The parchment notebook recorded the life of this demon wizard. This demon fell in love with a human woman named Eliza. The life span of a human is only about 80 years, but the life span of a demon wizard is nearly 100 years.
The huge difference in life expectancy brought tragedy. The human woman died of illness at the age of 60. After her death, her husband used her body and witchcraft to refine her into a special flesh and blood golem. Her husband was indeed an extremely powerful wizard, and he even successfully restored the appearance of the woman when they met. He found flesh and blood to feed the golem, as if his wife had been resurrected and was still by his side.
But over the years, the demon wizards gradually began to collapse.
The golem has the same appearance as his wife, but it is not his wife after all. It has no soul, no emotions or language ability, only a desire for flesh and blood and an empty body. He tried hard to teach the golem language, teach it to smile, and convince himself again and again that the golem is his resurrected wife. But the golem is still a golem after all.
When he was extremely depressed, he found out about the human wizard "Gray River". "Gray River" was rumored to be the most powerful wizard in the world, who studied the witchcraft of soul and resurrection. He heard that someone had seen her in the Moon Goddess Mountains, so he brought the golem here, built this thatched house to live in, and looked for her to find a way to revive his wife...
But obviously he failed. He found Gray River, but Gray River told him that for ordinary humans, there is no way to bring her back to life.
"Her soul has dissipated, along with her original sixty-year-old body," Gray River said. "The golem you reshaped with flesh and blood is nothing more than an empty shell."
After the meeting, the demon wizard returned to his house in despair. Looking at the smiling golem sitting beside him, he wanted to destroy it but couldn't bear it... After a long self-statement, the painful wizard wrote that he decided to choose suicide to end his painful life and meet Eliza who was already in another world.
The diary on the parchment book ended there. After listening to this story, James was silent for a long time, and then sighed: "Maybe things are not as bad as you think. Think about it, before the golem was destroyed, it was still saying 'Where is my husband?' Maybe, even if it is just a golem, it..."
Eden's cold face also showed a somewhat sad look. At this time, Wade said coldly: "Stop imagining those romantic love stories, look at the bones-"
Then, he said something that made people's scalps numb: "There are bite marks all over the bones, as if something had torn off the flesh and blood. Or you can guess. When the flesh and blood were torn off, was the demon wizard who 'committed suicide' really dead?"
A chill crept up from behind James and Eden. Wade looked at the place where the golem was destroyed and said, "The golem is a selfish and cruel creature. Its desire for flesh and blood and its awareness that it is about to be abandoned will make it do anything. Even now it is digging out the hearts of humans and saying, 'Where is my husband?'..."
Perhaps it was simply because the first heart it dug out and held in its hands was the still-living body of its "husband".
"The Flesh Golem... Since this wizard knew the backlash that the Flesh Golem would bring, why did he keep it by his side?" James shuddered and couldn't help but ask, "He should have known how powerful this golem was and what would happen to him..."
"Because of your ridiculous love." Wade said indifferently, "It's like a curse. You know that the golem will only bite you back, but you still keep it by your side..."
As he said this, he suddenly sneered: "A stubborn fool."
I would never do such a thing, Vader told himself.
There is nothing more stupid than this.
Lucian, lying in Wade's arms:
For some reason, I suddenly felt a chill on the back of my neck.
The house was so eerie that people dared not stay there any longer. After digging it up, the people left in a hurry. Fortunately, Wade did get news from here: the human wizard "Gray River" who had a close relationship with the red dragon Edith was indeed in the Moon Goddess Mountains. And as the high-ranking demon who provided him with the news said before, "Gray River" had the aura of the dragon's sacred object.
One step closer to the sacred object of the dragon clan.
The carriage continued to move towards the Moon Goddess Mountains. Lucian was still lying on the other side of the seat. During this journey, Wade almost ignored him and did not talk to him. Lucian only chatted with the system. He sometimes dozed off on Wade's clothes, and sometimes grabbed and bit anything he caught.
The thing he was scratching and biting was a ball that Vader had thrown out of his ring. God knows why Vader would carry a ball of yarn and a ball of straw rope with him. In addition, he also carelessly threw out the stone that glowed at night. After Lucian became a cat, he liked this kind of glowing thing very much. He always held it and played with it, and Vader never took it back.
In fact, Lucian was enjoying himself while chatting and complaining with the system. He could even occasionally enjoy watching Eden and James, a couple, secretly dating when the carriage stopped. Eden always looked cold, and even when they were talking about love, he was like a well-behaved student. James always liked to tease him. However, he only dared to touch the other's hand secretly when Wade was not around.
Lucian lived a very comfortable life.
The only thing that made Lucian unhappy was that Vader did not join Kane's Black Ice Expedition, which he had worked so hard to set up. If Vader had joined the expedition, then he would have had many more opportunities to frame him.
Wade's expression became increasingly gloomy. Perhaps it was because Lucian always liked to bother him after turning into a cat, and jumped to the other side of the carriage just when Wade was about to reach the critical point of his emotions.
—For example, when Wade was taking a nap, he would jump behind Wade, scratch his neck with his big furry tail, and then quickly run away.
Not long after the carriage left the thatched cottage, the sound of rain began to fall outside. Raindrops with a sulfur smell fell from the sky, and night fell. In any case, it was no longer suitable to travel now. After asking Wade for instructions, James drove to the nearest cave where he could live.
Before he entered the cave, James saw a group of people. He stopped the carriage and went to check it out alone. The group of people had already occupied the cave. They were numerous and well-equipped. They had a fire and were chatting. The style of their cloaks looked familiar to James.
James picked up the telescope and looked over there, and suddenly his teeth made a sound.
"It's Black Ice's people." After returning to the carriage, he reported to Wade, "I saw Kane. They also came for the Luna Mountains..."
"Change location - finding Edith's lair is our first goal." Wade said, "After this, I will give you the power to deal with them."
"Yes." James said respectfully.
He took one last look at Hei Bing's group, his eyes filled with dark and angry flames.
"I hope there's a place to stay nearby." James said.
"Have you forgotten?" Eden said, "that we passed a thatched cottage."
It was not easy to find a place to stay in this weather, so they finally decided to go back to the hut of the demon wizard. When they were near the hut, the rain was already heavy. The demon horse's hooves slipped and got scared, and the rear wheel of the car hit something hard.
James got out of the car immediately to check the situation. Lucian was harassing Wade when he got in the car, but Wade grabbed him and held him in his arms. Wade simply fell asleep there, and the collision just now woke him up.
Then I heard James' voice coming from the back of the car: "This thing looks like a stele... Only a little bit is exposed. What is written on it? I can't understand the words on it."
Eden glanced at Wade, and Wade said, "Go down and check."
Eden went down to help James check it out: "It looks like a boundary marker. It should have been very tall, but it's been mostly buried by the soil... What are you doing?!"
"Dig it up," James said confidently, "Don't you want to see the words on it?"
Lucian could clearly sense Eden's silence outside the car. A portion of the boundary marker was finally dug out. After a while, Eden's voice came from outside again: "The Kingdom of Esther... is it the human kingdom that disappeared a hundred years ago? It seems that this was once our border..."
"A human kingdom so close to the Demon Realm and the Dragon King's Court?"
"So they disappeared a hundred years ago."
Eden and James walked back to the car. James was obviously interested: "How did it disappear? Was it because of the war..."
"Because the terrain here is rugged and the resources are scarce."
Vader's voice came from the carriage: "People could no longer bear living in such a dangerous and barren place. Eventually, more and more people moved away from the country. The Kingdom of Asta thus perished. Legend has it that the last citizen left on this land was the last queen of the Kingdom of Asta. Her final fate was to wear the gorgeous dress she wore when she was crowned, and quietly die beside the fountain in the square of the Asta Royal Capital. Afterwards, her body and the city-state were buried by the wind and sand."
"How miserable." James sighed.
"Let's set off." Wade's voice sounded again, cold but with a hint of anger and impatience.
James shuddered and hurriedly drove off. Eden did not dare to get into the car, but just sat beside him. Seeing that the hut was about to leave, James suddenly said to Eden: "In this case, are we lying on the corpse of the Asta Kingdom?"
"The word should be ruins." Eden looked at him with pity.
Inside the carriage, Wade grabbed Lucian by the scruff of his neck and lifted him up. Lucian twisted his body in the air, and Wade said to him coldly, "Behave yourself. If you dare to do anything again, I'll cut off your tail."
Lucian stared with round eyes, no longer struggling, and the whole cat was stretched into a line. He looked at Wade pitifully, nodded meekly, and uttered a soft and obedient meow.
Vader: …
Lucian always admits his mistakes quickly and never changes.
He pushed Lucian back onto his legs. After being scolded by him, Lucian showed no remorse. He soon found a comfortable place on his legs and curled up to fall asleep. In his dream, he even pressed his thighs with his claws, like a cat kneading milk.
Wade's face darkened again. He noticed that Lucian's tail was swaying, and knew that he was pretending to sleep.
Lucian did it on purpose.
The thatched house appeared in front of everyone again. Eden and James cleaned the house briefly and buried the remains in the backyard. Eden saw that Wade, who was checking the house for any signs of magic, didn't see the cat and knew that he must have thrown Lucian into the car.
"You two are such a strange couple." James whispered in her ear.
Eden: “…”
Lucian was free in the car. He sat gracefully on the seat and used his claws to dig the coat that Wade had thrown on the seat to the ground. At this time, he noticed the fluorescent stone in the corner.
He looked at the stone and frowned slightly. Today he suddenly felt that the stone was a little strange.
To be precise, after passing that stone tablet, the stone became a little strange.
He stretched out his claws, touched it carefully, and said to the system: "This stone..."
Suddenly, Lucian's claws froze.
"Is it my illusion?" He said to the system, "I seem to feel that this stone has a breath of life..."
"No, it's not your illusion!" the system said in horror, "There seems to be a subtle heartbeat on the other side of the stone... There is something on the other side!"
Lucian heard a slight cracking sound.
I saw the stone split at a very fast speed, with my palm as the center. Something glowing with fluorescence, like an egg or a cocoon, was revealed. At that moment, Lucian looked at the egg. The fluorescence illuminated my eyes, and at the same time, a large amount of majestic and turbulent information came to me...
"There's an egg inside... No, it's not just an egg." Lucian said with difficulty, "This is a soul fragment, and there is a memory inside..."
Before he could finish his words, he was sucked into those memories.