Mystery: The Stars Returner

Just when Hastur was thinking whether to bite the bullet and pay gold pounds to buy it, or find a reason to refuse, Bernadette directly gave away the Sequence 6 Corrupted Baron potion formula for free.

"As an apostle of the stars, this is my investment in you."

In this regard, Hasta generously said that Huang's niece is quite cute sometimes.

Putting away the potion formula and sending Bernadette away, I owed a small favor.

Still a bit of a loss.

Hastur slowly enjoyed the food before going to pay and leave.

He did not take the carriage home immediately, but walked around here again to get a better understanding of the terrain here so that it would be easier to retreat when the time came.

By the time he finished walking around and mapped out a rough route of action in his mind, it was already past three in the afternoon.

I found a restaurant to enjoy a cup of afternoon tea, and then turned to the law office for a walk before ending today's full day's schedule.

Naturally, the harvest was huge. He got a Sequence 6 Corruption Baron formula for nothing. Although he didn't need it, it was still a little bit of the junior's heart, so he accepted it.

Hastur sat at his desk, took out a pen and paper and began to draw a simple terrain map on the blank space, and marked the route of action.

After confirming that there were no omissions, he burned the piece of paper, and then began to think about how he should obtain the Black Emperor Card.

First of all, he definitely cannot go there in person and must act in spirit form.

In this way, no matter what situation he encounters, he has a trump card to return to the Hall of Stars, which ensures that he will not be caught.

Secondly, he must hide from the Beyonders guarding the Russell Memorial Exhibition and sneak inside secretly.

Klein used the method of setting fire to the house to attract attention.

Maybe I can pass the corresponding rules to prevent those extraordinary people from discovering me. With the help of secret authority, it is very feasible.

If you can distort the sight of extraordinary people so that they can't see themselves.

Maybe, he could even walk past them with swagger.

Then, comes the critical moment to steal the Black Emperor's card.

Once he takes that bookmark away, it will definitely trigger the defense measures there and attract the attention of the Extraordinary.

He is not sure whether the defense measures can be prevented from being initiated by formulating corresponding rules.

If he could prevent the defensive measures from taking effect, then he estimated that no one would find out from the time he got the Black Emperor card to the time he left the Russell Memorial Exhibition.

Hastur thought for a moment and took out his two extraordinary items.

One is a bell that enhances the effect of the rules, and the other is the war emblem.

He has asked Sharon to help find someone to identify it, and he already knows its usefulness.

There are three main extraordinary functions:

First, it can form a set of war armor all over the body, giving it good frontal defense.

Second, it can materialize into a two-handed sword, which is extremely powerful.

Third, it can form a blood-red vortex around you, similar to a war field. Once touched, it can deprive living beings of their blood and vitality.

According to Sharon's estimation, if this sealed artifact falls into the hands of someone who is good at fighting, it can exert the power of a level 1 sealed artifact.

Powerful sealed objects are naturally accompanied by frightening negative effects.

There are two main points to note:

1 Once worn for more than ten minutes, it will continue to absorb the wearer's blood. If it is not taken off quickly, it will gradually drain the wearer's blood.

2. Too strong aura of battlefield killing will affect a person's sanity. Once used for a long time, the wearer's sanity will gradually be eroded, and finally become a monster who only knows killing.

Overall, this is a very powerful extraordinary item, very suitable for use in combat.

It's just that he doesn't get along well with him. As a noble, he rarely takes risks, let alone fights with others.

Even Sharon felt that this war emblem was a bit of a secret in his hand.

"Let's practice the spirit state first."

Hastur put away his distracting thoughts, closed the study door and the windows tightly.

Then he closed his eyes and concentrated for a while before trying to let the spirit body leave the physical body.

That feeling of lightness, as if you were about to fly away, enveloped your whole body.

Hastur floated to the desk and wrapped himself around the war emblem. He suddenly felt his whole body getting hot, as if a flame was spreading.

The originally light and airy feeling has become heavy, like wearing a suit of armor.

Hastur tried walking around the study a few times, and also tried to blend into the ceiling and penetrate directly into the room on the third floor.

No one lives here, and there is no accumulation of debris. It looks very empty.

Hastur flew out of the door of the room on the third floor and flew back and forth around the corridor on the third floor to feel the speed of the spirit body.

When he was about to pass the house where the golden box was hidden, he hurriedly stopped again, always feeling that it was better not to get close to it in his spiritual state.

Hastur changed direction and returned to the original room. He followed the floor back to the study on the second floor and saw his own body.

The spirit body flew over, dropped the war emblem, and then merged into the physical body.

There is a slight burning sensation and a cold, probably because the effect of the war emblem has not completely faded.

The spiritual power is not depleted much, and after a little rest, it will return to normal soon.

There is no problem with the manipulation of spiritual bodies. The problem now is how to test whether the rules and secret authority that we have formulated can hide from the detection of those extraordinary people.

There are only ordinary people like Butler Neil and others in the house, so there is no use hiding it from them.

"It seems we still need help from Maric or Sharon."

……

The next day, as Hastur was about to go out, Earl Richard from next door came to visit.

After a few words of greeting, Hastur invited him to sit down and prepared a cup of Marquis black tea for him.

Earl Richard looked slightly embarrassed and said: "I came to visit today mainly because I want to learn some occult knowledge about dreams."

It’s the so-called god in dreams again.

Earl Richard, are you not at all alarmed by this situation?

Hastur no longer wanted to complain about how outrageous Earl Richard was, if the so-called divine apparition disturbed him every night when he slept.

He will definitely try his best to drive this so-called god out of his dream. He can't always let him dictate to him.

Hastur thought for a while and felt that he needed to exaggerate the danger a little, so that Earl Richard would understand that the value of life lies in staying away from gods.

"Earl Richard, have you ever heard of the story of the devil in the dream?"

"No."

"I'll tell you if I have time."

Hastur laughed. He was making up this story casually. It would be a ghost if Earl Richard had heard of it.

"It is said that a long time ago, there was a man who often dreamed at night. In his dream, there was a kind and kind figure who patiently taught him how to deal with various things."

"With the help of that figure, the man's life became better and better. Not only did he make a lot of money, he also married a wife and gave birth to a precious son."

"Just when the man was grateful to that figure, fate began to demand payment."

"First, the man's wife died in childbirth while giving birth to her second child. Neither mother nor child could be saved, then his first son, and finally himself. The whole family died tragically one after another, and no one was spared."

"And that figure just left this man's dream, and then went to the next unlucky person chosen, and then a series of tragedies happened."

Hastur felt that he had made his words very clear. If Earl Richard was still so hopeless, he could only wish him good luck.

Earl Richard showed great interest in the demon in the dream, and seemed not to notice at all that his symptoms were very similar to those of the victim in this story.

In response, Hastur sighed and told him to eat well and drink well during the recent period, and then go on a good journey.

Earl Richard thought for a while and said: "You just said a long time ago, when did that happen?"

"..."

Hastur took a deep look at Earl Richard, and after confirming that he was not joking with him, he even stopped sighing.

The two chatted for an hour, and before leaving, Earl Richard warmly invited Hastur to go to his house for a party in a few days.

Regarding such an invitation, Hastur just smiled and said: "If you have time."

"Baron Campbell, I have always felt that we are very destined."

"I'm feeling it too."

After seeing off Earl Richard, Butler Neil came over, holding a luxurious-looking invitation in his hand.

"Lord Baron, Duke Negan will hold a grand ball at his mansion in Queens in five days."

Hastur sat on the sofa, took the invitation casually, and asked curiously: "Are there many nobles attending?"

"There are many. All the nobles who can be counted are basically on the invitation list."

"That's it. It was really a grand event."

Hasta played with the invitation in his hand with a smile, already having a guess in his mind.

If there were no accidents, Zillinges should have assassinated Duke Negan at this dance. In the end, Miss Audrey's early vigilance exposed the assassination plan, which led to the failure of the assassination plan.

"It seems that before the ball comes, I need to meet Miss Audrey and discuss the matter of Qilingers together."

Hastur still felt that it would be better to complete this matter with Audrey.

If he told Greg unilaterally, it would easily arouse suspicion, so he would give this opportunity to Audrey.

She takes the bounty on the surface and takes Duke Negan’s invisible political resources for herself.

"After Audrey exposes Chillinges, I will tell Greco immediately. This way, I can achieve the situation I want."

Hastur thought for a moment and felt that this method was feasible.

Speaking of which, I would also like to thank this Qilingos for helping him improve his favorability.

Zillings is such a good guy.