Half a magic hour later. 「」

Komert hung on the skeleton cross, and his appearance had hardly changed from the original, except that the mysterious blue fire became more and more vigorous, almost rising to the height of his chest, submerging half of Komert's body in the middle.

Sidney held a crystal ball in both hands, and the faint green light flew in it like a firefly, and he stopped the last spell, and the last green light poured out of Komert's brain and disappeared into the crystal ball.

Sidney's spell went from high to low and dull, the spell of his fingers couldn't help but bend and dance, and the blue flames slowly descended, and soon fell to the position of Komert, and it was still slowly falling.

The spell stops at the last syllable.

The green rays in the crystal ball also condensed into a complete ball, and if you look closely, you can see that the dark green ball of light is slightly uneven and damaged, and the green rays continue to overflow from the broken parts.

This suggests that Sidney's memories are incomplete, and that the crystal ball can apparently only temporarily preserve these memories for a period of time, during which time the memories of Komert are constantly being lost as the green threads pass.

But the necromancer is worthy of being a soul master, even if he is a strong person at the ** division level, Lin An doesn't think that many people can have this means of stripping memories with this hand, even if Sidney relies on the holy weapon of the Book of the Dead in his hand, but after all, he is leading the entire process of memory stripping. 「」

Lin An took the crystal ball, looked at the dark green light ball flying inside, and nodded lightly.

"Good work!"

Lin An handed Sidney a bottle of magic liquid, and she could see that Sidney had consumed a lot. After the spell ended, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his unfocused white eyes still faintly showed a rare excitement.

The Book of the Dead in his hand burped loudly, seemed to be extremely full, and closed the pages of the book automatically.

Lin An looked at Komert on the skeleton cross. The blue fire had descended to the soles of his feet, and he had lost his breath of life long before the blue fire had flooded his ankles - no matter how strong the willpower of ordinary people, in front of mages, especially necromancers. There is no room for resistance.

"How is he?" Lin An asked.

"I have already passed the initial refining, and my willpower is better than expected, at least a sixty percent success rate!"

Sidney's tone fluctuated slightly, indicating that he was quite excited, and said a long sentence in a rare way:

"His soul is a good material, perfect for refining into a ghost knight, although his martial arts skills were not very good during his lifetime. I can't keep much ability, but since I have to strip away my memory, I can't retain much of my original ability, so the ghost knight with strong willpower can grow faster in my Book of the Dead."

The Book of the Dead has a space dedicated to the undead, like a Gu cup. It is used to cultivate powerful undead, although Sidney has not put many powerful undead into it now, but he has great potential with the Book of the Dead, so he knows that Lin An has the backing of a legendary powerhouse behind him, and he still has hope of breaking away from the contract and regaining his freedom.

But things like artifacts and holy weapons, only by choosing their own masters, can not be controlled by people at all, otherwise the Holy See has so many artifacts and holy weapons, and it will not be just thrown into the treasure house to accumulate dust.

And that's why. Lin An didn't mean to move Sidney at all, otherwise even if he didn't have to make up his mind, at least he couldn't help but be tempted by the possibility of changing the necromantic system.

"It's a pity that he is too strong-willed to be used by us, otherwise I wouldn't waste this talent lightly." Lin An regretted slightly.

Sidney gave her a strange look:

"Can be refined into a ghost knight and obtain eternal life." It's an opportunity that ordinary people can't ask for—I still need to pay a lot of precious materials for this, and what he has paid is only memories and feelings that are no longer needed as an eternal life, as well as some torments and risks in the refining process, but what he has gained is eternal life, and he can even retain his will and thinking ability, and start a new life process after becoming an undead, what's the pity?"

Sidney was clearly dissatisfied with Lin'an's evaluation of the fruits of his labor.

In his opinion, the exposure of Komert's identity and any fate that falls into the hands of other mages is much more tragic than the fate he gave, and forcibly and violently erasing his memories and destroying his soul is the greatest possibility.

The law of the jungle in this world does not allow much room for mercy, and even if it does, it is by no means something that can be encountered by Komert, a spy who knows too much secrets and whose identity is too useful. Otherwise, how could Lin An target him?

Of course, Lin An also knew about this, but he just felt that it was a pity for Komert after all, if he was a mage or a martial artist, with such a strong will and belief, his achievements would never be inferior to anyone.

If given a choice, Komert would probably rather have his soul dissipated after death than be stripped of his memory and imprisoned forever in the Book of the Dead, becoming the ghost rider of his killer. 「」

It's just that the weak have no choice in front of the strong.

Lin An only sighed for Komert at most, but he didn't have any regrets in his heart, death can be seen everywhere on the battlefield, Komert will not be the last, not to mention that Komert is loyal to the country and the nation, but his hands are not without the blood of innocents-

Whether it is ruthless or cold-blooded, it is impossible for a person who has come to Lin An's position to have too much excess pity and mercy, in this turbulent world where the situation is changing everywhere, the objects that her feelings can give are only a limited number of people.

The snow-white slender hand held up the crystal ball, and the right hand covered it, Lin An's movements at this time were elegant, looking like a holy goddess, no one would have thought that the crystal ball in her hand was the masterpiece of the necromancer.

"I'll look at his memories first."

Sidney nodded, watching Lin An release the light of the memory reading technique, concentrating his mental power and sinking into his memory, the green memory light ball in the crystal ball instantly brightened, and the purple robes of unknown material on his body fluttered one after another.

After a while, the light of the spell stopped, and Lin An opened his eyes, his forehead was densely covered with fine sweat, and the memory light ball in his hand had shrunk by at least a tenth. 「」

Lin An pressed his temples, feeling the acupuncture points under his skin throb suddenly, and his brain was swollen, buzzing with foreign memories.

Reading memory is a very big burden on mental power, even if Lin An's current mental power has been realized, he can be called invincible below the legend, after reading one-tenth of Komert's memory, he still feels unbearable.

She didn't know that Sidney on the side had no expression on the surface, but in fact, she was already secretly shocked by her huge spiritual power in her heart - in the past, he had always known that Lin An's spiritual power was very strong, and it was likely to be at the ** division level, but he couldn't specifically measure the gap between him and Lin An.

Sidney's mental power is also his strength, but if he is to read and memorize, it is impossible to exceed one percent at most, and the gap between him and Lin An's mental power is completely qualitative, and it cannot be calculated.

Closing his eyes and meditating, sorting out the memories he had read in his head, Lin An wiped the sweat on his forehead, opened his eyes and sighed slightly.

"How?" Sidney asked.

"As we suspected, the people at the top have noticed the private actions of the merchants." Lin An's voice was slightly hoarse.

This result was not unexpected, and they had been in close contact with the merchants, and even if they didn't rely on the information in Komert's head, they could guess something about it.

"So what is the purpose of the intelligence department's rumors that those mages are allowed to contact and cooperate with the merchants?"

Komert's actions could not have been self-conceived, and the use of intelligence transactions to drive mages and merchants to cooperate was probably a step in the Intelligence Division's plan.

"A plan, a plan against the actions of the merchants, Komert is not aimed at us, and the level of the plan is not limited to mages and merchants, but also includes other military leaders who have a relationship with those merchants."

Lin An said softly, "Within the intelligence department, this plan is named 'fishing'. ”

Sidney suddenly understood, "They want to lure in more merchants." ”

"—The point is the forces behind the merchants," Lin paused, "That's how Comert understands the purpose of this plan. ”

"Do you have a different opinion?" Sidney already has some understanding of Lin An's character.

"Why do you think the Intelligence Service is so hostile to these merchants? You know, so far, the purpose of those businessmen and us is just to eat some leftover oil and water from the army. Lin An asked rhetorically.

Sidney thought for a moment, the advantage of Merlin's army is still obvious at the moment, under this general trend, even if those merchants are spies, under the supervision and management of the military, the damage they can do is extremely limited.

And in fact, so far, those merchants have done their duty, and have not done anything to sabotage the war, except to show that they covet the benefits of the war.

What's more, those war merchants are all people from Merlin and Merlin's vassal countries, and they can only eat a little bit of oil and water through some military relations, and on the front line of the northern front, the cake of war interests is firmly controlled by the military, even if it is the relationship between the big nobles in the imperial capital, it is not more useful than the words of a front-line officer here......

Hey!

Sidney seemed to understand something, and his unfocused gaze flickered.

"Ah, are they the nobles?" Sidney let out a flattened exclamation.

"To be precise, it is the non-pro-military forces represented by aristocratic politicians in the rear, and perhaps some of them are involved in the royal family...... Obviously, now you understand the situation-"

"The so-called foreign espionage forces and the like are obviously just excuses, and foreign spies exist, but I don't think they can go deep into the front line of the northern front and become the protagonists of the troubles."

Lin An stretched out his hand and said indifferently:

"At present, the huge war interests and the excessively smooth war have obviously made some people in the imperial capital unable to sit still...... If nothing else, in the coming period, the military will face a struggle for the redistribution of war benefits, and the so-called intelligence services and businessmen are just pawns. ”

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