Chapter 71: Research and Testing
The voice of holiness and rhythm reverberates in the prayer hall of St. Samuel's Cathedral.
Bishop Elektra in front of the altar was preaching, and the voice of the choir matched him. The singing and preaching make people feel calm, as if they have ascended to the divine kingdom of the goddess.
Grandin stood in the corner of the large prayer hall with his back against the wall and his hands around his chest.
He was a believer at Mass and a guard for the event, surrounded by a number of night watchmen doing the same work as him.
Viscount Spencer sat in the front row near the altar, and was now fully engaged in prayer. It seems that the extraordinary events of the last time did not leave him with any hidden dangers.
"We'll look up at that night sky,
Speak His name tenderly: 'Goddess of the Night'!
There was no other word than 'the Goddess of the Night'.
......”
The bishop and the choir chanted together, and the atmosphere of sanctity and tranquility began to spread through the prayer hall.
Grandin also let go of his control over spirituality, allowing it to flow with the chanting, and his body and mind were purified in this moment. During this period, the spirits of believers were constantly joined, and they brought various emotions such as mourning, remembrance, and serenity. This allowed the river to grow stronger and stronger, and the resonance between spirits and spirits affected more people.
When he found that his spirituality began to be carried forward by the masses, Grandin woke up slowly:
"After the spirits of ordinary people are gathered, even I can't resist them, this is really a powerful force."
The Great Mass is a ritual that is guided by extraordinary powers, but it is the faith of the faithful that is the protagonist of the ceremony. Some of these spirits will enter the Chanis Gate and strengthen the seal of the gate. The rest will go back to the believers and cleanse their bodies and minds.
Grandin sighed, no longer looking for that inner peace, but more focused on doing his job.
Although he thinks that no one will not think of picking this time to attack St. Samuel's Cathedral. But to do it or not to do it, it's a matter of attitude, and he feels that he still has to perform well.
The Mass came to an end in a calm and the final prayer was led by Bishop Elektra:
"The only destination is peace."
Grandin crossed his hands over his chest and silently recited:
"The only destination is peace."
After repeating it several times, he placed his hand on his chest four times in a gesture that symbolized the Crimson Moon. As his fingers touched his clothing, he touched a solid object.
"Strange, is there anything in my breast pocket?"
As the question crossed his mind, he was shocked as something he had forgotten returned to his memory.
It's that Flesh Badge!
He glanced up at the bright crimson moon through the stained glass of the church dome before continuing to think:
"Why did I forget? By the way, I wanted to try divination last time...... Is my spirit protecting me? ”
Grandin reached out and stroked his breast pocket, the badge lying right in the lead box containing it.
"But if you don't know anything, it's not practical to use, and you still have to study it carefully when you go home today, and forget about divination."
......
Returning home, Grandin checked Cosette's math homework as usual before going up to the second floor and pulling out the Flesh badge in his study.
No sooner had it left the lead box than a whisper rang out in Grandin's ears. This sound does not pass through the eardrums, but it reaches the soul of the person. But Grandin wasn't helpless, he flicked up the ancient gold coins and activated his abilities to steal the annoying babbles.
In his vision, the whispers resembled a mess of black yarn. Grandin grabbed it and opened the study window. Next to the study was an oak tree, with leafy branches, and in the middle of the trunk there was a hole in the tree that had been dug out by woodpeckers or squirrels.
After confirming that there were no living creatures in the hollow, Grandin flicked the yarn into it, and closed the hole with a spiritual wall.
What he didn't expect was that this theft was judged to be a valuable 'stealing act' by the ancient gold coin, and the negative characteristics of the ancient gold coin were satisfied. It was an unexpected surprise, and he didn't have to worry about how to seal it up.
But even without the interference of the whispering voices, his research on the Flesh Badge still didn't go well. The surface of this badge is engraved with various symbols, one on top of the other. He became distraught when he wanted to make it carefully, and this confusion reached its highest point when he wanted to depict the symbols.
The last time the badge merged with the 'Mystic Invoker' trait, it still had some effect on it.
In the absence of divination, the path to analyzing it through the occult was completely blocked.
Fortunately, Grandin's spirituality has always been quiet, which is not a big problem. So he decided to test the difference in a practical way.
After he was slightly infused with spirituality, the badge immediately showed some living qualities. It began to melt like a candle, dripping onto the tabletop, then down the legs and finally into the carpet.
Grandin noticed that the tea stain left by the last drop of the teacup at the foot of the table was gone.
"What is this ability? Scouring pads? ”
He couldn't laugh or cry, and drove the flesh around the study. So in the orange light, everything began to sparkle.
"Very well, as long as I can accept this slightly frightening cleaning process, I will never have to hire a cleaning maid again, and I will save 12 gold pounds a year."
Grandin was more than happy with that.
The ability to speed up the healing of his own wounds is also still there, and he doesn't know if it has been improved, and he doesn't have any mice to conduct comparative tests.
This is the end of the study. He lacked a soothsayer who was not afraid of death to help him make the final confirmation. But the Flesh Badge is now fully capable of displaying, and it doesn't see any particular danger for the time being.
For security reasons, Grandin improved the containment method of the Flesh Badge by placing an additional spiritual wall with Eve powder on the inside of the lead box.
He didn't waste the rest of the Holy Night powder, and he rebuilt a spiritual wall around him.
Arthur's bad luck was continuously transferred to the 'Numerology Tree', and in two days it turned from a fruit to a tetrahedral crystal. He simply used self-praying and self-response to create a batch of special bullets, which can be called the 'Primary Destiny Charm Doom Lite'.
When used, just fill them into the revolver and shoot them out, and hitting them near the enemy will trigger the Doom effect. Of course, if you hit the human body directly, you may have random effects such as critical hits, tears, and tetanus.
This one also needs to be tested by one lucky person.