Mystery: Lucky One

Chapter 472 Chapter 50 Supplementary Materials
The constant "urging" finally gave Alice a rare sense of urgency. Although she turned a blind eye to the "Eye of the Prophet", Alice did seriously consider her own promotion.

Before the question could be answered, Alice succeeded in falling asleep.

When the early morning sun woke her up, Alice felt a sense of confusion, and it took her a while to realize that it was the next morning.

After breakfast, Alice began to continue thinking about the problem she had not finished last night.

Archbishop Anthony told her that the Sequence 4 “No Dark Ones” of the “Sun” pathway could separate the Beyonder characteristics of the low-sequence from the high-sequence Beyonder. Alice believed that this was a manifestation of the authority of purification, and they were likely to be able to purify pollution.

This was one way she planned to gain the Chaos Walker Extraordinary trait, although she didn't actually plan it.

Last night, Alice thought that she might have another way - such a large "School of Life" couldn't possibly not have even a "Chaos Walker", right?
As for those people who might be innocent... well, that was something Klein would mind. Alice only knew Will Ausetin's men.

"However, it's time to get the issue of auxiliary materials underway, and the progress of the role-playing..." Alice paused in her muttering.

The "Eye of Prophecy" made Alice realize that these "Prophet" seals sent to her were likely to have more than just the function of providing extraordinary properties. In fact, if the method was appropriate, it seemed to help her digest the potion.

When she was at Bernadette's place, she hadn't realized this yet. Although there was some feedback, it was not obvious enough. If the next "Prophet" seal was sent to her in such a harmful way...

Alice kept this in mind.

But, then again, including "Cassandra", this is already the third one, right? Why haven't I seen a living "prophet"...

...They can't all be dead, right?

Alice thought of the honorific name of "Cassandra" again. Although "Cassandra" did not seem to be alive, this was a seal that could communicate after all, and the other party knew her...

I'm going to find that book?
Alice paused for a moment, and suddenly she recalled an image in her memory - a donkey running non-stop because of a carrot hanging in front of it.

“…” Alice pursed her lips.

Even though she was reluctant to compare herself to a donkey, Alice had to admit that in this respect, she was indeed like a donkey with a carrot hanging from its end.

The first carrot was memory. In her memory, there was a world that was almost completely different from the present, and a puzzling sentence that seemed to have a deeper meaning, but she could not remember her past, so she became curious about her own memory and intended to find people related to that world, or something else.

The second carrot is the past. She gradually realized that she had woken up in this world before and even left traces. She tried to figure out what she had done before, but this carrot didn’t seem attractive enough. Her motivation was not that strong...

Then, the third carrot appeared - perhaps it was hatred, perhaps it was unwillingness, Alice was not sure how to define this emotion. In short, she absolutely did not want the "Key of Light" to win the bet, even though she had no idea what the "Key of Light" was betting on.

No, it doesn’t matter what He’s betting on, as long as we break the bet…we can lose together.

But I still kind of want to win.

Alice let out a breath and returned to thinking about the issue of supplementary materials.

——After all, the worst that could happen to the main material was to kill a saint.

Perhaps due to considerations of the style of Sequence 3, the supplementary materials for "Chaos Walker" were not as easy to understand as before. Although there was only one thing, Alice still didn't understand what it was.

“All the fragments of a shattered prophecy.”

...?
You see, it's really hard to understand.

In fact, after combining the rituals, Alice felt that she seemed to be able to figure out a little bit - you see, the prophecy was broken, and it made sense to collect the fragments and piece together a new one, right?
In principle, it's clear, but the problem is...

Is this how you collect things?
It is not even as easy to understand as the supporting materials of "The Prophet", which are extremely concise and to the point - "the water of the long river of destiny."

Although Alice still couldn't figure out how to get this thing.

Alice sighed without much hope and murmured softly:

"I really hope that the auxiliary materials of other paths are of this style... This way I won't be the only one suffering, and I can still laugh at Klein when he reaches Sequence 3... Although judging from the ritual, this is probably a very path-style material.

“Well, since killing a Beyonder can extract Beyonder characteristics, why can’t we go a step further and take auxiliary materials directly from the Beyonder? In that case…”

Alice licked her lips, lowered her head, slowly stretched out her hands, and muttered to herself hesitantly:
“…Is human flesh delicious?”

She stared at her hands and forearms for more than ten seconds, then Alice raised her head and looked around. After realizing that there could be no one here except those she couldn't see, she slowly raised her arm and opened her mouth to bite it.

The bite was merciless, and she quickly loosened her arm in pain, revealing teeth marks covered with saliva.

"Hiss, it hurts..." Alice took a breath, blinked at the teeth marks on her arm, and everything went back to the time before she bit her arm.

Looking at her arms that had regained their smoothness, Alice whispered to herself:
"Well... theoretically speaking, angels are no longer human. After all, they are complete mythical creatures. Strictly speaking, my current race should actually be the 'Mercury Snake'...

"I want to try whether human flesh tastes good. I should ask others, for example..."

Alice touched her chin and suddenly had a good idea. She closed her eyes, folded her hands on her chest, and chanted in ancient Hermetic language:

"The fool who does not belong to this era,
"The mysterious master above the gray fog,

"The king of yellow and black who controls good luck,

“Well, Klein, can you let me take a bite?

"I want to know if human flesh tastes good..."

If it tastes good, I can put... uh, wait, something doesn't seem right.

Alice stopped praying for a long while before she slapped her head in a trance and muttered to herself:
"No, I haven't confirmed whether the flesh and blood of Beyonders can be eaten as supplementary material!"

This is the core of the problem.

Alice shook her head, lowered her head and began to think about who she should ask to confirm this issue.

First of all, Alice thought that Klein must not know about this, otherwise he would definitely talk to her about it in horror - this was definitely not in line with Klein's values. The second face she remembered was Anthony, who smiled gently. Apart from the fact that he often had to go through the formalities, this gentleman was full of patience with her. Although from Klein's occasional angry performance and Amon's gnashing of teeth, Alice thought he was forced.

It was like he was forced to work 24 hours a day.

Oh no, he still needs to eat. That day should be less than 24 hours, and it is not certain that he does not need to sleep. He did not say it explicitly... However, the food requirement of a saint has actually decreased a lot...

"It's a good thing I wasn't born an 'insomniac'..." Alice muttered softly and drew a crimson moon symbol on her chest.

However, asking Archbishop Anthony didn't seem feasible. Alice knew very well that most people would be horrified by her question, unless...

...“Aurora Society”?
Alice blinked and remembered Ouroboros.

“But if I were to ask Ouroboros, if He would really answer, I wouldn’t need to ask this at all. I could just ask how to collect the auxiliary materials…” Alice muttered to herself, “I might as well ask Amon… Uh, this does seem like a good idea.”

——Amon would definitely not show any horror at her intention to eat humans.

No, He would even encourage me, but I must never ask Him...

Not to mention whether the answer she got from Amon was true or false, even if it was true, Alice felt that Amon would trick her.

Moreover, Amon would try to trick me out of information... Really, why can't Amon sit down and talk to me properly? Why must he trick me... Forget it, that wouldn't be the incarnation of fraud.

Alice sighed and gave up this unrealistic delusion.

She sighed sadly, and then cheered up because she remembered that there was actually another person associated with Amon's name.

"Adam?" she shouted into the air, "Are you watching? Regardless of whether you were there before, you must be here now. I have a question for you - can the flesh and blood of Beyonders be used as an auxiliary material for potions?"

The room was quiet and no one paid any attention to her, just like every time before.

"Why don't you seem worried at all that I might really try to eat someone..." Alice sat up straight and decided to be a little shameless.

Don't get me wrong, she wasn't going to continue questioning Adam, she just thought of someone who didn't mind if he was scared by her.

Yes, it was Bernadette who had asked her for help yesterday.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Bernadette was a suitable choice. As a demigod of the "Voyeur" path and with a father who had once been the "Emperor of Knowledge", Bernadette's knowledge of the occult was unquestionable.

As for her image in Bernadette's eyes...Haha, does she still have any image in Bernadette's eyes?
Alice shook her head and muttered:
"I feel like it's not as good as my image in the Tarot Club..."

To this day, Alice has some understanding of her image in the Tarot Club.

The members of the Tarot Club feared her more than they respected her. In the early days, they were even outright terrified of her. At that time, in their impression, she was an evil god who did whatever she wanted - although she was indeed one.

Alice did not deny this. She had a clear self-awareness of this. Even now, Alice did not think that she could be classified into the lawful good camp, but the members of the Tarot Club seemed to have changed their views on her to some extent - mainly starting with "The Sun" Derrick.

Little "sun"...

Alice sighed, thinking back to the tragic conditions in Silver City and Moon City.

...Even at that point, they would rather eat monster meat than try the corpses of their compatriots.

Alice vaguely realized that cannibalism itself probably carried some bad implications.

Although the memory of those ten years of school life might be an illusory dream, that dream did bring her many things, such as the story of cannibalism in the history textbook.

That is... the humanity that disappears in the face of disaster.

Alice cautiously gave up the idea of ​​trying to eat human flesh and blood. She knew that this would be much more dangerous for herself than for others. The fact that she could naturally have such an idea was telling.

However, it is still necessary to ask Bernadette...

Alice was writing an inquiry letter in the study. At this moment, she no longer had any thoughts of trying to eat a human being in her mind. She just wanted to satisfy her curiosity.

When it came to choosing a messenger, Ellie chose Bernadette, the strange messenger, without hesitation. On the one hand, Gaga didn't know Bernadette, and on the other hand...

When she signed the contract with the bird, her purpose was no longer to let the bird deliver messages.

Otherwise, she should at least ask about the bird's speed and safety or something...

Bernadette's reply came faster than expected, and Alice received the reply that evening.

She opened the envelope, and just as she expected, Bernadette knew about this matter—she gave an affirmative answer, telling her in the letter that the bodies of Beyonders could indeed serve as auxiliary materials in a certain sense.

In other words, the Beyonder itself is equivalent to a low-end version of a magic potion.

But Bernadette didn't know what her mentality was. In short, the letter was written on a whole page, and the part answering the questions only took up a small paragraph at the beginning. For most of the rest of the content, Bernadette was persuading her not to eat human beings.

Good, it seems this is indeed a serious issue.

Alice put the letter away again, sighed helplessly, stared at the ground and murmured:
"Should I really ask Ouroboros how to get the auxiliary materials?
"You can't ask Will Ausetin... Oh, my honorable name!"

Alice sat up in shock from her dying illness, and suddenly remembered this thing that she and Mr. Fool had forgotten again.

She sat up straight, and just at that moment received Mr. Fool’s reply about whether she could bite him:

"If you're just curious about the taste of human flesh, I can actually tell you...

"I have read some information about this before. Human flesh is sour and not tasty at all. I don't recommend you to try it.

"You could eat something that tastes better and has more nutritional value, right?"

(End of this chapter)