Brin: The truth
Ayurun is a village in Rochester's jurisdiction that is second only to Rochester in economic power, and unlike Kuhan, Ayulun impresses everyone with a lot of excitement in addition to pumpkins.
On both sides of the street are taverns, pawnshops, workshops, and there are many small vendors with large umbrellas in the open fields on both sides of the street, the most conspicuous of which is the special pumpkin that can be selected on the ground, and many people come here from afar to buy a pumpkin to go back.
The streets stretched on both sides of the village of Ayurun to the quieter suburbs outside the village, and although the streets were wide, the streets were still full of pedestrians, some with official papers, some with horse-drawn wagons to make deliveries, and some who ventured back to buy supplies.
In the bustling street, in an ordinary tavern, two men in cloaks and hoods sat in the corner whispering, as if trying to make themselves less noticeable, but their outfits looked out of place compared to everything around them.
A tall and thin man who seemed to be weak drank a sip of the white water in his hand, licked the water droplets on his lips, and said to the man sitting opposite him, "Neberes, are you sure there is the most suitable place here to draw a magic circle for me?" You can't do that in a place where people gather. ”
Neberez disagreed, and replied: "Trust me Brin, don't look at the crowds here, but no one will go to that place, and it also meets your requirements, underground." ”
Brin clenched his fists, feeling a little anxious and impetuous: "I really didn't expect that she was the priest in the prophecy." ”
Neberez looked at Brin coldly and shrugged his shoulders: "I don't care who is the chosen priest, as long as you can summon the goddess to come to Erin, I will do my best to help you." Are you sure that the magic circle you learned is useful? ”
An agitated Brin didn't want to pay attention to Neberes, he hated crowded places and the unclear outcome of the wait. After dropping two gold coins on the table, he walked out of the tavern alone, ignoring Neberes.
When Neberez saw Brin go out, he immediately put down his water glass, reminded the boss to collect money on the table, and followed out.
The two left the village and walked around the outskirts of the village for most of the circle, and finally arrived at their destination, the Qatak cemetery.
Neberes: "Originally, I bought the man from the middle gate to let us in, so we could get here faster through the Cuttac square. ”
Brin: "That's fine, avoid crowded places." ”
Looking at Brin, who was not easy to get along with, Neberez didn't want to argue with him: "Okay, then you go by yourself, I will stand around here to help you watch the wind, I hope you are doing the right thing." With that, he disappeared in a flash.
The Katak cemetery is home to people who have been dead for a long time, and no one even remembers them. In the middle of the cemetery, a rectangular pillar stands there, which should be engraved with the people buried here, but the pillar has long been weathered and cannot see the words on it, and it is full of traces of time.
Directly in front of the cemetery there was a passage leading to the underground, and on top of this passage there was a huge statue of the three-headed dog of hell, two heads looking downwards and one looking up to the sky, and each wolf's head was bound by a chain, as if afraid that the stone statue would wake up. And the eyes of the three wolf heads were embedded by the craftsman with rubies, and by the sunlight, it was as if these three pairs of eyes were looking at every part of the cemetery all the time.
Without pause, Brin took out the magic powder from his bag and drew a large circle around the pillar in the center of the cemetery, and then used different colors of magic powder to draw various strange runes in the circle. Summoning the Goddess requires two magic circles, one to stabilize the magic energy of the entire area, and the second to summon, and Brin is now drawing the first circle. The two circles must be activated at the same time, and if you are not careful, the latter will directly fail, while the former will trigger a magic explosion in the entire space.
After drawing the first circle, Brin stopped checking and went directly to the passage, he was very confident in his magic circle. The iron lock in front of the passage blocked Bryn's path, but for a magician, this was not a problem, and with a flick of his hand, the lock opened on its own.
"If the goddess would have been sacrificed on the day she came...... I must keep her, and in that case, then I will summon the goddess in advance! That way, she'll be fine. ”
Bryn, who was walking underground, kept reading his plan in his mouth, and he clenched the hand holding the bag, and at the same time firm, he was a little contradictory. In fact, he was not sure about summoning the goddess this time, and he didn't know what would happen if he failed, but Brin wanted to save her, even if he only had a little chance, he wanted to try.
After walking the long staircase, Brin finally came to a huge space deep underground, which was full of dust, surrounded by some falling bricks except for the extinguished oil lamps, and the environment was terrible, but as Neberez said, it met the requirements of painting a magic array, soundproof, hidden, indoor, and large space.
The magic circle used to summon the goddess is not simple, the curved runes with the hieroglyphic text, which seem to be scribbled but look neat and orderly, each stroke of Brin is drawn very carefully, because if there is only one mistake, the magic circle will have to be redrawn.
It took three hours to finally finish drawing this complex magic array in one go, wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, and Brin looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction. This magic circle is huge and complex, with so many runes that it looks like filling an entire book, but this complete magic circle looks very comfortable.
Brin adjusted his breath and stood straight in front of the center of the circle, holding a magic wand in his hand, closing his eyes and chanting......
The magic array on the ground and underground activated at the same time, and the magic array slowly floated and rotated, causing the magic energy of the entire space to begin to beat, and then shrink and condense.
The air became gentle, and the magical energy converged into beams of light that could be seen with the naked eye, and they all gathered along the passage to the circle that summoned the goddess.
Rumble......
At this moment, the space shook, and the circle began to become manic, and beads of nervous sweat instantly covered Brin's forehead.
"Nope! It's impossible for this circle to fail, why! ”
In order to keep the magic circle running until the end, Brin could only use the most dangerous way to repair the magic array, he sucked the magic energy leaked from the magic array into his body, and then repaired the summoning circle that began to break through the magic power released by himself. Using himself as a transmission tool of huge energy, such a load is unbearable for ordinary people's bodies, and in just an instant, Brin is already bleeding.
"There must be no failure! Want...... Protect her! ”
Powerful energy surged in the space, Brin had never seen such a huge amount of magical energy in his life, he didn't care about his body, and channeled all the energy into his body. But while the magic array was being repaired, it was also constantly damaged, and in just a few minutes, all parts of the magic array were repaired by Brin.
The blood flowing from the Seven Holes stained Brin's clothes red, and the whites of his eyes had been filled with blood, and his entire eyes were horribly blood-red. The sheer load on his body made Brin dizzy, but he gritted his back molars and stared hard to keep himself awake. At this moment, even the green tendons on Brin's head burst open, erupting blood into the air.
"Young man, are you crazy?"
An old and active voice sounded behind Brin, and the old man looked at the surge of huge energy in the air, a magic array that would produce a strong explosion at any moment, and he couldn't believe that all this was caused by this young man.
There was some anger in Brin's cold voice: "Old man? Who are you, what are you doing here, get out of here, it's dangerous here. Damn, what is Neberez doing! Brin's voice had become distorted, and he didn't dare to be distracted, the slightest mistake would fail to summon him, and he would be sent away by the explosion generated by the magic.
The gray-haired old man placed his hand on Brin's shoulder, and suddenly, the magical energy in the air became more orderly. The old man withdrew his hand from Brin's shoulder, and strands of magical energy were also withdrawn from Brin's body by the old man, and then released the magic and repaired the magic circle with Brin.
The old man was more skilled than Bryn, who could only patch two cracks at a time, while the old man could patch more than a dozen at the same time.
After realizing that the old man was also a magician, and was stronger than himself, Brin respectfully said to the old man, "Thank you very much, but please leave here, in case you fail......"
The old man smiled: "Don't worry, with me, you don't have to worry about magic explosions here, and even if your summoning circle is summoned, it will fail." So, how long can your body support? ”
Brin looked at the old man in disbelief, as if asking why he had failed.
The old man understood Brin's thoughts, and he continued: "Your magic array is fine, it's just a matter of time, the time is not right, so it failed. ”
Bryn's pupils constricted, he couldn't believe that he had failed, and he had never thought that summoning the goddess would depend on the time, and he didn't know when he would summon it to succeed. I saw the summoning circle slowly descending in the air, and the magic array slowly showed the summoned thing from top to bottom.
Brin could no longer withstand the strong pressure, and the blood vessels in his limbs burst, and he fell to the ground in an instant and was dying. The old man immediately stretched out his other hand to take over Brin's magic conduction. After Brin fell, with the powerful magic power of the old man, the summoning circle was successfully completed.
The magical energy in the space subsided, and the remaining energy dissipated. But what appeared in the center of the circle was not a goddess, but a monster with four arms and two wings, huge but capable, as if it had been stripped of its skin, its whole body was blood-red, and even its white wings had become broken.
The monster was belly up, its back pressed against the ground, its body on its knees in a curved shape, restrained and asleep. It was locked to the ground with one hand bound by magic, the other hand chained and crossed to its chest, and a pair of large, rusty twin knives.
"Grisbain?" The old man looked at the monster and called out his name, as if he was greeting an old friend: "As the guardian goddess, the giant god soldier is really crippled enough to be summoned this time." ”
Looking at the sleeping Grisbane, the old man ignored it and used his magic to lift the dying Brin out of the cemetery. Two days later, in Kuhamblin's room, the old man covered Brin's entire body with healing magic, and then cast an enchantment spell to mark the entire house.
Brin had awakened from the healing of magic, and he looked at himself as intact as before, and saw the old man who was casting enchantment magic.
Brynn: "Summoning ritual, how's it going......"
The old man looked at the lost Brin and shook his head: "I know the result, why do I still ask." ”
Old man: "Young man, I admire you, how many people in the world dare to summon a goddess?" But you have also paid the price, your internal organs have been scorched by magic, and from now on you will not be able to get out of this house, and you will only be able to survive in this enchantment I have set up. ”
Brin sighed and didn't care, he was ready to die, and it was good to survive.
Brin thought of something, and suddenly grabbed the old man's hand: "Senior, you are very powerful." ”
The old man suddenly smiled: "Then for sure, I saved you!" ”
Brin: "I didn't mean that, please teach me magic, maybe I will have a chance to descend to the goddess in the future." ”
Old man: "Hahahahaha, young man, I'm just going to live in seclusion here, okay! It's not bad to have an apprentice, hahahahaha! ”
......
Three years later, the Church of Rochester was in the Divine Tribunal.
"We found a pattern similar to the Goddess Summoning Circle in the Ayulun Katak Necropolis." The knight who spoke reverently knelt on one knee under the stairs, and buried his head low, even if he raised it even a little, to the Pope...... The irreverence of the goddess.
There were three people on the top of the stairs. The person sitting on the throne in the center is Pope Roles, who is as fat as a ball, but his face is full of kindness, and every expression seems to contain all the love and tolerance for the world; The lean man seated in the second seat was Archbishop Gilles, who always kept his seriousness, judging every word of the speaker; And behind them stood a heavily armed female knight, who was the exclusive knight of the Divine Court and the sanctioner of the Divine Court.
Gilles: "Someone tried to summon a goddess?" ”
In the face of the knight's speech at the bottom of the stairs, the pope and the archbishop were a little moved, and their eyes met, and Pope Lawris said to the knights under the stairs with a kind and loving tone: "O goddess Jasmine, O great and merciful goddess Jasmine! Look at your people, and wish they would see your coming sooner. Knight, can you help the world, if you can let the goddess come, then this responsibility, we can't shirk it. ”
Knight: "Your Excellency, the Pope is laughing, you have the people of the world in mind, if you can summon the goddess, it is also due to the devotion of the Divine Court to the Goddess, and our Knights will fully support the Divine Court." ”
......
Ayurun, Katak necropolis.
In the Katak Necropolis on the outskirts of Ayurin, a large group of knights are guarding a magician who is using magic powder to copy the fading magic circle on the ground, and the armor of these soldiers is obviously engraved with the insignia of the Holy Court, and outside the cemetery is the regular knightly army of the Kingdom Knights.
Soldier: "Master Magician, this is a magic array that summons the goddess!" ”
Magician: "That's right, this is, I didn't expect there to be such a sophisticated magic circle." Looking at the magic array mark on the ground that was about to fade, he continued to copy it with a sigh of admiration. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Divine Court on the side did not dare to disturb the magician anymore, and retreated to the side to protect the magician.
In a short time, the magician finished copying the magic array on the ground, and immediately began to chant and activate the magic array.
The magical energy in the air ignited like gunpowder, instantly making Ayurin's air hot. The villagers who were still shopping in the market also noticed that something was wrong at this time, they looked into the air and found that in the air behind the cultivation field of the middle gate, a huge magic array slowly rose.
"What's that?"
"That's the location of the cemetery."
"Do you think it's a little hot today?"
The villagers discussed the vision in the air, and many villagers entered the middle gate to see the excitement in the mood of joining in the fun, but they were all stopped by the knights outside the cemetery.
The Divine Court soldier sensed that something was wrong and stepped forward to ask, only to find that the magician was prostrated as if his magic power had been drained: "This ...... This is a double magic array, there should be a magic array to be activated at the same time, it's too late... It's too late! Come on! ”
But it was too late, just in an instant, the entire Ayurun air was exploded, and countless blue flames fell from the sky in an instant. The flames destroyed the entire village like meteorites, and Ayulun, who already had a large population, was scorched by the flames like burning ants.
The explosion on the periphery of the magic array was the most powerful, but the middle gate to the Katak cemetery was not affected by the flames. The villagers who gathered in front of the cemetery to watch the excitement were suddenly frightened and fled. At this moment, the magic array was completely shattered, and at the place where the magic array had appeared, a huge purple crack appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Magician: "End...... It's over, this time the space has exploded, and it has exploded into another dimension. ”
The soldiers of the Divine Court immediately pulled the magician and began to escape, and the knights guarding the cemetery also fled to the middle gate.
A pair of skeletal hands poked out of the crack in the other world, and everyone didn't know what it was, so they also stopped and looked carefully, and in the next second, countless vampires jumped out of the crack, taking everyone they saw as hunting targets, they sucked the villagers dry, turned into black mist and chased the soldiers of the Divine Court.
When the Knights and the Court of God arrived at the middle gate, they were stunned by the scene outside, and Ayurun had turned into a sea of fire. The Divine Court soldier pulled the captain of the knight order, his expression was distorted, his face was ugly, and his lips trembled and he discussed with the knight captain: "Look, you look outside, there should be no living people, but these." As he spoke, he pointed to the villagers who fled towards the middle gate.
"These, one, none of them can be released! If the people outside knew that the Divine Court had destroyed Ayurun by summoning the Goddess, then the Divine Court would no longer be able to gain people's hearts. This, this is the will of the Goddess, you must help us! ”
The captain of the knights was not sure, and pushed the soldiers of the Divine Court: "This is your business, the knights are only assisting." ”
The Divine Court soldiers gave the knights a vicious look, turned around and killed a villager who was fleeing. More than a dozen soldiers of the Divine Court stood guard at the middle gate, and a villager came to kill a villager, while the people of the knights looked at them coldly.
Seeing that the vampires in the rear were about to catch up, the soldiers of the Divine Court brutally kicked the approaching villagers into the middle gate, and then quickly closed the door. But then one of the villagers grabbed the magician's feet on the ground.
"Please, don't kill me, save me." The villagers' heart-rending pleas for help were exchanged for the magician's fireball technique. But this can't make the magician escape from here, in order to protect the reputation of the Divine Court, the soldiers of the Divine Court don't even care about the lives of their accomplices, the magician can only watch the door closed in despair, and at the last moment when the door is closed, the soldiers of the Divine Court smile coldly: "Master Magician, please go and carry out the will of the goddess." ”
There was a constant wail from inside the middle gate, and they didn't know how many people were locked inside, only a lot. Wails and screams resounded throughout Ayulun, but the knights and court soldiers at the gate left as if they hadn't heard.
......
Rochester Church in the Divine Tribunal
The soldiers of the Divine Court reported everything to the people on the stairs, and on the stage, in addition to Pope Roles and Grand Sect Master Gilles, there was also a person full of royal spirit, Rochester City Lord Ronayun.
The faces of these three people are all majestic, righteous, benevolent, and kind. But they made a cruel decision to deceive the world.
"Lure a goblin army to Ayulun and let the demons kill the people who are still alive in Ayulun, and say that Ayuren has been invaded by the demons."