Although he got a limited item, when Ash saw the effect of the new item, his expression became strange.
"Soul Stealer's Manual"
"Effect: Soul Stealing Map: Creates a Soul Stealing Field with a radius of 50 meters, which lasts for 600 seconds. All lives that die in the Soul Stealing Field will have their souls stolen. Creatures in the virtual world cannot return to the virtual world, and the soul of the magician cannot return to reality. Activation requires 1 source crystal."
"Effect: Soul Refining Diagram: The Soul Stealer Manual has a page imitating the pattern of the 'Soul Refining Pool' in the secret area of the world, with a maximum capacity of 100,000 points. Current points 0/100,000."
"Effect: Soul Strengthening Map: The Soul Strengthening Map will constantly strengthen the magician's soul, and the effect is proportional to the points of the Soul Refining Map. For every 100 points of the Soul Refining Map, the Soul Strengthening Map can strengthen the magician's soul by 0.01 of an adult every day."
"Effect: Dead Soul Diagram: As long as you know the target's real name and true appearance, you can consume 1,000 soul refining points and cast a dead soul curse regardless of the spatial distance. The dead soul curse will continue to grow stronger by devouring souls and will constantly affect the target's mental functions."
"Effect: Soul Burning Diagram: Burn 1,000 Soul Refining Points or consume 1 Source Crystal to greatly strengthen the target's soul for 72 hours."
['Even if I die, I will crawl back from hell to take revenge!'
"Okay, I also think it's a waste that people can only die once."
There is no doubt that the Soul Stealer's Manual fully lives up to its positioning as a limited item - it is a growth item that combines training, attack, and enhancement!
If Ash can fill up the soul refining map, he can increase the soul volume of 10 people without doing anything every day.
After inheriting the ghost heritage, Ash understood very well the difficulty of strengthening the soul.
Generally speaking, magicians will constantly strengthen their souls as they climb the virtual realm. If adult humans are used as the basic unit, a silver magician will have two souls, a gold magician will have five souls, and a holy realm magician will have ten souls.
There is no other way. If you don't practice the soul faction specifically, the magician will automatically grow to this level. But even if you use the soul-refining, soul-grinding, and soul-bittering magic to actively enhance, the soul path is extremely difficult - there is no other reason, it is painful and tiring.
Any training route that can permanently enhance the magician is basically accompanied by endless pain, and the weak faction is the best example. The weak faction can permanently strengthen the body, and the weak magician is very powerful even without the magic spirit, but as long as you have a decent life, you will never take this path.
Most magicians only dabble in the weak faction. For example, Sword Princess once used the sword body miracle to enhance her own potential, which made her physically and mentally exhausted.
And the soul faction is also about strengthening the soul forever, so how can it be easy and enjoyable?
From here, we can see how powerful the Soul Refining and Soul Strengthening diagrams in the Soul Stealing Manual are—without any extra hard work, you can increase the amount of souls of 10 people every day! Although the effect of these 10 people will surely decrease rapidly as the souls are strengthened, it is much easier than the orthodox soul cultivation method.
As for the Dead Souls Map, it was even more terrifying. This was the first time Ash had seen a tool that could launch an attack beyond visual range just by knowing its name and appearance. It was a pity that he didn't know the true appearance of the Mercury Horse, otherwise...
But compared to these three pictures, Ash is actually more concerned about how to activate the Soul Stealing Picture and the Soul Burning Picture - consuming source crystals!
For the first time, he discovered that source crystals could be used for other purposes besides searching!
Is it that only limited items can unlock the use of source crystals, or does the source crystals have uses that Ash doesn't know about?
Ash flipped through the interface of the magician's manual, but did not find any more clues, so he could only put this idea aside for the time being. He looked back at the effect description of the Soul Stealer Manual and had many guesses in his mind.
There is no doubt that the correct way to use this Soul Stealing Manual is to slaughter all living beings and quickly fill up the soul refining pool. If someone is chasing you, use the Dead Soul Map to fight back, and then continue killing people to replenish the soul refining points.
The creator of this item is undoubtedly an evil sorcerer who kills people all over the world to support himself.
Therefore, Ash seemed to be uninterested. The only useful item for him was the "Soul Burning Diagram" which could temporarily strengthen the soul. Although it would consume 1 source crystal, they were still exploring the ghost heritage, and strengthening the soul was very helpful for the exploration.
I feel like I lost out...
Ash looked at the newly drawn costumes - Swimsuit, Doomsday Afternoon, and Killing Soul. He actually had more costumes than the female operators.
"Killing Demon Soul·Observer: The effect of soul faction attacks launched by oneself is +10% (limited to the virtual realm, but if you wear the same clothes in reality, you can also get the benefit)."
The illustration of this set of costumes is quite nice. In the illustration, the viewer is wearing a black windbreaker and a hat, silver scale gloves on both hands, and a chain around his waist. When he walks, there seems to be a special effect of ghosts howling. Behind him is a sea of countless dead souls, as if they had just finished a massacre.
But the soul faction's attack effect is +10%...
Ash's role in Ghost Legacy is a guardian!
He didn't think that his attack effect of +10% would be comparable to that of the three sword ladies who had been immersed in the inheritance for many days!
I'd better just wear the "Doomsday Afternoon" outfit...
Yaxiu thought that this was a huge loss. One of the two golden lights he drew out could not be used, and the other could only use one-fifth of its function. It would be better not to draw.
But among the purple light props, there was one that caught his eye.
"Soul Seal: The wearer's soul buff effect +15%."
This prop is just right for Ash!
When they had finally gotten through level 50 yesterday, three inheritance rewards appeared. In the end, it was decided that Ash would choose a ghost story - "Soul Merge"!
The Soul Merge Miracle contains three soul magics. After Ash gets them, he can directly use these three magics the next time he enters the Ghost Legacy. This is the advantage of the Ghost Legacy. In addition to the Ghost Legacy, there is also the Main Legacy and the General Legacy. All legacies are one less when you take one, and the General Legacy is the clearance reward for the Ghost Legacy.
The effect of the Soul Merge Miracle is very simple—temporary fusion of your own soul with that of the target!
To be honest, this miracle is not very practical. The reason why Ash and his friends chose this side story is entirely for the purpose of conquering the inheritance. As a guardian, Ash has the miracle of soul fusion. When encountering special levels, he can merge souls with everyone and help everyone resist the negative effects on the soul.
If there had been a miracle of soul fusion before, then not only would they be able to easily survive the "Haunting Soul", but even during the "Resurrection", Ash would be able to allow others to maintain their memories!
Now with the soul seal that strengthens the gain and the miracle of soul fusion, Ash can completely serve as a shield and heal all souls!
There are also two bottles of Lightless Sanctuary Potion. Although they all have the Sanctuary, the Lightless Sanctuary Potion can also strengthen their understanding of the Sanctuary.
In fact, the sanctuary can be further cultivated and strengthened, and even develop various strange abilities. For example, Qinna's soul sanctuary can suppress the soul, and Chikara's flame sanctuary can burn objects in the sanctuary. However, this kind of strengthening requires a long time to settle, which is obviously not a high-end technology that Ash and his friends can master.
"Ash, let's go to dinner."
“Here I come.”
Ash went out and saw only the black-skinned loli and the blonde beauty. He asked curiously, "Where are the others?"
"I let them go first." Igula took out two bags of gold coins from the space card: "Next."
"Hmm?" Ash said, "Is it your birthday today? But then I should be the one giving you the money, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense, keep it away and don't let them find it. At least on the surface we are sharing the same hardships." Igula said.
Ash smacked his lips and understood: "Our spirits are being fed normally, and we are only reducing their gold coin supply?"
Now they have to take quotas of gold and silver from Igula every day to feed the Shuling, and they can only feed the Shuling half full. Now Igula is giving them special treatment, which is obviously a double-edged sword.
In fact, there is no need for Igula to go through so much trouble. After all, Gwen is just a follower, and Chikara is even a slave. Even if he doesn't care about the feelings of these two people, nothing will happen.
But Ash understood very well why Igula did this - he didn't want Chikara and Gwen to be unhappy about it, nor did he want Ash and the others to weaken their fighting power because of it.
The result of wanting everything is naturally a fraud.
It's not so much that the Trickster is petty, it's more that he doesn't trust Gwen and Chikara, so he wants to weaken them and deceive them.
"I thought you would only give it to Ash." Harvey put the gold bag into the space card.
"I don't even want to give it to you," Igula said coldly, "but you probably already think I'm secretly communicating with you. If I don't give it to you, you'll resent me. I'll just treat it as spending money to ward off disaster."
Ash suddenly had an idea: "Come to think of it, when is your birthday? Do you want to hold a birthday party then?"
Harvey and Igula glanced at him, their eyes filled with the confusion of the Blood Moon people - how can we Blood Moon people have such a thing as birthdays?
However, they also lost the desire to argue. Igula said as he walked, "The Four Pillars suddenly contracted their defenses and abandoned multiple resource points in the past two days. There is no more detailed information, but Gwen believes that there is a big problem within the Four Pillars."
"Mercury Trojan is dead?"
"The death of the Mercury Trojan Horse will not make them give up their territory." Igula said, "But your thinking direction is correct - at least many people have died, so they don't have enough troops to garrison so much territory, so they can only shrink their defense line."
Ash said, "But aren't we in a standoff these days? Why are there so many deaths all of a sudden?"
Igula: "There are many possibilities. Maybe a meteorite hit and punished the Four Pillars of God. But Gwen mentioned a small incident in the past. She once selected all the believers between the ages of 25 and 28 in a small town and reported them to Mercury Trojan. Then after one night, no one woke up."
Ash frowned slightly, "Mercury Trojan killed them? Why?"
"At least it's not a whim, but for some benefit, and she has the ability to kill believers on a large scale." Igula shrugged: "Maybe she treats the believers as consumables."
Ash noticed something strange: "If that's the case, why choose young people between 25 and 28? If consumables are needed, why not choose someone older?"
"Because there are no older people in the wasteland." Harvey walked out of the hotel and said leisurely.
"Ah?" Ash was a little surprised, but Igula had expected it.
"I noticed this when we passed a few mass graves in cemeteries," Harvey said. "Most of the skeletons were under 28 years old. Occasionally there were skeletons over 28 years old, and they were basically magicians."
"Is it because wars are too frequent and most people die in their youth?"
“That’s the main reason, but there’s a secondary reason.”
Harvey said: "I have studied the skeletons of ordinary people and found something very interesting - from the age of 25, the bones begin to show gray and white necrosis, and the closer to 28 years old, the greater the necrosis contamination. Even if there is no war, ordinary people cannot live beyond 28 years old."
Ash was startled.
"Gene collapse disease." Igula said calmly: "The genes of Senluo people will begin to collapse at the age of 25, and they will die of systemic exhaustion at the age of 28. This is not a secret. After all, all ordinary people cannot live beyond the age of 28. The Senluo people have long discovered the reason."
"Why……?"
"It's a side effect of the incubator." Igula explained, "I don't know if the Gray Fox magicians can't invent a perfect incubator, or if they did it on purpose. Any baby born from an incubator will be threatened with genetic collapse. It's very simple to cure genetic collapse - become a magician."
"The strength of the soul will feed back to the body. The soul of a magician who has been trained in the sea of knowledge will automatically cure the genetic collapse disease in the body. Therefore, ordinary people cannot live beyond the age of 28, but magicians do not have this obstacle."
Ash immediately understood why Igula said that the Gray Fox Magician did it on purpose. How could the Gray Fox Magician, who could create so many fantasy creations, not even be able to make an incubator? They deliberately created the gene collapse disease to put a death sentence on all new lives!
Become a magician or die!
Ordinary people are not qualified to enjoy the prosperous age of gods created by the great ones!
But there is no doubt that the Gray Fox Age certainly provided many conveniences for ordinary people to become magicians. Their magician rate may reach more than 95%, and the side effects of the incubator are still bearable. But in the Senluo wasteland, most ordinary people who have lost the Gray Fox education system cannot become magicians!
I don't know whether it's lucky or unfortunate, the high intensity of the war covered this phenomenon, most people don't live past the age of 28. And those poor people who live to the age of 28, even the healers can't save their lives, they can only watch themselves die.
All major religious sects know the disadvantages of incubators, but no sect will choose natural childbirth. Not only because they need female productivity, but also because they do not need low-level labor over 28 years old.
"This is really..." Ash couldn't help but sneered: "It's better than the blood moon."
"I think Blood Moon is more advanced." Harvey spread his hands. "Even waste wood can be burned. Middle-aged and elderly people over 28 years old can still be squeezed out of some value. It's a waste to kill them all at once."
They arrived at the Fox Lantern Ice House, where the three Black Crows had already taken their seats. As usual, there was no food in front of Black Crow, and only half a portion of food in front of Ash. After Ash finished eating half, he would take Black Crow to eat the second round.
But tonight, after Ash finished half of his portion, he just sat there in a daze.
Not to mention Igula, even the orcs could see that the big boss was in a bad mood tonight: "Brother Ash, who are we going to kill? You talk and I do it!"
Chikala's shout made Ash think that he had become a bandit in the mountains.
"Is it because Silver Lantern stole the Bronze Law?" Gwen said.
Igula glared at her, and she immediately lowered her head to drink her tea. Ash was a little surprised, and then he realized that he hadn't heard from Silver Lantern for a long time.
"Nothing..." Ash said softly, "I just suddenly felt that no matter which country or time, magicians are a group of very bad creatures."
The range of this map cannon was too wide, and Black Crow was the only one in the entire Fox Lantern Ice Room that remained unscathed.
"In fact, it can't be said that they had malicious intent. They must have had good intentions at the beginning. They have the ability and the willingness, so they are qualified to graffiti the world. Some graffiti is still shining and beautiful, while some graffiti has become bloody and ugly. The only thing they have in common is that they are bad..."
"It's just that the walls never get to be chosen."
“But if you want the option, you have to be a strong person who can doodle.”
Harvey had no interest in paying attention to Ash and just lowered his head to eat the waterfall cake.
Igulla seemed to have something to say, but didn't say it.
Chikara fell into deep thought, Gwen was silent, and Black Crow looked at Ash quietly.
Ash is not suddenly sentimental, the story of the Gray Fox Warlock is just an inducement, he is already worried about his future. From Sword Lady's description of the Stars, it is clear that it is not easy for him to enter the Stars or take Sword Lady away from the Stars, not to mention whether Sword Lady is willing to leave the Stars.
Forget about the blood moon. The only place that is slightly safer is Gospel, but Gospel is still under the strong interference of the All-Knowing Weaver. There are endless ways to control the upper and lower. Whether Gospel is a safe place depends on the All-Knowing Weaver's thoughts.
He was really afraid that when he returned to Gospel, Liz would have become Her Majesty Diyin.
Ash had always had a fondness for the deceased Gray Fox God Era, and he wishfully believed that it was a beautiful era, so he wishfully let it go tonight.
He knew from Shattered Lake that if you want to pray for stability in this world, you have to be stronger than all those who pray for stability.
Because the security you pray for is not the same fantasy.
But how powerful do you have to be to hold happiness in your hands? If the sanctuary is not enough, is the legend enough?
Just like the Yisu Palace on that rainy night, he would also encounter times when he felt powerless.
But Ash knew very well that the main reason why he suddenly became excited tonight was that another path appeared before him.
"If, I say if." Ash said, "If I become a sorcerer who becomes stronger through killing in the future, what will you do?"
"Need I ask?" Harvey replied, "Of course I'm going to stop you."
"Yeah." Igula said calmly, "I actually have made several plans to deal with you."
Ash was a little surprised: "I thought you would come to help me."
"I would like to join you, but didn't you say before that if you turn bad, we would stop you?" Harvey said, "You will become a sorcerer, or become the touch of the Four Pillars God, or be controlled by someone's contract again."
"If you were not you, I would definitely stop you." The trickster said, "If you were still you, you would definitely beg me to stop you."
"That makes sense." Ash nodded, looked at Black Crow, and answered directly: "I understand, kill me, right?"
“No.” Black Crow shook his head: “If I find out that it is not your own will, I will stop you.”
"Then...what if it's my will?" Ash blinked and swallowed.
"I will help you."
Not only Ash and his friends, even Gwen, who had been silent, couldn't help but look over.
"If you want to become stronger through killing, I can help you." Black Crow said, "There are so many bad people in this world. If you kill one batch, another batch will appear. I am the best killing tool for you. I can help you find them. They all deserve to die anyway. It's better for them to be your stepping stones."
Igula couldn't help but ask, "What if there aren't so many bad guys?"
"If even he has no choice but to choose the path of killing," Black Crow said, "I don't think we should worry about this problem."
"But, Ash, why did you suddenly come up with this hypothesis?" Harvey asked while eating French fries, "Are you planning to go on a killing spree?"
"Actually, after hearing you guys talk so seriously, I'm embarrassed to say that I just had nothing to do after eating." Ash confessed, "But, I also realize that my idea is really too naive."
"Although I agree with your point of view," Igula said, "I think you have something more childish to say."
Ash spread his hands and smiled: "Rather than trying to get stronger when I get into trouble, it's better to cause trouble for you and urge you to get stronger to help me. After all..."
"I'm used to causing trouble for you too."
Without saying a word, Igula threw a piece of rare eye rib over to him. Ash opened his mouth and took a bite. While eating, he stood up and said, "Tamashi, let's start the second round!"
"Didn't you say you were full?"
"We've finished our main course, now it's time for a snack." Ash suddenly remembered something: "Oh, Tamashi, next time don't say you're the best killing tool of Crow Killer. Don't you have a more prestigious honorary title?"
Black Crow was startled.
"The best chef in Crow Killing!" Ash turned to Igula and said, "You know, Tamashi told me that the food in Fox Lantern Ice House is not as delicious as his! We have already made an appointment. When there is a chance, he will come to show us the pinnacle of Crow Killing's cooking skills..."
Black Crow hurriedly dragged Ash out to prevent him from continuing to reveal the truth here.
Igula watched the two disappear at the door. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked Harvey, "Can you judge a person's physical information through his daily movements?"
"The basic abilities of a necromancer," Harvey replied.
"That--"
"I can't say."
"I haven't asked yet."
…
…
The virtual world is far away in the empty space.
Ash and the other three opened their eyes in the initial bubble, and after distributing the initial collection, they flew out of the bubble, looking for the huge bubble where the ghost inheritance was located.
But after they flew away from the bubble, the first thing that came into view was not the ghost inheritance, but blood-red lightning.
A blood-red lightning as thick as a mountain range fiercely pierced into the golden bubble of ghost inheritance, continuously erupting with soul-shaking destructive power, continuously destroying the golden bubble!
All the Sanctuary magicians who witnessed this scene had the same thought in their minds without exception -
miracle!
The gods are finally going to intervene!
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