Chapter 100: The Wizard Empire
After being separated from Albus Dumbledore, Andrew Lee and Remus Lupin soon found their way to the Scottish countryside. It's an elegant and sparsely populated environment, and even many veteran backpackers haven't been here. The reason for this is that there used to be a wizarding village with Muggle banishment spells all around. Unfortunately, the number of wizards in the village has gradually decreased, and in recent decades, the last wizard has also moved away, and the place is in ruins.
As the situation deteriorated, Count Lee had to think about arranging a way back, and this place was one of the safe houses he had arranged.
The incubation period of the virus was only a few days, and Andrew stayed with Lupin that night, and the two talked a lot, Remus is a very interesting wizard, and he could have lived well if it weren't for the troubles of his werewolf identity over the years.
Speaking of which, the fate of the quartet is not good: James Potter was killed by Voldemort, his only son became an orphan, Sirius spent more than ten years in Azkaban because of guilt for murder, Peter Pettigrew lived like a rat and was terrified every day, and Lupin, as a werewolf, was discriminated against everywhere.
Andrew sympathizes with Lupin, and Lupin is also very curious about Andrew, but unfortunately Andrew's more than ten years in this world are completely composed of various secrets--- whether it is what he does, or later studying with Queen Anne, or staying in the Far East during this time, it is not something that can be shared....
Fortunately, Andrew was also an excellent listener, and Lupin was awake until the outbreak of the virus. The Countess also prepared a sumptuous dinner for the two.
This continued until the next night, when Lupin joked that Andrew's potion had completely failed, and he felt as if his heart was going to explode.
Finding that there were bloodshots in Lupin's eyes, and knowing that the estimated time had come, Andrew unhurriedly activated the basement magic pattern, and the surrounding environment instantly turned into a fog of nothingness, and Andrew quickly melted into the gray fog and disappeared.
Lupin's muscles spasmed, his body twitched, and he howled in pain, but unfortunately no one could hear him, and the strange gray mist continued to eat away at his body, making him heavy and drowsy.
Andrew was not far away, he quietly observed, werewolves, no matter how powerful they were, in the face of wizards who had been prepared, they were just beasts.
Time flies, and after the sun rises, Lupin, who has been screaming all night, finally falls asleep, and Andrew checks it out and leaves the basement satisfied.
Inside the castle rooms.
Andrew sat at his desk and flipped through some of the magic books that Queen Anne had given him. These books were first obtained from Barty Sr., the legendary Book of Soul Sect Inheritance, and Queen Anne has been studying them in order to solve the picture of hell in Andrew's body.
Many of the spells were written for the first time, but to Andrew's confusion, they all had a sense of déjà vu.
If it's just a coincidence, there are too many coincidences. Different wizarding civilizations have a large number of the same spells, and the probability of this kind of thing happening is actually not very high. He had a bold guess in his mind, that is, the witchcraft civilization in this world actually came from the same source as the Death Cult, which is why there were so many similar spells.
This reminded him of a special school recorded in some secret scrolls—the Death Sect!
They were banished by wizards of other schools before the birth of the Animagus Empire in Africa, and the main reason for the exile was because the casters of the Church of Death had done something even crazier than Andrew Chow knew about the dark arts!
Their magical experiments have created even more terrifying creatures - Abomination!
As early as the first tribulation after the Demon God Age, powerful wizards had already begun interstellar colonization, and some even passed through the space-time turbulence to reach other universes, such as the legendary supreme death sect.
Their source is not from the Age of the Demon God, but from the source of the terrifying power of the true Age of the End, defeated in the battle against the descendants of the first Demon God, the surviving masters of the Death Sect carried an intact floating city through the turbulence of time and space to the universe before Andrew. Of course, there is also a dispute about whether or not the Supreme Death Sect is still in the same universe, because some of them believe that they have only passed through the crystal wall barrier, but in fact they are still inside the vast and boundless universe in the original universe.
Aside from this digression, Andrew Zhou has a strong intuition that the witchcraft civilization in this world should come from the same source as the arcane civilization he learned, and according to the radiation, evil thoughts, and evil transformations on the wizards in this world, he has nearly fifty percent certainty that their source is very likely to be the death sect that was exiled at the beginning!
A school of spells that is considered extremely evil, taboo, and dangerous by other wizards.
If the source of the witchcraft civilization in this world is the Death Sect that was exiled in the first place, then it can explain why they have so many similar spells, why the bewitching witch becomes a resentful spirit after death, why there is energy radiation in even a wizard apprentice, and why the wizards of this world are so biased towards the study of the mystical side and the soul side.
The sorcerers of the Cult of Death were severely judged before being banished for creating some ancient evil that even the gods could not do!
Originally, Andrew Zhou thought that this school had disappeared, but now it seems that they are very likely to have reached this world.
The Death Sect attaches great importance to the power of the bloodline, and in the case of the evolution of civilization, because of some external factors, this has gradually transformed into the current witchcraft civilization. As for the aberrations of some spells, Andrew guessed that the reason was related to time, and that the terrible creations of the Death Sect were beyond the control of any spellcaster.
One of the representative abilities of the Cult of Death is the Curse.
Use the medium from the target, with the help of evil thoughts, resentful spirits, and soul magic abilities, directly damage the opponent and make him seriously ill, weak, and die a tragic death!
At present, the Supreme Death Sect does not have the knowledge of the Death Sect, but only a small number of documents record that some powerful evil gods possess the power of the Destruction Realm. The authenticity of these documents is still up for debate, as Andrew Chow's knowledge of the world is also limited.
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"Ahh
Suddenly there was an exclamation from a maid outside the window.
Andrew frowned and glanced at it, then his face changed slightly, and many panicked servants gathered on the other side of the garden, and a cat in a gorgeous aristocratic dress fell stiffly to the ground.
He pushed the door open and walked out, grabbed a maid and asked, "What's going on outside?"
"Cat...... The ......maid stammered with a frightened look on her face, "The Persian cat died in the garden......
He's dead?
Wasn't it good to meet yesterday? The cat was in the garden with Rolling, and Andrew had a blank face, he didn't want Rolly to be dangerous.
Andrew walked briskly downstairs, and at this time the countess also walked down, and she walked quickly to Andrew's side and said, "What happened?"
"It seems that the family cat suddenly died. ”
The commotion outside alarmed many people, and some wand guards quickly arrived.
Andrew walked quickly towards the back garden, and saw that the servant next to him quickly got out of the way, and the cat that was lively and active yesterday had now turned into a cold corpse, her hair was dull and lacklustre, her pupils were visibly dilated, and her tail was straight up, as if she had seen something very terrible.
There were no visible wounds on her body, only a slight scratch on her arm from the plants in the garden, and the time of death should have been a quarter of an hour ago.
Rolling squatted quietly on the side, as if frightened, this should be the first time he had seen the cute panda of Death--- looked at a loss. Andrew checked the rolling situation with a few spells, and nothing was out of the ordinary, before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Standing next to the Countess was the white manservant of the manor, who leaned over Andrew and the Countess slightly, and said with an ugly face, "Does Madame know what happened?"
"It was fine when I first met the Persian cat......"
Andrew frowned and rolled the Persian cat's eyelids, then looked inside the mouth, looked at other places, and then said in a deep voice, "It's not like he died of poisoning! ”
"Huh?"
Andrew suddenly picked up the Persian cat's meat pad and looked at it, there were black and purple spots on it, he carefully observed the shriveled meat pad, a special dark purple corpse spot was emerging, he said with a solemn face: "Corpse spots appeared so soon? Erosion spell? Has it been in contact with something unclean recently?"
After saying that, Andrew looked up at the manservant in front of him.
Li Manor is currently heavily defended, and other wizards will definitely not attack an innocent kitten, so the reason may be someone else's. And when he first came here, he found that the manservant's residence had a radiant force field, and at the same time, a trace of negative energy escaped from the ground, and Andrew also asked at that time, and the manservant's expression was a little strange at that time.
Hearing Andrew's words, the manservant seemed to think of something, and immediately his face changed greatly, he pulled the fat maid next to him, and said angrily: "Has the Persian cat been to my room recently?"
"I ...... I don't know......" The chubby maid was completely frightened and stammered, "It always goes out at night...... It's a cat."
It's obvious.
There is only one place in the entire manor that is shrouded in an obvious negative energy force field, and that is the residence of the manservant, the wizard's laboratory is very dangerous, and the wizard is even more weird and evil. Andrew vaguely felt that the cat's life force was absorbed by something evil, and at the same time, the residual evil thoughts and negative energy produced a similar effect to the fear spell when it erupted.
In a way, the real reason for the death of the Persian cat is to be scared to death!
The manservant's face was extremely ugly, as if he knew the real cause of death, and he then let out a long sigh and said slowly: "This matter is caused by me, and I will personally ask the Earl for the guilt!"
Andrew frowned at him, it was obvious that the valet was hiding something and didn't say anything.
He didn't make it clear what caused the Persian cat's death, and Andrew vaguely sensed a hint of danger.
A breath similar to the forces of darkness!
He glanced at the valet's quarters, as if he had thought of something: some wizards like to refine strange potions to improve their strength.
And some of the materials used to make these potions are simply activated monsters in Andrew's opinion, such as the screaming mushroom recorded in the magic book, which can move, speak, have a human face, and emit sound waves that are deadly to mortals, and the reason for the death of the Persian cat is likely to be due to contact with something similar!
- "Psionic Eyes!"
Andrew quietly cast a spell, and in an instant everything in front of him turned gray, and the corpse of the Persian cat emitted a strange black mist, and the manservant's residence was the most eye-catching, and a distorted black shadow could be seen wrapped around a certain humanoid plant, and the entire manor was shrouded in a thin gray mist, and everyone, including himself, was stained with a trace of gray evil thoughts.
And the most serious of them is the valet himself, Andrew actually saw a strange woman's smiling face composed of black mist behind him, this face is vaguely similar to the Persian cat, but the smile is really panicked.
It's an evil spirit!
At the same time that Andrew Chow saw her, she also saw Andrew Chow, and with an eerie chuckle, she stretched out her long tongue and licked the back of the valet's neck while looking at Andrew......
As Andrew canceled the Psionic Eye, the gray fog in front of him gradually dissipated, a special spell that allows one to temporarily see something outside of the real world. The manservant found that Andrew was staring at him at this moment, and that look made him feel quite uneasy, and he inexplicably felt a cold numbness on the back of his neck, full of cold sweat.
He only came into contact with such black magic by chance, of course, he was far from knowing how terrible it was, and he couldn't observe evil spirits with spells like Andrew, but he knew that Andrew had guessed something, but for the sake of what he wanted, he finally decided to grit his teeth and hide it.
The actual age of the manservant is close to a hundred years old, which is almost a time to go to the grave for a human being.
He has been cultivating an evil demonic plant that is capable of absorbing the life force of humans, and when used as a material to refine elixirs, the final product can permanently increase a person's lifespan!
Now, the demonic plants he cultivated seemed to be out of control.
In the Arcane Academy, alchemy is a compulsory course for wizards, and in this world, the concept of alchemy is more general, and what replaces alchemy as a compulsory course for wizards is - Potions!
Unlike the alchemy potions that Andrew mastered to temporarily boost his strength, the potions of this world is even more strange and powerful, using many strange animals and plants, using incredible and mysterious methods to cultivate materials, and even using evil substances as potions to make potions.
The potions made with these methods are very terrifying and powerful, some of them can permanently increase strength, some can permanently improve the physique, and even directly improve the mental power of wizards. Of course, wizards must pay a little price for taking these potions, some potions can damage their physical fitness, some potions may leave permanent hidden dangers, and more importantly, wizards do not know that taking potions will cause them to produce energy radiation, and in Andrew Zhou's opinion, they all have a trace of evil characteristics in them.
Generally speaking, the more witches who take this potion, the more evil spirits will be entangled in their bodies, and in severe cases, they may become like bewitching witches who have turned into evil creatures!
Almost all of the potions recorded in the magic books obtained by Andrew have the conditions to be taken, and if they are not able to meet the conditions and force them to take them, the user may die on the spot, or the user may be transformed into a monster by the potion. For example, if the person who takes the screaming potion described above does not meet the conditions, it will transform into a giant humanoid meat mushroom (monster form) in severe pain.
Andrew and the Countess returned to the room.
The final formation of evil creatures is probably only seen by Queen Anne, these ancient witchcraft has long been lost in wizarding England, maybe in the African continent, or in the jungles of South America, those evil sacrifices have been inherited. The spirit of the evil spirit, immune to physical damage, is very deadly to ordinary people, and it is obvious that there are already evil spirits forming in this manor.
At present, Andrew's knowledge of these things is different from the army of the Dark Lord's Yin Corpse, which is also a branch of magic, but much less powerful.
Andrew didn't know much about this kind of magic, which meant that without the help of Queen Anne, Andrew might not have been an opponent of this evil spirit. Although he is not afraid of evil spirits, an ordinary wizard like Manor is a dead word once he gets it.
Although the evil spirit is now entangled in the manservant's body, he can't bear it for long, and he must be the first to fight back after the evil spirit is completely formed. All the people in the entire manor are tainted with evil thoughts, and the evil spirits will kill them one by one when they are formed, and the Persian cat is only the first victim.
"Mom, I don't know why there are traces of black magic in the manor, I need a little time to deal with it, you have to be with me during this time. After Andrew entered the room, he said in a deep voice: "We have to go to the basement, there is a magic pattern formation there, it is very safe." ”
"Isn't there that werewolf in the basement? he won't wake up?" the countess was a little worried.
"It's okay, he's past the danger period, and now he's in a coma, and he's not in danger during this time. ”
"What about the others? Do you want to inform your father?"
"Of course, I'll arrange for the others, I'll write to my father first...."Andrew had little clue about this kind of black magic, and after he finished writing a letter to Count Lee, he wrote another letter to Queen Anne.
Then Andrew gathered everyone in the manor, especially the wizards who guarded them, and told everyone about it. Many people didn't believe it, and Andrew was not reluctant, saying only that they could choose to leave the vacation or stay in the manor during this time, but they had to follow the arrangement.
Most dark magic and Horcruxes have the ability to bind the soul and break the soul, and the evil spirit born here is attached to a strange plant, which means that its activity is limited to the vicinity of the manor. If the nature of the evil spirit is not in this world, the sorcerer may not be able to detect when it suddenly appears.
As soon as Andrew left on his front foot, the valet anxiously returned to his quarters on his hind foot.
The accidental death of the Persian cat made him not know how to explain to the old Earl Sutton, and as soon as Andrew pointed out the cause of the death of the Persian cat, he chuckled in his heart, and guessed that the matter was probably caused by him.
Squeak.
The valet entered the quarters and pushed open a heavy wooden door, and the interior of his room was simply decorated, the most striking being a crimson patch of dirt in the center, which came from an eerie secret place called Crimson Land on the other side of the strait.
The dirt is surrounded by a pattern of magic patterns, and an inconspicuous plant can be seen on it. A small red flower, with three leaves and a slender rhizome, looks no different from the wildflowers and weeds on the roadside.
But when the valet approached, everything suddenly became jaw-dropping, only to see the plant in front of him suddenly pull itself out of the ground, and the rhizome under it was as large as a fist-sized baby, with hands and feet, and the facial expression and outline were very similar to that of a human, and the whole rhizome was bright red, as if it had sucked human blood. It spun around the red dirt in some panic, making strange chirping noises from its mouth.
- Hell Flower!
A demonic plant that draws on the power of resentment and resentment, it needs fresh corpses and even living people to provide for it, it will absorb the life force of the living, and every time it matures, the rhizome will become bright red, and eventually its rhizome will become as bright red as blood.
The potion refined with it can permanently increase a person's lifespan by almost a hundred years, which is almost equivalent to having a new life!