Chapter 7: Departure
The Sequence 5 potion formula, Angel has not seen anyone sell it yet, but based on the fact that the Sequence 6 formula costs about 2,000 pounds, the price of a higher-level formula may not be lower than 5,000 pounds, and it may not be available in the market.
The main ingredient of the potion, which adds up to about £8,000, is the same for the extraordinary properties that can replace them.
Having watched the "Blasphemy Card" and leaving behind the extraordinary property of "Pain" that had been re-detached and polluted after the Great Smog was equivalent to saving Angel the £13,000 needed for her promotion, all she needed to prepare for her supporting materials, and ......
"Tied to the stake and burned for a whole quarter of an hour, without the use of a stand-in...... Can you use the Cold ability to reduce the damage of the flames? ”
Angel thought to herself, her first reaction was to avoid the harm of the promotion ceremony through some methods, and she knew very well that a normal person could be incinerated for a quarter of an hour, even for a minute or two, and he might go into shock due to severe pain, or inhale too much hot air and smoke and burn his lungs and die of suffocation.
In the middle and low sequences, the body of the extraordinary person is not much stronger than the average person, maybe the strength is several times that of the ordinary person, and the speed and reaction ability have also been strengthened by potions more than once, but they will also be killed by bullets and knives, and they will not be able to hold out for a few more minutes if they are burned by fire.
Not to mention the severe pain caused by the flames burning the skin.
I'm afraid it will be more painful than when she became seriously ill in the smog and was on the verge of losing control......
Well?
She suddenly realized that the reason why she could be successfully promoted without the cooperation of auxiliary materials and promotion ceremonies by directly taking the extraordinary properties of "pain" at that time was probably the severe pain.
The heart-piercing, pervasive pain pulled the spirit that had left her body back into her body after taking the extraordinary properties, avoiding the worst outcome of "the spirit drifting away and the body losing control".
Although after calming down the haze, she still couldn't stop the mutation of her body, and finally could only beg the Angel Lady to kill her, but looking at the "promotion" itself, it should be considered a success.
Severe pain undoubtedly played a key role in this process, and the rituals mentioned in the potion recipe probably had a similar effect.
After understanding the role of the promotion ceremony, Angel cut off the idea of "tricks", even if he used the frost ability to reduce the harm of the flames, and even asked for the help of other extraordinary people, using some magical items to spend 15 minutes of flame incineration "without injury", it would only bring a higher probability of failure, and even turn into an out-of-control monster on the spot.
Of course, the promotion ceremony only requires the corresponding pain, not the dead person to take the Sequence 5 potion, and if the pain cannot be avoided, she still has a way to avoid being burned alive.
Stroking the "Rose Necklace" on her chest, Angel had a complete plan for the promotion ceremony, as long as Lola gave her the blood of the flower-faced bat and the tip of the tail of the two-tailed black snake, she could configure the potion.
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Waiting for Sharon and Lola's time, Angel was not idle, she took the time to return to the chaotic East End and found Sherman.
The latter is working with Hugh Dilcha and a group of young people they have assembled to maintain order in the neighborhood, driving away homeless people who are trying to fish in troubled waters, stealing and even robbing, organizing the distribution of relief supplies provided by the Church of the Goddess, and is so busy that he has forgotten his identity as an extraordinary person.
When Angel arrived at Sherman's apartment, he was walking out of the house with two wooden boxes printed with the Holy Emblem of the Night, followed by three wooden boxes that moved on their own, Angel walked to the side with some confusion, only to realize that it was Miss Hugh who was helping to carry them.
Seeing her coming, Sherman handed the box to the others, whispered a few words to Hugh, and then went to the street corner.
"Miss Irene, I'm glad you weren't hurt in the big smog, but the East End was very badly affected, and I've been busy these days and didn't have a chance to contact you."
Sherman said softly, during this time he acted with the swaggering bounty hunter, and was affected by the other party's style, and he was no longer shy before, and the change of identity from ordinary to extraordinary also made him reveal a sense of confidence from the inside out, which was similar to Angel when he first met him.
"It's okay, the sect itself doesn't have a fixed contact time, and it's ......"
Angel wanted to say that the Witch Sect had been purged from Beckland and that there should be no chance of coming back in the short term, but after thinking about it again and again, he still didn't tell Sherman the news, which made him think that his upline had not changed for the better......
"And I'm leaving Beckland soon, and you're afraid you won't be able to contact me for a while."
"Is it because of another 'mission'?"
Sherman asked, curious.
"Sort of," Angel nodded, "Regarding your subsequent promotion, and the provision of potions, I have another way, and someone else will contact you at that time, so you should be ...... It's good to change a 'boss' for the time being. ”
She made a decision before she came, and handed over Sherman's contact information to Lola, on the one hand, so that this happy witch who has the same attitude towards the witch sect as herself, although her private life is a little "chaotic", can help Sherman and prevent him from going down the wrong path, and on the other hand, it can also pave the way for the assassin's subsequent promotion, lest she return to Beckland after a while, he is still Sequence 9.
As for whether Sherman can get the recipe for the "Instigator" in Lola's hands, and whether he can find a way to obtain potion materials on his own, it is up to him.
I believe that with the new motivation, this assassin will definitely redouble his efforts......
Looking at the pair of sisters who peeked out from another apartment to look at this side, Angel smiled secretly.
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North District, Ground Floor of St. Samuel's Church.
Archbishop Anthony Stevenson slowly paced into a large conference room, where the busy night watchmen stopped their work and saluted the head of the diocese.
"Any new clues?"
He asked, scanning his gaze over the messy array of papers and documents on the conference table.
"Your Excellency, there are some new developments on both sides," a deacon approached with a document and reported in a clear manner, "On the outskirts of the ruins, we have restored part of the scene with the help of '2-155', a 'magician' or higher extraordinary person used a magical object full of unknown curses to destroy the ritual of the Aurora Society, and then the Aurora Divine Envoy chased him out of the ruins, and his whereabouts are unknown, because there were a large number of unjust spirits at the scene, which interfered with it. 2-155', the identity of the magician has not been determined for the time being. ”
"There are a total of three altars at the ceremonial site in the eastern district, and the body of the female extraordinary person was found next to the largest one, no external injuries, the cause of death is unknown, the extraordinary characteristics are unknown, and the presiding officers of the other two altars have fled the scene, they should all be members of the witch sect, and the other clues on the scene have been destroyed except for the traces of the cursed black flame. And the battlefield on the street where it is suspected that two witches are fighting each other, except for the bullet casings of five special ammunition, nothing has been found, and the divination knows that the two witches are alive, but they cannot be located and cannot confirm the status. ”
"Your Excellency, it's this ammunition," another Nightwatchman stepped forward and showed St. Anthony a yet-to-be-fired "Storm Convergence," "it was originally discovered and delivered to the Templar by Team Tingen during an extraordinary event, and the replica is now used by Team Beckland and some of the Red Glove Team, but a small amount is circulating in underground gatherings, so it is impossible to identify the exact user. ”
"So, there's not a lot of new development?"
Anthony Stevenson asked rhetorically, he was not angry, because the investigation is indeed very difficult, whether it is the Aurora Society or the Witch Sect, they are both long-established cults, proficient in anti-divination and anti-tracking, the three major churches have destroyed several Aurora Society strongholds in Beckland in the past two days, and secretly investigated many upper-level people who may have dealings with the Witch Sect, but there are no more clues about the day of the Great Smog.
Moreover, he personally unsealed the seal "0-17", and he knew very well that a large part of these conclusions of "unknown whereabouts" and "unknown cause of death" were caused by the church itself, and he could not say it clearly due to the confidentiality regulations, so he could only "pretend to be stupid" to a certain extent.
"In addition to this, we have received an anonymous report of two members of the Witch Cult hiding in Beckland, including the mysterious woman named 'Triss' who has been confirmed to be the mysterious woman next to Prince Edssack and who also disappeared after the Great Smog, and the other 'Severia Langdon' is the widow of Baron Langdon, who also fled from Beckland after the incident, and the servants in the mansion knew nothing about it, and even thought that she had attended another aristocratic gathering and stayed overnight."
The deacon who reported said.
"The strangest thing is that the latter left a letter leaving her property in Bakeland, as well as other factories and lands inherited from Baron Landon, to her only relative, her niece Erin Watson, and since the letter was accompanied by a token and stamped with a private seal, the lawyer of the Baron's family was already going through these formalities. Because the baroness did not have any illegal records except for her unruly private life, the police could not prevent the transfer of property. ”
Erin Watson...... "The archbishop ignored the issue of the Baron's family's property, but silently recited the name, recalling the relevant information in his mind, "Is she also a member of the Witch Sect?" ”
"According to our information, she is a 'soothsayer' who only appeared in Beckland three months ago, has attended many aristocratic balls and salons, is friends with the daughter of Earl Hall, and was in the Aurora Divine Attack in Hilston, we have conducted a dream review of her and found no further problems. But there must be a certain reason for Severia to leave all the property to this woman......"
The deacon's face was also a little distressed, the two names on the report letter were indeed members of the "Witch Sect" after investigation, but none of them were caught, and the other target that was introduced, Erin Watson, did not find a problem, and the exploration in this direction also encountered difficulties.
"Earl Hall...... Who conducted the review of her dreams? ”
The archbishop frowned and asked.
"Captain Soster of the Red Glove Squad, he's ......"
"Requiem, I know," interrupted the deacon, the archbishop, "so you find this Erin Watson and re-examine it, I have a hunch that there is a clue we need in her." ”
"I'll do it myself."
He added.
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At the same time, the Beckland steam train station shrouded in dense fog.
Angel, who had regained her original appearance, wore a heavy and warm gray dress, a round-brimmed lady's hat, and covered most of her face with a black veil, making her appearance blurred and unrecognizable.
"Our train has arrived, let's go."
She said to Klein beside her.
The latter nodded slightly, lifted the suitcase at his feet, and glanced back at the city in the fog one last time.
"Goodbye, Beckland, goodbye, Erin and Sherlock."
He pressed the brim of his top hat and whispered.
(End of chapter)