In the temporary morgue of Earl Sauer's Mansion, several paladins from the Church of Mars closed the coffin lid and prepared to take away the Earl's body. The priest stood at the door and explained to Mr. Lambert what happened.
matter.
"There happened to be a high-level spell caster present when the baron died, and this spell caster was better at magic related to the soul." The priest of the God of War Church said to Lan after watching the coffin being carried out of the door of the room.
Mr. Bert and the others said, "At the beginning, through inspection by the church clergy who were present at the time, they found that the baron died of natural causes at the end of his life——"
"Which Baron has a long life?" Mr. Lambert asked after hearing the words "end of life and natural death". After all, nobles in this world can enjoy extraordinary medical services even if they are not extraordinary people. So it is not an accident.
Under certain circumstances, you can often live to be eighty or ninety years old if you want to die. However, some great nobles and people who have achieved enough achievements on the extraordinary road can live longer than that.
"48 years old." The God of War priest also had a look of disbelief on his face. "But we don't deny that some people are born with such a short life span, so almost no one noticed this at that time.
If a mage who was present at the time had not been proficient in soul magic and checked for more obscure soul issues during the inspection, we might not have discovered this abnormal situation."
"What exactly is this abnormality you are referring to?" Lambert asked. The word "abnormal" is too easily associated with a lot of extraordinary problems, which often means there are some very troublesome things hidden behind it.
"After the death of the baron, the soul disappeared from the body as normal, but the mage found that the traces left by the soul clearly did not match the body. At first, he thought that the baron had been
Other souls seized the body, but after a series of special soul-type magic examinations, he discovered that the soul was indeed the baron's original soul, but the soul's age was already over 90 years old."
"I remember you just said that the baron was only 48 years old." Mr. Lambert asked, "So is this a curse or some kind of evil sacrifice?"
The method that can quickly consume the life of the soul is much more difficult than the method of consuming the life of the body, and it is also much more evil. However, generally nobles will receive the attention of the country's fortune and many gods, making this kind of evil magic often difficult to release.
On the nobles. Not to mention that it is very difficult to release this kind of evil spell, and not many people can release it.
As for the possibility of sacrificing one's own soul, it is not impossible, especially since the difficulty of such a sacrifice is much simpler than the curse of others. However, those who have sacrificed their souls will be directly exposed during the requiem mass after death. So this is also
As a result, under normal circumstances, the church’s inspection of the corpse after the normal requiem mass will not check this aspect related to the soul.
As a result, when the count died, the church did not discover any possible problems with him because of this habit. It was not until a second case of this sudden death occurred in a short period of time, and a spellcaster who was accidentally present found that something was wrong, that the church
In response, he notified the church in Sauer County to examine Count Sauer, who died of the same cause.
But because this is not the capital, there are naturally not that many spellcasters. Therefore, members of the Church of the God of War can only bring the count's body to the church, and use the power stored in the church itself and contact the gods to further examine the remains on the count's body.
information about those souls.
After watching the paladins solemnly carry the coffin to the hearse, Mr. Lambert comforted the servants who looked a little flustered. Then he took Lawrence to continue their previous family history education.
Fortunately, Lawrence didn't need to know the detailed history of the August family, and he had a very good memory after awakening Bai Ze's bloodline. So in one morning, he remembered what he needed to remember for attending the funeral.
I wrote down all the things related to my family.
After lunch, Mr. Lambert asked his family's groom to drive him and Lawrence out of the city in a carriage. Mr. Lambert seemed very silent during the journey, and Lawrence also remained silent after discovering this.
In the silence in the carriage, the carriage followed the new-looking cinder cement road around the city and stopped in front of a gentle hill surrounded by fences on the edge of the city. The black church and the church on the top of the hill
The stone tablets on the side indicate that this is the city's cemetery.
"Did my adoptive father bring me to this cemetery to introduce me to the seniors in my family?" Lawrence thought as he followed his adoptive father out of the car and walked into the cemetery. After all, he had not even heard his father introduce the family situation since he was adopted.
Now that he has returned to his hometown, it is very reasonable for his father to take him to get to know these elders.
Sure enough, after walking along the stone path in the cemetery to the hillside, Mr. Lambert stopped in front of the church door and knocked on the door. Soon the door opened, and a priest of death in black robes ushered them in.
They arrived at the small cemetery surrounded by the wall behind the church, and then returned to the church, leaving the space for Lawrence and his son.
"This is the private cemetery of our August family." Mr. Lambert said, looking at the cemetery, which is only half the size of a football field. "Come with me, I will take you to get to know your grandparents and your mother.
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After saying that, Mr. Lambert walked to the only tetrahedral stone tablet in the middle of the small cemetery engraved with the emblem of the Church of Death, stretched out his hand to hold the holy emblem and recited an incantation. As the incantation was completed, the stone tablet
It slowly split open in the middle, revealing a black tunnel that led below the ground. Then the two people each took one of the magic lamps from the row of magic lamps at the entrance of the tunnel and held it in their hands. Then they walked along the tunnel into the underground tomb.
The underground tomb is located more than 30 meters underground. According to Mr. Lambert, this place was originally a natural underground cave. Later, after it was discovered by the August family, it was used as their own family tomb. However, as
After the church belonging to the Church of Death was built, civilians gradually began to be buried around it. The August family, as the local lord, also acquiesced to this practice. Later, this place became the largest church in Sauer City.
One of the cemeteries.
As Mr. Lambert spiraled down the stairs, wall niches began to appear on both sides of the tunnel, with either exquisite or simple tombstones placed in them.
When passing these tombstones, Mr. Lambert stopped from time to time to introduce to Lawrence the elders who had made great contributions to the family history. Some of them created the family industry, and some led the soldiers to defend the innocent.
, until the final blood-stained battlefield.
Seven or eight minutes later, the two people came to a flat land. From a minute or two ago, Lawrence discovered that the surroundings were no longer natural caves, but artificial holes cut out of stones. It seemed that the family members had a long history here.
For this reason, the natural caves are not enough, so artificial digging methods can only be used to obtain more space.
Under the leadership of Mr. Lambert, the two people came to two tombstones that were close together. This tombstone was not as exquisite as the previous tombstones of important people, but it was not just engraved with names and dates of birth and death.
The stone slab looks more like two busts next to each other.
"This is the grave of your grandparents. They should have died in a battle before you were born." Mr. Lambert stood quietly for a while, then introduced to Lawrence. "At that time, there was a dragon wizard
Demons tried to destroy and plunder the city. Your grandparents, as lords, fought until the last moment with the family guards to protect the escape of the civilians. Because of them, at least 50,000 people in the city who might have been killed escaped.
Born in heaven."
After hearing this, Lawrence immediately lowered his head and stood in front of the tombstone and prayed quietly, because people who sacrifice themselves for others are heroes everywhere, and as a hero, the juniors expressing their respect is something Lawrence feels he should do.
After three minutes of silence, Lawrence raised his head and looked at his father and asked, "So how is the dracolich now? Is it still alive?"