Hao Ren really didn't expect that one day he would have such a novel experience: studying magic books from the European Middle Ages with a ten-thousand-year-old vampire. This should be a scene only found in movies, the kind that is dark and weird and promotes mysterious unknownism.
It's an abstract movie, and it should take place in a dark basement. But now this ancient magic book is spread in a sunny living room, and one of the people studying it is the current Pope, and another has six hangings on his body.
There is a talisman to ward off evil spirits, and next to it is a husky that is frozen into a dog... The wizard who left this book must have never imagined that his work would be studied in such an atmosphere.
Vivian mentioned countless anecdotes in human history. In the era when "books" were still a luxury wealth, she basically wandered around Asia and Europe, and that period was also the period when the confrontation between wizards and the church was most intense.
At that time, the aliens had declined to the point where they were hiding in shelters one after another. Human wizards who had learned forbidden knowledge took advantage of the Church's unpreparedness and flourished in large numbers. More than half of the magic books in the world came from that era, and Weiwei
Ann has seen many of these authentic copies with her own eyes.
The one in front of me is not among them.
Vivian rubbed the pages that had been treated with magic and recalled a little bit of what happened back then: "The world was in chaos at that time, with mysticism and all kinds of dark ghosts and legends running rampant everywhere, and above that there was even more terrifying pressure from the church.
, the survival of lower-class humans is very difficult. Wizards first originated at the end of the mythical age. At that time, they were just hawks and dogs raised by aliens and the spokespersons of "gods rule mankind". Their status in human society at that time was high and they were called "priests"
and the 'God Envoy', but after the collapse of the Mythical Age, the wizards became independent and became a faction. Later, they absorbed many monks with unstable beliefs and nobles who had lost hope because of the war. The church and the demon hunters were busy dealing with
This group developed rapidly when the aliens were remnant. The poor people at the bottom were easily bewitched by witchcraft, and the number of high-level monks with the ability to eliminate demons was limited, and demon hunters did not pay much attention to ordinary humans' requests for help.
For a brief period of time, wizards and witches flourished."
"This period has also been mentioned in human history books," Hao Ren nodded. "But it is definitely different from the version you know."
"This kind of magic book became popular at that time," Vivian smiled. "A book like this may even cause a scuffle between noble lords, because many of the magics recorded in them can be learned by humans.
Yes, you only need to pay a sufficient price, usually human life, and the lords at that time were willing to pay any price, especially human life. I remember that when I was wandering around European towns at that time, I could often see people being hanged or burned.
Dead wizards and witches, but in fact most of them are fake. They just want to make some fake magic books to make some money, but not every noble has the courage to accept such things, at least they dare not accept them publicly.
Speaking of which, Big Dog, how long are you going to pretend to be an ice sculpture?"
Lily shook her head vigorously, shaking aside the ice in her hair: "I just want to see when you can feel a little guilty! Hiss... I'm freezing to death..."
Vivian glanced at Lily: "What are you talking about? You're a sled dog and you told me you're afraid of the cold?!"
Lily bared her teeth and threatened, then waved her hand: "You continue to tell your story, I'm very interested. I haven't experienced that era."
"Actually, what happened at that time was basically not interesting. The whole of Europe was in chaos. The little things between the church and the heretics were interesting for the first time, but it became boring after reading too much." Vivian put the book on the coffee table.
The previous post said, "What makes people care about this thing is that it records a ritual. No matter how I look at it, I feel that it has something to do with me."
Hao Ren was very curious: "What ceremony?"
Vivian opened the book and found an illustration depicting a strange five-pointed star with various sacrifices placed in the corners of the five-pointed star. Above the pattern was a figure with fangs.
The female figure opens her hands and points to the two prostrate worshipers on both sides of the picture. In the far corner of the picture, you can see a castle-style building.
Lily pointed to the woman on the screen: "So you mean this is you?"
Vivian looked strange: "In a sense, I think maybe..."
Lily said bluntly: "How do you draw it to look like the Monkey King?"
Vivian slapped a little bat on Lily's face: "That's why I'm not happy to discuss the problem with you! Your mouth is getting closer and closer to the landlord!"
"Why did I shoot out of the air..." Hao Renting spread his hands innocently, then looked down at the weird illustrations on the page, "What does this ghostly drawing mean?"
"The ritual of summoning the Blood King," Vivian pointed to a paragraph below the illustration, "Draw an inverted pentagram according to the markings in the picture, and place the fur of the black goat, the dead leaves of the mistletoe, and the teeth of the bat in order,
Limestone and ashes of women's hair are used to perform rituals on full moon nights. Two people stand on both sides of the magic circle, cut their fingers and drip blood at the same time. After the third drop of blood falls to the ground, the Blood King will appear. The Blood King will
Apply magic to the two people performing the ceremony, kill one of them, and transfer one-half of the person's remaining lifespan to the other person, while the other half of the lifespan is taken away as a reward."
Lily listened for a long time with her ears perked up, and finally said: "What the hell is this? What is the devil talking about?"
"Wizards like to record these things," Vivian shrugged. "It's all lost now, but back then, it was a common thing."
"Why do you think the King of Blood written on this is you?" Hao Ren looked at Vivian in confusion.
"Although the illustration is quite bad, look at this..." Vivian pointed to the woman in the illustration, with a cross hanging on her chest, "At least this thing is very clear. There are people wearing crosses in the world.
I am the only one of the vampires. The person who made this magic book is a very strict wizard, so his illustrations are definitely not random. Ordinary wizards will not draw a cross on the vampires when they have nothing to do. This will be regarded as crazy by their peers.
So the only explanation is that the author of this book may have met me back then."
"Have you seen him?" Hao Ren raised his head and asked.
Vivian twitched her lips: "I forgot."
Lily looked at Vivian with a strange expression: "I can understand everything else, but why are you doing such a funny summoning ceremony? Did you still have ambitions to rule the world back then?"
"You ask me who I'm going to ask," Vivian rolled her eyes. "Wizards were originally born from ordinary humans. Their magic system is different from that of aliens. Who knows how this summoning ritual works. Hessiana just
She thought this book was quite interesting and sent it to me, but she didn’t even know who the author was.”
In that dark age when occultism was prevalent, there were many types of similar magic books with no rules in classification, and they were all circulated secretly. The methods of summoning devils or gods recorded in them have basically been lost today, even if they have been handed down.
She was also overwhelmed by other messy folk superstitions. After getting this book, Vivian only studied it out of curiosity, but Hao Ren was obviously more interested at this time: "How about we give it a try?
"
Vivian was stunned: "What are you trying?"
Lily was the only one who reacted very quickly to such amusing things, and she immediately understood what Hao Ren meant: "I'm calling you!"
"...Nervous," Vivian rolled her eyes and turned towards the kitchen, "I'm going to cook, you two can just mess around."
Doudou immediately jumped out from nowhere and happily followed Vivian: "I'm going to help light the fire! Help light the fire!"
"Keep her away from the gas tank!" Hao Ren quickly greeted from behind, then turned to look at Lily and lowered his voice, "Shall we try the summoning ritual above?"
Lily nodded vigorously with excitement on her face: "Okay!"
"But it says that it can only be summoned on a full-moon night," Hao Ren frowned, "It's really troublesome, it has to be done at a fixed location."
Lily waggled her tail excitedly: "Tonight is the full moon, I've been excited for several days."
No wonder this husky is so energetic today!
(I still have to go out to do errands, and it’s a whole day, so I’ll update in advance... I finally ran out of manuscripts when I went out to do errands continuously =.=) (To be continued)