Chapter 118 Wolf and Sheep
At night, in the mountains north of Igwynt, at Field Villa.
Near the stables of the huge villa, a stable keeper was looking curiously at a carriage that was looking for a place to park in front of him, and spoke curiously to another guard who was leading the carriage over.
"Hey, man, this is the car outside, why is it coming here at this time? Could it be..."
"It's the unlucky guy who got lost outside. I'll send him in later, and we can have dinner tonight." Another guard said lightly. After hearing the other party's words, the stable guard raised his eyebrows and said.
"That's good. I didn't expect that at this time there would be an idiot who would come to my door..."
"Haha, there is no shortage of fools in this world... Oh, buddy, do you have any matches? Lend me a light."
"Yes, wait a minute..." As he said that, the stable guard began to search his body for matches, and the moment he lowered his head, the guard standing by his side had a dark look on his face, pulled out a hidden blade and stabbed it into the stable guard's throat. The stable guard fell down with the guard covering his mouth.
Then, in the distance, the doors of the carriages were opened and Dorothy got out, followed by Vanya, who was looking around nervously.
"Is this your extraordinary ability? Manipulating the dead... Are you, are you the extraordinary person of 'Silence'?" Looking at the guard standing in front of her with lifeless eyes, Vanya guessed. She knew that the spirituality related to the dead is "Silence".
Thinking that Dorothy might be an extraordinary person of "Silence", Vanya couldn't help but feel nervous. There were quite a few cults related to "Silence".
"No, this is not my extraordinary ability, it's just an extraordinary item, and it's not 'silent'." Dorothy explained simply that the puppets controlled by the puppet ring are all brain-dead zombies, but they are all living people in the biological sense. This is why the guards cannot tell them apart and are deceived one after another, because in their eyes these are all living companions in the past, and they will not associate them with dead people at all.
Using the corpse ring, Dorothy began her work of infiltrating the outside world and clearing out the enemies. She used her corpse's ability to speak to disguise herself as the enemy's companion, and then waited for an opportunity to assassinate them after getting close to them. She then converted the people she killed into corpses and formed a team to kill the guards scattered throughout the villa.
Dorothy injected three extra "inspiration" into the corpse ring, expanding the upper limit of her control of corpses to five. Then, these five corpses deceived the trust of other guards with their appearance and voice and cleaned them up secretly. The efficiency was very high. In less than ten minutes, the guards outside the villa had been cleared out. Now Dorothy had begun to infiltrate the interior of the villa, and those excess corpses that exceeded the upper limit were hidden as reserves for the subsequent battle.
Without moving a muscle, Dorothy had almost trimmed away the outermost feathers of the Eucharist Master, these mortal minions.
Dorothy knew that the reason why she was able to do so smoothly was because the mentor was probably fully committed to her critical moment.
"We have to hurry..."
As Dorothy spoke, she walked into the villa through a small door. Vanya looked around and followed Dorothy in.
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In Field's villa, in a large room.
This is a spacious interior space in the form of a chapel, located in the very center of the entire villa. The space from the ceiling to the ground is directly connected without any floor obstruction. The first, second and third floors of the building are integrated into one space here. Corridors with handrails on the second and third floors are built around this hall, like the high-level stands in a theater, and the chapel is like the stage below.
Huge ceiling light pendants were hanging on the ceiling, countless red candles were lit and arranged on the marble floor, and the large floor-to-ceiling windows made of stained glass were painted with the image of the Virgin Mary, one of the Three Glorious Saints. However, the image of the Virgin Mary in this stained glass had been smeared with filthy blood, which covered the image of the Virgin Mary, and a wild wolf's head was painted on it.
In front of the statue of the Virgin Mary covered by the blood wolf, a large magic circle was printed on the floor. This magic circle was mainly drawn with blood, with a small amount of embellishment done with a trace of silvery powder. In the center of the magic circle was the spiritual symbol of a "cup", and not far below it was the sign of a "shadow".
In the middle of the magic circle, there was a chair, on which Luer was sitting with his legs crossed, flipping through a book with a red cover. Around the magic circle, seven children were standing in a perfect circle at regular intervals, surrounding Luer.
These children were both boys and girls, and their ages ranged from about six to twelve years old. Each of them wore a pure white dress with fluffy fur edges and a goat-horn-like headdress on their heads, which made it easy to associate them with lambs. These were the clothes they wore when they performed.
These children were adopted from the Ci'en Orphanage during the seven years that Luer controlled Field, and they were the key to Luer's promotion ceremony.
At this moment, each of the children stood there in a trance. Only one of them was sitting on the ground with her hands and feet tied. That was Anna. She was looking at the scene around her in panic, looking at her former companions in the orphanage beside her.
"Judy! Misha! Wake up! What are you doing? Wake up, we need to escape from here!"
Looking at her former companions, Anna shouted with all her might, but they remained unmoved. One of the girls turned around and spoke to Anna coldly.
"Be quiet, Anna. Father is about to usher in the Holy Hour, and we are going to witness it ourselves."
"Holy time... I'm bearing witness with my own body... What are you talking about, Judy! Help me untie the rope quickly, so we can escape!" Anna cried out for help from her former partner, but apart from giving her a cold look, the other party was completely unmoved.
Seeing this, Anna immediately struggled to stand up from the ground and wanted to rush towards the other person to wake her up, but at this time a pair of big hands stretched out from behind her, grabbed her arms and threw her to the ground. Anna burst into tears after falling.
"Behave yourself, you little bastard!" The bald orphanage worker yelled at the crying Anna. At this time, Bill also walked to the center of the magic circle from the side, bent down and said to Luer worriedly.
"Teacher, this girl has not been taught how to identify poisons and medicine, and she doesn't even know the complete song. Will there be any problems?"
"It doesn't matter. A chorus doesn't require everyone to be able to sing. As long as most people can sing the song for this ceremony, it will resonate with the others and gradually form a whole. Therefore, even if there are one or two people who can't sing, they will be influenced by the others and sing along. By then, even if she doesn't want to sing, she will sing involuntarily. This is a manifestation of the secret transmission of the chorus form.
"We don't have time to educate this girl right now. We have already had a showdown with the Security Bureau. They may have reported it to the higher-ups. We need to leave Igwinter immediately after the ceremony."
"yes……"
Luer spoke to Bill beside him as if instructing him, and Bill bowed and slowly retreated.
After Bill finished the gift, Luer turned the page of the secret book in his hand to the end, and found a picture with a pattern that he had drawn overnight.
Drawing in pencil on the old page was a hairy monster with a wolf's head and a human body, looking up at the sky and howling at the moon. On the page opposite this image, the following text was written.
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The Path of Blood Moon is a ritual to advance from a Black Earth-level "Beastman" to a Cretaceous-level "Werewolf".
The key to the ritual is the full "cup" and the half-full "shadow", and the seven "lambs" waiting to be hunted. In ancient times, "lambs" were suspected to refer to specific extraordinary creatures, but they are now considered extinct. The following are the alternatives developed by the cult.
Seven children between the ages of six and thirteen who meet the criteria are selected and asked to practice the secret "Song of the Lamb". Then, they are asked to sing in chorus during the promotion ceremony. During the singing process, the children will possess the qualities of the "lamb" required for the ceremony, and then the children who are the "lambs" will be hunted down and devoured.
The ceremony needs to be held at 2 a.m. on the holy hour of the great "Gluttonous Wolf", and needs to be supported by a high-level being or a suitable extraordinary object of the cup, otherwise one can only pray for the divine gaze.
Next, let’s talk about the selection criteria and specific methods of “Lamb” in detail…
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