Chapter 12: Advent
His family knows his own affairs, and although he is still in his prime, he can afford to be chic.
But in another ten years, it will inevitably go downhill, and it will be too late to find a way out, so when he heard this kind of news, he hit Jem Watts with his idea, and directly found an opportunity to recommend himself to him, and showed his own means, and successfully won his trust.
In his opinion, he is an outstanding talent with real talent and learning, as long as he can change his face under the protection of the crown prince and take advantage of the situation to wash his name, it is still appropriate to mix the position of noblemanship, after all, the royal family really has no reason to refuse his refuge, and it is not difficult to clear a person in their own territory with their ability.
The idea is good and realistic, and there is no superfluous thought.
But the problem is that the current situation seems to have overturned!
There is no movement in the summoning ritual caused by the heavy bleeding, this is fatal!!
He had never experienced a magic failure.
"Isn't it written in the magic books that the summoning ritual will almost never fail as long as the steps are followed?"
Just as he was reciting the incantation for the second time and began to think about how to fool the crown prince behind him, the magic array began to emit a faint red light, and an inexplicable palpitation began to permeate the hearts of all nearby creatures, which were the instinctive reactions of creatures when facing higher-level predators.
The genes are alerting them that something extremely dangerous is coming out!
The beasts, whose senses were more sensitive than those of humans, began to panic directly.
The sleeping beast awoke from its fear and ran out of its burrow without stopping, and the birds flew off into the distance with their piercing chirping, leaving behind the droppings of their incontinence, and even the toads and insects that had been screaming incessantly never moved.
"That's ......"
After exerting great efforts to pacify the war horse under him, Baron Duke looked at the increasingly intense light in the distant magic array, and felt an unprecedented sense of fear, and the hairs on his body automatically stood on end.
The war horse he rode was carefully cultivated since he was a child, even if he was on the battlefield in the face of a sword, he would never retreat, and he could dare to fight back on his own in the face of the killing of a lion, but now he didn't even see the face of the other party, and he was actually a little incontinent and unsteady on his feet, which almost made him stumble, which was something he never thought of.
The sparse sounds of falling and exclamations were still coming from behind.
Looking back behind him, the two hundred cavalry he brought with him, only three or five people's war horses could barely stand, and the other people's war horses either refused to stand up no matter how appeased the master was, or they just wanted to run wildly, with a posture of dragging the people who were holding the reins away.
Ignoring the chaotic scene around him, although Crown Prince Jem Watts was a little embarrassed by the chaos of the war horse under him at the beginning, and was almost caught off guard by the ground, but years of knightly training made him react immediately, quickly stabilized his body and did not suffer any damage.
Strictly speaking, although he didn't really carry a knight's sword to the battlefield, and at most executed a few prisoners with his own hands, his strength was the top three among all the knights present.
Excellent pedigree.
For hundreds of years, the royal family only intermarried with the most powerful knights or the most beautiful and intelligent people, and under the optimization of dozens of generations from generation to generation, there were basically no examples of stupidity in them.
Coupled with the best martial arts teacher, as well as the best cultivation resources, a strong person can be piled up in the hard pile.
Under these conditions, if Jem Watts had not been a crown prince and had to waste a lot of time on such matters as studying literature, management, and etiquette, he would definitely be far stronger than he is now, to a level that these people would have far imagined.
Glancing at Baron Duke, who was looking ugly and was coming to him to report the damage to the riot, Jem was neither angry nor unhappy when he heard it. Instead, he nodded very calmly, pointed to the magic array in the distance with more and more red light, and asked him:
"What kind of monster do you think this is?"
Duke, who didn't understand what his boss thought, thought about it and said stiffly: "I don't know below, I have killed many monsters with my own hands, but none of them can have this kind of momentum......"
"I do know that a similar sight is recorded in the ancient secret books of the royal family, which they call the summoning of the abyss, and it is said that it is used exclusively to summon demons. ”
"Demon!" Hearing Crown Prince Jem's words, Duke was instantly shocked, as if he had seen a ghost.
Although the concepts of monsters and demons are often conflated, in a more technical sense, they represent two completely different beings, as long as a creature that can use magical powers can be called a monster, while demons are completely different......
According to the canons of the Church, that kind of thing is born to destroy everything, and when it appears, it will kill and destroy indiscriminately.
[Viciousness is their nature, and cruelty is their instinct. There is no possibility of compromise and no possibility of coexistence. They are the enemies of all life, the spokesmen of death and destruction, killing is their favorite entertainment, fear is their favorite food, they will burn everything in the world, destroy everything!]
Duke shuddered just thinking about the description, he couldn't imagine what kind of creature it was, but he knew it must not be something that would be friendly to humans, and a hint of hesitation flashed between his expressions......
Looking at Duke, whose face was constantly changing, Jem seemed to see something, shook his head and said: "Put away your thoughts, the secret books of the royal family have recorded that once the magic array lights up, it means that the summoning has really begun, and the demons in other worlds have responded to the call."
In this case, even killing the presiding officer of the ceremony will not be able to interrupt it, and due to the death of the presiding officer, no one will be able to command the demon, which will cause it to completely lose control and cause even more trouble. ”
After listening to Crown Prince Jem's words, Duke, who had already secretly decided to disobey the order and kill Salter before the demon was summoned, was suddenly like a deflated ball, and could only reluctantly give up his thoughts.
To be honest, if you know that the so-called summoning of powerful monsters from another world by this guy is relying on such things as demons, Jem Watts will definitely not get involved in this kind of thing, because the creature of demons is really unreliable, and the possibility of getting out of control is too great.
However, he was not too nervous, because he knew that the arrival of demons was temporary, and that Salter's ability alone could not summon demons permanently, and he could not summon any demons that were too powerful.
Several demonic catastrophe initiators in history are all super strong, the kind of strong people who can destroy the kingdom by themselves, and the strong people of that level have not been born for more than three hundred years as far as he knows, and the sacrifices required to summon powerful demons are far from being satisfied by dozens of prisoners, so Salter's ability alone does not have the ability to cause a catastrophe.
In Jem's opinion, who knows these things.
The current situation is not good, but it is somewhat unexpected!
But there is no need to panic, after all, a temporary demon, as long as he is not out of control, is still a good fighter.
And he soon regretted his thoughts, he really underestimated or should have overestimated Salter......
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Salt, who was chanting the spell for the second time, watched the magic array react, and suddenly felt like a chicken blood, and he recited it even more vigorously.
And the cultists on the side witnessed this 'miracle' with their own eyes, and they were even more excited than the other, and they read it more diligently than Salter!
As if hearing their anxiety, excitement, and anticipation, a flame suddenly flashed in the magic array!
It burned on the ground but did not burn anything, but gradually spread into a ring on the ground, and when the ring was fully formed, an arch of flames four meters high appeared on it.
What was on the other side of the arch, Salter couldn't see it, and could only vaguely sense that an extremely powerful being was approaching it.
In the next moment, with the flames in the square, more than ten meters of firelight, a figure appeared outside the flame gate.
The moment the other party appeared, an extremely strong smell of blood was involuntarily revealed, compared to it, the smell emitted by the dozens of corpses in the square was like an air cleaner.
Salter, Duke, Jem, and even the others present felt their hearts stop beating for a moment, a sense of crisis that could not be resisted.
In an instant, Salter regretted his actions, and he felt that he should not have come to the Duchy of Marton.
When Olga arrived, Salter discovered a cruel thing.
That is, the monsters in front of you and the summons recorded in the magic books are not a category at all, and the control ability that should have been there is no response.
This means that you have no ability to control the creature in front of you......
When Orga opened his eyes, lowered his head and looked at him, Salter felt unprecedented fear from the existence in front of him, the crazy eyes that revealed his indifference, and felt that he was like a little white rabbit watched by a lion, and his heart began to beat wildly uncontrollably, and even his brain seemed to be dominated by fear, and some could not function.
Although Orga is not a deity now, just a projection incarnation, and does not carry any power, as long as he does not use his hands, whether it is momentum or oppressive force, it is no different from the real body, and it is definitely not something that ordinary humans can bear.
Ignoring the frightened little bug in front of her, Olga took a look around.
It's good that there are no magicians with tools, and no priests who want to throw themselves with holy water.
No inner ghost!
The Call of the Eightfold !!
Then he felt something was wrong, and looked around with some confusion.
Except for a few humans who weren't good people at first glance, there were only a few corpses around.
'???Where is my sacrifice?'
'It can't just be the pile of corpses on the ground, right?'
After eliminating those who had summoned her, Olga looked at the corpse and thought in confusion.
Although the sacrifice is not the main purpose, it is also a harvest, how can it be gone for no reason!
When he was summoned, he didn't just feel that much, at least thousands of humans.
It's just a few dozen corpses of a strong man, but with the quality of these corpses, it's also worthy of summoning a [lower demon] like him?
Don't even have a soul in Tema?
With these things alone, at most, they can barely summon monsters that have just entered the [Little Devil] rank, and they are not very good mixed in the [Little Devils]!
But no matter how Orga looked, he didn't see a sacrifice that matched his identity.
In the confusion, he thought of a possibility, a possibility that was somewhat surprising!
So he looked at the magic array at his feet, and recognized the meaning of the runes in it sentence by sentence, and the result was exactly as he expected.