Chapter 383 : Emotional Bullet
Chapter 383: Emotional Bullet
For Gawen-Tull’s flood of questions, Janna did not choose to answer immediately. Instead, after calming Gawen-Tull’s agitated emotions, she gestured with her eyes—Lilith-Mag had already arrived.
“Something urgent came up this morning, so I came a little late. Get on the train.”
Now, there were still three minutes left before the official departure of the Steam Train. So, after arriving, Lilith-Mag only gave a hurried explanation before leading Janna and Gawen-Tull onto the train.
“I’ll call you two later.”
“Alright, Professor.”
On the Steam Train, there was a carriage specially reserved for official wizards. Its layout was similar to a private room, not only equipped with its own bath but also with meals delivered by train attendants.
As for the compartment booked for Janna and Gawen-Tull, it was deliberately arranged next to the wizard-exclusive carriage. It was a two-person soft sleeper. However, aside from a small private dining table, it only had two narrow beds.
“Choo—choo—”
Just as Janna and Gawen-Tull entered their room, the Magical Steam Train officially started moving.
Steam hissed, vapor surged.
As a massive amount of steam spewed out from the Steam Core of the Magical Steam Train, mist-like Steam Sprites quickly enveloped the train. Accompanied by one loud blast of steam after another, the Magical Steam Train slowly pulled out of the station.
“Now, you can finally tell me, right?”
After Janna removed the thick scarf around her neck and the wizard hood that covered most of her face, Gawen-Tull, who had long been unable to restrain her curiosity, eagerly asked Janna again.
“This is just a new application I developed for the 【Law of Purification】. Today I was merely trying it out with a tentative mindset. Unexpectedly, when it came to purifying soul contamination, the result was far better than I imagined.”
After listening to Janna’s explanation, Gawen-Tull still felt that her thirst for knowledge had not been satisfied. After all, the sensation just now had been far too wondrous!
The Voice of the Heavens that struck directly at her cerebral cortex and even her innermost being, along with the sacred purifying power that made her very soul tremble—even now, Gawen-Tull still felt an addictive sense of craving.
“No wonder your tapes sell so well. I’m starting to regret not buying one back then.”
Just as Gawen-Tull said, during her travels after leaving White Coral Academy, she would occasionally see Janna’s tapes being sold.
However, whenever Gawen-Tull tried to buy one, she was always told they were sold out.
As a result, until now, she had only heard certain bards in taverns humming the melody of 《Song of the Ocean》. But back then, Gawen-Tull hadn’t been too interested in their performances.
Until today—she had finally heard the original singer herself.
“Senior Gawen, rather than that, I’m actually curious about your 【Wizard Invention】.”
From the very first day she had met Gawen-Tull in the library, Janna’s impression of her—besides being gentle in nature—had always been “poor.”
As a Third-Tier Wizard Apprentice, even if Gawen-Tull was merely skilled in cursing from the shadows, it didn’t mean her combat ability was weak.
In fact, in a sense, the destructive power of her uncanny curse-type witchcraft surpassed that of ordinary apprentices.
However, despite possessing such ability, Gawen-Tull did not like doing academy missions to earn Academic Credits. Instead, she spent her days idling in the library, half working part-time, half reading books.
Moreover, Gawen-Tull’s way of reading was painstakingly detailed—word by word—instead of using 【Magic Reading】 to skim like Janna did.
Thus, Janna’s impression of Gawen-Tull had always been of a bookworm who poured all her part-time earnings into borrowing books, living with a carefree, unambitious attitude.
That was until Janna heard from Professor Lilith-Mag that the apprentice who held a 【Wizard Invention】 in White Coral Academy was actually Gawen-Tull.
That revelation had given Janna the shocking feeling that she had never truly known her.
“You mean this?”
Hearing Janna’s words, Gawen-Tull almost without hesitation took out a small silver pellet, the size of a soybean, from her Interdimensional Storage Pouch.
“This is something I fiddled with by accident. I named it the 【Emotional Bullet】. At first, I just wanted to get a patent and earn some royalties to spend. But unexpectedly, one day, the Wizard Association inexplicably judged it as meeting the standard of a 【Wizard Invention】—”
As Gawen-Tull explained, Janna carefully took the 【Emotional Bullet】 from her hand.
It wasn’t until Janna looked closely that she realized the 【Emotional Bullet】 was densely engraved with intricate secret patterns.
Not only that, but Janna could also tell that the main material of the 【Emotional Bullet】 was forged from the precious metal Mithril. Yet its weight was not as light as she had imagined.
“Senior Gawen, I heard Professor Mag say that your 【Wizard Invention】 is categorized under healing?”
“That’s the evaluation given by the 【Wizard Association】. But when I submitted the materials, I clearly emphasized that this invention was specifically designed to counter vengeful spirits.”
According to Gawen-Tull, the main function of the 【Emotional Bullet】 was to strongly control vengeful spirits.
Specifically, when the bullet struck a vengeful spirit, all β-waves with amplitudes exceeding 40 hertz would be absorbed by it.
Simply put, the moment the 【Emotional Bullet】 entered the spirit’s body, all abnormal negative emotions would be endlessly drawn into it. This would leave the vengeful spirit—whose very existence was governed by negative emotions—falling into a state similar to “sage mode,” completely blank and dazed.
Once the 【Emotional Bullet】 was “saturated” with negative emotions, it would transform into a 【Negative Emotion Bomb】. If the bullet was placed in a high-temperature environment, or lodged inside a living being, the emotional energy within would rapidly detonate, instantly flooding into the soul of the target, delivering an “emotional critical hit.”
“This really is quite the terrifying weapon.”
After hearing Gawen-Tull’s explanation, Janna could not help but sigh in amazement.
While marveling at the strange effects of the 【Emotional Bullet】, she also gained a deeper understanding of Gawen-Tull, who usually kept such a low profile.
So it turned out that genius had always been right beside her.