My Liver Experience in the World of Cthulhu

Chapter 138 Third Level Spirit Controller

"Haha, thank you Captain Liya for the compliment." Nick smiled broadly. He opened his mouth to praise the other team member, but he didn't know where to start.

"Let's go in and search." The illusion of fire burned in Liya's eyes. She took off her backpack and took out an oil lamp to light it, and then stepped into the darkness.

"Go, follow." Nick also found an oil lamp and lit it.

When the flame pattern lit up on his armor, he strode into the door.

Crown filled his revolver and followed the rear of the procession into the castle.

Bypassing the stone screen wall, he entered a rectangular hall.

The ground here is dusty and covered with cobwebs.The plaster paint on the pillars on both sides of the hall peeled off, revealing the vicissitudes of time. A round table and chairs were dumped near the wall.

A rotten smell of the end of all things penetrated his nose. Croun looked around and thought that the hall should be a place for dances. There was also a second floor, which was exactly in line with the structure of the castle more than a hundred years ago.

Lorraine spoke softly: "Here, I saw the man who performed the sacrifice again. He raised the wine glass made of skulls and drank the blood. And the girls, one after another, wailed on these tables, and were finally killed by countless mutated evil spirits. Food is shared.”

"Captain Nick, who do you think the man who reappeared in the clip Lorraine saw was?"

"I think it should be Lord Vlad. After the Red Moon incident, he survived for three to forty years. The strong resentment and fear will only remain during the period of his rule."

Liya asked: "You once said that he is still alive, so, will the former owner of the castle come back?"

"That shouldn't be the case, right? The file says that he had third-level strength when he was surrounded. If he comes back, there is no reason for him to be escaped by a second-level transcendent."

"Jie Jie", a sinister laughter came from the corridor on the second floor, and then whispers came from all around.

A faint smell of dead things filled the decaying hall, and the temperature seemed to return to winter.

"Meow", Buster roared crazily, spinning around its owner. Its voice gave people a sense of weakness and fierceness.

Crown grabbed the black cat and put it in the animal bag around his waist, with a vaguely cruel smile on his face.

After gaining more knowledge, he knew that the evil spirit itself would have a faint stench, and the place where the evil spirit stayed would become cold.

This kind of coldness will not disappear just because you light a fire to keep warm. This kind of coldness is the coldness that is immersed in your bones.

Before being possessed by evil spirits, they will use various means to arouse fear in human hearts and continuously amplify this fear.When a person's will is completely broken down, evil spirits will take over the magpie's nest and begin to devour the person's soul and vitality.

They make sounds of laughter and footsteps that follow you wherever you flee.

Just imagine, it's a quiet night, there is no light, you know that you are the only one in the room, but there are always things around you making eerie laughter and moving around.

The cold that penetrates into the bone marrow freezes people's thinking. After the death of living things, the smell of decay is always there. I don't know what kind of despair it will be.

Before Kroon died, he must have gone through endless despair, but now, a group of evil spirits were watching him.

A sharp light flashed in Kroun's eyes, and he gritted his teeth gently.

"It seems that we have been warmly entertained by the new owner of the castle," Nick smiled. "Since the owner is so hospitable, we might as well go up and take a walk. What do you think, Captain Leia?"

"Be careful, there are a lot of evil spirits."

"Why don't I try the quality of the evil spirit first?" Crown said and took off his long bow.

The spiritual sense of a second-level transcendent can already distinguish the location of evil spirits. Although he cannot see it, he can feel where the evil things are near him.

"Ordinary arrows cannot harm evil spirits. Only arrows made of mithril and mercury fine gold are effective, or arrows can be enchanted with elemental damage."

"I know." Crown carried a quiver with twenty arrows.

After entering a small space, the effect of the bow and arrow was very small. He simply took this opportunity to shoot out all the arrows, and it was profitable to cause as much damage as possible.

After he was ready, he bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and golden threads suddenly appeared in the hall.

Shooting three arrows at once, he quickly ran out of arrows.

"what"

A misty and sharp wail sounded, and along with puffs of smoke rising, a few pieces of gray-white brilliance fell.

In his spiritual sense, Crown discovered that the evil spirits surrounding the railings were scattering.

"Awesome", Liya clapped softly.

"It may be that these evil spirits are not popular." Crown put his long bow on his back again. He stepped forward and picked up the pieces of gray spirit. Some evil spirits were directly killed.

"Hurry up and go up. Time waits for no one. We have to return to the camp before dark, so we must allow enough time." Nick walked towards the upward stairs in the middle of the hall. "Our team will go to the left."

Liya responded: "Then let's go to the right, check them all, and apply evil spirit oil to the weapons."

After Nick saw the members of the cooperation team also going up to the second floor, he raised the oil lamp in his hand: "Check each room, and finally summarize the statistics. Let's go clockwise."

"Understood", Liya also raised the oil lamp in her hand.

After the Red Moon incident, faced with more and more evil spirits, churches and other organizations developed methods to test whether evil spirits were present.

The four of them entered a room, and from the thick dust, Kroun could tell that there was a table, two chairs, and what seemed like a bed.

The priest took out a brown paper bag the size of a brick and handed it to Del: "Grab a handful and scatter them in the air to save some money. We only got three bags for this mission."

"Don't worry, frugality is my instinct," Del took the paper bag with both hands and grinned.

He opened the paper bag and found gray-white powder inside.

He picked up a cluster with five fingers and sprinkled it.

The powder spreads into a white rain of light, floating in the air.

This is the dust of manifestation. If you sprinkle it in the air, you can see how many evil spirits appear nearby in a short period of time, because each evil spirit will show traces of different sizes in the dust of manifestation.

Three blurry palm-length gray lines appeared in the light rain.

Evil spirits are territorial things and they like to stay in a fixed circle.Even if I wander around, I will be back soon.

"Three evil spirits," the priest shouted, "help me remember them and summarize them in the end."

Crown asked: "Do you know how a spirit master is trained? I'm very curious."

He himself became a spirit master because his original body was possessed. After passing through, the evil spirits were eliminated in his body, and he became a spirit master by accident.

He didn't know anything about how to become a spirit master through normal means or how to increase the number of spirit masters.

The knowledge stored in the church only provides a brief introduction to this profession, without any knowledge on how to become a spirit master.

He wants to increase the number of spirit masters and quickly increase his ability to control them through devouring them, but he has no clue yet.

"I know some. Warlocks will catch evil spirits like fishermen catching fish in the river and let them soak in a special solution. Then, the person who wants to become a ghost master will combine this solution with a specific potion. Drink it.

As long as you can maintain enough sanity afterwards and no major alienation occurs, you will become a spirit master.They can sense the evil spirits that coexist with them, and slowly discover the ability to control the spirits. "

It was Jason who spoke. After he finished speaking, he lowered his voice and continued in a small and pitiful voice: "I heard rumors. It is said that the Warlock Brotherhood has trained third-level spirit masters. I don't know if it is true or not."

"It's true, the church has confirmed it from the Warlock Brotherhood," Nick responded, "Lisa, the third-level spirit master, is an evil spirit with the power of the fire element. There are two types of mutants cultivated by the warlock organization. A kind of demon hunter and a kind of spirit master. Nowadays, third-level strong men have been born. If the path of the spirit master is further developed, the strength of the Brotherhood will further expand."

"Didn't it be said before that the spirit master couldn't advance to the third level due to his inherent shortcomings?"

"No, there were spirit masters who advanced to the third level in the past, but without exception, they lost control and went crazy, and were eventually killed. But Lisa is different. She did not go crazy, and her emotions were more stable."

Nick paused and changed the topic: "Stop talking about the third-level strong men. Even in the eyes of the crazy third-level strong men, we are just stronger ordinary people."

Crown didn't continue to ask questions about the spirit master. He was going to take some time to catch up with his friends.Geralt has connections with the Warlock Guild, and you can buy some intelligence knowledge from him.

Nick sensed it carefully and said: "Let's go, the evil spirits here are not here at the moment. Evil spirits that are not possessed can pass through ordinary objects at will. Maybe they were disturbed by Croun just now and dare not come back."

"Do evil spirits also have intelligence?" Del asked.

"It's not necessarily wisdom, it's more likely to be the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages." After Jason explained, he made a suggestion:
"Father, let's check separately. This can improve efficiency. If there were more powerful evil spirits, they would have rushed up long ago."

Nick thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Okay, we must stay at the door after each inspection and wait for the other party to complete the inspection before going to the next place. Who do you want to be a group with, Crown?"

"Yes, let him come with me," Jason said without hesitation. He took out the oil lamp from his backpack, lit it with a match, lit another cigar, and took a puff.

"Okay, let's do it like this," Nick took out a pack of Developing Dust and handed it out.

. . . .

Jason sprinkled a handful of Appearance Dust, looked at it and said, "One evil spirit. How many are there now? I forgot how many there were just now."

"There were six just now, and now there are seven," Crown responded, "I have a question that I forgot to ask just now. Why is it so difficult for the scarecrow named Mara to kill?"

"Mara is a knight professional, and the life source she cultivated through her breathing method has no elemental damage properties. You wouldn't think that there are many breathing methods similar to flame breathing out there, right?"

Jason laughed "haha": "Maybe you haven't come into contact with ordinary knights. The breathing methods those people practice are called giant bear breathing method, frost wolf breathing method, etc. The names sound very cool, and they add to the combat effectiveness. Not small either.

Many of the church's first-level extraordinary beings are no match for knights of the same level who practice ordinary breathing techniques, because this type of breathing technique directly adds to a person's physical fitness.

However, ordinary breathing methods cannot comprehensively temper the essence of human life. Only breathing methods that can exercise the power of elements can have this ability.Only with the power of elements can you cause enough damage to evil spirits. "

"I see. Does that mean that the breathing methods of each church are breathing methods that can exercise the power of elements?"

"Yes, but the core of the church is meditation. The priests are the future of the church and are qualified to succeed the pope. We can only be regarded as high-level thugs." Jason turned around, "Let's go to the next room, right away. It’s about to end.”

"Wait a moment."

"what's wrong?"

Crown pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "I saw a bright light there just now. Let's go and have a look."

Jason approached the corner of the wall with an oil lamp and took a closer look: "The texture of the wall seems to be a little different."

He reached out and patted it, and it made a "dong dong" sound, as if it was empty inside.

The two looked at each other, and Crown patted the nearby wall. There was no hollow sound.

They kept knocking and finally confirmed the scope of the hole.

"It looks like a door," Crown said. "Let's go tell the priest."

The two of them turned around and left together, walking to the door of the room. Nick and Del just came out of the next room.

Jason said: "Father, we found a secret door."

"Is it open?"

"There seems to be a mechanism, but we didn't have time to look for it."

"Let's go and have a look together."

Team members poured into the room and reached the secret door.

"It is indeed a secret door." Nick patted it for a while and said, "Let's look for the mechanism."

The four of them began to search the room, not letting go of any clues.

Del saw a small cylindrical protrusion on the table, about two fingers high.He reached out and touched it, but the sculpture didn't move at all.

The room was not big, so several people quickly completed the search, but could not find the mechanism to open the secret door.

Nick asked: "Did you notice anything different from other rooms?"

"I noticed a little sculpture on the table that wasn't in any of the other rooms."

"Let me see." Nick came to the table and swept away the floating dust. He stretched out his hand and twisted the column, but found that it had no effect.

"This thing is made of metal." The priest pressed down hard on the cylinder, but still got nothing.

Crown said: "Del, try hitting it hard with a hammer."

"Okay." Del raised the sledgehammer and smashed it down hard, causing the entire metal cylinder to sink in.

"Click"

A slight sound came, and the secret door was opened.

"It turns out I wasn't strong enough." Nick laughed, walked to the door and opened it.

The light shone in, and Crown saw a staircase going down.

"Looking at the direction, it leads to a place outside the lobby on the first floor. Let's go down and have a look." After Nick said this, he wanted to step in, but was held back by Jason.

"Captain, Crown and I will go down. Someone must guard the door."

"Be careful," the priest warned.

Jason was in front and Crown was behind, and the two walked slowly down.

The stairs are not long, and the light quickly fills the secret room.

Nick saw the two people going down and stopped, and asked with concern: "What's going on down there?"

Kroun glanced at it and found that they were all ordinary tables, chairs and utensils. He said with some disappointment: "It's just an ordinary storage room."

"Go up." Jason was also a little disappointed and walked back with the lamp.

Walking back into the room, Jason laughed and said, "Bai is so happy, I thought it was a treasure room."

Croun behind him was about to step out when the door was suddenly closed.

He felt a strong force coming from the door, and he was pushed down the stairs.

In the deep darkness, there was a faint murmur.

(End of this chapter)