This is a small town not far from Backlund. The Stepford River, which flows from the nearby mountains, turns around a cliff, leaving behind a large area of fertile land. However, the lives of the residents here are not very good.
Before the "Corn Act" was passed, the land was valued by some gentlemen from Backlund and leased. Although the money was given, it was far less than the output of the land itself after the "Corn Act" was passed. Even though
The men here went to work in Backlund's factory, but the income they received was not enough.
After the "Corn Act" was repealed this year, these gentlemen gave up their leased land and returned the land to the residents here. However, the plummeting land and grain prices caused the residents who regained the land to give up planting and go to nearby areas.
factory work.
The easternmost part of this town is the home of Wood Johnson, who used to work as a coachman for a respectable gentleman in Backlund. Although his income was much less than that of a factory worker, his income was 27 pounds a year, and
You don’t need to consider your own food and housing issues, which is still much better than being a worker.
But last year Wood was fired, and in March this year he was sued by his former employer for theft. Fortunately, Wood was helped by a kind-hearted barrister, and not only won the lawsuit, but also obtained
compensation.
After receiving the compensation, Wood quickly renovated his house and built a new house for his son, who was admitted to Backlund Technical College. However, his son who lives in the technical college only goes home on weekends.
But there was a lady sitting on the bed in the unoccupied room, a pale lady. Although no candles were lit, her facial features and the bridge of her nose could still be seen clearly from the faint light.
She is tall and has plump lips, but she lacks a human feel and looks like a wax statue.
In a dark room, a woman with a pale face who does not look like a real person will only give people the feeling of seeing a ghost.
Alicia was leaning against the wall, her breathing a little rapid. During her battle with the "Alchemist" this morning, she was hit head-on by a small-caliber cannon on the left arm of his puppet. Even though she had acted in advance,
I was slightly prepared but still seriously injured.
But this is not without gain. In order to lure away the extraordinary people of the Church of Steam, Alicia calmly evacuated after a brief confrontation with Horamik. But as long as she leaves the spirit world and returns to the real world, she will be found soon.
This made Alicia realize that she should be locked by some kind of ability. But holding a "Free Walker" can isolate the induction, not to mention being a favored person of the "Uncertain Mist", unless you are at the angel level
Only by divination can you predict her whereabouts.
In the subsequent battle, she could feel that the ability to lock her came from the alchemy doll, but she was not sure whether that ability would last forever, and whether she would be locked as long as she appeared near Backlund.
But she couldn't leave Backlund. As for killing the "alchemist", not to mention that the one she was fighting was the alchemy doll. Even if she wanted to destroy the doll, it would be extremely difficult, even if she used her
Another sealed item on his body.
It is impossible for a demigod-level battle to end in a short time. This is Backlund. As the archbishop of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, Horamik has plenty of helpers. Once entangled for too long, he will only attack Yali.
Shia is in trouble.
She had very little combat experience, and it was difficult for her to gain the upper hand against the alchemy doll, so she laid a trap this morning and tried to destroy the alchemy doll.
But after eliciting the doll, Alicia discovered that it was not just the doll, but also a Sequence 3 "Bishop of Fear". As soon as he appeared, he used a spirit body as big as a mountain to block it.
It is nearby, preventing Alicia from entering the spiritual world.
Although it was dangerous, Alicia knew that this was her last chance, and the next helper that might come might not be only a Sequence 3. But to Alicia's surprise, the "Fear Bishop" blocked the nearby area.
After that, she stopped taking action and just let the alchemy doll fight with her.
Alicia used another demigod-level magical item on her body, a pair of gloves called the "Iron-Blooded Reaper". With the "weakness attack" ability given by this magical item, she made it clear that the alchemy doll was targeting her.
The ability comes from the right eye.
Afterwards, the alchemy doll was led into a trap prepared in advance, and the "fatal attack" ability was used to forcibly pluck out a pair of the alchemy doll's eyes at the cost of withstanding the cannon on the left arm of the alchemy doll, and directly dismantle the doll.
Untie it.
Although the "Iron-Blooded Reaper" gave Alicia the ability to temper her body, facing a mysterious artillery piece head-on, even with a small caliber, caused serious damage to her lungs.
However, the terrifying attack power of the "Iron-Blooded Reaper" made the "Dread Bishop" unable to react for a moment. Alicia found a "loophole" in the blockade and used the ability of the "Free Walker" to leave directly.
After dismantling the doll, Alicia tried to escape from the spirit world several times and returned to the real world before she was sure that the Church of Steam could no longer lock on her. But after a period of delay, her injuries became more serious.
Although Alicia also has a magical item called "Crimson Heart", which was formed by a vampire viscount killed by the Tamara tribe in the Fourth Age. However, the healing abilities of the "Medicine Master" pathway all come from the configuration of herbal medicines.
, to heal her injuries, a large amount of spiritual herbs are needed.
She had already written to Rawls and asked him to help her collect herbs. Then she came to Baiya Town, where a small amount of herbs grew, and prepared some simple potions to treat herself and prevent her injuries from getting worse.
With the rapid breathing, Alicia's eyelids gradually became heavy, and the picture in front of her eyes became blurred. But then she was awakened again. In front of her, in this cabin, a magical scene appeared.
Green pea vines fell from the unknown void, covering the surrounding area like a heavy rain. They intertwined and intertwined, quickly forming an indoor forest, spreading upward layer upon layer.
The original roof and surrounding walls seemed to have disappeared, leaving only a magical space composed of green pea vines. Even the simple wooden bed under Alicia had turned into a hammock made of vines.
Alicia was just about to use the "Free Walker" to enter the spiritual world, but this place seemed to be completely isolated from the spiritual world, and her attempt failed. Before she could find the way to this space with the help of the "Uncertain Mist",
When the vulnerability was discovered, a soft but emotionless voice came into her ears:
"I have no ill intentions towards you, otherwise I would have attacked you after you escaped from Anthony's blockade."
Alicia looked at the pea vine forest above her head. Two vines as thick as her arms slowly hung down, and then quickly intertwined to form a hammock-like seat. A figure appeared on the seat.
She has waist-length chestnut hair, straight eyebrows, and a pair of blue and deep eyes that seem to condense an ocean. She only wears a white Intis shirt on her upper body and a pair of tight-fitting black trousers on her waist.
He carried a thin stabbing sword on his shoulder, and on his feet were a pair of black boots.
Even sitting on a hammock-like seat made of pea vines looks particularly majestic.
Alicia did not try to get up from the hammock under her, and there was no fluctuation in the dark gray eyes looking at the woman. This mysterious and fairy tale-like space, and the sudden appearance of the mysterious strong man, did not make her emotional.
ups and downs.
"Bernadette Gustav, the owner of the Dawn, has a hostile relationship with the Church of Steam." When talking about the Church of Steam, instinctive disgust and hostility appeared on Bernadette's face.
"Are you the 'Queen of Mystery'?"
Although Alicia lacks a lot of knowledge of this era, she still knows who the owner of the "Dawn" is. That is the king of the sea alongside Nast, the "King of the Five Seas". In her case, Alicia
Ya felt instinctive fear, something she had never felt even when facing the "Bishop of Fear".
And Gustav? This surname is not unfamiliar to Alicia. The great emperor of Intis has this surname, and he is also the target of the Tamara family's key investigation, because the "Black Emperor" who was promoted more than a hundred years ago
Most likely it was Russell Gustav.
Bernadette's straight eyebrows furrowed. She could see that something was wrong with the woman in front of her. Her body was shaking, and it didn't seem to have much to do with her injuries.
But she still stretched out her right hand and sketched out words in mid-air that were different from Giants, Dragons, Elfs, and Ancient Hermes. Those words had a star-like brilliance and were intertwined into strange symbols.
, seems to have opened a secret door to the depths of the spiritual world.
The "secret door" opened, a gust of wind blew out, and the upper body turned into a man wrapped in white cloth.
"The Stone of Life." Bernadette said in a soft but majestic voice.
The man with upper body and lower body responded respectfully and took out an emerald green stone from a piece of white cloth.
It is only the size of a baby's fist and is green all over, but it is very different from jade. It is not transparent, but looks like a stone covered with moss picked up from a stream, with fine moss-like fluff on it.
In Bernadette's palm, a dull rhythmic sound gradually came from inside the "Stone of Life", "bang"..."bang"..."bang"... just like a human heart beating. As the sound
The sound became louder and louder, the fine fluff began to grow gradually, and the surrounding green pea vines seemed to become more green.
Bernadette put the index and middle fingers of her right hand together and outlined a word again. Alicia understood it, it was the ancient Hermetic language - "life"!
The words merged into the "Stone of Life" with a star-like brilliance, the sound in the stone gradually became smaller, and the fine hairs that grew also shrank back to their original length. The "Stone of Life" flew over Alicia
, emitting the emerald green light of life, enveloped her.
Alicia only felt that the light that shrouded her body seemed to come from her mother's touch, which was warm and genial. She just wanted to sleep, but the increasingly intense fear that seemed to come from inside her body made her dare not sleep. But
As the light shone, the injuries in her heart improved rapidly.
After a few minutes, the "Stone of Life" floating above her seemed to have exhausted its power and converged its light. The fine hairs on the surface completely disappeared and turned into a stone that was not much different from a pebble. It trembled.
It flew back into Bernadette's hands.
Just when Bernadette handed the "Stone of Life" in her hand to the man standing by, a white cloth strip wrapped around the man's upper body was suddenly untied from his body, and the whole thing was golden, like
The shrunken kettle is covered with mysterious and complex symbols, and an object with a wick protruding from the spout appears in the air.
Immediately afterwards, the wick at the spout of the pot ignited on its own, and the light emitted by the wick was extremely viscous, like a stream of water mixed with a lot of sugar. They gushed upwards, as if they were converging into a single figure.
Bernadette, who was sitting on a hammock made of pea vines, reacted very quickly. The moment the object appeared, she shouted to the man with upper body and lower body:
"'Pale Death'!"
Although the man with his upper body and lower body was in a panic for a moment, Bernadette's shout made him react quickly and took out a pale mask with shining metallic luster from a piece of white cloth. The mask only had holes for the eyes, and there were no gaps in the rest.
.
Without moving to take it, the mask floated up out of thin air, shrouding the figure's head formed by the unusually thick light emitted from the wick, and covering the figure's face.
As the mask firmly covered the golden figure's face, the metal on the surface of "Pale Death" instantly softened and reorganized into a new face, except that the eyes of that face were still sticky gold.
The pale lines in the sticky gold stood out, outlining an extremely complex and mysterious three-dimensional symbol. It looked like a bird with abnormally long feathers, or a feathered serpent with its body coiled up.
As the symbol appeared, the sticky light that made up the figure quickly dissipated, flowing into the item again bit by bit, and the mask also fell down.
Before Bernadette could give another order, three white strips of cloth stretched out from the upper body and lower body of the man, and rolled up the "Pale Justice", "Stone of Life", and the item that looked like a shrunken kettle.
Wrap it around your body.
Then the man turned into a gust of wind and immediately fell into a secret door that had just appeared leading to the depths of the spiritual world.
As the secret door closed, Alicia found that the instinctive fear in her body gradually dissipated, and most of her serious injuries from the frontal shelling also disappeared.
Bernadette looked at the disappeared secret door and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that "Pale Death" could indeed seal the djinn in the rampaging "Wishing Lamp", at least for who knows how long.
Just why the djinn in the "Wishing Magic Lamp" suddenly appeared? According to him, as long as there is no friction on the surface of the magic lamp, the djinn who claims to be "eternal" will never appear.
Bernadette turned her attention to Alicia, whose complexion had returned to normal, but still lacked a normal expression.