Struggle in the Steam Age

"It's time for us to divide the spoils." After watching everyone vent their emotions for a while, Lawrence shook the small cloth bag in his hand and proposed. "What we have gained today is not small."

After opening the package, Lawrence took the same thing out and put it on the table. Soon, these things took up a large area on the desktop.

There are dozens of dog teeth glowing with cold in this pile, one new and one old two notebooks with cowhide covers, a walnut-sized translucent orange crystal with wrinkles on top, and an aurora-style scroll And a small bottle of something like blue smoke in a crystal bottle.

Lawrence first opened the two notebooks. The newer one was a diary, which recorded the experience of the guy who had just turned from a gambler to a painter, or from an ordinary person to an extraordinary person.

In the beginning, this guy was just the young master of a rich family. However, he lost his restraint after his parents died young and became a standard dude, squandering his wealth of wealth in just a few years.

According to normal circumstances, he will either repent one day or die silently in a corner one day. But just after a gamble, he harvested a notebook related to transcendence. After reading the notes, he learned a special extraordinary power.

"Paper substitute technique." Seeing here, Lawrence opened the older notebook. This notebook is very special. It is not a normal recording notebook, but a re-bound notebook. Lawrence found 30 or so old yellowed pages in the center of the book.

The pages of these old books are written in Sinian, but Lawrence can understand them. This is because when he was a child, he lived in a small town along the Xinzhou Republic in the west of the Great Mountain Range and the White Eagle Federal Railway in the east. Many Aurora people in the Xinzhou Republic can be seen. In order to preach, Lawrence's adoptive father was able to read and write Sinian fluently, and also let Lawrence learn the language.

"What's written on this?" Seeing Lawrence flipping through the book for a long time without changing his movements, Syfiel immediately moved forward and looked at the notebook and asked. She also learned Sinian as a child, but only to be able to communicate verbally. So she can only recognize that these words are Sinian, but she doesn't know what these words describe.

"A magic from Aurora." Lawrence explained, "This magic can be used to cut out human figures from paper, and then manipulate these little paper people to do some things. With the proficiency of magic and the use of magic as a whole With the improvement of the level, these paper people can even fight as the master's clone."

"Listen this is a very good magic, and it's not evil." Fatina gave a puzzled expression. "But when that person uses it, I feel that the power he holds is very evil."

"That's because this idiot didn't learn it right at all." Lawrence said, pointing to the Kanter language written on the original papers of those books. "Obviously he didn't understand Sinian, so he asked someone to translate the contents of this book. But he was worried that others would know that he mastered this kind of magic, so he simply took these records apart and asked someone to translate them separately."

"Is there any problem with this?" Fatina still didn't understand what the problem was. She felt that when a normal person translated what document and didn't want others to know it, it was a matter of course to open it and find someone to translate, such as her grandfather once After finding a certain alchemy note, it was the same to find other people to translate it.

"But the Sinian language is very different from the Kanter language we commonly use, or the language gap between the eastern and western parts of the Old World is very large." Saifier said. "If we segment the Sinian language document according to our language habits, then the translation will be very different from the original, or even completely different."

"For example." Lawrence said, pointing to a page of the book. "For example, as mentioned here, people who learn this spell need to infuse a little self-awareness into each paper figure, so that the paper figure can have a certain level of self-awareness and can better fulfill the caster's commands."

"But that guy didn't know how to open the sentence to others at the time. He actually translated this paragraph into the soul that needs to be constrained in the paper man to make the paper man alive. I think the reason why he was exposed to the lower class later The image of space pollution is because the soul degenerates so much in the process."

"This sounds terrible." Saifei shook his head. "But I think the main reason why he has come to this step is because he himself is not righteous. Normal people will not practice even if they see this evil practice method."

"You are right." Lawrence nodded. "I guess that guy not only doesn't feel terrible after his soul has fallen and discovers his body has changed, but he even feels that he has found the right way to become stronger."

In fact, Lawrence is quite sure of this, because as long as it is not embracing the darkness from the heart, there will always be a part of the soul untainted. And the painter's soul was completely swallowed by Bai Ze Void just now, only to prove that he has completely fallen, and there is no trace of humanity left.

After explaining the magic with the two ladies, Lawrence took the Aurora-style scroll and slowly spread it out. Eight beautiful female figures with different characteristics appeared on the paper. These portraits are so vivid. , It even looks closer to the prototype than the photo. No, to be precise, they seem to be alive.

"This is—" The two ladies looked at the scroll with a puzzled expression, because they didn't know why Lawrence became dignified after unrolling the scroll.

"It's not a simple picture, but the soul that was bound here by that guy before. He put the deceased's hair into a special potion and melted it into dye and then painted the portrait of the deceased, so that he could restrain the dead. Soul." Lawrence said, and at the same time, a little magic point condensed on the scroll with his fingertips.

Magic power quickly penetrated into the painting, and then the eight women in the painting moved. Some of them sing and some play musical instruments. The melodious music immediately filled the room. But seeing this joyful scene, Lawrence's eyes showed an unbearable look.

"These souls are sober, but they are bound by magic to this painting, and they can only move according to the preset content of this painting." Lawrence sighed, "Five of them with a long history are dead souls~www. ltnovel.com~ may have been obtained by that guy after the tomb robbery. The last three are souls. Obviously, after the fall of the soul caused him to change, this guy started to gratify his inner desires by cruelly torturing the innocent."

"But this does not mean that he will stop disturbing the peace of the deceased. The theft of Miss Marshall's burial mound is probably to add Miss Marshall's soul to this painting. Obviously the soul of a noble lady should be in his eyes. A precious collection, and the burial mound in the garden is better than the noble cemetery managed by the church."

"It's disgusting." After listening to Lawrence's explanation, Syfiel's eyes on the scroll in front of her also changed. After thinking about it, she raised her head and asked Lawrence. "What are you going to do with this scroll?"

"This scroll is the most valuable of this batch of trophies," Lawrence gently stroked the scroll with his hand. "Using it can summon and command eight female ghosts, and at the same time block certain deadly attacks at the cost of consuming the ghosts inside."

"Although this magic item is very powerful, I plan to give it and the two notebooks to the church. I remember that several churches have ways to save these unfortunate souls." Lawrence did not notice when he said this. Phil and Fatina both showed a relaxed expression.

"Because this thing is really beyond my bottom line, of course because it is our common trophy, so if you disagree, I will make up for you with items of equal value."

"No, of course we are willing." Saifeier and Fatina said after a glance at each other, "I am glad that we, as companions, have the same ideas on this point. Please count us in this matter. One serving."