"Oh, good afternoon, Shade, my friend, you are here at last."
When Shade braved the snow and arrived at Dr. Schneider's psychological clinic this afternoon, the doctor gave him a rather warm hug.
For this afternoon's celebration, Dr. Schneider postponed the diagnosis and treatment of two important patients and reserved time for Shad. He enthusiastically led Xia De to the reception room on the second floor, which is the room where the group meets every Saturday. The violin case containing [Night Watchman] was quietly placed on the coffee table at the moment.
"Although there were some minor incidents, overall the operation on Sunday went smoothly."
The doctor had already prepared the red wine for celebration, and after handing the glass to Xia De, the two smiled and clinked glasses.
"But be careful. I have friends in the church. Although the church has been caught up in other things recently, the evil spirits of the third era have appeared in the city. They will definitely not give up their investigation."
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Xia De reminded with a cup, the doctor nodded:
"I understand that the key task for the next half month is to prepare for the end-of-year exam. Oh, detective, as the team leader, I have more responsibilities than you."
The doctor put his hands on the window sill and leaned there in a relaxed posture, with the snowy city behind him.
Strange to say, even in the season of falling snow, the city is still gray and foggy, which is the characteristic of the capital of steam.
"Doctor, after you devoured the demon that proliferated desire, what new ability did you acquire?"
Xia De sat on the sofa and asked, put the wine glass aside and opened the violin case to check. After the doctor brought it back, he probably didn't dare to open it at all. [Night Watchman] was still wrapped in Xia De's coat.
"Penni itself is not a powerful demon. Now I can peek at the desires in a person's heart through certain methods of casting spells. If I want, I can also plant the seeds of desire in a certain individual's heart to reap the harvest. His desire, however, must match my method of entering the dream."
The doctor explained that he hadn't kept this from Shad. Because he expected that he might lose control one day, the doctor would inform Xia De of his abilities, hoping that Xia De could solve him wearing the [Magic Hunting Seal] and holding the [Night Watchman] on the day when the bad luck really came:
"Besides that, there's this."
As he spoke, the doctor took two steps forward, and then called out the life ring behind him. The brass wheel ring spinning in the steam mist matches the snowy street scene of the steam capital behind him.
At the end of autumn, with the help of Xia De, Dr. Schneider has successfully promoted to the Sixth Ring with the help of the [Forged Philosopher's Stone]. At this time, there were four more spirit runes on his life ring than last time—
"Profane - [Heart of Fire], Whisper - [Long Whip], Blasphemy - [Proliferation], Enlightenment - [Contract]. The first two come from the power of digesting the Balrog, and the last two come from the power of Fanny. Devour The spirit runes brought by the devil, besides miracles, the other three are possible."
The power of Balrog at that time was not digested immediately by the doctor of the fifth ring, but waited until the sixth ring to increase the spirit rune (Chapter 681).
The doctor also looked back at his life ring:
"Relying on the power of these two demons, I have only been promoted to the sixth ring for a month, and I am already so close to the seventh ring... I still want to thank you, Xia De, these two demons are amazing. You brought it to me."
He thanked Xia De with a smile again, and Xia De lamented in his heart, the doctor used himself to restrain an ancient demon, and the special talent he obtained in this way seemed comparable to that of the chosen one Kings Priscia Temporary spirit runes are even more powerful.
But that's fair enough, too. Fate has paid the doctor in advance, and he deserves the power.
"But I don't expect you to encounter demons, detective, please remember, never provoke those evil spirits, they... are really scary."
Probably thinking of Mr. Shelf Tim and Miss Shana Aya again, the doctor sighed. He put the wine glass in his hand on the window sill, and walked towards the desk by himself:
"I'll share the spoils with you, including the ones I found at the Three Cats Hotel on Monday. There are quite a lot of weird things on that guy. But since most of them are made by demons, I picked a few and kept them for myself. The ones below are directly destroyed."
Shad has no problem with this, demonic creations are even weirder than relics with fixed rules.
"There are still a few things you can use, and these are all yours. Don't refuse, I will definitely get more than you."
The doctor took out a red box and handed it to Xia De. After being sealed by Miss Violet of the Fifth Epoch, the Balrog never came out, so naturally there was nothing on him. However, the demons that proliferate desires are active and trade in human society, and they have many items on them.
When Shade's box was opened, the first thing he saw was an ampoule filled with viscous black oil, plugged with an oak stopper:
"This is......"
"The remains of a demon, like the heart of a Balrog in autumn."
The doctor said:
"When I devour the demon's power, I don't eat the entire body of the demon directly. You have to know a common sense, the body of the evil spirit in the third era does not have a materialized body. The arsonist fused with the Balrog, and Fanny fused I don’t know what the hell. All I need is the power of the demon body, there are always some other parts that I don’t need. This is the body part that condenses the power of the demon, but most of the power has been absorbed by me.”
The doctor took the ampule out of the box and examined it:
Xia De shook his head hastily, he would not drink this kind of thing.
The finger touched the slender bottleneck, and the fire in the body immediately became agitated. Although the power of the demon itself was absorbed by the doctor, the remains of the demon are still firewood worth devouring. Xia De knew the purpose of this thing.
"Doctor, don't know the demonic remains of the demons you devoured before..."
He asked again, and the doctor said regretfully:
"Are you useful? I didn't know I would meet you at the time, and I used it up as materials."
In addition to the demon's wreckage, the red box contained a sugar cube-like crystal, a black pen, and a ring.
"Be careful, try not to touch it directly with your hands."
Only the sugar cube-like crystal is not a relic, so Shade stretched out his hand to it, but was stopped by the doctor:
"Crystal of desire. You can understand it as a semi-physical desire, which is very similar to the soul crystal I made for you last time, but it is very polluting."
Although he didn't let Xia De touch it directly, he picked up the crystal with his bare hands:
"This is a very useful spell-casting material, potion, and alchemy material. The making of the 'Victor's Box' you mentioned is related to this."
Yin Luna has reported the matter of Victor's box to the church, and they don't need to worry about the subsequent impact of the demon.
"Doctor, if you are useful, you can stay, and I have no use for this."
Xia De suggested, but the doctor shook his head:
"With Fanny's power, I can also make desire crystals myself, so you just take them away. I'll recommend a few books to you. You can go to the Black Raven Library or the academy library to borrow them. There are many uses for desire crystals. .”
He wrote the titles of several books for Xia De, and put them in the red box.
As for the remaining two items, although the grade is not high, they are all genuine relics.
The black pen is a clerical-level (level 4) relic [Intern's pen]. Once the text written by this pen is read, the reader can have the illusion of "being there". But the negative feature is that once the pen is used to write stories about those strange existences sleeping in the subspace or in the seal, there is a certain chance that it will directly constitute a summoning ceremony.
Demons use this pen to write stories of desire and lure mortals to sign contracts. But in the hands of a good writer, it's another tool for building those great stories.
On the black cap of the pen, runes the size of ants form a strange sentence:
[A good story should not be just words. 】
"You wouldn't mind if I passed this pen on to Dorothy, doctor?"
Xia De played with this relic, turned around and asked the doctor who walked back to the bedside.
Although these items were given to Xia De by the doctor, if one day the doctor suddenly found this pen in Dorothy's hand, it would be a little embarrassing, so Xia De asked in advance.
"This is all yours, you can give it to whoever you want."
The doctor waved his hand, thinking about Xia De's private life in his heart, and remembered the day when he was invited to enter the strange foggy area on the third floor of Xia De's house at the end of autumn to call for his soul. Two girls in Xia De's house spent the night with him matter.
"Then I'll give it to Dorothy, as a gift for the end of the year."
Shad said with a smile.
"New Year's Eve" is also the last festival of the year, which is the most important festival for mortals in this era. This is somewhat similar to the Spring Festival and Christmas in the hometown of foreigners~www.mtlnovel.com~ are the days when the year is over and you can finally have a good rest. People are used to presenting gifts and greeting cards to friends on this day, and foreigners naturally have to prepare for this.
"When it comes to the end of the year, you don't need to prepare my gift. Fanny is quite a good gift."
The doctor suggested it, but Shad would still prepare a gift.
As for the final ring, it was a green wooden ring with an emerald ring.
The doctor recognized [Intern's Pen] but not this one, so he asked Old John to help identify it.
This is a poet-level (level 5) relic [Plague Doctor Ring]. After wearing it, turn the ring counterclockwise once to activate the ring's characteristics, allowing the wearer to be immune to most diseases within a certain period of time.
Not only ordinary diseases such as plague, smallpox, and colds, but also diseases related to occultism such as blood thirst and undead plague can also achieve a certain degree of resistance. Demons naturally don't need this kind of ring. This relic was probably acquired by a demon with a desire to increase value by accident. He wanted to keep it in his hand to trade with humans, but now it's cheaper for Xia De.
Inside the ring of that ring, there is a long sentence of sunken runes. Due to the light, those characters could not be seen clearly by looking directly, so Xia De rubbed the ring with his fingertips, and "she" told the meaning of those ancient runes:
[The struggle between illness and cleanliness is the tempering of nature. 】