#574 - Notes (ask for monthly ticket recommendation)

The spell 【Shadow of Destruction】is somewhat similar to an enhanced version of 【Corrosion Curse】. It is not only more powerful but also possesses the characteristics of being silent and without light.

However, this spell should actually be used in conjunction with an alchemical item called 【Lightless Dust】. Andoen discovered quite a few of these items while taking stock earlier. They were a bunch of metal canisters resembling small liquor bottles. Andoen had checked these containers and found them to be quite ordinary, except that they would automatically explode upon being thrown.

In fact, this alchemical equipment is very similar to smoke bombs, except that the spreading 【Lightless Dust】provides a stronger obscuration of vision and also has some perception-blocking functions. Being covered by it is almost equivalent to being blind. Everything in front of you will turn pitch black, and it also has strong wind resistance, making it difficult to blow away with ordinary 'Hurricane Charms'. You can only wait for it to settle naturally.

In Phoenix's notes and memos, it is clearly recorded that this 【Lightless Dust】is used in conjunction with 【Shadow of Destruction】.

In battle, first use 【Lightless Dust】to obscure the enemy's vision, and then cast the silent and invisible 【Shadow of Destruction】spell. It is simply a great weapon for ambushing people.

The other spell, 【Elegy of Souls】, is a large-scale AOE-type magic. To use this magic, you must collect enough souls in advance and store them in your body or a container.

When casting, it will first emit a sharp howl that directly strikes the soul. The howl will form a composite attack with sound waves and souls, causing fear, knockback, and mental attacks on enemies within at least a 50-meter radius.

Then, all the souls stored in the caster's body are released, forming multiple 'soul aggregates' that seek out enemies and launch attacks on their own. These soul aggregates not only have corrosive and fear-inducing attack characteristics, but they also have splitting properties.

After suffering a devastating blow, the 'soul aggregates' will first self-detonate, and then split into multiple smaller soul aggregates to continue entangling the enemy.

If Andoen hadn't made a decisive decision earlier and released the extremely powerful 【Wild Lightning】to obliterate those souls, these soul aggregates, even if they couldn't cause casualties to the wizards, could have entangled them for a long time.

However, after reading the magic introduction of 【Elegy of Souls】in the documents, Andoen discovered that the power of the 【Elegy of Souls】released by Phoenix earlier was obviously insufficient.

Because the strength of this magic, in addition to being limited by the caster's determination and magic control, is mainly related to the number of souls sealed in advance.

Then, Andoen shifted his gaze to the pile of alchemical items that had been sorted out earlier, and took out several can-shaped urns made of magical metal from them.

During the previous inspection, Andoen discovered that these urns had the function of storing souls, but he didn't understand what Phoenix was collecting these souls for, so he threw them aside for the time being. He had actually discovered several other items with unknown uses like this.

Now it seems that these urns are the casting materials for using 【Elegy of Souls】. I am afraid that Phoenix could only mobilize the souls sealed in her body to cast the spell because she encountered the enemy in a hurry.

If these urns had been in her hands back then, I am afraid that the power of 【Elegy of Souls】would have been terrifying!

Both 【Shadow of Destruction】and 【Elegy of Souls】need to be used in conjunction with alchemical items or casting materials to exert their true effect.

But even in the absence of these materials, Phoenix was still so difficult to deal with, which made Andoen once again clearly understand that there is still a big gap between him and these old immortals who have lived for who knows how many years.

After all, most of Andoen's strength is also reflected in his equipment. If he was only given a wand, his performance would probably not be as good as Phoenix's tonight.

However, as a harvest, these magic notes are indeed invaluable to him. 【Elegy of Souls】is a kind of magic that is a bit harmful to nature and reason, and when using it, you have to make spiritual contact with those souls. He will not learn this kind of harmful magic.

But just from the runes, he can extract sufficient knowledge and information, which allows Andoen to have a glimpse into the extremely profound magic category of 【Souls】.

And items and magics like 【Lightless Dust】and 【Shadow of Destruction】are good things that can be picked up and used.

Especially the 【Lightless Dust】, in fact, when he was making tactical equipment, he had long thought about making a prop similar to a smoke bomb, but he, who often conducts actual combat, knows that ordinary smoke can actually have little effect in wizard battles.

If you want to obscure the view, you usually use the 'Misty Cloud' spell, but in fact, the 'Misty Cloud' spell is not as useful in actual combat as imagined, because an ordinary 'Hurricane Charm' can easily blow it away.

At the same time, wizards with slightly stronger levels can use magic perception to detect their opponents, and it is even less troublesome to deal with ordinary wizards with poor magic perception.

But with 【Lightless Dust】, Andoen can make real 'tactical smoke bombs'. At the thought of new equipment being available, his mood immediately became cheerful.

After calming down a little, Andoen re-examined Phoenix's information. In Phoenix's research notes, he found that the other party's research in the fields of souls and death was very in-depth, almost at the master level.

And these things, reflected in strength, have evolved into various strange spells, and those huge numbers of ghouls and undead armies.

At the same time, Andoen also learned that there is actually a limit to those ghouls and nether guards that seem to be able to be summoned infinitely.

These undead are actually made by Phoenix using the corpses that have been constantly collected over the past 100 years, and the source of the corpses is through killing enemies, tomb robbery, and war. Among them, she collected several huge corpses during wartime.

You must know that Phoenix has personally experienced World War I and World War II, and Germany was the main warring country during World War I and World War II.

Phoenix clearly recorded in her notes how easy it was to get some corpses for experiments back then. You only need to find a concentration camp established by Nazi Germany to freely choose from piles of corpses like small mountains. She can even choose the body's shape, specifications, and size.

At the same time, Andoen also discovered that Phoenix often complained in her notes that German soldiers always starved the prisoners in the concentration camps to be thin and weak, so that the materials she selected were also very fragile.

After Phoenix's processing, these collected corpses were transformed into the ghouls and nether guards that Andoen had seen. At the same time, Phoenix specially built a 'corpse farm' of considerable scale to store these corpses.

When they need to be used, they can be summoned and immediately transformed into combat power, and whether it is the summoning ceremony used by Phoenix to sacrifice herself, or those 'ghoul summoning bags', they are just opening a portal that can connect to the 'corpse farm'.

It's just that the 'corpse farm' storing the 'nether guards' is very far away from here. Even a one-way portal requires the help of 'casting materials' to summon them, and when there are no casting materials, self-sacrifice is required.

The main reason why Phoenix is so keen on studying souls and death is that she wants to find a way to truly achieve eternal life.

Unlike the other naive lances in the club, Phoenix never believed that relying solely on the elixir of life could achieve true immortality.

First of all, she thinks it is very stupid to entrust her life to others, and at the same time, she feels that the elixir of life may also have its limits and cannot be absolutely trusted.

In Phoenix's notes, there is such a record:

'Foster father said that he would grant us true eternal life, but if eternal life means turning into his ghost-like appearance, then it proves that the so-called elixir of life is nothing more than this.'

'We still took the magic potion given by our father in a semi-voluntary and semi-forced manner. The irritable Gerald almost turned against his father for this, but we still couldn't refuse.'

"The effect of the elixir of life is more amazing than imagined. I feel like I have returned to 20 years old, whether it is appearance or physical function. This feeling is really intoxicating, but I still have to constantly remind myself that the elixir of life is absolutely untrustworthy. If you don't want to become like your father, you still have to find another way out."

'Why do those so-called eternal life methods in history turn people into inhuman beings, and why are the flaws so big? The method of entrusting the soul to external objects like Horcruxes is simply stupid!'

'Doesn't the inventor of the Horcrux know that all items will gradually decay with the passage of time? Even holy objects can only last for thousands of years. What I want is true eternal life. It is hard to imagine that an idiot would split his soul for hundreds of years of life.'

'Is the only way to achieve eternal life without any side effects the Philosopher's Stone? But the only known Philosopher's Stone in the world is in the hands of Nicolas Flamel, a legendary wizard who has lived longer than my father. How can I get it?'

'It is said that my father exchanged a few pieces of Flamel alloy from Nicolas Flamel back then. I wonder if he still has contact with Nicolas now.'

'Nicolas Flamel may be in France, my father is very sure! I am going to France too!'

'It's been 20 years, why can't I find him? Is this road really impossible?'

'Philosopher's Stone! Even if it's just to let me take a look at you, I feel like after so many years of research, I seem to have gotten into a dead end. Is eternal life not abandoning death and letting the soul live forever? Or is there another explanation?'

'Oh my god! Recently, I actually had the idea of making a Horcrux for myself. I feel that the side effects of the elixir of life have begun to slowly appear. It is gradually making me stupid. Splitting the soul will only make myself incomplete and more fragile. I am afraid that only the product of consanguineous marriage will pursue that brain-dead Horcrux!'