A cultist who can draw? ”

Merlin, who was still analyzing the magic patterns on the food tablecloth one by one, paused for a moment, and he raised his head to look at Lin opposite.

In this world, professions such as craftsmen or artists should never be taken lightly, because the end of these skills involves theology.

In the pantheon of the Templar Church, gods such as the god of sewing, the god of music, and other gods are promoted from mortals to gods by mortals who have reached the extreme in their respective fields, and these gods are actually the ancestors of all walks of life in human society.

It's just that just as artists are not common among ordinary people, transcendents who can be promoted to transcendence through art are actually rare on the mysterious side, and in the declining city of Cornwallis, artistic transcendents are even rarer.

Merlin knew that the city knew that there was such an artistic transcendent now, and that was Alice's father, a poor painter who had been corrupted by demons.

I don't think there will be a second painting transcendent in the city at the moment, so the tricky guy who can draw that Lin said is Alice's father.

Since the last night, Merlin has not actually given up tracking the nascent demon, and he has asked Red to pay attention to the news from the police station to see if there are any new disappearances or anything recently.

But he didn't expect that there was no news from Hong's side, but he heard the clue from Sister Lin's mouth first.

Alice's father was mixed up with the cultists.

But after a slight surprise, Merlin was also surprised.

After all, according to the characteristics of the heart demon, the new heart demon bred from Alice's father will inherit Alice's father's biggest obsession during his lifetime, that is, he will find a way to resurrect Alice's mother, and only after completing this obsession, the new heart demon can be regarded as completely mature and complete.

And the abyssal secret art that achieves resurrection by cultivating soul painting requires a large amount of human blood and soul as spell casting materials, and the cultists over there also need a large number of humans as sacrifices to summon the lord, so it is not surprising that the two sides who are both in the abyss camp and have the same needs will cooperate.

"What does that painter look like, is he a very handsome middle-aged man, blonde hair and blue eyes, about 5.9 feet (1.8 meters) tall?"

Although he felt that he should not be mistaken, Merlin still confirmed with Lin that he had seen a self-portrait of Alice's father at Alice's house before, so he knew his appearance and characteristics.

Lin was slightly stunned, then nodded.

"Well, that's true, Merlin, do you know that artist?"

Miss Nun asked, somewhat surprised.

Merlin, who had confirmed the speculation in his heart, sighed, and then he looked at the nun in front of him, thought for a moment, and then explained.

"Lin, you are also Alice's teacher, then I won't hide it from you, in fact, Alice is not my own sister, but I adopted, and the painter is Alice's biological father if nothing else."

After this period of getting along, Merlin also understands Sister Lin's personality, as long as Merlin's identity as the demon king is not revealed, then she can be completely trusted, so there is nothing to hide.

And if it is clear in advance that he and Alice are not brothers and sisters, but only an adopted relationship, then even if Merlin's identity is really exposed in the future, Lin will not be too embarrassed by Alice's innocent child, which is also good.

"Alice's father? This ....."

Hearing Merlin's words, Lin was shocked, in fact, she was not blind to Merlin and Alice were not brothers and sisters, she had already seen it, after all, one was blonde and blue-eyed, the other was black-haired and blue-eyed, the two looked alike at all, and there was one thing to say, even if Alice was already very cute, but compared to Merlin, it would be .....

Well, it can only be said that Professor Merlin is too foul, even a devout person like her occasionally looks at that face with some blasphemous thoughts.

It's just that Lin didn't expect Alice's life experience to be so complicated, and the father of an angelic stigmata holder would be an abyss believer? That's ridiculous, isn't it?

Seeing Miss Nun like this, Merlin slowly told about his encounter with Alice, of course, he must have hidden things about his identity as a demon king and the demon contract, only saying that it was a wizard who saw a comatose little match seller on the side of the road, and saw that she had a little wizarding talent and took her home for adoption.

By the way, he also mentioned a little about Alice's father's intention to resurrect his wife with his daughter's soul, which was painful because of his wife's death, and was finally invaded by demons.

When Lin heard this, her brows furrowed immediately, and her face was a little annoyed, but she still didn't have a seizure in the end, but after enduring it for a long time, she leaned back, leaned back on the back of the chair and sighed.

"Alas, it's a painter again, and these things that study art are troublesome."

She complained with mixed feelings.

In the past when she was in the Templar Order, Lynn often dealt with abyssal eaters such as demons, and among them, artists were considered by the Templar to be one of the most vulnerable to the abyss.

There is no way, art has very high requirements for learners' talent, and if you want to achieve something in art, the requirements for talent are even higher to the extreme, and often only a very small number of geniuses are qualified to officially enter the high-end palace of art.

And professional talents such as painters, writers, and sculptors are actually two words in the final analysis, inspiration.

The more inspired you are, the more talented you are in this type of career.

But what to say about inspiration, this is a double-edged sword, it can make you transcend ordinary people to become a genius admired by everyone, and in the same way, it can easily make a person become paranoid and extreme, making an otherwise normal person gradually go crazy.

As the saying goes, geniuses to the left, madmen to the right, geniuses and madmen, in fact, most of them are one and the same, just like the past geniuses recorded in the history books often have some quirks that ordinary people can't understand.

On the mystical side, the study of inspiration is much more thorough than that of ordinary people, such as witchcraft such as divination, stargazing, and prophecy among wizards, which have extremely high requirements for the inspiration attribute of learners.

It's like an ordinary person suddenly patting his head and thinking of a good idea, at this time it can be called that he has an inspiration, but for what this inspiration represents, where does this inspiration come from, ordinary people rarely think about it, they may simply think that this is all their own thing, is a proof of their intelligence.

However, in fact, from the mystical side, although the so-called inspiration is indeed equivalent to the intellectual attributes of people, the more intelligent people tend to be more inspired.

But in the eyes of the transcendentals, intelligence is actually equivalent to a human body's innate signal receiving device, and the higher a person's intelligence, it means that the better the signal of his receiving device, the easier it is to capture the flow of information he needs from the spirit world.

As mentioned before, all beings will be transformed into special beings similar to spirit bodies when they enter the spirit world, and such spirit experiences often inadvertently radiate some information outward.

The receiving device of intelligence is specially used to capture the information overflowing from some high-ranking beings in the spirit world, and once this kind of information is captured and understood by human intelligence, a so-called inspiration is often born.

For example, a writer suddenly thought of a legendary story, he felt that it was his inspiration, and he imagined it by his own efforts, but in fact, that legendary story may be the personal experience of a certain big guy, but when the big guy was shuttling in the spiritual world, the overflowing information on his spiritual body happened to be received by that writer.

Of course, this is not to say that the writer is useless, just a simple repetition printer, in fact, most of this kind of inspiration is vague, and it is not too complete, which requires the recipient to rely on his own ability to understand and complete it, the so-called inspiration is to give the writer a basic outline, and the rest of the specific plot or something still needs to be written by the writer himself.

And so on, some new inventions, rumors that a certain painter painted a famous painting as if he had been inspired by God, etc., are actually mostly because they have inadvertently and indirectly received information from some superiors, and the information of those superiors has given them a guide in the way forward.

Just as modern people can throw any modern technology to ancient times and may be immortalized on the spot, the little insignificant information that those high-ranking people casually spill out is already a miracle like God's revelation for weak human beings.

The same is true of the principles of witchcraft such as prophecy and divination, and for the existence of superior beings such as gods, most of the information of the mortal world is not a secret to them.

There is no so-called concept of time and space in the spiritual world, so for those who are beyond the constraints of time and space, they look at the human world just like Merlin watched the TV that has ended in his previous life, and the experiences of the characters in the TV are basically clear, and they can pull the progress bar at any time to watch, and they can watch the past if they want to see the past, and look at the future if they want to see the future.

Through divination and prophecy, wizards can intercept the information they need from the overflowing information of the superiors, so as to obtain revelations similar to some broken pictures, and then the wizards analyze and interpret these broken pictures, which is the so-called divination prophecy.

Well, inspiration is such a convenient and almost omnipotent thing, and the capital of geniuses to do whatever they want is often the supernumerous inspiration that comes from their high intelligence.

It's just that inspiration is not only good but not harmful, just like Merlin said in the spirit world before, those high-level existences are not so easy to contact, for ordinary people, even if they just look at them, they may directly empty their value, and be shocked by the massive information contained in their spirit body to become fools, or brainwash into fanatics, or simply become madmen, etc.

And intercepting the overflowing information flow of such superiors through inspiration is much softer than facing the great, but it is not without risk, it is actually just a change from deadly poison to chronic poison.

The more inspiration you get, the more likely it is for human beings to be influenced by high-ranking existences, and eventually become the servants of the other party or something, there are often some geniuses in history who are so talented when they are young, but in their later years, they suddenly and inexplicably believe in gods, or become cultists in their later years.

As the old saying goes, the basic rule of this world is equivalent exchange, and behind the seemingly free gift of inspiration has already been marked, but the insignificant human beings do not know about it, but complacently regard this gift of the great as their own merit.

It is precisely for this reason that the witchcraft that needs to use the attribute of inspiration in the mystical side will often clearly point to a fixed high-level existence, and will also clearly name the materials that need to be prepared to perform this witchcraft, so as to achieve a simple exchange of spiritual materials as a consultation fee.

It's a pity that ordinary people don't know this kind of knowledge, so the ghost knows which high-level existence the inspiration of those high-inspired ordinary people comes from, it's like a lottery, if it comes from a certain righteous god, basically there will be no big problem, but if the inspiration comes from a certain evil god in the abyss, then you can only ask for more blessings.

However, this is not an irregular card drawing, some people have also deliberately studied the rules of this, and finally found that it is related to everyone's willpower, that is, the SAN value on Merlin's side.

There are 100 layers in the spirit world, and the number of san values also determines the number of layers of your spirit projection in the spirit world, the more san you have, the higher the number of layers in the spirit world, which also means that the closer you are to the astral realm where the gods are located, then your inspiration will most likely come from those gods.

But if your SAN value is very low, then the lower your level in the spirit world, which means that you are closer to the abyss, and the inspiration you receive is not the whisper of the abyss evil god.

It's a pity that the san value is floating, not fixed, it is possible that some people originally had a strong willpower, but then some successive setbacks completely crushed him, which also made his spiritual projection fall directly from the top to the low, from heaven to hell, and then was tempted by the abyss whisper step by step towards depravity, which is also a common thing.

Alice's father is a typical example, a former genius painter who was devastated by the death of his wife and was eventually possessed by demons.

There were so many similar tragic examples that Lynn had seen in her past Templar career that she was a little numb, so now she didn't know what to say except sigh.

As for Merlin, he feels the same as Miss Nun, there is nothing to say, the rules of this world are so cruel, who can blame this kind of thing?

Blame the abyss? But the rules of the abyss are like this, as a gathering place for all the evils in this world, leading people to fall and planting seeds of demons to those who meet the conditions, this is the passive attribute of the abyss, just like some flowers are poisonous, people are born like this, you can't blame it for why it has to be poisonous.

As for what abyss is the source of evil, we want to destroy the abyss and other middle two ideas, it is even more meaningless, without the abyss's restraint and attraction to negative energy, let this negative energy flow everywhere, then this human world is afraid that it will be hell on earth long ago.

Light and darkness are always mutually reinforcing, and yin and yang are indispensable.

"It's really troublesome to break the world, take jujube pills."

Merlin sighed inwardly and sighed.

The two of them looked at each other in the office, and for a moment they didn't know what to do, wondering whether to tell Alice about his father's news.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Just then, there was another knock on the door.