Dorothy's Forbidden Tome

Standing beside the three of them, Sado spoke in a heavy tone, and the "guard" couldn't help but nodded and muttered after seeing it.

"Your determination, I have witnessed, very good... very good... Then, let other people witness the weight of this determination."

Chapter 350 Six Tributes

In Tivian on a winter night, the evening wind is bleak and chilly. On this last dark night of the year, the citizens of Tivian either gather in front of the fireplace at home to celebrate the festival, or come to the streets to participate in the festival. With New Year's events held everywhere, the festive atmosphere diffuses from the homes of each household to the streets of the city, and everything is in a peaceful atmosphere.

On a street somewhere in East Tivian, decorations in New Year’s colors hang on both sides of the street. Under the illumination of the street lamps, the streets in the cold night are covered with light snow. Because at this point in time, the citizens of Tivian are not A reunion at home is to participate in the New Year's event at an event location outside, so now there are almost no people on the street, and it looks cold and empty.

"Ha... so cold..."

On the edge of a certain intersection, Nephness in a women's overcoat looked at the deserted street, took a breath of white steam, and then frustrated her hands. Looking at the deserted intersection in front of her, she couldn't hide her expression. tired mouth.

"Have...haven't you found it yet? We've all been gone for so long, has your cat spirit still not responded?"

Turning her head, Nephness looked at Kapak beside her and asked, but Kapak paused slightly after hearing this, and then spoke into the void.

"Master Hunxu, can you feel Sado's fluctuations around here?"

As soon as Kapak's words fell, beside him, a translucent lynx with strange patterns gradually appeared. It circled around Kapak, then shook its beard, and then floated silently in the air. He shook his head, indicating that he didn't feel anything around here.

Lynx Soulbeard is the spirit of the wilderness bred in the environment of the New World. There are various contracts between the shamans of the New World Shamanism and many wilderness spirits. The shaman can channel the spirit of the wilderness with his own ability. , and use their power.

Hunxiu is a wilderness spirit who is very good at sensing other people's soul fluctuations. Kapak's teacher Uta channeled Hunxiu before Kapak left, and told Hunxiu about the characteristics of Sado's soul fluctuations that he had recorded. Then let Kapak bring the soul whisker to Tivian to find Sado, as long as Sado appears within a certain range around the soul whisker, it can perceive its existence.

This afternoon, Kapak came to Tivian by boat, and then began to search for Sado in this huge city with Soul Beard and Nephness, and they went to various streets and corners of the city, Trying to get close to the area where Sado is, so that the soul beard can perceive Sado's existence, but so far, it seems that there is no gain.

"Miss Thief, Lord Hunbeard said that Sado is not around here either."

After watching Soulbeard shaking his head, Kapak said to Nephness, listening to his words, Nephness couldn't help feeling discouraged.

"Huh... still not there? We have searched many places, but we still don't have any clues..."

Leaning against the wall beside her, Nephness said that, looking at the cold and quiet street in front of her in the cold night, she couldn't help but feel a little melancholy at this moment.

"This is the first time. During the Chinese New Year, instead of having dinner with my parents by the fireplace at home, or watching performances in the theater, I ran around looking for people all over the street. Is this how members of the secret society celebrate the festival?"

Nephness thought this way in her heart, since the afternoon till now, she has been running around with Capac at the Tivian junction for several hours, and now she is cold and tired, at this time she misses the fire at home very much.

"Now there is no trace of Sado near this place. I'm afraid we have to change to another place, Miss Thieves. Time waits for no one. Let's hurry up."

With a serious expression, Kapak said to Nephness who was panting against the wall, as an aborigine living in the wilderness of the New World, as a former hunter in the tribe, Kapak's strength and endurance are obviously important. Much better than Nephness, who is a rich lady in the city, she is not even out of breath after tossing, and is about to leave for the next location, and at this time, Nephness, who is a little out of breath Si stretched out her hand and said in a restrained manner.

"Wait...wait a minute, it's not a good idea for us to search aimlessly like this. Tivian is so big, we may not be able to visit a whole city even if we go shopping in one night...go on like this We may not be able to find that Sado for a few days."

Hurting white steam, Nephness, who was leaning against the wall, said this to Kapak. After hearing this, Kapak was startled, and then he also opened his mouth in embarrassment.

"But... what should we do if we don't look for it this way? Only when Lord Soulbeard is close to Sado's, can it feel the fluctuation of Sado's soul. If we don't go shopping, there is no other way There is a way."

Kapak spread his hands and said that since Saduo disappeared, their whereabouts have been brought under the protection of some kind of anti-divination system, and they can't find any traces at all. Dorothy once tried to do divination but failed. , She thought to herself that this must be the black hand behind the scenes who fooled Sado and the others.

So, for now, the only way for Kapak and the others to find Sado is to rely on the soul whiskers to track Sado's soul fluctuations, but as far as the current effect is concerned, this trick is not very efficient.

"I know...but, judging from the current situation, the scope of your soul beard is really limited." Looking at the spirit body of the lynx next to Kapak, Nephness's eyes With a trace of suspicion, she said before that she had almost understood the detection range of this soul whisker for soul fluctuations. It was only about two hundred meters short, with a radius of 200 meters. The range is too small for the entire Tivian.

"There's no way around that. Master Hunbeard is our wilderness spirit. The wilderness spirit is the product of the combination of a specific environment and a specific spirit body. After leaving its own environment, its ability will be greatly reduced. , if Master Soulbeard's perception range in normal times should be much larger..."

Listening to Nephness's words, Kapak looked at Hunxu beside him and scratched his head and said, although Hunxu couldn't understand the Prith language they were speaking between them, but before Nephness that The slightly suspicious eyes made it a little uncomfortable, it floated beside Kapak and looked at Nephness with a little bit of dissatisfaction.

"Did you fail to exert... your original ability?"

After listening to Kapak's words, Neveu murmured thoughtfully. After realizing that the soul whiskers at this time were not actually able to exert their original abilities, she suddenly had something in her heart. A sliver of thought.

In the association, Nephness thought of the Davis notes that she had read not long ago, in which it was mentioned that the Extraordinary who practiced the path of physical strength seemed to have the ability to allow spirits to pass through their own bodies. exert a stronger effect.

"That's right...maybe it's still possible!"

Clapping her hands, Nephness said something as if she had realized something, and at the same time cast an eager look at the soul whiskers beside Kapak. Jumped in the air and hid behind Capac.

"Uh...Miss Thief, you are..."

"I thought of a way to increase the efficiency of the search! Mr. Kapak, can you let this Lord Hunbeard cooperate with me, let it possess me, and don't resist my will to cooperate with my actions!"

Nephness said to Kapak with bright eyes, Kapak looked puzzled after hearing Nephness's words, and he spoke in a puzzled manner.

"You said... let Master Hunxu possess you and cooperate with you without resistance? Why?"

"Now I don't have much time to explain in detail, as long as I know that there is a ceremony on my side that requires the cooperation of this Lord Hunbeard. If the cooperation is good, I may be able to make it exert a stronger ability and make us more powerful." All right, go find that Sado."

With a serious look, Nephness spoke bluntly to Kapak, listening to Nephness's words, although Kapak's eyes were still confused, he still agreed to answer.

"Is it a ritual that can make Lord Hunbeard display a stronger ability? Well... If that's the case, then let me ask for you."

After finishing speaking, Kapak turned to the bobcat spirit body floating beside him, and then asked in the spirit seal language. Nephness, who couldn't understand the spirit seal language, looked at the scene in front of her expectantly until she saw After listening to Kapak's words, Hunxu shook his head suddenly, his heart sank.

Chapter 350 Six Tributes

"Uh...I'm sorry, Miss Thief, Master Hunxu said that he doesn't want to listen to the request of the rude person...It seems to feel that it doubts its ability just now, and now it's a little dissatisfied."

After communicating with Hunxu, Kapak said to Nephness with some embarrassment. Hearing Kapak's words, Nephness couldn't help being stunned.

"What...it, is it mad at me?"

Nephness looked at Hunxiu in disbelief and said, she didn't expect this wild spirit to be so sensitive, it had noticed the emotion in her eyes just now, and she was quite stingy and angry.

"Well... Let's put it this way, according to my teacher, the spirit of the wilderness is respected both in our tribal culture and in the extraordinary system of shamans, so many of them Temper will be a little weird."

Spreading her hands, Kapak explained to Nephness, and Nephness, who heard Kapak's words, couldn't help but her face sank, and after a moment's pause, she couldn't help talking to Soulbeard with a smile on her face.

"Master Hunbeard, I just undoubtedly offended you just now. I, I don't know much about your traditions, so I was a little offended just now. No, I now know that I was wrong. Please forgive me."

Bending down slightly, Nephness apologized sincerely to the bobcat spirit in front of her, but the other party didn't seem to appreciate Nephness's apology, and turned her head slightly to one side, ignoring Nephness Silk.

"Ah...this..."

Seeing the reaction of the soul beard in front of her, Nephness felt a little overwhelmed for a moment, and then she turned her head to look at Kapak who continued to speak.

"Mr. Capac, can you please translate what I just said to Mr. Hunbeard, and say that I didn't mean to offend it."

Nephness said this to Kapak, and the other party responded with some helplessness after listening.

"I'm afraid it's useless to translate this. In fact, even if you don't offend Mr. Hunbeard, Ms. Thief, I'm afraid it won't pay attention to you. Generally speaking, the spirit of the wilderness only contacts with us shamans. And even if we want to invite the Spirit of the Wild to do things, we must prepare tribute as a bargaining chip.

"Miss Thieves, if you want to ask Lord Hunbeard for help, you must prepare the offerings for Lord Hunbeard first."

"A tribute? What tribute?"

Listening to Kapak's response, Nephness said suspiciously, and Kapak continued to respond righteously.

"Generally speaking, the tribute we give to the Spirit of the Wild is obtained during the funeral, and there are still a small amount of spiritual bone fragments of 'sabi' left. If Miss Thief has something similar here, it may be useful to dedicate it to Lord Soulbeard .”

Kapak said this to Nephness, and after listening to Kapak's words, there was only one term in Nephness's mind, and that was spiritual storage.

'Bone fragments with the spirit of 'sabi'? Isn't this a kind of storage of the spirit of 'sabi'? Miss Dorothy once said that all spirits can be sealed in objects with great effort, and be Call it a spiritual store, this kind of tribute bone piece sounds like a spiritual store!'

Nephness thought this way in her heart, and after realizing that what the lynx spirit of the wilderness wanted was probably the spiritual storage of 'Sabi', she began to figure out how to get it.

After thinking about it, just when Nephness wanted to contact Dorothy on the spot to ask her if there was anything there, she suddenly noticed the street scene in front of her, and found that this place looked familiar.

'here it is......'

Looking for the guidance in her memory, Nephness raised her head and looked aside, she saw a tall building on the opposite side of the intersection.

Because it is New Year's Eve, many shops on the street have closed early, but the building in Nephness' sight is still open for business, which is particularly obvious. Above the gate, the horizontal signboard was lit up, and the letters on it spelled the name of "Golden Charter Bank".

"It's Chinese New Year... these guys haven't had a holiday yet."

Looking at the bank across the road that was still open on New Year's Eve, Nephness thought in her heart that she had been to this place before, when she helped Dorothy buy a secret copy a few months ago, so she knew what it was for status.

"Mr. Capac, please wait here for a while, I will go shopping and be back in a while."

Nephness said this to Kapak, then turned and walked to the bank in the distance, leaving only Kapak watching this scene in doubt.

"Shopping? What can I buy at this time?"

Confused, Kapak waited silently on the spot. After waiting for about half an hour, he finally saw Nephness walking back from across the road.

"Miss Thief, what did you go to buy?"

Seeing Nephness walking back, Kapak asked directly, but Nephness did not respond directly, but after walking in front of Kapak, she opened her hand to reveal what she was holding. They were three iron coins that looked ordinary.

The moment he saw the iron coin, Kapak's originally lazy beard suddenly trembled, his eyes widened and he rushed towards the iron coin, and Nephness immediately retracted her hand after seeing it, Let the soul beard rush into an empty space.

Seeing her soul beard eagerly staring at her after being thrown into the air, Nephness couldn't help but said with a smile on her face.

"Then... Master Hunxu, you should agree to help me now."

Nephness spoke to Hunxu like this, and although Hunxu didn't quite understand what Nephness was saying, she still understood what she meant, and looked eagerly at Nephness's grip. With raised fists, it nodded repeatedly.

......

In East Tivian in the cold night, in a flower bed in a park where there is no one, Nephness and Kapak are standing here, among them, Nephness is drawing a complicated magic circle on the mud with branches, On the other hand, Kapak looked at everything in front of him with curious eyes.

"Miss Thieves, is this the magic circle you mentioned for the ceremony? It's also somewhat similar to the magic circle my teacher often uses."

Looking at the magic circle drawn by Nephness in front of him, including the magic circle with closed eyes, Kapak couldn't help commenting, and Nephness also responded while drawing.

"Is that so... Maybe it's because we and your teacher are all Extraordinary on the path of 'Sabi', it's certain that the magic circle has similarities."

"Is it the way of 'Ji'? It seems that besides the shaman...there are many different spirit masters on the main continent..."

Kapak sighed and said, then he looked to his side, saw the lynx spirit on the ground who was constantly licking the three iron coins with an expression of enjoyment, and said to Nephness.

"But having said that, I never thought that you, Miss Thieves, would be able to get such a good tribute to Mr. Hunxu in such a short period of time. Extraordinary people in the main continent are really very convenient. This kind of thing can be easily obtained. in exchange for money to..."

Kapak sighed, and Nephness, who was drawing the magic circle, couldn't help complaining in her heart when she heard the flower.

'Convenience is convenient, but it's also terribly expensive. Just these three things actually cost me more than 900 pounds. Those guys, they said that they are open for extra hours during the New Year, so the price is raised, and other places are full of Chinese New Year products. How about price cuts and promotions, you are the one who raises prices so hard... No wonder Miss Dorothy always calls them profiteers...'

Gritting her teeth, Nephness continued to draw the magic circle while silently worrying about her wallet. If she hadn't been awarded a thousand pounds for participating in Dorothy's activities a while ago, she would have no money to give at all now. The cat uncle buys cat food.

Finally, Nephness finished drawing the magic circle, and then she threw the branch in her hand aside, looked at the bobcat spirit in front who was still licking coins and said.

"Lord Hunxu, my tribute has been delivered, now it's time to fulfill your promise."

Hearing Nephness's words, Soul Whiskers paused for a moment, then stopped licking, it looked at Nephness in the magic circle, and after listening to Kapak's translation, it slowly floated up , drifting towards the magic circle drawn by Nephness.

Now that Nephness has finally found a suitable spirit body, and her spirituality is already full, she can finally start the formal promotion ceremony to become a "spiritual master" of the black earth rank.

Chapter 350 Seven Time

In the dark, somewhere in East Tivian.

In the uninhabited park in the cold night, in the magic circle drawn by the mud in the flower pond, Nephness stood in it, looked seriously at the bobcat spirit floating in front of her, and then spoke to it.

"Let's start, Master Hunxu."

Hearing Nephness's words, the Wilderness Spirit in the form of a lynx jumped twice in the air, then turned around and rushed into Nephness's chest, possessing her body.

After being possessed by the soul whiskers again, Nephness couldn't help trembling slightly, and after quickly calming down, she closed her eyes and started the ceremony.

Sensing the existence of the wild spirit in her body, Nephness officially started her promotion ceremony. According to the method taught in Davis's notes, she began to coordinate and resonate with the soul whiskers in her body, allowing the other spirit's The influence spreads to the whole body, making one's own body become the opponent's body, and at the same time suppressing the opponent's will with one's own will.

To be honest, this kind of ceremony made Soulbeard feel uncomfortable, and it instinctively wanted to resist or get out of Nephness's body, but because it had already received Nephness's tribute and made an agreement with her, so it He also endured this sense of discomfort, and began to cooperate with Nephness's actions.

Although the spirits of the wilderness in the New World have different personalities, due to the willingness to coexist with the shamans for a long time, most of the contract spirits are quite strong, as long as they can give enough tribute, then they can do things.

'The gloom is profound...Life and death are limitless...I would like to use my body...to lead death to life...I pray here, please ask the truth of the world, the great Akasha, to clear away the clouds and mists for me , indicating the way...'

In this way, Nephness's promotion reached a critical step. She prayed to Aka in her heart, begging him to guide her, and not long after, Aka answered her prayer and guided her.

At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew across the scene of the flower bed, and Kapac, who was watching from the sidelines, was temporarily blown by the wind to protect his eyes. Nephness standing quietly among them.

When Nephness opened her eyes again, what Kapak saw was the vertical pupil in her eyes that didn't seem to belong to humans, and there was a captivating look in it.

At that moment, he felt as if he saw the figures of Nephness and Soul Whiskers overlapped together. Nephness's head had cat ears in the shape of a spirit body, and a cat tail of the same shape floated behind her.

"what?"

Looking at this scene, Kapak couldn't help rubbing his eyes, thinking that he was wrong. After opening his eyes again, he saw Nephness, who was normal, destroying the magic circle on the mud floor , the tail and ears of the spirit body that I saw before seemed to have disappeared, which made Kapak suspect that he had just misjudged his illusion.

"Miss Thief, is your ceremony over? Has Mr. Soulbeard been strengthened now?"

Kapak asked Nephness, and after covering up the magic circle, Nephness walked over slowly. After picking up a few iron coins on the ground, she touched her chest and pointed at it. Capak responded with a smile.

"That's right... now with me, Lord Soulbeard's will be much stronger than outside.

"Pay attention to me, Mr. Capac, now I will find those guys..."

Nephness said this, and then she walked quickly to one side, her movements were so small and fast that Kapak who was on the opposite side didn't notice it, and before Kapak realized that the person in front of him had already When he turned his head and began to search, he saw Nephness's figure appearing ghostly from a long distance away.

"So fast..."

Seeing this scene, Kapac murmured in shock, and immediately ran towards Nephness in small steps, closely following behind.