章節 264: Chapter 182: What to do now?

"Let's sail!"

...

Closing his cabin door, Alger blew out a soft sigh as he walked to his chair and sat down.

Placing the container which was the same size as his head on the table, Alger looked at it with a complicated look.

He opened a drawer and from it took out a bottle and a mug, uncorking the bottle with a loud Pop Alger poured the brown liquid into his mug.

Recorking the bottle, he set it down on the table and grabbing his mug he took a deep drink.

Feeling the rum go down his throat, Alger put his cup down and sighed again.

He then took out a yellowish piece of paper from his pocket and looked at it.

-Melee Scholar Potion Formula-

He reread the formula on the paper a few more times before placing it on top of the container.

After that, he also took out from his pocket several yellowish papers with strange symbols on them.

Counting everything again, Alger heaved a pleased sigh and couldn't help but smile.

'20 pages... I'm sure Mr. Fool will be quite pleased by this.'

Looking down at the container, the smile on Alger's face disappeared and was replaced by a flat expression.

'Chariot just asked if I could get the formula for Conspirator... It's not my fault it wasn't at the Auction, besides I got one of the formulas he wanted so he can't claim anything from me.' Alger thought unimportantly as he stuffed the diary pages into his pocket.

Later he would keep them in a more suitable place, now he had to deliver this to Chariot.

Grabbing the container and the paper with the formula, Alger placed them in front of an altar that he had used earlier to summon Chariot's messenger.

Lighting the single candle on the altar, Alger prayed.

I!" he said in Ancient Hermes.

"I summon on my name" he changed to Hermes.

"The Special Spirit that wanders through the upper realm;

The Trustworthy Spirit who is friendly to humans;

The Companion Spirit of Chariot"

As soon as he finished the last line, he felt how the temperature in the room decreased.

...

"Thanks again Chicho" Adryan said with a small smile as he handed the giant a chocolate bar.

The woman just nodded roughly as she grabbed the bar, Chicho looked at the bar for a few seconds and then looked at the redhead carefully.

'Hey... Don't look at me like that, I can't always give you that chocolate. That would be spoiling you!' Adryan thought with the corners of his mouth quivering slightly.

"That chocolate is quite special, if I gave it to you every time you deliver a letter you would get bored of it and you don't want that, right Chicho?" Adryan defended himself with his sly tongue, then added with a questioning tone.

"You don't want that delicious chocolate to lose its magic, do you?"

Chicho looked at him attentively with her gray eyes, deep in thought.

After a few seconds, she nodded, feeling that what the redhead was saying made sense.

Adryan's smile grew slightly at this but he controlled himself and nodded.

"That would be all Chicho, if I need your help again I will call on you."

Chicho nodded slightly, and with calm movements, she unwrapped the chocolate and began to eat it while she entered the door of bones.

When the door of bones disintegrated, Flora took the opportunity to speak, her tone amused and full of curiosity.

"Did you see the chocolate stain on her face? How long do you think it will take her to realize it's there?"

"Not much, maybe when she gets to wherever her house is she'll find out. Although I hope she will not be upset that I didn't tell her it was there." Adryan said scratching his head not sure if it was a good idea or not.

He had used a lot of iron will not to point out the stain and provoke his messenger a little.

Flora snorted and Adryan could imagine the woman rolling her eyes as she did so.

"Come on at least give me a number. I say 2 days."

Adryan smiled as he shook his head.

"Well, I say 15 minutes or maybe 20. It depends if she has a mirror in her house or some friendly spirit tells her about her problem."

"That's a good point..." Flora murmured under her breath in agreement.

"One hour."

Adryan chuckled at this before looking at the container on the table next to the yellowed paper. Next to these was the same bag he had sent, only much smaller.

'There must be the change...' he thought feeling a small pain in his chest.

The bag was still a bit big and this meant that Alger hadn't been able to get everything he asked for.

Walking over to the table and grabbing the paper, he opened it and read it.

-Melee Scholar Potion Formula-

Main ingredients.

*Grounded Knuckles of the Magenta Lizard

*The 4 legs of the Jumping Horned Toad.

Supplementary ingredients.

* 70 milliliters of purified water.

*15 grams of oxidized iron.

*10 small drops of the saliva of the Jumping Horned Toad.

* 5 grams of Zync.

Seeing that the note ended there, Adryan sighed softly before putting the note in his pocket.

"At least I kept what I promised to Charlotte..." the redhead muttered but he couldn't help but feel disappointed.

'Now I only have the meeting of the Hermits of Fate and Bakerland...' the redhead thought heavily as he looked at the worn wall of the office.

If the Hermits of Fate failed, he would have to hunt down Bakerland to obtain the formula.

Sighing slightly, he looked at the container on the table and an idea floated into his mind.

"I can always make advance by consuming the main ingredients..." he muttered, considering the idea for a moment.

"I WILL NEVER ALLOW IT!" Flora screamed so loudly that it stunned Adryan for a moment.

"What the hell Flora?!" the redhead groaned holding his head.

Flora snarled angrily and snapped.

"Do you want to kill yourself?! If you consume the main ingredients without the supplementary ones, the most likely case is that you will die or lose control!"

Adryan could hear the concern in Flora's tone and sight a little embarrassed.

"Sorry about that Flora, it was just a momentary idea, nothing more. You know how careful I am and you know that I would never try something as crazy as that." the redhead defended himself.

"You better be Adryan." Flora grunted and then fell silent but Adryan could hear her muttering things under her breath.

"Stupid tomato head. Who do you think you are to even think of that as an option? You fucking asshole. Scaring me like that..."

'Now I feel kind of bad...' Adryan thought as he scratched his head.

Flora's reaction made sense since his idea was practically a Russian roulette with a pump shotgun.

Consuming the main ingredients without the supplementary ingredients would almost certainly cause him to lose control or die.

Either because of the remaining consciousness in the ingredients that weren't suppressed or because of the damage it would do to him...

There were many possible ways to die and none was painless.

Sighing, Adryan decided to speak to Flora later to apologize and turned his attention back to the container.

Placing his hand on the lid and lifting it, breaking the wall of spirituality it had, he was able to see the Sphinx's brain.

In a jar that a puppy could easily dig into, floating in a greenish liquid was a large purple brain.

This brain didn't look normal. It had multiple bumps all over it and black veins that seemed to throb every second as if it was still alive.

A desire to consume this brain slightly dazed the redhead who shook his head as he closed the container.

Releasing a small sigh, he gently patted the container.

"You were hard to get but now you're mine."

Grabbing the container, after reapplying the wall of spirituality, Adryan carefully placed it on the altar he had prepared earlier.

Kneeling before it, Adryan clasped his hands, and bowing his head, he prayed.

"The Scarlet Monarch that burns depravity..."

...

Monday, 3 p.m.

Above the gray fog, in the great hall of the giants, two crimson flashes and a torrent of crimson flames appeared.

Appearing in her seat, Audrey turned happily to greet the figure covered in a gray fog as was almost custom but something new stopped her.

Alger also noticed this something...

Adryan also notice it and this caused a sharp smile to grow on his face.

'Looks like my worries were in vain~'

Before anyone could say or do anything, Mr. Fool's voice echoed through the Divine Hall.

"This is our new member code name..." Klein took about 2 seconds to give a little drama.

"Sun."

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First of all, I apologize for disappearing for almost a week and not posting any trails.

The exams came back stronger than ever and they left me devastated, I barely had energy for anything and I barely finished them on Friday.

I took the weekend to rest.

The chapters are back and I really apologize for what I did and also forgive me for worrying you.

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章節 265: Chapter 183: A 'Warm' Welcome

'New member?' Audrey thought in shock that immediately turned to joy. She quickly turned to look at the aforementioned.

It was difficult to see the more specific details of The Sun thanks to the gray fog but Audrey could still see some.

The Sun has brownish-yellow hair and wore a unique black tight suit that was different from the clothing of countries in the Northern Continent.

'What curious clothes... Maybe Sun is from Feysac?' Audrey thought excitedly, trying to figure out the origin of the Sun.

She was very excited to see the growth of the Tarot Club. She felt like a protagonist.

Alger creased his brows, a bit annoyed that The Fool dragged in a new member so suddenly.

'He should have mentioned it to us at least... But a great figure like Mr. Fool shouldn't care about our feelings...' He thought in exasperation before giving a simple greeting to Justice, Chariot, and Sun.

Adryan for his part, just gave a simple greeting to the rest and returned his attention to the ceiling but actually looked at Sun out of the corner of his eye.

'Something's weird... Isn't it too early for Sun to join? If I remember correctly, he joined in the middle of August, that is, a week later...' The redhead thought seriously as he looked at the young Sun.

He held back a sigh as he then rested his cheek in his palm.

'It seems that things are happening faster than I expected...'

Audrey after analyzing Sun and coming to the conclusion that he was someone young and that he gave the air of a lone wolf, left her Spectator State and looked at The Fool.

"Mr. Fool, I have collected another 2 pages from Emperor Roselle's diary." She said with joy.

'It really was 3 pages but I only managed to memorize 2... The symbols were too complicated and too difficult to memorize.' Audrey added in her heart a little embarrassed.

'New pages?' Klein's heart gladdened. He smiled and asked.

"Miss Justice, what do you need?"

'Please something easy!' Klein added in his heart.

He wasn't worried in the least that someone like Justice would ask for money, she showed she had plenty of it. He was worried that she would ask for something that he could not give.

Audrey's eyes lit up with excitement but she responded in a reserved manner.

"I would like to know, if possible, the name of the following Telepathist sequence."

'Hey girl, aren't you in a hurry? Just a few weeks ago you got the formula for your Secuence 8 and now you want to know the name of the next sequence?' Klein began to consider what to answer.

He couldn't tell Justice the name of the next sequence because he didn't know it but if he did he wasn't sure he would tell her...

Thanks to someone, Klein didn't have to worry about responding.

"Telepathist? Like the Telepathist that is followed by the Psycho Analyst?" The Sun interrupted.

Audrey looked towards him puzzledly.

"You know of it?"

At the same time, she saw a problem through her Spectator instinct.

The Sun had used the old title Psycho Analyst instead of the modern title, Psychiatrist!

'This guy is a little weird…' Audrey examined Sun's every move.

'What did I tell you before?! Don't talk carelessly!' Klein wanted to slap his face with all his might.

He used the corner of his eye and saw how what Sun had said had caught not only Justice's attention but Chariot's attention.

The strongest member of the Tarot Club was looking directly at Sun.

Klein wanted to slap Sun on the head for drawing the attention of who he shouldn't have!

'Great as soon as Sun arrives he's going to be bullied...' Klein lamented for the young man but he couldn't do anything to help him, he could only pray that he wouldn't blurt out anything that would draw Chariot's attention even more.

'Now I just wonder how long it will take Chariot to discover the origin of the Sun... Maybe in the next Tarot Club or the one after that? It would be ridiculous for Chariot to conclude today that Sun is from the Forgotten Land of the Gods... right?'

Remembering what had happened at the first Tarot Club, Klein bit the inside of his cheek.

'...right?'

'You don't know how to shut your mouth, do you?' Adryan thought with an amused smile as he looked at Sun.

Not knowing that he was already dancing on the wolf's tongue with an apple in his mouth and bathed in sauce. Sun, or as he was better known, Derrick Berg, responded seriously.

"I can get you the formula!"

Then, he felt guilty because he couldn't provide it right away. He tried to explain himself.

"It is a sequence that comes from the Dragon race. And our City of Silver was once ruled by the Giant King imperial household. As you know Giants and Dragons are sworn enemies. Hence, Silver City of Silver has all sequences 9, 8, and 7. I have ways to get them."

'This kid…' Klein wailed deeper and was barely able to stop himself from slapping himself across the face.

The boy had walked in that by himself...

Now all that remained was to wait for the show.

He could have stopped Sun at any time if he wanted to, he just had to stop translating and the rest of the Tarot Club wouldn't have understood him at all.

But Klein took another path. He felt this would make his image as a great existence stronger and further remove any doubts Chariot might have. So he just sat and listened to everything with a smile without saying anything.

'I can also get more information without having to ask and ruin my image. So the origins of the Spectator sequence come from the Dragon race... That explains the Dragon on the back of Justice's seat...'

'Giant King, Dragon race, City of Silver...' Audrey was confused. She first took a look at the Hanged Man opposite her, but she could tell he was just as shocked and confused by his body language.

She then turned and saw how Chariot simply had his cheek resting on his palm as he looked at Sun with a smile that was very familiar to her...

'Looks like Chariot knows something...' Audrey only allowed herself to look at the man for 3 seconds before looking away.

Not wanting to suffer the wrath of that smile, she simply glanced sideways at the seat of honor at the top of the bronze table. The Fool watched everything that happened with a smile. The figure covered by grayish-white fog showed no shock, no thought, no curiosity, and no doubt.

'He knows... He knew all this...' Audrey and Alger came to the same conclusion.

"He he..."

Already familiar with the laughter, Audrey and Alger turned to look at the smiling Chariot.

Derrick for his part, looked somewhat confused at the laughing man, not understanding why he suddenly laughed.

'Here it comes...' Klein thought heavily as he watched Chariot cover his mouth with his right hand.

'At least maybe I can get more information on the Forgotten Land of the Gods through Sun's suffering...' Klein tried to see the bright side of what was about to happen.

Lowering his hand, Adryan looked at the Tarot Club members with a small smile.

"Oh excuse my manners, it's just that what Sun said is quite amusing to me."

Derrick frowned and looked somewhat annoyed at the man.

"What do you think is funny Mr. Chariot? I didn't tell any jokes."

"Hahaha Oh sweet summer child~ I think you misunderstood me." Adryan said amused. Annoying and embarrassing Derrick a bit.

"Then explain please." Derrick said a little upset.

Adryan smiled some more.

"You see little Sun. It's not like you told a funny joke it's just that you revealed where you're from without letting me guess for myself."

"huh?" Derrick was confused and a little stunned.

"It's a little game of mine, in short, it keeps me busy." Adryan explained shortly but then continued with a sharp smile.

"But at least where you come from is very interesting you know?"

Before Derrick could question what he mean by that, Adryan continued.

"Correct me if I'm wrong but it's 2583 years in the dark right? Having only lightning to light up your day must be a horrible thing knowing that if you stay in the dark you'll disappear never to be seen again, and the monster that crawls out of the dark ready to devour..." He said with a heavy tone and then added with a small smile.

"It must be very hard living like that right? If you can even call that living."

Audrey and Alger couldn't help but be stunned.

Lightning to light up the day? Disappear in the dark? Monsters? What the hell was Chariot talking about?

What he described seemed like a nightmare. They both turned to see Sun.

What kind of place is where he lived?

Klein barely held back a sigh.

'Of course, he would know...'

Derrick felt offended but also a little confused.

The way Chariot had said it was not how someone from the City of Silver would have phrased it. It was as if the man had described a place he read about?

Derrick looked at the man and noted his red hair. While there were a few people with red hair in the City of Silver, none of them had such a bright color.

'I would remember seeing someone with that hair but I've never seen him?' Derrick thought seriously as an idea struck him.

'Could it be possible that he is from another surviving city? Is the City of Silver not alone?' Hope burned in his heart and he wanted to ask very badly but held back in the end.

'This is the hope of the City of Silver... I have to act carefully, I can't jump to conclusions.'

"Mr. Chariot you do not appear to be a part of the City of Silver. What city-state are you from?" Derrick asked.

Adryan smiled

"I'm not from any city-state Little Sun"

He pointed at Justice and the Hanged Man.

"Actually, none of us here are. Let me ask you a question. If we're not from where are you from, where do you think we are from?"

Derrick was a little stunned and very confused. If none of the members were from the City of Silver, where else could they be from?

Making a wild guess, he looked uncomfortably at the members and asked sheepishly.

"Are you from another planet?"

"Hahaha hahaha"

Seeing poor Derrick's confusion, Adryan laughed and shook his head.

"We are all from the same planet Little Sun but in some ways we are different."

Seeing that Derrick was still confused, Adryan smiled and explained.

"While your skies are full of black clouds and thunder, ours are blue and with the sun illuminating us. While your darkness will devour you if you stay in it too long, ours does nothing. You fight monsters to survive, we don't have to ever worry about that."

Adryan leaned back in his seat and inclined his head with a smile.

"With everything I've said by now you should know where we're from."

Derrick began to tremble and looked at the group in astonishment.

If what Chariot said was true, there was only one place they could be from!

"You are from the World of Light!"

Adryan smiled and winked mischievously.

"Bingo."

"The world of light..." Derrick lowered his head and continued to tremble but not with anger or annoyance but with joy!

Extreme joy!

'Not everyone was struck by calamity! There is hope!'

Derrick felt his blood burn but he bit his lip to keep from reacting. He didn't want to offend the godlike Fool.

After more than two thousand years the City of Silver had finally gotten an answer and a new hope!

He couldn't afford to lose it because he reacted like a little child!

Audrey seeing how Sun was shaking misinterpreted his extreme joy with discomfort. Unable to help but empathize with the young man, she tried to help out a bit by attracting Chariot's attention.

"Excuse me, Mr. Chariot? You seem very familiar with the Sun's place of origin. Would it be possible for you to tell us a bit more about it?"

Klein looked at Justice with emotion and internally sighed happily, having someone like her helped a lot.

Adryan turned to look at Justice and tilting his head slightly to the side, he smiled.

"Of course Miss Justice. Also, don't worry~ This one is in the house."

Pointing his hand at the trembling Sun, Adryan's smile grew.

"Our newest member is from the Forsaken Land of the Gods."

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