Chapter 138: Elements

"Master Shi?"

Looking at the newspaper handed over by Godfrey, Oswan nodded thoughtfully and continued speaking.

"Your deduction is indeed possible... To be able to remove the corrosion of the cup in a short period of time, you must have amazing attainments in stone. I want to find someone... a master of stone...

"So, behind that little kid who recovered miraculously might be the target we are looking for. Even if he is not... he might be related to the target." Oswan murmured, then he looked at Godfrey and continued.

"So, where is the brat now? What are you going to do?"

"I've been to the Extraordinary Injury Department of this hospital. She has been discharged. In order to facilitate later observation, the hospital remembers her current address. I plan to investigate and see if I can find out who is behind her."

Godfrey spoke bluntly, and after listening, Oswan thought for a while before responding.

"Well... this is indeed a clue worth investigating. I hope you can find something. I also plan to change my thinking and start anew from other angles."

As he spoke, Oswan glanced at the tall buildings under the dark sky in the distance and murmured.

"Mr. Deer Skull's great enemy is in this city. As long as we can find him, our extraordinary future will be smooth sailing..."

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In the upper part of an apartment building on Nanyang Road in the upper part of Igwynte.

Dorothy sat at the table by the window in her room, looking seriously at an old, dusty book on the table. This was a secret book she had just bought from Aldridge, which was said to contain some information about the Black Order.

Dorothy quickly read the book on the table, ignoring the poison detector and reading the words on it. This was a secret book with a research nature, exploring the spirituality of "stone", called "Expressions of Spiritual Elements".

According to this secret book, "stone" and "cup" are relatively material spiritualities, among which "stone" is the most material. If the spirituality of "stone" is used as a catalyst, it can make other less material spiritualities manifest, and it is easy to stimulate the expression of other spiritual elements.

Spirituality is an essence, with multiple layers of expression, and each layer of expression reflects an aspect of spirituality, including concepts, spirit, senses, and matter... There are many types of expressions alone, and elemental expression is one of the following types of material expression.

This secret book says that the six kinds of spirits have their own corresponding elements. The elements of "stone" and "cup" can be easily stimulated by themselves, while the other four kinds of spirits generally need "stone" as a catalyst to be stimulated.

The six spiritual qualities correspond to different elements: "Lamp" corresponds to fire, "Shadow" corresponds to wind, "Cup" corresponds to water, "Stone" corresponds to earth, and "Silence" corresponds to cold... or ice.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of sufficient research subjects corresponding to the spirituality of "Qi", the spiritual element expressed by "Qi" has not been discovered so far.

The six major spiritualities all have corresponding elements that express them, so on the road to extraordinary attainments there are levels of spirituality that focus on manipulating the elements, known as element envoys. Among them, except for "cup" and "stone", the other four spiritualities want to be promoted to element envoys. They need to accumulate "stone" as an auxiliary spirituality when they are promoted to the black level. After the promotion, they can use the auxiliary spirituality "stone" to catalyze their main spirituality, which can stimulate the expression of their main spirituality's elements and manipulate the corresponding types of elements.

For example, if a "Lamp" apprentice chooses "Stone" as his auxiliary spirituality, he can be promoted to the rank of "Fire Master". Conversely, if a "Shadow" apprentice chooses "Stone" as his auxiliary spirituality, he can be promoted to the rank of "Wind Master".

After finishing reading the entire secret book, Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief. It was indeed as Aldridge said. After reading this secret book, Dorothy's understanding of spirituality and the Black Level had deepened. At least she knew the name of the Black Level rank and one of the options if she wanted to be promoted to the Black Level.

If she uses "Stone" as an auxiliary spirituality to ascend, she will be promoted to the corresponding spiritual element of "Initiate". However, the annoying thing is that all the spiritualities in this book have corresponding spiritual elements written on them, but "Initiate" is not written on them. Therefore, even if Dorothy wants to be promoted to a spiritual element master, she doesn't know what spiritual element she can control.

"This is very problematic, because there are not enough research subjects for 'Qi', so no corresponding element expression has been found... Is this 'Qi' difficult to find? You can use it for divination and anti-divination, can't you give some to scientific researchers for research?"

Looking at the secret book in her hand, Dorothy complained in her heart that she now felt that "enlightenment" of spirituality was a little rare in the secret world.

In a word, Dorothy relied on this secret book to roughly understand the knowledge of the black level, and also knew a way for her to be promoted. Later, she decisively extracted it for spirituality.

Although this secret book is based on the theme of "Stone", it introduces all other spiritual knowledge except "Enlightenment". Therefore, Dorothy accumulated a wave of full spirituality, including 4 "Stones" and 1 point each of other spiritualities, and 2 points of "Enlightenment".

Totaling up to now, Dorothy now has 15 points of "Cups", 5 points of "Stones", 1 point of "Lamp", 3 points of "Shadow", 2 points of "Silence" and 9 points of "Enlightenment".

'400 pounds... it's a good deal.'

Then Dorothy put the secret letter away, opened the locked door and walked into the living room, where she saw Greg sitting on the sofa with sleepy eyes reading a newspaper.

Look at this brother whom I rarely see recently, Dorothy blinked and said.

"Greg? You're already up, aren't you going to catch up on some sleep?"

"Ahh... I have missions as a bodyguard this afternoon and evening, so I can't sleep much." Gregor said weakly while yawning. It was obvious that the work in the bureau these days had taken a toll on him.

"Ah... I still have work to go to. Are there so many places in Igwinter that need security recently?" Dorothy asked Greg with a curious look, and Greg answered slowly.

"Of course... the Burton case... the Yinhebin case... Viscount Field was killed by a wolf in the mountains, and people in Igwynte are in a state of panic. Any rich person would want to have a few bodyguards around the clock... Even though the salary is higher, it's still too much..."

"That's true... With such terrible criminals and beasts at large, no one would be able to relax. Alas... I didn't expect that even someone like Viscount Field would meet with an accident. Life is so unpredictable. Should I buy some peace amulets or something..." Dorothy said with a sigh. Hearing Dorothy's words, Greg was startled for a moment, then put down the newspaper in his hand and spoke to Dorothy seriously.

"Listen, Dorothy, don't believe that bullshit, don't buy any amulets, they're useless.

"I can tell you that I have inside information from the police. The criminals who committed the tragedy not long ago will not attack civilians. They may have left now, so there is no need to be too nervous."

Greg said so, and Dorothy nodded in understanding.

"Is that so? Then I feel relieved. But you are really amazing, Greg, to have gotten inside information from the police." Dorothy said to Greg with admiration. Greg couldn't help but laugh when he was praised by his sister.

"That's not true. I'm your brother. People like us often come into contact with the police, and most police officers have to respect me a little." Greg said proudly. He thought that whenever he spoke, even the sheriff would gather around him.

"Then you are really awesome, Greg." Dorothy said with a smile, thinking that if I make a move in the city, you and the police will all be around me.

"By the way, Dorothy, are you going out?" Greg said after taking a look at Dorothy's clothes, and Dorothy nodded and spoke.

"Yes, I am a student at Ci'en Orphanage. Anna, who was adopted by Viscount Field, was discharged from the orphanage not long ago. The orphanage invited me to visit her."

"Huh?" Greg couldn't help but freeze in shock after hearing Dorothy's words.