"The Fountain of Youth is probably the ritual the King of Immortality needs for his advancement," Odys, the Hermit, explained. "I only just heard. It's a complete scam."
The others were stunned. Cattleya, the High Priestess, immediately thought, Did the Queen tell him?
After Justice's analysis, they had all suspected something was wrong with the Fountain of Youth. None had expected this.
"Mr. Hermit," Emlyn asked, "which Sequence is he advancing to?"
"Sequence 4, supposedly," Odys said after a moment's thought. "Sequence 4 of the Devil Pathway is called Demon."
That name alone makes the Sequence sound cunning, Klein, the Fool, thought.
Alger, the Hanged Man, looked surprised. "The King of Immortality is only a Sequence 5?"
Kings of the Seas were generally Demi-Gods.
"I heard the King of Immortality really is a Sequence 5," Odys replied. "But his flagship, the Death Announcer, seems to be a Demi-God-level Ghost Ship.
"In other words, he's a Sequence 5 wielding a Level 1 Sealed Artifact."
Alger nodded slowly. That effectively gave him Demi-God-level power.
The news about the Fountain of Youth and the King of Immortality surprised the others, but on reflection, Odys's information made sense.
After several seconds of silence in the hall, Alger glanced at Odys. "I've just learned that the Argo and the Golden Dream met in the Sonia Sea last week and sailed east together."
Audrey, Fors, and the others all looked toward Odys.
Through recent Tarot Club discussions, they had learned a great deal about the sea. After all, four of the club's nine members were at sea...
Actually, five were, since Klein occupied both the Fool's and the World's seats.
Because they operated at sea, maritime intelligence often came up during their discussions. By now, the others knew quite a bit.
They knew, for example, that