Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 What makes Jenkins more depressed is that he did not get the alien ability that is conducive to combat, but instead obtained a more special and weird demon ritual and a method of directed evolution of martial arts ability.

　　 Although it is better than the disgusting [Immortal Maggot Body], it still challenges Jenkins' values ​​and moral sense.

The name of the 　　 ceremony is [Girl's Bath].

　　 The process and function of this ritual are also widely circulated in the fables and legends of this world. Specifically, it is probably to use the blood of a young virgin/female to bathe, and with the corresponding methods, it can play a role in not getting old.

　　 After Jenkins wrote it, he glanced at it and burned it with the flame of the gift candle. This kind of ritual is useless to him, whether it is now or in the future.

　　The way to evolve martial arts abilities is to kill people through specific rituals, and to evolve any abilities that may be "deadly" into [Midnight Killing (Red Fighting)]. This ability enables the gifter to improve his physique and spirit in all aspects related to "killing" and "fighting" in the dark environment of the night.

　　Theoretically, the more kills this way of evolution is, the higher the success rate, and there are no side effects, and it won't even affect the spirit, which is quite good.

　　 "Wait, the midnight murders that have recently appeared in various parts of the mainland are not related to this, right?"

　　 He thought of the news he saw in the newspaper, but he felt that it was not that simple, and there were no signs and rules related to this ritual in the murder cases.

　　 As usual, the last clue is related to becoming a god. This is the third one obtained by Jenkins:

　　 [Things that can become gods, the negative world...]

　　 came to an abrupt end, as if the information in it had been lost as part of the divine nature. Jenkins suspects that this drop of divinity itself is not complete, otherwise it would not be used for such a short time.

　　 Chocolate hurriedly turned his head to prevent Jenkins from looking at it.

　　 But no matter what, "A thing that can be a god, not here, not a man, negative the world..."

　　 There are three in total.

　　 If you can get clues related to becoming a **** every time you absorb divinity, it is also very good to supplement oneself through formal channels and become a false god.

　　 This is more convenient than the "shortcut" mentioned by Mr. Pisco. After all, he is only one-ninth of the savior now, and the shortcut is not easy to take.

　　Relatively speaking, the knowledge I have heard since the end of the month is much more useful.

　　 Last night was the intersection of [Sage and Harvest Moon] and [Traveler and Frost Moon]. Knowledge is naturally related to these two righteous gods. Jenkins even suspected that the sound he heard at the end of each month was actually a communication between the gods.

　　 Except for some scattered fragments, there are three complete rituals that can be pieced together, two of which are still capable rituals that can be learned.

　　【Traveler】, white basic abilities, all aspects improve physical fitness, starvation tolerance, cold tolerance, and some slight resistance to abnormal conditions such as toxins.

　　 This ability is very famous. It is the premise of many high-level divine arts in the Church of Travellers. In other words, only if you first learn the ability of [Traveler], can you succeed in holding other divine arts learning rituals.

　　 Although this kind of ability is easy to use, it is absolutely impossible for Jenkins to learn. He doesn't know how much this ability is related to divine art, so he can't take this risk.

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　　 The second one is [Quick Reading], the golden magical ability. The role of this ability is the same as the name, and it can also be found in the church's list of optional abilities. It has a similar status to Nianshu, and both belong to the foundation of the sage series of divine arts. When talking to Miss Bevanna, she mentioned that some special magical abilities require one of these two as a prerequisite, and those magical skills usually require level 7 or higher to be learned.

　　 "They are all useful, but I can't learn them."

　　 Jenkins thought with some regret, and stretched out his hand to stroke the chocolate's back a few times. The cat has already settled his breakfast. Just now he stretched his head and pretended to look out the window, but he was actually reading the "Nolan Daily" spread out on the chair.

　　 The last special ceremony is [Spirit of the Victims]. Travelers will always encounter accidents during the journey, and some of the unfortunate people will lose their lives. The essence of this ritual is actually more like a contract. The gifter who performed the ritual helps the corpse of the victim to return to their hometown, and the ceremony will feed back some spirit to the gifter.

　　 This can also be regarded as a means to enhance the spirit, but whether it is copying tadpoles or observing the starry sky with [Astral Perception], it is more efficient than it.

　　 The snow that lasted for a day ended last night, and the morning when the snow melted seemed to be colder than the snowy night.

　　 I took a leave yesterday, and I have to go to work today. After sorting out his harvest, Jenkins spent a long time in front of the bathroom mirror, dressing up his face to be "mature" before daring to go out holding chocolate.

　　 As for the information obtained from the cultists, he plans to contact Miss Miller later and check it carefully.

　　 In the shop, the old man stood in front of the shelf with a tired face, and moved the top vase a few inches to the left so that it was exactly in the center.

　　 "The shop was stolen?"

"Ok?"

　　 He originally thought that the first topic they started with would be yesterday.

　　 "Theft? Someone came here to steal something?"

　　 Jenkins asked incredulously, and realized that Dad was using the perfect voice, so he quickly asked: "What is missing, how much is it worth? Do you need to call the police?"

　　 "No, no, it's not that the antique is lost."

　　 The old man took the duster back to the counter and stamped his foot.

　　 "I lost one of the following things, it should have been last night. But I didn't find a trace at all, and the rituals were not touched. Who is it that will look at the thing in my hand?"

　　 He appeared bewildered, but he didn't explain to Jenkins specifically what was missing.

　　 Jenkins blinked and looked down, and found that the missing aura belonged to the very problematic eye.

　　 "Maybe the third person in the Magic Eye Collection Association."

　　 he guessed in his heart.

There were three gifters sent by this organization to the city. Among them, the still eye was arrested, the chief priest of Thousand Eyes was killed yesterday, and the remaining person was a middle-aged person who had a brief encounter with Jenkins during the suicide evil eye incident. , I don’t know his name yet.

　　 Although it is always a hidden danger to be stolen, it still makes Jenkins happy that the thing left from his father's side.

　　 He didn't show his feelings, and started to work as usual.

　　 Dad didn't notice that his level was raised again, and Jenkins didn't dare to inform the church about his promotion to level 3, because the speed was so fast that he couldn't explain where the huge spirit came from.

　　 Jenkins' plan is to wait until this time next month, fabricate a reason to explain his upgrade, and then immediately apply for the ability to learn the magical ability [Book of Blessing].

　　 And it wasn't until Jenkins finished copying today's tadpoles that they began to discuss what happened yesterday, and the topic started with Jenkins.

　　 "Father, what happened yesterday? After Miss Audrey asked me to go home, I only went to the church and asked about it at noon, but Miss Bevana refused to say more."

　　 Daddy glanced at him and touched the beard on his chin.

　　 "I thought you would ask as soon as you come today. Very good. It is a very good character to be curious and have proper patience."

　　 "I am worried that if I act too enthusiastically, I will be suspicious of my own purpose."

　　 He smiled shyly and whispered the reason in his heart.

　　 "There are so many things that happened yesterday. Which one do you want to ask first?"

　　 asked the old man.

　　 Jenkins thought for a while: "I only know that there were two unusual images in the sky in the morning, and an earthquake occurred in the afternoon."

　　 "Then your news is too closed, it seems that you really stayed at home for a day."

　　 Dad stretched out his finger and shook it, "Jenkins, many things have happened to Nolan in the past six months, but only yesterday must be recorded in history and occult research books. Do you know the reason?"

　　 "Well... because of the large-scale astronomical changes."

"This is only part of the reason, and more importantly, a gift that has been passed down from the 9th era has been damaged! You should know the preciousness of [gift], that is the gift of the world and the gods to mankind, every time a gift is destroyed The incidents will cause major religious problems. Wait, the [Creation and Machinery] Church will have big moves, and the believers of the New God and the cultists of the Artisan Society may encounter big/trouble!"

　　 Jenkins's mouth curled, and he subconsciously looked in other directions.

　　 "This is really...no disaster."

　　 The three hands of the table clock are still intact lying in the pillowcase and hidden at home. What happened yesterday would cause trouble for himself. He was quite aware of this, but he never expected that the trouble would come from the church of unrelated craftsmen.

　　 "So, what about the strange phenomenon that appeared in the sky later? I heard from Miss Bevanna that that phenomenon was not only seen in Nolan."

"From the feedback we have received so far, at least half of the continent's gifters have seen those scalp-numbing scenes in the sky. The church recorded some of the content and found that the content was very advanced in mathematics and natural science. Knowledge."

　　 When the old man said this, he thought about it, and Jenkins also tentatively asked:

　　 "Could it be a gift related to the sage, or something that caused the accident?"

　　 "We have no clues about this. Yes, no clues at all. The knowledge is so obscure that even the scholars of the Holy See can't fully understand it. Now they have set out to contact the tower and decipher the secrets together."

　　 "The tower?"

　　 "It's the frozen tower near Ruen of the Kingdom of Hampawo. Young people, if you don't even know this location, then go and copy Chapter 7 of "The Lost of the Seventeenth Century"."

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　　 "Of course I know the frozen tower!"

Jenkins said in a panic that the seventh chapter is more than 300 pages thick, and the old book of the old man is still a full version of the old book. If he really copied it twice, then he would not need to do anything else in his free time throughout the month. Things are up.

　　 "Wait, I really think there is nothing else to do."

　　 Thinking of this, copying books doesn't seem to be a troublesome thing.

"The center of the vision was an apartment. Unfortunately, the landlord of the apartment had no memory of the occupants of a certain room. She suffered a very clever memory distortion. We found two corpses in that room, belonging to the Witch’s House. For the two wanted criminals, the vision seems to come from the person who clashed with them."

　　 Daddy closed his mouth and looked at the door. Jenkins also stretched his head and looked over.

　　 Through the window, you can see a passing man in a high-necked brown coat, hesitating to open the store door, and then finally turned and left as if he gave up.

　　 The owner of the shop and his apprentice sighed at the same time. Although the weather is not closely related to the antique business, the bad weather does make the business in the store become cold.

　　 Jenkins stretched out his hand and patted the cat, who had shrunk into a ball, stood up impatiently, and walked a few steps to crawl in front of Jenkins and let him pet him again.

　　 There was a loud explosion in the fireplace, and sparks almost splashed out. Jenkins glanced at the old man, who shrugged innocently. It seemed that there was something else mixed in the firewood.

　　 "In short, we don't need to care about the destruction of the gift. Mr. Craftsman's church will come to Nolan to deal with it. The latter incident is now called the 1031 incident. The five local churches will form a joint investigation team to investigate."

　　 "Why do you pay so much attention?"

　　 Maybe I think this question is a little weird. Jenkins added: "I mean, that incident did not have a bad influence, and no innocent people died. Why did the church handle it so carefully?"

　　 "This..."

　　 Daddy stretched the sound, got up from the stove and walked to the counter, then turned his back to the door and the shop window and pointed upwards.

　　 "The oracle, the oracle of the righteous god."

　　 "hiss~"

　　 Jenkins took a breath and pretended.

　　 "I haven't seen the specific content, but it is probably to find the person who caused the vision."

　　 Jenkins stopped talking. He has decided that in the last two months before the year passes, he must be a low-key man.

"The direction of the investigation is very vague. We can only start with the two corpses. There are other members of the Witch’s House in Nolan. The church is preparing to launch a major operation. At least people must be caught and asked, the two dead. What is to be done that day."

　　 "Don't get caught, don't get caught!"

　　 He can only pray so desperately in his heart.

　　 The third thing the old man said was naturally the matter of Ponton Winery.

　　 For this, Jenkins is very proud. He not only killed a powerful and weird monster at a very small price, but also made outstanding contributions to the greening of the suburbs of Nolan for free.

　　 There is nothing to say about this matter, and the church does not understand how the huge tree of 100 meters and the vigorous forest next to it came into being.

　　 But fortunately, there are so many weird things in this world. Even octopuses can be found in cities. It is not incomprehensible that there is an extra forest in the snowy suburbs.

　　 As the trees grow, the structure of the winery has been severely damaged, so something underground is exposed.

　　The closest to there is the [Starry Sky and Balance] Church. When they arrived, they found many corpses dug out from the ground, and some of the corpses could see obvious traces of manual processing.

　　 In short, the local Orthodox Church has already linked the winery with the subordinate organization of [Undead Lord]. They were infiltrated by Jenkins before their evacuation was over, so many horses were left in that place, and the church is continuing to follow the trail.

"That’s the only big thing that happened yesterday, and there are a lot of little things left. For example, the black-robed man and the thousand-eyed chief priest of the [Magic Eye Collection Association] fought against the counterfeit shop. The body of the latter has now been recovered by the church. Many magic eyes, it's really..."

　　 Dad shook his head, not knowing whether he regretted the eyes that were abolished by Jenkins, or lamented the number of magic eyes.

　　 "Other than that, what else is there?"

　　 Jenkins was on the scene when the above four things happened, other than that, he really didn't know.

"The head of the Silver Jasmine Opera Troupe, I should have seen the picture of the fat man when I asked you to investigate at the opera house last night. He was found dead in the alley near the city hall yesterday evening. The body was buried in the alley. The **** was found by two children picking up rubbish. It was originally an ordinary death, but because the location was a little sensitive, the police conducted an autopsy overnight and later found that the gentleman's face was forged."

Jenkins froze for a moment. The first reason was naturally that he had sneaked into the deceased’s room in an unknown history. He did not expect that the reason for his absence in the snowy night was because of this. The second reason was that he did not immediately understand the "forgery". Meaning.

　　 Seeing Jenkins’s doubts, the old man explained:

"When the coroner confirmed the identity of the corpse, he found that the bones of the head and the skin of the face had been altered. Specifically, the current face was artificially made. The original appearance of that body is not what it is now."

　　 Jenkins came to understand, he slowly nodded, for this kind of topic that has nothing to do with him, he is still very willing to participate in the discussion:

　　 "Then, is that corpse the head of the opera troupe, a forged corpse, or is there a problem with the identity of the head?"

"The fact is that there is a problem with the identity of the head of the regiment. After discovering that the incident involved extraordinary factors, the police station handed over the case to us. After asking for help from the believer who died, the face finally recovered its original appearance. ......"

　　 Jenkins was looking forward to the next words from his father, but he fiddled in front of the fireplace slowly.