Chapter 421

Chapter 337: Candidate

“As for my older brother… let’s skip him… he has just finished accumulating auxiliary spirituality and is busy with his final promotion. Until the promotion is complete, his freedom of movement is restricted, so he definitely can’t make it…”

Thus, leaning on the sofa, Dorothy was seriously pondering whom to invite. In Dorothy’s eyes, the abilities of the Underworld Coffin Cult were quite strange. Even with a well-planned approach, there could still be unexpected events, so this person needed to be chosen carefully.

Staring at the flickering flames in the fireplace, Dorothy’s thoughts were spinning rapidly, and after a moment, she found the answer in her heart.

“That’s right… perhaps she would be a good choice…”

With a light clap of her hands, Dorothy spoke, then picked up the magic box that had been resting on the coffee table and, upon opening it, took out her “Navigation of the Literary Sea.”

…

Meanwhile, in the northern outskirts of Tivyán, at the Royal Sacred Crown University King Campus.

The campus at late night was enveloped in a dark silence, with a scene of pitch darkness everywhere, only a few dim lights visible from the dormitory windows.

In one dorm room of the girls’ dormitory, Nephnis, dressed in pajamas, sat at her desk, intently reading the books laid out before her, while her roommate was lying in her bed nearby, snuggled under her covers, fast asleep.

At this moment, Nephnis was focused on the book in front of her. This book was relatively thin; it was more like a booklet than a full book. The pages were yellowed, with many worn-out edges, filled with tightly written Prit text. Some areas even had rough sketches of peculiar items. Both the text and the pictures were handwritten, and looking at these characters, Nephnis felt a wave of nostalgia.

“This is… Grandpa’s notes from his youth?”

Gazing at the familiar handwriting, Nephnis murmured softly. The booklet before her was indeed a notebook, authored by none other than her grandfather, Davis Boyle.

After the incident that occurred at the Boyle family home in East Tivy, Nephnis had successfully become an extraordinary being—a student of “Silence”—with Dorothy’s assistance.

The Boyle family, which Nephnis belonged to, had risen from the fortunes her grandfather, Davis Boyle, made during his early tomb raiding days. Davis was an extraordinary being, but after he retired, he deliberately chose not to pass on the extraordinary legacy. After Nephnis stepped into the realm of the extraordinary, Davis’s former servant, now the old butler of the Boyle family, decided to pass down Davis’s early notes regarding the extraordinary path to Nephnis and personally went back to their ancestral estate to retrieve them.

Now, this notebook had finally been delivered into Nephnis’s hands. Today, she had just received this notebook, and after reading the first few pages, she began to learn about her grandfather’s unknown past.

Strictly speaking, the notes contained not a collection of extraordinary knowledge as Nunut had said, but rather Davis’s adventurous experiences in Northern Ufeiga in his early years. However, they included his process of exploring the extraordinary, and by reading these notes, Nephnis felt as if she was witnessing her grandfather’s earlier adventures.

Within the notes, Nephnis learned that her grandfather had not come to Northern Ufeiga of his own volition; he had fled there to escape after getting into trouble in Prit by offending nobility. When he first arrived, he was an ordinary mortal who did many things to earn a living. Eventually, he was drawn to the flourishing local industry of tomb raiding and joined a Treasure Theft Society, where he was first exposed to the extraordinary.

In Davis’s writings, he described the legendary treasure raiders of the Treasure Theft Society as half-ghostly figures. They were said to be able to see ghosts and communicate with them, possessing immense strength and stamina, enabling them to venture into various hazardous environments within tombs. They were versatile, skilled in various languages and weapons and seemingly capable of anything.

Initially fascinated by these extraordinary tales, Davis, after a few adventures, finally witnessed the source of the legendary abilities that those treasure raiders possessed.

Because they could not only communicate with ghosts but also harness them through their bodies. They were able to have ghosts attach to their own bodies, mastering the skills those ghosts had possessed in life.

These treasure raiders were not afraid of being possessed by the undead; instead, they used the possession to control the spirits, channeling them to work for themselves, giving the deceased a fresh body through their own and bringing forth the skills they had in life. In his notes, Davis referred to this type of legendary treasure raider as a “Soul Binder,” and the ability they practiced—controlling souls through their bodies—was called the “Path of Body Reliance.”

From Davis’s early notes, Nephnis could see that her grandfather longed for this extraordinary ability, which is why after becoming a treasure raider, he was determined to achieve the power of a legendary treasure raider.

Sitting at her desk, Nephnis carefully examined the notes, absorbed in her grandfather’s story. After reading a portion, she would close her eyes and silently pray to Akka, hoping for help in eliminating her poison recognition. Finally, after one prayer session, feeling exhausted, Nephnis let out a sigh of relief.

“I didn’t expect my grandfather had such experiences… Path of Body Reliance, Soul Binder… Is this the extraordinary path he once walked?”

Nephnis thought to herself. After months of diligent study, she had developed a basic understanding of the Secret World and Mysticism, knowing that the extraordinary path was a route paved by the combination of spiritualities.

“A path of the extraordinary based on the body, accommodating the souls, huh? According to what Miss Dorothy said before, the spirituality related to the body is mainly represented by the ‘Cup.’ This means that the path of Body Reliance my grandfather walked is a main ‘Silence’ and auxiliary ‘Cup’ path? If I am to follow my grandfather on this path, then I need to accumulate ‘Cup’ spirituality as auxiliary spirituality.”

“As members of the Rosy Cross, we can pray to Akka to receive spirituality from the corresponding secret transmissions. I wonder if Miss Dorothy has any secret transmissions related to the ‘Cup’?”

Nephnis thought to herself, clearly seeing that continuing to read this notebook would reveal the promotion methods of the “Soul Binder.” As long as she had sufficient spirituality, she could advance to the second stage of the extraordinary path, the Black Earth Tier.

Nephnis sat in her seat deep in thought. At this moment, she wanted to ask Dorothy about the secret transmission, but remembering that it was late at night and Dorothy might already be asleep, she decided to wait until tomorrow.

“Forget it, I won’t disturb Miss Dorothy at this time. I’ll go to sleep first.”

Nephnis closed the notebook and prepared to get up to sleep. Just then, an unusual sensation suddenly surged from a mark on her body.

“What is this…”

Touching her left side abdomen, Nephnis’s eyes widened slightly. She immediately sat up straight, opened the drawer, and took out a book. After flipping through it for a while, she found herself on an empty chapter page, where familiar handwriting was slowly materializing out of thin air.

“Hey, Senior Neph, do you have time in the afternoon three days from now?”