ah?
Angel's thoughts fell into a brief pause, and then turned into two different voices, explaining Bernadette's words in his mind.
Is she referring to the Memorial Hall who buried Roselle Gustav's body in Intis Trier? Or is it that one of the nine tombs built "Black Emperor" Promotion Ritual does not meet this "condition" and is a fake?
According to Bernadette, "one of the tombs is fake", and she should mean the latter, but this means that Roselle did not have all the tombs needed to complete the ceremony at that time. One of the fake tombs interfered with his ascension ceremony, causing him to ultimately fail, and then he was assassinated by the restoration nobles and Orthodox Church?
Seeing that she was a little confused, Bernadette slightly put away his forward leaning and aggressive attitude and asked:
"Based on your previous experience and the Card of Blasphemy that 'you' have mastered, I think you should know the Promotion Ritual of 'Black Emperor'."
"Nine mausoleums."
Angel answered briefly, indicating that she was indeed aware of the matter. At the same time, she also confirmed that the "fake mausoleum" mentioned by Bernadette was related to them.
"Then I will skip the parts that everyone understands," Bernadette nodded with satisfaction and continued, "After meeting up with sister Anne, we relied on the information I have collected for more than a hundred years to find Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun and Church of Steam Some of the eight tombs destroyed by are located in unreachable hidden places such as mountain tops and canyons within Intis, and some are built in uninhabited islands overseas... But without exception, they have all been wiped out of their power and lost their due role."
The function is to resurrect Anchor as "Black Emperor". According to what Mr. "Fool" said, as long as there is a tomb that survives, Emperor Roselle may return from it and restore the strength and personality of Sequence 0... Angel added in the bottom of his heart, waiting for Bernadette to continue talking.
"However, in an isolated mausoleum overseas, sister Anne discovered some problems... It was built secretly by a large number of workers like the other seven. It is secretive and magnificent. It is engraved with his creations and represents the order he established, but..."
Having said this, Bernadette glanced at Anne, who took over the conversation and said in a childish but majestic tone:
"However, as 'Balancer' who has touched the power of order, I can subtly detect the chaos in that mausoleum, and there is a certain difference between the order of Distortion and other mausoleums. It is not an aura of looking down on the world, but some kind of... disguise.
"Blazing Sun and the Beyonders of Steam did not notice this. They carefully erased any traces that could locate the mausoleum, making it completely abandoned and unable to be used by 'Black Emperor', but for For a fake mausoleum, all this is meaningless. The ceremony of 'Black Emperor' has nothing to do with it at all. The order of Distortion is just an illusion to enhance the atmosphere, and the creations engraved on the surface of the huge rocks are just pure praise..."
"What you mean is that Emperor Roselle did not build nine mausoleums for Promotion Ritual at that time, but built one, or even multiple fake ones, to make others think that he was preparing to be promoted to 'Black Emperor', but in fact he had other plans?"
Angel asked in confusion. She could understand the shock of Bernadette and Anne when they discovered this fact, but she could not imagine what it meant.
"On the contrary, I think this is proof that he has fully planned to be promoted to 'Black Emperor'," Bernadette immediately replied, speaking very fast as if being chased by something, "Building eight mausoleums on the surface and hiding a key one secretly is a normal person's strategy, but he should have gone a step further..."
"Build seven real mausoleums and one fake mausoleum openly, then secretly build the eighth real mausoleum to attract everyone's attention, and finally, build a real secret mausoleum that no one knows about as the final trump card."
This... with Roselle Gustav's character, it is indeed possible to do this. It is said that his personality changed in his later years and became suspicious and extreme. This may breed his inner distrust of everyone. Maybe he only wanted to build nine mausoleums before and hid one of them secretly as a trump card, but when he looked back on the past, he discovered This secret is not safe, and there is still a possibility of being discovered, so I gave up one of the public tombs and temporarily added a tomb that only I knew the location of, and even built by myself... Various thoughts kept passing through Angel's mind, and I always felt that this senior time traveler left too many unsolved mysteries.
"So, have you found the two hidden tombs?"
After a moment, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask.
"Unfortunately, there is not, not even the one that is not so secret and is used to attract other people's attention."
Bernadette replied slowly, his expression rarely wavering.
Anne on the side sighed softly, stretched out his hand to hold her arm on the table, and the latter held the back of Anne's hand with his other hand, as if gaining some strength from it, turned to look at Angel, and said:
"This is why we are looking for you. Clues to the mausoleum may exist in Roselle's diary. One of my purposes in returning to Intis this time is to get his last diary and give it to Mr. 'Fool' in exchange for the content related to the mausoleum... I plan to leave this matter to Cattleya, but I hope you can provide her with some help 'there'.
"In addition, based on some of his paranoid and eccentric behaviors in his later years, I judged several possible directions...
"One is the pollution underground at Trier. He often went to Underground Trier alone at that time and stayed there for a long time... I suspect that he tried to contact 'Mirror Person', got their help, and built an underground building, even at 'Mirror World' The second is 'Ghost Empire', which opened a safe channel to the south. After colonizing Southern Continent, he sent Savini Solomon to find this huge Ghost Ship left by the Trensoest Empire. I suspect that he planned to build the mausoleum on the ship..."
The mausoleum of Mirror World and the mausoleum built on the mysterious Ghost Ship. The imagination of this princess Intis is not inferior to that of her old father... Angel murmured, understanding why the other party thought these things were related to her.
"Mirror World" is a collection of "doors" in the concept of occultism. There are countless passages connecting different mirrors inside, not a real "world". However, due to the pollution of some kind of force underground in Trier, an area close to the real Trier appeared and was divided into different levels. Special Mirror World even contained many "Mirror Person" that could not leave freely, which fully met all the requirements for building a mausoleum.
More importantly, it is difficult for them to leave and it is difficult for outsiders to enter, so they naturally have the conditions of "Secret Keeping".
To explore there, we need a Demoness who does not belong to "Demoness Sect" but understands "Mirror World". Angel, who has cooperated with Anne and Bernadette many times and has a certain degree of trust in each other, is the best candidate.
As for the second possibility, it is said that Fourth Epoch disappeared into the vast sea, and "Ghost Empire", which carries the last afterglow and treasure of the Trensoest Empire, can actually be related to Angel...
"King of the Five Seas" Nast once invited her and "Queen Anne's Revenge" to find the lost ship Ghost Ship, and repeatedly hinted that she had certain clues.
It is indeed possible that Nast Solomon is the son of Intis's former "White Maple Earl" Savini Solomon, who was once owned by Roselle was sent to look for traces of "Ghost Empire". If anyone might have clues, it could only be Nast, who inherited the legacy and title of Savini.
After thinking for a moment, Angel said:
"If it is the first possibility, I will try to go back to Trier and look for the connection between 'Mirror World' and the tomb. This will bear certain risks, because the relationship between Demoness and 'Mirror Person' is not very harmonious, so I will wait until the investigation of Backlund Great Smog comes to an end and everything is ready before completing this matter."
"No matter what the result is, I will give you corresponding reward."
Bernadette solemnly promised.
Then, Anne also spoke:
"As for another possibility, 'Ghost Empire'... I plan to accept the invitation of 'King of the Five Seas' Nast to look for this Ghost Ship, which is drifting in the sea and cannot be found. I hope you can join this journey together."
"Could this be Nast's trap? In the previous Pirate Conference, he mentioned this matter frequently and seemed very positive. I always felt that he had some agenda..."
Angel frowned hesitantly and did not agree to the matter immediately.
"It's normal for him to have some agenda. If he is willing to hand over all the interests of 'Ghost Empire' to others, it will make me suspect that he is planning something..." Bernadette interjected, "Then In the last Ghost Ship of the Trunsoest, there is probably one of the Beyonder Characteristics left behind after the fall of 'Night Emperor', Sequence 1's 'Hand of Order', followed by an uncertain number of 'Justiciar', 'Black Emperor' Pathway The characteristics of Sequence 2 are the goal of Nast, his promotion to Angel, and even the only hope for Sequence 1."
It would be understandable if it was for Beyonder Characteristic... According to Arrodes, it has been extremely difficult to find the Beyonder Ingredients required for the Potion formula after Sequence 3. It is more common to directly use characteristics to promote, and Bernadette's words also contain an important message:
"Justiciar", which is Arbiter Pathway, can jump to each other from Lawyer Pathway represented by "Black Emperor"!
This means that no matter whether the Justiciar or the Sequence 2 Beyonder Characteristic of "Black Emperor" is found in that Ghost Ship, Nast is ready to use it to advance.
This "King of the Five Seas" who has lived for nearly two hundred years may no longer be able to hold back. He wants to use the wealth carried by "Ghost Empire" to reach the sky in one step and become Angel, or even go one step further to avoid the "Lawyer" Pathway whose characteristics are missing due to the unknown life and death of "Black Emperor" Roselle. From Switching Pathways to "Arbiter", he will be promoted to Sequence 1 with the characteristics of "Hand of Order"!
"Oh, Nast has a wonderful idea, but I will not allow him to do this. His upper limit will be Sequence 2 at the feet of Roselle."
Seemingly sensing Angel's suspicion, Anne sneered and "declared" in a majestic tone that Nast's intention would fail. His golden eyes revealed endless confidence.