Chapter 104: Megan's Secret
This is another long and rugged stone staircase, the old man walked slower than before, and Liang Ke could only walk very slowly, but fortunately, Megan's staff released a bright holy light, allowing them to see far away. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Aren't you curious?" insisted on walking for a long time, Meghan gasped slightly, but he did not stop to rest.
"Curious!" Liang Ke replied crisply and directly.
"Then why don't you ask?"
"Why should I ask, you'll tell me sooner or later anyway. ”
"Don't you think I have any other choice?"
Liang Ke stopped and carefully looked Megan's back up and down, then followed again, and said very seriously: "It's not easy to kill my mouth, I can't think of anything, I can't beat an injured priest, although you can still have some light magic." ”
"Young man, underestimating the enemy is the requiem of death, and I have at least ten or more ways to make you incapacitated in an instant. Meghan's tone was flat, and she didn't hear any threat.
"You can try!" Liang Ke walked in front of Megan with his hands behind his back, looking confident.
"Hahaha! When did a necromancer dare to be so flamboyant?"
When Liang Ke heard this, he was like a rattlesnake that had been trampled on its tail, and he suddenly drew his knife and turned around, placing the giant blade on Megan's thin shoulder.
"Young man, hold on to the guy in your hand, don't crush my old bones. Megan tilted her head to avoid the sharp edge.
"How do you know?" Liang Ke asked viciously.
"What do you think?" said Meghan with a rare sly smile.
"Oh...... Huh?" Liang Ke thought of the only possibility after a moment's thought, but this possibility almost shocked his jaw to the ground.
"Fuss, get your knife out of the way. ”
Liang Ke stupidly put away the giant blade and stared at Megan suspiciously.
"I'm old and I'm injured, and it's hard to walk so far. Megan leaned her staff against the stone wall, lifted her cotton robe and sat on the stone steps, then patted the open space beside her and motioned for Liang Ke to sit down as well.
"I thought there was no one in this world who could listen to my story, but ...... Hehe! Things in the world are sometimes so unpredictable, and I actually met you. Would you like to hear my story?"
Liang Ke didn't say anything, just nodded.
"For as long as I can remember, I lived in that tall temple and I didn't even know who my parents were. Of course, the children of the temple are servants of God, since I was a child, I have studied the sacred scriptures with those priests, and have been exposed to all kinds of rituals and prayers, maybe the will of God is really everywhere, and my lonely child was found to have a very high talent for the magic of light, so they began to isolate me from other children, creating an absolutely pure environment for me, from my heart to my actions, I am responsible for spreading the light, and sometimes, I even feel that I am the representative of the light in others. ”
Megan seemed to regain some strength, he took out a cigar from his bosom and lit it, brought it to his lips and took a small sip, and continued: "Finally, one day I learned the magic of light that only the Saints of Light can learn, and I have the qualifications to follow the Lord of Light, but, to my surprise, the task I got from Lord Judge was only to deliver food to a 'God Judge', and what was even more odious was that the prisoner's ration was actually fresh animal blood. Can you imagine what it would be like for a Light Saint to walk through a dark, damp dungeon carrying a bucket of fishy blood?" Meghan gave a bleak and helpless wry smile.
"It was a long and dry time, and every day I would carry that barrel back and forth for a long distance, giving blood food to the shadow who was always hiding in the darkness, and slowly, the sunny and pure me began to become gloomy and sad, and then I began to get tired of such days, and one day, I smashed the barrel in anger in front of that cage, and the stench of blood sprayed on me. Face, I sat on the ground and cried, I lay on the iron fence and cursed, the prisoner in the dark seemed to be disturbed by me, he spoke to me for the first time. ”
"He said to me, 'Son, don't be angry with your enemies, for you will be easily defeated!' If you learn to learn from the ups and downs, then you will be invincible!' The voice sounded so comforting, it seemed to have a magical power that could heal people's wounds, and that day, we talked for a long time, and I strangely found myself relying on that voice, and I thought it might have something to do with the loss of my loved ones since I was a child. ”
"Since then, I have come to like to go and bring food to that person, and we often talk about many things, about light and darkness, about the world and the gods, about family and friendship, but also about him. He...... The only lich in this world. ”
Megan looked at Liang Ke's confused expression and explained: "Hehe! The lich is also a kind of undead, a special creature that dwells its soul on corpses, to be exact, it should be a creature between undead and human. ”
"Take away eternal life?" Liang Ke stood up excitedly after listening to Megan's description.
"Eternal life? No, it can be said that everyone is pursuing the goal. ”
"Isn't it immortal to be able to live in someone else's corpse?"
"Do you think that a soul ruling over a body that needs to be kept alive with fresh blood every day is considered immortal?"
"Oh, that's not immortality, but in this space, it's great to be able to immortalize the soul, after all, it's against the rules of the gods. Who is that guy?" asked Liang Ke curiously.
"In this world, only Gandosa-sensei has the courage and ability to challenge the rules of the gods!" Megan's words were full of infinite respect.
"What?" Liang Ke never expected that Gandosa, who had been looking for him, would be imprisoned in the temple, and he was surprised and delighted by such news.
"Oh, I knew that the lich in front of me was the terrifying Gandosa, and my expression was even more exaggerated than you do now. Megan extinguished the half-smoked cigar and put it in her pocket, and then slowly told the truth about the tragedy 10,000 years ago.
Gandosa's attainments in the field of soul magic are beyond anyone's imagination, in his twenties he discovered the method of stripping the soul from the flesh, in his early thirties he had mastered the technique of sealing the soul in a special substance, and within a few years, he was able to merge the soul with the entity. Although Gandosa was a necromancer, he never did anything against the law and morality, and his undead legions were all summoned from another time and space, and his talent and character made him a wide range of friends, and he occasionally met his future wife, "Lena Andorra".
The beautiful and gentle Lena did not dislike his ugliness, but was deeply attracted by Gandosa's talent, and the two soon fell in love and got married. Soon after, Lena became pregnant with Gandosa's child, but at the same time, he discovered that Lena had contracted a terrible disease. Gandosa did not tell Lena the bad news, and he visited famous doctors to cure his wife's strange illness, but he could not find a cure, so he began to devote all his energy to finding a way to bring the dead back to life.
The road to resurrection was bumpy and long, and Gandosa had nearly lost his life in the laboratory several times, and had been deceived into losing his fortune when buying rare materials, but he had endured all of this in silence and did not let Lena know half of it. Disappointingly, no matter how hard he tries, Lena's final moments are inevitable. On the hospital bed, the frail Lena held Gandosa's hand tightly, struggled to tell him her affection for him, and finally revealed the secret she had hidden in her heart for many years.
It turned out that Lena Andorra was a contemporary saint of the Holy Church, and His Holiness the Pope, after learning of Gandosa's research results, sent her in the name of God to approach Gandosa and steal his research results. At first, she carried out the Pope's mission to the letter, but slowly, she was overcome by Gandosa's kindness and outstanding talent, and she really fell in love with him. So, Lena began to delay the time of the report and falsified false news to deceive the Pope, but how could Liana, who did not understand soul magic at all, deceive the powerful Pope, and the Pope used even more despicable means after feeling that he had lost control of Liana, that is, slowly poisoning her with the unique divine technique "Final Faith", and Lianna, who had lost respect for the Holy Religion, struggled with her own will in the light faith imposed on her, but the more she struggled, the deeper the virus burned her soul until death.
The Pope believed that as long as Gandosa remained on the continent, he would not be able to escape the control of the behemoth of the Holy See, and that all his achievements would ultimately serve his dream of eternal life. As it turned out, the Pope's ruse had succeeded, and Lena's illness and death had pushed Gandosa to the brink of a desperate search for a resurrection.
On her deathbed, Lena revealed her identity in order to remind Gandosa to stay away from the Holy See, but she ignored the depth of Gandosa's love for her. The undead archmage Gandosa expressed his anger in the most direct way, he led the undead legion to capture several temples in a row, killing all the clergy he could see, in the face of the extremely powerful Gandosa, His Majesty the Pope in order to cover up his crimes, actually released the "Blood Angel" of the otherworldly demon god that had been sealed for many years, and the terrifying blood angel released a number of undead forbidden spells in the battle with Gandosa, which caused that tragedy.
Although Gandosa is a genius in the field of soul magic, he was unable to defeat the powerful blood angel after all, in that earth-shattering battle, he lost his body, and the soul that escaped was lodged on the corpse of someone else, but this did not affect his footsteps in the search for the resurrection of Liana, he sealed Lianna's soul in a crystal orb, and took her corpse to the end of the world. He traveled to every corner of the continent, and he even went to the Demon Realm, where he learned of the miracle, so he relied on his great strength, with his faithful servants and slaves, to live in seclusion and secretly carry out unfinished experiments.
On a trip to find materials, the lich Gandozar was confronted by the Judgment of Light, and the disembodied and isolated Gandozar finally did not escape the cage of the Judgment of Light, and was captured by them and imprisoned by the Holy See. In order to survive, Gandosa became a full-time researcher of immortal magic for the Holy See, and in exchange, the Holy See needed to provide him with the necessary blood food to keep his flesh fresh, as well as some materials. Ten thousand years have passed in a hurry, and Gandosa's research seems to have made no progress and is infinitely close to success, but only Gandosa himself knows that he has mastered the method of resurrection long before he was captured, and this genius of soul magic has already obtained the key to rebirth, but unfortunately he is trapped in the Holy See and cannot leave to rescue his deceased wife Lena, until Megan, a young boy, appears.
Gandosa cares about everything about Megan like an elder, and has taught Megan a lot of things, including necromancy, more of a human being, he has not made any requests to Megan, but in Megan's heart, Gandosa is as respectable and lovely as his father, and no one can replace him.
Under the influence of Gandosa's story, his faith began to waver, and he began to hate the priests who did dark things in the name of light, and he also saw the righteousness and selflessness of the rangers who walked in the darkness, so he became a traitor to the god of light. He was afraid that the shrewd priests would find out his secret with Gandosa, so his eyes were always gray so that others could not read his true thoughts from his gaze, and he was always slow to move, even traveling in bullock carts, which gave him more time to think and ensure that he did not make mistakes. He also learned to smoke a cigar in order to mask the scent of the necromancer.
Gandosa noticed his worries and encouraged him to leave him, and Megan began to travel around the continent as a saint of light, slowly practicing the life lessons that Gandosa taught him with a spiritual attitude. During those years, he had been to the Lake of Tears countless times, hoping to one day be able to enter it and help Gandosa fulfill his wishes, but the endless flow of the Lake became an insurmountable obstacle, after all, he was not a lich who did not breathe like Gandosa.
In order to achieve his goal, he persuaded the Judge of Light to send him to the Great Wasteland of Komnia so that he could master the power of the orcs to his own advantage. This time luck was on his side, and by accident, Megan saved the old man from the twilight orc high priest, who taught him the orc curse technique when he was dying, so he became the orc's military priest, and finally, relying on his extraordinary magical talent, he mastered the long-lost "Gabrin Transfiguration", which allowed him to sit firmly on the throne of the high priest.
This war is actually a play planned by him alone, the purpose is to drain the water of the Lake of Heavenly Tears, enter this underground kingdom, rescue the body of the Holy Maiden of Lianna, and resurrect her soul.
Liang Ke listened to Megan's story, his heart was heavy, and he aimlessly hit the ground with the giant blade, looking at the little sparks in a daze.
"Do you think I'm being selfish and cruel?"
"Don't you think so?" Liang Ke asked rhetorically.
"I know! So, for so many years, I have been helping the orcs to develop, I have trained more than a thousand priests for them, I have started schools so that the ignorant children can learn advanced knowledge from outside, I have taught the herders to grow crops so that they can save up for the long winters in Komnia. More than 30 years have passed, and the population of orcs has increased by more than one million, otherwise how can they make up hundreds of thousands of troops at will, and their level of science and technology is no worse than that of humans. I think that's enough in exchange for their devotion, and as you can see, those warriors are as loyal to me as your men are to you. ”
"No, I have never deceived my brother Paoze, but you dare not tell your true purpose. Liang Ke shook his head, and didn't bother to argue with Meghan.
"Although war was not my intention, it was only my only option, I am very old and have no time to wait, fortunately, I met you. ”
"Me?"
"Yes, I said that if it weren't for your presence, this story that spanned 10,000 years might have been sealed forever. I tell you this story, not only because you are also a necromancer, but more importantly, I can tell from your swollen eyes that you have no faith, and you, like Gandosa-sensei, dare to challenge any power for the sake of your loved ones. Let's go! Now let's go and see what Gandosa's predecessors have left here. ”
High Priest Megan stood up with her staff and walked forward silently.