Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 259 The Hidden Trouble
Inside the sitting room, Countess Caitlin sat on a sofa, with the deputy butler, the butler’s assistant, and the deacon of the appropriate affairs standing before her.
She was organized and not in the least bit disorganized as she ordered various things for today’s dinner party until her daughter Audrey came to her side.
”Mom, I have something to tell you.” Audrey’s eyes swept over the others in the room.
On the way forward to the sitting room, she felt a gentle tremor in the floor twice, but found nothing else out of the ordinary.
The Countess looked around the room and nodded gently:
”You will come in later.”
The sitting room quickly became quiet, and even Susie, the big blonde dog, was supported to the door with a look from Audrey.
”You should be by my side from time to time to learn how to conduct affairs, and while there is no shortage of such in your home courses, how to combine them effectively with the practical is still a profound study.” The Countess, who was over fifty years old but looked to be in her early thirties, smiled and educated, “Well, my little angel, what is your business?”
Audrey tried to give the elegant smile she had practiced over and over in etiquette class, but found herself too heavy and nervous to turn up the corners of her mouth.
She pursed her dry lips and spoke directly:
”Mom, I’m hiding something from you.”
”Hmm?” The Countess inclined her head slightly, waiting for a follow-up explanation.
Audrey’s words first stuttered and then became fluent:
”I’ve been, I’ve been an Extraordinary, that is, someone with magical abilities, turned by taking magic potions.”
The blonde Countess Caitlin raised her eyebrows lightly, not seeing the surprise in response:
”I know.
”Your father and I both know.”
”Huh?” Audrey didn’t know how to take the latter for a moment.
The Countess hid a smile and said:
”You took so many magical materials from the treasury, are you still naive enough to think that your father and I didn’t notice?
”By your father’s side, within this villa, in the family’s territory, there are quite a number of Extraordinary People, who either originated from mere employment, or were dispatched from the Church of the Goddess, or were themselves members of the Hall family, His Majesty the King acquiesced to all these things, and we also acquiesced to your little adventure, ai, you’ll grow up and mature in the end, and your father and I can’t always keep you protected under our own wings, there will always come a time when you will need to face something on your own, and having the aid of additional magical abilities can make your bottom line better.
”Well, according to those common sense I know, the very first stages should be less dangerous, and the ascension will take a year, two years, or even three years, so your father and I are in no hurry, and intend to wait until you’re officially an adult before we caution you a few more times and leave you right where you are now.”
No, mom, your common sense is wrong, you don’t know the existence of the play law, if the materials come together, I can become a Sequence 7 “psychiatrist” by the new year …… And, I don’t want to stop, Duke Negan’s death has made me realize that the world is not as stable and peaceful as I thought it was. The death of Duke Negan made me realize that the world is not as stable and peaceful as I thought it was, and I want to have the strength to protect you in critical moments. ……
”Mr. Fool is gradually coming back to life, an evil god is trying to come down, and even though I’m not mature enough and lack the necessary insight, I can still sense the unspeakable crisis that lurks in these things. …… Audrey has always been very clear about the extraordinary materials that she has taken away from the treasury, but there is no escaping the problem. materials was an inescapable problem, but got away with the idea that her parents didn’t know exactly what those items did, and at best suspected that she was sinking deeper and deeper into the circle of occult enthusiasts.
After unburdening her mind, she avoided her mother’s admonition and spoke:
”Mother, I have since joined a hidden organization, the kind that leans towards academic non-worship of evil gods, please forgive me for not being able to name it or give details, I have taken an oath to that end.”
Not waiting for the Countess to ask, she stepped into the thick of things:
”I received a piece of news today that the commoner girl Prince Edzak fell in love with is a magical girl, and they’re hatching some kind of plot somehow.”
The two paragraphs of her sentence are not necessarily related, the first refers to the “Psychological Alchemy Society”, but the source of the latter information is the Tarot Society, Mr. “Fool”.
Through this sequence of words, every word she said was true, and could be confirmed by divination, but would make people believe that her information came from the “Psycho-Alchemy Society”, a secretive organization.
The smile on Caitlin’s face faded, and she asked solemnly in return:
”Witch?”
She didn’t know much about the occult world, but the term alone made her feel evil and uneasy.
Audrey nodded quickly:
”Yes, a ‘Witch of Pleasure.
”And what scares me even more is that her name is Trischke.”
”What’s wrong with that?” The Countess asked suspiciously.
”A member within that organization has seen the name Chick in an old book.” Audrey spoke the lie she had just made up, no matter the tone, the words used, the details of her expression, or her body movements, there were no breaks, “In the Fourth Age or earlier, it belonged to the original Witch.”
Following closely, she added gruffly:
”It was an evil god!”
Countess Caitlin didn’t understand the meaning of “the original witch”, but she knew very well what an evil god meant.
She instantly became a bit unable to sit still, and asked back with a quickened pace of speech:
”Are you sure?”
”…… not sure.” Audrey did not have the slightest doubt in believing Mr. “Fool”, but on the surface, she could not say so, “In any case, I think it is necessary to ask the royal family, no, to ask the extraordinary people of the Goddess Church to do a certain amount of confirmation, when it comes to the matter of the evil god, no matter how prudent it is, it’s the right thing to do. ”
Caitlin raised her eyes to her daughter in quite a bit of surprise:
”…… Audrey, you’ve grown up.”
If it weren’t for the urgency of the matter, Audrey, who had heard such praise, would have pretended to be reserved, first humbly pouting, then going back to her room to be smug, or even doing a little twirling dance.
But right now, she couldn’t care less about any of that, too busy letting emotions like worry and nervousness visibly rise to the surface:
”Mom, can you help me hide it? I’ve heard that the extraordinary people of the Church and the Crown are extremely abhorrent to hidden organizations that don’t belong to them, and, well, you could say yes, and say that Dad got the information, and he should have plenty of access to it.”
Caitlin stood up and gave her daughter a hug:
”Don’t worry, neither your father nor I would ever let you get involved in something like this.
”Your father won’t be back until late afternoon, so I’ll have the hidden guards show up and pretend that he delivered the message before we go to the extraordinary people sent by the Church of the Goddess to protect our family.”
”Good!” Audrey responded joyfully.
At this time, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, exhausted and powerless from the high level of tension she had maintained for some time.
……
As he watched several meteorites burning with flames fall at high speeds, enveloping the entire forest, Klein actually had the thought of being powerless to fight against them and waiting for death in despair.
Even if he keeps using the flame to jump, there is no way for him to get out of the woods before the “meteor shower” hits the ground, and get out of the core of the danger, and with the fragile body of the “Diviner” pathway extraordinary person, there is no possibility of carrying the meteorite hard.
Even if the pistol can’t wound the zombie, in this kind of “attack”, will also directly become broken pieces or meat mud, and is the kind of charred black …… flames jump …… yellowish white light! Reflected in the depths of the eyes, Klein, who had not given up, quickly had an idea.
Within this kind of scene calculated in seconds, he did not hesitate, and decided to do it as soon as he thought of it.
Snap!
After silently calculating the distance, Klein snapped his fingers, causing the remaining flames within the tinderbox to ignite at the same time.
A crimson fire light rose up and quickly wrapped his figure within.
Without a sound, Klein disappeared from his original position and flashed within the flames above the meteorite.
Brush!
The meteor flew down quickly, and just as he leapt out of the flames, he had already left the meteorite and plunged into the surrounding air with a terrifyingly high temperature.
The moment he jumped with his extraordinary ability, Klein was not afraid of ordinary flames, even if the temperature was a bit on the high side, but he could only do his best to maneuver the flames to avoid himself when he was out of that state, and he would be burned would be burned to death just the same.
Besides, hot air is not in his “jump” range.
Snap!
Klein snapped his fingers again, causing the air at the critical point to instantly burst into flames.
He flashed into another flame, trying to avoid the first impact of the meteorite hitting the ground.
However, no matter how he tried, no matter how he risked, he still couldn’t get out of the danger, there were only two choices left, either he jumped to the forest which avoided the front, and suffered the impact of the meteorite falling from the sky, or he jumped and jumped like an acrobat above him, and waited for the “mushroom cloud” to engulf him.
In this moment, Klein saw himself in pieces, his body surface charred black, especially the remaining fire.
A flash of thought in his mind, his eyes suddenly changed, red more red, yellow more yellow, white more white, a variety of colors thick superimposed, depicting a strange oil painting!
The “painting” seemed to be detached from the real world, allowing Klein to watch the meteorite’s “slow” descent, hitting the ground as if he were an observer.
The forest was instantly destroyed, the ground shook a few times, and smoke mixed with fire rose upwards, forming a strange mushroom-shaped cloud.
Such an impact did not affect Klein, because it was unable to enter the overlapping color blocks, seemingly static “oil painting world”.
…… Klein first froze, and then saw a figure next to him.
The silhouette was of medium build, with bronze skin, wearing a long black dress and a half-height silk bowler hat, with a pair of brown eyes that revealed the meaning of vicissitudes, soft features, and a tiny black mole under his right ear.
”Mr. Aztec!” Klein exclaimed in delight.
He finally knew what scene the revelation he had obtained from divination corresponded to in the first place.
It corresponded to the present!
The “sea of blood” represented a situation of certain death, and “being pulled up by Mr. Aztec” meant that he had been saved by him!
As soon as the words left his mouth, Azuk waved his hand, grabbed his arm, and headed into the depths of the overlapping colors!
……
The feather quill with its ordinary appearance no longer wrote on its own, its surface dulling a bit.
The serious middle-aged man with only one eye left gripped it and wrote quickly with some sort of psychic-like state:
”Aztec Aegis has evidently not yet recovered his full memory and strength, and his attempted penetration with the aid of the Spirit World and the Astral World happened at this time to go wrong because of a hidden problem in this respect, and so he and Shylock Moriarty landed not far from Ince Zangwill and his friends.”