At night, in the forest on the outskirts of Kankdar, on a moonlit clearing, a tall figure in a black robe stood on the ground. The shadowed gaze under the hood stared at the receding figure in the distant woods. The entire person was silent, bringing a silent oppression to the surroundings.
After a while, the tall figure slowly descended, visibly shrinking rapidly. After shrinking significantly, the originally broad shoulders instantly slumped down, the shoulders directly collapsing by about half. With both shoulder width and height suddenly becoming less than that of a normal person, the large black-robed figure instantly became petite.
After shrinking all around, the black-robed figure extended the hand that was still tucked inside the wide sleeves and lifted the large hood, revealing a head with a black mask and long silver-white hair. After she took off the black mask, a delicate young girl's face was revealed, which was Miss Dorothy.
"Phew... Finally done..."
After exhaling a long breath, Miss Dorothy began to take off the oversized black robe she was wearing and unfasten some iron pieces inside, putting them away. After unfastening all the iron pieces, Miss Dorothy folded them together with the oversized black robe, then opened the magic box and put this set of majestic attire into it.
Just then, on the edge of the forest clearing, Senior Nefelnis poked her head out from a bush. After looking around, she emerged from the bush, then, holding her robe, she jogged over to Miss Dorothy, who was putting away her clothes, and asked curiously.
"Miss Dorothy, have you finished with her?"
"Finished? Sort of... She has been infected by Spirit Sight. Using the secret transmission content she craves as bait, I have successfully gained a certain degree of control over her," Miss Dorothy said as she closed the opening of the magic box. Listening to Miss Dorothy's words, Senior Nefelnis couldn't help but ponder, then replied.
"I didn't expect that Spirit Sight would also have the ability to control others, not just the secret transmission of 'Queen of Worms Queue'..."
"That's natural. A major symptom after being infected with Spirit Sight is an insatiable craving for other content of the same Spirit Sight. As long as you control the source of the Spirit Sight, you can control the person infected by it. Many societies use this method to corrupt and entice others to serve them. I'm just following suit."
"Of course, in terms of the degree of control, secret transmission like 'Queen of Worms Queue' is professional. As long as you read it through once, the control ability is permanent and doesn't require other secret transmission to keep the other party hooked with subsequent content."
While tidying her clothes, Miss Dorothy explained to Senior Nefelnis. After listening, Senior Nefelnis also began to ponder.
'So many societies use Spirit Sight to control others? Then have I been controlled by Miss Dorothy using secret transmission since I've read so many? That's not right... Those secret transmission are boring and tedious to me. If it weren't for Miss Dorothy's strict requirements, I wouldn't want to read many of them at all. So I shouldn't have been controlled by secret transmission. Since I haven't been controlled, I basically listen to everything Miss Dorothy says. As expected, Miss Dorothy is even more formidable than secret transmission...'
Senior Nefelnis thought to herself. In fact, in terms of simply controlling others, ordinary secret transmission is not as effective as "Queen of Worms Queue" because using ordinary secret transmission to manipulate others requires constantly providing secret transmission to satisfy their desires. If Spirit Sight accumulates excessively in a person's body, it will cause the person receiving the Spirit Sight to gradually go mad or even die and mutate, so controlling others with Spirit Sight is not a long-term solution.
But Miss Dorothy is different. Miss Dorothy had Sazhuoya pray to Aka. Afterward, Miss Dorothy can use the connection of the information channel to regularly clear a portion of the Spirit Sight for Sazhuoya in the future, so that the accumulation of Spirit Sight in Sazhuoya's body does not exceed the limit of madness, while maintaining its constant allure. This way, she can maintain control over Sazhuoya without letting her go mad.
"Since secret transmission has the ability to control others, Miss Dorothy, you have so many secret transmission in your hands, so you will be able to manipulate many people in the future, right?" After finishing her thoughts, Neff then asked Miss Dorothy, and Miss Dorothy immediately replied.
"It's not that simple to control others with secret transmission. For ordinary people, secret transmission is indeed easy to take effect, but for Extraordinary, it is very difficult to use secret transmission to control them. Extraordinary are far more sensitive and resistant to Spirit Sight than ordinary people. They can often sense Spirit Sight as soon as they see or hear the content of secret transmission, and then immediately take precautions to avoid knowing the content of Spirit Sight."
"The reason I was able to control that Sazhuoya is because she was already affected by Spirit Sight when her soul was out of her body. Extraordinary in a soul state not only have weak resistance to Spirit Sight, but also have no way to take measures to shield themselves. Only after she was affected so deeply could I easily take advantage of the situation."
Miss Dorothy explained to Senior Nefelnis. After listening to Miss Dorothy's explanation, Neff not only nodded but also continued to ask.
"Then... can she help us steal Mazhar's soul? Even if she is in charge there, it must be somewhat difficult to take out important protected items. If I remember correctly, she has a companion of the same rank, right?"
"No need to steal, she just needs to be able to access that thing."
"Alright, let's not be idle now, there are still things to do next. Senior Nefelnis, start helping prepare the magic circle." Miss Dorothy replied lightly to Senior Nefelnis's words, who also nodded repeatedly.
"Oh, yes, yes, yes..."
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In the forest, Sazhuoya, dressed in plain clothes, was walking slowly on a path in the woods. At this time, the confusion on her face was gone, replaced by a sense of normalcy and calmness, and in the depths of her indifferent eyes, there was a deep craving.
Sazhuoya returned along the path she came from. Along the way, she picked up the shoes she had dropped halfway, put them back on, and continued walking. After a while, Sazhuoya returned to the entrance of the villa courtyard and walked into the courtyard without saying a word. At this time, a man familiar to Sazhuoya was standing there. When he saw Sazhuoya, he frowned and asked.
"Sazhuoya, where did you just go?"
"I went out for a walk. It was stuffy in that room, so stuffy that my head hurt even more. I already told them when I left..."
"Is that so... How do you feel now?"
"I feel better... It seems I really can't stay in the room all the time. I should go out for walks more often from now on... Alright, I'm going back to rest first."
After greeting her companion, Sazhuoya walked directly into the house, waving her hand. After seeing Sazhuoya return safely without any injuries, the man also breathed a sigh of relief and then walked to the other side of the house.
As time continued to pass, the bright moon in the sky rose to its zenith. When most people had fallen asleep, Sazhuoya in her room in the villa suddenly opened her eyes, then turned over and got out of bed. After putting on her shoes, she walked out of the room.
Afterward, Sazhuoya walked down the small building of the villa. After a while, she reached the entrance of the basement. Looking at the ghosts almost filling the stairway and wandering around below the stairs, she walked down directly.
Sazhuoya walked down the stairs. The ghosts in front of her automatically moved aside to make way for her, without making any sharp screams of warning.
After walking for a long time, Sazhuoya arrived in front of the basement door. Behind the door was a narrow stone room. Inside the stone room, a brilliant orange-yellow light shone out. The source of this light was a lantern hanging from the ceiling of the stone room.
In the illumination of the light, Sazhuoya continued to move forward, arriving at the center of the stone room. Here was a stone platform, and on the stone platform was a large iron coffin. The iron coffin was engraved with dense rune patterns.
Looking at the large iron coffin in front of her, Sazhuoya reached out her hand to touch it. She stroked the complex characters on the iron coffin, finally stopping at one spot. Then Sazhuoya used force to pry, directly prying off a piece of the character.
After prying off that character, Sazhuoya looked at the small iron piece pried off in her palm. Then she took out a small bottle of glue from her body, put a little on these iron pieces, and pasted them back, finally making them look exactly the same as before.
After repairing the iron coffin, Sazhuoya immediately turned around and walked out of the basement, returning to the upward stairs. After climbing for a while, she returned to the first floor of the small building, and then she hurried back to her bedroom without stopping.
At the moment she closed the bedroom door, Sazhuoya looked up at the skylight in the room and at the night sky outside the window. She murmured in a voice only she could hear.
"Great Aka, who records all things, I have completed the task assigned by your servant. Now... please grant me new knowledge, subsequent knowledge..."
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Time flowed, the moon set and the sun rose. When the night dispersed, the residents of Kankdar welcomed the morning light from the eastern horizon. A new day dawned upon the city.
In the early morning, just as the large city of Kankdar was gradually entering its busy state, in a spacious and bright ward of the Kankdar Central Hospital, Mr. Robert, dressed in a بیمار uniform, was on the balcony of the ward, sitting at a small dining table specially moved here, wearing a scarf and enjoying a delicious breakfast. Beside him was a personal maid.
While reading the morning paper, Mr. Robert enjoyed his wonderful breakfast and glanced at the scenery of the city's morning light outside the balcony. He looked quite at ease, but across from him, Prince Ma'ad, wearing a headscarf and a luxurious North Wu robe, did not have as good a complexion as Mr. Robert. Standing on the ground, he spoke to Mr. Robert with a hint of worry.
"Mr. Robert... When will the saint church inquisitor's judgment finally come down... When will Shadi and that little Sister finally be convicted..."
"Don't panic... Ma'ad, the inquisitor from the Holy Mountain has only been in Kankdar for three days. Everything is still in the investigation stage, and it's not time for the judgment to be finalized..." While drinking a glass of red wine, Mr. Robert calmly replied to Ma'ad, who then continued to speak anxiously.
"But... didn't you say before... that the court also disliked that little Sister, and their people would convict her within a day or two after they arrived. But now that little Sister is still living well in the hotel... If the inquisitor doesn't take down that little Sister, how can her guilt be determined?"
"Heh... Regarding this matter, I underestimated the importance of that little Sister in the Redemption Faction. I didn't expect that the important figure from the Holy Mountain would directly send an extraordinary existence to protect that little Sister. This has made that inquisitor somewhat constrained. Many of his usual unconventional methods cannot be used, which has caused the current progress to be a bit slow."
With a light chuckle, Mr. Robert continued to speak with a calm expression, but his words did not reduce Ma'ad's anxiety.
"Cannot use unconventional methods... Then, does that inquisitor still have the ability to convict that little Sister?"
"Of course. Although Clifton doesn't have a good way to deal with the little Sister who is strongly protected by the Redemption Faction, if something happens within the Redemption Faction itself and they give us and Clifton a big flaw, we can use this flaw to completely bring down that little Sister." Looking at Ma'ad, Mr. Robert said with a smile, while Ma'ad, who didn't quite understand the meaning of Mr. Robert's smile, continued to ask in confusion.
"Something happens within the Redemption Faction itself, you mean..."
"Referring to a foolish trap that they have already stepped into with one foot. Let's wait a little longer. It won't be long before you see them completely step into the trap. Once they step into this trap, even that Sister of Steel won't be able to protect that little Sister."
With a hint of mystery, Mr. Robert said to Ma'ad while drinking wine. Just as Ma'ad was listening in confusion, the door of Mr. Robert's ward was suddenly knocked. Mr. Robert looked at the door and spoke directly.
"Come in."
After Mr. Robert finished speaking, the ward door was opened, and then Captain Hajeta of the Kankdar City Guard walked into the room. He bowed to Mr. Robert on the balcony and said.
"Mr. Robert, news has come from the Fire Punishment that early this morning, Sister Vanya's side will provide important evidence to Inquisitor Clifton, which involves you, Mr. Robert, and Prince Ma'ad. Therefore, you two are required to go for some confirmation."
After reporting, Captain Hajeta stood respectfully in place, while Mr. Robert, upon hearing Captain Hajeta's words, put down his knife and fork with interest and picked up a napkin to wipe his mouth. He looked composed, as if he had expected Captain Hajeta's report.
After wiping his mouth, Mr. Robert looked at Ma'ad beside him and continued to smile.
"Your Highness, it seems we don't have to wait any longer. Please, let's go and admire how the prey struggles after falling into the trap?"