Roger saw the shock of the two people, but he felt nothing in his heart.
He is a cheater, it would be strange if the two of them could compare with him.
"Thank you for your guidance, Master Falura. Here is the copy I made."
After expressing his thanks, Rogge handed a copy of the Extraordinary Casting Manual to Falura, then said goodbye to the two and left.
The purpose of this trip to Goldsmith Island has been achieved, and it is time for him to leave Goldsmith Island and look for traces of the second land cave.
Looking at Rogge's receding back, Falula opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself, feeling mixed emotions.
Could it be that all of this young man's extraordinary abilities are due to his talent for learning
This is too horrifying...
Falula and Mei looked at each other, feeling confused.
…
During the time when Roger was concentrating on studying, Lina encountered a strange thing.
"Well...well..."
Lina looked at the puppet in her hand that made strange noises, frowned, and exchanged glances with Mirayas beside her.
A few days ago, she went to Goldsmith Island to purchase some herbal plants, and planned to bring them on board and ask Iya to help ripen them so as to make some medicine.
But she met a subhuman child with missing legs on the road, who tried to sell her some wooden dolls.
Although Lina felt sympathy for this, she realized that the matter was not simple. This disabled demihuman child seemed to be forced to sell dolls.
After going through some things with Roger and being influenced by him, Lina would think more deeply when encountering things.
She wanted to follow the clues to find out the real culprit behind the doll, so she secretly observed it after purchasing it.
However, Lina saw an extremely horrifying scene.
The demi-human child dragged his body into an alley, and then his whole body shrank and turned into a demi-human puppet with broken legs!
Then the demi-human doll crawled into an underground passage in a corner.
At this time, the puppet in Lina's hand was making strange noises for some reason. Its eyes were moving irregularly, its pupils were numb and lifeless, and it had double eyelids, which looked extremely creepy.
"It is very likely that it was done by some extraordinary person."
"It looks like a living person has been turned into a puppet. It's so scary."
Mira withdrew her gaze. She always felt that this sub-human puppet was particularly creepy and terrifying.
“Help…Help…”
The demi-human puppet made intermittent sounds and its entire body shook involuntarily, as if it was twitching, or as if something was struggling inside it.
"It's saying help?" Mira frowned and looked at Yas: "What should I do?"
"Let's wait for Roger to come back first. We can't act rashly. Transcendents are not simple."
Lina said calmly.
She would not be complacent just because she had become a transcendent. This matter must be decided by the captain.
Yas frowned at this time: "You shouldn't have bought this puppet. No one knows what the puppet maker is thinking."
"You're not feeling sick, are you?"
Lina also sighed when she heard this. What Yas said was right, but she initially just thought that those damn human traffickers were abusing the sub-human children and didn't associate it with any supernatural powers at all.
Along the way, they met only a handful of quasi-supernatural people on the road, so who knew they would suddenly encounter something like this.
"No."
Lina said after feeling it.
This also taught Lina a lesson, and she must be more careful in the future.
Not long after, the sound of footsteps was heard.
Roger opened the door and walked in.
"You are all here. I thought you had disembarked."
"It's strange that there is no church on Goldsmith Island..."
After Roger dusted himself off, he noticed the puppet on the table that was twitching and shaking.
"… What is this? The toy you bought?"
Roger was surprised.
The appearance of this doll was indeed a bit weird, and it made him feel a little creepy.
"We were just about to tell you about this."
Lina briefly explained to him the origin of the puppet.
This made Roger frown, and he opened the information bar and took a look.
[Soul Locking Doll]
[Type: Special props]
[Quality: White]
[Effect: Imprison the soul inside and impose a bond on the purchaser, making him the next soul-locking target.]
[Explanation: From a 'puppet maker' whose skills are not so superb. ]
After reading it, Rogge's expression gradually became solemn.
"How about it, Brother Roger, what is this?"
Mira asked impatiently.
She really wanted to know who made this thing.
"The Soul Locking Doll." Roger said, then he looked at Lina: "Lina, the maker of this doll has already targeted you through the doll you bought."
Hearing what Roger said, Lina immediately covered her face.
Bad luck!
Rogge carefully searched for relevant knowledge in his mind.
Speaking of which, Roger couldn't always remember all the knowledge that the skill of mysticism gave him.
Some of its knowledge is superficial, while some unpopular knowledge only pops up automatically when Rogge encounters corresponding events.
Of course, if Roger wanted to recall it himself, he could, but it would be very difficult.
“To impose a connection on the buyer…”
"This appears to be a trick of the different pathway sequences."
Roger said after hesitating for a moment.
"Different pathway sequence? What does that mean?"
Lina turned to look at him.
Rogge tried hard to recall that the Hound had once told him a little bit of relevant knowledge. After connecting some of the relevant knowledge together, he pondered for a moment and explained.
"I've told you before that most extraordinary people gain extraordinary powers by taking potions."
"Ordinary people who haven't taken the potion can only master a small amount of supernatural power through some special methods, just like the exorcist Hudson we met before."
"We become extraordinary people through this path, which is a normal way."
After saying this, Roger paused for a moment.
"And if you want to become a transcendent, there is another abnormal way, that is the different path."
"Some different pathway sequences can gain powerful and strange supernatural powers without drinking potions."
"So powerful?" Mira was a little surprised, her eyes lit up. If she didn't need to drink the potion, could she use this method
But she quickly calmed down.
This is highly unlikely, otherwise Captain Roger would definitely find a way to make her a transcendent through this means.
"But the heterogeneous pathway sequence is a twisted and crazy path to advancement."
Roger said to her seriously.
He had to dispel Mira's dangerous thoughts.
"If an ordinary person wants to become a transcendent through the Different Path Sequence, he must first obtain the corresponding method."
"These methods are rather weird and crazy."
"Let me give you an example."
"For example, an ordinary person obtains a different way to become a Lookout."
"Then the requirements of this promotion method are likely to require you to remove your own eyeballs, and then transplant the eyeballs of some extraordinary creature or monster, and then let you peek at something..."
"Of course, I'm just giving an example. The different ways to advance are not fixed."
"Anyway, if you meet the requirements and don't become alienated, you may be able to advance to the extraordinary level."
Roger frowned as he spoke.
Because when he was recalling the knowledge, he saw some not-so-good descriptions.
"How disgusting." Mira said with a hint of disgust.
You think it's just disgusting
No, not only is it gross, it's also unsafe.
Roger thought to himself.
"Then the maker of this puppet is a transcendent from the Different Path Sequence?"
Lina inquired.
"It's very likely. After all, this behavior of cheating people through special means is very similar to some requirements of the Different Pathway Sequence."
Speaking of this, Roger thought of Doyle.
He was probably also an extraordinary person of a different path, and his sequence level might be relatively high, so a trap was set up to trick him.
There must be some big pit waiting for him behind.
"So what should we do now? Go find this person?"
"Of course we have to go find him." Rogge looked at the puppet on the table: "I want to see how powerful he is. He actually sold the puppet to us."
Judging from the quality of his puppets and his methods of deceiving people, he is at most a quasi-transcendent being, and is probably preparing to be promoted to a transcendent through some unusual means.
…
In a secret basement in the Goldsmith Island City.
The environment here is dark and cold, filled with a creepy atmosphere.
Inside the iron cages were sleeping humans, subhumans, and even animals.
A demihuman girl with wolf ears and a wolf tail wakes up from her coma.
She felt a headache.
After looking around, her heart was shocked.
What is this place? Why did I end up here
Crash...
The sound of chains being dragged was heard, and Nomi looked down and found that his hands and feet were shackled.
Crunch…
There was a sound of chewing.
Nomi looked up and saw a strange figure sitting at the table under the light of an oil lamp in the distance, grabbing something to eat from a plate with his hands.
Just by the sound, Nomi knew that what he ate was very sticky.
'Who is he?'
Nomi forced himself to calm down and recalled what happened before he fell into a coma.
Disabled old man... Doll... Sudden sleepiness...
"I was tricked!"
Nomi cursed inwardly.
As a wolf-human hunter, it was really embarrassing to be knocked unconscious and imprisoned without any sound.
She came to Goldsmith Island not to work, but to complete a bounty mission.
She had completed her mission and was planning to go home tomorrow, but she was unexpectedly brought to this damn place.
But she quickly accepted the situation and began to calmly look for ways to deal with it.
"Very good... You searched very thoroughly, and they almost skinned me..."
"But it's still too early to try to lock me up in shackles."
Nomi felt some of the shackles behind her hands and breathed a sigh of relief. Although it took some time, she was able to break free.
"But what does that person want to do? A perverted killer? Or a cannibal? He can't be a good person anyway..."
"The damn clan spirits just won't let me have better luck..."
Nomi thought as she twisted her wrist.
At this moment, a groan was heard from the side.
"My head hurts. Did some bastard hit me with a club? It's so fucking painful..."
Opposite Nomi, a fat man woke up cursing.
Nomi thought for a moment, then lay down in the cage, closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.
Soon, the man opposite began to shout in fear.
"Where the hell is this?"
"Who did it!"
"Help!"
Idiot! Do you think you are not dying fast enough? Are you imprisoned just for flirting? Are you a cat spirit? How many lives do you have to live for such a death
Nomi felt speechless and cursed in his heart.
If this man led that person over, he would also be at risk of being discovered.
Sure enough, the Nomi wolf with its eyes closed moved its ears slightly, and it sensitively noticed that the man had stopped eating.
He wiped his mouth, stood up, and started walking towards this side.
"Fuck you! What the hell is this monster! Don't come over here!"
"Don't come over here!"
“Help—”
The man screamed in horror.
Oh, it sounds like this person must be quite miserable looking.
Nomi complained in his heart with his eyes closed.
"Bontas, we are old acquaintances. How come you forgot about me?"
The voice of the captive reached Nomi's ears.
The sound was like a man's voice and an old witch's sharp voice overlapped, like scraping glass next to your ears.
She resisted the urge to cover her ears.
"You are... Yolin?"
The man seemed to recognize the identity of his captor and his voice sounded surprised.
Then Nomi heard him speak in an angry and condescending voice.
"You bastard! Who gave you the guts to do this to me? Have you forgotten how I treated you? Is this how you repay me?"
"If I hadn't given you a chance to live, you would have died on the street!"
"Hurry up and take off these damn shackles for me! Otherwise I will beat you to death!"
The man struggled and cursed.
Nomi was a little dumbfounded when he heard this.
Can't you tell the difference? You are still so tough even though you are imprisoned
You are dead.
Nomi was certain of his fate.
Fortunately, there was someone who died first, so I still had some time to open the shackles.
Nomi began to quietly exert force, trying to break free from the shackles.
Nomi didn't hear the captor speak, but she heard a loud noise, as if the captor grabbed her.
"If you mean the rotten food, then it is indeed a favor you did me..."
"But I will never forget the evil you committed against my wife."
There was a ferocious and gnashing tone in the prisoner Yolin's voice, and he seemed to have a close relationship with the fat man.
"... Hehehe, how about this, for the sake of your rotten rice, I will make you into a filthy doll..."
"Oh, by the way, you probably don't know what a filthy doll is..."
"Let me tell you briefly. You don't need to eat rotten food. But before I turn you into a puppet, I have to use needles as thick as my fingers to prick your body into a hornet's nest, and then throw it into the filthy pool I prepared..."
Yolin's voice gradually became abnormal and crazy.
"Oh~ Do you want to guess what's inside?"
"It's your favorite feces, dirt, smelly corpses, pus, snake blood... Anyway, everything you like..."
"It suits your filthy and dirty heart perfectly..."
Nomi, who was standing by, felt a chill in his heart when he heard this.
Mom, this is so disgusting...
I don't want to go to the cesspool!
Nomi was filled with grief and anger, and tried even harder to break free from the shackles.
The man no longer dared to be arrogant and began to cry and beg.
"Yolin, no, please let me go. I'm so sorry for your misfortune. Your wife's death was actually just an accident, and I didn't do anything to her... I, I can explain all this, just listen to my explanation!"
"Besides, you don't have to make me into what you said... That demi-human across the street! That demi-human is also suitable! All of them should be thrown into the cesspool!"
asshole!
I really want to cut off your stinky mouth and sew it on your butt!
Hearing this, Nomi had the urge to stab him.
Yolin gave him a hideous smile, and the fat man's face turned pale and his lips trembled.
Should I be made into a puppet just because I am kind
Nomi was filled with indignation.
"As for you, you are more suitable for the filthy pool. The filthy doll you create must be very strong."
Phew!
“Huh—”
Hearing this strange sound, Nomi couldn't help but carefully narrow his eyes.
But when she saw the scene in front of her, her pupils suddenly shrank.
The first thing that caught my eye was the prisoner named Yolin.
There were large flesh abscesses on his forearms, with crude suture marks on them, as if he had sewn on some tumor himself.
His entire body was covered with hardwood-like growths, making him look like a mutated tree man.
At this moment, a pure white thread emerged from the tumor on his arm and pierced straight into the forehead of the man opposite.
At this moment, the fat man rolled his eyes wildly, as if his soul had been suddenly sucked out, and his body twitched like a sieve.
Then, the white spider silk slowly left, tightly wrapping a pure white soul around it.
You really sucked the soul out of people!
Extraordinary!
She had been hanging around in the royal city waters and the demi-human waters since she was a child, and had heard rumors about the extraordinary people.
I didn't expect that I would be equipped with such a mysterious existence.
Oops…
Nomi's heart sank, she felt that she might be in great danger this time.
At this time, she had gradually loosened the shackles on her hands. After holding them firmly, she gently placed them on the ground without making any sound.
But she knew very well that just breaking free from the shackles was nothing. The most important thing was how to escape from under the nose of Yolin.
Or, beg for mercy
After thinking for a moment, Nomi gave up the idea.
If it was useful, she wouldn't mind doing it, but this man looked crazy, and he might suck her soul out if he got unhappy.
What to do...
Nomi was annoyed.
Da da da…
Yolin dragged the fat man's soul and body, opened the door of another room and walked in.
'Have the opportunity!'
Seeing this, Nomi's heart moved. After confirming that the man had left, he quickly stood up and began to observe the cage in front of him.
She held out a finger and a sharp claw extended.
After tinkering with it for a while, she felt excited.
It’s almost pried open!
However, at this moment, another sound of footsteps was heard.
This startled Nomi, who thought it was that Yolin who had returned, and he quickly lay on the ground and returned to his original state.
The footsteps sounded like several people.
And they soon came to Nomi's side.
It was Rogge and his group who came following the trail.
"Bugs in a bowl? I hope it's not what I think..."
Roger glanced at the big bowl.
There are all kinds of dead insects in it, including big green caterpillars, slugs, mosquitoes, moths, snails...
And the scariest thing is that many bugs are only half...
"These things are very fresh..." As a doctor, Lina was not afraid of this disgusting sight. After a careful inspection, she concluded: "He is nearby."
Can we not use the word 'fresh' to describe these things
Roger felt like vomiting.
"Hey! Hey! Help!"
"Can you help me?"
"Save me! I'll pay you!"
Roger heard a small shout from behind.
The three turned around and saw Nomi, a demi-human girl with wolf ears, calling for help.
After the three of them looked at each other, Rogge walked forward, grabbed the iron bars on both sides of the cage, and exerted force suddenly.
Gah—
A teeth-grinding sound was heard, and the two iron bars twisted to form an oval-shaped exit.
Nomi was stunned by the scene.
She walked out in disbelief and was stunned.
Is this iron bar just for looks? Or is it actually fake
With a look of doubt on her face, she stretched out her hand and pulled the iron bars hard, but even after using all her strength, the cage didn't move at all.
Roger felt a little amused: "What are you doing? Why don't you leave now that you've been rescued?"
Unexpectedly, the werewolf girl turned around and looked at him with admiration: "You are so strong, are you a warrior of the bear tribe?"
“…Yes, yes, I’m Xiong Da.”
"You should leave now."
Roger waved his hand helplessly.
Then he planned to search for the culprit with Lina and others.
"Hello Big Bear! I'm Nomi!"
"You guys are going to deal with that weird guy, right? Count me in! I'll help you!"
Nomi said seriously.
Roger looked at her with a smile on his face: "Thank you for your kindness, but this is not something you can get involved in."
"Oh, by the way, do you know where the person who imprisoned you is?"
"Of course I know." Nomi nodded, then told Rogge everything he knew, and then volunteered again: "I can really help you!"
"Thank you for letting me know."
Roger nodded.
"But this won't work."
Roger said in a tone that brooked no room for negotiation.
Although he didn't think that this extraordinary person with a different path would be very strong.
But he did not despise him.
When it comes to a battle involving extraordinary people, there is no room for error.
He didn't have the time to take care of this demi-human girl during the battle.
"okay."
Hearing this, Nomi could only respond obediently.
Seeing this, Roger took Lina and Yas into the room where Yolin went.
After they left, Nomi did not leave immediately. Instead, he scratched his head and began to use his claws to pry open the locks of other cages.
There are other unconscious humans and demihumans that she intends to rescue.
…
At this time, Yolin was in a room using special methods to deal with the fat man's body.
He was not exaggerating. The way to deal with the fat man was indeed to poke a lot of holes in his body first.
There was indeed a foul-smelling pool of filth in front of him, filled with all kinds of corpses and venom.
The fat man's body was like a rag doll in his hands, which he kneaded and pierced at will, and the blood dripped into the filthy pool below.
The fat man whose soul was bound by spider silk seemed to be able to feel the pain, wailing and screaming silently.
"Hum hum… "
Yolin hummed a little tune happily, like a chef who was preparing a feast.
Click, click.
But just when Yolin was having fun, a puppet stumbled over and stood at his feet.
Yolin stretched out the tumor on his left hand, and white spider silk extended from it. After it was inserted into the puppet's forehead, he frowned.
"How interesting..."
Yolin grinned and let out a sharp laugh.
Then, he threw the fat man's body aside as if he was throwing away garbage, retracted the spider silk extending from the tumor, and walked towards a corner.
…
At this time, Rogge and his group, who had come here after passing through several rooms, also stopped.
Unlike the previous room, this room is huge with many dark corners, and only a few oil lamps emitting faint yellow light.
At this time, Rogue was already wearing the shell of an eight-legged warrior, holding a bone staff and an armor-piercing spear.
Lina and Yas also wore their own equipment.
Yas held the great shield of the dead that Rogue gave him.
Lina took out the pearl lamp and saw a puppet sitting on the ground. It had a dull look and its eyes were staring at her blankly.
"This puppet is really creepy."
Lina frowned.
[Harmless Puppet]
[Type: Special props]
[Quality: Blue]
[Effect: Provides the user with blurred vision.]
[Description: It looks harmless to humans and animals.]
Rogge walked forward and stabbed it into pieces with his armor-piercing spear.
As the puppet shattered, a faint wailing sound echoed.
"He already knows we're coming."
Roger said.
He had anticipated this.
After all, this is the lair of a supernatural being, and it is not easy to find the target and kill him easily.
"It's too dark here."
Yas looked around and said in a deep voice.
This environment is very unfavorable for them.
Gada Gada…
At this moment, the sound of several wood colliding was heard, and a figure stood up in front of them.
A human-sized puppet twisted its jaw and spoke.
"Hehe... I never thought that there would be people like me visiting my little place. It's really rare."
"I think you didn't come to me with good intentions."
Yolin's voice rang out.
"If it weren't for your crappy puppet, do you think we would come to a place like this?"
Lina said coldly.
She is now angry because she was cheated because of a good deed.
Moreover, this guy specifically targets those who would buy puppets. After marking them, he would find an opportunity to imprison them and then make them into puppets.
There was no doubt that they had good reason to kill this guy.
“Hahaha… You seem like a kind lady, this is really very sorry.”
"If I may, please allow me to express my apologies."
After saying that, the puppet bowed stiffly towards Lina.
It can be seen that Yolin does not seem to want to be enemies with Rogge and others.
After all, even a fool could see that Rogue, wearing the shell of an eight-legged warrior, was not an easy person to deal with.
"Why, do you think an apology will solve the problem?"
As Lina spoke, she winked at Roger.
After receiving Lina's hint, Rogge immediately understood, and then secretly tightened the armor-piercing spear in his hand.
He raised his head slightly and looked towards the ceiling.
After seeing the familiar information panel pop up, he confirmed Yolin's location.
"This is certainly not enough to calm the three of you..."
"If you three have any requests that can be used to express my apologies, I will try my best to satisfy you."
"Of course, if the three of you really don't want to let this matter go..."
"Then I can only let the three of you play with my puppets..."
Yolin let out a weird laugh.
Then, a clanging sound was heard, and it seemed that countless puppets in the room stood up and walked towards Rogge and the others.
Yolin thought that since he had shown weakness and demonstrated a certain degree of toughness, the three of them would definitely consider the consequences and understand the matter.
But what he didn't expect was that Rogge and others had no moral principles and suddenly attacked.
"there!"
Lina flipped her hand and threw a dagger towards somewhere on the ceiling of the room.
The armor-piercing spear in Rogge's hand followed closely behind, leaving a trail of afterimage and suddenly stabbed towards the top of the puppet.
Puff—
The sharp armor-piercing spear instantly pierced through the ceiling and went straight through Yolin behind him.
"ah-"
Yolin let out a sharp scream of pain and struggled violently.
Crash.
Many puppets in the room were trembling and seemed to be in great pain.
Lina took out the secret iron dagger in her hand, which turned into a red blood shadow with wings, and turned into an afterimage, approaching Yolin at a rapid speed.
With a "puff" sound, blood splattered and Yolin's body fell heavily. The heavy mass smashed through the mezzanine of the ceiling and fell to the ground.
His eyes were wide open, but he had not yet completely died.
"You...you guys...actually..."
Before he could finish his words, Yolin died.
However, Rogge and others could guess what he wanted to say.
He was just shocked that three extraordinary people appeared in front of him at the same time.
"Lina, how do you know his exact location?"
The dark and spacious environment gave Yolin enough room to manipulate the puppet.
The second is the mezzanine in the ceiling, where he can control the puppet silently and also take the opportunity to observe the situation.
Under such conditions, it is possible to fall into his trap if you are not careful.
After all, no one knew what effect Yolin's puppet had, and he was dead anyway.
"My ability can lock onto a target, so I can sense it."
Lina said.
No wonder... It turns out that it is the effect of the "Smash" skill locking the target.
Roger and Yas suddenly realized.
"Did he transplant something into himself?"
Looking at Yolin's strange corpse, Yas asked in confusion.
Rogge walked up to his body and picked up a few balls of light.
Speaking of which, the system-granted ability to pick up dropped items might be considered an extraordinary ability, allowing you to skip some steps and easily obtain loot.
Lina and Yas were not surprised by this, as they had known about it for a long time.
[You found 2 Domination Spider Glands. ]
[You found Yuling Tree Heart x 1. ]
[You found the puppeteer's special path to advancement x 1. ]
"Yes, he did transplant something into himself through a different method of advancement in order to enter the realm of transcendence."
After Rogge picked up the dropped items, the strange features on Yolin's body gradually disappeared.
"The Dominant Demon Spider... This extraordinary creature is not just a common one..."
Roger narrowed his eyes.
The origin of this Yolin should be very complicated.
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