Chapter 41: Playing the Law

Hearing the fool's question, Angel felt as if her chest was being clenched by an invisible hand, and her heart began to beat faster.

Part of the tension stems from the diaries that have been "watered" by herself, and while the fool shouldn't care about these little things, it doesn't stop the panic and excitement that wells up in her heart when she tricks a mysterious being.

Part of the reason is that Angel is not sure about the scarcity of Russell's diary.

Perhaps two hundred years have turned an emperor's notes into a nationwide puzzle-solving campaign, but this is clearly inconsistent with the "fool's" urgent need for a diary.

It is more likely that these notes are only circulated within major churches and mysterious organizations, so is there a possibility that your identity will be exposed if you can easily obtain the diary?

The other two seem to have a similar mentality, and Miss Justice, who used to like to speak first, seems to be a little more stable after becoming an extraordinary, and the first to answer is the hanged man.

"I found two pages of the diary of Russell the Great."

"I have a page too."

Justice was answered.

It seems that I am the one with the most...... Angel pondered, and replied according to the original strategy: "I also found two pages of the diary, and I need to write it now...... Express it? ”

"Yes, please."

With the fool's succinct words, parchment and ink-soaked pens appeared in front of the other three in front of them.

Angel picked up the pen and recalled the contents of her diary that had been "disassembled and reorganized" by her not long ago, focusing on the tip of the pen in her hand, expressing the urge to "write".

On the parchment, the square words left by Russell the Great the Traveler in this world appeared smoothly.

In order to avoid being guessed by fools that she knows Chinese, she deliberately expressed the font in a strange shape, some small, delicate, some wild and rough, and even shuffled the order of several words, making them seem to come from different transcribers and be pieced together on a piece of paper.

Presenting the two pages of the diary onto the parchment in this magical way of not sticking the paper, Angel put down the pen and looked up, seeing that the other two had also finished their work.

Just as it appeared, the parchment in front of him disappeared in an instant, and then appeared in front of Mr. Fool at the end of the long table.

His figure hidden behind the gray mist was still hazy, but he was already holding the diary in both hands and began to read with his head down, and the rest of the people did not dare to take a breath for fear of disturbing the fool's reading time.

He really knew the words......

Although Angel had already guessed, the Fool asked the crowd to collect Russell's diary for the purpose of reading, so he must have some knowledge of this kind of writing, or even a mastery of it.

But when she watched the fool read the newspaper like a newspaper, turning the pages of her diary and reading words that did not belong to this world, more doubts still surged in her heart.

Has He deciphered the meaning of the Chinese? Translated with the help of some occult means?

Or is He......

The Fool read faster and faster, until the last two pages were useless for even a minute, and then he put down the parchment in his hand, looked up at the other three one by one, and stayed on Angel for a moment, making her think that she had discovered her act of watering the diary.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little fascinated by it."

Angel's deep voice pierced through the gray mist, relieving Angel, and she said in a brisk tone, "I hope to learn some of the contents of the diary from you one day." ”

She really wanted to see what secrets Russell Gustav recorded in his diary, whether it was the unfathomable occult knowledge, the treasures buried in the secret stronghold, or the wonderful scenery different from the earth, and perhaps the way back to the original world?

"Everything can be exchanged here, but everything also comes at a price."

"Keep searching the journal for me, and maybe I'll make some information public that you can safely obtain."

It seems that there is a lot of advanced occult knowledge in the diary, and even now we are at great risk of even knowing it...... Hearing the fool's response, Angel quickly stood up, stroked his chest and saluted: "Thank you for your generosity." ”

Justice and the Hanged Man also said that they would do their best to collect more Rosell's diaries for the Fool.

"Mr. Fool, Miss Queen, Mr. Hanged Man, I happen to have three questions I want to ask." After sitting down again, Justice, who had just become an "audience", couldn't wait to ask, "If the value of the answer is high, please tell me what you need, and I will do my best to meet it." ”

Ah, it's time for the curious Miss Justice to ask questions again, and the knowledge sharing between the members of the Tarot Society shouldn't be as one-on-one as it was during the last potions recipe trade, right?

Angel was secretly happy in her heart, she glanced at the fool secretly, and saw that he was noncommittal, and did not show a new parchment, as if she was not prepared to interfere with justice's question, so she nodded to justice:

"Please."

The hanged man also leaned back in his chair and assumed a listening pose.

"First question, I want to know more about the meaning of 'playing', after taking the 'audience' potion, I feel that the residual mental effects in the potion have faded very quickly, is it because I have been playing the audience?"

In the last tarot meeting, the Fool reminded everyone in a short sentence that the key to mastering the power of potions is to "play", and the key to playing is the name of the potion itself.

It seems that Miss Justice has found the key in the Fool's prompt, but she is still a little confused when she is a first-time extraordinary, so much so that she is willing to promise a high reward and get the answer in the Tarot Society.

"I can answer that question."

Seeing that the hanged man maintained his original posture and did not move, and the fool touched the edge of the table again, without the meaning of answering, Angel thought for a moment and took the initiative to answer.

"You've realized that the name of the potion is the key to the play, and that you've found some doorways, but it's not enough."

Based on Cole Granger's summary of the rules of potion play from memory, as well as Mrs. Sharon's teachings, Angel distilled the essentials of mastering—or in the words of the fool—digesting potions, and patiently explained.

"When taking the potion, you should feel a mysterious gaze that you don't feel as a normal person, and a seductive and crazy whisper in your ear, which fades away as you meditate later."

Seeing that Justice nodded solemnly, she continued: "This is the effect caused by the conflict between the residual spirit in the extraordinary material and your own spirit, this influence can be temporarily suppressed through meditation, but the spirit of the potion itself has not disappeared, it is like a foreign body in your body, when your spirit is exhausted and you come into contact with mysterious power, it will explode again at any time, causing a loss of control." ”

"The purpose of the 'Playing Method' is to gradually eliminate these residual spiritual influences and fully master the power of potions. To use a more vivid metaphor, potions are like a heavily guarded villa, the power we need to master is controlled by the owner of the villa, and if we want to break through the obstacles to kill it and seize the power, the best way is to pretend to be himself, deceive the guards of the villa, and successfully solve the target. ”

This is the metaphor used by Mrs. Sharon when teaching Cole to play the law, with a sense of blood derived from the identity of the "assassin", since the original author has died and cannot defend his rights, Angel boldly "takes it".

"But the guards are very smart, to fool them, you need to look, dress, and behave perfectly in line with the owner of the villa, otherwise if you enter rashly, you will only be recognized and attacked as an enemy."

"So the name of the potion is characteristic of the owner of the villa?" Miss Justice suddenly realized.

"That's right, when you play it perfectly, infiltrate the villa, and kill the target, there is a very obvious, completely digested potion sensation, which is difficult to describe, and you will understand when you get there."

Speaking of which, Angel wanted to describe the feeling of fully digesting the potion in a more specific way, but he couldn't find the right words and phrases, so he had to explain it in vague terms.

Miss Justice was more pleased with the rather occult answer, praising it: "It's an Assassin metaphor, I think I've fully understood it, but fortunately I've instinctively played the role of a spectator these days, and it seems that this is on the right track." ”

"Miss Queen, what price do I have to pay for this answer?"

Angel thought for a moment, he didn't seem to have anything he needed urgently at the moment, the potion recipes for Sequence 8 "The Instigator" and Sequence 7 "The Witch" were in his head, and although the main material was difficult to obtain, it was not immediately available. The gold pound is a good thing, but I still have a lot of savings and a stable source of income, so I am not short for the time being. And raising money at this kind of extraordinary exchange meeting always feels that the style of the Tarot Society and Mr. Fool has been lowered.

After thinking about it, what she needed most at the moment should be a weapon with extraordinary power, that is, an extraordinary weapon that the old Neil once mentioned, "the whole city of Tingen may not be able to muster one".

"I need a channel to buy or customize an extraordinary weapon, preferably near Beckland, and if the value of this channel is high, I can make up the difference." She limited her scope to the vicinity of Beckland in order to avoid the exposure of her long-term secret location in the city of Tingen, and also to prevent the other party from providing some locations that were not even in the territory of the Kingdom of Rune.

Although she felt that the hanged man should already know her identity, after all, her current identity information was handled by the person he provided.

"Extraordinary...... Weapons ......" Miss Justice hesitated, seemingly less knowledgeable than Angel about extraordinary objects and weapons.

The hanged man, who was silently watching the exchange between the two, suddenly said: "I can provide such a channel, which is also a thank you for the 'acting method'." ”

Angel's impression of the hanged man has always been the image of a "businessman who never lets himself suffer", and this impression was formed when he came up with a trading plan that satisfied everyone at the first party, but he didn't expect that at this time he actually took the initiative to ask for payment, and it seems that the "acting method" should help him a lot.

"There is a 'Kaveh Watch Shop' in Port Enmat, Oak District, Golden Mile, you go to the 'craftsman' Kaveh, who often has some extraordinary weapons for sale, and if you can't find a satisfactory one, you can pay extra money to order it."

"Don't worry, this is a regular channel, but you'd better prepare more gold pounds, these things are not cheap."

This time, the hangman did not mention anything like "introduced by the captain", and it seems that this is not his personal relationship.

Port of Enmat......

Angel had a map of the surroundings of the city of Tingen in mind.

Located on the East Chester coast east of Tingen, the Port of Emmatt is a port city about the size of Tingen that can be reached by steam train in about 4 hours.

Dalie Simone, the "psychic", also served as a night watchman in that city.

It's a pity that he is about to become an official member of the Tingen Market Value Night, and it is estimated that he will not have the opportunity to leave Tingen and go to the port of Enmat in the short term, and listening to the meaning of the hanging man, the price of extraordinary weapons may not be two or three hundred pounds to take, and it will take time to save money.

"Thank you, this information is important to me."

In any case, she is still grateful for the channel provided by the hanged man, and the lack of money is her own problem, not the other party's.

"Hmm...... This is not considered a payment by me. Miss Justice said, as the two of them sat next to each other, Angel could faintly see her movements through the gray mist, and clenched her fists as if she had made up her mind, "Well, Miss Queen, if you have any difficulties in purchasing extraordinary weapons, mainly financially, I can provide a part." ”

"The cap should not exceed 500 pounds."

She may think that the "check" with no upper limit is exaggerated, she added.

This is already the recipe of the Sequence 9 potion plus the price of the main material, just pay for a little knowledge...... Miss Justice, how rich are you?

Angel felt as if she was about to reassess the righteous family situation.