"Don't worry about the evil spirits in the manor. I will come here every once in a while to 'clean up' them. The last time I came here was half a month ago. There shouldn't be too many evil spirits born in such a short period of time."
Brown ladies' short boots stepped on the snow-covered ground. While introducing the situation to Shade, Miss Grand used the key to open the hinged lock. After pushing the fence door open, she walked in first, and Shade
He followed closely, but he just stepped into the door and frowned slightly.
He felt a familiar sense of coldness and malice. This feeling came from the ground beneath his feet, and it was very weak. Even he could only detect it because he knew there was a problem here in advance.
The familiar cold feeling was very similar to the strange evil spirit that Miss Norma transformed into when he handled the "Miss Norma Buried Alive Case" last week. And that malicious intent was undoubtedly the disgusting black spirit he encountered in his dream last night.
mud.
Of course, the problems in this manor seem to be more serious than Tobesk's "burial alive case", but the evil intentions are far less terrifying than the black mud in the dream.
At this moment, Shade was almost certain that the "crazy land" mentioned by the man in the robe in his dream last night should be referring to the situation here.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Shade stop, Miss Grande, who was walking in front, also stopped and looked at Shade.
"I probably know what's going on."
He said, retreated outside the manor again, bent down and pushed aside the snow on the side of the fence gate, and with a sharp silver light mark on his fingertips, he pried out a piece of frozen hard soil:
"Miss Grande, I can solve the problems here. But I still have some doubts, so I want to meet the undead here and ask some questions."
The young sorceress raised her eyebrows:
"If you want to ask why the manor attracts souls to turn into evil spirits, I think you probably can't. The evil spirits here are different from ordinary souls. Not only are they more powerful, but almost every one of them can perform skills such as petrification.
."
Miss Grand reminded that she appeared to have made attempts at channeling and communicating with spirits:
"They are crazier and have a greater impact on ordinary people. I first discovered that there was a problem here because a few stupid thieves broke in. Even, in addition to destroying those evil spirits, the usual power of purifying evil spirits,
They are completely ineffective."
"I understand, but you have to give it a try after all."
He temporarily put away the piece of soil, clapped his hands and looked at the bleak winter courtyard:
"Where can I encounter them?"
Shade looked up at the window on the second floor of the mansion. Several ferocious-looking guys were staring at them from behind the black window.
Although the characteristics of gathering evil spirits make this land dangerous, these special crazy evil spirits are not a threat to seven-ring warlocks like Miss Grande.
She led Shade along the snow-covered courtyard walk to the door of the manor house. Looking at the way she took out the key, Shade guessed that she might be a member of the Golden Dawn Opera Company. Of course, he had no intention of prying into other people's secrets.
, so I didn’t say much about it.
The appearance of evil spirits will spontaneously affect the surrounding environment. You can't feel anything in the sunny courtyard, but once you enter the building, the damp and cold atmosphere immediately turns this seemingly good-looking manor into a ghost house.
of horror.
As soon as the two of them stepped into the door, the door behind them closed with a bang. Without giving them a chance to react, a ferocious soul with gray-green light all over its body rushed towards the two of them from left to right.
"careful!"
Miss Grand reminded, and then discovered that the target of the two evil spirits was actually herself. The one on the right even deliberately bypassed Shade before rushing towards her. The sorceress was originally unhappy because the manor was "dirty" again.
, now even more unhappy.
The thumb of his right hand rubbed the emerald ring on his index finger, and gray smoke floated out from the ring and "swallowed" the two evil spirits. In the harsh and sharp screams, the two souls were completely shattered.
"Come with me, there should be a lot of real stuff upstairs. Why are there so many dirty things?"
Miss Grand looked at the stairs going up in the darkness and said rather unhappily. Shade knew that this was not an unhappiness directed at her. She quickly led Shade up the stairs covered with a layer of luminous green moss.
I went to the second floor in the darkness with the gas lamp failing to light for some reason.
They had just stepped onto the last step when a tide of souls composed of dozens of evil spirits rushed towards the two of them, or towards Miss Grande. She trembled at the corner of her mouth, crossed her index fingers with her hands, and pushed forward slightly.
,The golden cross flew out and cut the spirit body.,
It was obviously a sunny day outside, but in the corridor with no curtains, it was as dark as if the sun had set. The dark spirit body shook and screamed, and even though the spirit body was divided, it still rushed towards the two of them, countless terrifying things.
The illusion shocked the minds of the two ring magicians, and the woman's scream almost pierced the eardrums, making Shade couldn't help but frown:
"sun."
He whispered softly, and the slender "sunlight rays" bursting out from his fingertips swept away the "disabled" souls rushing in front of him. This miraculous technique was perfect for fighting evil spirits that were about to collapse.
"The evil spirits born this time are stranger and more powerful than before, and the problems in this land are becoming more and more serious."
Miss Grande explained something to Shade, and then stretched out her nail polished finger to point forward. Gray light traces flew out from her fingertips, like two gray ribbons, binding the last one who was trying to escape.
of evil spirits.
This thaumaturgy seems to be particularly effective on the soul, and the evil spirit actually stagnates in place.
[Those gray traces of light are memories, and the power of memory has a great influence on the spirit body.]
"She" explained to Shade softly.
"You can't trap it for too long. If you want to do something, do it as soon as possible."
Miss Grand urged, pulling the gray silk thread, and the evil spirit floated over automatically. So Shade stepped forward and was about to reach out to the stiff black undead, but unexpectedly the sorceress stopped her again:
"Don't touch it. Direct contact with it will cause the limbs to become petrified."
But Shade's "Guide to Death" requires direct contact with the spirit body to read the memory. He does not have the ability to communicate with the soul just by "seeing" like Sister Devlin.
[Don’t worry, in last night’s dream, you were not petrified even if you were in direct contact with the black mud. After swallowing part of the Weeping Angel, your resistance to petrification has also increased.]
"She" continued to whisper in Shade's ear, and the "other me" was really useful for the Ring Warlock.
"Miss Grande, I'm not touching it, I'm getting close to it. I will place my hand on top of the spirit body."
As he spoke, he turned his back to the lady behind him and stretched out his hand:
"Guide to death."
The picture in front of him began to blur, and then a scene appeared in front of him, as if countless oil paintings had been cut into pieces and then forcibly pieced together. The chaotic scene allowed Shade to barely distinguish the contents of his soul memory. When everything in front of him returned to the manor house
After walking down the dark corridor, he felt extremely dizzy, as if he had spun around in circles for 100 times.
"How about it?"
Miss Grand asked when she saw Shade retracting his hand.
"She is 54 years old, her name is unknown, and the cause of death was heart disease. This happened during her lifetime. The memory after death cannot be discerned at all. I only know that after she was buried, because she did not have too many regrets, her soul was supposed to leave normally, but it was
This land attracted capture and became what it is now.”
The thaumaturgy [Guiding Death] itself also has the power to reduce the resentment of evil spirits, but this time the soul touched by Shade showed almost no change.
"Are you still trying? If you don't need it, I'll break it up."
Miss Grand asked, Shade shook his head and hesitated:
"I want to determine how seriously this land pollutes the soul."
Take a deep breath, and slowly trace the air with your right index finger from top to bottom:
"Death's Door!"
As the dark crack opened, Miss Grande subconsciously took a small step back. Of course, she didn't understand what the opened crack meant, but her instinct was frantically reminding her that she should step back immediately.
The evil spirit was still bound by the threads of her memory, so Shade endured the stinging sensation in his palms and tried hard to "push" the undead into death.
However, when the spirit body is very close to the gap, it seems to have hit an invisible wall and cannot move forward at all, which means that it cannot enter death.
"I don't know what you are doing, but it looks like you failed."
Miss Grande said again, but there was already a hint of fear in her words. The five-ring warlock hired in front of her was definitely not as simple as it seemed.
"I just tried a little experiment."
Shade let go and said, thinking of Miss Norma not long ago. It seemed that the problems in the two places were not the same, and Miss Norma left directly without any problems.
"Experiment? Don't say that you are from the Truth Society."
The sorceress joked, and Shade shook his head:
"I do know them, but I am not one of those lunatics. The temporary attempt is over, let's purify this place first. Wait a moment, please continue to bind this soul. I want to see what will happen after purification."
"No problem if you can really cleanse this place."
Although the casting material of "Power of the Earth·Healing Spiritual Energy" only requires normal soil, it is best to stand on the ground when casting the spell, rather than on the building floor. So Miss Grand dragged the soul and worked with Xia
Together they returned to the snow-covered courtyard.
She originally thought that Shade was going to arrange a ritual to assist. After all, what he wanted to do was to purify the entire manor, so the sorceress stepped back a little, but she didn't expect that Shade just took out the soil that he had just obtained, and used both hands to