Chapter 297: The Devil
The Holy Energy Vortex cannot be restored for the time being, Unas does not want his heart to become a powder keg, he feels that his body has undergone a subtle mutation, which must be caused by the traces of evil energy, and the main job now is to wash his whole body with holy light. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At the same time, it had to increase the energy feeding of the Shadow Demon, but it could not be too strong, so as not to drive away the tiger and raise the wolf, and the balance of energy in the body must be properly maintained.
After meditating for a while, Unas opened his eyes and looked down at the boxy lifeguard in his hand, he didn't expect that the purple-robed man would hide it in the brain of the giant sequoia, and now he must regret it.
Unas still had a lot of confusion about what was going on in his brain, so he took out the core from his pocket and asked softly, "Izumo no Sugi, are you still there?" ”
"I'm here." The giant sequoia's voice became weak.
"That, I'm sorry, I... Kill you. ”
Unas promised to help the giant sequoia regain his body, but in the end he split the brains in half, causing the giant sequoia tree to collapse, although he was in a hurry to do so, he still felt a little guilty.
"It's okay, I was going to abandon my twisted body and start over, but I didn't have time."
"Start over?"
"Yes, my body has been transformed beyond recognition by the purple-robed lich from the inside out, and it is beyond its recovery, I originally planned to extract the origin and produce a true seed as soon as I recapture the tree, so that you can take it to another place and plant it, this is the only way for me to get a new life."
The fact that the giant sequoia was willing to abandon the body that had grown for thousands of years was really admirable, "It's a pity, then what are your plans now, I will definitely try my best to help you." ”
"I want to go back and see, although the tree body has disintegrated, maybe I can still condense a little bit of the origin and produce incomplete seeds, can you take me back?"
"I'm afraid not for the time being, we don't know anything about the situation there now, the purple-robed people may abandon there, or they may leave an ambush, we must let the scouts find out first, but I can promise you first, once it is determined that it is safe, I will definitely take you to try."
"Thank you."
"It's okay, by the way, there's something I'd like to ask you," Unas asked, "How can you be 'swallowed' by the tree brain when you're in the pool?" ”
In fact, he had doubts about the words of the Dreaddemon King, whether the black box in his hand was the Horcrux that the demon was talking about, he didn't believe it 100% in his heart, and he needed to investigate it again.
"I don't know," the core of the giant sequoia tree was actually swallowed for less than a minute, and it didn't even understand the situation, "I thought it was the tree's brain instinct that needed my return..."
"What about this black box? It fell out of the brain with you, the core, and you know what it is? ”
"I don't know, I just know that it must be a device left by the purple-robed man, could it be his magic weapon to control the tree brain?"
Most likely, Unas continued to ask: "There is another question, at that time, the doppelganger of the purple-robed man had already been killed by me, but his voice threatening me still came from the tree's head, do you know what's going on?" ”
"I don't think the purple-robed clone has been completely killed, maybe his soul has returned to this black box, and I can sense the flow of consciousness in the box."
Jushan's sensing ability Unas had seen it and could fully trust it, he became more and more sure of the guess in his heart, and whispered to the black box: "Purple-robed man, or call you a clone, don't eavesdrop, I know you're inside." ”
"Demon-haunted humans, don't be complacent, dare to go against us, you are not far from hell." The lich's grim voice sounded from the box, and he had clearly heard Unas talking to Betheryth, and knew that he was haunted by demons.
The giant shirt exclaimed, "Evil lich! Sure enough, you're here! ”
"We," Unas noted the lich's words, "and you have an accomplice?" ”
The doppelganger seemed dismissive of answering, and Unas asked a few more questions, but the other party did not respond at all.
"Pretend to be deep? Wait, everything about you will spread out to me. ”
Greeting the Giantshirt, Unas put away the core and black box, intending to find Natasha, and when it comes to probing the secrets and memories of others, the Shadow Priest is a good hand.
Bethires suddenly spoke, "I know who he is, Gunther Acanus. ”
Unas remembered the name, when he broke into the necromancer's spiritual world in order to control the captured necromancer Garon, but was almost defeated by a lich's methods, and the necromancer became an idiot.
According to the Dreadlord, the lich was Garon's superior, named Gunther, and was once a member of the Scourge Legion.
"Are you sure?"
"Just guessing."
Bethires had long suspected that the purple-robed man was the Lich Gunther, but he never revealed it, he wanted to find an opportunity to secretly seek the cooperation of the Lich.
Both sides used to fight in the Scourge Legion, although they did not belong to the same sequence and had no friendship, but they also had several sides, and they could secretly link up to deal with Unas.
Now seeing that the human paladin was about to find the answer on his own, Bethires hurriedly spoke out to deceive his trust.
Unas didn't know anything about the demon's small movements, but instinctively distrusted the other party, and asked, "Is the black box a Horcrux or not, and why does the lich clone seem to be unscrupulous?" ”
"I'm sure it's a Horcrux, but as I've said before, a Horcrux can only be used as an important bargaining chip, not a deadly threat to a powerful lich."
"And what do you know about Guntel? You used to be colleagues. ”
"A powerful lich who has disappeared, I don't know anything else, I haven't even spoken to him."
"Hmph."
Unas snorted and didn't plan to ask again, anyway, what the demon said would be discounted, he thought about it, for the sake of insurance, he called the fire leaf as well, the blood elf is well-informed, and if there are any moths, he can also see in advance, and he can also protect Natasha.
Soon, Natasha and Honoha, who had received the order, gathered in the tent with the garrison, and Unas informed the two of them of the situation, and then waited for their judgment.
Huoye picked up the black box and looked at it for a long time, and also used spells to probe it, and finally said: "I heard that the best material for making Horcruxes is the skull of some kind of deep-sea beast, and this box should be made of that kind of skull, plus the results of spell detection, I think it is indeed a Horcrux of the Lich." ”
After reading it, Natasha also said, "I've seen a few Lich lifeguards, and this box feels a lot like it to me, and I agree with the Fire Leaf Mage. ”
Unas nodded, relieved, "The consciousness of the purple-robed clone is also in it, and I need to know all his secrets. ”
"Leave it to me, I've got experience with Horcruxes." Natasha stepped forward.
Unas hidden: "Miss Namelia has recently begun to study the Way of Shadow, and the Shadow Spell is misunderstood by the world as an evil spell, Fire Leaf, you have to keep it a secret for her. ”
Although Huoye is a core subordinate, the fewer people who know Natasha's true identity, the better, so Unas does not plan to tell the truth to the Blood Elves.
"I'll keep it a secret." Huoye nodded, looking at the mysterious female priest with a little curiosity.
Natasha admired the guard's ability to talk casually without changing his face, and felt that Unas would definitely be a great good guy or a bad guy.
She quickly transforms into her "little black" form, and then reaches into the life guard with her spiritual tentacles, searching for the soul of the doppelganger.
In the eyes of Unas and Huoye, two shadowy tentacles emerged from the priestess and burrowed into the black box, stirring inside as if she were fishing for fish.
The wait seemed long, Unas was on high alert, and Fireleaf was ready to support him to probe the secrets of a lich, and no one knew what danger would happen.
More than an hour later, the black light flashed, the tentacles retracted, and Natasha rubbed her temples with a tired frown.
Unas hurriedly took a blanket and sat her down, asking, "How is it?" Are you okay? ”
"It's okay," Natasha grinned, "and I've taken in the huge amount of messy information, my head is about to burst, give me some time to sort it out." ”
It's good that there is nothing abnormal, Unas exhaled, "Don't worry, you can rest first." ”
Memories are a huge thing, not to mention a powerful lich, and his knowledge is a heavy burden for Natasha, who can't understand the complex spells and circles, as well as the meaningless trivialities of life, and the messy dream memories, but the useful information is mixed in.
Natasha must find the true context and get rid of the incomprehensible and useless information as garbage, or her head will be shattered in her previous career as an agent, as interrogating recalcitrant criminals is one of Darkherd's main tasks.
After Unas and Huo Ye took a nap in their seats, Natasha finally got it with difficulty, and the origin of the purple-robed man was clearly distinguished.
Gunther Acanus, originally an archmage of Dalaran, was extremely talented and promising, but accidentally contracted the plague of the undead and was transformed into an undead.
Because he was a powerful mage during his lifetime, after turning into an undead, he was transformed into a rare high-level soldier by the Scourge, the Ice Lich, and followed His Royal Highness the Prince to fight in the north and south.
After that, the Frozen Throne was damaged, the Lich King was weakened, and the Scourge was divided and infighting, and like a few undead, he woke up from the chaos and freed himself from Naozu's control.
Instead of joining the Forsaken led by the Dark Queen, he went into hiding alone, but his seclusion did not last long, as he could not endure the lonely and boring life of the undead.
There is no need to eat and lose his sense of taste and smell, there is no difference between gourmet food and pig dung for him, the identity of a man is gone, and there is no desire to even fantasize about women.
Family, love, friendship, career, he lost everything, he missed the life when he was a man, he missed coffee and bread, wine and lovers, almost to the point of madness.
People can be transformed into undead, but why can't the undead be transformed into people?
When this thought popped into his mind one day, he couldn't stop it, believing that magic could do any miracle and that knowledge could change fate.
In order to gain more knowledge for his research, he turned to his former mage friends and mentors, many of whom were willing to help him but refused to come into direct contact with him, and he was finally recommended to a mage Merlin Firestone, who shared his fate.
Merlin is a legendary mage who was wounded and dying in the Troll War a thousand years ago, and in order to continue the fight, he used the spiritism he studied to resurrect himself as an undead.
At that time, there were no natural disasters and plagues, and the management of spiritism was not strict, so Merlin, who had become an undead, could still integrate into the mage society.
But as the evil side of spiritism grows, he fades into obscurity, becoming a figure between reality and legend.
With a letter of recommendation, Guntel found the legend who was living in seclusion in the Spider Forest, eager to express his lofty goals and hope for help.
Merlin took in the passionate Lich, not only out of compassion for fellow victims, but also because Gunther was the loyal assistant he needed - Merlin never gave up on the study of reincarnation.
He poured his heart into teaching the Lich and magic, providing the best materials and tools for spell casting, and Guntel grew up quickly, becoming a qualified assistant in a short period of time.
But the retrograde law of the world of "turning death into life" is almost the realm of God, and what the two of them get is still constant failure, failure, failure.
In the process, Merlin sees the potential of Gunther, and the Lich often makes new suggestions that make him feel like a breakthrough, while Merlin's own experience and accumulation become an obstacle.
So he decided to open up his secret to Gunther: he had long ago begun to conduct forbidden experiments on living subjects.
In order to transform the undead into a living person, it is necessary to solve the problem of how to turn a skeleton or a decaying corpse into a living human body, which involves the transplantation, replication, cultivation and even regeneration of body organs.
The secret of life is not so easy to grasp, it requires a lot of experiments, Merlin only experimented with animal or human corpses in his early years, but he has not been able to break through the problem, in recent years, he has embarked on the road of no return for live experiments.
Initially soliciting only dying volunteers, he eventually progressed to buying slaves from the black market, and later his appetite grew, and he targeted intelligent creatures of all races.
Different races, such as humans, dwarves and minotaurs, have very different life indicators such as lifespan, stature, and appearance, and the key factors can be easily found by comparison.
Why Do Elves Live That Long? Why are trolls so regenerative so strong? What is so special about their anatomy? All kinds of questions can be answered slowly.
After learning the truth, Guntel was shocked, and the image of Merlin's legendary hero collapsed in his heart in an instant, but he didn't dare to run away or resist, it was just a dead end, and he still wanted to live.
Then, he dissected a young human man under duress, perhaps after turning into an ice lich, his heart also turned into an ice cube, neither during the process of dissection nor after the fact, Guntel did not feel disgusted or guilty, and was more immersed in the wonderful operation of living beings, verifying Professor Merlin's knowledge of the human body one by one.
After that, things went naturally, coercion turned into semi-coercion, and finally he took the initiative to join the evil experiment of his mentor, and threw himself into a cruel new world with fanaticism, but he did not know that he had already violated his original purpose - he wanted to be transformed into a man, not a devil.
(To be continued.) )