Mystery: A Spark

Suddenly, Mr. A tilted his ear, as if listening to something.

After a brief pause, Mr. A suddenly raised both hands and snapped off his right index finger with his left palm.

His body suddenly trembled, as if he were being grabbed and shaken by an invisible person.

In this state, Mr. A stretched out his right hand and used the blood flowing from his wound to write the word "Ruen" on the ground, forming a passage.

After reading this passage, Mr. A angrily cursed:

"Useless! They're all useless! They can't even protect the Lord's offspring!"

After his anger subsided, he began to think, and soon he remembered the giant heretic who had mysteriously left before and then suddenly returned today.

"It's him! It must be because of him!"

Having identified his target, Mr. A quickly issued orders, requiring members of the Aurora Society from surrounding cities to immediately travel to Backlund to retaliate against the giant heretic and obtain information about the whereabouts of the Son of God.

Chapter 76 Tarot Club

Monday afternoon.

Arthur leaned against the bed, reading a book, quietly waiting for the Tarot meeting to begin.

Arthas nestled in his arms, curled up, and slept soundly.

Arthur knew that Klein had already gone to the town of Ramd to deal with the vengeful spirit.

He also found a portrait there, which led him to learn about Mr. Azik's problem.

If nothing unexpected happens, Klein should have brought Derek into the Tarot Club yesterday, making him the "Sun".

And, in a moment of folly, he performed a divination on the Sun Symbol, nearly getting burned by the Eternal Sun.

However, this reckless act wasn't without its rewards. During this adventure, Kroos successfully obtained the Sequence 9 and Sequence 8 recipes for the Solar Path and also learned about the ritual for creating the Sunfire Charm.

The recipe for the Solar Path that Arthur sold at the Pirate Convention came from here.

At three o'clock sharp, crimson enveloped Arthur, and he gently rested his head against the headboard as he entered the Tarot Club.

At that moment, Arthas's ears twitched slightly, and he raised his head in confusion.

It tilted its little head and looked at Arthur, muttering softly:

"It's a bit strange..."

But it quickly stopped thinking about it, instead taking the occult book from Arthur's hand and pulling the blanket up to cover Arthur's stomach.

After that, it lay down beside Arthur and silently waited for him to wake up.

Above the gray fog, the majestic palace stood quietly, its ancient and mottled bronze table and twenty-two high-backed chairs unchanged.

As soon as Arthur regained consciousness, he glanced around and, sure enough, saw a newly appeared figure.

"Looks like nothing unexpected happened..." Arthur thought to himself.

"This is a new member, whose title is 'Sun'."

“This is Miss ‘Justice,’ this is Mr. ‘The Hanged Man,’ and this is Mr. ‘Chariot,’” Klein introduced the members in a steady voice.

Another new member... The Hanged Man already considers Mr. Fool a god-like being and has no further thoughts about Him pulling people away.

Audrey was delighted that the Tarot Club had grown even stronger once again.

After carefully examining the new members, she directly requested the Mind Reader's Potion recipe.

To her surprise, the new member "Sun" responded to the request.

In his words, he revealed that he came from a place called the "City of Silver".

“The City of Silver, I’ve never heard of that place. Where is it?” Audrey asked tentatively, while Alger the Hanged Man listened attentively.

Derrick was completely stunned by this question; his mind was filled with questions.

He could see that, apart from "The Fool," who might be a deity, "Justice," "The Hanged Man," and "The Chariot" were clearly closer to the extraordinary, a certain sequence of extraordinary beings.

Apart from the citizens of the Silver City, Derrick never saw any other living people.

So he countered with:

"You're not from the City of Silver, are you from some other city-state?"

Hearing this, Klein couldn't help but sigh inwardly; this young man had completely revealed his secrets.

"Justice" and "The Hanged Man" misunderstood "The Sun's" purpose, thinking that the other party did not want them to continue to inquire.

Arthur, of course, wouldn't have such a misunderstanding. He knew in his heart that Little Sun was simply expressing his doubts.

So Arthur smiled and asked:

"Little Sun, may I call you that?"

Derrick glanced at the "chariot" and sensed a calm and composed demeanor about it.

Therefore, he nodded and replied:

“Mr. Chariot, I am indeed not very old, you can call me that.”

Well, now that his age has been revealed, Klein doesn't know what expression to make, so he's just given up and doesn't care anymore.

"Little Sun, I'd like to ask, what kind of environment is the area around your Silver City?" Arthur asked gently.

"The sky above our Silver City has no sun, no moon, and no stars, only unchanging darkness and lightning that tears everything apart, and all sorts of terrifying monsters all around us."

“So, I want to become the sun, the sun that can illuminate Silver City,” Derrick said firmly.

Only darkness, lightning, and terrifying monsters—such a harsh environment, no wonder he has the temperament of a lone wolf despite his young age… Audrey thought to herself.

The land forsaken by God… Alger quickly realized this possibility, his heart filled with fear and awe at the power of Mr. Fool.

“Great Fool, is this the member you chose from the land of the forsaken?” Arthur turned to the head of the long table and asked with awe.

“A small experiment,” Klein said casually, tapping his fingers lightly.

"When it comes to playing tricks, I'd call you Klein the best," Arthur thought to himself.

He lowered his head slightly, expressing his awe of the unimaginable power of Mr. Fool.

"The land forsaken by the gods? Yes, our Silver City is indeed a place abandoned by the gods." Derrick understood that, apart from Mr. Fool, the others were likely from outside the land forsaken by the gods.

This excited him greatly, because he learned that there were other places besides Silver City where people lived, and that those places were very likely to be the normal world like in the legends.

"Indeed, following Mr. Fool was the right thing to do," Derrick thought excitedly, feeling that Silver City had hope.

Therefore, he actively participated, saying:

“I can get the recipe for the ‘Mind Reader’ potion as soon as possible, and use it to exchange for the initial sequence of the ‘Sun’ pathway.”

"'The Sun' pathway? Sequence 9's 'Singer'?" Alger the Hanged Man immediately retorted.

"The Sun" Derrick thought for a moment and said:

"It should be this one, but I don't know much about it."

At this point, Klein, who didn't want his business to be snatched away by others again, decided to make a move. He was desperately short of money and had to secure the deal no matter what.

He took out the "Singer" formula, which he had obtained by recklessly spying on the "Eternal Sun," and together with Miss "Justice" and Little Sun, made a three-way deal.

In this transaction, Little Sun suffered a loss.

However, because Little Sun is in the Forsaken Land, he cannot receive monetary or material compensation from "Miss Justice".

So Klein used the excuse that "I have a follower" to accept Miss "Justice's" compensation on her behalf.

Since Little Sun hasn't obtained the "Mind Reader" potion recipe yet, he can postpone the compensation for Little Sun.

In the end, it was as if he had temporarily gotten a free monetary compensation, which was a real windfall for him.

Thus, Derrick obtained the Singer's Formula from Klein.

He looked at the materials, frowned at first, but eventually relaxed.

Arthur observed all of these reactions.

Chapter 77 Laying out the future

What is the key to the "gathering of the masses" approach?

It lies in "gaining people".

What does it mean to "gain people's support"?

A great man once gave a simple yet insightful explanation of these two words.

That is, "Make the enemy as few as possible and your own people as many as possible."

In Arthur's previous life, in a world without supernatural powers, this "person" refers to the vast number of toiling masses.

Therefore, in that world, there were sayings such as "those who follow the right path receive much help, while those who stray from it receive little help" and "he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world."

Those who have the support of the people will be successful in everything they do.

Conversely, those who act perversely and force everyone to their opposite will rarely have a good ending.

Even though the Xia Dynasty kings called themselves the sun, after Xia Jie lost the hearts of the people, he also said, "When will the sun perish? I and you will both perish."

There are also sayings like "Are kings and nobles born with a special destiny?" from the end of the Qin Dynasty, "The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall rise" from the end of the Han Dynasty, and so on from the end of the Sui Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty, and so on.

For the people of Arthur's previous kingdom, if anyone made it impossible for them to survive, they would only give their one and only answer.

That's going against the motherfucker.

In the mysterious world, the situation is slightly different from Arthur's previous life.

Because here, there exists a truly magical and extraordinary power.

Moreover, the advancement of such extraordinary power requires financial support.

This resulted in the extraordinary power here being mainly in the hands of the church, as well as the nobles and the king.

The common people, on the other hand, are weak and feeble; unless their numbers reach a certain level, they are not capable of accomplishing anything significant.

Therefore, in the original story, even though Backlund was essentially sitting on a pile of dynamite, a single spark could blow the entire city to smithereens.

However, under the suppression of the church and the official Luen government, the area has managed to maintain a relatively peaceful state.