Chapter 1268 True Knowledge
As the topics of Belluk City, Sylvia and Leo receive a large number of invitations every day, and some of them will have choices to go there, while Leo ignores them.
The outside world is not too surprised by this, because to outsiders, Leo is a scholar who studies and likes to do experiments, and not accepting these invitations is normal.
However, this gave those boring upper-class people a reason to bet. They decided to make a bet with Leo, and they sent invitations to various events or private banquets to Leo every day to see who Leo would choose for the first time.
So, various invitation letters were sent to the Belmont Manor. Only a dozen of the invitation letters of the two were from Sylvia, and the rest were from Leo. Most of them were from private banquets, some invitation letters for public welfare, and some invitation letters for club activities.
Leo refused all this. Sylvia would find several invitation letters for public welfare to reply to him, and by the way, he also accompanied a check when sending the reply letter.
However, this situation changed with an invitation sent by Boger Hans, who, if Boger Hans were one of those bettors, was obviously the winner of the bet.
The reason why Leo chose Boger Hans' invitation to participate in this private event is because this private event happened to be an event he was waiting for related to the mystical knowledge of this world. In fact, the event held by Boger Hans is not the only event that Leo is waiting for. There are several similar events in Belluk City and it is also his choice project. Unfortunately, the organizers of those events did not send invitations.
When planning to infiltrate the upper class of the Ott Federation to find knowledge related to occultism and mysterious power, Leo and Sylvia collected relevant information through various methods.
It’s just that the officials and churches of the Ute Federation have strictly controlled such matters, and in addition, they are newcomers to collect information much more difficult, so they ended up only getting a few useful news with vague content.
These news all mentions that some people in the upper class of Bellook City are very obsessed with the mysticism and even set up secret clubs for this purpose. It also mentions that several powerful people in Bellook City have publicly stated that they are members of certain secret clubs, including Boger Hans.
The secret club that Bojie Hans joined was called Zhenzhihui, which is a semi-public secret club. The reason why it is said to be semi-public is mainly because the club has an office in the municipal government building called the Ancient Civilization Investigation and Research Committee. It is considered a public welfare organization jointly organized by the government and the people. Its purpose is to investigate and collect all things related to ancient civilizations. Bojie Hans is the initiator and president of this organization.
Leo was giving the shotgun to Boger Hans, not just to make friends with Boger Hans, but to get in touch with the Hans family, which should have deep contact with the mysterious power. His real purpose was to use a little thing left on the shotgun to attract Boger Hans and let Boger Hans become his guide to contact the other side of the world.
However, what he didn't expect was that Boger Hans discovered what he had left on the hunting rifle so late, so he sent him this invitation letter, which made him wait for a while longer.
Fortunately, things were still under his control, and the invitation was finally delivered.
After giving the reply, Leo began to prepare for the appointment tonight. After all, he wanted to pretend to be a scholar who had some knowledge of ancient mysticism. If he went to the club to communicate with people, he would be embarrassed.
After nightfall, the carriage sent by Boger Hans waited outside the manor gate early. After getting on the carriage, the coachman drove the carriage for half a circle in the Great North Point area, drove into a private trail, then crossed the trail, and passed through the private estate one after another, and finally boarded an intercity road leaving Belluck and heading to the city near the city.
Leo was not surprised by this, but instead thought that this situation was normal. Although Zhenzhihui was a semi-public secret club, it was a secret club after all. If the store was set up in the city or in someone's home openly, it would lose its mystery. Otherwise, a mysterious organization would lose its mystery and most of its attractiveness. No one would want to join an unmysterious secret club.
Therefore, Zhenzhihui will definitely have one or many secret gathering places, and judging from the several sets of hooded clothes and masks found in the carriage, he obviously needs to dress up later.
The carriage drove on the road for a short time and gradually stopped. Then there was a sound of footsteps outside the car. The door opened, and Boger Hans, wearing a hooded costume and mask, got in from outside the car, then patted the wooden board behind him, signaling the carriage to continue driving.
"I knew that Lord Leo must be interested in my invitation letter. Do you know how much money your reply letter has earned me?" Boger Hans took off the mask on his face, looked excited, as if waiting for Leo to ask.
However, Leo obviously did not cooperate with his plan and just looked at the other party with a smile.
"You are such a boring person." Without waiting for the response you want, Boger Hanston was bored and no longer interested in continuing. He turned to the topic and took out a piece of paper from his pocket and opened it. He saw a mysterious pattern that looked complicated and asked, "Grand Leo, I saw this pattern on the hunting rifle you gave me. Where did you find this pattern?"
Leo took the paper and looked at it. Without answering it, he asked back, "Hisser Bojie, how could you be interested in it? Do you know what it is?"
Boger Hans naturally didn't tell the truth, so he found an excuse and replied: "I don't know, I just think it's very beautiful, as if it has some mysterious meaning."
Leo explained: "Like you, I feel that this symbol seems to contain some mysterious knowledge, so I engraved it on the hunting rifle, hoping that the hunting rifle can gain that mysterious power."
Although Leo made an explanation and the explanation also conformed to Boger Hans's idea, he still did not say the outward meaning of this symbol, which made Boger Hans a little unhappy. However, he did not show his emotions on his face. He thought for a while and said, "Actually, I have seen a similar symbol before, but I don't understand what the symbol has. Your symbol may have something to do with the symbol I saw. If you can know where the symbol comes from and go there to investigate, you may be able to crack the meaning of the two symbols."
Leo shook his head and said, "No need to investigate. You should not find anything related to this symbol, because I have searched it and know nothing except this symbol."
"Has you found it?" Boger Hans was stunned for a moment, as if he had thought of something, and asked, "Did you see it at Belmont Manor?"
Leo didn't answer, just nodded.
Boger Hans immediately fell into deep thought, and it was obvious that Leo's answer provided him with a lot of clues and information.
As Leo defaulted, this symbol was indeed discovered during the renovation of Belmont Manor. The construction team at that time only regarded it as a general decorative stone slab and did not care. However, Leo could see at a glance that the broken pattern on the stone slab was related to the wizard formation of the tower wizard. Later, he found that this pattern symbol was indeed converted from the wizard formation. This pattern symbol was regarded as a wizard formation specially transformed for operation in this world.
Although this wizard magic array has been broken and completed, it has also made Leo's process of improving the rune array much smoother, and the transformation of the rune array was soon completed. Although this transformation will still cause disorderly and chaotic changes during the rune array to cause different effects, it has also made Leo's understanding of the mysterious power of this world a lot. This is why Leo is confident that even if he does not find any knowledge and information related to the mysterious power, he can completely improve the rune array in a short time.
Because this symbol is incomplete, when Leo engraved the symbol on the hunting rifle, he completed the incomplete part according to his own rune array system.
"Is this what it is when you see this symbol?" Boger Hans asked for a moment of contemplation.
"Yes, that's it." Leo nodded and asked casually: "Is there anything wrong with this?"
"No, no! This symbol..." Boger Hans looked at the symbols drawn on the paper in his hand, without further explanation.
Even though Boger Hans did not explain, Leo still saw from the other party's expression and behavior that the other party should have seen this symbol, and the one he saw was a complete version, not a modified version himself. This further proves that the Hans family had in-depth contact with the mysterious power of this world.
On the one hand, Boger Hans was unwilling to continue the topic, took the paper back into his pocket, and asked Leo: "His Excellency Leo, do you like to study occultism?"
"Study for a while," Leo replied vaguely.
Boger Hans said in confusion: "It's really surprising. Those scholars I know who study industrial machinery, metallurgy, religion, and mystics are almost incompatible. They will make a big fuss when they meet. They have never seen a scholar with profound smelting knowledge like you who are interested in mystics."
Leo replied vaguely, as always, "I am just interested in all the secrets."
Although this answer is still the kind of panacea, Boger Hans looked like he knew it, as if he could understand what Leo wanted to express.
"How much do you know about True Know?" asked Boger Hans again.
Leo thought for a while and replied: "I don't know much, but I have heard some news recently. I know that this is a secret club established by you, and it is said that only recruits people who are interested in mysticism."
Boger Hans shook his head and said, "Some of you are right and some are wrong. We are indeed a secret club, but it was not me who established it. I just established the branch of Belluke. The True Knowledge will always be in other places. In addition, we are not only recruiting people who are interested in occultism, but those who have been exposed to real occultism."
"Really mystical knowledge?" Leo pretended to be puzzled.
"Yes, real occult knowledge." Boger Hans's expression became serious and said: "Although there are various organizations in this world that study occult knowledge, most of the mystic knowledge that are exposed to in these organizations are just fake and false knowledge thrown out by the church. There are not many people who have truly come into contact with correct mystic knowledge, and even fewer organizations, and our true knowledge is one of them."
Leo looked at the boastful Boger Hans and said calmly: "The real mystery knowledge you mentioned is not that complex mysterious symbol, right?"
"Yes, that symbol." Boger Hans was a little dissatisfied with Leo's calm attitude, but when he thought about it, he felt that this seemed to be a matter of course, because his identity and Sylvia might mean that they had seen more mysterious things, so they were so calm.
Leo questioned: "It would be too rash to decide whether a person is qualified to join a secret club just by contacting a real mysterious symbol. You should know that I have seen and contacted the symbol at that time. Do those people also have the qualifications to join?"
Leo's reaction seemed very normal to Boger Hans. After all, a secret party that had never been seen before invited to join, and any normal person would question it.
Boger Hans explained: "Of course not, exposure to real mystic knowledge is only one of the prerequisites. In addition, there are many prerequisite factors that will filter out those inappropriate ones. Even so, you cannot join immediately. You must pass some assessments and trials to truly join us."
"Ratifying review of its own members is a key factor in the ability of an organization to continue." Leo nodded in agreement, as if he agreed to this review method, and then he asked: "What are the benefits if I join?"
"Of course there are benefits. Being able to get in touch with real mysterious knowledge and knowing the reality of this world is one of the benefits," Boger Hans smiled confidently: "As for other benefits, wait until you officially join, you can experience it slowly! I have said it all now, which will affect your experience. You must know that exploration is also part of the fun."
Chapter completed!