"Because there is not much time, the old man will make a long story short."

The old man didn't seem to see the strange expression on Sivi's face, and said to himself, "A hundred years ago, the old man had a little trouble when he was transforming into a lich...... In short, all the normal thinking of the old man has been sealed, leaving only the most efficient and rational thinking that will not give up until the goal is achieved. Then the old man at that time made a very dangerous plan. ”

It's not called rational thinking, but a so-called tendon, right?

"What the hell is going on? In that case, why would you say this to me? ”

Sivi's hand in his pocket had already pinched the card, and he would do it as soon as he noticed the slightest intention of the other party to entangle him here.

"Because this doppelganger consumed a lot of magic power just now, this made the old man's normal thinking regain the initiative......" The old man sighed: "The old man's real body probably thinks that the old man's normal thinking is an obstacle to stay in the soul, so simply cut the old man out of the soul and let the old man fend for himself here with the ritual." ”

"What the hell is the ritual you are talking about? What exactly can be done to stop it? ”

Xiwei didn't bother to care about the other party's embarrassment, and asked straight to the point.

"More than a hundred years ago, the old man found an amber from the ruins of an ancient battlefield, and there was no living thing in the amber, only a drop of body fluid similar to blood. That bodily fluid has an almost obsessive and instinctive thirst for the soul, and it can devour and dissolve the soul of almost any living being. ”

The old man began to say irrelevant words, which made Sivi almost throw a few big magic cards out and blow the other party away......

"Can't you just get to the point?"

He asked dissatisfied.

"I don't know the essence of this ritual. The one who suffers the most is yourself. ”

The old man replied solemnly, and then continued to tell the story in a serious manner in the gloom on Sivi's face.

"The old man searched all the classics he could find, and even sneaked into the official library of the Mage Association at that time, and was almost beaten into slag by several great magicians, but he still didn't find any relevant records of the owner of the body fluids."

As a lich who dares to run to the location of the Mage Guild, where many masters gather, how bold is this thing? And it was so successful that he even escaped safely after the worst of all, which is a black history for the entire Mage Association!

"The old man heard that after that, Hohenheim built the Gate of Endymion, but that was not the point. Let's get back to business. ”

Is that you! The super magic outpost with a height of more than 300 meters that the Mage Association spent so much effort and money to build was originally because of you!

Sivi felt his image of Hohenheim collapse with a thud......

"Later. The old man came across a strange religion in the territory of the orcs. Unlike ordinary orcs, they do not worship ancestral blood, nor do they worship the gods of wasteland and war. They worship a strange god called 'Eldrazi'. ”

Sivi's body shook. A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, he searched for information about Eldrazi for a long time and did not find it. I would have heard it at this time!

"That religion is unusually xenophobic. Even ordinary orcs can't join, let alone be an old man who is a lich. It took a great deal of effort for the old man to catch a believer and ask something out of his mouth - it claimed to be a traitor. Worship is an Eldrazi named 'Betrayal of the Evil Thing'. The old man did not know the type of Eldrazi, but according to it, betrayal can determine whether a person is a traitor, and if it cannot be verified, the soul of that person will be devoured by it, and the body will wander in endless pain—'You pleaded for death, but in vain,' the old man remembered how it was described. Regardless of the rest, the soul-devouring ability is very similar to the drop of bodily fluids that the old man discovered. ”

"What does this have to do with the ritual you're talking about?"

The more Sivi listened, the more it tasted wrong. He asked in a deep voice, with a stiff face.

Although he was also interested in Eldrazi's information, it was clearly not the time to listen to the story in peace.

"There are often only two concepts of sacrifice. The first is a sacrifice made by offering a sacrifice to an object of worship in exchange for strength or something else, which is generally called tribute sacrifice; The other is closer to alchemy, where sacrifices are submitted in some way to reconstitute something else, and this kind of sacrifice is called alchemy sacrifice. But neither of these sacrifices can accomplish what the purely rational 'I' want. That's why the 'I', who thinks purely rationally, has designed a third different kind of sacrifice, which is this ritual. ”

The shriveled Simon held out three withered fingers: "This ritual is actually a combination of three different rituals. The first is to awaken the old man to extract biological components from that drop of body fluid, and through the mixture of other biological bodies, the most artificial monster created by the old man, the old man called it 'Nightmare Demon', these things have no soul, but because of the instinct of that body fluid, they will hunt souls within the scope of the ritual, and gnaw the whole country away. The second ritual is to wait for the nightmare to fight each other after the hunt, and the winner devours the soul essence left behind by the loser, repeating this process until the last one. The last ritual is to sacrifice the only remaining demon and completely condense the soul essence condensed in its body through the second ritual into the purest crystals in the world. ”

"Can't you stop the ritual right away?" Sivi's eyelids jumped...... Nightmare peat! Isn't this the Gu raising that often appears in martial arts novels!

Able to create new sacrificial rituals on his own, even Sivi had to admit that Simon, who was known as the most outstanding alchemist of his time. Miller is truly a genius.

It was probably in this three-in-one ritual that he tasted the sweetness, so Simon later designed a ritual that made the eight little ones kill each other to decide the gods......

"The first ritual began ten years ago, and those demons had already awakened, just waiting for the final orders...... And the moment before you entered, that order had already been issued. The old man said slowly, "The other two rituals will also operate in nearly thirty different ways, and even if you destroy one or two, it is useless - and one of them is purely based on the Nightmare as a carrier, which is also set up to prevent anyone from causing trouble. ”

Damn, don't be so cautious, if the magicians and alchemists in the whole world are half as cautious as you, it is estimated that there will be no such thing as magic experiment accidents in this world......

Sivi wanted to cry without tears.

"Is the purely rational 'I' really aware of the existence of the old man?" A ...... appeared on the old man's shriveled face Well, it's probably a smiling expression. Then his skin began to crack at a not-so-slow rate: "I don't know how you got in, but now you're the only one who can stop this tragedy." ”

"Try to defeat as many Nightmas as possible, when there is only one Nightmare left, the following ritual will be activated, the more Nightmare demons you defeat, the less soul essence the other party will get, and the lower the success rate of the ritual. If you can defeat more than half of the Nightmares, then even if the ritual is successful, the final product will only be considered waste. After speaking, he sat down cross-legged and quietly waited for the end of his life: "The old man has done a lot of wrong things in his life, and he has already planned to face today...... It's a pity that I couldn't fulfill my long-cherished wish before leaving, and I saw the old man's daughter again......"

A dandruff-like thing began to peel off his face, revealing cracked, earthy yellow muscles beneath his skin that looked like clay that had failed to be fired. With the old man's sad and regretful expression, it looks very gloomy.

"Speaking of which, are there any monsters like that around here?" Sivi asked suddenly.

"Of course, although there are not many of them." The old man nodded.

"In that case, I'll show you my secret weapon." Sivi sighed, put back the card that had exploded the flame arrow in his hand, and replaced it with a new one.

"Come out, Eve. Miller"! (To be continued......)

PS: The second watch is over, dive and sleep......