"Poisoned wine? No, I am immune to all poisons."
Jenkins emphasized.
"So even if you drink poisoned wine, you will not die, you will only lose cards. Please choose."
"Okay then, but since you said that after this card is guessed, it will be removed from the game and will not play a role, then this card must be beneficial to us."
The living statue nodded, and turned over the card - [Road to Victory]. The effect of this card is that Jenkins and the elves directly win the game, and this card is the only one in a deck.
"The other party must have done it on purpose."
Miss Syluf said to Jenkins a little angrily.
"If there is a chance, before I leave this strange place, I must let that guy who cheats at cards know the consequences of doing so."
Jenkins whispered back to her.
After the end of the fifth year, the situation is much simpler. The influence of the kingdom is [Steam Kingdom], [Noble Royal Family] and [Marriage], and the hidden dangers are [Human Pus], [Doomsday Theory] and [Lesson-inducing Potion Trend].
Among them, except for [Noble Royal Family] and [Human Pus], all the other three items will generate new cards at the end of the year. The new cards are [Infrastructure Renovation (Steam)] [Unexpected Steam Technology Inspiration] [Maintain Stability] (two cards) and [Out of Control].
The first four cards do not require much explanation, and the last card is a card that must be played in the next year. If it is kept in the hand, it will add new hidden dangers to the kingdom in the seventh year.
Of course, the target of [Out of Control] is not the two kings, but the people of this country.
The effect of using the card is to greatly increase the possibility of the [Kingdom Riot] event before the end of the game, so Jenkins and Miss Elf discussed it and decided to play this card again in the fourth season of the sixth year.
The end of the fifth year's year-end summary meant that for the fifth time, black smoke and dust floated out of the desktop, adhering to the surfaces of many wax figures around. Rather than attaching, it was more like the wax figure was absorbing the black smoke and dust. After all, the surface of the wax figure was spotless and no black traces could be seen.
"Can you pause the game? I want to take a break."
Jenkins suddenly asked after the year-end summary. Judging from the expression, the living statue didn't want to agree, but limited by the basic rules here, it had to agree to Jenkins' request.
"Look here."
Not daring to leave the bright range of the floating candlestick on the table, the two found the nearest wax figure, and Jenkins pointed to the neck of the wax figure.
Miss Syluff resisted the instinctive fear of those wax figures and approached them, and barely saw a crack on the neck of the wax figures:
"Damaged the wax figure?"
"No, it's not that simple. Look carefully in that gap, is there something wriggling?"
Since Jenkins asked, she stretched her head to observe more carefully. The gap was already very thin, and it was almost impossible to distinguish it with the naked eye. Even though the race is elves, Miss Syluff struggled a lot to see the details.
Sure enough, there was something in the small crack on the neck of the wax figure, it was like a black viscous liquid, wriggling in the crack, trying to flow out, but it couldn't flow out as if it was restricted.
The more she observed the black hair in the tiny crack, the more Miss Syluf felt that she couldn't take her eyes off. It doesn't look scary, scary, or even attractive. But the elf thinks that what he sees is the most in line with his mind.
She was at peace, her mind was normal, she just wanted to touch them, to become one with them. Just as he stretched his hand forward, Jenkins grabbed his hand:
"look into my eyes."
He said, and the elf turned her head naturally, looking at those eyes with faint purple traces. After a few seconds, she gasped:
"Oh, what the hell was I trying to do? That black one is..."
"Human pus, I'm afraid, is not far from erupting."
Just like most of the strange lands, this strange land with the theme of the card game in the wax museum is also small in size. Although the densely standing wax figures have increased the number of objects that can be observed here, in fact, it can be roughly seen in tens of minutes.
If the direction that Jenkins and Miss Elf are facing when playing cards is the positive direction, then the wax museum’s positive and negative directions have real boundaries, that is, the walls, and the left and right directions extend into the invisible darkness.
For this phenomenon, it must represent the boundary of the paradox. So far, Jenkins has never tried to investigate this boundary, and the church materials have not mentioned what lies in the completely impenetrable darkness, because anyone who tries to learn the truth has never walked out of the darkness been out.
This time, the wax museum is used as the venue for this strange world. The original intention is to let the participants enrich their decks with the help of the wax figures, and at the same time increase the difficulty of the game. But whether it is Jenkins or the ancient elves, the richness of their decks is enough to deal with 40 games, so until now they don't know what kind of magical cards the statues have.
Before the break ended, Jenkins looked at the statue of the flower girl. Among all the statues here, some do not seem to have much power, such as miners, flower girls, newsboys and other professions whose identities can be recognized at a glance. Theoretically speaking, it is difficult for anyone to choose such a statue as an assistant, but right now, this kind of statue absorbs the most power of human pus.
"Why is this happening?"
Because of the existence of the world tree, the social structure of elves is very different from that of humans, so Miss Syluf asked this question.
"Probably this kind of people live at the bottom of the society, they have seen the most things, and their hearts are the most..."
He did not finish, but the elf understood:
"When the human pus really breaks out, this kind of wax figure is probably our most dangerous enemy?"
She said with some concern, Jenkins nodded:
"I won't let it explode."
In fact, he is not confident.
Because of the particularity of the calamity beast [Human Pus], this monster that was born in an unknown era did not leave any traces in history.
Before Jenkins finally entered the metal tower, the church gave him the collected materials, including the story of "Human Pus". Generally speaking, for those who have never known its power, the appearance of [Human Pus] is actually no different from the plague.
[Human pus] will first appear on a certain individual. When the evil of human nature flows out completely in the form of materialized black pus, it will spread through methods not limited to air, water, blood, etc., and will eventually be destroyed world.
People can't sum up the reason for the outbreak of [Human Pus], because once it breaks out, there are almost no survivors, and it is even more unknown why it appeared on the first individual.
The only known rule is that once the body shows signs of human pus outbreak, there is no way to cure it except the gods themselves. This is an irreversible process, quite scary, and quite tricky.
The oozing black pus will combine with intelligent life itself and mutate into completely irregular monsters. Even in the later stage of the outbreak, even plants without wisdom and stones without life will be infected.
Rather than saying [Human Pus] is a "beast of disaster", it is better to say that it is a "plague of disaster". Perhaps a single individual is easy to fight, and a gifter of level 6 or above is fine. However, the characteristics of infection upon contact, and infection will become the source of infection, make it absolutely comparable to any other disasters.
The above is just the appearance of [Human Pus], and Jenkins hasn't read the even more frightening information carefully. This thing is twisted, malicious, and a disaster to all order in the entire world.
The sixth year of continuing the game also means that the ten-year game has entered the second half.
This year, even though Jenkins and Miss Elf tried their best to eliminate the influence of [Steam Kingdom] and the hidden danger of [Human Pus], it was of no avail. The only thing they did was to reduce the sacrifices of the people of the kingdom in the four incidents as much as possible, so as to reduce the amount of black ash that flew out of the table after the year-end summary.
The four events of this year are [Dry Land] [Kingdom Legitimacy] [Falling Star Stone] and [Forest Disaster].
[Dry Land] and [Forest Disaster] are both natural disasters. The former is the lack of water and rain in the spring planting season, and the latter is the excessive deforestation in winter due to the development of the steam industry.
Both incidents were not difficult to solve, and the elves' governance of nature and Jenkins' knowledge of the princess could handle them. At the same time, the Platinum influence [Noble Bloodline] also flickered for a while when Miss Syluff used the card [Natural Faith]. Although it did not change the nature of the card, it did increase the power of the card.
In addition, after using this card, Miss Syluff suddenly looked up. This time, there is a physical boundary above the paradox, that is, a white ceiling without any stains.
Jenkins didn't know what was wrong with his companion, but didn't bother her either. It was only when she returned to normal that she asked, and the answer she got was a bit strange:
"I heard a voice, and that voice told me that three powerful symbols are needed to summon the power of the elves."
"Whose voice is it?"
Thinking of [Natural Belief], Jenkins suddenly pointed upwards:
"Flowers... or World Tree..."
"No, no, it's a female voice, but I've never heard it before. It wasn't those two, or I would have felt it."
Jenkins guessed that it was someone outside the Paradise who was helping him, but even if there were three symbols, such as the leaves of the world tree, the ancient elves around him, and his own cane, it would be useless without the corresponding ritual.