Abner had, of course, noticed the extra card beside Mr. Fool. But after the trial of "will," he had little interest in feigning surprise at an answer he already knew, so he simply pretended not to see it.
Once the crimson light faded from his eyes and his vision returned, Abner saw that the marker had landed exactly on the twelfth mark.
The Elves and the fine food and wine vanished together. A pair of doors appeared abruptly in the opposite wall.
Abner had no wish to linger in a place where he had nearly embarrassed himself. He crossed the dark doorway in a few strides and entered the mural-lined corridor once more.
The murals continued the earlier story. After paying a steep price and narrowly escaping pursuit, the God of Luck and the Queen of Calamity had finally managed to hide.
During that time, however, something seemed to have gone wrong with the seal on the item the Elf King had given the Queen of Calamity. A trace of its aura leaked out, drawing the God of Luck to it. Almost instinctively, he secretly opened it behind the Queen of Calamity's back.
The Queen of Calamity soon discovered what he had done. She broke with the God of Luck and left alone, taking the item with her. He did not stop her.
Later, the God of Luck realized that the item seemed to have corrupted him. After trying numerous ways to cleanse himself without success, he had no choice but to take the risk of separating out his highest-level characteristic, "Soothsayer," and fusing it with the Trial Temple that had always accompanied him...
The murals ended there. Whether the God of Luck had fallen as a result or eventually escaped the corruption and reappeared under a new identity, he