The Master of the Strange Realm

What made Jenkins depressed was that he did not get any alien abilities that were good for fighting, but instead got a special and weird demon ritual and a method to evolve fighting abilities.

Although it was better than the disgusting [Undead Maggot Body], it still challenged Jenkins' values ​​and morals.

The name of the ritual was [Girl's Bath].

The process and effect of this ritual were also widely circulated in the fables and legends of this world. Specifically, it was probably to bathe in the blood of young virgins, which, when combined with the corresponding methods, could keep one's face young.

After Jenkins wrote it out, he took a look at it and burned it with the flame of the gift candle. This ritual was useless to him now and in the future.

The way to evolve fighting abilities was to kill people through a specific ritual, and evolve any ability that could be "lethal" into [Midnight Slaughter (Red Fighting)]. This ability enables the gifter to improve his physical and mental fitness in all aspects when carrying out activities related to "killing" and "fighting" in the dark environment.

Theoretically, the more people kill in this evolutionary way, the higher the success rate will be, and there will be no side effects, and it will not even affect the spirit, which is quite excellent.

"Wait, the midnight murders that have appeared in various parts of the mainland recently, will they be related to this?"

He thought of the news he saw in the newspaper, but he felt that it would not be so simple, and there were no signs and rules related to this ritual in those murders.

Finally, as usual, there is a clue related to becoming a god, which is the third one Jenkins obtained:

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

It stopped here, as if the information in it was missing with part of the divinity. Jenkins suspected that this drop of divinity was incomplete, 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, "Things that can become gods are not here, cannot be human, bear the world..."

There are three in total.

If you can get clues related to becoming a god every time you absorb divinity, then it is also very good to complete yourself through formal channels and become a pseudo-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 heard from the whispers at the end of the month is much more useful.

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

In addition to some scattered fragments, there are three complete rituals that can be pieced together, two of which are ability rituals that can be learned.

[Traveler], a white basic ability, comprehensively improves physical fitness, hunger resistance, cold resistance, and has a 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 Traveler Church. In other words, only by first learning the ability of [Traveler] can other divine arts learning ceremonies be successful.

Although this ability is useful, Jenkins will never learn it. He doesn't know how much this ability is related to divine arts, so he can't take this risk.

Chapter 357 Chapter 352 Dad's Theft

The second one is [Quick Reading], a golden divine ability. The function of this ability is consistent with its name, and it can also be found in the list of optional abilities of the church. It has a similar status to Reading and Writing, and both belong to the foundation of the Sage series of divine abilities. When talking to Miss Befanna, she mentioned that some special divine abilities require one of these two as a prerequisite, and those divine abilities usually require level 7 or above to be learned.

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

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

The last special ceremony is [Spirit of the Victims]. Travelers will always encounter accidents during their journey, and some unfortunate people will lose their lives. The essence of this ceremony is actually more like a contract. The gifter who holds the ceremony helps the bodies of the victims return to their hometowns, and the ceremony will give back some spirits to the gifter.

This can be considered as a means of strengthening the spirit, but whether it is copying tadpole script or using [Astral Perception] to observe the starry sky, it is more efficient than it.

The snow that lasted for a day ended last night, and the early morning of the melting snow seemed to be colder than the night of snow.

I had already asked for leave yesterday, and I had to go to work today. After sorting out his gains, Jenkins spent a long time in front of the mirror in the bathroom, dressing his face "mature", and then dared to go out with chocolate.

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

In the store, 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 store was stolen?"

"Huh?"

He originally thought that the first topic they would start with would be what happened yesterday.

"Theft? Someone came here to steal things?"

Jenkins asked in disbelief, and realized that his father was using the perfect voice, so he quickly asked: "What was lost, and how many gold pounds is it worth? Do you need to call the police?"

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

Dad returned to the counter with the duster and stamped his foot.

"One of the things below was missing, probably last night. But I didn't find any traces at all, and the arranged ceremony has not been touched. Who on earth would take a fancy to the thing in my hand?"

He looked confused but did not explain to Jenkins exactly what was missing.

Jenkins blinked and looked down, and found that the missing aura belonged to the eye of the strange thing with big problems.

"Maybe it's the third person from the Magic Eye Collection Association."

He guessed in his mind.

There are three benefactors sent by this organization to this city. Among them, the Still Eye was arrested, the Thousand Eyes priest was killed yesterday, and the remaining person is a middle-aged man who had a brief encounter with Jenkins during the suicide demon eye incident. , his name is not yet known.

Although being stolen was always a hidden danger, Jenkins was still happy that the thing was gone from his father's side.

He did not show his feelings and started working as usual.

Dad didn't see that his level had been upgraded again, and Jenkins didn't dare to tell the church about his upgrade to level 3 because the speed was too fast and he couldn't explain where the huge spirit came from.

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

It wasn't until Jenkins finished copying today's tadpole essay that they began to discuss what happened yesterday, and Jenkins started the topic.

"Dad, what happened yesterday? After Miss Audrey asked me to go home, I only went to the church at noon to ask, but Miss Bevanna refused to say more."

Dad glanced at him and touched the beard on his chin with his hand.

"I thought you would ask when you came today. Very good. Being curious and having appropriate patience is a very good character."

"I'm worried that if I show too much enthusiasm, my purpose will be questioned."

He smiled shyly and whispered the reason in his heart.

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

Dad asked.

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

"Then your news is too limited. It seems that you really stayed at home for a whole day."

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

"Well...because of large-scale celestial changes."

"This is only part of the reason. What's more important is that a gift from the 9th era has been damaged! You should know the preciousness of the [gift]. It is a gift from the world and gods to mankind. Every time a gift is destroyed, Events will cause major religious issues. Just wait, the [Creation and Machinery] Church will make big moves, and the believers of the New God and the cultists of the Craftsmen Guild may encounter big trouble!”

The corners of Jenkins' mouth curled up, and he subconsciously looked in other directions.

"This is really...an unforeseen disaster."

The three hands of the clock are still intact in the pillowcase and hidden at home. He knew quite well that what happened yesterday would cause trouble for him, but he never expected that the trouble would come from the Church of Artisans, which had nothing to do with it.

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

"Judging from the feedback received so far, at least half of the benefactors on the continent have seen those scalp-numbing scenes in the sky. The church has recorded some of the content and found that the content is very advanced mathematics and natural science. Knowledge."

When Dad said this, he thought deeply, and Jenkins also asked tentatively:

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

"We have no clues about this matter at all. Yes, there are no clues at all. The knowledge is extremely obscure, and even the scholars of the Holy See cannot fully understand it. Now they have begun to contact the tower to decipher the secrets together."

"Tower?"

"It's the frozen tower located near Loen in the Kingdom of Hampavo. Young man, if you don't even know this location, then go and copy both sides of Chapter 7 of "The 17th Century"."

Chapter 358 Chapter 353 The aftermath of the 31st

"Of course I know about the Frozen Tower!"

Jenkins said in a panic, Chapter 7 is more than 300 pages thick, and his father's book is still a complete version of the old book. If he really copied it twice, then he wouldn't have to do anything else in his free time for the entire month. Something happened.

"Wait, I really don't think there is anything else to do."

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

"The center of the phenomenon 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. Two wanted criminals, the phenomenon seems to have originated from the person they had a conflict with."

After Dad finished speaking, he closed his mouth and looked towards the door. Jenkins also stretched his head and looked over.

Through the window, you can see a passing man wearing a high-collared brown coat hesitantly trying to open the store door, and then finally turning around and leaving as if giving up.

The owner of the shop and his apprentice sighed at the same time. Although the weather has little to do with the antique business, the bad weather did make the store's business become colder.

Jenkins reached out and patted the cat, which was curled up in a ball and lying on the side. It stood up impatiently, took a few steps and crawled in front of Jenkins again for him to pet.

There was a loud crack in the fireplace, and sparks nearly flew out. Jenkins glanced at his father, who shrugged innocently. It seemed that there was something else mixed in the firewood.

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

"Why should we pay so much attention to it?"

Perhaps because he thought this question was a bit strange, Jenkins added: "I mean, that incident did not have a bad impact, and no innocent people died. Why did the church handle it so carefully?"

"This..."

Dad made a long note, stood up from the stove and walked to the counter, then pointed upward with his back to the door and window.

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

"Hiss~"

Jenkins gasped, feignedly.

"I haven't seen the specific content yet, but it probably involves finding the person who caused the vision."

Jenkins stopped talking. He had decided to keep a low profile in the last two months before this year passed.

"The direction of the investigation is very vague now. We can only start with those two corpses. The Witch's House has other members in Nolan. The church is preparing to launch a big operation. At least they must arrest people and interrogate the two dead people. What to do that day.”

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

He could only pray so desperately in his heart.

The third thing that Dad talked about was naturally about the Ponton Winery.

Jenkins was very proud of this matter. Not only did he kill a powerful and strange monster at a very small cost, but he also made an outstanding contribution to the greening of the suburbs of Nolan for free.

There is nothing to say about this matter, and the church has no idea how the 100-meter giant tree and the vibrant forest next to it came into being.

But fortunately, there are many weird things in this world. Octopuses can even appear in cities, so it is not incomprehensible that there is an extra forest in the snowy suburbs.

As the trees grew, the structure of the winery was severely damaged, exposing something underground.

The closest one was the [Starry Sky and Equilibrium] Church. When they arrived, they found many corpses dug out of the ground. Obvious traces of manual processing could be seen on some corpses.

In short, the local Orthodox Church has connected the winery with the subordinate organizations of the [Immortal Lord]. Before their evacuation was over, they were infiltrated by Jenkins, so there were many clues left in that place, and the church was continuing to follow the clues.

"These were the only big things that happened yesterday, and there were a lot of small things left. For example, the black-robed man and the Thousand-Eyed Priest of the [Magic Eye Collection Association] fought over the counterfeit shop. The latter's body has now been recovered by the church, so What a magic eye, it’s really…”

The father shook his head, not knowing whether he was regretting the eyes that were disabled by Jenkins or lamenting the number of those magic eyes.

"Other than that, what else?"

Jenkins was present when the above four things happened, but he really didn't know anything else.

"Director of the Silver Jasmine Opera Troupe, you should have seen the photo of the fat man when I asked you to go to the opera house to investigate last time. He was found dead in an alley near the city hall yesterday evening, and his body was buried in the It was discovered by two children picking up garbage. It was originally just an ordinary death case, but because the place where it happened was somewhat sensitive, the police conducted an autopsy overnight and later found that the gentleman’s face was fake.”

Jenkins was stunned for a moment. The first reason was of course that in unknown history, he had sneaked into the room of the deceased. Unexpectedly, this was the reason for his absence in the snowy night. The second reason was that he did not immediately understand "forgery" meaning.

Seeing Jenkins' doubts, Dad explained:

"When the coroner confirmed the identity of the corpse, he found that the head bones and facial skin of the current face had traces of alteration. Specifically, the current face was artificially created. Facts The original appearance of that body was not what it is now.”

Only then did Jenkins understand. He nodded slowly. He was still very willing to participate in the discussion on this kind of topic that had nothing to do with him:

"So, is that corpse the leader of the opera troupe, a fake corpse, or is there something wrong with the identity of the leader?"

"The fact is that the leader's identity is questionable. After the police found out that this incident involved supernatural factors, they handed the case over to us. After seeking help from the believers of the end of death, we finally restored the original appearance of the face..."

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