Chapter 305: Trophies
If this is true, then for the Holy See, it may be so, the barefoot monk for the loss of the hero equipment is not at all concerned, the entire mind is focused on the "darkness of the holy weapon"!
Eric slightly stunned, looked at the wristwatch worn on his left wrist, said, "Although I have equipment that can provide magic power, but it is not unlimited ...."
The magic elements on Earth were extremely thin, and the recovery of consumed magic power was very slow, although Eric had now figured out some quick ways to utilize his Chaotic Physique to recover his magic power, which would take a while.
However, if one utilizes magic power storage equipment, this time difference can be ignored.
The "equipment that can provide magic power" Eric was talking about was his wristwatch - a handmade watch with a white gold base, crystal face, and diamonds.
Although the magical elements on Earth were thin, there were many more magical materials than in Celestia. White gold, like the one that could be owned by ordinary people on Earth, was the rare enchantment material on Celestia - dense silver.
As for the diamond, which was the representative of wealth and riches on Earth, its role was equivalent to a magic storage crystal. A diamond the size of a sesame seed could store the magic power needed to release eight intermediate-level spells.
The precious wristwatch that Eric was now carrying, not only were all the parts made of white gold, but the crystal on the surface was also polished with magic storage crystals from Celestia. The entire body of the watch was inlaid with three hundred and sixty small diamonds.
Originally, according to the magic storage capacity of these materials, they could only hold the magic power needed to release five hundred high-level spells at most.
However, under Eric's skillful deployment, the magic storage capacity of this wristwatch has doubled!
Eric had been a top alchemy master in Celestia, and after returning to Earth, he had studied the most mysterious Chinese art, Formation.
Although it couldn't be said to be very proficient, it was enough to take his alchemy to the next level! Therefore, to be able to achieve such an achievement would not be unbelievable.
Hearing Eric's answer, the barefoot monk slightly revealed a relaxed expression.
Although he was surprised that this "Dark Magician's" "Dark Sacred Artifact" was able to outperform the Holy See's Light Sacred Artifact, the worry in his heart was reduced by a lot.
"No more questions?" Eric asked blandly and icily.
The barefoot monk nodded and calmly said, "I don't need Your Excellency's effort, I'll take care of it myself ..."
After saying that, the whole person once again emitted a strong light, in the light, the Barefoot Cultivator gradually disintegrated into points of light and drifted away with the wind.
Eric thoughtfully looked at the scattered light points, stood silently for a while, shook his head, smiled unimpressed, and smoothly put the golden coffin containing the fifteenth-century Milan Archbishop into the storage space.
Next, Eric did not leave immediately, letting the two blood girls continue to monitor the entire Milan Cathedral from the highest point, sniping and killing those who returned to the cathedral to aid the police.
Eric of course will not have anything to do things that only tourists will do, he has absolutely no interest in Milan Cathedral, he believes the main goal is the cathedral treasure.
Although he didn't have the chance to know the location of the "hidden chamber" directly from the brains of the barefoot monks, Eric was certain that there must be such a place here.
Like ordinary churches, all more or less have some gold and silver products, this has a history of 600 years of the world's second-largest church, how can only sculpture, frescoes, and large bronze doors? Wouldn't it be a waste to keep those gold and silver plate artifacts?
With hundreds of years of collection, there must be a lot of good stuff, right?
Although many things may have to be handed over to the Vatican, there will always be some precious items that are kept, right?
These precious things will all be cheap for Eric!
In Celestia, Eric is the number one "robber".
On Earth, he's done it several times.
He is quite experienced in the field and has his principles of action, if he doesn't make a move, it's already done.
Once he strikes, he has to completely whitewash the target!
The total area of Milan Cathedral was as high as 11,700 square meters, the interior was very wide, Eric didn't want to go from room to room to find it slowly, at that moment, he released his spiritual power, and instantly probed the whole cathedral.
The target was confirmed, it was here, under the stone building where the golden coffin was stored.
Eric waved his hand and rolled away all the gravel on the ground, and then silently sent out an earth intermediate magic "Ground Cracking Art", at once, a deep hole with a diameter of about two meters was formed between the ground and the underground chamber.
Perhaps the original passageway was full of traps, but this shortcut that Eric opened up was quite safe.
Using the Float Technique, he slowly descended vertically and landed peacefully after seven meters.
Under the mapping of the Lighting Technique, Eric saw where he was.
An area of hundreds of square meters of the earth room, filled with gold and silver artifacts and paintings and sculptures.
Eric did not have time to take a closer look, and with a wave of his hand, he put them all into the storage space.
Before he left, he also released a "ground sinking magic", so that the underground chamber completely disappeared from this world, he was embarrassed to leave a completely whitewashed empty chamber!
Eric was very happy, although he didn't check his loot in detail, but he already had a feeling about the rich harvest of this trip.
He couldn't help but sigh a little, no wonder those emperors in ancient China liked to plagiarize and exterminate their families, it was a costless act!
Moreover, it is also very exciting, and very addictive, no wonder even the ancient "wise ruler" would do such a thing!
Doing this kind of thing is addictive, Eric even had the intention to go to the same city's St. Mary's Thanksgiving Church to ransack once again.
However, considering its small size and recent history, there shouldn't be much good stuff there, so the "profit" wasn't worth another trip!
Just thinking about the reaction of the Church's people when they came to clean up the mess, Eric couldn't help but reveal a small smile.
He flew to the gold-plated statue of the Virgin Mary at the top of the central tower of the church, and said with a slight excitement to the two blood girls who were gazing at the movements below, "Alright, let's go back!"
The two Blood Race girls respectfully replied in the affirmative put away their guns and transformed. The master and servant trio took off at the same time, leaving the world's second-largest church that was as quiet as a dead zone.
After flying back to the hotel, Eric did not disturb Merly who had already fallen asleep, and only let the two Bloods
to ask him to take a look at the loot together. Gold and silver artifacts and figure sculptures for the time being > please point out artwork. Especially paintings.
Just after nearly two hundred paintings were taken out, the two Blood girls came forward and took thirteen very conspicuous scrolls that were rolled up into tubes.
Eric looked at the pile of paintings that were Chinese scrolls. He said, "These must be the ones you brought from the art museum, right?"
In his memory, there were no such physical objects in the Milan Cathedral's secret room.
"Yes, master."
The Marquis girl nodded her head, "These thirteen ink paintings are the authentic works of the painting saint Wu Daozi. Originally stored in Germany, this time they were invited by the Milan Museum of Art to exhibit here. I didn't expect it to be cheap for us ..."
"Not cheap!" Eric corrected, "It's returning it to its rightful owner!"
Although there were more than one hundred and thirty paintings that got from the art museum, there were not many true masterpieces.
Other than Wu Daozi's thirteen ink paintings, only the two oil paintings from Van Gogh's land could fall into Eric's eyes.
After the art museum's haul was taken care of, it was the turn of the Milan Cathedral's proceeds.
There weren't many paintings, and they were all related to religious themes, but they were all good works of art!
"Oh my god. It's The Last Supper!" The Marquise exclaimed after unrolling a roll of oversized paper in a long tube.
Eric thought for a moment and asked, "Is it The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci?"
"It is none other than Leonardo di Serpiero da Vinci!"
The marquise girl seemed to be a fan of Leonardo da Vinci, and said with some out-of-control glee, "He was the most prestigious Italian Renaissance artist, sculptor, architect, engineer, mechanic, scientific giant, literary theorist, great philosopher, poet, musician, and inventor ... "
The Countess stole a glance at Eric, gave the Marquess a secret tug, and asked aloud, "The Last Supper is a fresco, and I heard it was painted on the walls of the dining room of the convent of Santa Maria della Grazia in Milan. How did it come to be here? It can't be a fake, can it?"
"No!"
The Marquise girl said firmly, "The Last Supper is the most prestigious work of Mr. Da Vinci's creative career, and I have long desired it.
Though I have not had the opportunity to see the 'real thing' in a convent because of my resistance to holy power, I have studied it in depth through various channels.
It is a wet fresco representing the farewell scene of Christ's last meal with his disciples before his arrest, and there is no one other than Mr. Leonardo da Vinci who could have achieved that kind of ingenious composition and ingenious layout.
You take a close look at the layout of its characters, a reversal of the form of the dinner table, Christ will be independent of the center of the picture, the other disciples through their different gestures, and expressions, respectively, showing fear, anger, suspicion, confession and panic emotions.
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This depiction of a typical character highlights the theme of the painting. It is complemented by the unifying effect of the composition, which is one of the most perfect exemplary works in the history of art ..."
The fervor in the Marquis girl's eyes made Eric couldn't help but shake his head slightly and laugh, "I didn't expect that a pureblood with such a self-proclaimed status as you. Surprisingly, you would be so worshipful of a human that you regard as 'blood food'..."
"How can an ordinary human be compared to Mr. Da Vinci?"
The Marquis girl reddened, "But he has made great contributions in almost every field, his thoughts and talents have penetrated all areas of human knowledge, and he is one of the world's few fully developed scholars.
Even the inventions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and others, many of them came from Da Vinci's experimental work methods.
Later generations of scholars called him 'the most perfect representative of the Renaissance era', a 'scholar of the first rank', and a 'wizard of the ages'. All that and more praise he deserved ..."
"Oh? That impressive?"
Eric himself was an absolute genius, but his genius was mostly manifested in things related to magic, and he wasn't so comfortable with things that weren't in his field.
Therefore, he had a slight interest and admiration for Leonardo da Vinci, an "all-rounder" who was able to straddle several fields and achieve outstanding results in all of them.
"Of course!"
Probably realizing that she was too excited earlier, she was a bit disrespectful to her master.
The Marquis girl said somewhat timidly, "Leonardo da Vinci was disgusted with religion, and attacked Catholicism as 'a store that sells deception'. He also said 'There is only one truth, and he is not in religion, but in science' ..."
Eric was a little dazed, maybe it was Da Vinci's attitude towards the Papacy that got him the approval of the Marquess girl?
Ignoring the Marquis girl who was giggling there holding The Last Supper, Eric and the Countess continued to count the loot.
Not long after, the Countess found another basic Da Vinci manuscript, which naturally drew a gasp from the Marquise.
After looking through it, Eric was speechless.
He didn't expect that Da Vinci's intelligence was so profound to such an extent.
In his manuscript, not only were their helicopters, parachutes, machine guns, grenades, tank cars, submarines, double-hulled battleships, cranes, and other prototypes of modern things but there were also a lot of props that only appeared in science fiction movies.
Although there are detailed text and data descriptions of various inventions in Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts, it is difficult to decipher them because these unorganized manuscripts are written backward in the left hand.
Therefore, no one knows whether his "inventions" could be realized.
However, by the helicopters and submarines, it seems that Da Vinci's manuscripts are not the kind of fantastical things that can be realized!
At the back of the manuscript, there was a comment left by a powerful member of the Papacy in the 18th century - if Leonardo da Vinci had published his work, science might have jumped three hundred years later.
Eric agrees with this comment, and at the same time springs a thought of adapting to the trend - could this Da Vinci be a traveler from the thirtieth century?