Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

Facing Miss Elinore's sudden attack and the tense atmosphere, Audiss was not flustered: "I was just curious and went to the village that was burned down twenty years ago. That shouldn't be Miss Elinore's home, right?"

Elinore looked at Audiss for a few seconds before saying, "That used to be my home."

Audiss took the initiative and said, "But it was destroyed by an accidental fire, wasn't it?"

He noticed that when Elinore spoke, the surrounding servants were all cautious and dared not speak. Even Brad, the owner of the castle, did not dare to join the conversation between the two.

"It wasn't an accident!" Elinore suddenly took a deep breath and said, "Someone deliberately set the fire, they wanted to burn me to death! They wanted to burn me to death!"

Brad looked terrified: "Oh my god, there was such a thing."

"Fortunately, fortunately you escaped."

Elinore returned to her beautiful smile: "Yes, fortunately I escaped."

Audiss noticed that the surrounding atmosphere was finally not as tense as it had been.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Elinore suddenly asked, "You are a wizard, right?"

Audiss smiled: "Just know a few tricks."

"Brad said your witchcraft is very powerful."

Audiss laughed and said, "No matter how powerful witchcraft is, it's just witchcraft."

Elinore nodded: "That's right."

Then she stared straight at Audiss: "This afternoon, did your investigation yield any results?"

Seeing that beautiful gaze, Audiss suddenly felt his brain go blank: "There are results..."

He was surprised to find that he wanted to tell this person all the results he had investigated.

Her charming eyes were mesmerizing, and her beautiful face made his heart flutter. Audiss felt that he couldn't bear to deceive such a beautiful girl.

But Audiss's heart was ringing alarm bells. He knew that this woman had a problem, definitely had a problem.

So Audiss paused for a moment and tried to look away. Just completing this action made him sweat profusely.

At this time, Elinore suddenly stood up. Some of the surrounding servants took out dining knives, while others casually picked up decorations such as vases around them as weapons and slowly approached Audiss.

Audiss realized the danger and quickly put on the black glove he named "Hand of Judgment" (Note 1). Instantly, a faint majesty emanated from his body.

Elinore was slightly stunned, sat down again, and the surrounding servants slowly retreated and returned to their positions.

With the help of the glove, Audiss dared to look at Elinore again.

"My... my investigation result is that everything is normal here," Audiss said with a forced smile.

After learning that Elinore was not a ghost, Audiss guessed that she was a Beyonder of the 'Death' pathway, but just now he realized that he had guessed wrong, and terribly wrong!

Elinore also smiled: "That's really a reassuring result."

As she spoke, she looked at Brad on the side. The Earl, who had been in a daze, seemed to suddenly come back to his senses: "That's great, I can finally be with Miss Elinore with peace of mind."

Audiss suddenly stood up and said, "Sorry, I don't have a very good appetite, so I won't have dinner."

Then he said to Brad, "The investigation here is over, and I will leave early tomorrow morning."

He was actually saying this to Elinore. He knew that Elinore, under the pressure of the "Hand of Judgment" glove, did not intend to attack him immediately.

So Audiss took the initiative to admit defeat, hoping to delay time further.

After speaking, Audiss returned to his room on the second floor.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and looked at his pocket watch. It was only 6:20.

Then, while paying attention to the situation outside, Audiss thought about what pathway Elinore was a Beyonder of.

Judging from Elinore's performance just now, she should be a Beyonder of the "Witch" pathway, but why were the servants controlled by Elinore?

Suddenly, Audiss recalled the unsettling symbol on the altar on the top of the mountain. He guessed that Elinore's strange ability should be related to that symbol to some extent. (Note: 2)

Rumble~

A huge sound suddenly came from the mountain. Audiss quickly looked out the window. It was already dark, but Audiss could still vaguely see a cloud of dust rising on the road leading from the castle to the outside world.

He immediately had a bad premonition.

Knock knock knock~

Soon there was a knock on the door.

Audiss asked, "Who is it?"

"Mr. Wizard, it's me."

The voice was the head male servant. He said, "Mr. Brad asked me to tell you that there was a sudden landslide just now, and it is temporarily impossible to leave from here. We can only ask you to stay here for a few more days."

Audiss replied with a gloomy face, "I know."

His first thought was that Elinore had learned that he had requested assistance from the official Beyonders, so she blocked the road to prevent the official Beyonders from arriving.

But Audiss thought about it. Those were official Beyonders, not eighty-year-old grandmothers. Even if a landslide occurred and blocked the road, they would immediately abandon their vehicles and rush to support at the fastest speed.

It would only be ten or twenty minutes later than expected.

If Elinore wanted to delay time, she should have attacked immediately after the landslide.

But she didn't rush up to fight, she just told him that a landslide had occurred.

So Audiss believed that Elinore's move was just to prevent him from escaping.

But a new question came up, why did she want to keep him?

After thinking it over, Audiss believed that it might be because he was a Beyonder. Audiss had heard Max say that some followers of evil gods not only like to use ordinary people as sacrifices, but they also prefer to use Beyonders with stronger spirituality as sacrifices.

Audiss smiled helplessly. Originally, he thought he was just here to eliminate a vengeful spirit or a ghost, but he didn't expect that the situation would completely escape his control.

While thinking, Audiss took off his wide wizard robe, revealing the knight's outfit inside that was easier to move around in.

But Audiss did not take off his hat. He could feel that because he was wearing the "Hand of Judgment", he had lost a lot of hair again. He used his hat to hold those hairs in place to prevent them from falling and being used by others.

At the same time, Audiss changed a few more extraordinary weapons that he had taken out before. Originally, all the preparations he had made were to deal with Beyonders of the "Death" pathway, but the problem was that the opponent was not a Beyonder of this pathway.

After making preparations, Audiss planned to jump out of the window and leave to meet up with the official Beyonders.

If Elinore chased after him, that would be even better. Audiss could turn around and give her a head-on blow after meeting up with the official Beyonders.

Knock knock knock~

Just then, there was another knock on the door outside.

Audiss ignored it. Just as he opened the window and was about to jump down, Brad's voice came from outside: "Mr. Wizard, it's me! Open the door quickly, I have something very important to talk to you about."

Audiss was slightly stunned, pulled out his sword with one hand, and opened the door with the other.

Brad quickly entered the door with a terrified look and said, "I saw everything just now! I heard everything too!"

"The owner here has become Elinore, and the servants are all following her orders..."

Audiss looked coldly at the Earl. In the afternoon, he had noticed that the head male servant seemed to have a problem, so he did not let the head male servant report to "Mechanical Heart" and told the head male servant that he had not discovered anything.

Just now he had clearly felt that everyone in the entire castle had a problem and had become Elinore's eyes and ears and puppets.

Brad saw Audiss's expression and suddenly realized something. He quickly took out a pendant with the "Holy Emblem of the Night" from his clothes: "I have this!"

He said: "This was given to me by a priest of the Church of the Night, saying that it can help me resist some disasters and the bewitchment of evil."

"Today I realized that it was this pendant that has kept me in a trace of sanity."

"From just now on, I have been pretending to have become a puppet, but I have never lost my mind."

Audiss glanced at the pendant and smiled: "I didn't expect you to have such a trick up your sleeve."

Brad asked: "What should we do?"

"What else can we do?" Audiss spread his hands and said: "I am not Elinore's opponent, so I plan to run away overnight."

"Please be sure to take me with you!" Brad said: "If you can take me out of here, I will definitely reward you handsomely."

Audiss said: "It's already very difficult for me to escape on my own..."

"800 pounds!"

"Okay, Mr. Earl." Audiss smiled: "I have a way to get you out of here with me!"

Brad breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great."

Audiss suddenly said: "How about we go to Miss Elinore's village and hide?"

Brad was a little surprised: "Why go there?"

"Emperor Rosell said that many times the most dangerous place is the safest place." Audiss smiled.

In fact, he wanted to use this method to attract Elinore's attention and continue to delay time.

Brad nodded: "The Emperor's wisdom is always admirable."

"Let's go." After Audiss finished speaking, he put on his backpack, sprinkled a handful of powder, grabbed Brad's collar, and jumped out of the window.

Brad opened his mouth and screamed again and again. Just as they were about to fall to the ground, Audiss suddenly strode forward and walked leisurely, the two of them flying towards the forest like they were drawing a beautiful parabola.

In the castle, Elinore quietly watched all this. The corners of her mouth suddenly turned up, revealing a smile.

On the other side, Audiss led Brad quickly into the woods, heading towards the summit.

Soon, a thin mist rose in the forest, but the two men did not slow down, rushing towards the top of the mountain.

After running for more than ten minutes, Brad, panting heavily, reached out and leaned against a tree, saying, "Wait, wait…"

Audiss looked back: "You can't run anymore?"

"No… …it's not that," Brad said, gasping for breath, "Haven't you noticed? We're lost."

Audiss smiled: "Let's go, we're not lost."

Brad pointed to the branch in front of him: "I've seen that tree three times…"

Pa~

Something suddenly fell and hit his outstretched arm.

Brad looked down and saw that it seemed to be a shoe.

Immediately afterward, he suddenly looked up and saw a corpse hanging above his head, missing a shoe, swaying in the breeze, as if dancing a strange dance.

Note 1: Uh, this Sealed Artifact has been renamed.

Note 2: The setting is that Audiss has only read "Lord of the Mysteries" and has not read "Circle of Inevitability", so he doesn't know the information about "Endowers".