"What?" Audrey blurted out, confused by this abrupt change.
She still hadn't finished processing what had happened.
Adryan didn't give anyone time to think and continued.
"Miss Justice, it's obvious that you as a newcomer to the Beyonder world don't know much about the secret organizations that inhabit and rule it, am I correct?"
Audrey subconsciously nodded.
Adryan smiled at this.
He then pointed to Alger and himself.
"As your elders in this world, it is only fair that we tell you of these secret organizations. Obviously, it will be at a fair price."
"You know, like I said the church's salary sucks."
The redhead chuckled softly.
"What do you say, Miss Justice? Are you interested in this deal?"
"Huh?" Audrey blurted out, she was still very dazed.
Chariot hadn't given her time to think and even forced her against the wall.
Adryan turned to look at the stunned Alger.
"And what about you Mr. Hanged Man? Are you also interested in this deal?"
"Huh?"
'What just happened?' Klein thought incredulously and dumbfounded.
He was sure that if Chariot had asked him the same question, he would also <Huh?> like Justice and The Hanged Man.
After a few moments he recovered his ability to think and realized what the man had done and he couldn't help but feel a chill cover his entire body.
'High Sequence Beyonders are terrifying!'
'He first provoked the Hanged Man to the point that he almost attacked him to lower his guard, then he changed the subject of the conversation and insulted all the Churches...'
'For the people of this world, the churches are to be respected at all times, insulting and blaspheming against them would shock and stun the people of this world!'
'By doing this, Hanged Man and Justice's defenses were completely destroyed and he was able to control them to create a three-way deal that they couldn't refuse!'
This deal was not only too valuable for Justice who is, as Chariot said, a newborn in this world and needed that knowledge.
But also to Hanged Man that if his reaction to being called poor is any confirmation, he was in dire need of money.
And at the end, there was Chariot, who didn't need any of that but managed to get the benefits by manipulating the previous two like they were marionettes and he was the marionettist pulling the right strings to get what he wanted...
Thanks to being a Transmigrator and a Keyboard Warrior, Klein was able to somewhat understand what Chariot had done but he was still confused...
And this only further reaffirmed his idea that Chariot is a High Sequence Beyonder!
It took a few more moments for the others to recover.
But when they processed what Chariot had said and done, they both realized they had been played.
Audrey bit the inside of her cheek and squeezed her dress under the table.
Alger had a lost look.
After another while, Audrey was the first to speak.
"Mr. Hanged Man...Mr. Chariot...I'm interested in the deal..." she accepted, she knew how stupid it would be to refuse this.
Alger turned to look at Chariot, even though his face was blurred and slightly covered by the mist, he was sure that the man was smirking.
Gritting his teeth, Alger lowered his head slightly and nodded.
"I...I'm also interested..."
Adryan clapped his hands and said in amusement.
"Perfect! I'm happy that we have reached an agreement as a club!"
Audrey tightened her grip on her dress and Alger ground his teeth harder.
"Then we will do this, there is no need to have a private chat with each one since it is very certain that there will be information that will be repeated, so let's do this"
"Mr. Hanged Man and I will write what we know in a patch and when we're done Mr. Fool will verify that the information is true and not repeated."
Adryan turned to look at Klein who tensed.
"Does this seem fair to you Mr. Fool?"
Audrey and Alger turned to look at Klein.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
'Hey, if you're going to make decisions for me, why do you ask me if that's fair?' Klein thought bitterly.
He couldn't refuse this, so he could only nod quietly without saying anything as if this wasn't something remarkable enough to make him speak.
'At least I'll be able to learn more about the secret organizations this way…' Klein looked on the bright side of this as he watched the interaction in front of him.
"Perfect!" Adryan said sweetly.
He looked at the tense Audrey and Alger and chuckled slightly.
"Since we are talking about secret organizations and the information we have about them, a price of 1000 pounds seems quite fair to me~ But don't listen to me, tell me what you think?"
Alger hated it, he really hated it but he nodded in agreement.
"I hope the information is worth it Mr. Chariot" Audrey said seriously and Adryan just nodded with a smile.
He turned to look at Klein and nodded.
"We are ready to start Mr. Fool"
Klein said nothing, he just made the pen and goatskin patch appear in front of Chariot and Hanged Man.
Adryan calmly grabbed the pen and began to express what he wanted to sell.
He obviously wasn't going to reveal everything he knew, if he did that he would only kill Audrey and Klein with this information.
So what he did was reveal things that Alger would have no way of knowing and he didn't write down the most important information nor the two most important organizations...
One thing that made him giggle internally was that he hide a funny detail that he would say later on the gathering~
After a while, he and Alger finished writing and put down their pens.
Klein simply raised his hand and make the parchments float to him.
He first read the information written by the Hanged Man.
He reread this about two more times, then he began to read the one written by Chariot.
...
Finishing reading the parchment calmly, outwardly he seemed serene and calm.
But on the inside he was quite surprised.
While the information on both was repeated a few times, the information Chariot had written far exceeded that of the Hanged Man.
He settled back in his seat and considered whether the price was fair.
'Although the information from both is of different quality and quantity, it is still very valuable, perhaps it should even be more expensive but information is repeated and this lowers the price...'
'In the end, 1,000 pounds is the most appropriate price...'
With his decision made, he spoke calmly.
"The information and price is fair."
That was all he said and he floated the parchments to Justice.
Audrey grabbed the parchments with a tight smile, before starting to read she turned to The Fool and curtsied.
"Thank you for your help Mr. Fool"
Klein smiled slightly and nodded.
"No problem Miss Justice."
'It's the least I can do considering I got that information for free...' Klein thought with the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
He had no idea how long it would have taken him working as Nighthawk to get just a fraction of what he'd read.
But he couldn't help feeling that he had taken advantage of Justice and Hanged Man...
'The next time they need something I won't charge you anything... Then the equivalent trade will be fulfilled...' Klein quickly decided to make it up to Justice and the Hanged Man when he gets the chance.
He didn't mention Chariot because he had no idea what he could give him to make up for it.
What could he have that would interest a High Sequence Beyonder like Chariot?
Audrey just nodded reverently to Mr. Fool's words, doing so she lowered her head and began to read the information she had purchased against her will.
...
She slightly lowered the parchments with a surprised and somewhat dazed expression.
'There were so many organizations in the Beyonder World ...'
She slightly shook her head and looked at the men.
"This information is certainly worth the 1,000 pounds I pay." Audrey said, she then continued.
"But I have some questions about something you wrote Mr. Chariot."
Adryan grinned and nodded.
"It will be my pleasure, Miss Justice, tell me what is your question?"
"What do you mean when you remarked that the pathway controlled by the Demoness Sect is the <Trap Pathway>? According to the Hanged Man the pathway they control is the Assassin..."
"Is perhaps another name of this pathway? Is it because the abilities of this pathway are related to traps or something like that?" Audrey asked innocently.
"Mmm~ Is something like that but not the way you think it is~" Adryan's smile had turned mischievous.
Klein nodded at Audrey's question, that was something that had confused him when reading it.
'I thought the path that the Demoness Sect controlled was called <Assassin>? Why then does Chariot call it <Trap>? Could it be an old name perhaps?'
Honestly, if among the options he had been given for the pathways was the Assassin, he would likely have chosen it.
That would be if he had never read that page of Emperor Roselle's diary where he regretted not choosing the Seer, Marauder, or Apprentice pathway.
Adryan chuckled again, but this time was a little darker.
This made everyone present nervous.
Klein suddenly felt the urge to put his hands to his crotch.
"That's quite simple but first I'll ask you a few simple questions, consider them a little test to see if you learned what we wrote to you."
"First question, are there any men in the Demoness Sect?"
"There are none, Mr. Chariot, even when a boy is born in the sect they kill him, there are only women in its ranks." Audrey answered confidently.
"That's something the information you gave me didn't have, unlike the Hanged Man." She took the opportunity to provoke the man because he didn't know something as important as that and she did.
But because she was still a newborn she was unaware of a problem that Alger and Klein noticed the moment she pointed it out.
Especially Klein.
'Chariot is a high sequence beyonder how is it possible that he doesn't know something as important as that? That doesn't make sense!' He thought confused but immediately his eyes sparkled with realization.
'Or is the information not correct and that's why he didn't write it?'
'How is it possible that a member of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom does not know such well-known information? Or does he know something that we don't?' Alger narrowed his eyes at the redhead.
Adryan waited a few seconds not saying anything on purpose, so that Klein and Alger would notice the problem that Audrey pointed out.
"Second question, what is the name of the path that the Demoness Sect controls?"
"It's the Assassin pathway" she answered confidently and also added teasingly.
"That's why it confuses me so much that you call it <Trap Pathway>. Or is it that you didn't know what it was called and made it up?"
Adryan chuckled in amusement at Audrey's lame attempt to provoke him.
"I'm sorry Miss Justice, but you still have 50 years to go before you can provoke me with those kindergarten insults, I'm sorry to inform you that those so-called insults of yours only work with others your age or younger."
A vein began to throb on Audrey's forehead and she began to growl in annoyance.
Klein and Alger looked at this and inwardly shook their heads.
'I'm sorry Miss Justice but you asked for this, you never provoke the Provocateur' Klein thought feeling bad for the woman but did nothing to stop the assault.
"You..." she growled but before she could continue she was interrupted by Adryan.
"Last question, what is the name of Sequence 7 of the assassin's path?"
Everyone present was taken by surprise by this question.
Audrey was confused while Klein and Alger could sense that something bad was about to happen.
"You do not know?" The redhead asked with false surprise, which was too obvious.
This annoyed Audrey, but holding back her annoyance she asked.
"I don't know what the name is Mr. Chariot, is it relevant to my question from before?"
Adryan chuckled darkly.
"It is miss, believe me, it is..."
The air in the Divine Palace turned cold and heavy, especially for Alger and Klein.
Adryan stopped beating around the bush and finally revealed the secret.
"The name of the sequence 7 of the Assassin pathway is Witch."
"..."
"..."
"..."
Everything in the Divine Palace seemed to freeze.
"What do you mean by that, Mr. Chariot?" Audrey asked stammering, her stomach wanting to release its contents.
Klein had to contain a gag and the need to take his hands to his crotch to verify that his soldier was still there.
Alger had frozen.
"He he" Adryan chuckled softly and replied.
"Exactly what you are thinking <how can a man be a witch? Only a woman can be one!>"
"You know that saying in Intis? The one about <The perfect woman is a man>?"
"Every woman in the Demoness Sect was once a man!"
"Oh Goddess..." Audrey muttered in astonishment as she fell into her chair and put a hand to her forehead.
Alger tied the ends together and couldn't help but want to vomit.
Klein's expression had frozen into his calm face, but his mind was something else...
'PRAISE YOU GODDESS! PRAISE YOU FOR NOT LETTING ME CHOOSE THAT PATHWAY!'
Klein was so grateful that he began to sing to the Goddess in his mind.
Audrey was the first to recover, she looked at Chariot in shock and dumbfounded.
"But how is that possible Mr. Chariot?! Changing gender... Are there other pathways that do that? Is there one that turns a woman into a man?" She asked horrified, if her pathway was one of those...
A prank came to his head, so laughing darkly he responded.
"Everything is possible in the Beyonder world Miss Justice, from men being turned into women and women being turned into men, it is even possible to turn a person into a goat!"
Everyone present was stunned by this information, Alger put a hand to his forehead and began to massage it to calm his mind.
But Adryan hadn't finished his antics.
"In answer to your other question, there are several paths that change the gender of a man to a woman, an example would be the Seer Pathway and Sailor Pathway." He turned to look at a frozen Alger.
"In the future, it is very likely that we will have a Miss Hanged Man!"
Klein's skin had turned pale, but for the thick mist covering him, no one saw his horrified expression.
The happiness that had previously filled his mind was replaced with horror and despair.
'NOOOOOOO!!! FUCK YOU ROSELLE! BECAUSE I FOLLOWED YOUR ADVICE NOW I WILL BECOME A WOMAN!!!'
If this continued like this, it was likely that Klein and Alger would lose control...
So to avoid that...
"Hahahahhahaha" Adryan laughed maniacally as he punched the bronze table, his entire body shaking with laughter.
"OH FUCK! HOW I WISH I COULD SEE YOUR FACES! HAHAHHAHAHA"
Tears were falling from Adryan's eyes.
Alger robotically turned his head to where Chariot was.
"That…was that a prank?!" he asked weakly, his expression slowly breaking into a completely furious one.
He had to hold on to his seat to keep from jumping on the man!
Klein eyed Chariot with pure venom.
'I just have to control the gray fog and I could drown him...No...that's too easy...'
He began to consider possible punishments for this madman who had given him the biggest scare of his entire life.
"What's wrong with you, Chariot?! Are you crazy?!" Audrey yelled furiously, no longer able to control herself and exploding at the man.
"Huff* huff* sorry sorry you guys were so stiff I thought you needed a scare to get up!"
"He he... I didn't expect your reaction to be so strong." he said naughty still laughing.
"Ahh that was fun!" he exclaimed joyfully.
All the people there wanted to hang this madman.
But they didn't for various reasons.
Audrey and Alger because Mr. Fool hadn't said or done anything.
Klein because he did not dare to fight against a High Sequence and lose his mask.
After a few moments, Adryan finally calmed down.
"Oh fuck that was great!"
"Leaving that prank of mine aside, what I said before was true."
"There are many pathways that can turn a man into a woman but Seer and Sailor are not one of them. Although Seer from sequence 6 onwards can <disguise as a woman>"
He then sighed in disappointment.
"Though there is only one pathway that turns a woman into a man...It's a bit unfair, you know?"
He looked at Audrey and laughed mischievously.
"In case you are interested, is the Hunter Pathway"
Audrey felt a hollow in her stomach.
"Chariot...that was one of the paths you offered me right?" she asked weakly.
Klein and Alger looked at her uncomfortably.
"If it comforts you a little, before selling you the formula I was going to tell you this." Adryan replied casually, as if commenting on the weather.
_________________________________________
On a separate note I want to say this.
It will be short.
THIS IS NOT HAREM!!!
I would never betray LOM in such a horrible way by making it a Harem.
I wouldn't do that to you who are reading this story either.
I'll tell you this too: I hate harems so don't worry, this book will never become nor have that in it.
I don't want you guys to get a bad idea just because I introduced a lot of female characters and hardly any male ones.
There will also be men but that will take time so please be patient with me.
Sorry if there was any confusion.
Have a nice night and see you later in the day.
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