Chapter 1: Rituals
The intense throbbing pain in his brain made Roy subconsciously frown.
When he opened his eyes, he was greeted by a small stone house.
The walls are made of solid granite, surrounded by torches, and the dancing flames reflect the dark red and black unknown stains on the walls.
Where Roy lay at the moment was a circular stone platform raised from the ground, on which were carved intricate curves, and the paint was bright and bright, and the color was like blood.
On the wall directly opposite his gaze was a half-concealed iron door of a dark and blackened color, a chain hanging from the deadbolt to the ground, reflecting a seeping red in the light of the fire.
Secret houses, torches, round platforms, dark red stains......
Such a distinctive item made Roy gasp, and subconsciously thought of the terrifying cult ritual, and he couldn't help but feel worried.
"Whoop......"
Inhale deeply, exhale deeply, three times in a row, Roy suppressed the panic in his heart and forced himself to calm down.
Although he didn't know why he woke up with a hangover and was kidnapped to such a "strange place", he knew that panic would not solve anything.
The most important thing right now is to find a way to escape.
Thoughts were churning in his heart, and just as Roy was thinking about his escape plan, the crisp sound of "stomping, stomping" came from the crack in the door, making his heart pound.
"Smack-"
The iron door was pushed open from the outside, and the large amount of cold air that squeezed in at once made the flames in the fireplace flicker a few times.
At night, the faint crimson moonlight was like a light veil, draped over a girl with long white hair.
The white skin was slightly red against the background of the crimson moon, and his face was very delicate, wearing a long dress with a white base and purple embellishments.
The most striking thing was the thin black lines that kept swimming in her pale silver eyes.
An indescribable cold feeling enveloped the entire stone house with the appearance of the girl.
Roy's body stiffened in an instant, and an invisible force descended on every inch of his body.
What is, what?
For a moment, Roy's heart was filled with intense horror.
The white hair and silver eyes can barely be explained by cosplay, but the black lines in the other party's eyes and the supernatural power that makes him unable to move can not be explained.
Sorcery?
Or is it ......
Before Roy could think further, the girl had already walked over to the bed where he was.
As the distance between the two sides drew closer, the coldness became more and more intense, visible to the naked eye, starting from the place where the girl stood, the blue frost spread in all directions, covering the ground, climbing onto the bed, and until, covering Roy's limbs.
Roy wanted to cry out for help, but at this moment, the only thing he could move all over his body was his eyelids, and he couldn't make a sound at all, so he could only watch the girl walk to the side of the bed, look at him condescendingly, her silver eyes were full of indifference, and then stretched out her hand.
A faint scent of orchid flowed into his nose, and Roy could clearly perceive that a soft and cold finger tapped his neck, and then, all the way down, cut through his clothes, revealing his bony upper body.
The fingers wandered over it, bringing an itchy sensation, and vaguely, there seemed to be some kind of liquid painting on his chest.
Eventually, the finger stopped on top of the left ribcage, facing the heart.
"Knock knock! Knock knock! β
Obviously, his whole body was cold, but Roy felt that his heart was beating extremely violently, driving his whole body to be extremely hot.
"Zhengβ"
With a hum, a complex blood-colored ring lit up from the circular platform lying under Roy, and at the same time, a ring with a similar pattern but rotated in opposite directions appeared on Roy's chest.
"Sorry......"
The cold sound came to the ears, and with it, the feeling of the heart being squeezed into it by some foreign object.
Sharp pain swept through his body, and something gray seemed to flash in front of him, but before Roy could look, the next moment, he lost consciousness.
β¦β¦
"Young Master Roy, Young Master Roy, wake up! Wake up! β
The anxious shouts echoed in his ears, and the shaking sensation of his body made Roy's chaotic brain gradually wake up.
Roy...... Master?
β¦β¦ Are you calling me?
Roy slowly opened his eyes, and what greeted him was a middle-aged knight with an anxious face.
He was wearing a heavy gray-silver full-body armor, which was shiny and shiny, showing the meticulous care of his daily life, but he could still see subtle slashes and dents, proving that this armor was not a good thing, but a real armor of a hundred battles.
At this moment, the visor of the knight's helmet was pulled up, revealing a middle-aged Western-style face with a long beard.
Seeing Roy open his eyes, the knight's face showed a look of joy, and he was about to say something, but at this time, Roy suddenly snorted, stretched out his hand to cover his brain, and his face was hideous.
"Master Roy!"
Seeing this, the knight's face was anxious, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly picked up Roy with gentle movements and galloped towards the city.
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Half an hour later.
Lord's Mansion.
In the room, Roy lay on the bed, listening to the advice of the doctor outside the room, "Don't worry, Master Roy is just mentally weak, just rest more", and then, there was a distant footsteps.
The door closed, and Roy opened his eyes, looking at the white-gray ceiling with a complicated look in his eyes.
At this moment, there were some more memories in his mind that did not belong to him.
It was precisely because of the impact of these memories that he had previously suffered.
Roy Turumbel, a man of his name, was sixteen years old, a native of the Glow Empire, his father was a lord of the Blackstone Realm, an Imperial baron, and his mother died of illness shortly after he was born.
As the eldest son of the Lord of Blackstone, Roy Turumbel's treatment is needless to say, but he lost his mother since he was a child, and his father was busy with government affairs, so he was away from home all the year round, and lacked discipline, which caused him to gradually develop bad habits, and he had no intention of studying, abandoning knightly practice.
This time he was kidnapped because Roy Turumbuel secretly ran outside the city to have a private meeting with a nightingale.
β¦β¦
In the room, Roy stood up, walked to the full-length mirror in the room, and undressed.
Black hair, brown eyes, frighteningly pale face, the upper body under the clothes is skinny, and the ribs are clearly visible.
Of course, these are not important, the important thing is that at this moment, his left chest is unharmed, and when he reaches out to touch it, he can still feel the normal and powerful beating of his heart inside.
It's as if everything last night was just a nightmare.
But Roy doesn't think so.
Because in front of him, there was a panel of gray characters that only he could see.
And these characters are the gray things he saw last night before he fell unconscious.
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[Suffering from the erosion (curse, manipulation) of items containing "[Lust Demon Source] - Mixed Branch Magic"......]
[This magic item has been absorbed!] +97% Energy Reserve! γ
[Current Energy Reserve Progress: 98%]
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To the left of the character, there is something like an eight-sided Rubik's Cube, which is constantly rotating, and 98% of the part is glowing, and the distance is full, only the last 2%.
The origin of the panel is impossible to delve into, but the information displayed on it made Roy's heart sink gradually.
"Curse, Manipulation ......"
"Sure enough, everything last night was not a dream, what does that white-haired and silver-eyed witch want to do?!"
Yes, witch.
This world, unlike Blue Star, is a world with extraordinary powers, and ordinary people can slowly become strong by tempering their physique, and become knights with secret methods.
And the existence called the witch is an outlier among them.
Girls under the age of sixteen have an extremely small probability of being alienated into "witches", wielding terrifying abilities that even knights can't reach.
But being a witch is not a good thing.
Not only in the case of alienation, it will bring all kinds of disasters, but every time the ability is used after that, the soul will accumulate a certain amount of pollution.
When the contamination of the soul exceeds the threshold, the witch will lose control and become a monster that destroys everything.
Therefore, the vast majority of witches, once discovered, were controlled by the Imperial Temple and managed in a unified manner, using special devices to drive witches to work for major towns, and Roy's Blackstone Territory has a serving witch.
However, the existence of the witch is very mysterious, and in the memory of the original body, although Roy Turumbel knew that there was such a witch in the Blackstone Collar, he had never seen it, only that it was not a witch who was good at fighting.
Roy couldn't help but think back to the white-haired and silver-eyed witch he saw last night, and the black threads that kept swimming in the other party's pupils were a manifestation of the deep accumulation of soul pollution.
Isn't there an alien witch who is bound and on the verge of getting out of control?
What is her purpose in using her power to erode and try to control me?
There was too little information to make effective inferences, but he knew one thing clearly - he had been targeted by the white-haired and silver-eyed witch with unknown purpose!
Roy didn't know what the magic items left by the white-haired and silver-eyed witch in his body were specific, but judging from the hints on the gray character panel, it must be inseparable from "curse and control", and now, that thing has been absorbed and transformed into the energy of the Rubik's Cube.
The failure of the other party's methods did not make Roy happy, on the contrary, a deep worry appeared in his heart.
The other party is sure that he will control him in this way, with a high probability, and there are also means of monitoring, that is to say, the white-haired and silver-eyed witch is now likely to have noticed the disappearance of the "thing" she left in her body.
Dangerous!
The cold wind blew in through the crack in the window and landed on Roy's unclothed upper body, making him shiver with excitement.
Putting on his clothes and returning to bed, the warmth of the futon gradually dispelled the cold, Roy racked his brain for what to do next.
In the face of a witch with terrifying abilities, even if he was in the Black Stone Ridge and under the layers of guards of the knights of the Turumbuir family, he still couldn't feel a sense of security.
The strength of the witch, for a knight, is overwhelming, and it is not comparable at all.
The more he thought about it, the more desperate Roy became.
Even if he passed the news of the witch to the temple, he couldn't wait for the people from the temple to arrive, and he was approached and killed by the white-haired and silver-eyed witch lurking near the Black Stone Ridge.
Far water can't quench the thirst of the near.
The background of the original body does not help Roy solve the current crisis.
After pondering for a long time, Roy could only focus on the gray character panel in front of him and the mysterious Rubik's Cube that swirled.
inexplicably crossing another world, this "golden finger" is the only way for him to save himself.