Although the leader of the "Black Gloves" [Volcano] Oon Lionel is a gang leader, he is more or less a celebrity in the city of Eludnes.
This feat of killing Xu Wuen in the street also made Raymond famous in the "City of Eternal Night".
And now this massive "parade" has allowed him to show his face "gloriously" in front of millions of people.
...
Recently, a lot of people from all over the world have come to the city. They can travel across the ocean to watch a game. Most of them are curious people.
Some of them may have missed the Shichibukai Chamber of Commerce Pier and witnessed a madman killing someone in the street before, but they would never miss this hour-long "parade" again.
At this moment, they were also blocking the streets along the parade route of the Knights of the Undead, wanting to see what this madman who dared to kill people in the city looked like.
"Oh... is this kid the one who dares to kill people in the city and destroys seven or eight streets? He doesn't look like he has a strong head and six arms. How can he be so capable of seeking death?"
"Don't tell me, this kid really has a three-headed and six-armed secret method. Although he relied on the power of the magic sword to kill Wu En, the kid's own strength is also good. At least the methods he used, those below Sequence 3
No extraordinary person can get any advantage from him."
"so smart?"
"Isn't that true? Some people who have no vision think that this kid is using the magic sword to show off his evil deeds. How can we see that his true energy is strong and his sword intent is solid, far beyond the level of ordinary Sequence 5 extraordinary people..."
"Hey, why do you tell me? This kid said he has good talents and many cards. Why is he so confused that he wants to commit suicide and kill people in the city? Now that he has made such a big fuss and was caught by the Undead Guard, even though he has great tricks
, and probably don’t want to survive the dungeon of the undead.”
"I thought it was gang blackmail, and I killed people when I was angered. Later I found out that Wu En seemed to have a 'revenge of killing a master' with that kid... He was young and energetic, so he couldn't bear to do anything on the street.
However, I really didn’t expect that a Sequence 5 swordsman like him could actually kill the Sequence 2 Uen.”
"Tsk, tsk, I just watched the two Shichibukai making a big fuss at the pier, and I witnessed the demon sword [Ghost Eye] appear in the world. This Eludnis has been really lively recently."
"..."
...
Raymond was poked on the knight's gun and pretended to be dead.
After wandering the streets for a long time, the two guys from the "Ghost Group" who were immersed in scientific research and the fat cat who was sleeping in were notified by Anna and hurried over. Looking at their menacing posture, they were probably preparing to attack the Undead Knights.
They forcibly kidnapped their imprisoned captain.
Far apart,
Raymond sensed the strong emotions of Anna and Lulu. He was afraid that they would really make a big fuss again, so he quickly used his mental power to send a message to report that they were safe.
But I never thought that I was moved for a moment by the action of a few people "risking their lives to save others"... After Anna and those heartless guys learned that their captain's life was not in danger, they actually mingled with the people who were used to eating.
, and watched the excitement happily.
Anna: "Hey, Captain, the posture of hanging on the gun is quite cool. Even though there are big holes in the pants, I don't know if the buttocks are cold, hehehe..."
Colin: "If I had known that the captain was going to take action in the city, I should have come to see the excitement. The battle process from those guys was so exciting, it would be a pity to miss it."
Lulu: "No one has dared to take action in the city of Eludnes in decades. The captain is so powerful."
Sha Mao: "It turns out that apart from eating and sleeping, it makes me happy. Watching the Captain eat up makes me feel quite happy..."
Jiji: "Zhizhizhizhi..." (Note: Hahahaha.)
"..."
Raymond was like a dried dead fish, hanging on the tip of a gun and swinging in the wind. He listened to Anna and others pointing and gloating, and he looked even more hopeless.
He didn't understand why that guy Puius X insisted on completing the "parade in public" process.
Formalism is unacceptable!
Finally, after suffering for nearly an hour, the Undead Knight Legion finally returned to the city defense castle.
As soon as the magic door was closed, the melon-eating crowd lost their excitement and dispersed one after another.
However, after this battle.
Raymond's face is completely famous.
...
Raymond was led by the undead knight from the secret passage of the city defense castle to the undead castle on the top of the mountain.
Coming to this eerie old castle again, he was already familiar with the roads.
Entering the mage tower, I saw an old man who looked like a zombie who had just crawled out of the cemetery, sitting at the familiar wooden table drinking tea.
He saw Raymond coming and said hello: "Come, try the 'oolong ashes tea'..."
Raymond originally thought that he would not be able to see Puyos X himself when he came in. After all, the old guy didn't show up last time when the elf prince came for such an important mission. It should be about the same this time.
But looking at the sallow-faced, haggard old man in front of him, Raymond, for some reason, identified him as the mysterious Puius X himself.
It is indeed as terrifying as the legend says, like a human or a ghost.
【Oolong ashes tea】
Soul strength 3;
Undead affinity 2;
Recover 10% of magic power for 10 minutes;
Detailed explanation: A special tea made from dragon bones ground into ashes buried under the sea for countless years; if taken multiple times, the effectiveness will decrease;
Something that can be put on a top necromancer's tea table must be a rarity out there.
Raymond looked at the properties and saw that it was not poison. He was not polite, so he raised his head and drank a glass of it.
At this moment, Raymond had many questions in his mind. Why did the mysterious city lord just summon him to cause trouble in the city? Why did he know the [Language of the Soul]? Did he already know about the elf prince...
But this... old man, no, "zombie" should be more appropriately described.
This old guy was obviously more calm than him, just drinking cup after cup of tea.
Meng felt that he should take the initiative to speak, so he said: "Well... Lord Puius, why did you come to me?"
Puyus said calmly: "Drink tea, talk about things, and give you a gift by the way."
"Gift?"
Raymond didn't hear anything else, but these two words were very clear.
Puius did not intend to get too involved with Raymond before because he did not see the "climate" in Raymond to become a peerless strong man.
A person's pattern determines the height he can reach in the future. After living for so many years, Puyos is still somewhat confident in his ability to observe people's weather. No matter how good the means, no matter how many cards he has, there is no such "climate"
, after all, the achievements are limited. Even if it is inherited by Heines, this is the case.
I wanted to "raise" this low-level swordsman who had been inherited by his teacher and see how far he could go.
He will probably die young.
But in the battle in the downtown area just now, Puius saw Raymond's fearless momentum when he drew his sword, and he already had a "climate" of a strong man that he had never seen before.
He just temporarily changed his attention and planned to meet up.
...
Raymond asked proactively: "You want to give me a gift?"
Pueus was not polite and took out a black-covered notebook from the storage space.
He put the notebook on the table, pushed it in front of Raymond, and said, "This is it."
"Haines' Death Note?"
Raymond had five such notebooks in his hand, and he didn't know what the notebook in front of him was.
Obviously, when Puius took out this thing in front of his face, he must have known that he was the heir of Haines.
Puius caught the surprise in Raymond's eyes, and his turbid eyes flashed brightly.
He explained: "Don't be too surprised. I am the only place in the entire maritime world where there is definitely news about the 'Grey Mist Heart Erosion Mushroom'. And I also know that you found it at 'Angelica's Potion Shop' before."
'The forehead and heart bone powder of the undead skeleton war horse' is the main material of the Sequence 6 [Soul Master] potion..."
"Is that really the case?"
Raymond had guessed this possibility before.
Continuously looking for rare potion ingredients that are related to two flavors will attract people's attention, but I didn't expect that by chance, I actually met a guy who was casting a net for fishing.
Even if he found Sequence 6 materials elsewhere, he still had to come to the Castle of the Undead for the "Grey Mist Heart-Eroding Mushroom" that may only be known to exist here.
Obviously, no matter who has obtained Haiying's inheritance, when thinking about Advanced Sequence 5, they cannot avoid the mysterious undead mage in front of them.
He didn't feel the other party's malice. After thinking about it, he asked directly: "Senior, do you know the formula of this legendary sequence of potions very well?"
"right."
Puius nodded and said: "Not only the Sequence 6 [Soul Master], Sequence 4 [Godfather of the Undead] in your hand, but also the Sequence 4 [Ghost-Swallowing Boy], Sequence 3... or even the entire soul.
I know the complete potion formula of the sequence."
"What!"
Raymond was really shocked. The Puius in front of him actually knew the entire soul sequence.
Doesn't this mean that... I don't have to search around for any notes anymore, I can just ask and get all the potion formulas needed to advance the Soul Sequence to Stage 0?!
If that's the case, no matter what the cost, it's probably... worth asking.
But before he spoke, Puius seemed to see through his thoughts, and said with a half-smile: "I do know the formula of the potion later, but are you sure you want me to tell you? You should know very well, the teacher left
The most precious thing in the inheritance is the content recorded in the notes, not just the legendary potion sequence."
"..."
Raymond's face twitched when he heard this. The old zombie's words blocked his chance to speak.
No matter how lazy you beg, it will only make people look down upon you, and it is probably impossible to get the formula.
Hayings's notebooks do contain some shocking secrets. Judging from the contents of the five notebooks he has now deciphered, the later ones must contain even more shocking contents and rarer soul-forbidden skills.
Only by obtaining the contents of the following notes can we touch the most extreme realm of the soul of the extraordinary from the shallower to the deeper, and step by step become a true top powerhouse.
But...he understood the truth. The shortcut to reach the sky in one step was right in front of him. If he missed it, Raymond always felt strange in his heart.
"Huh..."
Suddenly, he caught the key word in the sentence just now - teacher!
"Holy shit... Heins was a figure from the Heroic Age a thousand years ago. Could it be that this guy in front of me is also an old monster who has lived for a thousand years?!"
Raymond turned his eyes and looked at the mysterious "Pius X" with a complicated expression. An incredible idea immediately came to his mind.
He asked: "Are you... the 'corpse witch' that Senior Heins recorded in his notes?"
Raymond clearly remembered that Heines recorded the results of the experiment in his notes. He wanted to find an eternal carrier for the soul so that it could last forever. One of his disciples became a test subject.
"It turns out that the teacher wrote about my existence in the notes..."
Upon hearing this, Puius murmured with emotion, and a trace of reminiscence appeared in his cloudy eyes.
"Teacher, I am willing to become the experimental subject of the "Lich Secret Technique"..."
"Teacher, my soul strength can only meet the requirements of that spell. I'm ready, let me try it..."
"Teacher, no matter what the outcome is, I have no regrets. Please start the transformation ceremony..."
"..."
Thinking back again, the days when I studied magic under my teacher came to mind like fleeting flashes. Those memory fragments that I once thought I would never forget have gradually become a little blurry.
After careful calculation, it turns out that that happened a thousand years ago. For human lifespan, that is already a long enough dusty history.
Puyus sighed slightly. The longer he lived, the less disturbed his mood would be. But every time he recalled the past, it always made him feel sad.
Even the long life of the "Corpse Witch" has its end, and he can feel that the end may be approaching.
He glanced at Raymond and said, "So, you should know that I have no ill intentions towards you."
Raymond still found it a bit unbelievable and asked: "Senior, you planted those 'Grey Mist Heart-Eroding Mushrooms'... just to wait for me to come looking for them?"
"No, not just you, but you."
Puius said: "The eleven notebooks are the means left by the teacher to record the truth of the world. And my existence is an 'insurance' for the notebooks to be passed down as normally as possible."
After a pause, he continued: "It's not a too complicated plan... The threshold for understanding the contents of the notes left by the teacher is very high, and it is difficult to select a suitable successor in a short time. Therefore, it takes 'time'
Help select suitable successors. In the past thousand years, a total of four people have successfully come here to find the 'Grey Mist Heart-Eroding Mushroom'."
"I'm the fourth one? What about the first three?"
Raymond frowned as he heard that the potion required a high initial soul strength, which was indeed difficult to find.
"Of course he died. But that doesn't matter anymore. Countless extraordinary people die every day in this world..."
Puyos said calmly: "The teacher once said that all the gods are ants. Until we reach the end of the world, no matter what the process is, it doesn't matter."
Raymond raised his eyebrows and guessed: "'So... Pirate King Delos is also the descendant of Haines who got the note?"
"No, he is a peerless strong man created by the times."
"Senior, what exactly are recorded in these eleven notebooks?"
"I know part of it, but not all. This is the teacher's lifelong research effort. It records the path that allows extraordinary people to touch the ultimate. Of course, if you can live long enough, you will naturally come into contact with those hidden secrets in the future.
.”
"Lord Puius, since you are a disciple of Heines, and I am the descendant of Senior Heines. So...can I call you senior brother?"
"..."
"Senior brother, you don't plan to use some secret method of 'initiation' to make me become a top master?"
"It's useless. Even if someone becomes the second Delos, it's impossible to do better than him. Only by reaching the realm described in the teacher's notes can it be possible to break the taboo and see the existence beyond the 'ultimate world'.
"
"Beyond the ultimate? What is that?"
"I don't know either."
"..."
We chatted for a long time, asking questions and answering questions.
I drank cup after cup of tea, but Puyus' palm-sized teapot was never drained.
Raymond could vaguely guess part of the contents of the note. As for the "truth of the world", he felt that he would be qualified to touch it one day when he grew up.
Only a life with such "pursuit" is meaningful.
After chatting with this 'corpse witch', he finally figured out why these big guys didn't make the "secret" they knew known to the public, but chose to pass it on in such a cryptic way.
Too many things that go beyond universal values will make people think you are a "heretic", and often only a small group of people are qualified to grasp the truth.
Just like Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the "heliocentric theory" in an era when everyone recognized that the "geocentric theory" was the truth. This was a "heresy".
"Senior brother, why did you just let me run wild in the city?"
"After you left here, I paid special attention, and I happened to find that you were noticed by some people who should not exist in this city. So... I want you to make some noise to lure those people to the surface.
Now it seems that many top experts have indeed sneaked into the city during this period."
"Did someone notice it? Are you talking about the 'Changeable Demon' Murphy, or the people from the Arena Chamber of Commerce?"
"No, it's CP9... Now it seems that the World Headquarters is planning to make a big move in Eludnis."
"Big move? Targeted at you?"
"I used to think that the World Government was aware of my existence, but judging from various signs, it was not. It was... for someone you know."
"I know him?"
"One of the new 'Eight Endless Emperors' is [Blood King] Ralph D. Capone. Of course, maybe things are more complicated than what appears on the surface..."
"You called me here today...to bring a message to them?"
"No. I just want to make sure you are ready."
"what to prepare?"
"Be prepared to become a peerless strongman! You are about to witness a 'big event' and usher in a new beginning of a turbulent era. Of course, if you don't have the courage to witness it, it's best to leave the city now..."
"If I'm ready...what am I going to do?"
"You don't have to do anything, just survive in the turmoil."