Bizarre Realm-Chapter 184 - 20: The Practitioner—Shawn! Reforging the Self

Something went wrong.

It’s really blown to pieces!

Shawn just walked over and saw the bone magic staff that had been completely blasted apart, its rune engravings all destroyed. The unknown materials serving as the carrier for the Extraordinay Relics were also blown to smithereens.

The good news is that the Extraordinary Relics stored within are still there, with a hint of the spiritual light from Extraordinary Essence flowing.

——Cursed Staff [Completely Damaged].

The knowledge in Shawn’s mind flowed out as he touched the residual Extraordinary Essence. In the Bizarre Realm, everything that is a Curios is a manifestation of Extraordinary Essence, so if those destroyed Curios aren’t completely dissociated, they might still retain some of the core materials that were made with part of the Extraordinary Essence.

"The knowledge discovered the essence of the Evil Spirit, which contains the mystical knowledge of the Curse Technique and Plague Skill."

Knowledge spoke to Shawn with an emotionless, cold mechanical voice about its discovery.

After completely suppressing the madness in the knowledge, it felt like a tool with extremely high intelligence.

Shawn broke out in a cold sweat and murmured, "That was close."

"It’s a cursed curios from the Spirit Realm."

One Curse Technique, one Plague Skill, the former is a curse, and the latter is a disease, both are 4th ring spells, this magic staff is quite malicious. The magic diseases in the Bizarre Realm have no incubation period, and the symptoms are also very serious, generally causing conditions like blindness, insanity, corrosive fever, and hematoma syndrome, the impact is significant if hit.

Shawn carefully collected the residual Extraordinary Essence, as it carries some contamination, which might trigger its ability if ordinary people come into contact with it.

——Evil Demon Talisman (Night Witch) [High Tier Curios].

Amidst a pile of scattered chunks of flesh, Shawn found an intact Curios, with a blood-red gem in the center.

This Curios didn’t even require identification by Knowledge, as Shawn could identify it himself since both Night Witches and Hags have their unique natal Curios, often crafted into Gem Talismans.

Evil Demon Talisman (Night Witch): This peculiar Evil Demon Talisman can immediately cure diseases on the wearer and remove part of the curses. While possessing it, it grants the wearer a +2 to all saving throw capabilities. A demon that loses its talisman cannot enter the Spirit Realm until it crafts another talisman.

This talisman can only be effective 10 times, after which it will turn into powder once its power is exhausted.

This is essentially a guaranteed drop from Night Witches and Hags, and they rely on this talisman for trans-dimensional movement, however, others find it difficult to use its teleportation ability, and it’s primarily used as an augmented Curios.

"This thing is very valuable."

Shawn packed it up carefully, as it’s a high-demand item in Abyss City. Though it can only be used ten times, it’s worth more than 200 soul stones at least, and with trade, it could get you a decent magic staff. It can apply to all spells triggering saving throw checks, whether Instant Death Spell or Domination Spell, it bolsters the wearer’s ability to resist such spells.

It’s generally used as life-saving, not for sale lightly.

In theory, the Evil Demon Talisman can cure most diseases; if in the real world, its value could multiply many times over.

"Why are there two Extraordinary Relics?"

"Was that Night Witch possessed by an Evil Spirit?"

Shawn turned over a segment of exploded intestines to find a dark rhombus crystal stone, which is a high-quality soul stone, not circulated in the market and difficult to evaluate, only Spirit Realm level monsters could drop it.

If crafting it personally, by killing a powerful enemy and using Soul Capturing Technique or Soul-Binding Technique to enclose its soul into a gem, it could yield a corresponding Soul Crystal Stone.

This essence is quintessentially soul power, which can substitute any spell ritual requiring the power of the soul.

If trading with a powerful devil, this thing is more effective than anything.

Shawn found three curios on the Night Witch’s corpse, two Extraordinary Relics, vastly exceeding any previous loot. The Night Witch’s magic robe should also be a Curios, but it was blown apart, not even scraps were found.

The last Curios is a small Dimensional Bag sealed with a Secret Technique Seal, which Shawn still needs to figure out how to open.

Cracking another caster’s Secret Technique Seal requires a very high level of mystical knowledge.

"It truly is an Ancient Race."

Finally, there’s the matter of dealing with that Flyman’s corpse, seemingly stronger than the Night Witch, but still far less valuable. Enemy casters generally provide double or even triple the spoils, akin to challenging dragon-type creatures elsewhere.

"Is there only one curio?"

"How could there be no Extraordinary Relics?"

Shawn frowned and activated Spiritual Vision to meticulously search this enemy’s corpse.

Ancient Races are very powerful beings.

It shouldn’t be that no Extraordinary Relics are dropped, yet he found nothing, which only has one explanation, the enemy’s Extraordinary Essence has transferred.

In such cases, another type of special equipment might appear–Sealed Object!

The Ancient Race and Ancient Offspring.

Both directly inherit the bloodline of the old days. They are strong mainly in terms of the minimum threshold; their upper limit doesn’t necessarily surpass human Transcendents. An adult Ancient Race has at least ten Extraordinary Levels, equating to a human Transcendent fusing a third phase relic. Normally, their Extraordinary Levels hover around fifteen.