Chapter 262
"Give me a glass of strawberry wine..."
Li Mu waved to the elf holding a wine tray on the roadside.
The cool-dressed elf immediately smiled and nodded. The wooden wine tray he was holding took root and sprouted into a wooden goblet. The wine glass instantly dehydrated and a layer of ice attached to the inside. Then he took out a bottle of strawberry wine from the storage ring, poured a glass and floated towards Li Mu.
Li Mu uses Mental Power to control the wine glass to float, and the strawberry wine in it turns into a thin line in the air and flows into the mouth.
It tastes good and the key is it's completely free.
In Turin City's night markets, you can meet elf waitresses everywhere on the roadside. They provide free drinks, fruits and snacks to any passerby. If you want to go somewhere, they can also show you the way. There are various wonderful street performances everywhere on both sides of the street.
Li Mu I walked all the way, but I didn't see any tolls on the street.
Everything is free, and living in Turin City is simply a paradise for drunkards.
But behind all this free, it brings Turin City extremely terrifying population flow.
Not counting the businessmen who come here, the number of tourists who come here every year alone is Astronomy.
Although everything on the street is free, the consumption in the street shops is not low. You must know that Western Continent is haunted by evil things at night. Those who can travel to Turin City are either professionals or aristocratic rich, and their spending power is not generally high.
Li Mu got tired and sat near the fountain on the roadside and looked up at the fireworks.
At the top are thunderclouds and a thunderous rain curtain all over the sky. Inside the rain curtain, Wizard releases all kinds of magical fireworks all night long. This kind of combination of rain curtain and fireworks is really rare. It's a pity that Rei Ayanami is not around and can't watch the fireworks with him.
After admiring the fireworks for a while, Li Mu released an alchemical mechanical tiger and rode on it.
The alchemy mechanical tiger took him trotting all the way, and soon he reached the tallest building in the city center.
The spire of this obelisk-like tower-shaped building is deep in the thunderclouds. There is a floating city on the spire. The entire floating city is the City Lord's Mansion of the Lord of Turin. As for the tower, it is the headquarters of the Turin Merchant Association, the largest chamber of commerce in Turin City.
Under the guidance of the shopping guide from the Chamber of Commerce, Li Mu quickly took the teleportation array to the fifteenth floor of Turin Tower.
Because he had too many things to purchase, Turin Merchant Association came directly to one of the vice presidents to receive him personally.
Looking at the purchase list given by Li Mu, Vice President Buck'er felt his hands shaking.
A huge order worth more than eight billion gold coins is a Astronomy figure even for the Turin Merchant Association.
"The amount of your business is too large, and you need to pay at least one-third of the deposit in advance..."
Buckar said hesitantly.
"There is no problem with the deposit, but it must be guaranteed by the church's contract with God."
Li Mu put forward his conditions.
"This is as it should be."
Buckar said affirmatively.
Soon Bakker had contacted the church of Turin City Ocean Lord to send him the contract of God, which was the highest-level contract under the gods made by priests above the church bishop using divine magic. After drafting the contract, Li Mu readily paid the deposit.
All subsequent resources on the list will be traded in batches every week.
The trading location is Hurricane City, Turin Merchant Association is responsible for door-to-door delivery.
Of the batch of goods he purchased, only 5 billion were resources needed to make Blood God Spawn, which also included 11,000 high-level professional slaves. The remaining 3 billion he purchased all kinds of rare metals, preparing to keep them for future upgrades to Golden Crow City.
Because he needed so many gold coins, he even had to sell a large number of treasury treasures without the Brandon Family label.
When leaving the Chamber of Commerce, Li Mu also received an invitation letter.
This is an invitation letter for the Turin Merchant Association's annual large-scale auction. There are even [relics] up for auction, which arouses a lot of interest in him. Unfortunately, there are still more than two months before the auction starts. During this time, he happened to spend Blood Origin Wizard gold to LV50.
As soon as the sky lit up and the evil things disappeared, Li Mu immediately returned to Hurricane City and began practicing in seclusion.
This time he chose to retreat to create Blood God Spawn in the virtual world.
Spacetime Source Core controls the virtual space and time, which is enough to accelerate time on a small scale. Otherwise, thousands of Blood God Spawns would not be manufactured in a year. Although it is a krypton gold upgrade, Blood God Spawn has to be made by hand, which is completely worth his gold coins.
In the blink of an eye, one and a half months later, Li Mu produced the last Blood God Spawn under 20 times the time acceleration.
These days, relying solely on Blood God Spawn's feedback, his mental attributes have more than tripled to 560.
Li Mu was not in a hurry to end this hard training. Instead, he opened the Blood Source Codex manuscript and began to systematically learn all the spells that Blood Origin Wizard needs to master at around LV50. Fantasy Conversion can make Kindling Tome in one shot. He learned all the spells in the shortest time and became a qualified Blood Origin Wizard.
Calculating the time, there are still ten days until the auction of Turin City.
Li Mu is preparing to leave seclusion, and will have trouble finding evil objects at night to test his current strength.
However, before nightfall, he received an unexpected surprise.
It turned out that during his period of retreat, Hurricane Battle Corps salvaged something from the sea.
It was a wooden ship's bow statue, a very exquisite and beautiful dragon beast ship's bow statue. After various inspections at first, no problems were found, so it was sent to the City Lord's Mansion as an antique ornament. However, within a few days, City Lord's Mansion began to experience various abnormalities.
At first, the sound of waves could be heard at night, and the servants of the City Lord's Mansion were frightened and thought that the sea tribe had landed on the island.
Immediately after the City Lord's Mansion all the water began to change from fresh water to sea water, and then a manservant drowned in the bathtub. From then on the City Lord's Mansion one person died every day, even if Hurricane Battle Corps took away the bow statue and sealed it, it would not help.
Even to this day, it is not clear how the prow statue killed people.
City Lord's Mansion has a few Wizards that are close to LV50. Whether it's a curse or poison, City Lord's Mansion's Wizards can always recognize what's going on even if they can't be solved. However, the strange thing is that none of the Wizards have figured out the killing principle of the bow statue.
In the end, I had no choice but to wait until he finished his practice and report to him.
"The ship's bow statue, take me to see it."
Li Mu said to the City Lord's Mansion's butler Craigie.
The bow of the ship is like the Wizard tower sealed in the east of the city. When he saw the dragon head, his first feeling was strange.
Abyss Giant Star There are many kinds of Western dragons. Legend has it that Eastern Continent also has Eastern dragons and divine dragons, but there is no dragon beast like the dragon head of this ship's bow. If you look closely, you will find that the dragon scales of this dragon head are long and narrow and curved like a snake.
Li Mu stepped forward to put away the ship's bow image, then disappeared and entered Mirror Void, preparing to ask the old butler for advice.
The old butler is the most knowledgeable person in the Brandon Family. In the entire Brandon Family and even in the public collections of various big families in the royal capital, there is basically no book that the old butler has not read. If the old butler cannot recognize it, then he can only use Heart Sense Perception.
Li Mu hadn't sat in the castle hall for a while when the old housekeeper who was taking care of Lucy hurried over.
The maid who went to call someone on the way had already said what was going on. The old housekeeper came to the hall and bowed slightly to Li Mu to salute. He immediately focused on the bow of the ship and studied it. After looking at it for a long time, he could see some clues.
"This is a product of the Second Age..."
The old housekeeper said with certainty, "In the second era, there was an extinct race Serpent Dragon Clan. This race evolved from some snake people. They heard that Eastern Continent had a legend about snakes transforming into dragons, so they called themselves Serpent Dragon Clan and tried to transform the entire race from snake people into dragons.
During the development of the ethnic group, Serpent Dragon Clan made up a fictional snake and dragon to worship as a god.
This ship's bow statue should be a snake dragon, but I can't see anything strange about the ship's bow statue, but I can't tell the specific age of the ship's bow statue. If it really originated from the Serpent Dragon Clan, it is impossible for ordinary ship's bow statues to be preserved from the Second Era to the present."
"Snake Dragon, go and do your business!"
Li Mu stepped forward and looked at the bow of the ship and said.
"Miss, she's not in very good condition these days."
The old housekeeper said softly.
"I'll go take a look later."
Li Mu replied.
When the old butler breathed a sigh of relief and left, he immediately locked the bow of the ship and cast Heart Sense Perception.
LV79's extremely knowledgeable magic circle alchemist couldn't see the abnormality in the ship's bow image. The only one he could rely on was Heart Sense Perception.
Observations from higher dimensions soon allowed him to discover the secrets hidden in the ship's prow image.
This ship's bow statue is just a coordinate. There is nothing magical about it. It is just a coordinate that communicates with a different space. From there, some curses will be transmitted every night. If it were night, the old housekeeper would definitely be able to see the secret of the ship's bow statue.
Even so, being able to deceive the old butler during the day is already very impressive.
Behind this ship's bow statue, there is a high possibility that it involves a relic from the Second Age Serpent Dragon Clan.
Li Mu put away the bow statue and suppressed it on Asylum, then went to Lucy's bedroom to treat her with Nirvana Flame.
In fact, although Lucy seems to be getting worse and worse, in fact there is not much Twilight Ashes left in her body. The current serious condition is just the final outbreak period of Twilight Ashes. She will wake up after this period.
Being able to survive being hit by Twilight Ashes, this Lucy seems to have quite a secret.
It's best not to cause him any trouble, otherwise he won't give the old housekeeper any face.
After Li Mu was treated with Nirvana Flame, there was less Twilight Ashes in Lucy's body.
"Where is Altar of the Dead?"
Li Mu asked tiredly after the treatment.
The old butler frowned. The old Duke handed most of the inheritance to Belloc, but left Altar of the Dead to Lucy. He told him that if Lucy could not be saved and the old Duke had an accident again, he would use Altar of the Dead to turn Lucy into an undead life.
So in his heart, Altar of the Dead belongs to Lucy.
But now he was asked to refuse. The old housekeeper looked at Lucy who looked much better and sighed in his heart.
He took out a ring and handed it to Li Mu. Li Mu's eyes suddenly lit up and he took it from Altar of the Dead.
There is no record of Altar of the Dead in the family inheritance contained in Crystal Skull. Duke Brandon deliberately deleted the relevant records because he was worried that he would be dissatisfied knowing the value of Altar of the Dead.
It's a pity that the old Duke didn't expect that Altar of the Dead fell into his hands in the end.
Li Mu brought Altar of the Dead back to reality and immediately used Heart Sense Perception to identify the quality of this red [relic].
Altar of the Dead is worthy of being the red quality [relic] inherited by the Brandon Family for countless years. As long as you master Altar of the Dead, you can increase the effect of the undead summoning spell ten times, and you can make the undead creatures bound to Altar of the Dead resurrect in the altar after death.
You can even use Altar of the Dead to deter all undead creatures under the gods.
The side effects of Altar of the Dead are also very small, that is, after death, it will turn into an undead creature and be sealed in Altar of the Dead.
Brandon Family The patriarchs of the past generations, and even Brandon Family professionals who exceeded LV70 in the past generations, were transformed into undead creatures by Altar of the Dead and sealed in them after death. If all these undead creatures were released, it would be enough to cause an undead natural disaster.
But once it is released, the first to be unlucky will be the holders of Altar of the Dead.
Because it is a side effect for the holder of Altar of the Dead to transform into undead creatures after death, the transformed undead creatures are uncontrollable. Once released, they will only destroy everything crazily. It can be said that Altar of the Dead is the last amulet of the Brandon Family.
Both are red quality [relics], Altar of the Dead is much higher than Death Wanted Notice.
Li Mu deeply doubts that Lucy was intentionally left alive?
It was Sun Church who finally broke out and surrounded the Duke's Palace, so the one who really wants to get Crystal Skull should be Sun Church.
But what does Twilight Church want? Even if Twilight Church surrenders to Sun Church, there is no need for them to lose both sides with the Brandon Family. Since they can curse everyone in the Brandon Family, why can't they cast a curse that means they can neither survive nor die to threaten the old Duke to hand over Crystal Skull.
Unless Twilight Church also has an agenda, could they be plotting against Altar of the Dead?
With all kinds of doubts, Li Mu put away Altar of the Dead, and specially set up a Golden Crow Secondary Soul to monitor Lucy.
Now Lucy is in his Mirror Void. She can't hide her every move from him here.
Two days later, while Li Mu was still studying Altar of the Dead, he received the news that Lucy had woken up.
He immediately came to Lucy's bedroom, and his pupils shrank when he saw Lucy.
Lucy, who woke up at this time, seemed to have lost his memory, and was scared of everything he looked at. It gave the impression that his soul and brain were hurt, so he lost his memory and needed to continue treatment and recovery, but Li Mu was sure that the person in front of him was not Lucy.
The appearance can be the same, and even the blood and genes in the body can be the same.
But the one in front of me is definitely not Lucy, because there is a difference between her and the real Lucy's life breath.
He is HuoZhong Professional, and his perception of life is absolutely infallible.
But his Golden Crow Secondary Soul has been under surveillance for the past two days. How could Lucy be switched by Silencio?
"No, I have time to change the package."
Li Mu thought in his heart.
He got Altar of the Dead for research. Between the time he sent Golden Crow Secondary Soul to monitor Lucy, it was likely that just after he left Lucy's bedroom, Lucy, which had been sleeping for several months, had woken up and completed the transfer with the help of the old housekeeper.
Sure enough, this old butler is a problem. He is too strong and loyal, but it is not him.
He knows too many secrets, but he has no control over them.