"I don't think the merchant will refuse if you want it." Annan said modestly.

This wooden box, like the Otherworldly Branch, cannot be placed in the magic ring. Annan put it in his pocket, and the branch of the otherworldly tree was ready to find a pot to cultivate.

"I'm going to dig the soil!"

The anthropomorph snatched the candle head and ran out of the tomb.

"Stay safe." Annan shouted at its back.

Skeletron erased the traces of the magic circle and said to Annan, "Your 'magic mirror' is very special, come and take a look." ”

Annan followed it to the alchemy room, where the magic mirror was placed on the stone platform, and some fragments were scattered next to it.

"I found that the outer lens can be peeled off, and it's not the mirror that makes it work, it's what is hidden in the mirror."

"What's that?"

"I haven't opened it yet, it's your thing."

Skeletron is more virtuous than many humans...... After all, it is said to have been a king during his lifetime.

When Annan arrived at the stone platform, Skeletron had removed the Mithril that had been used for bonding, and he was able to peel off broken lenses like eggshells.

As he approached the grip, a quaint pattern that did not belong to the Magic Mirror appeared behind the fragment.

Annan suddenly felt that the lines were a little familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere...... Thinking like this, Annan followed his instinct and touched the real "magic mirror" with his finger.

A line of information came to Annan's mind in the form of an incomprehensible, but experienced: a wise man, who gets an answer every day, knows everything.

"It's ......"

It is the same "evil spirit chess" as the apocalypse prediction.

"Have you seen it?" Skeletron asked.

"Well, the Evil Spirit Chess, a friend of mine also has one there, and the function of that Evil Spirit Chess is to predict the future of the holder, and this is to answer questions."

"Evil Spirit Chess...... I haven't heard of it. Skeletron shook his head, "But I can feel that it's not a creation of this world......"

"Actually, I don't know where this thing came from."

Annan sped up and peeled back the shell, revealing the evil spirit chess hidden in the handle: it looked like a conch, and as Annan put the evil spirit chess to his ears, it seemed as if he really heard the sound of distant ocean waves.

It seems that the previous owner of the Evil Spirit Chess had hidden it in a lame way. I don't know if it's Gema Diatra's ancestors, or if it's the Diatra family, and they don't know how wonderful it is......

It should be the latter, otherwise Gema wouldn't have gotten it and wouldn't have thrown it away in a fit of rage.

Annan's attention was on the Evil Spirit Chess, and Skeletron's attention was on the pieces that Annan had stripped away.

"They're also valuable...... I mean, are they precious things too? ”

"Quite precious...... Skeletron's bones twisted into a fragment, "Hundreds of ores mixed together in unimaginable ways, and they also exerted their own properties, and they actually changed the rules of the 'Evil Spirit Chess', allowing it to unleash its power in a slow but persistent way......"

"I'm afraid that only gods and legends close to gods can make such exquisite artifacts."

"You're saying the shell is an artifact?"

"An artifact doesn't represent power, it's also a manifestation of rules." Skeletron's tone was full of admiration, "These fragments are artifacts that deserve to be. ”

Well, the shell isn't lame at all: it's the equivalent of turning a magic image the size of a theater curtain into the size of a window, but the number of uses of the Philosopher's Stone has gone from ten to a hundred. In the end, it was broken by Gema Diatra to restore the original characteristics of the Evil Spirit Chess.

If anyone in Liberty City had done it, Annan would have awarded him this year's Alchemy Prize.

So the Gema Diatra who tried to sacrifice his body not only lost an otherworldly artifact, but also an artifact made by the gods themselves?

No wonder the Twelve Kings of the North have fallen.

"What exactly is Evil Spirit? Even the gods have to make artifacts based on it? ”

"This is a problem that you need to find out for yourself......"

No one knew the answer, so Annan gave up this unimportant question and continued to ask, "Can the Evil Spirit Chess return to the appearance of the Magic Mirror?" ”

"It's easy to be just a shell."

"That's up to you."

Annan handed over the Evil Spirit Chess to Skeletron, and it was useless for him to keep the fragments, so he also gave them to Skeletron to study.

For other people, the appearance of an artifact and a holy artifact will inevitably bring about a crisis of trust...... But neither Annan nor Skeletron thought it was important—at least not as important as their stable relationship.

It takes time for Skeletron to give Evil Dead a new home. Annan took the candle head and made his way around the tomb.

With the princess no longer bursting into power, Persona has been reduced to a strange home...... But when the city becomes empty, the weirdness either devours each other or spreads out.

The outskirts of Swan Lake are starting to become less secure, and the number of gold diggers in the camp is decreasing by the day...... Missing part of it, running away part of it.

Skeletron's crypt is safe, and the strength of the Weird Prison members is not to be discussed, but their standing together does make a lot of weird people who follow their instincts flinch, and those who don't flinch become their food.

In the evening, the anthropomorph returns dejectedly. The dirt it dug out of the Odor Zone was contaminated as soon as it entered.

Annan had no choice but to put the branches of the Otherworldly Tree next to the leaves of the World Tree and nourish them with the power of nature.

Early the next morning, Annan rushed to the edge of the Hearsay Zone and opened the portal to Huadu.

Standing like a sculpture, Klein opened his eyes and handed Annan a hand-drawn map of Swan Lake.

"Here's what you want."

"Is it accurate?"

"Several survivors pointed here."

Annan looked at the map and roughly pinpointed the location of the Sphinx shipwreck through the location of Persona.

"What's the weirdness that attacked them?"

"They said they saw many black tentacles coming out of the cabin and climbing up from the side of the ship."

It seems that he is still an old friend of Annan.

The Shadow Tentacles are also supposed to be an "evil spirit", but they don't know if its body is near the shipwreck.

In any case, the location of the wreck was determined, and it was only a matter of time before the body of the monster in the lake was found.

The weirdness is hard to deal with in that they can't be found in their true form, but when they do, they're as fragile as humans.

As for how to obtain the ontology, Annan was ready to ask the "wise man" first.

When he got the new Magic Mirror from Skeletron, Annan suddenly had an idea: Evil Spirit...... Evil Spirit...... Are they related?

"Magic Mirror, Magic Mirror......"

The Evil Spirit Chess doesn't need this mantra, but Annan thinks it's more sensitive. With the anticipation of the evil spirit chess, he asked, "How can I easily get the body of the monster in the lake?" ”

The "wise man" replied to him: "Use the method of easily obtaining the body of the monster in the lake." ”

Annan suddenly understood Gemma's feelings.

(End of chapter)