Shamans have a high status in tribes, especially great shamans. Generally speaking, every tribe has one great shaman, and their status in the tribe is second only to the chief.
In addition to being the leader of tribal shamans, the great shaman is also the mentor of other new shamans. He is the most respected and knowledgeable person in the entire tribe. Similar to the court mage of the Hinterlands, he can handle many things for the chief.
, is a rare scholar and highly educated person in the Eagle Kingdom.
Generally speaking, the successor of the great shaman is appointed by the previous great shaman. Except for those who fail to come due to accidents and are appointed, the chief will preside over the election among the existing shamans and be selected by the tribal nobles.
Mukai was brought up by Hadir when he was young. Hadir was still very strong at that time and could even teach young Mukai archery and horse riding, and also taught Mukai learning, although most tribal chiefs knew how to do it.
He is literate and has some knowledge, but Mukai is indeed one of the few chiefs in the Eagle Kingdom who is interested in literature and has a deep cultural background. This is all thanks to Hadir.
Therefore, for Mukai, Hadir is not only the great shaman of the tribe, but also his mentor, half a father to him, and he has great respect for Hadir.
"What was the result of the spiritual summoning ceremony?"
After sending Hadir away, Mu Kai turned to Schumann and asked.
"The ceremony was successful, sir. The souls of the victims have not dissipated, but the information I got is extremely limited. They all died in their sleep, and they slept very hard. I just vaguely felt that I smelled something good.
The smell.
Sir, I think that although this thing was not done by the evil spirits in the castle, it has something to do with the undead, because I found the aura of some undead creatures in that camp, but it was very strange and something I had never seen before.
Type, it is very possible that a necromancer has sneaked into our castle!
These people should have been stunned by him with some kind of potion and then killed with magic! That's why there are no wounds and no toxins remain in the body."
"Is that so? But the guards' search showed that no one is hiding in the castle. Since you can detect their aura, start patrolling with the guards from tomorrow. This time, you must search every corner carefully and be sure to find someone.
Get them out!”
Mu Kai nodded and stared at Schumann. Schumann chuckled and then replied:
"I am happy to listen to your orders, as long as you allow me to take away some corpses left by the enemy for study after the next battle!"
"No problem! I can agree to your request! But you must not use the corpse of one of your own. Don't do this, Schumann, otherwise, I will shoot you through the heart myself!"
Mu Kai took a deep look at Schumann, and then said, in the Eagle People, it would be a great insult to the warriors if they were not buried when they died in battle, let alone being used to study or be used as weapons by undead shamans.
Casting materials, unless they are willing to use their bodies in exchange for some money for their families.
Schumann opened the door and left. After walking around twice more, Mu Kai returned to his seat and began to read through the information. He wanted to see if he could find some records about this in ancient books and find some inspiration.
The next day, the news that spread rapidly with the interference of spies cast an atmosphere of panic throughout the Eagle Troops in Sword Gate Fort.
The soldiers often whisper and discuss the various supernatural events that have happened in the camp recently. Almost everyone knows that many horrific things have happened in the camp. Even if Mukai pulls other chiefs to cooperate with the shaman to call the soldiers to give a speech, he cannot suppress it.
The suspicion and fear in the hearts of the soldiers.
Not to mention that the spies then fanned it and set it on fire.
"Damn it, it's those people who are spreading rumors!"
Walker smashed the table hard, and then said, Mu Kai glanced at him, and then said to the guard beside him:
"Go and check to see who is stirring up trouble in the army, arrest them, and I want to interrogate them personally!"
"As you command, my lord!"
Then the guards nodded and left. It is not difficult to find the soldiers who fanned the flames. You only need to ask them in the army who they heard from, and then check layer by layer to find the source.
But the result disappointed them. When they took great pains to ask the names of the soldiers disguised as vampire assassins hidden in the army, they found that the people who originally spread the news had all disappeared.
"Sir, all those soldiers have disappeared, including...including the two soldiers who were guarding the warehouse!"
The guard returned to the castle and said to Mu Kai. Mu Kai frowned and asked:
"Disappeared? Didn't you leave any traces? When did you disappear?"
"No traces were left, and most of the items related to them were gone. According to the soldiers who lived in the same dormitory with them, they disappeared in the morning."
The guard bowed his head and responded.
Mu Kai thought they might be hidden spies, so he immediately sent troops to search again. Even if they couldn't catch them, they still had to find out how they got in. Did the airtight Sword Gate Fort leave secrets when it was built?
road?
But what Mu Kai didn't expect was that the spies who spread the rumors were gone, but the rumors didn't stop, and new people started spreading rumors again.
And the most important thing is that the soldiers in the western camp, which is a camp not far from the group of dead officers, collectively fell ill.
The soldiers in that camp all fell on the bed in pain, clutching their stomachs and rolling over in pain, but they still stayed awake.
The military doctors immediately entered the camp and started checking, trying to identify the soldiers' symptoms. After confirming that it was not an infectious disease, Mukai and Hadir came to the camp with their guards and other shamans.
The condition of the soldiers has gotten worse. They are sweating profusely, their faces are as pale as paper, their lips are dry and cracked, and their eyes are cloudy and dull. Most of them have lost the strength to squirm. They can't eat anything. They just fell down and are weak.
He was breathing heavily, vomiting out two mouthfuls of black blood from time to time.
Those in poor health were already dead. Military doctors dissected their bodies, but still could not draw a conclusion.
"Sir, after research, I suspect that they were poisoned, but this kind of toxin has never been seen before. The internal organs of the dead soldiers withered and rotted, gradually lost their functions, and finally decomposed into a ball of rotten flesh, and this kind of poison came from the inside.
The corruption outside did not stop after their deaths, but gradually accelerated, which is very terrifying."
The leader of the military doctor quickly walked to Mu Kai and Hadir's room and said. Hadir closed his eyes and felt it carefully, and then said:
"There is spiritual breath, but what is it?"
"It's the breath of the undead, sir. I've never seen such a pure breath of the undead. This must be a very high-level undead!"
Hadir turned his head and saw Schumann with a fanatical look on his face.