Chapter 85 The Witch (Part 2)
Black smoke spurted out from Margaret's palm, spread out like a spider web, and penetrated into Raven's facial features.
Leaven felt that every inch of his skin was spreading with unspeakable pain, as if he was wearing a mask filled with sharp steel needles, and the mask was still shrinking inwards, tearing his skin. The deepest pain between him was squeezed out, causing his consciousness to gradually move away from his body.
Margaret murmured a difficult incantation in her mouth, and slowly raised her rough palms.
Raven's face was revealed again, and his originally bright eyes had turned into pure black without boundaries like Margaret.
In the black, silver light occasionally appeared, but it was squeezed and eliminated by the pervasive black air.
"Such a strong mental power." Margaret's slit-like mouth curved into a smile: "It's a pity that you don't know how to use it."
Gradually, Raven's The face began to undergo horrific changes, with blood vessels dyed black, emerging and exploding, like worms swimming under the skin.
They twist, pulsate, and beat, lifting up the skin piece by piece, showing a greasy, slippery, and putrid texture.
When the black blood vessels eroded under Raven's neck, Margaret raised her hands high and let out a short scream.
As the screams broke out, a strong wind swept away with Raven as the center, and thick black smoke surged out from under the ground, lifting Raven's body up.
The black air was very dense, like ink stains in clear water, condensed into whip-like tentacles, dancing crazily around Raven's body.
This is a curse ritual, the magic that witches are best at.
This curse, called the "Song of Dark Souls", removes the soul of the cursed person and replaces it with a replacement carefully crafted by the witch.
Margaret's voice began to become high-pitched, and she kept making sharp, hoarse, but strangely rhythmic neighs from her mouth. The black tentacles began to move according to this rhythm, and a little silver brilliance came from Raven. The facial features flow out.
At first, it had a mercury-like texture, and then it rose up and turned into little bits of shimmering light. Every time it rose, it was swallowed up by the black air, and the black air slowly began to grow stronger.
Spiritual power is derived from the soul, and it also protects the soul from being harmed by strange forces. At this time, this curse is draining Raven's mental power bit by bit and peeling off the soul's armor.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a pure spiritual power.” It’s like a picky customer appreciating a product: “If I really make you into a puppet, maybe you can be more understanding of human nature than others. ?”
Whoosh——
At this moment, a sound broke through the air. Margaret turned her head slightly, and a long sword wrapped in ice fighting spirit passed by her. , hit the wall and was bounced to the ground.
She turned her head slightly and saw Volav struggling to crawl out from among the crows, with a long pool of blood behind him. His facial features had been covered in flesh and blood, and his ears had been pecked to pieces. You can even see bones.
"Oh, what a loyal knight." Margaret sniffed and smelled the smell of blood in the air: "Go to sleep, you go to sleep first, you will find out when you wake up, All of this is just a nightmare."
She raised her hand, and a stream of black energy flowed from under Raven and fell on Volaf's face.
The latter's eyes widened and his breathing began to become difficult. He felt that dozens of voices were echoing in his mind, urging him to fall into deep sleep.
He didn't want to sleep, because Baron Raven was still under the control of the witch, but the voice carried magic, constantly seduce the tiredness in his heart, and made his eyelids grow heavier and heavier.
"Baron... Your Excellency...!" He muttered in his mouth, used his last strength to put his palm into his mouth, and bit down hard!
Finger to heart.
The stinging pain dispelled the tiredness and cheered him up, but the next moment, he felt like he had lost consciousness from the neck down.
"Witch...! What have you done to me!?"
Margaret chuckled: "Let you have a good rest and don't disturb our 'two-person world' .”
In a place where Volav couldn't see, in the center of his spine behind him, a few strands of black energy were interspersed, which blocked Volav's power.
A feeling of weakness came, and Volaf could no longer resist, and fell into a deep sleep unwillingly.
Although most of the power is involved by Raven, dealing with a seriously injured knight does not cost Margaret much energy.
Dong.
A staff rolled down to Margaret's feet.
She turned around and saw that Nancy had struggled over at some point and was less than ten meters away from her, but at this moment she finally ran out of strength.
“Oh, I almost forgot about you.” Margaret snapped her fingers gently, and the black air lingering in Nancy’s throat dispersed slightly: “I like your body very much, I’ll wait for you to control it. If you get Raven, I will transform into you and follow him."
Nancy spat out a mouthful of blood, and then gasped. Get up: "Dreaming, I am from the Fox family..."
"Shh..." Margaret put her dry fingers on her lips, and a black air locked Nancy's throat again: "Lady, just It’s time to be quiet.”
Looking at Nancy’s angry and desperate eyes, Margaret’s heart was filled with joy.
"A noble nobleman will have such moments!" She smiled cheerfully, because another nobleman was about to completely fall into her palm.
When Nancy heard this sentence, she was so angry that she rolled her eyes and fainted.
No one can stop Margaret.
At this time, Raven was completely surrounded by black tentacles. There was no longer silver liquid flowing out of the corners of his eyes and lips, replaced by scarlet blood.
Margaret clapped her hands, and the black tentacles like bushes lifted Raven closer to her.
As Margaret's gestures continued to change, there was a bang, smoke and dust rose up, and black tentacles lay on the ground, forming a complex magic circle of an inverted pentagram.
"It's time." Margaret stepped forward, caressed Raven's chest carefully, and opened his clothes little by little, revealing his body that was already swollen with black blood vessels.
Raven's heart had completely bulged out, beating vigorously on the surface of the skin, and it was as if his ribs no longer existed.
Taking out a small knife from the dirty robe, Margaret used it to cut her finger, and purple-black blood stuck to her finger like asphalt.
She hung her fingers on Raven's chest, and then squeezed gently, and the viscous blood dripped on the surface of the heart with thin threads.
The heart suddenly beat wildly, and the black blood melted and penetrated like ink seeping into the paper.
"Mother of Pure Black..." Margaret recited this name: "Please awaken the spirit in my blood!"
Raven's limbs seemed to be connected. It started to twitch like electricity, and a little bit of something transparent and sticky was squeezed out of the pores.
This is his soul.
When the soul dissipates, there will be no Raven in the world, only a puppet taking orders from Margaret.
"Ah..." Margaret made a happy sound. She could feel an invisible connection being established between herself and Raven, like the threads controlling a puppet.
This feeling of holding someone else's life and death in your hands is indeed so wonderful that Margaret will never get tired of it.
The connection became stronger little by little, and the extruded soul matter wrapped around the surface of Raven's body, like a layer of jelly, and like a crystal coffin made close to the body.
This was not the first time Margaret had performed such a ritual. She knew that it meant that Raven's soul had been completely forced out of the body.
She took a deep breath, gathered her mental power, and rushed along the invisible passage:
"Farewell, Baron Raven!"
Boom.
With the impact of Margaret's mental power, the transparent material on Raven's body suddenly collapsed like raindrops.
Raiwen, finally
soulless
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The smile at the corner of Margaret's mouth suddenly solidified.
Because at this moment, the soul essence that should have dissipated like dewdrops in the sun rolled back and poured into Raven's body from the center of his eyebrows.
At the same time, a layer of dark red light covered Raven's body, illuminating the entire cave scarlet!
The choking smell of blood filled Margaret's nose, as if she was in a pool of blood.
Feedback from the spiritual level also followed. Margaret felt that her spiritual power was not hitting a crumbling soul, but crashing into a volcano that was about to erupt!
Her mental power was annihilated, and then the energy that almost burned her out rushed back and stabbed into her soul!
The originally dark eyes also showed a layer of blood!
"How... is this... possible!!" Margaret screamed miserably: "The curse... you, how could you have such a powerful curse on you!?"
She used her favorite curse ritual to exorcise Raven's soul, but she didn't expect that Raven's soul had already been possessed by a more terrifying curse.
The curse carried a power she could not imagine, like a sleeping dragon, but she stirred up the dragon!
"No...don't...don't!!!" Blood marks began to appear on Margaret's dry skin, and then turned into black spots like brand marks. Her hair began to turn into ashes and disappeared, and her fingernails It breaks and falls into the ground like dust.
Leaven also opened his eyes at this moment.
He was surrounded by surging red light, as if he had been reborn in blood.
His legs slowly landed on the ground. Raven's expression was full of surprise. He looked at his body and then at Margaret, with a sudden smile on his face:
"It seems that although this curse doesn't want me to live too long, it doesn't want me to die too early."
"You, you——" Blood light continued to pour into Margaret Inside her body, she screamed crazily: "You have known it for a long time, you have known it for a long time, right!!?"
"I don't know." Raven blurted out the truth: "Your strength is far greater than ours. Above, the so-called 'in absolute' All conspiracies are useless in the face of the right power. You have indeed achieved this."
"Thank you for teaching me the lesson. I will never be so careless next time I face an unfamiliar power. "
This sentence made Margaret feel more uncomfortable than death. If all this was Raven's design, she could still convince herself that the other party was stronger and more prepared.
But unfortunately, it was luck that determined the outcome between them!
"Damn... damn... this bitch of fate..." The witch's body was trembling, and her voice was filled with fear and fear, as well as a strong sense of reluctance.
As Raven woke up, the scarlet power began to fade away, as if passing through an invisible rift, and gradually disappeared without a trace.
Margaret was still frozen in place, unable to move.
Raven was not prepared to give her a chance to move again, so he picked up the staff and started chanting magic. But Margaret's voice suddenly sounded.
"Don't kill me, please don't kill me!! I have lived for three hundred years and know a lot of useful knowledge!"
With a sneer at the corner of his mouth, Raven was about to continue singing. The spell was suddenly taken aback.
Because he saw that Margaret's lips clearly did not move.
"Master...Master!" Margaret's eyes showed a hint of pleading and flattery: "Please, don't kill me!"
A suspicious look appeared on Raven's face, and he thought in his mind:
"Am I dead now, is this all my hallucination? Or am I really controlled by Margaret?" Now, what I see is what she wants me to see?"
"No...! It's not an illusion!" Margaret's voice even sounded like crying: "The curse... I was bitten by my own curse, and now you are my master!"
"Really?" Raven still didn't want to believe it.
"Really! The curse in your body is too powerful, far beyond what I can match." Margaret sighed: "Now, I must do whatever you ask me to do, I can't do anything without your orders!"
When Lei Wen heard this, he immediately opened his Eyes of Truth, and then a sudden realization came to his mind.
He saw an invisible rope connecting himself and Margaret. One end of the rope was placed in his hand, connecting to the deep curse that wrapped his soul; the other end went deep into Margaret. Li Te's head is connected to the soul.
As long as she exerts a little force, Margaret will inevitably die immediately.
"Now, remove your magic." Raven ordered for the first time.
Margaret straightened up immediately. She rubbed her hands on her chest, and black air flew back to her palms and merged into her body.
The crows disappeared, and the black energy lingering on Nancy and Volaf had also dissipated.
The soldiers were all exhausted, but they immediately surrounded Margaret after seeing everything in front of them.
"Okay, don't be so nervous." Raven shook his neck: "She doesn't pose any threat to us now. Get Volaf and Nancy settled, and bandage your respective wounds."
“Yes, sir!”
The strange thing is that the injuries of these soldiers are not as serious as those of Volav who broke out of the Crow Formation twice.
Sensing Raven's doubts, Margaret took the initiative to explain: "Master, the magic of 'Crow Storm' is actually mainly based on illusion. People who enter it will lose their sense of direction and sensitivity to time. Only Only those who see through the illusion will actually be attacked by crows, so Volaf's injury is the most serious."
Raven nodded slowly and suddenly realized. Something went wrong: "Margaret, now I give you two orders."
"First, you are not allowed to peek into my heart without my permission."
"Second "If you have something to say, say it with your mouth. Unless reality does not allow it, don't speak in my heart!"
After saying these two sentences, Margaret froze in place and had no reaction at all.
Raven hesitated for a moment, and then tentatively ordered: "Third, you can move and speak freely from now on, but you can't run away, and you can't attack my people."
After saying this, Mag The expression on Lite's face suddenly became vivid, She rubbed her palms and approached Raven step by step with a flattering smile on her face: "Lord Baron, you are so magnanimous and kind! You are simply the most perfect nobleman in the world!"
Said, She knelt down and held Raven's shoes with both hands.
The latter took two steps back and said in a cold voice: "What are you going to do!?"
"This..." Margaret opened her mouth, revealing a mouth full of black teeth: "Of course it is. Clean your shoes!”
"Get out!" Raven's mouth twitched: "Don't touch me without my order!"
If you licked me when I didn't subdue you before, and you still want to lick me now, then I didn't subdue you in vain. Have you?
Thinking of this, Raven rubbed his cheek: "If you dare to do this again, I will pull out your tongue!"
At this moment, Nancy also Come to life.
She choked out a mouthful of saliva, her chest heaved violently, her eyes turned from blurred to clear, and her eyes moved around. The moment she saw Margaret, she immediately screamed, grabbed the staff at hand, He started chanting mantras.
"Nancy, stop!" Raven shouted.
But Nancy seemed not to hear Raven's words and continued to recite her own mantra.
Raven's face darkened, and he raised his crossbow and pointed it at her: "I want you to stop!"
Nancy still didn't care, she didn't believe that Raven really dared to attack her She shoots the arrow.
The fire began to wrap around the staff, and just when the magic was about to be completed, there was a whooshing sound, and the crossbow grazed Nancy's wrist and drove into the ground, which also made Nancy's spell heard. Come down.
Her face turned from white to green, then from blue to red, and she shouted to Raven: "Raven! What are you doing!?"
The latter walked up to her in a few steps: "I let Stop, don’t you hear me?”
“Sure up, she’s a witch!” Nancy’s voice was furious: "Could it be that you have been controlled by her!?"
"I controlled her." Raven corrected her statement, and at the same time, in order to verify his words, he turned around and ordered: "Xiao Ma, "Turn around!"
Margaret is so angry, do you think I am your dog, Xiaoma?
But her body was much more active than her mind. She bent down and put her hands on the ground, doing an ugly somersault but with impeccable posture.
Raven nodded secretly.
It is indeed true that he has lived for more than three hundred years and has many talents!
Nancy was also stunned, but she came back to her senses immediately: "Since you have controlled her, why don't you kill her now!?"
"Why should I kill her? ?" Lei Wen asked in confusion: "Now that I can control her, she is my property and can play a very important role."
"But she almost killed me just now!!" Nancy pointed to her chest and said, "I was just a little bit away from dying at the hands of this old witch!"
"Actually, you are still alive. Raven's voice began to become a little impatient: "And he is so angry that he still has the energy to quarrel with me!"
Nancy seems to be very angry! Unexpectedly, Raven actually said this to her: "Am I still alive now? Yes, I am still alive. Do you think this is enough? This can make up for the harm she did to me!?"
< br>"Let me ask you one last time, will you kill her or not?"
Leaven's answer was simple and straightforward: "No."
"Okay, great!" Nancy's face turned red, she nodded repeatedly, and then went straight to grab Raven's crossbow.
"What are you doing?" Raven pushed her out suddenly.
The latter took a few steps back and sat on the ground, staring at Raven unyieldingly: "If you don't kill her, then I will!"
"The Fox family must pay its debts! "
"The Fox Family, the Fox Family...!" Raven was really angry with her, and said in a stern tone, "This is the Bloody Highlands, not the Nord Province, not the Hovey City of your Fox Family!"
"Here, no one will care about your identity as Miss Fox family!"
"Take care of your princess disease!"
Nancy has always had a headache since she was a child. Hearing such harsh words once, the humiliation along the way, the anger of being deceived by Margaret before, and the fear between life and death broke out at this moment:
"Mr. Main disease? I gave you money and magic to take me to Bloody Heights! Did I do anything to disobey you along the way?"
"Now, just Because of this witch!" She pointed at Margaret: "She wants my life! Not only do you not let me kill her, but you also come to reprimand me!"
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"You want to keep her, right? Okay, let me go!"
As she said that, she picked up the staff on the ground and walked out angrily, but she couldn't help but slow down when she reached the entrance of the cave. pace.
Leaven looked at her back, his anger still lingering: "Okay, you go, why can't you move?!"
"How simple, step out of this hole, get on the horse, Then run!”
“How powerful you are, Miss Fox family, ‘Fire Rose’, you can survive in the ice and snow by yourself, and you will never suffer from cold, starvation, or being killed by others. If you catch it, you will never die!”
"Bloody Heights is your Fox family's playground!"
Nancy clenched her fists and sobbed: "Do you really want me to die?!"
"Think, What a thought!" Raven exclaimed, "So you'd better get out now and never come back!"
"That's what you said!" He rushed out of the cave without looking back.
The cave immediately became quiet.
Margaret came forward and said, "Lord Baron, do you think I did a good job just now?"
"Get out of here too! Get out of here where I can't see you!" Raven didn't bother to talk to her. .
The witch was stunned for a moment. Black smoke suddenly flashed from her body and she turned into a crow and flew out.
"Lord Baron..." Volaf had already drank the healing potion at this time, and the wounds on his body were closing quickly. He limped to Raven's side.
The latter rubbed his temples tiredly: "Are you also here to persuade me to kill Margaret?"
"Of course not." Volaf waved his hands repeatedly: "She is very powerful. Your subduing her will be of great help to the next battle. How can I object."
"If Nancy can It would be nice to be as mature as you." Raven sighed helplessly.
"Speaking of this..." Volaf lowered his voice: "Really let Miss Nancy leave like this?"
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(End of this chapter)