Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 77

"100ml of pure water..."

In the dim room, with the door closed and the curtains covering it, a furtive figure was squatting by the table, playing with a set of alchemy tools.

Carefully checking the scale of the measuring cup, Angel carefully poured the liquid in the cup into the small crucible.

A few drops of pure water adhered to the wall of the cup, and she couldn't shake it off, so she had to use a dropper to add five drops to the crucible to make up for this part.

Although the nuances of the auxiliary materials do not affect the final effect of the potion, she still wants to do her best to make it perfect.

All kinds of plant juices and essential oils are diluted with pure water, showing a cloudy gray color in the crucible. If it is just taken out like this, it is estimated that everyone who sees it will think it is pot water.

Only the master material added last changes the behavior of all materials, turning them into magical potions.

Taking out the bullet box from his bosom, and taking out the Beak-shaped "Instigator" Extraordinary characteristic that he bought for a full 400 pounds, Angel took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked around the room with a final confirmation.

This is her temporary residence on the third floor of the "Silver Bullet Detective Agency", which is also the base of the Nighthawk squad in Enmat Harbor.After returning here in the afternoon, Angel used "practice making spells" as an excuse to borrow various containers and auxiliary materials from the alchemy room here. In order to prevent people from seeing her intentions, she didn't even use alcohol lamps, grinding bowls, etc. All the utensils were borrowed together.

After locking the door, she hid in the room and prepared potions like a thief. She would stop and listen carefully if there was any disturbance outside the door, for fear that someone would break into the door and arrest the "assassin" who was secretly refining the medicine.

Fortunately, this group of "sleepless people" were either arrested and sent out on missions, or they were killing time in the lobby on the first floor. In the evening, no one came to the third floor to disturb her.

Picking up this precious Extraordinary feature directly, Angel did not experience unspeakable auditory hallucinations and olfactory changes like the "witch" feature released after Cole's death before.

It seems that whether a property is polluted or not can be distinguished by virtue of this difference.

Taking a last look at the Extraordinary characteristics of "Instigator", Angel gently threw it into the turbid mixture of auxiliary materials in the crucible.

As if a piece of liquefied ink was thrown into the water, the small amount of liquid in the crucible quickly turned into pure black centered on Extraordinary characteristics, but there seemed to be a layer of oil floating on the surface, showing a psychedelic color under the gas light. "Colorful Black".

The subtle human voices that seemed to surround her gradually appeared, like whispering and instigating, the voice was near and far away, erratic, making her eardrums gently scratched like cotton wool.

At the same time, a stench floated out of the crucible and rushed straight into Angel's nostrils. Even though she had prepared herself, she couldn't help but take a step back. If she hadn't prepared the potion herself, she would almost have thought it came from some stinking water Fermented sewage scooped out of the ditch.

However, the pitch-black liquid in the pot was the original appearance of the "Instigator" potion.

With the experience of Cole Granger configuring and taking the potion in her memory, she confirmed this.

The "Law of Immortality of Extraordinary Characteristics" revealed by Carvey is accurate, and the uncontaminated Extraordinary characteristics can indeed be made into potions of the same sequence with the help of auxiliary materials.

Unable to conceal the excitement in her heart, she poured the potion in the crucible into the measuring cup that originally contained pure water. The pure black liquids were inexplicably attached to each other, like an inseparable whole, and every drop was transferred into the cup.

Picking up the measuring cup, Angel glanced at the light, then held his breath to block out the stench, brought the cup to his mouth, and drank it with his head raised.

The cold potion became scorching hot at the entrance, and entered her stomach bag along her throat like swallowing charcoal, burning all the tissues it touched along the way, causing her to groan.

That voice was different from the usual coldness, full of temptation, full of irresistible power.

Suppressing the discomfort in her throat and ignoring the whispers beside her ears, Angel gritted her teeth and persisted. According to the memory of taking the potion of the instigator "last time", she knew that these were all normal steps. The negative effects attached to the medicine will all disappear.

But immediately, a strange feeling enveloped her.

That seems to be a memory, or the future.

Holding a short blade, "I" rushed towards a black-haired man, fell into a trap under the merciless mockery of the other party, and died unexpectedly...

The middle-aged man with blond hair and beard sat at the table and talked to her. The people around him stopped and stopped, occupying other tables and chairs, but turned a blind eye to the empty seat beside him...

From a strange perspective overlooking the ground from a high altitude, the sky is as black as ink, and the mountains on the ground are undulating, but there are no people, and it is barren...

The whispers beside the ear gradually approached and amplified, as if someone had turned the switch of the horn to the maximum until the sound was deafening.

The small and warm guest room in front of me gradually receded, eroded by the surrounding darkness, and the gas lights flickered and went out.

Am I... going out of control?

What went wrong?

The configuration process of the potion is wrong, there is hidden pollution in the Extraordinary characteristic, or do you think you have digested the "Assassin" potion, but left a deep hidden danger?

Angel could no longer feel her limbs and body, only her thoughts were still flowing. This situation, as if her soul had been pulled out of her body and her five senses gradually disappeared, made her gradually recover from the panic just now.

The light in front of the eyes has also been restored, but the angle of view is gradually raised, overlooking the tables and chairs in the room, the single bed and the woman on the floor.

She was looking at herself kneeling on the ground from a strange third perspective.

"My" eyes are wide open, the eyeballs are protruding, the veins around the eye sockets and even the face are exposed, the bare skin of the hands has turned blue, and the hands are powerlessly resting on the kneeling legs, and the neck is tilted up, as if being pinched by invisible hands Throat.

Is this death...

Suddenly, an invisible wind blew, and the scene in front of Angel quickly disappeared.

When the eyes were closed and opened, the floor, tables and chairs seemed to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise, and displayed in front of them at a strange angle.

She returned to the perspective she had seen before she "lost control". She had already been lying on the ground at some point, the gas lamp on the wall was still emitting a warm light, and the empty measuring cup was upside down in her hand.

There were still whispers in her ears, and a slight burning sensation in her throat, but this familiar feeling made her almost shed tears.

He is still alive, and has not become a brainless monster out of control, or simply turned into a pool of flesh and blood, just like the original owner of this body.

She restrained her mind, closed her eyes again, and skillfully entered a state of meditation, gradually getting rid of the influence of the potion residue.

The whispers in the ear gradually disappeared, and Angel tried to swallow his saliva, and the burning sensation in his throat quickly faded away after a tingling pain.

It seems that the promotion of "Instigator" was successful?
Slightly relieved, she struggled to get up from the floor, staggered against the wall to the bathroom, turned on the gas lamp, and stood firm in front of the half-length mirror.

The familiar face in the mirror was not covered with prominent blue veins as in the hallucination just now, but the purple of the eyes became deep, almost completely black, and even the surrounding sclera was stained with a strange color.

This is the manifestation of the potion's power.

She has become an "instigator".

...became an "instigator" again.

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After hastily washing his face and clearing the sweat from his face, Angel returned to the guest room, tidied up the borrowed crucible, measuring cup and other utensils, and then sat back on the bed exhausted, feeling the power he had gained.

If the potion comes with Extraordinary abilities or spells, after being promoted, the corresponding knowledge will automatically appear in the Extraordinary's mind.

Through this, she can confirm that she has indeed become an "instigator".

The core abilities of the "Instigator" potion are "persuasion" and "misleading". If Extraordinary people use it skillfully, they can also achieve a certain "charm" effect.

Through the combination of these language abilities, "instigators" can easily stir up malice and greed in people's hearts, instigate others to commit crimes, create conflicts among the crowd, and cause bloody cases.

Even in life, a few casual words can make the other party easily believe the "instigator" and regard him as a confidant.

Angel thought of the instigator he had met in Tingen City, Triss.

Even if he was also an Extraordinary, he was defeated by the opponent's "persuasion" and "charm", and almost became the opponent's prey, let alone a defenseless ordinary person.

The victims of the "Clover tragedy" are the best proof.

In addition to the newly acquired language abilities, the biggest improvement of being promoted to Sequence 8 is that the core abilities of the original "Assassin" have been greatly strengthened.

The dexterous movement, eyesight and dark vision, and charged strike are all more or less strengthened, and the spirituality is also more abundant, which can support a longer spiritual vision.

Of course, now that he has just taken the potion and was promoted, Angel is not going to try his spiritual limit, so as to avoid the "out of control" just now.

Different from the life-and-death experience when the adrenaline is soaring in a fierce battle, this feeling of floating in the air like a ghost, watching her body gradually move towards death is too scary, and she doesn't want to try it again.

And those weird hallucinations...

She tried to recall the few scenes she saw at the edge of time and space just now, but it was like recalling what she had for breakfast a week ago. She knew it was happening, but she couldn't remember the specific scene.

Seeing his hands recovering from bruising to fair, Angel made up his mind that even if he had no money to buy potion materials in the future, he would definitely not use Extraordinary characteristics to directly promote again.

I won't have such good luck next time...

"咚咚-"

The knock on the door awakened the pensive Angel. She looked around the room first, but she didn't find any problems that could reveal her promotion behavior just now, so she walked to the door and asked in a low voice:
"who is it?"

"Rupert Norman, Clement informed everyone to meet in the lobby on the first floor. The 'action' may have to be advanced."

The voice of the "Midnight Poet" who came to support from Storn City came from outside the door, usually a little glib, but now extremely serious voice.

(End of this chapter)