Chapter 187: Exchanging Intelligence

Chapter 187: Exchanging Intelligence

“The True Creator”?

The ravings that filled this sea came from the True Creator? Hearing the answer given by the Queen of Mysteries, Klein felt both astonished and rather relieved.

What relieved him was that, just as the Queen of Mysteries had said, if she had not boarded the ship, then even with a Sealed Artifact that reduced hearing in every sense, Heath Doyle would still have found it very difficult to avoid mutation.

For low- and mid-Sequence Beyonders of other pathways, as long as they did not directly hear the True Creator’s ravings, the most they would suffer would be depression or mania, along with the occasional nightmare. They would not receive any obvious harm. But for a Rose Bishop, the Sequence 0 of his pathway was the True Creator. Wandering constantly inside that evil god’s ravings, even if Heath himself were deaf, he would inevitably develop problems sooner or later.

Once Heath Doyle went mad or lost control, given the special nature of this sea, it would indeed be very difficult for the others aboard the ship to escape disaster. Still, Klein believed that as long as he could survive the initial assault and gain a chance to pray to The Fool, then go above the gray fog and respond with the Sea God Scepter, he would still be able to resolve the problem.

What astonished him was that the owner of the ravings completely contradicted his previous speculation. He had originally believed this sea to be the battlefield where the ancient gods of the Second Epoch fought the Creator worshiped by the City of Silver. He had suspected that subordinate gods—the corresponding angels—had also taken part. Who could have known that the entire starting point seemed to be wrong? After all, the True Creator should have first appeared around the time of the Cataclysm in the Third Epoch!

I can’t rule out the possibility that the ravings were left here later… Klein did not make a blind judgment. He watched the Queen of Mysteries pass him, her hand brushing over the sculptures on the railing as she slowly descended.

The lady’s back was tall and graceful, her proportions excellent, her figure neither too full nor too thin. Her chestnut hair fell simply over her shoulders.

For some inexplicable reason, Klein found that back view familiar. After recalling events related to the Queen of Mysteries, he finally remembered the source of that familiarity.

When he had visited the Roselle Memorial Exhibition to search for the Card of Blasphemy, he had seen a similar back view. At the time, the person’s attire had been rather strange. She had clearly been wearing a girlish yellow cake dress, yet on her head was a rather old-fashioned black soft cap.

“That should have been the Queen of Mysteries. She had gone to the Roselle Memorial Exhibition in advance as well… What she was looking at back then were the basic education textbooks the Emperor had improved for his children, the chess and building blocks he invented… She was certain that what I took was the Black Emperor card…

“The Emperor’s eldest daughter, Bernadette, founded Element Dawn to oppose the Moses Ascetic Order. And judging from the diaries, this lady greatly admired the motto ‘Do what thou wilt, but harm none.’ From those two points, it can be inferred that she is very likely a demigod of the Mystery Pryer pathway…

“Sequence 4 of the Mystery Pryer pathway is Mysticologist… Queen of Mysteries… Of course, the Queen of Mysteries has been famous across the seas for decades, perhaps a century. She is certainly more than Sequence 4 now. Mm. After Cattleya left the Queen of Mysteries, she joined the Moses Ascetic Order…

“This queen cares a great deal about whether Roselle’s diary can be interpreted…”

Bits and pieces of information interwove, and Klein suddenly formed a guess.

Perhaps the Queen of Mysteries was Emperor Roselle’s eldest daughter, Bernadette Gustav!

That might explain why her clothing style had the flavor of Earth yet was also…