Chapter 2: Puppet Show
"Why doesn't Medea ignore me?"
Sidlifa called out to her for a long time, but never received any response, and her mood was even worse.
After confirming her bloodline, Robert consulted with William and arranged a room for her in the court.
This royal palace was built by the Normans on the ruins of Solomon's palace, so many places have retained the extraordinary characteristics of the Outville family, such as they like to use iron layers instead of wallpaper and floors in the interior, because iron is an excellent conductor of heat, if any enemy breaks in, an ice storm can reduce the temperature of the entire room to minus sixty or seventy, and quickly transmit the temperature to the surrounding rooms to warn.
Of course, practical is practical, this black metal decoration style still looks quite ugly, compared to her room in the Hearthfire Island Manor, the living conditions are simply different.
Sidlifa sat on the stone bench for a moment when she suddenly heard a loud boiling sound outside.
"It'......" she silently walked out the door, looking out at the sky in the distance. Beneath the dusk of the evening, the sky outside the city walls shone with large patches of light, as if brilliant flames of light were rolling and boiling.
"It's the annual Sicilian Puppet Festival, Miss Sidlifa." The maid passing by replied, "There's a grand puppet show going on outside. ”
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The streets of Palermo have been stripped of makeshift vendors, and a convoy of numerous horse-drawn carriages, each manned by a puppeteer, controls seven or eight small puppets at the same time, some wearing armor and holding spears, like Norman knights, while others dressed up to look like the eldest lady of the local aristocracy, vividly interacting with the audience on both sides of the road.
"What kind of holiday is this?" Aske said with emotion. In the previous game world, he had heard that Sicily was famous for its superb puppet shows, but he didn't know that there was such a festival.
"It should be a traditional festival here in Palermo." Medea looked around and read the thoughts of the crowd around her, "Well, it seems to be a local carnival event." ”
She suddenly felt a subtle sense of unease, and the conspiracy ability began to warn again, but this time the malice was obviously deeper, and without any concealment at all, it suddenly gathered straight on her.
"Asker! ......Even if she didn't want to ruin the last hours of this "temporary boyfriend day" and waste it, Medea had to bite the bullet and remind Aske under the sudden malicious threat.
However, before she could spit out a few words, suddenly her body was strangely out of control.
"What's wrong?" Aske asked, surprised.
"Nothing." Medea said with a smile.
Her demeanor and movements were unusual, but her heart was so anxious that it almost exploded.
What's going on!
Why is the body out of control? Could it be a demigod of the spiritual department...... Wrong!
As we all know, the abilities or laws of the mind system directly act on the mental body of the target when controlling the target. In other words, if there is no corresponding psychic resistance, the target will not even be aware that they are being controlled.
At this time, Medea only lost control of her body, but her mind was completely normal, and she could even clearly perceive that her body was out of control.
This is not the ability of the psychic system, but the possession ability of the spirit sequence! Or a more advanced law!
Her head was suddenly controlled and turned around, and she saw an old man in a robe standing on the opposite side of the procession, performing a free puppet show for the children on the side of the road.
“…… So the savior met the Red Witch. "The old man skillfully manipulates the puppets, with improvised narration, as if he were acting in a drama on stage," said the Red Witch, "it is very simple to want me to help you, I have fallen in love with a man, but he is already married and has a family. ”
"If you try to put this potion of love into the man's food, he will immediately fall madly in love with me, abandon his wife and children, and reverently fall on the hem of my skirt. As soon as I can get him, I will help you defeat the evil heretic devil in return. ”
"So what! So! The children clapped their hands and screamed, hoping that the savior would get the help of the Red Witch, but also fearing that the Savior would really do what the Red Witch had planned and ruin a happy family for no reason.
"Of course, the savior will not succumb to her jade hope. Although he urgently needs the help of the Red Witch, he will definitely not do such an unscrupulous evil thing. The old man smiled and continued to manipulate the puppet, "So he found a wild boar nearby and fed it the red witch's potion. ”
"The potion took effect in the boar's body, and the boar immediately began to come into heat, and rushed towards the red witch in a frenzy."
Eventually, the Red Witch was forced to climb a tree by a wild boar. The boar could not be courted, so he could only rub the tree frantically underneath, and the red witch clung to the shaking trunk above, desperately begging the savior for help. ”
"Then the savior said, Then swear allegiance to me, and never again mutilate the poor man, and I will help you."
The Red Witch had to swear a curse, and the Savior killed the boar with one shot. So the Red Witch was forced to fulfill her promise that when the Savior began to deal with the pagan devils, she would come to her aid from the magical plane. ”
"Okay, great!" The children cheered, clearly pleased with the ending.
The atmosphere of the performance there was joyful and enthusiastic, but Medea's heart seemed to fall to the bottom of an extremely cold lake, she could not control her body at all, she could only let the other party drive her fingers, and slowly condensed a fireball from her palm.
Since the completion of the bloodline, she deliberately stopped using the flame ability of the purgatory succubus bloodline, because after merging with Medusa's personality, Medea also regained the connection with purgatory, as well as the super "Flame V" ability.
Tier V flames, which cannot be obtained by taking any potions, and are far more lethal than tier IV flames, can be used as an excellent hole card for her if she draws pain from her surroundings in exchange for a corresponding power increase with Purgatory, and can even raise this flame to the level of the law.
At this time, although Medea did not have the bonus of painful emotions, the majestic heat condensed in the flickering flames in her palm was enough to easily burn the entire street. Under the control of the will behind the scenes, she approached Asker with a sweet smile and said:
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Before she could press the flame in her palm on Asker's body, Asker suddenly pressed down on her waist with one hand.
He held down a sword that emerged from the void and was slightly unsheathed, and then pushed it back into its sheath cleanly.
With a crisp sound of unsheathing, including the flames of Medea's palm, and the transcendent power that had seized control of her body, it was as if something had cut it off.
Nine Styles of Stars. Shattered Spirits.
"Asker! Across the street! Medea, who had returned to normal, hurriedly shouted, and Aske had already grabbed it again into the void.
The Law of War. Plunder.
Across the street, the old man in the robe was nearing the end of his performance:
“…… Eventually, the Savior defeated all the competitors by killing the evil pagan devil and succeeding in marrying the princess of the Empire. That's all for our story, and of course their happy life continues. ”
"Huh! Let's talk about one more grandpa! The children reluctantly said, but the old man had simply turned around and walked into the narrow alley beside him.
Asker has already plundered the extraordinary power that affected Medea just now, and it is not a skill of the spirit sequence, but a "puppet" law skill from the bloodline of the corpse witch: body manipulation.
This skill works similarly to the law of "manipulation", but on a lower level of idealism - it can only control the body, but not the mind.
Therefore, Asker quickly unleashed his looted skills, controlled the dozen or so onlookers on the opposite side, and manipulated them to chase after the old man who was about to leave.
However, the old man in the robe just waved his hand in the air, and the controlled crowd of onlookers immediately broke away from Asker's control, stopped and looked at each other in confusion.
Just this moment, the old man had disappeared at the end of the alley, and the puppets he had manipulated before also crackled and jumped on the ground, and rushed into the darkness.
These puppets don't have any thin lines on the joints of their limbs.