"The Hermit" Cattleya restrained herself from looking at "The World" Gehrman Sparrow. Her voice deep and slow, she said:
"Starting from the abyssal rift that parts the seawater, I will describe the unseeable Sun Chariot, the night one can only avoid by sleeping, the terrifying murmurs that fill the entire ocean, and the projection of the 'Giant King's Court' opposite the mountain peak in the dream world..."
During this process, she did not mention Gehrman Sparrow even once, intentionally avoiding bringing him up. As for the other anomalies along the way, she only briefly spoke a few sentences, such as a sea area with the residual aura of the "Mother Earth Goddess" that could make hair grow wildly.
At the end, she focused on the surface ruins where a corpse was sleeping and the adventurer's sailing ship with the blood words "Elixir of Life" written on it.
"This might mean that the 'Elixir of Life' is inside those ruins, and the corpse emitting loud gasps is the guardian." The Hermit Cattleya stated the general speculation on the Future, but this didn't equal her own judgment.
"Elixir of Life..." The treasure from the Six Great Legends of the Sea... The Hanged Man, Alger, felt his heart race as he listened, involuntarily considering the feasibility of exploring those ruins after Sequence 5.
"Justice" Audrey listened attentively and shook her head slightly. "I don't believe the ultimate meaning of the blood text is that the 'Elixir of Life' is in those ruins."
Pausing for a second, she attempted a psychological analysis of the deceased: "A person dying from a monster attack wouldn't do something that points out a treasure. If he wanted to warn subsequent companions or relatives coming to find him, he should have written about the danger or the source of the danger. If he intended to tell passing ships that the 'Elixir of Life' was here, he lacked the internal motivation to write something like that on the verge of death, unless a conspiracy is hidden within it—a conspiracy to lure people into the ruins in search of the 'Elixir of Life,' one that would lead to his salvation."
"Right. If it were me, I wouldn't desperately try to tell others there's treasure here before I die. What meaning would that have for me?" "The Moon" Emlyn chimed in. "Only hatred, hatred etched into one's bones, could make me write something like this at the brink of death. Otherwise, I would rather tell others how I want to be buried and what burial goods I need!"
At the end, he clicked his tongue and shook his head.
Klein nodded almost imperceptibly. Manipulating "The World", he spoke hoarsely: "The 'Elixir of Life' is a hoax."
He used an absolute affirmative sentence, without adding words like 'maybe', 'probably', or 'should be'.
"The Elixir of Life is a hoax..." Cattleya glanced at "The World" and thoughtfully averted her gaze.
This seemed to confirm some of her inner conjectures and thoughts.
"The Hanged Man" Alger frowned as he listened. It wasn't that he didn't agree with "The World"'s judgment, or thought that Miss "Justice" and Mr. "Moon"'s arguments were completely unreasonable, but he realized that he had completely failed to consider this possibility!
This was a mistake he shouldn't have made!
...So many years have passed, and I can still be momentarily blinded by huge interests... He fell silent for a few seconds, suppressing a sigh.
After exchanging their respective news, everyone began teaching Little "Sun" the ancient Hermes language and learning some knowledge in the field of mysticism from each other.
Time flew by. After everyone tacitly stopped, "The Fool" Klein looked around and said: "Let's stop here."
"As you wish." "Justice" Audrey immediately rose and curtsied slightly, lifting her skirt. The other members followed suit almost simultaneously.
Watching the blurry figures disappear before his eyes, Klein didn't rush to leave. He materialized a piece of parchment and a round-bellied fountain pen, writing a divination sentence: "My hope of being promoted to Sequence 4."
Putting down the pen, Klein picked up the parchment, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, entered a state of meditation, and silently recited the divination sentence.
After seven repetitions, he quickly fell asleep and arrived in the dream world.
The grayish sky and earth split open, and he saw a towering mountain peak soaring into the clouds.
At the top of the mountain, there was a collapsed and decaying palace. The walls were covered in weeds and moss, with obvious holes.
In the hall of the palace, at the head, there was a huge stone-carved seat. It was inlaid with tarnished gold and gems, mostly mottled and damaged.
On the seat, which did not seem meant for a human, countless transparent maggots were clustered together. They were densely intertwined, slowly wriggling, and constantly growing.
Around the seat, murmurs pierced through the long passage of time and history, illusory and ethereal, echoing endlessly: "Hornacis... Flegra... Hornacis... Flegra... Hornacis... Flegra..."
The murmurs entered his ears, and Klein was instantly startled awake, a slight frown on his face: "It really is at the main peak of the Hornacis Mountain Range, and I saw it more clearly and heard it more clearly than before..."
This reminded him of the prophetic words of the "Mystery Queen" Bernadette: "Your destiny lies on the main peak of the Hornacis Mountains."
Is this my destiny? It almost makes me want to rebel and just not go... Ah, I can't be absolute. I'll see how it goes... Klein sighed and materialized the five "Wanted Notices" provided by Emlyn White. Combining them with existing information, he used divination to find the whereabouts of the five followers of the "Primordial Moon."
In the end, due to lack of information, he could only determine two points: "Galis Kevin, Windsor Belen, and Argos are all in Backlund. "Dandy and Laura are one at Enmat Port and the other at Pritz Port."
That's basically no gain... Klein shook his head and returned to the real world.