Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 537 The possibility of the man in the mirror

Angel turned his head away unbearably, and it wasn't until Anderson got up in embarrassment that he asked:
"Are you willing to sell the Sequence 6 potion formula?"

Such a straight shot seemed to make the "Strongest Hunter" not very adaptable, and he was obviously not as awake as Angel, who was carrying the "Secret Holy Emblem" in his dream. He came forward, stared at Angel for a moment, and said:
"It's strange. Could it be that I lost so much money on this adventure that I imagined a lady who was willing to buy the potion formula?"

"'Future' was hired by me."

"Okay, okay, I know what you are going to say, you want to leave me alone in this sea to die, right?"

As soon as Angel calmed down, Anderson immediately raised his hands and surrendered. He seemed to have thought of the bad joke he made here and was almost killed as an out-of-control Extraordinary, and quickly returned to his normal state.

"The Sequence 6 potion of the Hunter Path is 'Conspirator', but aren't you a witch? Why did you buy this formula?"

he asked with confusion on his face.

"For a friend who's an 'arsonist', she's about to get promoted."

"She? Isn't she the captain of the 'Redhead'?"

Seeing this, Angel did not try to persuade him to stay. She planned to ask Daniz if he had obtained the formula for Sequence 6 first, or to work on the "Red Priest" card. If she really couldn't find any clues, she would then go back and start from this one. The hapless and money-grubbing hunter bought it.

But within a few minutes, Anderson quickly ran back to the hall.

Angel secretly became wary and looked in the direction the other person was running. Not long after, with the clang of the door opening, a black-haired man in a short robe ran into the hall very fast, with wrinkles and sweat on his face. , as if being chased by an evil ghost.

Bang, bang.

2000 pounds... Angel calculated her savings with some heartache. After leaving this sea area and paying the final payment for "Admiral of the Stars", she only had 3500 pounds left, although the Sequence 6 potion formula sold for 2000 pounds. It wasn't expensive, but she still hesitated.

Amidst the stamping of metal boots, the man and the armored warrior disappeared into the mural hall one after another, leaving Angel and Anderson looking at each other.

"..."

"Help! Help!"

Anderson snorted coldly, stopped talking, and walked to the side to observe the mural.

"Of course, there are many hunters in the five seas, but there are not many women, especially those who have become mid-level Extraordinaries at a young age." Anderson smiled proudly at his well-informed information. , "Although I have always wanted to meet that lady, the price cannot be less. For 2000 pounds, the formula belongs to you."

"If it's less than this amount, I'd rather not sell it."

The black-haired man turned his gaze in Angel's direction again, only to find that her figure had disappeared at some point.

Behind him, the sound of metal colliding with the stone floor was heard, and a tall figure emerged from the darkness.

This time it was Angel's turn to be surprised.

anyone?

He shouted and ran towards Anderson, who dodged gracefully, passed between two murals, and hid behind a stone wall, as if he was standing idly by.

"Be careful! Someone is coming!"

After being stunned for a second, he took steps again and ran towards the door leading to the black monastery.

After repeated back and forth with this hunter who seemed to be quite excited in his dream, he was unwilling to let go when it came to 1800 pounds.

"You know her?"

It was a giant sword warrior wearing black full-body armor and a helmet of the same color. The eye sockets under the visor were shining with crimson light. He was staring straight at the black-haired man in front of him, looking at Anderson who poked his head out again and walked out of invisibility. Angel was not interested at all.

"Not from the Future?"

Anderson asked.

"I haven't seen him."

Angel answered honestly, but he also felt that these two people were a bit like the "Black Saint" and his "mirror image" that Klein said.

Maybe they have clues about the "Man in the Mirror"?

With a thought in his mind, Angel chased after them in the direction they left.

Returning to the square in front of the black monastery, she found that the pirates who were drinking and chatting here had been frightened by the black-armored warriors and were running away. Only the somewhat irritable Nina threw open the wine bottle and wanted to go up to fight, but was completely ignored by the other party. The figure quickly chased out of the square and ran towards the cliff.

In the chaos, the black-haired man in short robes ran twice around the boulder with Cattleya sitting on the top. Finally he found an opportunity and shouted towards the "Giant King's Court" on the other side of the cliff:
"O Lord who created everything, you are the omniscient and omnipotent, and you are the source of all greatness...ah..."

He was almost carried away by the black-armored warrior's giant sword, screamed strangely, and ran faster.

"...You are the beginning and the end; you are the God of Gods, you are the ruler of the vast star world!"

As the name recited in ancient Hermetic language ended, which clearly pointed to a certain existence, the cliff between the "Giant King's Court" and the "Black Monastery" revealed its true appearance in the sea of ​​clouds. It was a deep and endless path. The wide gap bottomed out, as if someone had carved a crack into the earth that reached straight to the center of the earth.

The huge palace opposite gathered a dusk-colored light, as if it was going to shoot this way and establish a passage!

Except for the black-armored warrior and the black-haired man who were still surrounding the boulder, everyone present turned their attention to the magnificent palace opposite. ...and then nothing happens.

The black-haired man who was being chased up and down seemed unable to accept this fact, and looked over in a daze.

"My Lord...ah!"

He jumped up nimbly, avoiding the giant sword that slashed at him, but he also got himself trapped between boulders and cliffs, with almost nowhere to hide.

Oh, vines emerged from the ground and grew wildly between the two people. Almost instantly, they formed a lush forest, separating the entire land in front of the monastery and everyone. The black-armored warrior angrily He slashed at the vines with his giant sword and chopped the peas all over the ground, but failed to break through and kill the black-haired man.

"Leo Master, the 'Black Saint' of the Aurora Society, is very similar to you. He encountered an item that could create a 'mirror image' in a certain ruins, so he split into two different personalities," said Angel next to him Suddenly a familiar voice sounded, and she looked sideways and found that it was Bernadette who had changed into a skirt and trousers combination, "But the difference is that he was 'split' in reality, and, split What emerges is a ‘kind personality’.”

"You mean, that black-armored warrior is his true form? Is the black-haired man being chased his 'mirror image'?"

Angel asked in surprise, and then a strange thought came to his mind:

If the kind personality of the Saint of the Aurora Society is that of the black-robed man who was being chased and jumped up and down, then could what he just recited be the honorable name of the "True Creator" that the Aurora Society believes in? But I remember isn't it "the master behind the curtain of shadow, the fallen nature of all living things"...

And if the "evil entity" is killed in a dream, can the "Black Saint" become a "good person" who has eliminated the evil in his heart?
Could this be what the previous "person in the mirror" planned to do to me... She suddenly felt a little lucky.

As if she understood her thoughts, Bernadette shook her head and said:
"To resolve matters in reality, to kill his 'body', you need to go to that dangerous ruins, and anyone who enters will be 'copied' in the same way... except you."

Except for me... because I have solved the problem "in advance" in my dream, and when other people, especially kind people, arrive at the ruins, the evil "man in the mirror" will appear?
Angel guessed, and suddenly found that the vines around him began to drill into the ground, and it seemed that they had completed their mission.

"After we leave this sea area, you and I will go find Annie together."

After leaving such words, Bernadette beside her disappeared as if blending into the surrounding dusk light.

Also disappearing with her were the "Black Saint" and his "mirror image" who were separated by vines, leaving only the pirates who were watching the fun and found it suddenly ended, and the "Black Saint" who looked here thoughtfully. Star Admiral" Cattleya.

……

After leaving the dreamland, the "Future" continued to drive in the calm sea, passing one strange ruin after another that no one dared to explore, and soon came to the location when they entered, the one they had avoided at the beginning. ruins.

But what was different from the day we arrived was that there was a three-masted sailboat about 40 meters long parked next to the ruins.

"be prepared!"

Boatswain Nina shouted, and all the sailors still on the deck entered fighting positions and looked at the sailing ship warily.

But until the two ships passed each other, there was no movement there. The deck was empty, as if it was a ghost ship.

Cattleya walked out of the inner cabin and came to the side of the ship. She looked at the sailboat and took off her thick-rimmed glasses with a solemn expression. Her dark purple eyes flashed with light. Soon, a pair of the same color appeared above the sailboat. His huge eyes, as if they were an extension of the pirate general's gaze, turned around on the deck, found a hatch and got in.

Everyone, including Angel, waited with bated breath for the results of her exploration.

"It's very strange there..." After a moment, Cattleya put on her glasses again and said, "They seemed to have come to explore the legend of the 'Fountain of Youth', but everyone on the ship was missing, there was blood everywhere, and... …”

She seemed to find it difficult to describe the words, so she took out a handful of colorful powder from the inner pocket of her robe, sprinkled it in front of her, and sketched a clear picture on the deck.

This is much more powerful than magic mirror divination... Angel looked at the "high-definition surveillance picture" dumbfounded and found that it showed a beautifully decorated room, probably the captain's room. There were a lot of blood stains on the floor inside the room, and there were also stains on the ground. A Fusac word written in blood:
"Fountain of Youth——"

The long bloody streak at the back seemed to have been dragged to the door as if it was unfinished.

Angel immediately imagined the captain of this ship being seriously injured and not yet dead, leaving clues to the "Fountain of Youth" with his own blood for future generations, but was dragged away by the enemy before he could finish writing.

"Unexpectedly, the legendary 'Fountain of Youth' is actually located in this sea area?"

Anderson, who entered because of the treasure hunt and was almost wiped out, said excitedly.

"I wonder if drinking it can make me rejuvenate..."

An obviously older pirate took over the conversation expectantly.

"Who would leave any clues for treasure hunting before they die? All his crew members are dead, and the next person to find him will not be his friends or relatives. If it were me, I would only leave the name of the murderer."

Nina stood aside and read the picture, then sneered and said.

Her words seemed to wake up everyone, and everyone argued for a while. Most people agreed with the boatswain's words. The bloody words "Fountain of Youth" were either left by the murderer in order to attract more prey. Either it was a misleading message that was not deleted by the murderer, in short...

Run!

Following the order from the "Star Admiral", the "Future" bypassed the three-masted sailboat that had become a coffin and fled the sea as quickly as possible.

……

After experiencing falling and rising sea cliffs again, the "Future" returned to the normal sea area. Behind it was the falling water, in the distance was a storm that blocked the sky and the sun, and above the head was the crimson full moon.

Listening to the cheers of the pirates on the deck who had survived the disaster, Angel came to Klein's room and said with his surprised eyes:

"I'm going away for a few days."

(End of this chapter)