After the global recovery I crossed

"Slut! A slut with all fours in the air!"

In the corner of the garden, Lucas was holding a book and shouting with a distorted expression.

His voice was excited and excited, and it was as sharp as a knife, scraping away his remaining reason and kindness.

"You are sweating hot and smelling of poisonous gas!"

"You brazenly and nonchalantly showing—that stinking rotten flesh and bones!"

"Are you proud! Your skeleton blooms like a flower in the garden land!"

"I praise you!"

"Don't let flies buzz over your rotten flesh, and don't let fat maggots emerge from your pink tender flesh!"

"If you're swollen with poisonous gas, if you're like a resurrection with bugs multiplying—that's not the resurrection I'm going to give!"

He took a breath and flipped through the book.

The Canon of Corpse Eating, by François Honore Balfour, Count Derret, writes on the first page: [It may be felt by some to be obscene, but I am only trying to illustrate a certain actions and beliefs.Leave the rest to God's judgment. ]

This book was listed as a banned book by the Church of the Heavenly Father, but it was secretly circulated in the hands of mystic lovers in France. In the end, the earl was arrested, but because he was a nobleman, all punishments were ignored.

Chapter 1 of the book claims that the trend of robbery, rape and even eating corpses is very popular in France.Those who engage in such acts call themselves ghouls, and one of the purposes of this book is to introduce ghoul groups and, if I can, welcome newcomers to them. Chapter 2 introduces the Witches' Gathering in France, and some strange names that don't seem human-readable. Chapter 3 is a lot of spells.

There is a mysterious power in the book, and the people in this book are like being mentally polluted. If normal people continue, they will lose their minds and fall into madness!

Lucas's appearance is also changing rapidly, except for the blond hair, he has almost completely turned into a disgusting ghoul.

But as his appearance turned into a ghoul, his speed gradually accelerated.

"Woo--" Sticky tears flowed from Lucas's eyes and rolled down his smooth, rubber-like skin.

After the last sanity mourned his own death, he showed a happy smile:

"Resurrect with a posture higher than human beings!"

"Servant of darkness! Audrey!"

Ghouls can pretend to be humans, and humans can mutate into ghouls.

The corpse on the ground stood up and let out a strange cry like a bird's song.

The lights in the entire Viscount's mansion were extinguished for some reason, and in the gloomy cold wind, two ghouls transformed from humans sneaked swiftly.

Kill Louis!We are mother's children!

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Lin Xingtao stood by the door of the study, only the golden buckle and the silver key gleamed in the darkness.

The moonlight cannot pass through the window, and the fangs that are gradually opening are hidden in the shadows——

A strange cry!

Lin Xingtao threw out the lamp in his hand!

The lamp shattered to the ground, and something stepped on the shards of glass, making a toothsome "creaking" sound.

The cold and foul-smelling wind blew past Lin Xingtao's neck, and Lin Xingtao fell down, kicking his feet out.

The flexible touch under his feet made him sure that it was a ghoul that attacked him!

How many ghouls are there in this viscount mansion? !

A series of electric arcs danced between his fingers, briefly illuminating the scene in front of him.

A ghoul, with brown hair still stuck to its body, was squatting on the railing in front of the study, its protruding eyes were fixed on Lin Xingtao.

When Lin Xingtao stepped back slightly, it kicked off the railing with its hind legs and jumped out!

The claw hit Lin Xingtao's ear directly, and punched a big hole in the door of the study!

The railing not far away also broke and fell to the first floor, making a dull sound.

Under the attack that is difficult for ordinary people to dodge, Lin Xingtao also relied on the blessing of agility and Taoism and the size of a child to escape the blow.

The blown sawdust drew blood on his cheek, which was hot and painful.

A simple blow from a ghoul is as powerful as a full blow from two mature men!

Lin Xingtao thought it was a trivial matter, he had never seen anything, and he could go down with one palm and overwhelm mountains and seas.

——But that was before, his body is weak!But he is not on Earth and Da Chu!

The ghoul pulls out its claws stuck in the door and strikes again!

Lin Xingtao's scarce true energy gathered in the palm of his hand, and the light of thunder flickered.

At the moment when the light gathered, he struck out fiercely!

Hey, my palm is thundering!

However, after the dazzling lightning, there was a ghoul with only minor injuries.

The effect of Taoism was not obvious. The gel-coat-like skin on the outside of the ghoul isolated the current. In the end, the ghoul just shook its head and fell to the ground, and then rushed up fiercely.

Lin Xingtao frowned, his celestial master strength was completely suppressed by this world, and he didn't have the supernatural power of this world.

It's not impossible for him to deal with a mere ghoul, but it's very likely that that method will attract the attention of more terrifying beings.

At the moment when the ghoul pounced again, he hastily put himself on a defensive method, thinking about the next countermeasure.

"boom!"

The ghoul hit the protection with a claw, so Lin Xingtao was hit by the huge impact and hit the bookshelf behind.

The books on the bookcase fell down with a clatter, and amidst the sound of the pages being flipped, an ugly shadow walked in from the door.

It wears clothes similar to Lin Xingtao's, and its disgusting face vaguely has a sweet and delicate shadow of the past.

"Lucas?"

Lucas held the book in his paws and shouted loudly: "Kill him! For our love, for our mother!"

The ghoul that attacked Lin Xingtao jumped up furiously, as if angry that he couldn't kill a young child.

A fierce and terrifying attack struck, the sharp fangs of the ghoul pierced through the book and the protection——

It stuck into Lin Xingtao's neck!

Blood spurted.

It's not that Lin Xingtao didn't want to hide, but that at the moment Lin Xingtao avoided, Lucas recited a spell.

His mouth like a dog's mouth was wriggling rapidly, and the saliva splashed brightly in the dark.

"Darkness—the enemy who binds us!"

While the ghoul was biting, a black light bound Lin Xingtao tightly in place, and the deep black air continued to transform into terrifying hands, pulling Lin Xingtao's legs.

His throat was full of fishy sweetness rising up, and Lin Xingtao's head hit the sharp corner of the book, and now he felt a dull pain.

The body of the ghoul has a strong oppressive force, and being pierced by its fangs is equivalent to being grabbed by a big man. With the current Lin Xingtao, he can't break free at all.

But Lin Xingtao did not fall into despair, he opened his mouth when the sharp claws of the ghoul were about to penetrate his chest.

He quickly imitated the spell that Lucas uttered!

Lucas can recite mantras, so of course Lin Xingtao can too!

The intense black light restrained the ghoul this time. Its sharp claws had just cut through the clothes and penetrated into the flesh, but it had to stop.Its fangs were still firmly stuck in Lin Xingtao's throat, blocking more blood from flowing down.

Seeing Lin Xingtao resisting the ghoul, Lucas trembled and murmured: "You can also spell, yes, you are also someone who has read books."

He flipped through the book frantically, and finally stopped on a page.

"Death!" he yelled in ecstasy.

Then he started to chant, which is a very powerful spell, judging from the length of the chant.

Although the black energy controlling Lin Xingtao is dissipating, no matter how you look at it, Lucas will attack before the black energy disappears.

Lucas is bound to win this blow!

His brow even creased triumphantly, madness clustered in his disgusting folds.

Lin Xingtao opened his mouth, but stopped again.

Of course he can follow the spell, but Lucas is one step ahead of him!

If he followed up, he must have died before finishing the recitation!

No, it can't be like that.

All the true energy in Lin Xingtao's body surged, and he needed to burst out all the true energy to resist this fatal blow.

As his qi pulled away in pain, he turned his head to see the ghoul with its teeth lodged in his neck.

His heart moved, and he asked, "Sister Audrey?"

He changed his mind and poured all his true energy into the ghoul.

"Pure heart!"

This is a way to temporarily restore the mind of those who have fallen into chaos. Lin Xingtao wants to awaken Audrey's sanity!

but--

The ghoul screamed in pain, it didn't return to normal, but even crazier!

It made a bird-like call.

Just when Lin Xingtao thought he had made a wrong choice, he heard clear words.

—he understands ghoul language.

[Brother, why did you kill your sister——killed your brother!Kill Louis! ]

Lin Xingtao's lips moved, and then, a similar bird song trembled from his throat!

——This is the language of ghouls!

Lin Xingtao himself doesn't know how to speak ghouls, but Louis does. His body memorizes the pronunciation!

Some spells in the West are effective only when they are chanted, which is the so-called spirit of speech.

And the chanting time of some spells is too long, how could the enemy give you so much time to chant?

Therefore, the clever wizards invented a speeding language - the original sentence of seven or eight words was simplified into one!

It's like Chinese needs many words to express a certain meaning, but English only needs a few letters!

Now, Lin Xingtao is equivalent to using this speeding language!

Compared with human speech, ghoul speech is faster, and it is basically contained in the birdsong!

His chants quickly reached the second round faster than Lewis.

[Let life wither in the face of death——]

His throat trembled at a level that was difficult for ordinary people to do, and blood spewed out along the ghoul's fangs.

Excessive blood loss made him dizzy, and the loss of true energy made his body heavy. In a daze, he heard layer upon layer of prayers.

But the spell worked.

An explosion blew away all the prayers.

There was the sound of sparks in the surrounding area, and Lin Xingtao came back to his senses. A large area of ​​scorched black appeared on the opposite Lucas, and a big explosion occurred centered on him.

A little spark splashed onto the scattered books next to it and ignited.

Amid the smell of burnt meat, Lucas stood up staggeringly, laughing wildly: "I am a ghoul, I am great, I am powerful! I am not dead yet!"

As he spoke, his vocal cords melted.

But as he said, even though that strange layer of skin was blown out and smashed, he is not dead yet.

Before dying, he turned the pages of the book, trying to find the last spell.

He was crying and panting heavily.

And Lin Xingtao leaned on the bookshelf, watching Lucas desperately looking for the spell.

This time it was Lin Xingtao who read it first.

He originally wanted to recite another death spell, but he found that he couldn't continue, probably because the magic elements such as magic power were not enough.

So he read another one.

[Servant of Darkness, I am eager to contact you——]

This is the spell to summon and touch ghouls!

Lin Xingtao thought about how many ghouls there are in the Viscount's mansion.

the answer is--

The wind blows, and the firelight from the books reflects the scene behind the study door.

On the stairs from the first floor to the second floor, black shadows appeared.

They were dressed as servants, with polite and respectful smiles on their faces.

However, under the firelight and shadows, their smiles gradually distorted—distorted by the changing faces.

They climb up the stairs.

Lin Xingtao looked at their shadows reflected by the flames around him, one by one, they changed from people to other things.

Creak creak—the claws that grew out made terrible noises on the stairs.

Murderous intentions were revealed, and whispers spread from the saliva under the fangs.

In the silence, the servants who had gone somewhere before all stood up from the shadows of hiding.

Running towards the existence that summoned them.

——In the form of a full-staff ghoul.

The author has something to say: The opening words are borrowed from Baudelaire's "Carrion".

"Cultes des Goules" (Cultes des Goules)

From 1703, this privately printed book circulated in Paris.Its author was probably François-Honor Balfour, Comte d'Drette, although it has also been asserted that Balfour was the author of only one of the drafts of the book which had long circulated among the occultists of Paris.The book was immediately banned by the church, and the publisher was also subject to civil lawsuits, but because the author was a nobleman, the final punishment was actually cancelled.Balfour did not write a second book and spent the remaining 20 years of his life in seclusion.

The book claims that at the turn of the century, witchcraft and necrophilia were widespread in France.In fact, it was not uncommon to steal graves at that time, and in the book Balfour exposed the organizations that actually carried out grave robbery, and introduced their rituals and behaviors in detail.This organization eats corpses during initiation ceremonies, and its members call themselves "ghouls."Other acts of blasphemy by the group are described in the book, detailing their rituals of resurrection (or zombification) for purposes of divination, copulation, and more.Immediately after this book was published, the group went underground, and no evidence of their existence has been found since.

There are also references to the Coven of Witches in France and the secret society of demi-humans (ghouls) who inhabit the Catacombs of Paris and are said to be associated with these witches.The names of Nyugta and Shabo Nicholas also appear in the book many times. For some reason, the author believes that the latter is related to werewolves or lycanthropy.

Spells: In the full French version there are the following spells: Black Binding, Summon/Send Nygtar, Summon/Send Sappor Nicholas, Touch Ghouls, Raise Dead, Wither, Summons/Controls Byakhee, Summons/Controls Black Goat Cubs, Mark of Viri.The abridged and translated versions lack "raise dead" and all "summon/send away" spells.

Other Benefits and Effects: Readers can make History and Occult checks.In addition, readers can also learn the ghoul language like birdsong, and acquire the basic skills of "myth language: ghoul language".At the Keeper's discretion, readers may lose their Appearance points, becoming closer in appearance to a ghoul.In the early days of ghoulization, perhaps this book will speed it up.

——Incompletely excerpted from Douban "Detailed Introduction to Cthulhu Mythology Magic Book", the book in it is not exactly the same as the one above.