Horror Movie 2

His first couple of stops the next day were various religious sites to collect faith for a project he was working on. He visited several churches, mosques, and synagogues around the city. He would have visited more, but America tends to only have those around.

After that was done, he headed to a grocery store to clear out their packaged salt. He filled an entire shopping cart with salt and a box of protein bars. The salt was for a project and the protein bars was for himself.

He then proceeded to check-out with his haul. The cashier was a teenage girl with dyed blue hair and a lot of piercings.

"Nice tats." Said Betsy if you can trust the name tag. Which he did as having a fake name on a nametag would be weird.

"What?" asked Victor with a confused look on his face.

"Your tattoos, They're wicked." Betsy said with a sparkle in her eyes.

"Thanks, 'ppreciate it" Victor stated.

"So, where's the party?" Betsy asked.

"What party?" Victor responded confused.

"You're buying twenty pounds of salt, you either have plans or a disorder." Said the girl with a straight face.

"It's the first, but I would not discount the second. As for my plans, well I'll keep that to myself." Victor said.

"Well good luck on both." The goth said while visibly off put.

"You, too." Victor said before he paid and left while pushing a shopping cart full of salt. He took the cart with him to an alley, then threw the salt into his storage space.

His next stop was to the hardware store to pick up some iron. Luckily, the gruff bearded man that was my cashier either didn't care or knew better than to ask a man covered in tattoos what he was doing with a cart full of iron.

The next stop of the jewelry store involved a lot more questions, as neck tattoo having individuals wearing a t-shirt and jeans stand out in jewelry stores. Luckily, the gentleman behind the counter was a better salesman than person as he didn't ask too many questions about the source of his currency or why he wanted a bunch of silver jewelry.

When he got back to his motel with his supplies and was settling in for a night of crafting with his fast food that he grabbed.

The first artifact of the night was the Faith Necklace made from the faith he collected. It took the form of a wooden bead bracelet with a series of coins with the symbols of various religions: a Dharmachakra representing Buddhism, a Cross representing Christianity, an Om representing Hinduism, a Star and Crescent representing Islam, a Star of David representing Judaism, a Torii representing Shinto, and a Taijitu representing Taoism. It was the latest of the Heartstrings, whose purpose was to ward of beings imbued with various concepts. It would also assist him in the purification of persons, places, and things. As faith came in a myriad of forms, it could effectively ward off or purify anything. As most associate faith with holiness, the necklace would be especially effective against the unholy.

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Faith Necklace

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'The shield of the faithful'

A necklace imbued with the concept of faith

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The next magical artifact he created was a chain and stake made of salt, iron, and silver essence that he named Heretic's Bane. It was predominantly salt white with veins of grey iron and shiny silver. The chains would suppress unholy organisms and allowed to him to kill members of the previously mentioned group that were difficult to exterminate utilizing traditional means.

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Heretic's Bane

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'Feel the burn'

A chain and stake designed to counter monsters, demons, and similar unholy organisms

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The next morning while he was preparing to set out on his tour of America hunting things that go bump in the night, he was finally integrated into the world. As a result, he awakened a psychic ability due to meeting the requirements set by the world's will. All one needed was to be human and have a soul of sufficient strength. He met the first by technicality and the second by a mile.

The ability he acquired was psychometry, which involved reading psychic imprints left on persons, places, and things. This allowed him to view the past events surrounding them and to track those that left the imprints with the help of his ability to see concepts.

This had the benefit of allowing him to read the psychic imprints left on the agent's corpse. This had two effects: one he had the killer's aura allowing him to recognize them when he sees them, benefit two was he had more information on the agent allowing him to fake communications on his new phone.

After allowing the new ability to settle in and gaining the necessary information, Victor packed up his limited supplies into his storage space and took out the agent's car keys. Next stop, Abingdon, Virginia.