Volume 1 Chapter 91 Anecdotes of the Wilderness (2)
Thor had spent five silver wolves in Newtown to buy a blood spell, the same one used by Lorton before, and it was said to have a special effect on these dead things.
At this moment, facing this guy who is rotten all over his body but is as hard as a stubborn iron, and has super defense, Thor guesses that this monster that defies common sense is likely to have a demon soul after death.
If you can exchange five silver coins for a demon soul, it is undoubtedly a good deal.
Feeling the blood spell spread out in the palm of his hand, Thor took advantage of the moment when the rotten creature limped closer to him, quickly folding the four corners of the parchment with silver runes in half towards the center.
"Huh~" A strange magic sound sounded.
At the moment when the casting process was completed, a circle filled with red light suddenly appeared on the ground around Thor. The sea of blood is tumbling, the skeletons are strewn, and Thor's target enemy is also within range.
As the caster himself, Thor was not affected in any way, but once again witnessing the strange scene of blood and light in front of him, he always had the illusion that he had opened the gates of hell with his own hands.
Countless rotting arms stretched out from the sea of blood, firmly grasping the leg of the carrion.
Then the arms suddenly pulled downward, and the carrion was dragged into the sea of blood without any struggle, and disappeared without a trace.
Whew~ Looks like it's over.
Now that he could be dragged down, Thor thought the spell had worked as it should.
Soon Thor frowned, though, as he noticed that the sea of blood around him hadn't disappeared, as if he was waiting for something.
When I watched Lorton use the spell before, the spell casting process lasted for a few breaths, how did you use this yourself...... Seems like a little longer?
Standing in a sea of blood, Thor glanced around warily.
When his gaze swept over the place where the carrion had disappeared just now, Thor suddenly stared at him and subconsciously took a step back.
A rotting arm suddenly reached out of the sea of blood and clinged firmly to the surface, and then the owner of the arm also came out, apparently the monster was about to climb up again.
Theoretically, if a person really stands in the water, it is impossible to have a point of borrowing to climb upward, so it seems that the rolling of the surrounding sea of blood is not a real change in the terrain, but should only be a visual illusion, and the actual ground is still the ground.
Thor was quick to come to a conclusion, but now was not the time to dwell on the details.
The rotting corpse was now looking at him affectionately with two dark eye sockets, and the rotting upper and lower jaws grinned inexplicably, as if to say to Thor, I am back again, waiting for me.
Thor was a little helpless, he had thought that the success or failure of using the spell would be open to fifty, but now it seemed that he was too optimistic. He didn't think the spell would be a fake, maybe the strength and object of the spell itself weren't on the same level at all.
Since even the spell didn't work, Thor could only choose to retreat for the time being.
It's not that he can't beat it, but he can't beat it, and he is so tired and out of breath that he can only chop some rotten minced flesh from this one-armed monster.
However, before retreating, while the monster had not fully climbed up, Thor quickly took out the magic card from the inside of his coat, and then took out a magic card from the back page of the book for automatically recording monsters.
The entire magic book is the size of the palm of your hand, as are the record cards in it.
After taking one out, the magic card hovers in the air above the palm of the hand.
Thor made a slight clenching motion, and the purple-gray cards painted with intricate patterns suddenly burned in the air as if melting, leaving only the shimmering magic dust to disappear into the darkness.
Thor had already experienced this magical scene, and he had deliberately wasted one of the skull rats he had previously experimented with to familiarize himself with the process.
Watching the card burn and disappear, Thor knew that the information about this rotten monster had been recorded in the Magic Book, and he could consult it at any time in the future.
Waving his hand at the one-armed monster that was struggling to climb, and motioning for him to play slowly, Thor stopped and turned and ran.
Some accounts of the Dark Wilderness classify carrion and zombies as real monsters.
After all, they are all dead and can stand up again, and they are indeed worthy of the word monster.
The description of zombies in the Magic Book is that each zombie is a very strong guy, their flesh and blood are relatively intact, their skin is withered and dry, and a small number of them even have a certain degree of intelligence.
The monsters that usually appear in the magic illustrated book are monsters that usually haunt the wilderness and pose a certain threat to adventurers.
As for the ordinary goods like rotting corpses, they are not even eligible to be recorded.
The monster encountered today was just an ordinary rotting corpse from the outside, and he had faced it himself on the night of the monastery attack, and had cut down several of them, so it didn't seem worth wasting a magic card for it.
But looking at the notched iron sword in his hand, Thor vaguely thought that this monster should be different, and with his stubborn iron body, he deserved a place in the magic book.
Halfway through, the more Thor pondered, the more strange he felt.
He couldn't even wait to go back, so he just found a tree with a low tree around him and climbed it, he couldn't wait to see what the magic book had about the rotten monster.
It is also possible to read in the dark with the help of dark vision, but people usually prefer to stay in the light and read.
Taking out the magic book and flipping it open, Thor quickly found the new page.
However, when his gaze fell on the contents of the card, his gaze suddenly froze.
The other monster cards in the illustrated book will be equipped with relevant pictures according to the appearance of the monster, and the approximate location of the monster, habits, specialties, weaknesses, etc. will be described in a targeted manner.
The picture on this card is only a blurry and invisible shadow, and the note is only a simple paragraph.
"Immortal Claude, imprisoned by eternal resentment, nothing in this world can kill him, not even God. ”
Thor originally just wanted to see if this monster belonged to the category of rotting corpses and whether there were any weaknesses that could be exploited, but who would have thought that in the end he would get such a shocking text.
The first time he saw these words, Thor had even greater doubts, but it was not about the monster itself, but about the magic book in his hand.
Who made this book, and God can't kill it? How do you know? Why do you say that? From the tone of this text, unless the person who made this book is a god, but is this possible?
Of course, the words 'God can't either' are actually quite interesting.
The evil taste of human beings lies in the fact that when they use words to describe some things, they like to use exaggerated rhetorical devices to amplify reality, so as to arouse the surprise and shock of the viewer.
For now, we can only put aside the problem of God, which is far beyond Saul's understanding and cognition.
The point is that this illustrated book at least says 'immortal' correctly, and even mentions the name of the carrion.
Claude: This board looks like it's true at a glance, and I don't know if it's made up.
Although Thor was skeptical, he was unable to corroborate it, and in the end he could only reluctantly believe most of them.
Thinking that I wanted to kill that guy who couldn't even do anything about God for five silver coins, well, that's a crazy idea.
One question was not answered, and suddenly more questions popped up, and Thor was a little confused for a moment.
Since the enemy is indestructible, it stands to reason that the matter is almost over here.
But Thor still didn't give up, not that he wanted to pursue any results, he just felt that there were still some things that he didn't understand.
The whole thing begins with the grave in the wilderness, and judging by the declarative tone of the inscription on the tombstone, the narrator himself seems to be just an ordinary human woman.
What really puzzled Thor was how she had used the so-called curse of resentment to trap Claude's sad man in a predicament where he couldn't die?
And most importantly, Thor wanted to verify for himself whether the 'Immortal Claude' was the man sleeping in that grave, after all, he didn't crawl out of the grave when he first saw him.
Although he has a vague guess at the moment, it is only a guess, and Thor belongs to the kind of person who will reserve his judgment without witnessing the result himself.
As for the verification method, it is very simple, just dig up the grave and see if there are any bones inside.
So one day after that, Thor quietly returned to the tomb with a hoe for digging.
The whole tomb still sat quietly, exuding a cold and desolate atmosphere in the dark woods.
Thor knew that if he got close to the grave, he would seem to alarm the rotting monster not far away, so he prepared to use a short hoe to quickly dig open the tomb and take a look.
From the perspective of regulations, this ancient tomb is very old.
Most of the tombstone on the front is sunk in the dirt, the stone monument is full of cracks, and the vault is topped with a cross with a circle.
In the past, when people buried the deceased, they would build a mound with earth and stones behind the tombstone, and the ordinary ones would only dig a long grave pit of just the right size for the deceased to lie down.
After the body wrapped in the shroud is buried in the earth, the ground is smoothed.
As a result, if it weren't for a tombstone or a cross erected there, you wouldn't even know that it was a tomb, and you wouldn't have imagined that there was a dead man sleeping under the flat ground behind the tombstone.
Claude's tomb is obviously ordinary, not like a mound.
Thor crouched down behind the tombstone and used his hoe blade to rip off the rotting leaves on the surface of the dirt.
After years of wind and rain, the ground was a little potholed, and before he could do anything, Thor already had a rough answer.
After only two casual gouging strokes, some unevenly collapsed cavities under the mud layer were revealed, and judging from this abnormal collapse, someone who had been asleep below might have escaped.
Of course, it is also possible that the tail of the hand left by the tomb robbers.
Anyway, at this point, Thor leaned over half of his body and reached into the hollow beneath the ground to see if he could touch any skulls or ribs or anything like that.