Chapter 455: The Great Fire of London
When she saw Cromwell's six-pointed star, Charlotte realized what kind of spell Jack the Ripper had cast in the East End of London in 1888.
This is the extraction of leylines!
In fact, he extracted the power of the leylines in an area centered on Whitechapel in London's East End as his energy to fuse ancient ghosts.
This spell of extracting leylines is dangerous.
Because in the process of extracting the leylines, the vitality of the living people in a large area will be extracted together.
The degree of this extraction is random, the light ones are just more likely to get tired for a while, and the heavy ones are life-threatening.
Although it is not like the ghost tiger that Charlotte encountered at the beginning, which can directly drain people's vitality and make people die immediately, people who have been extracted more vitality will not live long.
- They will soon lose too much vitality and die from various diseases.
As for why Charlotte is so clear, it is because there was a similar record in the knowledge that the old ghost had passed on to him.
However, it was a spell called "Dragon Slayer", which was also aimed at the dragons in the leylines.
That kind of spell can directly extract the leyline and the dragon inside through the way of living sacrifice, and convert it into pure magic energy.
- As the name suggests, this spell was first invented to deal with the rampaging dragons of the leylines.
Later, however, the casters discovered that not only would this spell cause massive collateral damage, costing the lives of those who lived near the leylines, but would also make the caster himself half-human, half-ghost, and weak.
After all, how could it be possible to slay a dragon without paying a price?
Therefore, the later casters in China have banned this spell.
- Like Charlotte when she dealt with the dragons in Malcolm's sanatorium, she didn't even think about this kind of spell.
Looking at the explanation given by Cromwell, Jack the Ripper should have used this kind of spell.
- Of course, it could be a variant.
"Could it be that the forbidden technique of dragon slaying was spread abroad?"
Charlotte pondered to herself.
This possibility is not non-existent -
Just as ancient Chinese and Western scientific and technological inventions will slowly spread through Central Asia, spells and even ghosts will also gradually spread.
- If nothing else, isn't Xu Fu a typical example?
So, Charlotte isn't particularly strange.
He was only a little speechless about the obsessive-compulsive disorder of the Western spellcasters who had to put together a six-pointed star for any magic circle.
- You have the ability to use a five-pointed star!
Although in the original dragon slaying forbidden technique, it is true that six live sacrifices are required, but that is actually the meaning of "Liuhe......
But—
"If Jack the Ripper was drawing the six-pointed star around the Whitechapel in London's East End, why has no one ever spotted it for so long?"
Charlotte, who didn't know much about the details of Jack the Ripper's case back then, was a little strange.
You know, although there are never many people in this world who are proficient in magic, people's imagination is still very strong.
At the very least, Charlotte thinks that historians who use crime cartography to study the Jack the Ripper case should be aware of the existence of this six-pointed star.
And for Charlotte's question, Cromwell smiled sadly,
"The real location of the murder, the hexagon of the six-pointed star—I told you?"
"I see!"
Charlotte nodded.
Indeed, with the level of forensic science of that era, it was difficult for the police officers at Scotland Yard to accurately distinguish between the scene of the murder and the scene of the removal of the body.
The murder scene that the world knows is completely different from what Cromwell told Charlotte.
However, this also shows that Cromwell may have been paying attention to Jack the Ripper since 1888......
In short, what Jack the Ripper used at the beginning should be this kind of dragon slaying forbidden technique that came from the east and can extract the power of the leylines, and therefore-
"Was there a dragon lurking under Whitechapel in London's East End at that time?"
Charlotte asked Cromwell.
"Yes, you said dragons!"
Cromwell said in a deep voice,
"It was a dragon born from the Great Fire of London in 1666, and I forcibly sealed it under Whitechapel in London's East End - that was the first enemy I faced as a ghost!"
"A fire dragon born from the Great Fire of London?"
Charlotte nodded.
In a fire of that size, a fire dragon will be born, which is actually a very normal thing.
- You must know that in the Great Fire of London in 1666, 80% of London was burned down, and countless people were killed and wounded.
In that case, the remnants of the dead poured into the leylines, which, together with the fear of fire at the time, combined with the power of the leylines accumulated by London as an ancient city, was enough to give birth to an evil dragon.
- It could even be said to be a sacrifice that happened by coincidence.
"Anyway, Oliver, you subdued the dragon and sealed it under the Whitechapel, didn't you? And then, Jack the Ripper extracted it in 1888 - that's why you noticed that guy exists, didn't you?"
"Yes!"
"That is to say, Jack the Ripper actually not only devoured an ancient ghost, but also took the opportunity to devour a fire dragon, this guy is even more powerful than Xu Fu!"
Charlotte sighed,
"He also devoured the goblin and turned into a goblin, so he is not afraid of the power of the dragon slaying or the curse - he is really shrewd!"
"And now, he's going to do it again, right?"
Charlotte asked Cromwell with a gloomy face.
"If what is under your castle is really that!"
There was a hint of schadenfreude between Cromwell's words.
This made Alexis on the side a little puzzled, she looked at Charlotte, who squeezed out a few words between her teeth-
"Francis Farmer!"
"Ah!!h
Alexis suddenly understood-
Although he has been completely separated from the dragon in Malcolm's sanatorium, Francis Farmer's characteristics as a ghost are undoubtedly very similar to dragons.
Especially when she's sleeping underground, to the unfamiliar – like Cromwell or Jack the Ripper – it's a gestation dragon.
And Jack the Ripper originally obtained the power through the art of slaying dragons, and after discovering the new "dragon", it is reasonable to see that Hunter is happy and wants to copy it again......
"So, Jack the Ripper is actually eyeing Ms. Francis!, no wonder this case happened near our Hogwarts studio......"
Alexis looked at his director with some concern,
"Charlotte, what should we do?"
"What to do!?"
Charlotte snorted coldly,
"Of course it's to kill the pervert Jack the Ripper—— Oliver, you told me about this for this purpose, right?"
Charlotte looked at Cromwell.