Chapter 171: Aftermath
Harvey touched his chest, his white shirt intact, and he could faintly feel the sharp pain of the shadow spear piercing through his chest.
The study was in shambles, the aftermath of the battle had turned the spacious study upside down, the ceiling was punched with huge holes, the floor of the study smelled of char as if it had been baked by a blazing fire, the chandelier fell to the ground, and most of the furniture was reduced to a pile of broken copper and iron. Harvey held his forehead and sighed helplessly: "How to clean up this mess next, the city security team is almost here." โ
Harvey knew how to use the Abyss Egg to dare to risk his death, and with his current ability, he was not a believer in the Bleak Abyss, so it was really difficult to contact the Bleak Abyss on his own. Death is Harvey's simplest and most effective way to summon the Old Gods, and the Abyssal Egg is equivalent to a medium, allowing the Bleak Abyss to descend here to exert a small amount of power belonging to the Old Gods, even if it is one in ten thousand, it is definitely more than enough to crush a demon.
This is Harvey's last hole card, and in this world where even the ancient gods exist, he doesn't want to use it until he has to.
Harvey came to the window and looked out at the street, and the residents who had been awakened by the loud noise in the middle of the night came out of their homes, hesitating to approach the house to see what was going on, they all knew that the person who had recently moved here was Harvey Adrian, the most famous novelist in the city of Elroy, and it was very rude to peek into someone's house.
The security team rushed over, and many of the residents living in this street were nobles or merchants, and they did not dare to relax for a moment when they learned that it was Harvey's mansion that had caused the accident.
Harvey went downstairs to apologize and sent the vigilantes away, citing an explosion caused by an accident in a magic experiment. The vigilantes only agreed, and did not dare to say anything to Harvey.
Harvey was still thinking about what had happened to Shirley, and had received a lot of information from the Bleak Abyss about demons, which were not created by the Old Gods, but they did have a relationship with the Old Gods. In ancient times, an ancient god fell, and his body fell from the material plane to form a new xenodimensional plane, called the Shadow Abyss, and demons are creatures born from that plane, and their bodies are difficult to leave the Shadow Abyss.
Since ancient times, since some powerful spellcasters have developed methods to summon demons, demons have gradually begun to operate in the plane of reality and are known to them.
Powerful demons will conduct some experiments in order to have fun and find a way to enter the plane of reality without relying on summoners, each demon's experimental methods are very different, Shirley's mutation belongs to the more common category, and the demon who is good at playing with people's hearts and manipulating spirits takes advantage of Shirley's consciousness and spirit to plant a seed in her heart.
Usually Shirley's behavior is no different from ordinary people, in fact, over time, the seed will absorb power from her spiritual consciousness and evolve into a demonic personality or something like that, until the time is ripe, it will completely devour the main consciousness and become a hybrid demon.
It didn't take a few days for the succubus to devour Shirley's consciousness, and the personality named Shirley in the depths of her consciousness was still there, so Shirley's consciousness had a great impact on the succubus, if the succubus could successfully kill Harvey, it would not only solve a big problem, but also be equivalent to snuffing out the last concern of Shirley's personality, and it could speed up the progress of devouring Shirley's personality.
The Bleak Abyss is the real name of the demon located in the Shadow Abyss, and Harvey directly becomes the owner of the succubus personality in Shirley.
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[Item Restoration]
Rank: Second Order
Category: Variational system
Purpose: Restores damaged items to their original condition.
Requirements: The caster must know the structure of the item and have a specific impression.
Note: The difficulty of restoration is related to the time of damage, the complexity of the structure, and the material. โ
Harvey stood in the center of the study and closed his eyes to manipulate the spell, a strange green light covered the surrounding destroyed items, and the large number of books and pages scattered on the floor automatically converged into hardcover books, and the glass windows shattered by the aftermath of the battle were automatically repaired, and there was not a trace of cracks to be seen.
"The things that were destroyed by Shirley and the things that were damaged by the negative energy magic bullet can't be restored, forget it, let's ask the decoration team to repair this part." Harvey was a little speechless as he looked at the floor and the flat marks of the incisions that had been corroded into charcoal by the shadows, casting spells to restore the destroyed study little by little, and it was really a big project to continue to cast second-order spells with his current mental strength, and he also needed to dispose of the corpses and all kinds of strange things in the basement.
At this time, when Diana woke up from a deep sleep on the sofa, Harvey checked her mental state and found that only a mental calming technique had been performed.
Diana lay up on her forehead, remembering something and suddenly looked around, the traces of the destruction of the calligraphy were still there, the long sword that had been drawn away was placed on the fireplace, and she clearly remembered what had just happened.
"What happened?"
Diana was a little confused, she saw Harvey coming up from the basement, she was slightly stunned, her eyes were more gentle than before, she smiled faintly, stood up and showed a comfortable and relaxed smile: "Harvey, are you okay?" โ
He looked around the study and asked nervously, "Where is Shirley?" โ
Judging from the traces of the study, what happened just now was obviously not a dream, but Harvey, who had died, was indeed standing in front of her, and the familiar eyes told her that the man standing in front of her was no one, it was her husband Harvey Adrian, thinking that Harvey must have controlled the situation, and the study turned back like this.
Harvey woke up and looked at the scene and guessed what happened during his brief death, and apologized: "Next, I will ask the renovation team to redecorate the study, sorry, I have involved you too." โ
"Just tell me what's going on, and as your wife, I think I'm obligated to know that." Diana frowned and asked in a tough tone, paused and asked, "What happened to Shirley?" The gesture was exactly like that of the legendary demon. โ
She is very knowledgeable, and she has read a lot of folklore books in this world, and demons are a common character in those types of novels.
"Shirley is fine, she's resting in the next room, and I didn't know what happened until I investigated the basement of this house."
Harvey didn't hesitate to do anything, sat next to Diana, omitted the part of the ancient gods and explained the matter to Diana as it was, the spellcaster was originally a mysterious existence in the eyes of ordinary people, and there was no surprise when he came back to life.
After explaining, Diana looked Harvey up and down with strange eyes: "You mean you subdued the demon attached to Shirley?" โ
"It's not that hard for a spellcaster."
"I thought it was the exclusive domain of the church to clean up demons."
Harvey touched his chin and thought about it for a while: "It's a bit difficult to explain, I'll take you to visit my lab, so that you can understand it more easily." โ
Diana gave Harvey a roll of her eyes, spread her hands on her waist and said absently: "What to visit, I'm not interested in weird experiments, anyway, it's fine." โ