Chapter 343 Review
In the dark night, in the dim living room of No. 17 Greenshade Town, Dorothy sat by the fireplace and began to carefully review the gains and losses on her side after dealing with the Order of the Coffins.
As usual, Dorothy first calculated the consumption. This time, the action against the Order of the Underworld took about half a month from the time Capac asked for help himself to the final transaction near the Gale Fortress, so Dorothy counted all the time during this period.
At the beginning, when Dorothy was at the warehouse in New Yak Harbor, in order to help Kapak out of trouble and move the goods at the same time, she used a living puppet for nearly forty minutes and brought three raw eaters. One raw eater gave one "cup" and the living puppet gave one "cup" every twenty minutes, so a total of 10 "cups" were spent, which was considered a large consumption.
In addition to the "cup", Dorothy also consumed spiritual energy called "Shadow". After discovering that the goods were lost, Larina's group tried divination three times. Dorothy consumed three points of "Shadow" to shield. Generally speaking, the loss of "Shadow" was not large.
Apart from spirituality, the thing Dorothy consumed the most in this series of actions was money. She spent 500 pounds on buying goods from the merchant Marcosi, and then spent nearly 100 pounds on buying explosives and parts for assembling the timing device from the black box. It cost another 300 pounds to ask Beverly to add a layer to the box. The telegram fee for frequent communication with the Order of the Coffin using the Artisans' Union was about 100 pounds. In total, Dorothy spent about 1,000 pounds on this operation, and Dorothy originally had 2,350 pounds in spare money. This wave almost cut her wallet in half again.
"Damn... selling more than 40 boxes of New World premium tobacco for 500 is a bit of a loss, and it's understandable that the black gunpowder is sold at 100 pounds...but the price of the stuff involved with that profiteer is outrageous. A few telegrams cost 100 pounds, and the labor fee for adding a layer of interlayer for dozens of minutes is 300 pounds. What the hell!"
Dorothy complained in her heart while calculating the bill. Generally speaking, even if the best carpenter in the area was hired to do this kind of small carpentry work, the fee would only be a dozen coins. But for Beverly, it would cost 300 pounds. This labor fee could almost buy a house. If it wasn't for the purpose of making this hidden mezzanine perfect, she would never have spent so much money to hire Beverly.
"Huh... I've spent a lot of spirituality and money... Especially money. I've spent thousands of pounds on the Holy Emblem recently. If I hadn't gotten some money from Bajian by speculating on 'Qi' before, I don't know where I would get all this money from. But fortunately, the harvest is also quite good... These expenses can be fully compensated..."
Dorothy murmured this, and then looked at her spoils. The most important thing was the holy emblem of Pluto. With this thing, she would have one more piece in the puzzle of her promotion ceremony. This was the most critical point.
Then there was the money. Dorothy gave Neve 1,000 pounds of the 6,000 pounds ransom as a reward, and she still had 5,000 pounds left. Almost all the money she had spent before was returned. And then there was spirituality. The Three Secrets should be able to produce a lot of spirituality.
Thinking this in her mind, Dorothy turned her attention to the three different books on the desk. Extracting spirituality was the starting point for sorting out the spoils.
Without waiting any longer, Dorothy picked up the three-letter secret book. Then she leaned back on the sofa and, with the help of the gas lamp on the coffee table and the fire in the fireplace, began to read the three-letter secret book using her speed reading ability.
After spending more than half an hour, Dorothy had almost finished reading the Three Secret Biography. After putting the secret biography back on the coffee table, she closed her eyes and began to organize the contents of the Three Secret Biography.
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Dorothy had previously requested in a telegram that the secret text from Larina should be related to Pluto, and Larina did so. Among the three secret texts, two were about Pluto, one titled "Song of the Rebel Dead" and the other titled "The Immortality of the Soul".
Among them, "The Immortality of the Soul" seems to be written by an extraordinary person who studies the soul. During the research, he gradually developed admiration for Pluto, and thus wrote this work. The content is mostly admiration and praise. The author praises the immortality of Pluto and also praises the immortality of the soul. He is sensitive to the weakness of living beings and expresses his own desire for the identity of a soul.
In the book, the author, who studies ghosts, discovered that people do not necessarily become ghosts after death. Only under many factors will people remain in the world as ghosts after death.
The author discovered that after a person dies, the soul will immediately penetrate into the inner realm of a certain world, and then slowly penetrate more and more there, and finally penetrate into an unknown place and completely disappear in the outer world. However, this infiltration process is not irreversible. In many cases, these souls that penetrate into the inner world will return to the outer world and become spirits.
There are many reasons for this, but the two most important ones are: one is because of the strong emotions of the deceased during his lifetime, whether it was resentment or love. For various reasons, those who were attached to the living world will not complete the process of infiltration into the inner world after death, but will remain in the living world as ghosts. The other is the influence of extraordinary people or extraordinary objects... or even some unreasonable extraordinary factors, the soul of the deceased will become a ghost and remain in the living world after death.
There is a note in this book that specifically describes this phenomenon as "seepage."
The author was terrified that after his death, he would eventually seep into the unknown land on the inside of the world. As he was not confident that his will could escape the seepage, he began to look for extraordinary means to ensure that he would become a spirit after his death. He prayed to Hades, praying that the God of the Dead would allow him to successfully return from the seepage and become a spirit after his death. Even if he became a spirit, he did not want to face the unknown after the seepage.
"Oh! Lord of the soul! Immortal King of the dead! I beg you to bless me! Grant me the blessing to struggle and swim in the realm of death! I beg for your protection, so that I can stay away from the unknown and nowhere forever!"
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'This guy... would rather become an elf than stay in the world. I feel like he has a similar attitude to the author of a secret book I read before. Are there many people like him in the Order of the Coffin? He is inclined to become an elf or something... By the way, the one who cursed Neveu's family was an ancient elf, so extraordinary elves should also exist...
'Also... the description of the state of the soul after death in this secret biography is also quite interesting. After a person dies, the soul will seep into the other side of the world... Strong will and extraordinary power can make the soul return during this process... So where do those seeping souls end up?'
Dorothy evaluated "The Immortality of the Soul" in her mind and thought that this so-called infiltration made her directly think of the great soul believed by the indigenous people of the New World. In the shamanism of the New World, it is the destination of all souls after death.
"I don't know if this greatness actually exists. If it does, what is its status? Is it related to this so-called infiltration? Is it the same as other gods? What is the connection between it and Hades? There is too little information in this regard to make a judgment... "
Dorothy thought this again in her heart, and soon after she turned her attention to the second secret book, "Song of the Condemned Man".
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"Songs of the Rebel Dead" is also a secret book about Hades. It is a book of poems praising Hades. According to the introduction, among the indigenous people of the northern Ufrika desert, there are some tribes with the custom of worshiping the dead. They worship the symbolic and abstract god of the dead, which basically refers to Hades. This secret book includes the songs praising the gods that are passed down orally among these tribes.
In these poems, Hades is more like the god of the dead than the god of the undead. In the praises of these poems, Hades is called the rebel against the dead. There are many contradictory descriptions in these poems. Some of the poems even indicate that he is the first undead in the world and therefore also the god of the undead.
"Father of the dead! You are the first returner! The first immortal undead! You bring the dead and blaspheme the dead! You control the dead and betray the dead! You are a blasphemer of the living and a traitor to the dead!"
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