216: I Know Frugality Is a Virtue, but the Alliance Leader Wants an Extra Chapter-Please Vote! 1515

(Extra chapter for brother "Sakurababy," 5/5)

"You did well. An evil object this dangerous isn't something you can handle at your current level. If you find anything similar in the future, make sure to turn it in immediately."

In the Blood Vulture Corridor, Triss leafed through the "Book of Midnight" the two players had turned in, her manner a curious mixture of caution and nonchalance.

Mo Ni Qiong and Huo Zheng Ting Hao watched the book in front of them. Each time Madam Triss turned a page, strange psionic sparks flickered across its surface. They were the echoes of the psionic force she used to break the mental curses attached to it.

The sight left Huo Zheng Ting Hao drenched in cold sweat.

He'd been thinking of flipping through it on the way here.

But with curses packed so densely across its pages, he'd probably have been dead before he got very far.

Those cultists' trinkets were seriously creepy.

"Cultists often use crude mental suggestions like these to lure in people with weak wills. If you read it without anyone to protect you, your mind will suffer irreversible damage.

"But as for the book itself, it truly is a legendary item.

"And it's quite valuable."

Triss looked with interest at the various dark arts recorded in the book and explained to the two curious players.

"No one can say when the first Book of Midnight was created, but the most credible account I've heard says that this thing has been circulating in the shadows of the continent for at least four hundred years. Some psionicists who fell to darkness regard it as a holy relic, but in essence, it's just a grimoire recording all kinds of forbidden spells.

"It's said to come in three volumes.

"The one you found is