Richard frowned and fell into deep thought.

There was only one clue, which obviously meant that they were not the monsters he had killed in his nightmare.

Otherwise, it should be like a waterfall, with at least hundreds of messages flooding the screen, and the cumulative total would be more than 80,000 energy points.

Then the source of this energy point can only be provided by the so-called priest of the Nightmare Church after his death!

It was the man in black robe! But how could he provide energy points to the inspiration panel? All along, I thought that I could only get energy points by killing monsters.

It has been proven before that you will not gain energy points by killing night elves.

How come this time, after this strange Nightmare Church priest was killed, he was able to gain energy points? Richard couldn't figure out the reason for a while.

After Richard carried Stephanie back to the room, he found that Stephanie was breathing evenly, but her originally fair forehead was a little red and swollen, probably because she was dizzy due to a heavy blow to the head.

After letting her lie alone on the bed and have a good rest, Richard began to think about a question. The witchcraft cast by the man in black robe was still fresh in his memory.

Although I don't know the name of the strange witchcraft performed by the other party, I can still roughly summarize its effects.

It seems that anyone who is contaminated by the dark green mist will be instantly pulled into a nightmare.

Nightmares are not dreams.

All the damage suffered in the nightmare will eventually manifest in reality.

So, I must have accidentally used the correct response method just now. After killing all the monsters in the nightmare, I successfully walked out of the nightmare and returned to reality.

No, not necessarily, Richard shook his head.

It is also possible that the energy of the dark green mist was exhausted, so I was able to return to reality from the nightmare. If the energy was not exhausted, I might still be in the nightmare, fighting monsters non-stop.

Whatever the explanation.

Those gray dwarf city guards obviously did not hold out in the nightmare and sank.

Or maybe he was killed by a monster in the nightmare, so he died immediately in reality. Just a dark green mist could easily take away more than a dozen patrol soldiers at the wizard apprentice level, and almost killed himself, a first-level formal wizard. This kind of witchcraft is really weird! From this point of view, the human wave tactics should be meaningless to the Nightmare Church. It will only be easily swept away by the other party, dragging all the people into the nightmare, resulting in the death of a large number of people, and becoming the other party's tribute to the evil god.

Of course, all of the above are just my own guesses, although Richard believes that they should be very close to the facts.

But speculation is always speculation, it would be better to have something to support it.

Richard decided that after Stephanie woke up, he would go to the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood immediately to check the records about the Nightmare Church.

“Boom boom boom!”

There was a rapid knock on the door.

"Master, I heard that you were attacked by the Nightmare Church. Are you okay?" It was Gorkan's voice.

Richard felt relieved and went forward to open the door.

Gorkan was relieved to see that Richard was safe and sound, and said, "Master, I'm glad you're okay."

Richard waved his hand and said, "It's just right that you're here. I'll trouble you to take care of Stephanie while I go to the headquarters of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood to find out the situation."

"As you command, my master!"

After saying that, Richard turned and left the room.

At this moment, Stephanie suddenly moaned, her eyelashes moved slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes.

However, when she saw Richard, her face was slightly horrified, and she said, "Master, you, you have recovered?"

Richard raised his eyebrows and asked in a slightly surprised tone: "Hey! Stephanie, did I attack you just now?"

Stephanie's tone just now made Richard react in an instant. The strange expression on her face when she looked at him showed that the problem was obviously with him.

Given the original relationship between the two, Stephanie would always look at him lovingly, so it was impossible for her to be frightened.

Stephanie let out a long sigh, looking relieved of her stress, and said with a smile, "Master, you were so terrible just now. You attacked the flowers and trees around you crazily in the garden. As soon as I came over, you knocked me out with two hits!"

Richard also realized that his condition was obviously caused by the strange witchcraft.

Without wasting any more time, Richard comforted her:

"Stephania, you should have a good rest first. I'm going to the headquarters of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood and will be back soon." - Headquarters of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood.

When Richard stepped into the hall, he saw that most of the wizards and apprentices who used to have smiling faces now had serious expressions.

Many people were whispering in the hall, seemingly discussing words such as "nightmare" and "death toll".

I think they also knew about the battle that just took place in Tug City. It seems that there were quite a lot of deaths and the impact was quite wide, so the news spread so quickly.

Yes, this kind of news involving cults may be blocked among civilians.

But this happened right under the noses of wizards, and as the power class, it was impossible for them to keep this information secret from the wizards.

It is estimated that within a day, most wizards in Tug City will know about this sudden incident.

Richard did not stop and went directly to the information room on the second floor and began to look up relevant information about the Nightmare Church.

There is not much information about the Nightmare Church. Many of them are extremely old books, each of which is almost thicker than a modern Chinese dictionary. The cover is made of unknown animal skin and decorated with copper plates.

Richard picked up the thickest book and flipped through it quickly.

"The Church of Nightmare is a widespread cult that worships Il'gynoth, the god of nightmares."

".The entire organizational structure is divided into bishops, priests, deacons and ordinary believers. After committing many horrific massacres, it was designated as a cult by the major intelligent races in the Underdark more than 2,000 years ago and was eradicated."

“.”

After closing the thick book, I flipped through several other books and found that the basic contents were all similar.

This made Richard slowly fall into thought. Basically, ever since the Nightmare Church was listed as a cult, it had disappeared. Unexpectedly, it is now gradually beginning to reappear.

This is not a good sign! There are many books in the reference room that give a general introduction to the Nightmare Church, but they are vague about the specific witchcraft performed by the members of the other party, and most of the content is about ordinary believers, so it is of little reference value.

The sacrifices of the Nightmare Church are described in only one or two books.

One of the books mentioned that the witchcraft cast by the other party was the dark green mist, which seemed to be called the coming of a nightmare.

It can target a single person, like the dark green fog that attacked him, and it can also target a group, like the large dark green fog that the city guards encountered.

The ancient gray dwarf wizards classified the opponent's witchcraft as evil power or magical witchcraft.

Of course, there are slight differences in the translations in the languages ​​of different races. The Hutt language calls it magic witchcraft, while the Akkadian language calls it evil witchcraft. The meanings are basically the same. The energy sources of these witchcrafts all come from the power of evil gods from another world.

For cultists, this is the so-called gift or reward from the evil god.

Obviously, only cultists who have deep faith in the other party can perform this magic! This completely frustrated Richard's desire to learn this magic.

However, there are similar witchcraft in the spiritual system, such as sleeping spell, dream shroud, illusion advent, etc.

There was also a sentence mentioned in the ancient book that made Richard particularly memorable: the witchcraft of Nightmare is coming. As long as the cultist who casts the spell has higher mental power than the enemy, he can forcibly pull himself into the nightmare.

It can be said to be a model of using high to defeat low.

This gave Richard a deep sense of crisis.

"It seems that I have to speed up my pace again."

"Fortunately, I have earned more than 80,000 energy points now."

"Moreover, I will soon receive a large amount of magic stones."

“So many things can be done now.”

An hour later, Richard arrived on the first floor.

In addition to the reception hall, a large area on the first floor is also divided out as a mission hall.

Therefore, the first-floor hall of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood is also the most lively hall.

"Master Levi, hello, what task do you want to issue?" A young gray dwarf maid swiped Levi's mithril emblem with a "beep" sound, and said with a sweet smile.

"I want to issue a task about repairing a low-level wizard weapon."

"It's about the type of witchcraft weapon. For example, metal weapons generally require the repairer to have the qualifications of a rune forger, while animal fur weapons generally require the repairer to have the qualifications of an elemental leatherworker."

"A cane."

"A rattan cane, right? Are there any qualifications for the people who take on the task? If it's a plant-based cane, it generally requires an inscriptionist with a senior or master title. Also, what's your reward?"

"Master level, right? As for the reward, 20,000 magic stones." Richard thought for a few seconds.

Although I want to find someone to repair it as soon as possible, I cannot lower the quality requirements.

Richard himself is an alchemy master, so he naturally knows the difference between senior titles and master titles.

Especially for a relatively honest race like the gray dwarves, there is rarely any fraud in their skills. They basically hone their skills step by step.

"Okay, Master Levi, I have already posted your task. Kindly remind you that if you need an inscription master to help you repair it, it may take a long time."

"I understand." Richard nodded. He also understood this.

But there is no other good solution at the moment.

There are ten times as many master runesmiths as inscription masters among the gray dwarves.

He also thought about it and decided to put the task on hold for a while. If it really didn't work, he might have to trouble Vice President Hawkins and ask him to introduce him to an inscription master.

After a while, compared to the assets he had, he would be able to hire an inscription master at a high price.

After publishing the task.

Richard was holding a crooked rattan staff and walking slowly back to his villa with a calm expression.

The staff is about 1.4 meters long, with a curved body that looks like a thick vine.

The top end is thicker, similar to a tuberous rhizome, while the other end is relatively thinner.

This is the mutant summoning staff!

Taking into account the recent unstable situation, Richard did not choose to leave the mission item in the mission hall, but chose the second method, that is, when someone accepts the repair task, the staff of the mission hall will come to Richard to pick it up.

The role that the mutated summoning staff played before Richard was promoted to a formal wizard is naturally self-evident. It allowed Richard to summon abominations that could only be summoned by formal undead wizards.

But since Richard was promoted, he has learned the first-level sorcery of summoning abomination. This low-level magic weapon has no special effect on Richard except for slightly improving the success rate of summoning.

Originally, Richard wanted to discard the Mutant Summoning Staff.

But one day, Richard suddenly had an idea and studied the runes on the damaged part of this low-level magical weapon. He found that the damaged part might be quite critical.

You should know that even if it is damaged, the effect of this low-level magical weapon is quite good: if the holder uses the staff to communicate with the undead world, the success rate of summoning will be improved. At the same time, the summoned undead creatures will be forcibly converted into an abomination.

If it could be repaired, the mutated summoning staff in good condition might give him some unexpected surprises.

Richard had a vague premonition about this. After returning to the villa, Richard went to visit Stephanie and confirmed that she was fine.

Richard came to the alchemy room on the second underground floor alone.

Originally, he wanted to sell a portion of his rye beer shares and then buy formal wizard-level monsters to kill himself so as to accumulate a large amount of energy points.

But now it seems that I can start making the blood and bone puppet in advance.

No more hesitation!

[I found that the host is learning to make a blood-bone puppet. Yes/No, consume energy to gain inspiration for making a blood-bone puppet? 】

For this kind of high-level puppet production which involves great difficulty, it is necessary to consume a large amount of energy points in order to make any progress.

So Richard dragged the slider to 30,000 without hesitation and selected "Yes!"

After a dizzying moment, Richard's soul came to the dream space. It was still an environment similar to that of an alchemy room. On the ground in the middle of the room lay a thick, white skeleton. It was the skeleton of the ogre.

There was also a blurry figure, who was bending over and checking something beside the skeleton.

In an instant, Richard possessed the human figure. After several upgrades, looking at the [Skill]: Blood Bone Puppet Making (Extreme) on the inspiration panel, Richard smiled with satisfaction.

However, when Richard saw that there were only more than 5,000 energy points left at the bottom of the panel, he smiled bitterly again.

I thought that more than 80,000 energy points would be enough for me to use for a while.

But I didn't expect that making a blood bone puppet would consume a lot of energy points! The energy points consumed to reach the limit were no less than those of ordinary first-level witchcraft.

After thinking about it, Richard could understand that the Blood Bone Puppet was, after all, an advanced puppet, and the difficulty of making it was obvious.

Moreover, he had just upgraded the two witchcrafts that matched the blood and bone puppet, the necromancy and the bone demon reincarnation ritual, to the extreme level.

That’s why so many energy points are consumed at one time.

With the experience of making blood-bone puppets at the ultimate level, Richard was confident that he could make almost perfect use of the ogre skeleton at hand to create a blood-bone puppet with combat power at least equivalent to that of a high-level first-order puppet.

You know, Richard's current mental power is only at the initial level of level one (27% atomization). It is rare for the puppet he created to be able to fight against a high-level wizard of level one.

Generally speaking, this situation only exists among those gray dwarf puppet masters who are hundreds of years old.

They are busy studying puppetry, and their own cultivation is only at the middle or high level of level one, but the strength of the high-level combat puppets they create is one or two levels higher than themselves. They can even create second-level combat puppets, such as giant war golems.

If the production experience is only at the mastery level, it is very likely that the finished product will only be a first-stage blood-bone puppet, equivalent to the strength of the maker himself.

In addition, what makes the Blood Bone Puppet different from other advanced combat puppets is that a small part of its combat effectiveness is linked to the strength of the creator himself.

As Richard's strength continues to increase, the Blood Bone Puppet will also improve synchronously.

Moreover, once the blood and bone puppet is successfully made, it can be sent back to the world of the dead and wait for the next summons from its master. This is the same as the vengeful spirit abomination.

(End of this chapter)