Chapter 831 - Red-Haired Kins
A giant shadow swept past the bright sky above Devil’s Water.
It was Swan, who was traveling swiftly using a pair of feather wings that were originally her arms.
“Miss Swan? Can-can we do this in another way? You can hold me with a rope or something,” Helen spoke while sitting on top of Swan’s back, blushing.
“What, it’s not comfy up there? And call me Swan. Don’t let me remind you again.”
“It’s nice. Just…”
This is too embarrassing! Helen thought.
“Quiet now. We have arrived.”
Helen looked below and saw they were flying above a colorful island full of flowers and simple structures that blended in with nature quite well.
“I don’t know about that.” Irisa shrugged before she moved closer to whisper into Thewis’ ear. “But I know another clue you may need.”
“What clue?”
“I learned this one by accident. It seems the Crimson Crown is enchanted with a magic array called ‘Bloodline Retrack’. It allows the original owner of the crown to use his blood he left on the crown to tell its location no matter where it is taken to. That’s probably why Goman King can find where Eureka is every time.
“However, this magic array has a great risk to use, that when the item is damaged or destroyed, the owner of the bloodline will suffer from a powerful backfire. Judging from Goman King’s character, I’d say that he did not use his own bloodline on the crown.”
“What does this mean to us?” Thewis frowned.
“Maybe we can come up with a nice plan to divert his attention…” Irisa revealed two items in her hands, a Crimson Crown replica and a vial of blood.
Thewis took the items and checked with a surprised look. “This… is the best duplicate I’ve ever seen. But why are you showing me this?”
“As I said, you want me to pass fake crowns around random people to confuse Goman King, but this is useless because he can always use that magic array to tell where the real crown is.”
“Your point?”
“Now listen, the crown you’re holding is different than the other ones we had before. It has the same ‘Bloodline Retrack’ effect on it. The bottle I gave you contains the bloodline of a royal member I found in the Goman Kingdom. If Goman King truly used the bloodline of someone close to him to locate the crown, then we might use this to fool him.” Irisa suddenly showed a disappointed look. “When I got this crown, I thought about applying a Mystery property to it so that it would look exactly like the real deal. But then I found it impossible to do such a thing.”
Thewis quickly made up a plan in his mind.
“Are you absolutely sure about the magic array you described?”
“I am. The alchemist who helped me isn’t a master yet, but when it comes to enchantment alchemy, I can say he’s already better than many masters.”
“Since we now know the secret on the crown, can we do something to erase it?”
“Huh? Oh goddammit. I forgot to ask!”
Thewis gave Irisa a “really?” look and sighed. “Alright, I’ll keep these and try something out with them once I get back to the Old Earth. In the meantime, you should return to that alchemist and ask him about that question. Now that I think about it, you rarely spoke so highly of people before. Which alchemist are we talking about?”