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."
亚修说道：“但这些日子不是在对峙吗？怎么会突然大量死人？”
伊古拉：“可能性有很多，说不定有颗陨石砸下来神罚四柱神教呢？但格温提及以前一件小事，她曾经将一个小镇里所有年龄在25岁到28岁的教徒挑出来统计，汇报给水银木马。然后过了一晚，所有人都不再醒来。”
亚修微微皱眉：“水银木马杀了他们？为什么？”
“至少不是出于一时兴起，而是为了某种利益，并且她有这种大范围杀戮教徒的能力。”伊古拉耸耸肩：“可能将教徒当做耗材吧。”
亚修发现一个奇怪的点：“既然这样，为什么选25岁到28岁的青年？如果需要耗材，为什么不选更老的人？”
“因为废土没有更老的人。”哈维走出旅馆，悠悠说道。
“啊？”亚修有些惊讶，伊古拉却是早有预料。
“我们经过几个坟场乱葬岗的时候，我就注意到了。”哈维说道：“绝大多数骸骨都在28岁以下，偶尔有超过28岁的骸骨，基本都是术师。”
“是因为战争太过频繁，大多数人都在青年时死去？”
“这是主要原因，但还有一个次要原因。”
哈维说道：“我研究过普通人的骸骨，发现一些很有意思的地方——从25岁开始，骨头就开始出现灰白坏质，越是接近28岁，坏质污染范围就越大。就算没有战争，普通人也不可能活过28岁。”
亚修一怔。
“基因崩坏病。”伊古拉平静说道：“森罗人25岁就会开始基因崩坏，28岁走向全身衰竭而亡。这不是什么秘密，毕竟所有普通人都活不过28岁，森罗人早就发现原因了。”
“为什么……？”
“育婴器的副作用。”伊古拉解释道：“我不知道是灰狐术师没法发明出完美的育婴器，还是他们故意为之。但凡是育婴器出生的婴儿，都会伴随着基因崩坏的威胁，想治愈基因崩坏非常简单——成为术师。”
“灵魂的强大会反哺肉体，在知识之海锻炼过的术师灵魂，会自动治好体内的基因崩坏病。因此普通人活不过28岁，但术师却没这个障碍。”
亚修立刻明白伊古拉为什么说灰狐术师是故意为之——能创造那么多幻想造物的灰狐术师，怎么可能连育婴器都做不好？他们是故意创造基因崩坏病，给所有新生命上一道催命索！
不成为术师，就去死！
普通人，没资格享受伟大者创造的神代盛世！
但毫无疑问，灰狐神代里肯定给普通人提供了许多成为术师的便利，他们的术师率恐怕能达到95％以上，育婴器的副作用还可以承受。但在森罗废土，失去灰狐教育体系的普通人，绝大多数都不能成为术师！
不知道是幸运还是不幸，高烈度的战争覆盖了这个现象，大多数人根本活不到28岁往后。而那些活到28岁的可怜人，连治疗术师都无法拯救他们的生命，他们只能眼睁睁看着自己走向死亡。
各大教派都知道育婴器的缺点，但没有教派会选择自然生育。不仅是因为他们需要女性生产力，更因为他们也不需要28岁以上的低级劳动力。
“这可真是……”亚修忍不住讥讽道：“比血月更胜一筹啊。”
“我倒是觉得血月更先进。”哈维摊摊手：“就算是废柴也能烧，28岁以上的中老年人，还是能稍微压榨出点价值的，一刀切全部宰了实在太浪费了。”
他们来到狐灯冰室，黑鸦三人早已在里面占好位置。跟往常一样，黑鸦面前没有吃的，亚修面前只有半份食物，亚修吃完一半就会带黑鸦去吃第二轮。
但今晚亚修吃完半份，就一直坐在那发呆。
别说伊古拉，就连兽人都看出大领导今晚心情不好：“亚修哥哥，咱们要去砍谁，你说话，我办事！”
奇卡拉这一嗓子，喊得亚修都以为自己上山落草了。
“是因为银灯抢走了青铜律大法？”格温说道。
伊古拉瞪了她一眼，她立刻低头喝奶茶。亚修有些惊讶，这才发现自己已经好久没听过银灯的消息。
“也没什么……”亚修轻声说道：“只是忽然觉得，无论哪个国度，无论哪个时间，术师都是一群很恶劣的生物。”
这地图炮范围实在太广，整个狐灯冰室只有黑鸦毫发无损。
“其实也不能说是恶意，他们当初肯定都是怀着善意。他们有能力，有意愿，所以有资格涂鸦世界。有的涂鸦仍然闪耀美丽，有的涂鸦变得血腥丑陋，他们唯一相同的恶劣之处……”
“只是墙壁从来都没得选。”
“但如果想要选择权，就必须成为能涂鸦的强者。”
哈维没兴趣理会亚修，低头狂吃瀑布蛋糕。
伊古拉似乎有话，但没有说。
奇卡拉陷入沉思，格温沉默，黑鸦静静看着亚修。
亚修并非是突如其来的多愁善感，灰狐术师的故事只是诱因，他本来就对自己的未来充满担忧。从剑姬对繁星的描述就知道，无论是他进入繁星，还是想从繁星带走剑姬，都绝不容易，更别提剑姬愿不愿意离开繁星还难说。
血月就别提了，唯一稍微安全点的就是福音，但福音仍在全知织主的强力干涉下。以上御下，方法无穷，福音是不是安稳之地，只在于全知织主的一念之间。
他真的害怕回去福音的时候，莉丝已经变成了笛音陛下。
亚修对已经逝去的灰狐神代本来充满好感，他一厢情愿以为那是一个美好的时代，所以今晚也一厢情愿地塌房了。
他从碎湖就知道，想要在这个世界祈求安稳，那你就得比所有祈求安稳的人都要强大。
因为你们祈求的安稳，并不是同一个幻想。
但到底要多强大，才能将幸福握在手里？圣域还不够，传奇就够了吗？
就像那个雨夜里的依苏皇宫，他也是会遇到无能为力的时候。
不过亚修很清楚，他今晚忽然心情激**的主要原因，其实他眼前出现了另外一条路。
“如果，我说如果。”亚修说道：“我如果未来变成一个通过杀戮变强的邪术师，你们会怎么办？”
“还用问吗？”哈维即答：“当然是阻止你啊。”
“嗯。”伊古拉平静说道：“我其实已经做好几个对付你的预案了。”
亚修有些惊讶：“我还以为你们会来帮我呢。”
“我倒是想加入你的行列，但你之前不是说过，如果你变坏了就让我们阻止你吗？”哈维说道：“你会变成邪术师，要么是成为四柱神的触觉，要么是又被什么人契约控制了。”
“如果你不是你，我肯定要阻止你。”欺诈师说道：“如果你还是你，你肯定会祈求我来阻止你。”
“有道理。”亚修点点头，看向黑鸦，直接抢答：“我懂，杀了我是吧？”
“不。”黑鸦摇头：“如果发现不是你的自我意志，我会阻止你。”
“那……如果是我的意志呢？”亚修眨眨眼睛，咽了口唾沫。
“我会帮你。”
不仅仅是亚修他们几个，就连一直不说话的格温也忍不住看过去。
“如果你是想通过杀戮变强，我能帮你。”黑鸦说道：“这世上坏人那么多，杀了一批又长出一批。我是鸦杀尽最好的杀人工具，我能帮你将他们找出来，反正他们都该死，还不如成为你的踏脚石。”
伊古拉忍不住杠道：“万一没那么多坏人呢？”
“如果连他都只能选杀戮这条路，”黑鸦说道：“我觉得应该不用担心这个问题。”
“不过，亚修你怎么突然提出这种假设？”哈维吃着薯条，问道：“是准备大开杀戒吗？”
“其实听你们说得这么严重，我都不好意思说我只是吃饱了没事干。”亚修坦白道：“不过，我也发现我这种想法实在是太幼稚了。”
“虽然我很赞成你的观点。”伊古拉说道：“但我觉得你还有更幼稚的话想说出来。”
亚修摊手，笑道：“相比起遇到麻烦才想办法自己变强，还不如找你们麻烦，催促你们变强来帮我。毕竟……”
“我也习惯给你们添麻烦了。”
伊古拉二话不说扔了块七分熟的眼肉过去，亚修张口咬住，边吃边站起来说道：“塔玛希，走，开始第二轮！”
“你不是说你吃饱了吗？”
“正餐吃饱了，接下来是小吃时间。”亚修忽然想起什么：“对了塔玛希，你下次可别说自己是鸦杀尽最好的杀人工具了，你不是还有一个更响当当的荣誉称号吗？”
黑鸦一怔。
“鸦杀尽最好的厨师！”亚修转头跟伊古拉说道：“你知道吗，塔玛希跟我说过，狐灯冰室的出品都不如他做的好吃！我们已经约好了，等什么时候有机会，他就来给我们展现一下登峰造极的鸦杀尽厨艺……”
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!