Chapter 297 Communication Magic
"Please help me pack up the powder of these deep sleep flowers and grave grass. I want them all."
Pointing to the bottles of ground herbal powder on the shelf, Angel said to the boy who followed her.
She came to the folk herbal medicine shop of the fat pharmacist Darkwell early this morning to buy the materials needed to make the communication potion. Although the pharmacist was harsh and a bit aggressive when he opened his mouth, the quality of the things he sold was indeed good.
Unfortunately, his apprentice said that Darkwill had left the house before dawn. He was said to be going outside the city to catch a creature he had been eyeing for a long time. Angel guessed that he was still thinking of catching a supernatural creature to raise. He just hoped that this pharmacist with no fighting ability would not die in the mouth of a wild wolf.
Angel's premonition soon came true in part. Just as she paid and was about to leave, the door of the herbal medicine shop was pushed open from the outside. A fat pharmacist with several bloodstains on his face and limping walked in awkwardly, sat down on his recliner as if he had fallen down, and called to his apprentice to help him get some healing potions.
"You didn't really run into some... creature like that, and got scratched up and got covered in blood?"
She happily leaned over to add insult to injury, letting Darkwill also experience the feeling of being attacked by a venomous tongue.
"It's okay. He knows a bit about the occult, too. In fact, I'll be able to tell him the 'Pharmacist' formula in a little while," Darkwill said softly, looking as though he was seriously hurt, as he glanced at the boy who entered the inner room to retrieve the medicine. "Unfortunately, you're wrong. These injuries were inflicted by a damned owl. It also caused me to lose that big, shiny black dog. Humph, I don't think I'll ever meet someone as good-looking again."
"Have you finally given up on the idea of capturing a supernatural creature directly? Are you planning to tame an ordinary animal first and then feed it the potion?"
"There aren't any extraordinary creatures left in Backlund. They're almost being wiped out!"
The pharmacist said angrily, then sighed.
"That wild dog's fur is really beautiful..."
"If you want a good-looking pet, why not just go and buy one? I'm sure there are better-looking and more obedient ones in the pet store. You can even pick out a hound."
"That would be more expensive than the potion!" the fat pharmacist couldn't help but retort. "And I'd have to tame it myself like a real animal trainer, so I can maximize the success rate when feeding it the potion, rather than letting a hound worth hundreds of pounds drink the potion carelessly and end up with a contaminated, useless mass."
It seems the Pharmacist's next order, "Beast Tamer," can utilize Beyonder abilities to reduce the chances of tamed animals losing control after taking potions. No wonder he's so eager to find a compatible Beyonder creature—it's so he can use it as a fighting force...
Angel secretly noted these points and asked casually:
"So what potion are you going to feed the animal? Make it 'Apothecary'?"
"Of course not. That would mean there would be three pharmacists in this shop," Darkwill scoffed, as if he'd just heard a joke. "And my pet needs to be good at fighting, to help me deal with the gangs that mess with me. I think a Warrior would be good, and a Hunter would be fine, too, but I don't have the recipe for either."
At the end, he began to sigh again, missing the big black dog that slipped away from his hands, and then this regret quickly turned into resentment. When Angel left with the herbal powder, he was bandaging his wound with the help of his apprentice and had already started planning to buy some bird nets to catch the owl and put it in the pot.
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After collecting all the materials, Angel returned to his basement and used a smaller pot to boil a mixture of his own blood, invisible spider silk and several spiritual herbs. According to Laura, this pot of medicine had to be boiled for four hours and turned into a viscous liquid before the next step could be carried out.
While waiting, she examined several of her Beyonder Abilities on the table beside her, especially the "Faceless Man" ability she had used yesterday. Because it was combined with some human tissue, this Beyonder Ability also took on the shape of human skin when not in use, but the surface was constantly changing, dazzling the eyes.
After testing, Angel discovered that this "human skin" could be transformed into various shapes when the user needed it, and there was no need to slowly adjust each part. It could directly form the corresponding parts based on the faces of the people she had seen. This allowed her to combine the faces of several beautiful women she had seen to form yesterday's "Witch of Joy".
She guessed that this extraordinary ability was the core ability of the "Faceless Man" sequence, which could be heard from the name of the potion. Unfortunately, it had not been made into a magical item and only had this one function, and it could only change the face shape and hair color, and had no effect on other parts of the body.
"This won't replace the 'Frenzy Ring'... The ring can only change the face shape, but it also has the added effect of making people forgettable, especially if you're meeting someone for the first time and haven't formed a deep impression of them."
Angel put down the human skin with regret and picked up another extraordinary characteristic of "Dawn Knight". It was also combined with part of Ms. D's body to form a special form that was half characteristic and half object.
This object, which looks like a bone spur, can be transformed into a bone sword nearly 1.2 meters long under the user's will. Its appearance reminds Angel of the holy object "Sword of the Goddess", but it does not have the effect of making it impossible to escape at first sight.
Holding this bone sword, Angel could feel his strength increasing rapidly, almost half his usual strength. This might be the effect of all sequences of the "Warrior" path.
Unfortunately, when using this bone sword, Angel's mind would occasionally surge with a surge of fighting spirit, wanting to chop up everything he disliked in his sight. This was only a negative effect in the non-combat state. If used in a battle where there was no time to distract, this weapon would probably cause the owner to go into a real frenzy, and he would not stop until everything in front of him was destroyed.
She would rather keep her sanity intact than have this kind of enhanced effect at a price.
As for the "Shepherd" extraordinary characteristic that came directly from Ms. D, Angel had no chance to try it, because the abilities attached to it were all authentic "flesh and blood magic", such as flesh and blood bombs, such as flesh and blood parasites. Perhaps only the crazy people in the Aurora Society could use them without batting an eyelid.
"I'm afraid the true power of the 'Shepherd' can only be revealed after Mr. Hanged Man finds a craftsman he knows and crafts this special property into a magical item..."
Angel sighed, put away all these extraordinary characteristics, and looked forward to tomorrow's Tarot meeting.
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Four hours passed quickly, and the potion in the pot had turned into a viscous dark red color, very similar in appearance to the communication potion Angel got from Lola, which made her sure that there was nothing wrong with her production steps.
Angel poured the potion from the pot into the cup and quickly built a simple altar, using a candle to represent himself and the cup of potion to represent the object of the ritual. Within the spiritual wall, he established a connection between the two and ignited the spiritual fire to burn "himself".
In this way, the potion made from her spiritually rich blood no longer had anything to do with her.
Even if the communication potion fell into the hands of the enemy, they would not be able to use any tracking or curses against her. The most they could do was try to smear the potion on the mirror and try to shout at her from a distance, helpless and furious.
Of course, some special beings might be able to use the spirit world to cross from the mirror over there to this side, but if I encounter such an enemy, no matter how hard I try to defend myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape doom...
Watching the potion in the cup gradually cooling down, many thoughts flashed through Angel's mind. During the few days of copying the "Book of Secrets", Angel's knowledge of mysticism had advanced by leaps and bounds, and he was no longer the novice he used to be.
"A master of divination, and a master of mysticism..."
Muttering to herself, she divided the potion into five small glass bottles, put two of them away, took the other three with her, and left the basement.
These three bottles of potion were intended to be given to her companions, friends, and subordinates in Backlund, but before that, Angel planned to try out the effects of the potion.
Opening one of the bottles, she used her finger to draw out a strand of dark red viscous liquid and smeared it on the full-length mirror in the bedroom, forming a closed ellipse on the edge of the mirror. She then used the same method to arrange it on the magic mirror she carried with her.
After injecting a small amount of spiritual energy, the magic mirror in Angel's hand turned dark, and the dark red liquid around it slid down as if it melted, creating several dark red bloodstains. Then, she saw her side silhouette in the mirror.
Looking up, she found that there were several bloodstains on the full-length mirror beside her, and the picture inside was exactly the ceiling of her bedroom.
The two mirrors have communicated with the spiritual world and are connected to each other!
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