The sun is high

The bodies of mages have basically experienced the influence and transformation of magic, so their physiques are often better than ordinary people.

Therefore, under the nourishment of many healing magics, Master Justina, who had been comatose for a long time, finally slowly woke up. In order to ensure that her eyes could adapt to the light, Shuge only left the dimmest crystal lamp. , and smoothly opened the closed door of the ward.

Although Xiuge did have some things and questions that he wanted to confirm with Master Justina, he also knew that a person who had just woken up from a long coma might not be thinking clearly enough. Tina needed enough rest, so Shuge decisively handed over the follow-up matters to Jeant and other members of the Legal Committee.

As for the guarantees and promises made before, the sword-wielding hermit Jeant decisively fulfilled them.

After confirming that the hidden dangers on Justina had disappeared, he took Shuge back to the previous hall and announced the good news to the other waiting mages that Justina was about to wake up.

When the mages heard Jeant's words, a look of excitement finally appeared on their sad and nervous faces. In the past period of time, this was the only good news they could receive.

It is on this basis that Xiuge put forward some of his own ideas.

"I hope to use your 'Eye of Mel' secret ritual."

Xiuge said to a group of mages: "In the city of Salem today, the 'Eye of Mel' should be the only secret communication instrument that can convey information to the outside world, right?"

However, the moment they heard Xiuge's words, everyone became quiet again. Then, a middle-aged mage wearing thick glasses walked forward. He coughed twice and said, "It seems , Mr. Ernst’s understanding of ‘Mel’s Eye’ seems to be relatively limited?”

Shuge laughed: "If I really understand it very well, then you should be afraid, right? Please explain it directly. This is very important for my next thoughts and plans."

The middle-aged mage nodded, and then he explained: "The 'Eye of Mel' can indeed be regarded as a large-scale communication secret instrument. In the past, the branches of the Law Committee scattered across Van En would set up such Mystery, and use this to maintain close contact with Merlin Lehe. At the same time, we can also send messages to other Legal Committee locations or other Mysteries under the same system through the 'Eye of Mel'... In fact, all the Mysteries of the Eye of Mel are one, and they belong to a large and stable magical ritual."

"Understood, this is why the 'Eye of Mel' can quickly and accurately transmit magical messages? Because all messages and magical letters are transmitted under the same secret ritual system."

"exactly."

The middle-aged mage agreed with Xiuge's judgment and sighed: "And this is where we feel... helpless, because the main control of the 'Eye of Mel' has always been between Merlinle and... …”

When he said this, the middle-aged mage's mood obviously fluctuated violently. His voice trembled slightly, and he seemed unwilling to say the next words.

Therefore, as the temporary director, Jeant continued: "Since the day of the peace celebration, we have been trying to communicate with the outside world and continue to convey messages to Merlin Lehe. At the beginning, we were able to receive messages from Merlin The response given by Lehe... According to the requirements, we need to stick to the station, gather the refugees, receive supplies from outside the city on time, and find the weaknesses of those monsters."

Shuge noticed that there was a trace of mocking smile on Genet's ferocious face with scars: "Unfortunately, except for the first request, we were unable to fulfill the rest. Later, , the supplies were cut off, and we did not receive any further instructions from Merlin Lehe. After inspection, we discovered that the host of the 'Eye of Mel' secret ritual had suspended a considerable part of the secret ritual's authority in Salem City..."

Jeante's tone and voice were very steady, like a pool of stagnant water.

However, Xiuge felt the turbulent undercurrent in this stagnant water. It was obvious that the decisions made by Merlinle and the Legal Committee had seriously harmed these spellcasters. Even Jeant, who was the most dissatisfied with the Legal Committee, The loyal sword-wielding hermits are now feeling dissatisfied and angry.

Those who stay here and fight are brave.

However, active dedication and sacrifice and passive acceptance of betrayal and abandonment are two different things.

Even this sword-wielding hermit felt intense confusion, anger and disappointment when he learned that Merlin Lehe had unilaterally cut off their authority to use the "Eye of Mel" secret ritual. This approach was inconsistent with magic. The dogma of the Goddess's faith is completely contradictory.

When he heard these "bad news", Xiuge was still in a calm state. He looked at the middle-aged mage responsible for maintaining the secret ceremony and asked slowly: "So, the 'Eye of Mel' here has completely failed. ?”

"No, to be precise, we can still convey messages to the outside world, but the first-hand recipients of these messages must be Merlin Lehe... If they are unwilling to let our messages be transmitted to the outside world, they can directly eliminate them. "

The middle-aged mage said sadly: "Before that, we had sent messages to Merlin Lehe countless times. It was as if they had completely given up on us and did not respond to any communication at all."

Hearing this, Xiuge grinned: "In other words, they can actually receive the message here, right?"

"Theoretically... it's like this."

"that's enough."

…

At three o'clock in the morning, Shuge, who was resting in the Legal Committee's residence, was notified that Master Justina, who had been unconscious for a long time, finally woke up. After figuring out a series of things that had happened before, the magic scholar He immediately asked to meet with Xiuge.

Xiuge is naturally happy with this.

So he temporarily interrupted his "digestion" process of Bolva's memories, and quickly classified and organized the complex memories from Bolva.

In these memories, Xiuge focused on the content related to the Black Sun Society, including the distribution of the Black Sun Society's personnel throughout Salem City and some special rituals and magic they may use.

Among them was the method used by Bolva and others to "secretly plot" Master Justina.

It is a kind of lost magic that has been studied by the magicians of the Dark Abyss History Society. They have imprinted these magics on magic books in advance and asked Bolvar and others to carry them with them when they entered Salem City. Therefore, for them, The understanding of the principle by Bolvar and others is also quite limited.

"Judging from the use and effectiveness process of this magic, it does conform to the style of the Dark Abyss Palace...use the artificially created Dark Abyss descendants as the medium for casting spells, inject the power into the human body, and trigger a series of changes..."

Shuge briefly reviewed and shook his head: "With incomplete magic and incomplete spell-casting medium, no wonder Justina has been able to persist for such a long time..."

He put on his coat, took the Black Sun Scepter, and followed the female mage who came to inform him to Justina's ward.

When Shuge pushed open the door and entered, Master Justina was eating slowly.

There was nothing special about what she ate, just water and bread made by demons. Although these things tasted very bad, they were extremely helpful to the newly awakened spell caster. After escaping from Salem City, Shuge himself , received this kind of treatment.

As a good friend of Justina, the female mage very considerately tied up her friend's loose hair, which could make Justina feel refreshed and comfortable. However, this hairstyle made this girl unconscious. The scholar who has been around for a long time looks even thinner.

The mage who lost an arm showed a gentle smile the moment he saw Xiuge. After Xiuge sat down on the chair next to his bed, Justina sat up straight and faced Xiuge with difficulty. Shuge bowed: "Thank you for your help, Mr. Ernst."

Shuge accepted Justina's thanks, and at the same time he called out the mage's hand to gently hold Justina's shoulders.

He was not in the habit of having a patient salute him.

"Madam, you should know that I am not helping you because of your gratitude, nor for the promises given by the Hermit Jeant."

Xiuge put his cane to his side and asked, "I think you already understand the general situation, right?"

Faced with Xiuge's direct attitude, Justina was not surprised. She nodded gently, leaned on the pillow with her water glass, and said: "Yes, but I didn't expect the situation to worsen. So fast, if I could complete the research earlier and inform others of the results, maybe everything could change?"

"It's not too late."

Shuge smiled: "Since Ms. Justina is so anxious to find me, she must have some important ideas that need to be discussed with me?"

The one-armed female mage nodded seriously, then turned to look at her friend. The latter understood, and immediately left the room, closing the door behind her.

There was silence for a few seconds in the ward, and then Justina moved her gaze to Shuge's face. She carefully looked at the young face, and then said: "When Merlin was making peace, My main research direction is magical creatures and summons... Therefore, after those monsters appeared, I immediately made a request, hoping that Jeant and the others could collect enough samples for me for research."

"These monsters are not very powerful when they are alone. They are like some kind of more ferocious and greedy changeling bugs, so I quickly successfully obtained the first batch of samples."

As a professional scholar, Justina's thinking is very clear. Although she has just woken up, she can already concisely explain what happened before.

She recalled: "At first, I thought these monsters were probably special magical beasts that were summoned and created artificially through some large-scale ritual or evil magic, but I soon discovered... that they were really different."

"I obtained a total of four different samples. The first ones just swallowed some animals and insects, so they were able to imitate the corresponding characteristics. The second and third batch of samples..."

Justina's eyes flickered twice: "I confirm that it is not a simple imitation at all, they are learning and growing... These beings we call sludge and monsters have wisdom. When I hurt in front of a sample In another sample, they even displayed emotions similar to anger and excitement."

"I realized that these beings are capable of emotions. As they continue to digest their prey and understand the instincts and memories derived from their prey, they themselves are constantly changing. They are... they are improving. Own."

Justina took a sip of water, took a breath, and continued: "I have always believed that different methods should be used to deal with different magical creatures. Now that they have wisdom and ways of thinking that are close to ours, Then we can no longer fight them the same way we fight wild beasts.”

Hearing this, Xiuge nodded slightly: "You announced this idea to the other mages in the station, right?"

Justina sighed: "Yes, but that was just a preliminary idea. I was doing more experiments at the time, and the result...I didn't expect that those crazy people had actually lurked inside us."

"This at least shows that you are going in the right direction."

Shuge comforted him, and then he asked: "I'm very curious, madam, what exactly was the experiment you were conducting at that time? How could you actually make these guys give up hiding and directly expose their identities to attack you?"

"I noticed that there is actually no distinction between groups and individuals among these monsters. There is actually some kind of subtle and tenacious connection between them. It may be magic, or it may be something we cannot understand... …This allows them to share power, knowledge and memories with each other."

Speaking of her research results, Justina's expression became serious: "I think that when these monsters come together, they are equivalent to having countless knowledge and memories, but they are unable to judge at all. An innocent child who doesn’t know how to use it right or wrong.”

"The thinking of ignorant children is always simple, as long as...as long as we can find a suitable way of guidance, or 'instill' certain ideas that are beneficial to us into them, and make these ideas generally accepted by them, will this be enough? It means that we can directly..."

Justina looked directly at Shuge, and in a weak voice she spoke out her extremely bold idea: "Control them?"