After ending the "mirror call" with Dunn, Valeera leaned on the seat in front of the dressing mirror and rubbed her eyebrows.
After a lot of talking, she finally convinced Dunn and let him agree to lead the team to the sea.
In order to truly demonstrate the accuracy of her previous message, Valeera revealed some details about the "Rogue Black Emperor" and "Capine" - mainly referring to the guards of the "Judge" pathway, Prince Edsac's "Manor Hidden Jiao's abnormal scandal, as well as the investigation into the disappearance of slaves in the maritime colony, and other information, coupled with specious analysis, convinced Dunn that Ince Zangwill and members of the Loen royal family were hidden behind these incidents.
Finally, this is what she told Dunn—
"I will try to investigate more specific information, but if we want to chase him at sea, it is best for us to have a ship of our own."
In the current era, a decent steam sailing ship is worth at least 20,000 pounds, and not just anyone is qualified to buy it... Therefore, Valeera's intended target is of course——
pirate.
Choose a group of lucky pirates and collect their bounties and ships.
She asked Dunn to go to sea in advance, mainly because she hoped that he could help her with the preliminary preparations for recruiting team members and pre-selecting ships——
This is also a ceremony to prepare for her promotion to Sequence 4 "Iron-Blooded Knight".
…
After Valeera took a short rest to relieve some of the fatigue from the "mirror call", she stood up and went to the wall clock in the bedroom.
The wall clock read nine-fifty in the evening.
Her contact with Dunn lasted less than half an hour.
It seems that the excessive "pleasure" characteristic in the body has a greater impact than I expected... Valeela breathed out quietly, used the key to open the secret door, and entered the treasure house of the Vicky family.
The keyhole of this treasure house was also hidden very cleverly. After Valeela found out the location of the secret room, it took her a long time to figure out how to open the door.
Obviously, this is almost an empty warehouse and there won't be any treasures.
Valeela moved the few family commemorative objects to their positions, vacating half of the area inside, and started drawing symbolic symbols and corresponding magic signs with spiritual materials mixed with her own blood on the eucalyptus table, preparing An altar required for ritual magic.
After a while, the surface of the eucalyptus table and the nearby ground were covered with drawn magic lines.
The runes are connected in series one by one to form a chain, originating from the circular blank space on the eucalyptus table, spreading radially to the ground, and finally converging back, gathering into a dense network of runes on the ground in the middle of the treasure house. of circle.
The circular blank space on the eucalyptus table is where the "shadow lamp" is placed.
The shape of the "shadow lamp" is not important. An ordinary oil lamp can be used, or a simple bowl lamp can be used. The key lies in the modulated whale oil fuel and the runes carved on the lamp holder.
Under the combined effect of the two, the light of the "shadow lamp" can create a unique "realm of shadow" through the magic lines on the altar.
Only in the "Field of Shadows" can the originally ordinary "shadow" possess special activity and become a medium for casting spells.
The materials for making lamp oil do not involve extraordinary things, but they are not all common ones. There are devil flowers, psychedelic grass, five kinds of animal brains, etc. It is not difficult to collect, but it does take some time.
Therefore, Valeera's preparations can only reach this level for the time being.
She tidied up, exited the secret room, and went to bed to rest.
…
By asking Audrey and contacting Xio and Forsi, Valeera spent four days collecting most of the materials, except for the last one——
Body fat.
This material is not suitable for anyone to find.
Fortunately, the amount of it was not large, and Valeela had made up her mind from the beginning to extract it from herself.
At night, Valeera entered the secret room of the treasure house again.
After raising the "Spiritual Wall", she cut open the palm of her hand and planted the "Blood-thirsty Tongue" that had been left for a long time because of the "Lost Mask" as a superior replacement.
After the wound, he used "flesh and blood magic" to control the fat from various parts of his body, spread out a little bit of each, and transferred it to the body surface, forming a small raised sarcoma about the size of a thumb.
Although this operation seems simple, Valeera also relies on the "Pain" Witch's precise control of her own state to ensure that her health will not be affected.
She "picked off" the fat mass, used "flesh magic" to heal the wound, and finally separated the "blood-thirsty tongue" to complete the collection of the last material.
Valeela waved her hand to open "Gray Vision", picked up the ingredients one by one, and put them into the black iron soup can. Every time she put one piece in, she would pause for a moment in front of her eyes so that she could use her "Connection" ability to put it into the black iron soup can. They are connected as one -
After being promoted, the number of "connections" she can make has doubled to 1.
While maintaining the "connection", Valeela used the ability of "making" to truly integrate the materials into one, turning into a small half-can of pale yellow semi-solid "cream".
Finally, Valeela added the same amount of purchased whale oil fuel.
After stirring evenly with a spoon, the fuel required for the "shadow lantern" is ready.
The prepared whale oil fuel became more viscous, and its color became much darker and more transparent.
Valeela added the prepared lamp oil to the lantern that she had prepared earlier, and placed it on the circular blank space on the eucalyptus table, completing the preparation of the "shadow lantern".
On the other side, in the middle of the secret room, in a circular area covered with runes, an easel has been placed in advance.
Valeera's dark brown eyes darkened, and then a black flame appeared and fell on the wick.
The "shadow lamp" lights up.
The faint blue light shines brightly.
In this ethereal light, all the rune chains in the secret room quickly lit up, and the scene outside the secret room also rippled, and soon completely disappeared from Valeela's sight.
The light of the "shadow lamp" was completely locked in the area painted with runes, and the small secret room was therefore divided into two parts, light and dark.
Within the faint blue light, Valeera looked at her "shadow" that fell on the ground. With a thought, she saw it slowly protruding from the ground, as if it had gained thickness and activity.
Obviously, the "Realm of Shadows" has begun.
The first ritual magic that Valeera will perform is of course the "Shadow Art".
She has prepared two portraits of herself, one is her current female face, and the other is her male self.
Among them, Valeela has decorated the female one and placed it at the entrance of the secret room of the treasure house;
Valeela's sensing distance of this painting is quite far. Even in Backlund University, she can grasp the situation in the secret room as long as she concentrates.
As for longer distances, she has not tested it yet due to time and travel constraints.
The other portrait of a male face is sandwiched on the drawing board in front of him.
However, under the light of the faint blue "shadow lamp", the completed painting seemed to disappear, and the canvas returned to white.
Under Valeera's control, her "shadow" gradually merged into the seemingly blank painting.
