Chapter 473 – Dark Spirit Blade and Eye of the Abyss
Chapter 473 – Dark Spirit Blade and Eye of the Abyss
For a while afterward, Saul participated in a few more Scavenger missions.
Each mission required at least three sorcerers. Although the Worshipful Movement Academy covered a large area and had a large population, there were still a handful of sorcerers who possessed superb combat power and liked to face evil spirits head on.
Most people here were more accustomed to doing research in their labs, so after doing a few missions, repetitive faces started to appear around Saul.
Julie came to Saul several times during this time and was turned away.
It wasn’t that Saul was really resistant to developing a bit of a deeper relationship with other female wizards. It’s just that when faced with this kind of sorcerer who could mobilize people’s emotions, he decided it was better to stay away.
And when Saul wasn’t involved in missions, he was hunkered down in his newly rented penthouse doing experiments.
Because the frequency of evil spirits appearing in the city of Archaust was clearly abnormal, Saul thought it was influenced by some factor.
So, he began trying to find the opportunity for souls to turn into evil spirits. He didn’t study this to help the city with its underlying problems, but rather to use it for an experiment he had been planning for a long time – soul arming.
The two anomalous spirits captured by Saul, John and his girlfriend, are both experimental materials and subjects.
John, in particular, is between a grudge spirit and an evil spirit, and is best suited to observe its evolution into an evil spirit, making it quite a rare opportunity for experimentation.
Once he figured out the reasons for the formation of evil spirits, or at least what kind of factors would most lead to spiritual contamination and disorganization of consciousness, he could begin to transform the four conscious bodies in the diary.
Right now, even the strongest Morton was lacking in combat power. They couldn’t perform large-scale sorcery, and the little bit of magical power inside the vessel couldn’t sustain them in a prolonged battle.
It would be enough if it was usual, but Saul was about to head to the Lordless Land. He had to find a way to improve his combat power.
At the same time, Saul was making a point of studying that knowledge that the second-ranked sorcerer, Jasim, had left him before he died.
That little black bug hiding in the depths of his mental body had been suppressed by the diary and the consciousness platform. It wasn’t until Saul took the initiative to explore it that he discovered the secrets within.
After a few days of research, it was discovered that this bug was a rather special kind of soul fragment. By splitting his own soul, he allowed it to carry a piece of his consciousness into another person’s mental body.
By doing so it was possible for the inherited person to directly learn certain knowledge or know certain things.
But when Saul figured out the principle, he just snorted and didn’t appreciate Jasim’s idea.
There was no other reason, this kind of sorcery had a lot of hidden dangers, and the harm lurked deep.
When Jasim passed on this knowledge to Saul, he himself lost track of it. Although he could regain this knowledge by learning it through later understanding. But if he is not reminded of it in time, he will forget the experience forever.
Jasim had already decided to die at that time, so naturally he had no concerns in this regard.
But the hidden danger of this sorcery to Saul was not small.
Although Saul could directly understand what Jasim had taught him through this soul fragment, at the same time he had to absorb the other intentions that Jasim had taught him.
In other words, once Jasim mixed some of his own views, beliefs, and obsessions into this piece of consciousness, Saul would likely become the same as him.
This is a subtle influence that may not be strong at first, and may not even be able to truly influence the choices of the recipient.
But after a long time, it will be like a seed that takes root and germinates, changing the idea of the inheritor little by little, if it can’t be found in time and cleared up, the inheritor may change his character greatly, and a bully who originally killed people and set fire to them may turn into a good man who can’t help but help beggars when he sees them.
When Jasim went to his death calmly, Saul knew that this person must be a person with extremely strong beliefs.
When a person like this was passing on knowledge, could he resist not passing on a bit of his own concepts?
Thinking about this, Saul was not going to accept this knowledge directly. But that didn’t mean that he was directly giving up on Jasim’s inheritance.
Possessing the diary, he chose another way to filter this soul fragment.
He directly incorporated this piece of inheritance into that black page of Guido’s book!
Guido, who was originally a bit weak, instantly became three times stronger after integrating this soul fragment.
Subsequently, under Saul’s orders and the constraints of the diary, Guido directly repeated the knowledge he had obtained to Saul in its entirety.
Unsurprisingly to Saul, the inheritance left behind by Jasim was none other than his black blade that was quite powerful in frontal combat, the Dark Spirit Blade.
It was a powerful sorcery that could attack both spirit and flesh at the same time. And it could also split into hundreds of pieces to attack multiple enemies at the same time.
Of course, the attack power of the split fragments was not as powerful as the complete Dark Spirit Blade. But as a top second-ranked sorcerer, he could kill a third-ranked apprentice with a single fragment, and several fragments combined could kill a first-ranked sorcerer with ordinary abilities.
It was a rather powerful dark attribute sorcery, perfect for Saul who had no destructive attack sorcery!
However, just as Sol joyfully began to transcribe the Dark Spirit Blade’s sorcery rune structure, Guido, who had absorbed Jasim’s inheritance, suddenly began to naturally speak to himself, completely disregarding the consumption of soul energy. [Ah, so that’s how it is, I finally understand why the Court of Judgment is sending people after us].
[Consuming so much manpower and resources just to chase a few of us first level wizards ……]
[Alas, perhaps if I had known, I would have gone back earlier.]]
[No, I might also have been so scared that I started to go crazy and make a mess.]
[I really admire Jasim, knowing all this it’s amazing that he can still chase us with ease.]
[Maybe that’s why he was able to become a top-tier second rank.]
[Without such persistent faith, how could he break through the barrier between first and second rank?]
Seeing this, Saul also finished transcribing the entire complex sorcery rune construction.
Twenty or so pages of parchment were written.
If the subsequent disassembly and analysis as well as personal insights were added, it would be enough to form a complete book on sorcery.
But Saul didn’t continue; he looked at Guido’s mutterings to himself with some curiosity.
“What else is hidden in Jasim’s knowledge?”
[He sent the secret of the founding of the Court of Judgment.]
“What is it? It seems to me that you have a deep sense of realization.”
[It’s the secret of the establishment of the Judgment Court.]
Saul raised his eyebrows as the body of consciousness in the diary, for the first time, evaded his question in this way.
Was it because the soul fragments injected by Jasim did affect the consciousness itself? Or was it the consciousness’ self-awareness that was resisting the diary’s control?
Either way, Saul had to figure this out.
“I order you to speak directly to the contents of the secret you have been given.”
[I …… I ……]
Guido’s white handwriting began to become messy.
It was obvious that he was struggling to resist Saul’s orders.
A crack began to appear on the black pages.
This was also a phenomenon that had never happened before!
But in the end, it was the diary that succeeded, and Guido’s handwriting, like a person being held in the palm of his hand for writing, struggled, with many of the characters suddenly drawing a very long tail.
[The Judgment Court was formed because the Eye of the Abyss was expanding! In order to stop the expansion, they–]
However, Guido’s handwriting came to an abrupt end as the entire page shattered with a bang.
Saul watched in dismay as the pieces of the page turned into black powder, which was little by little absorbed by the strange starry sky inside the consciousness body.
After all, he was not able to complete the secret of the Court of Judgment.
This was the first time the diary failed to control the body of consciousness sealed in the black pages.
At the same time, it also made Saul understand the power of the Judgment Court.
“The Eye of the Abyss ……,” Saul silently whispered.
He remembered the huge depression located at the back of the planet.
The depression seemed to have penetrated deep into the center of the earth, and apart from it, Saul didn’t know what else could match the Eye of the Abyss, an adjective that wasn’t easy to hear at first glance.
“The Eye of the Abyss …… is expanding?”
(End of chapter)