Life is magic, and the name gives the impression that it is full of positive attributes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At least for Cheruth, whose soul comes from Earth. In various games and novels with fantasy worldviews, the so-called life system is always considered to be the mortal enemy of necromantic evil and darkness, and is the magical force that represents the righteous side.

However, in fact, although the perception of the opposition between light and darkness in the continent of Areth that Cheruth crossed over is still correct, the definition of life magic is very different from the setting of the games that Cheruth has played on Earth.

Life magic, which can magically manipulate and change all life processes, whether from life to death or from death to life...... That's right, a life mage can be a more reliable healing hand than a recovery and light mage, or a terrifying killer with more strange means than illusion and dark mages, or even create a temporary false life force through magic and inject it into a dead corpse to awaken it into its own puppet - the so-called necromantic magic, in fact, it is a variant of life magic in terms of magic theory.

In fact, as early as the War of Gods and Demons in the Mythological Age, necromancy was originally developed as a form of life-based magic, in order to be able to reawaken those warriors who had died in previous battles at the most critical moment of the battle line, and to do their best for the surviving comrades and compatriots. However, after the disappearance of the demons at the end of the gods, the various races within the Douqi Era continent began to fight greedily, and it was during this period that necromancy began to be classified as forbidden magic and was suppressed by the whole continent.

Of course, there are many factors that cause the situation where everyone shouts and fights necromancy, among which because the various races no longer need to face enemies that are terrifying in number and strength like the Chaos Demons in the past, they have necromantic magic that can create a bug-like necromantic army similar to the Chaos Demon Army, and it is also considered by those in power to be a major threat that will definitely threaten their dominance, which is the main reason behind the joint suppression of necromantic magic by major forces. However, on the surface, necromancy is an unethical way to awaken the dead to fight, and it is indeed a major reason why this type of magic is not popular with civilians.

The most typical example is the necromantic puppetry, which was once notorious in the wizarding world.

On the continent of Ares, after the death of life, there is a certain time interval from the complete cessation of physiological activities due to the disappearance of life force to the complete dissipation of the soul due to the effect of the law of soul reincarnation. If after the soul dissipates, even if the necromancer can create a false life force and inject it into the corpse to create zombies or skeletons, these necromantic creatures can only have low-level intelligence at most and cannot be regarded as a real intelligent existence, but if the other party has just died, that is, they have lost all their original life force but the soul has not completely dissipated and is "resurrected" by the necromancer, the situation is very different.

In other words, under the effect of normal laws, other bodies do not have any attraction to the soul, and in turn, the body that originally lodged has an absolute attraction to the soul. The necromancer uses the characteristics of the soul to inject a false life force containing the enslavement magic contract into the newly dead body, and then uses the "alive" body to lure the soul that is about to dissipate to return and accept the enslavement magic contract, so that the "resurrected" dead body has independent cognition and wisdom, and at the same time, it has also become a "necromancer puppet" that cannot betray the will of the necromancer from the level of the magic contract.

Such a necromantic puppet, because it has preserved the cognition and wisdom before its death, in essence, except that the meaning of life has changed from "living for yourself or relatives, friends and family" to "living for the master necromancer". Killers and spies have also set off extreme panic in the entire human society, because once a necromancer appears near the place where he lives, no one can know which of these people around him can be trusted...... No, or which are living people in the true sense of the word.

Later, with the joint suppression of the major forces on the mainland, and the rise of the light faith religion led by the Solan Divine Cult, the faction of necromantic magic was gradually suppressed and eliminated, and it became only able to survive in some dark corners of the mainland, or it reined in the set of necromantic magic, and changed its banner to disguise itself as a normal life magician. And the notorious necromantic puppet art has almost disappeared from the mainland since then, and almost no longer appears.

However, such a magic that can almost be said to be on the verge of a stunt has been exposed in such an unexpected form in front of the current Cheruth and Nanoha.

Even if they were shot through their chests and hearts, even if one arm was blown to pieces by the magic cannonball, and blood flowed profusely, this human mage who trapped them with a sealing barrier and personally stopped them would actually get back up in the next second without any problems, and then entangle and attack them without hindrance.

Because they rely on the false life force given by the outside to maintain the "survival" of the physical body, the necromantic golem does not need any source of life force from itself at all, just like those zombie skeletons without intelligence. A lethal attack on normal life, for Layali, who had been turned into his own necromantic puppet by the Hand of Death long before he came to the valley, had no effect at all except destroying a part of his physical body.

And Cheruth and Nanoha, who witnessed Layali's condition, finally confirmed that Layali was not a normal human at all, but a necromantic puppet that had disappeared from the surface of the continent for a long time. At the same time, Cheruth finally understood why a mage in Lyali would want to enter the sealing enchantment and fight them face to face to delay time - the mage was too weak to fight head-on, but the problem was that this guy couldn't be killed at all, and his body was no longer his weakness.

In the end, after a hard battle, the wolf girl and Nanoha finally tore Laiali's whole body with magic energy bombardment and wind magic, turning him into such a curious appearance, and the two of them used their strongest attack to defeat Laiali's sealing enchantment with the power of law in one fell swoop, restoring the connection between the stone house and the outside environment.

Laiali is finished, even if it is a necromantic puppet that survives on the foreign false life force, after the body is beaten into a puddle of meat sauce, no matter how strong the false life force is, it can no longer be kneaded back into a human body, without the body, Laiari's soul is afraid that it will soon dissipate on its own, and completely usher in a real death.

Chelus and Nanoha didn't look happy, not because they had any psychological shadow about beating the enemy into such a miserable situation, but because they knew that Layali's goal had been achieved.

At least fifteen minutes have passed since Laiali appeared and has been killed by them, and fifteen minutes is definitely a lot of things that can be accomplished for top masters.

The wolf girl gasped for the fresh air outside the sealing barrier in midair, because it was a dead corpse after all, Layali's body had a strong rancid smell in addition to the bloody gas that bleed a lot in the battle, although he usually covered it up with his own spices, but now that his body had been shattered into rotten flesh, those rotten body parts were scattered around Cheruth and their stone house, and the smell emitted was unbearable for Cheruth and Nanoha.

Trying to banish from memory the disgusting and unforgettable stench she had just smelled from Layali's corpse in the house, Cherus looked around the night elf village. Although he has been reduced to a necromantic puppet, since his body and intelligence have retained his former state, the power of Laiari's sealing spell is absolutely genuine. The battle between the three of them in the sealing barrier almost completely destroyed the inside of the sealed space, but until the barrier was broken, the surrounding area of this stone house was not affected at all.

Looking at the peace in the village, the worry in Cheruth's heart became more and more serious, the other party did not hesitate to sacrifice Laiali, a necromantic puppet chess piece, to seal their actions, in order to be a very important plan, since the night elf village is fine, it means that there must be something to do with the remaining three altars or the sealing place, where there should be a great elder and another night elf powerhouse tonight, and the three altars are only guarded by Elder Lilith alone, so the three altars are dangerous.

Just as Cheruth was thinking like this, suddenly there was a desperate message from the bottom of her heart.

"Xiaobai, what's wrong with you?"

Oh, by the way, even the contract with Sister Gray Wind was cut off in the seal before, and Sister Gray Wind must be worried.

"Don't worry, Sister Greywind, something happened, but it has been resolved smoothly, and Nanoha and I are fine. 」

"They were attacked by the Hand of Death, didn't they?"

"No, it's Laiari, that human seventh-order mage, I was really surprised, that person is actually a necromantic puppet, it seems that he should have been intercepted and killed by the Hand of Death on the way to Moon Valley at the invitation of the Night Elves, and then turned into a necromantic puppet through the life magic of the Hand of Death. 」

"Necromantic Golem...... In other words, is that person actually dead?"

"Yes, it's no wonder that we have always thought that the aroma of spices on that person's body is full of fragrance, but only Sister Graywind, you said that he smells a little stinky, the smell of spices can confuse us and the sense of smell of the night elves, and hide the rancid smell of the corpse, but it can't hide from your nose, Sister Graywind. 」

「............」

Gray Wind didn't pass it on again, probably because she heard that Chesse was in the mood to jokingly confirm that she was really well, Chesse turned her attention back from the contract transmission, and just wanted to pull Nanoha to follow the contract sense to find the location of Gray Wind and them, but suddenly, a thunderous sound that seemed to tear the sky was heard instantly resounded throughout the valley.

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Inside the Night Elf Village.

After some persuasion, Daniyat also saw that Afalia would not let Sekaria and others enter the village tonight, and although Luluth's attitude was not so clear, it could also be seen that it was biased towards Afalia's side, and in desperation, Daniyat had to change her strategy and began to persuade Sekaria and them to get up.

“...... Well, Miss Sekaria, Lord Getajies, that's how it is...... Actually, Lord Cheruth and the others are currently staying in the middle of the Night Elf Village, which is not far from the elders' resting quarters, and is generally considered the safest area in the village, so I don't think it matters if you don't need to worry about it......"

Gettageris looked at Sekaria with some hesitation.

The most important reason why they wanted to enter the night elf village at such a late hour, and even almost clashed with the night elf guards, was because she heard Sekaria say that there was a good chance that something had happened to Cerus. Although after getting along for the past few days, Getageris really felt that no one in this village could let the orphaned girl of the Nolan clan encounter any difficulties except for those night elf seventh-order powerhouses, but after all, not all dangers in this world come from battle, so Getageris will respond to Sekaria and Grey Wind to come here with Eve and Shanoff.

"But, believe us, Daniyat and your night elf friends, as Cheruth's companions, we have a way to get in touch with Cheruth from a distance, but just before that, the connection between us and Cheruth was suddenly cut off, which is why we are so anxious to enter the village to confirm Cheruth's situation. ”

"Maybe it's just that Mistress Cheruth has fallen asleep," Luluth who was standing in the back seemed to be a little tired of this argument, after all, her team was still tasked with patrolling the outskirts of the village tonight, but there was no position to spend here debating with Sekaria and the others," I've also heard that human magic technology has created magic guides that can communicate over long distances, but even then, it still requires people to operate magic guides to communicate, isn't it, maybe when you contact, both of them were already resting, so it's normal that they didn't respond to your summons in time, right?"

"No, on that note, the contact between us and Cheruth is not what Miss Luros says. ”

With that, Sekaria looked back at Grey Wind. Cheruth may have encountered some dangerous trouble, this is what she deduced from the fact that the summoning contract between Grey Wind and Cheruth was suddenly blocked by an inexplicable force, and now Grey Wind's identity is no longer a secret here, so even if the summoning contract between Grey Wind and Cheruth is spoken, it doesn't matter if it is said. But after all, it was a matter between two people, and Sekaria decided to ask about Grey Wind's meaning.

At this moment, suddenly, the deafening thunder accompanied by the purple thunder that filled the night sky instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Boom!!