Chapter 231: The King of the Underworld and the Necromancer
Old Curry is the grave keeper of Helsin. He was a widower without any relatives, and he had been a grave keeper for twenty-four years.
Now he is 52 years old, which is very old. In recent years, he has felt more and more that he is running out of energy. There are many times when it is just dark, and I am already sleepy and unbearable, so I go to bed early.
In recent years, because of the Bloody Hand Gang, the cemetery has begun to become "lively". There are many young people who died inexplicably and were hastily buried here, most of them young girls.
Old Curry knew what was going on, and it was all poor people. But no one knows if he has a day or tomorrow, and maybe he will die in the caretaker's hut in the cemetery one day. What could he do?
May these poor people sleep in the kingdom of Diaz, the king of the underworld!
Originally, this is how old Curry prayed. But one day, he accidentally discovered that there were traces of stitches on the corpse!
He examined it closely, and many of the entities had been taken some of their organs!
This is blasphemy against the dead! This will cause the deceased to be unable to sleep!
How dare the Bloody Hands? How dare they do such a thing? The King of the Underworld will not let them go.
Old Curry is a believer in the King of the Underworld, who is the protector of the dead.
It is believed that after death, the soul will go to the underworld. Where pious souls are brought to the kingdom of God by the gods of their respective faiths.
And the rest will be judged, and the good will have the opportunity to be reborn as human beings and receive good fortune. The wicked, on the other hand, will be sent to the lower planes and tormented in the abyss and hell......
And the reason why everyone shouts and beats the necromancer is because the dead who are disturbed by them cannot sleep peacefully. Or wander in the world until the soul dissipates, or linger in the underworld and cannot be reincarnated.
Old Curry wept bitterly at the statue of the king of the underworld in his room, and finally chose to remain silent.
Which is more painful, the tragedy before death or the torture after death? Old Curry didn't know. But the elder Curry felt that he might not be qualified to be reincarnated again......
On this day, the sun had set again, it was already winter, and it was getting dark early.
Old Curry closed the door as usual, and tightened the crack with rags to keep out the cold wind of the night.
In the early years, as a follower of Dias, the king of the underworld, he dutifully guarded the cemetery and the dead who were buried there.
But when he learns of the Bloody Hand's misdeeds, he finally gives up his duties and begins to get by. The only thing he hopes for now is to sleep forever as soon as possible.
He lit a precious white candle, which he was willing to use only when he prayed. He rarely even uses an oil lamp.
Pray to the king of the underworld at ten minutes of nightfall.
"Patron of the dead, ruler of the scales of death, great king of the underworld, Dias. Your believers pray to you. Peace be upon the living, and rest in peace to the dead...... I hope I can return to your kingdom soon......"
As usual, Old Curry finished praying, picked up the bottle and took a sip. The cemetery is exceptionally cold, and you can't stand it without drinking. But he was reluctant to drink more, and could only take a small sip at a time......
He then went to bed wrapped in a worn-out blanket.
It is so hard to live, and I hope that I will return to the kingdom of my god soon......
Before long, a puff of green smoke began to fill the room, and Old Curry began to snore loudly......
A figure began to appear in the cemetery, and he picked a new cemetery, and then two skeletons appeared beside him and began to dig quickly.
Then the skeleton covered up, picked up the corpse, and quickly followed the figure away......
Dreyfus is a necromancer. He described it as withered, thin, and skinny.
Although he was not yet fifty years old, he looked like a dried corpse running out of a coffin......
Research necromancy, which will inevitably hurt your body. After all, being in the company of dead spirits, corpses, and negative energy all day long, no matter how resistant I am, I can't bear it.
He was originally the son of a small merchant, but before he could reach adulthood at the age of 16, his father died in a running business. His family quickly fell into decline, and he had to become an apprentice in a slaughterhouse and make ends meet.
But he was lucky enough to pick up a magic notebook!
Many mages write research notes, recording many of their experiments and magical achievements. It's as if top students have study notes.
What Dryers picked up was the research notes of Andrew, a necromancer. At the time, he didn't know the meaning of Andrew's name, but he knew that this was his chance to change his fate!
With literacy, he began to learn what he was writing in his notebooks. But his qualifications are really not very high, and with his own blind research, progress is very slow.
Here I have to mention the characteristics of necromancy, which is not like other spells, which requires very high qualifications for practitioners. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will always get some results.
If Drymouth had picked up a book of notes from other mages, he wouldn't have been able to get his hands on it.
Dreyfus, with his dissatisfaction with the conditions of his existence, has an extreme desire to change his fate. Little by little, delve into necromancy.
After nearly thirty years of research, he finally stumbled to the bronze.
But he's been spotted with clues, and while the laws of the Free Realm are lax, they're not very friendly to necromancers. He had to run to the backwoods of Norfolk for two years.
Later, he happened to meet in the dark world and set up a line. So he came to Helsing and took refuge in the Bloody Hand Gang.
Although the Bloody Hand Gang provides a certain amount of corpses, the Bloody Hand Gang is not at ease with a person who plays with corpses, and will not provide sufficient materials. Not to mention that he had other ideas.
So he began to steal corpses in the cemetery himself. Recently, that Paladin Sensai disappeared, and the Church of Bacon was too busy to take care of itself, plus he felt that his strength had increased recently, maybe there was a chance for advanced silver. So I often go to the cemetery to steal the body......
He didn't choose to hurt the old man who was watching the cemetery, and he didn't even dare to use magic. After all, the statue of Dias, the king of the underworld, is right next to it.
It's almost like committing a crime under a Skynet camera.
Moreover, as the king of the underworld, Dias has a priesthood that includes the dead, the kingdom of the dead, and the protection of the dead. It's the boldest presence of necromancers.
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Back at the underground base, Dreyfus got busy.
The body was newly buried and needed to be embalmed in a timely manner. Otherwise, a lot of materials will be wasted......
Drymouth pulled out his own set of dissection props and got to work......
Necromancers are a very unpopular profession, after all, their spells are disgusting. Many spells use people as casting materials. Not to mention that necromancers also detain souls and use them as magic materials!
Souls imprisoned by necromancers are made into wraiths, or made into magical materials. This may be even more tragic than a criminal person falling into the lower plane and being made into a soul stone.
Soul stones are crystals that imprison the soul and make into it. It's hard currency in the multiverse. After all, the soul is the most precious thing!
In the lower planes, soul stones are especially valuable. Both demons and demons need it!
In many of these stories, you can hear demons making deals with people and fulfilling their demands on the condition that their souls go to the demons after death.
However, those demons are not very satisfied with ordinary souls, so they usually set up tricks, such as not falling in love with others, such as paying a certain price...... In short, it is a tossing person who changes the law.
And a soul that has been ruthlessly polished is brilliant. That's the soul that the demons admire!
Once you have signed a contract with the demon, it is basically irreparable. After death, the soul is bound by a contract and falls into the hands of demons.
When the time comes, whether it will be made into soul stones as currency and food, or whether it will be transformed into little devils, it is not certain.
But the soul is imprisoned by the necromancer, used as a magical material, and tortured. It's really hard to say who is worse of the two......
Whether it's evil gods or good gods, or demons and devils, they don't have a good opinion of necromancers. After all, this is a competitor!
The Bacon Church in Helsin, which is particularly powerful, is the center of the Bacon Church in the entire Norfolk area. And Bacon, as the sun god, has a dislike and restraint for the undead and necromancers, which can be imagined.
If it weren't for the fact that Dreyfus felt that a breakthrough was imminent, he would never have risked being found and personally went to the cemetery to steal the body.