Chapter 7 Harvest and Temptation
Breathing the light red blood mist around him, Lucien's hands and feet were soft, his head twitched and swollen. The scene of Correa and Hausen fighting in his eyes suddenly turned into Correa and the giant mouse, and then turned into two people who killed each other, as if hallucinations and reality were superimposed.
"Wait, hallucination?!" Lucien thought of this and had a rough guess in his heart. He focused his attention and let the feeling of spreading like a tide. So the scene no longer changed, the red fog was no longer distorted, everything stabilized, and the life and death were indeed fighting Correa and Hausen. Blood was flowing out from many wounds on their bodies. Each of them looked very slow and difficult to operate, and it seemed that it had reached a limit.
"Is the blood of the red-eyed mouse itself an hallucinogenic effect, or is it that the blood is absorbed and transformed by the strange plant that makes people hallucinate? It's such a clever magic trap."
Lucien finally understood that whether Hausen's disappearance or Gary's sudden attack was due to the influence of hallucinations, and this effect was likely to start from killing the first red-eyed mouse, and when he completely blinded his senses, it was difficult to distinguish. Only Lucien was protected by the Holy Light Shield and his spirit also improved, so he got rid of the hallucination.
The "Holy Light Strike" shot from the Holy Emblem of Truth not only evaporated Gary's right hand and part of his shoulder, but also penetrated upwards and hit the top of the stone directly above the secret room, making a deep hole. The gravel fell like rain, as if the entire secret room would collapse at any time.
The gravel and dust filled the light red blood mist, which restored Lucien's weak hands and feet to some extent.
Lucien didn't know if there were any other series of magic traps behind him, so even if he was temporarily safe, he would not dare to relax and quickly think about it.
Apart from the two light techniques, the "Sacred Emblem of Truth" cannot inspire any magical techniques. It no longer has the greatest support for itself. Even the power of its own body becomes very weak due to the paralysis effect contained in the light red fog.
Suddenly, Lucien saw the strange plant shaking in the falling gravel.
"It has no other ability to protect itself except to create hallucinations?" Lucien immediately woke up, stood up with his weak hands and feet, and walked towards the strange plant.
With no strength on his feet and stumbled, Lucien walked very slowly, fell into the gravel several times, was scratched and covered in scars, and the pain was unbearable, and blood even flowed out of several docks.
"Sher." Lucien took a breath, endured the pain, and with the temporary awakening and strength brought by the pain in the wound, he walked to the strange plant with difficulty.
After this series of encounters, Lucien's youthfulness and hesitation were much less, without delay, he held his breath, carefully but firmly stretched out his right hand, holding it on the trunk of the strange plant.
The meridians under his hands were beating, and blood like a stream was rushing. Lucien felt that he was holding not a plant, but a living creature, and then he pulled it to the side.
"ah!"
All branches and leaves of this strange plant contracted suddenly, making sharp and shrill screams, as if they were dying.
Without breaking it, Lucien continued to force it. While screaming, the strange plant extended its branches and leaves again and wrapped it on Lucien.
A wet, slippery and nauseous feeling came from the skin, and countless tiny burrs were piercing into his body. Lucien forced himself to hold back his fear and fear and pulled it hard again.
“Woo…”
The crying sound came to an abrupt end. Lucien was sprayed onto his chest by the light red liquid from the plant body. The smell of blood came to his nose, which made Lucien's hands and feet softer. He could only lean against the stone wall next to him to avoid falling to the ground.
As the plant was torn into two pieces by Lucien, the light red mist in the surrounding air became increasingly richer and almost condensed into liquid.
The three books with glimmers on the nearby desks quickly corroded as soon as they sensed the rich light red mist. From the first page to the last page, it completely disappeared in just two or three seconds, so that Lucien, the nearby people, could not see the content written on it clearly.
Of course, Lucien's current physical paralysis must be too late to stop it, and it is even difficult to take a step forward.
The desk immediately became empty, but strangely, except for the places where the three books were located, there was no trace of corrosion. Lucien briefly wondered the key point: "It seems that it is another magic trap. When the concentration of the red fog reaches a certain level, the magic traps in those magic notes will be activated by themselves, destroying themselves so as not to be obtained by the enemy."
"It's a pity that these magic notes have been made." Lucien sighed in his heart with regret. They are magic notes that can learn extraordinary power!
Suddenly, Lucien was stunned and he found a strange glimmer of light in the library in his soul.
Curiously, Lucien explored his spirit, and then saw a brand new bookshelves appear in the library, with the words "Magic (Arcane)" written on it. On the bookshelf, there are already three books, which are the three magic notes that Lucien just saw.
"Does this library still have the ability to collect books? But how did the content come from?" Lucien was very surprised. "Or I need to see the content with my own eyes. Well, although these three books were corroded very quickly, if the whole process was slowed down, it should still be corroded page by page. Could this strange library be able to write down the content from beginning to end, so the projection of these three books, otherwise it would be impossible to fabricate the content out of thin air."
Lucien can only guess at the moment, and he has to wait to use other books to do a few experiments later to confirm it.
Looking at these three magic notes, Lucien, who was quite regretful just now, hesitated: "If you learn magic, would it be too dangerous in this world where magical arts are powerful and can openly burn magicians to death?"
Unable to make a decision, Lucien let go temporarily. After all, he and others are still in the secret room and have not completely escaped from danger, so Lucien began to accumulate strength.
Without the strange plants, the red blood mist became increasingly faded. Correa and Hausen gradually got rid of the hallucinations and looked at each other in shock, but it was much late to wake up, and both of them were on the verge of dying.
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Benjamin on the ground groaned while Lucien touched the "Holy Emblem of Truth" with his spirit and inspired the "Holy Light Strike", lowered his right hand, and looked at the secret passage in surprise.
"Mr. Benjamin?" The guard Paul hurriedly asked when he saw Benjamin's strange behavior.
Under the illumination of the silver moon, Benjamin's face became very bad. He whispered: "There was an accident below. My spiritual mark in the holy emblem was touched. Damn it, but a magic apprentice got it to this point. It's useless! Paul, you wait for me here. If I haven't come out within five minutes, you ask the bishop for help."
It is precisely because of the existence of the spiritual mark in the holy emblem that Benjamin was relieved to hand over the Holy emblem of truth to Lucien for use. Otherwise, even if the standard magical magical objects assigned by the Holy emblem are much weaker than Benjamin's own strength and other magical magical objects on his body, he would not give them to others casually. Who knew that his spiritual mark was actually touched and failed to prevent the magical magic from being stimulated at critical moments.
Negligence and carelessness have always been a companion of pride and prejudice.
In Benjamin's heart, he had always had a deep prejudice against the knights who rely on their blood and physical strength, believing that they were crude, lowly, and not as noble as noble. The casters who explored the mystery of the world, even if the other party was an evil magician, were not worthy of using magical magic objects at all. Therefore, he subconsciously handed over the Holy Emblem of Truth to Lucien, who had higher mental power than ordinary people.
This attitude comes from Benjamin's origin and his long-standing experience.
As one of the most powerful families in the Principality of Waurit, the Rafati family, although they also rely on the power of bloodline "God" power, are different from the knights. They rely on the power of bloodline to cast spells and are real spell casters. As a member of the Rafati family, even if their bloodlines are thin and unable to stimulate their own power, they emerged after entering the monastery since childhood and became a priest, and firmly walked on the path of spell casters.
But now, as a formal pastor, such a small matter has been omitted, and his status within the church will inevitably be affected in the future, so Benjamin hurriedly continued.
Paul was as surprised: "With the Holy Emblem of Truth, will there be changes? Could it be that there are other formal magicians?"
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Lucien recovered a little. Just as he was about to walk outside the secret room against the stone wall, he suddenly heard footsteps, and his heart suddenly felt nervous. If the magic creature left by the witch or her friend came, he would be difficult for him to escape.
When Lucien saw that it was Benjamin's white holy robe, he breathed a sigh of relief, but he still dared not relax. What a good place to kill and silence the secret room.
"Lapland Blood Vine?" Benjamin took a look at the situation in the secret room, and quickly judged the general process from the knowledge of magic and plant knowledge he learned, and understood why Lucien, who was moving slowly against the wall, and Gary and others on the verge of dying on the ground, ended up like this, "Fortunately, they were not dead."
"This kid is lucky, and his mental power has increased a little, reaching the level of a low-level intern priest. It seems that the impact brought by the breakthrough touched my spiritual mark. Unfortunately, it is not the era when the church was extremely strong and could learn divine arts by relying on its talent. Without laying a foundation since childhood and systematically learning divine arts knowledge, he will never become a formal priest. It has to be said that it is indeed the 'Arcane Emperor' who has started the golden age of rapid development of divine arts and magic for nearly four hundred years."
As a member of the Rafati family, Benjamin knew more about the world situation than most pastors, and did not seem to be so pious about his own beliefs. To be precise, Benjamin, who was a member of the nobles, and Benjamin, who was a member of the church, had some contradictions in his position.
More importantly, after the "Supreme Theological Conference" more than 300 years ago, the church split, one south and one north, accusing each other of being heresy, but even so, no matter which side, the acquisition of divine art was affected, which made many bishops and cardinals silently doubt in their hearts whether God exists or not, is this a test for believers.
Such an attitude directly affected every young man who has become a pastor for hundreds of years, including Benjamin.
Moreover, in order to adapt to the era of rapid development, several popes introduced some of the knowledge obtained by the great arcanes to explore the world to transform the theological foundation. Although the divine arts also developed rapidly and the emergence of strong people, the Southern Church maintained its position as the greatest power, standing firm under the eyes of many powerful enemies such as heretics, evil magicians, and dark creatures, it once again caused more cracks to appear in the already unstable internal beliefs.
Benjamin relaxed, thin white dust slipped in his hands, strange syllables emitted from his mouth, and a strong wind blew, blew away the light red blood mist.
Then he did not chant the spell, nor did he throw out the casting material. He pointed at Gary, and a light white light fell on him, causing the charred black on his body to fall off, the wound healed, and got rid of dying and turned into an ordinary serious injury.
Each time, he used the healing magic technique one to two seconds apart, Benjamin saved Correa and Hausen and healed Lucien's injuries.
After asking about Lucien, Correa, Hausen, Gary and others about what happened. Benjamin looked at the desk and confirmed that they had not lie, he ordered: "Move all the items in the secret room to the church, huh, including the bodies of these rats."
At the same time, he took the holy emblem that Lucien came over: "The sins on you have been washed away, go back and rest, may the Lord bless you."
Originally, if Lucien could succeed this time, Benjamin would not be stingy with the rewards of money, and would even have the chance to secretly try to cultivate it. But if it was so dangerous, Benjamin naturally had no mood to encourage Lucien. After confirming that there was nothing hidden on him, he would send him away early. After all, Correa and Hausen were fine, and Gary without his right hand would be more troublesome. The regeneration of the broken limb is not a magic trick that he can master.
Seeing that Benjamin did not kill anyone to silence the silence, Lucien hurriedly walked out of the secret room. When he arrived at the sewer outside, Lucien, who had broken a certain boundary, suddenly heard a word from Correa inside, which made Lucien feel a little heavy. He whispered to Hausen: "Gary has no right hand, and he may not be able to become a knight, and he will be invited out of the guard."
Lucien, who didn't know what he was in, walked out of the secret passage and immediately came to inquiries from the poor around him.
"Little Evans, have you purified the ghost?" Aunt Alissa asked from a distance.
Lucien nodded: "It has been purified by Lord Benjamin and several guards."
Everyone suddenly became relaxed and began to ask and communicate enthusiastically: "Lucion, what does a ghost look like? Is it scary?"
"Mr. Benjamin is worthy of being a formal pastor."
"Lucien seems to have been blessed by the Lord this time, and he can actually use the Holy Emblem of Truth."
"It's a pity that Lucien is no longer a child and cannot be sent to the monastery for training. Otherwise, it would be a very glorious thing for us, Lord Lucien, to be born in the district of Adjen."
Hearing these comments, Lucien was slightly confused: "I can't become a priest?"
Although Lucien did not think of becoming a priest because of his identity as a time traveler, he was told that he could not walk this path and was inevitably a little dejected after experiencing the extraordinary power of magic.
"Poor little Evans, look at your face. You must be exhausted. Go back and rest quickly." Aunt Alissa said quickly when she saw Lucien's face was not good.
Lucien had many thoughts and really needed to be quiet, so he nodded, returned to his hut, sat by the bed, listened to Benjamin and others coming out, and went away, listened to the onlookers leaving, listened to the restoration and tranquility late at night, and pressed his longing for his parents and others deep in his heart.
"I can't be a priest, and it seems that since I haven't trained since I was a child, I don't have much hope to become a knight and stimulate bloodline power."
"If you want to gain extraordinary power, you may have to learn magic."
"But once you choose magic, you have to be enemies with the church and most ordinary people, including Aunt Alissa and others."
"Maybe there are other roads?"
"Anyway, the magic notes are in my mind. Let's take a look first, and then talk about it. Well, there should be no problem in this way."
Hesitant and struggling Lucien decided to take a look at the magic notes first, so the spirit entered the library and opened the magic notes.
After a long time, Lucien's low, funny and laughing voice sounded in the room:
"What should I do if I can't read?"
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