Spear and Cross
Chapter 12
"Isn't this cage a spell from the temple? Please release Samantha! Don't you see that my wife is dying?"
cried Embogel angrily.
"It's not safe, sir." Fraxis certainly wouldn't listen to him, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he released the monster easily, "There was another monster that was almost the same in the room just now, and they attacked me together And Knight Commander Brandon, it took me a lot of effort to lock it, it was for the sake of safety."
"There's another... what?" Embogle seemed to be doubting his ears, and repeated his words in a murmur, "Your Excellency, you say my wife is a monster?"
Is it still necessary for him to draw conclusions?Fraxis glanced at him, thinking that there must be something wrong with Embogle's eyes and brain: "Viscount, I don't think the Viscountess would be like a charred corpse in a normal state, but her movements are faster than ordinary people Much more—it even broke all my protective spells and amulets, and ended up stabbing me."
He showed Embogle his left arm. There was a wound on it that was two palms long, so deep that the bones could almost be seen, and because he didn't deal with it in time, the hideous gap was still bleeding slowly.
"Does the Viscountess have nails that are sharp enough to destroy three layers of protective spells in one blow?" He raised his eyebrows and asked back, "Its claws are so sharp that they can tear us apart with bare hands, Viscount, do you still want me to give you some nails?" Does it come out?"
The wound on his arm was hideous and terrifying, obviously scratched by a sharp object, but Enbogel remained unmoved, as if he was very sure of the identity of the distorted human figure.
"Samantha can't hurt me." He said firmly in the monster's wailing, "Your Excellency, please let my wife go."
Fracis thought Embogle might have gone mad.Regardless of how he figured out that this thing belonged to his wife, as long as he can be sure that there is no unsuspicious scorched black figure that will not hurt him, Fraxis believes that it is either himself or En. Pogle, at least one of them was crazy.
"...Sorry, I can't take the risk." All he could say was, "Until Knight Commander Brandon is out of danger and comes out through the secret door, I can't let go of this...your wife."
"Knight Commander Brandon? What danger has he encountered?" Embogle noticed the other person he mentioned, and shifted his gaze from the monster in the holy light cage to the direction of Fraxis.
"I've said it just now, maybe you didn't hear it clearly in a hurry." Fraxis looked at him blankly, and said indifferently, "I came with Knight Commander Brandon, and he was killed by another The same creature was pulled into the secret door over there, and the situation is unknown now."
Embogle's expression changed suddenly when he said "the secret door over there", he turned suddenly to look at the secret door that was still open, and hesitantly confirmed: "Knight Commander Brandon... went in ?”
"Yes, although not voluntarily." Fraxis nodded, deliberately ignoring the fact that Hampton was going to check the secret door, "There is a dark field inside, I dare not enter at will—— Viscount, can you tell me what is inside, will the knight commander be in danger?"
Enbogle didn't say anything, he just left the monster in the cage and stepped into the secret door in a few steps.Fraxis didn't know what he was going to do, but he didn't follow up, because the cage of the Holy Light had a distance limit, and he couldn't be sure how long the way in the secret door was. Once he was too far away, the cage would fail , no one knows what the escaped monster will do.
He could only hope that Hampton was out of danger, and that the other monster didn't escape.Although it is a bit too much to ask so much of the other party in this situation, if the monster escapes, they will have no way to prove that Hampton was dragged into the secret door.
After a while, Embogel bent down and got out from the secret door with a very ugly expression on his face.
"There is no one inside, Your Excellency, are you sure that Knight Commander Brandon really went in?"
"I'm sure he went in, but I can only confirm that he went in." Fraxis glanced at the secret door, "Viscount, instead of asking me about it repeatedly, why don't you tell me what the secret door leads to?" The place, what secrets are hidden in it, so things may be resolved better."
He didn't ask Enbogle why he could see things in the dark field. Since he set up such a secret door in his bedroom and built a dark field inside, he believed that Enbogle could restrain himself. A magic item in the dark realm.
Embogle seemed determined to keep the secrets in the secret door secret, he gave up exploring the passage in the secret door, returned to the side of the cage of holy light, and turned the topic back to the original direction .
"Regarding the original question, I haven't gotten the answer I want—your lord, why are you in my wife's room?"
The "flame" in the room was still burning violently, and the "ignited" furniture was crackling, but both of them knew that it was just an overly realistic illusion.Even Fraxis couldn't see through its true colors in a short period of time, which is enough to show the caster's achievements in the field of illusion, or, this fire field illusion was jointly constructed by more than one spellcaster.
Fraxis and Hampton were too cautious. If they were more careless when they broke in through the window, and someone's clothes touched the flames, they would only find the illusion of the fabric burning, and there would be no real burning. pain of.That piece of clothing that is on fire will only remain in a "burning" state forever, and will never be burned to ashes - because from the beginning to the end, this fire is just a sensory deception caused by illusion.
"Because of this fire that burned too coincidentally, the knight commander and I came to check the situation after receiving a report that the fire was too big for ordinary magicians to extinguish it with water magic. I thought you were not at home, Viscount, but it seems that you We knew about the fire a long time ago."
He easily passed the reason for coming to check the situation, but Enbogel did not intend to let go of this loophole, and pressed him step by step: "But if I remember correctly, when I was a guest in the temple during the day, you I have already promised in front of the chief priest that I will suspend the performance of all duties that priests should undertake."
He was not polite at all, but Fraxis did not show any embarrassment of being poked at the pain, "Of course, it was the knight commander who received the report, and I was just a high-ranking mage who happened to be there to help put out the fire—a knight." No matter how superb Chang's fighting skills are, he can't handle the fire that burns the whole manor as well as a mage, can he?"
Embogle closed his mouth resentfully.
"Since you don't plan to tell me what's in the secret door, I have no choice but to inform the chief priest... After all, the head of the Knights disappeared on the eve of the ceremony. Looking at the direction of the Holy Light Cage, he added, "This one in the cage, I will also ask other priests to bring it back to the temple to find a way to restore it to its original form. I feel the power of an undead creature from it. breath, but I can’t be sure, and I need to ask the priest of Alunka to check further——If it is really the Viscountess, I will send her back in person and apologize to you and your wife.”
Embogle didn't object any more, but squatted down next to the Light Prison again, and whispered, "Can I have a few more words with Samantha?"
Naturally, Fraxis had no reason to refuse him, and nodded slightly: "Then you talk, I will contact the priest on duty today first."
He walked a few steps away, not leaving the control distance of the holy light cage, and cast a spell on the wall near the window to activate the temple's unique contact spell.This spell is not difficult, it just needs a little time to lock in, but before he could lock in the position of the rotating Priest of Delan, he was attracted by a sudden accident.
Another spell that was consuming mana was forcibly cut off by an external force the moment he tried to contact the temple.
At the same time, a gray-white dagger stabbed at him from behind. Fraxis, who reacted quickly because the supply of magic power was cut off, instinctively dodged sideways. Fortunately, the person who attacked him was not too agile, and the sharp blade of the dagger Only a lock of his blond hair was chopped off.
That strand of sand-blond hair slowly fell to the ground, wrapped in a burning "flame", like smelted gold, lying quietly on the spot, flickering with a little fire.
Fraxis does not have a sword, so he can only dodge back and forth. All the protective spells on him have been destroyed by the previous attack, and the instantaneous ones can only withstand one attack for a short time. There are too many debris in the room. It is beneficial for him to cast spells to counterattack, so that his room for movement is very limited.
Enbogle, who was attacking him with a dagger in his hand, showed a skill that was not inferior to that of Rein who was in the state of an undead creature, and quickly pushed Fraxis into a corner, but failed to cause him much damage in a short time.
"It seems that you are not suitable to be an assassin, that's why you were sent to be a businessman." Fraxis resisted his attack with instant magic while provoking him deliberately, "Viscount, you released your 'Madam' , but leave her alone, why is that?"
After the cage of holy light disappeared, the humanoid monster curled up on the ground was still unable to stand up, and the damage caused by the holy light to it was greater than imagined.Judging from the fact that Embogle left him where he was, but came to assassinate him, Fracis became more and more sure of his idea.
Either that wasn't the Viscountess at all, or Embogle didn't care about his lady at all.In contrast, he was more inclined to the latter possibility, because the dagger in Enbogle's hand was very familiar to him.
The assassin who assassinated Alvira at the banquet, and Rein who was transformed into an undead creature, the daggers they held were exactly the same as the one in front of Fraxis.
Since they are all things from the "land of the fallen", then this series of events can be connected in series.
"No reason, you killed Rein and tortured my wife like this." Enbogel suddenly twitched the corners of his mouth nervously, grinning with a twisted smile, and whispered, "Your Excellency, this Isn't that a reason for me to kill you?"
Before he finished speaking, his offensive suddenly became fierce. Fraxis was caught off guard, and he caught the opening and stabbed him!
The dagger easily tore through the white robe, and deeply penetrated Vlasis's shoulder. Scarlet blood splashed out as he drew the dagger, soaking the snow-white robe.
Fraxis clutched his shoulder in pain, and at the same time felt a burst of numbness in the wound. Obviously, poison or curse was attached to the dagger, and it spread so fast that he hardly had time to heal himself.
"How does it feel to be stabbed by the 'Forest of Sighs'?" Enbogel still had that weird smile on his face, and he moved closer as if in a demonstration, stretching out his other hand from under the cloak to press the Lacis' wound, "Your beautiful fiancée also experienced this feeling, but she was far less beautiful than you when she was stabbed.
"Your Excellency, will you beg for mercy? I really want to see you begging for mercy, it must be much more charming than your frail fiancée."
Fraxis tried to cast a healing technique for himself, but the situation was the same as when Alvira was assassinated, the healing technique did not work at all, and he could only rely on his own sacred attributes to slow down the rate of erosion.
Embogle smiled and looked back at the twisted human figure that was still lying on the ground. The latter had lost the ability to move and could only make a weak wail.
"You're right, I really don't care about the monster you trapped, because it's not Samantha at all. The real Samantha is not so fragile, in the dark realm, she is like a queen—I Guess, Knight Commander Brandon might have become her prey."
Fraxis frowned tightly. Although the blood from the wound didn't turn black, it had already stained a large area of the white robe red, and the blood continued to spread.He couldn't last long without being able to heal himself.
"What is the curse on the dagger...?" he asked, panting.
"Oh, if you ask me so pitifully, it doesn't matter if I tell you. Anyway, you will not be happy when you hear it."
Embogle blinked triumphantly, as if mocking him.
"I have already given you the materials needed to lift the curse, but you only treat it as a little girl's toy, no wonder I am."
A trace of surprise flashed in Fraxis' eyes, but he immediately covered it up: "Lilian?"
"More than that." Enbogel shook his head, his expression becoming more and more smug, "There are also good things I gave you with Rein."
He noticed the surprise in Fraxis' eyes and took pleasure in it: "Your Excellency, a darling like you who is favored by the Goddess of Light, did you ever think that there would be a day when you would be defeated by a mouse from a dark ditch?"
Fraxis slumped against the wall and sat on the ground, the blood on his body left an obvious mark on the wall, but he did not show weakness as Enbogel wished, but instead showed a smile that was the same as usual, softly He said: "Since even you say that I am favored by the goddess, how can I fail like this?"
His blue eyes showed a warm color under the light of the fire. Even in such an embarrassing situation, he still didn't look agitated or embarrassed at all. The paleness caused by excessive blood loss only made him look weaker.
This composure enraged Enbogle even more, he knelt down in front of Francis, his face hidden under the shadow of the cloak had long since lost the shrewdness and competence that belonged to "Viscount Enbogle", only nervousness remained. smiles and unnatural twitches.He stretched out the index finger of his left hand and poked forcefully on the wound pierced by the dagger on Fraxis. Seeing that the wound gushed out more blood, but was blocked by his finger again, he couldn't help grinning triumphantly .
"Do you know? I was very happy when I received the task of assisting in framing you. When I thought that you, who were praised by the nobles as a genius, would fall from heaven to hell because of me, I trembled with joy." He seemed to be sure of Fra Sith was busy clearing the paralysis caused by the curse, and had no time to attack him with magic. He approached more and more brazenly, almost sticking in front of Fraxis, "When I really saw you, I was a little bit reluctant. Such a beautiful It would be a pity for you to end up in the same fate as Rein. So I changed my plan and approached you as a little nobleman. I only used some small tricks to spread the fake news to you, yes Isn't it very simple?"
Francis suddenly remembered the "ghost". Their last contact was the note with Embogle's name on it, and they never heard from him again.And he remembered that the note was sent by the familiar, and he didn't see the "ghost" himself.
"What did you do to the 'ghost'?"
"An intelligence dealer who has so many enemies, what else does he need me to do?" Enbogel laughed shortly, not even bothering to repeat the name, "Believe me, apart from releasing him I didn't do anything other than the news of the grid beast."
Fraxis didn't believe him, but he didn't have much more to worry about his friend now.In just a few minutes after being stabbed by the dagger, his entire right shoulder was completely paralyzed, and he couldn't even raise his right hand, let alone heal himself.If this continues, there is no need for Enbogel to stab him a second time, he will soon be unconscious due to excessive blood loss, and completely lose the ability to resist.
"Who sent you here, can you tell me?" He leaned his head against the wall weakly, his hands were covered with his own blood, and even his face was covered with blood, looking extremely embarrassed, "I thought Now, you should not bother to hide this matter anymore."
Embogle shook his head, wiped the blood off the dagger with his fingers, and then wiped it on his black cloak: "I won't tell you."
Like a well-trained assassin, he skillfully inserted the gray dagger into the shaft of his boot, then moved closer, and lifted a strand of blood-stained blond hair of Francis with his hands, with complicated eyes, "You Now I still want to use this method to trick me. Is whoever sent me here is more important than your life? You know, you can't remove the curse on the dagger, and you can't heal yourself. If you continue to bleed like this... you will die."
"Well, if you don't want to say it, then I won't ask."
Embogle was stunned. He had thought that Francis would try his best to lure him to tell the truth, but he didn't expect him to give up so easily. "You don't want to know?"
"Of course I want to know, but if you don't want to say it, I have other ways." Fraxis still leaned against the wall in the previous posture, and smiled in his direction, but his eyes clearly fell Not on him—he wasn't smiling at him.
Embogle was startled, and was about to turn around when the cold blade was already on his neck.Hampton turned from behind him, disgusted.
"Aren't you so proud that you didn't even notice that I stood behind you for so long?"
The knight's body was covered with blood, but he didn't seem to be seriously injured. He searched the things on Embogle's body, then knocked him unconscious, and tied him up with a roll of black rope from nowhere.After confirming that Embogle was unconscious, he helped Francis up, frowning and staring at his wound, worrying: "What should I do? Do you have a solution?"
Fraxis shook his head helplessly: "It's the same as when Alvira was assassinated, my healing spell has no effect on myself."
He said so, but he wrote on the palm of Hampton's hand with his fingers at an angle that Embogle couldn't see, and motioned him to blindfold Embogle's eyes.
After Hampton complied, he began to communicate with him with his lips at ease.
"Take out what I gave you."
He had previously given the bottles containing Lilian's scent gland extract and Anderma phantom butterfly larva mucus to Hampton for safekeeping, but he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.Under his instructions, Hampton mixed the two liquids in a rough ratio, then tore off the robe near the wound, and poured the light red mucus on the wound on his shoulder.
The flesh and blood of the wound was stirred up into a puff of white smoke, Fraxis frowned in pain, and the knuckles of his clenched left hand turned blue and white.While spreading the mucus evenly on the bloody wound for him, Hampton handed him his right arm: "Bite me if it hurts."
Fraxis shook his head, with disgust written on his face, he glanced at the knight's muscular smooth arm with many scars, couldn't help pushing him, and asked silently: "Where is your armor?" ?”
"It was melted down." Hampton shrugged, "The monster in the secret door is very difficult to deal with, and I can't see it, so she made a move."
He tore off a section from the hem of Fraxis's still clean white robe, wiped the dirty blood from the wound for him, and asked, "Is there any bandage?"
Fraxis took out a bandage from the interspatial ring and brought it to him. Hampton pulled the bandage and tied up the wound for him. After confirming that there was no more bleeding, he was relieved, and finally had time to ask other questions.
"How do you know this disgusting thing is useful? When did this red-haired kid come back?"
"I can't say a few words clearly, let's go back and talk about it." Fraxis tried to move his right hand, and found that the numbness had eased a lot. It seems that Enbogle didn't lie to him, "Help me put Embogle Take the dying monster over there, and I will contact the temple right now."
He recast the spell and got in touch with Priest Theresa, who was preparing for the evening prayer. He was very surprised to see the tragic situation of him and Hampton, and said that he would bring reinforcements immediately.
After doing this, he felt a wave of dizziness surge up, menacingly, and instantly engulfed him like a rising tide.
Fraxis woke up in his room, and the sunlight filtering through the cracks in the curtains made him realize that it was daylight.He sat up from the bed and looked around, but found no one else, but found a breakfast on the table.
Lilian jumped onto the bed from the foot of the bed, gracefully stepped on the quilt and walked in front of him, snored twice coquettishly, and brought her little head to his hand.Fraxis touched her chin and neck, and saw her rubbing his hand in enjoyment, feeling a little complicated.
He checked the re-bandaged wound on his shoulder and found that it had begun to scab and heal, and the movement of his right arm was not affected. The curse should not have caused irreparable damage to his body.On the other hand, the way of bandaging is the usual method used by the priests of Alunka, which made him feel more at ease.
Of course Hampton is not here, the ceremony is scheduled to be held at noon, he should be so busy that he doesn't even have any free time.He might be the only idler in the huge temple headquarters right now.
Fraxis got up and changed his clothes, ate the breakfast on the table, and then decided to take advantage of this rare free time to visit Alvira in the medical area—I don’t know if Hampton has any news that the two kinds of mucus can lift the curse. Tell Alenka that he has to go and see.
Because most people were busy around the large square outside the temple, the medical area was much quieter than usual, and he took Lilian all the way to Alvira's room without meeting anyone.After knocking lightly on the door, he pushed it in and found the priest of Alunka dispensing medicine at the table. He looked up at him after hearing the sound, obviously not surprised by his arrival.
"You woke up? Earlier than I thought, how does the wound feel?"
In order to prevent the little lady from knocking things over mischievously, Fraxis picked up Lilian who was following him, then walked into the room, and nodded slightly to Priest Alunka: "Thank you for treating my wound, it's much better now , There is no problem casting spells."
Priest Alunka raised his eyebrows irrefutably, and his eyes fell on Lilian who stretched out her claws to fiddle with his blond hair, and her tone was rarely teased: "You have to take care of this little lady, don't let Gu I saw it."
Fraxis froze for a moment before realizing that he was joking, and then smiled.
"Is Alvira okay, Knight Commander Brandon should have brought you the materials?"
"Well, I'm trying to adjust the ratio according to her situation." Priest Alunka motioned him to sit down first, and waved his hand to ignite a flame to heat the mixed slime in the jar, "Miss Hathaway's situation is more You are much more complicated, the curse has eroded her body for too long, and she is far less resistant to curses than you, maybe it will be better to treat her after Priest Moxi returns."
"...Today is the ceremony, isn't Priest Moxi in the temple?" Fraxis was a little surprised, "He was still there yesterday."
"I don't know either, after all, I'm not familiar with him either." Priest Alunka wiped his hands, then took the bubbling slime off the fire, "What's your opinion? If you think it's okay, It's okay if we start trying to treat it first."
Fraxis certainly didn't want Priest Moxi to continue to participate in Alvira's treatment. After all, although Embogle didn't say who he was assisting, he had basically locked on Priest Moxi—he could temporarily avoid it. It would be best to drive him off, not to let him know that he has got the solution to the curse.
"I want to wait too, but maybe Alvira can't wait too long." He hesitated to look at Alvira who was sleeping in the healing circle, and finally chose to let them start the treatment first.
Priest Alenka seemed to agree with him, nodded, mixed the mucus with several other potions, stirred them and bottled them.
"Then let's get started."
The ratio of the mucus mixture was adjusted by Priest Alunka based on Hampton's retelling. Since no relevant records were found, there is only Fraxis who has tried it out.But Fraxis' current situation is no different from ordinary skin trauma, so he boldly used his improved version in Alvera's treatment.
He tore open the unhealed wound on Alvira's waist with a sharp blade, and then slowly poured warm medicine on it.When the translucent light red medicine touched the already blackened flesh, a puff of white smoke arose. After a "sizzling" sound, tiny bubbles appeared from the wound as if it had been corroded, and the black carrion quickly died. It was carefully cut off by Fraxis who was helping at the side.
As if smelling her own scent, Lilian snorted a few times on the ground, rubbed against Fraxis's leg with some anxiety, and got a comforting look before lying down again.
Seeing that the wound had improved significantly, the priest of Alenka confidently poured the remaining potion into Alvira.
"...Next, it depends on whether she can resist the damage caused by potions and curses."
Although stabbed by the same cursed dagger, the situation of Alvira and Fraxis is actually very different.Alvira is just a weak noble lady. Not only is her physical fitness far inferior to that of Fracis, but her resistance to curses is also far lower than that of Fracis.On the other hand, the emergency situation is different now and last night, so the priest of Alenka carefully adjusted the ratio of mucus, and also added other potions to dilute their concentration. What kind of consequences will the concentration of action have on Alvira.
Fraxis carefully collected the cut carrion, and handed it to Priest Alunka through Alvira, then took off his gloves, and bent down to check Alvira's situation.
The girl's delicate and beautiful face was still as pale as paper, but I don't know if it was his illusion, Alvira's originally faintly blue face seemed to have improved after drinking the potion.He was a little worried that the potion would not work on her, so he tried to cast the healing spell that didn't work before, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the wound on Alvira's waist began to heal under the effect of the spell.
Priest Alenka also took all this into consideration, put down the medicine bottle and signaled him to continue casting spells, "Go ahead, I'll adjust the magic circle to stabilize her injury."
Anyway, at least things are going in a good direction.Fraxis stopped casting spells after the wound was completely healed, and then assisted the priest of Alunka to mix the second potion, and then he was relieved, and there was a smile on his face.
"The ceremony is about to begin," Priest Alunka looked at the sun outside the window, estimated the time, closed the door and walked out with him, "I'll go back to my room to change my robe, do you want to go there together?"
Fraxis shook his head lightly, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, but... I'm still suspended, so I can't enter the arena with you."
Priest Alenka blinked and looked him up and down, eyes full of disbelief.
"I didn't go to the morning meeting this morning, but I heard that it was a very lively meeting. It turned out that you were suspended. But...there is no battle priest on the eve of the festival. Isn't the safety of this festival only the knights are responsible for? "
On the day Rein was transformed into an undead creature, Priest Moxi and Priest Alenka jointly inspected the swirl pattern on his hand, but because several seriously injured people were newly sent, Priest Alenka left after the inspection. Not involved in what happened afterwards.Unexpectedly, he still didn't know after a few days, Fraxis explained to him helplessly.
"Someone accused me of cursing Lein and eventually killing him. I have not been able to produce evidence to prove that I did not do this." He raised his hand so that the other party could see the stilled swirl pattern on his hand , "After Rein died completely, the 'Eye of Harthotho', which was used as the proof of the caster's identity, did not move. I have no way to prove myself, so I have to suspend all priest's work first."
"...you would do such a dirty thing?" Priest Alunka obviously didn't think he was responsible for the curse, and avoided the right hand extended by Fraxis in disgust—to be precise, the life-threatening one on the right hand. With a black whirlpool of disgust, he whispered disapprovingly, "I thought a young man like you would not use such dirty means to prove himself."
Literally, when he said this, he obviously thought that the curse on Rein had nothing to do with him.Fraxis was a little surprised that he could be trusted by him, and the expression on his face stretched a little, showing a smile: "Thank you for your comfort, I hope I can get rid of this difficult stain as soon as possible."
"The reason why stains are annoying is because they are sometimes too stubborn." Priest Alunka glanced at the black swirl on his hand, and quickly looked away, "Good luck."
They parted quickly in front of the priest's room in Alunka, and Fraxis continued on, taking Lilian back to his room.
Hampton was standing in front of the door, waiting for him impatiently: "Where did you go? I just went out the door, set up patrols and came back, and you disappeared."
He had already changed into the official uniform of the head of the knight order. The white uniform was trimmed with gold embroidery, and the gold and red ribbon hung on his shoulders, making him look more handsome than usual.
"I went to see Alvira and dispensed medicine for her with Priest Alenka." Fraxis opened the door and let him and Lilian who was behind him go in first, and then he also stepped into the room, backhanded Close the door, "Why are you here? Isn't the festival about to start?"
"I'm just on patrol, there's no need to wait there early." Hampton leaned over and hugged Lilian, who was acting coquettishly next to his legs, and skillfully scratched her chin, causing the little lady to snore comfortably , rubbing his head in his wide palm, "I'll show you something, I got it from the secret passage yesterday, maybe you can find some clues."
He switched his left hand to tease Lilian, and took out a scroll with his right hand, and handed it to Fraxis, "Fortunately, I chopped off its arm first, and that scorched monster actually had a light-attribute scroll on it." Scroll, if I am a little more careless, I might become the first head of the Knights Templar to die under the spell of the Temple."
"Spells from the temple? But the one I dealt with is very afraid of the holy light cage. Even if they need to use scrolls to cast spells, they shouldn't use the offensive spells of the temple..."
Fraxis repeated his words, and while analyzing, he frowned and took the small scroll, his expression changed immediately after he took a closer look at it.
The densely packed characters on the scroll dazzled Hampton, but for him, these contents could be memorized backwards.
"...'Erna's Arrow of Judgment'." With a gloomy face, he spoke a term slowly but surely.
"what?"
"'Erna's Arrow of Judgment', this is the large-scale attack spell I am best at. It was like this when I was still stationed in the 'Origin'." He didn't need to read it a second time, because on the scroll The spell of copying is very familiar to him, "I think, if you didn't kill that monster, or didn't find this scroll from it, maybe the next person who is going to die will die from this spell on the scroll .”
There is a reason for this.As far as Fraxis knows, there are no more than 15 people including him who are capable of casting this spell at the current temple headquarters, and among these fifteen people, his familiarity with this spell should rank very high. front position.The attack magic he usually uses is a simplified version of "Erna's Arrow of Judgment". After his own improvement, the casting time has been greatly shortened. There are not a few people who know about this. If you want to link this spell with him, then Simple.
Fraxis stared at the scroll, feeling more and more shuddering.
The monster that dragged Hampton into the secret door was as agile as lightning, and if it used the scroll to cast spells, I'm afraid it would be impossible to find out who the caster was before the opponent died.As long as it is judged from the traces left by the spell that this is "Erna's Arrow of Judgment", plus some "evidence" that may be true or false, it will be easy to push the suspicion of killing someone by casting spells on him
cried Embogel angrily.
"It's not safe, sir." Fraxis certainly wouldn't listen to him, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he released the monster easily, "There was another monster that was almost the same in the room just now, and they attacked me together And Knight Commander Brandon, it took me a lot of effort to lock it, it was for the sake of safety."
"There's another... what?" Embogle seemed to be doubting his ears, and repeated his words in a murmur, "Your Excellency, you say my wife is a monster?"
Is it still necessary for him to draw conclusions?Fraxis glanced at him, thinking that there must be something wrong with Embogle's eyes and brain: "Viscount, I don't think the Viscountess would be like a charred corpse in a normal state, but her movements are faster than ordinary people Much more—it even broke all my protective spells and amulets, and ended up stabbing me."
He showed Embogle his left arm. There was a wound on it that was two palms long, so deep that the bones could almost be seen, and because he didn't deal with it in time, the hideous gap was still bleeding slowly.
"Does the Viscountess have nails that are sharp enough to destroy three layers of protective spells in one blow?" He raised his eyebrows and asked back, "Its claws are so sharp that they can tear us apart with bare hands, Viscount, do you still want me to give you some nails?" Does it come out?"
The wound on his arm was hideous and terrifying, obviously scratched by a sharp object, but Enbogel remained unmoved, as if he was very sure of the identity of the distorted human figure.
"Samantha can't hurt me." He said firmly in the monster's wailing, "Your Excellency, please let my wife go."
Fracis thought Embogle might have gone mad.Regardless of how he figured out that this thing belonged to his wife, as long as he can be sure that there is no unsuspicious scorched black figure that will not hurt him, Fraxis believes that it is either himself or En. Pogle, at least one of them was crazy.
"...Sorry, I can't take the risk." All he could say was, "Until Knight Commander Brandon is out of danger and comes out through the secret door, I can't let go of this...your wife."
"Knight Commander Brandon? What danger has he encountered?" Embogle noticed the other person he mentioned, and shifted his gaze from the monster in the holy light cage to the direction of Fraxis.
"I've said it just now, maybe you didn't hear it clearly in a hurry." Fraxis looked at him blankly, and said indifferently, "I came with Knight Commander Brandon, and he was killed by another The same creature was pulled into the secret door over there, and the situation is unknown now."
Embogle's expression changed suddenly when he said "the secret door over there", he turned suddenly to look at the secret door that was still open, and hesitantly confirmed: "Knight Commander Brandon... went in ?”
"Yes, although not voluntarily." Fraxis nodded, deliberately ignoring the fact that Hampton was going to check the secret door, "There is a dark field inside, I dare not enter at will—— Viscount, can you tell me what is inside, will the knight commander be in danger?"
Enbogle didn't say anything, he just left the monster in the cage and stepped into the secret door in a few steps.Fraxis didn't know what he was going to do, but he didn't follow up, because the cage of the Holy Light had a distance limit, and he couldn't be sure how long the way in the secret door was. Once he was too far away, the cage would fail , no one knows what the escaped monster will do.
He could only hope that Hampton was out of danger, and that the other monster didn't escape.Although it is a bit too much to ask so much of the other party in this situation, if the monster escapes, they will have no way to prove that Hampton was dragged into the secret door.
After a while, Embogel bent down and got out from the secret door with a very ugly expression on his face.
"There is no one inside, Your Excellency, are you sure that Knight Commander Brandon really went in?"
"I'm sure he went in, but I can only confirm that he went in." Fraxis glanced at the secret door, "Viscount, instead of asking me about it repeatedly, why don't you tell me what the secret door leads to?" The place, what secrets are hidden in it, so things may be resolved better."
He didn't ask Enbogle why he could see things in the dark field. Since he set up such a secret door in his bedroom and built a dark field inside, he believed that Enbogle could restrain himself. A magic item in the dark realm.
Embogle seemed determined to keep the secrets in the secret door secret, he gave up exploring the passage in the secret door, returned to the side of the cage of holy light, and turned the topic back to the original direction .
"Regarding the original question, I haven't gotten the answer I want—your lord, why are you in my wife's room?"
The "flame" in the room was still burning violently, and the "ignited" furniture was crackling, but both of them knew that it was just an overly realistic illusion.Even Fraxis couldn't see through its true colors in a short period of time, which is enough to show the caster's achievements in the field of illusion, or, this fire field illusion was jointly constructed by more than one spellcaster.
Fraxis and Hampton were too cautious. If they were more careless when they broke in through the window, and someone's clothes touched the flames, they would only find the illusion of the fabric burning, and there would be no real burning. pain of.That piece of clothing that is on fire will only remain in a "burning" state forever, and will never be burned to ashes - because from the beginning to the end, this fire is just a sensory deception caused by illusion.
"Because of this fire that burned too coincidentally, the knight commander and I came to check the situation after receiving a report that the fire was too big for ordinary magicians to extinguish it with water magic. I thought you were not at home, Viscount, but it seems that you We knew about the fire a long time ago."
He easily passed the reason for coming to check the situation, but Enbogel did not intend to let go of this loophole, and pressed him step by step: "But if I remember correctly, when I was a guest in the temple during the day, you I have already promised in front of the chief priest that I will suspend the performance of all duties that priests should undertake."
He was not polite at all, but Fraxis did not show any embarrassment of being poked at the pain, "Of course, it was the knight commander who received the report, and I was just a high-ranking mage who happened to be there to help put out the fire—a knight." No matter how superb Chang's fighting skills are, he can't handle the fire that burns the whole manor as well as a mage, can he?"
Embogle closed his mouth resentfully.
"Since you don't plan to tell me what's in the secret door, I have no choice but to inform the chief priest... After all, the head of the Knights disappeared on the eve of the ceremony. Looking at the direction of the Holy Light Cage, he added, "This one in the cage, I will also ask other priests to bring it back to the temple to find a way to restore it to its original form. I feel the power of an undead creature from it. breath, but I can’t be sure, and I need to ask the priest of Alunka to check further——If it is really the Viscountess, I will send her back in person and apologize to you and your wife.”
Embogle didn't object any more, but squatted down next to the Light Prison again, and whispered, "Can I have a few more words with Samantha?"
Naturally, Fraxis had no reason to refuse him, and nodded slightly: "Then you talk, I will contact the priest on duty today first."
He walked a few steps away, not leaving the control distance of the holy light cage, and cast a spell on the wall near the window to activate the temple's unique contact spell.This spell is not difficult, it just needs a little time to lock in, but before he could lock in the position of the rotating Priest of Delan, he was attracted by a sudden accident.
Another spell that was consuming mana was forcibly cut off by an external force the moment he tried to contact the temple.
At the same time, a gray-white dagger stabbed at him from behind. Fraxis, who reacted quickly because the supply of magic power was cut off, instinctively dodged sideways. Fortunately, the person who attacked him was not too agile, and the sharp blade of the dagger Only a lock of his blond hair was chopped off.
That strand of sand-blond hair slowly fell to the ground, wrapped in a burning "flame", like smelted gold, lying quietly on the spot, flickering with a little fire.
Fraxis does not have a sword, so he can only dodge back and forth. All the protective spells on him have been destroyed by the previous attack, and the instantaneous ones can only withstand one attack for a short time. There are too many debris in the room. It is beneficial for him to cast spells to counterattack, so that his room for movement is very limited.
Enbogle, who was attacking him with a dagger in his hand, showed a skill that was not inferior to that of Rein who was in the state of an undead creature, and quickly pushed Fraxis into a corner, but failed to cause him much damage in a short time.
"It seems that you are not suitable to be an assassin, that's why you were sent to be a businessman." Fraxis resisted his attack with instant magic while provoking him deliberately, "Viscount, you released your 'Madam' , but leave her alone, why is that?"
After the cage of holy light disappeared, the humanoid monster curled up on the ground was still unable to stand up, and the damage caused by the holy light to it was greater than imagined.Judging from the fact that Embogle left him where he was, but came to assassinate him, Fracis became more and more sure of his idea.
Either that wasn't the Viscountess at all, or Embogle didn't care about his lady at all.In contrast, he was more inclined to the latter possibility, because the dagger in Enbogle's hand was very familiar to him.
The assassin who assassinated Alvira at the banquet, and Rein who was transformed into an undead creature, the daggers they held were exactly the same as the one in front of Fraxis.
Since they are all things from the "land of the fallen", then this series of events can be connected in series.
"No reason, you killed Rein and tortured my wife like this." Enbogel suddenly twitched the corners of his mouth nervously, grinning with a twisted smile, and whispered, "Your Excellency, this Isn't that a reason for me to kill you?"
Before he finished speaking, his offensive suddenly became fierce. Fraxis was caught off guard, and he caught the opening and stabbed him!
The dagger easily tore through the white robe, and deeply penetrated Vlasis's shoulder. Scarlet blood splashed out as he drew the dagger, soaking the snow-white robe.
Fraxis clutched his shoulder in pain, and at the same time felt a burst of numbness in the wound. Obviously, poison or curse was attached to the dagger, and it spread so fast that he hardly had time to heal himself.
"How does it feel to be stabbed by the 'Forest of Sighs'?" Enbogel still had that weird smile on his face, and he moved closer as if in a demonstration, stretching out his other hand from under the cloak to press the Lacis' wound, "Your beautiful fiancée also experienced this feeling, but she was far less beautiful than you when she was stabbed.
"Your Excellency, will you beg for mercy? I really want to see you begging for mercy, it must be much more charming than your frail fiancée."
Fraxis tried to cast a healing technique for himself, but the situation was the same as when Alvira was assassinated, the healing technique did not work at all, and he could only rely on his own sacred attributes to slow down the rate of erosion.
Embogle smiled and looked back at the twisted human figure that was still lying on the ground. The latter had lost the ability to move and could only make a weak wail.
"You're right, I really don't care about the monster you trapped, because it's not Samantha at all. The real Samantha is not so fragile, in the dark realm, she is like a queen—I Guess, Knight Commander Brandon might have become her prey."
Fraxis frowned tightly. Although the blood from the wound didn't turn black, it had already stained a large area of the white robe red, and the blood continued to spread.He couldn't last long without being able to heal himself.
"What is the curse on the dagger...?" he asked, panting.
"Oh, if you ask me so pitifully, it doesn't matter if I tell you. Anyway, you will not be happy when you hear it."
Embogle blinked triumphantly, as if mocking him.
"I have already given you the materials needed to lift the curse, but you only treat it as a little girl's toy, no wonder I am."
A trace of surprise flashed in Fraxis' eyes, but he immediately covered it up: "Lilian?"
"More than that." Enbogel shook his head, his expression becoming more and more smug, "There are also good things I gave you with Rein."
He noticed the surprise in Fraxis' eyes and took pleasure in it: "Your Excellency, a darling like you who is favored by the Goddess of Light, did you ever think that there would be a day when you would be defeated by a mouse from a dark ditch?"
Fraxis slumped against the wall and sat on the ground, the blood on his body left an obvious mark on the wall, but he did not show weakness as Enbogel wished, but instead showed a smile that was the same as usual, softly He said: "Since even you say that I am favored by the goddess, how can I fail like this?"
His blue eyes showed a warm color under the light of the fire. Even in such an embarrassing situation, he still didn't look agitated or embarrassed at all. The paleness caused by excessive blood loss only made him look weaker.
This composure enraged Enbogle even more, he knelt down in front of Francis, his face hidden under the shadow of the cloak had long since lost the shrewdness and competence that belonged to "Viscount Enbogle", only nervousness remained. smiles and unnatural twitches.He stretched out the index finger of his left hand and poked forcefully on the wound pierced by the dagger on Fraxis. Seeing that the wound gushed out more blood, but was blocked by his finger again, he couldn't help grinning triumphantly .
"Do you know? I was very happy when I received the task of assisting in framing you. When I thought that you, who were praised by the nobles as a genius, would fall from heaven to hell because of me, I trembled with joy." He seemed to be sure of Fra Sith was busy clearing the paralysis caused by the curse, and had no time to attack him with magic. He approached more and more brazenly, almost sticking in front of Fraxis, "When I really saw you, I was a little bit reluctant. Such a beautiful It would be a pity for you to end up in the same fate as Rein. So I changed my plan and approached you as a little nobleman. I only used some small tricks to spread the fake news to you, yes Isn't it very simple?"
Francis suddenly remembered the "ghost". Their last contact was the note with Embogle's name on it, and they never heard from him again.And he remembered that the note was sent by the familiar, and he didn't see the "ghost" himself.
"What did you do to the 'ghost'?"
"An intelligence dealer who has so many enemies, what else does he need me to do?" Enbogel laughed shortly, not even bothering to repeat the name, "Believe me, apart from releasing him I didn't do anything other than the news of the grid beast."
Fraxis didn't believe him, but he didn't have much more to worry about his friend now.In just a few minutes after being stabbed by the dagger, his entire right shoulder was completely paralyzed, and he couldn't even raise his right hand, let alone heal himself.If this continues, there is no need for Enbogel to stab him a second time, he will soon be unconscious due to excessive blood loss, and completely lose the ability to resist.
"Who sent you here, can you tell me?" He leaned his head against the wall weakly, his hands were covered with his own blood, and even his face was covered with blood, looking extremely embarrassed, "I thought Now, you should not bother to hide this matter anymore."
Embogle shook his head, wiped the blood off the dagger with his fingers, and then wiped it on his black cloak: "I won't tell you."
Like a well-trained assassin, he skillfully inserted the gray dagger into the shaft of his boot, then moved closer, and lifted a strand of blood-stained blond hair of Francis with his hands, with complicated eyes, "You Now I still want to use this method to trick me. Is whoever sent me here is more important than your life? You know, you can't remove the curse on the dagger, and you can't heal yourself. If you continue to bleed like this... you will die."
"Well, if you don't want to say it, then I won't ask."
Embogle was stunned. He had thought that Francis would try his best to lure him to tell the truth, but he didn't expect him to give up so easily. "You don't want to know?"
"Of course I want to know, but if you don't want to say it, I have other ways." Fraxis still leaned against the wall in the previous posture, and smiled in his direction, but his eyes clearly fell Not on him—he wasn't smiling at him.
Embogle was startled, and was about to turn around when the cold blade was already on his neck.Hampton turned from behind him, disgusted.
"Aren't you so proud that you didn't even notice that I stood behind you for so long?"
The knight's body was covered with blood, but he didn't seem to be seriously injured. He searched the things on Embogle's body, then knocked him unconscious, and tied him up with a roll of black rope from nowhere.After confirming that Embogle was unconscious, he helped Francis up, frowning and staring at his wound, worrying: "What should I do? Do you have a solution?"
Fraxis shook his head helplessly: "It's the same as when Alvira was assassinated, my healing spell has no effect on myself."
He said so, but he wrote on the palm of Hampton's hand with his fingers at an angle that Embogle couldn't see, and motioned him to blindfold Embogle's eyes.
After Hampton complied, he began to communicate with him with his lips at ease.
"Take out what I gave you."
He had previously given the bottles containing Lilian's scent gland extract and Anderma phantom butterfly larva mucus to Hampton for safekeeping, but he didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.Under his instructions, Hampton mixed the two liquids in a rough ratio, then tore off the robe near the wound, and poured the light red mucus on the wound on his shoulder.
The flesh and blood of the wound was stirred up into a puff of white smoke, Fraxis frowned in pain, and the knuckles of his clenched left hand turned blue and white.While spreading the mucus evenly on the bloody wound for him, Hampton handed him his right arm: "Bite me if it hurts."
Fraxis shook his head, with disgust written on his face, he glanced at the knight's muscular smooth arm with many scars, couldn't help pushing him, and asked silently: "Where is your armor?" ?”
"It was melted down." Hampton shrugged, "The monster in the secret door is very difficult to deal with, and I can't see it, so she made a move."
He tore off a section from the hem of Fraxis's still clean white robe, wiped the dirty blood from the wound for him, and asked, "Is there any bandage?"
Fraxis took out a bandage from the interspatial ring and brought it to him. Hampton pulled the bandage and tied up the wound for him. After confirming that there was no more bleeding, he was relieved, and finally had time to ask other questions.
"How do you know this disgusting thing is useful? When did this red-haired kid come back?"
"I can't say a few words clearly, let's go back and talk about it." Fraxis tried to move his right hand, and found that the numbness had eased a lot. It seems that Enbogle didn't lie to him, "Help me put Embogle Take the dying monster over there, and I will contact the temple right now."
He recast the spell and got in touch with Priest Theresa, who was preparing for the evening prayer. He was very surprised to see the tragic situation of him and Hampton, and said that he would bring reinforcements immediately.
After doing this, he felt a wave of dizziness surge up, menacingly, and instantly engulfed him like a rising tide.
Fraxis woke up in his room, and the sunlight filtering through the cracks in the curtains made him realize that it was daylight.He sat up from the bed and looked around, but found no one else, but found a breakfast on the table.
Lilian jumped onto the bed from the foot of the bed, gracefully stepped on the quilt and walked in front of him, snored twice coquettishly, and brought her little head to his hand.Fraxis touched her chin and neck, and saw her rubbing his hand in enjoyment, feeling a little complicated.
He checked the re-bandaged wound on his shoulder and found that it had begun to scab and heal, and the movement of his right arm was not affected. The curse should not have caused irreparable damage to his body.On the other hand, the way of bandaging is the usual method used by the priests of Alunka, which made him feel more at ease.
Of course Hampton is not here, the ceremony is scheduled to be held at noon, he should be so busy that he doesn't even have any free time.He might be the only idler in the huge temple headquarters right now.
Fraxis got up and changed his clothes, ate the breakfast on the table, and then decided to take advantage of this rare free time to visit Alvira in the medical area—I don’t know if Hampton has any news that the two kinds of mucus can lift the curse. Tell Alenka that he has to go and see.
Because most people were busy around the large square outside the temple, the medical area was much quieter than usual, and he took Lilian all the way to Alvira's room without meeting anyone.After knocking lightly on the door, he pushed it in and found the priest of Alunka dispensing medicine at the table. He looked up at him after hearing the sound, obviously not surprised by his arrival.
"You woke up? Earlier than I thought, how does the wound feel?"
In order to prevent the little lady from knocking things over mischievously, Fraxis picked up Lilian who was following him, then walked into the room, and nodded slightly to Priest Alunka: "Thank you for treating my wound, it's much better now , There is no problem casting spells."
Priest Alunka raised his eyebrows irrefutably, and his eyes fell on Lilian who stretched out her claws to fiddle with his blond hair, and her tone was rarely teased: "You have to take care of this little lady, don't let Gu I saw it."
Fraxis froze for a moment before realizing that he was joking, and then smiled.
"Is Alvira okay, Knight Commander Brandon should have brought you the materials?"
"Well, I'm trying to adjust the ratio according to her situation." Priest Alunka motioned him to sit down first, and waved his hand to ignite a flame to heat the mixed slime in the jar, "Miss Hathaway's situation is more You are much more complicated, the curse has eroded her body for too long, and she is far less resistant to curses than you, maybe it will be better to treat her after Priest Moxi returns."
"...Today is the ceremony, isn't Priest Moxi in the temple?" Fraxis was a little surprised, "He was still there yesterday."
"I don't know either, after all, I'm not familiar with him either." Priest Alunka wiped his hands, then took the bubbling slime off the fire, "What's your opinion? If you think it's okay, It's okay if we start trying to treat it first."
Fraxis certainly didn't want Priest Moxi to continue to participate in Alvira's treatment. After all, although Embogle didn't say who he was assisting, he had basically locked on Priest Moxi—he could temporarily avoid it. It would be best to drive him off, not to let him know that he has got the solution to the curse.
"I want to wait too, but maybe Alvira can't wait too long." He hesitated to look at Alvira who was sleeping in the healing circle, and finally chose to let them start the treatment first.
Priest Alenka seemed to agree with him, nodded, mixed the mucus with several other potions, stirred them and bottled them.
"Then let's get started."
The ratio of the mucus mixture was adjusted by Priest Alunka based on Hampton's retelling. Since no relevant records were found, there is only Fraxis who has tried it out.But Fraxis' current situation is no different from ordinary skin trauma, so he boldly used his improved version in Alvera's treatment.
He tore open the unhealed wound on Alvira's waist with a sharp blade, and then slowly poured warm medicine on it.When the translucent light red medicine touched the already blackened flesh, a puff of white smoke arose. After a "sizzling" sound, tiny bubbles appeared from the wound as if it had been corroded, and the black carrion quickly died. It was carefully cut off by Fraxis who was helping at the side.
As if smelling her own scent, Lilian snorted a few times on the ground, rubbed against Fraxis's leg with some anxiety, and got a comforting look before lying down again.
Seeing that the wound had improved significantly, the priest of Alenka confidently poured the remaining potion into Alvira.
"...Next, it depends on whether she can resist the damage caused by potions and curses."
Although stabbed by the same cursed dagger, the situation of Alvira and Fraxis is actually very different.Alvira is just a weak noble lady. Not only is her physical fitness far inferior to that of Fracis, but her resistance to curses is also far lower than that of Fracis.On the other hand, the emergency situation is different now and last night, so the priest of Alenka carefully adjusted the ratio of mucus, and also added other potions to dilute their concentration. What kind of consequences will the concentration of action have on Alvira.
Fraxis carefully collected the cut carrion, and handed it to Priest Alunka through Alvira, then took off his gloves, and bent down to check Alvira's situation.
The girl's delicate and beautiful face was still as pale as paper, but I don't know if it was his illusion, Alvira's originally faintly blue face seemed to have improved after drinking the potion.He was a little worried that the potion would not work on her, so he tried to cast the healing spell that didn't work before, but was pleasantly surprised to find that the wound on Alvira's waist began to heal under the effect of the spell.
Priest Alenka also took all this into consideration, put down the medicine bottle and signaled him to continue casting spells, "Go ahead, I'll adjust the magic circle to stabilize her injury."
Anyway, at least things are going in a good direction.Fraxis stopped casting spells after the wound was completely healed, and then assisted the priest of Alunka to mix the second potion, and then he was relieved, and there was a smile on his face.
"The ceremony is about to begin," Priest Alunka looked at the sun outside the window, estimated the time, closed the door and walked out with him, "I'll go back to my room to change my robe, do you want to go there together?"
Fraxis shook his head lightly, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, but... I'm still suspended, so I can't enter the arena with you."
Priest Alenka blinked and looked him up and down, eyes full of disbelief.
"I didn't go to the morning meeting this morning, but I heard that it was a very lively meeting. It turned out that you were suspended. But...there is no battle priest on the eve of the festival. Isn't the safety of this festival only the knights are responsible for? "
On the day Rein was transformed into an undead creature, Priest Moxi and Priest Alenka jointly inspected the swirl pattern on his hand, but because several seriously injured people were newly sent, Priest Alenka left after the inspection. Not involved in what happened afterwards.Unexpectedly, he still didn't know after a few days, Fraxis explained to him helplessly.
"Someone accused me of cursing Lein and eventually killing him. I have not been able to produce evidence to prove that I did not do this." He raised his hand so that the other party could see the stilled swirl pattern on his hand , "After Rein died completely, the 'Eye of Harthotho', which was used as the proof of the caster's identity, did not move. I have no way to prove myself, so I have to suspend all priest's work first."
"...you would do such a dirty thing?" Priest Alunka obviously didn't think he was responsible for the curse, and avoided the right hand extended by Fraxis in disgust—to be precise, the life-threatening one on the right hand. With a black whirlpool of disgust, he whispered disapprovingly, "I thought a young man like you would not use such dirty means to prove himself."
Literally, when he said this, he obviously thought that the curse on Rein had nothing to do with him.Fraxis was a little surprised that he could be trusted by him, and the expression on his face stretched a little, showing a smile: "Thank you for your comfort, I hope I can get rid of this difficult stain as soon as possible."
"The reason why stains are annoying is because they are sometimes too stubborn." Priest Alunka glanced at the black swirl on his hand, and quickly looked away, "Good luck."
They parted quickly in front of the priest's room in Alunka, and Fraxis continued on, taking Lilian back to his room.
Hampton was standing in front of the door, waiting for him impatiently: "Where did you go? I just went out the door, set up patrols and came back, and you disappeared."
He had already changed into the official uniform of the head of the knight order. The white uniform was trimmed with gold embroidery, and the gold and red ribbon hung on his shoulders, making him look more handsome than usual.
"I went to see Alvira and dispensed medicine for her with Priest Alenka." Fraxis opened the door and let him and Lilian who was behind him go in first, and then he also stepped into the room, backhanded Close the door, "Why are you here? Isn't the festival about to start?"
"I'm just on patrol, there's no need to wait there early." Hampton leaned over and hugged Lilian, who was acting coquettishly next to his legs, and skillfully scratched her chin, causing the little lady to snore comfortably , rubbing his head in his wide palm, "I'll show you something, I got it from the secret passage yesterday, maybe you can find some clues."
He switched his left hand to tease Lilian, and took out a scroll with his right hand, and handed it to Fraxis, "Fortunately, I chopped off its arm first, and that scorched monster actually had a light-attribute scroll on it." Scroll, if I am a little more careless, I might become the first head of the Knights Templar to die under the spell of the Temple."
"Spells from the temple? But the one I dealt with is very afraid of the holy light cage. Even if they need to use scrolls to cast spells, they shouldn't use the offensive spells of the temple..."
Fraxis repeated his words, and while analyzing, he frowned and took the small scroll, his expression changed immediately after he took a closer look at it.
The densely packed characters on the scroll dazzled Hampton, but for him, these contents could be memorized backwards.
"...'Erna's Arrow of Judgment'." With a gloomy face, he spoke a term slowly but surely.
"what?"
"'Erna's Arrow of Judgment', this is the large-scale attack spell I am best at. It was like this when I was still stationed in the 'Origin'." He didn't need to read it a second time, because on the scroll The spell of copying is very familiar to him, "I think, if you didn't kill that monster, or didn't find this scroll from it, maybe the next person who is going to die will die from this spell on the scroll .”
There is a reason for this.As far as Fraxis knows, there are no more than 15 people including him who are capable of casting this spell at the current temple headquarters, and among these fifteen people, his familiarity with this spell should rank very high. front position.The attack magic he usually uses is a simplified version of "Erna's Arrow of Judgment". After his own improvement, the casting time has been greatly shortened. There are not a few people who know about this. If you want to link this spell with him, then Simple.
Fraxis stared at the scroll, feeling more and more shuddering.
The monster that dragged Hampton into the secret door was as agile as lightning, and if it used the scroll to cast spells, I'm afraid it would be impossible to find out who the caster was before the opponent died.As long as it is judged from the traces left by the spell that this is "Erna's Arrow of Judgment", plus some "evidence" that may be true or false, it will be easy to push the suspicion of killing someone by casting spells on him
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