Chapter 730: Tracking

Seeing that golden strange lamp, whether it was Lu Mi, Fu Lan Ka, or Jianna, their eyelids jumped, and

That wouldn't be "0-05," the "Wishing Lamp," would it?

Hmm, the pumpkin carriage is one of the symbols of the Major Arcana card "The Hermit," and she has a close relationship with Bernadette, the leader of the "Dawn of Elements," the eldest daughter of Emperor Roselle, and the wielder of "0-05." It's not impossible that she borrowed the "Wishing Lamp" to use...

As these thoughts flashed through their minds, they heard Anthony say respectfully:

"Good evening, Ms. Magician, Ms. Justice."

Lu Mian and the others snapped out of it and offered their own greetings.

"This is Ms. Hermit," Ms. Magician introduced briefly.

After Lu Mian and the others finished their salutations, the lady wearing a cream-colored, gold-embroidered, high-collared long dress took a dark red wine bottle from the void, which was contained in an old glass round bottle, and said to Franca:

"Lend me that cufflink. You can go home and rest now."

Dealing with that "Overseer" from the "School of Truth" would inevitably be a battle at the demigod level, not something Lu Mian and the others could get involved in.

Franca had no intention of forcibly participating and handed the button, which looked like it was made of glass, to Ms. Magician.

Ms. Magician then gave her the wine bottle, which only had a shallow layer of dark red liquid:

"This is a magical artifact. Its effect is that drinking it restores physical strength and spirituality, but remember, you can only drink it once a day. Don't become a drunkard."

Would drinking one more sip immediately make one a drunkard? Franca and the others instantly understood the true meaning of Ms. Magician's final warning.

Seeing that the dark red wine in the bottle looked like only a single sip, Franca turned her body, preparing to hand the old glass round bottle to Lu Mian.

He was the one with the greatest expenditure of spirituality.

Ms. Magician rubbed the "Mirror Button" between her fingers and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, you won't be able to finish it. Its name is 'The Never-Ending Wine'."

Is that so... Maintaining a mindset of trying it out, Franca unscrewed the thin metal cap and gulped down the shallow layer of dark red wine.

After the slightly astringent and sweet alcoholic liquid slid down her throat, she felt instantly energized, as if she had just had a full night's sleep and had never fought against Mo Lan Avigny.

At the same time, she saw wisps of dark red liquid seeping out from the bottom of the old glass round bottle, forming that shallow layer of wine once again.

It really is never-ending... Amidst her amazement, Franca handed the old glass round bottle toward Lu Mian.

Her hand had only extended halfway when she suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

She subconsciously changed direction, intending to let Jenna drink first.

But then she had a second thought and felt that this was even more wrong!

Because she would inevitably have to give it to Lu Mian to drink later anyway!

Forget it, forget it, people of the world don't fuss over trifles... Franca muttered in her native language.

She turned to wrap her finger around the mouth of the bottle and successfully saw a little white frost form there.

As the white frost naturally fell off, Franca gave "The Never-Ending Wine" to Jenna.

Jenna drank the dark red wine, mimicked her actions, and only then handed it to Lu Mian.

Seeing this, Franca quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Mian did not pay attention to the two witches' actions; he was more focused on the unusual aspects displayed by Ms. Hermit and Ms. Magician.

The former's eyes, obscured by her lenses, became extremely deep but lacked focus, a vast expanse, as if she were staring at something unknown, while the latter had countless brilliant points of light highlighting her surroundings, as if she had shrunk the starry sky and moved it to the ground.

"Divining" or "prophesying" before dealing with an important event? Lu Mian realized this and took the old glass round bottle, gulping down the dark red wine inside.

His spirituality was rapidly restored, as if he had experienced the arrival of six o'clock in the morning.

Of course, the portion of spirituality he had already used up and pre-accumulated did not "return."

Phew, Lu Mian's spirituality deficiency anxiety was cured.

After Anthony also drank "The Never-Ending Wine" and returned the magical artifact to Ms. Magician, the dark light within the "Mirror Button" became stained with the color of starlight and flew out, falling into the eyes of that Major Arcana card holder.

Ms. Magician let the "Mirror Button" fly toward Franca on its own, while she stretched out both hands, grabbed the void, and pulled hard to both sides.

Silently, the void was torn open like a transparent film, revealing one after another of the void-dark passages that had formed a spiderweb.

This was the Mirror World in the conventional sense.

Without needing to rely on a mirror, Ms. Magician directly opened the illusory gate to enter the Mirror World!

Is this the high-level power of the "Apprentice" pathway? As Lu Mian and the others sighed inwardly, Ms. Magician cast her gaze toward Ms. Hermit beside her.

Ms. Hermit, wearing a purple robe, had a bright, unrealistic ball of yarn in her right hand, and she wrapped its end around that golden, strangely shaped lamp.

Then, this Major Arcana card holder threw the bright, illusory ball of yarn out, into the illusory gate opened by Ms. Magician, and into the dark, void tunnels of the Mirror World.

The ball of yarn rolled into one of the passages on its own and quickly disappeared into the depths, leaving behind only the thread that represented its trajectory and connected to the strange golden lamp.

Ms. Magician immediately took Ms. Hermit and Ms. Justice and walked into the Mirror World, chasing after the ball of yarn.

After their figures disappeared into the Mirror World, the void that had been forcibly torn open closed rapidly.

"I should have heard the story of that ball of yarn, but I don't remember what it's called..." Franca muttered again.

Lu Mian turned his gaze back to Mo Lan Avigny's corpse.

"Do you want to take him back for Ludwig to eat?" Franca said with disgust. "Never mind the question of whether Ludwig should eat people, the flesh and blood of such 'Mirror People' will gradually turn back into mirror shards. Do you want Ludwig to eat a mouthful of glass slag?"

Lu Mian shook his head:

"I'm thinking about whether or not to take Mo Lan Avigny's vanity mirror."

After traveling along the bright yarn for a while, the three Major Arcana card holders arrived at a country villa corresponding to the mirror's coordinates and saw the target mirror placed on the desk.

It was also a vanity mirror.

They did not stop, chasing after the ball of yarn, and strolled through the Spirit Realm.

In just two or three seconds, they returned to reality and saw the bright, illusory ball of yarn staying inside a gloomy, dark church with no signs of any deity.

Under the dome of the church, one human after another was hung in mid-air, swaying gently with the blowing wind.

Some of those humans were old men, some were youths, some were gentlemen wearing top hats, some were ladies in vintage dresses with beautiful faces, some were tall and burly like giants, and some were covered in fish-like, wet, sticky scales...

Their common characteristic was that they all had their eyes tightly closed, hung by invisible ropes, like corpses that had been hanged.

Deep inside the church, on a wooden black-backed chair, sat a man in his thirties with ordinary features and deep black hair. His aura and his soul made Ms. Magician feel both familiar and strange.

It was familiar because she recognized him as the leader of the "April Fools," "Loki," who had been forced to use up his resurrection count. It was strange because he was tainted with a peculiar feeling.

At this time, a blurry, drawn-like female figure stood beside "Loki," and his eyes were pitch black, like the surface of a lake on a moonless night.

He looked at Ms. Magician, Ms. Hermit, and Ms. Justice, and said with a smile:

"Thanks to you, I've found a glimmer of hope for my return."

Before "Loki" finished speaking, those corpses hanging in mid-air opened their eyes at the same time.

Those pairs of eyes were all pitch black.

Inside the quarry cavity with a fixed entrance to the Mirror World.

"Take Mo Lan Avigny's vanity mirror?" Jenna first repeated Lu Mian's words, then suddenly realized, "You want to see if any other 'Mirror People' tried to contact him before the news of Mo Lan Avigny's mysterious disappearance spread?"

"Waiting is a virtue," Lu Mian replied with a smile.

For a "Hunter," this was even more of an essential quality.

He bent down and took the vanity mirror from the pocket of Mo Lan Avigny's corpse.

Just at this moment, the vanity mirror snapped open.

It opened by itself!

On the palm-sized glass mirror surface, dark light surged out, instantly filling the quarry cavity that only had faint light.

The next second, Lu Mian, Franca, and the others saw a figure rapidly outline itself beside the fixed entrance to the Mirror World on the surface of the protruding rock.

It was a woman with black hair and brown eyes, a beautiful appearance, wearing a bright red long dress with layers of embroidery and lace, exposing a large area of snow-white skin on her chest in the cold winter, with a smile on her face that made people feel close to her.

Perle?

That well-known Trier socialite, the theater actress from the Kingdom of Loen, Perle?

Lu Mian was both shocked and bewildered, never having imagined that he would be face-to-face with this flamboyant socialite here in this kind of environment.

Franca, Jenna, and Anthony also had a psychedelic, unreal feeling.

Almost at the same time, Lu Mian recalled two facts related to Perle:

When he first went to observe Mo Lan Avigny, Perle was on a date with a new lover in the hotel's attached restaurant;

All socialites are standard, textbook-style brokers—political brokers!

Combining these two points, Lu Mian had a guess:

Could Perle also be a member of the "School of Truth"?

Could she be the "Overseer" directly under Yebus, a demigod-level evil god's blessed one?

If that were the case, where did Ms. Magician and the others go to track, and who were they tracking?

Run! Must run immediately!

At this moment, Perle looked at Lu Mian and the others, and her smiling lips spat out the "Word of Order":

"Your crimes have yet to be punished!"

(End of chapter)