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墨書 Inktalez
The smoke twisted and struggled in the tweezers like a black caterpillar.
Freya watched the smoke in the tweezers and reached into a nearby wooden box to grab a creature resembling a rabbit, completely white in color.
However, this creature had a long, thin tail instead of a short, fluffy one.
With one hand, she skillfully pried open the rabbit's mouth and quickly stuffed the smoke inside.
‘Burp.’
A sound like a satisfied burp came from the rabbit's mouth, accompanied by a faint odor of decay.
However, aside from that, there was no other change.
"There are no abnormal reactions; the energy carrier is normal."
Freya set down the tweezers and released her grip on it, quietly waiting for a change.
The rabbit-like mammal trembled in fear after having swallowed the smoke whole. After Freya let go, it instinctively tried to escape but felt an invisible membrane controlling its body, leaving it unable to move from its spot.
Time passed minute by minute.
Freya glanced at the clock on the wall; five minutes had already gone by since it consumed the smoke.
Just when Freya thought the initial experiment had failed, the trembling rabbit suddenly opened its mouth and emitted a piercing chirping sound, as if it were enduring immense pain.
‘Chirping!!’
Its snow-white fur rapidly turned grayish-white, quickly losing its original luster.
Seeing the rabbit's abnormal behavior, Freya wasted no time and directly grabbed it, throwing it into the center of the previously drawn magic circle.
A faint green flash flickered.
As soon as the magic circle made contact with the rabbit, three resilient vines sprang up, automatically binding it.
Glancing at the rabbit that seemed to be rapidly shrinking, Freya pointed at the magic circle.
"Cucuska!" she uttered a brief incantation.
With a crack, a green pillar of light surged up from the magic circle.
The bound rabbit, which appeared to be getting smaller, suddenly inflated as if being pumped with air.
Green Energy Particles quickly flowed into its body in a rhythmic pattern.
The flesh and blood that had been consumed by Negative Energy were surprisingly replenished in a short time.
This was a biological extraction method invented by Freya, designed to restore vitality to the nearly dissipated Negative Energy.
The original purpose of this method was for cultivation. However, Freya modified the structure of the magic circle and the arrangement of the runes, resulting in this outcome.
Freya carefully observed the changes in the rabbit's body.
Just as the energy in the magic circle was about to push the rabbit to its limit, she gently clapped her hands.
The dense Green Pillar of Light gradually dimmed but did not completely disappear.
As the rabbit transformed into a large mass, it quickly shrank back down when the green light faded, ultimately returning to its original form.
After maintaining this state of balance for ten minutes, Freya took out a handful of golden powder from her waist and rubbed it in her hands. She then positioned the rabbit in the magic circle to lie on its back, exposing its belly.
Next, Freya placed both hands over it.
The soft fur was warm, and she could clearly feel the rabbit's heart beating violently due to the abnormal situation, thumping like a drum.
After kneading the soft area a couple of times, Freya gently pressed down with both hands.
As if submerged in water, a circle of fine ripples gently spread out from where her hands made contact.
Suddenly, as Freya's hands sank into the rabbit's abdomen, the rabbit opened its eyes wide, its brown pupils contracting sharply.
Freya frowned slightly as she searched through the rabbit's belly.
However, it seemed that she soon found something. With a sudden tug of her hand,
a loud 'pop' echoed as a large, black centipede-like creature was pulled out from the rabbit's stomach.
Compared to an ordinary centipede, this one in Freya's hand was undoubtedly much more sinister in appearance.
Its mouthparts resembled two steel pincers, and at the top were countless tiny black eyes resembling sesame seeds, with numerous jointed limbs writhing incessantly.
Yet in Freya's grasp, it merely struggled but could not escape.
Looking at the strange creature in her hand, Freya wrinkled her brow in disgust.
She had seen this thing in All Things Studies under Basic Knowledge; it was a semi-energized arthropod left behind from the Abyss World. It primarily fed on fresh flesh and survived by parasitism.
Some wizards occasionally cultivated these creatures for experimental use; they were also a key material for casting the Soul Absorption Technique from the Necromancy Department.
She lightly tapped the table. The vines binding the rabbit in the magic circle slowly loosened, and one of the vines sent the already mentally and physically exhausted rabbit back into the wooden box.
Freya grabbed the thick centipede with one hand and pressed it down onto the Experiment Table, while her other hand pulled out a sharp knife from the side.
With a 'shh' sound, the blade cleanly sliced open the seam between the centipede's head, and a pink semi-liquid substance immediately flowed out from both sides.
Ignoring the liquid that spilled out, Freya turned the blade.
The seemingly sturdy shell of the centipede's head was instantly split open.
A faint aroma of food slowly emanated from the cracked head.
"That should be enough."
She calmly gazed at the opened head of the now gradually still centipede, and Freya set down the knife. She extended her hand above the top of the centipede's head.
An invisible Mental Field slowly radiated from her palm.
The Mental Field pierced sharply into the centipede's head and began to stir.
Before long, a tiny Silver Speck was stirred out, floating aimlessly in the air.
Upon seeing that light spot appear, Freya immediately reached out to grab it, while a subtle stream of consciousness passed through her mind, causing Freya to frown slightly, seemingly dissatisfied.
"Is this all there is?"
Although the restored Soul Absorption Technique had certain differences, the remnants of consciousness would not change; it was just that this information was pitifully scarce, lacking even the ability to form an image.
"Could it be that too much time has eroded the traces of mental energy?" she speculated softly.
However, this is the only reason that makes sense.
Yet, this also means that the clues regarding the Necromancer might not be so clear anymore.
Casually tossing the bits of flesh from the corpse on the Experiment Table into the trash bin, Freya lightly tapped the table and fell into deep thought.
In theory, the conspiracy event from thirty years ago, although that wizard was just a foreigner, may have played a decisive role to some extent. Otherwise, given the academy's style, they wouldn't have sent out a few Hunters and then dropped the matter after their failure; there must have been some higher-ups guiding this.
Otherwise, Hegel wouldn't have assigned her this task, nor would there have been repercussions years later.
Raymond City is just an ordinary city for common people, even thirty years ago. A Necromancer hiding in a society of ordinary people would leave significant traces if one paid attention, primarily due to their inherent strong contaminating Negative Energy Particles.
However, aside from those strange incidents earlier, Freya found no other discoveries in the lord's records database.
This in itself is unusual.
Nevertheless, Freya had speculated that this wizard might have changed cities to live in, but statistically speaking, that probability is quite low.
According to her records, this wizard was severely injured at that time—almost to the point of openly using the Soul Absorption Technique for healing.
This is something every Necromancer would avoid doing to humans unless they were in serious trouble.
After all, fundamentally speaking, wizards are still human, and there is a significant difference between killing and consuming humans, even considering a wizard's indifferent attitude towards human life.
Of course, unless that person is a psychopath.
Thus, Freya deduced that this wizard was likely still lurking around here; it’s just that their exact location remains uncertain.
After pondering for a long time, Freya finally turned her gaze to the Transparent Glass Bottle on the Laboratory Table.
"Perhaps I should try to concentrate all the residual energy."
Two hours later.
A somewhat fatigued Freya withdrew her hands, calmly gazing at the silver-white light spot the size of a fingernail hovering in front of her.
At this moment, the Experiment Table was in disarray, covered in a viscous pink liquid, and the air was thick with the rich aroma of cooked meat.
However, this smell made Freya feel slightly nauseous.
The trash can was filled to the brim with centipede corpses; once these creatures lost their vitality, they were as useless as any ordinary biological matter.
She just wasn't sure if the effort she had put in for two hours was worth this small amount of mental information.
"Let's give it a try," she murmured.
She gently slowed her breathing, trying to stabilize her mental fluctuations.
Then Freya reached out, grasping the light spot before her and slowly pressing it against her forehead.
A strange sound echoed, 'Clack clack clack!'
The Azure Blue Eyes lit up, and the Azure Rune suddenly shrank into a slender shape, beginning to rotate like a clock hand.
It felt as if her entire consciousness entered an invisible tunnel, and her vision abruptly blurred.
As if entering an unfamiliar body, Freya felt her sight violently shake, with a howling wind rushing past; it was a gray night sky.
Then she began to fall rapidly, jolting through vast forests and houses, various colors of Spell energy exploding around her. Finally, her vision turned blood red before plunging into deep darkness. However, just as suddenly, the darkness dissipated entirely, revealing a massive sun floating in her entire field of vision.
"Ch!"
In a thick cloud of white mist.
"Ugh..."
A painful groan escaped from Freya's lips as she suddenly covered her eyes while standing next to the Experiment Table.
At that moment, Freya felt as if she had been pulled out of boiling water, with a large amount of white steam rising from her body. Her once loose clothing clung tightly to her due to sweat, making her feel sticky and uncomfortable.
The sharp pain in her eyes caused her to instinctively crouch down on the ground.
After a long wait, the pain began to slowly ease.
She slightly opened her eyes, but everything appeared as if it were layered, as if her vision had double images.
"Damn it! Next time, I will never directly analyze someone else's mental traces in my brain again!" (To be continued)
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