Chapter 396 The struggle between the old and the new Reaper of Souls
It will get dark.
The sky above the royal capital is covered with dark clouds and a cold wind blows.
Cold and violent showers fell without warning.
Even though it was already the beginning of spring, it was rare to see such heavy and rapid rain. The rain was mixed with an earthy smell that made people feel like corpses, and the sound of rain hitting the buildings was even more disturbing.
Even if something good happened originally, the joyful mood will become gloomy and irritable due to the sudden rainstorm.
There must be some people complaining that the rain came too suddenly——
This is indeed the case.
Just coming into contact with the rain will make your mood worse...or in other words, it will synchronize your mood to the caster.
——Because this is the signature spell of "Dream Stealer" Denton, the "thoughts are like rain" of the soul-stealing school.
"The purest spiritual medium..."
The white-haired old man looked at the heavy rain outside and murmured in a low voice.
His ice-blue pupils are as calm as water, and you can feel reassured just by looking at him.
Denton was now stroking the wall and staring intently at the wall in front of him. It was as if he could see the person outside the palace through the wall.
He is not a hunter, and of course he does not have vision that can penetrate walls.
But for Denton, the heavy rain in this city is his eyes——
If you can look over from the soul state, you can see a sky-like ice-blue light on Denton's head, leading straight to the sky.
The dark clouds were penetrated by the beam of light, and it was like opening a pair of cold, emotionless eyes to look at the earth.
Under the dark clouds, hundreds or thousands of weak silver threads fell straight down with the raindrops, connecting to the heads of the royal guards.
Without receiving orders, they directly grabbed weapons and rushed towards the side hall where the fourth prince was, fully armed.
Then came the slightly more remote extraordinary troops.
Then came the secret troops gathering from all directions.
Those who were exposed to the rain came quickly and silently at the same moment.
The bottom layers of their pupils all shone with a light halo of ice blue.
——These are the traces affected by the gold-level standard soul-stealing spell [Comprehensive Control].
Regardless of whether they are mortals, ritual masters or supernatural beings, as long as they are hit by comprehensive manipulation and fail to pass a Will saving throw, they will directly lose control of their bodies.
Different from the silver-level [Control Heart] aura, [Comprehensive Control] does not require looking directly into the opponent's eyes... as long as an object or sound is used as a medium, the opponent's will can be taken away out of thin air.
As long as the medium is not interrupted, the status will not be released even if the other party is far away.
And Denton can also feel the status of these "zombiees" controlled by him, and control them accurately down to the individual and their movements at any time.
At any time, pull those who are in a worse state to the rear and push those who are still in good health to the front; let the strong ordinary people be responsible for resisting the evil spirits' attacks, and let the extraordinary ones work together from the rear to kill the evil spirits.
Of course they couldn't see the location of the dead souls.
--But Denton can.
Through the spell of "thoughts like rain", he shared everything he saw with the many puppets whose minds he had taken away. This allowed them to see the location of the dead souls... and concentrate their firepower to launch attacks.
Faced with the threat of death, people will be timid, angry, and crazy - but compared to people who can unleash their full potential in the face of a death crisis, the vast majority of people have no command, tactics and calmness in the face of a death crisis.
of room.
However, for a soul-stealing wizard, this is not a problem at all.
Those are not his body.
These are not his life.
What he manipulates, modifies, and abandons is just "others".
Wizards of the soul-stealing school have the highest moral standards.
Because for them, "people's hearts" are just something within reach, something that they least need to care about and don't need to pay attention to.
——Just modify it.
The will of others, the feelings of others, the memories of others - in addition to the quick-acting spells used in combat, the Soul Seizing School also has spells that can subtly change the will of others.
It's like a player holding the console password in his hand.
Even if I knew from the beginning that as long as I pressed the tilde button, the fun would be halved... I would occasionally be unable to control myself when my anger surges.
The "Pure Spiritual Medium" in front of him was from another direction of the soul-stealing school. The "traditional" soul-stealing wizards who were called "necromancers" in ancient times were able to control other people's souls at will.
The reason why different extraordinary beings can come together to form a "school" is because they have something in common and have core ideas that can be understood by everyone.
Just like the core idea of the Transformation School, which is "to create life from nothing"...
——The core and essence of the Soul Seizing School is "everyone for one".
Whether it is manipulating the spirit and will, or manipulating the souls of the living and the dead, it is an act of playing around with others as pawns.
But they eventually split.
There is no other reason... Even if the will is forcibly stolen, you can break free at any moment; as long as the will is strong enough, the controlled person can take back control of his body at any time, and at most it will not be until death.
The Necromancer is different.
Spirits cannot resist the Necromancer.
They have only two options: successful control or failed control, and once controlled, they are permanent - enslaved to fight or kill, and used as ritual materials.
Mortals can't even see the spirit body. The attack of the spirit body extracted by the necromancer is also irresistible to most living people.
The result is……
Compared with soul-stealing wizards who can silently change minds, people are more afraid of and disgusted with necromancers.
This fear is precisely based on his "irresistible" absoluteness.
And wizards who also adhere to the core concept of "everyone for one", who can grow, learn, and communicate, are far better than the dead.
External suppression, internal exclusion, plunder of resources...
As a result, the Necromancer became extinct.
Bernardino Telesio, the "Pure Spiritual Medium", is the last gold-level necromancer of this era. He is also the only one who knows how to summon spirits from corpses that have been dead for more than a hundred years, and how to summon spirits from the virtual world.
, how to pull out the spirit body of the living intact, how to let the spirit body attach to itself and be blessed, a necromancer with a complete inheritance.
——His death will represent the complete severance of the Necromancer inheritance.
Of course "Dream Stealer" Denton also knew about this.
Not just a "pure psychic".
He himself is also a dark wizard who has been excluded from the right path.
Generally speaking, official soul-stealing wizards mainly serve memory operations. They can make others forget a certain memory, or allow someone to quickly learn a certain skill or spell, or they can simulate a consciousness space capable of infinite death.
, or forcibly interfere with other people's nightmares and rush in to rescue them midway.
The soul-stealing school is a very important wizarding school.
It is precisely because they can easily change the minds of others that they care so much about reputation and morality.
But "Dream Stealer" Denton is different.
Under the pretext of helping others treat their mental illness, he quietly stole the skills and privacy of others. Soon he became a veritable all-rounder, and used the memories obtained from other people's minds to specifically target the original owner, using different methods.
, plural false identities, grabbed a lot of wealth and achieved a high status.
So far, his actions have not been noticed.
Or it was tacitly approved by the high-level wizards.
The reason why he was wanted was because when he was providing psychological treatment to a royal heir of the United Kingdom... after taking away all his memories, he killed him directly and dismembered his body.
He used the rituals he learned from other people's minds to play two people at the same time - eventually disguising the other person as himself, allowing the "Dream Stealer" to leave the royal capital, and using this as an opportunity to directly replace that person
heir.
In the end, when he was planning to seize the throne to the end, he was personally brought out by Ya Weng who couldn't stand it anymore - no one had doubted him before.
Therefore, his act of stealing the country was wanted by the five countries at the same time.
It can be said……
"Dream Stealer" and "Pure Psychic Medium" are the representatives of the two paths of soul-stealing wizards.
——They are also two unforgivable examples of using soul-stealing magic for profit.
Therefore……
Even the eyes in the royal capital were focused on it.