Chapter 426: The Disappearing Soul (Ⅱ)

"Since Sister Claire is an experienced psychic master, why did the 'Spiritual Ceremony' she hosted this time fail?" Joan asked inexplicably.

"This question also troubled me and Aunt Claire. After repeated analysis, we can only come to the most likely conclusion." Rebecca slowed down her speech and said almost word by word: "We suspect that , What the two masters encountered was not only the murder of the body, but their souls have also been destroyed or imprisoned by the murderer, otherwise it is impossible to explain why the spiritism would fail!"

Joan was horrified when he heard that, and Edward and Thomas shivered unconsciously.

Rebecca sighed, leaned back and sat on the sofa, and said with a lonely face: "If the truth is unfortunately revealed by us, and there is something wrong with the souls of the two masters, then don't say 'spirituality', Even if a legendary priest is invited to cast a 9th-level 'miracle', it will not be able to bring them back to life."

"It's easy to kill a person's body, but it's too difficult to hurt a person's soul. What did the murderer do to the corpses of the two masters?"

Edward frowned.

"The means of harming souls are indeed very rare, but there are always a few, such as a monster called 'dog demon', which swallows the soul of the opponent while killing creatures, so that the victim cannot be reincarnated, and cannot Resurrection, as far as I know, an evil spell called 'Banquet of Barghests', can achieve a similar effect.

"Besides, although the 8th-level 'Bound Soul' and 9th-level 'Bound Soul' cannot completely destroy the soul of the deceased, they can imprison the soul, and can also achieve the purpose of preventing psychic and resurrection."

Joan thought about it.

"The methods you mentioned are too partial, and there is only a theoretical possibility."

Edward shrugged disapprovingly.

"If the murderer can cast 8-level or 9-level spells, why is there any need to break into the academy in the middle of the night and assassinate Master Rawls and Master Li with a dagger?"

"You can't say that. If the other party is just lucky and happens to hold a spell scroll for souls..."

Thomas couldn't help laughing as he spoke, feeling that such a wild assumption was too unreliable.

"Wait... the soul binding technique!"

Qiao An suddenly thought of something, and suddenly the hairs all over his body exploded, and he couldn't help jumping up.

"The soul-binding bottle! Is the teacher's soul-binding bottle still there?!"

Edward and Thomas glanced at each other, as if they had thought of something at the same time, their faces lost all blood in an instant.

"Joan... I don't even think about it unless you tell me. The teacher has been able to mass-produce activated scarecrows and make a fortune these years. The main reason is to collect the souls of livestock with the soul-binding bottle. In fact... this magic tool can also be used To imprison the souls of men."

Thomas's voice was trembling, and cold sweat was dripping from his forehead like ephedra beans.

"Now it seems that the reason why the souls of the two masters cannot respond to Sister Claire's call is the problem."

Edward's face was serious.

"In the morning of the second day after the incident, Thomas and I rushed to the murder scene at the same time. The police had not yet appeared. The two of us should be the first witnesses to the murder scene. At that time, I felt strange that other valuable items in the laboratory were preserved. It's all right, except for two things missing, one is the 'clockwork module' that the teacher is working on, and the other is the soul-binding bottle!"

"At that time, we only thought that the murderer killed Mentor Rawls, probably not for the purpose of making money, but we didn't think deeply about why the murderer just took the 'clockwork module' and the soul-binding bottle."

Thomas also frowned.

"Especially the soul-binding bottle, as a quasi-legendary magic device, it is very complicated to activate and use. To operate this device, you must have profound arcane knowledge, otherwise the owner's own soul will be destroyed if you are not careful. Suck into the bottle."

"Even me, Joan, and Edward can only operate the soul-binding bottle under the supervision of the instructor. Even if a layman gets this magical device, he can't understand the mystery of it. How can there be other valuable equipment and other valuables? The materials don't move, only the soul-binding bottle is stolen."

"Thomas, you are saying that the murderer is very aware of the value of the soul-binding bottle and has the ability to use this magic tool. It is even possible that he is an arcane spellcaster himself, and he is familiar with Master Rawls. I have coveted it for a long time, in order to seize the soul-binding bottle, I sneaked into the laboratory to assassinate Master Rawls late at night, and after I succeeded, I opened the soul-binding bottle and imprisoned the soul of Master Rawls, so as not to expose my crimes?" Rebecca guessed .

"Very likely!" Thomas slapped the table heavily, "In addition to the soul-binding bottle, there is also the 'clockwork module' that was stolen together. This thing is not as dangerous to operate as the soul-binding bottle, and it is more versatile. Great fame and fortune to the owner! The murderer took the 'Clockwork Module', so he was well aware of the potential value of this invention!"

"What exactly is a 'clockwork module'?"

Rebecca didn't know much about "structural science" and couldn't understand Thomas' intentions.

"The 'clockwork module' is a magic guide system composed of a series of 'spring boxes'. You can think of it as a machine composed of many parts. Each part can be disassembled and used independently."

Joan tried to explain this very complicated magic system to Rebecca in as simple a language as possible.

"The clockwork boxes that make up the entire module can be divided into two categories, one is called 'subspring', there are many of them, and each has different enchanting functions. For example, your activated scarecrow 'Tata' has a 'Clockwork Box', its enchanting effect is to release the 1-ring 'Frightening Technique' up to three times a day-this is actually a 'secondary clockwork'."

Rebecca nodded: "I understand the 'secondary spring', so what is the second type of spring?"

"The second type of clockwork is called 'hub clockwork'. There can be countless 'sub-springs' in a clockwork module, but there can only be one 'hub spring'. Its function is only one, which is to control All other 'subsprings' in the same module."

"If the 'Clockwork Module' is likened to an army, then all the 'Sub-Clockworks' are ordinary soldiers, while the 'Hub Clockwork' plays the role of a commander, and all the 'Sub-Clockworks' must obey' Even if they are far away from each other, this subordinate relationship can be maintained through magic power."

"Regardless of the 'hub spring' or the 'sub-spring', they have no intelligence in themselves, but the 'sub-spring' can be put into a low-level constructed organism such as an activated scarecrow and become its core component."

"At the same time, if a spellcaster holds a 'hub spring', he can issue commands to the 'sub-spring' by operating the 'hub spring', and the 'sub-spring' will control its parasitic low-level The constructed creature executes the above commands, and the final result is..."

Finally, Joan came to a conclusion in a deep voice.

"The holder of the 'Key Clockwork' can remotely control an army of constructs as he likes!"