Could I have been cursed by some high-ranking being?
Or... is today my Mercury retrograde day?
Watching the young Beyonder who had suddenly appeared, Percy felt black lines spreading across his forehead.
It would have been one thing if his investigation had been ruined by a stupid bird, but its owner was actually this kind of... airheaded fellow?
All his earlier caution had turned into a joke!
It felt like firing a cannon at a mosquito and missing entirely!
"Hmm... You weren't frightened by Bran being able to talk, which means you're also a Beyonder? Or someone who knows about the mysterious? That makes things much simpler..."
The young man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Percy finally could not help asking, "Do you know what your bird... Crow was doing earlier?"
"Wasn't it just peeping into bathrooms or something?" The young man looked utterly astonished.
"What? It even peeped into bathrooms?"
Percy was genuinely shocked.
"Lord Bran purely appreciates beauty! Do you understand appreciation?" Bran, the White Tower crow and spirit-world creature, suddenly took flight. A blob of grayish-white matter dropped down, making Percy dodge away in disgust.
Just then, he saw the young man's expression change! It became resolute—and dangerous!
A book as thick as a brick appeared in his hand. He swiftly drew a talisman from it and uttered an incantation in Spirit Language: "Knowledge!"
In an instant, Percy felt scene after scene of illusion emerge before his eyes.
It was the wandering life of a knight clad in battered armor, accompanied by nothing but a donkey and a servant.
And in the end, that knight even went mad!
In that flash of lightning, Percy recalled the title of the book in the young man's hand—Knight Don's Road to Conquest!
*Turning the knowledge in a book