Chapter 10
The 1th Tarot Meeting
"An attempt."
"try?"
Chael couldn't help but repeat it to himself.
If he hadn't read Lord of Mysteries, he almost would have believed it.
No... he's starting to wonder, who's really at fault?
"Sir, your attempt is over. May we go back now?"
Audrey was also hurt by this absurd reason. She glanced at the gentleman who seemed somewhat vulnerable, took a deep breath, and tried to put on an impeccable smile.
In a short time, Xia Er solved the language problem and checked the plugin he installed several times. No matter how he sensed it, he knew that he had installed the plugin himself. It also had his spiritual aura and divine imprint on it. The core of it was the luck-changing talisman that connected him to the gray mist. It even had Arodes' power. It couldn't be a fake.
Xia Er stared stiffly at him, his deathly silence causing the atmosphere, which had eased somewhat after the "mysterious man" spoke, to stiffen again. Zhou Mingrui was immediately restrained by Xia Er; was he still going to play the mysterious card? Could he possibly explain a few more words?
How am I supposed to explain if you don't ask?!
"Sir, your attempt is over. May we go back now?"
In the end, it was the brave Miss Hall who stepped forward. Although she was also frightened by the mysterious man's casual attitude, she still tried her best to put on a perfect polite smile and asked with some trepidation.
Although Alger also wanted to ease the tension, he was happy to let a lady start the conversation and make himself less noticeable.
Zhou Ruiming did not answer the girl's question immediately this time, because he suddenly sensed something. The three figures in front of him were somewhat illusory, like projections of three deep red stars. He could clearly sense the connection between these people and the three deep red stars, and he also vaguely felt that as long as this connection was severed, they would return.
While Zhou Mingrui was gaining some insights from Xia Er's secret contact with the Crimson Star, Xia Er also made some gains. When he tried to contact himself in reverse through the Crimson Star, he was surprised to see himself still in Sequence Three.
Where is my Fifth Age self?
Did I wear it or not?
Are we not on the same timeline as them?
That's impossible. How could different timelines exist in a world where everything is unique?
Even if it does happen, this is above the gray fog. I should be able to use the crimson star that symbolizes me to observe myself on other timelines. Why is it still only Sequence 3 me?
Chael didn't understand, but he was deeply shocked.
"If you make a formal request, I can let you go back right now."
Zhou Mingrui... or rather Klein, responded kindly to the blonde girl, demonstrating his harmlessness.
As he spoke, Xia'er, who possessed a special and high status, could sense a kind of bewitching... no... closer to the charm and eloquence of a fraudster from the wrong path Sequence 8. This passive and extraordinary charm worked invisibly, and even though it was just a verbal explanation, Audrey, and even the seasoned Alger, subconsciously leaned towards believing that his words were truly credible.
Is this how Yuanbao's favored son is treated?
Could you be any more biased?
Xia'er now has serious doubts about whether Klein's pseudo-personality at this time has already reached the level of near-god.
So what should he do now?
These three are all complete spirits, but he is a spiritual projection from the past.
How should he interact with these familiar strangers?
Is he pretending to be old or pretending to be young?
Compared to the three men, each with their own agendas, Audrey's thoughts were much simpler. After calming down a bit, she couldn't help but ask the gentlemen present how she could become a formal Extraordinary.
How to become extraordinary?
You're asking me?
Klein was taken aback. He now felt that being directly questioned was not so pleasant. Was there a way to make them feel like they were facing an important person, so that they would have more consideration when asking questions?
Is his current level of sophistication still too low?
On the other hand, Xia Er wanted to continue testing how much the backdoor he had installed when the Source Castle had no master could still function now that the Source Castle had a 'master'.
He recalled the buildings constructed by the giants before the destruction of the Eastern Continent, and combined his own understanding with some of the elves' personal ideas, and actually materialized a magnificent giant palace. Huge stone pillars supported a wide dome, and directly below the dome, there was an extra bronze table and twenty-two high-backed chairs.
Wishes come true? That's amazing...
Klein sat at the head of the long table, subtly stroking the edge of the table and sighing to himself.
Cough cough, my spirituality... what a waste...
Shal suppressed a cough and subtly hid his somewhat ethereal right hand behind his back.
He looked at the three members who were already seated, and then at himself who was still standing on the edge, feeling somewhat speechless.
Before anyone noticed anything amiss, Xia Er subtly moved over, reached out her left hand to pull out the second bronze high-backed chair from the left, and sat down. Concealing her illusory right hand, she politely addressed the blonde girl on her left:
"It's very simple, I'll teach you."
"This...sir?"
"What's your plan?"
Audrey was somewhat surprised. If the man beside her hadn't spoken, she would have assumed it was a woman, given his long black hair.
Although Audrey found it a little strange that the other person didn't sit down immediately, there were just too many things she couldn't understand. She didn't even know how this giant palace came to be, and she almost mistook the other person's gender, so she couldn't possibly care about such a trivial matter.
Klein felt the same way. Compared to everything here, Xia'er's little matter was really insignificant. He quietly pricked up his ears, also wanting to know about the extraordinary one.
"Of course, the most orthodox way, as recognized by humankind, to embark on the extraordinary path is to take a look at the Blasphemous Slab."
Shael shared this with everyone, the best solution jointly recommended by Solomon, Abraham, Tudor, Trensust, and others, and his contemporaries all agreed it was good.
"Forehead..."
The girl's smile, which had been full of joy, became somewhat forced.
Klein chuckled inwardly. He knew exactly what he was expecting. How could he possibly hear any valuable, genuine information "online"? It was all just bad news...
"This is indeed the most orthodox shortcut to the extraordinary, and no one would not want to see the Blasphemous Slab with their own eyes."
"But it has been gone for thousands of years, and legend has it that it has only appeared sporadically a few times after the Great Cataclysm."
"Let's get down to business."
Alger chuckled and withdrew his gaze from Shael. He took Shael's earlier words as a joke to ease the tension.