065 Mage "Kindness"
Goodhart was once a church mage. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, in the process of searching for the Piece of Eden, he took the initiative to study dark magic in order to gain stronger power, and degenerated into a wizard.
He even relied on demagogic prophecies of destruction and spells to manipulate people's hearts, gathered a group of believers, and founded an underground cult called "Purple Moon Sect".
Three years ago, Goodhart stumbled upon an ancient relic buried with a Piece of Eden buried beneath the castle. To open the ruins gate is a project that requires a lot of manpower and resources, and if the castle is not in their own hands, it is impossible to carry out it secretly.
So Goodhart decided to take ownership of the castle.
After several rejections of negotiations with the castle's owners, Goodhart gave up his intention to buy the castle. He used sorcery to confuse the baron's son's mind and make him fall in love with his groom, and then used the scandal to direct a tragedy of murder of parents and children.
After the death of the Baron's family, he used necromancy to take control of the spirits of the Baron's son and the groom, turning the castle into a haunted and terrifying place.
In this way, Goodhart was able to carry out his plans without fear.
Later, Goodhart discovered that the ruins gate could never be opened by brute force, and that he had to rely on the power of magic to enter the ruins and obtain the Piece of Eden.
So, Goodhart began to prepare a dark spell that would use the power of human life as energy to open the gates of the ruins.
Moreover, the life force required for this evil spell must be of high quality. Therefore, ordinary people can't do it, they must be warriors or mages with a certain strength.
With a large sum of money, Goodhart bribes Bishop Tavin, the Abbey of Maglona, to deliberately give the rookie Demon Hunter a mission to clean up the castle of the spirits.
Then, he sets a trap to kill the demon hunters who came to the castle without knowing the truth, and collect their life force.
From the various records left by Goodhart, Roy synthesized and figured everything out.
"It's ironic that this guy is so evil and has killed so many people, and his name is Goodheart." Roy threw away the mage's notes in his hand.
"I don't think we should let that kind of person stay in the world anymore." "If my adoptive father were to encounter something like this, he would not sit idly by. ”
The Demon Hunter has two swords, the steel sword slashes the wicked, and the silver sword slashes the demons. A man like Goodhart is a thousand times more evil than a demon or monster with a terrible appearance.
"I'm not Mr. Geralt. It's just that I don't want an evil mage who almost killed me to live comfortably. Roy said.
Of course, other than that, his biggest goal was the Piece of Eden that Goodhart was looking for.
"That cult leader will come back sooner or later, we can prepare in advance and surprise him." Siriah said with great interest.
"Good idea."
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Goodhart didn't know at this time that his lair had been turned upside down. He was in the bedroom of the Baron of the Castle's son, angrily reprimanding a probationary mage.
"Idiot! The demon spirit was defeated and the bones were burned, why didn't you report it to me earlier! ”
The apprentice mage saw Goodhart's eyes full of murderous intent, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.
"Lord...... Master...... I, I was going to get rid of those two demon hunters and report back to you. Who knows, the other party will disappear soon......"
"The strength of those two demon hunters is definitely not ordinary. It's up to you? If I hadn't been studying magic, and I had to take a breath when I had just come out and found that the two soul crystals that controlled the demon were broken, were you going to hide it forever? ”
The apprentice mage couldn't say anything, just fell to his knees with a puff, shivering.
"Rubbish!" Goodhart uttered a few magical syllables, and his palms were filled with damp moisture. He reached out and touched the apprentice's shoulder. The latter immediately let out a violent cough and fell to the ground with convulsions. After a while, the apprentice mage stopped moving, just kept spitting blisters from his nostrils and mouth.
This is the water elemental magic that Goodhart is quite proud of, called Drowning. After casting the spell, as long as the target of the creature touched by the palm of his hand will immediately fill its lungs with seawater, and the gods will not be able to save it.
Glancing at the corpse on the ground in disgust, Goodhart did not feel guilty about the killing. In order to build a world dominated by perfect order and fulfill the ideals of the Templars, a small sacrifice is nothing.
He prepared to return to the walled city and let his men search for the two demon hunters. And he himself must hurry up and continue to prepare for that spell.
In order to open the gates of the ancient ruins, Goodhart needs to cast a spell that far exceeds his current ability to cast spells. That's why he needed to use the magic circle as a medium, and with the help of external forces—the life force extracted from the bodies of the slain demon hunters.
Three days later, on the night of the full moon, when the magic of wandering darkness was at its fullest, it was the moment when he activated the magic array and was finished.
Back in the walled city, Goodhart came to the front of the two-story wooden house where he lived, and suddenly frowned slightly, and noticed that something was wrong.
"What about the magic lock I put on the gate, why is it gone?"
He secretly said that it was not good, and immediately asked his subordinates to sound the alarm.
Soon, about fifty cultists, on Goodhart's orders, surrounded the two-story wooden house.
"Let me go in and search!"
Fifteen cultists drew their swords and rushed through the doorway.
They didn't find anyone on the first floor and decided to go up to the second floor. But the group was just halfway through when they suddenly saw several pitch-black balls being thrown out of thin air and rolling into the crowd.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The spheres exploded one after another, releasing gas-like gas. The cultists covered their noses and for a moment did not know what was going on.
Before they could react, several balls with slightly different shapes appeared out of thin air and were thrown down.
This time, the power of the ball explosion was much stronger.
The flames engulfed the entire staircase in an instant, with countless sharp fragments in it. Moreover, the sudden appearance of an open flame ignited all the gases that resembled gas just now. The flame explosion ignited the entire space.
Looking at the charred corpses that kept rolling down the stairs and the flames that quickly spread in the room, Goodhart raised his hand with a grim face, recited a spell, and spewed a torrent of water from his hand, quickly extinguishing the flames.
If he hadn't intervened in time and the entire wooden house had been burned down, everything in the bedroom on the second floor would have to be reimbursed.
"Purple Moon Guard, come with me!" Goodhart was also a decisive man. Seeing that the enemy was prepared, he decided to take action himself.
The so-called Purple Moon Guardians are a group of people in this small cult who have good quality and have been strengthened by Goodhart's dark magic. They are armed with weapons and armor that are far stronger than those of ordinary cultists, and they are important thugs in the cult.
A total of nine cultists stepped forward after hearing Goodhart's order. They are tall and equipped with a full set of metal armor inside their robes, and their broadswords are enchanted with evil spells, allowing them to drain the life energy of their opponents when they hit their targets.
Surrounded by the Purple Moon Guard, Goodhart walked into the cabin and raised his hand to throw out a handful of magical dust.
"Oh no, it's anti-invisible dust!" Ciria, who was standing at the top of the stairs, noticed that her figure was gradually revealed, and immediately dodged and retreated. The invisibility spell that Roy had inflicted on her was restrained.
It was her hand to cleanly deal with the fifteen cultists just now.
Although Siria was not yet an official demon hunter, she learned a lot from Kyle Mohan's wolf school demon hunters as a child. Not only can she refine sword oil, make potions, but also make bombs.
The kind of bomb that releases gas-like gas just now is called the dragon's dream, and as the name suggests, the effect is to release flammable gas when it explodes, just like a dragon snoring in a dream.
The second type of bomb that releases flames and fragments when it explodes, is called a honeycomb.
When used together, the two bombs have an amazing effect.
"Hmph, the second floor is a dead end, and the outside of the wooden house is also surrounded by layers, can you run away?" Goodhart smiled cruelly, "That woman has a very strong magical power, and I can feel it even if it's just a glimpse. If she can extract her life energy, she won't worry about completing the magic ritual. ”
He was about to lead his men up the stairs when he heard the sound of a spell being chanted behind him.
"Oops!" Goodhart and the Purple Moon Guardian turned around in unison, and they saw a dark-haired man wearing a traveling mage's robe, who had already completed the preparation of the spell.
How could someone be ambushed on the first floor?
Goodhart looked at the charred first floor, puzzled. How could anyone hide in the fire just now?
Of course, he didn't know that Roy had the protection to endure elemental damage spells, as long as he wasn't directly burned by the fire, the temperature of the fire couldn't affect him at all.
Roy's surprised look on his enemy's face unleashed a beam of lightning from his fingertips.
However, he did not aim at any one enemy, but chose to target Goodhart's feet.
Just now, Goodhart summoned a large amount of water in order to extinguish the fire, and now there is a large pool of stagnant water under the feet of a group of people, which is suitable for the power of lightning spells.
The lightning bolt hit the ground and spread quickly. The Purple Moon Guards wearing metal combat boots happened to be the best targets for lightning energy to vent their power, and they were hit one after another, and the electricity traveled all over their bodies, and their bodies kept twitching and shaking.
Goodhart reacted quickly, and at the moment when Roy cast the spell, he used a password to activate the magic ring on his hand, and the whole person suddenly rose into the air and escaped the catastrophe.
However, Roy and Siria still have a back-up move.
Roy pulled out his pistol and shot at the Purple Moon Guardians, who were immobilized by the electric shock. And Siriah appeared from the upper floor again, sword in hand Givy El, pointed at Goodhardt.