Chapter 72 The Second Olive Branch
What is this? Is it the soul sealed in the body?
Just as the head was about to break free from the body, the golden runes suddenly turned into layers of chains that sealed the seven orifices of the head and tried to pull it back.
The head gradually lost its strength and was about to be pulled back into the male apprentice's body by the golden rune chain.
Suddenly it retracted quickly and rushed towards Thor again.
A small gap was created between the contraction and pulling, and a scream came out from the head's taut lips.
“Save me—”
The golden rune chain tightened again and the sound stopped abruptly.
It seemed that the cry for help consumed all of the man's strength, and the golden rune chain finally succeeded in restraining him back to the male apprentice's back.
"Hmm?" Rum snorted, and suddenly picked up a huge feather pen from the laboratory table next to him.
The pen tip was dipped into a thumb-sized ink bottle nearby. When it was lifted up, a bit of slightly sticky golden liquid hung on it and would not fall off.
Rum moved quickly, adding a few more lines on the male apprentice's back.
The male apprentice lying there twitched twice, and a painful expression appeared on his face when he turned sideways.
But because of this change, he looked more like a living person than a puppet.
As the rune array gradually strengthened, the male apprentice's face returned to calm.
Thor, who had been observing from the side, also stopped meditating.
After finishing the drawing, Rum threw the quill back on the table, asked the male apprentice to stand up, and re-examined his body.
"Observe for a while longer, then go out. Call the next person in."
Next came the third apprentice, and this time there was no abnormality.
It's just that the process was very quick, just like a formality.
After the three of them went out, Rum pondered for a moment and suddenly waved for Thor to come closer.
Thor walked over with some trepidation, not knowing how Rum would test him.
Who would have thought that the first thing Rum said after he stretched out his arm and grabbed Thor's shoulder was...
"Have you been having nightmares these past two days?"
Thor's mind suddenly flashed through a dream of lying naked on the teleportation platform, searching for the sound of his own footsteps and the dark bottom of the platform.
Mentor An Ze said that he was haunted by a vengeful spirit. Is this nightmare a manifestation of being haunted by a vengeful spirit?
But why didn’t Teacher Kaz see it?
"Yes." Thor showed some appropriate uneasiness.
"The ghost of Sid is haunting you. It seems like you made his death very unfortunate."
"I was defending myself normally...which means I was forced to fight back." Thor explained quickly.
Rum laughed and stretched his neck forward, which was really long.
"How about it, do you want me to help you get rid of Sid's evil spirit?"
Thor was stunned for a moment, and finally understood what the other party meant. He thought to himself: "Teacher Rum, are you Sid's mentor or my mentor? Did you get the wrong enemy?"
The other party was just complaining that Thor had killed his assistant, so why did he take the initiative to ask for help now? Although he felt strange in his heart, Thor was honest most of the time.
"think!"
Rum was very satisfied with Thor's decisiveness.
"If you want to, then do your best. Kaz said you have outstanding spiritual talent. He rarely uses the word "outstanding" to describe a person. Let me see how outstanding you are. Tell me, what did you see in those three second-level apprentices just now?"
Thor pondered for a moment, organized his words, and told the story truthfully.
Rum looked at Thor deeply, and his expression became more and more serious as Thor spoke.
"You can't call this a talent...you should call it soul intuition."
He reached out, took Thor's arm, and turned Thor around in front of him.
Then he withdrew his hand and placed it on his belly.
My belly is like the surface of a lake with ripples.
"He clearly hasn't mastered the knowledge of magic circles and runes, and has only a superficial understanding of witchcraft, but he can see through the surface and directly see through the essence." Rum suddenly pointed his five fingers inward, and pulled hard, tearing a piece of meat directly from his belly.
After the piece of meat was separated from the body, no blood flowed out of the wound. Instead, some fat flowed out to block the wound.
Rum kneaded the piece of meat in his hands.
That piece of meat can be shaped at will like clay.
A doll-like figure quickly took shape in Rum's hands.
He then used his little finger to hook out two black loach-like worms from a bottle and placed them on the doll's face.
The loach crawled into the doll's eyes, leaving two holes.
Then, the doll gradually changed color, turning into the light brown color of the wood.
Isn't this the puppet that the apprentices used to test their mental strength? Thor realized that the material of the puppet was not wood at all. He had borrowed one to study for a few days, but he didn't find anything wrong with the material.
Rum threw the finished eyeless puppet into Thor's hands.
"Look at it, and tell me what you hear."
Thor took the puppet and looked at Rum with some confusion, but he still did as he was told and lowered his head to look into the puppet's empty eyes.
"Save me, save me...I want it too...save me..."
The cries for help rang out again, sometimes mixed with other sounds.
As time passed, Thor's face gradually began to turn pale.
Gradually, he could no longer intentionally focus on the puppet's eyes, but he couldn't look away.
This freshly baked puppet seems to be more powerful and terrifying than the puppet in the cabinet.
Rum never stopped.
“…Kill me! Kill me!! Kill me!!!”
The sharp roar sounded again, and Thor suddenly felt pain in his eardrums and his brain was spinning in his skull.
He thought Rum would call a halt, but there was still no movement.
Thor's mental strength was stronger than when he first became an apprentice, but it was limited, so he felt his vision go dark again and was about to faint in the next second.
Finally, the puppet in front of him was taken away.
The sharp roar stopped instantly.
Thor's legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, he reached out and managed to steady himself.
Wait, what was he holding just now? Thor quickly retracted his hand. If he was a little slower, he would have sunk into Rum's fat body.
Rum didn't pay attention to Thor's little action. He threw the puppet into a wooden barrel beside him and asked, "What did you hear?"
Thor took a deep breath and felt like his brain was about to turn into brain matter.
"At first, someone was asking for help, saying save me."
Rum didn't react.
Thor continued, "Then there were other noises, like I want it too, it hurts, and so on."
Mentor Rum nodded slightly. He was about to speak when he realized that Thor hadn't finished yet.
"At the end there were a few sharp noises...kill me." Thor recalled the sound, raised his hands to hug his arms, and felt goose bumps all over his skin.
Rum was about to nod when his expression suddenly changed. He reached out and tightly held Thor's right arm.
"What was the last thing you heard? Kill me?"
Thor felt a sharp pain in his right arm, accompanied by a "click" sound.
His facial features scrunched together and he cried out in pain.
This Rum really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to deal with me! But the next second, a white light flashed.
Thor's right arm recovered as before, the pain was so short-lived that it seemed like an illusion, and even the headache subsided a lot.
"Did you really hear that you wanted to kill me?" Rum's eyes and the fat on his face were twitching.
"Yes." Thor pinched his arm and found that the bones were not dislocated.
"Is it a man's voice or a woman's voice?"
"Woman's," and seeing that Rum seemed concerned about the sound, Thor added another descriptor, "It sounded very painful."
Rum stared at Thor with a dazed expression, as if he saw someone else in his face.
“Ha…hahaha…hahahaha!!!”
He suddenly started laughing like he was having a seizure.
His two hands kept patting his fat belly, making a "bang bang" sound along with his laughter.
He gradually laughed so hard that he fell backwards, his body didn't move, but his head swayed back and forth.
Thor was terrified and could not help but take two steps back, fearing that Rum would explode like a balloon.
Rum laughed for about ten minutes, then suddenly rocked forward, stopped laughing, and stared at Thor.
"Do you want to transfer to study under my name?"
(End of this chapter)
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