Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

The pirate crew of "Iceberg Admiral" not only had Edwina as a Sequence 5, but also three Sequence 6s, which was the strength of a "Pirate General."

Generally speaking, large pirate crews only have a captain who is Sequence 6, and at most a first mate who is also Sequence 6. It's rare to see a third Sequence 6, because that would make the captain feel insecure.

However, the "Sword of Dawn" pirate crew in front of Edwina was an exception, with three Sequence 6s.

The first mate of the "Golden Dream," Brew Walls, said, "No wonder they've eliminated three large pirate crews in just two or three weeks at sea. It turns out it's because of their strength."

Edwina slowly nodded: "Be careful of their attacks."

It's still possible that "Captain Gahr" is assassinating "Iceberg Admiral" on this island after making sufficient preparations. After all, eliminating a "Pirate General" is the quickest way to become one.

......

On the other side, the exploration of the "Sword of Dawn" pirate crew continued.

Boatswain Sarina sighed: "'Iceberg Admiral' is very beautiful, and... and she reminds me of my grammar teacher."

Crew member Boris couldn't help but tear off the tape on his mouth and ask: "You went to school?"

Sarina glared at him: "What? Can't I go to school?"

"I'm just a little surprised, I feel..." At this point, Boris quickly re-stuck the tape, because if he continued, Sarina would hit him.

Audis, who was walking in front, smiled and said, "I heard that 'Iceberg Admiral's' pathway is like that, she likes to be other people's teacher."

Sarina was stunned: "Isn't she afraid of being beaten?"

First mate Rupert laughed: "At sea, how many people can beat her?"

Sarina nodded: "That's right."

Then she realized: "Captain, how do you know the extraordinary pathway of 'Iceberg Admiral'?"

"Look at their flag," Audis said, "It has symbols of books and eyes. If these two symbols appear at the same time, it basically points to the 'Reader' pathway."

Sarina suddenly understood: "So our flag also has the symbol of eyes, but no symbol of books, which represents the 'Seer' pathway."

"So, the 'Dawn of Elements' flag also has eyes, and the 'Mystic Queen' is also an extraordinary being of the 'Seer' pathway?"

Audis smiled: "That's right."

At this time, Bazel in front separated the lush vegetation in front, and a ruin almost completely covered by green appeared in front of them.

At this time, they had found the east side of the island, and "Iceberg Admiral" and her crew should have landed from this direction.

Audis said: "It seems their goal is indeed not this ruin."

"Since we're here, let's go inside and take a look, and take a break by the way."

The ruins were also full of vegetation, but fortunately, the previous adventurers had cleared out a lot of roads.

The group strolled through the ruins, feeling the ancient atmosphere here.

Soon they discovered that the city was somewhat tilted, as if it were built on a mound.

After passing through two ancient streets, they found that there were still two buildings that were relatively well-preserved, and it seemed that previous explorers had cleaned them up and used them as camps.

Audis and others entered one of the ruins to take a look: "Judging from the architectural style, this should be a ruin from the Third Epoch."

Third mate Beavis, the only crew member who studied this, said: "It's a pity that those symbols and murals can't be recognized, otherwise we could further determine who this ruin belongs to."

While speaking, the group came to the third floor of the building.

This was a relatively high place in the surrounding area, and they could overlook the entire street.

Audis saw that many buildings had obvious asymmetrical styles in terms of appearance.

Beavis also noticed this: "There are also buildings from the Fourth Epoch here?"

"It seems to be a city built in the Third Epoch, but still inhabited in the Fourth Epoch," Audis said, then he looked around: "Have you noticed? There is no church here."

Only then did everyone notice after Audis said this that there was indeed no place like a church in the ruins.

This was a bit strange. Whether it was a city in the Third Epoch or the Fourth Epoch, there should be a church.

Continuing upwards, when they reached the top floor, their vision could skip the canopy and see most of the island.

Audis noticed that the ruins were not built on a mound. The surrounding area was a plain, and only a mountain was in the distance.

The low-lying direction of the ruins seemed to be trapped in a pit.

Audis suddenly understood: "It's not that the ruins are high and low, but that part of the ruins is buried underground."

Rupert also joined the conversation: "Was there an earthquake?"

Audis looked around: "It doesn't look like it. If there was an earthquake, many buildings around should have completely collapsed."

But the situation in front of them was that although these ruins were covered by vegetation, most of them had not collapsed too seriously.

Third mate Beavis was a little puzzled: "Why would this happen?"

Audis didn't continue to discuss this issue, but pointed in a direction and said: "According to the city design style of the Third Epoch, the church should be in that direction and also buried underground."

Sarina looked in the direction the captain pointed: "That's the direction 'Iceberg Admiral' and the others just went."

Everyone looked at each other and immediately understood that 'Iceberg Admiral's' goal was likely the buried church.

They landed from the east side and searched slower than the "Sword of Dawn", possibly because they came to these ruins, determined the location of the church, and then set off again.

The crew members were not surprised by this. Generally speaking, the church is not only a place for prayer, but also can be regarded as the "Extraordinary Center" of a city.

Although there was no systematic official extraordinary system in the Fourth Epoch, the extraordinary people of the church at that time were stationed in the church.

Therefore, in the ruins, the church is a very important existence, where extraordinary characteristics or magical items are likely to be found.

"Iceberg Admiral" must have obtained clues and the approximate location of the church, so she is conducting today's exploration.

"Let's take a break," Audis sat down on a fallen stone pillar: "Noy, help me divine which direction the extraordinary creature I'm looking for is in."

Noy agreed, took off her pendant, closed her eyes and silently recited the divination words, then opened her eyes and saw that the pendant was slowly rotating non-stop.

She said: "The divination failed."

"It seems to have anti-divination ability," Audis smiled helplessly: "I can only rely on luck."

If he really couldn't find it, he would have to write a letter to the "Mystic Queen" and ask her if she had a solution.

Audis pondered for a moment before saying: "You guys rest here for a while, I suddenly thought of a way, I'll go try it."

With that, he flew into the air with a "Flight Scroll" and then took out the "Pituitary Gland of the Deceitful Pegasus" from the "Knowledge Wilderness".

Although the Sequence 5 level does not have much power of "Extraordinary Aggregation", the "Gleaming Star Tree" will definitely be attracted by the "Pituitary Gland of the Deceitful Pegasus".

Because it can also complete its advancement by devouring such main materials, another main material of the potion has a huge attraction for such extraordinary creatures.

Audis flew in the low air of the forest, holding the extraordinary material in his hand, while carefully observing the surroundings.

Suddenly, the "Pituitary Gland" in Audis's hand flew to the ground by itself. He smiled, obviously the "Gleaming Star Tree" was nearby and was manipulating the "Pituitary Gland" to approach it.

Audis let the "Pituitary Gland" fly in front of him, while he followed closely behind.

Suddenly, the "Pituitary Gland" fell straight down. Audis chased down until the "Pituitary Gland" fell to the ground, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Audis realized that the "Gleaming Star Tree" must have sensed the danger and abandoned the "Pituitary Gland".

Audis didn't find it surprising. Even if it was "a tree", it also "has a brain" at this level.

Maybe after realizing the danger, it would deliberately throw the "Pituitary Gland" out to make it difficult for Audis to find it.

Audis put away the "Pituitary Gland of the Deceitful Pegasus". For him, it was enough to find the approximate location of the "Gleaming Star Tree".

He returned to the air again, put on the "Hand of Judgment" and "Harvest Gauntlets", took out a few "Explosion Scrolls" from his satchel, and threw them one by one towards the surrounding forest under his feet.

Boom~ Boom~

The crew members resting in the ruins quickly went to check after hearing the explosion. Seeing that it was the captain throwing scrolls, they sat back down to rest again.

They already knew something about the captain's scrolls and were not surprised. Since the captain didn't order them to help, they didn't need to actively seek it out.

"Iceberg Admiral" and others who had just found the location of the church immediately became vigilant.

What's wrong? Is the 'Argo' firing shells on the island?

"Iceberg Admiral" quickly flew up to check. After watching for a while, she returned to the ground with a strange expression: "Gahr is hunting with 'scrolls'."

"Scrolls?" First mate Olfers thought he had misheard: "Can scrolls have such power?"

But he immediately realized that his question seemed to be questioning the captain, so he changed his words: "It seems that this 'Captain Gahr's' scrolls are special."

Edwina nodded: "They are indeed special."

Then, she commanded: "First mate, take some men and climb into the treetops. As soon as Gahr gets close, give an immediate warning. The rest of you, keep digging."

Those scrolls are very powerful. If Gahr throws a few scrolls around in mid-air, it will definitely cause considerable casualties.

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When Odis threw the fifth scroll, he saw a lush vine suddenly "stand up" from a large tree and "run" behind the tree to avoid the explosion.

That's it!

Odis used the "Travel Ring" to teleport in front of the large tree, and struck out with his right hand, which held the "Harvest Gauntlet."

Crack~

The towering tree was cut in half, and the "vine" that had been hiding behind it was also sent flying.

In mid-air, the vine's shape changed, turning into a small tree. This tree had star-like patterns connected together, and it flickered as it was sent flying, like stars blinking.

And the roots of this tree were more like tentacles, moving swiftly on the ground after it landed.

That was the "Glimmering Starwood Tree."

The previous vine was just a disguise of the "Glimmering Starwood Tree."

After seeing the starlight flickering on the tree, Odis suddenly had a kind of illusion, as if the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and the night was about to arrive early.

The "Glimmering Starwood Tree" seemed very far away from Odis all of a sudden, as far away as the stars in the sky.

This should be some kind of illusion. Odis used the "Harvest Gauntlet" to ignite walls of fire around him, instantly setting the surrounding dense forest ablaze.

The fire illuminated the surroundings, and although the "Glimmering Starwood Tree" was a mystical creature, it was still a tree after all. Upon seeing the fire, it immediately used its "roots" to flee.

The "feeling of night" and "feeling of distance" immediately disappeared.

Odis raised his hand and summoned a group of fire crows again, bombarding the "Glimmering Starwood Tree" with a storm of attacks.

The starlight around the "Glimmering Starwood Tree" flickered, using its mystical abilities to stir up gusts of wind around it, which always blew the fire crows away as they approached.

Odis once again used the "Travel Ring" to appear behind the "Glimmering Starwood Tree", raised the "Hand of Judgment": "Imprison!" "Death!"

He punched it, sending the "Glimmering Starwood Tree" flying again.

Because of the lessons learned from the last hunt, Odis rushed forward, stepped on the "Glimmering Starwood Tree", and punched it again with the "Harvest Gauntlet."

Harvest!

He directly broke the tree into two pieces.

The "Glimmering Starwood Tree" immediately stopped moving, but Odis continued to stand aside, ready to strike again at any moment.

It wasn't until the stars on the "Glimmering Starwood Tree" converged towards one location that Odis knew that the other party was indeed dead.

So, he put the entire tree into the "Wilderness of Knowledge."

Flying into the air again, Odis used two "Whirlwind Scrolls" to extinguish the fire in the forest, and returned to the ruins where he had been resting. Odis said to everyone: "I'll treat everyone to barbecue tonight!"

Sarina immediately said: "Yay!"

Odis had once barbecued meat for everyone, and the taste made Sarina's mouth water just thinking about it now.

Everyone knew that the captain had successfully hunted, and they all responded with smiles, one saying he would cut the meat, and another saying he would start the fire.

Afterwards, the crew chatted and laughed while resting for more than half an hour.

Anyway, there was nothing important to do today, so everyone searched around like they were on a picnic, and after hunting another mystical creature, they began to hunt ordinary animals.

They were all Beyonders, so hunting ordinary animals was as easy as pie. They quickly caught some pheasants and rabbits, and also hunted a wild boar and a deer.

The group, full of harvest, embarked on their return journey, but Odis couldn't just go back like this, so he led the crew back towards the ship, roughly in the direction of the church.

Their ship was indeed in this direction, and they could also return from here, so it wouldn't arouse suspicion.

The group was walking back, talking and laughing, when Odis, who was at the front, suddenly stopped and looked up, saying: "Are those subordinates of 'Vice Admiral Iceberg' ahead?"

A few dozen meters ahead, Bru Walls, the first mate of the 'Golden Dream', parted the canopy and jumped down from above: "What are you doing here?"

"We're going back to the ship," Odis said. "Do you want us to leave you two pheasants?"

But he obviously didn't plan to leave any. Before the other party could answer, he paused again and asked: "What are you doing up in the tree?"

Bru thought to himself: Isn't it to prevent you from flying over and throwing scrolls.

But in the end, he just said faintly: "Keeping watch."

Without error, one first, one hair, one inside, one capacity, one at a glance!

Then Bru pointed out a direction: "Leave in that direction."

The members of the 'Dawn Sword' all guessed that behind Bru should be the location of the church, and at this time 'Vice Admiral Iceberg' should be leading the crew to excavate the church.

Just as the crew was about to leave, Odis suddenly said: "I'm curious, is that church a church of the 'Ancient Sun God'? Or a church of the 'True Creator'?"

Bru was stunned for a moment before saying: "This is not something you should know."

This caused the crew members of the 'Argo' to put down their prey one after another and glare at the first mate of the 'Golden Dream'.

Out of politeness, they could go in the direction pointed out by Bru to provide them with convenience.

But Bru's answer was a bit too much. He could have said he didn't know, or wasn't sure, or even refused to answer, but saying "It's not something you should ask about" was too arrogant.

Odis raised his hand to tell everyone not to act rashly. He sneered: "Then I'll wait on the sea and go to the church to take a look after you leave."

"Looking at how unprofessional you are, you won't be able to find anything important."

Bru Walls clenched his fist, and the muscles on his arms suddenly bulged, as if they were full of power.

Odis also put on the black glove again. Bru was stunned for a moment, and immediately said in a relatively polite tone: "Sorry, I'm not very clear about your question just now."

He was a "Craftsman", and Sequence 7 of this pathway was "Appraiser". The moment Odis put on the glove, he sensed that it was a Sealed Artifact at the Sequence 5 level.

Pirates may be cruel, or arrogant, or unethical, but they are practical.

Odis also immediately put on a smiling face: "Okay, then I won't bother you."

"Wait a moment." At this time, 'Vice Admiral Iceberg' parted the dense shrubs on the ground and walked out from behind: "Since you're so interested, let's go take a look together."

Not only were Basel and the others stunned, but Bru was also stunned.

This invitation was somewhat hasty, or rather, according to the rules between pirates, a pirate crew would almost never actively invite another pirate crew to join when exploring ruins.

Unless they encountered a problem that they couldn't solve during the exploration.

Odis smiled slightly and agreed: "Okay."

Then he said to the crew: "You guys go back first, I'll go take a look."

As he spoke, Odis took off his glove.

The crew members didn't go back immediately. Basel had Bives take Noe and Boris to send the prey back, and the remaining members waited here.

Odis didn't force them, threw a bottle of insect repellent essential oil to the crew, and then came to 'Vice Admiral Iceberg': "I often explore ruins, maybe I can provide you with help."

"If I obtain certain spoils because of the help I provide, then I should also have the right to share the spoils."

"If I don't provide any help, I won't want any spoils."

'Vice Admiral Iceberg' Edwina nodded: "Okay."

Then she said to Bru: "You go down too, Orpheus will take your place on watch."

The three of them turned back together, and after walking for a minute or two, they arrived at the trench dug by 'Vice Admiral Iceberg's' subordinates.

The top of the church was still exposed on the ground. After digging open the top of the church, they could enter from here.

'Vice Admiral Iceberg' didn't rush to let Odis enter the trench, but asked first: "Why do you say this is a church of the 'Ancient Sun God' or the 'True Creator'?"

Odis replied: "In the ruins just now, there were buildings from the Third Epoch and buildings from the Fourth Epoch."

"This shows that this city existed in the Third Epoch. During the Third Epoch, only the 'Ancient Sun God' dared to build churches openly in the North and South Continents."

"During the Fourth Epoch, the 'Six Gods' and the 'Nether Sovereign', who is also the 'God of Death', would not build churches here."

The Six Gods at that time had their own kingdoms of God. The only 'Lord of Storms' who might have built a church on the sea did not have his kingdom of God here back then.

The 'God of Death' only built churches in the South Continent, and the architecture in that ruin was clearly not in the style of the South Continent.

At that time, only the 'True Creator' might have built a church in such a place.

'Vice Admiral Iceberg' nodded: "It seems you have rich knowledge of mysticism, please go down."

Odis didn't think much, came to the side of the trench. After the top of the church was dug open, Odis was faced with a huge, downward hole.

He waved to the pirates who handed over the rope, and then used a "Flying Scroll" to fly down himself.

Although the church was buried in the soil, it was almost undamaged. It was pitch black inside, with only the brazier set up by 'Vice Admiral Iceberg's' subordinates, and the lanterns they held in their hands, providing light.

Odis noticed that the pirates were holding lanterns and searching separately in the church, wondering what they were looking for?

He landed on the ground, and Edwina and Bru followed suit. Only then did "Iceberg General" say, "During the exploration just now, someone triggered the extraordinary mechanism here and closed the portal to the lower level.

"Jodeson and several other members are still on the lower level. Bru, find the mechanism to open the passage as soon as possible."

Bru was a "Craftsman" and was familiar with mechanisms. Just now, "Iceberg General" had taken First Mate Olfers to replace Chief Mate Bru, so he could find the mechanism. He happened to hear Audis's question.

Audis seemed to know a lot about ancient ruins, so "Iceberg General" decided to bring Audis along to see if he could help.

Then, "Iceberg General" said to Audis, "You can walk around and see if you can find any clues."

Audis nodded, "Okay."

He thought to himself that "Iceberg General" seemed cold, but she was very rigorous in her work. After repeatedly confirming that he had rich knowledge of mysticism on the tunnel above, she explained the problems they encountered after coming down.

Because when they were above, "Iceberg General's" manpower was limited, and the Third Mate's life and death were still uncertain.

But Audis could summon his crew to attack "Iceberg General" and the others.

After arriving underground, Audis was left alone, and "Iceberg General's" subordinates were basically all here. Even if Audis had any ideas, he would not dare to act rashly.

"Iceberg General" took Chief Mate Bru to the passage. Audis did not follow, but first glanced at the inside of the hall. There were no statues or signs there!

Audis frowned. Theoretically, if it was a church of the "Ancient Sun God," there should be a huge cross here.

If it was a church of the "True Creator," there should be an upside-down person on the cross, but there was nothing. How could he judge?

Audis pondered for a moment and said to the pirate beside him, "I'll use the lantern."

"Iceberg General" also sent two pirates to follow behind Audis.

Without waiting for the pirate to answer, Audis picked up the lantern and flew up again. As he expected, there were still some incomplete murals on the high ceiling of the church.

The two pirates below could only stare blankly. The "guest" had flown up, so how could they follow?

Holding the lantern, Audis saw that one of the murals depicted tall and majestic mountains, and at the top of the mountains was a cross that could be described as towering.

He immediately made a judgment: this was a church of the "Ancient Sun God."

After the fall of the "Ancient Sun God," Adam likely took over here.

At that time, the divinity of the "Ancient Sun God" had already awakened in Adam's body. Audis guessed that he removed the huge cross to prevent the prayers of believers from directly pointing to "God," making "God" more active.

Audis landed on the ground again and went to observe the entrance of the passage.

Soon he found some mystical characters around the entrance of the passage. These characters were neither "Ancient Giant Language" nor "Ancient Dragon Language," but a kind of mystical symbol that Audis had never seen before.

But soon he distinguished that these symbols should be symbols used by ancient humans, because some of the symbols were quite similar to modern mystical symbols.

Audis guessed that these should be some symbols commonly used in the Third Epoch, with similar functions to "Ancient Giant Language" and "Ancient Dragon Language," but later, because the truly advanced magic arrays were lost, these symbols were also simplified into modern mystical symbols.

Although Audis saw the symbols at the entrance of the passage for the first time, their positions were similar to the corresponding symbols of the Abraham family's ruins and some secret doors in the "Underwater City."

Based on his previous exploration experience, Audis could basically guess the location of the mechanism to open this passage.

Then, Audis guessed that this kind of design was still a relatively common structure until the Fourth Epoch.

Later, the function of the magic array seemed to be weakened in a premeditated way, and this kind of mechanism that used magic arrays as switches gradually faded out of people's sight.

He saw that Bru was still measuring the ground and walls around the passage, so he said, "Let me try."

Bru was stunned and looked at "Iceberg General." Edwina pondered for a moment and said, "Please."

Audis took out spiritual materials and a soft brush and began to draw a magic array on the wall.

This magic array was similar to the magic array used in the "Underwater City" before, which was equivalent to bypassing the password lock in the mechanism and setting a new password lock himself.

His movements were very smooth and natural. In less than half a minute, a small magic array was drawn.

This made many pirates around swallow their saliva. They couldn't help but guess, how many lessons and how much practice did it take to draw so quickly and so well?

"Iceberg General" was stunned for a few seconds before saying, "This magic array is very peculiar. I have never seen many of the mystical symbols used."

The magic array drawn by Audis used "Gael Runes."

According to the conclusion he obtained from his previous research, no matter what kind of mystical characters are used, the functional difference of the written magic array is not significant, and these symbols can be used universally except for the key positions of the magic array.

The other crew members were stunned. They did not expect that even the captain did not recognize these symbols!

For a moment, they even felt a little horrified.

Audis just smiled and said, "I have been studying magic arrays for many years."

He thought to himself: plus the "time acceleration" in the "Knowledge Wilderness," it has been about 20 years. In the future, I can introduce myself as having started studying magic arrays at the age of three.

"Iceberg General" just nodded slowly and said nothing, but Audis noticed that the way she looked at him was no longer as indifferent as before.

Audis put away the soft brush and spiritual materials, and then injected spirituality into the magic array.

Clatter ~

The mechanism then started, and the downward passage opened just like that, but the Third Mate Jodeson and other crew members were not waiting on the downward steps.

Bru said, "They may have gone to explore whether there are other exits."

"There should be some danger below," Edwina said. "Bru, you stay here. Daniels, take five crew members and come down with me."

Then she looked at Audis again: "Gael, you are not my crew member. I can't order you, but I hope you can come with me."

"No problem," Audis smiled. "I will not refuse the spoils that are delivered to my door."

He seemed to be reminding Edwina to remember the previous agreement on the spoils, which indeed made her feel at ease about him.

Because at this time, if Audis didn't mention any conditions, it would seem a little strange.

In a state of emergency, the few people prepared briefly and entered the next level together.

Below the stairs was a long corridor. There were rooms on both sides of the corridor, as well as horizontal corridors, which was a not small space.

Because there might be unknown dangers, they couldn't shout, so they could only search the corridors one by one.

After searching for a while, Audis said, "I don't think we need to search anymore. We have been acting on this level for so long. If they were on this level, they should have heard our voices long ago."

Edwina nodded and immediately ordered, "Go to the next level."

Then, while walking forward, Edwina asked as if testing Audis, "Do you know the structure of a Third Epoch church?"

"I know," Audis said. "Upper temple, lower tomb."

"The next level should be the tomb."

If there is danger, it is basically in the next level.