Chapter 219: Runes, Campfires, and Souls

The Snake Mother Church is definitely one of the oldest underground churches in the world, and it is also the underground church with the widest number of believers, and its followers can be seen on almost all three continents of the Velen world.

As for the True Eye Church and the Snake Mother Church, they are completely polar, in the underground church, he is almost synonymous with weakness, and he is also an important cult of evil gods hunted down by the Orthodox Church, and from time to time he is used as a training object by the Night's Watch organization, and it is already very good to survive.

It is clear that the huge casualties of the church leaders five years ago have dealt a devastating blow to the True Eye Church, and even if they can still maintain their church form and continue to preach in Miria City, they will have to join other powerful underground churches and become subordinate churches. For example, now, judging from the behavior of those cultists, it is obvious that the overall status of the members of the Snake Mother Church is higher than that of the True Eye Church, even if there is a transformed evil god clan among the three people in the True Eye Church.

Leo quickly found a suitable clearing in the ruins, which was located at the intersection of three psionic magnetic fields, which also made the psionic fluctuations here very chaotic, but also extremely strong, so strong that even ordinary people would have some feelings when they approached here, such as being trapped in some illusion, or the body was not controlled, etc.

Obviously, the watchers who were following Leo knew the danger of the clearing, and when they were about to approach the clearing, they stopped and didn't lean over.

Because of the psionic magnetic field, the dust and gravel in this clearing will automatically move to the place where the magnetic field spreads under the influence of the magnetic field, which also makes this clearing extremely clean, as if someone has cleaned it every day.

From the granite floors on the ground, it is not difficult to tell that the former building on this vacant land should be some kind of office building. While granite is not a suitable rune carrier, which causes the rune effect to be consumed needlessly, thus reducing the effectiveness of the magic circle, it is now appropriate to use this situation to test certain rune magic circles.

Leo quickly took out some alchemy paraphernalia from his storage space, all of which were experimental paraphernalia found in the villas of some members of the medical school, and although they were not professional alchemy paraphernalia, they were barely usable.

After that, Leo carefully grinded some of the herbs picked along the way, squeezed out the juice, mixed them together in different proportions, filtered repeatedly to remove impurities, and then poured them into a beaker, lit an alcohol lamp, and refined.

Leo is not very clear about whether he can refine the magic pattern potion needed to depict the rune magic array, because the magic pattern potion is all made of the herbs of the dream world, and the herbs he chose are the Velon's world herbs that he feels can be substituted after comparison. Although the two herbs are identical in terms of medicinal properties, it is still unknown whether they can actually be substituted, so Leo has prepared more than a dozen substitute formulas that can be replaced at any time.

Soon the temperature in the flask reached a certain level, and the liquid began to heat up, emitting water vapor from the outside, and the air began to be filled with the characteristic smell of herbs.

Leo estimated the time and began to inject psionic energy into the potion, and with the infusion of psionic energy, the color of the potion, from grass green to dark green, and the pungent part of the smell began to weaken, and finally disappeared completely.

When Leo saw that the color change of the herb had ended, he immediately stopped injecting psionic energy, extinguished the alcohol lamp, and waited for the potion to cool naturally.

The subsequent change in the potion made Leo's face show a smile, because he found that just after the alcohol lamp was turned off, the originally steaming potion quickly cooled down, judging from this situation, the potion should already contain some mysterious power.

Leo took off the flask that had been completely cooled, sniffed the smell inside, and could smell a faint herbal fragrance before, but now he couldn't smell anything, but another cold breath poured out of the bottle, making Leo's nose slightly uncomfortable.

"Failed! But it worked!" Leo had already made a judgment without much try, but it was a somewhat contradictory judgment.

The reason why Leo said that he failed was because this bottle of potion was not the magic potion he wanted, and the success after that was because the potion in the flask was a new psionic potion that Leo had never seen, and the effect of this psionic potion was extraordinary.

You must know that Leo's body has entered a higher level at this moment, and he can be regarded as an extraordinary creature, and with the improvement of his physical fitness, his resistance to abnormal injuries has naturally increased. But just now, he just sniffed the smell of the medicinal juice escaping from the flask, and his nose felt a little uncomfortable, if it was an ordinary person, he was afraid that he would have been frostbitten by that cold breath.

After confirming that the flask was a psionic potion, Leo began to test and analyze the potion for its function and efficacy, and it took almost no time and effort to figure out what the potion does.

Temporarily known as the Frost Elixir by Leo, the main purpose of this flask is to enchant weapons, simply pouring the potion on any iron weapon to give the weapon an effect similar to that of a Frozen Psionic Bullet before the effect wears off, stabbing enemies and giving them additional Freezing Damage.

Although the effect of this enchantment potion is very good, it is a bit of a problem for Leo, after all, he has a lot of powerful witchcraft to use against the enemy, and even if he needs a freezing effect, the king's frozen bullets are enough, not to mention that he also knows sorcery such as cryomagic.

It's just that this enchanted psionic potion can't be said to be useless, it can be a good dark world commodity, at least for those who rely on cold weapons to fight, the night watch, the clan and others, can bring temporary enchantment to their weapons, it can definitely become the key to determining the outcome of a battle, and its value will not be much worse than a bottle of healing potion.

What's more, the herbs needed to refine this potion are one of the most common herbs in the Velon world, the cost can be said to be almost negligible, but the pure profit brought is extremely huge, and the only trouble is that you need to refine it yourself.

Although he was not able to successfully obtain the required magic pattern potion, he unexpectedly obtained another enchanted psionic potion, which was a good start for Leo.

Maybe it was because the frost potion that he accidentally harvested consumed all his good luck, and then the potions he refined from the more than a dozen formulas he deduced were all waste elixirs, of course, one or two of them could be used as poisons or anesthetics, but the difficulty of the refining process and the value of the medicinal materials consumed, and there was a huge gap between the value of the final medicine, so they were all regarded as failed formulas by Leo.

Now Leo still has two formulas left to try, once these two formulas fail, then it means that the magic pattern potion cannot be refined in the Veron world through conventional means, and can only be made through the power of nightmares, so that the value of the rune magic array knowledge he learned in the dream world will be reduced.

Because of the more than a dozen failures, Leo's mood was a little agitated, so he did not immediately continue to try the next formula, but stopped, sat quietly for a while, and calmed down his floating mood.

At this time, among the watchers on the periphery, the two from the Night's Watch Organization had already left, and among the remaining cultists, the people from the Snake Mother Church had also left, leaving only three members of the True Eye Church, and the cultist who had begun to transform into a family was also among them.

After Leo felt his emotions calm down, he began the next round of formula refining, and soon a bottle of potion refined according to the new formula was held in Leo's hand, although no tests had been carried out, a slight smile appeared on Leo's face. Because the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the bottle of potion in his hand were almost the same as those of the magic pattern potion, but the color of this bottle of medicine was inky black, and the smell did not have the faint fragrance of the magic pattern potion, but there was a scorching smell.

"It should have worked, right?" Leo wasn't sure if the potion was a magic pattern potion.

Then, he poured the potion in his hand on the rune of the Wasted Capital King City that was on the ground at the time of the previous drug test, and then injected spiritual energy into the rune according to the method written on the document.

At the moment when the spiritual energy was infused, the runes on the ground immediately took effect, emitting a flame-like light, an effect that had not been seen in the potions that had been tried before.

The light grew stronger and stronger, gradually turning from a vague red light into a bonfire that looked indistinguishable from the real thing, and in the middle of the bonfire was a spiral sword engraved with mysterious characters.

The moment the bonfire appeared, all the places where the bonfire light shone on the road produced a warm feeling out of thin air, and this warm feeling was not only felt by the body, but also felt by the soul.

"Huh!" Leo, who was closest to the bonfire, didn't have time to carefully study what the bonfire of this rune conjured up was, when he noticed that there were suddenly more white shadows around him.

Leo immediately summoned his psionic energy, turned on his vision, and looked at the white shadows, only to see that those white shadows were clearly the souls of the dead buried under the ruins of the bow area, these souls were exactly the same as when they died, and the injuries on the corpses were also reflected on the souls, which also made these souls look very terrifying.

However, the spirits did not appear to attack Leo, but were attracted by the bonfire, and they approached one after another, rushing into the bonfire like moths to the fire, and then turning to ashes in the flames, and before disappearing completely, they all had happy smiles on their faces, as if they were not facing an eternal end, but a relief, a liberation from pain.

"Is this the effect of this royal city rune?Burn the soul, liberate the soul?" Leo couldn't help but wonder after seeing the effect of this ruin capital royal city rune.

Among the materials he obtained, there were more than a dozen different runes from various regions of the wasteland, and there were only five runes in the royal city, and the one rune used by Leo now was one of them, and there was a line of annotation at the back, which was also not available in other runes.

In the commentary, it is mentioned that this rune is not unique to the royal city, in fact, there are similar runes in some places in other parts of the wasteland, and these places have a common feature, that is, there are no ash monsters that have lost their minds and attacked any living creatures like crazy.

Therefore, the explorers of the ruined capital who collected this rune believed that this rune had the effect of dispelling ash monsters, and also made this rune into something similar to a talisman, so that everyone who entered the ruined capital could wear it on their bodies.

Leo had obtained one such amulet from the Expedition before entering the Wasteland. It's just that he didn't feel any power from the amulet. Now it seems that it is not that the amulet lacks power, but that the dream world is unable to stimulate the power of the runes on the amulet and cannot form this kind of soul bonfire.

The amount of a bottle of magic pattern potion could not last long, and soon the effect of the soul bonfire rune weakened with the consumption of the potion, and quickly disappeared, and the granite ground where the rune was located also cracked into small pieces because of this extraordinary force.

At the moment when the bonfire disappeared, Leo saw that the souls around him let out a burst of mournful screams, which were not transmitted through sound waves, but directly acted on the souls of people.

Leo could feel that this scream contained a magical power, and if his parabrain was still alive and his will hadn't mutated, he would have been able to see the paracerebral system's warning of a decline in will.

Because of the strong will of the higher creatures close to the omega level, Leo did not suffer any harm even if he was in the center of this soul sorrow, but those watchers who were on the edge were affected by this scream, and they all fell to the ground one by one, unconscious.

This soul grief didn't last too long before it ended, but after it ended, the after-effects of the soul bonfire rune did not end there, Leo could feel that the psionic magnetic field around him had become more disordered and chaotic, which would undoubtedly cause more trouble for those who wanted to do something with the psionic magnetic field here, and even some of the preparations made before would be in vain.

Leo didn't care about the other people's effects, he was now concentrating on recording the process of the soul sorrow and the frequency of psionic fluctuations, and he felt that if he could reproduce the effect of the soul sorrow through the power of nightmares, he might be able to turn it into his own exclusive sorcery, and he might be able to produce extraordinary effects when facing enemies.

After remembering the process of the soul cry and the fluctuations of psionic energy, Leo stood up and prepared to leave, because of the change in the surrounding psionic magnetic field, those dark world people in the bow area at this time will inevitably investigate the reason, and continuing to stay here will cause some unnecessary trouble.

"Something. Just as Leo was about to leave, taking the True Eye Church with him, he stopped and looked at the gravel pit where the rune was, with a look of surprise in his eyes.