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At this moment, the sensory impact is much stronger than watching from a distance!

In an instant, all the members on the ship flew up, and various ropes, wine barrels and other things also floated up, as if they were about to rush out of the pirate ship. /Zero point￠Reading'books' !Geng.Xin\Sin+Chopsticks*

At this time, the ropes flew out as if alive, tying up all the people and objects in a targeted manner, making it impossible for them to fly out of the range of the pirate ship in a state of weightlessness.

Bernadette hugged the white horse's neck tightly to prevent herself from flying out. Although she was very scared, she did not scream this time. She also tried to open her eyes wide to witness this incredibly magical scene with her own eyes.

Just as the Fairytale was about to fall into the dark gap with no visible bottom, the seawater suddenly surged up from below like a fountain! It held up the ship, threw it high up, and threw it to the other side of the cross section. After a feeling of lightness, the Fairytale stabilized.

Those "people" and objects that were flying due to weightlessness also fell down like dumplings and fell into a ball. Everyone was wet by the sea water and looked quite embarrassed, but also a little funny.

Bernadette looked at them and couldn't help but giggle. The fairy tale characters on the boat also looked at each other and laughed. For a moment, the whole boat was filled with laughter.

Chapter 493 The Old Man and the Pirate

As a Sequence 2 in the "half" storm path, such a small wind and waves naturally would not have any effect on Edward. He immediately waved his wand to put the scattered items back in place, dried everyone's clothes, and returned to normal.

Only then did Bernadette turn her attention to her surroundings. She looked at the ruins of all sizes and found that their styles and patterns were completely different from what she usually saw in Trier. She asked curiously, "Are these ruins the remains of the war between gods? Did the war between gods happen a long, long time ago? Which gods participated in the battle? Why did they fight..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she asked a series of questions - well, it can be seen that she is very suitable for the path of the secret peeper.

However, Edward only answered a few of her questions that she knew. She held her chin and listened with interest for a while, then said, "Well, I don't quite understand some of them. They're not as interesting as fairy tales."

"Huh?"

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky. "I remember it was still morning just now, how come it's dusk all of a sudden?"

"Because this sea area is affected by some magical power, the time here is not synchronized with the outside world, and sometimes it even seems a bit chaotic.'WeChat? Fun-Xiao-Tax?Wang￠ *Growing¨New*Zui·Full\"

"oh."

Edward said seriously, "If it gets dark soon, you must fall asleep immediately, otherwise you will disappear into the darkness and never come back."

"ah?"

Bernadette's face tensed up. "But, but I can't fall asleep whenever I want."

Edward spread his hands, "Then there's nothing we can do. Either we go back now, or you just disappear."

She was stunned for a moment, but soon realized that Edward was teasing her, so she pouted and said, "Then Mr. Sparrow can just knock me out with a stick."

"OK."

Edward had a stick as thick as his arm in his hand.

Bernadette: "…"

"snort!"

She turned her head away and ignored Edward.

For the next period of time, the Fairy Tale sailed quickly on the blue ocean. This ocean was just like the outside world. At first glance, it was just surging water - empty, silent, and boundless.

Occasionally we would pass by a ruin, occasionally we would see one or two empty pirate ships, and occasionally we would see a fire floating on the sea, but we would not find any trace of marine life.

Everything is so desolate and dead, making people feel uncomfortable.

At first, Bernadette was still very excited about the fairy tale characters, but after a while she began to yawn while lying on the bow of the boat: "Can mermaids really be in a place like this?"

"Yes, but it should be deeper."

"Oh, yawn~"

She yawned again, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes. It was obvious that she had reached her limit of staying up late tonight.

Edward patted her head and said, "Okay, time to go back to bed."

"Ah? But I haven't seen the mermaid yet, and it's not dark yet as you said."

As she spoke, she yawned again, "But if it were dark now, I would fall asleep without you hitting me with a stick..."

"Mr. Sparrow, can you tell me another fairy tale?"

"…What do you want to hear?"

"I don't know. \Salted~fish-墈?Book/¨Has been published! The most. Salary/Cockroach￠clean/"

Edward thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go with The Old Man and the Pirate."

Her spirits suddenly perked up. "This name seems very interesting."

"Ahem, I remembered it wrongly. It was The Old Man and the Sea."

The two sat side by side on the railing. Edward took out the book he had collected before, opened it to the first page and read: "Man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated."

"That's what this book is about."

She tilted her head, not quite understanding.

"Once upon a time there was an old man who made a living by fishing. He fished in the bay alone in a small flat-bottomed sailboat, but he had not caught any fish for eighty-four days..."

Bernadette asked dazedly, "What does he eat when he hasn't caught any fish in so many days?"

"If you don't want to hear it, I won't say it."

She didn't say anything else, but as Edward spoke, her consciousness became more and more blurred. In less than ten minutes, she leaned her head against Edward and fell into a deep sleep.

Edward continued to talk for a few minutes before closing the book. Looking at her little face so close before him, he couldn't help but reach out and pinch it. "In the future, I will tell you stories to comfort you; in the past, I will also have to tell you stories to comfort you."

Bernadette unconsciously reached out and slapped his hand away, mumbling, "Mermaid... so beautiful."

"Okay, time to go back."

Edward thought about it, and all the fairy tale characters on the pirate ship disappeared and returned to their original appearance. He then picked up the sleeping Bernadette and planned to pack up the "Fairy Tale" and teleport back.

But at this moment, the surroundings suddenly darkened! The sun had disappeared from the sky, and it was quickly shrouded in thick darkness. Bernadette, who had been mumbling, suddenly became quiet - she had obviously entered the black monastery world in her sleep.

"Tsk, come earlier or later, I'm leaving now, night is coming."

If Bernadette had not entered the Black Monastery world, he could have teleported away with her, but now he had to follow her in.

Edward flashed back to the captain's room, put her on the bed, then sat back in the chair, and with the help of meditation, he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

The next second, he opened his eyes in a gray world. He was still in the same place where he came in before. At first glance, it was a monastery-like black building. Looking down from where he was to the entrance of the monastery, there were many people dressed as pirates and crew members on both sides.

They were all in a daze and doing some inexplicable things.

Soon, Edward saw a small figure standing at the entrance of the monastery, with confusion and fear on her face. She looked around obviously looking for Edward, and then followed the crowd that pushed open the door and walked into the monastery.

That's strange.

Bernadette is only six or seven years old, how could she stay conscious here?

His spiritual sense suddenly jumped, giving him a premonition. Edward immediately turned on his spiritual vision and saw a strange eye flash behind Bernadette's head.

"!!!"

Is that the Hidden Sage?

No way, she is not even a Beyonder now, how could she be targeted by the Hidden Sage?

Was she targeted by the hidden sage in the original history, or was it some kind of change brought about by my appearance?

Edward was alert and took a step forward into the monastery.

Just like two hundred years later, there are still two gloomy towers and black buildings connected to each other by bridges, forming a wide graystone square.

The square was full of holes, with huge arrows sticking out and several fires burning, as if it had been attacked before.

Bernadette was looking at everything around her blankly, biting her lips, as if forcing herself to stay calm.

Edward walked over: "Bernadette."

When she heard Edward's voice, her body trembled, she turned around and ran over, bumping her head into Edward's arms: "Mr. Sparrow!"

"Uh, don't be afraid."

"Here...where is this? Why am I here? Wasn't I on the boat listening to your stories?"

"Remember what I just said? In this sea, once it gets dark, you must fall asleep, and after falling asleep, you will come to this world."

"This is a dream world, a dream shared by everyone in this sea area."

Bernadette suddenly realized, "No wonder it all looks like a dream." She immediately realized something was wrong, "Then why am I awake?"

"Ding", Edward threw the gold coin: "Bernadette is being targeted by the Hidden Sage."

The gold coin slipped out of his hand and rolled to the ground. The divination failed - but the failure was enough to explain the problem.

"Maybe you are special."

Edward said something half true and half false, and quickly analyzed in his mind the reason why the Hidden Sage appeared and targeted Bernadette:

Although there was a suspicion of shifting the blame, he still felt that as a direct rival of Steam Princess's promotion in the past, it seemed reasonable for the Hidden Sage to target the daughter of someone Steam Princess valued.

In the future, Bernadette also specially formed the Dawn of Elements to fight against the Hidden Sage - this may also indicate that the two sides have had a grudge for a long time.

The question now is how to deal with the hidden gaze of the sage on Bernadette.

Klein, who also owns Sefirah Fort, can leverage the power of Sefirah Fort to bless others with the bonus of the Card of Blasphemy. In theory, I can do it, but I don't have the Card of Blasphemy.

Just as he thought of this, Edward suddenly slapped his head: No, I don't have to worry about this matter at all.

Regardless of whether the Hidden Sage targeted her because of Steam Princess or not, Steam Princess would definitely not sit idly by if she knew about this. As long as Roselle knew that his beloved daughter was targeted by the Hidden Sage, he would naturally go to the church for help.

"Mr. Sparrow, can we go over there and take a look?"

Bernadette's curiosity was restored now, and she pointed at the magnificent city in the distance that seemed to be floating in the air and asked.

"Unfortunately, no."

Edward took her hand, walked around the others, walked into an empty room, and said, "Let's stay here and don't go anywhere until we sober up and leave here naturally."

"Why?"

"Because it's too dangerous. Although this is a dream, getting hurt here will directly affect you in reality. I also said that this is the dream of everyone in this sea area - no one knows what kind of dangerous existence will be hidden here."

Bernadette was a little disappointed, but she didn't insist: "Okay."

She turned her head and began to observe this small room of more than ten square meters. It looked a bit old, but it was spotless. Opposite the door was a desk and a chair. On both sides were a shabby bookshelf that reached the ceiling, on which were scattered some old books and decorations.

"Can I see what's in this room?"

Edward did some divination and confirmed that there was no problem. "Of course."

She dragged the chair to the bookshelf on the left with great effort, then climbed up and began to pick up various things on the bookshelf and curiously observed them, but she only glanced at most of the things and put them back in their original places.

Edward had nothing to do, so he walked to the other side of the bookshelf and started flipping through the books.

The things on the bookshelf were mostly old and useless items. Judging from their appearance, they seemed to be quite old and could be called antiques. The books were mostly written in Elvish, ancient Feysac, and ancient Hermes.

There was some valuable and extraordinary knowledge in it, but nothing that was useful to Edward.

"Huh?"

At this moment, Bernadette suddenly made a puzzled sound:

"The words in this book..."

Chapter 494 Akasha is captured

Edward turned around and smiled: "The books here are all written in some ancient characters. It's normal that you haven't seen them before."

He said with a smile, "You should learn Intis language first."

Bernadette immediately said unconvinced: "Don't look down on me. My father said that my current level of Intis is not worse than when he first passed the Level 4 English test."

"…"

Edward was silent for a few seconds. "Do you know what CET-4 means?"

She said seriously, "I don't know, but my dad said his language level is very, very high, one in a million!"

"...sharp."

"No, that's not what I wanted to say!"

Bernadette said quickly, "I have seen this text before. It is in my father's diary."

"???"

"That's right. Dad said that in order to prevent people from guessing what he was writing, he invented a new language."

She raised the book in her hand, "But the words in this book are the same as those used in Dad's diary."

Swish!

Edward snatched the book from her hand and quickly flipped through a few pages. As the square Chinese characters with pinyin came into view, he quickly determined that this was a Chinese textbook for elementary school students!

There was a slight bulge in the middle of the book, as if something was stuck in it. Edward turned to that page and saw only a small, bright red flower that was squashed.

His heart suddenly trembled.

This is the book that Lilith used to teach herself Chinese!

And this is the collective dream of everyone in this sea area, so... Lilith is here? !

At this moment, the textbook in his hand quickly became transparent, and then the dazzling sunlight shone up. Everything was bright white at first, then faded and disappeared.

Edward suddenly opened his eyes and found himself back in the captain's room. It was daytime again outside.

"You're back?"

Bernadette also sat up from the bed. She was still a little sleepy, but her eyes showed a little excitement: "It's magical. After falling asleep, I can go to another world. Although it's a dream, it feels like the real world!"

"Hey? Mr. Sparrow, what's wrong with you?"

She turned around and saw Edward's face full of surprise and disappointment. "Is it because of the book? Or the words in the book?"

She thought for a moment and said, "Are you very interested in that kind of writing? Do you need me to go back and steal Dad's diary to show you?"

"No."

Edward didn't have the energy to complain about her. He picked her up and walked through the spirit world back to her room. "I have something important to do. I'm leaving now."

After a brief explanation, Edward teleported back again, leaving her scratching her head with curiosity: What was written in the book that caused Mr. Sparrow to have such a big reaction?

I'm really curious.

...

The remains of the war of gods.

As soon as Edward came back, he transformed into a spirit and flew quickly over the sea.

Divination still cannot obtain Lilith's location.

So he could only use the dumbest method, even though he knew this method was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Along the way, he encountered various pirate ships or adventure ships, and he went around to check them one by one. During this period, he encountered darkness several times, but he never found the room with the elementary school textbooks in the monastery.

This means that if what just happened was really Lilith's dream, she would have left the Gods War Ruins long ago. However, Edward still held out a glimmer of hope: coming to the Gods War Ruins specifically must have a purpose, and having a purpose means that she will not leave soon, and even if she leaves, there is a possibility that she will return.

There were no four kings and seven generals among the pirates sailing on the sea in this era, but many large pirate ships or fleets were still supported by churches and organizations. Edward specifically found six or seven pirate ships that were suspected to be captained by the witch and conducted a careful search, but unfortunately he did not find any clues related to Lilith.

So seven or eight hours passed in a flash during the search.

When Edward once again walked around the Black Monastery and woke up from his dream, he had to admit that he really missed Lilith this time.

"Look at the bright side..."

Edward looked at the blue sea in the distance and said, "At least this further proves that Lilith is still alive and well."

Oh, Chick is a deity, and he has been looking for Lilith for so many years but couldn't find her. I have met her so soon, which is already a "remarkable" achievement.

Chick...

Edward felt a surge of annoyance at the thought of the name.

Although Edward was full of anger and hatred towards this name when he first traveled back in time, he soon tried to forget its existence.

Because, that is a real god!

No matter how much anger and hatred he had, it was only to bring trouble upon himself. Edward knew that for a very long time, he would not have the slightest chance of becoming an enemy of the other party.

The Goddess of Night had been planning for thousands of years before she managed to kill the defenseless God of War with Lilith's backstab. Even if she were to be promoted to Sequence 0 one day, it would not be an easy task to kill Chick.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to find a way to get promoted as soon as possible.

The performance of the two potions, one is on the right track, and the other one also has a clue. The biggest problem now is obviously the extraordinary characteristics of the two Sequence 3, there is still no clue.

How to get Wanderer and Dreamweaver?

Oh, and there's that ceremony—bringing the characters in the story into reality.

If I could still go back to the Harry Potter world, it wouldn't seem so difficult, but... isn't it true that I can't go back?

Just thinking of this, Edward's heart moved:

"Hey, did I miss a crucial clue when I met with Pales yesterday?"

...

Edward returned to the villa at No. 7 Rose Street. Just as he sat down in the chair in the study, his spirit reminded him that there was someone at the door. With the stronger premonition brought by his promotion to demigod, the figure of Dubois walking anxiously at the door automatically emerged in his mind.

Edward waved his hand, and the door opened automatically. Dubois rushed in almost immediately and shouted, "Mr. Sparrow, something happened."

"how?"

"Ms. Akasha has been arrested!"

"???"

Edward was startled, but he wasn't surprised: "Caught? Who did she offend outside?"

"It's not that she provoked others..."

Du Bois explained, "Someone else provoked her and she taught him a lesson."

"Tell me about it."

"Aren't we going to move to the house on Emerald Street in a few days? That villa is much bigger than here, so I thought about hiring a few more people. But now the money for the villa's daily expenses is in the hands of Miss Akasha, so I asked her to come with me..."

"etc!"

Edward interrupted immediately, "Didn't I give you the money? How did it get into her hands?"

"Ah? But the financial expenses of a noble family are basically handled by the housekeeper, so I handed over the task to her a few days ago."

"You...you give her the money? Isn't that like throwing meat buns at a dog?"

"ah?"

"Forget it, just continue."

"After we arrived at the market area, she and I had different opinions on the selection criteria. I felt that we needed to find a few strong and capable people, while she thought we needed to find some good-looking people. Then we each took our own actions, and you would make the final decision."

"As a result, when I came back after selecting the people, I saw her clashing with a man. The man seemed to think she was a streetwalker and was about to hit her. This immediately pissed off Akasha."

Such a standard...what kind of plot is that?

"Then Akasha knocked the man's bodyguard down and removed his arm. The man immediately threatened her angrily. Miss Akasha also got angry and kicked him in the crotch... Then the police arrived."

"Miss Akasha originally wanted to fight with the police, but I persuaded her not to do so, and she was then taken back."

Edward frowned: "What about you, are you just watching the whole process?"

"Of course not!"

Dubois said quickly, "I wanted to help at that time, but I was quickly knocked down by the bodyguard. I'm sure that guy's bodyguard must be a Beyonder, otherwise he wouldn't have such great strength."

Edward frowned and said, "But wasn't it the other party who was wrong first? Flirting with women in the street, doesn't the law of Intis cover such things?" At this point, Edward asked, "No, what on earth was she wearing at the time that would be misunderstood as a streetwalker?"

"It's just... a short skirt suit and black stockings."

"…"

Damn it, Russell, what kind of messed up thoughts have you transmitted to the people of this world!

Dubois explained: "Flirting with women in the street is only a minor crime, which is usually only sentenced to an apology and compensation, but Miss Akasha's behavior is intentional injury."

"Isn't this self-defense?"

"The man she beat up was a nobleman. Plus, given the actual situation at the scene, Miss Akasha was clamoring to knock down the police as well... I guess it's hard to believe that she was acting in 'self-defense'."

Edward was silent for a moment. "Will it be helpful if I ask Russell for help with this matter?"

"It would be difficult to use the privilege to release Miss Akasha directly. I have already inquired about it. The person she injured is the grandson of Earl Clear, who is quite powerful in Intis." After a pause, he said seriously, "The only grandson."

"This Earl of Clear is one of the few people who extremely dislikes and hates Roselle because many of Roselle's inventions have shaken his interests."