"The Hanged Man" agreed to Lumian's request and told him to contact him through "The Magician".
After saying thanks, Lumian and Franka left the captain's cabin, walked along the aisle that could only accommodate three people walking side by side, stepped on the creaking wooden boards, and returned to the deck under the dim torchlight.
They noticed that this ghost ship named "Blue Avenger" was not the only one with "Stormbringer" Alger. There were also a few dozen people at the stern, outside the cabin, and inside the mast observation deck.
Sailors, they hid on the edge of darkness and did not try to get close.
The next second, Lumian and Franka both saw a bright star hanging in front of them. It was dyed with a slightly eerie blue, as if it had just come out of the spirit world.
The star grew bigger and bigger, as if it had landed on the ground in an instant, and its light spread out, swallowing up everything around it.
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Lumian and Franka just blinked and were caught up in the starlight. When their vision returned, they were back in Room 207 of the Golden Rooster Hotel.
"It's so, so gorgeous!" Franka praised sincerely, with a look of longing on her face.
She hated that the only option for her to change paths was to be a "Hunter". She couldn't experience the coolness of the "apprentices", so she could only consider getting a sealed artifact with similar abilities in the future.
Lumian did not agree with Franka, but stood there thoughtfully.
Franka glanced at him, thought for a moment and said, "Do you think this is a bit strange?
"Raising 100,000 Felkin's gold should be a very simple matter for a treasure hunter with the same strength as a pirate king. Those three questions don't need to be thought about for too long, but Mr. 'The Hanged Man' has gone through so much.
God, I just asked you to summon the 'Armored Shadow', and this was after he had already arrived in Trier.
"In addition, with the ability shown by Ms. Magician, she can easily send us to the sea, send us to the interior of the Blue Avenger, and then pick us back up. Why do we have to wait for Mr. Hanged Man?"
Did you do this after coming to Trier?”
Lumian laughed and praised Franka:
"This time I am very sharp. It seems that my brain needs to be used more. If it is always idle, it will appear that I have a low IQ."
"Fuck, are you praising me or scolding me?" Franka said with a "poof" and a slight frown, "Either Mr. 'The Hanged Man' was in a special environment some time ago and it was difficult to accurately locate him, or he
There is another reason for going to Trier..."
Speaking of this, Lumian and Franka simultaneously thought of the coming disaster and smelled the depression and terror of the storm that was about to fall over the city.
"The Tarot Club is sending more Major Arcana cards to Trier? In order to protect as many citizens as possible if the disaster cannot be prevented?" Franka guessed.
Lumian nodded lightly and did not refute.
After a period of silence, Franka changed the subject and shouted with motivation: "I want to become a demigod, and I want to accumulate gold!"
Seeing Lumian raise his eyebrows and express inquiries with his eyes, Franka said with yearning and longing:
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"In this way, I can directly ask you to summon the 'Armor Shadow' and ask the questions I want to ask. There is no need to ask the Major Arcana cards for protection!"
"Work hard, Miss Joy." Lumian joked.
The next day, it was close to noon.
Lumian, who returned from Spring Street, led Jenna into the underground, reached the third level of the catacombs, and came to the small square where two sacrificial pillars stood.
"Why did you bring me here?" Jenna looked confused.
If she hadn't known Lumian very well and what kind of person this guy was, she would have suspected that her friend suddenly had evil intentions.
Lumian, who was carrying a black satchel across his back, stood upright, put his hands in his pockets, and said with a smile: "I will give you the safest promotion environment."
Combining Franka's words with the "Magician" lady's words, Lumian knew that the "Assassin" path was Sequence 0. The true god worshiped by the Witch Sect should be a man who turned into a woman, and his heart was very twisted.
It is said that this "original witch" is immersed in pain and cannot extricate himself, and wants to replicate his experience from generation to generation. Therefore, he hates normal women becoming "witches", and the associated witch sect is also hunting female "assassins"
”, female “instigators” and real “witches”.
In this case, Jenna might be affected by taking the "Witch" potion. After all, even the "Hidden Sage" who occupies position 0 in the sequence can indiscriminately affect everyone in the "Secret Peeper" path.
An extraordinary person, whispering to them from time to time, instilling knowledge into them when they take magic potions and advance, there is no reason why the real evil god "Original Witch" cannot influence the "witches" at all.
Although at a lower sequence, this influence should not be too strong - Aurore can be promoted to sequence 7 and become a "wizard" under the whispering indoctrination of the "Hidden Sage", but it is better to be careful than careless. Since there are
If there are ways to reduce or weaken similar effects, then why not do it?
You must know that "Witch" is the first qualitative change node in the "Assassin" path, and even the beginning of the core meaning of "Witch". The "Original Witch" who only wants to watch men change genders will most likely be interested in those who are promoted in this sequence.
More concerned, neither Franka nor Lumian wanted Jenna to take risks.
Of course, Ms. "Magician" occasionally mentioned that the evil god was not in good condition.
"The safest?" Jenna looked around, not too convinced.
The surroundings are dark and full of corpses. How can we call it safe?
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Only the surroundings of the two mottled stone pillars seemed warmer and calmer.
Lumian briefly introduced the special features of this sacrificial square and finally said:
"The top of the Assassin's path is an evil god. No one knows whether he will suddenly go crazy. The gods of the same path have the ability to exert a certain influence on extraordinary people when they take magic potions and are promoted. Man-made, not God, can increase the difficulty.
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"This is where you can weaken that connection to a great extent."
After Jian Na listened attentively, she walked towards the mottled stone pillar engraved with the "Sacred Emblem of the Sun", opened her arms slightly, and began to pray.
Seeing that she didn't ask why Franka wasn't affected in the first place, and didn't mention this matter when exchanging precautions before, Lumian raised his right hand, touched his chin, and secretly "tsk".
"Praise the sun!" At the end of the prayer, Jenna sang the praises of the "eternal blazing sun" quite devoutly.
Lumian didn't say anything, and handed over the "witch" extraordinary characteristics and the scales of the shadow lizard and other materials in the black satchel to Jenna.
He used the 10,000 ferkin given by the other party to exchange for these things from Gardner Martin.
Jian Na glanced at the blue vertical eye-like "gem" and the silk-like lines on its surface, knelt down on one knee, and mixed the potion on the unusually clean ground of the square.
Not long after, a cup of dark red potion with a shadow appeared in Jenna's hand.
Jian Na calmed down and felt that in the past few months, she seemed to have been pushed by various things and moved forward involuntarily, and she could not stop now.
This may be my destiny... Praise the sun! Jenna closed her eyes, and then secretly added in her heart: Praise the fool!
At this critical moment, in order for her promotion to go smoothly and for herself to survive, the balance of her inner faith involuntarily tilted a little.
This is because both Franka and Lumian are relatively relaxed when it comes to taking potions and improving their sequence, at least that's what it seems, and they both believe in Mr. Fool.
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Without hesitation, Jian Na had a mentality as if she had died when she was assassinating Hugues Artois, and Gulu drank the potion.
The potion was cold and illusive, like frost that was about to melt. Jenna soon felt itchy and painful all over her skin.
Her thoughts gradually blurred, as if she was slowly sinking in water.
Suddenly, severe pain erupted from her body. Jian Na woke up a lot and found that she was surrounded by black, quiet flames, swallowing her up bit by bit.
Above her, there was a layer of transparent ice condensed by white frost. It was like a mirror, blocking Jenna's efforts to climb out of the black flames.
The next second, Jian Na saw an additional face and figure on the ice.
That face looks exactly like hers!
That figure is another Jenna, but her dominant hand is her left hand!
"Janna" on the ice looked viciously at the figure in the black flames, with expectation and desire on her face.
Jian Na can be considered someone who has had combat experience. She was surprised and frightened, so she immediately concentrated all her strength and waved her fist upwards.
The ice shattered silently, and the "evil" Janna also fell into the black flames.
At this time, there was a black thing like a python swaying slightly in the distance, with a blue vertical eye on its front end.
The weird "python" disappeared in a flash and did not enter this area. It just threw a black shadow.
Almost at the same time, Jenna heard a long, painful sigh in her ears.
This illusory sigh was very close to her, like it came from the surroundings of the sacrificial square and the corpses nearby.
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The black shadow projected by the weird "python" grows crazily, getting bigger and bigger, but also getting lighter and fainter.
It immediately covered Jenna and the vicious figure, and continued to penetrate into their bodies.
Jian Na did not give up. She endured the pain and trance, tried her best to crawl out of the Black Flame Hell, and came to the nearby ice. The black shadow was unable to follow up and did not chase. It could only drag the vicious "Jian Na" into the sea.
A dark abyss with no bottom.
This scene was shattered instantly, and Janna's vision returned to normal, and she saw the mottled stone pillar inscribed with the "Holy Emblem of the Sun".
Her expression was distorted, but the pain in her body was gradually easing.
Lumian saw that the black flames on Jenna's body were shrinking and dissipating rapidly, and the surrounding frost was melting rapidly, and he understood that this companion had successfully been promoted to Sequence 7 and was now a "witch".
Only then did he turn his gaze to the edge of the sacrificial square, to the tombs and corpses shrouded in darkness.
Not long after Jenna took the potion, he felt something strange there, but in the end nothing entered the clean square where the two sacrificial pillars were.
Finally, Janna no longer had any abnormalities. She climbed up and saw Lumian looking into the distance, so she said doubtfully: "After I drank the potion, I seemed to hear a sighing sound over there."
Lumian nodded slowly and said: "On this level of the catacombs, there is a 'Christmasna Night Pillar', which represents a 'Disaster Witch' who once died here."