"Curse?" Roland couldn't help repeating it. No matter how the word sounded, it had an ominous meaning.
"Please come with me." Pasha turned and led the crowd into a cave next to the main hall. The stone wall inside was dug with uniform grooves, and it was filled with various books and scrolls, the number of which was even Much more than the collection of books in the Privy Temple. "Celine, Your Majesty is coming down."
"I know," Celine's voice had already appeared in everyone's mind before they saw him. Then a tentacle fell from the bottom of the cave, slapped down a pile of books, and quickly shrank back into the darkness.
Before that, the tentacles also bent towards Roland symbolically, probably as a gesture of salute.
"Cough, sorry, when she encounters a new research subject, she will be more self-absorbed." Pasha was a little embarrassed, "After all, few witches are as lucky as lightning, and they are cursed without being fatally wounded. "
"She wouldn't do anything to Lightning, would she?" When he mentioned the research subjects, Roland couldn't help but think of the guinea pigs who were posed in various poses.
"Please rest assured, the main method of magic research is still observation and recording, but with the help of the core, she can see the flow of every ray of magic more clearly." Pasha said, while rolling up the ground. The book, spread out in front of everyone, "Look here... and here."
Roland noticed that most of these pages had turned yellow, and they were obviously ancient books left over from the Taquila era, and at the location pointed out by the other party, in addition to the body recorded in witch writing, there was also a translated note attached, no doubt. It is a temporary excerpt for the sake of aspect.
He took a closer look and saw that it was an account of two wars.
"A time in the siege of the dawn realm, eight wounded witches were rescued by reinforcements. They should have saved their lives, but they all died in the end. The cause of death was that all treatment methods were ineffective, and the wounds could not heal for a long time, resulting in They lost too much blood and were infected by evil diseases. Before they died, they all suffered terrible torture, so that the last two chose to commit suicide." Pasha said slowly, "Because the time is too long, the specifics of that battle are too long. The details are unknown, and the writer just recorded this incredible scene, where the devil's curse is mentioned for the first time."
"The other time was closer to our time, when a high-ranking demon, called the Reaper by the Federation, fought a fierce battle with an army of witches in Thousand Lakes City on the edge of the Fertile Plain. This cruel monster could kill The magic power is attached to the black stone spear, and once it is hit, the body will continue to decay until it becomes withered." Pasha paused, "A total of three extraordinary witches died in its hands, exploring the mystery. The meeting will discover a strange magical power in the body of the wounded.”
Roland has guessed the conclusion, "The magic power comes from the enemy?"
"That's right," Pasha tapped her tentacles, "so we speculated that these abilities may be of the same type, which will persist in the target's body and cause lasting damage. Conventional medical methods are ineffective, and It is difficult to eliminate it by external force.”
"It's really like a curse," Wendy said with a little sadness, "it's too scary..."
However, Nightingale noticed the other party's words, "It is difficult to eliminate it by external force, that is to say... Is there a way to eliminate it?"
Pasha then turned the page down, "provided we didn't infer the wrong words."
Roland quickly finished the last paragraph of the description: Just when Qianhu City was at stake, a witch named Semanja stood up, awakened to the transcendent in a desperate fight, and slashed the Imperius under the sword. With the high-level devil being divided into two, she thought she would follow in the footsteps of her companions, but she survived safely, as if the curse never existed. Because it was too close to the red mist area, Qianhu City was still declared lost after a year, but she had won enough time for people to evacuate. After that, Semanja, with a very strong will, made the federation pass the three-seat system and became one of the first three-seats.
Seeing this, he instantly understood what the other party meant.
If Lightning is really affected by the curse of magic, then killing the other party may be the only way to remove it at present, but this is indeed "difficult" to do! The Battle of the Snow Mountain Camp and the Battle of Wangbeipo both proved the amazing ability of the high-level devils to act. It’s okay to insist on confrontation with the First Army. If they don’t plan to fight head-on, the risk of catching up and destroying them is too great.
In the era of Taquila, this was an almost impossible task.
High-level devils usually act together with the army, just like the core of the army. It is difficult to achieve victory, let alone wipe out the enemy
Roland couldn't help thinking of the nameless witch who wrote to Natalya.
Now that I think about it, I am afraid that she was also injured by a similar ability, so she will leave those last words.
The person who can talk to Sanxi Letter will never be a general person, and her ability and status should be at the top of the Federation. However, even she can only silently accept the arrival of the final outcome.
Just because you want to find the powerful enemy who severely injured her among thousands of devils and eradicate him, you need to take the lives of more witches. Under the power of two evils, what kind of choice to make is already clear.
Nightingale probably thought of this too, her hands clenched into fists unconsciously.
Roland pondered for a moment before opening his mouth and said, "The difficulty is indeed not small, but I will never give up this possibility."
"..." Pasha was silent for a while, "if that's what you want."
"Before that, I still want to know something. If the high-level devil that Lightning encountered has the ability to release curses without touching it, what would happen to ordinary people if they were eroded?"
"It will be much worse than a witch." Celine's voice suddenly interjected again, "Magic has given us stronger resilience and resistance, making the conventional evil plagues, the tiny creatures you mentioned in the book, very It’s hard to infect us. But mortals can’t, as long as the wound doesn’t heal, they are in danger of deterioration or even death at any time.”
"Can the Stone of God's Punishment resist this ability?"
"Of course it can. In fact, if the Reaper mentioned in the ancient books hadn't possessed a magical power no less than that of an extraordinary witch, it wouldn't have caused so much loss to the Federation. But" Celine's tone paused, "according to Lightning's Information, we cannot rule out the possibility that the other party is still a Demon Slayer. In that case, the role of the Stone of Retaliation will be very limited.”
The stronger the devil is, the closer it is to humans in appearance. This is the experience that the Federation has summed up in the two battles of divine will.
Roland took a deep breath.
Celine's reminder is not alarmist, according to Lightning's description, the new high-level devil is likely to be more difficult than all the enemies in the past.
Undoubtedly, the expedition to Taquila had to be carefully planned for it to be possible.