In the crisp Welsh mountains there is a river, flanked by a large forest that used to be lush and covered with beautiful hills and valleys, and the remains of this vast forest can be seen. It used to be the site of the legendary Vantley dragon.

Now the sun is setting on a grassy clearing. Thousands of oak trees with broad tops, thick and short branches, and branches protruding far away, stood around, and these trees, which might have witnessed the Roman army marching in, covered this verdant thick green field with their knotted arms.

They intersect with beech, holly and bushes of all kinds, and are so close to each other that there is a narrow boulevard where the sun does not shine, and one cannot help but look at it with a reveling reverie, as if it were a path into the deeper part of the forest, more remote.

Walking along the path, one can see a meadow with a large clearing in the middle of the meadow, which seems to have been the site of the ritual practice of the Druid wizards. For on the top of a neat, man-made hill there was a ring of unhewn, large, rough stones, but they were all mutilated, only seven of them were still upright, and the rest had left their original positions, probably done by religious devotion after some had converted to Christianity, and now they were lying near the same place, or some were rolling down the hillside. Only a large stone fell underneath and landed in a stream that flowed slowly around the foothills, and because of its obstruction, the calm, sometimes inaudible stream, made some faint murmuring sounds.

The atmosphere is filled with deep mana. It seems to indicate the precipitation of history, and it is like a fine wine that has been brewed for hundreds or even thousands of years, turbid and rich.

"If you're right, then this must be their target."

Ling Yi took a deep breath, and as the Great Source Mana of oxygen entering his lungs seeped into his limbs, his originally sleepy brain suddenly cleared up, and his clear eyes looked at the altar in the middle of the meadow, what he was thinking in his heart but no one knew.

"Why are you so sure? I only said that they seem to need a lot of life force, but I didn't say that it was for sacrifices? "The younger sister of the country boy who was once robbed of her body. Alice. Stuttgart asked, confused.

This is not difficult to explain. The person I saw in the alley before seemed to be a drunkard, but he actually fell into a coma because of the spell, which can be seen. They are planned actions. And the victim. That is, if that woman talks about vitality alone, she is twice as good as ordinary people, and her quality is more quintessential. The reason is in the bloodline, most likely because there is a magician ancestor. You also said that there is more than one victim, but have you ever wondered why so much life force is extracted, and none of them die immediately? It stands to reason that after losing the essence, even if the brain can still receive the signal, but the body is absolutely dead and can no longer die, why do they still have a breath when you rush to the scene? ”

"You're saying they're all the same kind of people?"

Alice spun her head around and said what she thought.

Ling Yi replied in the affirmative.

"Yes, they all have one thing in common, and that is bloodline. More or less has a little bit of magician blood. To be honest, this is not uncommon, even in the Far East country that implements secrecy to the end, sometimes you can find a few such people casually when you wander around the street, but Wales is different, it is deeply influenced by Celtic civilization, all magicians, more or less have something to do with the Celtic magic system, and Celtic magic is precisely based on the 'primate of all things' as the core, to put it bluntly, it is the descendants of the druids who added stones, moon stars, and forests to the belief system, not to mention anything else, has a talent that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve in terms of vigorous energy, and will naturally be targeted as prey. ”

"You haven't answered my question yet?"

"What's the problem?"

"Of course that's their purpose, as far as I know, there are thirty victims, and it's too wasteful to use it for sacrifices, even fanatical believers wouldn't do it."

Alice affirmed.

"You can't forget the Celtic 'sacred number'."

Any form of religious mysticism is indispensable to deal with numbers, among other things, the Kabbalah tree is the most striking example (it is too cumbersome to explain, interested readers can post and I will explain in detail).

"I'm a witch, of course I know this bit of common sense, wait, Celtic magic's holy number

'Yes 3. The number 3 and the circle overlap to represent healing and circulation—" Alice's face changed as if she realized something.

"That's right, there are only thirty victims at the moment, that is, there are still three people left." Ling Yi took over the conversation and added.

"Thirty-three people, what the hell are they trying to do? Is such a large-scale sacrifice intended to resurrect someone? Alice's face turned pale, and her pretty eyebrows were tightly wrinkled.

"Who knows. But it's your turn to answer my questions, right? I have satisfied your curiosity, and I believe Neuer must have taught this truth. Ling Yi unceremoniously interrupted her thoughts.

About two hours ago, after he met Alice in the alley, probably because of some of his words,

Alice was stunned for a moment, and then glared at Ling Yi angrily.

"I know, you can ask whatever you want."

"First of all, I want to know how long you've been in Wales?"

Ling Yi didn't care about her attitude, and asked to himself.

"It's been a year, one year and three months to be exact."

Reluctantly, Alice replied quite cleanly.

"I remember your legs?"

"Mentor Diana cured."

As if sensing a hint of Ling Yi's hesitation, Alice's tone softened a lot.

Diana? Hearing this name, Ling Yi's face was a little strange.

"The witch of Naples?"

"Huh? Do you know the Mentor? ”

Alice was surprised, her mentor was more aloof. Even in Naples, she is a figure belonging to the hermit faction, and there are only a handful of people who can reveal her identity in one bite.

Who the hell is this person? She couldn't help but think to herself.

"There was a one-sided relationship." It's not a lie, after all, we've only worked together once.

"So, you're not from the [Bronze Black Cross]?"

"It used to be, but not anymore."

When Alice heard this, she looked at him with a strange face.

"Did you make some mistake and get kicked out?"

"No, I left on my own initiative."

Ling Yi shook his head, looking like he didn't want to say more.

"By the way, how is Neuer?"

Alice fell silent.

Seeing her like this, Ling Yi's heart moved. There is no rush either. Quietly waiting.

After a while, Alice whispered, "Brother is fine, but he has a disease." I often don't wake up. No matter what method you use, you can't wake him up. Even Mentor Diana couldn't do anything about it. But after three or four days, he'll be like nothing again. Even though he said it was okay, there was always a sense of unease in my heart. So I found a reason to study abroad and went to Wales, the birthplace of Celtic witches, to try to find a cure for that condition. ”

"If you're not mistaken, your goal is the panagar, the panacea, right?"

"Why would a Chinese know so much about Celtic magic?"

"Erudite."

"Hmph."

The magic of the Moon World is gradually dying out, and the hungry magicians will not let go of any magic theory that is beneficial to their own practice. In particular, the instructors who work in the clock tower have their own unique skills, but their understanding of other fields is not inferior to that of professionals. As one of the best, Ling Yi has almost reached the height of omniscience, not to mention that one law is all right, and he has spent a lot of energy on studying various magic systems.

The inheritance of Celtic magic is basically in the form of oral communication and poetry, and because of the war and witch hunts, the orthodox tradition has been lost to this day, and the rest are some laymen who know a little about Celtic magic. Of course, the layman means that they do not have enough mastery of Celtic magic, but the identity of a magician is real, and it is not a problem to exercise some basic techniques under the bypass.

Regarding the fact that Alice became a witch, to be honest, Ling Yiman was surprised.

Although her mentor was Diana, she was a witch, not a witch.

According to statistics, about 100,000 to 200,000 shamans were tried during witch hunts in the Middle Ages, of which about 50,000 to 100,000 were put to death. And witches make up a sizable percentage of that.

In European folklore, the early "witches" are represented by the witches Sersi and Medea from ancient Greek mythology. According to legend, Sersi has powerful magical powers, and with the help of herbs, she can chant spells and summon gods to cast spells, and those who offend her will turn into animals and create illusions that do not exist in zào. Sersi can also hide the moon and sun to make the land dark, and can poison her enemies.

From the 15th century onwards, Christian clergy launched a persecution of witches for nearly 300 years based on the Bible's "saying" that "a woman who practices sorcerers shall not allow her to live." During these 300 years of darkness, countless women of good families were falsely accused of being "witches", or beheaded in public, or burned at the stake. In 1487, the Church published the Witch's Hammer, a "specialized book" for witch hunting. With the spread of modern printing technology invented by Gutenberg in Europe, the book was reprinted nearly 30 times in the nearly 200 years from 1487 to 1669, thus triggering a protracted "witch hunt". The Hammer of the Witches details the specific methods of interrogation of "witches" and the effective methods used to ensure the success of the trial. There is neither a prosecution process nor a defender, and in addition to torture as a means of extracting confessions, there is also the so-called "witch" test.

According to the theory provided in the book, since the "witches" were enchanted by the devil and were no longer sensitive to pain, they could be tortured as they pleased. For example, if the defendant's hand is burned with a red-hot iron block, if the hand is burned, the defendant is guilty; Have the defendant take a holy ring with his hand in boiling water, then put a bandage and seal on his hand, and after 3 days if there is no trace, he will be innocent, and so on......

An even more bizarre way to identify the defendant is to tie the defendant's hands and feet and throw her into the lake -- if she sinks to the bottom, she is not guilty; Conversely, if she floats on the water, it means that she is blessed by the devil and must be burned at the stake. The result of this absurdity is that regardless of whether the person being judged is "guilty" or not, they have no choice but to die.

According to legend, there was a saying in Europeans back then: "Aren't witches going to fly all over the sky on broomsticks?" The way to test whether a woman is a witch is related to her weight, and anyone who is underweight is counted as a witch. ”

Europeans at that time regarded cats as accomplices of witches and went on a killing spree against them. This led to a significant reduction in the number of cats in the Middle Ages, which was almost on the verge of extinction. The cats were plagued by a rat infestation and the terrible plague, which killed more than 25 million people in Europe. In Switzerland, people stabbed the cloth bag full of cats with sharp knives until they stabbed the cat to death; In Copenhagen, cats are thrown from high bell towers to hear their dying screams. When Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in 1533, the priest prayed loudly to the sound of boxes of cats screaming in the fire.

The 'witch criterion' was a tried-and-true method that judges at the time had accumulated based on experience to prove whether the defendant was a real witch. Look for the 'Devil's Mark', which was believed to leave a mark on the sorcerer's body, and this 'Devil's Mark' was touched by the Devil, so it did not hurt or bleed. Therefore, the suspect's hair must be removed from the whole body, the body must be stripped for such 'devil's marks', such as bulges, spots, calluses, scars or birthmarks, and if found, pricked with a pin or knife to see if the suspect is in pain. For example, a woman named Rue, who was accused of being a witch, was found to have five 'devil's marks' on her left shoulder, while another woman named Adri. Anna's sixty-year-old woman was also identified as a witch because she was found to have a spot 'in the center of her back, below her shoulders', a finger deep with a needle, without bleeding or pain.

Another characteristic of a wizard is that he does not shed tears, whether he is physically or mentally tortured. The famous witch judge Bogay once asked a suspected witch why she didn't cry, and the poor woman replied that she had been beaten so badly that her tears had dried up and she would not cry again. However, this answer is not accepted, and according to the devilologists, the reason why the shaman does not shed tears is because the devil teaches the shaman the method of suppression, so that they are in a state of trance, and do not suffer pain during the punishment.

-- What a ridiculous excuse.

The word witch originally meant "wise woman", while 'witch' was a derogatory term.

In modern times, almost all female sorcerers can be called witches.

So, there is a huge difference between a witch and a witch.

Diana was good at witchcraft, but she couldn't be orthodox Celtic magic.

And Alice somehow learned a part of Celtic magic, and she also practiced witchcraft, even if she called herself a 'witch', no one dared to question it.

More accurately, she should be a country witch.

(I won't use the classification of witches to make up the number of words.,Just throw the work related.,Book friends who are interested in this can take a look.,Ask for a recommendation vote!) (To be continued......)