"this… "
In the dark, Jenkins was still touching the doorknob, staring at the ghost in the office, stunned:
"No one really thinks I'm afraid of ghosts?"
He whispered, the expression on his face suddenly became fierce.
Pulling out his cane from the darkness, he took two steps forward, clenched the cane with his right hand and swung it up, but before he swung it down, Tarquin, who was staring at Jenkins with white eyes, disappeared.
The surroundings returned to darkness again, and Jenkins' monocle appeared silently in front of his right eye. But the darkness here is not just as simple as the disappearance of light. Even with a monocle, only a part of the vision has been restored in front of the eyes, and there is still a layer of dark fog around.
This is definitely not a church. Jenkins doesn't believe that anything can make such a scene in the church of the sage. Because there is always a dazzling golden aura in the church, Jenkins turned off the Eye of Reality early. Now it is turned on again, and the surroundings have become similar to the aura of the old woman, which also verifies his conjecture that this place is not a church.
"So it's not that the chocolate is gone, it's that I'm gone."
He concluded, and let out a sigh of relief, so that there was nothing to worry about.
"But the green thing just now is indeed a soul. How did Tarquin's soul appear here? Or did I admit it wrong? Is that spirit body a disguise?"
After thinking about it, he didn't rush to explore this place in the dark, but fumbled around in his clothes, taking out all the miscellaneous spells and ritual materials that he carried on his body every day.
"It doesn't seem to be enough."
He thought in distress, but this kind of unknown place is not suitable for wandering around to collect items, so he can only take out the new gift [Holy Spring Water Bottle] that he got not long ago. Sitting behind Miss Audrey's desk groping in the dark, he used a silver dagger to carve out a complete ritual formation on the table, and while activating the chain ability [Contact Deathbringer], put those spells and messy things , together with a portion of holy spring water as a sacrifice.
After the dim light slightly illuminated the surroundings, a huge cloud of black smoke emerged from the circular matrix. The cloud of smoke rushed upwards without a sound, then suddenly fell to the carpet in front of the desk, and exploded in all directions, and then Mr. Augustus in a black cloak reappeared.
"Mr. Augustus played a little differently this time."
Jenkins thought, rising from his chair to greet his friend. The other party also pulled back his hood, he was still the same, nodded towards Jenkins, and seemed very happy to see Jenkins again:
"Good evening, Jenkins...how did you end up in a place like this?"
The messenger of death with some pale skin asked Jenkins.
"So you know where this is?"
Jenkins blinked, knowing he had found the key:
"Actually, I don't know how I came here. I just saw the soul of a mortal who died not long ago, so I want to ask you if that soul is my illusion. If it is not an illusion, why did it die? Mortal souls reside here."
"I think that should be the soul of people you know. There will be no false souls here... As for why they appear here."
Mr. Augustus hesitated:
"There are some secrets that shouldn't be told, but since you're here, I think there's nothing I can do about it."
As he spoke, he pointed to the gas lamp on the wall that Jenkins could not light. Immediately, a faint blue flame rose from it, and Jenkins recognized it as the soul flame.
"Jenkins, I think you probably also know that if a mortal dies and the god he believes in does not take his soul away, the soul will be broken in the material world. The essence of it will belong to the [Undead Underworld]... well, you don't know."
He saw this conclusion from Jenkins' expression, so he paused empathetically to give Jenkins time to think, and then continued:
"But the material world is not allowed to enter and exit at will, so the flow of the soul needs an important transfer station, which not only ensures the safety of the soul of the mortal, but also ensures that it will not be found by existence outside the material world through the flow of the soul. The door to the material world."
"So this is the so-called 'transfer station'?"
Jenkins suddenly realized that this was the first time he knew what the 'after death' of this world was.
"Yes, the soul transfer station. Generally speaking, the humanity and spirituality of the soul that has just died will stay here for seven days to completely wash away the traces of the material world. The soul that is guided. This is also the reason why those rare and costly resurrection methods in the material world require that the time of death should not exceed seven days. After all, the most important part of the soul will completely leave after seven days. Stretch your hand into the realm of my ancestor [Ancient Death God]."
With the light of the faint blue flame, Mr. Augustus did not see the surprised expression on Jenkins' face, but Jenkins saw the embarrassed expression on Mr. Augustus's face:
"Jenkins, as long as you know about this, you don't have to tell others."
"Don't worry, I know that."
"In fact, people in the material world have long been aware of the existence of the 'soul transfer station'. If you can check the records of [The Church of Night and the Hidden] or [The Church of Death and the End], you will find that the number is B-12-1- The item in 0038 is named [Soul Transit Station]. It’s just that mortals have very little understanding of this place. It’s just that some souls who occasionally have the experience of resurrection from death bring vague memories back to the material world. Mortals seem to think that this place is a This kind of weird space is a strange existence outside a certain material world, and the 'fishing net' placed in the material world is specially used to catch unlucky souls."
Mr. Augustus smiled, without mocking the wrong record:
"But this statement is very wrong, because this is not even an independent space, otherwise it would have been discovered by those powerful beings and used as a passage to enter and exit the material world."
At least Anastasia, the silver dragon lord, didn't find out, otherwise he wouldn't have to wait for Jenkins to call before returning.
"Since it's not a space, what exactly is this place?"