novelonline Chapter 4057 Death Amulet
Chapter 4057 Death Amulet
Chapter 4057 Death Amulet
The feeling of using a spell after it has been elevated to a magical power is roughly equivalent to the difference between pushing open a door with a rusty hinge and pushing open a door coated with metal lubricant.
As Danist felt a slight detachment, a very, very faint flame was extracted from her body by Shad. Shad immediately brought the flame close to the dragon egg and placed it inside.
This dragon egg originally possessed its own life force; it was merely dormant, not dead. When external life force was injected, a clear heartbeat immediately emanated from the eggshell, and Shad and Daniste stared wide-eyed with anticipation.
But the heartbeat only appeared briefly before disappearing. The red-haired sorceress immediately looked at Shad, who nodded.
"I'll do it myself this time."
He placed his right hand on his chest:
"Miraculous Technique: Life Spark"
The foreign spark was injected into the dragon egg again, and a clear heartbeat sounded again, but it only lasted once.
"It works! Giving life a spark of life really works!"
Daniste was extremely excited; this was their most successful experiment so far since returning from Mount Karas.
"The academy has plenty of animals that can be used for experiments. You wait here, I'll go find some animals that can continue to provide life!"
"Wait a minute."
Shad quickly stopped her. Shad's subtle perception of life force, aided by his special magic, was even stronger than Danist's.
"If I understand correctly, although this dragon egg reacts to life force, it needs more than just a huge amount of life force; it also needs that life force to be stable and continuous. Simply put, just injecting external life force time and time again will cause Ms. Carter in the moon egg to react to some extent, but this reaction will also consume the power of the soul itself."
"Stable and continuous life energy? Isn't this what you call a normal 'spark'?"
Daniste said, and Shad nodded solemnly:
"Therefore, in my opinion, the best way to hatch this moon egg is still to send it to Saint Byrons in the Fifth Age. It is a long enough distance from now, it has the 'Source of Fire', and it even has the 'Book of Dragons' and dragon maids who are very good at taking care of dragon eggs."
Denise did not express her opinion, but looked around, focusing particularly on the door and windows:
"But the teacher didn't suddenly push open the door or climb in through the window. Does this mean that either we failed to get her there, or she didn't come back safely?"
She clearly didn't want the egg out of her sight, much like a mother hen protecting her egg:
"Perhaps we'll be able to create a normal AllSpark soon in this era. Sending our teacher to the Fifth Age is still too risky."
Shad didn't know exactly what the Dragon Maid Contract was, so he didn't insist on his own opinion:
"Then for now, we can only leave the Moon Egg in the flowerpot. I will try to make a second Spark. If I succeed, I will come to find you immediately."
Daniste nodded slightly, then turned her gaze back to the egg, and after a long while spoke again:
"Of course, if you can provide enough evidence to prove that your idea is valid, I can certainly let you send the teacher to such a far place."
Then she immediately changed her tune:
"But you need to find evidence that the teacher has returned first. We finally managed to find the teacher, I can't take any more risks."
Although she had a mature appearance, Xia De clearly felt that she still had the personality of an eighteen-year-old:
"I know, I know, I will protect you and this moon egg."
"Of course I know what's wrong with having lunch before leaving?"
Shade shook his head:
"You know, it's Saturday today, and I have a group meeting this afternoon. I'm thinking of having dinner at home with Luvia, and then heading home to have dinner with her. How about that?"
Denise readily agreed:
"Of course, no problem."
Of course, before leaving the academy, Shad didn't forget to purchase eye tissue fluid from the alien creature "Eye Demon" to learn the spell "Sharp Eye." Although this spell was a secret technique passed down through generations of followers of the ancient gods, it was actually quite basic, so it wasn't difficult to learn.
After Daniste helped Shad learn the spell to enhance the effects of his Magic Eye and other eye-related abilities at the academy, she accompanied him home.
It was 11:00 AM. Winnie was still at home but hadn't started making lunch yet. Along with Luvia, the three ladies began discussing Shad's recent relationship with the new witch of Arcadia. Finally, Daniste smiled and said to Shad:
"If you're worried that Miss Astley might be startled by the sudden sight of Galina and the others, how about you take me to see her first?"
Luvia and Winnie were both laughing. Shad thought about it carefully and felt it was a good idea:
"So, would you like to come with me to Arcadia on Sunday?"
The red-haired sorceress smiled and shook her head:
"I was just joking. I don't have the kind of perverse sense of humor that witches have. I'll just let her get to know me after I've told her everything. I'm actually quite curious about what's going on with her special constitution."
Luvia then gave a strange smile:
"Speaking of her strange constitution, since no one except for extremely powerful witches like Shad and your Speaker can have prolonged direct contact with her, does that mean Shad won't be able to have her in bed with him in the future?"
"Luvia!"
Shad covered the cat's little ears as he spoke, but the girls just laughed. As for the cat, Mia had seen a lot in the past two years with Shad, so a few risqué remarks didn't bother the cat at all.
After lunch, Danist returned to the academy, Winnie returned to Fatummont Island, and Shad and Luvia took a carriage from their house to the doctor's clinic in the east of the city.
They arrived at their destination at 1:20, and this time, the two of them were the last to arrive. When they entered the reception room, Priest Augustus was explaining the amulets he had made to Dorothy and Dr. Schneider. Seeing Shad and Luvia arrive, the old priest gave each of them one as well.
"This is the amulet I told the detective about; it's effective against the 'Twisted Life Spark.' Just carry it on your person; it'll work even if you put it in your pocket. But it only prevents external sparks from invading. If you actively accept those dangerous forces, the amulet won't work."
Shad now possesses the "Spark Mark," meaning the "abnormal life spark" will not target him, but this amulet still holds great value.
The amulet is an octagonal metal amulet with a six-pointed star pattern inside. The six-pointed star is surrounded by a gold wire circle, and each of its six vertices has an ancient rune representing a different name. The six points of the six-pointed star are filled with prayers praising death, and an obsidian stone is embedded in the center.
When the amulet is held up to the sunlight, a tombstone can be vaguely seen in the obsidian.
"The six runes on the hexagram symbolize the six angels of death from the ancient god of death."
The priest introduced it as follows:
"I've already made the mold for these amulets. Making the outer shell is easy; the difficult part is infusing it with power. So I only made six in the first batch. One for each of the five of us, and let the detective take the last one to Arcadia City."
After that, I can provide the detective with about nine amulets each week, which I hope will be helpful to Arcadia City now.
"Priest, how much did this amulet cost?"
While examining the amulet, Shad asked a question, and the priest shook his head:
"The most expensive part is the gold thread; the obsidian is just scrap and worthless. If you don't count my labor costs, the cost of one amulet isn't even enough for a meal at a restaurant on Silver Cross Avenue."
“Priest, Silver Cross Avenue has the most expensive restaurants in the entire kingdom.”
Shad said that after clarifying the true cost of the amulet and adding the priest's labor fee, he ordered a month's worth of goods from the priest.
This doesn't mean that Shad is confident he can resolve all the troubles in Arcadia within a month; he just feels that perhaps after a month, he will feel embarrassed to ask the priest to increase production.
Apart from Shad, everyone else's life this week has been relatively normal. Even the doctor hasn't encountered anything major, partly because the local church has increased security after the Royal Academy of Sciences bombing last Saturday, and partly because the doctor's psychological clinic is so busy that he hasn't had time to stroll around the city lately.
So that afternoon, it was mainly Xia De who shared his observations. The monsters created by the combination of machines, corpses, living people, and the "Twisted Life Spark" were astonishing, while the appearance of a thirteenth-ring level traitor in the [Church of Creation] was astonishing. News of the traitor was currently being strictly blocked to prevent unnecessary trouble. The other dioceses only knew that the [Church of Creation] was currently investigating heresy and were unaware of the major event at the Vatican.
The doctor stated with certainty:
“There must be other traitors within the Vatican. According to you, Detective, the AllSpark was already split up. I believe there is reason to believe that they have long been preparing to escape.”
Of course, Shad didn't forget to ask for help from everyone. No one else could help with the matter of the Fire Seed and its source, but when Shad mentioned the power of "Withering," the priest and the doctor both showed thoughtful expressions.
Priest Augustus provided some additional information:
"Life and death seem contradictory, but they actually overlap. The resurrection of the dead is the most difficult power in the death system, but it also involves life; while decay is an attribute of life that involves death."
Withering is not the same as pure death. The former is the process of leaves gradually turning yellow and falling, while the latter is the complete rotting of fallen leaves in the soil.
Theoretically, decay suppresses all forms of vitality, and under certain circumstances, it can even suppress life more than death itself, because decay is a part of life. However, from the mythical era to the present, very few creatures in the material world have possessed the power of 'decay.' Controlling the intermediate state between vibrant life and cold death is extremely difficult. I recommend you look for related relics.
The doctor's words were quite simple:
"Detective, after the meeting, don't rush to leave. I have something I want to talk to you about privately."