, he can theoretically survive forever."

Hines's tone became a little embarrassed.

"Terrible array."

Martin also sighed.