The waiter led everyone to the door of the room, bent his finger and knocked on the door, and then hurried away.

After a few moments, the door opened.

"Eleanor?" The door was opened by a young woman, in her early twenties, with soft, fluffy flaxen hair, and a pure and pretty face, clearly a beautiful woman.

Hey, why do I say "again"? Aske wondered.

"These two are ......," she said, her voice lengthening, her gaze falling on Asker and Peggy's.

"This is the master I mentioned to you!" Eleanor excitedly said, "He's recruited me to join his team!" ”

"Really?" Nora also showed a look of surprise, "That's really worth celebrating." I'm going to open the champagne, you guys come in first. ”

When everyone walked into the room, they saw that the luxury room of the hotel was almost the size of a normal commercial house, divided into two floors of nearly 200 square meters. The upper floor is the guest bedroom, and the lower level is the living room, with ancient Solomon-style sofas, tables and chairs, and walls decorated with stone carvings, oil paintings, and dragon tapestries. There is also a small bar in the center of the living room, and the wine cabinet is neatly displayed with dark green bottles with a variety of delicate labels.

Nora took a bottle of wine out of the wine cabinet, shook it vigorously a few times, and then aimed at Eleanor and slammed the lid:

"Champagne Attack!" She screamed mischievously.

Eleanor quickly drew the shield from her back, blocking the spray of wine.

"It's boring." Nora tossed the bottle in the trash, "You're getting more and more responsive, Ellie. ”

"I've been beaten to the ground these days." Eleanor put away her shield, "How about not reacting quickly?" ”

"So, this is the master who beats you every day?" Nora turned her gaze and smiled at Asker.

"Introduce yourself." Asker reached out and shook her hands, "Despicable Asker. Lepius. Achilles is planning to assemble his own team. ”

"Nola. Valennis. Licinius. Nora also introduced herself, giving the name of an ancient Solomon.

"I heard that you graduated from St. Mary's Theological Seminary in Solomon City?" Asker got straight to the point, "Military nun? ”

"That's right." The other party deliberately emphasized that "a team is being formed", and Nora couldn't guess the other party's intention, and said with a smile, "The technique of treating Ellie should be able to prove my professional ability." ”

"Therapeutic needles? Or supernatural abilities? Asker asked.

"Therapeutic needles." Nora was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Ellie's injuries are basically tissue contusions and bruises caused by the rupture of internal blood vessels, so they are repaired with biopeptides + platelet preparations + hemostatic gel, and disinfected with 75% alcohol before injection." ”

"What if it's a fracture?" Asker quickly enters interviewer mode and continues to test her.

"Use a sonic speculum to see the fracture first." "If it's a comminuted fracture, you need to have an emergency surgery to remove the small fragments. Otherwise, it is a drywall immobilization followed by a treatment injection, and the specific location and dose depend on the injury. ”

"What if it's damage from supernatural strength?" Asker came up with the finale.

This question is obviously a bit difficult, Nora frowned and thought for a while, and said:

"The first thing to do is to make sure that there is any residual force in the body. If there is, you have to find a way to get rid of it. Treatment is given according to symptoms after clearance. ”

"In addition to healing, the military nun should also have a course in mechanical maintenance." Aske was noncommittal, and continued to ask, "Will guns and vehicles be repaired?" ”

"Yes." Nora nodded.

"That's it." Asker clapped his hands and said, "You passed my interview, Miss Nola. ”

Eleanor clapped at the side.

"Thank you for your appreciation, Mr. Asker." Nora smiled and said, "Now it's my turn to say something." ”

"As you can see, we're still an entrepreneurial team." "Although I personally invested a thousand pounds of money into the team, I couldn't afford to pay too much. What I can guarantee is that in the future my team will not be more than 10 people, and everyone will be paid the same, so ......"

"You misunderstood, Mr. Asker." Nora shook her head, "I don't care about salary. As you can see, my life is not short of money because of the generosity of my parents. ”

"And what do you need?" Asker asked.

"I want to be transcendent." Nora said.

For a moment, the room was silent. Eleanor's breathing seemed to be rapid, and Peggy in the back folded her arms and said nothing. Asker looked at her for a moment and asked:

"Why do you want to be extraordinary?"

"Because the transcendent are very powerful." Nora said bluntly, "I've had a dream since I was a kid to learn more about the world. So I set a small goal, which is to travel all over the world......"

"Do your parents support you in doing this?" Aske asked, surprised. This Miss Bai Fumei's personality is a bit different? Is it the type like Columbus who loved adventure since childhood?

"Of course." "I'm the youngest daughter in the family, so it's not my turn to run the house." ”

I see. Asker nodded, the eldest son inherited the family business, and the second or youngest son went out on adventures, which was also commonplace in this world.

"Therefore, if you want to be extraordinary, you must be able to cope with the dangers encountered on your journey around the world." Aske concluded, "To be on the safe side, let me reaffirm, do you really understand what it means to be a transcendent? ”

"That means I'm going to take a special potion." Nora replied, "My father had brought me the Genetic Agent of the Holy See, but it could only greatly increase physical or mental strength, not the supernatural properties themselves, so I still prefer the potions route. ”

"But it also means a shift in the direction of non-humans." Asker reminded her.

"Inhuman?" Nora looked confused, apparently only half-aware of the Transcendent, and Peggy remembered Aske's legend that Octavian had turned into a dragon after his death and was carried out by 40 knights.

"I can help you become transcendent." Aske said slowly, "But as John. . . As Milton said, you can never know the horrors of hell until you actually fall into the depths of hell. I can tell you the truth, but only after you sign a contract with me and join us. ”

"Okay." Nora hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement. The yearning for the transcendent triumphs over the horror of the unknown described by Asker.

Asker took four pieces of parchment from his bag and placed them in front of the group. Nora and Eleanor picked it up and looked at it, both of them are standard labor employment contracts in the mercenary world, the only difference is that it stipulates that the team salary is uniformly paid, and everyone's salary is the same.

This also means that Asker's team will always remain small, because once the number of people increases, there will be a need for management, and the management talent will obviously not be able to accept the same salary as the bottom. In other words, Asker said that the team positioning is "small but fine", and obviously he meant it.

Eleanor generously signed her name in duplicate. Nora hesitated for a moment, as the contract didn't stipulate that she would be a transcendent. However, considering the unanimous defensive attitude of the Eastern and Western churches towards the transcendental, even if such a contract were signed, there would be no official endorsement of its binding force.

So she thought about it again and again, and finally signed her name.

"Good." Asker put away his contract, "Now we can be honest." Peggy? ”

Peggy scolded in her heart, this guy really wants me to come out and reveal my identity. She hummed nonchalantly, took off her mask, and took off her hood, revealing her small head and pale face under black hair.

"I'm a transcendent." Peggy said coldly, "The transcendent trait she possesses at the moment is Flesh I. ”

"You're the Transcendent?" Nora asked in surprise. In her eyes, this little man who always wore a mask and a black robe was probably Asker's attendant or servant or something, and he was too far from the domineering and majestic transcendent person she imagined.

But what shocked her was yet to come. Peggy pulled out her short sword from the outside of her thigh, slashed it cleanly at her unprotected neck, and pulled out a bloody gap, which startled Nora and Eleanor stood up violently.

The larynx and trachea were sliced open, revealing a horrible red flesh, but Peggy did not fall like a dying man, but stood straight in place. The flesh on both sides of the wound on the neck suddenly seemed to come to life, growing countless tiny churning flesh buds, wriggling and quickly gluing together, and the neck was restored to its original state in the blink of an eye.

"You! That's really ...... It's really ......" Eleanor's mind was completely blank, and she couldn't think of any suitable adjectives for a while. Nora was stunned for a moment, then simply picked up the trash can next to her, clutched her throat and vomited nauseously. There is a strange picture in this cruelty, and the mental stimulation of her is still too strong.

"Flesh and blood I, with the ability to heal quickly, will disappear in most fatal parts." Aske said lightly, "Flesh II, all the lethal parts are gone, and I will become extremely difficult to kill, and at the same time, the flesh and blood of the body can be transformed at will, turning into sharp weapons or hard shields. ”

"There are two kinds of transcendent bloodline routes based on flesh and blood sequences." Aske turned his head to look at Peggy and continued, "Route I, continue to consume the potions of Mind, Life Steal, Shadow, and Illusion, and finally merge into the bloodline 'Blood Moon Hunter'. This transcendent is close to the image of the vampire that has spread across the continent today, and is capable of controlling the minds and minds of others, stealing the life force of any living being, possessing the ability to become invisible and control shadows, while also being able to freely change physiognomy and body features. ”

"Route II, continue to take potions of life stealing, rats, night bats, plagues, and toxins, and finally merge into the bloodline 'Lord of Filth'. Closer to the characteristics of the legendary ancient vampires, this transcendent can transform into or control rats or bats, spreading plagues and toxins. ”

"Either way, reaching the end means transforming into a non-human. The higher the rank, the less likely it is to marry humans and have children. Reaching level 10 means that you are completely reproductively isolated from normal humans, and it is impossible to give birth to any more children. ”

"Isn't that ......," Nora said, her face full of disbelief and shock, "doesn't that mean that if you become transcendent, you will gradually lose your normal fertility?" ”

"There is only one exception." Aske said, "Transcendents above level 10 can freely control the bloodline. After suppressing the bloodline ability to the minimum, you can give birth to an heir with another level 10 transcendent who also suppresses the bloodline ability. The two bloodlines in the newborn's body will clash with each other and annihilate, so it does not have any extraordinary abilities after birth, it is just an ordinary human, and its physique is very poor, and it is very easy to die early. ”

"In the final analysis, the process of becoming transcendent is the process of dehumanization, like constantly mixing other bloodlines into the pure human bloodline, and the final formed life individual, can it still be regarded as a human being? Ancient Cyris has a book of occult science called "The Ship of Theseus", which is dedicated to the secret knowledge of the transcendent bloodline, and I will find it for you when I have the opportunity to show it to you later. ”

Asker added at the end that it was the end of the introductory occult lesson. Nora hurriedly pulled out a pen and paper from her breast pocket, and trembled down the words "Ship of Theseus".

"Inhuman Path?" Eleanor muttered to herself, a complicated expression on her face.

"I've said everything I can say at this stage, if you decide after thinking about it that you still want to become a transcendent, then come to me at this address." Asker handed over a note with the address of his ancestral home, "Peggy, let's go." ”