Chapter 5: Enchanted Card: Shadow Blade

Ivas didn't even wait for the Inspectorate's authorization to know that he was bound to be involved in the investigation.

If nothing else, he can also investigate independently – without being closely monitored by Inspector Haina, and directly participating in the investigation as a "facilitator of the Inspectorate".

On the one hand, it is the face of the adoptive father, and on the other hand, the supervision office, which is bound by the rules of the superiors, has been very welcoming to the help of outsiders - since Mr. Charlotte, now he has opened his own office, and the "detective" hired and consulted by the supervision office has even become a profession.

If the investigation is unfavorable, it is because the hired detectives are not strong enough to at least be exempt from harsh internal accountability; If everything goes well, it means that the guiding ideas put forward by the inspector are correct, and at least it can be regarded as a merit and a stable share of benefits.

Although Haina is a genuine surveillance. But Ivas knew more about the Inspectorate than she did.

There is a reason why Iwass is so actively involved in the investigation of this matter.

- That is revenge and annihilation.

The two versions of the story that Ivas had told the Superintendent before were actually fake. Or rather, not entirely true.

He was indeed a participant in the ceremony, and he did know the two demon scholars.

But he was also a ritual sacrifice.

Because those two demon scholars are actually Ivus's "pen pals".

From an early age, Ivus was interested in knowledge related to taboos. The more mysterious skills he was forbidden by the Kingdom of Avalon, the more excited he was to study them.

For example, ritual magic from the [Transcendent] path, and preservation techniques from the [Dusk] path.

The former is the basic ability of the Demon Scholar, while one of the professions that extends from the latter is the Necromancer. As the name suggests, it's not a good thing.

This forbidden knowledge is only a small part of the overview in the adoptive father's study. Possession of forbidden books, even in the knight family, is a felony that can be imprisoned. But after reading the overview, little Ivas was even more itchy.

He was a fanatical buyer of ritual materials, and without mastering any supernatural knowledge or mystical skills, he relied entirely on speculation and imagination to try to perform rituals.

This, of course, will fail.

The core secret of this world is "knowledge".

The nine occult skills corresponding to the Nine Great Paths require corresponding knowledge to be mastered - on the other hand, as long as you master the corresponding knowledge, even if your personal strength is low, you can also obtain extraordinary power far above your true ability. Every taboo knowledge is almost the foundation of a genre. In this case, it is impossible to buy a reliable "skill book" from the market.

On the day of Ivus's sixteenth birthday, he was suddenly contacted by the secret society of demonic scholars, the Noble Red.

Ivas was wary at first. However, the other party sent him several manuscripts of forbidden books, all of which were about demonic knowledge and demonic rituals.

Although they are all small rituals that are no different from tricks - such as making people grow poisonous sores, treating tiny wounds, making people drowsy, or making people unlucky. It doesn't seem to work, but it's an unmistakable ritual!

After Aihuas tried one by one, he became very excited. So he became a pen pal with the other party, and often exchanged some demonic knowledge, and the other party also regarded himself as a friend of Ivas. On weekdays, I often talk to him about some emotional life, as well as trivial matters in daily life.

At first, Ivus was a little wary.

However, two years passed quietly.

Aihuas thought to himself, if the other party wanted to deceive him, he was afraid that he would have been deceived a long time ago. The value of the secret knowledge they gave them was quite high - although Ivus, who had not been to the black market, did not know how much it would sell for, but it was already a lot in terms of quantity, if it was not of sufficient quality.

- How can a scammer operate for so long and invest so much in order to deceive a person?

This is unconscionable and unreasonable. It is even more not in the best interest.

So Ivas gradually relaxed his vigilance, and really regarded this pen pal as a friend who had never met but was very close to him.

A few days ago, the other party claimed that they had something to do to come to the royal capital and wanted to meet with Aihuas.

Ivas believed the other party without hesitation or war.

This is the lie he told to the Inspectors. Because "Aihuas" was not taken captive, but took it upon his own accord.

It was a man and a woman dressed in red, both with shaved heads. The man looked to be in his forties and fifties, and the woman was in her twenties. In addition to mentors and apprentices, they are also lovers.

He warmly invited his "two friends" to a meal, and then the middle-aged man offered to let Ivas see and even participate in the real demon summoning ritual - Ivas excitedly agreed.

But after he had been busy for more than an hour to set up the ceremony, he looked at the ceremony table and suddenly realized something.

Doesn't it take expensive materials to summon demons?

And at this time, he suddenly realized that he had personally set up the ceremonial table and had become a "voluntary sacrifice". At the same time, as a student at the Faculty of Theology of the University of the Law of the Princes, Ivas was able to become a pastor before he graduated.

Although he has not really embarked on the path of the Transcendental, he has already taken his first steps towards the path of [Devotion].

Reflected in the information card, it is that he already has a level 1 priest class. Once he has accumulated experience for the basic skill "Basic Prayer", Ivas will be able to upgrade the priesthood class to level 2 and master the path trait of his first dedication path.

Of course, he happily told his pen pals about this - although "priest" is not as interesting as "demon scholar", it is also a transcendent profession after all. To be able to embark on the path of transcendence and possess transcendent abilities is better than nothing.

What's more, pastors are also a respected profession in Avalon.

The symbols of the path of "dedication" are light, protection, and candles. This is the way to dedicate oneself to others and ideals, and only by practicing this concept from the heart can we become stronger. Therefore, all the professions that extend from the path of dedication are extraordinary professions with a bright future and are recognized by people.

Thus, as a "voluntary 'devotional' believer", Ivas became a high-standard sacrifice.

It was only then that Ivas recalled his past life memories before the death crisis. Be the first to recognize the demon breed and successfully sign a contract with it.

He manipulated the Shadow Demon to surprise and kill the stunned middle-aged man, the demon scholar who was the "mentor". But the woman who was the apprentice was still alive.

If she escaped any slower, she would have been killed by Ehuas; But if she dared to turn around and come back, she would be able to kill Ivus in turn.

Just a little bit.

Eivas sighed.

- He was almost sacrificed and killed by the man; And he was almost killed by that woman.

Betrayed, deceived, murdered.

The real anger in Ivus's heart was echoing. He did not hesitate to decide to retaliate.

Not to mention, it is highly likely that this woman had seen Ehuas's letter.

This means that if she is arrested, she may confess to Ewass – no, she will certainly confess herself.

The adoptive father's position is now unclear, but even if it is only for his own sake, he must kill her before the Inspectorate catches her.

However, Ivus also did not intend to reveal his identity as a demon scholar in order to kill the other party.

He has a way.

After waking up yesterday, Evas's first instinct was to try a simple ritual that was unknown to the original "Ivus" and that only appeared in the later stages of the game. After using that ritual to replenish his life force that had been drained as a sacrifice, Ivas was almost certain that the secret knowledge he knew was just as useful in this world.

Ewas's profession in the game is not that of a demonic scholar who "transcends" the path...... It is the enlightener of the "dedication" path.

It's a pure support class that greatly strengthens your teammates and has a small amount of healing and control.

But now, he has to challenge those apocalyptic situations alone, and such a weak profession is not viable.

Because the enlightener can't eat his own strengthening. In other words, most professions on the path of "dedication" do not have access to their own strengthening, protection, or healing skills.

However, it is okay to be a part-time worker. After all, Ivas's identity on the face is that he is a priest who dedicates the path. Those who change careers to Qihui can also prepare in advance, and he is also extremely familiar with the necessary path characteristics that need to be mastered to advance to this profession.

And in order to solve those crises, his main job must have a strong enough single combat power.

Considering that he can work part-time as a Enlightener, then the answer is simple.

That is the 5.0 version of "Aihuas", the "Lord of the Great Beast" who advanced to become after mastering the power of illusion.

It was a later career after advancing from a scholar of major sins.

After defeating the immortal and immortal illusions, he can extract their essence and turn them into his own summoned beasts, which are the "big beasts" of the six attributes.

Although only one "Great Beast" can be summoned at the same time, you can switch to the Great Beast that is most suitable for dealing with the current situation, and then use the support card, equipment card, or field card made by drawing the power of other "big beasts" to strengthen the current one.

And most crucially, this summoned beast counts as a "teammate".

Not only is the output much larger than the main body, but it can also eat all types of buffs given by teammates.

In game terms, it's this profession that has the largest abduction rate.

Because the cards give you noble mechanical buffs - such as three speeds, armor piercing, poison, burn, dodge, and spell penetration, but they don't add damage buffs. It just doesn't happen to be diluted by the various damage-increasing buffs of the most mainstream support of the Enlightener.

Although after summoning the "Great Beast", the main body will not be able to eat the attack BUFF, so the main body output will be a little weak.

However, during the outbreak cycle, the Lord of the Great Beast can temporarily merge the summoned and strengthened "Great Beast" with himself, thus bursting out with extremely strong strength.

The Enlightener cooperates with the Lord of the Great Beasts, and Ivus can strengthen his summoned beasts as "teammates". And it will not lose the social buff brought by the identity of the priest on the bright side, and at the same time, it can also switch to a summoned beast that restrains the opponent when dealing with different enemies, and the upper limit is still very high.

In the worst-case scenario, only one can fight the boss - then this class combination may not have the highest explosion in the ideal state, but it must be the most comprehensive performance and adaptability.

The ability to extract the power of illusions and use tarot cards as materials to make illusion cards comes from the pre-occupation Mortal Sinist.

Scholars of major sins can completely study and analyze an illusion and obtain the corresponding ritual knowledge - this illusion can be used to print what cards, what materials and rituals are needed. Once this knowledge is known, even demon scholars can make it in advance.

The most important prerequisite for advancing to become the Lord of the Great Beast is to use the ability of the Scholar of Great Sin to make six blank cards with different attributes, and seal the six illusions with corresponding attributes.

Then repeat the defeat of the illusions of the same attribute as experience materials, and feed the level of these six illusions.

According to Aihuas's memory, Yulia had a fire-attribute illusion in her body.

It was to feed the phantom that her body was so weak.

The phantom will kill Yulia when it is finished. If you want to save her, you must face the illusion of her infancy; And the illusion is immortal and immortal...... This means that Yulia cannot be saved by conventional means. At most, it can only delay the time for the phantom to wake up and get out of control.

The "Lord of the Great Beast" is different.

If Aihuas can successfully create a "blank card" with enough capacity to contain the phantom in Yulia's body, he can directly drain the consciousness of the phantom in Yulia's body.

In this way, not only will Yulia survive, but she will also be able to prepare the advanced materials of the Lord of the Great Beast in advance!

And Yulia can also get the residual energy of the illusion by the way—making this unstable and dangerous power stable and growable, and thus embarking on the path of the transcendent!

The basis for all of this is that the ritual of making cards in Ivas's memory is reliable and feasible.

He'd already experimented with other rituals before, and the in-game ritual knowledge was really useful!

However, the production of the magic card needs to be verified again. Because the Scholar of Mortal Sins is a profession that only appeared after the advent of the Fallen Heavens.

Now that it's been two full versions ahead, Iwass isn't sure if the ritual is working.

So he needs to experiment.

As long as Ivus can successfully craft any illusion card as a demon scholar, he can directly confirm that this system is still usable at the moment!

In this way, he would be able to gain another power that had nothing to do with the Demon Scholar.

His own revenge and extermination will go well.

Yulia will be saved!

Even the destruction of Avalon is not irreversible-

- As long as he can make his first card.

Now Ivus is too weak. The only transcendent existence that he has mastered and is close to the illusion is the Shadow Demon.

The only card that can be made by drawing Shadow Fiend is "Moon".

The creation of the "Moon Card", no matter how strong the strength of the seal of this card, requires a nail from the forehead of a sinner who has been torn apart by a car, and an ancient rope from three gallows.

Ivas sat solemnly at his desk and took out a slightly blackened tarot card from the jade box.

These tarot cards were one of a large number of occult items that Ivus had purchased that he would not use when he was fanatically worshipping various rituals. But now it happens to be used to craft the Beastmaster's Magic Card.

That tarot card has a moon painted on it, flanked by two towers. Underneath the moon was a wolf and a dog, barking wildly at the moon. In the middle and bottom of the picture, a lobster crawls out of the river, looking up at the sky in confusion.

This is the Moon. The moon card in tarot divination symbolizes confusion, distress and restlessness.

The creators of the tarot cards came from the prophets who "adapted" to the path. The prophets despised astrologers who were also on the path of "adaptation" and likened them to dogs barking at the moon – because all prophets agreed that the future could never be predicted with precision, and astrologers sought to create a "grand unified chart" that was complex and accurate enough to predict all the futures.

This behavior was very ridiculous to the prophets. It's like a dog barking at the moon, trying to figure out what that means. But this exposes their ignorance and fearlessness.

Ivas held his breath and became extremely cautious.

Because on the "moon" of the tarot card, he smeared mercury. He used this as a medium to inject his three dark attribute mana yesterday.

Now the maximum volume of Aihuas's dark attribute mana pool is only three points.

And to make the most basic and weakest card, it takes at least five points. No matter how strong the card is, the other materials used are the same, the only difference is the amount of gem powder.

…… Although this kind of weak card is a bit wasteful to make. But it's important to succeed at least once and verify that it's feasible.

And it's also a reusable magic scroll. Once a card is crafted, it only costs one-tenth of its mana to induce it, and less than one point is considered zero. The only restriction is that only one card made of the same tarot card can be used in a day. In other words, if Evas uses this moon card, he cannot use other moon cards for the day.

But it doesn't matter.

When you don't need it, it's a big deal to sell it, or you can give it away - it doesn't require mana to induce, and the portable spell scroll that automatically recharges every day will definitely sell for a good price. From this point of view, these ritual materials cannot be considered wasteful.

Evas had already injected his three dark attribute mana into the card yesterday. That's why the card is slightly black, not because it's an illusion, but because it's actually faintly absorbing the light around it. If you put it in the sun, it may be more obvious when you compare it with the surrounding objects.

Now, Ivus's mana pool is back to full.

He gently touched the mercury-smeared moon again, and slowly injected all the three dark attribute mana in his body. Cards made with six mana will be slightly stronger than five.

"It's a pity ......"

Ivus sighed under his breath, "Let's make one first." The remaining three materials are still made when the mana becomes more in the future. ”

After the card is injected to the bottom five points, the ritual is activated. If you don't make it right away, it will be scrapped in an hour. Otherwise, Ivus could even accumulate mana day by day, and could keep it up for ten days. Crafts a "Field Card: Shadow Cellar" that can only be crafted with 30 mana.

He could actually inject a little more today and start crafting tomorrow with seven mana.

But from five to ten points of mana, all the "Enchantment Card: Shadow Blade" is the weakest. A little more hoarding will not make a qualitative change...... Then you might as well grab an extra day.

With that in mind, he hammered the rusty nail hard into the tarot card.

Only a squeak was heard, but the card made a strange sour sound. It's like Ivus wasn't nailed into a card, but into someone's skull.

Then he put the three ropes in a loop. Threaded the nail from three angles. The other three ends of the rope were nailed to three "sword" cards with ordinary nails.

The next moment, the rope suddenly inflated and swelled. It was just a nail hanging on it, but as if it was around someone's neck, the three ropes suddenly turned into a ring instead of a "V".

Evas followed by and sprinkled the pre-ground black pearl powder evenly on the tarot cards. The "Moon" card belongs to the realm of the path of "love". The black pearl is the guardian gem of the path of "love", which can be used to attract the attention of the pillar god of the path of love, "Heng I".

Just looking, even a glance at it, is enough to give a card spirituality.

After what he was about to do was done, Ivas remained silent.

The shadow beneath him was like a wisp of smoke, floating and blending into the card. The drawing on the tarot card kept changing, as if another artist had scribbled on it.

When the change of picture is over, the nail slowly melts. It became a new "moon", and two of the three ropes merged into the two new "black towers", becoming two kobolds with scepters in their hands. The remaining one took the place of the lobster and turned into a black scarab.

The card floated up of its own accord and flew into Ivus's hand.

The attributes of the card have automatically appeared in his eyes:

【Enchantment Shadow Blade (Moon)】

[Necessary: Dark 0]

[Immediate, contact, effective immediately]

[Effect: Causes the target "weapon" to temporarily gain shadow, cut, and erosion attributes, and is regarded as an extraordinary weapon.] Lasts 1 minute (+20%)]

It's done.

Ivus thought to himself.