Whispering Verse

The alleys extending in all directions are like a maze, connecting the edge of Tobesk's lower town and the university district. Walking along the alley, when I turned a corner, I saw a steam pipe that had been broken for some reason and was leaking water.

For the safety of my boots, I bypassed the puddle. Then I continued walking forward, and soon I saw the rusty metal stairs climbing on the outside of the dark yellow wall.

I walked up the metal stairs to the second floor and felt that the whole staircase was shaking.

After knocking on the door, he said to the door:

"I was introduced by Cuckoo. She said that the quality of the book last time was problematic."

"She always said there was a quality problem with our books and that this woman was too picky."

A muffled sound came from the door. After opening the door, a man with bare arms and an anchor tattoo on his arm led Shade into the corridor. Shade followed him and held his breath. This guy had a strong smell of body odor.

"Do you know the rules?"

"I don't know, I just came to Tobesk from out of town."

Shade said while suppressing his voice.

"So what do you want to do here? Buy books at the library, or sell books on consignment?"

"Buy books."

Because I was holding my breath, I spoke in a muffled voice. Fortunately, my voice was not right when I was wearing a mask, so the other party probably didn't notice.

"Okay, let's go this way."

The floor in the corridor was turned up in many places due to moisture, and it made a squeaking sound when stepped on. The doors on both sides of the corridor were all closed, and it was unknown if anyone was there.

The man led Shade to turn left in front of the corridor and arranged for him to enter a small room that was temporarily unoccupied and wait.

This room is unusually dark, with no windows, and the air smells like...canned fish. Little Mia will probably like it here. The space was not as big as the bathing area of ​​the bathroom at No. 6 St. Teresa Square. There was only a sofa in it. A small square hole was cut into the wall opposite the sofa, and the hole was covered by a wooden board.

On the wall on one side of the small hole was a rusty black iron gas lamp. The man leading the way turned on the lamp, letting the dim yellow light barely illuminate the room before closing the door and leaving.

Shade sat on the relatively clean sofa and waited for a while, looking at the oil painting of the Hanged Man hanging on the wall. The originally straight gas lamp tube went around the painting and was connected to the gas lamp. Shade was wondering why the gas pipes weren't placed higher so they wouldn't have to go around at right angles.

The wooden cover was suddenly opened, startling Shade.

An impatient man's voice came from behind the shutter:

"What do you want to buy? Is there a specific title, or is it just a request?"

The man had a distinct Tobesk local accent, and judging from his voice, he was probably in his thirties. But the light is dim and cannot illuminate the space behind the cover. But as the cover was opened, the smell of canned fish became stronger, and it was obvious that the speaker had been eating just now.

"About [Gluttony] Thaumaturgy."

Shade said simply, pretending to have an accent that was not local to Tobesk. This was easy because he was really not a local.

"[Gluttony]? Wait."

Then there was no sound from the man, and all he could hear was the sound of turning pages from behind the cave entrance.

[Gluttony] is also not a rare spiritual rune, it is even quite common. But the common [Gluttony] is mostly enlightenment or whispering runes, especially the black iron-colored whispering [Gluttony]. There is a high probability of getting it by reading the stories of the disappeared cannibal tribes of the Fourth Age. Compared with the evil gods, The related silver blasphemy [Gluttony] rune rarely appears.

"Yes, what price do you want?"

It took at least ten minutes for the man's voice to sound. Shade knew that there was no bargaining here, so he had no intention of hiding it:

"Just about fifteen pounds, no more than twenty pounds."

This is the answer given after considering your own financial situation.

The man did not answer, but wrote in the space behind the shutter. The sound sounded like he was using a pen. But what he put on the wall of the cave was a note and a pencil. When items were traded here, the names of the items would not be given to prevent the item information from being leaked.

A total of two magic arts were scrawled on the note. It must be that Xia De's price was too low.

The two miraculous powers are "Parkinson's Gluttony" and "Full Food".

As you can tell from the naming method, the former is a newly developed thaumaturgy in recent years, and it is most likely spread from the three major thaumaturgy academies. Its function is to impose a "gluttony" state on a target, making it extremely eager to eat within a certain period of time. For ordinary people, doing this will most likely cause the opponent to die. For a ring warlock, the effect will depend on the level difference between the two parties and other factors.

This is a thaumaturgy that was consigned to the Black Raven Library. The other party offered it for 14 pounds and 3 shillings and did not provide materials for learning thaumaturgy. In addition to [Gluttony] and related spiritual runes, the learning requirements must also be enlightenment or whispering spiritual runes.

Even if Shard buys it, he can't learn it.

"Food for fullness" is a thaumaturgy that can only work on oneself, and the effect is relatively complicated. The user needs to set a certain edible item as a goal for themselves after using the magical power, and eat four consecutive times with ten minutes interval, and each time eat more of this item than the last time. Make sure you are full after the last meal.

When the four times are over and the "satisfying food" effect is satisfied, you can use this magical technique to make the selected target food into food that can achieve the "satisfying" state in one bite. Not only is it psychologically full, but it also satisfies physiological eating requirements. More importantly, eating the target "full food" has a therapeutic effect, but no matter what effect it is, it is only effective for thaumaturgy users.

And if you want to change the target food, you must go through at least a complete moon phase cycle.

This thaumaturgy was also sold on consignment in the library. Because the food produced could only work on itself, and the effect was not very outstanding, the price was very low, only 9 pounds and 7 shillings. If the buyer wants to obtain learning materials, they need to pay 11 pounds.

The only way to learn this magic is the blasphemous silver spirit rune related to [food], and Shade is just right.

"But will it be useful if I learn this thaumaturgy?"

He asked himself, and thought it was useful. Not only can you save food money for yourself, but if you are injured during the day, you don't have to use [False Immortality] to carry it off. More importantly, even at night, the effect of the thaumaturgy [Cindia's Silver Moon Gift] is more towards mental healing, and [Satisfying Food] can slightly make up for this flaw. Unfortunately, the therapeutic effect of this thaumaturgy is Not obvious either.

[This is not necessarily the case. 】

A murmuring voice sounded from the bottom of my heart.

"Why?"

Shade asked in his heart, but on the surface he still looked like hesitantly thinking.

[Your gluttony does not come from contact with the remaining power of the evil god, but from nearly devouring part of the god's power. This spiritual rune is different from the normal blasphemous rune and is very powerful. Coupled with the divine afterglow state, the thaumaturgy learned from it will probably be very powerful. 】

The special Shade of [Gluttony] can also be felt, because as long as the life ring is summoned, [Gluttony] will flash with silver spiritual light, which is a manifestation that occurs when ordinary spiritual runes are in effect.