Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 28 Information Exchange
After several people received the task of collecting Roselle's diary, the gray mist space fell into a strange silence.

It was the talkative Hanged Man who broke the atmosphere.

"It seems that there is nothing else. How about we communicate with each other and casually chat about what happened around us. Maybe something that is not important to me may be an important clue to others."

Good offer!
Angel gave the Hanged Man a thumbs up in her heart, which was exactly what she wanted.

Ever since she "traversed" into this world, she has been thinking about finding a way to go back. Before, due to the threat of Mrs. Sharon and her unfamiliarity with the place, she could only passively deal with various incidents.Since joining the Nighthawks, Angel has had access to various extraordinary events and mystic knowledge.

If we can communicate and exchange information at the Tarot Club, we may get another source of information other than the official channels of the Nighthawks, or even carry out "online transactions" that cannot be traced by outsiders like the Hanged Man and the Justice Trade potion formula!
"I think this should become a reserved item for every gathering we have." Miss Justice, who is full of curiosity about the world of occultism, echoed.

"Yes." Even the Fool nodded slightly, agreeing.

"Then let's start with me." The proposer, the Hanged Man, thought for a while, and said slowly: "The great pirate who claims to be Admiral Ludwell has recently embarked on a voyage to explore the eastern end of the Sonia Sea."

Who is that?
Angel was at a loss. She knew that the islands off the Loen Kingdom were full of pirates, and the black sails stretched from Pritz Harbor to the northern shore of the Balam Empire.They harassed the port everywhere, cut off the route to seek wealth and death, caused passing merchant ships to suffer, and even crushed the fleets of the navies of various countries.But when it comes to a certain pirate, his eyes are blackened.

"The Ludwell of the Seven Great Pirate Generals? The owner of the Black Tulip?"

Miss Justice seemed to have heard about it, and asked back.

"Yes."

The Hanged Man nodded.

……

There was no third person to pick up the conversation, and the conversation seemed to be broken here. Just when the scene became awkward again, "The Fool" rubbed the edge of the long bronze table and whispered inadvertently:

"As far as I know, the Secret Order has lost a notebook of the Antigonus family."

What is that?
It was far from the information exchange he had imagined. Angel felt that his forehead was about to sweat. Cole Granger was just an Extraordinary born in a wild way after all. Angel, who inherited his memory, knew little more about the Extraordinary world than ordinary people. If the knowledge about potions was not counted, it was not even as good as Miss Justice who could connect a few words with The Hanged Man.

The Hanged Man sitting opposite her seemed to laugh, and then said, "I'm really curious about the reaction of the Church of the Evernight Goddess after hearing the news."

Evernight Goddess Church!

Angel finally heard the words she was familiar with, and she immediately asked, "Why do you say that? Should there be any special reaction from the Evernight Goddess Church?"

"Because this family was destroyed by the Church of the Evernight Goddess. As for whether it is the end of the fourth era or the beginning of the current era, I am not sure."

The Hanged Man's answer left others with infinite reverie.

It is currently 1349 of the Fifth Era, the end of the Fourth Era, and that was more than 1000 years ago.The ancient family that was exterminated thousands of years ago is still related to the Church of the Goddess of the Night. It seems that we should pay attention to things related to this family... No, this is a secret order and an ancient family that was destroyed. If you don't know it, you should stay away from these things...

Angel analyzed the information he got, and seeing that no one else answered, he said:

"Then it's my turn." She weighed her words, trying her best to share information with others without revealing herself. "Recently, the 'Witch Sect' in the Loen Kingdom has been very active. A Sequence 6 Extraordinary attacked the Tingen market night presence of the Church of the Evernight Goddess."

"Oh my god, Sequence 6! Is there someone to stop him?" Miss Justice asked eagerly.

Although the Hanged Man didn't speak, it was obvious that his attention was also focused on Angel.

Seeing that he had successfully mobilized everyone's emotions, Angel felt complacent—finally there is something you don't know about.

"Of course it failed. I heard that this Extraordinary was besieged by several Nighthawks, and he couldn't escape."

"Praise the goddess!"

Miss Justice sighed softly, but she may have realized that this would expose her beliefs, so she immediately changed the subject: "Witch Sect? What is that?"

"It's a secret organization that believes in the original witch. According to the universal concept, it should belong to the category of cult."

Angel answered briefly, not because she didn't want to say more, but because she only had such a part of her memory. Although she knew that Mrs. Sharon belonged to the Witch Sect, and the Witch Sect was one of the cults in the official records, her further understanding was limited to their belief—the original witch.

As for the composition of the sect itself, its purpose, and even its active areas, she has no idea.

"I heard that the top leaders of this sect are all women. What's the reason? Many people suspect that it has something to do with the original witch they believe in." The Hanged Man added slowly.

I can answer this, because once you drink the potion of Sequence 7, you can't even think about being a woman...

Angel refrained from saying these words, but still looked down at her body - she, or Cole Granger who drank the potion herself, was also one of the victims of the potion.

"It's me in the end."

Seeing that everyone else had already shared information, Miss Justice also spoke.

"Since the kingdom's defeat in the war on the east coast of Balam, the king, the prime minister, and all officials have felt great pressure and have an urgent desire to change. They think that the current government structure is too chaotic and inefficient. Whenever the election is over, as long as there is a party change, a group of people will be changed from top to bottom, making things messy and extremely inefficient. This not only caused the defeat of the war, but also brought great inconvenience to the people."

She paused and continued.

"Unfortunately, they can't find a good way to replace this system for the time being."

After listening to Justice's narration, Angel quickly grasped the core of the problem.She was not familiar with the political structure of the Loen Kingdom, but comparing the history of the earth, it was obvious that the reason for the chaos in government affairs was that there was not a group of stable affairs officials.

"Then why not keep the normal staff when the party changes?"

Angel tried to steer the question in a more specific direction.

"But this is the predestined interest of the winning party. Every time the party changes, it is also a process of redistributing the cake." Miss Justice retorted, "Any proposal that changes this is unlikely to pass."

"Isn't it enough to keep the affairs officials? The political affairs officials are reserved for distribution within the party, so that the affairs officials who need more work experience and stability remain neutral."

"Administrative Officer... Affairs Officer..."

Justice's eyes lit up, as if he had found the crux of the problem.

Angel also gradually used his memory of the modern administrative system to organize the language well and speak more and more fluently.

"Government officials, such as ministers and mayors, are the cakes of the winning party. Their positions do not involve specific affairs, and their frequent changes will not affect the daily work of the government. For more specific and complicated jobs, ranging from senior cabinet secretaries to county government clerks, the most suitable elites can be selected from the public through examinations, just like university examinations. Once they pass the examination, they can serve for a long time without being affected by party changes."

"This kind of examination can be held regularly to slowly fill the administrative positions in the kingdom, and then increase according to the plan according to the expansion of the kingdom and the vacancies of the positions. Once a stable team of officials is formed, the best of these people will allow the kingdom to maintain basic and relatively effective operations, no matter which party is elected, no matter who the government officials above them are."

Of course, there will definitely be various difficulties in the specific implementation, such as the fairness of the examination, the bureaucratic style caused by the stable position, the gradual redundancy, and the overstaffed government employees, etc., but what does this have to do with the few people who are talking on paper?

Everyone here in the Tarot Society, there is no one who can really influence the upper echelons of the kingdom and create the civil service system in this world, right?

Looking at Miss Justice who was lost in thought, Angel thought to himself.

Maybe only the mysterious Mr. Fool has such energy, but he doesn't look like he will be disturbed by ordinary things.

Emperor Roselle's diary, the Goddess of the Evernight, and the grievances of the ancient family, these are the things that the big man should care about, and he doesn't even bother to answer such simple questions!
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Too bad, I took a step too late to organize my language, but I didn't expect to be preempted by others.

"The Fool" Klein, who was sitting upright on the high-back chair, was dumbfounded, looking at "Queen" Angel who answered Miss Justice's question before him.

He thinks that his long-term experience of surfing the Internet and eloquent speeches can answer this question more perfectly, and he can even sharply point out many loopholes in Miss Queen's answer just now, but will he lose his identity as a "fool" by interrupting now?

He pursed his lips, but continued to remain silent.

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"Sounds like a simple but very effective solution!"

Miss Justice carefully chewed on Angel's words, and her eyes gradually lit up. Based on the elite education she had received and the political science knowledge she had learned from her father and brother, she could recognize the superiority of this method after a little analysis.

"Thank you, Miss Queen, your suggestion has helped me a lot."

Of course, this is the essence of the British Empire's hundreds of years of experience in government affairs, and this is learned from the thousands of years of civil service inheritance in that eastern country...

Angel felt that his sense of gap caused by his poor mystic knowledge had finally recovered a lot.

But why is Miss Justice so happy, even as happy as when she got the "audience" potion?According to her speech and lively personality, she is about 18 years old, just the age to go to college. Could this be the homework left by her college teacher?
Angel was thinking, when the deep voice of the Fool came to his ears.

"This is the end of today's party."

Angel got up quickly, and Justice and The Hanged Man hurriedly followed suit.

The three replied together: "Follow your will."

In the next moment, Angel's eyes lit up, and he returned to the sunny study from the huge palace shrouded in gray mist.

She held her right hand empty, and the pen she secretly held just now had disappeared.

"It's still so amazing...things can't be brought out, could it be that space is actually..."

Angel frowned, recalling all the details of the Tarot meeting just now.

(End of this chapter)