Enjoying the thick-cut medium-rare steak and minced chicken and mushroom soup, Helene's rising desire to devour flesh and blood was finally satisfied.
She no longer hesitated, took off the "Rose Necklace" with the huge ruby around her neck, and sealed it in the included Jewelry Box according to Professor Miss Angelica's method. Only then did the rustling sounds in her ears disappear.
Looking at William and Tia who were looking worriedly at the side, Helene smiled slightly and said:
"It's just the negative effect of this Sealed Artifact. The corresponding desire has been relieved after eating. Don't worry about me crawling into your bed in the middle of the night to eat your flesh and blood."
As she spoke, her eyes rested on Jewelry Box, which had a simple appearance and only had brass edging. She repeated in her mind the information Miss Angelica had just introduced about this item:
"Rose Necklace is a fusion of Secrets Suppliant's 'Shepherd' and 'Black Knight' properties. It itself has 'Spirit Flesh Blade' which can kill the flesh and Spirit Body at the same time. The powerful ability, as well as the function of quickly recovering the wearer's physical damage, and the last and most important thing, is that it can Grazing a total of 6 different Pathway souls, making their abilities available for their own use, and Saint's soul will occupy two places.
"Currently, these 'places' are full. Grazing has accepted a 'Imperative Mage' from Sequence 4, and a 'Scarlet Scholar Z' from Sequence 5 Z', 'Ocean Songster', 'Mentor of Disorder' and 'Desire Apostle', each soul has three to four abilities that it mastered during its lifetime, and can be switched at any time and used skillfully.
"When wearing the necklace, the user will endure a gradually increasing need for flesh and blood. At first, it will be the desire to eat meat, and then the desire to accommodate and absorb the same kind of flesh. Eventually, it may lose control and become a monster that only pursues flesh and blood. In addition, the wearer will continue to hear the ravings belonging to 'True Creator', which can be barely tolerated at ordinary times. When using the soul of Grazing, the effect will be enhanced, making the user want to pray and surrender to this evil god."
Helene, who had just received this necklace in the "Giving" ceremony, just put it on and switched the corresponding soul and understood the attached abilities. He was already dizzy by the evil god. Spirit Body was unstable and full of desire for flesh and blood.
This made her sigh at the power of "Rose Necklace", but also have a personal experience of the negative effects of this Sealed Artifact. She understood that it was difficult for an Sequence 5 Mid Sequence Beyonder to control an Demigod level Sealed Artifact, so she could only use it with caution and store it away at ordinary times.
"No wonder many people at sea say that 'Shepherd' is the most difficult Beyonder below Demigod. The original 'Vice Admiral Hurricane' Qilingus is Sequence 6. Being able to join the ranks of Pirate Admiral with a similar item, as long as Grazing's souls are matched properly, they are no worse than Dual Pathways and Beyonder whose abilities are integrated with each other, and even have more diverse methods..."
After roughly telling William and Tia about the necklace's ability, Helene sighed.
I heard that the necklace in the small box combines the characteristics of five Beyonder, and it is also a Mystical Item equivalent to the "1" level Sealed Artifact. "Calamity Priest" here "William and "Pleasure"Demoness Tia were both a little excited, but they were followed by deep doubts.
William's eyes kept moving between his increasingly charming captain and the priceless "Rose Necklace", he frowned and asked in a deep voice:
"Captain, when Miss Angelica handed this item to you, does it mean that he thinks the situation on Molora's side has become more tense?"
Helene forked the last bit of steak and stuffed it into his mouth, put it into his stomach with the lemonade on the side, and then nodded and said:
"This is exactly what I want to tell you. Gusin of 'Iron and Blood Cross Order' invited me to join them, preparing to start a city-wide riot in the near future to test Church of Knowledge's bottom line, so as to understand the situation of Underground Mausoleum and Sealed Artifact; Lisa of 'Demoness Sect' followed me and escaped with injuries after I fought back. However, her purpose was obviously to know the progress of our investigation and Stealing some secrets... This city may soon be facing the greatest turmoil. This is a danger and an opportunity for us.
"Miss Angelica handed over 'Rose Necklace' to me just to enhance my strength and gain an absolute advantage in the battle against them. This happens to show that he believes that Gusin and Lisa both have hidden power. The former is the same 'Reaper' as me. He has been developing in Molora for many years, and new forces are constantly joining him. He should have many Beyonder under his command, and Lisa also used a certain Sealed Artifact in today's battle. This was just a performance in a hasty battle. Maybe she also brought more other items..."
"Then how should we respond? Take the initiative, or wait and see?"
After hearing that his former boss was not only promoted to "Affliction" Demoness, but also had the powerful Sealed Artifact, Tia couldn't help but ask.
"The riot that Gusin is about to plan is a good opportunity. William, please contact him in the next few days, convey my intention, and say that you are willing to let our men cooperate with his actions. Anyway, those are all The extremely vicious Exile criminals can attract the attention of law enforcers and make Gusin think that we want to deal with Church of Knowledge's clergy just like him. Tia, while Lisa is still injured in the past few days, go and arrange some mirrors marked by us near the church, especially next to the cemetery, so that you can use 'Ice Mirror' Charm to transfer at any time..."
After lightly sentencing several people to death for the forces they had gathered in the past two months, Helene said instead:
"And I will seize the time to summarize the knowledge I have learned during this period of study. Both Bishop Hella Berg and Miss Angelica have said that this knowledge is what enters Underground Mausoleum The key point, and so is my intuition... This is the key point that neither Gusin nor Lisa grasped, because Hella Berg said that no one thought of borrowing books before..."
As she spoke, she took out thick books from the backpack placed under the table and placed them in front of the two of them:
"Principles of Sealing", "The Making and Maintenance of Puppets", "Underground Mausoleum Construction Examples", "Molora Resident Code", "Gods and Divine Power"...
William recently read a small part of it with me, and it felt pretty good. Tia jumped up from his chair the moment he saw these large books, and said hurriedly:
"I'm going to the cemetery right now... No, I'm going to buy some dressing mirrors first and mark them..."
Before anyone else could say anything, she rushed out of the room and disappeared.
Look at the stupid Demoness you taught - Helene mouthed to William, then snorted lightly and said in a normal tone:
"I will sort out some floor plans in "Underground Mausoleum Construction Examples" tomorrow. You are responsible for piecing them together into a complete Underground Mausoleum map, accurately marking the proportions and angles."
She read this book several times and was extremely sure that the various "instances" in it were actually Underground Mausoleum with the seal "Salinger’s Blood Banner" under the church cemetery, but it was broken into different parts and she needed to use her brain to put them together.
It would be perfect to leave this matter to the "monster" Pathway, who has extraordinary computing power.
After assigning the task, Helene carried all the books back to the bedroom, lit the oil lamp and candles, and made a hot and bright flame as supplementary lighting to replace the non-existent gas wall lamp in this city. He started "reviewing" in front of the brightly lit table.
After being reminded successively by Hella Berg and Angelica, she already knew that this knowledge was the greatest guarantee for going to Underground Mausoleum, and she did not dare to relax at all.
After flipping through the various maps of Tinplate Soldiers in "The Making and Maintenance of Puppets", the methods of balancing different powers and pollution in "Principles of Sealing", and the densely packed map fragments in "Underground Mausoleum Construction Examples", Helene gradually entered a state of being fully immersed in it.
"... According to the information provided by Miss Angelica, Experiment Personnel, who replaces the sealed 'Salinger’s Blood Banner' soldier doll, must cover his eyes and hold a lantern. If the lantern goes out and the surroundings fall into darkness, he will disappear immediately, and everyone who knows him will forget him... If he is not blindfolded, the person who leaves the mausoleum will be a monster like him...
"William and I thought we had only sent five waves of Exile people to explore Underground Mausoleum, but in Miss Angelica's memory, we actually sent ten groups of people, half of whom went deep into the mausoleum. Due to various accidents, the lanterns were extinguished and were forgotten by us!
"According to the description in "Gods and Divine Power", the former is likely to be related to the secret of Evernight Goddess and Misfortune, and Underground Catacombs in Trier is also There is similar power... and the latter is not controlled by Zhengshen, and is suspected to have been replaced by 'Mirror Person'. Of course, they will also join the ranks of law enforcers and 'Experiment Personnel' later, so it is difficult for the outside world to discover...
"Sealed Artifact itself will also release the fog that makes Spirituality dull and difficult to perceive the outside world. This will make it more difficult for blindfolded intruders to distinguish the environment and require accurate maps to guide the way...
"According to the narrative of "Principles of Sealing", the Sealed Artifact will try to escape, and even find a suitable person to transform into a puppet or 'agent' to help it leave...Hella Berg Bishop said that time is running out. Is he worried that such a person will appear soon?"
Thoughts flashed through her mind one by one, and the book spread out in front of Helene became increasingly blurry. She kept lowering and raising her head like a chicken pecking at rice. In the end, she could not resist the sleepiness and lay directly on the page of "Gods and Divine Power" with the dark holy emblem as the dark background and Crimson Moon dotted with stars in the center.
In her confusion, she came to the scene that had appeared repeatedly in her dreams recently.
She walked in the dark tunnel, with ancient mottled stone slabs under her feet, and walls made of large stones on both sides. There was a rusted iron wall lamp inlaid at intervals, but there was no light at all.
As before, Helene's body was uncontrollably moving forward in the dark passage. He passed through a group of law enforcers wearing black robes, carrying lanterns, and their eyes were covered with black cloth. He repeatedly detoured through the winding passage and finally arrived at a huge underground square.
There, there was a towering mountain made of countless corpses.
The top of the mountain is...
As soon as Helene's eyes moved upward, there was a buzzing sound in her head, and her whole body seemed to be ignited by scorching flames. The pain made her shout involuntarily, but she could not make any sound.
Bang——
There was a loud noise, and she felt her body rise into the air and then fall to the ground.
She opened her eyes and saw the flat ceiling of the bedroom, the dim light of oil lamps, candles, and the faint morning light outside the window.