Part 1 The Joker Chapter 200 The Pleasure Witch
Synonymous with war …… Which of the similar sequences of the Witch Pathway …… would it be? Klein watched the holographic movie-like scene while thinking back to the sequences he knew.
Since he is only a full member of the Night Watch, he has not been able to access a lot of information, and he is almost blind to the names and corresponding characteristics of the middle and high sequences, and he only knows the “Priests of Light” and “Darkless Ones” that he spied from the “Eternal Sun”, and the “Priests of Light” and “Darkless Ones” from the “Eternal Sun”. Darkness-less”, and from the “Sun” teenager, “God of War”, “Knight of Dawn”, “Guardian”, “Guardian”, “Knight of the Sun”, and “Knight of the Dawn”. Guardian”, “Demon Hunter”, as well as “Necromancer” and “Gatekeeper” revealed by Daley and Dunn.
Therefore, it is difficult for him to accurately determine whether a sequence pathway is synonymous with war or not, and he can only take the method of elimination, for example, the “God of War” pathway does not look like a war, but a single battle.
With his thoughts spinning, Klein narrowed it down to five:
First, the “Arbiter” sequence jointly held by the Augustus family, the ruler of the Kingdom of Ruen, and the Castile family of the Kingdom of Feneport, but Klein felt that this was the least likely one, because the corresponding sequence 8 of “Arbiter” was The corresponding sequence 8 of “Arbiter” is “Magistrate”, and sequence 7 is “Inquisitor”, which seems to be in the direction of judgment and adjudication, rather than war.
Secondly, the path represented by the “Black Emperor” of the Solomon Empire in the Fourth Age, the modern name of its Sequence 9 is “Lawyer”, good at discovering and utilizing the loopholes of the rules and the weaknesses of the opponents, and possessing excellent eloquence and logic, which is the path that Klein thinks may be the second lowest. He suspected that the development of this sequence is to use the rules and walk in the shadow of the order, of course, war is also one of the shadows of the order.
Thirdly, the “Hunter” path, which is held by the Einhorn family, the ruler of the Forsak Empire, the Sauron family, the former royal family of the Republic of Intis, as well as the “Iron Cross”, a secretive organization that has only appeared in the last two to three hundred years, is considered by Klein to be quite high.
The internal information of the Night Watch describes the “Hunter” as an excellent tracker, an outstanding trap expert, and an excellent hunter, corresponding to the name of Sequence 8 as “Provocateur”, and Sequence 7 as “Arsonist”, which are all related to killing. “These are all related to killing and war.
The fourth is the “criminal” path mastered by the “Blood Worshipping Cult”, an ancient organization that follows demons, and just from the name of the sequence, Klein feels that it has a lot of possibilities.
Fifth, the “Prisoner” pathway in the hands of the “Rose School”, which was famous for its bloody rituals, for the same reason as the previous one.
As Klein’s thoughts wandered, the scene changed once again, and Lady Sheridan was freshly bathed, her hair wet and down, her face both fresh and seductive.
”Not being able to get a good look at the white-robed woman who led Mrs. Sherron to become a witch …… should be that my psychic ability is not enough ……” Klein withdrew his mind, and returned his attention to back to the front of his eyes.
Mrs. Sherron ruffled her hair, and what appeared to be droplets of water slid down her face.
She looked at the waiting man on the bed and snickered lowly:
”Do you need me to help you with Maynard?”
The middle-aged man on the bed frowned and shook his head, “Not unless you can promise not to leave a trace, but that’s impossible, and what can you do about it?”
At the sight of the gentleman, Klein froze for a moment, then felt it was expected.
The middle-aged or older man, whose picture often appeared on the first page of newspapers such as the Tingen City Honest Man, was the current mayor who was seeking re-election and a member of the Conservative Party.
Mrs. Sherron smiled, and without going further into the subject, with her nightgown half-faded and wonderfully vague, walked towards the bed.
The scene changed one after the other, and Crane saw a number more of the councillors, businessmen and government employees who appeared in the city’s newspapers from time to time.
They discussed how to collect donations, exchanged information on how to bribe voters by circumventing the Election Campaign Act, or promised protection and solutions to problems, with Mrs. Sheridan playing the role of “fixer”.
This is actually a documentary, right? …… “Mrs. Sherron takes you to know the upper circles of Tingen City” …… Well, but why are there beds in many of the scenes? …… Quite a number of aristocrats and members of Parliament know that Mrs. Sheren has many lovers, why do they still look like they can’t stand the temptation …… Is this Mrs. Sheren’s sequential ability? Klein read it thoughtfully and muttered silently to himself both speculatively and spitefully.
After the séance just now, he confirmed one thing, and that was that none of those guys in the upper circles of Tingen City knew Mrs. Sherron’s true identity and did not actively partner with her to murder Councilor Maynard.
In other words, Councilman Maynard’s death was Mrs. Sherron’s own doing? Why would she do that? She didn’t have to take the risk, did she?
Of course, from Mrs. Sheridan’s point of view, with her extraordinary ability to interfere with divination, and her ability to create a sudden death from lovemaking that doesn’t appear to have any problems, solving Senator Maynard’s death isn’t too risky, and it’s easy to expose herself, but her motivation is clearly insufficient, and it doesn’t match up with the risk she needs to take!
Was it her need to “play the part”? But she could have sought out less sensitive targets, and then the case wouldn’t have required the assistance of the Night Watch, the Substitute Punishers, or the members of the Mechanical Heart at all.
And the more important point was that Mrs. Sherron should be able to see that Senator Maynard’s wife hated her, was filled with resentment, and there was a not-so-small possibility that someone would be looking to investigate her, so why hadn’t she moved sensitive items such as the White Bone idol ahead of time, such as burying it somewhere in the garden?
She was so confident about the safe, about the mezzanine, and the corresponding arrangement?
In the midst of his doubts, Klein saw that Mrs. Sheridan’s spirit had not yet dissipated, so he seized the time to do another “dream divination”.
The content of his divination this time was:
”Mrs. Sheridan’s true motive for killing John Maynard.”
After the meditation, Klein entered the dream world again and saw a new scene:
Mrs. Sherron, carrying a glass of blood-like red wine and wearing a loose nightgown, paced back and forth across the room, and eventually, she gulped down the remainder of the wine in one gulp, as if she had made up her mind about something.
The scene quickly dissipated, and Klein grew more and more perplexed, for the death of Senator Maynard really seemed to be something that Mrs. Sherron had done of her own free will, without being instigated by anyone.
”Strange ……,” Klein grunted darkly, and tried a few more times with other divination statements, getting no difference in the answers.
Seeing that Mrs. Sherron was fading into transparency, ever more illusory, and about to disappear, Klein thought for a moment and made a final seance:
”Sequential magic potion formula for the Witch Pathway.”
”Sequence magic potion recipe for the Witch Pathway.”
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Klein silently recited the new divination statement, and with the help of meditation, flew into a dream.
Originally, he didn’t want to do this divination because he thought that the “Witch” pathway belonged to the type that spreads disasters and creates suffering, and even if he obtained the corresponding magic potion formula, he wouldn’t be willing to sell it to someone else and act as an indirect murderer.
But then he thought of something else: he suspected and confirmed that Duster Guderian was a member of the Society of Psychological Alchemy through his knowledge of the “Audience” potion formula.
Therefore, in order to better deal with the witches in the future, it is essential to understand the characteristics of their sequential pathways.
Well, Duster Guderian hasn’t contacted me after Hood Organ’s death, it should be that the Psychological Alchemy Society has sent more powerful members to do the investigation, and he doesn’t dare to make any moves …… In a flash of thoughts, Klein once again saw that deep hall, and saw the woman draped in the white holy robes.
Mrs. Sherron bowed her head and could only see the other woman’s legs, a pair of flawless legs.
Soon she heard a voice as wonderful as a song:
”‘Joy’, this is the name of the Sequence 6 magic potion, and also the goal of your upcoming promotion, if you can succeed, you are the ‘Joy Witch’.”
”Pleasure that makes it impossible to disengage and irresistible is a form of pain, and this is the motto you must follow.”
”As soon as you complete the promotion, in addition to your enhanced abilities in all aspects of ‘Witch’, you will become more beautiful, skilled in seduction, skilled in giving unforgettable pleasure to the opposite sex or the same sex in merriment, and you will be able to create strange threads of silk like a spider and make full use of them. ”
Immediately after that, an ancient book made of silver appeared in front of Mrs. Sherron, spreading it out and writing the recipe while placing the ingredients:
”Primary materials: a pair of eyes from a Seductive Banshee, and a silk gland from an adult Widow Giant Spider.”
”Auxiliary ingredients: 100 ml of pure water, 5 drops of black mandala juice, all of the hair left over from the Seductive Banshee, 10 grams of powder crushed from the Feniport Fly, and 5 grams of real mummy ashes.”
Once again the image changed, the same deep hall, the same white robes with high openings on the side of the skirt, the same woman whose face could not be seen, but the difference was that Mrs. Sherron changed back to her original form, to the young man in that picture.
A wonderful female voice echoed into her ears:
”This is the name of the Sequence 7 magic potion, I think you must be surprised.”
”Yes, I can’t believe it’s called ‘Witch’!” “Mrs. Sherron” said with slight excitement.
”You remember, we have to become more and more like K if we are to get closer to the ‘original’, K is female, we have to be female too.” That wonderful female voice replied, “You either give up or you can only accept it, after becoming a witch, you will become a true female and gain a great enhancement in looks and charisma, you will have the ability to become invisible and use a double, you will have a preliminary mastery of all kinds of black magic, excel at interfering with other people’s divination, and gain the favor of the Black Flame and Frost.”
”The main materials are: all the blood of the Black Abyss Demon Fish, and the eggs of the Onyx Peacock.”
”The secondary materials are: 80 milliliters of pure water, 5 drops of golden mandala juice, three scales of a shadow lizard, and 10 drops of daffodil juice.”
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A scene flashed, and Klein saw the recipe for “Instigator” and the recipe for “Assassin”, and learned about their corresponding characteristics.
When he tried to continue the divination, the spirit of Mrs. Sheridan completely dissipated.
Exiting the ritual and returning to reality, Klein gathered his materials, lifted the wall of spirituality, and told Dunn Smith all about the gains of the seance just now without the slightest concealment, and then expressed his doubts about Mrs. Sherron’s murder of Senator Maynard.
”‘Pleasure’ really doesn’t need to kill people of higher status and position …… Well, we’ll have to line up where Mrs. Sherron has been over the years, figure out where she really came from, and look for that secluded hall you saw. Of course, this will need to be reported to the Sanctuary, and they will make the arrangements, we can’t just leave Tingen at will.” Dunn nodded gently and looked around, “You go to the first floor, check if those servants are still sleeping, if someone has woken up and noticed the movement here, bring him here and sign the secrecy treaty according to the process, I’ll take care of the second floor.”
He had already rummaged out the black cloth and covered the seal “3-0271”
Hearing this, Klein suddenly drifted off, finally realizing why the fierce battle just now didn’t allow the servants and attendants to arrive, because the captain had put them into a state of slumber at the very beginning.
Klein’s body still retained some coldness and stiffness, and he could only slow down his steps, moving very gently and slowly forward.
As he passed the door to his bedroom, he reached out and forcefully pulled off the two tarot cards set in it, wiped them off, and put them back in his coat pocket.
Leaving the room, he headed for the stairway.
After a few steps, he suddenly thought of the question of how to confirm that the other party was asleep.
Use the divination method to try one by one to pass? It’s very troublesome,…… captain is a “nightmare”, is an expert in this area, I have to ask him if there is a quick and concise way.
As soon as he thought of it, Klein turned his body, still fighting the cold and stiffness, and moved step by step towards the bedroom door.
Before he could get really close, his eyes pierced through the open door and saw the broken full-length mirror leaning against it.
It still had a small half left hanging from the frame, cracking out one palm-sized lens after another.
In the much cracked mirror, Dunn Smith in a black trench coat was half lying next to Cornley’s body, not knowing what he was doing.
Suddenly, he raised his head, his gray eyes dark and deep, his mouth stained with dark red blood.
Dark red blood.
Klein subconsciously just turned around, away from the door, his back against the wall.