Chapter 18: The Contest in the Dark
At 11:30 p.m., Aske accompanied Nora to Dorok Road in the slums.
"Isn't it dangerous?" Nora looked at the dark roads on both sides, and the homeless man sleeping in the alley, covered with cardboard boxes, and whispered with some fear.
"Nola, it's dangerous to go anywhere." Asker said lightly, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come with you." ”
"Hmm." Nora nodded, still a little uneasy in her heart.
Arriving at the door of House 44, she reached out to knock on the door, but was stopped by Asker.
Aske raised the hilt of his sword and knocked on the door.
Are you worried about a trap of supernatural power on the door? Nora suddenly felt the urge to take notes again.
The door opened, and it was dark inside, except for a faint figure sitting on the bed. Asker sneered in his heart, it was indeed an enemy.
Nora took a cautious look inside, and suddenly there was a cold feeling, as if something had invaded the body, and was competing with herself for the control of the body. Thinking sluggishly, feeling dulled, Nora only felt that her breathing was difficult, and she wanted to scream loudly, but found that the vocal cords of her throat were out of control and could not make any sound.
Asker also suffered the same situation, except that he was already level 1, and his spirit was much stronger than Nora, so he could barely move. As his body gradually disobeyed the call, he did not show any panic, but slowly turned his wrist, and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the darkness on the left.
Bang!!! The roar of the Imperial Eagle rang out, and Nora felt as if she had been struck in the face by a giant hammer, almost bleeding from her ears and nose...... At the same time, the body quickly returned to normal. She stumbled against the doorframe and saw Asker light up the room with flop.
It is a simple bungalow of about 12 square meters. A young man in a yellow clergyman's robe sat on the bed, his eyes rolling and his face bruised, apparently dead. The other body, in the shadow behind the door on the left, was a middle-aged man in his thirties in a black robe, who had a large hole in his chest blown open by an elephant hunting bullet, and collapsed to the ground covered in blood, with a look of disbelief on his face.
"That's the transcendent of Astral II." Aske stepped forward quickly and began to search for the young man's belongings on the bed, "Astral II can freely manipulate nearby spirits to attach them to inanimate objects, such as a pistol to shoot. Or it invades the living body and competes with the spirits in the body for dominance. ”
"Of course, it's not a panacea." He pointed to the corpse in the corner and added, "The higher the sequence, the lower the likelihood of being overrun by the spirits. From the moment I entered, I held the pistol in my cotton arm. Just by deflecting the angle of the wrist and pulling the trigger, it can still be done in a state of resisting the invasion of the spirit. ”
"I see." Nora was inexplicably ashamed. At the moment of opening the door, Asker was ready to fight back with a gun, and his first reaction subconsciously was to look inside, and the gap between the actual combat experience between the two was too big.
And even if you are on alert, your first reaction must be to regard the corpse sitting on the bed as an enemy, where would you think that the real enemy is hiding in the darkness behind the door on the left? By the way, how did Asker know?
"Kill two birds with one stone, you're in luck Nola." Asker took out two formulas from the sleeves of the corpse on the bed, "Life I and Light I, this is a Life Sect transcendent who tried to advance to level2, but unfortunately he died here before he could put it into action as soon as he got the formula." ”
He finally pulled out the citrine heraldic ring on the corpse's finger, glanced at it, and turned to search the corpse in the corner again. Nora looked at the corpse on the bed and bit her lower lip with some uneasiness: "So...... Inviting me here, is it actually a trap? ”
"Maybe." Aske said, "Maybe it was the Life Sect at the meeting that they learned that someone was asking for the recipe for Life I, so they attracted you to the organization and tried to pull you into the organization, but you were intercepted and killed by the Spirit Sect people on the way. Or maybe the interception happened earlier, and the people from the Spirit Sect who attended the meeting suspected that you were a newcomer who wanted to join the Life Sect, so they deliberately lured you into this trap. ”
"I think it's the latter. If you were to be dragged into the organization just by learning about the purchase of Life I, then the Life Sect would be too hasty. Asker analyzed, and finally found his goal: the formula for Astral I, the Life I transcendent trait that belonged to the corpse on the bed, and the Astral II transcendent trait of the murderer himself.
This time it's really profitable! Asker thought with satisfaction. The recipe for three Sequence I, two transcendent traits (lv1 and lv2), and the ring of the Sect of Life add up to a value of at least 600-700 pounds. In the game forum, the players summarized that "killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, and the development of farming was eliminated", but it was not a random stalk. The price difference between the occult realm and the secular realm is too great, and the total price of his two shops in the imperial capital is only more than 1,200 pounds, and now he has recovered half of it by killing a transcendent.
"Let's go." He pulled Nora away from the scene.
"The Life Sect and the Spirit Sect are mortal enemies?" Nora asked curiously.
"The Sect of Life, also known as the Druidic Sect, originated from the ancient Kate people, who held the bloodline of the 'Shepherd', in which the main sequence was 'Life' and 'Light'." Aske explained, "The Astral Sect originated from the ancient Siris, who held the bloodline of the 'Spirit Witch', and the main sequence was 'Spirit' and 'Undead'. ”
"The two sects were once close allies in the Tertiary Period. At that time, the military power of the ancient Solomon Republic conquered almost the entire continent, and the Cyreth and Kate nations were forced to submit to the Solomonic nation, so it also meant that they joined forces with the enemy to resist. The 'Soul Singer' bloodline route is the product of the honeymoon period of the two sects. Aske explained in detail, "Later, in the Quaternary period, with the partition of the Solomonic Empire, the Syreus people were completely integrated into the Eastern Solomonic Empire, and began to consider themselves the Solomons, while the Kate were annexed by the Jamanis, and due to the gradual separation of ideology and culture, the two sects finally broke up." ”
"To make matters worse, due to the close ties between the two sects during the Tertiary Period, both know and possess a lot of confidential information about the other. Therefore, after the break, both sides are eager to put the other to death as soon as possible. Asker said, "The so-called bone-cutting hatred is the person next to the pillow, probably this is the truth." ”
"Is that so?" Nora immediately thought about it, and began to make up in her mind the sad story of the two sects spanning thousands of years, entangled in love and hatred.
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The next day, Asker woke up from his bed in his study to see the window on the third floor open, a bulging package on the desk, and a note with a thin font on it:
Cash on delivery
M.C. (abbreviation of Mia Sinquimani)
P.S. You have a church agent on your doorstep
"Asker! Asker! Nora hurried through the door and cried out, "Our house has been burglarized!" I just counted my belongings and found that there were 210 pounds missing! The thief also left a note saying that it was the payment for the goods......"
She stared at the package on the desk in a daze, Aske covered his forehead, and said helplessly:
"Yes, your spiritual materials have arrived. She also took the money. ”
"The goods have arrived?" Three other girls rushed to hear the news.
Unwrap the package on the table, revealing a dazzling array of spiritual materials inside. The water in the Gard Gorge is bottled in a bottle of mineral water with peel-off labels, about 400 milliliters; Eden is a pale green, apple-like fruit that is wrapped in plastic wrap in three; Corfu olive oil is filled with a jar of jam in glass.
The feathers of the eagle of Vera were tied with twine, and there were six or seven of them; Basnia Bay geoduck in plastic bottles; The flesh of the golden-striped leech was in a small empty box of makeup foundation with a label attached to it, and a big word was handwritten: foul smell.
The service of the Thieves Guild was so thoughtful that they actually sent everything in excess of the order, and it was obvious that they had taken over a lot of business from transcendents before, so they also took into account the loss of materials that failed to prepare potions...... Asker thought to himself, and then said:
"Now that the materials are ready, let's start preparing the potion of Justice X."
"What about my life stealing I?" Peggy protests, and her potion recipe materials are gathered.
"You?" Asker glanced at her, "Have you digested all of your flesh and blood I transcendent traits?" ”
Medea echoed, "The level 1 potion is not digested, so it is very dangerous to take the level 2 potion. Because the original potions in your body have not been 'tamed', taking potions of other sequences is easy to 'go berserk', leading to a greater risk of spiritual out-of-control. ”
Seeing that Peggy was so depressed that she couldn't speak, Aske waved his hand helplessly: "Let's do what we can do first." ”
Eleanor immediately excitedly set up the cauldron and gave Aske a blow. First, measure out 100ml of water from the Gard Gorge with a beaker, pour it into a crucible, and light the fire. Four minutes later, the river boiled, and Asker took out a pair of Shadow Worm Eyes and carefully placed them in the center of the boiling water.
With a pop, the Shadow Worm's eyes burst in the boiling water, and a pitch-black inky liquid flowed out of the cracks in the eyes, quickly dyeing all the water black. The boiling liquid surface also strangely calmed down, and no matter how heated the flames below, there was no response.
Asker took out the reagent bag containing the diamond powder and poured it in. The powder disperses in the liquid and appears to be rapidly dissolved. Finally he took out the feathers of Vera's Eagle and put them in one by one.
There is a little light in the pitch-black liquid, like a galaxy in the night sky, and there is a feeling of depth when you look at it. Asker sniffed the scent, and after confirming that there was no problem, he poured it into a beaker and handed it to Eleanor.
Eleanor took the beaker with the potion in it, her throat squirmed, and she drank it with her eyes closed, and her skin began to glow. The brilliant golden wavy hair suddenly turned silvery-white, and the tender red lips also turned pink and white. She opened her eyes unconsciously, and her pupils turned into golden cross-shapes, faintly swirling lines.
She opened her mouth and let out a long, meaningless sigh, and her whole body slowly returned to normal.
"How?" Nora asked with concern.
"I'm fine." Eleanor looked at her body, "It felt like a sunbath, and my whole body was warm." ”
"Hasn't there been any change in your mind?" Asker frowned and asked, "There are many records in history that show that after taking Justice X, transcendents will clearly feel that the dark side of human nature has been rudely stripped away, causing temporary psychological discomfort. ”