Chapter 8: Monsters (Part 2)
- The next watch is at eleven o'clock.
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Baron Habero had never imagined that the attack would come so suddenly, without any warning beforehand, and thought that it would be just an unobtrusive episode before the "dinner feast", and that it would take a few minutes to recover his physical condition, but Lucien was so decisive and so quick to kill him!
Didn't he ever know the words "thoughtful and hesitant"?
Unexpectedly, the silver cup that Baron Habero was about to fill was directly hit by two silver-black magic missiles.
Bright red liquid splattered everywhere, and broken silver cups with strange symbols landed on the floor covered with a thick blanket with a dull sound.
Baron Habero and Kailin, who seemed to be slowing down with their rapid aging, watched the scene with blank eyes, not yet understanding what was happening.
How could Lucien, who was tumbling to the ground, let go of this opportunity, the ice blue light of his left index finger flashed, and three crystal ice flying blades hit Habero.
Although Lucien is still in a state of mental power instability with a spell casting buffer, he can still activate magic items
It was only then that Baron Habero reacted, roared angrily, and slammed his right fist into the "Palmeira's Ice Blade", while his left hand was withdrawn to block the head and neck. His hands and face glowed with a cold gray glow, like a hard rock,
There was a crisp cracking sound, and an ice flying blade was shattered by Habero's right fist, but there were also deep cuts on his gray stone fist, and a layer of glittering frost spread rapidly down his arm.
The other two Ice Blades, one slashed at Baron Habero's left arm, and the other struck him in both legs, though they failed to inflict heavy damage on his petrified body. But the ice that rose up temporarily froze him in place.
A mouthful of curses rang out, and a black, death-smelling ray struck Lucien from Kaylin's hand.
She turned out to be an apprentice magician!
The brilliant and beautiful starlight shield instantly appeared around Lucien, and the necromantic ray only blackened a small piece of light.
The spell model built into the soul by the Ring Mage can be instantaneous, and Lucien has already crossed the spell casting buffer just now.
The crystal clear ice on Habero's body quickly turned grayish-white. Then it cracked like a stone.
Having shaken off the freeze, he gave up the idea of turning around and taking the long sword on the desk after a little weighing, and pounced directly on Lucian, who had to get close while the magician was still in the buffer of casting spells. Otherwise, the next magic might have something unpleasant!
His right fist struck Lucien's "Starlight Shield" with a grayish-white petrified mist, causing it to begin to petrify and crack, while Habero, who had experience in fighting mages, changed direction with the strength and speed of a second-level knight. Keep attacking.
With the Starlight Shield in the way, the spell model in Lucian's soul was activated, and with himself as the center of the circle, a peaceful green ripple spread rapidly and indiscriminately to the surroundings.
As soon as Kailin, who was about to continue to perform her magic, was touched by the peaceful green ripples, her eyes became dazed. She opened her mouth and yawned heavily, so soft that she fell asleep on the floor.
One Ring Magic "Sleep Technique"!
Even Baron Habero's powerful body was shrouded in the sleep technique of the range attack. I also felt a deep exhaustion, like the weakness of my old age, so there was a brief pause.
During this pause, Lucien's left hand lit up with a blazing fire, and a skull-sized fireball flew towards Habero.
Habero was instantly freed from the effects of sleep. But in the face of the fireball technique that came from the attack, he could only rush to the side.
A loud explosion was heard, and a huge shockwave swept the three dead minors flying, and although Habero avoided being hit head-on, the rocky body on his right side was still blown apart, and the flames enveloped him and burned like something greasy.
Drops of yellowish and dark red foul-smelling liquid oozed from the gray rock's body, and Habero's face visibly grew old, and he wailed madly as he attacked Lucian.
Lucien's own spells and magic items were still in the buffer, and he was wary of his long sword, blocking Habero's fists.
A little gray mist began to wrap around the vigilance, as if to petrify it.
And Lucien did not skimp, and after blocking the first wave of attacks, the "Corona of the Sun" was activated, and a brilliant and solemn holy light fell from the sky and hit Habero.
"Holy Light?!"
In the scorching of the holy light, Habero, whose gray stone skin had faded, appeared one after another shocking wrinkles, and his flesh was decaying little by little, and his expression was extremely frightened and full of relief, like a prisoner who had been waiting for a long time was finally facing trial.
"Having lost his youth", his strength was rapidly draining, and he fell to his knees in the flames and holy light, unable to stand up again, and recounted like a dream:
"My skin is slowly losing its luster, like a shriveled peel ......"
"Abominable wrinkles crawled all over my face and crawled all over my body......"
"My strength, my speed, is irreversibly weakened in my sorrow......"
"My mind is starting to dull, my eyes are blurry, and the food I taste is losing its taste......"
"My body and passion have completely declined, and I can't do anything even in the face of a beautiful girl......"
Habero looked at Lucien with confused and blank eyes, as if he was confessing to the priest:
"Why do people want to grow old?"
"Why do you lose all your happiness when you get old?"
"Where is the Lord's heavenly kingdom?"
Although the young Lucien could not understand the pain of aging, he was touched by Habero's confused struggle: "Fortunately, I chose the path of magic. ”
After becoming a high-level, the mage will not only increase its lifespan to 200 years, but also have various methods such as rituals and potions to greatly extend the lifespan, such as lich transformation.
Of course, a high-level mage who dies from a failed transformation ritual is much more successful than one who is more successful, and the higher the magic level itself, the easier it is to transform.
And even beginner and mid-level magicians also have all kinds of strange ways to prolong their lifespan, although it is not enough, but it is not a problem to live two or three times the life of ordinary people.
Confession is over. Baron Habero's unusually cloudy eyes slowly closed, and he collapsed on the carpet, completely losing the breath of life.
See this scene. Lucien thought to himself with a little luck: "It's good that I rushed over in time, otherwise when Baron Habero uses the magic ritual to recover to the level of the second peak, I'm afraid the battle will not be so simple." If you really want to run away directly, you will arouse the baron's alarm. With his own strength, his large number of guards, and the possible presence of necromancers, it is likely that I will die. ”
Take the lead, and the enemy only has half of the strength left. As a full-fledged mage, he had enough ability to take the pace and pace of battle into his control, so Lucien didn't feel the difficulty of killing a second-level knight, as if he had calmly completed a magic experiment.
But after killing the baron, Lucian's premonition of bad luck still existed, and all kinds of doubts also came to his heart: "Baron Habero didn't cast necromancy until the end, so who is instigating him to use the life of a child to keep him young? Is there another necromancer?"
Holding the spellcasting materials in his hand, he listened to the fierce shouts of soldiers on the other side of the castle. Lucien wakes up Kailin after tying her back.
Kailin opened her eyes blankly, and immediately saw Lucian's eyes as if they were deep in the starry sky, and heard a spell full of strange rhythms, so she was lost, and looked at Lucian with adoration and admiration like a little girl: "Mr. Evans. What do you command?"
The one-ring magic "Enchanting Humans", the advanced magic of hypnotism and the Eye of the Stars, can control a human whose will is not comparable to the caster's mental power, and will obey orders unless they are extremely contrary to their usual concepts.
Lucien asked briefly and directly, "Who did you learn the necromancy ritual and your magic that the Baron used?"
"It's my husband Hunt, the baron's butler Cook. Kailin smiled obsessively, "Since he was invited to serve as the Baron's affairs officer a few years ago, he has been instigating the Baron to use the power of death caused by the untimely death of a minor to maintain his youth, and he has used the corpse afterwards to study and study his magic, and has acquired the status of a butler." ”
"Cook turned out to be a pseudonym, Hunter...... Kaylene Hunter......" Lucien looked at Kaylin in slightly surprise, "You are Mr. and Mrs. Hunter from Bonn?"
Kaylin Cook turned out to be the Mrs. Hunt they were looking for, why did they become the way they are?
As soon as she mentioned the town of Bonn, Kailin's mood suddenly became very unstable, causing violent fluctuations, and she woke up from the magical effect of Lucian's "enchanting humans", and asked in horror: "Why do you know that we are from Bonn Town?
"I heard in the town of Bonn that Mrs. Hunt was a beautiful lady who was gentle and kind, always trying to help others and very fond of taking care of children. But why did you become so vicious, capable of mutilating babies and children without humanity?" Lucien did not answer directly, seeing that Kailin was emotionally unstable, he simply used words to make her even more devastated, after all, it is difficult to succeed in seducing humans when emotions fluctuate violently.
As if struck by lightning, Kailin suddenly became sluggish, and then laughed madly, and tears kept flowing: "What good is it that I am gentle and kind, and I am willing to help others? My husband has become a monster, and my daughter has been kidnapped by inhuman villains and disappeared for ten years! Seeing their happy faces, I wanted to tear them all apart! Hehe, the expressions of their parents after those children disappeared or died, really made me very happy. ”
Lucien calmly continued, "What about Hunt?"
"He's done his experiments in the cemetery in the back. Hehe, if it weren't for Hunter's temporary inability to get out, and your extraordinary sword made the baron vigilant, we would have done it directly, and we wouldn't have to prepare any 'dinner' at all." "Kaylin has a love-hate expression, "He's a monster already, no longer the romantic, thoughtful, mysterious, and powerful Hunter he was in Bonntown." ”
"Mysterious and powerful......" Hearing Kailin's description, Lucien suddenly found that he had subconsciously made a mistake, thinking that Hunter had learned necromancy by accident when he arrived in this country where the original necromancer was in the territory, "When he was in Bonn Town, he was a necromancer?"
A crisp tapping sound came before Kaylin could reply, and Lucien turned his head and was stunned to see a gray-white owl standing outside the bedroom window, its whole body covered with rotten marks, and its white bones were clearly visible, tapping lightly on the glass window with its pointed beak, and its eyes looked at Lucien and Kailin indifferently. (To be continued.) )