strokinit #116 - Section 116
#116 - Section 116
If there's time, I must delve into it thoroughly.
Rod thought, suddenly noticing that the misfortune around him had stopped after a period of time.
"It seems that this misfortune should be related to Cinderella's contact time and intimacy."
The longer the time spent together, the more intimate, the longer the duration of the misfortune.
Conversely, if it's just ordinary contact, even if bad luck befalls you, it won't be as outrageous as what happened to me.
Taking a few steps results in another misfortune.
He now even suspects that the sudden ferocity of that evil spirit might also be related to this misfortune curse.
"Let's solve it slowly."
Rod frowned, putting the matter aside for the time being.
After all, matters involving curses are not something that can be easily resolved.
He could use the sacrifice ability to try and sacrifice it, to see if he can sacrifice the curse away.
But, can curses be sacrificed?
He really doesn't have much confidence.
After all, curses have no form and aren't truly existing things.
You can't even touch them, let alone sacrifice them.
Returning to the villa, he first purified the remaining evil spirit power from the bodies of the two young girls, Antasia and Tristilia.
However, the souls that have been harmed by evil spirits for so many years cannot be restored in a short period of time.
The soul and spirit are the most complex things, and healing spiritual wounds is much more difficult than simply healing the body.
If not resolved properly, this kind of spiritual damage can even last a lifetime.
"Alchemical potions and healing magic can be used to restore them."
However, most healing magic is white magic, and he is proficient in black magic, with only a basic understanding of white magic.
Therefore, alchemical healing is more reliable.
However, with his current level of alchemy, creating a potion that can restore spiritual wounds is still a bit difficult.
"It seems I can go and claim the second inheritance."
Rod muttered softly.
He took out the tinderbox from his pocket. The tinderbox was connected to three treasure vaults.
Each treasure vault had a mountain of treasures, a guardian, and a powerful inheritance.
The first treasure vault has already been explored, but he has not yet cleared the second and third treasure vaults.
He couldn't handle the guardian and inheritance guardian in the second treasure vault before, but now he can try it.
With his current strength, he should be able to slay that powerful undead knight.
Chapter 102: Slaying the Undead Knight! Immortal Armor!
He has only cleared the first of the three treasure vaults.
He couldn't handle the guardian and inheritance guardian in the second treasure vault before, but now he can try it.
Rod did not resist, allowing this spatial fluctuation to teleport him out.
His eyes flashed, and he instantly appeared in a dimly lit corridor.
Swish, swish, swish!
The flames around him ignited. Rod looked up and saw flames on both sides of the long corridor, and at the end of the corridor were three doors.
Gold, silver, and bronze.
Rod walked to the door, glanced at the empty bronze door, and directly turned around and walked into the second silver door.
Inside the empty silver treasure vault, the treasure vault guardian, who was sleeping on the ground, slowly opened its eyes.
A pair of eyes bigger than a human's stared curiously at Rod who walked in.
Sensing the familiar aura, the silver treasure vault guardian lowered its head again.
The person with the tinderbox is the owner of the treasure vault, and as the treasure vault guardian, it naturally will not attack the treasure vault owner.
Tap, tap, tap!
The sound of footsteps gradually approached, and Rod walked to the front of the huge treasure vault guardian, looking at this behemoth that was more than ten meters tall.
He slowly extended his hand.
Last time, he failed to sacrifice this guy. This time, he came to take the inheritance of the second treasure vault, and also for this guy.
Sacrificing the treasure vault guardian will yield a powerful soul crystal fragment.
Pure soul fragments are important materials for creating apostles. Sacrificing this guy will allow him to try to create a second apostle loyal to him.
His first apostle died and is now wandering on this continent.
He didn't give Death any specific mission, only asking him to develop the evil spirit army as much as possible without deliberately creating slaughter.
So, he is not very clear about Death Apostle's current situation.
He can only sense the approximate location of the other party through the mark and can issue orders to the other party.
One apostle is not enough. He needs more helpers he can completely trust.
Sacrificing this guy should allow him to create a second apostle.
He put his hand on the head of the treasure vault guardian. The treasure vault guardian, which was originally quiet and docile, suddenly seemed to sense a crisis and struggled violently.
"A creation dares to resist its master."
"As expected, there's a problem."
Feeling the huge, uncontrollable power in his hand, Rod's eyes turned cold, and he instantly released the power of the giant in his body.
His figure soared, and the power of the earth beneath his feet continuously poured into his body, directly pressing the treasure vault guardian to the ground with one hand.
Boom!
The blazing flames burned, instantly engulfing the treasure vault guardian.
Under the burning of the flames, the body of the treasure vault guardian gradually liquefied.
As an alchemical creation, no matter how real it looks, its body is made of various alchemical materials.
"Alchemical creatures are, after all, not real creatures, far inferior to apostles."
As the flames burned, the alchemical structure within the treasure vault guardian gradually collapsed, and its power became weaker and weaker.
Until it completely lost its ability to resist, Rod directly sacrificed it.
As the alchemical guardian was sacrificed, Rod, as expected, obtained another powerful soul fragment, and it was even purer and more powerful than the one he obtained last time.
Looking at the soul crystal fragment in his hand, which was larger than a fist.
Rod's eyes couldn't hide the surprise.
If you want to refine such a soul crystal fragment with pure alchemy.
At least two to three hundred thousand souls are needed as alchemical materials to refine such a pure soul crystal fragment.
Including the previous soul crystal fragment, that's nearly four to five hundred thousand human souls.
Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be human souls.
However, human souls are the most potential and growth-oriented of all races.
Therefore, most alchemists, when refining alchemical items related to the soul, prefer to use the lives of intelligent races such as humans, elves, and dwarves as materials.
If it were the souls of other creatures, at least ten times more souls would be needed to refine such a soul crystal fragment.
And the refined soul fragments would be very chaotic and violent.
"This guy is not a good person."
Rod couldn't help but mutter softly.
The number of civilians in the territory of a marquis noble kingdom is only about two to three hundred thousand.
These two treasure vault guardians alone killed nearly one and a half marquis kingdoms.
Moreover, there are more than just these two treasure vault guardians. The treasure vault guardian of the third gold treasure vault is the most powerful.
If added together, at least nearly a million civilians would have been slaughtered.
Just to guard the treasure vault, so many people were slaughtered, how could he be a good person?
Of course, there is another possibility.
That is, hunting sufficiently powerful magical creatures.
The more powerful the magical creature, the more powerful its soul will naturally be. The soul quality of one magical creature is comparable to dozens or even hundreds of ordinary human souls.
If it is hunting those powerful magical creatures, slaughtering tens of thousands of magical creatures with good strength, it would be almost enough to gather the souls to refine these three soul crystal fragments.
But, tens of thousands of powerful magical creatures?
Even if all the magical creatures in the entire Southern Continent are slaughtered, it is questionable whether there are so many magical creatures.
Therefore, he still prefers the first judgment.
The guy who left these three treasure vaults slaughtered nearly a million humans and refined these three treasure vault guardians.
If he is really such a deranged guy, then the inheritance he left behind is probably not so easy to take.
There might be some pit waiting for him inside.
After sacrificing the treasure vault guardian, in addition to this soul crystal fragment, the rest is a pile of rare alchemical materials and a pile of inheritance of alchemical puppet studies.
The alchemical puppet techniques contained in this treasure vault guardian are more complex and profound than those of the previous bronze treasure vault guardian.
Absorbing the inheritance of these alchemical puppet studies has improved his alchemical puppet studies quite a bit.
It will be somewhat helpful for creating apostles next time.
"Huff!"
Taking a deep breath, Rod slowly walked into the passage behind the treasure vault.
At the end of the dark passage was a huge secret room.
In the center of the secret room, a set of pitch-black armor floated in mid-air.
It was like an immortal god, exuding an immortal aura at all times.
In front of the armor, a oppressive figure, holding a two-handed greatsword, knelt on one knee on the ground.
Sensing the intrusion of outsiders, the figure kneeling on the ground slowly raised its head, and its stiff body slowly stood up.
The three-meter-tall figure was full of oppression, wearing dark full-body armor, and a helmet with curved bull horns like a demon on its head.
Scarlet eyes lit up from within the closed helmet.
The same scene, the same opponent.
However, this time he is not the weakling he was last time.
Rod spat out a breath, pulled off the crucifix necklace on his chest, and two chain blades entwined with chains instantly appeared in his hands.
Fire-red patterns faintly glowed.
Holding the Chaos Blade, Rod grinned and slowly walked towards the undead knight.
"Last time I was no match for you, this time guess who will be lying on the ground first."
The arrogant tone carried an unyielding arrogance, but it didn't make people feel any different.
Huff!