Part 3 The Traveler Chapter 194 A Three-Way Deal
The Trickster Mage …… Klein awoke from his dream with a start, and opened his eyes to see the rich colors of night.
It wasn’t even noon yet, and it was still dangerous …… He muttered something and was about to go back to sleep.
That’s when he finally remembered that he had left that dangerous sea, and that not going to sleep after dark wouldn’t be enough to completely disappear and vanish.
”Whew, it’s still good to have this kind of peaceful environment! I have to say, the thing about mysteriously disappearing after dark if you don’t sleep can be used to scare little kids from going to bed late, hey, I used to get scared like that when I was a kid.” Klein rolled over and sat up, walking over to his desk and pouring himself a glass of water.
He calmed down for a while and gulped it down, gradually finding the ability to think:
”Charatu’s really gone mad… …… What’s happened to him, or what’s gone wrong… ……
”‘Trickster’, Sequence 4 is called ‘Trickster’, and the focus of the ‘Diviner’ pathway is on ‘Trickery ‘, ‘cunning’, ‘mischievous’, and ‘strange’ words above? Or maybe just summarize it as ‘bizarre’?
”Well, ‘The Joker,’ ‘The Magician,’ ‘The Faceless Man,’ and ‘The Master of Secret Puppets ‘ do all strike me as such, with the ‘Diviner’ seemingly the exception, but to others, the cleric style is kinda spooky and scary at times …… That’s why Charatu said that Fate isn’t the main area of this pathway ?
”Also, it’s clear to see that the Extraordinary of this path will be more on the caster side.
”According to Will Onsettin, there are only three ways to get the formula for the ‘Trickster Mage’ magic potion, one is to go to the Mistery Order and look for the mad Chalatu, the second is to go to the main peak of the Hornachis Mountain Range to hunt for the treasures left behind by the Antigonus family, and the third is to obtain it within the Church, for example, that Antigonus Family Notebook might have recorded the corresponding formula.
”But these three paths are more dangerous than one another, according to the description of Rossel the Great, Charatu was a Sequence 2 ‘Miracle Worker’ a long time ago, a true angel, and later on, it’s possible that he even advanced to Sequence 1, equal to or a little bit less than the Angelic Kings, and the madness that made him, no, k, although he lost his sanity, but the odds are that it’s much harder to deal with, at least there’s no more possibility of persuasion, or fraud, and based on pure strength alone, I wouldn’t be a match for Charatu even if I had asked Aztec-san and the others to help me.
”Oh, unless we wait for Will Onsettin to be born, but again, there’s a not-so-small chance that K would draw the attention of the ‘Angel of Fate’ Uroelius if he got involved in this kind of thing.
”As for that treasure on the main peak of the Honachis Mountains, the echoing ravings, the setup of the Antigonus family, and the rumors of the Kingdom of Night buried in the depths of history make me feel that things aren’t that simple, and suspect that it might be a trap.
”The Church of the Goddess is even less to consider, not to mention the sanctuary with angels sitting on it and hiding a bunch of level 0 seals, just the parish of Berkland where the Antigonus family’s notes are located, there’s also a terrifying demigod ……”
Klein couldn’t help but think back to Mr. A who had been erased like a pencil drawing in the first place, and the one who had created all of this was most likely someone high up in the Church of the Goddess of the Night!
A showy woman whose eyes lacked spirituality …… She also smiled at me, and I don’t know what it means …… Klein shook his head helplessly, feeling that there was only one most practical way at the moment.
That was to find a certain demigod of the Secret Cult who was still sane!
Compared to the crazy Charatu, this can at least communicate, or even deal with – Klein alone certainly can not, but he can ask Mr. Aztec to help, can pay a certain price to ask the “Queen of Mysteries” Bernadette’s hand.
This is the only way to consider …… Klein quickly turned his thoughts to how to help Anderson Hood lift the Curse of Doom:
”It’s been more than two months, and that ‘Councilor of Fate’ Ricord doesn’t know if he has left Olavi Island, hey, he hasn’t summoned my messenger to tell me the clues of the magical item that meets the requirements, but that’s not much of a problem, the bell-ringer Kano definitely hasn’t left his post, and he can contact Councilor Rechord through him.
”That’s good, the School of Life never fulfilled the requirements, which is the same as not paying the final payment, so let them help Anderson with the transshipment to offset it, and then I’ll ask for payment from that guy.
”Hehe, speaking of magical items or seals with powerful attack power, isn’t that short sword of Anderson’s? Based on the characteristics exhibited by the ‘Reaper’, items formed after his own death count as well …… Hey, I’m not some greedy devil, so I’ll definitely pay an extra settling fee.”
Crane reined in his thoughts of prompted snark and fished the paper crane out of his wallet, unwrapping it and carefully erasing the pencil writing on it.
”It’s really close to breaking, two more times at most ……” he whispered in a lost voice before folding the crane, walking back under the covers, and going back to sleep as far as contacting the “Magic Mirror” on the radio receiver was concerned. As for contacting “Magic Mirror” with his radio, he planned to talk about it after he left this pirate paradise in the east.
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After sunrise, Klein woke up lazily and washed himself slowly, thinking that this is what life should be like.
Knock knock knock!
A knock on the door interrupted his feelings.
No need for danger premonition, spiritual intuition told Klein that the visitor was Anderson Hood.
Not worthy of being the strongest hunter, really smoothly survived until now …… Klein tsked, controlled his expression and pulled open the door to the room.
Anderson wore a deerstalker hat he got from somewhere and handed out a gold coin of Ruin with a smile:
”The amount owed for yesterday.”
Klein took the gold coin and casually weighed it and said:
”You have the answer to your question.”
Anderson’s eyes lit up and said:
”What’s the solution?
”You’re not going to tell me that the answer is that there’s no way to solve it ……”
Is that what I am? At best I’d say it’s hopeless, wait to die, bye! Klein belabored twice and indifferently swept a glance at the other party and said:
”There is a demigod who specializes in transmigration residing on Oravi Island, and he owes me a request.”
”Very well!” Anderson didn’t hide his joy, “So, what price should I pay?”
It’s very sensible well …… Klein deliberately remained silent for two seconds before saying:
”I need a magical item with a powerful attack, do you have a clue?
”If the value exceeds the Transit Ritual, I will pay the difference.”
Anderson’s brow furrowed a little and slowly unfurled again, revealing a smile as he said:
”There is such a magical item that meets your requirements, he has extraordinary abilities in the deadly attack category, and the negative effects are not too strong, he can eat, sleep, not so good luck, easily attracts monsters and enemies, and occasionally he is rather talkative and a bit annoying, haha, just kidding.
”Frankly speaking, my ‘Death Short Teeth’ is the magical item you need, but it’s also the only weapon I have left, hmmm …… corresponding clues I have one, it’s a more special revolver, it fires out the Bullets have the effects of weak attack, lethal attack, and ‘massacre’, and can work with bullets of different characteristics, the negative effect is that after each use, you will gain a weakness that would otherwise not exist, such as, fear of light, fear of boats, fear of dogs, etc., etc., etc., and such weaknesses will last for 6 hours.
”The negative effects are almost non-existent if you simply just keep it on your body, which means that it makes you thirsty easily, which is in the tolerable category. If the revolver’s characteristics weren’t duplicative of my abilities and the magical items I already own, I would have bought it then, and the seller’s asking price was only 9,000 pounds!
”How about this, how about an overall payment of £1,500 plus a lead on this revolver?”
It sounded appropriate and in line with my fighting habits …… Klein didn’t agree straight away and asked a rhetorical question:
”1500 pounds?”
”Haha, I approached a dozen pirates yesterday, all of them were very kind and either contributed their wallets or lent me their traits and heads, in just one night, I harvested 1,600 pounds, it’s so, so much I love this pirate’s paradise!” Anderson said with a big smile, “I had to keep 100 pounds to buy a boat ticket back to the Misty Sea, so I could only pay 1500 pounds.”
1,600 pounds in one night? Not only are there many pirates in Tuscart, but they are also valuable or rich? Klein suddenly wanted to stay in this port city for a few more nights.
But when he thought that the odds were that the easy targets to mention or find had already been dealt with by Anderson, and that it certainly wouldn’t be so easy to do something similar next, he asked indifferently with another pang of frustration:
”Aren’t you afraid of reprisals for doing such things in a pirate’s paradise?”
”What’s there to worry about? Even if they are the subordinates of the pirate general, I’m not afraid, hehe, I believe you are the same, if it’s the people of the four kings, it’s not a big problem, we’re about to leave and it takes time for the news to be delivered, by the time it’s done, I don’t even know how many ships and how many identities I’ve changed!” Anderson said full of concern.
Why are you cursing yourself again …… Klein swept a glance at him with dark pity:
”Deal.”
”Haha, here’s 300 pounds, the remaining 1200 pounds will wait a little longer for the bounty and identity money to come down, don’t worry, it’s definitely coming down today, and it’s not a big amount.” Anderson pulled out a thick wad of bills interspersed with quite a few Sule and handed it to Klein.
Taking care of his persona, Klein only roughly counted the bills before stuffing them into his wallet and coat pocket, among other places, and said without emotion:
”Go buy two tickets to Oravi tomorrow.”
He didn’t specifically instruct Anderson to change his image to buy them, because he was sure that the opposite party was a mature hunter with plenty of experience.
If the experience was not rich and the strength was not strong, with his doing, he would have been sunk into some unknown sea long ago……. Klein couldn’t help but spit out a sentence in his heart.
”Good.” Anderson pointed to the floor, “Going down for breakfast together? My treat.”
Klein nodded, not refusing.
Going down to the first floor, the two of them made their way to a table by the window, meeting the waiter passing by on the way with a white-glazed porcelain cup and teaspoon.
Just as the two sides crossed paths, the waiter’s eyes suddenly drifted off, and with one hand, he picked up the teaspoon and plunged it down Anderson’s throat in a motion that had no forewarning.
Although Anderson was surprised, his reaction was not slow at all, and he immediately leaned his body back to avoid the thunderous blow.
Bang!
The innkeeper not far away suddenly opened fire, shooting at Anderson’s dodging body.
”I, what am I doing ……” After the gunshot, the owner whispered out with a face of fear and bewilderment.