When they left the forest, Goodwin met Regina.
"Why are you here?" He was very surprised.
"Have you forgotten? I'm your summoner. I can sense your existence.”she said as she led the horse. "But why are you here?”
"It's a long story." Goodwin coughed up a mouthful of blood. "Di Nuo Di Le, that bastard, he didn't even know who was friend or foe when he used his skills. I was almost killed by him. I was lucky enough to escape from the Land of God Punishment.”
"How did you…get injured like this?”Regina looked distressed. "Stop talking and lie down. I'll treat you.”
Goodwin lay down obediently.
External injuries, internal injuries, and the erosion of " Dazzling Sniff " were the most serious injuries Goodwin had ever suffered. Regina didn't know where to start. She cast a spell on him for seven hours before she finally healed his bones and dispelled the poison in his body. Before that, she had just been on horseback for five hours. Worry, exhaustion, and lack of sleep all combined to make her faint.
"I'm sorry for making you worry about me.”said Goodwin.
He stayed with Regina until she woke up. During this period, no other empire's soldiers had come here.
When they returned to the camp together, they learned that the army of the Imperium had already taken down Tiger's Mouth. Of course, Tino Taylor was the biggest contributor. Although the explosions that he had caused had messed up his teammates, he had taken down the 'tiger's mouth' in a short time and prevented the Imperium from suffering greater losses. Therefore, the little sacrifice was worth it.
Right now, the dynasty's army was in a good situation. They planned to strike while the iron was hot and expand the results of the battle, so they requested Goodwin to launch another long-distance attack.
"Sorry, I might not be able to do it this time.”said Goodwin. "The poison in my body hasn't been purged yet, and I can't use magic now.”
This was a lie. However, Goodwin had learned from the information that some people had permanently lost their ability to cast spells due to the aftereffects of the poison. Therefore, they couldn't pick out any of his lies.
The only person who could see through his lie was Regina. After all, there was an incredible connection between them. However, she did not question his words.
Goodwin did not want to return to the battlefield. He was too insignificant, unable to cut off their hatred and end this war. However, he could choose to be an ostrich that buried its head in the sand. At least, this way, it would not hurt anyone.
However, in terms of tactics, the dynasty's army really needed Goodwin's combat strength. Therefore, Oracle Tyrone suggested that Goodwin could be sent back to the capital, the Gathering of the Seven, to see if the healers in the capital could cure his illness.
"I'm Lord Goodwin's Summoner. I'm the most suitable person to treat him.”Regina was unusually stubborn on this matter.
"Regina, don't forget who you are.”Tyrone said.
A nun could not defy the Oracle's will.
Goodwin didn't object. It was a good thing to be away from the battlefield. Moreover, he had something he wanted to investigate.
He wanted to know how much of the history of the Original People was true. Just like how he would not believe the history books written by the Imperium, he would not accept the stories passed down by the mouth of the 'original people'. He couldn't verify what happened 500 years ago, but according to the " Original People ", the Holy Rushan Empire still collected the resentment of the people on the ground and used it as fuel to float in the sky. In that case, the floating device modified from the God's Punishment Cannon should be somewhere in the territory of the Imperium.
Coincidentally, on the day Goodwin returned to the capital, a high-ranking Oracle was attacked by an unknown assassin and was in critical condition. In the end, the poor Oracle and Goodwin were sent to the same Royal Infirmary. Goodwin's treatment was put on hold because the best royal healers in the institute had gone to treat the Oracle. Unfortunately, the Oracle was poisoned by a strange poison. They tried their best to save his life, but they could not.
Goodwin sneaked to the Oracle's ward and used the Mark of Death to turn his body into a " dead " under his control. Of course, he didn't make the " dead " do anything. Instead, he made him continue to lie on the spot as a corpse. Then, he received the soul of the deceased and read his memories.
Goodwin could feel that his soul was not compatible with the Oracle's, so he only read some memory fragments that could not be more fragmented, such as " bullying the maid at home when he was eight years old,"" putting a frog in a nun's bed when he was ten years old," and " molesting a female teacher when he was twelve years old."
Goodwin read these boring fragments with relish and finally captured a piece of useful information. He learned that the Oracle received a huge budget every year and used it to carry out a secret plan. This budget was personally approved by the highest religious leader of the Empire, Greengrass, and matters related to this plan would only be reported to Greengrass.
One of the keys to this plan was to test a certain value. For this test, the Oracle had set up twelve monitoring devices in the territory of the Empire. One of the monitoring devices was in the suburbs of the capital.
At night, Goodwin sneaked out of the clinic and headed straight for the monitoring device. To be honest, he wasn't suitable for night operations. The main reason was that the light on his body was even more conspicuous at night. Therefore, he ran as fast as he could, so fast that he ran out of the afterimage. This way, even if someone saw him, they would only think that they were seeing things.
It only took Goodwin ten minutes to run from the medical center to the location in his memory. Then, he spent another ten minutes to find the monitoring device. The device was covered with flowers and trees. At first glance, it looked no different from a shrub, but it emitted a strong soul aura, so it was still discovered by Goodwin, who had the Soul Imprint.
After removing the cover of the flowers and plants, Goodwin realized that the so-called " monitoring device " was not a device but a living creature.
Buried under the bushes was a perverted beast.
It was an eight-legged perverted beast, and its round body was holding a fluorescent organ.
Although it had legs, it couldn't walk. There was a silver pestle stuck in each of its legs, and black liquid seeped out of its wounds. The pestle was connected to the pestle with golden chains, so its eight legs were bound together and could not move.
The pestle and chain had a magical aura, so they should be some kind of magical creation. Perhaps they also had the ability to weaken the beast. Ordinary metal products would definitely not be able to lock them.
In other words, this beast should have some kind of " monitoring " ability, so the people of the church imprisoned it here and used it as a monitoring device.
Seeing that someone was coming, the beast seemed to have been woken up and struggled violently. However, the pestle and the chain seemed to have a life of their own. The more it struggled, the deeper the pestle stabbed and the closer the chain locked. Its struggle only increased its own pain.
There was a mouth-like organ on the round body of the Rebel Beast. It opened and closed violently as if it wanted to shout, but it could not make any sound. The Church must have cut off its vocal organs to prevent it from attracting the attention of passersby. However, it still persevered in its silent call.
Goodwin drew nearer to it, and it cried more urgently. He felt that it had something to say to him.
He hesitated for a moment, and finally put his ear close to its mouth. It opened and closed its mouthpart even harder, and finally Goodwin heard a faint sound. It repeated the same sentence over and over again.
Goodwin listened to it seven or eight times before he realized that it was using the language of the 'original people', which was also known as' Filthy Dolphin Language 'by the Imperials.
Now, Goodwin could understand Filthy Dolphin Language. He understood. It repeated:"Kill me."
"Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me. Kill me."
How long had this beast been trapped here? Maybe a few days. Maybe a few months. Maybe a few years. It was trapped in this narrow space and could not even stretch its legs. All that was left of its life was endless pain. Its only purpose for survival was to be a monitoring device for its enemies.
I shouldn't have killed it. Goodwin thought. It was a clue that I found with great difficulty.
He tried to free it, so he used Lightless Shining Moment to cut the golden chain. But he couldn't. After being slashed by it, the chain let out an ear-piercing whistle and shot a dazzling light into the sky.
What the hell, this thing even has an alarm device? If anyone tried to destroy it, it would send a warning to the Church. Was the magic technology in this country so advanced?
The Church's people might arrive soon, so Goodwin had to evacuate as soon as possible. There was no time to hesitate.
"Rest in peace, unknown creature.”
He didn't know where the beast's weakness was, so he stabbed his sword into its fluorescent sphere based on his intuition. The sphere was very soft, and Goodwin pierced through it effortlessly. The Rebel Beast's body convulsed, and black liquid spurted out of the shattered sphere.
Then, it finally calmed down. Its mouthpart opened and closed one last time. Judging from its mouth shape, Goodwin thought it said " thank you." After saying this, it spat out a black jelly-like sphere from its mouthpart.
"This can't be a Saint Devil's medicine, right?”
Goodwin held it in his hand and quickly left the scene.
He wanted to find a safe place to slowly study this drop of Saint Devil's medicine, but it was eager to burrow into his skin. As he ran, the Saint Devil's medicine was already fusing with his soul. He could feel his Ribbonfish's soul resisting, but the black medicine left a leaf-like red mark on its body.
"Wind Reading Seal."
The moment he obtained this imprint, the scenery in front of him changed. The world turned into an unfamiliar appearance. The grass was still grass, the trees were still trees, but in the empty space, there was suddenly a lot of colorful light. The light flowed like water and drew long trails like silk threads.
"These are…traces of magic and souls?”
Goodwin saw a thick and continuous trail rushing behind him. They flowed towards the place where he had just escaped, where the corpse of the Perverted Beast was.
Other than the corpse, there should be something else under the bush. Goodwin thought.
Therefore, he ran back at the risk of being discovered by the Church.
After all, this " monitoring point " was quite a distance away from the city, and the people from the Church would not be able to arrive so quickly. Goodwin still had a few minutes to investigate.
He found that the magic power was flowing in the direction of his feet, so he dug up the soil under the corpse of the beast. The deeper he dug, the more he could feel an extremely strong and evil soul aura. After digging down about five meters, he found a narrow underground pipe.
The diameter of this underground pipe was no more than two meters. It was obviously not for people to walk through. It did not seem to be used for water diversion or sewage disposal. However, there was a violent soul aura surging in the pipe.
"Is this a pipe used to transport magic resources?”he deduced. " The 'monitoring device' is installed right above the pipe to measure the flow of magic power in the pipe?”
In the real world where Gu Tu was located, electricity was the most important form of energy for human society. Therefore, between cities and between houses, they needed to be connected by an electric network. For the people of the Otherworld, magic was the most important source of energy, so it was reasonable to have a pipeline to transmit magic resources. However, the general public, and even people outside the country's decision-making level, probably did not know about the existence of this pipeline.
" Then," Gu Tu thought. "Where does this pipe lead to?"
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