The attendant arranged by Xia Ya in the backyard faithfully carried out Xia Ya's order and stood outside the door of the backyard, waiting for the movement of the courtyard.
The yard was silent, without the slightest sound. Because of the terrifying Lord Merlin, no one dared to set foot in this courtyard. And the attendant just sat outside the courtyard gate and watched from afar.
When Xia Ya hurried back from outside, he almost knocked over the attendant who was guarding here. The attendant saw the General's return, and was about to report, "Sir, in this backyard..."
But Xia Ya didn't have time to listen to what he had to say. She quickly hummed and rushed in.
"Merlin! Merlin!!!"
Xiaya rushed into the backyard and rammed directly into the room in the middle. Before reaching the door, she had already screamed at the top of her voice.
Merlin's extremely impatient voice came from the door immediately, with annoyance in his tone: "What's wrong? Could it be that those dwarves are disobedient!"
However, Xia Ya had already grabbed the door handle and pushed it hard, but the door remained motionless.
"I'm looking for you in a hurry! Open the door!"
"Boy..." Merlin's voice was full of displeasure: "I said..."
"It's really urgent!" Xia said loudly, "It has something to do with undead magic..."
Merlin was silent for a while inside, and finally a sigh came: "Okay, come in."
As Merlin's voice fell, the closed door actually opened gently by itself.
Xia Ya didn't have time to think about it, and took one step in. As soon as he entered the door with his front foot, the back door was already closed quickly!
"Yi?!"
Xiaya, who walked into this room, looked up and looked at it, and was immediately stunned!
This, where is this little room in the backyard? !
You must know that although the garrison in Denzel City was renovated after Xiaya took over, it was originally just a small border town, so it was impossible for the garrison to be built too luxuriously and magnificently. The backyard was originally not large, and several rooms were not wide.
Originally, this room should be on the inner and outer floors. A small hall outside is only three or five meters wide, and the bedroom inside is slightly larger, but it only looks like five meters away.
But when Xia Ya walked into the door, this small hall, which was originally only three or five meters wide, was...
Where is this small hall? !
The place Xia Ya was in at this time was more than ten meters deep! There are five or six rows of huge cabinets neatly stacked around, and each cabinet is densely packed with thick books. Each book looks thicker than a thick brick. kind!
And on some large cabinets, rows and rows of utensils of various bottles and jars are neatly stacked, and some are the skeleton skeletons of various creatures that look a bit scary. It was soaked in a special potion and placed on a shelf as it was before his death.
The thing that made Xia feel hairy the most was a shelf directly opposite him. It was a complete human skeleton. The two huge empty eye holes on the skeleton seemed to be facing him.
Then, just when Xia Ya was opening his mouth, the skeleton of the skeleton suddenly opened his chin and made a human voice!
"Stupid boy, what are you doing standing up! Isn't it urgent, come in!"
Is this Merlin's voice
This skeleton made the voice of Merlin!
Xia Ya only felt that her brain was not enough.
"Go in, the innermost door on the left, don't go wrong!" The skeleton made the last sound, and didn't move.
Left... the innermost door
Heck, how many doors are there
After Xia went around a row of cabinets, she saw a long and faint passage!
Standing at the door of this passage corridor and looking in, I am afraid that it must be at least tens of meters deep, and there are closed doors neatly on both sides!
This, is this still my backyard
The house only looks so big from the outside! How did you walk in, but it was as big as a labyrinth
With the anxiety in his heart, Xia Ya stepped in, and just took a few steps, suddenly heard a roar similar to a beast coming from a door on the right, and from some doors came a strong and strange someone. It smelled like a drug, and some doors were quiet, but when Xia Ya just walked through, he suddenly heard a loud bang, followed by a sound like some kind of beast screaming in pain...
Finally reached the end of the corridor, the innermost door on the left was pushed open by Xia Ya and gently opened.
The door just opened a gap, and Xiaya heard a familiar mourning sound coming from inside.
"I can't do it, I can't do it! Please, Lord Merlin, please let me go, I really can't do it!!"
"No? No, I have to! I can't do what Merlin wants to do! You can continue to support me!!"
"Wow wow... It's so scary!! I really can't stand it!! Lord Merlin, please let me go..."
"No, no, it's not enough! I want more! How can this be enough? I need more!!"
That wailing voice was none other than his "loyal and brave" servant, Archmage Dodoro!
Xia finally walked into the room inside.
Looking around, this is a place seven or eight meters deep. Up and down, the roof and floor are said to be smooth slate, and on the side of a huge smooth table are all kinds of strange utensils, not a single one. It's what Xia can recognize. Some are clear glass bottles that are being boiled on a small stove, and some have strange leather tubes attached to them all the way to another bottle...
And our poor Lord Todoro is right in the middle of the room!
In the center of the room is a huge transparent glass tank that is as high as one person... Well, from Char's point of view, the shape of this thing really looks like something he recognizes.
That's right, it's... a coffin!
And after Xia Ya took a few more glances, she couldn't help but almost laughed.
That's right! It's not like a coffin... but this thing, it's simply a crystal coffin made of transparent glass! !
This sealed crystal coffin is now filled with a green-looking liquid, and it looks extremely viscous, as if...
Xia suddenly remembered the pudding he had for dinner the other day.
Then he felt sick in his heart, and soon made up his mind that he would never eat pudding again!
Poor Dodoro was completely immersed in this transparent glass coffin, his whole body was immersed in those green pudding-like translucent mucus, and even his head was soaked in it. It's just that a funnel-like thing was inserted into his mouth and exposed to the mucus, allowing him to speak and breathe.
What sympathizes with Char the most is that Dodoro's body is astonishingly naked!
This guy is soaked in mucus, his whole body is as naked as a newborn baby, with skinny ribs, and weak arms and legs - why don't you usually see that this guy is so thin? Even the stomach is suffocated.
Also, there were some strange leather tubes inserted into Dodoro's body, and one end of the tube was deeply pierced into his body with a needle.
Xia Yaduo glanced at it, and saw a bit of a doorway.
The three leather tubes inserted into Dotolo's left arm are gurgling out, and they are red... It seems to be blood! Dodoro is being bled!
And the three leather tubes inserted into the right body seem to be pouring a red liquid into his body. The red liquid is not blood—the color is darker than normal blood, and the red is a little black!
Xiaya noticed that the tubes inserted into Dodoro's body were all connected to the huge vessel on the table in front. The blood released from his body flowed into the vessel through a leather tube, and then was boiled at high temperature by several strange vessels, and injected with some strange medicinal syrup, or even some kind of strange powder. A magical light.
Well, one of the smells, Xia Ya, is somewhat familiar, it is the smell of the blood of Warcraft!
Finally, after going through one process after another, these things are poured into a circular sealed glass vessel, and after several layers of peculiar filtration, they are then continuously input into Dodoro's body from a leather tube.
"Well, what's going on here?"
Xia Ya was completely dumbfounded.
Merlin was standing in front of the huge table, her robe was spotless, and she wore a strange round leather hat on her head, covering all her hair in the hat, not a single hair was exposed. outside. Merlin even had a single-lens eye on his eyes, staring at the color of the liquid in the vessel, and then when he heard what Xia Ya said, he raised his head impatiently and glanced at Xia Ya: "It's nothing, I'm giving He changed blood."
Change, change blood...
Xia Ya just felt that she couldn't understand a word of these words!
Can human blood be replaced? !
At this time, Dodoro in the glass coffin heard Char's voice. The poor magician was soaked in the mucus, his eyes could not be opened, but his ears could still hear. He heard Xia Ya's voice, as if he had come to a savior, and immediately shouted loudly: "Master! Master! Kind master! Save your poor loyal servant!! I'm about to die! It's gone! Lord help me!!"
"It's so noisy!" Merlin immediately lowered his face and shouted, "I told you that I can't die! But you can't shout or move around during the blood exchange, otherwise it will cause danger! Why don't you listen to this idiot? You shout again, and I'll gag your mouth!"
"Woooooooooooo..." Duoduo had already cried out directly.
Xia Ya looked at Dodo Luo, and couldn't help but feel a trace of pity in his heart, and couldn't help sighing.
Hearing Xia Ya's sigh, Merlin immediately turned his head and stared: "What are you sighing for! What, do you have any opinion on my approach?"
"No! Not at all!!" Xiaya immediately shook his head desperately.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense, tell me directly, what's the matter? Why are you suddenly interested in undead magic? You'd better talk about something that interests me, otherwise, I'll stop you Go into that coffin and soak with him!"
(Sure enough, it is indeed a coffin...)
Xia Ya muttered in her heart.
But he immediately cheered up—Xia knew that this crazy woman was not just talking about it! If she couldn't satisfy her with her own words, she really dared to throw herself into that coffin to accompany Dodoro!
Although I am very sympathetic to this guy, but well, sympathy is sympathy. If you accompany him to sleep in the coffin, then you can avoid it. Master Xia Ya doesn't have that kind of lofty sentiments.
"It's like this, I know you should be very proficient in undead black magic..."
As soon as Xia Ya spoke, Merlin sneered, raised his eyebrows, and said coldly, "Hmph, that talkative dwarf!"
Char immediately began to pray for the poor dwarf rock.
Then he couldn't help but glance at the glass coffin—well, it was big enough that a dwarf would be fine to put in it.
"Cough..." Xia Ya coughed dryly before continuing: "Well, I know that you are very proficient in the dark magic of the undead."
"There is no magic field that I don't understand in this world." Merlin said coldly.
"Yes yes yes!!" Xia Ya nodded again and again: "Well, don't I happen to have a set of dragon bones in my hand? Besides, I asked the dwarves to make me a full set of dragon scale equipment, that, you know... Weight... I don't have a suitable horse to ride, and the dwarves gave me an idea, maybe I can ask you to help me make a bone dragon with undead dark magic, just..."
"That's not possible." Merlin interrupted Xi Ya immediately, the magic master squinted at Xi Ya: "The skeleton of your dragon... Hmph, the soul of that dragon is hidden in your body Right? Skeletons without souls cannot be made into undead creatures. Undead creatures, how can they do without a 'spirit'?"
Sure enough, he had naive thoughts earlier, and a master-level figure like Merlin could hear the problem as soon as he heard it.
"I understand, so my question now is..."
Next, Char stammered about what he had heard from Dora about the extraction and infusion of "undead magic" into living souls.
After talking like this on and off for a long time, Merlin's face was very impatient at first, but gradually, as Xia Ya spoke more deeply, the impatient look on Merlin's face disappeared, replaced by a dignified expression that gradually emerged!
Finally, after Xi Ya finished speaking, Merlin didn't react immediately.
The woman squinted her eyes and stared at Xia Ya with a gaze that seemed to be flickering with cold stars for a long time. When Xia Ya stared straight at it, her heart felt hairy, and Merlin suddenly smiled strangely.
There was an air of cold mockery in her smile.
"This idea was driven by the soul of the dragon in your body, right?"
"..." Xia Ya didn't deny it. In fact, he didn't plan to hide it. After all, as an idiot in magic, it was an unusual thing to say about undead magic. With Merlin's intelligence, how could he not guess it?
"Get rid of this absurd and unrealistic thought!" Merlin suddenly shouted sharply: "I'll pretend that I didn't hear it, and you quickly put this thought away! Also, I warn you! If you dare to do this again To fool this kid with absurd and extremely dangerous advice, I will extract you alive from his body and make it into a puppet! Do you understand!"
In this stern voice, the taste of threats and warnings is palpable!
Xia Ya was shocked and couldn't help but say, "Merlin..."
"I'm not talking to you! I'm talking to the soul of the dragon in your body! It's coming up with such a ridiculous idea, and it's killing you at all! You bastard, you don't understand at all!" Merlin gritted his teeth and sneered. Voice: "Want to be resurrected? It's ridiculous! To live is to live, and to die is to die! This is the rule of life in this world! I want to use that ridiculous idea to break the supreme rule of life... If something is dead, it is simply a matter of life. What a ridiculous and absurd idea!"
"However, undead magicians can indeed extract and infuse souls..." Xia couldn't help but tell the difference.
In his heart, he was really moved by the idea of "the first dragon knight who reappeared since ancient times" described by Dora!
Just imagine, looking at the entire continent, is there any dragon knight
Dragon knight! Imagine yourself riding a giant dragon on the battlefield to fight the wind, grandma, just that shape, that aura, can directly shock people to death!
Such a great dream, he doesn't want to give up easily.
Seeing Xia Ya's high-spirited look, Merlin sighed secretly, changed to a gentler tone, and said slowly, "Xia Ya... Do you understand what 'life' is? Do you really understand?"
"Life..." Char wiggled her lips.
"As the name suggests, why is life called 'life' by us? Because life itself is special, it is life, so it is called 'life'! Life and death are the natural laws of this world, no, it cannot even be said to be natural laws , it is the law of life that is above all laws! It is the greatest foundation for the creation and formation of this world! If the laws of life and death can be broken, then what will this world be like? I can tell You, if this law can also be broken, then the structure of this world, and the rules of the world together, will collapse with a bang!"
Merlin's words were slow and dignified, but with an unmistakable taste of decisiveness!
"Life and death are two relative states. It is because of these two relative states that the world can be stabilized! It is the fundamental rule that restricts and maintains this world. You must know that anything, anyone, There is no so-called 'eternity' for any creature or anything! Everything, there is death, or the day of destruction and dissipation! Even the sun, moon and stars! Odin God Emperor Hannigan is such a hero, but he can't Get rid of the rules of death! Even if his strength is supernatural, he will have a limit after all! Don't worry about arguing first, I just ask you one question. As far as you know, from ancient times to the present, there can be any one person ... No, or rather, is there any thing that is eternal and immortal?"
No!
Char Ya can answer immediately.
From ancient times to the present, there is no one who can not die!
But…
"Immortal... It depends on what you're talking about. I admit, it's a bit appalling to make a creature immortal. But... You don't have to say it so absolutely." Xia shook his head: "Immortal people or no, but things Well… "
"Although the steel is hard, there is a day when it rusts. Although the mountains and rivers are far away, there are also days when the landslides and landslides! Although the rivers are long-lasting, there are days when they dry up! I can tell you very clearly that there is no such thing in this world. Something that can never die!"
"That...that..." Xia was pressed and blurted out: "But at least some 'spirits' are immortal, right? Don't we often talk about immortality?"
"Hahahaha..." Merlin was amused by Xiaya's words, she couldn't help laughing sharply, and then stared at Xiaya with her beautiful eyes: "I can't believe that a bastard like you can actually To believe this sublime bullshit... immortal, hum, ridiculous."
As he spoke, Merlin took a deep breath and spoke quickly in an extremely indifferent and cold tone.
"One thousand and two hundred years ago, before the Byzantine Empire, there used to be a powerful kingdom in the southern part of the continent. King Samulin, a hero of a generation, was upright and kind, brave and strong, and even more powerful. A warrior, his bravery, his integrity and his compassion and kindness, have also been praised by people from all over the continent! The kingdom he ruled once had a great opportunity to unify the southern part of the continent and build a huge empire similar to Byzantium! But the result Woolen cloth?"
Merlin paused deliberately, and said lightly: "In the history books of the Byzantine Empire, there is no record of the former king of the mainland. His so-called loyalty, bravery, strength and kindness were praised by the world at that time as an immortal saint. Sentiment has never been mentioned again."
Without waiting for Xia Ya to refute, Merlin has continued: "Moreover, nine hundred years ago, there was an outstanding mainland scholar. His erudition and talents were praised by the world, and he was even considered to be the smartest person in the world at that time! His unremitting study of knowledge was once worshipped as an idol by scholars all over the world! But what happened? Because his theory offended the church, the field of his research was considered blasphemous by the church, and he was executed. All the documents were destroyed... He not only perished physically, but also his spirit. And in the history books of the current empire you can see his name and records... He is described as an evil heresy!"
"Let's talk about the... ancient goblins you are familiar with! How brilliant they were, creating a civilized world that surpassed the present! But what are goblins now, you see! Once the smartest race, is now considered It is the stupidest, weakest and worst race! The beggars among humans are 10,000 times nobler than the goblins! The goblins are not only 'dead' as a race, but their civilization, their spirit, and their together are also 'dead' dead!"
"Let's talk about language. You know the holy city of Babylon. It was the capital of the ancient human empire! I won't tell you about the demise of that empire! I will even tell you that the ancient human empire was the human empire at that time. It even speaks an ancient language that we can't understand now! But with the changes of the times, the civilization of that empire was lost in the tide of time, and even the language of humans in ancient times disappeared! "
"That's why I tell you, in this world, there is nothing immortal! No matter people or things, there will be a day of 'death'. All of this is irreversible!"
"Even I, Merlin, the famous great magician in the world, countless people fear me, praise me, adore me, hate me... But so what? After I die in the future, maybe my reputation will last for a few more years, but After a while, decades, even hundreds of years later, no one will mention me again. The traces I left in this world will be erased! It's as if there has never been a person like me. "
"Like you, Xia Yaleiming! You are now one of the heroes of the world, a hegemon. Even in my opinion, you are likely to go to a higher position. But even if you are a famous general, a hero, and a hegemon, so what? ? Even if you become an emperor, hundreds of years later, no matter how many outstanding achievements you have made, no matter how amazing you have left behind, you will only become two thin pages in the history book. That's it. The maximum is the number of words. And in a few hundred years, if the world changes, perhaps the civilization of the Byzantine Empire has disappeared. By that time, even the books will no longer record you! Everything about you, and Everything that can symbolize you has completely disappeared!"
Xia Ya was completely speechless.
"This is the law! It is a 'law' that cannot be reversed, cannot be touched, and cannot be violated! Life and death are two opposites of existence. Without life, where does death come from? Without death, there is no so-called life! It's ridiculous that you want to subvert it so naively."
"But..." Xia Ya was full of cold sweat: "It is said that some necromancers, in pursuit of immortality, turned themselves into undead creatures, and became legendary necromancers..."
Xia Ya proposed the last resort he could think of.
"Immortal necromancer? Hahahaha..." Merlin seemed to have heard the most ridiculous thing: "Those guys, after learning some undead magic, don't know that they are just fools who think they have mastered the rules of life and death! Become undead creatures, no matter what they are called in the future, necromancers or undead wizards. You have to understand that in essence, they have 'dead' as human beings! Become necromancers These guys have lost the most basic characteristics of human beings: emotions, emotions, fertility, etc... They have become monsters, and as human beings, they are already dead. Moreover, even if they become Undead creatures, even if their physical bodies may be strengthened, and their 'use period' can be longer, but after losing the emotions that people should have, their consciousness will gradually blur, gradually distort, and finally disappear completely. , into a mindless beast. And in the end... destruction is the only way back."
At the end, Merlin said coldly: "Also, life is irreversible! You have to understand that things that have died cannot be resurrected! Just like those undead magicians who turned themselves into undead creatures, they are already dead, and then There is no way to become a living person again! The world often refers to undead creatures as 'undead creatures', thinking that these things will not die. In fact, to be clear, to be precise, it should be that these undead creatures are not easy Damaged by ordinary power. And as for them 'undead', that's a joke! Because they've already died! Something that's already died once can't die a second time! Finally, as for what you said The same is true for a dragon! I have no way, nor is it possible, to do what you said, re-inject its soul into a living body, and then resurrect it... Even a god can't do this! Even a god, It can't be above the laws of this world!"
The last little flame of hope in Xia Ya's heart was extinguished.
Looking at Merlin, Xi Ya sighed helplessly: "Could it be that... my dream of being a dragon knight has been shattered?"
"Dragon Knight? Humph..."
Strangely, Merlin's eyes suddenly became strange, and his laughter also carried a special emotion.
Only Dodoro lying in that glass coffin is the one who understands Merlin's laughter best.
The poor Todoro-sama who was suffering from it immediately realized... Once Merlin made this kind of laughter, it meant that this mad woman had some crazy idea!
This woman must be plotting some terrible idea again! !
…
really! !
Just when Xia Ya was downcast, Merlin suddenly stared at Xia Ya with a piercing shining gaze, and then asked in a peculiar tone: "You... just want to be a dragon knight?"
"Of course I do!" Xia Ya did not hesitate: "Being a dragon knight is more majestic! Having a dragon as my mount..."
"How much do you think?"
"I dream of it!!"
"Okay!" Merlin suddenly touched his pointy chin, and laughed more and more "dangerously", and then asked Xia Ya with a kind smile in a standard tone like a big bad wolf cheating on Little Red Riding Hood Said: "Then, I have to ask first, how much are you willing to pay in order to achieve your desire to become a dragon knight? You know, becoming a dragon knight is not an easy thing, the price to pay, Maybe, maybe, maybe, there will be a little bit, a little bit more. Would you… do you want to?”