Open Your Quest Log - Chapter 499.16

Holy Arathor Kingdom, the city of San Nino.

Barrett walked slowly on the straight and spacious streets of the city, looking at the slightly familiar buildings around him, his mood was quite complicated. He remembered that the last time he came to San Nino was around this time, and the terrible disaster that happened after that brought great changes to the city and himself.

Although the disaster has passed and the damaged buildings have been repaired, Barrett can still find some traces of the disaster in every corner of the city. An imperceptible black and red bloodstain, a broken old shoe that fell in the grass, and the marks of a knife and axe that were not erased on the walls and fences all told the horror and tragicness of the disaster.

Just as our barbarian adventurer had a rare feeling of emotion, a pure white ferret suddenly crawled out of his outer cloak. The little guy was lying on Barrett’s shoulder, revealing only a small triangular head, looking out curiously.

“Go back!” Barrett tapped the ferret’s nose with his finger, and the little guy squeaked to express his dissatisfaction, but he still retracted into the cloak obediently.

The core of this ferret is the flesh-and-blood puppet ‘Joy’, the strange, round, tentacled eyeball. According to the mage Ben Yisu, as long as there is a sufficient supply of flesh and blood, this little thing can turn into many different kinds of creatures, including even giant dragons.

However, this deformation is only similar in shape, and does not have the unique abilities and characteristics of the original creature. For example, even if Joey devoured enough flesh to become a powerful dragon, he still couldn’t use those spell-like abilities unique to dragons, nor could he breathe out the terrifying dragon breath that is characteristic of dragons. . And because its “dragon” body is made of various and assorted flesh and blood, it is far from the real dragon in terms of defense and toughness.

Unless, this little guy “eats” a real dragon.

Although Joey can transform into many different creatures, according to Barrett’s request, he will only use the appearance of certain small animals on weekdays. This not only makes it portable, but also because larger creatures and constructs consume more energy on a daily basis. If he wants to maintain the form of a giant dragon, Joey needs to devour a huge amount of flesh and blood every day. Even for Barrett, who had plenty of money on his hands, it was a lot of money. More critically, this overhead is simply unnecessary.

In addition, in that conversation with the Master Ben Yisu, the other party also told Barrett that Joey is very different from all kinds of flesh and blood puppets that have appeared and recorded in history. The most obvious point is that those flesh-and-blood puppets can only repair damaged bodies through flesh and blood (they can repair themselves by swallowing enemies in battle), but they cannot deform at will, only Joey has this ability.

“This peculiar shape-shifting ability is likely derived from ‘shape-shifters’,” the Red Dragon Mage said at the time, “However, shape-shifters can only transform into other humanoid creatures, and the species that this little thing can transform into is It is very numerous. According to our preliminary experiments, it can transform into almost all kinds of ordinary animals, some magical beasts and ferocious animals that existed in the early days, as well as most humanoids, in addition to the golem form, which is good at fighting. A creature. But it cannot become a human being. According to this little thing itself, its original owner did not add such abilities to it, and it was strictly forbidden to do so.”

As for Joey’s original owner, that is, who its creator is, Joey himself can’t tell. The Red Dragon Mage and his colleagues don’t have much clue about it. They only know that it should be someone who exists in The female mages before the Magic Empire, and they did not join the Magic Empire, at least they did not find it in the records of the Empire.

At the end of that conversation, Ben Yisu also wanted to buy Joey from Barrett in the name of the Magic Association. “Its creator is undoubtedly a genius of genius, who transformed this ‘uninvited guest’ into a peculiar construct through some unexplainable qualities that existed in the first place. Contact, we learned a lot from it.”

When the Red Dragon Mage said that, like the boss of the ‘Gear Heart’, the Modron Rogue, through some means that Barrett could not understand, a layer of continuous superposition was stimulated on the surface of the meat ball’s body. Extremely cumbersome, complex, dense, strange patterns similar to the magic circle.

“Did you see, it actually has some other abilities, but we haven’t been able to deconstruct it yet.” The mage pointed to the patterns on the flesh ball and said, “Although these layers of textures have been imaged by magic. It has been completely and carefully preserved, but it is not more accurate and convenient to study it itself. So, if you can buy it to the association, you will definitely be satisfied with the price, and there are many extras Ben Yisu put a parchment quotation on the table, swiped his finger, and flew to Barrett, “The benefits are all written on it, you can take a look first, if there is any problem, we will deal with it. discuss.”

At that time, Barrett looked down at the little guy who was looking at him pitifully. After a long silence, he finally refused flatly, “No, I’m not going to sell it.” He didn’t even look at the one handed over by the other party. parchment, because I was worried that it would be shaken after seeing it, “Since this little thing is called my master, then I plan to keep it by my side. If it wants to change to a new owner one day, I will also let it go, and Don’t stop it. So, it’s not too late for you to buy it again.”

Barrett was still a little worried that the Red Dragon Mage would be angry because of this, but the other party always had a kind and proud smile on his face, and did not show any dissatisfaction, but when the two sides said goodbye at the end, fluttering. Said, “Actually, we are more interested in you than this thing.”

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Although the city of San Nino suffered from that terrible disaster before, as a large-scale city in the Kingdom of Sacred Arathor, it only took a year to restore its former prosperity.

When Barrett came to San Nino City this time, he naturally went to find the pharmacist ‘Jorel’ and asked him to help him with his appearance. Although our barbarian adventurer doesn’t care much about his appearance, it is in the scope of human beings. If some troll characteristics are mixed in his appearance, he will not accept it.

Jorel’s underground laboratory is in the mansion of Countess Teresa, on the brink of the disaster, and I don’t know if it still exists today.

The Countess’ mansion was not far from the tavern where Barrett was working, and the two were still on the same street, just by the way. So our barbarian adventurer wants to take a seat in that pub while it’s still early, have a beer, eat something, and then sneak into the Countess’s mansion the old way when it’s completely dark Go to Jorel.

When Barrett came to 104 Manson Middle Street, what he looked up at was not a pub, but a bookstore called ‘Multiverse’. He was surprised by this, because according to the tavern owner ‘Benjamin’, the ‘never mixed with water’ tavern was established earlier than the Holy Arathor Kingdom, it has been passed down for countless generations, has existed for many centuries, and belongs to their family. pride. Why did it suddenly stop working? Did it move to another place? Or did Benjamin and his family survive that disaster?

The barbarian stepped into the bookstore, and the layout inside had been completely changed. As far as the eye can see, there are bookshelves scattered, and a book, new or old, is neatly placed on the bookshelf. There is also a special smell in the air, which is the unique smell of grass and trees of paper, mixed with the rich fragrance of camphor wood strips that prevent insects and moths.

There are not many customers in the bookstore. Several young people are going back and forth between the bookshelves, their fingers passing over the spines of one book after another, and they are more interested in the title of the book than the content inside. It seems that they do not know what they want to read. What; an old man with gray hair and a somewhat hunchback sitting on a chair, holding glasses with one hand and pressing the other hand on the page on the table, his lips constantly wriggling, reading the contents of the book word by word; and A girl like a noble lady, hiding in a very hidden corner, holding a book with a light blue cover in her hand, reading it carefully.

Every time the girl looked down at the book for a while, she would raise her head to observe the surroundings with her bright black eyes. Her face was reddish, and her expression was both cautious and excited. When she raised her head again, she accidentally exchanged glances with our barbarian adventurer, and that youthful reddish cheek instantly turned into a ripe tomato. The girl closed the book, shuttled from the bookshelf as if escaping, and finally disappeared.

“Hello.” The bookstore owner said to Barrett politely. He is a middle-aged man wearing glasses, with a rather strong physique, his knotted muscles are faintly visible in the cotton shirt, “What kind of books are you looking for?”

The same kind as the one in the girl’s hand, Barrett thought to himself. “I didn’t come to buy books, but wanted to ask you something.” He said to the bookstore owner, “I remember that this place was supposed to be a tavern, why did it become a bookstore? Did the tavern owner put it sold?”

“Yes, you don’t know?” The middle-aged man looked at the barbarian a few times~www.mtlnovel.com~ It seems that you are not a local, you and Benjamin are old acquaintances? Is it his friend? ”

“We can’t talk about friends, we know each other.” Barrett asked again, “What happened to Benjamin?” If something hadn’t happened, he didn’t think the man would have sold the ancestral tavern.

“He’s dead.” The bookstore owner took off his eyes and wiped them with the cotton cloth at hand.

The same is true after thinking about it, “Died when the devil invaded?”

“No, he was sentenced to death for murder.” The bookstore owner took the glasses back.

“Murder?” Barrett was shocked by the answer. “What happened?”

“Not long after the devil’s invasion, Benjamin and his wife divorced because of a breakdown in their relationship,” said the middle-aged man, “and then because of a quarrel with a customer in the store, he directly killed the other party. At that time, the customer he killed was not one, but five people. Although he showed extreme remorse after the killing, the judge of the city hall sentenced him to death. After Benjamin was hanged, he The only son inherited the tavern. He posted a notice for sale, and I bid the highest. After the young man sold the tavern, he paid all the money to the families of the victims and left with his mother. This city, I don’t know where to go after that.”

Benjamin murder? Or kill five in one go? This is a bit inconsistent with the kind and kind person in Barrett’s cognition, “I have the impression that Benjamin is not such a person, what happened to him?”

“I’m not sure about that.” The bookstore owner said, “It’s just rumors that all these tragedies are inseparable from a newly recruited waitress in the tavern, but the waitress is also missing. People know where they went.”

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