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In the clear mountains of Wales there is a river, on both sides of which was formerly a great forest, lush and covered with beautiful hills and valleys, and the remains of this vast forest can still be seen.This was once the haunt of the legendary Ventlisaurus.

Now the setting sun was shining on a grassy clearing.Thousands of oaks with broad tops, thick trunks, and far-reaching branches stood around, and these trees, which may have witnessed the march of Roman armies, covered this green and thick landscape with gnarled arms. greenery.

They intersect with beech, holly, and various undergrowths, so close to each other that there is a long narrow avenue where the sun does not shine, so that the first glance can not help but make people feel happy and dreamy, as if it were a passageway. Trails to more remote forest depths.

Walking along this path, you can see a meadow with a rather large open space in the middle of the meadow, which seems to be a place dedicated to Druid wizards to perform sacrifices in the past.For on the top of a neat, as if man-made hillock, there was a ring of uncarved, large and rough stones, but they were incomplete, only seven of which stood upright, and the rest had departed from their former position. This may be done by some people out of religious piety after they converted to Christianity. Now some of them are lying near the same place, and some have rolled onto the hillside.Only one boulder fell below, and fell into a stream that ran slowly round the foot of the mountain, and because of it, this stream was calm and in some places not even audible.There were some faint gurgling sounds. "If your conclusion is correct, then their goal must be here."

Ling Yi took a deep breath, and as the oxygen entered the lungs, the power of the source mantra penetrated into the limbs and bones. His sleepy brain suddenly cleared up. His clear eyes looked at the altar in the middle of the grass, and no one understood what he was thinking. Know.

"...Why are you so sure? I just said that they seem to need a lot of vitality. But I didn't say it was used for sacrifices?" Alice Stuttgart, the younger sister of the country boy whose body was taken away, asked very confused .

"It's not difficult to explain. The man I saw in the alley looked like a drunkard, but he actually fell into a coma because of the spell. It can be seen. They had planned actions, and the victim, too In terms of vitality, that woman is twice as strong as an ordinary person, and her quality is more refined. The reason lies in her blood, probably because she has a magician ancestor. You also said that there were more than one victim, but did you I thought about it. Why didn’t they die immediately after so much vitality was extracted? It stands to reason that after losing energy, even if the brain can still receive signals, the body is absolutely dead. Why did you rush to the scene? When the time comes, they still have a breath?" Alice turned her head and expressed her opinion.

Ling Yi gave an affirmative answer to this.

"Yes. They all have one thing in common, and that is their blood. More or less, they all have the blood of a magician. To be honest, this is not uncommon. You can easily find a few people like this when wandering in the street, but Wales is different, it is deeply influenced by Celtic civilization, all magicians have something to do with the Celtic magic system, and Celtic magic It is precisely the core of the "primate of all things". To put it bluntly, it is the descendants of those druid priests who added stones, moon stars, and forests to their belief system. Among other things, they have a level of vitality that ordinary people cannot match. Natural talent will be targeted as prey."...

"You haven't answered my question yet?"

"what is the problem?"

"...Of course it's their purpose. As far as I know, there are 30 victims. It's too wasteful to use it for sacrifices. Even fanatics wouldn't do it."

Alice said with certainty.

"You mustn't forget the Celtic 'sacred numbers'."

No religious form of mysticism can do without dealing with numbers, and the Tree of Kabbalah is the most obvious example, among other things.

"I'm a witch, of course common sense... No, wait a minute, Celtic magic's 'sacred numbers'

'It's 3.The number 3, the circle and the overlapping form represent healing and circulation—" Speaking of this, Alice's face changed, as if she realized something.

"That's right, there are only 30 victims so far, which means there are still three more victims." Ling Yi took over the conversation and added.

"33 people....What exactly do they want to do? Such a large-scale sacrifice, are they planning to resurrect someone?" Alice's face was pale, and her beautiful eyebrows were tightly knit together.

"Who knows. But it's your turn to explain to me, right? I've already satisfied your curiosity. You must be honest. I believe Neuer must have taught you this truth." Ling Yi typed unceremoniously. Stopped her cranky thoughts.

About two hours ago, after he met Alice in the alley, perhaps because of some of his words,

Alice was stunned for a moment, and then gave Ling Yi an angry look.

"I know, you can ask whatever you want."

"First, I want to know how long have you been in Wales?"

Ling Yi didn't care about her attitude, and asked on his own.

"One year, to be precise, one year and three months."

Although reluctant, Alice answered quite neatly.

"I remember your legs...?"

"Teacher Diana cured her."

As if sensing Ling Yi's hesitation, Alice's tone eased a lot.

Diana?Hearing this name, Ling Yi had a strange expression on his face.

"The Witch of Naples?"

"Eh? Do you know Master Teacher?"

Alice looked surprised.Her mentor has a relatively cold temperament, even in Naples, she belongs to the hermit faction, and there are only a handful of people who can call her identity out.

Who is this person?She couldn't help thinking.

"There was a relationship once." This is not a lie.After all, we only worked together once.

"So you're not a man?"

"It used to be, not now."

Alice heard this and looked at him strangely.

"Did you make a mistake and get kicked out?"

"No, I left on my own initiative."

Ling Yi shook his head, as if he didn't want to say more.

"By the way, how is Neuer doing recently?"

"..." Alice fell silent.

look at her like this.Ling Yi's heart moved, and he was not in a hurry to urge him.Wait quietly.

After a while, Alice whispered: "Brother, he's fine, but he's suffering from a disease. He often falls asleep, and no matter what method he uses, he can't wake him up. Even Teacher Diana can't do anything about it. But after three or four days, he would act like a normal person again. Although he said it was okay, I always felt uneasy in my heart, so I found a reason to study abroad and came to the former Celtic witch's house Origin - Wales, trying to find a cure for that disease."

"If you guessed correctly, your goal is Panaga, the panacea, right?"

"...Why would a Chinese know Celtic magic so well?"...

"Educated and talented."

"Humph."

The magic of Xingyue World is gradually dying out.Hungry magicians will not let go of any magic theory that is beneficial to their own practice.Especially the mentors who work in the clock tower, although they each have their own unique skills.But the understanding of other fields is no less than that of professionals.As one of the best, Ling Yi has almost reached the height of omniscience, not to mention that one method is universal, and he has spent a lot of energy on researching various magic systems.

The inheritance of Celtic magic is mainly in the form of oral communication and poetry, because of war and witch hunts.Today, the orthodox tradition has been lost.The rest are laymen with a little knowledge of Celtic magic.Of course, laymen mean that they do not have enough mastery of Celtic magic, but the identity of a magician is a real deal, and it is not a problem to use some basic magic formulas by analogy.

For the fact that Alice became a witch, to be honest, Ling Yi was quite surprised.

Although her mentor is Diana, Diana's witch, not a witch.

According to statistics, about 20 to 5 wizards were tried during the witch hunts in the Middle Ages, and about 10 to [-] of them were executed.And witches accounted for a considerable proportion of them.

In European folklore, the early representatives of "witches" are the witches Circe and Medea in ancient Greek mythology.According to legend, Circe has powerful magical powers. With the help of herbs, she can recite spells and summon gods to cast spells. People who offend her will turn into animals and create phantoms that do not exist.Circe can also hide the moon and sun to make the earth dark, and poison to kill her enemies.

Since the 15th century, Christian priests have persecuted "witches" for nearly 300 years based on the "quotes" in the "Bible" that "a woman practicing witchcraft must not let her live".During these dark 300 years, countless women from good families were falsely accused of being "witches", beheaded for public display, or burned to death. In 1487, the church published the witch-hunting "professional book" "The Witch's Hammer".With the popularization of the modern printing technique invented by Gutenberg in Europe, this book was reprinted nearly 1487 times in the nearly 1669 years from 200 to 30, which triggered a protracted "witch hunt". "The Witch's Hammer" describes in detail the specific methods of interrogating "witches" and effective methods to ensure the success of the interrogation.There are neither prosecution procedures nor defenders in this kind of trial. In addition to torture as a means of extracting confessions, there is also the so-called "witch" test.

According to the theory provided in the book, because "witches" are enchanted by the devil, they are no longer sensitive to pain, so they can perform various tortures on them as they like.For example: use a red-hot iron to scald the defendant's hand. If the hand is burned, it means that the defendant is guilty; let the defendant take a holy ring in boiling water with his hand, and then put a bandage and seal on his hand. No trace, no guilt, etc...

An even more incredible way to identify is: tie the defendant hand and foot and throw it into the lake—if she sinks to the bottom, it means she is innocent; on the contrary, if she floats on the water, it means she is blessed by the devil , must be sent to the stake.The result of this absurd approach is that no matter whether the judges are "guilty" or not, they can only die.

According to legend, there was a saying in Europe back then: "Witches don't want to fly all over the sky on broomsticks? The method of testing whether a woman is a witch is related to her weight. Anyone who is underweight will be counted as a witch."

At that time, Europeans regarded cats as accomplices of witches and killed them.This has greatly reduced the number of cats in the Middle Ages, almost on the verge of extinction.Cats suffered a catastrophe, which led to the flood of rats and the terrible plague, which killed more than 2500 million people in Europe.In Switzerland, people stabbed cloth bags full of cats with sharp knives until they were killed; in Copenhagen, cats were thrown from high clock towers in order to hear their dying screams. ?? In 1533, when Queen Elizabeth I held the coronation ceremony, what accompanied the priest's loud prayers was the screams of cats in boxes in the fire.

The 'Witch Judgment Criterion' was a time-tested method accumulated by the judges at that time based on experience, which could prove whether the defendant was a real witch.Look for the 'devil's mark'. At that time, people believed that the devil would leave a mark on the wizard's body. This kind of 'devil's mark' was touched by the devil, so it was painless and would not bleed.Therefore, the suspect's body hair must be removed, and the body must be undressed to check for such "devil marks" such as protrusions, spots, calluses, scars or birthmarks. If found, the suspect is stabbed with a pin or a knife to see if the suspect feels pain.For example: a woman named Ruhe who was accused of being a witch was found to have five 'devil marks' on her left shoulder, and another 60-year-old woman named Adriana was also found There was a spot in the center of her back, under her shoulders, where a needle was inserted a finger deep, without bleeding or pain, and she was identified as a witch.

Another characteristic of a wizard is that he does not shed tears, whether he is tortured or mentally tortured.The famous witch judge Bogue once asked a suspected witch why she didn't cry, and the poor woman replied that she had been beaten so much that her tears had dried up and she would never cry again.However, such an answer is not accepted. According to demonologists, the reason why wizards do not shed tears is because the devil taught wizards the restraint method, so that they will be in a state of trance without pain when they are tortured.

—What a ridiculous excuse.

The word "witch" originally meant "a wise woman", while "witch" is a derogatory term.

In modern times, almost all female spellcasters can be called witches.

So, there is a huge difference between a witch and a witch.

Although Diana was proficient in witchcraft, she definitely could not be orthodox Celtic magic.

And Alice learned some knowledge of Celtic magic from somewhere, and also practiced witchcraft. Even if she called herself a 'witch', no one dared to question it.

To be more precise, she should be a country witch.