Chapter 1320: Mind Mail
Susie was sitting by the door, waiting for Audrey to return.
At that moment, the golden retriever immediately went up to her as soon
as she saw her approach. She even gave a rather talented showcase of her
acting by barking and wagging her tail.
She didn't ask on the spot; instead, she kept accompanying Audrey back
to her bedroom before asking in concern, "Is it over?"
Audrey tersely acknowledged, indicating that there was no problem.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Susie pressed.
"Not yet." Audrey shook her head slightly.
Due to Susie's concern, she instinctively recalled her previous
experience, but to her surprise, she realized that she couldn't recall
the image and name of the Psychology Alchemists president. To recall
even the information that she had learned from The World Gehrman
Sparrow, she had to focus quite a bit.
To be frank, in front of Beyonders below the demigod level, she could do
similar feats as a Manipulator. However, to influence a saint in the
mind domain and make it impossible for them to sense it was almost
impossible unless the other party was hypnotized, unconscious, or
enslaved.
That gentleman's level is probably higher than I expected...
Audrey controlled her emotions and calmly made a certain judgment.
She gave Susie a look and got the golden retriever to stand guard
outside the door. In her mind, she outlined the character mask that
represented Pride.
Just as she was thinking about this, she felt a slight fluctuation in
the sea of collective subconscious around her.
With just a thought, Audrey reached out her left hand and grabbed it.
She took out an abnormally cold, illusory grayish-white mask.
*As long as I seriously think about it, will this Pride mask come to my
side? Or should I say that it has already existed in my subconscious and
has been following me?* As Audrey carefully examined her mind
island, she signaled with a thought that made the Pride mask vanish.
The ice-cold, illusory grayish-white mask quickly turned transparent and
melted into the surrounding sea of collective subconscious.
Audrey still couldn't determine where this Pride mask had gone. Why did
it appear in such a timely manner each time?
This made her increasingly wary. She decided to pray to Mr. Fool and
make the wish of sealing the mask.
Just as she was thinking of doing a few more experiments to obtain more
knowledge from Pride, she saw the sea of collective subconscious begin
to resonate without using her Manipulator Beyonder powers.
A beam of light came from afar as it grew larger and more obvious.
Finally, it turned into an illusory letter.
This letter stopped in front of Audrey's mind island as though it was
searching for a path to complete the "delivery."
Audrey naturally wouldn't let any foreign object enter her mind world.
She hurriedly reached out her left hand and touched the illusory letter.
Seeing that her fingers were about to touch the surface of the letter,
Audrey suddenly stopped.
Her experience and intelligence told her at the same time:
*Don't touch anything in the mysticism world rashly. This was especially
so for the mind domain. Otherwise, it would easily lead to corruption
and produce mental problems!*
With this in mind, Audrey produced a Virtual Persona and put on the
black long-veiled glove, Hand of Horror.
After making the necessary preparations, she reached out to grab the
illusory letter and watched as it peeled away its outer layer and
flipped over one page at a time.
This was all the information related to the mind dragon in East Chester
County.
*To use the sea of collective subconscious to transmit information...
The higher-ups of the Spectator pathway are truly amazing...* As
a Manipulator, Audrey had been trying her best to maintain her initial
yearning towards the mysticism world. It was a pure and innocent pursuit
of "dreams" and "magic."
This was one of the ways to prevent herself from losing herself in the
"Manipulating" experience of things, and not be assimilated by the sea
of collective subconscious.
After flipping through all the information, Audrey let the illusory
letter melt into the sea of collective subconscious.
She was still in no hurry to pray to Mr. Fool. According to her previous
arrangements, she went out to be busy over other things.
At dusk, before the banquet at home began, she found some time to
quickly make a prayer in her bedroom and make a wish.
In the next second, Audrey saw the grayish-white Pride appear from the
sea of collective subconscious in front of her. The illusory feeling
slowly vanished as a tiny amount of metallic luster flashed.
For some reason, this persona mask had a certain substantial feel to it
as though it was bordering between illusory and realism.
This meant that it was isolated from Audrey's mind island in a physical
sense.
Of course, it also lost the ability to return to the sea of collective
subconscious.
Audrey held Pride and attempted to remove Lie that had turned into an
emerald necklace, overlapping the two together.
Just as she had expected, the half-illusory, half-real Pride embedded
itself into Lie, turning into a blob of patterns that roughly looked
like a human face.
*In the future, I'll use this method to carry it with me. I won't allow
the persona mask to have any contact with my mind or body until I need
to use it...* Audrey's mind raced as she sincerely thanked Mr.
Fool.
She then left for the banquet hall.
Along the way, she met her father, Earl Hall.
"Good news." Earl Hall laughed.
Audrey didn't hide her surprise.
"Alfred's coming back?"
This was her other brother.
"You actually guessed it?" Earl Hall said in surprise, "In the next half
of the year, he will return to Backlund as a general."
Half a year... Susie is already a Dreamwalker... Audrey
thought for a moment and asked, "Father, when are we returning to East
Chester County?"
As the war had just ended and there were many things in the kingdom that
needed to be done, the nobles didn't return to their respective fiefs
during New Year's. They remained in Backlund all this time. It was
already the end of February.
Earl Hall nodded and said, "About April."
In the ancient palace above the fog.
*Mind Mail... Be careful of viruses, don't click on them without
thought...* As Klein sighed, he threw the curtain that
represented the Attendant of Mysteries Beyonder characteristic back into
the junk pile, allowing it to cover all the items there.
He had just fulfilled Miss Justice's wish using the "Grafting" ability
he named. He connected the illusory concept of the persona mask to an
ordinary metal mask, and he gave the Worms of Spirit, who were on duty
at Sefirah Castle, an order to recharge the powers from time to time to
prolong the "Grafting" effect.
*From the description of Mr. Gluttony from the Psychology Alchemists,
Zaratul seems to have found Constant City. I have to be even more
careful...* Klein tapped the edge of the long mottled table with
his finger, causing Worms of Spirit to appear from his body.
His figure vanished from Sefirah Castle.
Winter County, Amantha mountain range, Cathedral of Serenity.
Leonard obtained a document from the Pope.
This was the first thing he was responsible for after becoming a
high-ranking deacon.
After returning to his room, Leonard leisurely leaned back and placed
his feet on the desk. Then, he opened the document in his hand and began
reading.
*A wandering magician, Merlin Hermes, grants the wishes of others for
pleasure... The newly rebuilt Constant City... Fully Automatic Wishing
Machine... Sequence 4 of the Seer pathway is Bizarro Sorcerer, Sequence
3 is Scholar of Yore, and Sequence 2 is Miracle Invoker...*
Leonard read until he suddenly fell silent.
After a few seconds, he suppressed his voice and asked, "Old Man, how
many angels of the Seer pathway are active across the land?"
Pallez Zoroast scoffed.
*"This is acting. There should only be one Miracle Invoker who still
needs to act.*
"You should know who I'm talking about."
Leonard looked at the information in his hand again and mumbled, "He's
having quite a good time..."
He had already decided that the main purpose of this mission was to act
as a Nightwatcher and digest his potion. He could also travel in
passing. As for handling the matter, what mattered was to find a
reasonable explanation.
After flipping through the thick documents in boredom, Leonard retracted
his feet and stood up.
He was going to retrieve a Grade 1 Sealed Artifact that a high-ranking
deacon like him could own.
To other saints of the Church of Evernight, this was quite a headache.
This was because the negative effects of Sealed Artifacts weren't easily
endured. It was even more so when one needed to carry them for a long
period of time. However, if one chose a Holy Artifact that was more
compatible with him, there would be a problem of powers overlapping.
As for Leonard, he didn't need to worry about this problem. As long as
the Sealed Artifact he was interested in had a living characteristic, he
could get Old Man's help. By parasitizing it with a Worm of Time, it
significantly reduced the negative effects of the Sealed Artifact,
making it as obedient as the Word of the Sea.
Therefore, the main thing to choose is its powers... Leonard
whistled and walked out of the room.
Monday afternoon, in the ancient palace above the gray fog.
Dark red beams shot out, materializing into different figures.
Derrick hadn't needed to count his heartbeat for a long time. All he
needed to do was take a look at the wall clock and calculate the time
difference with Backlund to know how much longer before the Tarot
Gathering happened. At that moment, he stood up with Miss Justice and
the other members of the Tarot Club. He bowed to the end of the long
bronze table and said, "Good afternoon, Mr. Fool."
After taking their seats and paying their respects, Emlyn glanced left
and right and said, "I want to know if there's something special about
the Planter and the Moon pathways compared to the other pathways?"
After raising the question, he didn't hide it and instead added frankly,
"I recently learned that the internal system of the Church of Earth is
different from other normal systems. It's split into two
categories---Favored and Blessed..."
After Emlyn finished his simple description, Alger, Cattleya, Leonard,
and company looked at each other, unable to provide a reasonable
explanation.
Of course, every member present, including Derrick, could tell that the
internal system of the Church of Earth was abnormal.
At this moment, they heard a soft sigh.
This sigh seemed to come from an era more ancient than ancient. It came
from Mr. Fool, who sat at the end of the long mottled table.