Secrets: Priestess

Chapter 190 Transformation

The animal trainer on stage ended in a cheerful atmosphere.

During a break in the performance by the comedy troupe that replaced the animal trainers, Tessa got up and left the small theater.

After coming out of the theater, Tessa didn't leave directly.

There is a cafe with a lot of traffic on the corner not far from the theater.

When Tessa came in, someone was giving a speech in the cafe about the hottest topic of the moment, air pollution. Tessa found a seat by the window and ordered some food from the waiter.

resurrection……

Tessa was lost in thought.

In the mysterious world, resurrection is more of a curse, especially resurrecting others, which is the fuse of too many extremely vicious mysterious events.

Claire's resurrection was the work of the Goddess of Night.

But from their brief contact and the information gathered from Galadilla, Claire's condition wasn't good. Using some means, Tessa could tell that Claire's heart was experiencing an extremely uncoordinated contamination reaction, and that she was more like a dead spirit, with a deadly aura.

Resurrection must have a price.

Tessa didn't even dare to guess what price Claire had paid.

What about Klein Moretti?

The other party seemed to be in good condition and had the leisure to come and see the circus.

It's not leisurely...

Tessa thought of Crane as a "fortune teller," and the sequel to this sequence was "clown" and "magician"...

Klein knows how to act...

In other words, Klein is now suspected to be a "magician"?

Are you coming to the circus to find inspiration for playing a "magician"?

However, this new Nighthawk was promoted to Sequence 7 in just over three months. His advancement speed was quite fast.

Tessa took a sip of the steaming coffee and was convinced that this Tingen Night Watchman also had many secrets hidden behind him.

And…the two people who actually died in the battle at Tingen were actually resurrected by the Evernight Goddess? This kind of divine grace is not recorded in the records of the major churches. The most common record is that their souls were incorporated into the kingdom of God.

Tessa had also read in the secret book of inheritance that the power of gods was unimaginable, but gods were not omnipotent, especially when it came to things like resurrection.

Tessa wasn't curious about Crane's secret.

Which Beyonder doesn't have a secret behind them? Especially the Nighthawks from the tiny city of Tingen, each one seems to be hiding a secret.

But considering that Claire and Klein had died in the same battle and both were still alive, Tessa had to speculate that the Church of Evernight or even the Goddess of Evernight was planning something.

What's worse is that Claire is also involved.

"Want to test Klein?"

A simple wooden dice appeared in Tessa's hand. This was a magical item that had the effect of attracting benefits and avoiding harm. Negative effects would bring her a period of bad luck.

If it weren't for the corresponding avoidance measures, Tessa would not dare or be willing to use this kind of magical item that could interfere with luck.

Just now in the theater, the moment Tessa recognized Klein, her dice gave her a strong warning, a warning so strong that it even surpassed Claire's, indicating that Klein was an extremely dangerous person!

This danger could refer to Klein himself, or it could refer to the troubles surrounding Klein.

So when Tessa saw the resurrected Tingen Nightwatcher, she immediately chose to stay away!
"So, do you really want to test Klein Moretti?"

Tessa finished her coffee in silence. Before she could make a decision, a woman approached the glass window outside the cafe.

That woman is very "beautiful".

A conceptual beauty that exudes amazing charm.

On the street outside the window, everyone who noticed this woman, regardless of gender, age or status, was deeply attracted by her.

But the woman's eyes were fixed on Tessa through the glass window.

Tessa frowned, silently stood up from her seat and tried to leave.

But the woman outside the window suddenly hit her head against the glass window!
With a bang, a crack appeared in the double-glazed window!
Bright red blood flowed from the woman's head, staining the glass window and leaving streaks of blood.

But the woman seemed to feel no pain, with a charming smile still on her lips, and she banged her head against the glass window again and again.

This is directed at me...

At this moment, many people on the streets and in cafes saw the scene of the woman smashing her head against the window.

Some people were dodging, some were stopping to watch, and some were running towards the woman, trying to stop her from doing this stupid thing of banging her head.

But when the man rushed over and grabbed the woman's arm and pulled her out, the woman turned around, her "beautiful" face suddenly opened her mouth under her messy hair stained with blood!

The whole mouth was split to the ears, occupying most of the face!

It seemed as if she wanted to eat the man who was pulling her in one bite!

The man was so scared that he wanted to kick the other person away, but his strength was as weak as a mosquito compared to the other person.

Just as the man was about to die in the bloody mouth, a series of bullets pierced the woman's head with sharp gunshots.

Apparently due to the force of the bullet, the woman's entire body fell straight to the ground.

But in Tessa's spiritual vision, she saw an undead spirit that looked like an ancient knight rush over and pin the woman to the ground.

The shooting did not make the woman lose her ability to move, but the Knight Undead suppressed her.

In the eyes of passers-by who did not know what was going on, the scene looked like a woman who had been shot and was lying on the ground twitching.

Tessa saw Daly, dressed in a police uniform, approach, handcuff the woman on the ground. But a simple pair of handcuffs was no match for this mutated, humanoid "monster." Tessa saw a spirit hovering over the woman, seemingly a soothing nature spirit, gradually causing the frantic woman to lose her will to resist.

This is how the woman was handcuffed.

Daly subdued the woman and patrolmen came to maintain order. In the eyes of the onlookers, this looked more like a case of a mentally ill person harming himself and others.

But for the man who was grabbed, the horrifying scene that took up most of his face was something he would never forget, so he was taken back to the police station by the patrolman in the name of assisting in the investigation.

The people in the cafe were temporarily under control.

Daly saw Tessa standing in the crowd at the cafe. She recognized Tessa's appearance. When she checked Tessa's appearance in order, Daly asked familiarly, "Ms. Christina, why are you here too?"

Tessa acted pitiful, her face filled with disgust. "I just went to a theater and got bored, so I found a cafe to rest before returning home. Who knew I'd run into something like this?"

Christina is of this nature, even worse.

"Then you're pretty unlucky." Daly was taking notes in her notebook and wrote a sentence on the book:

"Coming for you?"

Tessa nodded imperceptibly.

Daly continued to interrogate the remaining people in the cafe. After interrogating everyone, she pointed out several people, including Tessa, and announced that she would take these people back to the police station to cooperate with the investigation.

Those who were called out all complained. Some of them were familiar with the officers of the Cherwood District Police Station and wanted to talk to them, but these officers of the Cherwood District Police Station did not dare to make any small moves in front of Daly.

……

In the alchemy room of the Tranquil Church, Claire used nightmare dolls as materials, dismantling, making, modifying, and carving...

In her hands, the nightmare doll, which was originally a doll-type, was gradually transformed into a twenty-centimeter-tall human doll.

A sealed object, or a magical item, cannot be disassembled and modified so easily by humans, but Claire possesses the ability of a "mechanical expert". In her eyes, she can see how to modify it without damaging the magical item or detonating the dangers of the magical item itself.

Claire had used special means to integrate the Requiem Master's extraordinary characteristics into the various gear components of her new body, but these gear components were not very coordinated when operating.

The core, built on the principle of an analytical machine, basically met Claire's requirements. This pseudo-intelligent core, through a series of tasks, deflected "Yuffie's" purely malicious instincts, making the triggering of the nightmare doll's various abilities more controllable.

However, the integration of the "Requiem Master" feature still leaves the nightmare doll with the risk of running out of control, and amplifies the consequences of being out of control.

Once the pseudo-intelligent core cannot withstand the accumulated malice of "Yuffie", the runaway nightmare doll will directly pull everything around it into its own deadly nightmare, causing all those affected to fall into a vegetative state.

This required Claire to communicate the extraordinary characteristics of the "Requiem Master" every once in a while to soothe and channel Yuffie's malice.

The best way to channel Yuffie's malice is to sacrifice the villain alive, because Yuffie was originally sacrificed by the villain. However, this method will strengthen the evil spirit part of Yuffie, which is like drinking poison to quench thirst. Claire is unwilling to touch this method unless it is absolutely necessary.

In addition, through the aggregation characteristics of the same sequence, Claire created an extraordinary connection between the nightmare doll that incorporated the extraordinary characteristics of the "Requiem Master" and the Goddess' Heart that contained a higher sequence.

With Claire's current abilities, she naturally couldn't transform or utilize the "Heart of the Goddess," a special product that was a fusion of the contamination of the Hidden Sage, the gift of the Goddess of Night, and the high-sequence Beyonder characteristics.

She simply used the aura of the "Heart of the Goddess" to make the magical item, the Nightmare Doll, slightly more obedient, similar to the fox borrowing the power of the tiger to bully others.

Coupled with her control over the pseudo-intelligence, this allows Claire to basically do whatever she wants and control the nightmare doll at will.

This level of manipulation was beyond the capabilities of a mid-sequence Beyonder, which allowed Claire to effectively utilize the nightmare doll to disguise herself as a Beyonder of the "Sleepless" path.

"Unfortunately, my utilization of the Requiem Master's characteristics is still imperfect, and I can't fully realize the strength of a Requiem Master. However, at this point, I can use a certain amount of Requiem Master's ability to disguise myself as a Requiem Master with unstable advancement."

"Next, I will use this Requiem Master ability to pass the special training assessment at the Holy Temple."

Of course, Claire's ideals don't stop there.

She also wants to continue to gain a deeper understanding of the "Requiem Master" and actually apply the "Requiem" ability through subsequent special training, so that she can further adjust and improve the transformation of the nightmare doll and make the nightmare doll reach the strength required for Requiem Master use.

After the goals were determined, Claire continued to optimize the training courses she would attend based on these needs. In addition to the purely theoretical courses that could be saved with the help of Gray Notes, Claire also participated more in more special training courses.

The only thing that made Claire feel sorry was that Archbishop Cecilis's evening special training courses were not held every night, because in addition to Claire and Gray, Cecilis also set up suitable special training programs for the other trainees.

Sersilis does not pay special attention to trainees with special qualities, but treats everyone in this group equally.

During another evening training session, Claire appeased two vengeful spirits and sent them back to the spirit world using the method taught by Archbishop Sersilis. She received praise from Sersilis:

"You are growing very fast. It can be seen from this that you have digested the potion well. At this rate, it won't take long for you to grow into a qualified Requiem Master."

Gray showed an envious expression. Currently, she was struggling to even master the ability to comfort others. Every time she approached spiritual beings during training, she would show signs of losing control.

Fortunately, the spirit previously contained in the bone box helped Gray enhance her soothing ability and also soothed her negative emotions when she was on the verge of losing control.

The spirit Gray sealed was definitely arranged by Archbishop Cecilis specifically based on Gray's situation...

Claire had her own thoughts, so according to this speculation, she would most likely receive similar treatment.

Claire and the others continued to follow Cecilis in wandering through the Amanda Mountains until they came to a dilapidated ruin engraved with the dark holy emblem and various runes.

Cecilis pointed Claire in and said, "There's a surly little creature here, Galadilla. Go and try to calm it down."

Claire recognized the runes carved around her. They were mainly used for blocking, and were an auxiliary method used by requiem masters when facing difficult spirits.

With Sersilis's abilities, she didn't need to resort to similar methods when facing these spirits whose danger level was no more than that of a mid-sequence Beyonder.

"In other words, Archbishop Sersilis used this rune specifically to confine the spirits within this dilapidated ruin. I even saw several runes that acted as a lure and attraction..."

"This unknown spirit was specially lured and sealed here by Archbishop Cecilis!"

This was an ordinary ruin located on the ground. Due to its extreme deterioration, there weren't many buildings to hide it. In this ruined scene, Claire saw a...

"Little ball?"

The spirit that appeared in front of Claire was like a large balloon, its round, transparent body floating under a beam in the ruins.

Although it lacked facial features, Claire could sense that this spirit was raging against the invisible force that trapped it. However, its overly light body made it appear harmless.

However, Claire sensed from the stiff state of "Yuffie" who was residing in the nightmare doll that this spirit was not as easy to deal with as it appeared.

(End of this chapter)