Chapter 308 Follower Card: Earthbound Spirit
Hearing Aiwas' voice, the receptionist was suddenly startled and woke up.
"Are you...going to stay here overnight?"
He looked intently at Aiwass, then at Sherlock, who had a sour face, and the storm outside. Suddenly, he understood and answered fluently, "A clean room with dinner for two, four red coins and three copper coins. What's your name? I'll register it."
"Are your prices pretty stable?"
"Indeed," the receptionist nodded, "It's been the same price for so many years."
"When I came here 60 years ago, the price was about the same. I didn't expect that after 60 years, this place hasn't changed at all."
Aiwass replied calmly.
When the receptionist heard this, he paused in his work.
Then he raised his head with a terrified expression as if he had seen a ghost.
Aiwass patted his head without any hesitation: "Are you a ghost or am I a ghost? Call your boss out!"
"The boss is not here..."
The front desk clerk whispered.
But he was interrupted by Aiwass: “No, your boss is here.
"—I need to see Alice. I have an appointment."
As Aiwass finished speaking, the body of the receptionist gradually became transparent.
His expression gradually became indifferent. He then raised his head to look at Aiwass, Sherlock, and Liz standing behind them, then slowly floated back into the counter.
The oil lamp flickered briefly before going out. The hotel lobby suddenly became dim, with only the faint light from outside shining in.
"What's going on?"
Sherlock was a little nervous.
In the darkness, he approached cautiously and whispered, "Why did you reveal your hand so directly?"
"Because I do have an appointment."
Aiwass was not nervous at all.
He took out the cards he had prepared in advance, as well as various ritual materials, from his pocket, placed them neatly at the hotel front desk, and began to prepare the cards.
"You're wrong about one thing, Sherlock. You're not right about Alice being the innocent girl she was sixty years ago.
"During the last promotion ceremony, what we experienced was indeed what happened sixty years ago. It was indeed Alice, who had just become an earthbound spirit sixty years ago... But in fact, the person who pretended to be Alice was the real Alice.
"I had a mission at the time, which was to kill the possessed earthbound spirit Alice. Perhaps in real history, she possessed someone, but she regretted it... That's why she didn't possess anyone until the very end during the Ascension Ceremony.
"—In other words, Alice at that time was Alice beyond the Ascension Ceremony."
As Aiwass busied himself, he whispered, "Why was our ceremony absent? I've thought about it for a long time, and there might be a reason... Alice's intrusion took up a place in the ceremony."
Aiwass had previously told Lily that long ago, there were no apostles presiding over the Trial Fields. At that time, phantom demons would lurk nearby, intruding into the ascension rituals and devouring the souls of the transcendents who participated.
"But Alice sneaked in and didn't attack us."
Hearing this, Sherlock reacted: "She is not coming for our souls, but..."
“She was asking us for help.
"Because the Reverend said, the earthbound spirits here are incredibly powerful, even the Bishop can't handle them. And since this place was sealed, there haven't been any reports of disappearances... In other words, she hasn't consumed anyone's soul except those desperate fugitives. The reversed sign was obviously changed after the ceremony, because she was worried that it would scare us away and stop looking for her.
"Earthbound spirits are ultimately undead. If they can't feed on souls and replenish their dusk power, they will eventually perish.
"And as for this ghost girl, who was crushed into the foundations as a human pillar from the time she could barely read, transformed into a groundbound spirit... and then there were no more visitors here, left alone for a full sixty years. I don't think she wanted to disappear like this.
"Then, to put it the other way around...why was she able to enter the promotion ceremony right under Merlin's nose? Merlin wasn't unaware of her existence, but rather tacitly approved of her presence..."
As Aiwass spoke, he completely swept the dust off the "Death Card".
A skeleton rode on a pale mare, holding a rose banner. People fell before him like ears of wheat, and resistance was futile.
Everything else is ready and just laid out there.
Sherlock didn't know what kind of ceremony Aiwass was going to hold, and stood there nervously.
At this moment, the candlelight that had been extinguished suddenly lit up again, and then began to flicker violently.
Every time the light flickered, a little girl with purple-brown hair would appear, and when the light went out, she would disappear again.
Sherlock took a sharp breath, his nerves suddenly tense.
Even though Aiwass claimed she meant no harm, Sherlock couldn't help but clench his fists. The four elements of mana flowed through him at high speed, ready to be unleashed.
Finally, the flames went out completely again.
As a bright flash of lightning passed by, the girl who had become translucent appeared quietly in front of Aiwass.
She didn't play like she was supposed to in the ceremony.
Instead, she quietly placed something black on the table and glanced at Sherlock. As the lightning dissipated, thunder roared, and she disappeared again.
Aiwass reached out and touched it, and the attribute panel appeared in front of him:
[Corrupted Demon Hunter +3]
【Superb Weapon (Purple)】
[Firearm, revolver, capacity five rounds]
【9mm Bullet (0/5)】
[Features: The bullets it fires become cursed bullets, significantly increasing damage to flesh and blood]
[Corrupted Style: This gun has been corrupted and needs to be repaired before it can be used.]
[Module - Fragile Focus: When no damage is taken for five seconds, accuracy gradually increases, reaching maximum after fifteen seconds of no damage.]
[Module-Elegant Aiming: Accuracy is significantly improved]
[Module - Panic Draw: The accuracy of the first bullet is reduced and the damage is greatly increased]
"You like this..."
A light voice sounded, but with a hint of fear, like a child who had done something naughty and suddenly became very obedient and a little nervous: "I'll give it to you. But it might be broken..."
Obviously.
This was Agni's weapon from sixty years ago.
Unlike Jacob, he did not escape. This 0/5 magazine revealed his final fear and despair.
Over the past sixty years, Alice, with nowhere to go, has clearly worn the gun down. The subtle changes to its name, features, style, and modules are proof of this.
Although she discovered during the ceremony that Aiwass was very interested in the gun... she could no longer give the original gun to Aiwass.
That's why she was a little scared.
Seeing this very obvious friendly gesture, Sherlock immediately reacted.
"I understand...it's Weizhe!"
The souls of those who have died but still exist are stripped from the six realms. Generally speaking, the dead have no intelligence or "personality".
But it was clear... both the Alice in the ritual and the Alice now possessed intelligence. It wasn't high, but it was there.
Wei Zhe did have this hobby—he liked to sign contracts with the dead and grant them wisdom. The Wild Hunt was like that, so it wasn't surprising that he was giving it to Alice.
only……
"If she just wants to rest in peace," Sherlock said, puzzled, "what's the difference between quietly disappearing and being driven away?"
"Let's not even mention the difference between watching yourself slowly die and being unable to do anything about it, and dying quickly..."
As Aiwass spoke, he injected his dark magic power into the amber: "Perhaps what she is expecting is that I can take her away from here."
The originally golden-red amber turned dark at a speed visible to the naked eye, like burnt charcoal.
——A full thirty points of dark mana.
Enough mana to construct the "Venue Card: Shadow Cellar" was invested by Aiwass.
"So you can do it?"
Sherlock asked in return: "To make the earthbound spirit no longer 'earthbound' and change its life essence?"
"I really can."
Aiwass said calmly.
He placed the charcoal-like amber on top of the Death Card, and then picked up the "Water of the Yellow Spring" taken from the swamp of Eagle Point Village - this was the name that Aiwas had just given it.
If thirty points of dark mana are used to seal the earthbound spirit, Alice can be turned into one's temporary summoned creature.
——[Follower Card: Earthbound Spirit].
If she wants to rest in peace, then just use 20 mana points to craft [Spell Card: Nightmare Grasp]. That way, once her power is drained, it will naturally dissipate.
You can live or leave, it's up to you. She's not in Aiwass's plan for now anyway.
So, if nothing unexpected happens... this should be a test from Weizhe.
Aiwass had borrowed the power of the Celestial God and the Pillar God too many times. Although the sheep being fleeced didn't react, it was natural for the clever sheep watching nearby to become suspicious after seeing a sheep being fleeced.
But it doesn't matter.
The secrets of this part of the Great Sin Scholar can be told to Them.
The secret that Aiwass cannot really tell... is the Tail Ring Ceremony and the fall of the future Pillar God.
The former foreshadows the deprivation of Tiansi's power, while the latter indicates the death of the pillar god.
Compared to this, everything else is a minor issue. If Mr. Weizhe wants to see it, then come and see it.
——Maybe next time I’ll call out your name.
Then Aiwass raised the corners of his mouth slightly and recited in a low voice:
"I call upon Amber, the god of the sacred number nine, the god of the pinnacle of perfection, the god of eternal perfection—"
As he said that, Aiwass poured the "Water of the Yellow Spring" on it.
But the water didn't soak the tarot cards. Instead, it solidified like ice... As Aiwass poured it out, the dim yellow water flowed over the tarot cards and spread across the table in the foreground. The grave soil also melted into it, and together with the water, it solidified into a thin, dirty, dim yellow layer of ice.
"Alice."
Aiwass took two steps back and called softly: "It's your turn. Make your own choice - you will understand."
Soon, the candle flame flickered and lit up again.
The illusory little girl, who had become translucent, appeared silently beside Aiwass.
She tiptoed and placed her hand on the tarot card.
The card gradually changed its image under the thin ice surface.
The skeleton knight who originally rode a white horse gradually turned into a skeleton king who was as black as charcoal and held a scythe.
In the lower right corner of the painting is a blue scorpion, symbolizing the death of the body. To the left of the scorpion is a lily shaped like the letter "α," and to the right is a lotus shaped like the letter "Ω," implying that the body exists between the beginning and the end.
The skull has an eagle on its black crown – a symbol of spiritual death.
On the left side of the picture is a snake entangled with a fish, which symbolizes fatal death.
Beneath the scythe was a beheaded man. A soul floated out from within...
——This symbolizes the death of the soul, and also symbolizes the rebirth after death.
The Death card represents the end, death, but it also foreshadows rebirth after death.
Finally, with Alice gone, the dark inn became bright again. The storm outside also disappeared without a trace.
The card automatically floated up and flew into Aiwas's hand.
The attributes of the card automatically appeared in his eyes:
[Follower: Earthbound Spirit (Death God)]
Level 40
[Twilight Path, Dark Attribute]
[Required: Dark 3]
Action, Summon
[Effect: Designate an enemy target, causing them to hallucinate, then summon the Earthbound Spirit "Alice" to fight for you. The Earthbound Spirit is considered a summoned creature and lasts for one minute. The hallucination disappears immediately after the Earthbound Spirit is killed or dissipates. The Earthbound Spirit's duration is refreshed after the hallucinated enemy target is killed.]
The second chapter of Three Thousand Six Hundred is here, meow!
You don't have to worry too much about the length. If you are in good health and have good grades, you can of course write more. Three and a half million words is just the outline set before the book was published. The outline is not fixed and can be modified.
So you have to support cats more. You can only pet cats when they are fat.
(End of this chapter)
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