Blue Sword

"The deceased is a transcendent person in the flesh and blood sequence."

In the sealed Oriole Tavern, the "Night Watch" organization and the special police officers of the Constantinople Police Department were studying the murder that occurred here a few hours ago. Because the sound of gunshots at the time of the incident was too high in decibels, many nearby residents thought it was a natural gas explosion, so the first one to rush to the scene was the Imperial Fire Department.

"According to the on-site investigation, the deceased was divided into four piles of flesh and blood, and they were pressed down with tables and chairs at the four corners of the room. Since no special cipher text and symbols were found, the possibility of special rituals is ruled out. The murderer should have done it to prevent the deceased from healing and resurrecting. This is also in line with the characteristics of Flesh II."

The criminal police officer from the special section of the police station reported.

"Through DNA testing of the deceased, we found that the deceased was not a citizen of Constantinople, or even a citizen of the Eastern Solomon Empire, but a stowaway who entered the country illegally. In addition, 4 bullets were removed from the walls of the site, and residents The four reported loud noises are consistent. The bullet type is 15.2mm. Bullets of this caliber are very powerful and have strong recoil when shooting. They are commonly known as 'elephant bullets' and are not suitable for ordinary firearms novices to use."

"15.2mm..." the captain of the night watchman pondered, "shouldn't this be a sniper rifle bullet?"

"A very few pistol bullets also have 15.2mm, which are called 'hand cannons' by gunmen." The special police added, "For example, the famous Imperial Eagle."

"I'll inform the Orthodox Church Economic Affairs Bureau to check it out," the captain of the night watchman said.

After a while, the results finally came out.

"Aske Lepios Achilles." The night watchman looked at the information sent by the church and sneered, "It turns out that the suffering master came to take revenge himself. That makes sense."

"Lv.0 killed Lv.2." The special police officer also said with emotion, "If this person hadn't committed a crime, I really want to recruit him to join the Constantinople Police Department. We lack the ability to use firearms the most. Special talent for dealing with extraordinary beings.”

"Who said he committed a crime?" The captain of the night watchman shook his head, "Look at the reply from Saint Sophia Church. They had registered with the church in advance and reported a whole family of vampires. The deceased who was killed this time should be the one who went to the church. The church had already posted a wanted list for the criminals in this incident who had slipped through the net. In other words, it was Ask who helped the church kill the fugitive, and the church still had to pay him a reward."

On the other side, at the entrance of Aske's ancestral home.

"This is your bounty." The captain of the Church Paladin threw him a package containing banknotes. "Okay, boy. Killed a vampire single-handedly?"

"It was just a fluke," Aske said.

"You don't always have good luck." The Paladin Captain nodded, "Next time you encounter a similar situation, I suggest you report it to the church first."

"Understood." Asik nodded.

He closed the door, and the paladin captain turned and walked down the steps. Neither of them mentioned the extraordinary characteristics of the deceased from the beginning to the end.

After walking around the corner, a spy came out of the side alley.

"The aura of the appraisal shows that he is still Level 0." The spy reported to the Paladin captain, "He is not a vampire, but there is indeed undigested spiritual energy escaping. It should be that he accidentally broke the extraordinary characteristics and absorbed the spirit inside. Extraordinary power.”

"This is more likely." The Paladin Captain said, "He does not have the extraordinary characteristics of Flesh I. If he directly takes the potion of Flesh II, he will definitely lose control, not to mention that he will return to his ancestral home in a swagger. The surveillance eyes at the door are no longer there. Leave it for three days, and I will personally report to the bishop."

In the ancestral house, Aske walked up the stairs to the study on the third floor. Pushing the door open, four women were sitting on four chairs, quietly waiting for his return.

"Sorry, I just went down to deal with some personal matters. I'm fine now." Aske said.

"People from the church?" Medea asked aloud, "I noticed that the other party is very spiritual."

Others suddenly became nervous. Although the attitude of the Orthodox Church of the Eastern Solomon Empire towards extraordinary beings is not as extremely hostile as that of the Western Solomonic Church, it is not much more friendly. Peggy, in particular, was ready to jump out of the window at any time if things went wrong.

"They're giving me a bounty." Ask said with a smile, "As a reward for killing vampires."

"Have you ever killed a vampire?" Eleanor said in shock. Of course she knew how terrifying vampires were. Nora stared at Paige with strange eyes, wondering what the relationship between the killed vampire and Paige was.

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Ask changed the subject, "Since you are here, it means that you have already decided whether you plan to become a transcendent, right?"

"Yes," Nora and Eleanor said in unison.

Two ordinary people who wanted to become extraordinary... Medea stared at the two of them, her thoughts changed rapidly, and she suddenly laughed sweetly:

"If you want to become a transcendent, I have the magic potion formula of the spiritual sequence here."

"Psychic sequence?" Nora asked excitedly, "What is the specific ability?"

"Psychic I can allow extraordinary people to detect the existence of nearby mental bodies." Medea said slowly, while Nora took out a pen and paper and quickly began to take notes. "At the same time, it also gives extraordinary people and nearby mental bodies The communication ability of the mental body is the legendary telepathy. A transcendent can initiate or interrupt telepathy at any time without the consent of the other party's mental body. In telepathy, she can also use clever ways to impose certain restrictions on the other party. Impact."

"Excuse me, what is the mental body?" Nora raised her head, her eyes shining with curiosity.

"This involves secret knowledge, and knowledge is not free." Medea hesitated, "15 pounds."

15 pounds, which is equivalent to a year's salary of a middle-class family. Nora immediately took out two bills from her wallet without blinking and handed them to Medea quickly.

Is this woman really extremely rich, and she doesn't like the price of 15 pounds? Or is it because of his personality that he is decisive in spending money and is willing to invest in extraordinary knowledge? Medea's mind moved slightly, but for a moment she found that she couldn't see through the other person. If only she had the extraordinary properties of Conspiracy I, she would probably be able to see it clearly, she thought with some regret.

"Normal human beings can be divided into three layers. From the outside to the inside, they are the living body, the spiritual body and the mental body." After accepting the 15-pound note, Medea explained eloquently, "The living body includes the body and the soul. The body is the soul in a broad sense, which includes unconsciousness and consciousness."

"The so-called unconscious refers to information stored in non-cerebral cortex. For example, breathing. People are breathing all the time, but have you ever deliberately maintained your breathing? The breathing action is controlled by the cerebellum and does not require you to maintain it. And For example, the famous knee-jerk reaction, where tapping the knee will make the calf bounce, is stored in the spinal nerves, and these are the unconscious parts of the spirit body.”

"As for consciousness, it is the product of the activity of the cerebral cortex. This part is called the mental body, which is actually the existence of the self that you can be aware of. Mystic scholar Freud believes that the mental body is the self and can be divided into three parts: Me, superego and true self.”

"The id refers to the impact of the physical body on the mental body. For example, some people are born with genetic defects and cannot secrete certain hormones, which makes them prone to irritability and loss of control. This irritable character belongs to the id and is a result of the innate physical body. Come."

"The superego refers to the influence of acquired education and environment. For example, a child is repeatedly threatened that the outside world is dangerous, and when he grows up, he develops a conservative and timid character. This is a component of the superego."

"If you remove the id and superego parts from the self, the remaining part is the true self. The true self is the most mysterious core of the mental body, and no one has studied its origin clearly so far. Flo Ide's disciple Jung mentioned in "Psychodynamic Theory" that the true self is the trait that best represents you. If a person dies, the id will remain in the corrupted body, and the superego will sink into the collective The sea of ​​subconsciousness, and the true self will disappear. Freud suspected that the true self is some kind of higher-dimensional reflection that returns to the higher-dimensional plane after human death."

"I heard that some people with extraordinary abilities in the undead sequence can resurrect the dead?" Nora asked curiously, "But the Holy See of Solomon said that the resurrected dead are not the original dead. Is this because there is no true self? "

"That's right." Medea nodded and said, "With the simple ability to resurrect the dead, only the self exists in the corpse that is evoked. The undead body is muddled and has no mind. Some family members will ask high-sequence psychic ability users to The collective subconscious retrieves the superego of the deceased and puts it into the corpse, so that the deceased can have the same reason and memory as before, and can talk and communicate with others."

"But because they have lost their true self, the deceased cannot realize their own death, so they have no emotions or spirituality. Over time, they can easily fall into madness, or be possessed by other malicious spirits," Medici Ya finally said, "There have been several famous tragedies in the Fourth Age. The family members of the deceased resurrected the deceased and kept them at home to continue living, but in the end the deceased went crazy and killed the entire family."

Nora suddenly shuddered, and a creepy feeling climbed up her spine. However, she overcame her fear and quickly jotted down the knowledge about the mental body in her notebook.

"So, if you take the magic potion of Mind I, you can affect other people's mental bodies?" Nora continued to ask.

"That's right." Medea nodded, "But I only have the formula for Psychic I. You have to find the higher-order Psychic Potion formulas and combinations of other sequences yourself."

"Oh." Nora said in confusion, suddenly remembered something, looked at Asker and said, "Mr. Asker, do you have any suggestions in this regard?"

"From level 0 to level 10, the level of an extraordinary person increases by one level every time he takes a magic potion." Asker suggested, "Magic potions of different sequences will basically conflict with each other, leading to loss of control and mutations. So your first The sequence of potions you choose needs to be chosen carefully. It determines which other sequences of potions you can take in the future, and what kind of final bloodline will be generated at level 10. I suggest you choose the final bloodline first, and then follow the bloodline route. Choose the corresponding potion."

"This is the most ideal state." Medea sneered and interrupted him, "Actually, the complete bloodline route is only in the hands of a few secret extraordinary organizations, except for the Solomon Church in the East and West. Unless you are How else could the children of an ancient extraordinary family have access to the complete bloodline route at the level of ordinary people at Level 0?"

"My suggestion is to first choose your favorite potion sequence. After becoming the corresponding transcendent, then look for the bloodline route that contains this sequence, as well as other corresponding potion sequences. You know, many people's first This time they didn’t even have a chance to choose the sequence, so they had no choice but to grasp at the only straw and become extraordinary first - even if the only potion formula in their hands was not to their liking."

Ask smiled and said nothing. This is true for you NPCs, but you don't know the power of player forums.

"Mr. Asker." Seeing the corner of his mouth raised slightly, Nora seemed to understand something and immediately asked tentatively, "Do you have a complete bloodline route in your hand?"