After sorting out her money and accumulated Spirituality, Dorothy didn't stop, and continued to organize. Next were the Spirituality storage items.
Due to divination and appraisal, Dorothy's Spirituality storage items, especially the Spirituality storage items for "Lamp", were consumed particularly quickly. The 5 "Lamp" gold coins she originally got from Brandon were completely used up after a few days of divination and appraisal. After what happened in the past two days, Dorothy found that her demand for "Lamp" was very high, for no other reason than that divination was too useful.
Fortunately, Dorothy still found some Spirituality storage items on that Mentor and in Field's house. After giving a small portion of the storage items of other attributes that were not currently important to her to Vanya, she kept the majority. The "Lamp" storage items were intentionally kept entirely by her.
There were a total of 4 "Lamp" gold coins, 2 "Shadow" silver coins, and 1 "Stone" stone coin. Adding what was left from before, Dorothy's current storage item reserves were 4 "Lamp", 2 "Shadow", and 2 "Stone".
However, the usage range of storage items is limited, basically only for rituals and charging. Except for the "Cup" storage items which can be absorbed by consumption due to the nature of "Cup" Spirituality itself, storage items of other Spiritualities cannot be eaten.
Next were the talismans. Dorothy harvested a large number of Raw Consumption Symbols in this wave, probably around twenty or thirty. Dorothy didn't count them carefully, but anyway, she would not be short of Raw Consumption Symbols in the future.
Next was another Mad Banquet talisman, and two "Shadow" attribute talismans whose functions she didn't know. Dorothy planned to ask Aldrich about these later.
Continuing on were the two extraordinary items belonging to Dorothy, a ruby staff and a black candle. Dorothy set up the appraisal ritual, preparing to place the two items on the ritual platform for appraisal. When adding the "Lamp" storage items required for the ritual, Dorothy couldn't help but feel a little heartache, but in the end, she decided to use some "Lamp" to appraise these two items.
After all, if Dorothy wanted to use these extraordinary items better, she needed to know the detailed information. Although "Lamp" was a bit precious, it still had to be used when necessary.
Taking out the "Lamp" gold coin that had just been seized, she set up the ritual and began the appraisal. First was the black candle. After Dorothy placed it in the ritual, the corresponding information was immediately appraised.
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Black Candle of Light Extinction
After infusing "Shadow" Spirituality, this item will ignite a silver flame. Blowing out the flame can extinguish any form of light within the surrounding area. The more "Shadow" infused, the wider the range that can be extinguished, and the stronger the intensity of the light that can be extinguished. The upper limit is 5 points."
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'This is something specifically for extinguishing lights. It seems it was used to extinguish all the lights in Field's house before, creating a dark environment.'
Looking at the appraised information, Dorothy thought that this ability was quite simple and direct, but she didn't know if it could extinguish lights created by extraordinary abilities.
After the appraisal was complete, Dorothy removed the black candle and began to appraise the next item, which was the ruby staff.
Placing the item in the ritual array, Dorothy consumed another gold coin, and then appraised the staff's information.
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heart-devouring staff-sword
After being inserted into a living body, this item can absorb the "Cup" within it. The weaker the pierced individual, the lower their willpower, and the less they can resist, the higher the absorption efficiency will be. The absorbed "Cup" will be stored within the staff, with a storage limit of 7 points of "Cup".
Once a day, when the "Cup" within this item is at its storage limit, if the holder suffers a fatal injury, this item will consume all stored "Cup" to restore the holder from that fatal injury. If multiple fatal injuries are received simultaneously, or if the fatal injury causes excessive damage to the body, restoration is not possible.
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'This... this is the extraordinary item that allowed the Mentor to come back to life once. It can restore the holder from a fatal injury once, it's a good item.'
Looking at the staff in her hand, Dorothy's eyes lit up as she thought, who wouldn't want an extra chance to save their life as a last resort? This item could be said to be the biggest gain from Dorothy's actions this time.
'This thing is called a staff-sword, and it also has the effect of absorbing 'Cup' after being inserted into a living body, which means...'
While thinking, Dorothy tentatively pulled at the staff, and as expected, a gleaming thin sword was drawn from within the staff.
"This... it can also be used as a weapon... Although it requires quite a bit of Spirituality to consume, it takes a full 7 points of 'Cup' to use once, but if it can truly save a life, it's worth it no matter what. I don't know where that guy got such a good item."
"And this thing... this is clearly what Bill used to drain Clifford last time. I didn't recognize it when it was in the sheath before. I should have tried to absorb the 'Cup' from a few corpses when I was in the house."
Looking at the staff-sword in her hand, Dorothy muttered. Suddenly, she saw that the tip of the staff-sword's blade seemed to have something engraved on it. Upon closer inspection, she found it was a small phrase.
"Placenta Holds Ritual"
'Placenta? Could this be the Fetal Garment Cult that Aldrich mentioned before, a very large "Cup" society? Did this staff-sword come from there?'
Looking at the words engraved on the staff-sword, Dorothy couldn't help but think. She had heard Aldrich mention the name Fetal Garment Cult several times before. They seemed to have some connections with many "Cup" societies in the hidden world, including the Red Communion Society that Dorothy encountered.
For a moment, Dorothy became slightly interested in this Fetal Garment Cult. She estimated that they might be one of the most powerful and influential "Cup" societies. Considering the nature of the Red Communion Society, this Fetal Garment Cult must also be approached with caution.
After finishing the appraisal of the extraordinary items, Dorothy sheathed the staff and put it away, then took out the final spoils of war, two secret transmissions.
Dorothy originally planned for herself and Vanya to read one secret transmission each and then exchange them, but Vanya said it was inconvenient for her to take these things back herself, so they were kept with Dorothy for now. Dorothy would mail the items to her when she returned to Tivian.
Since that was the case, Dorothy could read both books together.
Opening the secret transmission, Dorothy began to rapidly read it with the help of her Knower ability. The first secret transmission was called "Exploration Log of the Voodoo Forest", a secret transmission in the style of an adventure log. It recorded the story of an exploration team going to explore a strange forest. After experiencing a series of terrifying events, all the team members were wiped out, and the final protagonist and author turned into a plant under a curse.
The other secret transmission was titled "Remnant Scroll of the Wolf Sacrifice Ritual", which Dorothy found within the promotion array in the chapel. It recorded many methods for sacrificing to the god of hunting and gluttony—the "Gluttonous Wolf".
This included all the promotion ritual methods and precautions for the Path of the Cup, from the Student level "Thirster" to the Chalk level "Werewolf". After reading it, Dorothy suspected that the Mentor's promotion ritual might have been based on this book.
After quickly reading both books, Dorothy began to use the system to estimate the Spirituality within them. "Exploration Log of the Voodoo Forest" had 3 points of "Cup" and 1 point of "enlightenment". "Remnant Scroll of the Wolf Sacrifice Ritual", on the other hand, seemed to involve deeper levels of mystery, having 7 points of "Cup" and 3 points of "enlightenment". The points of "Cup" added up to 10 points.
Just as Dorothy was about to extract the Spirituality, she found that she already had 11 points of "Cup". Now, another 10 points of "Cup" came in one go, adding up to 21 points, while her current maximum storage limit for various Spiritualities was 20 points. If she extracted directly, 1 point would overflow.
'As expected of raiding the Holy Communion Society leader's stronghold, I gained so much 'Cup' in one go, there's not enough space to store it... In that case.'
While thinking, Dorothy picked up the staff beside her and injected her original "Cup" into it, injecting 7 points in one go to fill it up. Under the infusion of Spirituality from Dorothy, the ruby at the top of the staff emitted a faint red glow.
After filling the staff, Dorothy extracted the Spirituality from the two secret transmissions. Between the increase and decrease, the final accumulated "Cup" within her body was 14 points, and the heart-devouring staff-sword was fully charged.
"Okay, it's finally over. That's enough for today. Ugh... I should get some rest quickly..."
While yawning, Dorothy packed up her things. After taking a bath in the washroom, she dragged her tired body to bed and quickly fell asleep.