Chapter 42: Stigmata
A unified criterion for measuring a cultivator's strength is to look at the strength of his or her spiritual power. There was a loud bang in the sky, and the eyes were shining on the books, whether it was telekinesis, magic, war spirit, or the madness of the orc race, the fundamental source was the same, that is: spiritual power. How to transform one's spiritual power into combat ability is the purpose of a cultivator's cultivation.
As long as it is a living being, whether it is a human, an elf, a dwarf or an orc, or other magical beasts or beasts, they are born with spiritual power, but human beings are not like elves, dwarves, or orcs, and they are born with magical attribute physiques, but because of this, human spiritual power is purer than that of elves, dwarves, and orcs, and they are more free in their choice of cultivation.
Magic is a method of converting spiritual power into magic power and storing it in the body, and then using magic power to drive the four elements of the outside world for one's own use.
The knight's battle spirit, like the madness of the orcs, is to strengthen his fighting spirit through continuous fighting, so that the mental power stimulates the muscles of the whole body, so that the strength, physical fitness, speed, bounce power, throwing power and so on are explosively improved.
As for telekinesis, it is the most direct use of psychic power, it does not go through several turns like magic, and it does not need to go through continuous battles like war spirit and madness, telekinesis can use telekinesis anytime, anywhere, without restrictions, so telekinesis is a more effective than magic, simpler than war spirit. It is precisely because telekinesis can directly use spiritual power that practitioners of telekinesis cannot practice magic or comprehend battle spirits.
However, the magic power will be exhausted, and the battle spirit will be extinguished for a moment, but the spiritual power will never wither, as long as the brain can still be active.
This is the reason why many necromancers have turned into a skeleton and try to keep their brains and hearts alive, because only when the brain is alive will the spiritual power be generated and transformed into the magic power to maintain its own existence, and the premise of the brain being alive is that there must be a living heart to provide energy for the brain.
In general, telekinesis is a superior ability to magic and war spirit, and this is the only advantage that Owen has in the face of blood cavity at this time. He knew that as long as he remained awake, he would continue to use his telekinesis, and the magic used by the blood chamber to prevent him from transmitting the voice to Sophia was strong, but there was always a time when it was exhausted, and Owen didn't need to wait for the blood chamber to run out of mana, just a little weaker.
For this reason, Owen endured the increasing severe pain all over his body and the feeling of blood boiling in his veins, and continued to release his spiritual power. "Just bear with it for a while, just bear with it for a while. Owen cheered himself up.
Eventually, Owen's mental power managed to find a slight weakness in the magical barrier of the blood chamber, opening a small gap and transmitting his voice to the ears of the girl who was sleeping in the center of the huge blood cell......
"Sophia!" "Sophia!"......
Sound is transmitted from the material world to the spiritual world. "Owen ......," Sophia muttered as thin as a gnat.
"Impossible, there is still consciousness. Korista looked at Sophia, who had been tossed beyond recognition by her, and felt inexplicably surprised and uneasy. In layman's terms, the latter is obviously already lying in the coffin, and the coffin lid has been closed, and it is almost nailed.
The voice...... It's Owen ......" Sophia slowly opened her eyes. Although her spirit body was in tatters, her expression looked so peaceful and happy.
Sophia slowly stretched out her right hand towards the upside-down city in the sky. Pieces of broken cloth were gathering toward her right hand, then combining and recombining, which was her own handkerchief, and what she had agreed with someone important.
Immediately afterwards, the blood hole in Sophia's chest healed automatically, and the heartbeat of "poof" and "poof" also resumed in her chest.
"Snatch back what I have taken from me, piece by piece, how can you be reckless!" Krista finally understood what her trepidation was, and with a fierce, vicious expression on her face as beautiful as Sophia's, Krista thrust her left hand into Sophia's abdomen.
I saw that Sophia's spirit was rapidly becoming transparent, and Korista forcibly absorbed Sophia.
However, Sophia grabbed Korista's hand with her backhand. Krista felt a sense of weakness, and she watched in horror as Sophia, who had already been transparent, materialized at an even faster rate, while her own spirit gradually became transparent.
"Let go, what are you doing?" said Korysta, hysterically yelling at Sophia. You don't have to ask to know that her spirit body was absorbed by Sophia in turn.
"Yike...... Wow wow wow ......"
The sky beneath the upside down city screamed and screamed, and although the sound was the same, the person who made the scream was replaced by Korista.
Not only the heart and handkerchief were taken back, but also the clothes, magic, weapons, and armor were returned to Sophia one by one, and Korista, her body was not just transparent, but turned into ashes and disappeared into thin air.
After no longer feeling the breath of Krista Cunzài, Sophia closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and when she opened them, she found that the whole world was turning upside down.
No, it should be said that it was she who reversed.
The upside-down city had regained its proper posture and was now lying quietly at her feet. The crowd in the city did not walk and talk backwards as before, but returned to a normal state. Sophia wanted to take a look at the city, but she was wondering how to go down when she suddenly found herself on the ground. It seems that although the world has been turned upside down, the essence has not changed, as Krista said, as long as she can imagine, it will be realized immediately.
"What kind of place is this?" Sophia, who was standing in the center of the crowd, had taken off her Valkyrie armor and changed into an ordinary light blue pleated skirt to avoid being noticed, she was curious about this strange but familiar place, and muttered to herself.
"Can't you recognize it? This is the city you love in the end: Hansar City. But it's not what Hansar City has in any era. A familiar female voice suddenly turned behind her, "That's the Hansha City you remember, imagine it as the most desired in your mind." ”
Sophia immediately turned around, and saw a girl who looked exactly like her standing on the other side of the street, through the endless stream of people. Still with her long gray hair fluttering in the wind, Krista was wearing a dark purple pleated dress of the same style as Sophia. The two girls who were still fighting for life and death just now were looking at each other across the street.
"Can you tell me what that means?" didn't feel hostility on Korista, and Sophia didn't make a move on her.
"Manifest the landscape of your inner world and create a world that belongs to you. In simple terms, this is your 'domain'. ”
"Domain?"
"Not bad. Every human being is born with a 'domain' of his own. But only a strong person who has reached the ninth level of strength can turn his 'realm' into reality. ”
Krista said something that was in Sophia's common sense, but it was beyond her imagination. Sophia was stunned for a while, and in her mind, the words 'domain' and 'strong' had nothing to do with her.
Sophia, who came back to her senses, continued to ask Korista, "I know, you are not Korista at all. Who the hell are you?"
"Oh, it must have been when you absorbed it just now, and you inadvertently leaked your consciousness and you saw through it. Korista smiled helplessly, "That's right. I'm not really a 'Korista'. My real name is 'Ballo Havin Carlo', and you can call me 'Blood Chamber'. ”
"Ahh
"That's right. "Kolista, no, it should be the girl who goes by the pseudonym 'Kolista' replied, "I don't know who Korista is, and I've never heard of this name, and the reason why I use this identity is because you are afraid of it." ”
“......”
"The Prince of Vampires says that you are his royal sister Korista, and uses this as a reason to transform her into a Vampire Princess. I know you're afraid of being a vampire princess, and naturally you're particularly reluctant to be a 'Korista'. And your fear is exactly what I need. ”
"So you're going to be like me, using my voice, so that I think that Korista is indeed my alter ego?"
"Yes. The Prince of Vampire sent you to me to strengthen you to the extent that you can bear the blood of his daywalkers. However, I have discovered that there is some mysterious power sealed within you, a power that even the Vampire Prince cannot match. I have taken a great interest in you for this, and I have kept you in the cavity of the blood for as long as I can, and I have tried to absorb that mysterious power within you, and then interpret it to see what it is. ”
"So you really wanted to kill me!"
"Why are you making such a fuss, it's just to clear your original consciousness and memory, and then make up the consciousness and memory that belongs to Korista. This is also one of the jobs that the vampire prince has given me. ”
Sophia was speechless for a moment. She had almost become someone else just now, if it hadn't been for Owen's call.
"Don't look at me with such resentment. Korista raised her hand and made an innocent expression, "Aren't you intact now? ”
"Is it because I suck up your Origin Power that I have the ability to create a 'realm'?" Sophia somewhat understood the logical relationship between the front and back.
"Nope. You are armed with extraordinary divine power, which is completely incompatible with me who was created by dark magic, and my original power cannot improve your strength in any way, but it can stimulate the huge potential of being sealed within you, so that a small part of it can break through the seal. Sophia, in the end, your power is still what you already have, and with my current ability, the power to unseal a small part of your sealed power is already my limit, and I can't unseal most of the rest for you. Korista said something that Sophia was incredible.
She had never imagined it before, she had never imagined it that way. "Don't tell those lies that a three-year-old wouldn't believe! You say that there is some mysterious power sealed in me, but tell me what it is!"
"Originally, I didn't know what your sealed power was, but seeing you now, I finally knew. ”
"What?"
Korista's words made Sophia subconsciously look at her body. I saw that on the wrists of her hands, there were wounds similar to those that had appeared after being tied by thorns, and dozens of bloody holes and large and coarse wounds caused by being strangled were so shocking; the palms of her hands also appeared as if they had been pierced by some sharp object, leading straight to the back of her hands; but what surprised her the most was that there was a large blood stain on the clothes on her chest and heart, as if some weapon had attacked her heart. If there were a mirror at this time, Sophia would also find that her back was also the part of her heart, and there were similar blood stains on her clothes.
Although she didn't feel any pain, the shocking and bleeding wounds still brought great mental stimulation to Sophia. "What the hell did you do?" said Sophia, who had no doubt that it was the latter's doing.
"I haven't done anything at all, haven't you discovered your true nature? You are a Stigmata who is far above the Pope in the teachings of the Holy Illuminati. ”
"Stigmata! Stigmata?"
Before the stunned Sophia could react, she slowly recalled that when she was a child, she had heard Teacher Angel talk about the so-called "Stigmata".
According to the Holy Book, the Messiah, the Messiah, sacrificed himself to save the world, his wrists were bound by thorns, his palms were pierced by steel nails, he was fixed to a huge cross, tortured, and finally died by the magic spear "Longinus" through the heart. A very small number of human beings born in the afterlife will have certain visions on their bodies, and they will inexplicably have some wounds on their bodies that are exactly the same as those of the Messiah at the crucifixion, and they will bleed profusely for no reason. Such wounds are called "stigmata", and those who possess them are called "stigmata".
Stigmata, who is believed to share the same divine power as the Messiah, possesses the divine radiance closest to the God of Light. St. Peter and St. Mary were the first two human beings to appear stigmata, so they were appointed as the first pope and the first glow saint of the Holy Light Cult, respectively. In later history, Stigmata appeared one after another, but the number has not exceeded single digits, and since the Papal Department launched a civil war against the Holy Maiden, there have been no Stigmata in the three continents of Olopa.