Several days later, in Silas's rented apartment.
He lay alone on the bed in his room, the expression on his face constantly changing.
Sometimes a contemptuous smile floated up, sometimes he revealed cold-blooded, cruel eyes, sometimes he became dignified and cold.
Amid the constantly changing expressions, he maintained silence, playing with and examining the white bone in his hands.
From its appearance, this was a human rib, with a smooth and lustrous surface.
But once it directly touched the skin, one would feel intense pain, as if the entire body was being cut by invisible blades.
This point was the same as his original Beyonder item "Agony."
The good thing I worked so hard to obtain, after using it just once, mutated into this appearance?
Silas found it somewhat hard to accept.
He still remembered that his "Agony" dagger had first been swallowed into Lanevus's body, then precipitated out from the corpse.
During this process, the dagger might have undergone strange changes.
Not only that, Silas also seemed somewhat familiar with this bone. At the time, one of his ribs had been bitten off and swallowed by Lanevus.
The bone in his hands now, regardless of size and shape, seemed to perfectly match the rib on the right side of his body.
In other words, his rib and the "Agony" dagger had been swallowed by Lanevus simultaneously.
In the belly of this strange existence that was gestating an evil god's offspring, they had decomposed, fused, and then precipitated out again, becoming a new Beyonder item.
Can this kind of thing even happen!
He thought incredulously.
But how should this bone be used?
From its appearance, this was just an ordinary human rib. Apart from being able to feel pain, there were no other special features.
After trying it out a bit, Silas found that the original "Allure Aura" and "Disease Aura" had both failed.
As for the most important "Pain" ability, it also seemed unusable. He tried coating the rib's surface with blood, but the invisible aura didn't manifest.
Had this thing become useless?
Silas refused to believe it no matter what.
The fusion of his power, a Sequence 5 Beyonder item, and the evil god's offspring... after these three forces merged, what was produced couldn't possibly be something with no effect.
It was impossible even thinking about it with one's feet!
"If only the Queen were still here. If I asked her to research it, she should be able to figure it out quickly..."
He thought regretfully.
"Wait, perhaps the artisans of the Steam Church could also do it... But if I showed up with such a suspicious item, I'd definitely be discovered."
Silas researched for a while longer but ultimately still couldn't figure out how to use this bone. He could only put it away temporarily.
Closing his eyes, he sensed the changes within his body.
That battle that night brought him not only that trace of divinity but also gains at the potion level. After killing Lanevus, both his "Shadow Ascetic" potion and "Rose Bishop" potion had been completely digested.
He didn't quite understand the specific reason, but felt it might be related to the True Creator's offspring.
During the "acting" process, the higher the status of the target, the better the feedback for digestion.
An evil god's offspring from his own Sequence, killed under Ma'am M's deception and destroyed and corrupted by the illusory tide.
The host body, Lanevus, also suffered destruction and distortion... Perhaps all this had far exceeded his needs for digestion.
Unfortunately, at the time, he was confused due to divine erosion and didn't experience the specific moment of digestion.
Although digesting two potions alleviated his semi-mad state, the fused divinity made up for the deficit in his mad state, giving him the new symptom of mental fragmentation. It could truly be called a hellish joke.
Up to now, the only undigested potion remaining in Silas's body was the Sequence 5 "Shepherd" potion. He hadn't yet considered how to act as a "Shepherd."
Although he had already shepherded "sheep" several times, the digestion feedback was minimal.
However, before digesting the "Shepherd" potion...
"Brother, she's here."
Silas heard his sister's voice from downstairs.
So he opened his eyes, got up from the bed, and came to the first-floor living room.
A female guest was sitting on the sofa. Her brown curly hair fell over her shoulders.
She wore a proper dark green dress and wool shawl, accepting the tea his sister handed over with restrained politeness, saying thank you.
"Mr. Anderson!"
Seeing Silas, this lady with a lazy temperament instinctively stood up from the sofa.
After receiving the letter he had sent via a coachman yesterday, she had hurried over on time.
"Welcome, Miss Fors."
Silas said.
He was about to say a few polite words when his spirit suddenly became confused. His eyes couldn't help becoming stern as he rebuked her, "Stand up straight! What are you slouching for!"
"Yes!"
Fors was startled and immediately tensed her body, standing bolt upright with her chest out and head raised!
She didn't know what was happening but didn't dare disobey this Mr. Anderson's command.
His current bearing was like an interrogator in a dark room who could give her a lashing at any moment.
"Ahem... Sorry, please sit down. You don't need to stand so straight."
Silas regained consciousness, cleared his throat, and said.
"Okay..."
Fors sat down confused and uneasy, pressing her hands on her legs and sitting properly.
Since graduating from medical school, she had never sat this upright. Xio would definitely be shocked to see it.
"I asked you to come over today because I want to pull out your internal organs... No, no, sorry."
As Silas spoke, he started spouting nonsense again.
Under Fors's terrified gaze, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and explain, "As you can see, my mental state isn't very good right now. I'm a bit fragmented."
This is more than just "a bit"...
Fors thought with trepidation.
Under her gaze, the expression on this powerful Beyonder's face changed from time to time.
It was as if several souls had been stuffed into one body, and these souls were rushing to squeeze out and compete for control of the body.
This made his words and actions incoherent, terrifying and mad.
"I called you over to ask you to visit Miss Audrey."
Silas endured the mental chaos and said to Fors, "She previously considered joining an organization called the 'Psychology Alchemists.'
I hope you can ask her for me to see if she has entered that organization now."
When he had been a bodyguard for Audrey Hall before, the Psychology Alchemists were already attempting to contact her. Now that some time had passed, the two sides should have connected.
Silas's idea was simple: to contact the Psychology Alchemists through Audrey and have them treat his mental state.
Their research on psychological issues was professional, and their abilities were in the corresponding field.
Moreover, there were no conflicts between them. As long as he paid some compensation, they should agree.
"Miss Audrey, right? I understand!"
How could Fors dare refuse? She immediately agreed repeatedly.
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