Chapter 22 Transformation of Shadows

"Hide this book."

Richard handed a book to Vashj.

"Is this... the Book of the Sages?"

"Yes, I have already put a seal on this book, barely suppressing its shadow energy. You put it away, and no one can read it without my order."

"Yes, master."

"The blue crystal must be encrypted, and we can't let what happened to Analoze happen again."

"Yes, master!"

The incident of Analoze's raid on the Red Moon Guide has now been found out. Analoze found the blue crystal that can be used for transmission from the fallen soldiers and deciphered it. He also found the Dragonblood Warrior while Gerhard was fighting with Selena and took her Dragon Slayer Sword, causing Vashj to be slightly injured and the Dragonblood Warrior to be seriously injured. Then she used the blue crystal to teleport to the Red Moon Guide and collected it. Then she found the room of the Sun Furnace and was defeated by Richard.

"In addition, I want to see the report of this battle, especially the actual combat analysis of the new weapons."

"Yes, Master."

Vashj left the room, and Richard took out the Holy Grail and began to assimilate.

In the previous battle, Analoze used the power of Holy Light at the end, and her body was originally full of the power of Shadow. At the last moment of her life, Analoze used the Holy Grail to transform the shadow energy in her body into the power of Holy Light, which scared Richard. The only weakness of Richard's body is Holy Light.

After all, Holy Light and Shadow are eternal enemies.

But after getting the Holy Grail, Richard had a crazy idea. The shadow power in Analoze's body can be transformed into the power of Holy Light, so can the shadow power in his body be transformed into the power of Holy Light? This is worth a try.

The process of assimilating the Holy Grail is very simple. Just like assimilating the other two artifacts, it is to infuse one's own energy. The difference is the amount of energy infused. If the unit of the Holy Grail is 1, the Crimson Moon Guide is 2, and the Solar Furnace is even higher.

The assimilation of the Holy Grail was completed smoothly. Richard held the Holy Grail in both hands, infusing the energy into the Holy Grail with his left hand, and absorbing the energy transferred by the Holy Grail with his right hand. The process was extremely painful. When light and darkness meet, they will instinctively attack each other. Richard's right half of the body was constantly broken, and then reassembled under the powerful self-healing ability of the ancient god. I don't know how many times it has been reconstructed. The power of shadow and the power of holy light each occupied half of the body and became peaceful.

Richard wiped the blood and sweat from his head. He suddenly admired Analoze. This kind of pain was unbearable. I don't know how she endured it at that time. Even if she killed herself with this trick, she couldn't survive. In order to achieve the goal, she was willing to sacrifice her own life. Is this the power of faith? The power of fanatics is really terrible.

Richard took a shower and tested the power in his body. This transformation was unexpected. In addition to transforming the shadow power in the body into holy light, the newly generated holy light can also be transformed into shadow. Although these new shadow powers are much weaker than those left by Enzos, they are better than being completely under his control without the breath of the ancient gods.

"Master, there is a new situation in the Sun Furnace." Vashj reported urgently.

"Got it."

Richard hurriedly went to the Solar Furnace.

"What happened?"

"The Solar Furnace's energy is less than half, causing the current production to partially stagnate."

"Why did this happen?"

"After investigation, it was found that it consumed too much energy in the last battle."

"Huh? Does the new equipment consume so much energy?"

"No..." Vashj hesitated.

"Tell me."

"Yes, Master. More than half of the energy consumed was consumed by you."

"Me?" Richard pointed at himself and suddenly thought of something. "Is it that 'grenade'?"

Vashj nodded.

Richard recalled carefully that he didn't seem to have thrown many grenades. Uh, it seemed...

In the battle that day, Richard had a lot of fun throwing grenades. He threw a bunch of them and had more and more fun. The workers in the back rushed to make grenades for the boss to have fun. Anyway, the production process was simple (rotten crystal - energy infusion - finished product), about one every ten seconds. The supply was sufficient, so Richard didn't know how many he threw. He had a lot of fun, but he didn't expect to consume so much energy just for playing.

Richard knelt on the ground and said weakly: "Do you have any idea about the magic guns I mentioned before?"

"No."

Richard gritted his teeth and said: "Tell Zonoz! If he can't find a technician who knows these techniques, I will throw him into this furnace and drain his energy!" Zonoz was sent to attack the human kingdom after being experimented on by Richard.

"Yes, Master."

Richard looked up at the dark sun furnace and felt the fear of being hollowed out again.

"My body... my energy... my kidneys... oh, I don't have kidneys now..."

"Primathis, is there any story about Zanfad and Analoze?"

The day after being hollowed out again, Richard found Primathis and asked about the three syllables Analoze said before his death.

Primadis tightened the screws for Ian, tidied her hair, and said, "Analoze was originally named Philibos. She was an alchemist. She was recruited by Zanfad, the former king of Kulizani, and fell in love with Zanfad while working for Kulizani. But the difference in their status meant that they were destined to be unable to be together. Analoze then devoted herself to research and even recruited disciples... me and Guilt. But no matter how hard she wanted to forget, she couldn't, and she always talked about him..."

Ian served tea to the two of them.

"Thank you, Ain. Later, Zanphod married the human princess Muse who was suffering from a fatal disease. The woman didn't know when she would die, but Zanphod and Muse lived a sweet life. Analoze saw it all. She worked harder in those days, stayed in the laboratory all day, and became irritable. Guilt was scolded every day. However, Zanphod ordered his most trusted alchemist to conduct diplomacy for marriage. It was during this period that she got the Book of Sages. From then on, she seemed to have become a different person and acted strangely. After Zanphod died, Philibus also left Kulizani. I followed her, and I didn't know where Guilt went."

"A woman fell in love with a man she shouldn't have loved, and jealousy eventually led to her downfall... You are her apprentice?"

Primadis nodded.

"Then why did she want to control you in that way?"

"I don't know when it started, but Philibus, or Analoze, no longer trusted anyone around her. She began to brainwash people around her and ordered them to do all kinds of things. In the end, I was the only one left alive."

"Then why don't you leave?"

"Me? Where can I go? I'm just a pathetic half-elf."