Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 390: The Harpy's Protection

"Now, can we get down to business?"

Adele's voice sounded at the right time, causing Elena, who was immersed in inexplicable loss, to look up blankly.

"The magical item you want is in the drawer."

Elena buried her face in her palms, exhaled, and said in a muffled voice.

"Thank you."

Adele walked to the desk, opened the drawer, and took out a small box wrapped in velvet.

When she opened the box, she found a pair of curled black stockings inside. They were cold and smooth to the touch, like the skin shed by a giant python. There was a pair of protruding wing-shaped carvings at the ankles, and there was no trace of sewing at the joints, as if the wings had grown out of the stockings.

Adele ran her nails over the stockings and found that they were very tough and difficult to cut even with a knife.

"I named this magical item 'The Protection of the Harpy'. According to the records of the vampires, the harpy is a creature that moves quickly and has the ability to travel through the spirit world."

"This magical item allows you to travel through the spirit world and sense your own location in the outside world. Different sequence Beyonders have different strengths of their spirit bodies and can withstand different teleportation times. The effects and distances of the spirit world travel are also obviously different."

There was no energy in Elena's words, but she still introduced everything to Adele in detail.

"In addition to long-distance spiritual travel, you can also use it to teleport over short distances with almost no cooldown time. The maximum distance is one hundred meters."

"In addition, the person wearing this pair of socks can create a small-scale gust of wind under their feet, and use the wind pressure to move quickly. Even if they don't actively use their abilities, they can still gain a running speed bonus, making the wearer's speed no less than the best racehorse."

"So, what are the negative effects?"

Adele was obviously interested. After all, whether it was short-distance instant movement, long-distance spiritual travel or acceleration effect, it was very useful equipment for both assassins who were good at close combat and witches who were good at long-range casting.

"Wearing these stockings will make you fall more easily, not only in complex road conditions, but sometimes even when you are standing still in an open area, you may trip over your trouser legs when you take the first step."

I am an assassin with excellent balance ability, am I still afraid of falling? Adele agreed on the surface, but she was a little skeptical in her heart.

"You'd better not underestimate this negative effect."

Seeing Adele's thoughts, Elena did not hide anything and said directly: "This kind of fall can indeed be alleviated by controlling the body, such as quickly supporting the body when losing balance under the feet, and a fall on the ground is not a serious injury for Beyonders, but this kind of accident will be affected by luck."

"You mentioned to me before that you have a magical item whose negative effect is to bring bad luck to yourself, right?"

Elena pointed at Adele's left arm and said, "The curse of falling, bad luck, and the ability to move at high speed brought by these stockings...if you don't handle it carefully, it may cause irreversible damage."

"...I understand. I will use it carefully."

Adele imagined herself running at 50 kilometers per hour and suddenly falling down and rolling into a wheel, and she couldn't help but shudder.

Not only that, frost is also a very important part of the witch's combat skills. If the ground is covered with ice, the negative effect of this pair of stockings will probably be triggered more frequently.

The more I think about this, the more I envy Sister Vesper's magical ability to properly match various seals to offset each other's negative effects...

Adele sighed in her heart, before she didn't have so many magical items to carry, so she didn't have these troubles;

And now she already has the Veil of Night, the Heart Stealer Lipstick, the Survivor's Hidden Blade, and now this pair of stockings. The accumulated negative effects also include drowsiness, forgetfulness, color blindness, bad luck, drowning, and now easy falls. To some extent, it has seriously affected her fighting style, forcing her to make some choices.

When I turn the puppet master's extraordinary characteristics into magical items, I may have to add a new negative effect. By then, I may have to sell some of the magical items to prevent the negative effects of the magical items from forming a closed loop...

Adele felt that she was gradually beginning to understand the troubles of rich people and began to worry about having too many magical items.

If it really doesn't work, you can take it back to Vinata and Sophie. Adele is now the leader of a large organization, and there is never a shortage of people waiting to use magical items.

"By the way, this pair of stockings has a self-cleaning function. They don't need to be washed like ordinary stockings. The material is also quite tough and can withstand the cuts of a sword."

Elena was still introducing, but she was so absent-minded that she didn't notice that the other party didn't pay much attention to her explanation, and continued to talk about the negative effects of the magical items in a somewhat nagging manner.

"Thank you for your hard work. Here is the processing fee."

After getting the magical item, Adele didn't want to stay here too long, so she prepared to say goodbye and leave.

She placed the box containing the two thousand pounds she got from the sun on Elena's desk. Two thousand pounds was a very generous price to pay for a magical item of the fifth level of processing sequence.

"You're going to be leaving here soon, aren't you?"

As Adele was about to leave, Elena asked reluctantly behind her.

"If the situation over there goes well, I will come back to the South Continent."

Adele didn't look back. She whispered words of comfort, lowered the brim of her hat, and prepared to open the door and leave.

"...Are you going to meet your fiancée?" Elena hesitated for a while, then asked.

"That's right." Adele nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something. She reached into her pocket and fumbled for a while, then turned and walked towards Elena, placing a small bottle made of crystal glass in Elena's hand.

Elena took it doubtfully, and inside was a small bottle of dark red liquid, which shone attractively under the light of the chandelier.

"I usually carry this with me as a spell material. I'll leave it for you as a souvenir."

Adele touched her cheek a little embarrassedly. "It's my blood. It's been processed with black magic. It can be stored for a long time."

Elena's face turned rosy again, and she couldn't hide her joy and said, "Thank you, I will cherish it."

I hope that donating blood doesn't have any special meaning in the vampire culture...

Looking at Elena's happy expression, Adele felt a little worried for a moment, fearing that her action would be regarded as a prelude to a confession in the vampire culture.

However, seeing that Elena had no other reaction except joy, Adele breathed a sigh of relief and left the Dyke Manor.

The vial of blood had been processed by her and retained its spirituality, but its mystical connection with Adele itself was severed. It was only used as a spiritual material and had no specific purpose. Therefore, Adele was not worried that Elena would use the blood to curse herself because of her refusal.

Only after she got into the roadside cab and entered the closed compartment did she take out the pair of stockings from her pocket and put them on her feet.

When she put the thin stockings on her feet, a wonderful feeling rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, making her feel as light as if her feet were equipped with springs. If she wanted to, she could even jump several meters in one step.

Although the weather is not very warm and the heater is not turned on in the car to save money, Adele, who is only wearing a pair of stockings, does not feel cold at all. The socks seem to have good thermal insulation properties.

"Let's try traveling through the spirit world next..."

Adele thought about it, took out all the change in her pocket, about ten solis, put the change on her seat, and then activated the "flash" ability that came with the Harpy's protection.

With almost no warning, Adele found herself directly on the side of the road outside the carriage. Fortunately, there was no one on the road, and no one noticed this witch who suddenly appeared.

It really is teleportation, with almost no signs, no obvious direction, and no necessary connection with the direction you are facing. As long as you are within the effective range, you can teleport almost anywhere you want, making it impossible to defend against and impossible to counter...

When Adele thought about how such a guy was killed by Feysac's airship because of exhaustion of spiritual energy, she felt sad. The traveler probably never dreamed that he would be killed because he couldn't escape.

Adele pretended to be nonchalant and walked along the bluestone road for a while, wanting to find a deserted place to try out her new ability again.

However, this time she only walked less than fifty meters before her feet suddenly slipped for no apparent reason, as if the ground where she had originally stood had suddenly sunk. Adele lost her balance and fell forward.

Fortunately, Adele's balance ability is really excellent. At the moment when she was about to fall, she bent her knees to lower her center of gravity, and at the same time stretched out her other leg backwards to maintain her body balance, and squatted down on one leg in an extremely weird posture.

My goodness, I just relaxed for less than a minute and the negative effects appeared...

Adele was helpless. From the moment she put on the stockings, she realized through spiritual connection that the negative effects of the stockings had been there since she put them on. The more times she used the ability, the greater the chance of falling.

I only used teleport once, and it almost made me fall flat on my face...

Adele sighed depressedly. It would take three days and five hours for her to fully pay back the luck she had advanced. At least before this deadline, she couldn't use this magical item frequently.

Next, let's try long-distance transmission...

Adele bent down and rubbed her ankles, which had been hit hard by the previous incident, then poured spirituality into the inside of her stockings while picturing the appearance of her office in her mind.

Then, her feet began to become transparent, as if carrying the reflection of the spirit world. The black in front of her eyes became richer, and the various colors were clearly distinct from each other and layered on top of each other.

Those fast-moving colorful lines appeared in Adele's field of vision again, and countless almost invisible figures retreated backwards. Adele's feet stepped on those slender spiritual lines, jumping and shuttling back and forth continuously.

This process sounds long but actually took less than two seconds. Adele found her body falling straight down. The dark colors around her faded away and everything returned to normal.

Looking around herself again, she found herself in her own office. Everything in the room was the same as usual, with no difference.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her toes. Adele lowered her head and realized that in the process of emerging from the spiritual world, she had not yet gotten used to the feeling of being out of the spiritual world, so she subconsciously made a movement to maintain her balance and kicked the table in the office.

Adele almost jumped up in pain, but just as she was about to lift her feet, she found that she had lost her balance and ended up falling heavily on the carpet in the office.

Putting aside this unfortunate negative effect, the maximum range of the transmission is quite far...

Worried that she would fall if she stood up, Adele simply sat on the carpet and took off the stockings first.

After one teleportation, Adele discovered that with her current sequence level, the farthest she could teleport from here to Bayam in one go, and with five to six long-distance teleportations at most, she could reach Indo Port from here.

However, teleportation consumes a lot of spiritual energy. He was only teleported a distance of dozens of kilometers, but the spiritual energy consumed was equivalent to igniting a black fire.

Don't underestimate the spiritual power of a black fire. With Adele's current level, the spiritual power will be consumed if she continuously lights up 147 balls of black fire at most. This is when she already has plenty of spiritual power as a witch of the source school.

Long-distance teleportation requires even more spiritual energy. If Adele wants to rely on this magical item to "travel" from the southern continent to Indo Port in the north of Feysac, she will probably have to consume at least three-quarters of her spiritual energy.

Moreover, in the later stages of a long-distance journey, the spiritual energy consumed almost increases exponentially, and if you want to complete the journey, you have to transfer in the middle. In her bad luck-ridden state, Adele didn't have much confidence in doing something that required multiple links to be perfect.

I still can't compare to Miss Magician, who is an "apprentice" demigod. If she wanted to, it wouldn't be a problem for her to cross the continent directly. She wouldn't have to be as cautious as I am...

Adele couldn't help but feel envious when she thought about how Miss Magician had relied on her extraordinary ability to travel to travel back and forth between Bayam and Backlund, leading the demigods of the Tarot Club to the battlefield.

Unfortunately, she was sent to the starry sky due to an accident, and she didn’t know when she would be able to come back...

Adele glanced at the gradually darkening sky outside and reminisced about Miss "Magician" again.

(End of this chapter)