Chapter 52: Scream of a bat
The sultry night was full of oppressive atmosphere, waiting for a heavy rain to come.
Kushiro chose a completely different road from the last time and spent more than ten minutes walking to the abandoned house with a tall willow tree in front of it.
However, Lucien did not go out directly, but observed in secret. In the shadow of the willow, three guys wearing black robes and their faces covered by hoods stood tall and tall. One of them was Smile, the other was Sage, there is another Lucian who is not sure which magic apprentice he met last time.
After walking around in the shadows nearby, Lucian did not find an ambush, but did not relax because of it. After returning to the original hiding position, he took out a black, Weird caster.
Then Lucien opened his mouth and seemed to read the mantra, but no sound was emitted. Only the casting materials on the palm began to shake rapidly, faster and faster, and invisible waves spread from it to the surroundings.
"Scream of a Bat", Lucian's first magic of his own creation.
It was constructed by Lucian imitating the principle of bat ’s “probing” with ultrasound, that is, a biological version of radar, using ultrasound with apprentice-level magic of “detecting magic aura”, and mental power to check whether anyone is hiding around.
Lucien knew when he learned "detecting magical auras" that magical apprentices and formal magicians have a lot of magical methods to hide their magical auras, but below the sixth ring, all methods to cover up magical auras require themselves There is no gain-type, defensive magic at the same time, unless it is a constant magic effect, so under normal circumstances, after releasing the magic that covers its own aura, there is no cracking against other methods of investigation, so "the scream of a bat" Would be of great use.
Of course, magicians with strange means, if they knew in advance the magic of "scream of a bat", there is still a way to avoid it. At least Lucian knew that he could be incorporealized and spiritualized, and then cast to cover his own aura. Magic, so in the battle of magicians, the reasonable choice of magic is also a large part of their own strength.
If it is not apprentice-level magic, there is very little magic about light. Lucian even wants to construct infrared-type magic to detect heat. After all, one more type of detection magic is more secure.
The waves of ultrasound spread like a wave centered on the black cast material in Lucien's hand. Whenever an obstacle was encountered, that part of the wave returned to this black irregular spherical material, so that the mental power was concentrated on Lucien's mind above. The surrounding scene gradually appeared, even in the dark, as clear as day.
[Within me as the center, a sphere with a radius of one hundred meters, except for houses that cannot be inspected, there are only some rats without magic aura. ] Lucien judged the effect of the investigation, and at the same time he regretted that no infrared magic was created, otherwise he could be seen inside the house. [Wait, there is an owl on that tree, um, it is Doro, the one over there On the tree ... there is a crow, hehe, crow. 】
After seeing this crow, Lucian relaxed a lot. From the last experience, the crow's owner should be a suspicious person who can't do anything without absolute certainty. During this period, he didn't have In any move, he has not been in contact with anyone, and certainly has not exposed any information. It seems that he still wants to test and observe himself.
Ended the "scream of a bat" magic, the black magic material in Lucian's hand seemed to be dried in the air, turning into a pile of fine yarn, slowly falling from the fingers to the ground.
This is the "bat's pituitary gland". Lucian's own mental power cannot support more than a certain degree of ultrasound, and can only rely on the bat's organ to complete the entire magic.
Just as Lucian was preparing to continue to observe for a while, when there were no other abnormalities, and then went out to meet with Small and the Sage, another magic apprentice suddenly made a sound: "Dear Professor, I think you should have been nearby If you do n’t want to come out, you may have seen me. In fact, it was my teacher who found the trace of evil creatures this time. He expressed his kindness to you and hopes to communicate with you as a profound magician. ”
The deliberate change can't hide the special hoarseness of her voice, she is a magical apprentice "white honey".
After hearing her words, Lucian judged a bit and came out of the shadow on the back of the house, as if highlighting from the darkness, and slowly walked under the willow: "Thank you for your teacher, although I know There are a pair of eyes staring at us on that tree, but I still hope to thank him formally through you. "
"Mr. Professor, how do you know?" White Honey was so surprised she almost forgot to change her voice. She looked sideways at the tree, but in the thick darkness, she couldn't see anything, [how could he Found Ashley? In this darkness, but also concealed the magic aura. 】
For this professor, white honey feels more mysterious and weird.
The crow seemed to be struck by a lightning, and almost fell from the branch. Fortunately, it spread its wings in time, circled for a week, and went in the other direction.
The sage and Smaller also did not expect that they would be followed and stared at by the magician's pet, and they could not help shaking. If they were malicious magicians, they would be in danger. They looked at the white honey. , Anger in the cold voice: "You need an explanation."
White honey has a correct attitude and sincerely apologizes: "I am very sorry to conceal you. You can get a gift. The teacher just wants to see Mr. Professor. If he encounters danger when he catches evil creatures, the teacher can also do it through Ashley. Help, but now Ashley has left. "
As for observing the strength of the "professor" mysterious magician, she did not say it, but everyone at the scene understood it.
For a formal magician, Sage and Smaller expressed their attitude with anger, but there was actually not much to do. The difference in strength was too great. If you want to kill white honey for this matter, say Maybe the crow flew back to kill himself immediately, so after seeing White Honey apologizing and promising to make a gift, both nodded: "I hope this won't happen again in the future, here is Aalto, this kind of thing happens, It will make your teacher be regarded as a church spy, and it will be the enemy of all magicians and magic apprentices. Last time the witch and the magician from the headquarters of the magic council were ambushed by the church. Many magicians and magic apprentices suspected that there were spies inside. . "
Balusian had come to them, and his hoarse voice was like grinding a rusty iron sword: "You can tell me where the evil creature is."
"In the old house of Baron Laurent in the aristocratic district, for three consecutive generations, no one has stimulated blood and could not hold the principality of the Principality. It has declined. There are very few servants in the old house, very deserted. Some time ago, Ash When Li flew at night, he heard the noise inside. Because of curiosity, he flew down and looked at it, and found that there was a party inside. There were **** men and women everywhere. Someone on the small altar in the middle was trying to gather this power. That man was Baron Laurent. From him, Ashley smelled a bit of an evil creature. "White honey made it clear what had happened, because she was worried that Professor Misunderstood:
"After a period of observation, the teacher is sure that they will hold a party again tonight, and it is time for the sacrifice."
The sage nodded, the old voice with a lot of emotion: "Many of these aristocrats, when there are no knights in successive generations, and they ca n’t get holy water from the church, they will find various ways to inspire blood power, even if they know they are The devil, the devil tempts, and takes risks. "He seems to have seen many such things.
Being a noble, both the title and the territory are hereditary. Unless you violate the first ten of the Holy Law, you will be deprived of the title and territory by your own lord, but if no one has inspired the blood power for consecutive generations, it means this The family has begun to decline, and it will be swallowed up by various means, secretly and secretly. In the end, there will be only one title and it will become a bankrupt nobleman. Such aristocrats will have several generations, even if not deprived, glory will Forgotten, in the end, it is no different from civilians.
Lucien also had his own judgment on the course of the matter, and felt that the "horn of silver" cult began to move after nearly two months of quietness: "Do you know the strength of that evil creature? How do you get to the nobility area? ? "
The aristocratic area was surrounded by the inner city walls. At this time, the city gates had been closed for a long time. Only the nobles who lived there could open the soldiers.
"The teacher judged from the specifications of the altar, it should be a low-level devil of ordinary knight level, but as long as the sacrifices are not completed, it will only project to the level of high-level knight servants." White honey did not think that this matter was not Danger, it is just that he and others such as sages have the devil's projection to destroy this kind of power. Mr. Professor is very powerful and he is not a formal magician.
The sage then said: "White honey didn't know how to contact the owl, so through me, I just happened to know a secret way to enter the aristocratic area at night, so I came along and led the way for you, Professor. With your last time The guidance of my spell model is almost resolved, and if the professor allows me, I want to do it for you. Enemies of this level do n’t need you to shoot. ”
The sage is very grateful to the professor. When the teacher who knows the white honey is still doubting the strength of the professor, when he wants to observe this matter, he suddenly has a little fear, fearing that the powerful image of the professor in his mind will be destroyed. The professor was killed by the teacher of white honey because of his exposed strength, so that he had no more people to ask for advice in the future, so under the influence of two emotions, he suggested slightly.
Lucian was worried that the "Silver Horn" evil church would cause this matter to change. The stronger his side is, the more secure he is, and the sage is likely to have magic items similar to the "Avenger of Snow", so he pondered for a moment. Then he nodded and said, "When things are over, you can ask me a question."
As long as you get the Wraith Dust and get rid of others, you will disappear for a while in the magic circle, so the power is seen through and the powerful image collapses.
"Can I help you, Mr. Professor?" On the one hand, White Honey made up for the disrespect, and on the other hand, Ashley, the crow, had fled away. Observing the strength of the professor fell on her.
Of course, Baluchien promised, how could he not take the hostages who came to the door.
Smaller considered for a long time, because he was able to contact the professor, his status in the circle improved significantly. If he was robbed by the sage and white honey in the past, he would lose the relationship between the witch and the professor continuously, and his strength in the circle was relatively poor. In the future, it is likely to become more and more marginalized, which is not conducive to the improvement of his own strength, so he begged to go forward.
Then, under the leadership of the Sage, Lucien and others walked towards the aristocracy.