Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 190: Information about the "Hidden Sage"
Bernadette looked at the goose meat on her plate. It was obviously not very convenient to eat it with a knife and fork.

But if you put the whole goose into your mouth and spit out the bones like Odysseus did, it would not be very elegant.

After thinking about it for a while, she snapped her fingers, and the bones in the meat suddenly disappeared, as if they had never been there.

Only then did she pick up the goose meat with a fork and put it into her mouth.

Bernadette nodded immediately. The taste was not bad. It had the aroma of stew, but not as greasy as ordinary stew.

At this time, Odysseus was concentrating on reading the information in his hand.

This information is high-level intelligence about the "Moss Ascetic Order" and the "Hidden Sage", and is the intelligence accumulation of official Beyonders.

According to intelligence, the top power of the "Moss Ascetic Order" is divided into two parts, one of which is the "Ten Pillars" that many extraordinary people have heard of.

The so-called "Ten Pillars" are actually ten demigods, who are the main force running the "Moss Ascetic Order", and their leader is an angel.

Any power or industry related to the "Moss Ascetic Order" can ultimately be traced back to these ten people.

For example, Alvis, who died today, was one of the "Ten Pillars". After his death, the "Ten Pillars" became "Nine Pillars".

Odysseus remembered that although Cattleya represented the power of the "Moss Ascetic Order" at sea, it was only after she became a demigod that she completely became a high-level figure in the "Moss Ascetic Order" and became one of the "Ten Pillars".

As for the other part of the extraordinary power, few people know about it. It is said that it is also led by an angel. There are demigods and "middle-sequence" extraordinary people. This force is directly commanded by the "Hidden Sage".

Odysseus frowned at first, but soon understood: There might be believers of other evil gods in the "Ten Pillars". That hidden power must be completely loyal to the "Hidden Sage".

This proves that the "Hidden Sage" is not completely indifferent to the infiltration of the "Eternal Whisper" into the "Moss Ascetic Order".

Keep reading and you will find some information about the "Hidden Sage".

The Church had conducted many experiments using captured Extraordinary criminals or wild Extraordinary people, and ultimately concluded that the "Hidden Sage" was the product of the activation of uniqueness. Although He had His own thoughts and logic, they were very mechanical and cold.

Odysseus estimated that the most likely party to conduct these experiments should be the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery. After all, the "God of Steam and Machinery" and the "Hidden Sage" are adjacent paths.

The document included two case studies. One involved a low-sequence wild Beyonder from the Mystery Peeper pathway being hypnotized by the church, causing him to pray to the Hidden Sage every day.

After praying for more than ten days, he was indoctrinated with the knowledge of the "Hidden Sage".

In other words, the "Hidden Sage" knew the existence of this wild Extraordinary, and later they experimented with making this wild Extraordinary pray with malice and disrespect.

This was ignored by the "Hidden Sage", who continued to impart knowledge to the wild Beyonder.

This kind of knowledge infusion made the wild extraordinary person miserable, so during a certain knowledge infusion, the wild extraordinary person completely opened his mind and allowed the "Hidden Sage" to instill knowledge at will.

However, the "Hidden Sage" brought down divine punishment, filling the Beyonder's head with knowledge and eventually turning him into a fool.

When the church was reviewing this experiment, it noticed that the "Hidden Sage" instilled in the wild extraordinary people some knowledge about escape and how to deal with the "universal" extraordinary people.

It can be basically determined that the "Hidden Sage" was able to notice that this Extraordinary was hypnotized by the church, and should have also felt the contempt and malice during those prayers, but he still instilled knowledge into the wild Extraordinary.

Therefore, the Church speculated that the process by which the "Hidden Sage" responded to prayers and imparted knowledge to ordinary Extraordinary People should be a mechanical response.

He responded probably because the wild Beyonder was indeed thirsty for knowledge at the time, and he was later punished by God because he did not respect knowledge enough when praying.

Combined with other experiments, the ultimate conclusion was that the Hidden Sage's judgment criteria were extremely mechanical. He was willing to impart "knowledge" to any Beyonder who thirsted for knowledge, regardless of their attitude. This was a significant difference from other gods. He seemed to possess only divinity, lacking humanity, which was why he ignored the emotions of those praying.

The latter case illustrates some of the characteristics of the "Hidden Sage".

He was a scholar of the "Mysterious Peeping" path of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery. Suddenly one day, people discovered that he had become a follower of the "Hidden Sage".

The scholar was completely unaware of this, as can be seen from his unscrupulous praise of the "Hidden Sage". In his eyes, the "Hidden Sage" is the "God of Steam and Machinery".

The church set up a very high-level investigation team and found that the scholar had reported long ago that he seemed to be watched by the "Hidden Sage".

After extensive investigation, it was concluded that the scholar was being watched by the Hidden Sage because he possessed a wealth of knowledge known only to him.

Later, through some experiments, it was proved that even if a Beyonder had never heard of the existence of the "Hidden Sage" and had not prayed to the other party, the "Hidden Sage" could still pay attention to people who possessed some unique knowledge.

Odysseus was slightly stunned, and seemed to understand why the "Hidden Sage" paid attention to him.

He was noticed because he possessed so much unique knowledge, not necessarily because they noticed the "wilderness of knowledge".

However, it is hard to say. We can only assume that at the beginning, it was the knowledge that Odysseus possessed that made the "Wilderness of Knowledge" notice him. As for whether the other party noticed the "Wilderness of Knowledge" later, Odysseus had no way to verify it.

Odysseus continued to read, and at the end of the intelligence was a summary of the case: The "Hidden Sage" would pay attention to the knowledge possessed by someone because, to some extent, he was the "embodiment of knowledge."

After reading all the information, Odysseus folded up the information given by the official Beyonder, stuffed it back into the envelope, and handed the information to Bernadette: "Thank you."

After all, this is a thank-you gift from the official Beyonder to Bernadette.

Bernadette smiled and said, "You have become the enemy of the Moss Trappist Order. It won't hurt to learn more about them."

She paused and continued, "The intelligence provided by official Beyonders isn't necessarily completely accurate. For example, their description of the 'Hidden Sage' doesn't match my observations.

"It seems to me that as long as someone possesses enough knowledge, the Hidden Sage can observe them.

"It's as if every living being has a standard for mastering knowledge. If they exceed that standard, they will gain the attention of the 'Hidden Sage'.

"However, although the 'Hidden Sage' can notice Beyonders from many paths, it can only affect Beyonders from the 'Secret Peer' path."

Odysseus pondered for a moment before asking, "So, if a certain Beyonder's knowledge exceeds a certain threshold, the Hidden Sage can locate him when imparting knowledge? And provide targeted indoctrination?"

"That's the theory," Bernadette said, "but the extraordinary path is the first factor!

"Any Beyonder of the Mysterious Peeper path will be pursued by the Hidden Sage. However, in most cases, the indoctrination below Sequence 5 is essentially unconscious indoctrination by the Hidden Sage.

"At this point, the knowledge is not focused, and the frequency of indoctrination is not high." "It's different at Sequence 5. You begin to receive focused indoctrination from the 'Hidden Sage'. You either endure the pain of knowledge indoctrination or accept the transformation of the 'Hidden Sage'."

"If you have mastered a large amount of unique knowledge before reaching Sequence 5, the Hidden Sage will also focus on instilling it.

"This situation is rare, but if it does occur, even without the Beyonder's consent, the Hidden Sage can transform them and eventually become their devout follower."

Odysseus suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

The Mysterious Queen looked at Odysseus solemnly and said, "I estimate that with the unique knowledge you possess, you will be given 'special care' by Him when you reach Sequence 6."

Odysseus pinched his forehead and asked, "Is there any way?"

"The Church of the God of Steam and Machinery must have a way." Bernadette said lightly.

Odysseus suddenly understood why the church gave him the formula for the Sequence 6 potion. This not only expressed their goodwill, but also made Odysseus seek help from them after becoming a Sequence 6, forcing him to join the Steam Church.

This once again cast a shadow on Odysseus's plan to escape from Backlund.

"Of course, I will also help you find the corresponding method." Bernadette said.

Odysseus nodded: "Thank you."

"As for your previous question about whether the Hidden Sage has authority over 'secrets,' I believe he does, but not much," Bernadette continued.

“Knowledge itself, in my opinion, is the state of being hidden.

“For example, people discovered that fire was very useful, so they learned how to make fire. This is the learning and mastery of knowledge.

“Nature only shows us the properties of fire, but not how to use it. Learning and summarizing the use of fire is the knowledge that people have acquired through constant observation and experimentation.”

She paused and continued, "I personally believe that this is the essence of knowledge. Initially, it is not directly presented to us, but requires people to discover and think about it.

"Furthermore, knowledge was originally hidden in nature."

Odysseus nodded slowly: "This idea is amazing."

This is the knowledge accumulated by the "Mysterious Queen". She is a person with a thinking pattern similar to that of Odysseus, so her thinking is similar to that of Odysseus, which is incompatible with this extraordinary world.

For Odysseus, these theories were like soulmates, and he found a sense of familiarity in this strange world.

Then Odysseus found that he could not continue discussing this topic with the "Mysterious Queen" because he had given too little thought to the "Hidden Sage" before.

He felt that this evil god was a bit like an intelligent computer, and all his reactions were similar to those of an advanced artificial intelligence.

To the people in this world, it is cold and mechanical.

But this view cannot be explained clearly. You can't explain "smart computer" to the "mysterious queen", right?

So they talked about another topic, and Odysseus took out the official Beyonder bonus: "The official Beyonder bonus is a total of 6000 pounds.

"My distribution plan is that you and I will each receive 2300 pounds. The Beyonder who provided the important divination and the informant who provided the altar's detailed address will receive 1400 pounds."

In this operation, Bernadette was the main force in destroying the altar, while Odysseus, based on a large number of clues, judged that the altar was probably in the east district, and used magic circles to block and seal the pollution.

The contributions made by both of them were similar, and Klein divined a specific clue, which was very timely. Odysseus believed that he should be given 1000 pounds.

In the end, the informant who provided the detailed address received the remaining 400 pounds.

Bernadette didn't take these gold pounds too seriously: "I have no opinion."

Odysseus said "hmm", counted out 2300 pounds and handed it to Bernadette.

The matter came to an end here. The two of them drank and chatted for a while, and soon the big bowl of stewed goose was finished.

Odysseus went to get another bowl, and then talked about the original intention of Odysseus to ask Bernadette to meet him.

"I plan to draw some magic circles in the East District next week," Odysseus said. "I need you to help me conceal my tracks and temporarily hide those magic circles."

This was a deal the two had agreed upon long ago, and for this, Bernadette could get a large ship containing Odysseus' core research.

She immediately agreed: "Okay."

Then she asked, "I still don't understand, what do you want to do?"

"I've deduced from some intelligence that the 'Witch Cult' seems to be planning some action in the East District," Odysseus said with a smile. "But I don't know if this information is true. Just in case, I plan to make some preparations."

After he finished speaking, his nose actually grew longer again.

Bernadette said helplessly: "When communicating with you, I haven't used this spell for a long time."

But this time she was really curious about what Odysseus was going to do. At the same time, she had a premonition that Odysseus's actions were very dangerous, so she used this spell.

But Odysseus couldn't stand the test at all.

Odysseus had no choice but to say, "I want to save people."

His nose immediately returned to its original shape, and he said frankly, "Sorry, I can't tell you the source of that information right now, so I can only lie."

Maybe I won’t be able to tell Bernadette in the future.

"Then I won't ask." Bernadette said, "If you need my help, please pray to me in advance."

Odysseus nodded: "Okay."

(End of this chapter)