Payne shook his head: "Of course that's not the case. All my enemies are dead. I don't need you to help me kill and avenge them."
"Then you want to be resurrected?" Roland asked.
"I can also transfer souls." Payne waved his hand nonchalantly: "As long as I am willing, I can find a member of the royal family to possess me. In less than five days, I can destroy his soul and replace it."
"What do you think?" Roland was a little confused.
Payne pointed at the huge walking winged demon behind him: "Help me dismantle this thing."
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Roland looked over. The huge body of the walking winged demon looked very scary. Roland turned back and said, "This thing must also be a soul."
"Of course!" Payne said with a very proud smile: "Because before making this barrier, I calculated that the magic power generated by my own soul power can only supply the barrier for about a thousand years, but if it is delayed for too long, If a soul of similar strength comes in, wouldn’t that be double the happiness?”
"really."
Payne continued: "So I took advantage of the invasion of the demon world to capture their commander, then stripped his soul and sealed it in this barrier."
"Originally, I planned to chat with him and live a two-thousand-year soul life together. But it turned out that this guy couldn't hold on in the past few years, and his soul consciousness became worse and worse. Now he can't speak. It's so disappointing. ”
However, Roland felt that after being imprisoned for hundreds of years, facing the same scenery and an enemy every day, it was already very impressive to be able to survive for hundreds of years.
He said: "If you can seal it, you should also be able to dismember its soul."
"It is possible, but it will cost a lot of my soul power." Payne smiled and said: "I don't have a body, and the soul power will be reduced if I use it a little, so it is more appropriate not to interrogate you."
really.
When a creature has a body, the soul can be restored by being warmed and nourished in the body, and if it can be scientifically exercised, it can even gradually become stronger.
But a pure soul without a body attached to it cannot become stronger in the main plane.
Unless you go to the underworld.
Absorb the breath of the underworld there, that thing is a kind of food for the soul.
But compared with the energy provided by the body, the quality and taste are still inferior.
The big one is the difference between boiled meat slices and dog food.
Roland understood what Payne meant.
Such a demon soul, placed here, will be attracted, but very slowly.
The barrier is now absorbing the soul magic power of these two people at the same time.
But if the soul of the walking winged demon is chopped into pieces, its soul magic will become extremely easy to attract.
The barrier will give priority to absorbing the soul magic power of the walking winged demon first.
But if this is the case... this barrier may not last two or three hundred years.
Pain said before that he used to be a demigod.
But what Roland feels now is that Payne is just a master.
Although the soul power is still huge, the inside has become empty.
"Actually, why don't you resurrect me, old man?" Roland was a little curious: "Just find a death row prisoner who has committed a heinous crime, devour his soul, and then be reborn, and use your experience to help the royal family in the future. This is no better than just protecting the soul. How much?"
"Child, you probably haven't experienced many separations between life and death." Payne asked with a smile.
Roland nodded.
Indeed, both his parents and grandparents are still alive, and his relatives who are relatively close and familiar with him are also alive and well.
"Among those souls, there are my favorite relatives. My parents, my wife, my sons, daughters, grandchildren, and even my grandchildren." Payne smiled softly: "If I am reborn , they will have to go to the underworld. It is almost impossible for me to see them again."
Roland was a little curious: "Can you see them in the soul world?"
"Of course I can. I will release my energy from time to time and watch them live a leisurely life in this small world of royal tombs. This is a kind of happiness to me."
Roland probably understood the other person's thoughts and ideas.
"Okay, you can teach me how to decompose the soul."
Payne said with a smile: "First of all, you have to learn to use mental power and turn it into a sharp 'knife'."
Three hours passed, and Payne explained a lot of techniques regarding mental power.
This has benefited Roland a lot.
The application of mental power has always been one of Roland's shortcomings.
What Payne talks about is all practical information. The content is very basic, but quite useful and solid.
After Payne finished explaining, Roland condensed a sharp mental scalpel in his hand without hesitation.
"Awesome, kid." Payne looked at Roland in surprise: "Your talent is probably comparable to Mythra."
"Okay, now go and help me split the soul of that thing." Payne pointed behind him.
Roland walked over with a mental scalpel.
After a short while, the soul of the walking winged demon was dismembered into dozens of pieces.
Payne looked a little sad: "The old friends who used to scold and quarrel every day, say goodbye forever."
With the soul shattered like this, even the God of Hades would find it difficult to put it back together.
"Psychic attack is a powerful weapon to deal with the soul. I hope you can use it with caution after you go out. Don't use this method to destroy the soul needlessly. It is very disgusting to the God of Hades." Payne reminded Roland, and then he smiled. : "The next step is to teach you how to condense the magic body. I'm not bragging. If I weren't inferior in space magic, I would be able to surpass Miss La with this skill alone. Unfortunately, my talent in space magic is really limited. It’s too short-sighted.”
"So powerful?" Roland became more and more interested.
People of the same era as the goddess of magic Mythra, who could even become demigods, their techniques and theories should be quite practical and even extremely effective.
"Speaking of which, this method is a bit troublesome." Payne said: "It requires a lot of magic materials, even herbs from the Elf Forest, and then made into pills. If you eat them one by one, you can gradually expand your body's magic power. Capacity, increases the speed of magic recovery."
"Well, please tell me, old man, and I will write it down." Roland opened the system notepad.
Payne sighed nostalgically: "If I hadn't been the only one who could be the king and couldn't find anyone with the qualifications, I would really have become a pure magician."
After sighing, Payne told the method.
Roland took notes in the system notepad, which was filled with three sheets of paper.
After Roland finished memorizing, Payne said: "You are very talented. If you add this method to increase the upper limit of magic power, plus some special luck, and get some useful magic tools and other things, I will give you more than a hundred With years of growth, you can probably overthrow the goddess of magic."
"It's not necessary."
Roland shrugged. He would not think about dismounting the goddess of magic. Now he and Miss have a good relationship. In the future, Miss will help Roland make money and make a lot of money, so why dismount her
"You can do whatever you want. Just remember to take care of our French royal family when you have time."
"Okay, no problem." Roland nodded in agreement, and then he suddenly remembered something very important: "By the way, Stephanie and I came here mainly to check for a soul that is glowing all over."
Roland relayed Stephanie's description.
After hearing this, Payne chuckled and said, "Don't worry about Stephanie, that's Aichenswa, who is protecting her."
"Do you know Stephanie too?"
"She has been following her father to worship me since she was five years old. How could she not know her?" Payne smiled happily and said: "Although Aichenswa is a member of the royal family, she also has some demon blood in her body. So do you. You know how romantic our male nobles are."
"A child born from a devil?" Roland didn't think the interracial union was that strange. In the real world, there are many people who play with dogs and cats: "What does she know?"
"Because she has demon blood, she feels that there seems to be hidden evil blood in the royal city." Payne said: "And Stephanie is the future queen, so of course she cannot be harmed by demons. So Aichenswa is here She has left a piece of 'land' in her soul. If Stephanie is in danger, she can directly fight in Stephanie's place. If necessary, she can even give up her own soul to nurture Stephanie and let her The strength has improved greatly in a very short period of time, and the upper limit of growth will become higher in the future."
"So, the enemy is still in the royal city?"
"It certainly should be." Payne said helplessly: "Now my strength has dropped significantly and I can no longer see things outside the barrier, so I am not sure."
"I understand." The clues in Roland's head connected: "So the third prince was tricked into stealing the necklace in order to let the souls in the royal tomb go to the underworld and destroy the royal family's future plans?"
"No, I guess I want to use it as an army of dead souls." Payne thought for a while and said: "There are many races among demons who know how to control undead creatures. If the souls in the royal tombs are obtained by them, they can use magic to control and transform them. , is a terrifying force that can sweep across the entire main plane."
"It's not that exaggerated." Roland said with a smile: "You don't take the Light Cult seriously, and there is also a Life Cult, which is more restrained against undead creatures."
"Don't tear me down." Payne smiled.
After chatting with Payne for a while, Roland withdrew from the soul world.
As soon as he woke up, he saw Stephanie beside him, even leaning against him gently.
It's normal when you think about it. They are the only two living people in the entire royal tomb.
Then, there are densely packed ghosts watching nearby. Although they can't see it, knowing that such a thing is happening will make them feel uncomfortable all over.
After Roland woke up, his body moved slightly, and Stephanie noticed it.
She looked at Roland in surprise: "You finally woke up."
"How long have I been in there?" Roland asked.
"It's been at least three hours."
Roland felt something was wrong. He and Payne never talked for more than an hour and a half.
In other words, time passes much slower in Payne's soul world than in the outside world.
He stood up and said to Stephanie: "You must have never thought about who I met in the soul world?"
"Who? Payne?" Stephanie asked.
"You are so smart!" Roland said with admiration.
"It's just a coincidence, because that necklace is called Payne's legendary necklace. If there is really a soul in it, it should have a lot to do with him." Stephanie asked anxiously: "Then find out from him What’s the news?”
"The erosion area in your head is actually to protect you." Roland said: "If you have any auditory hallucinations while sleeping, don't be afraid. It is just the unconscious whisper of the other person's soul and will not be harmful."
"Why are you using this method to protect me?" Stephanie keenly discovered the beauty of this: "Could it be that someone will be detrimental to me?"
"Not only you, but also Wang Ling is probably involved in their plan." Roland started walking back and forth: "And Payne suspects that the devil is probably still hiding in the royal city. The other party is a devil who is good at playing with souls."
"That's it." Stephanie muttered: "It seems that we need to ask the Magic Association for help."
The two of them left the royal tomb, got on the carriage and headed towards the royal city.
As soon as they arrived at the city gate, an archbishop in a red cloak came to the carriage, bowed his head slightly and said, "Is Mr. Roland in the carriage?"
The carriage has Stephanie's personal coat of arms, so it's easy to spot.
Moreover, Roland and Stephanie went out without covering up anything.
Roland opened the curtain of the carriage, looked at the other party, and said, "I'm here, what can I do for you?"
"The saint has something important to ask you to come over." The archbishop spoke softly and gently.
The saint invited and even asked the archbishop to come for a conversation, which was quite a face-saving gesture.
Stephanie, that's all.
Roland said: "When I escort the eldest princess back to her manor, I will immediately go find Her Majesty the Holy Maiden. By the way, you haven't said where to meet."
"On civilian street to the west of the sanctuary, there is a three-story building with blue bricks. Her Majesty the Holy Maiden will be waiting for you there."
"Understood."
Roland then sent Stephanie back to the manor and asked her to mobilize a large number of soldiers and a small number of royal magicians for protection before setting off.
It took more than ten minutes to find the blue brick building on Pingmin Street in the west.
Roland found that the archbishop who had delivered the message was waiting at the door.
He took Roland up to the second floor.
Pushing open the door of a large public room, he saw a blond-haired, blue-eyed saint with a shimmering body sitting inside.
The sound of door closing sounded.
Roland and the Saint were the only two people left in the huge living room.
The saint was wearing a very simple white dress and had no valuable accessories. Her hair was tied up with a white hairband and made into a side ponytail.
Normally, a saint does not tie up her hair. When she is in the sanctuary, her hair is naturally scattered.
When walking around, her long hair is flowing and exuding a little bit of light, which is quite beautiful.
Now she has a hairstyle instead, which shows that she respects this meeting more.
"Hello, Roland." When the saint saw Roland approaching, she stood up on her own initiative: "Shuke often mentioned you. I didn't recognize you in the eldest princess's manor before. I'm really sorry."
"It's okay. I'm ordinary-looking, and I'm not ridiculously handsome like Shuke. It's normal that I can't remember." Roland smiled and said, "Shuke often tells me things about the Holy Maiden."
"Really?" The saint's cheeks were slightly red, and then she immediately realized that this was wrong, and she became serious again and said: "Peter, we have interrogated him, and then we felt that there was something hidden in the matter, and we would like to ask you to help. .”