145 Hunt’s experimen (2/2)
Rummaging around, Lucien found two books in the corner. One looked like a notes, and the other was pretty thick, on which there were words: Book of Necromancy.
Quickly leafing through both the book and the notes, Lucien first made a copy of them in his spiritual library, and then started to read Hunt’s notes carefully,
”According to the info on the magic tower, Bonn, this small town in Orvarit, is part of a mysterious magic ruin which is protected by a magic lock, and it is possibly related to the whereabouts of the several legendary archmages. One of them was the well-known necromancer Wilfred’s close friend—the Prophet, Waldo · K · Maskelyne. And I bet there’re lots of magic items and treasures!”
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”Bonn is even more beautiful than I thought. Residents here are friendly and traditional. And the girl named Kaelyn… she is gorgeous.”
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”Why I just can’t find the magic lock? What kind of magic lock is it? I wonder if it is one that was designed by Maskelyne in person.”
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”I can’t find any clue, even from the background of the missing town residents. Maybe it’s time for me to give up, but I also don’t want to tear her away from Bonn. Maybe… maybe I shall tell her my true identity.”
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”I have a baby girl now, and I’m a dad now! Kaelyn and I want to name her Mary. I don’t really care about necromantic spells, the experiment jointly conducted by Maskelyne and Wilfred, or the magic lock and all those kinds of things anymore. Nothing’s more important than my wife and my little girl!”
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”Mary’s been missing for three days. I’m sure that I’ve killed all the wild beasts in this area. I have no idea where my girl could have gone… I don’t know… whether it was because of the magic lock? Impossible… After so many years… That’s ridiculous!”
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”My dear Mary, where are you? We miss you so much. Please… please come back, dad is begging you…”
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”Kaelyn is crying everyday. I think we need a new environment to live. And I need a better environment for studying necromantic power again to see if we can find Mary. If anything bad really happened to her… I shall try to bring her back to life.”
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”The baron in Fogtown finally killed his own son to prolong his own life! Now both of us get what we want. He can keep his youthfulness for another several years, and I can start my experiment now!”
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”Why my body start to smell like a corpse? Is this the revenge from the dead? I can hear that bitter crying all the time… I need to hurry… When I become a middle-rank necromancer, the pain in the body will never bother me anymore!”
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”I can’t make it… Third circle necromancer is a target that I can never reach. I can’t let my body rot away like this. Maybe I shall try the ritual written in the book named ‘Body Sewing’, and I shall start to make Mary’s body as well.”
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”Making Mary’s body is really costly, and I’ve spent all my money. Although I don’t want to, I have to pledge my only magic item to continue the experiment. Anyway… if I can successfully turn myself into a ‘Sewed Body’, I will be able to use the third circle magic spells directly. I won’t need the item anymore.”
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”He sent me an invitation, talking about some Feast of Death… the Congress of Magic. Maybe I should go if my ritual turns out to be successful. But where’s Carendia Castle? I need to write a letter to ask.”
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”The baron is getting greedier and greedier. Now he’s not only targeting at the kids on his territory, but also seeking for a fresh body of an underage knight to replace his own body. What he’s thinking? He thinks it’s that easy to find an underage knight? Nonsense… When my experiment is complete, I’ll take Kaelyn and Mary away from Fogtown, before what the baron’s doing attracts the attention of the Church.”
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”Carendia Castle… I never expected it would be there. Deep in the mountain named Aronne next to Korsor. Interesting. I wonder why they picked such a place.”
This information really surprised Lucien. He never expected that he would find the location of the castle in Hunt’s notes, and the invitation was also in between the two pages.
The rest of the note was mostly about the Body Sewing ritual and the record of the process of making Mary’s body. The statistics and the records were precious to Lucien.
Picking up the other book, Book of Necromancy, Lucien roughly browsed through it. The book was left by one of Wilfred’s students, the legendary necromancer, and it recorded most of the necromantic spells and rituals taught by Wilfred, but there was nothing related to how Wilfred made the breakthrough and became the legendary archmage, being respected as the Great Master of Paleness, which was quite unfortunate for Lucien.
Finding no other valuable items in the lab, Lucien took the invitation with him and left the place, and then set the lab on fire, burn it to the ground.
Staring at the great flame burning all the dead bodies, including the Mary’s, into ashes, Lucien slowly turned around, and different thoughts filled his mind, ”Ancient necromancers believed that the body of a human being who died before coming of age is the best and the purest material for conducting necromantic rituals and spells, that’s why the baron was so obsessed with young human bodies.
”But why Maskelyne, the great legendary Astrology sorcerer, would conduct an experiment with Wilfred, the Great Master of Paleness, from the school of Necromancy? And it seems to be a mysterious and significant one…”