Because of the fact that the Pantanal voodoo would poison the earl a few days ago, there was a ring warlock from the church present at the banquet, so even if Xia De heard the news about the Truth Society and the cultists a few hours ago, it was not special. worry.
He calculated the time and prepared to go to the courtyard of the manor at almost nine o'clock to return the pair of earrings in his hand to Princess Margaret. It just so happened that Mr. Bernhardt had nothing to do, so he planned to go with Shad. After all, it would be a bit embarrassing to leave the banquet hall alone.
Although due to the weather, tonight's banquet is an indoor banquet, but there are actually some people in groups of threes and twos holding wine glasses in the courtyard to "watch the moon". Of course, it is hard to say whether there will be secret talks or in-depth exchanges between young people while watching the moon.
Shard and Mr. Bernhardt came to the yard talking and laughing together. The two looked up at the moon above them almost at the same time, and then smiled at the same time. Shade bathed in the moonlight, feeling refreshed, and the vampire, bathed in the moonlight, also felt that the fatigue caused by the noisy banquet was swept away.
There was a vague sound of music behind him, and he came to the quiet courtyard, as if he had entered another world. Seeing that the princess's maid hadn't arrived, Xia De invited Mr. Bernhardt to take a walk. Of course, Mr. Bernhardt was also willing to be quiet for a while.
In such an early winter season, except for a few evergreen plants in the courtyard, most of the other plants have withered, but in the hands of the royal family's outstanding gardeners and gardeners, the quiet courtyard under the moon is still so beautiful. Looking at the courtyard of the manor, Xia De inevitably recalled the first large banquet he attended after coming to this world, which was the banquet at the Lake View Manor.
He heard a lot of things during that banquet, met many people, until at the end of the banquet, he kicked that kick under the moon. Thinking about it now, that experience is still so incredible.
"As soon as winter comes, the weather in Huntington is better at night than in summer."
Mr. Bernhardt on the side said, and walked to the knight fountain in the courtyard with Shad. The water was rushing, and in this quiet night, it felt a little more lonely.
"Yes, I didn't expect to see such a beautiful starry sky and moon from the city."
Both of them have thaumaturgy related to the "moon", so once the topic is opened, they can find a lot to talk about.
For example, the "Moonlight Slash" mastered by Xia De is a relatively basic moonlight series thaumaturgy. Not only Silver Moon, but also Yellow Moon and Red Moon can be used. It just corresponds to the three kinds of moons. The moonlight slash of the silver moon tends to fight against evil and has a "sacred" attribute; the moonlight slash of the red moon tends to destroy flesh and blood, and has a very strong effect on the destruction of flesh; The Moonlight Slash does not have outstanding attribute characteristics, but this allows the purest destructive effect of spirit and energy to be brought into full play.
Mr. Bernhardt is a seven-ring warlock, and his experience has greatly inspired Shad. And Shad has mastered "Silver Moon" and "Yellow Moon" that Mr. Bernhardt did not, so his experience is also of great value to vampires.
When sharing the experience of "Moonlight Slash", Xia De of course also mentioned the three forms of changes he made to this thaumaturgy, that is, the most basic slash, which leaves cross arcs of light in the air. The casting speed is slow but powerful An extremely powerful slash, a slash after clapping your hands together and casting a spell quickly to pull out an arc of light.
"You are so talented with the moon."
Mr. Bernhardt said sincerely:
"Now that you have the power of the yellow moon and the silver moon, if you get the red moon again, maybe all your moon thaumaturgy will undergo qualitative changes."
In fact, Xia De's fourth ring already has the "Red Moon" spirit rune, which is the power of blasphemy. But in order to save the twin red butterflies, Hongyue is temporarily in a sealed state, and he has not found a suitable method to restore the power of this spirit rune.
"For 'Moonlight Slash', I don't have the talent like you to develop so many forms."
Mr. Bernhardt said softly, and looked around to make sure that there were no young men and women cheating in the bushes beside him:
"My family, oh, not the Bernhardt family, is a blood-sucking clan. We have more skills in using this ability."
Ring Warlock has never been an extraordinary profession behind closed doors. Priest Augustus said a long time ago that Ring Warlock is actually more like a scholar. Sometimes other people’s notebooks are more useful than one’s own dedicated research for a month:
"Moonlight Slash can not only cast spells with hands, theoretically speaking, as long as it is a part of your body, any part can cast spells."
As he spoke, the gentleman kicked forward lightly, and Xia De saw a scarlet light blade sweeping along the ground. Because of deliberate control of power, the trace of light disappeared when it touched the base of the fountain.
"I tried to do that too."
Xia De nodded, the kick he kicked under the moon was the application of [Moonlight Slash] with his feet:
"But apart from the hands and feet, it is difficult to cast spells on other parts. I can only do this at present..."
After he finished speaking, he opened his mouth, flicked his tongue slightly, and a small trace of silver light flew out. This trick has never been shown to anyone after Xia De learned it, because it has no practicality, the power is too weak, and it is too shameful.
Mr. Bernhardt didn't feel anything wrong, they were purely academic discussions:
"Yes, this is really difficult. Our race has the talent to transform into a bat, so in bat form, we use our wings to cast spells. As for using your tongue like you, some people have tried it, but the power is very poor. After all, the tongue itself is not Aggressive organ."
After speaking, he suddenly smiled again:
"I just have time today. Let me show you the special [Moonlight Slash] technique, which was developed by the clan from the vampiric talent."
The two walked from the path in the center of the courtyard to the path in the courtyard. After confirming that it is far enough away from the mansion—
"Ah!"
Mr. Bernhardt clenched his fists under the moon, and raised his arms to the upper left and upper right respectively:
"ha!"
Bring your arms back and keep your fists crossed across your chest:
"Moonlight Slash!"
With a low heh, the middle-aged vampire turned into a bright red arc and rushed forward, but he didn't hit any target, and he turned back out of breath.
Panting heavily, he explained to Xia De:
"In our racial inheritance thaumaturgy, there is an 'incarnate blood blade' related to the [Blood] spirit rune, which uses one's own blood to cut down the opponent. The shape change of [Moonlight Slash] uses a similar principle to make oneself incarnate Moonlight attacks the enemy. But the weakness is also obvious."
Mr. Bernhardt looks exhausted:
"You can tell the cost of this move just by looking at me. In addition, if the Moonlight Slash is interrupted by the enemy during the attack, you will suffer considerable damage. Moreover, this form change is essentially just There is no specific learning method for the application of thaumaturgy, and you can only feel it by yourself. This not only requires a high affinity for the moon, but also requires an affinity for the light itself. Below the high ring, very few people can directly master it."
Speaking of this, Mr. Bernhardt was a little complacent, and Shad also praised him sincerely:
"It's really powerful. This can be said to be the final form change of [Moonlight Slash] thaumaturgy."
[Moonlight Slash] After all, it is only a thaumaturgy that can be learned at a low level. After Xia De developed three forms, he knew that the change of thaumaturgy had reached its limit. He intends to develop the last form of this thaumaturgy in the last ring of the lower fourth ring. After being promoted to the middle ring, he can seek other moonlight attack thaumaturgy.
The two did not go far, but continued chatting in a position where they could see the manor house. But before Princess Margaret appeared, the garden behind the manor unexpectedly flashed a light. The light was extremely conspicuous in the middle of the night, not only Shad and Mr. Bernhardt saw it, but anyone in the manor who looked out the window would definitely be able to see it too.
"Light?"
Mr. Bennhardt hesitated:
"Using the light technique here, aren't you afraid of attracting the church's ring magicians?"
"Maybe it's to attract the church's ring magicians, and those ring magicians have to send some people to check the situation."
The well-informed Xia De whispered, the two were quiet for a while, and looked towards the back of the mansion together, but there was no other movement for a long time. So, Xia De looked at the door of the mansion not far away:
"Why hasn't Princess Margaret's maid come yet?"
"I have a bad feeling."
Mr. Bernhardt said with some concern, and then proposed:
"Let's go back and check the situation. No matter what it was just now, it must be related to the ring warlock. Maybe the group of lunatics from the Truth Society really dared to act here."
Xia De also agreed with him, and the two walked quickly back to the door of the mansion, but Xia De pushed the door, but failed to push the door open:
He felt like he was trying to push a mountain.
Seeing this, Mr. Bernhardt came over to help, but also failed to push the door open. And listen carefully to the sound inside the door, the music is normal, and the conversation and laughter don’t seem to be faked, because they clearly heard the two people at the door arguing fiercely about the topic of navigation:
"Someone locked the door?"
Mr. Bernhardt said suspiciously, Shade reached out and tried to open the door with the [Key of the Door]. The thaumaturgy did work, but the process of unlocking the lock was like wrestling with a dragon. He could open the door, but he had to concentrate on using the thaumaturgy:
"Mr. Bernhardt, wait a moment, I'm picking the lock."
"The banquet is still going on normally. This 'lock' is obviously the power of the ring warlock. The person who set this lock just didn't want people from outside to enter in a short time, and he didn't want to attract more people's attention. Church of the Five Gods Directly providing protection to the royal family, should the Truth Society directly attack Princess Margaret? What are they doing?"
Mr. Bernhardt analyzed that Shade finally opened the lock after waiting for nearly five minutes. After pushing open the golden door, the two quickly entered, the ball was still going on as usual, the well-dressed gentlemen and the beautiful ladies were still dancing and having fun, the melodious music was so relaxing, and they were arguing about nautical topics at the door The two gentlemen in the room just glanced at them, and no one seemed to realize that something out of the ordinary was going on.
But Princess Margaret had disappeared into the corner of the sofa in the banquet hall. After a little inquiring, I found out that someone called her away not long ago, but when asked who called the princess away, those ordinary people couldn't tell.
"Sure enough something went wrong."
Shad whispered nervously to Mr. Bernhardt:
"I'll go find that witch, there won't be any problems with her."
Mr. Bernhardt nodded, but he didn't want to act with Shad:
"I'll go to my fellow clansmen and ask what happened just now. After a while, you and that lady will come to me directly, maybe you already know where the princess has gone."
So the two split up, and Xia De left the banquet hall while preparing the materials for the spell, and walked along the corridor on the left to find Miss Sylvia. But after turning around the corner of the corridor, in the empty corridor, he saw a tall man standing in the middle of the corridor, as if deliberately waiting for Xia De.
Xia De didn't see him at the banquet just now, because on both sides of this person's cheeks, there is a dark green vertical line extending down from both cheeks. His skin is a bit dark, and his eyes are deeply sunken, obviously waiting for Xia De:
"You opened the 'lock' from the outside?"
The strange man spoke Kasenlik with a strong accent, and looked at Shad with gray eyes:
"Sir, whoever you are, what happened tonight has nothing to do with you. If you can pretend that you don't know about it, I will give you 100 crowns."
Xia De is also looking at him, the opponent is a low-level warlock, it should be a third-ring, so the "lock" just now was not set by him:
"Pantanal voodoo society?"
He asked hesitantly, but he didn't expect the man to really nod:
"Yes, Mr. Delarion. But this matter has nothing to do with the voodoo society. We just accepted the employment of others and came to do something."
"Who hired you?"
Xia De asked again, but the man just shook his head:
"Do you think I'll tell you?"
"I just don't understand, the truth will always look down on you country bumpkins, why is it willing to hire you?"
Xia De was just probing, but he didn't expect this burly man's expression to change:
"It seems that you really came here to protect Marguerite Anjou. Don't worry, neither we nor the Truth will dare to do anything to members of the royal family. We are just looking for an item."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"If I can't stop you, at least I must guarantee that this operation will not cause the Inquisition of the Church of the Five Gods to be dispatched."
He put his hand into his pocket, and took a deep look at Xia De, as if making some kind of decision:
"I am pursuing the way of wildness, and I have a keen sense of power. I can feel how terrifying you are. Even if you are not a high-ring warlock, you will definitely not be inferior to a high-ring warlock. I can't stop you, but don't even think about it." Go easy. Those professors who claim to be civilized people have given us valuable knowledge, and we will do our best to help them."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of snake skin from his pocket. The rich whispering elements immediately vented in all directions, and Xia De heard the roar of "hiss hiss".
"Relic?"
Shocked, Xia De swung his hands and slashed out a beam of moonlight. The three-ring warlock didn't dodge at all, and at the same time that the moonlight almost split him in half from the waist, he swallowed the snake skin:
"This is a clerical relic [Undead Snake Slough]. Praise Pantanal! Praise the Undead Snake! So, please die!"
The last few words completely turned into a strange snake-like language, but Shad still translated them.
Blood spurted out from the man's waist. He had already fallen to the ground due to serious injuries, his whole body was shaking, and he was about to die.
But Xia De's face changed drastically and he kept backing away. As the snake skin was swallowed by the man, the gas lamps in the entire corridor quickly became dim. The whispering elements became more obvious and clear, but there was a crack on the top of the man's "corpse" head. Under Xia De's surprised eyes, a black man with scarlet eyes and mucus covered his body was seen, which was as thick as a man's waist The snake came out of that corpse.
"Hiss~"
The scarlet letter spit out from the snake's snout, and the mucus flowed on the surface of the snake's body, gradually allowing Xia De to see clearly the tapeworm-like snake body pattern.
Its body was bigger and longer than the corpse behind it, turned around and swallowed the corpse, and then crawled towards Shad, leaving wet marks on the carpet. Even though he had seen a lot of snakes in the Sikar Mountain in autumn, Xia De still felt a chill when stared at by this thing.
"He swallowed the relic? The relic is out of control?"
This made Xia De think of the ring warlock who became a murloc because of the loss of control of the murloc scales.
[It's not out of control. Swallowing that piece of snake skin should be the way to trigger the characteristics of the relic. 】
"It's disgusting."
With his right hand, he pulled out the moonlight sword from the air, and rushed towards the snake head-on. And the giant python with a huge body and slow movement also rushed towards Xia De, and suddenly bent its body to accumulate strength, like a flying arrow, and shot towards Xia De in the increasingly dark corridor.
It was extremely fast, but in the end it failed to hit Shad, but passed through a large group of red butterflies.
At the same time as the giant python landed, the butterflies gathered again. Holding the "Great Moonlight Sword", Xia De turned around and slashed, the giant sword slashed at the snake's head, but the big sword with holy silver light actually passed through the snake's body and slashed on the floor.
"Illusion?"
It wasn't an illusion, because the giant python flicked its tail and slapped Xia De's waist with great force. Xia De originally thought that this sword could at least severely injure the opponent, but he didn't expect his attack to be missed at all, so it was like a ball hit by a club, and was drawn to the wall by the tail.
"Hiss hiss~"
The hallway light continues to fade ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Darkness is falling. The pitch-black python turned around, its tail supported its body, its snout opened its fangs, its scarlet eyes looked at Xia De who was getting up, as if he wanted to bite Xia De's head off.
The coming of darkness made the snake stronger, and at the same time, the darkness was like a thick liquid, making Shad feel his movements becoming slower and slower. But it bit forward, but failed to hit Xia De. Instead, it slammed its head against the wall, smashed through the wall and entered the empty room on the other side.
And Shad, who used [Ragley's Jump] to transfer, appeared in the distance of the dark corridor.
The giant snake swam out of the hole in the wall, spitting out a letter and observing Shad, obviously planning to kill him with one blow. But such an obvious voice just now failed to attract anyone's attention. It seems that this action really did everything possible to avoid attracting attention.
Relying on dark vision, Xia De stared at the giant snake that almost merged with the darkness in an almost completely dark environment, and at the same time asked in his heart:
"Why can't I attack it, can it attack me?"