ACT003: Explosive ending
Carelessly, Weiss was put down by the wine that had been added with "seasoning", and when he woke up again, he was already hanging in a specially lit cell with chains that bound the owner of the chess piece. From getting the pieces to going to jail, the process was so fast that it didn't even take a day.
Long before going to the Duke's Palace, Weiss expected this possibility, and even prepared some rhetoric in advance, so as to stabilize the other party at a critical moment and make the Duke believe that he had the intention of "surrendering". But what he didn't expect was that the other party didn't even try it, and directly drugged him over.
But Weiss didn't understand that if the Duke was just out of jealousy and psychological imbalance, afraid that he would use the influence of the "king" to set off a rebellion and overthrow him, then he should have died by now, but he was still alive, and this kind of "leaving trouble" was obviously not in line with the style of those rural nobles who learned "decisive killing" to "decisive killing".
With this question, Weiss, who woke up, thought for a long time, but still couldn't think of a reason. It wasn't until he was escorted to the basement of the Duke's Mansion and saw the magic array there that he understood what the other party wanted to do with him.
"I really didn't expect that legend to be true!"
"A lot of legends are actually true, but people don't want to believe them, so they become legends. ”
Weiss was surprised when a shiny green bald head suddenly appeared in front of him, and Weiss, who was sitting on the ground, looked down slightly, and found that standing in front of him was a rickety old goblin. The other party was looking at him with his large, somewhat frightening eyes, and the look in his eyes that looked at the "fish of the board" made Weiss feel very uncomfortable.
"Very good! No skin is broken, this is very good! Boy, call your black king out and let me see it, old man!"
"Look at your sister!"
"Hehe, it's okay, then I'll let the little master show it to the old man later." ”
Seeing that the other party was smiling so deceitfully, Weiss couldn't wait to spat this old thing, but the other party just kept laughing with his goblin's unique merchant style laughter, "hey, hey, hey", laughing non-stop, giving people a feeling of super inadequacy.
The old goblin circled around Weiss two more times, then walked up to the Duke's family standing outside the circle, first moved his somewhat stiff old waist and saluted, and then said to the Duke.
"My lord, the exchange ceremony has been prepared and can start at any time, please let the young master stand in the circle over there. ”
"Baby, stand in that position, don't move. Master Kabbalah, I'll leave it to you next. ”
"We're happy to serve you, honorable Duke. ”
The magic circle that the old goblin Kabbalah is about to activate, is a kind of "exchange circle" that is believed to exist only in folk anecdotes, capable of transferring everything that one chess piece owner gets to another. Originally, Weiss thought that this was a storyteller under the overpass who made it up to fool people, but now it seems to be true!
Seeing a little fat man walking into the circle with his fat belly, standing in another circle opposite him, looking down at himself proudly, Weiss directly replied with a sneer, and at the same time quickly used his brain to think about countermeasures. He didn't want to be ruined after being robbed of everything, his good life had just begun, and there was no reason to end up in this unknown basement now.
When everything was ready, the old goblin stood on the driving position and began to guide the magic elements into the circle, and the runes painted with magic materials on the ground suddenly emitted a light blue glow, Weiss only felt that his body suddenly sank, and then like an iron nail attracted by a magnet, the whole person was stuck to the ground and could not move.
"I~!"
Maybe it was because the people who created this magic circle had impure motives, so the "sacrifice position" of the magic circle came with the ability of "restraint", and after activation, Weiss even struggled to move his fingers to death, and as the operation progressed, he also felt strong heart palpitations, as if his soul was about to be drained away.
"No! ...... go on like this."
Under the double restraint of chains and magic circles, Weiss didn't want to sit still and rely on the will that erupted in danger, twisted his face to the side with difficulty, and then bit his tongue fiercely, letting blood overflow his mouth.
Weiss remembered that he had learned in school that blood was the medium of good surnames in magical rituals, and that the attachment to magical elements was very high, so many circles had human or animal blood added to their drawing dyes, so many "sacrificial" circles emphasized keeping sacrifices and runes clean and tidy. Combined with the goblin named Kabbalah just now to deliberately check whether he was injured, Weiss concluded that there must be blood in the drawing fuel of the circle under him, so he decided to fight to see if he could use "a mouthful of old blood" to break his dog's transformation array.
In fact, when he bit his tongue, the old goblin Kabbalah had already noticed Weiss's actions, and the goblin's big nose had a very sensitive sense of smell, and it didn't take long for him to smell a trace of blood, and found that it was emanating from Weiss as a sacrifice, and his face suddenly changed greatly.
But unfortunately, the ceremony was already halfway through at this time, and Kabbalah was also unable to move, and could not even stop chanting the incantation in his mouth, so he could only signal the people around him with his eyes to quickly find a way to stop the boy's crazy actions...... Wipe his sweat.
“...... This sb!"
All mages know that the converging of magical elements is very dangerous, and if the elements get out of control and go berserk, the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, although the effects of the magic array are different, there is only one result of failure, and that is to explode!
Weiss, who had accumulated a large mouthful of thick blood, accurately spit on the runes on the magic array, under the infection of this large area of blood, the originally clear runes suddenly became blurred, and Kabbalah could clearly feel that the flow of magical elements gathered on the magic circle became blocked, and quickly lost control, rampage caused a wider range of rage. Although Kabbalah tried his best to turn it around, the timing of Weis's pick was too good, and it happened to be the critical moment when the magic power was most active, even if he was the owner of the chess piece, he could not do anything.
"Quick...... Run!"
Seeing that the situation could not be reversed, Kabbalah stopped reciting the incantation, but before he could say these few words to the little grandfather who was still at a loss, the entire basement was completely engulfed by the strong light that erupted from the magic circle......;