"I felt the whispers!"
the priest shouted to Shad.
“I feel that, too.”
And this time it is even stronger. The source of the element traces is still the corpse rather than the dagger, and this phenomenon can already explain some problems.
"Padre, we can't hurt it anymore, it will only make it stronger."
"Of course, I understand. Is there a way to temporarily control it? It only takes a few seconds!"
"Of course, priest, lead it to the tree!"
Shade responded, and the priest began to run forward, attracting the corpse.
"Chains of Sin!"
With a rustling sound, a dark chain emerged from Shade's sleeve. As Father Augustus turned his head with a look of doubt, the chain climbed up the tree trunk, wrapped around the thickest branch twice, and fell down, forming a circle on the ground and fastened with a buckle.
The corpse wielding a dagger followed the priest to the tree. The priest stepped into the circle of the chain on the ground, but nothing happened. When the corpse stepped into the trap formed by the chain, Shade pulled it hard and the corpse was hung upside down.
"Watch me."
The priest immediately turned around and rushed forward, using his hand to push away the dagger that the hanging corpse was still waving, and then stretched out his hand to press on the corpse's brow:
"Oh!"
The old man shouted in a low voice, and as the life ring behind him spun rapidly, white holy light shone in all directions within the gushing steam mist. The light at that moment even made Xia De feel that he had come into contact with the purest power in the world.
But what was very strange was that when using this power, the spiritual runes on the back of Priest Augustus did not light up.
The holy white light gradually gathered on the priest's fingertips. Shade squinted his eyes and even saw a few white feather shadows swaying and falling behind the priest.
This is not a real thing; it is a strange phenomenon that can only be seen by outsiders with sensitive souls.
The white light gathered at the priest's fingertips was finally pressed on the corpse's forehead. There was no abnormal phenomenon such as the corpse exploding. It trembled twice and then stopped moving completely.
The panting priest took a step back, and if Shad hadn't held him up, he would have sat down on the ground.
Shad felt the priest's back was soaked.
"After all, you are not young anymore."
The old man gasped and shivered in the night wind. It took him a while to let go of Xia De's arm and stand up straight.
The corpse was still hung upside down by Xia De under the tree, and the black dagger had fallen from his hand and stuck in the ground.
"Meow~"
The cat on Shade's shoulder was curious about this scene, but was very conscious and did not leave his shoulder.
"What should we do now? Send this body directly to the church?"
Shade inquired.
"No, it's too far from the church. If this thing gets out of control and runs away in the city, we will all be sinners."
The priest said.
"But what exactly is this? Why is there a whispering element on the corpse? Is it some relic that controls the corpse?"
"No, no, I think the relic is right in front of us. Detective, I have read some terrible information about what a crazy ring warlock would do. I sincerely hope that my guess is wrong, but we still have to ask the spirit."
Xia De nodded and looked the body up and down:
“This body shouldn’t be the deceased husband of the peasant woman, the original owner of the tomb, Mushir Nem, right?”
He said suspiciously that although it was wrong to judge a person by his appearance, this corpse with all his clothes burned off did not look like an ordinary farmer who had lived here for many years. His skin was not rough, and there were no marks on his palms from years of heavy labor. Instead, there were calluses from years of clerical work.
Not to mention, although the corpse's appearance was not as handsome as Xia De's current appearance, he did not look like a middle-aged man who would be content to stay in a small village outside the city.
"This should be the scholar who helped the peasant woman arrange the funeral. He buried himself in the ground, so the unburied soul of Mr. Mushir Naim came to complain to his wife in a dream."
The priest also agreed with Shad's opinion:
"I guess this is a very ancient ritual that uses resurrection after death to gain power. It's evil, very evil, and there are ritual contents that I don't understand."
After hearing what Priest Augustus said, Shad went to check the coffin, and indeed he found traces of ritual arrays and ancient texts on the inside of the coffin.
Judging from the headache he got from just looking at it, the writing was extremely ancient, but it was not difficult for Shade to decipher it. He could only decipher the individual runes, but he could not tell what the purpose of the ritual was.
"Want to channel his soul? I happen to have psychic abilities, and the integrity of this corpse meets the requirements."
Xia De was eager to try.
"No, no, I'll do it. Your magic can only communicate soul fragments, but I can summon a complete soul. Detective, put it down first and let it lie flat on the grass."
The priest said, and the soul runes on the life ring behind him flickered slightly.
After Shade laid the body down steadily, the priest took out a wooden tube from his pocket and sprinkled the black powder in it along the edge of the body. He asked Shade to hold the cat and back away, and reminded him not to let the cat jump over the head of the body. Then, he placed the still bright lantern in front of the head of the body and chanted a spell.
Translating those ancient languages into the common language of Draerion, the general meaning is "return of the soul".
In the cemetery, which originally had only a faint night breeze, a violent and gloomy wind suddenly blew up. The wind was howling, and the sound was even a little like the wailing of ghosts.
Mia stood on Shad's shoulder, her body pressed against Shad's profile, while Shad carefully observed the priest's ceremony.
Father Augustus suddenly widened his eyes, bent down, and slapped the corpse on the face:
"Come back!"
The old man's angry and roaring look really made Xia De want to laugh.
But this was very effective, because Shad really saw a pale green shadow being fanned out from the corpse by the priest... ... He was very interested in this psychic magic.
The soul looked exactly like the corpse lying on the ground. After he appeared, he was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn't react to the current situation, and then he recognized where the cemetery was under the night sky.
He looked around again and saw his own body on the ground, as well as Shad and Priest Augustus.
"Are you... tired of living?"
His expression suddenly turned ferocious, and he didn't give Shad and Priest Augustus any chance to talk to him.
Behind the soul, the life ring of the five-ring warlock emerged. But Shade and the priest were not panicked at all. The ring warlock was not a pure soul profession. Only the unity of body and soul could control the power of mysticism. Therefore, the face of Shade's body gradually approached the face of the soul.
Even if it was a fifth-ring warlock, when he lost his body and appeared as a pure soul, the power he could exert would inevitably be reduced. If the opponent was a high-ring one, Shade and the priest would turn around and run away, but since he was only a fifth-ring one, they could still deal with him.
The life ring behind the soul, probably because of the state of the operator, appeared in the form of a phantom. Several shadowy spirit runes flashed a pale green light, and with the cold wind blowing, abnormal sounds came from the surrounding land.
"Damn it! This guy is trying to desecrate corpses and revive the dead!"
Priest Augustus cursed in a tone that was not suitable for a clergyman, lifted his robe and stomped his right foot on the ground. A life ring also appeared behind the priest. He was proficient in the power of souls and corpses, and was trying his best to prevent the resurrection of the dead.
Of course, Shad was not idle either. He swung an arc of moonlight at the soul of the ring warlock with his right hand. While the opponent used the convenience of his spiritual body to dodge, Shad took a step forward and appeared behind the opponent.
But this sneak attack failed. The soul actually disappeared at the same time Shade stabbed out the sword in his hand. This is a special way for the soul to move.
The soul appeared right above the body.
"You are such fools!"
He laughed and was about to get inside his body, then he saw Shad rushing towards him with the cat in his arms.
"You can't touch the soul, oh!"
Shade threw Mia over, and the orange cat flew over the face of the corpse. The corpse opened its eyes even though its soul had not yet entered the corpse.
It is transforming from a corpse sealed by the Augustus priests into an undead creature.
"Do you think there's nothing I can do about this?"
The life ring behind the soul flickered again, calming the corpse that was trying to get up. Seeing that Father Augustus was still trying his best to stop the corpses in the cemetery from rioting, Shad grabbed the chain on his sleeve and threw it forward.
"Um?"
His original intention was to force the other party to leave the air above the corpse, and then use the chains to imprison him. Unexpectedly, the soul turned around and raised his hand to block it, and the dark rune chain composed of "gluttony" and "greed" actually pierced through the spirit's arm, and then easily pierced through the entire soul from the front.
"What's this?"
The soul looked at Shad in surprise, and Shad was equally surprised. He thought that the chain had no offensive power.
Not only did the chain pierce through the soul, but the dense black marks actually spread along the wound of the soul to the entire spirit.
The soul that was channeled by Priest Augustus didn't even have the chance to curse Shade before its entire body quickly changed color as if it had been stained black by ink.
The life ring on his back was deteriorating like rusted metal, and the densely packed spiritual runes representing "gluttony" and "greed" were wriggling on the dark spiritual body and rusty life ring like crawling insects.
The soul raised its finger and pointed at Shade, as if to curse him. But as soon as it raised its hand, the soul swelled up as if out of control. The humanoid spirit squirmed and deformed, and the wisdom in its eyes gradually faded.
"He's losing control!"
The priest shouted, and the surprised Shad came to his senses and knew that he could not let this go on.
Holding the sword in both hands, Shade took a step forward and stood in front of the opponent, holding up the Moonlight Greatsword with his feet:
"Praise the moon!"
He shouted, raised his sword and swung it down. As the arc of the silver moon fell, the deformed spirit was split in half, and then turned into black ash and dissipated little by little in front of Shade.
The chains fell on the corpse with a clanking sound, and the soul turned into ashes with a foul smell, disappearing little by little with the night wind. It was the first time that Xia De saw a soul turned into powder in this way. This was the most terrifying scene so far tonight.