"Karen?" Zi Mao's voice was so unique that Sherlock recognized it immediately: "Are you awake?"
"Nonsense." Karen's voice sounded again: "I didn't expect that after half a year, your strength has improved so quickly, and you have actually mastered the red dragon transformation."
"Thank you for the tip. By the way, are you parasitic in this stone now? What happened?"
Karen has fallen into a deep sleep since she threw the stone to him for safekeeping three days ago, so Sherlock still doesn't know why the people from the Dark Temple are chasing her.
"Master's research failed, and the people from the Dark Temple took the opportunity to attack us..." Karen suddenly choked up.
"What happened to Mr. Seslund?"
"Master...he is free..."
"How is it possible..." Sherlock was shocked and quickly comforted him: "My condolences..."
The main reason why lichs are scary is that they can be resurrected with the help of their phylactery after being killed. Karen did not talk about resurrection or reincarnation this time, but about liberation, which means that the famous Twilight Lord may really be completely free.
Died.
"It's okay. For the master, death is not a good destination..." Karen calmed down and continued: "Sherlock, I want to ask you a favor?"
"You're not asking me to help you take revenge and destroy the Dark Temple."
"I'm not that ignorant. I just want you to help me complete my master's research."
"Okay, it's just that I know nothing about your research." Sherlock also thought of Huayedi's situation at this time: "By the way, you just said that Newt can't help me. Do you know that Huayedi can't help me?"
What went wrong?"
"Of course I know, and it is closely related to our research."
"Really?" Sherlock didn't think Karen would lie to him, but he really couldn't connect the two things.
"Have you ever heard of the Three Deathly Hallows?"
"The Three Hallows of Death in the last chapter of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard', 'The Legend of the Three Brothers'?" This is the third time Sherlock has heard someone mention "The Tales of Beedle the Bard".
The first two articles introduced two artifacts, the Loom of Destiny and the Book of Truth respectively, and even treasures that surpassed the quality of artifacts. Do the Three Holy Artifacts of Death also exist this time?
He couldn't help but daydream in his mind:
In the story, three brothers were walking on a winding trail.
We passed a large river. The water was deep and fast, and it was too dangerous to swim across it.
The three brothers, who are proficient in magic, waved their magic wands, and a bridge appeared on the dangerous and unpredictable water.
However, when they reached the center of the bridge, a hooded figure suddenly blocked their way.
The visitor claimed to be the God of Death, and said that the three brothers had escaped death with their wisdom, and each of them could receive a reward.
The boss is a warlike man. What he wants is the most powerful wand in the world, a wand that can always help his master win in a duel, a wand worthy of being a mage who has conquered Death!
Death walked to an elder tree on the shore, made a wand from an overhanging branch, and gave it to the boss.
The second child is an arrogant man. He decides to continue humiliating the God of Death. What he wants is the ability to resurrect the dead.
The God of Death picked up a stone from the shore and gave it to Lao Er, telling him that this stone had the ability to bring the dead back to life.
Then Death asked the youngest Lao San what he wanted.
The third child is the humblest and smartest one, and he does not believe in death.
Therefore, he wanted something that would prevent Death from finding him no matter where he went.
Death reluctantly gave him his invisibility cloak.
After crossing the bridge, the three brothers separated and headed towards their respective destinations.
The boss walked for more than a week and came to a remote mountain village. He quarreled with a wizard and the two invited him to a duel.
Naturally, if he uses the "Elder Wand" made of elder tree as a weapon, he will undoubtedly win the duel.
After his opponent fell to the ground dead, he moved on and entered a tavern, boasting loudly about how he was invincible with the powerful wand he had obtained from Death.
And that night, after the boss was very drunk, another wizard crept to his bedside, stole the wand, and cut his throat.
In this way, the God of Death took away the boss's life.
At the same time, the second child returned to the home where he lived alone, took out the stone that could bring the dead back to life, and turned it three times in his hand.
To his surprise, the girl he wanted to marry but unfortunately died young immediately appeared in front of him.
But she was sad and cold, and there seemed to be a veil between them.
Although she returned to the human world, she did not really belong here, and she was in pain.
In the end, the second child was tortured by hopeless longing and went crazy, and committed suicide in order to truly be with her.
Just like that, the God of Death took away the second child's life.
However, the God of Death has been looking for Lao San for many years, but has never been able to find him.
The third child lived until he was very old, then finally took off the invisibility cloak and handed it to his son. Then he greeted Death like an old friend and happily left the world with him as an equal.
"Although the story is absurd, the Three Hallows of Death really exist." Karen slowly told the truth.
According to rumors, the first God of Death, Jergal, was tired of performing his duties, so he used his divine power to create the Three Holy Artifacts of Death, and entrusted them to his servant, Garro the Fate-Recorder, to take charge of the priesthood of death.
Later, Jergal transferred the priesthood of death to three powerful humans - Bane, Baal, and Melkor, who were the prototypes of the three brothers in the story.
The resentful Garro was so angry that instead of returning the Three Holy Artifacts of Death, which contained the divine power of death, he secretly took them and hid in the mortal world.
Since then, the Three Holy Artifacts of Death have been wandering on the continent of Faerûn.
"The master accidentally obtained half of the Resurrection Stone many years ago, and has always wanted to study the mystery of life and death from it. However, this news was known to the people of the Dark Temple not long ago, and they have always wanted to seize the master's stone.
Research results."
"You said, this half piece of broken stone is the Resurrection Stone?" Sherlock said in disbelief: "But what does this have to do with my flower leaves?"
"Stupid mortals." Karen sighed and could only patiently explain: "Dream orchid is known as the vitality that blooms in death, and the eternal fruit tree is known as the curse conceived in the sun. These two mutually reinforcing and contradictory characteristics are
The eternal dream created by forced fusion is so magical that you can't even imagine it."
"If this is all caused by the eternal dream, then why didn't Huayedi appear abnormal before?" Sherlock asked.
"Before, she absorbed the master's power of dusk, which effectively neutralized the power of life and death in the eternal dream.
But now, the power of life has greatly exceeded the power of death, the power of life and death is out of balance, and the curse in the eternal dream has slowly eroded the host's body."
"Then how could the vitality in the eternal dream suddenly become excessive?" Sherlock saw that Huayidi had absorbed the resentment of the dead, but he had never seen her absorb the vitality.
"Then I have to ask you, if you carry the Hope Gem of Lathander, the Lord of the Morning, with you, how can the Eternal Dream not be affected?"
"Lathander's Hope Gem..." Sherlock was stunned for a second before he remembered the Lathander's Hope Gem that he had won from the devil.
Soon after he got this gem, it was taken over by Destiny Seed. He tried various methods but failed to activate the power of these two.
Unexpectedly, Huayedi's Eternal Dream unexpectedly snatched part of the life of the Hope Gem from the Seed of Destiny.
At this point in the analysis, Sherlock has completely understood what Karen means: "In other words, as long as the Eternal Dream absorbs the power of death in the Resurrection Stone and the power of life and death reaches balance again, Huayidi's body can recover.
Already."
"I didn't promise to give you the power of death in the Resurrection Stone..."
"Karen, I will definitely assist you in completing Mr. Seslund's research." Sherlock was not prepared to refuse this task at first, but now in order to save Huayidi, he agreed directly.
Seeing that her goal was achieved, Karen stopped trying to tempt people: "Let's go, find a place where no one is around, and I'll save your Huayidi first."
