LRAB Chapter 124: The Tarot Meeting's Exchange Session
Chapter 124: The Tarot Meeting's Exchange Session
Chapter 124: The Tarot Meeting's Exchange Session
On Monday afternoon, Leonard finally had some time to rest.
There was no time to get back to his own place, so he was in the "Red Gloves" lounge, leaning back on the sofa and pretending to doze off.
At exactly three o'clock, his vision was covered by gray mist, and in the blink of an eye he appeared in the giant's hall, on one side of the bronze table.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Fool." Miss Justice's greeting was more cheerful than the previous two days, as if she had emerged from the previous gloom.
Leonard stood up and greeted Mr. Fool, thinking to himself: What a carefree lady.
As usual, the first part was the offering of Russell's diary to Mr. Fool, followed by Mr. Fool's reading session.
The subsequent transaction process was also very brief, and soon it was time for the discussion session of this gathering.
The "World," seated at the very bottom, first glanced at "The Hermit" Cattleya, then at "The Hanged Man" Alger, before saying to them, "Keep an eye on the movements of General Disease."
His investigation into the royal conspiracy has now reached its final and most crucial stage.
Many important secrets are no longer known to the extraordinary individuals at the bottom.
He planned to use "White Saintess" Katarina Pelle as a breakthrough point to obtain some core intelligence.
The reason for choosing this "ageless witch" is twofold: firstly, Triss provided Klein with some information about the "Witch Church," and secondly, Klein reached a cooperation agreement with the "Red Angel" evil spirit on this matter. Klein was responsible for finding the "ageless witch's" hiding place, and then working with the "Red Angel" evil spirit to control Katarina.
After succeeding, Klein will be responsible for communicating with the "ageless witch" to obtain information. Meanwhile, the evil spirit "Red Angel" will use the "ageless witch" to infiltrate the headquarters of the "Witch Church".
Currently, Klein is searching for this "ageless witch" through two clues. One is to have Danitz and Anderson search for the whereabouts of "Disease Admiral" Tracy in the Raging Sea, because he knows that Tracy is Katarina's child. By using Tracy's blood, he can divine the existence of this "ageless witch" above the "gray fog".
But this will take time, after all, the ocean is so vast that it is difficult to find a "pirate admiral" in a short period of time.
The second clue is to use Sophia, Backlund's "socialite," to find Katarina's whereabouts. According to the information provided by Triss, Sophia is the link between the "Witch Cult" and many members of the royal family and members of the House of Lords, and is Katarina's direct subordinate.
It would be inappropriate to put "Justice" in charge of this lead, since noble ladies try to avoid close contact with these "socialites".
After thinking it over, Klein finally decided to commission Raphael to attack Sophia and see if she would ask Katarina for help when she was seriously injured.
At this moment, Klein manipulated "The World" to make such a request to "The Hermit" and "The Hanged Man" at the Tarot meeting, purely hoping to find "General of Disease" as soon as possible.
Both Cattleya and Alger agreed, saying they would keep an eye out for relevant information.
Then Leonard changed his casual sitting posture and straightened his back, saying, "I have two pieces of news here, both related to Raphael."
"A few days ago, an extraordinary event occurred at a hospital: a patient who had just passed away—."
He first described the extraordinary case that had occurred at the hospital, and then described the "skinning case" that the "scapegoat" had just reported at the subway station.
As Klein listened, he thought to himself: "I must say, this guy is quite creative; it's like he has a few ghost story scripts in his hand."
"Justice" Audrey, "The Magician" Fors, and "The Trial" Hugh were listening to it as an urban legend. Fors felt it was great material for a story, and if she weren't afraid of being checked by the "Night Watchers" or "Punishers" on her gas meter, she would have liked to write a few horror novels based on it.
Emlyn "The Moon" and Derrick "The Sun" were simply listening to the spectacle, especially the latter, who was surrounded by such bizarre and terrifying stories.
"The Hermit" Cattleya and "The Hanged Man" Alger, after comparing their experiences with how they digested potions when they were Sequence 6, both came to the same conclusion: when they first started digesting potions, they didn't seem to have a clear goal from the beginning, unlike Raphael.
The process of digesting a potion is more like an exploration. The name of the potion is just a "guideline," and how to digest it varies from person to person.
Just like the magic potions of "sailors," some need to fight the storm on the ship to digest the magic potion, some only need to fight the enemy on the ship to digest it, and some can be digested by carefully wiping the deck.
However, regardless of the circumstances, there is always an exploration process when one is first promoted. But Raphael's process of digesting the potion seems to have skipped this exploration process and was able to digest the potion very efficiently from the very beginning.
Cattleya and Alger didn't think it was just good luck for the other. Considering that when Raphael had just become a "werewolf," he had asked "The World" to consult the "Temperance Faction" about the outline of digesting potions, both of them believed that Raphael must have thought deeply before he began to play the role purposefully.
Alger felt that this was no longer simply a matter of intelligence; Raphael seemed to be able to make constant adjustments to better and faster understand and solve new problems.
Finally, Leonard said, "—The Night Watchers and the Punishers have just merged these two cases and are preparing to escalate them to public cases. They are unaware that someone is ingesting the potion."
It's not that the official extraordinary individuals lacked the ability to make connections; it's just that before this, no wild extraordinary individual had ever digested a magical potion and caused such a commotion, so they lacked sufficient reference.
Emlyn, nicknamed "The Moon," remarked, "Raphael really knows how to show off."
Alger the Hanged Man and the others all looked at the Moon: Showing off? You're only concerned with him showing off?
Leonard paused for a moment and then continued: "Next, I'm going to share with you an expedition that I took with Raphael last week."
"A few nights ago, I received a mission to go to the western outskirts of Backlund—"
He gave a brief account of the entire exploration process, naturally glossing over the help the old man provided. He also glossed over his encounter in the fortress church in just a few words.
Finally, Leonard concluded: "I didn't sense any madness in him, but I did sense his calmness, the kind of calmness that takes life and death lightly—well, speaking of which, that's actually pretty crazy."
"I used to think that we should get rid of him as soon as possible, or at least control him."
"But after getting to know him for a while, I felt that I should give him some freedom to disrupt other secret organizations."
Yes, Leonard's opinion of Rafael has changed significantly. Although his perspective remains the same, in his eyes, Rafael is still a criminal.
But this is a high-level criminal. Such criminals usually disdain harming ordinary people, so his destructive power may be transferred to secret organizations.
However, the premise is that the official extraordinary individuals should not provoke Raphael.
This is the most uncontrollable aspect, because even official extraordinary beings are subject to Raphael's indiscriminate attacks.
Therefore, Leonard pinned his hopes on the Tarot Club, hoping that Mr. Fool could control this high-level criminal.