Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

As soon as Plavix finished asking, he found that another thread had also appeared, and it ended up winding around the thread ball.He sighed, but Zhou Lingke gave him the answer.

"This is it." He raised his hand to show off the string ball in his hand.

"what?"

"This is the soul of the person who cast the curse, but besides the culprit, there are other people. There are other people who died from this..." Zhou Lingke wanted to say that X disease, but changed his words in time, "Curse, Right?"

"Yes, there are about six known people." Polivi still had a lot to say, but he looked at the king, and Hill VI's eyes were fixed on the bed net, but Polivi knew that he now Fell asleep.This is simply a miracle. You must know that for a long time, he can only rely on powerful magic and drugs to fall asleep. "Thank you for everything, Nick. Now, I have to inform other people."

"Master Bolivi!" Zhou Lingke hurriedly stopped Bolivi who was about to leave, "Can I have a place to rest?"

In fact, he wasn't tired, because what he did just now didn't use any mental power, it was just... the law.The curse itself is actually an exchange of laws. Zhou Lingke, who has a powerful cheating device, can directly materialize it, so he has the seemingly harmless string ball in his hand.He asked to leave only because he really didn't want to be with His Majesty the King.

"Of course, of course. You really need to rest." Polivi signaled Zhou Lingke to go with him. After they walked out of the second door, Master Plivvi called his attendants and took him to a lounge.There was a bed, food and wine, and even before the attendant left, he clearly stated that if Zhou Lingke needed, there would be beautiful maids or handsome servants waiting for his orders at any time, but Zhou Lingke quickly refused.

"Meow~" Zhou Lingke put the ball on the table, and he was a little worried whether the ball would penetrate the table and fall.But in the end, his worry was unfounded. The ball of string, after rolling twice lightly like a ball of string, landed on the table.Zhou Lingke turned around and poured himself a glass of wine. The glass here is extremely expensive, and it may be used as tableware in some wealthy countries. Otherwise, it will only appear in alchemy equipment under normal circumstances, but Mangtan is definitely not a wealthy country, so , the cups used by Zhou Lingke are made of pottery.

The wine he and Sean had tasted at Old John's had really failed to impress them.But now the wine he drank was much better, at least it tasted like wine instead of moldy grape juice.

But in the short time he poured the wine and took a sip, he was startled when he turned around - the big cat was in a fierce battle with the ball of wool at the moment!The ball of yarn has already entangled the big cat's four paws, but the big cat still insists on biting a piece of thread!

Zhou Lingke quickly rescued the big cat's four paws, but the big cat was still biting the thread tightly, Zhou Lingke could only pinch its small mouth as gently as possible, and after a while of coaxing, the big cat finally let go of its mouth.

And the thread that had been scattered into a ball, after the big cat let go, slowly and silently recovered into a ball of thread.

"That can't be eaten."

"Meow~~~" With a protracted cry, the little paws pressed on Zhou Lingke's shoulders, gently... not so much scratching, but rubbing.The hard heart will also soften at this time.

"You can't eat it." But Zhou Lingke was extremely firm.

"Meow!" The big cat ran out of his arms and sat on the other side of the table, pointing its back at Zhou Lingke to show that it was angry.

"I really can't eat it." Zhou Lingke ran over to touch its head, the big cat turned around again, still facing Zhou Lingke with its small back, "Go back and give you more food and fish?" I have been on the road these days, even passing through big cities. I didn't go in, rest and replenish water are also at the post station, of course it is impossible to have everything I want.Especially the fish that big cats love to eat has not been seen for a long time.

Sure enough, the drooping little ears immediately stood up, and after Zhou Lingke persuaded him for a long time, it screamed "Meow Meow~" and threw itself back into Zhou Lingke's arms.Holding it in his arms, Zhou Lingke turned his head and continued to look at the thread ball in embarrassment, not knowing what to do with it.Because this ball of thread is the soul, the soul of the caster who has died is in it, and the souls of other innocent dead people infected by the king are also in it.But... It cannot be said that these are souls, because they have no emotion and consciousness. After being removed from the king's body by Zhou Lingke, only a distorted soul itself remains.

In fact, feeding the big cats is the simplest "environmentally friendly" solution, but then even the last existence of these people will disappear, and there will be no chance of entering reincarnation in this world at all, so Zhou Lingke can't do it.

Zhou Lingke and the big cat ate half an apple, and just as the last piece disappeared into the big cat's mouth, the door suddenly opened, and three old men and a young man rushed in yelling.

Two of the old men, Zhou Lingke, knew each other. They were Master Bolivi and the archbishop who had just shown hostility to him. The other two were strangers.However, judging from the young man's bun, he should belong to the royal family, and the royal family that can appear in the palace should not be comparable to the distant royal family that they saw walking on the streets when they entered the city.

"Ah—this is the curse you said was taken from His Majesty?!" Archbishop Candiboya suddenly pointed to the string ball on the table and said, "Let's see what kind of trick this is!" Then he said After walking over in two steps, he raised his hand and grabbed the thread ball.

"Don't..." Zhou Lingke just realized what he was going to do, but it was too late to stop him, and the archbishop's hand was on the ball.

The ball of thread, which looked like a dead thing, suddenly writhed and came alive the moment it touched the archbishop's skin, like a thread-shaped parasite, it plunged into the archbishop's hand, and obviously The blood flowed to his whole body.

Zhou Lingke's action immediately changed from stopping the archbishop to grabbing the thread, but something even more unexpected happened to him.The archbishop made a gesture, and first, a feeling like an electric shock spread all over Zhou Lingke's fingertips, and he took a step back uncontrollably.And the archbishop has already started roaring: "How dare you touch me casually! You filthy man! This must be your illusion trick too!" While roaring like this, he used his other hand to pull the ball of thread that was only half the size of the past , but it turned out that both of his hands were entangled.

"You stubborn fanatic!" The always gentle old man, Master Polivi, obviously had reached his limit, he roared in a louder voice, and at the same time picked up the Gold vase.With the sound of "Boom!" the skull collided with the vase, Archbishop Kandiboya rolled his eyes and fell to the ground, "Please take the curse out of him, Master Nick. Although I also hope that some of this old guy Parts are rotten to teach him a lesson, but I don't want to see his character become darker and weirder."

When Master Bolivi said "rotten", the three men who were still awake couldn't help pinching their legs.

Zhou Lingke pulled the string back, and while he was doing that, the other old man and the young man were all watching intently.

"It's amazing, it's like a real black thread in your hand." The young man said after Zhou Lingke restored the curse into a thread. There was obvious fear in his eyes, but he didn't know it was for Zhou Lingke. Yes, it's still for the string.

"This is His Royal Highness, Duke Zoe, His Majesty's younger brother. This is the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, His Excellency Shelp Mandry." Archmage Bolivi sat down, poured himself a glass of wine, and introduced Zhou Lingke, " The doctor has confirmed that the 'virus' on His Majesty's body has disappeared, but the inflammation and loss of his body..."

The culprits behind those worsening inflammations are gone, and at best, it's just a matter of repairing the damage to the body.However, Hill VI has been seriously injured, his physical strength has been severely consumed, and his stomach has almost stopped working, and now he is completely dependent on alchemy drugs to survive.He can't wait for the day when his body recovers, and the king will still die.The faces of the important ministers of the three kingdoms were a little gloomy, Zhou Lingke understood them quite well, and he guessed that they were not just here to talk about this.

Sure enough, Prime Minister Mandry answered, "Master Nick, how much do you know about this curse?"

Zhou Lingke thought for a while, put his arm on the table, and the thread moved a bit. The prime minister and prince who were also sitting down were taken aback. Zhou Lingke quickly signaled that it was harmless: "It is under my control. Yes." One end of the string moved more obviously, it was like a snake twisting its body, winding all the way to Zhou Lingke's fingertips, "It started because of jealousy. Jealous to crazy soul..."

"Meow~~"

"Crack!" Zhou Lingke was probably a little too engrossed, he didn't notice that the big cat got off his shoulder, stood on the table, next to Zhou Lingke's hand, stretched out his little paw and gave the string a blow.The string immediately raised its head like a snake, twisted its body, and confronted the big cat!

"Eat fish." Zhou Lingke grabbed the big cat's small body, ignored its "meow meow!" protest, and hugged it in his arms.

"Emotions are the thread. When the curse succeeds, His Majesty almost becomes the curse itself." "Snake" twisted his body and leaned over again, the thread was still rubbing against Zhou Lingke's arm. Several people who saw this scene Personally, I find it a bit unbelievable, because no matter how you look at it, that kind of behavior feels like acting like a baby.Zhou Lingke waved his hand, and the end of the thread immediately went back and rolled into a ball again.

"Can we understand that after the curse is successful, that person will die." Prime Minister Wen.

"It should be that when the king developed symptoms, that person died, and there was still a process of transformation in the middle."

"What does it mean that His Majesty has become a curse itself? What about other infected people?" This time it was the prince who asked the question.

"First of all, there is a premise. The purpose of this curse is not to let His Majesty die quickly." Zhou Lingke paused, but in his head he understood that it was one thing, and it was not so easy to explain it completely. .For his premise, the other three nodded in understanding, even looking at their expressions, they were obviously terrified, "The power of the curse itself is sucking His Majesty's vitality and destroying his body, but because of the curse, it is fused with His Majesty's soul." It's in one piece, so it's hard to notice."

"But didn't you notice it, and even easily stripped the curse." It was still what Prince Zoe said.

But even if Zhou Lingke's communication skills are not high, and now he has regressed, he can also feel that what the prince said is not right, especially in front of Plavi, a master of magic, and the prime minister must also do it for His Majesty the king. Have you worked hard for your illness?All of a sudden, it seemed that the other two elders had become incompetent.Did he do it on purpose, or unintentionally?

"Because I'm a necromancer, and playing with the soul is my specialty." Zhou Lingke, who has been avoiding people to associate himself, the necromancer, and the hair of the necromancer too closely with the soul and death, etc., is now because of He felt something was wrong, and gave Prince Zoe a cold smile.

The prince froze for a moment, and said dryly, "I see."

"Your Majesty has become the carrier of the curse, and those who have had... close contact with him are actually the direct victims of the curse, and it is their deaths that allow His Majesty to live until now."

In other words, the king is more like being parasitized by a curse, that parasite is sucking the souls of those people who have "deep contacts" with him, and the king's body is unable to bear this too huge negative force. collapse.

"But there are still some people who are not with the king..."

"They are indirect victims, but those who have 'contact' with these indirect victims will be fine." No matter how strong the curse is, there is a limit, and the appearance of indirect victims is the limit of the curse here.

"Thank you for your explanation, Master Nick." Prime Minister Mandry and Prince Zoe stood up and saluted, and then left.

Master Polivi closed the door and took out the silver ball again. When the silver thread wrapped the room, he stretched out a hand: "You hit really hard, old friend."

Archbishop Candiboya, the domineering and hysterical old man who was knocked unconscious was the one who reached out, and a smile finally appeared on Master Polivi's face, and the archbishop who had been moved to the side of the carpet before was pulled up.

"It seems that we scared this little guy." Archbishop Candiboya patted his robe and sat down.

"Our discord is what most people are happy to see." This explanation is obviously aimed at Zhou Lingke.

Zhou Lingke didn't know how much power the archbishop here had, but it was probably a kind of balance.But just tell him such an important matter, okay?

"Master Polivi, I..."

"I just want to tell you that you can ask them for help when you need it." Polivi smiled and interrupted what Zhou Lingke was about to say, "Also, I want to ask you, would you like to go to a small town Is it? Of course, with your partner."