Travels of the Necromancer

As mentioned before, Yinyue County was named after Yinyue Lake, which is shaped like a crescent moon, but this Yinyue Lake did not form naturally.

Thousands of years ago, in the extremely tragic battle of the gods, the God of War fought a decisive battle with the blood demon on this land, and finally inserted the short sword into the demon's heart, killing the demon's real body.The blood demon who lost his real body had to flee back to the demon world.

The dagger was named "Glory of the Silver Moon", and it was forged by the Moon God himself from fragments of moonlight. It was one of the Twelve Divine Weapons, but it fell to the ground along with the blood demon's real body.At that time, God of War was also seriously injured in the battle, unable to come down to look for it, and the brilliance of the silver moon was lost.Moreover, the brilliance of the silver moon has been polluted by the blood of the devil, even if it is found, it cannot be used normally.

This piece of land turned into a wasteland because of this battle, and it slowly recovered after thousands of years. Yinyue Lake is the only surviving relic of that battle.

"For a long time, the temple has never given up on the search for lost artifacts. According to a batch of information leaked by the Purple Wing Empire a few years ago, the founder of the Silver Moon Mercenary Corps once discovered a treasure at the bottom of Silver Moon Lake. A dark red dagger, although the dagger is amazingly powerful, it will make the wielder lose his mind and become extremely bloodthirsty."

"So you think that sword is the lost brilliance of the silver moon?" Hearing this, I cheered up a little bit. Sleepy.

"I think you should know about the annexation of the Silver Moon Mercenary Group by the Holy Sword Mercenary Group?"

"It's impossible for any mercenary not to know! Wait, you mean that the power behind the Holy Sword is..." It is very strange that the Yinyue, which has a deep foundation, will be swallowed up by the Holy Sword that suddenly appeared. What's even more strange is that no one can find out the origin of the Holy Sword Mercenary Group.Of course, not being able to find it is also a clue, and there are not many forces on the two continents that can do this.

"The sword is a weapon that symbolizes killing. Only the sword wielded for the temple can be called the holy sword. I thought it was obvious from the name of the mercenary group." Merkel said lightly, as if he said What is exported is no big secret.

It's because it's so obvious that people can't believe it, you bastard!Lai has been investigating this matter, but has never been able to determine which force did it.

"That's why you want to send Lai away?"

"Lei is a very calm person, but it seems that he can't keep calm as long as he encounters something related to the Silver Moon Mercenary Group. Under the current situation, we don't want to conflict with him, or let him have a grudge against us , so I hope you will tell him about it after the Silvermoon Castle incident is over."

"Actually, you don't have to tell me." I wonder why Merkel would suddenly tell me this secret.

"Yes, this matter can be regarded as a secret of the temple. If possible, I don't want to disclose it, but unfortunately what I will talk about next is related to this matter." Merkel continued, "The annexation of Silver Moon After the mercenary group, we did not find the brilliance of the silver moon, but we found the diary of the founder. According to that diary, the temple speculates that he probably gave the brilliance of the silver moon to our family before leaving the Purple Wing Empire patriarch."

"I don't know if you believe it or not, but I have never heard about Silvermoon's Glory, nor have I seen any red daggers." I think I know Merkel's intention to talk to me. I found the brilliance of the silver moon here, but in the memory I inherited, there is no memory about it.As for whether the original Kate knew, I can't be sure.

"I believe you haven't seen it before. I think the brilliance of the silver moon has been used for other purposes in your grandfather's generation." Merkel's slender fingers pointed to the painting of the Earl and Mrs. Aini, " I said that this writer is a well-known traditionalist, insisting on faithfully painting what he saw. His painting method is also very special. Instead of asking others to pose, he will live in the other person's home and continue to observe his every move , and finally record the most beautiful moment with a brush."

I stared at the painting again, the scene in the painting was indeed very vivid, even a person who doesn't understand art can be infected, but what did this guy want to say after talking nonsense for a long time!

"At the beginning, the observed person may be very unnatural, but it is said that the painter is a very quiet person, so it will not take long for the observed person to forget his existence and act according to his usual habits. I think it is precisely because For this reason, the Earl negligently produced research results that should never be seen by outsiders." Finally, Merkel's finger landed on a piece of manuscript paper on the Earl's desktop in the painting.

The drawing on this manuscript paper should be a magic circle, but most of it was blocked by other manuscript papers, so I couldn't see what kind of magic it was. The only thing that was more complete was a weird symbol on the top of the magic square.If Merkel hadn't pointed it out, I would have thought it was random graffiti by a painter who didn't know magic, but since he pointed out this symbol, it must be meaningful.

I looked at the symbol, it wasn't any rune I was familiar with, and suddenly a book that had been shelved in the teacher's study flashed in my mind.

"This, this is the real name of the Blood Demon!" I said in surprise.

Merkel also looked at me with a hint of surprise: "You actually know that even in the temple, not many people know the symbol of the real name of the devil."

"I also happened to see it." I feel a little guilty about Merkel's words.

Usually people call gods and demons by respectful titles or code names, such as the God of Light or the Demon of Blood.Their real names are not known to ordinary people, because the real names of gods and demons themselves are spells with magical effects.Even people who know it will not use it at will. There is only one case where the real name is used in the magic circle, and that is summoning.

"So, the magic that the earl researched turned out to be the magic circle that summons the blood demon, that is to say, it is in this castle..." It was neither the wraith that Alice guessed that Mrs. Aine had become after she committed suicide for love, nor What I guessed was that she was cursed and turned into a wraith, but a real demon.

"But why does the demon look exactly like Mrs. Aini?"

"Since you know the real name of the devil, you must also know the conditions necessary for the descending of the gods and demons?"

To be honest, I really don't know, so Merkel continued to explain to me: "First, there must be items related to gods and demons. Obviously, they used the silver moon glow stained with the blood of blood demons. Second, there must be items related to gods and demons. For a certain number of sacrifices, demons generally need 13 hearts of living people. Remember that there were 18 missing people without Mrs. Ani? I think these missing people ended up as sacrifices, and because the number 13 is too big It was too conspicuous, so they found a few more people as cover. In the end, there must be a body that carries the demon descending."

I still know this. Gods and demons that do not exist on our plane must use the body of a creature on this plane as a carrier if they want to come to our plane.

"The body of an ordinary human being cannot fully carry the power of a god and demon, so generally only a god and demon descends on our plane. Of course, the real body specially created for descending during the battle of the gods is an exception. But The better the physical quality of the carrier, the greater the power of the descending gods and demons is for sure. In addition, the most important point is that the person who is the descending carrier must be completely voluntary, otherwise the ceremony will not be successful held."

"In other words, the person who finally became the carrier is Mrs. Aini?!"

"The earl is an exceptionally good magician. So is Mrs. Aini. In fact, they came together because of their common love for magic. Strong spiritual power, deep love for the earl and the family, even at the expense of everything. Firm belief, I think there is indeed no more suitable carrier than Mrs. Aini. Isn’t it a sad love story?” Merkel looked at Mrs. Aini in the painting and sighed.

I would have believed a little more in your sentimentality if you hadn't said it in this hymn-singing tone.In addition, as their grandson, I don't know as much about them as Merkel. Should I show a little ashamed expression.

"The purpose of their summoning demons is to solve the difficulties faced by the family at that time?"

"I think so. It's no coincidence that the opponent who mainly suppressed our family died suddenly after Mrs. Aini disappeared."

"But it's never a good thing to make a deal with the devil." Although I don't like the temple, I have to admit that some of their propaganda is still very reasonable.Negative human emotions have always been the best food for demons, so demons will not let go of any opportunity to create chaos, and the reason why the blood demon is called this is because he has an extraordinary understanding of the drink blood. preferences.Therefore, judging from the series of tragedies that occurred in Silvermoon Castle, the earl has long been unable to control the demon's actions.

"Fortunately, Mrs. Aini's soul has not been completely devoured. Her existence restrains the demon's actions and gives the earl a chance to seal the demon. Therefore, the thing in the stone box should be the brilliance of the silver moon. Because the demon is summoned through the radiance of the silver moon, sealing it is tantamount to sealing the demon."

"But the seal has been broken by us..." I didn't know what to say, the story in "Apocalypse" really became a reality, and Ley was really crow mouthed.

"You knew all this from the beginning?" I stared at Merkel.

"I admit that I deliberately brought up Silvermoon Castle at the family meeting out of selfishness, and wanted to create an opportunity to come here to find the brilliance of the silver moon. I thought Mrs. Aini committed suicide with the polluted brilliance of the silver moon, and thus became a wraith ...but the power that came out of Erwin's stone box after opening it made me feel unusual, and I always felt that I had missed something important. Later, I re-examined the painting and found the symbol. I didn't expect Earl I would summon the demons so crazily, otherwise I would never let Erwin break the seal of the stone box." Merkel smiled wryly.

I always feel that I can't fully trust Merkel's words, but his explanation is very reasonable, so I choose to believe him temporarily: "Now that the seal has been completely released, the blood demon has trapped us here again..."

"If I were him, the first thing I would do would be to completely devour Mrs. Aini's soul," Merkel said.

"Then it's time for him to deal with us?"