It is impossible for the girl to find the evil god in the textbook

"You don't want to interfere with my actions anymore. I can rescue all the hostages in this cave and integrate into Kraft in your image. It won't show any difference."

Shadow paused, the corners of his lips raised, and his tone became seductive.

"I can even find you a new body, the magic of changing appearance is not complicated, you can still return to Glamis, and I will leave to enjoy a new life, and we will have no contact from now on. And you want All you did was promise me that you would no longer snatch the control of this body. In fact, your influence on me is not unlimited. In the tone of that cripple Gore, this deal is a good deal, isn't it? "

Ella was silent for a while,

Shadow was not in a hurry, she just sat on a rock and raised her legs.

"You can take it slow."

"...Since you can find a new body, why do you have to compete with me?"

Shadow's calm smile froze briefly, but soon returned to normal.

"I still have to abide by certain alchemy rules. Only the body that originally belonged to you and completed the transaction with me can be used by me."

"I don't seem to have the right to say no."

"Yes, but your answer and attitude will determine your fate."

"……I accept."

"very good."

Shadow nodded. She first untied the rope and hood that bound Mr. Andre. This poor man had been mentally weakened by Goyle's torture.

He raised his head with difficulty,

"You villain, I won't give in..."

After a while, he saw clearly that the person in front of him was not Gore, but a young girl.

"Miss Williams?"

His dull eyes lighted up,

"How is Alice, where is she?"

Ella Williams in front of him showed a sweet smile,

"Miss Alice is fine, you need to rest now."

Her words seemed to have some kind of magical power, and Andre soon felt a strong sense of drowsiness, and almost lost consciousness like a coma.

Ella felt a little creepy. Andre and Alice traveled with her for more than two weeks, but they couldn't tell the difference between her and the shadow at all.What about Ling and the professors?Can these people who are close to him discover the fact that she has been replaced?

Ella doesn't believe Shadow's promise at all.

Even if there were no flaws in her words, Ella would never believe that a consciousness born under the influence of evil gods and the negative effects of alchemy props would retain any kindness for herself.

She agreed to Shadow's proposal, only because it wouldn't do any good to fall out with Shadow now, and Ayla was still looking for opportunities.

Shadow spit out a syllable to the sleeping Mr. Andre,

"Barmore Brown"

This is the knowledge Ella learned in the spell class last year, but she couldn't experiment when she lost the ability to cast spells. The meaning of this syllable is "doll".

Andre's body began to shrink rapidly, becoming a worn-out rag doll, dressed in the same way as Andre, only more ridiculously, his gray jacket made of sloppy stitching, Some of the wounds Goyle made were also left on the puppet, showing dirty cotton.

Shadow picked up the doll and stuffed it into Ella's satchel.

Ayla calculated the magic used by the shadow. Starting from sucking the juice of the thorns on the human face, the shadow created a huge flame flow, used the "sun" spell and a complete transformation spell, if it was her own, it would be in four In the case where the magic power has not grown or even deteriorated due to silence for a year, if not relying on the Eye of Hermes, Ella feels that she can use at most five to six powerful magics.

But Ayla didn't know if the shadow could use more, at least it seemed that she was still very calm.

Fighting for her body now is definitely not Meiji's choice.Ella is waiting. If Shadow meets two professors in this cave, the abnormal performance caused by her and Shadow competing for the body will definitely attract the attention of the professors.

What she needs now is more luck.Even if Shadow's deal is real, she has to add some insurance measures to the deal.

Chapter 21 Philosopher's Stone

"Now that you have agreed to the transaction, we are now a cooperative relationship. We need to analyze the current situation. For example, why did our position change?"

Shadow was carrying the satchel with the puppet in it, and she was a bit scrupulous. The human-faced thorns that occasionally appeared in the cave did not pose any threat to her, but no one knew what unknown things were hidden in this cave.

Ella was also thinking about this issue. She noticed some details. Before the shadow seized control of her body, when the lame Goyle attacked her from behind, Goyle didn't hold her back with a gun at the first time, but smashed the oil lamp.

Although this is likely to make it easier for her to get closer to the wall with human-faced thorns, but there may also be other meanings at the same time, which can be regarded as a breakthrough.

"I suggest you do an experiment. You can use a spell related to light. Just light will do."

"What are you planning?"

It was simple, Shadow said a spell that Ayla had learned in first year, just normal lighting.

A small ball of light is suspended in the sky, illuminating a small area. Under the light, the surrounding environment is distorted in some way. This is not a shift in the terrain, but some kind of visual or spatial illusion.Apart from this, there were rustling sounds from all around, and dense thorns with human faces appeared in every corner of the cave.

Although they don't pose too much threat, just those pale human-headed root nodules, when they appear in large numbers, can also make people feel unbearably disgusted.Shadow's eyebrows twitched. It has to be said that before this, Ella's expression was not so rich.

"Is this the experiment you're talking about?"

Not light?That should have something to do with the fire, Ella ignored Shadow's complaints and continued,

"Now use the incantation related to fire."

"That's what I'm trying to do."

The shadow was suspended in mid-air, surrounding her body, and the pale flames began to burn and dance. When her magic was about to take shape, the shadow once again felt that strange feeling.

The surrounding environment changed abruptly in the next second, but this time the distance seemed to be the same. The girl's position shifted from the edge of the underground river to a certain section above the river. Fluorescent underground river water.

This sudden change did not make her feel at a loss. The shadow's body moved strangely in the air for a while, and then landed on the protruding stalactite pillar by the river.

The shadow smiled,

"It is indeed correct to choose to cooperate with you. It seems that you have discovered some patterns."

Ella has nothing to hide about this. On this point, her and Shadow's interests are aligned. Discovering the laws of this cave will help rescue the hostages or get out of here.

"The first time the transfer happened shortly after entering the cave. I couldn't use any magic at that time, so this phenomenon should have nothing to do with magic power. For a period of time after Gore kicked the broken oil lamp, the transfer phenomenon did not happen. The second time Teleportation is after you have summoned Flame. As you experimented just now, lighting will attract creatures in the cave and distort vision or space, while fire will cause teleportation. Therefore, you cannot use spells related to light or flame. "

At this time, there was a sudden crisp sound, and faint blue water patterns appeared around the girl. It was the "dark deep sea". The old seal was triggered, and it stopped a bullet.

The shadow followed the sound and saw a gunman appearing on the river bank and shot himself.

Shadow instinctively wanted to summon Pale Flame, but remembering the results of the experiment, his raised palm froze for a moment, then changed his gesture and snapped his fingers.

“Nese Yizi”

This is the rune script that Ella has just learned. It is shaped like a rope, representing bondage. The dark environment of the cave has become viscous, as if it were real. Amid the exclamation of the gunman, he was bound into a silkworm chrysalis.

The familiar mocking expression appeared on Shadow's face again,

"My dear Miss Saint, do you also plan to save this person?"

Ella ignored the shadow's taunt. She paid a heavy price four years ago and understood the heavy meaning of the word "life", but this does not mean that she will save everyone without reason.

Ella also destroyed lives with her own hands. In the Cross Hospital four years ago, she personally burned two cultists to ashes and drove a whole turntable into the body of the third cultist.

And the wizard who summoned the son of Abhoth, killed George and Mekel, and killed tens of thousands of London civilians, if given the chance, Ayla also thought that she would kill him without hesitation.

She has no right to objectively measure the weight of a life, and she is not a saint or a god, so Ella can only try her best to protect the people she cares about, and this is her answer.

"Put away your ridicule, I don't have that kind of interest, just leave him here."

The shadow's smile grew wider, and the sticky darkness slowly tightened, strangling the gunman's neck and causing him to howl as he died.That desperate cry made Ella frown.

"I'm not in the habit of leaving hidden dangers for myself."

The shadow waved his arms, and the gunman's body was thrown away by an invisible force and fell into the underground river.

"Goyle has always been a trouble. If you hadn't interrupted my magic at that time, things would have been much simpler. Not only for us, that scum is also a threat to the people you want to save."

The shadow killed with her body, and Ella repressed a strange sense of disgust.

"They spent so much effort exploring the cave, but is there really a gold mine here?"

"It's undeniable."

The shadow fell into memory. The Eye of Hermes is an ancient alchemy tool. Before it was handed over to Ella, it also had countless owners and experienced a long time.

"Do you know the name Sibilla?"

"She was the last of the great prophets, and the great alchemist."

Ella thought for a while, and answered without hesitation. In the past few years, she has learned a lot about the history of magic, and Sibylla has indeed occupied a lot of ink in the records of the past few hundred years.

"If this is really the remains of Sibyl, there will definitely be a gold mine. She has successfully refined many famous alchemy props in her life, such as "Book of Time", Sibyl's golden cup, and... …the Eye of Hermes."

Ayla's heart was shocked, the Eye of Hermes was the creation of the prophet Sibylah?

Shadow continued:

"No one has ever seen the so-called Book of Time except herself, and the Eye of Hermes is in your hand now, and the golden cup is said to be used for burial... Huh, I can tell you that the so-called golden cup is A piece of Philosopher's Stone, if it is in the ruins, it is normal for gold veins to appear around it."

Ella recalled the description of the Philosopher's Stone. Professor Roger once mentioned that the Philosopher's Stone is called the great miracle of the fifth element by magicians. The Holy Grail.

No one knows how much impact a Philosopher's Stone buried underground for hundreds of years will have. Perhaps, all the gold discovered in the entire west is its creation!

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(: I’m really sorry. I need to take a day off tomorrow. I’ve had a cold for a while and I’m not in good spirits. I’m feeling dizzy today. I need to adjust my state.)

Chapter 22 The Arrangement of Fate

A lot of secret knowledge poured into Ella's brain, no, at this time her body is under the control of the shadow, the girl may obtain information in an unknown other way.

She sorted out her chaotic thoughts, digesting the constant influx of information.

The Eye of Hermes is an alchemical tool made by the prophet Sibylla, and this may be the relic left by that prophet. The Philosopher's Stone is buried deep in the underground cave.Its existence directly led to the outbreak of the gold rush. The powerful magic awakened some latent ancient species, and the human-faced thorns were able to revive in this cave.

When she entered school four years ago, she got the Eye of Hermes. This alchemy item can be exchanged for powerful magic power at a price. In a certain incident, she suffered from hidden diseases due to excessive use of magic power. During this period, the gold rush broke out , Someone took out the human face thorns that could cure that hidden disease in the bar where Adolf was.

All of this seems to be connected together by an invisible chain, and countless coincidences lead things to the only result. The person holding the Eye of Hermes once again appeared in the cave where the legacy of the prophet Sibylla was left.