Throne of Magical Arcana

Fernando grabbed the notebook and cast "Advanced Invisibility" on himself, thus disappearing into the study, listening quietly to the sound of footsteps.

One, two, three, more and more footsteps sounded at the gate.

"Why are there so many people? They are still sneaky..." Fernando created the peeping eyes, let them fly apart, and monitored the entire villa-although this spell has a limited range, Tuke's villa is old and narrow , but under control.

In an unoccupied corner, a crystal ball suddenly lit up, revealing the scene in the hall—"Advanced Invisibility" couldn't cover up this effect.

In the hall, men and women in ordinary clothes walked like ghosts, their steps were very light, as if they were afraid of waking up the owner here.

About a dozen of them spread out one after another, surrounding a man with a terrifying appearance in the middle.

This man has light red sparse hair, a protruding forehead, a broken eyebrow in the middle, a half nose missing, an outturned mouth, and a pair of eyes with only whites left. Like a doll sewn by a self-willed child, or a monster that only appears in an illogical dream.

He looked up at the ceiling with his blind eyes, and his ears trembled slightly as if bitten by a dog. After the dozen men and women stood in strange positions, he suddenly said, "The gods save the world."

His voice is not as "ugly" as his appearance, it is ethereal and lofty, as if descending from infinite heights, making people fearful.

"Please God, save us." The men and women clasped their hands together, and slowly fell sideways forward, with weird and twisted postures.

The man continued the previous tone, solemnly said: "After birth, everyone is suffering, paying for their crimes, everyone will suffer from hunger, trauma, jealousy and betrayal, and they will not be happy for a day. The pressure is overwhelming, and, in the end, no one can escape death, but walk towards it step by step, filled with fear."

"But the true God tells us that death is eternal, and death is peaceful, without any distress or pain. When we face death, we must thank God for letting you not continue to perish in this dirty world. ..."

He narrated sentence by sentence, and the whole hall was filled with a quiet and intoxicating atmosphere. The dozen or so men and women listened very intently, as if they gradually understood the true meaning of death.

"Could it be that the Alien Church, which believes in the God of Death, is preaching?" Fernando roughly figured out what happened in the hall through the monitoring of the magic eye, and made a preliminary guess.

This place is infiltrated by the Church of Ability God, and it is normal for a similar situation to occur.

He had just had this thought, and suddenly felt something wrong in his heart: "But why did they come to Tuke's house to hold a preaching ceremony? Do they know that there is no one in Tuke's house?"

Strong doubts arose, and Fernando carefully identified it, but he did not find Tuke who was trying to study the mysteries of faith among the group of people—Fran used his own memory to create an image of Tuke for him to look for took.

"Strange, are they related to Tuke's 'disappearance'?" Fernando observed the group of "believers" more and more carefully.

"...As long as we can gain the favor of the true God, we will gain eternal life in death, eternal life without pain..." The voice of the priest suddenly became high-pitched, and he raised his right hand at the same time.

With his right hand raised, the dozen or so men and women climbed up from the ground and danced a strange dance that Fernando had never seen before. Their postures were all abnormally distorted, as if they were not afraid of joint damage at all, and could not feel it at all. pain.

"It's not like a normal religious ceremony..." Fernando still had a little research on it, "is the believer of the God of Death so special?"

As the "dance" became more and more bizarre, the atmosphere in the hall became confused. They took off their clothes one by one, and crawled up to the priest naked.

The priest's right hand was put down, but there was a sharp dagger with a silver-white icy light on it.

Just when Fernando thought that the priest wanted to harvest the lives of these believers to please the God of Death, the priest swung his right hand and directly inserted the dagger into his chest, and blood flowed out in pools.

"Huh?" Fernando was completely stunned. He knew a lot of sacrifice ceremonies, but he had never seen the host commit suicide first!

Blood dripped on the dirty floor, and a prostrate man seemed to have been summoned by a god suddenly, his eyes turned red, and his tongue stuck out, licking the drop of blood.

Then, he made a loud noise in his throat, and rushed towards the priest who was lying limp on the ground like a wolf. Two rows of miserable white teeth were exposed, and he bit hard on the priest's neck, tearing off a large piece of flesh and blood with a brush. Hastily swallowed it down.

The other men and women also went crazy, and threw themselves on the priest, biting his flesh and blood, chewing and devouring with great reverence.

Looking at the believers with mouths full of blood and skin and flesh, Fernando couldn't help feeling nauseated. Although he also studied necromancy, he had never seen such a disgusting scene.

During the frenzied competition for food, a lot of blood was wasted and pooled under the corpse, forming a puddle of water.

The blood in the "water puddle" suddenly evaporated, creating a hazy blood mist around everyone.

And in the blood mist, a face suddenly drilled out.

The dark red is like a veil, tightly stretched over this face, only the protruding parts such as eyeballs, nose and mouth can be displayed, making it indescribably weird and terrifying.

He shouted hoarsely:

"help me!"

Aroused by the sound, Fernando's whole body shook, and the drowsiness that occurred at some point left his body.

At this time, he discovered that the scene in the crystal ball was still a "normal picture" of priests chanting prayers and men and women "dancing".

"What happened to me just now?" Fernando subconsciously asked himself, and soon realized that he was affected by the illusion, and entered the dream without knowing it!

He looked around warily, and thought to himself: "The person who can pass through the previous scene and let me enter the dream without knowing it is definitely not only a high-level one, at least he is also an archmage, and he is also an archmage who is good at the field of dreams. What does he want to do?"

Suddenly, he thought in shock: "The one who shouted 'Save me' is the archmage who created the dream? He created the dream just to call for help from me?"

Fernando didn't rush out to investigate the dozen or so Ability God believers, because the "caller" called for help in this way was obviously to escape the monitoring of some existence, and if he acted rashly, he might encounter accidents.

"Is the person who called for help imprisoned? No, if he is imprisoned, the little power he leaks can't affect me at all. Unless his strength is above the legend, it is impossible for me to provoke him who can imprison him , if he was not imprisoned, but injured and hid somewhere in the city, then the one who can force an archmage so hard, at least a ninth-level powerhouse, may be nearby..."

"This method is obviously a magician, so why didn't he ask for help directly from the people in the 'Mage's Mansion', where Alto should be able to be contacted, unless, unless the 'Mage's Mansion' is being monitored by that dark strong man, maybe The people in the 'Mage's Mansion' also had problems, betrayed or were replaced..."

"So, will the strong man in the dark let people leave Kufre City to help the magician ask for help?"

Fernando shook his head resolutely, definitely not, maybe as long as he tried to leave the city, he would be caught, tortured, and killed quietly.

At this time, the dancing and praying believers gradually slowed down, and it seemed that tonight's ceremony had come to an end.

Fernando looked at this scene without focus, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: "Could it be that the 'Savior' did this on purpose to scare me from leaving the city of Cufrey, and then, like Took disappeared like that..."

He is a very smart person, so he thinks a lot, hesitates for a while, and doesn't know which possibility to believe.

But since he thought of Tuke, he seized the time, opened his notebook, and read the following records:

"The prayer ceremony here is too weird, very different from what I know..."

"The more I study the church that is secretly developing here, the more frightened and frightened I am. What exactly is this?"

"No, why have I never seen anyone leave the city! Why do people who deliver water and food only return to the gate of the city and never enter the city!"

"I want to escape from here!"

The scribbled handwriting is followed by a hopeless void.

"Does everyone know that you can't leave the city..." Fernando was even more puzzled.

Inside the crystal ball, the prayers stopped and prepared to leave under the orders of the priest.

With a flash of inspiration, Fernando flashed directly to the hall, and said loudly, "Who are you? Why did you come to Tuke's house without authorization?"

I am here to find Tuke, so I have to act like I am looking for Tuke, so as to delay as much as possible so as not to be noticed and suspected by others!

"We were invited by Tuke." The priest, as ugly as a monster, replied majesticly and frankly.

"Did Tuke invite you here?" Fernando was a little stunned, but he didn't expect this answer.

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Fran and Antaike took the tokens given by their respective teachers and hurriedly flew towards Kufre City.

"By the way, who is the Lord who is guarding the place recently?" Antaike didn't pay much attention to it usually.

Flan thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency 'Flame of Origin'."