Charlie Extraordinary Trait Gold

Chapter 9 Charlie Extraordinary Trait Gold

"Of course, the interesting part was how she died~" Alice smiled at Audrey. "That evil god's offspring's mother turned into a monster. Her left arm became a bone blade, and she was incredibly powerful. Even a Sequence 7 skilled in combat had no ability to fight back before her."

Alger, the Tarot Club's current top combatant and a Sequence 7 "Sea King," fell silent.

"Then she—no, they—fell to their deaths." Alice supplied the end of the story.

"Huh?" Audrey was even more bewildered by this unexpected ending. "But... but how could that be possible?"

"Why do you think it's impossible?" Alice looked at her and asked. "That was what happened. She fell to her death. She accidentally tripped, and when she fell, the bone blade her left arm had turned into cut her in half."

Alice's words were not particularly ornate or vivid, but the sheer absurdity of the event was no different from hearing that someone had strangled themselves to death—because it was such an ordinary thing, yet so utterly unreasonable, that it became all the more terrifying.

Compared to that, Qilingus rotting away without the slightest ability to resist would only make people realize how frightening High-Sequence powerhouses were. In terms of horror and atmosphere, it still fell far short.

But... she called that interesting?!

Audrey stared closely at Alice. Alice's manner was relaxed and carefree, as if she truly found it interesting—there was no contradiction between Alice hating and fearing everything arranged In the Ethereal and finding that manner of death quite amusing.

If the pen that wrote stories were handed to her, she would highly probably write it that way too.

Alice did not look at Alger or Derrick's reactions. After all, the two of them were far less lively and entertaining than Audrey. Throughout the entire Tarot Club gathering, Audrey was indeed the most fun to tease.

Looking at Audrey, who had briefly lost the ability to speak, Alice smilingly added the closing remark: "Before Fate, everything is both inescapable and absurd."

The Tarot Club's silence lasted for a long time. Compared to Alice, who lounged leisurely against her chair back with her wicked sense of humor satisfied, the others did not particularly want to speak in this situation.

It was not until Klein ended the summoning that Audrey suddenly remembered—ah, it seemed she had forgotten to recommend the two new friends she had met to join the Tarot Club.

After the Tarot Club gathering ended, Alice received the Roselle's Diary Alger had just submitted.

It had to be said that Roselle's Diary had an extremely low information density—but that was normal. It was a diary, after all.

In the diary, Alice saw the Law of Conservation of Extraordinary Traits that Klein had introduced, as well as the law of conservation of Beyonder Characteristics within neighboring Sequences. This effectively stopped her from considering presenting the drawings in her memories to Klein at the next Tarot Club gathering.

—At this moment, Klein still did not know how dangerous a thing his wise decision had prevented.

Still, even in this diary with its low information density, Alice discovered something that caught her attention.

"God of Death went mad, but also became stronger?" Roselle's question was also Alice's question. "Can gods... go mad too?"

She remembered the Aurora Order, whose members were said to all be lunatics, and the True Creator, whose believers had an extremely high rate of madness—could that be an Orthodox God who had gone mad?

If the True Creator was an Orthodox God who had gone mad, then who had He been before His madness? And why had He gone mad?

The answer seemed obvious. After all, the title Creator easily made Alice remember that sentence: "Lord of Everything Created, Omniscient and Omnipotent God."

Could He be that Original Creator?

As for why the Primordial Witch worshiped by the Witch Sect had gone mad, Alice had never thought about it at all—what a joke. If the end of a Sequence Pathway was a True God, then it would be stranger if the Primordial Witch, who presided over the Witch Pathway, had not gone mad!

Especially since the Nighthawks had later discovered Madame Sharon, a Joyful Witch. Alice could not imagine how a man could remain sane under those circumstances.

"Still, fortunately, I'm not on the 'All-Knowing' Pathway..." Looking at Roselle's wail in the diary over only getting into a second-tier university because of the College Entrance Examination, Alice silently rejoiced. "After all, it seems I did not even finish high school..."

On Wednesday morning, Alice found the secret code Charlie King had left in the Backlund Morning Post. She immediately went to Pritz Harbor and arrived at the place they had agreed upon.

"This is the Potion Formula for Sequence 6 of the 'Monster' Pathway, 'Calamity Priest.'" Charlie King was the first to hand over a sheet of paper.

"'Calamity Priest'?" Alice repeated the name in confusion. "After 'Lucky One' comes 'Calamity Priest'?"

"You're surprised?" Charlie King looked at Alice and smiled. "I thought you would first question whether the Potion Formula was genuine."

"Ah..." Alice paused slightly. She suddenly realized that she had no way of verifying whether the Potion Formula was real—Charlie King's Anti-Divination abilities had to be above hers.

"...I suddenly regret reminding you of that." Even though he had long seen that Alice lacked experience in this regard, Charlie King was still stunned by her gullibility. "How exactly did you survive to Sequence 7?"

"...Two things." Alice spoke in an icy tone. "First, it was true when I said earlier that I accidentally died."

Charlie King's movement paused for a moment. However, he did not look surprised by this, merely pressing on, "And the second?"

"...I also accidentally became a Beyonder." Alice spoke gloomily, having failed to achieve the expected effect.

"What do you mean?" Charlie King paused for a moment. As someone well-informed on the Fate Pathway, he suddenly had a Bad Premonition.

"I accidentally swallowed a Lucky One's Beyonder Characteristic..." Alice's voice grew quieter and quieter, because she saw Charlie King staring at her fixedly.

"Do You Know, I'm a Sequence 6 'Calamity Priest,'" Charlie King's unreadable voice rang out. "The last time I met you, I suddenly had a rather dangerous premonition—if you had not agreed to my deal, I would face an extremely terrible disaster."

Their gazes met, and both understood what the other meant—if she had failed to obtain this formula, Alice would highly probably accidentally swallow another Sequence 6 Beyonder Characteristic.

"Ha." Alice raised a mocking smile. She viciously put away the sheet of paper containing the Potion Formula, then looked at Charlie King and asked, "In that case, would you mind telling me the abilities of a 'Calamity Priest' in advance?"

Friend: When Northerners put their hands into the refrigerator compartment, do they feel warm?

Me: Not sure about the North, but people in the South probably do this year.

Friend: How do you know?

Me: Because I'm from the South.

Honestly, the South has been really cold this year (...)