Hao Ren really didn't expect that one day he would have such a novel experience: to study magic books from the European Middle Ages together with a vampire who has been around for ten thousand years. This should be a plot that only exists in movies, the kind of dark and weird abstract movies that promote mystery and unknownism, and it should only happen in a dark basement. But now this ancient magic book is spread in the sunny living room. One of the people studying it is the current pope, and the other has a six-pound evil amulet hanging on his body, and a husky frozen into a dog is next to him... The wizard who wrote this book must never have imagined that his work would be studied in this atmosphere.
Vivian mentioned that there are countless anecdotes in human history. In the era when "books" were still a luxury, she basically wandered in the Eurasian continent, and that period was also the period when the confrontation between wizards and the church was the most intense. . At that time, the aliens had already declined to the point of hiding in shelters, while the human wizards who had learned forbidden knowledge flourished in large numbers taking advantage of the church's unpreparedness. More than half of the magic books in the world came from that era, and Weiwei Ann has seen many of them in person.
This one is not included.
Vivienne rubbed the pages of the book that had been treated with magic, recalling the events of the year: "At that time, the world was chaotic, mysticism and all kinds of dark ghosts and legends were rampant, and on top of that there was an even more terrifying church high pressure. , The survival of the bottom human beings is very difficult. The wizards first originated at the end of the mythical age. At that time, they were just hawks and dogs raised by aliens and the spokespersons of "Gods ruled mankind". At that time, they had a high status in human society and were called "priests". and "God Envoys", but after the collapse of the Age of Mythology, the wizards became an independent faction. Later, they absorbed many monks with unsteady beliefs and nobles who lost hope because of the war. The church and the demon hunters were busy dealing with This group developed rapidly during the time of the remnants of the heterogeneous party. The low-level people living in poverty are easily bewitched by witchcraft, and the number of high-level monks with the ability to eliminate demons is limited, and the demon hunters do not pay much attention to ordinary human beings asking for help— So for a brief period of time, wizards and witches flourished."
"This period is also mentioned in human history books." Hao Ren nodded, "But it must be different from the version you know."
"This kind of magic book became popular at that time," Vivienne smiled. "A book like this may even cause melee among noble lords, because many of the magics recorded in them can be learned by humans, and only a sufficient price needs to be paid—usually human life, and what price did the lords at that time All willing to pay. Especially human life. I remember when I was wandering around European towns, I could often see wizards and witches hanged or burned to death, but in fact most of them were fake, they just wanted to create Some fake magic books to cheat some money, but not every nobleman has the courage to accept such things, at least not publicly. By the way, how long are you going to pretend to be an ice sculpture, Big Dog?"
Lily shook her head vigorously. Throwing the icicles on the hair aside: "I just want to see when you can feel a little guilty! Hiss... I'm freezing to death..."
Vivian gave Lily a sideways look: "What are you talking about? You are a sled dog and you told me you are afraid of the cold?!"
Lily gritted her teeth and threatened. Then he waved his hand: "You continue to tell your story, I am very interested-I have not experienced that era."
"Actually, what happened at that time was basically meaningless. The whole of Europe was in a mess. The mess between the church and the heretics was interesting for the first time, but it became boring after reading too much," Vivienne put the book on the tea table Pushed up, "What makes this thing interesting is that it records a ritual, no matter how I look at it, I feel that it has something to do with me."
Hao Ren was very curious: "What ceremony?"
Vivian opened the book and found an illustration. It depicts a strange pentagram on which various sacrifices are placed in several corners of the pentagram. Above the pattern is a female figure with long fangs. She opens her hands and points to the two sides of the picture. Two worshipers prostrate on the ground side by side. In the corner of the screen to indicate the distant position, you can see a castle-like building.
Lily pointed to the woman on the screen: "So you mean this is you?"
Vivienne had a strange expression on her face: "In a sense, I think it might be possible..."
Lili said bluntly: "Why do you draw it like the Monkey King?"
Vivian stuck a little bat on Lily's face: "That's why I don't want to discuss issues with you! Your mouth is getting closer and closer to the landlord!"
"Why do I still shoot in the air..." Hao Renting innocently spread his hands, then looked down at the weird illustrations on the page, "What does this ghostly symbol mean?"
"The ceremony of summoning the King of Blood," Vivienne pointed to a passage below the illustration, "draw an inverted pentagram according to the label in the picture. And place the fur of the black goat, the dead leaves of mistletoe, the teeth of the bat, Limestone and the ashes of the woman's hair, a ceremony is held on the night of the full moon. Two people stand on both sides of the magic circle, cut their fingers and drip blood at the same time, and after the third drop of blood falls to the ground, the blood king will appear. The blood king will Apply magic to the two people performing the ceremony, kill one of them, and transfer one-half of the remaining life of the person to the other, and take the other half of the life as a reward."
Lily listened for a long time, and finally said: "What the hell is this? What are you talking about?"
"Wizards like to record these things," Vivian shrugged. "It's all lost now, but back then, it was a common thing."
"Why do you think the King of Blood written on it is you?" Hao Ren looked at Vivienne puzzled.
"Although the illustration is pretty bad, but look at this..." Vivienne pointed to the woman in the illustration, with a cross hanging on her chest, "at least this thing is very clear. There will be blood races wearing crosses in the world I am the only one. The one who made this magic book is a very strict wizard, so his illustrations must not be messed up, and ordinary wizards will not draw a cross on the body of the blood when they are free. The only explanation is—the author of this book may have met me back then."
"Have you seen him?" Hao Ren raised his head and asked.
Vivienne twitched the corner of her mouth: "Forgot."
Lily looked at Vivienne with a weird expression: "I can understand everything else, but why are you making such a ridiculous summoning ceremony? Did you still have great ambitions to rule the world back then?"
"You ask me, I'll ask who to ask," Vivienne rolled her eyes at the sky, "Wizards were originally from ordinary humans, and their magic system is different from that of other species. Who knows the principle of this summoning ceremony. Hessiana just She thought this book was very interesting and sent it to me, but she didn’t even know who the author was.”
In the dark age when occultism was prevalent, there were many kinds of similar magic books, and there was no way to classify them, and they were all circulated secretly. It was also overwhelmed by other messy folk superstitions. After Vivian got the book, she just studied it out of curiosity, but Hao Ren was obviously more interested at this time: "How about we try it?"
Vivian was taken aback: "Try what?"
Lily was the only one who reacted extremely quickly to such amusing things, and immediately understood Hao Ren's meaning: "I'm calling you!"
"... nervous," Vivienne rolled her eyes, turned her head and walked towards the kitchen, "I'm off to cook, you two can mess around."
Doudou immediately jumped out of nowhere, and happily followed Vivienne: "I'll help light the fire! Help light the fire!"
"Keep her away from the gas tank!" Hao Ren hurriedly greeted from behind, then turned to look at Lily, and lowered his voice, "Let's try the summoning ceremony here?"
Lily nodded her head excitedly: "Okay!"
"But it says it needs to be summoned on a full moon night," Hao Ren frowned, "It's really troublesome, it's still a fixed point."
Lily wagged her tail excitedly: "Tonight is the full moon, I've been excited for days~~"
No wonder this husky is so energetic today!
(I still have to go out to do errands, and it’s a whole day, so I’ll update it in advance... Speaking of going out for errands, I finally ran out of saved manuscripts = .=) (to be continued~^~)