After entering the town area, Benjamin hired some carriages and spent several days finally transporting all the harvest from his business back to the college.
"This... what are these things?"
In a secret laboratory, Morris, the old man from the potion department, several key members of the rune research team... all the researchers in the entire academy that Benjamin felt he could trust were summoned here.
They couldn't help but look surprised as they looked at the boxes of debris piled up one after another. The old man picked up a piece of calf bone, waved it in his hand, frowned and asked the question just now.
Benjamin couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"You may be very surprised by what I'm going to tell you next." He said slowly, "Be mentally prepared first. This is definitely news you have never heard of."
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other. Maybe thinking of Benjamin's usual nonsensical style, some people felt cold sweat in their hearts.
"If you have anything to say, just tell me, don't be verbose." The old man said impatiently.
Seeing this, Benjamin nodded. Then, he spoke, from the secrets of the Scaife Mountains, to the ghosts at the bottom of the abyss, to the world of the dead on the other side of the abyss... He told everyone present what he saw and heard along the way in considerable detail.
It was only when he recounted it to himself that he realized how bizarre his experience was.
Who knows what happened... When he first set out, he thought he was going to participate in the Foer family's rebellion plan!
On the other side, as Benjamin spoke, the expressions of everyone present gradually changed from confusion to astonishment. In the end, everyone's eyes widened, and the look of disbelief appeared on their faces, and they were even speechless for a while.
"... After that, I returned to the academy with the remains of the undead." Benjamin ended his story with these words, took a few steps back, and said, "And what you see in front of you is what I picked up. corpse."
Everyone took a deep breath in unison, and their eyes looking at the wreckage became more and more solemn.
The abyss that divides the continent into two... the world of the dead...
This is no small problem.
Some people have already walked up impatiently, examining the broken limbs and remains with their professional research attitude. The old man even picked up the boiler equipment that came with the laboratory, picked up some remains and threw it into the medicine-making furnace. He filled it with special medicine and carefully cooked it.
"Then... where's that ghost?" Morris thought for a while and then asked this question.
"Here." Benjamin placed the parasitized bird on the table and said, "Don't underestimate it. Now it is only weak due to environmental reasons. Once it regains its strength, the illusion it creates is enough to make us all Get addicted to it and eat us all.”
In fact, the ghost inside the little bird has recovered a lot these days. A large amount of dark elements gathered inside the bird's body, turning it into a creature similar to a Warcraft, but fortunately, it still did not undergo any changes.
It's like what Benjamin thought about at the beginning - after the ghost recovers, it controls the body of the bird and causes all kinds of chaos. That doesn't really happen.
The bird was always in a coma, and the ghost stayed peacefully in its body, sucking the life force from its body at a slow speed. For this reason, Benjamin did not change its host to another one, but also wanted to see what the bird would become if it continued to develop.
But... this is indeed the most dangerous of all Benjamin's harvests, and must be handled with great care.
"Didn't you say that its illusion is achieved through sound." Morris took out a few small wooden stakes. "This is a gadget I made a long time ago. It's called a silent wooden stake. Just nail it to the ground. Well, no sound will come from the area surrounded by it."
Benjamin raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "You want to release it?"
"If it is not released, it will stay in the body of such a small bird, and we will not be able to study it." Morris nodded and said.
"But the problem is not just to isolate the sound." Benjamin said, "Its body is an illusory mental force that can shuttle between various objects at will. We must build a cage that can truly trap it. , only then can we consider releasing it.”
Not to mention creating an environment suitable for ghosts to survive.
At least for now, Benjamin has not considered releasing the ghost.
"Trapped a spirit body... you can think about it." Morris thought for a while and said, "Actually, the church has done some research on magic props to isolate spiritual power before. I learned some of them secretly and can try to make some Samples out.”
"Then go ahead and give it a try." Benjamin shrugged and said, "Also, how to isolate the light elements and gather the dark elements at the same time... If we can't create such an environment, ghosts won't be able to survive."
"This is very simple." Morris said, "The church has done similar experiments before, but in reverse. I can get it done today."
"… All right."
Benjamin scratched his head, feeling that the church had really done everything.
However, he suddenly recalled that he seemed to have met several priests before who could evade the induction and disguise themselves as ordinary people. That kind of method should isolate the mental power to a certain extent, so that no one can detect it, right
But, speaking of church…
Morris turned around and left, walking out of the laboratory, ready to go back and fiddle with the things he just mentioned. Benjamin also walked out, stopped him, and took out a leaf from his pocket.
"You have been in the church for so long, do you know... what is the secret door that this key can open?" He lowered his voice and said it in a voice that only the other party could hear.
Morris frowned: "This is..."
He looked at the green ginkgo leaves in Benjamin's hand, puzzled for a moment, and suddenly froze.
"The church's very precious key." Benjamin said slowly. "Because of it, the church sent out unimaginable manpower to hunt me down. I had to borrow a road from the Scaife Mountains and finally discovered the world of the dead."
"This thing... I just heard some rumors." Morris took a deep breath and said, "Undercover mages trained like us will never be trusted by the church, and it is difficult to obtain this core level. Secret. But... I accidentally overheard a conversation between a bishop and a paladin about the key and the divine world."
Benjamin immediately asked: "What did they say?"
"They say that the power of successive popes will increase dramatically after they ascend the throne, and a large part of it comes from the inheritance of the divine world." Morris showed a solemn expression and said, "And the key is the lifeline of the church's inheritance."