Night Ranger Chapter 19: The world of oil painting (for votes!)
Headless Girl Vanessa.
The name, Marvin suddenly got an impression.
When he was playing games in the previous life, he often took the time to browse game posts and forums. Once he saw a picture posted by an anonymous ID.
The picture is an accessory that looks like a balloon flower.
That accessory is Uncommon items, but the effect is amazing. Marvin remembers its attributes so far:
【Vanessa's Present】
Quality: Uncommon
Effect: dread resistance +10
Requirement: Help the headless girl fulfill her wish.
...
No doubt, this is a Quest reward item.
At first, the purpose of that guy's drying equipment was probably to show off. Most people probably forgot about it. Thanks to the good memory of Marvin, I can still recall the properties of that thing.
Probably there are too few items in This World that can increase dread resistance. A few of them are very difficult to get in the memory of Marvin.
This Vanessa's Present was originally clueless.
But now he figured it out. The anonymous player posted the texture just one week after Scarlet Monastery Instance Dungeon was opened.
That guy, maybe the first players to enter Scarlet Monastery, and then triggered the headless girl Quest.
"Vanessa ... Why can't I see you?"
Thinking about the cause and effect, Marvin's mind could not help but activate.
He can feel that the girl doesn't seem malicious.
"Because I look like terrifying now. Every normal human will be cursed by dread after seeing me, you may go crazy."
Vanessa explained, "So, don't turn around and see me?"
Marvin nodded.
The headless girl is probably attached to something like [Powerful dread]. Anyone who sees her body will face a dread check.
Marvin Although soul is tenacious, if the body can't afford it, the test fails. It's better not to take risks.
"Why are you showing up?" he tempted.
"My skull was stolen by a mean person, can you help me find it?" Vanessa said quietly.
In the silent room, the girl's voice seemed a bit humbling.
Marvin glanced down at the shadow on the ground.
Under the light of the moon, a blurry outline appeared on the ground.
"Fuck, it really doesn't have a head!"
Marvin secretly cursed, really [headless girl].
He laughed: "I'm just a normal human. Why do you think I can help you?"
"I can feel that your will is very firm. And your martial arts are very superb." Vanessa whispered, "You can Sneak, you can easily steal into my head without being sleazy guy Discovery . "
"I need more detailed information to decide whether to intervene in your business." Marvin booth: "I don't want to lose my life."
...
Ten minutes later, a sneaky shadow returned to the ghost corridor.
He approached the last painting. Headless girl.
Under the request of Vanessa's, he weighed again and again, and accepted this Quest.
The items that can increase the resistance of dread can be encountered without asking. Plus this time Quest should not need to do anything, just steal something, he is still very experienced.
After he promised the headless girl's plea, there was an extra Quest in the Quest column of Marvin.
Quest content Marvin has long been understood, the reward is a series of question marks.
This kind of random Quest has always been a gambler, but fortunately Marvin already knows what the Quest reward is.
Following the instructions of Vanessa's, he gently pressed his hands on the oil painting.
"Relax, relax."
The gentle voice of Vanessa came from his ear.
"Close your eyes."
"Now, take a step forward."
Marvin did.
Crunch! A door was pushed open by him, and he took two steps forward with his eyes closed, and the surrounding environment suddenly changed from silence to noise.
The bird tweeted on the branch, he seemed to be in a wood.
The next second, Marvin opened his eyes, and Discovery was indeed in a small forest!
[You Discovery has mysterious place — Bokennon]
[Your knowledge — 异 闻 +5]
[Learning — Yiwen — Bokennon World]: Here is a distorted space composed of oil paintings, located between Fenan continent and Evil Spirit World. It looks like an ordinary farm, but the evil Evil Spirit Messenger Morris rules every inch of the land here. Patrol crows and Black Knight are his two major forces. Here all good things are virtual fake.
[You have entered the world of oil painting — Bokennon ...]
The surrounding birds are fragrant, full of vitality.
Behind him is an old locust tree that is dying. He remembers the shape and location of this tree. This is the way he returned.
The headless girl soul cannot enter the world of oil painting with him. Next, he must act alone.
His goal is castle on a hill in Bokennon. This castle belongs to the local Landgraf. The old man of the known as Morris is said to be Evil Spirit Messenger of Lower Plane, which is specially extracted from people's soul and sealed in his oil painting world.
Be careful in such places. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will stay in the oil painting world of terrifying forever.
Vanessa's's head was hidden in Morris's bedroom in castle. Marvin must sneak in, steal skull, and give it to Vanessa this person.
This way, Vanessa's soul will be liberated. Quest of Marvin is also completed.
"If it is High Step Evil Spirit Messenger, it should not be possible to conquer even the soul of a willpower firm girl."
"That Morris is probably an ordinary Evil Spirit Messenger. It should be an Evil Art division of Second Step or something."
"Unfortunately, the concentration of Holy Water sold by God of White-Silver Church is too low. If you can get Holy Water No. 13, maybe you have a chance to kill Morris."
Evil Spirit Messenger is different from ghouls. Although their Profession may be Evil Art divisions, but their races are different. The evil spirit of Lower Plane is very evil, has strong vitality, and is not human like a ghoul, and has lethal vitality.
...
Marvin crept out of the forest and came to a small hill.
Looking up from the small hill, there is a field in the distance, a large area of wheat is growing and growing, and some figures appear in the wheat field.
That's a farmer who is farming.
This is a real world.
"It's amazing ..." Marvin zé zé was surprised.
At the end of the wheat field is a hill with a castle on the hill. Marvin crossed the wheat field without alarming anyone.
His Sneak skills are invincible. Although limited by his skill level, he still has outstanding results.
Soon, he came to castle.
Except castle, there is only one single wooden bridge. The remaining three directions are cliffs.
team guards the other end of the wooden bridge.
"A bit tricky."
Marvin dare not try to enter with Sneak under the eyes of these guards.
Sneak is not invisible. Besides, it is daylight, and the effect of Sneak will be very weak.
It looks like I can only wait until night.
He found a shelter to rest.
...
In the evening, a bullock cart slowly headed towards castle from a farm set off under the mountain.
Marvin's eyes hiding in the dark.
"Hmm? The ox cart is loaded with vegetables and fruits? And potatoes?"
"That farmer wants to enter castle!"
"There is a way!"
He ran quickly.
...
The farmer driving the ox cart waved his long whip leisurely, and the old cow stepped forward on the trail.
Cursing through a small curve, the farmer's peripheral vision suddenly flashes of silver!
"Oh!?"
He immediately stopped the car and jumped down.
That's a piece of broken silver!
Broken silver is hard currency everywhere! This is true even in Bokennon.
The farmer looked happy, looked around, hid the broken silver close, and then got back on the car and proceeded to castle.
The slow-moving farmer does not have Discovery. There is one more under his ox cart.
Marvin limbs spread apart, just jamming the depression in the floor below the ox cart.
Fortunately, he is only 14 years old this year, with a small body, he can barely hide in here.
He used to have a similar experience when working on Quest, but at that time, he used Bone Shrinking Art for Assassin to change transfiguration.
Five minutes later, the ox cart reached the gate of castle.
After a brief investigation, the guards let go.
Marvin under the car is tired and weak on the limbs, but still clenches its teeth. This is the safest way to enter castle.
The ox cart is slowly advancing in castle, probably going to the kitchen or warehouse.
Marvin carefully poked out his head. Observation suddenly let go and lay silently on the ground when no one was around.
The ox cart passed by without notice.
Marvin looked around, opened Sneak, and quickly entered the castle main hall.
...
City Lord's bedroom is easy to find. It's in the highest room of castle.
In general, only people with mental problems set traps in their bedrooms.
Marvin waited until the evening and confirmed through conversations between servants' mouths that City Lord Morris was going to spend the night in the laboratory tonight, and decisively dived into the gloomy room.
He groped for a while in the room, and touched some heaping mess things. — — bat's claws, human skull, small daemon hand bone ... In short, it is some material for casting.
After all, he found a package from a pile of debris.
This parcel is wrapped in a dark cloth, nailed with special nails on the outside, and there are some weird patterns on the nails.
This is exactly the same as the Vanessa's description.
"Conversion mantra of evil spirit retainer?"
Marvin recognizes these patterns. It turns out that Evil Spirit Messenger uses Vanessa as evil spirit retainer to Conversion. No wonder she couldn't bear to destroy her soul all at once.
He hid the parcel in void conch. Preparing to leave.
Who knows that at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the bedroom.
Marvin's heart tightened, one rolled and hid under the bed.
The next second, the fire lighted up, and a pair of feet in cloth shoes appeared in his field of vision.