Magic!

As Russell's crazy and deformed dance reaches its climax, Medusa's ghost is pulled up from the corpse by the power of necromancy.

A translucent phantom of Medusa rose from the half-human, half-snake body.

"The soul was polluted by the Weeping Fountain, and the spirit was distorted to produce powerful obsessions. Because he could not exert his petrification ability and was poisoned by his own poison, he died in the battle. The resentment was enough.

“The ritual materials are also of the best quality.

"The conditions are very good, and we should be able to produce high-quality contracted spirits."

Russell said with a smile, while extending his hand to the translucent Medusa soul in the air, about to complete the final steps of the ceremony and sign the spiritual contract.

"By the way, did anyone else invade this cave before us?" Russell stretched out his hand and asked Medusa's soul, using the ability to drive the spirit body to force the soul to give a true answer.

"Someone sneaked into this cave and stole most of the Weeping Fountain." After her death, Medusa's stuttering problem seemed to have finally been solved.

"What, someone has been here before? Who is it?" Russell's face showed a bit of surprise.

The next moment, a black ray hit Russell's back.

Along with a pain that seemed like life was withering, a sense of fatigue filled Russell's body and spirit.

Exhaustion ray!

The dark magic that once made Clara and the Arctic Wolf lose their powers!

Russell's eyes widened and the movement at hand stopped.

The climax of the ritual was interrupted by this sudden attack. On the pure white candle, the green candle flame suddenly expanded and then extinguished.

Severe pain suddenly filled his whole body, and the backlash of the power of the ritual caused blood to flow from Russell's nostrils.

"Why? Why? Who?"

Russell turned his head in panic, looking at the person attacking him from behind in shock and confusion.

The red-haired girl walked towards Russell with a smile on her face. There was still a ball of black energy on her fingertips, which meant that the attack just now came from her.

"Starfire, why are you...?"

Before Russell could finish his question, Xinghuo, who had just finished the spell buffering, launched another attack.

Russell tried to resist, but he encountered the backlash of the ritual power and was hit by the exhaustion ray. He was completely powerless for a short period of time and could only allow one random curse after another to be imposed on his body.

The red-haired girl pointed her fingertips at Russell one after another.

Every time a random curse is placed on Russell, wisps of black smoke will rise from the black-haired boy.

Russell covered his lower abdomen and fell to the ground. His distorted facial expression showed that he was in severe pain.

Curse of dysmenorrhea!

Red spots and pustules appeared one after another on the boy's smooth and bright skin. His skin was itching unbearably, and his body became weaker.

Curse of disease!

Russell's spirit became more and more tired, and a strong sleepiness came over him. His eyelids seemed as heavy as a thousand stones, and it seemed that he would fall into sleep at any time.

Sleeping Curse!

After casting more than a dozen curses and confirming that Russell had no ability to resist, the red-haired girl squatted down gently, wiped her face, removed the illusion, and transformed back into a bird dressed in black and wearing an exaggerated beak mask. Mouth doctor.

"I was the one who sneaked into the cave before you and took away most of the Weeping Fountain."

As the illusion was removed, the female voice in Doctor Bird's Mouth gradually changed into a man's voice.

On the ground, Russell, who was in pain, weak and tired, barely raised his head and looked at the standing Doctor Bird's Beak, recognizing him at a glance.

The culprit suspected of spreading the plague in the academy!

A strong double-major who once graduated from the academy and studied the Department of Necromancy and Life and the Department of Mind and Illusion at the same time, Doctor Beak.

"You're not Starfire...where is Starfire now?"

Doctor Beak walked straight past Russell and walked to the corner of the cave. He lightly kicked the air in front of him, and the star fire that fell on the ground appeared.

She seemed to have lost consciousness and fell into a dream, muttering something unconsciously.

Just now, Xinghuo was obviously invisible, and in addition to being visually invisible, it seemed to have some qualities that people subconsciously wanted to ignore.

"Your companions are of no use anymore."

Doctor Beak took out a pitch-black staff, put it between Starfire's eyebrows, and whispered a spell.

"etc!"

Russell recognized the death curse and shouted loudly.

But it was too late.

A crackling mass of dark energy surged out.

The girl screamed.

The dark cave returned to deathly silence.

Starfire is dead.

This is not a college, and no alarms are going off.

"You, why didn't you kill her just now? Why did you wait until now?"

Looking at the lifeless corpse of Xinghuo, Russell's eyes became cold and his face was full of despair.

"I weave a true dream for your companion.

"If I lack any information when playing your companion, I will present the scene as if it were in a real dream and ask your companion to tell me directly in the dream what she would do in the corresponding situation. Do. It allows me to act more like.

"Theoretically, weaving dreams is a skill that only fourth-year students can systematically learn. Fortunately, after leaving the academy, I deliberately studied spells in this field. It's not perfect, but it's enough for use."

Doctor Bird's Beak said and sneered again: "But now it seems that my caution is unnecessary, you don't even doubt me."

Russell recalled the previous scene, remembering that when Doctor Beak played Starfire, he would deliberately explain the rationality of his possession of a certain piece of information or item, and then said:

"When you spoke before, did you incorporate hints into your words?

"Well, not only the basic hint, but also the sense of security that vaguely emerged in my heart when I saw you."

A dual-degree extraordinary person with two professional abilities at the same time is indeed mysterious, strange and difficult to defeat!

Russell had specifically consulted Professor Opal before and learned that the third-year professional core course in the Department of Psychiatry and Illusion was called "Memetics."

Extraordinaries who have reached this level can apply "labels" with mental implications and cognitohazardous effects to items and creatures, such as "trustworthy partner", "no sense of existence", "looks nothing special". "The public face", "a chair"...

As long as other people see or perceive things affected by the corresponding label, they will be affected subconsciously and their cognition will be distorted.

For example, Clara is considered an ordinary girl because Professor Opal imposed a weak but long-lasting abnormal meme on Clara.

For another example, a third-year expert in the Department of Psychiatry and Illusion can use a knife to slowly kill an ordinary person or a first-year student. Even if the latter's intestines are pulled out of the body, they may not notice that someone is doing it. Attack yourself.

Under the influence of this kind of cognitive hazard, the victim may treat a part of his body as a delicacy on the plate, or treat a close friend as a pet and lock him in a cage. This shows the weirdness and horror of this kind of extraordinary ability.

Theoretically speaking, the "making friends" ability of the wind chime is one of the manifestations of the extraordinary ability of memetics, but its use is very narrow and limited, and it cannot be effective on third-year experts.

Listening to Russell's words, Doctor Bird's Beak laughed sharply again: "Haha, you are very smart, but it's a pity..."

"It's too late to be wise!"

The man's boot slammed down on Russell's face, and he pressed down hard, feeling the struggle of the boy below, like a hunter admiring the embarrassment of his prey's dying struggle.