Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1410 1382. ‘Summoning the Demon’

Lan En ignored the spirit's complaints.

Introducing to Geralt and Lincoln: "[The Conjurer of the Great Swamp], Comicus."

As he spoke, Lan En tapped his chest with his thumb quite proudly: "Didn't I say it? After traveling so many times, it's not like I haven't made many friends."

"Hello everyone." The conjurer's voice was old and slow, "Oh my, it's really rare to see two living people who haven't turned into living corpses."

Comicus's spirit body moved around at will, while Lincoln and Geralt keenly discovered that the other party's action state and scope seemed completely unrelated to the parchment.

The original characters on the parchment have disappeared without a trace, as if they were consumed.

"This is my friend." Lan En stood beside the old conjurer, using subtle stances and body movements to increase the spirit's trust in the hearts of Lincoln and Geralt.

"The [spell] he mastered was taught to me, so the relationship between the two of us can be regarded as apprentice and master."

"Is that okay?" When Lan En introduced him, the old spell master looked a little impatient. "You can call me when the war starts. I'm still sorting out the spell books."

"After your apprentice left, we found a lot of lost good things on the way from the Nether Church to Irushil. Taking this opportunity, I want to leave you a compiled spell book. "

"Hey." The magician sighed like an old crow, and looked at Lan En beside him with his bandaged eyes, "A disciple who doesn't study beside his teacher and a teacher who doesn't have students around him are really troublesome."

"If this were in Onuma, people would call me a 'self-proclaimed teacher without an apprentice'."

"But now, even Onuma should be dead, right? From this point of view, it might be a good thing that your hometown is so remote. There are still two living people."

"Don't say such unlucky words."

Lan En pouted and complained, and nodded at Comicus, indicating that he could dismiss this soul body.

So, after another low hum of spiritual power, the translucent spirit body with white shimmer gradually faded and finally disappeared.

It wasn't until the soul body disappeared for a long time that Lincoln raised the hand holding the pile of parchment to his eyes again, a little unsure, and took a good look.

The sound of clothes scraping against rough parchment was comforting.

"Gudu." He swallowed, "Sir, are all of these?"

He looked tentatively at Lan En, and received a positive nod in response.

"All of them are marks that can summon soul bodies. Those are all friends I met before. I also confirmed it through Comicus. Everyone has nothing to do during this period. As long as you summon them, you can come over."

"You saw the specific method of summoning just now. This thing is called [White Marked Wax Stone]."

Lan En threw the special angular stone wrapped in white cloth to Lincoln, and the young clerk hurriedly caught it and held it in his arms.

"You can use this thing to draw the summoning talisman. Everyone's emblem over there is different. But I wrote them all in ink on the parchment first. Then you can copy them with the white wax stone."

"oh oh!"

Lincoln nodded blankly. He felt that he didn't understand, but since the adults had already arranged it, there was no problem for him to follow it.

But after nodding, he came back to his senses, lowered his head and counted how many pieces of parchment he had in his arms.

"But sir, it seems there are only eight in total here?"

Lincoln looked up at Lan En, but didn't see any surprise.

"That's enough, Lincoln." The young demon hunter calmly said something very simple and clear, "Totally, that's enough."

"In fact, I think I may not be able to use all eight of them."

Lan En tilted his head and spread his hands indifferently: "Anyway, when the time comes, when Bai Qiangwei comes, just summon them out and start the fight."

"Do what you can do and wait and see what happens to the rest."

In other words, these so-called ‘friends’ as adults, are they all equal to one for a hundred?

Lincoln thought about it in his mind, and at the same time hugged the parchment and white marker wax stone in his arms tighter.

Ember Knight should continue to become stronger.

The clerk was thinking deeply, but Geralt frowned and spoke.

"Pulling souls from the intersection of heaven and earth is not a difficult technique in itself, but in terms of nature, it is already considered as 'summoning a demon'. Do you understand, Lan En?"

Geralt looked at the other party seriously.

In this magical medieval world, people who are accomplished in extraordinary powers are basically familiar with the phenomenon of the intersection of heaven and earth across the world.

After all, the current state of the world is the result of the interaction between the heavens and the earth.

The technology that spans the world is not as advanced as people think. What is really difficult is the technology and process of exploration and positioning.

In the Middle Ages, which was no stranger to cross-world communication, the word "demon" had a unique concept, that is, something that came here from outside the world.

And calling monsters like deer-headed demons and ram-horned demons 'demons' is more like a conventional vernacular and vernacular that has nothing to do with scientific names. According to the formal rules of naming, in fact, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the master of the fog nest that ran rampant in the Pontar Valley, was undoubtedly a "demon". It was a "demon invasion incident".

Lan En's summons just now, as well as these pieces of parchment, were an act of 'assisting the devil to enter this world', that is - 'assisting the devil to invade'.

When the northern human warlocks first established a management organization, those warlocks set the rules.

Warlocks are researchers and pioneers. Of course, their research must be avant-garde and pioneering, but even so, there are still areas of violation that cannot be touched.

Among these illegal fields, the performance of [Necromancy] and the spell of 'assisting demon invasion' are the most famous ones.

[Necromancy], Lan En had learned about it during his first meeting with the Lady in the Lake. Once this kind of spell is cast, it will disrupt the balance of life and death in the entire area, and the consequences will be like nuclear pollution.

The reason for 'assisting the demonic invasion' is because even those first-generation warlocks who could easily move mountains and reclaim seas really didn't know what kind of outrageous things they could summon from outside the world.

Therefore, they are strictly prohibited from management.

Although Lan En's 'summoning spell' did not have the fluctuation of chaotic magic power, so it left very small traces, the nature of the matter remained unchanged.

If this matter is revealed, then the Warlock Summit that is about to be held in Arethusa can add another item to the agenda of the meeting—

The consequences of illegally casting the ‘Summon Demon’ spell.

"And," Geralt's serious face showed deep thought and concentration, "that so-called old magician"

He spoke in a low voice with a unique hoarse voice, and the atmosphere was suddenly so silent that it seemed like he was telling a horror story.

"Lan En, I have seen a lot of dead people, and even a lot of people who have collapsed, despaired, and were worse off dead than alive. Even two years ago, we went to the war zone in Sintra together. A trip to purgatory."

"But that old magician?" Geralt took a deep breath, "What's with his lifeless look?"

"The decline that comes from the bones is as if I have witnessed the end of the world with my own eyes!"

No one who has just come off a battlefield will have such a lifeless feeling.

What's even more frightening is that Comicus seems to be completely used to it!

Geralt looked at Lan En seriously: "You're not really summoning any mysterious things, are you?"

"Ha." Lan En chuckled softly at first, "What kind of violation is it if you don't get caught? Didn't those group of White Rose Knights also want to cover up their identities and come here to avoid the Holy Council Council? Isn't that the same idea? "

"Look, I summoned the spirit body right in front of you. Our pendant is motionless. Even if the wizard comes, there will be no trace."

Lan En first responded to Geralt's first question.

After a period of silence, he answered the second question.

"As for what happened to him, it's a long and complicated story, but one thing you're right about is that he really witnessed the end of the world."

"It is natural and inevitable that people who have had this kind of experience will have some unique qualities."

"Is it really that bad?" Geralt didn't expect that what he said casually was true. "He's actually used to it?!"

"Get used to it? What if you're not used to it?" Lan En shook his head and sighed, "The end of the world doesn't just happen with a 'bang', and the world we live in explodes, and everyone dies and disappears at the same time in the blink of an eye, so there is no pain. A straightforward process.”

"It is a process of decaying bit by bit and becoming irredeemably rotten."

"Even despair itself will be completely eliminated in the face of decay."

Now that the conversation has reached this point, Lan En shook his head and said a little more to his old friend.

"But in a world where there are only a few living people left, I can't bear to watch a group of friends die in it."

"So this time I thought, I would take the initiative to owe them a debt of gratitude, and when I reach out and find a way to help, I would be able to say something to myself and them."

Owing a favor debt and asking for a favor debt are things that are difficult to grasp in interactions between people.

If you are not careful, both parties may have bad feelings.

Geralt looked at Lan En carefully, and then moved his eyes away after a while.

"Since this is your decision and it's your friend, I have nothing to blame."

In fact, he just wanted to see if Lan En was being controlled, parasitized, or replaced.

The reason why the "demon" is so terrifying is because the people in the world have no idea what will come in from outside the world.

What kind of living habits do they follow and what abilities do they have.

The ‘demons’ recorded among the demon hunters alone are capable of parasitizing the human mind and feeding on the guilty feelings of intelligent beings.

There are also those that can control intelligent creatures and eat their hosts from the inside out.

And there are definitely more 'demons' that have not been contacted or recorded by the small group of demon hunters, and they are even weirder.

Geralt did not immediately doubt whether Lan En was being controlled, which was already a sign of his great trust in Lan En's abilities.