Part 3 THE TRAVELLER CHAPTER 129 Councillor of Destiny
Oravi was in the northeast of the Rothschild Archipelago, not far in a straight line, except that the safe channel curved around and added several hundred nautical miles for no reason at all.
It was originally a primitive island with many extraordinary creatures and no human inhabitants, and after the end of the Hunting Age, the Kingdom of Ruin used it as a place of exile for certain prisoners, allowing Oravi to gradually have villages and towns.
By the time the islands further east were discovered and colonized one by one, it relied on the convenience of the shipping lanes and its own abundance of natural resources to attract a number of new settlers and a relatively prosperous port city.
The light of the lighthouse, so visible and so warm in the dimness, guided the passenger ship into the harbor and moored at the docks.
”Finally, we’re here, thanks to the red moon and fate.” Fat Apothecary Duckwell hopped down the last step of the gangway and stepped onto the solid concrete floor.
In all seriousness, apart from fate, you have to thank the Fool and the Poseidon for this. …… Kraven, carrying his leather suitcase in one hand, tapped the civilized stick in his palm.
Duckwell put away the ring box containing the “dice of probability”, and without a moment’s delay asked the bell-ringer Cano where he lived, hired a hired carriage, and went straight to the church of St. Draco, and entered the magnificent bell-tower, which was boldly painted in red, blue, and yellow.
Inside the belfry, Cano had a narrow room of his own.
Knock, knock, knock, Duckwell knocked on the door three times in quick succession, impatient to hand over the item in his hand.
With a creak, the tan wooden door opened and a tall but slightly stooped man stepped out of the room.
He appeared to be around forty years old, and his facial features, individually, did not have any problems, but combined together, they were full of incongruity.
With just a glance, Klein realized that his two eyes were one high and one low, his two nostrils were one large and one small, and the left side had slightly flabby muscles, causing the corners of his mouth to droop a bit, while the right side was just the opposite.
Kano’s legs were obviously one long and one short, his arms were one thick and one thin, the whole person was extremely asymmetrical and extremely ugly.
”You guys are?” Kano, dressed in black robes, glanced at the two men.
”Are you the bell ringer Kano?” Fat Apothecary Duckwell asked cautiously in return.
Kano laughed with one side of his mouth high and the other low:
”There should not be a second one as ugly as me.”
”Indeed.” Dakwil nodded very honestly and whirled around and let out a laugh, “I can see that you have a good mindset, in fact, right, for men, appearance is not important, being capable in that area is the point.”
Tsk, you have never seen real face control ladies and ladies …… who have experienced the era of traffic stars, Klein snorted beside him.
Kano’s expression clouded for a moment as he said:
”I don’t want to discuss this matter.”
”You have problems in that area too? It’s okay, I have all kinds of potions, there’s definitely one that can cure your problem ……” Dakwil hadn’t finished speaking when Klein, who was afraid that he would be killed on the spot, took a step forward and blocked half of his body.
Klein said in a low voice:
”He’s a student of Roy King’s.”
”I had already guessed that, Roy King described his characteristics.” Kano moved out of the way and invited the two men inside.
His room was very small, with only a bed and a cabinet that could be used as a dining table, and the lavatory was on the bottom floor of the bell tower.
Duckwell pulled out his ring box and handed it to Kano, piling on a smile:
”An item my teacher asked me to pass on to you.”
Kano opened it and glanced at it, visibly relieved to see that the dice were 4 points up, and said to Duckwell:
”You’re not as unreliable as your teacher made you out to be, and I can see that you haven’t tried to use it, which would awaken it to the fact that it’s no longer sealed.”
”……” the fat apothecary said honestly with a blush on his old face, “it’s just quieter now, it’ll turn on its own again in another hour or two, you’d better find a way to reseal it.”
Kano’s face twitched:
”Again?”
”This, this, I accidentally dropped it on the floor and it just, it came to life a little bit ……” Duckwell instinctively tried to glance at Harry the Owl, but realized the other man hadn’t followed him in, stopping outside the clock tower to do his guard.
Kano’s eyes widened noticeably, and his hunched body nearly straightened:
”How did you arrive here?”
It seemed to him that Roy King, the student, should have been dice-played to death long ago.
Duckwell was busy pointing at Germaine Sparrow:
”Thanks to this gentleman, who is a powerful adventurer, he provided the most effective method to protect and briefly seal the dice.”
”What method?” Kano the bell ringer asked offhandedly.
Klein chuckled:
”Trade secret.”
Kano’s face changed a few times, pressed his hand to his chest, and gave a salute:
”On behalf of our organization, I thank you for your help.”
Duckwell said smoothly:
”The price of his hiring is 1000 pounds plus a request that we help him find a magical item with a powerful offense and not too severe a negative effect, and he will buy it for a reasonable price.
”Eh, I only have a little over 300 pounds, so I only paid that much in advance, for the rest, I’ll have to rely on you guys ……”
Kano listened in silence, and the corner of his mouth moved as he said:
”I only have a little over 100 pounds ……”
Holland, the bell ringer room and then no one to speak, the wind outside through the gap, blowing in, swept the three faces.
Finally, Kano spoke once more:
”Perhaps Senator Reichold has, I’ll take you to him.”
It seems to be relatively trusting, after all, a fate councilor is not comparable to the “dice of probability”, if we really have a problem, we would not have brought the dice, lest there be an accident and the uniqueness be snatched back …… Klein watched as Kano, the bell ringer, lifted a horse lamp from the corner of the room and brought it to him. corner of the room and lifted a horse lamp.
At this time, he quietly opened his psychic vision and briefly scrutinized the other party.
At this glance, Klein nearly raised an eyebrow, for Kano’s aura was rather oddly colored.
The color of his emotions was fine and normal, but the etheric body that represented his body didn’t seem natural enough, and the colors of his heart’s green, his head’s purple, and his digestive system’s yellow smacked of being cobbled together in a way that wasn’t quite coordinated.
Likewise, Kano’s spirit gives off a similar feeling.
An inner stitching monster? Klein made a rough judgment based on his own sightings and knowledge.
Kano fixed the horse lamp and looked back at Gelman Sparrow, the adventurer, and said without much expression:
”I’m sensitive to psychic vision.
”I think you’ve noticed something as well, I’m not a naturally born person, I’m a product of Mother Earth’s Church of Human Refinement, a relative failure of sorts, so I don’t have that at all.”
His last words were addressed to Dakwil.
Without another word, Carnot carried his horse lamp, put on his black robe, hunched his tall body, and with the help of that dim light, descended one step at a time in the dark and silent bell tower.
A product of the Church of Mother Earth’s human refining? But St. Draco s Church belongs to the Church of the Storm ah …… because of the relative failure to be valued, Kano apostatized out of the Church of Mother Earth Goddess and became a member of the School of Life? This is understandable, the Church of the Mother Goddess of the Earth and the School of Life both hold the “pharmacist” pathway, there is bound to be a certain amount of crossover …… But why did the School of Life send this uncomplicated-looking guy to the Church of the Storm as a bell ringer? Normal identity cover, or there is some connection between the two? Klein calmly followed behind Kano on the surface, stepping out of the bell tower and circling around to a nearby stone bridge.
Just as he approached the leftmost hole of the bridge, Klein suddenly felt something and looked up diagonally.
Harry the Owl followed and landed on a branch.
Click!
The branch snapped suddenly, and Harry went straight down, managing to re-fly without hitting the ground.
Duckwell was about to speak when Kano had explained in a low voice:
”Councilor Ricord has been injured and his power is somewhat uncontrolled, just getting within a certain range of him will taint him with bad luck.”
Kano stopped in his tracks and threw the ring box containing the dice at the bridge hole:
”Mr. Councilman, Roy King’s student sent the dice over.”
”Very well.” A hoarse voice came from the depths of the gloomy bridge hole.
A palm that had grown some silver-white scales groped its way out of the pitch blackness and pressed down on the ring box that had fallen on the dirt.
Then, he opened the ring box and took out the milky white dice inside.
His other hand, also with silver-white scales, followed, holding a paper-like leather object in its palm.
It resembled a water pipe, but was joined at the head and tail, grayish in the scarlet moonlight, with intricate symbols and markings on its surface, as well as a number of ancient Hermetic texts pointing to the Mercury Serpent, Will Onsettin.
”Councilor Fate Reichold pulled the item apart, slipped the Dice of Probability inside, and then reattached the end to the beginning.
Seal the Dice of Probability with a small repetition of Fate, so that it is always in a state of sleep or silence? As expected, the “Mercury Serpent” Will Onsettin had foreseen something similar and made certain preparations …… Klein retracted his gaze in relief, and heard Reichold say in a husky voice:
”I already know your agreement, Mr. Germaine Sparrow.
”Magical items will be sought for you when I recover.
”That 700 pounds …… I’ll attach luck to you at once, and you’ll collect the appropriate payment when you go to several casinos in Oravi and play a little, remembering not to win more than 200 pounds in each casino, nor more than 700 pounds in total.”
That is to say, you also have no money …… Seeing that you are injured and hiding, it is normal that you do not have any money with you …… Klein nodded his head slightly invisibly:
”Good.”
He waited for ten seconds or so without feeling anything, but “Councilor Fate” Rychaud breathed a sigh of relief and said:
”You have become lucky enough.”
Is that so? Klein chose to believe the other side, did not bother Duckwell to report to the elders about the teacher’s imprisonment, according to the bell ringer Kano’s introduction, the nearest casino, sat on the blackjack table.
Ten minutes later, he walked out of the casino with a confused and dumbfounded look on his face.
Not only had he just not won any money, he had lost a whole 30 pounds!
Where’s the promised luck? Why should I believe him? That old man is so bad …… Klein didn’t hesitate before returning to that stone bridge and approaching the hole.
”So fast? Nice hand.” Rychod inside the gloomy bridge hole laughed with a half-cough.
By this time, Duckwell and Harry the Owl had found an inn nearby to stay.
Klein responded with a grimace:
”Lost.”
”Lost ……,” Rechord chewed on the word for a long time, unable to form words.
A common owl flew uneasily through the dim silence.