The post road itself was well repaired during the rest of the journey, and the carriage kept moving forward smoothly. Zhao Xu and his party stayed in the carriage, which also blocked the outside from the flying snow.
Only from time to time the sound of hooves following the cavalry could be faintly heard.
When they were about to approach Shuanglu Town, the entire carriage suddenly stopped and stopped.
This change instantly made everyone in the carriage feel like they were facing a formidable enemy, and they all quickly grabbed their weapons and were on guard.
"What's going on?" Zhao Xu immediately asked in a low voice.
"Sir, there were a few wild wolves surrounding the tree stump in front of us. But when we got closer, the wild wolves were frightened and ran away, but the horses were also frightened and stopped."
At this time, the groom seemed a little unbelievable. He paused and continued, "There seems to be a corpse tied to the tree stump, but it looks like a lamb."
"Let's go and take a look." Zhao Xu was keenly aware of something amiss.
Eliton immediately turned his head. In his impression, Mr. Zhongxia never meddle in too much trouble.
I just heard people exclaiming and got involved in Mrs. Betty's matter.
Zheng Xinyun followed silently. She had received training as a priest and her thoughts were very clear at this time: "Wolves will not tie lambs to tree stumps when they are hunting. Moreover, this area is not hilly, so it would be strange for a lamb to appear." "
"What does it have to do with?" Eliton asked.
At this time, Zheng Xinyun lowered his head slightly, and his eyes became more serious, "Some kind of sacrifice?"
Suddenly, Mrs. Betty, who was holding her young son and not wanting to move, changed her expression.
She directly touched the partition of the carriage and knew from the coolness on her fingertips that extra steel plates were installed on it, which was very strong.
She gently put down the child in her arms, showed a gentle expression, and followed everyone out of the carriage.
Then she immediately signaled to the cavalry who followed this time to keep an eye on the carriage.
After her recruitment and reorganization, in addition to her original nine guards being replaced by war horses, three cavalry who were good at defense were specially added to follow them.
As for the other cavalry, she arranged to go elsewhere.
After getting off the carriage, Zhao Xu discovered that the place where he temporarily stopped on the post road was a cemetery lined with tombstones. He thought this was the place where residents of nearby Shuanglu Town buried their relatives.
After the residents of Arthur died, only a few chose to be cremated, and most of them chose to be buried.
It's just that the three-ring divine skill and four-ring arcane skill of "manipulating the dead body" is so prestigious that Zhao Xu can use it now.
He can directly transform the bones or corpses of dead creatures into skeletons or zombies, and will also accept his orders.
This is also the key spell for the Necromancer to form an undead army.
Zhao Xu's spell to summon higher undead only creates powerful undead creatures. He was still able to control the opponent by relying on the necromantic staff combined with the fragments of his godhead.
Therefore, most people who choose burial will consider avoiding the risk of the body being transformed into undead in the future.
In the end, most civilians chose to be buried in designated areas designated by the church.
At this time, Zhao Xu walked up to the corpse of the lamb that had been disemboweled and chewed up, and observed it carefully.
After a while, several other people came closer and observed together.
The other cavalry were responsible for keeping an eye on the surroundings and protecting the carriage. Chuck, the more experienced captain of the guard who was responsible for Mrs. Betty's safety, also came over and observed them together.
Zhao Xu initially paid attention to this bearded level 1 warrior, but didn't pay much attention to him.
"Can you tell?" Zhao Xu asked, standing next to the lamb carcass that was already somewhat rotten and had flies flying on it.
After seeing this, Mrs. Betty couldn't help but feel dizzy. After finally standing firm, she hurriedly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves.
Eliton, who had experienced great trauma, had no psychological barriers at this time. He came directly to Zhao Xu, even took out a glove and put it on, then moved the wound of the disemboweled lamb.
Zheng Xinyun has been staying in the church most of the time these days. This is the first time he has seen such a bloody scene. Although there is no blood, his head is still numb.
After slowly holding her breath, she squatted down and leaned against Zhao Xu to observe.
Regarding the performance of the two people, Zhao Xu silently nodded.
The reason for Arthur's authenticity is that players will feel physically uncomfortable when they come into contact with corpses for the first time, especially human ones.
Generally speaking, only medical students can adapt without any problems, while others often need to undergo some psychological adjustment.
Even after time travel, many players realized that this was a real world and did not dare to actually cut down when fighting with others. They hesitated for a while, and there were also examples of being killed by others.
"It seems like two injuries." Eliton concluded after looking at the different shapes of the wounds.
It just so happened that he also practiced human body structure in the instructor's course, so he was no stranger to this.
"That's right." Zhao Xu confirmed.
"Someone should have tied this lamb to this tree stump." Eliton pointed to the thick hemp rope strangling the lamb's neck, which was specially tied with a knot that became tighter the more it struggled.
The other end of the hemp rope was fixed to a dead tree stump that was only half a man tall.
"The purposely knotted knot shows that it is not temporarily fixed at all. I fully intend to just leave this lamb here and let it be slaughtered." Zhao Xu added analysis.
"So this lamb was preyed on immediately, and the lamb carcass we just saw after the wolves left was actually the second prey." Zheng Xinyun also reacted, "Is it because of the sacrifice? That's why it was chosen. Around the cemetery."
At this time, she was fully awake.
Even though she was new to the game, she knew that anything involving ritual sacrifices in Arthur was never a trivial matter.
"Quite the opposite."
At this time, Zhao Xu stood up and looked past the tombstones stuck on the small mounds. His eyes continued across the end and landed in the silent valley farther away.
"The cemetery itself is blessed by divine magic. For example, the second-level 'Consecration Technique' blesses an area with positive energy so that it cannot transform undead creatures. The disadvantage is that it can only last for two hours per level, and Limited scope.”
"In addition to the five-ring Holy Abode spell itself, which can be used to solidify spells such as 'Detection of Magic', 'Assistance', and 'Anti-Death Barrier', it also has the ability to render an area unable to be transformed. There are undead creatures, but these are only common in the cemeteries of nobles."
"Considering the cost and area issues, most civilian cemeteries are blessed with similar rituals. The disadvantage is that it may not be able to completely avoid transformation into undead, but the difficulty of transformation will increase sharply, and the coverage can be very wide. .”
Zhao Xu turned around and looked at the others, "That's why the other party chose the place near the cemetery because they didn't want the lamb that was bitten to death to have any abnormalities. Otherwise, there are intact trees further away, and it would not be easy to tie the lamb there." Break free."
After Zhao Xu's analysis, his team members all nodded, while Mrs. Betty agreed with a stiff smile.
Zhao Xu was stunned when he saw this scene.
It was just that when he first "suggested" Mrs. Betty, it was in order to reduce the rebellious mood of the other party who had just heard "Old Witch".
Therefore, the spell he arranged was of the "trigger" type. Only after Mrs. Betty arrived in Frost Dew Town, the thoughts revealed by Zhao Xu would sprout under the influence of suggestion.
Even within the 12 hours of spell duration, if they did not arrive at Frost Dew Town, the suggestion spell would be ineffective.
Therefore, this connection has made Zhao Xu suspicious of the old hag.
"Captain, there is a dilapidated hut nearby, but we did not go in to search." At this time, two cavalry patrolling nearby returned to report.
"Mrs. Betty, I'm afraid we have to go investigate. Your people can stay here and just send a signal if there is any problem." Zhao Xu said kindly at this time, but his expression was very playful.
Mrs. Betty shook her head, "No, let's go there together. It is our honor to cooperate with your actions, Mr. Pastor."
"Then let's go together, Mrs. Betty." Zhao Xu really needed the other party's information at the critical moment, so he invited him directly.
No one present dared to question Zhao Xu for meddling in other people's business.
In fact, when a pastor discovers such an incident involving evil sacrifices, he is a fake pastor if he does not pay attention or investigate.
Zhao Xu's performance was extremely reasonable in everyone's eyes. Because this is no longer a simple case of a lamb being eaten.
"I'll go in front, you follow." After thinking about it, Zhao Xu still ordered.
At this time, he assessed the situation, and it happened that this place was not far from Shuanglu Town, so he started casting spells on himself.
"Energy protection!"
As a ball of glow entered Zhao Xu's body, he was directly immune to the attribute damage caused by the subsequent use of the "Super Demonic Control" ability.
But then he didn't continue to rush to cast spells. He had to wait for the arrival of a key expertise.
He silently stared at his character card panel.
When he is promoted to level 6, he will get the character level reward expertise that can be obtained by every multiple of 3 levels.
Previously, for the level 5 mage's metamagic specialty, he chose "spell lasting", while the "iron will" specialty was exchanged for "spell prompt".
This time, for the level 6 expertise, he directly chose the lowest level of difficulty. Basically, there was no threshold for anyone to master it, and he just used the costly "spell upgrade".
After reading the teaching book of this expertise on the carriage, combined with the characteristics of his use of potential points to simulate this expertise.
Everything was as Zhao Xu expected. Before he arrived at Shuanglu Town, this reminder came to his mind.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you gain the 'Spell Upgrade' feat (level 6 character feat).]
(End of chapter)