"Direct channeling? Wouldn't it be too rough. ”

Seeing Vana take out the hydrosol and other items needed for channeling from her pocket and fiddle around the knocked out Jorge, Douglas complained casually as she used the paper figure she gave her to remove the small wound on her shoulder.

He didn't question Vanna's ritual ability, but without the cooperation of the parties, the psychic process can be said to be quite inhumane, and it is easy to have all kinds of problems.

"Then you try to get a phrase from the mouth of the extraordinary person in the 'audience' pathway? Believe me, these people are the most inadequate, and now for us, 'time is life'! ”

Vanna, who obviously didn't take this matter to heart, responded casually, and had already completed the preliminary preparations with various materials, and entered the altar isolated by spirits and spells, asking for communication with a certain great being.

With the power of the ritual, Vanna remained awake and entered the gray world without sky and earth, staring at a figure in front of her that was not solid enough.

Due to being the Extraordinary of Sequence 7, and not dead but merely unconscious, Jorri's spirit was much stronger than usual, and showed obvious resistance and rejection to Vanna's contact. However, thanks to the extraordinary materials and rituals, Vanna was able to obtain some information.

The scene before her eyes suddenly changed. She was able to see Jorge leave Trier and travel by various means of transport to some of the larger cities north of Vösak, where he was constantly visiting and searching.

Ruoerri seems to be alone, but in fact, he is always accompanied by a secret puppet or a "secret puppet master" himself. Although the information available was limited, Vana was able to determine the appearance of at least two secret puppets through repeated comparisons.

After all, in the "Master of the Puppet" stage, the only one who can constantly change his appearance is himself, and the Puppet cannot obtain the "Faceling" ability.

Next, she saw Jorge wandering around the Witthall Market, the secret puppet talking to Jorgi, and a map full of graffiti.

There is a bright red circle on the map, and the word "Diran" is marked in the Giant language.

Soon, Vana ended the channeling, dispelled the spiritual wall, and ignored Jorgi, who fell to the ground and had inexplicable convulsions, and said directly to Douglas: "Talk in a different place." ”

The latter expertly grabbed her shoulders, and the two quickly switched places as they traveled through the spirit realm.

"It's a pity that the extraordinary properties of Jorgi can't be obtained." After landing to confirm that the surrounding situation is generally safe, Fanna sighed, "The psychic has brought new information, and I now suspect that Ruoerri was probably deliberately thrown out to attract my attention." ”

"So it's a trap?"

"No, it's an invitation. The 'Master of Secret Puppets' invited me to give up on you and choose him. ”

Douglas frowned, resolutely took a few steps back and distanced himself from Vanna, and said angrily: "Talking about people." ”

Seeing his reaction, Fanna's thoughtful look was suddenly replaced by a mischievous smile: "Look, you just lack a sense of humor. ”

As she spoke, she pulled a sticky note from her pocket and scribbled down a few lines, then with a flick of her wrist the tissue paper spun and flew towards Douglas. The latter, with basic vigilance, grabbed the note with his left hand, wearing "wriggling hunger", and glanced at its contents quickly.

Audience: Eyes of a pair of adult manhal fish + 35 ml of blood from a black fish + ......

Mind Reader: The complete pituitary gland of the Phantom Wurm + the spinal fluid of the Half-Ghost Rabbit + ......

"These two recipes are worth about 600 rune gold pounds combined," said Vanna, "I don't like to be in debt, and you deserve it." ”

Potion recipe...... £600, which is about the same as my current annual salary! Douglas first had a sense of surprise that he had won the lottery, but when he thought about it, the price was just right when measured by the difficulty of the commission.

Tonight, he plays the dual role of bait and hunter at the same time, seemingly putting himself in danger, but in fact to fulfill the commission made by Vanna.

Although it is completely unclear what Vanna's reasons are for targeting Jorge and the mysterious "Master of the Secret Puppet", relying on the "wriggling hunger", Douglas can first judge that Vanna's commission is not subjectively malicious.

Later, combined with the information given by Vanna, including the other party's extraordinary approach and detailed ability, Douglas fully weighed the difficulty of the commission and his own strength, and felt that he could try.

However, the extraordinary abilities of the "Secret Puppet Master" are even stronger than he expected. Even if he first used tricks as a cover to "bribe-weaken" a possible attack on a large scale, and then used extraordinary abilities to "wake up" himself in advance, and finally successfully "traveled" away from the scene, the feeling of his head being wooden, his joints rusty, and his body out of control still made Douglas feel terrified.

This is still a situation where the other party has been misled to a certain extent and has slightly underestimated the enemy. According to Fanna, the heyday of the "Secret Puppet Master" has more than three secret puppets with complementary abilities, and if the other party goes all out from the beginning, the probability of him getting out will be greatly reduced.

Of course, it's just shrinking rather than becoming zero, and the key is that a demigod soul is imprisoned in the "wriggling hunger" as a hole card. Although you can't be completely driven, you can still distract the other person.

In any case, Douglas was paid for entrusting the digestion of the potion, and Vanna's goal was mostly achieved, which was a win-win situation.

With his memory, which had been enhanced by the potion of the "Master of Tricks", he spent a few minutes forcibly jotting down two recipes and burning the sticky notes, during which time Vana was already sitting on the floor and spreading out a large map of Vrsack, calculating what was on the scale marked on it.

Noticing that Douglas had memorized the recipe, Vanna tapped her fingers lightly on the map: "How far do you 'travel'?" ”

"It's no problem to cross one city at a time, but it's about ten kilometers at a time." Douglas made a simple and conservative estimate, "If you say the limit distance of multiple trips combined, it is about 120 kilometers in one night?" ”

"Take me?"

"Hmm...... It doesn't make a difference, how long you can endure a spiritual journey depends only on your own qualities, and your rank is even higher than mine. ”

"Great." Vanna muttered, finally delineating a range on the map. It is close to the North Sea, and according to the legend, it is probably an inaccessible wasteland.

Although the payment has been received, Douglas has not forgotten that there are still some minor problems left behind by this commission. He stood not far away with his arms crossed and looked at Fanna seriously: "It's my turn after you finish asking, so the real target of that 'secret puppet master' is you?" What does he or she want? ”

Without waiting for Vana to answer, he took it upon himself to review his opponent and his own actions:

"Relying on 'Travel', I can evade the most threatening abilities of the 'Secret Puppet Master', and the commission I promised you is based on this - if you can't beat it, you can at least run. It's just that the other party's plan is a little too conservative, given that they are coming for you, and it is impossible to know in advance that I have a 'squirming hunger' to improve my strength, so such caution can only be directed at you. Are you hiding your strength? ”

He asked very bluntly, and Vanna answered very frankly. She pouted indifferently, "If only it were as you said!" Think they're overly conservative? That's because you don't understand the style of the 'Master of Secret Puppets', you don't understand the style of the 'Esoteric Order'. ”

The style of the Esoteric Order?

Douglas suddenly remembered the regulars in Russell's early diary: Zarathu, the leader of the Esoteric Order! Russell's description of it is either a "magic stick" or a "riddler", in short, the kind of god chatter, and even forced the emperor to make a voice of "soothsayer, I see one and fight another".

Now Vanna has helped him establish a new stereotype: that the Cult is not only a god, but also tactically cowardly...... Ah no, it's conservative.

However, Douglas still grasped the key point while complaining, and boldly guessed under the guidance of spiritual intuition: "So, you didn't carry out any secret mission at all, but defected from the Esoteric Society, so you will be chased by people from afar, right?" ”

Vanna pretended to be serious, clenched her fist in front of her mouth and nose and cleared her throat: "It's not a defection...... Let's put it this way, that is, you suddenly found that the ancestor of the family left a treasure map for you, but someone wants to rob you, who can bear this? Luckily, the key to open the treasure room was in my hands, so I ran. That's it. ”

As she spoke, she raised the map in her hand and looked at Douglas expectantly and uneasily: "Since that's all the talking, do you want to stay with me?" ”

Douglas was indeed a little curious about the treasure that could cause Sequence Five to covet. Regardless of the value, the name "treasure" alone is attractive enough...... The popular routine of falling off a cliff and breaking into a secret realm to find a treasure and smash your head can endure, which shows that most people have a deep yearning for adventures and adventures, and Douglas is not exempt from vulgarity, asking: "Then what is the treasure they want to rob?" ”

Vanna touched her chin and said in an optimistic and uncertain tone, "It could be the characteristics or recipes of the 'Fortune Teller' path to the demigod level, or it could be another treasure map...... After all, we have only found 'Diran' now, and we don't know what 'Orville' means. ”

For the extraordinary, the formula and characteristics of the high sequence are indeed something that cannot be found, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "treasure", after all, not everyone can be hit by Amon who fell from the sky. But in view of the severe lack of intelligence, Douglas did not immediately agree, but compromised: "I want to go to the scene first to see the situation - and what should be abandoned has to be left to me." ”

It was a reasonable request, and Fanna did not refuse, and glanced unabashedly envious at the pitch-black human skin glove on his left hand.

After getting ready, the two of them successfully stepped into the spirit world. It would be a relatively long trek, and Douglas could theoretically run a hundred kilometers in one night, but in fact he was not very familiar with the spirit world, and it was even more difficult to find the right direction due to his low sequence. So from time to time, they have to go back to the real world and use the map in their hands to confirm their location.

Of course, this is primarily Douglas's work, and Vanna, like all those who rarely walk in the spirit world, is drawn to the bizarre scenery. Douglas had warned her not to make eye contact with spirit creatures, but to satisfy her curiosity, Vana managed to look around without staying in the same place for more than two seconds.

It makes her look like an old-fashioned electric fan with a broken central control system and just flicking her head like crazy.

Unfortunately, this ultra-modern meme could not be understood, and Douglas hurried away, and finally came to the coordinates marked on the map when the night was passing and the sky was getting brighter.

Looking around, sparse birch forests and apple trees are a common sight in the Vorsac Heath. But looking farther away, it is easy to spot a large area of silent black shadows outside the woods. Some of these shadows are towering, some are crooked, and many are low and continuous, continuing to the end of the line of sight.

However, at a sufficient distance, if you look at it from a few angles, it is easy to recognize the essence of the shadows, even if the sky is dark—they are crumbling stone buildings, covering a large area and surrounded by broken walls. They look old, but perhaps because of the cold, dry climate of the north, the rocks, though crisp and cracked, are not covered in vines and moss as some adventure novels portray, giving the two a chance to observe the shape of the ancient structure.

The two of them walked slowly through the woods along the remains of the wall, checking the ruins. It wasn't until the sunrise in the north had come to an end that the mist of the morning light poured in, casting many long, pale shadows in the forest.

Douglas looked at the narrow and asymmetrical windows on the half-section of the stone tower, and looked at the grand specifications, but the overall messy and disorderly architectural layout, and judged with some hesitation: "This looks like a Quaternary building......

Fortunately, he spent a lot of free time in the church's reading room with books donated by the blood clan, and he could still remember the famous characteristics of Quaternary buildings, such as poor lighting and asymmetry. The ruins in front of us were probably once a small manor, but now the main building and most of the towers have collapsed, and it is still interesting whether they can enter the interior.

Whether it is the extraordinary world or the academic circles related to history and archaeology, the Fourth Age is often referred to as the "Age of the Gods" and is always closely associated with adjectives such as unknown and dangerous. Douglas also learned part of the history from Russell's diary and from the materials of the church, and knew that at that time, extraordinary power was at its peak, and even gods would walk on the earth.

The legacy of the Fourth Age may contain more risks than most people imagine.