"Then this book is useless? Why not just give it to the real creator? Maybe we can get something in return..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly blurred and a magnificent palace made of coral appeared in front of him.
Lilith and Phoenix disappeared suddenly.
Above the palace are layers of rippling deep blue water, and huge pillars stand tall, supporting an exaggerated dome, which is both tall and magnificent, yet gloomy and dark.
Edward popped out the gold coin, made sure there was no problem, and walked into the coral palace.
As we came forward, we saw elves one after another. Some of them were roasting fish, some were putting spices into the coagulated blood of animals, and some were using two branches to hold food and bringing it to their mouths. None of them cared about the stranger coming in.
On the innermost steps of the Coral Palace, there was a coral chair inlaid with sapphires, emeralds, and sparkling pearls. A female elf wearing an elaborate and simple long dress, who looked 80% similar to the one in the murals in the ruins, sat there, looking down at Edward.
She is the Scourge Queen of the Elves, Gao Xinam.
At this moment, she looked at Edward with a complicated expression and said in a cold tone: "You have seen me, you can leave."
Edward was somewhat puzzled by Gao Xinam's reaction. The reason why he poked the Book of Calamity with a stick was not because he really wanted to meet the Elf Queen, but to test whether the book was dangerous as he said.
But why was the queen's reaction so strange?
Oh, yes, I remember now!
Edward had seen a similar reaction on the face of Miss Yedanshu, Reinette Tinicole.
"Your Highness Gao Xinam, you seem to be reluctant to see me?"
The Queen of Calamity said coldly, "I am waiting for someone who can accept my inheritance and take me to the Western Continent. You... are obviously not one of them."
Edward said, "But, whether it's the extraordinary characteristics of the sea snake or the Book of Natural Disasters, they are now in my hands. You can't get around me no matter what you want to do."
She said coldly: "What do you want?"
"What can you give me?"
Gao Xinam closed his eyes, and opened them again after a moment: "Carrying the Book of Calamity can suppress the negative effects of the scepter for a period of time, but after the suppression, the negative effects will double. ~5¨2,s′h?uc*h,e^n¨g`.+c`o′m¨"
"You even know about Poseidon's Scepter?"
"Oh, the extraordinary characteristics in that scepter are originally a part of me."
Edward nodded. "So, what are the negative effects of carrying the Book of Calamities?"
She smiled coldly, "The longer you carry it, the more likely it will contaminate you and make you lose control."
As for pollution, I'm not afraid of it.
"Besides that, doesn't this book itself have any extraordinary abilities?"
"No."
"So it can only be used as a material for advancement to Sequence 2 in Storm Path, right?"
Gao Xinam: "..."
Edward thought for a moment, patted his chest and said, "Sir Cosinamu, I think I have great potential. If you can give me some benefits... investment before I grow up, I will do my best to repay you elves after I grow up, for example, help them survive the doomsday or something."
"end?"
Gao Xinam looked at Edward deeply and asked, "Are you talking about yourself?"
"What?"
The next second, everything around him disappeared, and Edward returned to the ruins of the elves.
"Edward?"
Lilith's voice suddenly came, "Why did you suddenly freeze?"
"How long have I been here?"
"A few seconds."
Edward nodded. It seemed that this Queen of Scourge had some skills.
To be honest, I have the same problem as those "big shots", always liking to be a riddler.
The end? Myself?
She thinks the end of the world has something to do with me?
But doesn't the end of the mysterious world come from the invasion of the outer gods? If I am the end of the world, does that mean I am an outer god?
The author of Lord of Mysteries, Squid, did say that readers who traveled into the mysterious world would be like Outer Gods, but... Squid is just a book writer, what does he know about Lord of Mysteries?
"There is nothing valuable here, let's go. The price has been released."
...
Chapter 420: People who lie will have their noses grow longer
After returning to the hotel, Edward first used a Polaroid camera to take photos of every page of the Book of Calamities, and then asked Phoenix to help send them back to Audrey, asking her to help check whether the book mentioned any extraordinary abilities of high sequences.
Then he took out a tin box, put the Book of Calamities in it, sealed it with spirituality, and threw it into his leather bag.
Soon, Phoenix flew back and brought back news from Audrey:
"Edward,
This book mainly tells the life story of the Queen of Scourge. The book says that the reason why she is respected by the elves is not only because she is the queen of the Elf King, but also because she also possesses the extraordinary ability to destroy the world like Scourge.
Among them, several extraordinary abilities that she had used were mentioned, including lightning strikes, lightning arrows, lightning storms, etc. "
After reading the letter, Edward felt no ripples in his heart. Anyway, with the Scepter of Poseidon and the Book of Calamity, he had mastered most of the demigod-level extraordinary abilities of the Storm Path - although he could not hold them for a long time, it was enough.
More importantly, I will soon go explore that primitive island with the Hanged Man Alger and get the Storm Card, so the abilities recorded in this "Book of Natural Disasters"... don't seem to have much meaning?
So, do I still need to learn Elvish?
He couldn't help but think of the pain he experienced the last time he learned the ancient Feysac language.
Well, if he wasn't taught in a cramming style like last time, it would probably be much better, just like he later learned Intis and Giant languages bit by bit, and because the time span was relatively large, it was relatively easy.
"Forget it. The most important thing right now is to digest the potion as quickly as possible, and then go to the Primitive Island with the Hanged Man to hunt down the demigod-level Quetzalcoatl and advance to Sequence 4."
No, there is still one supplementary material missing.
Thinking of this, he took out a piece of paper and quickly wrote a letter, then handed it to Phoenix:
"Please help me deliver this letter to Bernadette."
"Okay~"
Edward stretched out his body and lay down on the bed. "Hey, I don't know if I can get the Tyrant card as I wish."
From the original novel, it seems that the Tyrant Card was specially left by the Russian priest for Klein. If only the Hanged Man and I go there, can we really get the card?
...
On board the Dawn.
Bernadette sat in the captain's room, holding a glass of bright red Sonia blood wine and sipping it.
At this time, Phoenix flew out of the spirit world and threw the letter over, "This is from Edward."
"Thanks."
Bernadette nodded slightly, opened the letter and took a look, "The Book of Calamity? Is this the Elven Queen's backup plan for resurrection?"
Dad was right. Once an Extraordinary Person was promoted to the Angel level, death would actually be a luxury. Firstly, he would be difficult to kill. Secondly, even if he was killed, there was no guarantee that he would not have a backup plan and find a chance to resurrect in the future.
Since a Sequence 2 who died in the Second Epoch could survive death and still be resurrected, what about Dad? He was only a step away from being promoted to Sequence 0, so how could he be stabbed to death so easily?
Dad, where are you?
Bernadette then picked up a finger-sized wooden doll with a long nose from a row of dolls on the cabinet behind her. She clenched it slightly and suddenly handed it to Phoenix: "Send this back to Edward."
"OK."
Phoenix turned and disappeared.
She murmured with a smile: "People who lie...their noses will grow longer."
Just then, a cheer came from outside: "Captain, we've arrived at the Emerald City!"
She raised her head and looked out the window into the distance, and saw a gorgeous castle made of pure emerald dotted on the sea as clear as sapphire.
It is like a dream and magnificent.
Bernadette looked at the letter again and murmured, "Edward, I'm waiting for your return here."
...
On the other side, Edward felt helpless when he received the long-nosed Pinocchio doll brought back by Phoenix. Is Bernadette hinting that I am lying again?
But...I wanted to be honest with you last time, but you avoided me and said something like "there is no misunderstanding".
Tsk, a woman over a hundred years old, her mind is still hard to guess.
8pm.
Edward took a rented small fishing boat to a deserted island near Simim Island, and then used the Animagus to transform himself into Obscurus by "reclaiming" the Scepter of Poseidon from Mr. Fool.
"Come on! The first online class of the mysterious world."
Edward injected spirituality into the scepter of Poseidon that was surrounded by countless starlight, and then projected the image of himself imparting basic science (mathematics and physics) knowledge to a large number of believers who believed in Poseidon.
Since the number of believers who could establish contact at one time was limited, he could only teach in batches, conveying these basic sciences to thousands of believers, and called it "learning from the barbarians in order to defeat the barbarians". If they wanted to defeat the invaders and colonists' powerful ships and guns, they must first learn how to build powerful ships and guns like them.
Then he established stable contacts with some high-ranking members of the resistance army and the Poseidon Sect, and taught them ideological knowledge - mainly "Marxism-Leninism" and "Mao Zedong Thought", but they were all appropriately adjusted according to the actual situation of the mysterious world.
This knowledge will be passed on to the middle level who have gathered in advance through the senior management, and then the middle level will pass it on to the people below, thus completing the viral spread.
However, Edward had no idea whether this way of "imparting" knowledge could help digest the potion, or how efficient it would be - after all, "wandering" was too deliberate.
While Edward was tirelessly imparting knowledge to the thousands of Poseidon believers in the Rorsted Islands,
On the island of Simim, Winter, who had transformed the money into gold pounds through Transfiguration, sat in his shabby home staring at the bag of money in a daze. It was obvious that this money was enough for him and Rini to live comfortably for the rest of their lives, but he was not happy at all.
What happened during the day kept lingering in his mind and couldn't be shaken off.
Whenever he thought of the old woman and the apple he had eaten, he felt a wave of fear - even though the old woman said that her soul would only be taken away after her death.
But, that old woman is the legendary witch. Is what the witch says necessarily true?