Chapter 41: Soul Devouring
Walking on the path leading from the forest to the city, the surrounding trees gradually become thin, and under the evening sun, it seems to be paved with a layer of golden light. The original birdsong and beast roar had all disappeared at this moment, and only the faint noise in the distance reached Firena's ears.
With a deep sigh, Firena carefully stroked the few lines on the last page of the notebook, and finally shook her head helplessly and closed the notebook.
The existence of another soul in her body was also very distressing for her, although the solution to the other soul in her body was recorded in the notebook in her hand, but the huge unknown discouraged Firena.
Soul Eater, one of the five soul spells in the Notebook and the last spell recorded in the Lich Notebook. The other four are, in order, Soul Shield, Soul Scorch, Soul Lash, and Memory Erasure.
Other soul magic, with Firena's current bronze level of magic power, can only learn the magic of the first two soul systems, and learning memory erasure requires gold level. However, Soul Devouring was completely different, and it only needed the bronze level to learn at the end of the notebook, which couldn't help but feel strange to Firena.
Soul Devouring, as the name suggests, is to devour the soul of the other person, make it a part of your own soul, and then gradually digest the devoured soul, and then enhance your soul power. In contrast to the various notes and taboos that fill the pages of other soul magics, the entire page of Soul Devouring is almost blank except for how to use it. In conjunction with the Lich's diary, Firena suspects that the Lich Auf's madness has something to do with the magic. But the soul devouring is like a demon's golden apple, even if it knows that it will do all kinds of harm to people but no benefit, but people can't help but be tempted to taste it.
"Sure enough, after learning to erase the memory, it is safest to devour another soul."
Putting the notebook away, sinking into the sea of consciousness and sensing the location of another soul, Firena thought in her heart that she would be completely sentenced to death. Although the other soul is the original owner of this body, for the sake of its own existence, it can only say sorry to her.
As for why she waited until she had learned to erase her memories before devouring it, it was because Firena had deduced from going through the Lich's diary several times.
After each devouring, the devoured person will leave a lot of negative emotions and merge into the soul of the devourer. Over time, it will be as completely crazy as a lich, but after completely erasing a person's memory, it is equivalent to erasing all of a person's emotions, and at that time, how many negative emotions can affect the devourer of a soul as pure as a blank slate.
Now what Firena has to do is to appease the other soul in her body, and strive to break through to the gold level, after learning that the memory erasure, it will be the end of the other soul in her body, and when the soul is completely fused, her legs and feet may also be fully recovered.
But if the other soul made any movement in the middle, a hint of ruthlessness flashed in Firena's eyes: even if there was a danger of side effects, she would devour the other completely.
"Master, we'll be in town in about ten minutes." Placing Firena on a rock, Okita said softly.
"Yes, I see. Shakespeare Enchanted! And you and Sang Song and the other spirits will follow us into the city. β
Retracting her thoughts, a smile tugged at the corners of Firena's mouth. After hearing Okita's words, Firena casually shook the ends of her slightly curly hair, and after having a solution to the other soul, her whole mood was much better.
Feeling her legs grow stronger under Shakespeare's enchantment, Firena jumped off the stone, and after simply moving her body, she took out the currency of the world from the space bracelet and counted it carefully.
"Well, it's only 20 gold coins in total!"
The gold, silver and copper coins of the other world are calculated according to the advanced method of 1:100, and this currency exchange method made Firena complain at first, feeling that this is the domestic game setting of what era, and the soil is about to fall off the scum. However, the other world naturally has the national conditions of the other world, and it is inconvenient for her to say anything, but after a long time, she thinks it is very easy to remember.
Checking the bag of currency in her hand, Firena said with a little dissatisfaction: "Hey, Shakespeare, didn't you shave your heart to loot the loot, the chief secretary has killed a lot of people along the way, how can you have this money!" β
"Oh! Master, it's okay if you tell me to search for the body, my generation has worked so hard, and now he has to question my generation. Doesn't your conscience ache, master? Shakespeare made a look like he had been hit by an arrow, clutching his chest and stepping backwards.
"Of course my conscience will not ......"
Halfway through her words, Firena suddenly remembered the great hero Ashra, who had sacrificed countless times before the time travel, and thought that she had really not treated him very well since she summoned Shakespeare. Thinking of this, Firena couldn't help but stop talking, and turned her long hair with her fingers in a weak heart.
Seeing Firena's embarrassment, the head secretary and the others couldn't help laughing, but in order to take care of their master's face, they quickly put their smiles back, looking at their master's red face that was about to drip blood, only Shakespeare said more unscrupulously: "Look, master." You can't have a clear conscience yourself, oh! You're in a great state right now, master, but can you tell us a little bit about how you're feeling right now? β
Being laughed at by herself, Firena's face couldn't help but turn even redder, and then she glared at Shakespeare viciously, stepped on him heavily, and said shyly: "Hmph, you deserve it!" β
With that, he took the hand of the chief secretary and strode towards the town. And Sanson also put away his smile after his master left, whispered to Shakespeare, deserved it, and disappeared into the air, leaving Shakespeare alone to shake his head in place and sigh that he was unladylike.
The town of MarvΓ£o was an important town in the southern part of the Valeren Empire. Although it is called a town, because of its proximity to the endless forest, it is even more prosperous than some inland cities. And because it was once the hometown of the uncrowned king, the founder of the mercenary union, the emperor allowed it to be governed by the mercenaries themselves, and the empire only sent a small number of troops here to collect taxes.
After the Director-General had paid the toll for a copper coin, Firena pouted and walked ahead with a depressed expression. And the chief secretary followed behind the master with a smile on his face and comforted: "Master, don't go so fast, short stature is not a bad thing, do you think this is not exempt from the toll of a copper coin?" β
"You dare to mention this!" Like a cat that has been stepped on by its tail, Firena can't help but explode.
"Hey, I won't say it, I know it's wrong. master οΌ β
Seeing the cute appearance of his master, the head secretary couldn't help but take Firena's little hand and lead her to the center of the town with a smile on his face.