At half past two on Monday afternoon, Angel locked herself in the study next to her bedroom in advance, so that she could start the tarot meeting of the week at any time.

For the stewards and servants, it was their mistress's fixed reading time every afternoon, and no one would disturb her if she had not received a clear order, or if there were a hundred thousand urgent matters.

That doesn't mean Angel is idle, she reads the day's newspapers at her desk, with an emphasis on entertainment and local Beckland news, which will be the talk of her week at salons and dinners, with professors, lawyers, and aristocratic ladies.

Of course, there is also a nap on the chaise longue in the study once in a while.

"I always feel more tired than I used to...... When I was in Tingen, as long as I went to work on time and handled simple interpersonal relationships, I was free for the first time in Beckland, except for completing the tasks of the 'Witch Sect'...... It seems that the upper class society is glamorous on the surface, but in fact it is also the life of toil......"

Angel muttered, her gaze sweeping over a local story in the Beckland Post.

"An accidental explosion occurred on Dirham Street in the Beckland Bridge District, and a high-ranking gang member died en masse...... Usually this kind of accident is not an accident, but it is not known who they provoked, was it the revenge of other gangsters, or was it something extraordinary? ”

Slightly bored, she folded the newspaper and put it on the table, took a sip of a somewhat cold coffee, and prepared to wait for the tarot meeting at three o'clock.

"I'm starting to lose interest in this kind of 'ordinary' journalism...... Is this because of the impact after being promoted to a high sequence? At the dance the night before yesterday, I was laughing at Miss Hazel Macht, who thinks of herself as an extraordinary, looking down on every ordinary person equally, and now I myself am caught in a similar mentality?

"This has to be curbed, and I don't know why, but my gut tells me that this change could spiral out of control...... Fortunately, I have already felt the way 'despair' is played, similar to 'pain', giving others despair, or one's own despair, can help the digestion of potions, and actively digesting potions can stabilize one's own state and resist the possibility of losing control.

"No wonder Panatia wants to create a great haze that will affect the whole city, and this one time may be enough for her to digest the 'despair...... And my battle with Triss seems to have briefly plunged her into despair, and it actually made my potion digest a little...... Aside from the early play that was probably due to the Great Smog and the 'despair' that 'Adam' caused me, this was the first time since I was promoted. ”

Coming to the chaise longue by the window and sitting down, Angel summed up the gains of the promotion and came to Beckland, looking at the wall clock minute and hour hands forming at right angles.

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"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool~"

"Justice" stood up first, greeted the fool at the head of the long table, and the other members greeted each other one by one, and sat back in their own high-backed chairs.

Audrey seems to be in a good mood, she has completely digested the "psychiatrist"? "The Hanged Man" Alger looked at me because there was information about the "crazy captain"? Klein still looks like he doesn't smile, but he has no energy, as if he has been bent over by the weight of life, didn't I give him the gold coins that belonged to him......

Angel observed all the members of the Tarot Society, and finally his gaze rested on the "Hermit", who happened to speak:

"Mr. Fool, I have brought three pages of the diary of Russell the Great."

"I also have three new pages of my diary this time." Audrey then said.

I...... Not a page was left, and when I returned to Beckland, I was busy looking for a house, hiring servants, and attending salons and balls......

Angel looked at the others with a weak heart, and found that except for "Justice" and "Hermit", everyone else was as silent as her, so she was relieved.

The reason why she didn't bother to find the diary was not only because she was too busy, but also because the underground market in Beckland had been looted by Audrey the "Justice" with extraordinary financial resources, and the diary in circulation had basically disappeared, and it should be difficult to collect a new diary unless she broke into the warehouse of the Steam Church and snatched the original copy of Russell's diary.

Thinking wildly, Angel waited for Mr. Fool to finish reading the new diary, looked to the side of the female members, and said with a smile:

"In return for collecting the diary, you can make your own requests."

"Dear Mr. Fool, I want to see those two new 'blasphemy cards'."

Audrey did not surprise Angel and made a request that she had been eager to try half a month ago.

"Yes, is there anyone else who wants to join the deal? Short-term debt is allowed. ”

"Fool" Klein's gaze swept over all the members, and finally stopped on Gadelia, but saw that she shook her head with a little hesitation, and said:

"I wonder if Russell the Great has ever joined a very old and secretive organization."

Her question is very pertinent, the three-page diary submitted happens to have relevant content, it seems that these diaries are directly provided by the "mysterious queen" Bernadette, and although the latter can't read the Chinese, he can find the time when Russell wrote this part of the diary from memory, and guess what events will be involved...... Crane smiled and replied:

"Yes."

At the same time, he thought of the Internet joke he had seen in his previous life:

During an exam, the scumbag handed a note to the top student at the same table, writing "Will you know the last question?" ”

The note that Xueba returned reads: "Yes." ”

I can only blame you for the wrong way of asking questions, and as a mysterious "fool", it is unlikely that I will take the initiative to answer too much, it will seem that it is not enough...... He muttered silently, and seeing that the others had no intention of joining the transaction, he blocked everyone's sight and hearing, and turned over the two blasphemous cards that Angel had deposited, facing "justice" head-on.

Of course, it is only the tarot card form that shows the name "Sequence 0", rather than reading it spiritually, and you can see the full content of all the potion recipes in this path, so that you can't get a chance to see it once, let alone three pages of diaries......

"Witch, and the Red Priest...... The former should be sequence 0 of the 'Assassin' path, but what about the latter? ”

"Justice" exhaled contentedly after a brief moment of shock and bowed: "Thank you for your generosity. ”

"Actually, you should be grateful to the 'Queen', these two 'blasphemy cards' were collected by her and temporarily stored with me, and because of this, there is an additional price to watch them."

Crane said in a deep voice as he tapped the table to restore the other members' hearing and hearing senses to normal. In the next second, everyone's eyes focused on Angel, making the latter retract into the high-backed chair a little bewildered, looking petite and helpless.

I didn't want to draw the spotlight on her, but if I didn't name the owner of these two blasphemous cards, it would appear that the "fool" was greedy for other people's credit. Moreover, "Queen" is now a Tarot card, so it can be more confident...... Looking at Angel's small movements, Klein chuckled and continued:

"As compensation, I will give her a portion of the translation of Russell's diary that will be helpful to her."

With that, the "Fool" tapped on the table again, and a dense piece of parchment with Runwen written in front of Angel instantly appeared, surrounded by a faint gray mist, so that even Audrey, who was sitting next to her, could not see the specific content.

"Excuse me, we can also exchange this ...... Reward? ”

As the others looked at the parchment with confusion and shock, the "Hermit" suddenly asked, his voice trembling, as if he was extremely excited.

"Of course, I've always followed the principle of equivalent exchange, but you won't need this part of the content for the time being."

Klein replied indifferently.

He handed over the "compensation" to Angel on the spot, and that was the purpose.

According to his estimation, as Russell's eldest daughter, the "mysterious queen" Bernadette must have one or more "blasphemy cards", and after he hinted that the "blasphemous cards" can be exchanged for "plaintext diaries", Bernadette may entrust the "hermit" to make a similar transaction, if he can exchange for the "soothsayer" channel card and obtain all the recipes needed for later promotion, then there is no need for him to risk breaking into Chanisgate to steal the Antigonus family notes, or let Angel come forward to try to trade with the church.

Of course, he was not wrong when he said that "others don't need it", and some of the contents of the diary he got this time were related to the demigod or higher sequence, and he thought it necessary to tell Angel.

At this time, Angel, who was sitting next to the "fool", picked up the parchment in front of him with gratitude after a short period of stunnedness, and quickly read it, regardless of the envious eyes of others.

"After the death of a high-level extraordinary, the precipitated extraordinary characteristics will leave a strong spiritual imprint, which can be used as a potion material, and unless there is a similar spiritual body, there is a high probability that the promotion will fail.

"Even if it is a direct descendant, it can withstand the influence of the spiritual imprint, and after taking the potion, it will gradually be affected by it, and it will evolve step by step, becoming the carrier of the resurrection of the high-sequence extraordinary, the higher the sequence, the more obvious the impact.

"In addition to the spiritual imprint, the potion itself also represents madness and despair, starting from Sequence 4, the promotion ceremony will show the characteristics of the path itself, which is often a collection of cruelty and negativity, and in Sequence 2, this madness will allow the extraordinary to gradually break away from the will of 'humanity' and transform into 'divinity', in order to combat this madness, he needs others to position himself as an 'anchor', and this 'anchor' cannot be prepared temporarily, it must be advanced!"

These contents have obviously been organized and reorganized by Mr. Fool, and are not presented in the form of a diary, and the words are very well-thought-out in the style of Rune, probably to take care of her as a "Rune native".

However, the content of it very clearly points to the various problems that the "high-level extraordinary" will face, especially the "anchor" used to locate human nature, which makes Angel inevitably think of the Orthodox Church and the relationship between the seven gods and their followers.

"Do the gods spread their beliefs in order to maintain their own humanity and not be affected by the spiritual imprint within the extraordinary nature, to lose control or to become 'another self'?

"Mr. Fool is putting this together with me because I've been promoted to Sequence 4 and have divinity, and I might be facing a similar problem?"

Thinking of this, Angel looked at the "fool" at the head of the long table again, and found that the mysterious existence hidden in the gray mist seemed to have turned his attention to this side.

(End of chapter)