Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

After drinking the potion, Audis felt as if he had been thrown into the depths of the universe, as if he was drifting further and further away from the real world.

Audis looked around, but there was nothing there, and an unprecedented sense of powerlessness filled his heart.

At this moment, in the distance in front of Audis, a cluster of brilliant colors suddenly appeared.

Audis seemed to wake up abruptly, "recalling" that he was currently advancing, and instantly regained himself.

He stared at the brilliant light, using all his strength to "run" towards it.

At this moment, he didn't know if he was moving his legs, but he was sure that he was rapidly approaching the cluster of colors.

After only a few seconds, the cluster of colors was close at hand, and a huge change suddenly occurred around Audis, first forming green vortexes, which quickly subsided and turned into grasslands.

The brilliant light in front of him also turned into two parts, one part was the neck of the Multicolored Star-Eyed Beast, and the other part was the starry sky above its head.

Audis noticed that there was starlight flowing on his hands and body, and eventually the starlight gradually disappeared into his body.

He took a deep breath, the advancement was successful.

Audis glanced at the Multicolored Star-Eyed Beast, which was still looking up at the starry sky, and suddenly understood the meaning of this ritual.

The advancement of the "Astrologer" had subjected Audis's spiritual body to a certain transformation, but this transformation process could easily cause his consciousness to be lost in an unknown space.

At this time, the neck of the Multicolored Star-Eyed Beast would become a "landmark" to guide him back to consciousness.

Then Audis thought: This advancement was very smooth, so smooth that it didn't seem like advancing to Sequence 5.

But soon he understood, because this was the best state of his multiple advancements so far, which greatly helped the advancement.

Then, Audis gathered his spirituality while jumping off the back of the Multicolored Star-Eyed Beast.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, the voice of the "Hidden Sage" appeared again, his voice still so cold: "The boundless universe!

"You are not only a pile of matter,

"But also a collection of information and knowledge, and the random jumping of spirituality.

"The chaotic whispers are... knowledge... Canal... endless..."

Now he could hear one more sentence.

However, because Bernadette was not far away, he didn't think about it, but continued to walk towards Bernadette.

At this time, Bernadette said: "First gather your spirituality and feel your new abilities."

Audis nodded, sat down on the grass, and wondered why the "Hidden Sage" wanted to "recite poetry" to him while gathering his spirituality?

Now the first sentence can be heard in full, as if describing the essence of the universe: a collection of information and knowledge, and the random jumping of spirituality.

In some esoteric concepts, all things in the world have a very close relationship with knowledge, such as a grass, its germination, growth, and drying up, if studied, are all knowledge about biology.

But whether humans study the grass or not, this biological knowledge still exists, it will not stop growing just because humans do not study it.

So from another point of view, it is those "knowledge" that guide the growth process of the grass.

As for the "random jumping of spirituality", Audis immediately recalled his previous thinking about the relationship between spirituality and extraordinariness.

He believed that spirituality and extraordinariness should be considered separately, but the two are very closely related.

Spirituality is also inseparable from mysticism, or in Audis's view, besides "extraordinariness" being special, "spirituality" is also relatively special in this world.

This is more like a universally existing and seemingly inexhaustible energy source.

Most of Audis's current research is to find ways to utilize spirituality as much as possible.

Thinking of this, Audis thought: I believe the "Hidden Sage" is not so kind as to explain the essence of this world to me, his words must have his intentions.

But because there were too few clues to understand, Audis didn't know what the "Hidden Sage" was plotting.

Anyway, even if he understood, he couldn't stop his ears from hearing those voices, so he could only let it go for now, and wait until he had the ability to completely isolate the "Hidden Sage's" shouting.

Then Audis began to use his spirituality to feel his newly acquired abilities. The new ability he mastered after advancing was "Star Sand".

First of all, these "Star Sand" can directly attack the target, entangling it and causing it to disintegrate.

Audis's understanding is that the most direct means of attack of these "Star Sand" is to destroy the molecular structure of the target, turning it into individual atoms, so that the attacked target becomes "fine sand" that is invisible to the naked eye.

Using "Star Sand" can also summon "Star Pillars", and the pillars with twinkling stars will cover a certain area, causing the target to collapse rapidly.

"Star Sand" can also be used to create "Starlight Cage", which is similar to the ability of "Imprisonment", but its form is different. "Imprisonment" consumes a little spirituality at the moment of use, and the effect disappears after imprisoning the target for a few seconds.

The "Starlight Cage", however, continuously consumes spirituality after use, and can imprison the target until it is actively released.

However, there are also two other situations where the imprisonment is passively lifted, the first is when the enemy breaks free from the imprisonment, and the second is when one's own spirituality is exhausted, forcing the release of spirituality.

Speaking of the second situation, one has to mention the change in spirituality after advancement.

Audis felt that after his advancement, his spirituality seemed to have doubled!

He felt that he should be able to "imprison" a Sequence 5 target for more than half a minute, but this ability can only create opportunities for teammates, because after "imprisoning" the target, Audis cannot use other abilities.

If you want to capture the opponent alive, this is a good ability, otherwise it is better to directly kill the opponent with "Star Sand".

Not only can it be used for attack, "Star Sand" can also allow Audis to transform into a "fine sand" state, passing through some extremely narrow or small places.

To be honest, this ability doesn't seem like a Sequence 5 level ability, because generally only at the level of a demigod can one make a part of their body ethereal, in order to avoid attacks or disasters.

However, Audis thought about it, and felt that it was understandable. This is equivalent to "Star Sand" turning Audis's body into a molecular or atomic level structure, and then completing the reorganization in an instant.

It's similar to the "Shadow Transformation" of the "Secret Prayer" pathway and the "Desire Avatar" of the "Demon" pathway.

Another ability is the "materialization" application of "Star Sand".

"Star Sand" can not only use these extraordinary abilities, but also become "materialized", such as using it as a shield, the strength is much better than "Defense Scroll", but it also requires a lot of spirituality.

Because Audis currently has a better "Scale Armor Scroll" that consumes less spirituality, the role of the shield is not very significant for him.

However, "Star Sand" can also form many other structures, such as if passing through a swamp, you can use "Star Sand" to create a solidified ground to pass through the swamp.

If you get off the ship, you don't need a spiral staircase, just use "Star Sand" to make stairs.

The above are the new abilities after having "Star Sand", in addition, "Star Sand" can also replace the corresponding spiritual materials, allowing Audis to use "Wizardry" more quickly.

In other words, in the future, you no longer need to prevent the scroll from running out and carry spiritual materials with you. When you want to use some "Wizardry", just summon "Star Sand".

Moreover, the power of the "Wizardry" used by "Star Sand" is about twice as powerful as when it was Sequence 6, which is almost the same power as the scroll made by Sequence 6.

As for the scroll, its power has also doubled.

This is completely a "black box operation". The symbols for writing the scroll are still those symbols, and the spiritual materials are still those spiritual materials, but the power is greater!

This point in Audis's understanding is the qualitative change brought about by the extraordinary characteristics.

After all, extraordinary characteristics, to some extent, bring distortion and chaos to this world.

Then it can be seen as that the characteristics of the "Astrologer" make those symbols and materials "orderly chaotic".

It's like originally it was "1", but after being "processed" by the characteristics, it became "2" in a confused way.

The reason why Audis calls this change "orderly chaos" is because this process is very stable and reliable. Every time Audis writes a scroll, the characteristics can do this.

In addition, the upper limit that Audis can achieve when writing scrolls is higher.

Before, many times, some of Audis's ideas for scrolls could not be realized because the level of his own characteristics was too low. Now that the level of the characteristics has become higher, many ideas can be tested.

The most direct manifestation is that if you use the "murmurs" of the "True Creator" to write the scroll again, the power of the scroll will be greater and the abilities will be more diverse.

This is also why Audis immediately put away the "murmurs" of the "True Creator" after the potion was digested.

And the utilization of demigod-level spiritual materials can also reach a new height. With the amount of high-level materials in Audis's hands, a new batch of high-level scrolls can be made soon.

This is the improvement of Audis's core abilities after advancement. At the same time, he also has a new ability: Astrology.

Moreover, the accuracy of "Astrology" can be comparable to the "Astrology" of the "Marionettist" of the same level.

It's just that other types of divination are still the same as before. You can complete the "divination" process, but it is far worse than the "Seer".

Additionally, a "Star Diviner" can not only use a crystal ball for astrology but also possesses the ability to conduct long-distance "video conversations" with it, though this process also continuously consumes spirituality.

The "Eye of Secrets" has also been enhanced; it can now perceive most mystical phenomena and the fundamental workings of mysticism, or rather, the essence of mystical operations.

It can even see through some high-level mystical barriers to see what it wants to see.

But the price to pay is that it can easily see things it shouldn't.

After all, he is only a Sequence 5 right now, and if he accidentally sees mythological creatures wandering in the spirit world, he will definitely be contaminated.

Therefore, he must seal the "Eye of Secrets" at ordinary times.

Perhaps because it can see too much information about mysticism, after advancement, it can observe the other person's astral body and see their luck within a week, and also see the key to changing their luck.

However, "Astrology" can also do this, and it is more reliable.

If there is a similar need, Audis will use "Astrology" and try not to lift the seal on the "Eye of Secrets".

The last point is that many astrological knowledge and knowledge of interpreting astrological signs have appeared in Audis's mind.

Audis took a deep breath. Overall, the improvement from Sequence 6 to Sequence 5 is much greater than the improvement from Sequence 7 to Sequence 6.

Because Bernadette is still here, Audis is not in a good position to immediately go to the "Knowledge Wilderness" to check the new abilities he has gained there, so he can only wait and see.

Then, Audis opened his arms and lay on the grass: "Sequence 5, not far from being a demigod."

Bernadette, who was beside him, reminded: "You're thinking too much. Sequence 4 is a difficult hurdle for any Beyonder."

"The potion formula and Beyonder characteristics are not something you can get just because you need them."

Audis was quite optimistic, he smiled and asked: "Didn't you say that you would provide a clue to a Sequence 4 level main ingredient?"

Bernadette sat on the stone throne: "At least you have to stabilize your state and start digesting the potion before I tell you."

"Okay." Audis said: "Don't just sit there, come and lie down together, it's really comfortable to lie on the grass."

Bernadette was a little tempted, but she just leaned forward slightly and said: "I'd rather sit."

"There's no one else here." Audis said: "Speaking like this now, I can only see your feet and your legs."

He paused, smiled, and said: "Although you are a queen, which fits your high position, you are also a very understanding, unpretentious, and beloved queen."

"Let ordinary people like me always look up to you, it's just..."

"Alright." Bernadette interrupted: "You suddenly calling me 'you' gives me goosebumps."

As she spoke, the ancient stone chair disappeared, and Bernadette sat next to Audis, the distance between the two people getting much closer.

Audis looked at the starry sky and said: "When I was little, my grandfather grew watermelons for a few years."

"When the watermelons were about to ripen, we had to live in the melon field at night to prevent people from stealing them."

"I liked going to see the watermelons with my grandfather the most, because we could eat the watermelons in the field as much as we wanted, and my grandfather seemed to know everything. No matter what questions I asked him, he could answer them."

"He also liked to tell ghost stories, which made me scared but also liked to listen."

"After my grandfather fell asleep, I would look at the night sky, thinking about all kinds of things."

Speaking of this, Audis breathed a long sigh: "Since I went to the city to study, I have never seen such a beautiful starry sky again."

Bernadette looked at Audis beside her, took a deep breath, and said: "When I was little, whenever I was angry with my father, I would climb onto the roof and count the stars. As I counted, I would stop being angry."

"Whenever I encountered something I couldn't understand, or something that made me feel very uncomfortable, I would count the stars. As I counted, my mood would improve."

She showed a faint smile: "I also think it's a pity. Now, when I encounter problems, counting stars doesn't work anymore."

"No matter how much I count, my mood won't improve."

As she spoke, she also lay on the grass, looking at the brilliant starry sky with some longing.

Audis said: "Your home is in Trier, right?"

"I..." Bernadette suddenly smiled: "Sometimes I don't know if that's my home."

"Do you miss it there?"

"Sometimes I do." Bernadette said with emotion: "At that time, I still had a family that could be considered happy."

"Then that is your hometown." Audis said: "A hometown doesn't necessarily refer to a certain place, sometimes it also refers to a spiritual home."

Bernadette turned her head and glanced at Audis, seeing that he was now pillowing his hands behind his head, closing his eyes, as if enjoying this peaceful night: "That sentence of yours sounds very philosophical."

"I've read some philosophical books." Audis smiled and said: "To be honest, the first impression it gives people is some word games."

"But when you really want to express your inner thoughts, you realize that you need these philosophical thoughts."

"This reminds me of my experience studying philosophy." The corners of Bernadette's mouth curled up: "That was simply a disaster!"

"I still can't figure out why they made me study philosophy? ..."

At this time, Bernadette heard a soft snoring sound. She turned her head and saw that Audis had actually fallen asleep like this.

She stared at Audis's handsome profile for a while before saying: "You're also very tired, rest for a while."

Then she smiled: "It seems you feel very safe by my side."

After staying quietly for a few minutes, Bernadette suddenly felt that this peace was very beautiful.

......

No mistakes, one first, one inner, one content, one in, one look!

Audis found himself in a closed space.

It was pitch black all around. He touched the front with his hand. It was the touch of a stone wall. The right side was also a stone wall.

He seemed to have fallen into a stone coffin all of a sudden. This feeling of narrowness and the illusion of being buried alive suddenly made him a little flustered.

However, he immediately thought that he was now a Sequence 5 and had many new methods to deal with more complex problems.

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

Suddenly, Audis felt something move on his left. He was startled and tried to widen his eyes, but the "Eye of Secrets" seemed to have no "night vision" effect at this time, and he couldn't see anything on the left at all.

Audis suddenly thought that the "Mysterious Queen" was just on his right, so he asked: "Bernadette?"

The other party paused for a second or two before replying: "Edwina."

Audis was stunned. He had sailed in different directions from "Iceberg Zhongjiang" in the afternoon, and now he was on an island in the Misty Sea. How could he possibly meet Edwina?

At this time, Edwina asked: "Where is this place? How did you get here?"

"I don't know." Audis said truthfully: "I was originally asleep, and suddenly I appeared here."

"Me too." Edwina said: "By the way, did you see my letter?"

Audis was stunned for a moment before saying: "No, I left the ship around ten o'clock."

"So that's how it is." Edwina said: "In the evening, the crew noticed that First Mate Bru was a little strange."

"I went to take a look. I don't know why, but his entire face was a little shriveled, as if he was extremely dehydrated."

"But he himself didn't seem to be aware of this, so I used 'Arcane Arts' to put him to sleep and did a check on him."

"His spirit body seemed to be connected to something. I thought of many ways, but I couldn't cut off this connection. If this continues, he and the other party may completely switch places."

"That's why I wrote you a letter, asking you if you had any ideas."

"But until after three o'clock in the morning, you didn't reply."

"At this time, I thought of a way to temporarily stabilize the situation, so that First Mate Bru's situation would no longer develop in a dangerous direction, so I went to rest."

Audis was stunned for a moment: "I fell asleep around one o'clock in the morning."

Then he knocked on the stone in front of him: "Could this be a stone coffin that we explored during the day?"

"Not only was Bru affected, but we were also affected unknowingly?"

This sounded a bit terrifying, but it was a logical guess.

The only thing Audis couldn't figure out was that Bernadette was by his side. After he suddenly disappeared, didn't she look for him? Or did she leave after seeing him fall asleep?

While thinking, Audis said: "No matter what, let's take a look at the surrounding situation first."

Saying this, Audis stretched out his hand and created a small ball of flame with star sand.

As a result, he saw a terrifying scene. The one beside him was not Edwina at all, but a shriveled corpse!

That face had empty eyes, and the lips revealed teeth due to shriveling, looking very ferocious.

A look of surprise gradually appeared on the other person's shriveled face…

Whoosh ~

Audis suddenly woke up alert. He first saw a huge colorful umbrella.

Then he saw the bed that "reappeared" under his body. It turned out that it was raining, so Bernadette "reappeared" the umbrella and the bed.

The brilliant starry sky was gone, and it was dark all around. He could only hear the sound of raindrops hitting the grass leaves.

Bernadette sat on the other end of the bed: "Did you just dream that you went to another place?"

Audis was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered his dream just now: “Yes!”

Then he told the “Mysterious Queen” about his dream just now in detail, and roughly talked about the exploration this morning.

Bernadette pondered for a moment before saying: “I realized it wasn’t that dangerous, so I didn’t wake you up rashly.”

“It’s similar to my guess just now. Your spiritual body has established some kind of connection with a corpse in the mausoleum, so a part of your spiritual body and consciousness will return to that stone room through these connections after you fall asleep.”

Audis slowly nodded: “That is to say, cut off this connection, or destroy those corpses… No, we must cut off the connection first, and then destroy the corpses.”

Bernadette gave an “En” sound: “Yes.”

Audis thought for a while and then asked: “Could this just be a dream I had?”

“This is very easy to verify.” Bernadette smiled and said: “You only need to wait until you return to the ‘Argo’ and see if you have received a letter from Edwards.”

She paused and then said: “However, I don’t think it’s likely to be a dream.”

“In the Third Epoch, cremation was not popular. Only some criminals or heretics were burned to death.”

“If the corpse of a demigod is not cremated, even if the extraordinary characteristics have been extracted, certain mutations will occur.”

“Before the church was buried, the clergy there would also carry out certain seals or some treatments, but after the church was buried, no one cared about the situation there.”

“So the corpses there may have mutated into monsters with certain strange abilities.”

Audis and the others also thought of this, so they just looked at the murals at the time and did not open the stone coffin.

He got up and said, “I’ll go back now.”

At this time, Bernadette suddenly asked: “How many people participated in the exploration at that time?”

Audis was stunned for a moment before answering: “8 people.”

“How many stone coffins are there?”

Audis recalled for a moment: “7…

”

He understood what Bernadette meant: “I will investigate everyone who has participated in the exploration.”

Bernadette nodded slowly, indicating that this was what she meant.

There were 7 stone coffins, but because one of them contained two corpses, there were a total of 8 corpses in that secret room, which corresponded to the 8 people who explored.

In the world of mysticism, sometimes just looking at the numbers can reveal many problems.

Bernadette watched Audis’s figure disappear into the void, looked around with some melancholy, and then disappeared all of a sudden.

The “reproduced” colorful umbrella and bed gradually became illusory and eventually disappeared without a trace.

Only the sound of rain remained in the night.

…

In the studio of the “Argo”, a illusory door suddenly appeared in the middle.

Audis pushed the door open and came out, first looking at the workbench, and sure enough, there was a letter from Edwina.

The content of the letter was similar to the content of the conversation between the two people in the stone coffin.

As soon as Audis finished reading it, the flesh-and-blood messenger lady sent another letter, also from Edwina.

He had already guessed the content of this letter. When he opened it, it described the dream just now. It was just that Edwina saw Audis as a corpse at the time, which was the reason that scared her awake.

At the same time, Edwina also guessed that the problem should have been caused by the exploration of the secret room during the day.

She invited Audis to the “Golden Dream” to discuss solutions to the problem.

Audis did not immediately go to the “Golden Dream” because he wanted to see the abilities he had obtained in the “Knowledge Wilderness” first.

Perhaps the new abilities he acquired could be used to solve the problem next.

So, after reading the letter, Audis leaned on the chair and entered the “Knowledge Wilderness” in a “meditative” way.

After entering here, it seemed that the entire “Knowledge Wilderness” shook slightly. Audis took a step and came to the high tower composed of light spheres.

As soon as he entered here, two light spheres suddenly detached from the high tower and flew towards Audis.

With the experience of the last promotion, Audis immediately reached out and touched one of the light spheres.

That light sphere quickly merged with Audis, which immediately gave Audis a way to avoid pollution and influence when observing the starry sky.

When Audis uses “Astrology” by observing the starry sky, the questions to be divined have a certain probability of being noticed by some Outer Gods.

With the protection of the “barrier”, perhaps the Outer Gods cannot pollute Audis, but being targeted by them is never a good thing.

The method provided by the light sphere is a magic circle.

This magic circle is actually the one that Audis has been dreaming of, which can prevent the gods from gazing at Audis.

Audis immediately “looked” at the magic circle in his mind and found that it was very similar to the magic circle he designed to block the gaze of the “God of Steam and Machinery”.

The only difference is that this magic circle requires the use of an extraordinary characteristic of the “Cheater”.

Audis immediately breathed a sigh of relief and couldn’t help but sigh in his heart: The direction of combining magic circles and characteristics is correct!

As long as you use the extraordinary characteristics a little, you can fool the gods.

Of course, using this magic circle under the gaze of the gods will have no effect. The applicable situation is when you guess that the gods will cast their eyes, but will not pay special attention.

If you don’t want to expose yourself in such a situation, you can use this magic circle.

The specific function is to obscure the “real vision” of the gods to a certain extent.

But if a god is particularly concerned about Audis’s actions, this magic circle is likely to be useless.

After all, that is a god, and after all, the characteristic used in the magic circle is just a sequence 8 characteristic of the “Thief” pathway. As long as the gods look carefully, they can find Audis.

With the protection of the “barrier”, it is okay to fool the Outer Gods, but it is a bit difficult to fool the gods within the barrier.

Thinking of this, Audis smiled dumbly. Now he is no longer fighting alone like he was in Backlund. There is no need to use such a magic circle to prevent the God of Steam and Machinery from finding his trace.

When encountering problems that cannot be solved, praying to the Goddess of the Night is the best solution.

Then the function of this magic circle is really only to prevent pollution from the Outer Gods.

Then, Audis reached out and touched the second light sphere.

The knowledge stored in this light sphere is how to use “star sand” to write mystical characters to create some strange abilities.

Audis was stunned for a moment. He himself had not thought of this.

The specific usage is to use “star sand” to write a section of “Gaelic characters” like writing a scroll, which can create many abilities that can only be mastered by other pathways.

For example, as long as the correct “expression method” is used, “star sand” can be used to simulate the “Air Bullet” ability of the “Magician”!

Audis grinned. Previously, his research on “Recorder” had already found a way to express extraordinary abilities with “Gaelic runes”.