Chapter 528 Bernadette asks the Fool a question
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Soon, Hobert selected five suits. When signing the bill, Hobert's hand trembled. Just five suits actually cost 360 pounds!
That's equivalent to 72 pounds a suit. Hobert remembered that most middle-class suits cost only seven or eight pounds, including a cane, shirt, and boots. This one suit could buy ten!
If Audrey hadn't been there, Hobert would have definitely asked: "Made of gold? Guaranteed fresh?"
And then, to make matters worse, Hobert said to Audrey, "I know you don't need clothes, but you've helped me so much today, let me pick out a dress for you to show my gratitude."
Hobert finally chose a blue dress. Audrey went to the fitting room to change, and indeed, she looked much more dignified and mature.
When Hobert signed the bill, he thought he was seeing things. He looked closely and it really was 160 pounds!
This made him sigh inwardly: in terms of clothing, women's money is indeed easier to earn.
Next, Audrey took Hobert to buy leather shoes and a top hat. In just one morning, he signed nearly 900 pounds worth of bills, making Hobert's hand feel a little cramped.
Generally speaking, clothing purchases are taken care of by the butler, but Audrey is still young and finds it hard to resist the temptation of shopping.
So, when she has time, she will come to these stores to take a look, or have the shop assistants bring new products to the Earl's mansion for display.
As for lunch, of course, they went to the Loen Kingdom Hotel, which is the first choice for nobles.
Seeing this magnificent hotel, Hobert felt a sense of emotion. He still remembered the first time he came to this hotel.
Audrey, as a "Spectator", noticed the change in Hobert's emotions: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Hobert smiled. "It reminded me of something from the past. Well, let's go in."
The two got out of the carriage and entered the hotel lobby while chatting.
They immediately became the focus of the lobby. The beautiful and noble Audrey was a rare guest here, and the person standing next to Audrey actually came to dine without wearing a suit. How rude! How could the waiter let him in?
That's right, Hobert had changed back into his windbreaker.
As for why the waiter let them in, it was because Hobert saw the waiter was about to stop them when they entered, so he simply twisted the other party's intentions.
So, the waiter could only say: "Please come in!"
Audrey rarely came to the hotel, and she didn't know that you had to wear a suit to dine here. Although she noticed that the waiter's behavior was a bit strange, she didn't pay much attention to it.
They arrived at a restaurant specially for nobles, which was not the booth structure Hobert had imagined, but luxurious dining tables with large intervals. Each table had a dedicated waiter.
Most of the people dining here knew Audrey and came forward to greet her.
As for Hobert, they just exchanged a few polite pleasantries.
After exchanging pleasantries for a long time, the two finally sat down.
After the dishes started to be served, Audrey whispered: "They are just not familiar with you yet, so they don't seem very enthusiastic. You don't have to be unhappy about it."
She noticed that Hobert's mood was different from before, and thought it was because these nobles didn't value him.
"I never care too much about what others think of me," Hobert smiled. "It's just that I've been reminiscing about something since just now."
He glanced at Audrey's curious gaze: "Well, when I was a lawyer, I was once invited to dine here.
"You should still remember the case I took to claim compensation, right? Well, Gusta, the president of the Backlund Chamber of Commerce, invited me here to eat, hoping to scare me, a small lawyer, with the magnificence here."
Hobert briefly described what happened at that time.
Audrey said with some anger: "I didn't expect such a thing to have happened!"
Then she asked: "Are you going to teach that Chamber of Commerce President a lesson?"
Now Hobert is an Earl, and he can easily teach the Chamber of Commerce President a lesson! But Audrey was still prepared to remind Hobert to find a better reason, otherwise it would be easy for people to say that he didn't have the demeanor of an Earl.
"No need. In the blink of an eye, the difference in our identities has been reversed. If I still regard him as an opponent, then I am praising him," Hobert said, taking a sip of the appetizer soup.
"I was just thinking that identity is actually a mutual recognition between people. For example, if others think I am an Earl, then I am an Earl, but if everyone thinks I am a trainee lawyer, then I am a trainee lawyer.
"This recognition is actually an interaction. For a trainee lawyer, the president of the Chamber of Commerce is a businessman who can do whatever he wants. For an Earl, he is just a businessman.
"This process has a subjective side and an objective side. In fact, the person is still the same person, but the perception of the other party has changed."
Audrey smiled: "It sounds like a philosophy teacher is giving a lecture."
She could see that Hobert only said half of what he wanted to say. The other half didn't seem suitable to be said here.
Hobert took a sip of wine and steered the topic in another direction: "In fact, the gap in identity is ridiculous, because maybe someday, this gap can be reversed.
"But we have to respect this gap, because this is the rule of this society. Before we have the ability to break this rule, all voices against this rule are just complaints."
Audrey took a shallow taste of the side dish: "Do you plan to break this rule when you have the opportunity in the future?"
Hobert shook his head: "I don't like being a reformer. It's too tiring and very dangerous."
He then smiled: "I just suddenly thought of the essence of identity. I found it very interesting and a little emotional."
He really didn't like reform. If he was going to do it, he would do a revolution and completely overthrow the rule of a kingdom!
The two did not continue this topic, but talked about the upcoming social season.
After lunch, the two took a carriage back home.
There were only two of them in the carriage. Audrey asked: "When we talked about the topic of identity just now, because we were in a public restaurant, you seemed to have important points that you didn't express?"
Hobert smiled, thought for a moment, and then said: "That's right, based on those thoughts just now, I thought of the essence of acting method!"
His consideration was not to recall his thoughts just now, but to consider whether to tell Audrey his other thoughts. But on second thought, there didn't seem to be anything that needed to be kept secret. It was normal to tell his friend some of his thoughts.
Audrey immediately became interested: "I knew you must have more brilliant views."
"Brilliant is not the point, it's just a good idea that came suddenly," Hobert took the mineral water that Audrey took out of the wine cabinet, opened the bottle cap and took a sip.
Nobles have been preparing bottled mineral water in carriages since a long time ago. This is authentic mountain spring water, slightly sweet.
It's not added sugar, but the spring water itself is slightly sweet.
The mineral water is bottled in crystal-like glass bottles, which looks like a beautiful work of art.
Hobert re-corked the bottle with an exquisite stopper and continued: "I suddenly thought that the acting of the 'Lawyer' pathway requires the recognition of others.
"For example, if others think I am an Earl, then my acting is successful. If I act only like a Baron, then my acting is very unsuccessful.
"So the essence of acting is actually the interaction between one's own spirituality and the spirituality of others! Maybe this kind of interaction is the driving force for digesting the potion."
Audrey praised: "What a great idea! This is equivalent to explaining the theory of the acting method!"
"But this theory seems to work well in some pathways such as 'Lawyer' or 'Arbiter'," Hobert smiled: "It is not universal in all pathways.
"For example, your 'Spectator' pathway, you only need to think that you are a qualified spectator, and you don't necessarily need to get feedback from others."
Hobert said in a joking tone: "The key is that it is difficult to convey feedback from others to you. Could it be that Glaint will praise you when he meets you: Audrey, you look more like a spectator after not seeing you for a few days."
Audrey covered her mouth and smiled elegantly: "It sounds like something Glaint could say."
She paused and said: "Maybe the potion of each pathway has different requirements for Beyonders, so our acting methods are also different.
"Well, I remember you said before that the 'Lawyer' pathway has names such as 'Mentor', then the 'Lawyer' pathway may need to be more public and gain the recognition of more people in order to complete the acting as quickly as possible."
Hobert nodded: "I have similar ideas."
When playing the role of a Baron, you can digest the potion by establishing your own company or managing an industry.
But Hobert compared the speed at which Elliot digested the potion with his own potion digestion speed. His own digestion speed was much faster.
Hobert believes that this should be because he has a territory and everyone recognizes him as a lord.
The carriage first arrived at the Earl Hall's mansion. After Hobert said goodbye to Audrey, he got out of the carriage and boarded his own carriage behind.
Hobert continued his previous train of thought: Baron and Earl are just titles, and do not mean that you must obtain these two identities.
He recalled that when he was playing the role of "Baron of Corruption", he found that his rule over the people was very important, or rather, he needed feedback from the people.
At that time, Hobert realized that in the "Black Emperor"'s Godhood ritual, there was a requirement that "it is common sense that the people think the promoted person is the emperor", which is enough to show that it is important for this pathway to get feedback from the people.
Even if you don't use Baron and Earl to distinguish the sequence relationship of the two potions, you can also use small lord and big lord to distinguish them.
According to this idea, you can think about the perception of an Earl or a big lord.
Hobert recalled that the ancient Earls were already great princes in charge of one side, and modern Earls are also the core forces in the political arena.
Then, as an Earl, in addition to feedback from the bottom people, do you also need feedback from other nobles? And the conviction or surrender of some Viscounts and Barons to a certain extent?
Hobert thought that maybe it is not necessarily Viscounts and Barons, but the conviction of his subordinates and main officials should also make the potion possible to digest.
Then a new question arises. It is not difficult to get others to recognize his identity as an Earl. How can people associate depravity with him?
Hobert thought of his previous thoughts on "Baron of Corruption". He believed that "depravity" and "Earl" should be one subjective description and one objective description.
He believes that: it is not necessarily that he himself is depraved, but he can also actively make others become depraved. I subjectively feel that he has become depraved under my influence. The digestion method of the "Spectator" pathway is basically this kind of subjective digestion. And "Earl" is just the opposite, it is to make everyone think that I am an Earl, so that I can get good feedback.
Another key point is, how to define "depravity"? According to this skill, depravity seems to mean making the target's moral values become negative and evil! But moral values are determined artificially, and different people have different views on the same thing.
For example, if a believer of the Evernight Goddess becomes a believer of the God of War, is this a kind of depravity in the eyes of the Church and believers of the Evernight Goddess? But in the eyes of the Church of the God of War, this is a sign of abandoning darkness and turning to the light.
Then, according to the characteristics of the "Lawyer" pathway to find loopholes in the rules and not follow the rules, is it not necessarily that only moral corruption is depravity, but also doing things that people can understand but cannot accept, is also considered depravity?
For example, when attending a noble banquet, two people publicly wear the same suit, and because they are strong enough, everyone will not think that there is a problem with Earl Hobert's finances! They can only look very upset or angry, but dare not say anything.
Hobert felt that he didn't know whether doing so would digest the potion, but he knew that doing so must be very refreshing!
Another thing to pay attention to is that it must be distinguished from madness and paranoia!
Hobert rubbed his chin, he could try to play such a role to see if it works.
At this time, Hobert also returned to his Earl's Mansion. Dophis handed Hobert a document: "This was sent by the youngest son of Earl Vincent last night."
Hobert took the document and nodded. He walked to his study and asked: "Did you hire a tailor for me?"
"The first thing I did was hire a tailor," Dophis said: "He has already made three suits for you."
Hobert was stunned: "Why didn't he come to take my measurements?"
"I told him the measurements. I guarantee they are accurate," Dophis had such eyesight.
Hobert scratched his head: Are you sure the tailor didn't make a shroud?
Arriving at the study, Hobert opened the information and found that this information was really detailed, mainly divided into three parts, the first is geography, the second is resources, and the third is humanities.
Having such detailed information is mainly for the convenience of plundering.
First of all, geography goes without saying. Which road to take to plunder is of course very important, which can save a lot of time.
As for the detailed information on resources, it is to clarify the plundering value of this small island.
The record of humanities is simply to distinguish where the population is easy to plunder, and where the population needs well-equipped weapons to plunder.
Hobert smiled and did not continue to think about this question, but carefully read the information.
Longtail Island has two high mountains, both exceeding 1,000 meters in altitude. These mountains, linked together, form an east-west mountain range.
This mountain range is located towards the eastern part of the island, making the eastern side of the island higher than the western side.
In the west, there is a vast plain where the port and the colonial city built on the island are located, with many manors and small towns established by colonists.
The development in the mountains and the eastern part is limited, with only a small port built in the east.
There is a railway on the island, only a few kilometers long, mainly used for transporting mineral resources from the mountains.
As for the resources on this island, early colonists discovered iron and copper mines, as well as many rubber trees and high-quality timber.
Basically, these minerals can be sold for tens of thousands of pounds each year, with the Governor's Office receiving 50,000 pounds in total.
In terms of the local population, there are a large number of natives on this island. Although there are no specific statistics, it is estimated that there are at least 600,000!
And the number of North Continent people who have colonized this island is only ten to twenty thousand.
Hobert stroked his chin, thinking about how to govern this small island.
Governing such an island has its advantages. Being isolated overseas, even if he implements some radical policies, it will only cause a joke and not arouse the vigilance of the rulers.
After all, those policies are mainly aimed at the natives on the island, and the colonists can choose to leave and avoid Hobert's policies.
Hobert smiled, the first step should indeed be to deal with these colonists and plantation owners.
Continuing to flip through, the following information concerns some strange events that have occurred on the island, with a clear indication that Mount Megali, one of the mountains exceeding 1,000 meters in altitude, is a restricted area, said to be where the local natives worship an ancient god.
Hobert's first reaction was: A wild god like Kalvetua?
He continued to read, and it was mentioned that the military camp on Longtail Island had reported a strange incident, in which a native suddenly claimed to be a king appointed by a god and made himself a wooden crown.
Strangely, the natives agreed with this, and even more strangely, many Loen soldiers loyal to George III also believed that the person was the king and joined him.
This was a large-scale uprising that took place on Longtail Island ten years ago, and the Bayam navy had to be mobilized to put it down.
During the battle, the naval soldiers killed the native king, and the natives seemed to lose their courage at the same time and immediately surrendered.
According to the Loen soldiers who had joined the natives, they felt as if they were controlled by an unknown force at the time and had no idea what they were doing.
Because this is the file of the Ministry of Land and Resources, the record of similar events is very brief, only to make a reminder that the King personally ordered: Any crown that appears on Longtail Island must be destroyed immediately!
The information also included a description from a missionary who had visited a very peculiar village while preaching.
That village was full of natives, but strangely, adult males did not have a high status here, and children were the most respected. Their village chief was a seven-year-old child.
According to the missionary, this child was not very smart, just an ordinary child, moody and very playful.
But the people in the entire village, including those strong adults, were very submissive to the child, doing no farming or hunting, and their only task was to play with the village chief.
Later, the missionary heard that the native village was burned down because their village chief lost control of the fire while playing with it.
Following this story is another warning: Do not enter native villages that look strange.
At this time, Hobert realized that these strange events were for Beyonders who came to the Ministry of Land and Resources to consult the information, emphasizing the taboos on Longtail Island.
Ordinary people would just treat them as stories.
Hobert became more and more interested in the so-called gods worshiped by the people on Longtail Island. This was probably another wild god in poor condition.
Hobert planned to go to Longtail Island to understand the situation and learn about the natives' gods from the side.
At the same time, he planned to ask Alger and Cattleya about Longtail Island at tomorrow's Tarot Gathering to see if they had any information.
Flipping through the rest, there was no more valuable information. Hobert put the information in the drawer and wrote a thank-you letter for Dophis to send to Karl.
...
In the evening, Karl received Hobert's thank-you letter. He had just opened it and read it when the butler came to invite him to the Earl's study.
Karl suddenly felt a little apprehensive, because since he was a child, going to his father's study meant either being severely criticized or being praised.
But he rarely received praise, and most of the time he was called in to be scolded for doing something wrong.
Karl asked himself if he had done anything commendable recently, and guessed that he must have done something improper without realizing it, and his father had found out.
However, when he entered the study, he found that Earl Vincent did not seem to be angry. Instead, he asked, "Do you have contact with Earl Hobert?"
"Ah? Yes." Karl realized that his father knew about the letter that Earl Hobert had just sent. He told the truth, "He gave me some help, and I helped him with some small things."
Vincent suddenly said, "The Beyonder gathering you participated in, wasn't it initiated by Hobert?"
Karl just smiled wryly, he didn't want to be beaten up again like he had been stung by bees.
Vincent nodded understandingly, "Keep up the good work!"
He changed the subject, "I heard that Glaint is going to host a banquet for some less valued noble children tomorrow?"
Karl thought of the task Hobert had given at the previous gathering, and he nodded, "Yes."
"Are you planning to go?"
"Isn't Father going to arrange for me to work at the Backlund Shipyard? I won't go."
"No, you must go!" Vincent said seriously, "Don't think that I don't know anything just because I'm often away on business. Glaint is also in your gathering, right?"
Without waiting for Karl to answer, Vincent continued, "Not only must you participate, but you must also figure out what Hobert wants to do!"
Karl was slightly stunned, "Father, you want to deal with Earl Hobert."
"Idiot!" Vincent sighed, "See if there are any opportunities in this!"
He said, "Christian is not simple. In the future Backlund political circles, he will definitely have a high political position."
"Perhaps Hobert is carrying out some instructions from his father? Even if it's not his father's instructions, Hobert's operation is incomprehensible."
"Since you don't understand it, go and find out. If there is an opportunity, we can invest in Hobert in advance!"
Finally, he said meaningfully, "This is the fundamental reason why nobles gradually become stronger."
Karl finally understood his father's intention, "Recently, I often visit Earl Hobert."
"Hmm." Vincent nodded, not too stupid after all.
...
On Monday morning, Dicos's youngest son, Todd, came to 62 Empress Borough.
Hobert received this young man with beautiful eyes in the reception room on the first floor.
"Let me first talk about your treatment." Hobert didn't mince words, "You will be my professional manager, with a temporary salary of 300 pounds per month."
Todd was slightly stunned. Generally speaking, a manager who manages thousands of people and has good efficiency would have this much salary. He also holds a position in his father's company, but his salary is far from this high.
And now Earl Hobert's enterprise seems to have no shadow yet, but he is giving himself such a high salary?
So Todd quickly asked, "What exactly do you need me to do?"
"You have three tasks now." Hobert said, "The first is to go to the newly established Backlund University of Science and Technology and find a few professors who are researching electricity, and then contact a few professors who are researching materials science.
"And find a way to make an appointment with the president. I want to meet him."
Todd took out a shorthand notebook, nodding and taking notes. This task was not difficult for him, and he could complete it with a little effort.
"The second is to help me find a large factory building. It can be rented, or the land can be bought directly." Hobert said, "If you rent, be sure to sign a good contract. I may need to make large-scale renovations."
Todd asked, "How many workers will the factory need to accommodate?"
"Three thousand! It is best to have corresponding dormitories and canteens and other supporting facilities."
"No problem." Todd was very familiar with the factories in Backlund and could provide the Earl with several suggestions now, but he decided to confirm it again before reporting to the Earl.
Hobert continued, "The third is to help me recruit a management team, and find a venue for training newly hired employees in the future.
"And the management team is only for managing those who are receiving training. As for the education team, it will be recruited later according to the specific needs."
Todd was slightly stunned, wanting to remind the Earl that training employees didn't need to be so troublesome, but he thought that he didn't know the Earl very well, so he didn't say anything.
Hobert smiled and said, "I'll give you these three tasks for now. Oh, right, in a few days I'm going to go to the manor that the King rewarded me to take a look. You can come with me and see if any renovations need to be done there."
"Yes!"
Hobert added, "If you need the Earl's title for anything, you can take my carriage. Anyway, there are two, and it's a waste to leave them there.
"But every time you use the carriage, you need to report it to the butler, Mr. Dophis."
"Thank you for your concern."
"Find Mr. Dophis for reimbursement for any expenses."
"Yes!"
After Todd left, Hobert sighed. Recently, he had been spending money like water. Recruiting servants, repairing the Earl's mansion, and purchasing furniture, decorations, and works of art for the mansion had cost nearly 1,500 pounds.
Yesterday, he signed out 1,000 pounds worth of bills in one day, and the 5,000 pounds he had given Dophis before seemed like it wouldn't last long.
Hobert took a breath, but fortunately, there would be several large incomes in the next two days.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Hobert's vision was covered by the gray fog on time. He appeared in the giant hall above the gray fog, sitting on one side of the bronze long table. This week's Tarot Gathering officially began.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool!" As "Justice" Audrey greeted him, "The Fool" Klein, sitting at the head of the table, glanced at "Emperor" Hobert.
The others couldn't see Hobert's changes, but as the master of this gray fog, he could feel that Hobert's temperament was completely different, with a kind of sacred and powerful element added to it.
Klein thought for a moment and immediately understood, that was divinity!
Hobert had advanced to Sequence 4 and become a demigod!
This was the first demigod of the Tarot Club!
The rolling gray fog concealed Klein's surprise very well. Audrey didn't notice this, and her greeting continued.
Once the greeting was over, "Hermit" Cattleya looked towards the head of the bronze long table, "Respected 'Mr. Fool', I have collected three pages of Roselle's diary."
Klein was quite expectant in his heart, and opened his mouth with a calm and natural appearance, "Very good, you can think of a request."
"Yes, Mr. Fool." Then Cattleya applied to materialize the contents of the diary.
Next was Mr. Fool's reading time.
After a few minutes of reading time, Klein looked at Cattleya, "Have you thought about your request?"
Cattleya opened her mouth as if she had been prepared for a long time, "I want to know why Emperor Roselle made the choice to make himself go crazy?"
At first, Bernadette's question was: Why did he go crazy in his later years?
In fact, this time submitting the diary and asking the question was more like a test from the "Queen Mystic" Bernadette. She knew the reason why her father went crazy in his later years, and deliberately asked that question to see if "The Fool" could really understand the contents of the diary.
After learning that the members of the Tarot Club had already exchanged information that Emperor Roselle had once jumped to a non-adjacent pathway, which led to his madness in his later years, Bernadette immediately realized that there was no need to test him at all.
So the diaries were still those diaries, but Bernadette changed the question, a real question in her heart.
"Magician" Fors and Audrey both thought of the previous transaction with "Emperor", but "Hanged Man" Alger, "Sun" Derrick, and "Moon" Emlyn were a little dazed because they had not participated in that transaction.
When Cattleya asked this question, Audrey and Fors were also very curious about this question. According to reason, Emperor Roselle had already obtained supreme power and reputation at that time, so why would he rather be crazy than become a god?
So the other members looked towards the head of the bronze long table.
Klein breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Fortunately, the answer to this question was in the diary he had just seen, but he didn't rush to answer "Hermit's" question, but said:
"First of all, let's confirm a fact. I am neither omniscient nor omnipotent."
He said this sentence in a self-deprecating and relaxed tone, but "Hermit" and others did not show any abnormality, and even showed more flattery.
For them, it was obvious that Mr. Fool was not omniscient or omnipotent, and none of the current true gods or evil gods had a title of omniscient and omnipotent.
Only Hobert shouted in his heart: I've learned another trick! This is to bury the foreshadowing in advance when your power or knowledge is limited!
After setting the tone, Klein returned to "The Hermit's" question: "I also want to know what Roselle encountered in his later years. Currently, it can be confirmed that, due to some unknown stimulation or influence, Roselle set his sights on Sequence 0.
"He said that he saw all things would be destroyed and could not place hope in the Seven Gods!"
Goddess of Knowledge was chewing on the sentence "cannot place hope in the Seven Gods!": What exactly did the Emperor see? Even the gods cannot be relied upon?
Audrey had already associated it with the deal she made with the Emperor last week: Could it be a threat from the "Above the Gods"? So, one must become a True God to resist it?
Fors had similar guesses.
Alger and Emlyn were surprised that the Emperor actually wanted to become a god in his later years?
"Little Sun" looked at Mr. Fool in confusion. In City of Silver, if there was a chance, every resident would want to become a Sequence 0 True God in order to create a more suitable living environment for everyone or lead everyone out of that abandoned land.
Klein didn't say anything more and leaned back in his chair, saying, "You can start."
After speaking, he controlled "The World" to look at Derrick: "The 'Notary' potion formula you wanted is here."
Derrick sincerely said: "Thank you, Mr. World. According to the agreement, I will write down this debt and wait for you to make a request."
"Okay." While controlling "The World" to answer, Klein had him pretend to make a request for manifestation to Mr. Fool.
"Little Sun" happily took the formula: "Sequence 6: Notary
"Main ingredients: 1 portion of Elder Tree root crystal, 5 Spirit Bird tail feathers.
"Supplementary materials: 100ml of Radiant Covenant Tree sap, 1 golden-edged sun flower, 1 white-edged sun flower, 5 drops of water fern juice."
After this transaction was completed, before anyone else could speak, "The World" looked at "The Hanged Man" and spoke once again: "You know, the 'Ocean Songster' potion formula and main ingredients you wanted are here."
Goddess of Knowledge couldn't hide her surprise as she looked at "The World". She remembered very clearly that Gehrman Sparrow had only recently hunted "The Slaughterer" Kircheis. Where did he get the "Ocean Songster" potion formula and main ingredients? Could it be that he killed another "Ocean Songster"? This would be considered a quasi-high-level member in the Storm Church.
"Little Sun" looked at "The World" at the lower end of the bronze table: Mr. World also obtained the "Ocean Songster" potion formula and main ingredients. How amazing!
Emlyn recalled that when he first joined the Tarot Club, his initial impression of Mr. World was that he was gloomy and introverted. Besides that, there was nothing special about him. In subsequent gatherings, he gradually showed his experience and reasonably good abilities.
He thought in his heart: This guy is second only to "The Emperor" in terms of strength. I admire this type of person who seems silent, ordinary, but is actually very capable.
Hobert realized: Klein has completed the "Groselle's Travels" instance!
Alger had already received the news in advance, so his excitement had already passed. He said, "Name your price."
Klein had already thought of a price that "The Hanged Man" could accept, so he controlled "The World" and said: "5000 pounds for the formula, 8000 pounds for the main ingredients."
Alger breathed a sigh of relief: "A very reasonable price, but I don't have that much cash on hand. I can only pay you 10,000 pounds first, and the remaining 3,000 pounds next week.
"I think with Mr. Fool's witness, you shouldn't be afraid of me going back on my word."
The pounds he had accumulated during this period, plus the 15% commission he had just received from "The Emperor", gave him enough funds to pay this huge sum!
However, Alger still cleverly divided the payment into two installments. One was to avoid needing the money elsewhere recently, and the other was to show that it was also very difficult for him to come up with this sum.
"The World" said: "Okay. I'll give you the potion formula first, and the main ingredients after the gathering ends."
Then, he asked Mr. Fool to help manifest the potion formula.
"Okay." Alger couldn't hide his excitement as he glanced at the parchment that appeared in front of him:
"Sequence 5: Ocean Songster
"Main ingredients: Crystal of a complete spinal column of a Thunder-striped Electric Eel, pituitary gland of a Storm Rock Heron.
"Supplementary materials: 12ml of Thunder-striped Electric Eel bile, 16ml of Tiger-striped Whale oil, 8g of gray triangular grass powder, 1 Silver-white Octagonal Gold Plate Flower.
"Ritual: Consume the potion inside the stomach of an Aubenis."
Seeing the "Ocean Songster" ritual, Alger was slightly stunned: No wonder the Church keeps Aubenis sea monsters in captivity. It turns out that this is the ritual needed to advance to Sequence 5.
This made him a little embarrassed, because apart from the Aubenis sea monsters kept in captivity by the Church, he had rarely heard of wild Aubenis. Even if there were any, they would be extremely dangerous for a Sequence 6.
Alger suddenly thought of the milky white scepter inlaid with a blue gemstone and glanced at the head of the bronze table: He could request Mr. Fool's help.
However, a new problem arose: Where should I find something that Mr. Fool is interested in? Trade with Roselle the Great's diary? But the diaries I could obtain have already been given to Mr. Fool, and I can't provide enough diaries in a short time.
Alger thought about the valuable things he had in his hand, and he felt that it would be difficult for them to interest Mr. Fool.
Just as he was about to consider this issue after the gathering ended, he suddenly thought that some things Mr. Fool might not be interested in, but "The World" might be interested in!
So, he immediately said: "Mr. Fool, I request a private exchange with 'The World'."
Klein behind the gray fog was slightly stunned. He thought that "The Hanged Man" would ask him for help after seeing the "Ocean Songster" ritual. Why would he want to have a private exchange with "The World".
However, he still nodded slightly and created a separate exchange environment for "The Hanged Man" and "The World".
Alger said, "I need your help with my advancement ritual."
"The World" was a little strange: Are you sure you need my help?
He said in a gloomy voice: "I don't know where there are Aubenis sea monsters."
"I will go find the Aubenis sea monster." Alger quickly said: "I hope you can ask Mr. Fool to help make the Aubenis sea monster willingly open its mouth so that I can enter its stomach."
Klein finally understood why Alger wanted to find "The World", but he still wanted to confirm it again: "Why don't you directly pray for Mr. Fool's help?"
"Because I can't temporarily come up with something that Mr. Fool is interested in." Alger told the truth: "I can trade you the location of an undiscovered primitive island and ask you to help me pray for Mr. Fool's help."
Klein, at the head of the bronze table, nodded slightly. The identity of "Fool's Believer" that he had built for "The World" finally came into effect. Otherwise, if "The Hanged Man" continued to make requests to "The Fool", he would not be able to bargain in order to maintain "The Fool's" position.
It would be easier to deal with "The Hanged Man" and "The World". He controlled "The World" and said, "Briefly tell me about that island."
"On that primitive island, there are not only many Beyonder creatures that have become extinct in the North and South continents, but according to my observation, there are traces of the existence of demigod-level Beyonder creatures." Alger introduced: "In addition, in the center of the island, there is also an ancient ruin of unknown specific age hidden."
Klein was slightly stunned, and then controlled "The World" and said: "In that case, we also need to invite 'The Emperor' to participate in the exploration of that island."
Alger was puzzled: "Why?"
"The World" said seriously: "To ensure our safety!"
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