Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 110 The Magician in Action
'Host?!'

It's not just paper used to cut spirit insects.

Things that were contaminated by the contents of the worm, including tables, high-backed chairs, and even some small objects on the ground and around, disappeared one after another, disappearing from the theater and completely losing any trace.

It was as if their existence had been erased, and there was nothing to prove that they had ever existed.

Tang took a few steps back to prevent the liquid in the spirit insect's body from splashing on him.

The table disappeared, and the other spirit insects fell to the ground with a plop. Then, the floor disappeared as well because it was stained with the liquid that burst out of the spirit insects' bodies, and fell to the next floor of the building.

The liquid within the spirit worm continued to drip downward, corroding everything it touched without consuming much of the strange liquid. Everything it touched disappeared, and if this continued, it would penetrate layer by layer, and if it wasn't stopped, it would drip outside the theater.

Tang was bewildered when he saw the secret puppet below, and the core of the theater also ran over to see what was going on.

Seeing this scene, the theater core froze on the spot.

What the hell is this noise!
Oh no, is it easy to do this renovation? Have you ever considered its feelings by doing such damage?!
Tang's figure flashed, disappeared for a moment, and then appeared again.

Immediately afterwards, the tall and strong War Bishop appeared below and caught the fallen spirit insects. At the same time, Tang's figure exchanged with that of the War Bishop, and he stuffed all the liquid into the system warehouse.

No matter what it is, just install it into the system first.

"What happened?" asked the secret doll beside him.

The theater core controlled this secret puppet, and it was also confused by this situation.

"There's a little problem with my spirit worm."

Tang shrugged, then handed two spirit insects with white shells to the secret puppet beside him and smiled, "Please help me make a spell."

Theater Core: ...

"But, you just said there's something wrong with your spirit worm..." Why do you want to give it this? Are you thinking its life is too long and want to give it something dangerous to do?
"It's okay, it's not a big problem."

Silence is Cambridge tonight.

The core of the theater left cursing and holding the spirit insect.

The disappeared floor and ceiling were filled again, and the tables, chairs and benches in the room reappeared. Several modern artistic table lamps were placed on the table, emitting an orange, warm light under the red moon outside the window.

"Host, what exactly happened?"

The system was also confused, and it seemed to have seen something new in that strange space.

"It has been upgraded." Tang turned around and entered the Euclidean space again, looking at some extra things inside.

Just like the old man's Time Worm before, all the things contaminated by the liquid in the Spirit Worm's body were moved to the Euclidean space and were in a strange state.

He could touch it, but it felt strange.

Texture, change, the changes that occur in these objects in every time period, from the past to the present, from the present to the future, from raw materials to finished products, and from the finished products to decay and wither, returning to nature.

This is an indescribable feeling, as if these things have been split into different time periods, and the state presented has become a state formed by the superposition of things from countless time periods.

This is similar to the situation where part of the Euclidean space was stolen, causing Pallez Zoroast to lose a Time Worm!
Tang spread his own spirituality and reduced the dimensions of these objects.

His inspiration suddenly trembled, and these disappeared things reappeared in the real world, but they had been disassembled and their original appearance could not be seen.

Is this a falling apart table?
The already orderly room was messed up again.

Theater Core: Ahhhhh, total madness!

But then, these things disappeared again.

Tang finished the dimensionality reduction, and these things returned to Euclidean space, once again showing their original strange state.

"Assimilated into Euclidean space."

Tang pondered and quickly figured out the problem. "There's something wrong with my spirit. An ordinary magician can't do this."

Therefore, the spiritual insect that split out from him, which is essentially a part of the evil wizard's spirit body, also has this characteristic.

"This is the change in my spirit body after I advanced to Sequence 4."

Not only did the magician transform the spirit, his own special qualities were also further revived, and his control over this space began to deepen.

"Obviously, this is a good sign, isn't it?" It proves that the spirit worm has great intentions. Maybe the talismans it makes have the ability to borrow power from the future!
Tang took another look at the old man's Time Worm.

He planned to do some experiments on this thing later to see what it was like. Now it seemed that it should be the same as these things that had been upgraded in dimension.

I just don't know whether it can survive after the dimensionality reduction. After all, there are still some extraordinary characteristics of the Time Worm remaining in it. If it is allowed to appear in the outside world, it will probably directly become the old man's clone.

Tang thought about it and decided to leave it here and do research on it later.

Tang then conducted several more experiments to determine whether there were any special changes in the extraordinary abilities of the spirit insects related to the strange magician, and based on this, he developed associations to find the parts that were beneficial and could be used.

During this brainstorming session, several secret puppets that had quietly appeared in the town were looking for their targets.

In the territory of Barony Ramde, the small town attached to the Baron is as usual like a market, gathering people from the surrounding villages, forming a steady flow of people, selling animals and plants from the mountains, farmed livestock, and some other transactions.

The population is naturally not comparable to Tingen, and the church here only has the goddess of night and a priest who believes in the goddess.

This is because the Baroness is a believer of the Goddess, otherwise the church would never waste resources to send a priest here, even if he is just an ordinary person who believes in the Goddess and has no extraordinary powers.

It is one of the few places in the town where mass can be held for believers, where homeless people can stay, and where free education can be provided for children of a certain age who were born here but do not have enough money and connections to let their children run wild.

This kind of education was originally intended for literacy, but older children have to work hard to make a living, so most of the people who spend a long time in the church are homeless children who have been abandoned long ago.

Mrs. Ramde donates a certain amount of gold pounds every year, and the believers of the Goddess of Night also make efforts for these children to the best of their ability.

One of the targets of the Marionettes is there.

At the same time, another secret doll mixed into the crowd and observed the situation of everyone in the town.

They carefully observed the daily behavior of these people, judging their education level, beliefs, and family relationships. They collected information one by one at a time, but Pallez Zoroast, who was parasitic on the Baby-Faced Knight, turned a blind eye to all this.

Through the spiritual threads of these secret dolls, he could naturally try to find the person behind them, or the corresponding magical items, but since a preliminary cooperation plan has been reached, he does not intend to interfere in other people's affairs.

Especially when both sides don't really trust each other. "The trickster's acting? Not really. Is it a sign from the, uh, great being behind him?"

Soon, Pales saw one of the marionettes carrying a child through the crowd and leaving without any surprise in the eyes of those people.

The angel shook his head and made his own preparations.

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'Side Quest: Establish a Secret Organization (Phase 3)'

"Miskatonic University, an organization that holds a pivotal position in the Cthulhu Mythos. Choosing it as a synonym for a secret organization also proves that you have extraordinary ambitions!"

"But you don't seem to have any serious students now?"

"Please recruit outstanding students with the above qualities! And provide them with preliminary training in mysticism!"

'Task Progress: 0/100'

'Quest Reward: Surprise Gift Pack*1, Manuscript of the Black Magic Book "Book of the Dead."'

"Is it really impossible?" Tang continued to ask without giving up.

'No! No!'

The system shook its head frantically.

How can you let a Marionette be an apprentice?! Isn't this a bug?!

Host, you really should switch to the parasite next door! The error next door is more suitable for you!

"That's really a shame."

Tang didn't sound disappointed. He knew the chances were slim, but he still wanted to try. "I thought a marionette equipped with a bionic marionette module could be the source of life."

If possible, he can just split the spirit worm to make modules. He can have as many puppets as he wants. Even if the number of puppets he can control is not enough, the puppets controlled by the theater core can also be equipped with a few "bionic puppet" modules.

"But even so, isn't it still your puppet's host..."

The system was speechless and wanted to cry at the host's wild ideas.

"Hmm, let me think about it." Tang sat in a high-back chair, thinking about the problem in a comfortable posture.

"Since they are excellent students, then this student may not be a Beyonder..." Sequence 9 can also obtain basic knowledge of mysticism from potions, but they don't know what the 'initial mysticism training' determined by the system actually refers to.

If you want to start from scratch, it will be troublesome and take some time.

If the task can be completed directly with the joining of Extraordinary people, then there is still a loophole that can be exploited. For example, use the Sun Scepter to pollute some Extraordinary people, let them join voluntarily, and then kill them directly after meeting the conditions. Not only can the task be completed, but also Extraordinary characteristics can be obtained.

However, there are not many extraordinary people in his territory, and it is too difficult to go to Tingen.

Well, how about traveling to other places?
The system was once again deeply shocked by its host's brain.

Cheating! This is cheating!
Woo woo, it wants to use this to threaten the host. If the host hangs it on the ceiling again, it will tell the main system!
As for whether this is possible...

It doesn't know, it knows nothing.

I sent a secret puppet to his territory to take advantage of him, and at the same time, to see if there were any ignorant Beyonders coming here to do evil or something.

Afterwards, Tang contacted his secret doll who was far away.

"Angie," Tang whispered to the other side of the spirit line, "Do you have any battlefield orphans over there? Hmm, someone with a good brain, especially one with some occult education."

Anjie, a traveler far away in the Orkney Highlands, heard Tang's words and stood up from the top of the tower. She dusted herself off like a lady and said, "I'll keep an eye on it. Do I need to send it back when the time comes?"

"Let's observe first. By the way, find a time to bring that witch back."

"Ok."

Afterwards, Tang began to contact the other secret puppets he had sent out.

He looked for the secret doll on his father's side. He was so busy during this period that he was confused. He also suffered from the dark side of the universe on his father's side. Basically, he did not actively control the secret doll unless the secret doll contacted him.

Now, as a trickster, Tang felt that he had an obligation to provide his father with more security measures.

"It doesn't look dangerous."

Tang flicked a gold coin and performed a simple divination, then sent a spirit worm through the spirit thread to the Sequence 5 ghost puppet.

He asked the resentful souls to make the surrounding insects into secret dolls, and then he replaced them with new insect secret dolls to complete the ultra-long-distance teleportation.

"As expected, once the Bionic Marionette module reaches Sequence 4, the resulting qualitative change will make me one of the most formidable Saints below the Angels. Even Angels who aren't good at catching people will have a hard time catching me, let alone finding my true form."

Tang looked around. This was a suburb of Backlund, built entirely of black stone bricks, and looked like a courtyard.

"Master can no longer remember many people."

The vengeful spirit faithfully performed his role. He sighed, "The master has been forgetting more and more things recently. This morning, the master even forgot his own name."

Tang looked off to the distance, where he sat in a wicker rocking chair, watching Azik Eggers. The loss of his memory hadn't revealed any weakness or fatigue in the Death Archon. He still looked powerful, indifferent, and calm, as if nothing could defeat him.

As if he had sensed the unusual gaze, the bronze-skinned ancient looked over and saw Tang. The corners of his mouth moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.

He waved to Tang, who walked over and squatted in front of his father.

"Dad, how are you doing recently?"

"Father..." Hearing this unfamiliar word, the man in front of him was silent for a while before saying, "Not bad... There are many things I've forgotten. You... are my child? I feel familiar, but... I'm sorry, I forgot."

This was the backup plan left by the God of Death, Salinger. Although he was a Sequence 2 Archon of Death, he had to suffer the curse of the Sequence 4 Undead again and again.

Tang suppressed the expression in his eyes and said calmly, "Yes, I am your child."

"I will help you until your memory returns."

(End of this chapter)