The Book of Hibernation

There are a lot of prerequisites to crafting a Vengeance.

First of all, the subject's corpse cannot die of illness or accident, but must die of a known murder.Secondly, the caster and the corpse must have known each other before they were alive, and they cannot be strangers.If the conditions are not met, the spell fails.

After the spell begins to work, the caster loses a lot of blood.With the chanting of the spell, the blood borrowed from the void and rushed to all parts of the body of the victim's body, burning silently under its flesh.The old corpse will gradually fill up first, then turn into charred black little by little, and finally turn into an incorporeal body and disappear on the spot.

After the corpse disappears for a certain period of time, the Vengeance Sworn will appear.Before the vendetta appears, the body of the caster will become weaker and weaker, and there is even a risk of death.If the caster dies of weakness, the spell fails; once the vendetta meets the caster, the caster's body returns to health.

After meeting, the caster can ask the swearer three questions.Questions must be related to his life experiences, and he will answer them truthfully.

After answering the question, the swearer will be officially activated.He will first avenge himself, and after the death of the enemy, it will return to the caster and become the caster's absolutely loyal bodyguard and servant.From then on, it no longer has the language ability and self-awareness.

Making the Oathsworn is a kind of witchcraft spell, and its casting conditions are very subjective and involve many unquantifiable details.These characteristics are very different from the current high-level arcane system.

High-level arcane art is more like making utensils, or it can be compared to cooking.There is a clearer operating paradigm, spell-casting materials can be replaced and optimized, risks and effects are clearer, and there are not so many subjective factors.

The witchcraft spells are different.It originated earlier, and is inextricably linked with alien worlds, voids, and divine arts.It has many other names, the neutral term is "ancient magic", the derogatory term is "witch spell", and the nice and scary term is "lesser magic".

The essence of the witch sacrifice spell is a sacrifice, which is an exchange with chaotic and unknown things.The essence of high-level arcane arts is manipulation and refinement.

Nowadays, people are very rejecting the School of Necromancy and the School of Otherworldly. A large part of the reason is that the origin of these two schools is inextricably linked with witchcraft.

After reading the documents brought by March, Winter Thistle found that it was not very difficult to make the spell of the Vengeancer.The spells, runes, and spellcasting skills involved are not very difficult, and the requirements for spellcasting materials are not very precise. Its difficulty lies in the very subjective restrictions and the damage to the caster's body.

Winter Thistle tried to simplify and understand this spell, and found that its essence was similar to resurrecting a living corpse. It extracted a very small amount of soul from a subject, and then used the soul as fuel to add the blood of the caster. Accelerating and reshaping the life attributes of the recipient.

As for the point that "the caster needs to know the dead", it should be easier to resonate.In the language of refiners, it is easy to carry out coherent chimera.

After the swearer is completed, its body is not the original subject, and the original subject has been burned.From the perspective of the Necromancer School, this price is a bit too high. The Necromantic School also has other similar spells, which usually do not need to consume the entire subject.

With this doubt in mind, Winter Thistle analyzed the core rune of the Vengeance Sworn spell in detail, and gradually understood its principle.

After death, if there is no God Realm to go to, the soul will sink into the void.The Void only accepts the soul, and it is impossible to accept the body in principle, and there are too few souls available on the long-dead body, so the caster has to use magic to transform the body of the deceased into an acceptable sacrifice, and then use it in exchange for desired effect.

So, what if the soul on the subject is extremely abundant?Is it possible without consuming the body?Like... what if there were two whole and healthy souls in one body?

In this way of thinking, Winter Thistle tried to modify the spell of summoning the vengeance.This is a kind of embedded art technique, which refiners call reforging: for example, changing the sharp edge spell to delayed bleeding, changing the rune core, replacing many of the constant magic effects in operation, However, there is no need to change the overall shape of the object, nor to disassemble or recast it.

In this way, Winter Thistle used the spell of making the Vengeance on Kanai's body.He doesn't really want to be a swearer, nor does he need to burn Kanai's entire body.He has a new method of his own.

But before that, there was a headache to deal with—the purple sage juice poison that Kanai had taken in advance.

The poison Kanai used was also an improved version of winter thistle, and the process of taking effect was different from the original formula.If the original formula is used, it takes about one to two minutes for the poisoned person to feel drowsy from nothing. After entering the drowsy stage, the poison will develop rapidly and then die soon; the improved poison is different. After taking the drug, people will fall asleep quickly. There is still a long time to live, and eventually the poison will slowly develop, that is, it will sleep faster, but the poison will develop more slowly.

The main purpose of the winter thistle transformation potion was to limit the dark cloud so that it would not have time to occupy Kanai's body when he was awake.After all, Wu Yun is different from ordinary people, and Dongji worries that he has a way to deal with the toxins in his body.

Now it seems that the improved potion played an unexpected role: according to the detection of the Great Temple of White Lake City, Kanai did not die completely.His soul has not yet left, responding to divine scrying.

This may be because Kanai has a possession lock spell.This spell will completely bind the body and soul, people will not live or die, and normal physiological changes will be completely suspended, so the development of toxins will also stop at a certain stage.

The question now is, what to do with the toxin of the purple sage juice after the possession lock is released... If Wu Yun is free, but Kanai quickly dies from the poison, then this matter will be meaningless.

Therefore, winter thistle needs to use some spells from the poison school.

There is a class of spells that can export potions and remove poisons that have entered the body. "Export" does not mean "detoxification", but to extract and export the potion for the caster to use.For the subject, although this spell can indeed remove toxins, it is not as simple as "detoxification", because it is said that the detoxification process is extremely painful, and even belladonna water can't soothe the pain, which is unbearable for ordinary people.

But it's easy for Kanai.He has a possession lock on his body, and his soul is in a closed state, ignorant and unconscious, neither born nor dead, and naturally there will be no pain.

The export method of purple sage juice and general poison is slightly different.It is a finished poison agent catalyzed by arcane art. After it is exported, it cannot be prepared. It must be introduced into other living bodies immediately, so that the poison in the subject's body can be cleaned up.

In this way, the other person who was introduced to the poison seemed certain to die.

But for winter thistle, none of that is a problem.He has already thought of a countermeasure in advance:

In the Elemental School there is a large area spell called Fog Barrier.It needs the help of the naturally formed weather to stabilize the nature and duration of the weather, and is mainly used for concealment and defense.

The poison school also has a spell that requires the use of weather, called immersion.The effect is to diffuse the medicine with the help of moist water vapor.Different levels of weather correspond to medicines with different effects, and the dose must be calculated to limit the range of diffusion.

Chimerizing and forging these two spells is the spell that Winter Thistle casts now.This is his true profession as a refiner.

Winter Thistle didn't just start casting spells today, he had been preparing for it a few days ago, and since the fog started yesterday, he has been continuously casting spells.

What he did was actually quite understandable.To put it simply: he exported the toxin from the purple sage juice, spread it using the dense fog barrier and the immersion technique, and introduced the toxin to everyone within the fog range.

Including workers, escorts, execution teams, city guards, hunters, necromancers...of course including Aldin, and Winter Thistle herself.

The closer you are to Kanai's body, the more toxins you will ingest, and the more obvious discomfort you will experience.The dose of toxin ingested by people is not uniform, because the introduction effect has a certain randomness, and it is also affected by the local microclimate, spell diffusion effect, personal physical fitness, and so on.

But all in all, everyone is taking a safe dose.With so many people sharing the poison, everyone will feel a little uncomfortable, but there is not much risk, there will be no sequelae, and no one will die.

The matter of purple sage juice must be dealt with first before the final spell can be completed, which is to separate the dark clouds and Kanai.

The dark cloud is not an incorporeal creature, but an undead creature that must attach to the human body.To let it leave Kanai, it must be given another body, otherwise the separation cannot be completed.

But Winter Ji would definitely not find a body for Wu Yun, let alone be so stupid as to risk himself.He used the transformed Awakening Sworn Spell, and in this way, isolated Wu Yun's soul.

The spell doesn't need to consume Kanai's entire body.The soul is abundant in this body, and there is enough fuel, so there is no need to burn the flesh for sacrifice.

During the casting process, there will still be a step that consumes a lot of blood.Winter Thistle doesn't just use its own blood.

He checked the base rune of the spell and found that what it essentially needed was not "the blood of the caster" but "the blood of the master of the swearer".It's just that in the past, the "caster" and the "master" were usually the same person.

In the future, Dark Cloud will wake up as another form of Vengeance.It still needs to be attached to its "master", but Winter Thistle doesn't want to tie this kind of thing to itself.

Winter Thistle used the dense fog barrier and immersion technique just now to not only inject poison into everyone in the fog, but also extract a small amount of blood from everyone.So many people share it equally, and everyone doesn't feel blood loss at all.

The person who donates blood is the "master" of the swearers.In other words, everyone in the fog is actually the "master" of the swearers.

Although there are many masters, there is no need to worry about them abusing the Oathsworn, because they have no idea that this happened.

Only Winter Thistle knows the truth, and only Winter Thistle knows how to drive this "Venemies".

In fact, Wuyun can't be regarded as a real swearer. There are too many changes in the arousal steps it goes through, and the final effect is not perfect.

It has always been a half-solid, half-incorporeal body, without the stable shape of other swearers, and does not need to answer three questions.Like the Vengeancer, it cannot speak.Can't use vocal cords and mouth to use language like ordinary people.

Winter Thistle thinks of another way to communicate.He directly wrote arcane characters in the body of the swearer, and conveyed the things he wanted to communicate to Wu Yun's consciousness.

After the spell was basically over, Winter Thistle noticed that the Nemesis Sworn in March came nearby, bringing with it abnormal magic fluctuations.So, he had a discussion with Wu Yun.

The main premise of everything is: I can't let you go free.

He told Wu Yun, whether it is from my will or from the perspective of whether the spell can be realized, it is impossible for you to achieve your original purpose.

I also don't want to be your master, use the Oathsworn, whether it's you or not.

Wu Yun also gave feedback.It couldn't speak a normal sentence, so it arranged it in arcane words, didn't say anything else, just repeated the caster's oath.

—May respect magic as the only truth, and regard worldly interests as the second priority.

That's it.Winter Thistle had the answer, and understood what it meant.

Dark Cloud is not the type to stand aloof.For so many years, it has tried its best to sneak into the chamber of commerce, relying on one body after another, it has made friends with many people, entrapped many people, enjoyed power, experienced desire, and made wrong judgments... It can be It's not far from "worldly" at all.

It seems that Wu Yun has no right to mention that oath again, but it is not the case.It can certainly be said, and he continues to practice it, to this day.

Because what the oath says is not "abandoning the secular world", but to use it when it is used, but "regardless of the second".

If Wu Yun and Kanai's bodies remain the same, Wu Yun will be imprisoned in the temple forever.Even if one day the temple extracts it, it is to destroy it.

If he turns into something like the Oath Swearer, spreads out in the dense fog, and merges into all the "masters", then it can continue to exist instead.

It was not a human being in the first place, but now it has turned into pieces of arcane runes, carried by hundreds of people unknowingly.

Perhaps one day in the future, certain spellcasters will "see" it again in the analytical circle.At that time, it was no longer a mage named Wuyun, but a piece of secret knowledge from many necromancers.

No matter when that day comes, no matter what effect the dark cloud can play in the arcane field, it will be much better than it dissipating in the temple.So it makes a choice.

Winter Thistle repeated the vow.He agrees with the dark cloud.

He only drives the "Oathsworn" once, and let it perform coherent chimerism with the Oathsworn left over from March, and after that, everything will end.

Among them, Winter Ji didn't intend to tell anyone.

He had said some ambiguous things to others before, such as using the principle of witchcraft spells or something.The necromancer had heard of it, and Aldin had heard of it, but Winter Thistle didn't say it very clearly at the time. They could only vaguely know the general idea, and they would never know what Winter Thistle actually did.

After leaving the burrow and seeing Aldin, he didn't explain the spell very clearly.

Originally, Aldin didn't understand spells, and he didn't ask too deeply.

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Aldin built a small bonfire in the glade, and the two sat and talked like this.

When Winter Thistle was describing the situation, Aldin didn't interrupt the whole process.After Winter Thistle finished speaking, the two fell into silence, only the crackling of the flames could be heard.

After a while, Aldin said: "If March died, it was probably killed by the people of the temple. In this way, a conflict may have broken out on the Khiva River, and there will be casualties on both sides."

Winter Thistle glanced at him - of course, this is still a discussion, didn't we already talk about this topic before the bonfire was lit...

Winter Thistle thought to herself, you still dare not ask about Kanai directly.

Aldin asked, "What was your original plan for the hostage exchange?"

Winter Thistle followed his lead and answered this matter first: "I originally thought so. Let the mages in the laboratory pretend to be busy for a day, I hide and use this time to complete the spell. Someone will definitely find me in the end And Kanai is not in the laboratory, but it doesn't matter, the heavy fog has introduced toxins to everyone, everyone will be weak, unable to hunt me down, and can't fight the necromancer. The same is true with the necromancer, they will also Affected by the imported toxin. I know they're going to hide on the ice, and just retreat back to the north shore in no time. Once they find out that something is wrong, whether it's not me there, or someone in the party is unwell, As long as they retreat quickly, they will definitely be able to escape. Unless they don't run, but insist on head-to-head..."

"I'm recovered now. What about them? If they recover too, maybe they won't run and there will be further action," Ardin said.

Winter Thistle said: "They can't recover temporarily. You are very close to me, so you recover quickly. After finishing the spell, I lit the prepared compound incense over the cave. It can't detoxify, but it can relieve discomfort. .After all, I want to be comfortable myself. There is no such treatment over the Khiva River."

He pulled the firewood with a small wooden stick, gradually stopped, thought for a while, and then said: "Since Sanyue died, I guess the situation has changed...Before the poison was introduced, the city-state and the necromancer may have already fought , In this way, there may be an uncontrollable situation... Alas, there is no way to do it. I am not their general, so I can't control what they do."

Hearing what he said, Aldin remembered something from the past.

During the turmoil of the fake Bellos, Winter Thistle was escorted by the harbor city guards, and met a group of mercenaries sent by the fake Bellos.There was a fight between the guards and the mercenaries, and Winter Thistle cast a range of short-term reforging spells, adding strange enchantment effects to the utensils on everyone's bodies, so that the guards and the mercenaries couldn't fight at all, and could only crawl around on the ground Go... It is said that the spell is not for this purpose, but he used it very cleverly.

Don't talk about the past and the future, just talk about that moment, Winter Thistle didn't seem to favor any side, the only purpose was to prevent them from fighting.

At first glance, it seemed that he was very kind, even kind-hearted, but after careful consideration, it seemed that this was not the case... This is clearly a kind of indifference, or it can also be said to be neutral.He is clearly in the center of the dispute and should have his own judgment, but his mentality is alienated like a strange one.

The winter thistle does the same thing now.He neither supports the necromancer nor the city-state party. He is an ally with everyone, and then he deceives everyone calmly, and uses everyone's body as a tool for casting spells...

Aldin sighed: "I'm a little confused. I really don't know whether you care about those people or don't care."

"I care." Winter Thistle replied seriously, "From a personal emotional point of view, I don't want too many casualties, but from a rational point of view, I am not responsible for it. You should understand what I mean."

"Understood." Aldin nodded, and asked again: "But have you ever thought that there is a flaw in this—in case the temple and the city-state guards did not stand still, but went to attack the necromancer early in the morning, and then found out that you were not there? The laboratory, immediately began to hunt you ... and you have not gone far, so what should I do?"

Winter Thistle smiled: "No."

"So sure?"

"Yes. Because the dead hunter didn't show up on time."

These words made Aldin's eyes flicker.

Winter Thistle said: "According to my guess, as long as the hunter doesn't appear for a long time, the city-state will not act hastily. What I want to buy is this time. I can cast spells with peace of mind, and the necromancer has a chance to evacuate, so that everyone will miss each other." , try not to fight."

"Did you know that the hunter didn't show up?" Aldin asked.

Winter Thistle said, "Well. I have made some arrangements in advance to keep the hunters away from the Khiva."

Aldin didn't know Winter Thistle was doing it.With his elbows on his knees, he didn't ask any more questions, just looked at Winter Thistle quietly.

Winter Thistle continued: "According to your plan, the dead hunters will know the time and place of the last hostage exchange, and will even be invited by the execution team to come and hunt down the necromancers together. With the character of hunters, they will Spontaneously become the vanguard of the attack, and when they and the necromancer are both wounded, the city-state will start to take action and deal with them and the necromancer. In the process, even if the Carlos family is dead, the responsibility It can also be counted on the head of the crazy hunter, and the whole process was witnessed by everyone, which is an irrefutable fact. In the end, the evil necromancer and the hunter who killed innocent people will be punished, and the city guard and the temple knight preside For justice, to avenge the innocent dead... You see, this is your original idea."

Aldine noticed the winter thistle's word - you.

He looked at Winter Thistle, his eyes dimmed.

Winter Thistle said, "Yes, I know who's working with the dead hunters. At first I suspected it was you, then I thought it was Lion... Then I finally found out. It was you, both of you involved."

He had a wry smile at first, and then he almost laughed out loud: "Aldin, I'm very relieved. Ryan hated you before, and you didn't seem to think much of him. Now you have finally become good friends? I'm really relieved."