Chapter 84: Gathering Materials
"A Dixi pie with extra chopped apples and a cup of sweet iced tea."
At noon on Tuesday, a hungry Angel stood in front of a mobile vendor near her home, planning for her lunch.
She spent the morning wandering the streets of the Bridge District, visiting herb shops, florists, and some strangely decorated occult shops, struggling to collect the auxiliary materials for the "Witch of Pleasure" potion.
Black mandala flowers are easy to find, in order to prevent accidents, she even bought a pot of flowers directly, ready to be juiced on the spot, pure water is also a cheap product that can be found everywhere, but the rest of the items are not so simple.
After a careful search, Angel bought a jar of Fenerport flies in a occult shop, all of them alive, flying to exhaustion in a glass jar with air holes, and then collapsed to the bottom of the jar, flapping their wings.
Unfortunately, Angel confirmed that two-thirds of them were native to Rune, or even from Bakeland, after a simple divination, and she took great pains to pick out the foreign flies that met the requirements, put them in ventilated glass jars, and placed them by the study window to keep them alive as long as possible.
As for the "real mummy ashes", Angel walked the streets and alleys, and did not meet the best-selling items that were said to enhance some of the abilities of men, until it was close to noon, near the door of a pharmacy in the East End, a sneaky merchant approached her and offered to sell the precious mummy powder.
The powder was expensive, and for the sake of caution, Angel only bought 2 grams as a target for divination, and if it was genuine, she was going to come back in the afternoon to the merchant who had vowed to wait for her.
Unfortunately, Angel didn't go far before Angel avoided the eyes of passers-by, and used the magic mirror divination to confirm that these were just ordinary wall ashes, and when she returned to her place in a rage, the merchant who sold the powder had already fled, which made her resentful.
It seems that this material can only be found at the gathering of the extraordinary, especially the fat pharmacist Darkwell at the "Eyes of Wisdom" party, whose very popular enhancement potion is probably made of mummy powder.
Munching on the hot Dixi pie, feeling the greasy aroma of the fat between her mouths and the sweet and sour taste of chopped apples, Angel went to the subway station and took the subway to Savilia's house in the West End to receive her "mission reward".
Now when she goes out, she can't walk if she can choose public transportation, so she looks for a hired carriage if she is too remote to avoid being affected by the "master key", and inadvertently turns into a strange alley, wasting precious time.
She even suspected that the encounter with the "Devil Dog" last week was the effect of the strange negative effects of the Master Key, which reminded Angel of Bernadette she met at the museum, who told her that the key had a "dangerous curse", at first she thought it was a curse on the precious gold pound in her pocket, but she felt that such a high-order powerhouse should not be so vulgar.
Now it seems that this is the case.
On the subway, she bought a copy of the day's Beckland Morning Post, and was disappointed to find that Mr. A still had no intention of holding a rally, while the news in the in-depth section published reports that interested her.
"Confirm! Kaping is suspected of a number of cases of disappearance of underage women, and the police remind the public to pay attention to strangers around them! ”
After reading through this report, Angel found that Capin's kidnapping of many girls had been dug up by the police and the "substitutes" of the Church of the Storm behind it, and that in addition to the girls who were released that day, at least twenty or more people were missing, and they may have been sold to the brothels of Beckland under Capin's arrangement, perhaps they had entered the private mansions of some nobles who did not even meet the newspapers, and they might even have left Beckland for a farther city.
Most of the remaining property of Kapin, identified as a human trafficker, was confiscated, including the half-blown villa, and his family disappeared in the incident, and the police are collecting clues about it.
Angel speculated that Capping's family had either been transferred to other places long ago, or had been taken by the real "human traffickers" behind him and used as hostages to coerce him into doing his job.
But in any case, Caping himself is a villain, and he is innocent of death.
I just don't know what other organizations or individuals have given him continuous support in addition to the "Witch Sect" behind him, and even sent many extraordinary people to protect and monitor him.
Angel passed the time with a newspaper and soon found himself in the West End, to the mansion of Baroness Severia Langdon.
After many years of aristocratic life, the sleepy-eyed "Witch of Pleasure" has kept her biological clock in line with that of the nobles who sing night and night in Beckland, and at this time she has just woken up from her sleep and received Angel with an unhappy face.
"I even doubt that you gave me the task of investigating the atmospheric committee, whether it was arranged by the 'Desperate Lady' or the result of your own laziness."
Angel said sarcastically, and took a rather large wooden box of copper from the other party's hand.
"Of course, it was the 'Desperate Lady' that we all get close to the 'Primordial', and she was ahead of everyone."
Severia replied with a serious face.
In front of the other party, Angel opened the lid of the copper-clad wooden box, which did not match the container she thought of as "containing eyeballs", but rather looked like it contained someone's head.
Inside the wooden box, on the thick red velvet cushion, there is a pair of eyes similar to the size of a normal person, and the pale green pupils look very strange under the gray-white, blood-rich sclera.
She suddenly remembered the strange eyeball that had been precipitated after Mrs. Sharon's death at the Nightwatch's station in Tingen, and the feeling it gave her was exactly the same, except for the slightly different color of the pupils.
"This is the 'eyes of the Banshee'?"
Forcing herself to look away, getting rid of the chill on her body, Angel asked cautiously.
"That's right, they, along with the silk glands you got earlier, are all the main materials for 'Pleasure'." Sevelia yawned and replied, "Take a closer look at the box, is there anything else?" ”
Angel looked inside the box again at her reminder and noticed that there were some translucent silk threads around the eyeballs, like the invisible spider silk of the "Witch of Pleasure" she had seen, and like some kind of long hair that was curled together......
Could it be the hair of the Banshee?
She was shocked, with a curious look on her face, and looked up and asked, "What is this?" It looks a bit like spider silk. ”
"They are all the hairs of the banshee whose eyes have been removed, they are included as bonus materials, and you will know what they are used for later, remember not to separate them from the eyes, otherwise they will soon be useless, and at that point, you will have to spend your own money to buy new ones."
Sure enough, this is the hair of the Banshee...... But this is equivalent to a banshee can only get one auxiliary material, which will obviously increase the price of the material, no, the eyes can't be regenerated, but the hair can, so the former is the main material, and the latter is only an auxiliary ......
Could it be true that what Lola said about the witch sect keeping the charm banshees in captivity?
Resisting her curiosity, Angel made a slightly puzzled look and closed the box.
"Now, your path to 'pleasure' is only a complete recipe, this time you have completed your mission in Earl Hall's house well, and you have passed the test of the sect, and when the next order arrives, you may be able to get the recipe."
After handing over the materials, the tiredness on Sevilia's face increased significantly, she took a sip of black tea to dispel her sleepiness, and then said:
"That stupid 'demon' seeking a promotion in Beckland was killed by the official Extraordinary, and the various Extraordinaire gatherings should gradually resume operation, you need to keep an eye on those who sell the traits of the 'Arbiter' path, and if you get any important clues, I will give you the recipe in advance."
It's a pity, I've already got the recipe from Lola, and I've confirmed it with divination, plus the "Lust Banshee Hair" you gave today, and the two phases are verified, and the confirmation is correct.
Angel thought secretly, but said happily.
(End of chapter)