Chapter 112 Ashes
Upper Igwynt, Church of the Glow.
In the morning, the early morning sunlight shone into the spacious chapel through the huge stained glass. Vanya, dressed in a nun's uniform, was kneeling in front of the altar, praying with a very pious expression.
"Lord... Thank you for bestowing a new day with new light, so that we can once again bathe in your grace. I come before your Holy Head again to offer you thanks and praise. May your greatness last forever, may your knowledge be forever. I will remember your revelation forever. Thank you for protecting my spirit from the poison of the heresy. You... Tsk..."
While praying, Vanya suddenly realized that something seemed wrong, then she slapped herself in the face and immediately stopped praying.
'No, no, it's not like this. The prayers in the morning prayers are not like this. The first part is normal, why is it wrong at the end? There is no praise of knowledge in this morning prayer... and what is said at the end is all wrong!'
Vanya thought with some shame and annoyance in her heart that this disease had troubled her for several days. When she prayed normally, she would always inexplicably deviate from the prayer to some inexplicable place, and it would always go astray when she was getting into the state.
In short, it would be fine if she didn't pray seriously, but once she entered a state of piety and prayed sincerely like she did before, the prayers would become more and more distorted. This had troubled her for the past two days, and she almost let the cat out of the bag in front of other nuns.
"Well... let's practice a little more and try to correct it."
Sighing in her heart, Vanya was about to continue practicing prayer, but at this moment, a voice came from beside her.
"Hey, Sister Vanya, you are still here praying in the morning."
Vanya looked in the direction of the voice, and she saw a fat priest in formal attire walking towards her. Vanya recognized him. His name was Kunde, one of the leaders of the local church, and he usually liked to brag and flatter.
"Haha...it's been more than an hour since the morning prayer time, and Sister Vanya is still praying. Her piety is really admirable. She is worthy of being a nun from Tivian. She is really a role model for us!" Looking at Vanya, Kunde said flatteringly, which made Vanya feel extremely embarrassed.
"Ah, ahahaha... You, you are joking, Lord Kunde. I just pray longer sometimes, not to that extent..." Vanya responded with a smile, thinking that she just made too many mistakes in prayer recently, so she came here to practice.
"Haha, what a humble character you have, Sister Vanya..."
Then, Vanya and Kunde began to exchange pleasantries again. After several rounds of flattery, Kunde asked Vanya about the progress of Bishop Dicket's relic recovery work, and Vanya replied that the work had been almost completed and they would return to Tivian in a week.
After hearing that Vanya would be leaving in a week, Kunde began to ask Vanya how she felt about Igwent, to test her attitude towards the local church, so as to know whether the nun would say something bad to the higher-ups after returning. Vanya always dealt with it with a laugh, and said that she had a good impression of the local church.
After getting the answer, Kunde said goodbye with a smile and left, while Vanya breathed a sigh of relief, then knelt in front of the altar again, ready to continue practicing prayer.
This time, she took out the holy book hanging from her waist and opened it, preparing to practice according to the holy book to increase her faith.
But when she turned to one of the pages, her attention was attracted by the new fonts that appeared on it.
"Are you there?"
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A few days later, in the western suburbs of Igwynte, at St. Amanda's School.
It was dark night, and the waning moon was rising. Although the lights were still on at St. Amanda's School, the male students who stayed on campus were in their evening classes. The sound of their reciting in unison echoed in the night sky and spread far away, just as usual.
Far away from the school, on the road on the hillside of a low mountain, there was a carriage parked here. On the carriage were two figures sitting. They were Godfrey and Oswan.
At this moment, they were looking through the carriage windows at the brightly lit school in the distance. Listening to the noises coming from inside, Oswan snorted coldly and said.
"He's still in class at this hour. Humph, he really doesn't know anything, that old guy..."
"Well, it really seems like they haven't reacted yet. But to be on the safe side... shall we use Ghost to go in and do some reconnaissance?" It was Godfrey on the other side who spoke. At this moment, he wanted to conduct another reconnaissance of the school ahead, but this was denied by Oswan.
"There's no need for that. We've been in there before and seen that there's an early warning barrier against ghosts. If we, the ghosts, sneak in, we'll be discovered and it'll alert the enemy.
"That old guy is very cunning. As the former forerunner of Lu Ku, it is impossible for him not to be on guard against the ghost."
Godfrey said that they had conducted reconnaissance on the school in various forms in the past few days, and they found obvious extraordinary traces inside, and they were all "stone" traces!
After investigating from multiple angles, they were finally able to confirm that their target, the archenemy of their master, Deer Skull, was hiding in this school!
Now that the investigation is complete and we know where the fish are, it's time to close the nets.
Time passed slowly. The two people in the carriage looked at the school in the distance, then looked at the watches on their hands. Finally, they waited for the scheduled time.
"It's time to take action."
"Well, the best time for the ceremony has arrived. It's time to invite the deer skull over first."
After the two people in the carriage had a brief conversation, they got out of the carriage, and then came to the back of the carriage and opened the trunk. Inside were two large suitcases and a long and huge coffin.
They took out the suitcase first, and then the two of them worked together to pull out the coffin and put it on the ground. After that, they took out a large pottery jar from the car. After opening it, they found it was full of red ashes.
Then, Oswan began to pour the ashes on the ground, drawing circles and patterns with the ashes, and finally drew a circular color array. The center of the array is an equilateral triangle pattern on the circle, which is the symbol of "stone" and the core of this array. And below this main symbol, there is another smaller symbol, which is in the shape of a person with closed eyes, which is the symbol of "silence".
The main element is "Stone" and the auxiliary element is "Silence". This is the meaning of this magic circle. It is also an outline of the branch of "Stone" called "Bone Maker".
After drawing the magic circle, Oswan and the other man opened the coffin beside them, and what appeared inside was a complete human skeleton.
Looking at the skeleton in front of them, they both waved their hands at the same time, and the skeleton in the coffin began to float up automatically, from the coffin to the magic circle, and then slowly descended and lay on the magic circle drawn by ashes, lying quietly.
Then, Oswan took out a long and beautifully decorated box from his clothes. After opening the box, a bone appeared inside, a human's right humerus. Compared with the humerus on the magic circle, this arm bone was pitch black, and it was densely engraved with countless spells.
Holding the black curse bone respectfully, Oswan came to the front of the magic circle and knelt down. Godfrey, who also knelt down with him, stretched out his hand and took out the right humerus of the human skeleton in the magic circle. Then Oswan replaced the curse bone in his hand with the upper one. Then, the two of them lowered their heads and recited the spell in unison.
As the spell echoed in the darkness, the black curse bone that was replaced and grafted onto the skeleton began to emit faint light, and then the faint light gradually spread to the whole body of the skeleton. In this faint light, the skeleton began to move with a crackling sound, and then slowly sat up during the development.
As the spell echoed, the human-shaped skeleton in the center of the magic circle slowly stood up and finally stood completely upright. Then, under his body, the ashes that drew the magic circle seemed to be blown up by an invisible wind and gradually broke away from the magic circle, condensed, and attached to the skeleton through the condensed air.
Slowly, the ashes condensed around the bones, forming a layer of "skin". This layer of "skin" continued to expand, slowly wrapping the entire skeleton completely, forming "muscles", "fingers", "nose", "ears", "mouth", "person"...
Finally, the ashes in the magic circle were completely consumed, and a "person" appeared at the scene, a "person" with a skin made entirely of ashes and covered in gray.
He had no physical features, his gray body was naked, his face was handsome, and his whole body was like a statue carved out of stone. There were no pupils in his eye sockets, but pure black, which looked extremely scary.
"Deer Skull..."
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