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Fors, who had bid farewell to Lawrence and left, returned directly to her rented house, immediately entered her bedroom, and locked the door.
She sat on the edge of the bed, adjusted her state, and then softly chanted the honorific name of The Fool:
"The Fool that doesn't belong to this era; the mysterious ruler above the Gray Fog; the King of Yellow and Black Who Wields Good Luck."
"I wish to pray to you and recount what happened to me today."
"I met the elder brother of the husband of the old lady who made me an Apprentice. He is suspected to be a member of a certain family."
Soon after Fors finished her prayer to Mr. Fool, boundless gray-white mist suddenly filled her vision, and a illusory yellowish-brown parchment fell from above.
She saw the knowledge written on it, and the unease in her heart dissipated by more than half.
With Mr. Fool's intervention, that old Mr. Lawrence would definitely not be able to obtain correct revelations from his divination!
Fors quickly and sincerely expressed her gratitude to Mr. Fool, then got up and busied herself with preparing the ritual.
She lit candles, then threw essential oils, hydrosols, herbal powders, and other items into the fire. When a clear, ethereal fragrance filled the room, a faint, illusory mist enveloped the entire altar.
Fors quickly adjusted her body and mind according to the content recorded on the parchment, entered a state of meditation, and silently chanted the honorific name corresponding to "The Fool" over and over again.
In a daze, Fors only felt herself floating back to the ancient and majestic palace above the Gray Fog, and saw Mr. Fool sitting high above, looking down on everything.
Silently, a majestic and solemn Angel appeared in Fors's vision. She saw the other party wrap herself in twelve pairs of dark black wings, layer upon layer!
After an unknown amount of time, Fors suddenly woke up from this dazed state, with only three candles quietly burning before her eyes.
"Angel..." Fors was somewhat lost in thought, momentarily even forgetting the step of ending the ritual.
Above the Gray Fog, Klein temporarily put the matters of the Abraham Family out of his mind.
According to his original plan, he began to divine Daisy's whereabouts, leveraging the boost from the Gray Fog.
Images flashed through his mind, some coherent, some disjointed, with no logical connection.
He saw Daisy being gagged from behind with a handkerchief by a man wearing a thick jacket and a gray baseball cap, and forcibly dragged into a secluded alley.
He saw Daisy being lifted by another man dressed similarly and thrown into a carriage waiting outside the alley.
Daisy was in a daze, threatened by a sharp dagger, her ears filled with foul and intimidating words.
The carriage drove into the luxurious villa where Capim resided.
Daisy was locked in a small, dark room, where female cries, screams, and curses occasionally echoed from outside.
Bugs Bunny, dressed like a gentleman, stood in front of the full-length mirror, adjusting the hat on his head and the red wooden melodica tucked into his waistband.
Leyton was engrossed in eating the freshly bought roasted meat nearby, occasionally stopping to take a sip of juice.
After satisfactorily tidying his attire, Bugs Bunny immediately reverted to his true nature, hopping onto the table and curiously asking Leyton:
"Boss, are you really letting me, no, a rabbit, fight alone tonight?"
Leyton glanced at Bugs Bunny, who sounded both excited and worried, and said:
"No, Klein will act with you. Don't worry, there will be no danger. It's just to give you some combat experience."
"Finally, I'll let the Snow Woman clean up the mess. I was planning to find some unlucky people to test the Snow Woman's abilities anyway."
As he spoke, Klein knocked on the living room door.
With a creak, a Natural Spirit opened the door.
Klein scanned the room, then walked directly to the seat opposite Leyton and sat down.
He organized his words slightly and said:
"I divined Daisy's whereabouts. She's being held in Capim's luxurious villa."
"There are many other kidnapped women in that villa."
"This is not surprising. Capim is a human trafficker with official backing."
Leyton responded with a flat nod.
Klein frowned, saying with some disbelief:
"Capim has official backing?"
"Necessarily. This morning, I took a look outside his villa, and there were at least four Beyonders inside," Leyton said, recalling the scenes he had glimpsed through his Eyes of Mystery Prying that morning:
"The strongest among them was a Sequence 6 or Sequence 5 of the Justiciar Pathway, which is a Pathway controlled by the Loen Royal Family's Augustus Family."
"Royal Family?" Klein murmured softly.
He had a premonition that Capim, as a human trafficker, might be involved with many people and incidents.
Sighing, Klein composed himself. He would not abandon his plan to rescue those innocent girls just because Capim was involved with the Royal Family or even more.
He looked at Leyton with a solemn gaze and said:
"Your gaze when you investigated the villa, it wasn't discovered by the Beyonders inside, was it?"
Leyton shook his head slightly, saying with great confidence:
"Of course not. The Eyes of Mystery Prying of a Mystery Pryer is one of the core abilities of this Pathway."
"Moreover, the Reader Pathway has a Sequence called Detective, also known as Watcher of knowledge, who can deduce a large number of conclusions from subtle traces and clues."
So that's how it is. The combination of Reader and Mystery Pryer is quite powerful, but it's a bit too specialized.
Klein sighed inwardly, then shifted the topic to the Abraham Family. Miss Magician had just prayed to him and explained her encounter.
"Miss Magician encountered a member of the Abraham Family. The other party is the elder brother of the husband of the lady who guided her onto the Beyonder Pathway."
"Abraham... Affected by Mr. Door's ravings, they don't even have a single Sequence 6 Beyonder. Later, they experienced another major upheaval, and now the Abraham Family..."
"Upheaval? What upheaval?" Klein was very curious about the Abraham Family's affairs.
Putting down his knife and fork, Leyton leaned back in his chair, rubbing his chin as he said:
"The Abraham Family once had a plan to cultivate non-family members to circumvent the influence of Mr. Door's ravings."
"As a result, because the family members were too weak, and those Apprentices they cultivated gradually grew stronger, they wanted to take control of the Abraham Family in turn?"
Klein interjected.
"Not bad, you've learned to answer quickly!" Leyton reached out and speared a piece of roasted meat, putting it into his mouth. After a slight pause, he continued:
"Among the Apprentices cultivated by Abraham, one was tempted by the True Creator and joined the Aurora Order. He incited a rebellion within the Abraham Family, eventually gaining enough benefits to become a Saint of Mysteries of the Aurora Order."
Klein listened in silence, ultimately only able to sigh with a sense of lament.
Stimulated by the aroma of the roasted meat, Klein picked up the extra knife and fork on the dining table and speared a piece of roasted meat from the plate in front of Leyton, putting it into his mouth.
"Hmm, it tastes pretty good."
"Why did you choose to cooperate with the Aurora Order?"
"It's not that I chose to cooperate with the Aurora Order, but that He chose me!" As he spoke, Leyton raised his left hand.
At dusk, Cherwood Borough, outside Capim's luxurious villa.
Leyton and Klein waited for nightfall in an unoccupied room of a nearby house.
Bugs Bunny, dressed in a custom black tailcoat, a tall black top hat, and a red bow tie around his neck, stood on the windowsill.
He held an adult-palm-sized red wooden melodica with both paws, silently playing it near his mouth.
Crows, pigeons... landed on the windowsill, picked up the seeds from the cloth bag beside Bugs Bunny, then flapped their wings and left.
It wasn't until most of the seeds in the cloth bag were consumed that Bugs Bunny stopped playing the melodica.
Disregarding his gentlemanly appearance, he plopped down on the windowsill and complained:
"Playing the melodica is truly too difficult for a rabbit!"
Leyton handed him a fruit, and Bugs Bunny was immediately silenced.
Klein, by the window on the other side, watched the pigeons, crows, and other birds summoned by Bugs Bunny scatter seeds around Capim's villa, and asked curiously:
"Can this melodica control animals? What are those seeds for?"
"That melodica corresponds to the Beast Tamer Sequence. As for those seeds..."
Bugs Bunny, while munching on the fruit, took over Leyton's words:
"They are deep sleep flowers, deep sleep flower seeds that I've modified. They will grow and bloom in a very short time."
"When it gets dark, they can spread pollen, putting everyone in this area into a state of deep sleep."
Klein nodded, then continued to watch Capim's villa until he saw someone walk out of the villa, hail a carriage, and prepare to go elsewhere.
Klein looked at Leyton, who was playing with a figurine, and said:
"To be safe, I'll go into the villa and grab someone to help divine some specific details."
Leyton merely glanced at Klein, then nodded without asking him how he planned to do it.
Upon receiving the reply, Klein immediately opened the door and left, preparing to find another unoccupied room to transform himself into a Spirit Body by summoning himself and responding to himself, in order to control the person who had just come out of Capim's villa.
Leyton scanned the room, walked a few steps to the center of the room, closed his eyes, and began to meditate, outlining the brass-colored ring in his mind, while simultaneously vibrating his spirituality and softly chanting:
"Spirit wandering in the void, upper-realm being friendly to humans, the exclusive messenger of 'Al Tines.'"
A golden book, as if cast from gold, rapidly fell from the Spirit World into reality.
On its golden cover, a crack quickly appeared, tearing open a mouth:
"My dear master, is there something you summoned me for?"
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