Hao Ren didn't expect that he saw the title of "King of Blood" here again, not in the manuscript left by the wizard, but in the diary left by an ordinary human being. As the data terminal finished analyzing the remaining handwriting on the parchment, some things began to become clear.
The "Hemerwin" mentioned in the diary is consistent with the nameplate outside the mansion. Now it can be confirmed that this person is the owner of the small town "Dormer" and several surrounding areas. He is a small nobleman in a remote place in the countryside. The person who left these parchments did not leave his name, but he can only be identified as Hemerwin's steward. What is mentioned in the diary should be what happened in the last period of time before the town changed. From the lines, one can feel the writer's uneasiness: a series of weird events enveloped the town, and shadows and turmoil filled the town. Domir.
The beginning of the incident seemed to be an infectious disease, and the news Lily heard from the spirit body and the words on the parchment all recorded this incident. The children in the town were infected with a strange disease that gradually lost their physical strength, and the ordinary medicine was ineffective-in that dark age, this kind of thing implied a taste of horror, and people would naturally associate it with it On to witchcraft and curses. The lord here, Hemerwin, did not do anything to deal with the spread of rumors. He "has changed his personality and listened to a so-called scholar of unknown origin." Not only did this lord fail to find a way to cure the disease, but instead The witch trial operation was launched, and this operation was carried out under the impetus of that foreign "scholar".
There are not many records about witches. Hao Ren has no way of inferring whether it is an ordinary woman who has been framed or a witch who really understands magic. Only the huge amount of soot produced when the witch's body was burned makes people quite concerned, which seems to confirm that Black ash can be seen everywhere in the town. If it was a real witch, then the ashes in the town are presumably the result of some kind of curse.
Hao Ren and Vivian's main attention was still on the "scholar". Without a doubt, he was the wizard who left behind the "Blood King Ritual".
Hao Ren asked Vivienne while flipping through the text analyzed by the data terminal: "Is this kind of thing common in those days?"
"You mean wizards and curses?" Vivian raised her eyebrows. "It's about the same. Witchcraft, magic, cursed cities and villages. The open and secret battles between various exorcists and demons, and trembling in the cracks without knowing it." Ordinary people at a loss... It was a chaotic era. Demon hunters and aliens hadn't completely faded out of the world of ordinary people, and there really couldn't be more people who died unexpectedly. But the situation in this town is still relatively rare: it was dragged into the In a different time and space, the wizards who cast this kind of magic are very powerful, and they must have borrowed some kind of external force—such as the gate of purgatory. Anyway, an ordinary wizard doesn’t have this kind of ability.”
The movement of Hao Ren's hands suddenly stopped: "You said that the power of the gate of purgatory trapped this town in this time and space?"
"The beginning of time and space distortion should be the gate of purgatory, but now the gate must be closed," Vivienne waved her hand, "purgatory is very unstable. It is impossible to keep it open for centuries."
Hao Ren snorted and continued to check the documents. The records left by the old housekeeper also have the following information:
"... I found that the scholar always held a black book, and when he read those books, he had a strange expression on his face, which should not be seen by any blessed person when reading a beneficial book... I asked him about the book and was met with nonchalance, and he said it was a hand-copied Bible, but he couldn't let anyone touch it for religious reasons. That was enough to raise my alarm: What kind of bible would refuse to be touched by a man of conscience? Unless it is the bible of the devil...
"... I finally found a chance to glance at the strange black book he was holding in his hand. The shady man quickly noticed what I was doing, and his eyes were very scary for a moment, although only for a short moment. But he At that time, I finally took off the high-sounding shell of 'scholar'. I don't think I will ever forget how sinister a person's eyes can be... They are eyes that only sell their souls to the devil, just like glass Cold and heartless. His real eyeballs must have hung on the devil's mantelpiece long ago! But the strangest thing was the book itself... no words, just blank pages as far as I could see. Now I It can only be believed that God used his miracle to protect a pious servant, and the page must be full of blasphemous symbols, but luckily I can't see it."
The data terminal flashed twice, indicating that there are only so many words that can be parsed.
"Is the black strange book mentioned above the magic book we found?" Hao Ren murmured to Vivian suspiciously, "We didn't notice that the words on the magic book disappeared."
Vivienne shook her head: "It should be another book. A wizard can't just have one spell book. Anyway, now that the wizard's identity is confirmed, I suspect that the plague and witch events in this town before the mutation happened were all planned by this wizard. Yes. He seems to have planned to involve everyone in the town in some kind of ceremony... but based on the information at hand, I can't tell what kind of ceremony it is."
The two rummaged around in the room again, but did not find anything more valuable. In the end, Hao Ren just put away the parchments. Then he returned to the long hall on the first floor with Vivienne.
Soon the others also completed their own explorations and returned to the long hall. After everyone gathered, Hao Ren told everyone what he and Vivian had discovered, and asked the others if they had any results.
"It's a witch, a wizard, and a curse. I'm not good at dealing with such complicated things," Lily muttered, pointing to her eyes, "I just saw a lot of ghost shadows walking around here. Go, it seems that they are all the servants who worked here at the beginning, the Lord Hemerwin you mentioned should be among them, but the shadows are too messy, I can't tell who is who. Besides, I didn't find anything related to wizards , and did not see his shadow: his spirit body should not be imprisoned."
"My brother and I found a basement," Nangong Wuyue raised his tail, "the basement is full of rotten potatoes, wine barrels, and more ashes, nothing else."
Duncan and Cassandra also shook their heads respectively, indicating that there was nothing in the towers on both sides they were in charge of.
"That wizard must have lived here, but where are his magic books and spell-casting materials hidden?" Hessiana squeezed her chin, "This kind of thing is more important than the wizard's life, and it is impossible for him not to carry it with him..."
Heather Anna stopped suddenly in the middle of her speech, and everyone raised their heads to look towards the direction of the stairs on the second floor. In the silence, Nangong Sanba was the first to break the silence: "Did you hear any movement just now? "
Lily's ears trembled: "I heard it, it sounds like footsteps?"
Duncan and Cassandra stood up immediately, and each drew a delicate noble rapier and a large-caliber pistol from their waists (the armed style of the Hessiana family). They had just walked a few steps when a large group of black things suddenly "walked" down the stairs!
It was a strange mass of ash, black as a filthy lump of mud, but roughly human in shape. After appearing on the stairs, the body made of black ash swayed, and then walked down clumsily step by step, dropping a lot of ash and dust with every step. And as it approached step by step, incredible changes took place on the ash mass: its appearance fell off, revealing the clothes and skin underneath, and the upper half of the ash mass slowly emerged with the outline of human facial features. When he arrived in the long hall, he was almost a complete and clear human figure.
Hao Ren and the others raised their weapons and watched this strange "thing" walking curiously and warily, until "it" finally turned into a middle-aged man with a tired face.
The middle-aged man who came out of the ashes looked about forty years old, and his hairstyle and clothes were the clothes of a rich man in the Middle Ages. He seemed to be in a trance when he first fell off the ashes, but soon he woke up suddenly, and stared at the group of strangers in front of him dumbfounded.
After being stunned for a few seconds, the man suddenly let out a scream, then turned around and ran towards the second floor!
Hao Ren immediately reacted: "Grab him!"
A flash of white light rushed up, Lily took a brick that had been dug out from nowhere, and knocked the man down with one brick. Hao Ren was startled when he saw this scene. He thought to himself that this person walked out of ashes. What if his body is really made of ashes? Lily won't be smashed apart
Fortunately, the man was just sent flying by Lily, but he turned over and stood up again as if nothing had happened.
Lily went up to subdue him decisively before the opponent ran away again, and then dragged her trophy back to Hao Ren as if claiming credit: "I caught it!"
The mysterious man who was tied up by Lily looked at Hao Ren with a look of horror on his face: "You... what are you doing?! Are you human or ghost!?"
Hao Ren thought that the other party was the wizard he was looking for, but when he heard the tone, he felt something was wrong. He asked the other party's identity: "Who are you?"
The man shrank his neck in fear: "I... I am the lord here, Hemerwin Ahtisaari..." (to be continued~^~)