Coming to a new environment didn't make Ron feel uncomfortable, but he had some vague hopes for the future.

The next day, Ron woke up at seven o'clock, and by this time Anna had already prepared breakfast.

"Hurry up, Ron. Anna stood at the table and urged, "You can't be late on the first day of work. ”

Ron wanted to say that there was a free breakfast at his place of work, but he couldn't bear to spoil Anna's kindness.

At the moment before he left the house, he thought that he should find a time to talk to Anna, even if the breakfast was only a few loaves of bread every day, but it was also an expense.

Can he save money or try to save money, he still owes Mr. Muse a few silver nests.

About fifteen minutes later, Ron arrived at the door of the Holy Alliance Embassy, he deliberately found the window of a shop to straighten his appearance, and then slowly walked forward.

"This is my identification, sir. ”

Ron handed the paper that Brooks Campbell had given him the day before to the two strong men at the door, and walked slowly inside.

"Isn't this our new boy?"

A man in a top hat and a silver cane walked over and greeted Ron warmly.

This man's name is Charles Calms, and he is a demon master of the Demon Division, and he has the calmness of a middle-aged man, and he is even more refined.

Yesterday, I heard Muse mention that Charles is an old employee of the Demon Division, he joined the Holy Alliance's Demon Division when he was twenty years old, and it has been eleven years now.

"Good strength, calm, very accurate marksmanship. ”

This is what the Muse says about him.

Ron smiled and replied, "Good morning, Mr. Charles." ”

Charles Comers pressed his hat and smiled, "You don't have to be inhibited when you are new here, I heard from Mr. Muse that you have not been in deep contact with the abyss and fog, and it seems that you have to learn a lot in recent times." ”

"That's exactly what I expected. ”

"Go upstairs, Mr. Muse is in his office now. He told me that if I saw you, I would let you go to him first. ”

"Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Charles. ”

After saying hello to the front desk lady Layla and the owner of the store, Mr. Earl, Ron walked lightly upstairs.

A short time later, he came to the door of the muse's office and knocked on the door.

"Is that Ron? Wait a minute. ”

Soon, Muse pushed open the door and walked out of the office, and he said, "Good morning, Ron, have you had breakfast?"

"I've already eaten it. ”

"Then you come with me. ”

Muse led Ron down the stairs, and as he passed the hall, Muse greeted the crowd and continued to lead Ron around a corner, down a dark staircase to the basement.

Yesterday Muse hadn't told Ron what the basement was, but after Muse led Ron to a door, Ron understood that the basement was a place of the Abyss and the Mist.

This is a very heavy iron door, and the strange pattern of gilt silver on the door is a ritual, which can limit the demonic power to a certain extent.

"Wait a moment. ”

After speaking, the muse took a palm-sized copper key from his waist, and the key made a dull "click" sound as it turned in the keyhole.

The iron door slowly opened, and there was darkness in front of Ron's eyes.

Muse stepped in, he turned to Ron and said, "Come, come in." ”

After Ron walked into the darkness behind the door, the iron door quickly closed again.

In the darkness, Ron heard the muse snap his fingers, and saw a candle light to dispel the darkness, and everything in the room finally unfolded before Ron's eyes.

An extremely large space, with a huge circle carved on the extremely hard bluestone floor, and at each node of the circle stood a small bronze lighthouse half a person high.

Along the left and right walls, there is a glass cabinet on each side. Inside the cabinet are neatly arranged with various potions and ritual materials. There are also sconces on the walls, and the candles are dancing slightly.

In addition, a brand-new steam furnace was placed in the four corners of the outer circle, and the copper pipes and glass pipes were interspersed with each other, and the water vapor and unknown liquid made a strange gurgling sound in the pipes, and the dim light of the candle flame made the whole basement look solemn and eerie.

"It's a huge forbidden ritual," the muse explained, "and we'll lock these things off this place after we've acquired some demon-corrupted items as well as demon talismans and even demon active hearts." ”

Saying that, the muse pointed ahead, "Did you see the door in front of you?"

Listening to the muse's words, Ron noticed that there was a small door in the shadows directly in front of him, and the lines of the forbidden demon ritual spread all the way down the ground to the door, and there were several strange lines along the crack in the door into the room.

"This forbidden ritual points to that room, where all of our extraordinary items are stored. The muse said in a deep voice, "So, don't run into that room out of curiosity. With your current strength, the moment you walk into the room, you will be torn to pieces by the demonic power inside and the sealing power of the forbidden demon ritual. Inside, there was the most turbulent storm under the calm sea. ”

Ron glanced at the door and nodded cautiously.

"Do you know why I brought you here?" asked the Muse suddenly.

Ron only felt his mouth dry, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Is it because I need to see the abyss and fog now to broaden my horizons, or ......?"

The last sentence Ron didn't say, what he originally wanted to say, or did he say that I had walked to the single-plank bridge and couldn't turn back?

The Muse smiled and didn't reply, just holding out his hand to signal Ron to wait for a moment.

The muse took out a small wooden box engraved with demon patterns from his bosom and opened it, revealing a scarlet demonic stone, the demon talisman.

Ron's heart was pounding.

"Every demon master in the Demon Division will get a basic demon talisman when they first join the company, and it stands to reason that they should generally get three hundred sequences, sharp claws and fangs. This demon energy is the most comprehensive, although its improvement of people's physical fitness is not as strong as other demon energy, it is the most comprehensive, and it is located at the end, and its ability to corrode people is also the smallest. The muse glanced at Ron inexplicably, "But since we don't have a talisman with sharp fangs here, I chose for you the sequence of two hundred and ninety-eight, farsighted." ”

Sequence 298, Farsightedness: Greatly improves the host's eyesight, and can also have a certain amount of vision at night.

In this moment, Ron recalled what he knew about the sequence:

Ron carefully took the talisman from the muse, "This, is this mine?"

Muse smiled and nodded.

Ron wanted to take it into his arms, and wanted to figure out the lines on it, and couldn't help but want to try the power of this demon talisman, and for a moment he made stiff and repetitive movements, and his face looked a little complicated.

Muse was amused by Ron's action, and after laughing a few times, he cautiously reminded, "Remember not to let this talisman touch the blood on the wound on your body, otherwise it will directly connect with you and force you to default to using the talisman." And it is very cumbersome and difficult to disconnect from this connection. ”

Speaking of this, the Muse thought for a moment, "There are also some crazy extraordinaires who will leave a wound on their body for a long time, such as an arm, and directly touch the charm with this wound when using the talisman, so as to save the tedious and complicated and lengthy prayer time, and gain an advantage in the battle." But doing so can be very harmful. ”

Ron suddenly remembered West, who used sharp fangs at the time, did he rely on this method to instantaneously?

"I know you're no longer familiar with the low-order rituals and prayers, and you can do an experiment here. ”

Ron suddenly felt a little weak when he heard this.

"But before that," said the Muse, "I will perform a ritual for you, 'Vigilance', where you can choose a token. ”

Ron was stunned, he hadn't seen this ritual in West's book, and he didn't know what the token was.

The Muse looked at Ron's face and explained, "As we all know, the charm can bring extraordinary abilities to people, but it will also gradually erode the user as they use it, trying to demonize the user into a monster. Therefore, we must always be vigilant and quickly untie the connection with the demon talisman when we perceive that something is wrong with us. ”

"However, in the heat of battle, we may not be able to perceive changes in ourselves all the time, lest we fall into the quagmire without realizing it, and the vigilance ritual will follow. ”

"I'll perform a ritual that connects you to a token – whether it's a pen, a hairpin, glasses, or anything else you can carry with you – that will keep an eye on your physical condition and warn you when the demonic forces begin to invade. ”

Listening to the muse's words, Ron suddenly realized. But what was even more strange to him was that this kind of ritual should be the most basic thing, why hadn't he seen it on top of West's "Basic General Knowledge of Demon Energy".

The Muse saw Ron's inner thoughts, and he said, "Because this ritual is very similar to some evil rituals such as blood sacrifices, there must be no mistakes, otherwise it will eat itself." Therefore, in order to prevent the newcomer from accidentally killing himself when performing this ritual for himself, this ritual is not recorded in some widely circulated books. But in reality, this ritual is something that every extraordinary person knows by heart. ”

If you had seen this ritual in that book, you would have been tempted to experiment on your own, wouldn't you?

Ron thought to himself.

"And now what do you want to take as a token of your own?"

Ron thought for a moment and pulled out a silver pocket watch from his bosom with the hands no longer turning.

The pocket watch was found by Ron and Anna from home while they were packing, and although it was broken, Ron wore it because of its exquisite engraving, hoping to fix it for a while.

"Nice pocket watch. The Muse watched for a moment and exclaimed.

Ron asked, "Mr. Muse, what should I do now?"

The Muse handed the pocket watch to Ron, "Go and sit down in the center of this circle, and place the pocket watch in front of you." ”

As Ron walked to the center of the circle, Muse pulled out some materials from the glass cabinet next to the wall.

"The venom sac of a cobra, the tail of a sand-spotted lizard, the air-dried skin of Victor's poison frog, the fangs of an osillia tarantula......"

As the muse took out each material, Ron silently read the name of the material in his mind, and then he couldn't help but shudder.

He finally knew why this ritual was similar to the evil ritual, just with these highly poisonous materials, it was very likely that a novice would be poisoned directly.

The materials were arranged in a circle around Ron, and then Muse picked up a few candles and placed them alternately.

When everything was ready, Muse handed Ron a silver knife and said in a deep voice, "Cut your finger with it, and then you drip the blood on the material in turn." ”

Ron hesitated for a moment, then complied.

The Muse then took the knife from Ron, scraped the remaining blood from the knife with his fingers, and drew a scythe in the void - the symbol of the god of death, Lokierlius.

"The great god of death, the immortal being who controls hell, the possessor of souls, the condemner of death. I, lowly mortals, will beg for your might, and I beg you to reward your modest mercy and bring eternal dawn to the lost of darkness......"

The muse chanted aloud, and at the same time, an eerie wind suddenly blew in the closed room, and the candle flame began to beat violently, and the materials of the ritual were visibly dried up to the naked eye.

Ron only felt an inexplicable panic suddenly swell up in his heart, his whole body began to become cold, and his joints began to slowly stiffen. He felt a cold sweat break out on the top of his head, but it was quickly dried. His heart began to slow and his breathing began to be weak, and he was like a cicada weeping in the winter wind, or a sail trembling under the waves.

He's going to die.

At this moment, the muse suddenly shouted, and he quickly put the drop of blood in his hand that was about to dry under his pocket watch.

The candle flame went out suddenly, and the material turned to dust.

Ron felt like he had lost something in his heart, and instead, the pocket watch seemed to be one with him.

The candle flame went out, the temperature began to warm, the vision began to clear, and Ron saw the warm smile of the muse.

The Muse said, "Now you finally understand why this ritual can't be written in a book, right?"

It took Ron a moment to come to his senses, and he smiled wryly. He picked up the pocket watch and rubbed it slightly.

After a moment, Ron suddenly looked up and asked, "By the way, Mr. Muse, what is your token?"

The Muse smiled and shook his head, "Let me tell you one more rule, don't ask anyone about your tokens, and don't tell anyone what your tokens are." ”

Ron was stunned for a moment, but after a little thought, he understood.

If someone knows what your token is, they may deliberately destroy your token in the middle of the battle, so that you can't use it to warn yourself. In this way, whether you are distracted by your physical condition or are corrupted by demonic forces without knowing it, it will be a reversal disadvantage.

"I'm sorry," Ron said with an apologetic smile, "I didn't know about this rule before, I was abrupt." ”

"Of course you can be forgiven, after all, you are still a newcomer. The Muse suddenly changed his words and said, "But considering that I did your ritual for you, and I know your token for granted, it is not impossible for me to tell you what my token is." ”

As he spoke, Muse raised his left hand, threw an object into the air, and then caught it, which slowly unfolded in front of Ron.

Scarlet, chains, buds.

Seal of the Gods.