Chapter 73: Meeting Up

Chapter 73: Meeting Up

Inside the building housing the Loen Antiquities Collection and Preservation Foundation, Audrey, whose thoughts were surging, blinked. Paying careful attention to the minute changes in her expression and body language, she traced a half-genuine, half-affected crimson moon across her chest and sighed.

“This is truly a tragedy. May their spirits rest in peace.”

The reason she had guessed just now that the members of the archaeological team were part of the Psychology Alchemists was because she had once accepted a mission from that organization, helping them obtain from Associate Professor Michel a notebook dating back to the Twenty Years’ War. That notebook had belonged to Lindyra, a former knight of Hedrak village.

At that time, Audrey had asked Mr. Fool for help and, through “magic mirror divination,” confirmed the notebook’s origins. She had discovered that it had close ties to a village that worshiped dragons. Since she had known beforehand that a mind dragon capable of hiding inside the sea of collective subconscious existed there, and considering her Sequence and strength at the time, she had ultimately chosen to hand the notebook over to the Psychology Alchemists.

In other words, there was a high probability that the secret organization known as the Psychology Alchemists had located Hedrak village through that notebook and gone there in search of their target.

Another basis for Audrey’s judgment was the strange mental illness suffered by the archaeological team. It had spread like a plague, causing the people around them to go mad one after another.

In the field of reality, mental illnesses had a chance of being hereditary, but they almost never infected others. Yet in mysticism, in the world of spirits and consciousness, chaotic and mad minds could indeed infect targets through methods resembling spirit channeling, dream intrusion, or subconscious influence!

And hidden in Hedrak village was a mind dragon that no one knew how long had lived!

The Psychology Alchemists followed the notebook to Hedrak village and were cleverly contaminated one after another by that threatened mind dragon? Perhaps it accomplished this through the sea of collective subconscious… The extraordinary world really is dangerous. Such a “team,” several carefully selected Beyonders, ended their own lives so easily in such an absurd way…

As Audrey thought this, she felt fortunate that she had made a rational enough decision back then and had not willfully taken that knight’s notebook to Hedrak village to explore. Otherwise, her name would very likely have appeared on the list of those who lost control and went mad.

Thank you, Mr. Fool. Thank you, members of the Tarot Club. Thank you, Qilangos, who once disguised himself and infiltrated. Although I still do not have much practical experience in mysticism, I clearly understand that there are too many dangers hidden in this field, and that one must be sufficiently cautious and careful…

Audrey silently expressed her thanks.

At that moment, recalling how she had behaved when she had first joined the Tarot Club, she almost wanted to bury her face in a pillow and shout at herself inwardly:

“Audrey, how could you have been so naive and childish back then!

“It was only because you met Mr. Fool. If it had been some other secret existence, you would have become either a lunatic or a monster long ago!

“Mr. Fool truly is a good person! No, a very good orthodox deity!”

Beside her, Associate Professor Michel saw that Miss Audrey had remained silent for quite some time. Gravely, he nodded.

“Yes. It was a frightening tragedy.

“I only hope the government has already handled the matter properly, so that the contagious mental illness does not become a plague.”

Do not worry. Unless that mind dragon loses control and intends to challenge the three great Churches, that mental illness will not gain any more infected victims… Audrey silently replied.

In her view, official Beyonders…