If possible, Qin Lun hopes to delay replying to Baron Albert for a few days, so that the credibility will be higher. It's just that it's been about half a month since he entered this world. Although he felt that he was slowly approaching the core of the mission, time was running out.
Therefore, after dinner, Qin Lun took the initiative to find Baron Albert, expressing his willingness to join the exorcist camp and do his part to protect the Odia region.
Baron Albert was very happy, and brought Qin Lun and Boni to a secondary castle hall on the right side of the main castle.
The vice castle hall is actually a library, surrounded by tall bookshelves, and rows of well-maintained hardcover books can even smell the fragrance of ink. Above these bookshelves, there are many portraits of people hanging.
There are men and women in these portraits. Judging from their faces and appearances, they all resemble Baron Albert and Bonny, and they should all be the ancestors of the Albert family.
Qin Lun's eyes fell on the bookshelf at the back of the hall, and a portrait of a person in the center. This portrait is twice the size of the other portraits and depicts a tall knight in plate armor.
The knight held the helmet in his left hand, and planted the great sword on the ground with his right hand as a crutch. He was standing on the top platform of Albert Castle, staring at the Maya Forest ahead with piercing eyes.
Below this painting, there is a line of small characters inscribed.
"The duty of the millennium, the protection of the millennium, the glory of the millennium! We are Albert of Odia!"
A very familiar sentence! Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and he rubbed his temples.
In the center of this library is a small salon with a large round coffee table and some wicker chairs.
"Doctor Stan, I'm glad you can join us! Please sit down!" Baron Albert picked a wicker chair to sit down, and stretched out his hand to signal Qin Lun to sit down.
"Your Excellency, do you need to go through any ceremony to join the exorcist?" Qin Lun asked with a smile.
"Haha, no need!" Baron Albert smiled and waved his hands, "The Exorcist is not a religious organization, on the contrary it is more like a loose mutual aid group. Anyone can become an exorcist with the recommendation of an old member." Demons, but if you want to become an exorcist, you must have the courage and will to fight against evil!"
"It's an honor for the Stan family to be able to serve the exorcist!" Qin Lun leaned slightly, "I will ask you, the Baron, to give me some advice in the future!"
"It's not about teaching, since I introduced you to the club, I naturally want to tell you some historical truths and the purpose of our exorcists!" Baron Albert took the wine glass from Boni and gently held it in his hand. Swaying up and down, his eyes were a little blurred into memories.
In this world more than 3,000 years ago, various flourishing human settlements appeared on the continent. The increase in productivity allowed these human settlements to gradually produce classes and kingdoms, and the humans at the top of the pyramid began to enslave others.
A large amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and these people begin to pursue spiritual liberation after satisfying the most basic food and clothing. Some of them devote all their energies to the noble cause of improving the overall well-being of mankind. While others began to pursue higher personal enjoyment and tried to prolong their lives.
In time, the former virtuous men developed the concept of faith and began to spread the Gospel across the continent. They hope that all human beings can have a spiritual sustenance, liberate their minds and souls, and maintain a positive and optimistic attitude even under harsh living conditions.
The latter kind of people who pursue personal self-interest frantically began to amass wealth, persecute people, and plunder the land of other countries. And use wealth and knowledge to start researching the mysteries of undeath.
Different from the time and space of the earth where Qin Lun lived, these two kinds of people have discovered the mystery of immortality and some other powerful spells successively in the long time.
However, the mystery of immortality discovered by these two kinds of people is not the same. The former person obtained the mystery of "longevity" through faith and firm will. What the latter kind of people get is the real mystery of "immortality".
The mystery of "longevity" requires a pure heart and a strong will, and they call themselves "believers". The mystery of "immortality" relies on external forces. They named it "witchcraft", and used "witchcraft" to create evil magical creatures, calling themselves "wizards".
Not only do believers and wizards have diametrically opposed powers, but even their ideas are also at the two extremes. They soon had irreconcilable contradictions, and the war began!
At the beginning of the war, because the requirements for birthing believers were too high, and it was relatively easy for wizards relying on external forces, believers retreated steadily. However, at this time, ordinary people who had been oppressed and persecuted by wizards for a long time began to join the camp of believers.
These ordinary people do not have a long life, but they account for 99.2% of the human world. After uniting, they almost defeated the wizard. In the long war, some ordinary people also gained quite powerful fighting power.
Under the advocacy of the believers, these powerful ordinary people united with the believers and jointly established the exorcist organization. The purpose of establishing the exorcist organization is to expel "wizards" and their magical creatures and protect the human world.
In the final decisive battle, most of the male wizards disappeared into the world, leaving only a few female wizards who fled into forests, deserts, deep mountains, swamps and other remote corners where the living conditions are the worst.
The camp of believers has also been greatly traumatized. The remaining believers feel that whether it is the mystery of longevity or the mystery of immortality, there are too many temptations for ordinary humans.
Therefore, they used their lives to cast a powerful guardian spell, sealing the world's two mysteries of law forever. Except for the surviving witches and the small amount of potions that can give birth to undead in the hands of the witches, this world can no longer give birth to any immortals and undead.
In order to protect the world, the lofty idea of believers not hesitate to sacrifice has moved all the exorcists. They swore to keep these two secrets forever, and they were willing to hunt down those witches who returned to the human world and the magical creatures they created for generations.
In the ensuing years, the witches gathered their forces and repeatedly attacked the human world from every corner. Although they were all defeated by the exorcist organization, ordinary people in the human world also suffered heavy casualties.
On this premise, the exorcist makes a deal with the witch. Witches and their magical creatures no longer appeared to ordinary people, and exorcists no longer hunted down witches who settled in remote corners.
The term of this agreement is a thousand years, and the exorcist believes that after a thousand years, human beings will be stronger, and the few witches will not be infested. The witches believe that after a thousand years, the exorcists will lose their faith and inheritance power, and they will be able to rule the world again, and use the power of the world's laws to break the guardian spells of believers and start the era of great wizards.
"The agreement between the witch and the exorcist is called the Millennium Agreement, and more than three hundred years have passed!" The old baron swung his glass and drank it down in one gulp.
"Is there a witch in the Maya forest?" Qin Lun asked quietly with his eyes flickering.
"There is more than one witch in the Maya forest. This forest is too large, and there are more than a dozen witches hiding in it. Unless humans burn the entire Maya forest, under the cover of the terrain, how many people enter will not be enough." How many people died." Baron Albert said with a wry smile, "If it weren't for this, those witches would have been exterminated by the exorcist organization hundreds of years ago!"
"Don't worry, Doctor Stan. In fact, there is only one witch near the edge of the Odia region. And the exorcists surrounding the Maya forest are not limited to our Albert family. The Maya forest in the Principality of Maizer That's five exorcist families," Bonnie added with a smile.
"Since there is a thousand-year contract, why are my followers still being attacked by gargoyles near the castle?" Qin Lun suddenly asked with a frown.
The baron and Bonny looked at each other, and the old baron explained aloud: "No contract can be perfect, and the Millennium Contract also has loopholes. At that time, when the contract was signed, the magic oath restricted witches and magical creatures from attacking humans. But it does not include the magical creatures that the witch recreated after this!"
"So, those cunning witches took advantage of this loophole and often sent newly made magical creatures to attack humans?" Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is this useful?"
"Well, they have limited resources, and the purpose of doing this is to capture individual humans as slaves, and at the same time use these captives to experiment with various evil black magic!" Bonny nodded, and said in a deep voice, "However, the same is true for us. , The exorcist family often makes some members avoid the oath and enter the Maya forest to spy on the witches."
"So, those gargoyles on the stone bridge of the castle..." Qin Lun rolled his eyes and asked softly.
"Only a few are, and the others are real stone statues!" Boni said with a smile.
"Doctor Stan, do you have any questions?" Baron Albert smiled and looked at Qin Lun.
"Well, there is one last question!" Qin Lun pondered for a moment, then asked, "Is this plague a masterpiece of witches?"
"We don't know yet, but using the epidemic virus to reduce the number of humans in the Odia area will indeed help them rush out of the Maya forest in the future!" The baron replied calmly with a flash of his eyes, but Bonnie hesitated and closed his mouth No words.
The reactions of the two fell into Qin Lun's eyes, but he didn't question the two of them anymore, he just nodded with a smile.
"Doctor Stan, in two days, we will organize a reconnaissance team to enter the Maia forest. I wonder if you are interested in being a team doctor and entering with the reconnaissance team!" Baron Albert asked seriously.
"Hehe, if this is the test of the exorcist organization for newcomers, I would be happy to show everyone the courage of the Stan family!" Qin Lun raised his glass and saluted the two Alberts opposite.