Chapter 1961: Edwards

Pulling open the trapdoor, the group entered underground. After lighting the crystal lamps on the walls that were triggered by spiritual energy, they saw the underground laboratory and storage room divided into two floors, each with the same floor area as the mansion above.

"These crystal lamps are all good things. The witches of the Fifth Era liked to manufacture this kind of lamp, and now very few people will take the initiative to use them."

Megan looked at them with appreciation, while Xia De thought that if there were extra lamps here, he could completely take them to decorate his new room on the third floor.

So he started counting items with the expectation of finding more good things, and started counting with the witches. Because Megan and Audrey were still alive, although the fortune teller said at the time that everything should be left to Xia De, what Xia De considered was to own them together with the twin witches.

Of course, although he was full of expectations at the beginning, in fact, counting books, various materials, and items was quite boring. Because there were too many things, Miss Bernice finally had to find a group of girls to help, and the efficiency improved a lot.

There were no traps here. Although there were dangerous items, most of them were properly sealed. And for Xia De, the most valuable thing among them was found on the experimental table, a red "small stone" embedded in the center of a cross silver ornament.

It was also the size of half a fingernail, and it was also a genuine "Philosopher's Stone."

"There have long been rumors that your family is studying the Philosopher's Stone, hoping to obtain eternal life. I guessed that I would find this."

He put the Philosopher's Stone given by the Church and the Philosopher's Stone found here together, and saw two bright red small stones slowly merging into one in Xia De's palm, which was also the characteristic of the Philosopher's Stone.

"Compared to your previous one, which one is bigger?"

Audrey asked curiously, while Megan, who was holding hands with her, was directing the books on the table to fly and stack together with spells, making it convenient for the girls to register. Originally she only appeared as one person, but Miss Bernice thought that since she was two people, she had to do the work of two people, which was considered exploitation by the sisters.

"About the same size as the previous one... In this way, I went around Green Lake, and in the end, I only had this one Philosopher's Stone left in my hand."

He shook his head, expanded the hole in the center of the cross with moonlight from his fingertips, and then re-embedded the "Philosopher's Stone":

"Do you know, Audrey, in fact, the effect of the Philosopher's Stone enhancing spellcasting has a different role in my hands. After I advanced to the seventh ring, the spell 【Active Soil】 turned into a strange technique because of the appearance of the spiritual rune 【Flesh】. This strange technique maintained the original effect, that is, allowing me to give activity to soil and rock creations, fill the missing parts of biological bodies, and make them part of the biological body."

Audrey thought for a while:

"If you use the Philosopher's Stone to amplify this effect... Wait a minute!"

She widened her eyes, thinking of what Xia De did at noon today:

"You can call back souls from death, and the strange technique enhanced by the Philosopher's Stone, can it..."

"Yes, the spell sublimated into a strange technique, and did not have other spellcasting effects because of this, only enhanced the original spellcasting effect. Further enhanced by the 【Philosopher's Stone】, theoretically, it should be possible to reshape a body for a soul."

Xia De said very cautiously, and Audrey looked him up and down:

"Is this really something a mortal can do? You can count this as, can you use the Philosopher's Stone to shape a person?"

"No, no, the materials are still stone and soil, the Philosopher's Stone is only used as a catalyst in the chemical reaction, and does not participate in the synthesis process itself, so it is still a mortal body."

However, Xia De thought about the possibility mentioned by Audrey:

"As for what you said, carving a human shape with a Philosopher's Stone, this is not something I can do, and I don't think any mortal can do it. Even the strange technique of 【Active Soil】 only shapes a mortal body, and the Philosopher's Stone creates a human body... Even if I have such a large Philosopher's Stone, what kind of soul can support a great shell that is not its own? Does this count as creating a humanoid Relic?"

"She" suddenly laughed in Xia De's ear, as if amused by Xia De's joke.

"That's right, but the strange technique of 【Active Soil】 you mastered is still very strange. In the Council, I am also considered the most knowledgeable witch, but I have never heard that a mortal can do this kind of thing... Is a part of the body you made definitely consistent with the original?"

She asked again.

"I only shape a rough appearance, and the soul will automatically make it become what it should be. Of course, if the soil I shape is too different from the original, then after becoming flesh, it will also be very different... In this way, I first disfigure someone, and then make a clay mask for him that is very different from the original appearance, and I can completely reshape his face."

Xia De thought of the new role of the brand-new strange technique, Audrey blinked, and Megan, who was casting spells on the side, glanced at her. The sisters were connected in heart, and they both had new ideas:

"Xia De, can you..."

Audrey leaned into Xia De's ear and whispered a possibility. Xia De shuddered violently as if bitten by Mia:

"This idea is really terrible, who would cut off their own... and, I am very satisfied with my..."

"Just academic discussion, why do you have such a big reaction?"

Although she said so herself, her face also turned red, and her eyes looked down:

"I know quite a few strange techniques and spells that can reshape flesh, but the only one that grows naturally is yours. It is really appropriate for the ancestor to send the data of human body alchemy to you."

"What are they doing?"

Not far away, Miss Sylvia asked Miss Bernice, who was flipping through a black book without a name. The latter looked up at Xia De and Audrey who were talking:

"Flirting."

The Great Witch of Space hummed:

"Two people are more attractive than one."

Except for the harvest of the Philosopher's Stone, the number of books here did not reach four digits, but adding the fortune teller's own notebooks, various experimental manuals, the number of books also far exceeded three digits. Most of them were books that only Ringed Shushi could read. Although Xia De's 【Library Retrieval】 could quickly find books, he also had to read them himself. Flipping through these books would be a big project, and it would definitely not be completed in a year or two.

Besides text materials, experimental equipment, research records, alchemy and magic potion materials were more. The fortune teller's laboratory was not just this one. The map on the wall marked laboratories in other locations on the island. Different laboratories had different roles. Xia De naturally couldn't use them all after taking over, but since it was very close to home, some professional equipment could be left here, and he could come to use it at any time.

Of course, he didn't plan to learn so many things himself. Astrology and divination-related materials would be copied and given to Luweiya. Since Luweiya might have inherited and carried forward this part of the research in the "Past Life," let her continue to learn.

The "Staff of Yggdrasil" could not be researched in one cycle. She had to study this part of the content repeatedly in the Sixth Era many times to push through the old and bring forth the new, and then surpass Laplace Howard himself. Then in this Sixth Era, Xia De was looking forward to Luweiya having new research results.

In research materials, books, and laboratories, there were many bloody and dangerous contents. These also needed Xia De to selectively screen them himself. And besides these, Relics were what the witches cared about most.

Even Laplace Howard himself did not store hundreds of Relics at once, which was almost a self-destructive act. After inspection and counting, a total of 19 Relics were finally found in different laboratories.

Among them, 12 needed to be strictly contained. Even the fortune teller in the past only treated them as research objects, not objects for use.

Among the 8 Relics that could be used to a limited extent, 2 were Poet-level, 2 were Document-level, 3 were Secret Keeper-level, and 1 was Sage-level. This number was less than the Relics Xia De held. But if you add the two special Angel-level Relics 【Poetry Card】 and 【Soul Storybook】 and the Sage-level Relic 【Philosopher's Stone】, it was actually similar to Xia De's situation.

Of the eight usable Relics, Xia De only took two. He already had quite a few Relics himself, and after newly acquiring 【Star Trace】, he didn't have any Relics that must be obtained for the time being.

If there were Relics that could absorb divinity among these eight Relics, he might still be interested in taking them away as a supplement after his 【Blasphemous Cross】 was used, but unfortunately, there were none.

What he took were two coins, which were also the only Document-level Relic among them, 【Rage of the Thunder God】. Luweiya had consumed this kind of coin during the Randall Valley period.

This kind of coin was similar to the 【Dandelion Coin】 that Xia De had obtained many times, and was considered currency used for trading with elemental creatures. The coin was silver-white all over, about the same size as a 1-shilling silver coin, with the number 1 and thunder patterns on the front, and an angry human face on the back.

On the side of the coin, ancient elemental elf characters were engraved:

【May the thunder clear away all evil.】

The usage of the Relic was to eject it using any supernatural power. The coin itself would turn into thunder, similar to the effect of "Thunder Spear" and "Sunlight Spear," but the power was shockingly large, ignoring most defenses like 【Heaton Seal】, and could be used repeatedly. The disadvantage was that the user was easily struck by lightning, and it was not ordinary thunder.

Laplace Howard's notebook said that he studied this kind of coin, hoping to arrange thunder protection measures on the island. But his progress in this research should not be great. After all, on the night of the Green Lake Battle, Xia De did not see too much lightning.

As for that only Sage-level Relic, it was a miniature lady's small pistol 【Faded Memory】.

The name didn't sound like a firearm, but at least it marked the key role of the pistol, which was "memory." The pistol, like Xia De's 【Gun of Kindness】, was in revolver style, and could be divided into three modes by adjusting the revolver rotation.

The first mode was to shoot at a certain intelligent creature, extract the memory it voluntarily contributed, and then shoot at a wall or flat ground to project the memory; or shoot at a certain intelligent creature again to project the memory into the other party's mind, thereby manipulating memory;

The second mode was to extract a certain terrible and aggressive memory, and after shooting, the bullet attached the power of memory, making it have a strong killing effect;

The third mode was to extract the memory of a certain creature, and after shooting, it turned into the appearance of the corresponding creature, which was equivalent to summoning a certain summon.

And regardless of which mode was chosen, the pistol could only store six segments of memory. And for the latter two attack modes, the effect of ladies shooting was much better than men holding them. And Laplace Howard kept this gun to extract Envy Edwards' memory after the time exploration ended.

Of course, now the memories in the six bullet nests were all cleared, and he left nothing.

On the gun body, there were smooth silk scratches, the meaning of which could be interpreted as:

【Faded memory, unchanging power, the most beautiful you and me.】 ===== CHAPTER 1962 =====