Today is Tuesday, the day of the Feast of Holy Prayer in Dawn Church. Shade promised Bishop Owen and Priest August that he would appear at the church in the afternoon to participate in activities and deliver a public speech. In addition, he also
There are some things to deal with.
Leaving Mia at home to look after the house, Shade packed up the things in the basement and went out.
The trip in the morning was to buy some things.
The first stop was Old John's Antique Shop. Father John was reading the newspaper and waiting for customers as usual. Hearing the sound of the bell, he tilted his head from behind the newspaper and saw that it was Shad, and then he yawned and said:
"Are you here to buy anything else today? Speaking of which, how was your exam week? Louisa passed her ancient literature, right?"
Father John is the black market shop owner who has the best relationship with Doctor Schneider's group.
"Passed, my alchemy homework also passed. Dad, I'm going to spend a lot of money to buy things this time."
After waking up and walking around the familiar Tobesk, far away from the wet port city with pirates and fishmen, Shade was in a very good mood.
"You? A lot of money?"
Father John looked at him suspiciously, not believing this statement at all, as if he thought this was some kind of bargaining strategy.
So Shade reached into the inner pocket of his coat, and then grabbed out a 100-pound note tied with a strip of paper. He then reached into the outer right pocket of his coat, grabbed a 100-pound note tied with a strip of paper, and finally reached in
In the left pocket, there is another 100 pounds.
The largest currency note currently issued by the Kingdom has a face value of 50 pounds, but it is usually only used for settlement of bulk items and is rarely seen on the market. What Shade took out was a 5-pound note, 60 in total:
"The relic worth 300 pounds that you mentioned was consigned to you by a friend. I want it." (Chapter 99)
The old man looked at the money in surprise, then nodded:
"It has the function of extracting energy from the living body itself or similar entities or non-entities, and then pouring it into the user's body. This is the requirement, right? That thing is still there. If you want to buy it, I can get it for you right now.
Although I knew you met a rich female noble last time, I didn’t expect it.”
He didn't say any more, but quickly put away the banknotes. He asked Shade to wait for a while, and then walked away for twenty minutes. When he came back, he had a long and slender thing wrapped in a strip of cloth in his hand.
"Cane? Sword?"
Shade was looking forward to it.
"The cane is not that long. If it is a cold weapon, do you think it will be sold for only 300 pounds? You should understand how expensive weapon relics are."
The old man said, put the thing on the counter, then walked quickly to the door of the store and locked the door.
Remove the cloth strip and inside is a pair of fishing rods.
"The clerical relic [Soul Fishing Rod] is completely black. The material of the fishing rod itself and the hook are similar to fine steel. It is telescopic and is 5.24 feet (approximately 1.6m) when fully unfolded. The fishing line is transparent and the material is unknown. When used
It can be extended as needed.”
The old man neatly took the fishing rod in his hand, pulled out the retracted part of the fishing rod with a click, and then handed it to Shade for inspection.
"[Soul Fishing Rod] once hooks a living person, you can harvest the opponent's memory fragment. If the living person is still a ring warlock, you can get part of his spirit. There is a very small chance that you can directly obtain the opponent's spirit runes, which perfectly meets your requirements.
.As for side effects”
Seeing Shade swinging the fishing rod around to feel the feel, Father John knocked on the table and asked Shade to pay attention:
"You must use fishing to activate its effect. And the opponent must not lose the ability to move and take the bait. Once hooked, the angler must read the acquired memory and cannot refuse, and the acquired memory is a random section and cannot be
Make a choice. If you use this method to read other people's memories for a long time, even a high-level warlock will have its own personality affected. What's even more dangerous is that as long as you use it more than 13 times, there is a chance that you will suddenly see someone else's memory for the rest of your life.
To giant fish hooks falling from the sky.”
"oh?"
Shade looked at him in surprise:
"what is that?"
"I can't answer you, because people who see the fishhook will take the initiative to touch it and then disappear. The news about the fishhook was told by them when they saw the fishhook."
The old man shrugged:
"Probably some strange being is fishing. Have you seen the line of Pulu script on the fishing rod? That is the language of the Fourth Age. I happen to understand some of it. The roughly translated meaning is"
【We are fishermen, but we are also fish.】
There was no negotiation on the price of this fishing rod, which was 300 pounds and had to be paid in cash. Even if Shade brought up the cane, Old John couldn't let go because it was consigned to him by a friend and he had no power to lower the price.
So after paying this money, Shard's savings dropped from 900 pounds (note) to 600 pounds. Although his ability to make money increased, unfortunately his expenses also increased.
The fishing rod was for possible divinity, so the money could not be saved no matter what. After returning the fishing rod to his home, Shade put on his robe and mask and went to the Black Raven Library.
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The acquisition of the Whispering Spirit Rune [Greed] was something he did not expect, and the acquisition of the Spirit Rune meant that he could master the power in a new direction. The relationship between greed, time and Silver Moon is not significant at present, so
As usual, Shade only plans to learn a related thaumaturgy. If there is a suitable thaumaturgy in the future, he will gain more greedy power.
Similar to [Gluttony], [Greed] is also a relatively common spiritual rune. Many ancient books and relics can allow ring warlocks to obtain runes with similar concepts.
In addition to daily necessities, emergency preparedness, repairs to the third floor of his house, and second-year tuition fees, Shade could only afford about 200 pounds. Compared with the first time he chose the thaumaturgy of [Gluttony], this time it was more practical
It is very generous.
In the dark little room of the Black Raven Library, Shade sat on the sofa and explained his request to the person behind the wall through the small hole in the wall. In order to prevent missing valuable thaumaturgy, he also deliberately
The stated price can fluctuate slightly.
It took the library half an hour to give Shade a list of seven kinds of thaumaturgy, among which the whispering elemental spirit rune [Gluttony] could be learned in six of them.
The cheapest [Greedy Heart] is worth 15 pounds. This is a passive ability. After learning, it can enhance one's own greedy desire. This is a thaumaturgy that is combined with other thaumaturgy based on "greed". Ordinary ring magicians will definitely not learn it.
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The most expensive one is [Warda's Death Contract], which does not include learning materials and costs 350 pounds, but including materials is as high as 1,200 pounds. This is an active ability that uses a "loan and loan" relationship through handshakes and other wisdom.
Creatures sign a contract. Once the contract is violated, thaumaturgy will take the life of the violator.
It sounds powerful, but thaumaturgy is useless compared to a ring magician with a higher level. It will be ineffective due to text traps and the death of the caster. It is a precious "contract" thaumaturgy.
Shade did not choose the most expensive one, nor the cheapest one, and finally chose the thaumaturgy [Treasure Object] containing materials worth 232 pounds.
The explanation of this thaumaturgy is quite simple. It uses one's own greed and cherishment of an item to give it extraordinary abilities.
Thaumaturgy itself is only useful for ordinary items, and only one "treasure item" can be selected at a time, which can be replaced with each moon phase cycle. Moreover, the power of thaumaturgy is limited by the degree of greed and cherishment of the item itself, as well as its own level.
Different ring warlocks' choices of different "treasure items" will give them different extraordinary abilities, but this ability will only increase according to the shape of the item. For example, shoes will make the wearer run faster or see higher, and the eyes will
Enhance vision in the dark or enhance field of view, but it is absolutely impossible that after selecting a ring, the ring will suddenly be able to shoot fireballs.
Judging from the records provided by the Black Raven Library, most ring magicians who learn this thaumaturgy choose coins or banknotes as their "treasure objects". Because the greed for banknotes will never fade.
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Of course, there are also some magicians who select special Rhodes cards as "treasure items". As a result, the cards will have extraordinary abilities such as flying at extremely fast speeds or being hard and sharp.
You must know that [Origin·Balance] controlled by Shade cannot be sharp enough to be used as a weapon.
Of course, this thaumaturgy also has very minor side effects.
First, the greed for similar items of the selected "treasure item" will be amplified. Second, once the selected "treasure item" is lost, the user of thaumaturgy will lose their ability during the six-month cycle.
Thaumaturgy can no longer be used, and during this period, one's own "greedy" desires will be amplified.
But this side effect is acceptable, so Xia De chose to purchase this thaumaturgy.
After paying a high fee, his savings dropped to about 400 pounds. When Shade returned home, he saw that it was not lunch time yet, so he used materials such as "Money, Grass, Horses, Dung, Stone and Greedy Man's Skeleton" to complete the learning of thaumaturgy.
However, there was a small problem when selecting "treasure items".
He took out all the cards, intending to select [Ancient Fairy Tale·Match Girl]. But when the aura of thaumaturgy covered the cards, the ones selected actually included [Origin·Silver Moon] but did not include [Origin··
The entire deck including Balance.
[Origin·Balance] cannot be selected, probably because it has been activated and is not an ordinary item. The entire deck is selected probably because the "Divine Afterglow" state increases the effect of thaumaturgy.
He is not able to select multiple targets, but can consider "a group" as "one" target.
The evidence for this conjecture is that Shade feels that he can replace different cards into the deck so that the replaced cards lose their "selection" and the replaced cards gain "selection". Therefore, when Shade
Obtain new special cards, and you don’t have to wait for the next moon phase cycle to select new cards.
[You spent so much money on thaumaturgy, is it just to give the opponent more cards when playing cards? Foreigner, you are really a greedy person.]
"Don't slander me."
Shade hooked his fingers, and under the effect of [Treasure Object], fifty-four playing cards flew from top to bottom, one after another, from the far end of the table to stacked neatly on the table in front of him.
Then Shade took a newspaper, opened it, and then manipulated fifty-four cards to cut the newspaper.
The cost of more than 200 pounds is well worth it. In the state of divine afterglow, these cards are not sharp enough to crack bricks and rocks, but they are enough to slit human throats. Moreover, in the entire deck, the special cards gain power.
, and it is much larger than ordinary playing cards due to the greed in Xia De's heart.
If he could replace the entire deck with special cards, the effects of thaumaturgy might be further enhanced.
When the cards first started flying, little Mia hid behind Shade and stared at the scene. But when they stopped on the table in front of Shade again, the wide-eyed cat immediately walked out, jumped on the table, and stretched out his hands curiously.
Touch the top one with your claws.
Although the cards have gained sharp characteristics, using [Treasure Object] to control the flight of cards is far inferior to Shade's direct control of [Origin and Balance]. But compared to the spell [Moving Object] that can achieve similar effects
, the control of [Treasure Object] is more refined.
For example, Shade suddenly had evil intentions, and the card that Mia kept slapping suddenly flew up. When Mia was chasing, she controlled the cards to fly around on the table, making the cat keep waving.
paw.
"Meow~"
It suddenly stopped, put its little paw on Shade's arm, and looked at Shade with its big amber eyes.
The stranger laughed and let the card stop in front of the cat. It stretched out its paw with great satisfaction.