Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1462: Exorcism Institute Night Duty Bureau
After dinner, lounge.

They have a living room reserved for guests, which is as thoughtful as a hotel. If Shangluo had not been here several times, he would really have thought that their family ran a hotel.

Karin's home is roughly in the shape of a Chinese character "冂", with the main building in the middle and two wings on the east and west. The main building is the public space, where the main living room and main dining room are located. The west wing is for guests, with a small living room and brunch room. Although the total area is not very large, the supporting facilities are quite complete. It is enough to use this place as an action center.

[So I asked, are you planning to set up your headquarters in front of this house for Karin's sake? Have you decided yet?]

"Well, although benefits are important, Karin is also important."

[I understand. Karin is about efficiency, right? No, I see from your attitude that you are planning to move directly into her house.]

"I mean, Karin is our important operator, right? Although Phaethon has never seen her in combat, she is indeed very powerful."

"Hmm? Yes, I haven't seen it. You all have." Phaethon stood in front of the window and drank tea. "That's a pity."

Although she drank it every day when she was in Yingtian, the tea here in Rome was different - here very low-grade export tea was bought back as fine tea and served with gleaming gold brass tea sets.

The glittering golden tea set is called a French Press, which is shaped like a piston. The piston with a tea strainer presses the tea leaves to the bottom of the pot so that all the tea leaves can be fully immersed in the water and will not float up into the tea liquid.

Although the tea set was very good and some lemon juice was added for flavoring, the smell of this inferior exported tea still emanated from the teacup, with a strong bitter taste.

"Speak up, I need your opinion."

"Well, let's talk about this." Phaethon came back with a cup of tea, "How much do you know about Karin?"

“You know it very well.”

"Do you really know her? You have only met her a few times? Don't think you can trust her just because she is pretty. Wake up, her skin is made by elves, and it is the most beautiful appearance that humans can imagine."

"But it seems Karin isn't that pretty yet?"

"Because the elves don't know what true 'beauty' is, the elves believe in beauty by collecting a wide range of common human cognitions and then compromising them, and based on Karin's own appearance. But beauty is a mysterious thing. The 'beauty' that the elves get from collecting data can only be put together with beautiful facial features, but the combination of facial features is another matter - Karin is indeed very beautiful, but is she inferior to the natural beauty of Yanqiu?"

"Well, beauty isn't that important, right?"

"I also think beauty is unimportant. I say this to tell you that I don't recommend you to put all your trust in the elves. Just now, I went with her to learn how to make soup pot, just to see how she made soup."

"???" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "You are not going to tell me that there is something wrong with the mushroom soup I am eating now? It tastes normal to me. The soup and color are normal, and the mushroom tastes good too."

"That's the problem - they don't have the mushrooms you eat in their kitchen. If you don't believe me, go ask Mayor Kessel and he will see it when he opens the soup pot. This kind of mushroom doesn't grow here in Lake Nemi."

"???"

【? ? ? 】

Shangluo and Apollonia were both shocked.

"Why didn't you remind me? Could it be that she 'changed' this mushroom?"

"Yes. She herself didn't even notice that the mushroom appeared when she stretched out her hand. Do you know the mushroom circle? It's the mushroom that grows in a circle. It's a symbol of magic. In ancient times, there were often legends that walking into a mushroom circle would transfer you to another world."

"Oh my goodness, I've already eaten half a bowl."

"It doesn't matter." Phaethon waved his hand. "That mushroom is just a mushroom."

"What mushrooms?"

"It belongs to the family Agaricus and the genus Agaricus. The scientific name of this mushroom is 'Agaricus', and it is the most standard mushroom. She inadvertently used the magic of the elves to create a mushroom circle. This mushroom is very delicious and completely harmless because it is just an ordinary mushroom. Well, the biggest benefit of having a good relationship with the elves is probably that you can have delicious mushrooms."

"." Shangluo glanced at his bowl of soup, "You know what you said, it really tastes good."

"You know Agaricus bisporus, right? They are mushrooms from Zhangjiakou. These Agaricus bisporus are native to the grasslands and are picked when they are young and tender. The best Agaricus bisporus grows in mushroom circles. Many mushroom circles have a very long history as a whole. The older the mushroom circle, the tastier the mushrooms grown in it. So it's normal that this mushroom tastes good."

"Didn't Karin realize it herself?"

"No, she didn't. And did he notice the graffiti she was doing on the wall outside? I noticed the colors when I came in - the palette was very strange, like she could see colors humans couldn't."

"Hmm," Shangluo took another sip, "So, Karin might do something without her realizing it, or even do something that's bad for us?"

"That's what I said. Don't trust elves. Because an elf may not have any malicious intent, but sometimes she may not know what she is doing."

"So." After thinking for a while, Shangluo said, "What do you think? You are the one who discovered the problem, so you can come up with a solution."

"First of all, we must not isolate Karin from human society just because she has the magic of the elves. You are right, we must let Karin return to human society and find her a job. Everything she is going through now is because she has not actually severed her relationship with the Elf King's Court. The sixth finger belonging to the elves is still in her. If we ignore her, she will probably become confused in anger sooner or later."

"She must be a little confused now."

Not being able to tell mushrooms apart, not being able to tell colors apart, this is a sign of being lost on the path to becoming an elf.

Shangluo remembered that when Karin just woke up, her mind was much clearer than it is now. But not long after, Karin began to hallucinate again.

"Where has she been all these days?"

"I think you can ask later. The most urgent thing is to find her a human job so that she can have more contact with humans - but."

Phaethon changed the subject: "We can certainly let her take care of the Night Service, which is what she is good at. However, you should not let her go to the front line. You should let her provide strategic and tactical advice and become the commander of the Night Service behind the scenes. She should not go to the battlefield again."

"Yeah," Shang Luo nodded and said affirmatively, "Indeed, we shouldn't do that. I'm a little worried that she won't be able to distinguish between friend and foe on the battlefield, and will start attacking friendly forces instead."

"So, if it's not absolutely necessary, don't let her go to the battlefield again - she is not me after all. I chose to take this path by myself, and I have a full understanding of the situation I will face. But Karin was kidnapped and fell into the dream of the spring elves. She learned all kinds of memories of the elves from the dream. These are things imposed on her by the external environment, not her own choice. So, she is indeed very strong, and we should make good use of her experience and keep her away from the battlefield."

"There is one thing I want to correct - we should not let her completely withdraw from the battle. It is best not to wake her up when she is sleepwalking. We should let her enter a controllable battle and let her gradually realize that fighting should be stopped at the right time. This way, we can avoid falling into the elf's madness once and for all."

"You think further than I do." Phaethon took a sip of tea. "Maybe my vigilance against the elves prevailed. I know Karin is a good person, both of them. Because of this, I seem to be too impatient. I am anxious to get both of them away from the influence of the elves. So, what are your plans?" "I hope to make Karin my champion warrior and fight in my place in the upcoming competition."

"Oh~~Duel, huh?"

"That's right. A duel is a controlled battle, a battle with rules. This is different from a war. In a war, of course, every possible means must be used to the fullest extent possible. But in a duel, all participants should have their own perception of this controlled battle and grasp the right measure in the battle. This place is more suitable for her than the battlefield, and it is also more suitable for her than the staff work and command work in the rear. I plan to make her a big star! I want her to debut!"

Click.

There was a broken glass outside the door.

Phaethon and Shangluo looked at each other. Someone was listening outside, but they hadn't noticed it just now.

He walked out quickly, leaving only broken glass on the ground and a series of small water-stained footprints, which led to Karin's own residential area on the east wing.

"Ah," the older Karin looked at her younger sister in astonishment, "They said they wanted me to debut?"

"Yes, yes. I brought them some Cybertronian snacks. Just as I was about to knock on the door, I heard what they were saying inside. I didn't hear it before, but I heard it now. They want to make you a star!" Little Karin had just arrived home. She was still wearing the staff uniform of the Library of Alexandria and she didn't even take off her ID card.

"Oh, this. Can I be a star? But I can't dance."

"It seems that she is not an ordinary star. She is a star in the arena? Shangluo said that this place is more suitable for you than the battlefield and the rear-line work. Ah! Sister, you are going to be a star!"

"Then what about your work?" Big Karin said solemnly, "Not many people know that we are two people. If I go to the arena to be a star, and you work as a clerk in the library of Alexandria, how can 'one person' appear in two places at the same time?"

"Ah this."

"Also, how did you evade their perception? Phaethon is a demigod, and Shangluo's power is far above that of a demigod. I can even sense the thoughts of Apollo, the sun god, behind Shangluo. How did you evade them?"

"what"

"Get up." She held little Karin's hand and stood up, "Let's go talk to him."

When the two of them walked to the door, Shangluo was half squatting on the ground picking up the glass piece by piece. He was not surprised to see two people coming.

Karin saw Shangluo cleaning the floor and hurried over to take it over - after all, this was her home, how could she let a guest do the work? He helped Shangluo up and squatted down to continue cleaning the glass on the floor.

"So that's how it is." Shangluo murmured.

Big Karin at the side was puzzled: "What did you see?"

"It turns out that it's not just you. The little one is also immersed in magic. She was listening to me talking at the door just now, but I didn't even sense it."

"That's what I was going to ask you. Can your senses be turned off?"

"That's not the case. Phaethon, tell me. What do you call it?"

"This is the magic of 'home'." Phaethon explained, "This is Karin's home. She is the owner here, and we are the guests. Her power comes from here."

The magic of "home", a primitive and powerful force - and other primitive magics, such as love and abandonment, are all powerful, and thus a powerful demon is born. This demon is also included in the "Codex Gigas", along with "the demon who controls bicycles and does not fall over" and "the demon who controls nuclear fission and does not explode".

As a host, she can keep all the secrets in her home and ensure that she is not suppressed by the guests. In addition, she has no malicious intentions, which allows her to remain silent under the passive sensing of the demigod level. In other words, her invisibility does not come from the number, but from the mechanism.

Of course, if Shangluo and Phaethon wanted to find her deliberately, it would be easy to find her.

"I almost forgot." Big Karin said in astonishment, "She is."

She is the daughter of Elodeasha. Although she was abandoned by her mother, little Karin is a genuine elven princess, or rather, an elven princess.

Her magical talent far surpasses that of Karin, a swordsman.

"By the way, why did Irodeasha abandon her?" Shangluo asked in a low voice.

[The fear of being overthrown by one's own offspring is also true for the elves. As the descendant of the Elf King, she can naturally replace Elodiasha. If this transformation is finally completed, then the Asha of the Yongquan Royal Court will change from Elodiasha to Karin Asha.]

Karin Yasha, this is the goal of Karin's revenge journey. Along the way, her revenge journey was not successful in places that Shangluo didn't know.

Before the door was cleared, Shangluo called Da Karin into the room first.

"So, now you realize it."

"Ah," Da Karin pressed her forehead, "I should have thought of it earlier. I shouldn't have fought alone - we should have formed a twin kings, so that we can completely inherit the throne of Elodiasha. Only when the two of us stay together can we truly pose a threat to Elodiasha. This is the right path. But I, but I didn't want to drag her into it from the beginning."

"She can't escape." Phaethon said bluntly, "She is the only descendant of Elodeasha left in the world."

The reproduction method of elves is quite strange in terms of human ethics. As the true successor of Elodiasha's soul, "Little Karin" was treated as a substitute, a fake person, and was thrown into the sun and slowly dispersed. And the soul of Kesuo's real daughter was abducted by Elodiasha and injected into the body of the elven princess, and Elodiasha raised her as her own daughter.

It's like throwing away the yolk and growing the white.

"What can I do?" Big Karin asked solemnly, "Should I tell her the truth?"

"She has heard it. This is her home, there is nothing she can't hear. I think she probably didn't tell you everything she knew because she was afraid you couldn't handle it. Her mind is not inferior to yours, you can rest assured. You can take on the next task together."

"I understand. I will be ready to fight."

"Fight?" Shang Luo shook his head. "You must have understood it wrongly, or did she not tell you the whole story? I was planning to let you debut."

“They’re really debuting!!!”

"Yes, of course. You two can debut together, that way you will be more popular. One of you will be my God-chosen Warrior, and the other will be my God-chosen Priest. You see, this solves the dilemma, right? As for Elodeasha, you can rest assured. When the work of the Night Shift Bureau begins, she will be the first target on the wanted list."

(End of this chapter)