Chapter 54: Speculation

"Is there such a thing?" Audrey, who was sitting at the table, nodded thoughtfully at Klein in front of her.

Little did she know that Mr. "World", a member of the Tarot Society who looked cold and crazy on the outside, would have been a teacher? I thought his identity at the time was just a disguise......

This is undoubtedly unimaginable, and if you say this to the pirates who were killed by the Aurora King, the victims will not be surprised.

“…… That's another story. Klein changed the subject without hesitation, "It's not too early, tomorrow we'll go and analyze the things about demons and witches." ”

"Rest early, Audrey Hall—Miss 'Justice.'"

Holding back the power she wanted to channel her mind and explore the secret of the "world", Audrey breathed a deep sigh.

She took the hem of her nun dress and saluted Klein:

"Good night then, Mr. 'World'."

"—or rather, teacher? Good night, teacher. ”

Audrey blinked her eyes, even though she already knew that "the world" was equivalent to Gelman Sparrow, equivalent to Dawn Dantès, and Sherlock Moriarty, the night watchman of Beckland.

After all, this is the friend and teacher who once taught Audrey extraordinary knowledge and allowed her to walk on the extraordinary path smoothly.

……

Audrey opened her eyes and saw an unfamiliar ceiling. After seeing this picture, she was at first a little dazed, and then quickly remembered that she had been in the night watchman's room today—she should have remembered it a long time ago, but it was the first time she had spent the night outside, and she was a little unresponsive.

The atmosphere of the Rune Empire has always been conservative, and compared to the Intis nobles who open imparts anytime and anywhere, the girls of the Rune Empire generally do not spend the night in other people's homes.

Even if they visit the homes of nobles who are also women, they generally do not do so, after all, in the eyes of the nobles of the Rune Empire, everyone's every move is attached to the corresponding meaning, and the overnight stay may even be labeled accordingly.

Moreover, in fact, Audrey did not want to be friends with a female aristocratic lady who had to spend the night at her house when she visited.

The only few friends she had with good relations were the ones who had gone on a quest for extraordinary power with her at the time, and the only aristocratic friends she had been in contact with before were Viscount Gleilint.

Of course, Viscount Glerint has been stationed in the Southern Continent since the start of the war, and unlike her brother Alfred Hall, Viscount Gleilint has not fought with His Majesty the current Emperor at present, although his evasion of war is somewhat despicable in the eyes of others, but in Audrey's opinion, this is obviously a more rational choice.

After her family had been severely traumatized by the war, Audrey felt that the war would not bring them happiness, and that trauma would not be the glory they loved.

Perhaps in the eyes of other nobles, their trauma was the dedication and sacrifice made for the sake of George III, which was glorious to any family.

But is this really the case for wounded or dead soldiers?

In Audrey's opinion, because her brother was severely traumatized, it was because of this that she had not seen her parents smile genuinely for a long time.

She felt that her father would certainly be proud of his brother's dedication, but more of a concern.

Earl Hall would worry about whether his child would stay in his current state forever and never wake up, and he would worry if his other child would be drafted into battle as the war escalated.

Even in the worst case, when the situation on the battlefield is extremely bad, when the extraordinary people of the royal family find out that Audrey herself is also an extraordinary person, will they also send their daughters to the battlefield to fight side by side with the emperor?

Count Hall is also worried about whether he can protect his children and wife, and whether he can protect the Hall family. He values the glory of the Hall family very much, but if there is not even a person from the Hall family, then how can the glory of the Hall family be called glory?

At that point, they will only become an inconspicuous symbol in the heraldic books of the nobility, which will become a symbol of history - Earl Hall does not want his daughter to touch the extraordinary too much, and there is part of this consideration.

In any case, in this way, the Hall family will not decline, and for his daughter, such an ending is much better than dying on the battlefield.

…… Maybe my father actually thought like this, but he exposed his true thoughts to me too early under the guidance of others, otherwise he shouldn't have said such drastic things to me at that time.

Audrey shook her head slowly, although she now guessed that when she was talking to her father, both herself and her father were influenced by some son of the Creator, but Audrey didn't think it was all because of the son of the creator that her father said something like that.

- In the final analysis, his father really thinks that, so he will say these words under guidance.

There are still nine days, no, eight days. Since Mr. Fool was able to know about this, it was also very likely that the other gods would know that Russell Gustav would be resurrected on that day and return from death to become the true Black Emperor.

It was also the day that George III regained his consciousness and began to prepare his plans for his ascension to the throne. Audrey knew that her father had received an invitation from George III, and she was shocked to find that the time recorded on that invitation was eight days later.

It was a banquet hosted by the Emperor himself, a banquet held by the true god through the true god of the "hunter" who had fallen into the status of the king of angels!

If there are hostile Extraordinaries who want to attack George III's plans and sabotage them, then they will most likely do so from here.

In this case, before my father attended the banquet, there was a high probability that His Majesty the Emperor would not attack......

Audrey simply cleaned herself up while thinking about the next question, although it was not clear what the witch and the demon wanted to do, but Audrey knew that what they were secretly planning was definitely a plan that would cause extremely bad conditions and great casualties.

After a light breakfast, Audrey left the night watchman's room and went to Mr. World's office.

"Spare me, G-Sherlock, I didn't sleep all night last night, and I was sorting through the materials."

Audrey heard Leonard's voice from afar, and he said to Klein in the middle of the office. However, after hearing Audrey's footsteps, he alarmedly changed his name and called Klein Sherlock Moriarty.

This kid still has basic alertness...... Klein sighed silently, turned his head to look at Audrey, and showed a warm smile:

"You're here, Miss Audrey?"

Is this really the "world" gentleman who usually has a cold look? Even though Audrey used to be an excellent viewer, she can't help but doubt her eyes now.

The current "world" is completely devoid of the cold look of the past, like a normal university lecturer.

Is this the basic skill of a "Faceling"? The corners of Audrey's mouth moved, looking at Sherlock Moriarty, who was handsome and kind, and didn't know what to say for a while.

After Klein said to her, "Please take a seat," Audrey sat down.

Looking at the mountains of materials on the table, like a fortress wall, Audrey couldn't help but look at Leonard with a tired face in front of her, and subconsciously asked with some surprise:

"Captain, didn't you take a break yesterday?"

Considering that the precursor to the "Night" pathway is a "sleeper" who only needs very little sleep, and can make a "sleeper" who only needs two hours of rest a day feel tired, then it is clear that his work last night was quite intense.

Leonard tugged at the corners of his mouth:

"yes—it's not because someone ......"

"Ahem." Klein quickly diverted the topic, what he did yesterday was indeed a little inauthentic, let Leonard work overtime to complete the sorting out of all the information they got before, and he did process some of it before going to rest.

This is equivalent to fishing when his colleagues are working overtime, which makes Klein a little embarrassed to divert the topic, and Leonard is entangled in this matter.

Of course, he was naturally greeted by Leonard's somewhat resentful look.

"Alright, Audrey, look at the information." Crane straightened his look, gently pushed the information forward, and put it in front of Audrey, Audrey naturally picked up the materials that Klein pushed to her, and began to look at it seriously.

The more they looked down, the more Audrey felt that the mystery hidden in Beckland was quite complicated, and many of the secrets had disappeared in front of their eyes with the previous Beckland cataclysm, but Mr. "World" and Captain Leonard still sorted out these things to restore the true situation of some hidden events as much as possible.

There have been human trafficking incidents in Beckland before, so it's no wonder that I've read newspapers about mysterious disappearances — but it's likely that some of these things weren't the work of the royal family, because if they were really the royal family, they wouldn't have been reported in the newspapers.

However, on the synthesis of the "Black Emperor" path, some seemingly definite results can be obtained - Audrey has seen the "Black Emperor" blasphemy card, and knows that the "Black Emperor" godhood ceremony requires a large number of people to complete.

When you think about it this way, the situation behind this matter is worth scrutinizing.

Audrey flipped through this page of information and suddenly had some conjectures:

Perhaps some of the disappearances were indeed the work of the royal family, but others were caused by traffickers who took advantage of the government's creations to abduct and sell people.

But Audrey found that the files had disappeared completely not long ago, and it seemed that Beckland had undergone a complete transformation, and that there was no human trafficking.

And with this drastic decline, some traffickers have been tried by the courts in Beckland.

As for the reason for the turnaround, Audrey can guess a lot, probably because George III decided to change his path, jumping from the "Black Emperor" to the "Red Priest", so he drastically reduced the official human trafficking action.

And after that......

Audrey looked at several documents again, but did not get any more files related to the matter.

And when she picked up a document again, her expression moved.

This is a survey of the number of Extraordinary Beings hidden in Beckland, which shows that the number of Extraordinary Beings in the "Witch" path increased and decreased significantly in Beckland during the period before and after the Cataclysm of Beckland, during the period when the Emperor was ignoring the government.

Although the number of investigations that can be investigated is limited, it seems to indicate something wrong.

As for the extraordinary people of the "demon" path, it was the obvious increase in the number of people gathered in Beckland after the emperor ignored the government, and such an obvious trend made Audrey's heart suddenly have some other speculations.

"How? See what? ”

Klein asked, and Audrey only hesitated for a moment before responding:

"There seems to be some pattern to the increase and decrease in the number of 'witches' and 'demons'."

"Perhaps, this has something to do with the path chosen by the emperor? But there's no way to find the real pattern right now. ”

Audrey thought about it as she uttered her reasoning:

"And forcibly jumping to the path is also a very dangerous thing, referring to the words of the true god 'Blood Emperor' Alista Tudor who also jumped from the 'Black Emperor' path to the 'Red Priest' path before, half-madness is the best ending."

"And in such a situation, if George III wants to solve the layout of some of the extraordinary beings who are adjacent to him before he becomes a true Red Priest, it is obviously impossible to achieve it according to his state."

"Unless, behind Him, there is someone behind Him who can maintain His will, who can make him momentarily sober and make decisions."

"That's what I thought, but I'm more inclined to think that He was able to wake up for a short time." Crane was silent for a moment, "Otherwise, we can't explain how he fought back against the cooperation of the Primordial Witch and the Son of the Creator after he became a blend of the 'Black Emperor' and the 'Red Priest' pathway. ”

"That's probably what we're going to focus on these days, and I think it can help us get to the bottom of what's really going on."

(End of chapter)