After the global recovery, I traveled through

But at the moment when Lin Xingtao was dodging, Lucas recited a spell.

His mouth like a dog's mouth moved rapidly, and spittle splashed brightly in the darkness.

"Darkness—the enemy that binds us!"

While the ghoul was biting, a black light tightly bound Lin Xingtao in place, and the deep black energy kept transforming into terrifying hands, pulling Lin Xingtao's legs.

His throat was full of fishy sweetness, Lin Xingtao's head hit the sharp corner of the book, and now he felt a dull pain.

The ghoul's body has strong oppressive force, and being penetrated by its fangs is equivalent to being grabbed by a big man. Lin Xingtao can't break free now.

But Lin Xingtao did not fall into despair. When the ghoul's claws were about to penetrate his chest, he opened his mouth.

He quickly imitated the incantation read by Lucas!

Lucas can recite incantations, and so can Lin Xingtao!

The strong black light restrained the ghoul this time. Its sharp claws had just scratched through the clothes and penetrated into the flesh, but they had to stop. Its fangs were still poking hard into Lin Xingtao's throat, blocking the flow of more blood.

Seeing Lin Xingtao counterattacking the ghoul, Lucas trembled and murmured: "You can also spell. Yes, you are also someone who has read the book."

He flipped through the book frantically, finally stopping on one page.

"Wither!" he shouted ecstatically.

Then he started chanting, which was a very powerful spell, judging from the length of chanting.

Although the black energy that controlled Lin Xingtao was dissipating, Lucas would attack before the black energy disappeared.

Lucas is sure to win this one!

His forehead even wrinkled with pride, madness bubbling in his disgusting folds.

Lin Xingtao opened his mouth, then stopped.

Of course he could follow the incantation, but Lucas was one step faster than him!

If he followed the recitation, he would definitely die before he finished reciting it!

No, that can't be the case.

All the energy in Lin Xingtao's body was surging, and he needed to explode all his energy to resist this fatal blow.

When the Qi was painfully withdrawn, he turned his head and saw the ghoul whose teeth were stuck in his neck.

His heart moved and he asked: "Sister Audrey?"

He changed his mind and poured all his energy into the ghoul's body.

"Pure heart!"

This is a way to briefly bring people into chaos back to their senses. Lin Xingtao wants to awaken Audrey's sanity!

but--

The ghoul screamed in pain. Instead of returning to normal, it became even crazier!

It made a chirping sound like a bird's song.

Just when Lin Xingtao thought he had made the wrong choice, he heard clear words.

——He understood the ghoul language.

[Brother, why did you want to harm your sister? Kill your brother! Kill Louis! ]

Lin Xingtao's lips moved, and then a similar bird song vibrated out of his throat!

——This is the language of ghouls!

Lin Xingtao himself doesn't know ghoul language, but Louis does, and his body has memorized the pronunciation method!

Some Western mantras are effective only if they are chanted, which is the so-called spirit of words.

And the chanting time of some spells is too long. How can the enemy give you so much time to chant?

Therefore, smart wizards invented a super-speed language - a sentence that originally had seven or eight words was simplified into one sound!

Just like it takes many words to express a certain meaning in Chinese, but only a few letters in English!

Now, Lin Xingtao is equivalent to using this kind of speeding language!

Compared with human speech, ghoul language is faster and is basically contained in the birdsong!

His chant quickly reached the second round faster than Lewis.

[Let life wither in the face of death——]

His throat vibrated to a degree that was difficult for ordinary people to do, and blood spurted out rapidly along the ghoul's fangs.

Excessive blood loss made him dizzy, and the loss of true energy made his body heavy. In a daze, he heard layer upon layer of prayers.

But the spell worked.

There was an explosion that blew away all the prayers.

There was the sound of sparks sizzling all around, and Lin Xingtao came to his senses. A large area of ​​charred black appeared on Lucas' body opposite him, and a big explosion occurred with him as the center.

A few sparks splashed onto the books scattered nearby and ignited.

Amidst the smell of roasted meat, Lucas stood up unsteadily and laughed wildly: "I am a ghoul, I am great, I am powerful! I am not dead yet!"

As he spoke, his vocal cords melted.

But as he said, even though that layer of strange skin was blown to pieces, he was not dead yet.

Before he died, he turned over the pages of the book, trying to find the last incantation.

He was crying and breathing heavily.

Lin Xingtao leaned on the bookshelf, watching Lucas eagerly looking for the spell.

This time, Lin Xingtao read it out first.

He originally wanted to recite another withering spell, but he found that he could not continue reciting it. It might be that the spell-casting elements such as magic power were not enough.

So he read another one.

[Servant of darkness, I long for contact with you——]

This is the spell to summon and contact the ghoul!

Lin Xingtao had previously thought about how many ghouls there were in the Viscount's Mansion.

The answer is——

The wind blew, and the firelight from the books reflected the scene behind the study door.

Dark shadows appeared on the stairs from the first floor to the second floor.

They were dressed in servants' clothes, with polite and respectful smiles on their faces.

However, under the firelight and shadows, their smiles gradually twisted - twisted by the changing faces.

They climbed up the stairs.

Lin Xingtao looked at their shadows reflected by the firelight around him, one by one, changing from people to other things.

Squeaky - the claws that grew out made a terrible sound on the stairs.

Murderous intentions were exposed, and whispers spread from the saliva under the fangs.

In the silence, the servants who had gone to unknown places before all stood up from the shadows where they were hiding.

They ran towards the existence that summoned them.

- With the posture of all ghouls.

The author has something to say: The opening words are borrowed from Baudelaire's "Corpse".

"Cultes des Goules"

This privately printed book has been circulating in Paris since 1703. It was most likely written by François-Honoré Balfour, Count de Rêt, though some assert that Balfour was only the author of one of the drafts of the book, which had long been circulated among occultists in Paris. The book was immediately banned by the church and the publisher was sued civilly, but because the author was a noble, the final punishment was effectively cancelled. Balfour never wrote a second book and spent the remaining 20 years of his life in seclusion.

The book claims that witchcraft and necrophilia were widespread in France at the turn of the century. In fact, grave robbing was not uncommon at the time, and Balfour's book reveals the organization that actually carried out the grave robbing and details their rituals and practices. The organization consumed corpses during their initiation ceremonies, and its members called themselves "ghouls." The book also describes other blasphemous acts of the organization and details their rituals of reanimating (or zombifying) corpses for purposes of divination, copulation, etc. After the book was published, the organization immediately went underground and no evidence of their existence has been found since.

In addition, the book mentions a coven of witches in France, and a secret society of subhumans (ghouls) that inhabit the Paris catacombs and are said to be connected to these witches. The names of Nyugta and Shab Nicolas appear several times in the book, and for unknown reasons, the author believes that the latter is related to werewolves or lycanthropy.

Spells: In the full French version, the following spells are included: Black Binding, Summon/Send Away Nyugta, Summon/Send Away Shab Nicolas, Contact Ghouls, Raise the Dead, Withering, Summon/Control Byager, Summon/Control Black Young, Seal of Vire. The Abridged and Translated versions do not include "Raise the Dead" and all "Summon/Send Away" spells.

Other Benefits and Effects: The reader can make "History" and "Occult" checks. In addition, the reader can learn the bird-like ghoul language and gain the basic skill of "Mythical Language: Ghoul Language". At the discretion of the Secret Keeper, the reader may lose Appearance Points and become more like a ghoul. In the early stages of ghoulification, this book may speed up its pace. ◆Thinking Rabbit◆Net◆Document◆Sharing◆and◆Online◆Reading◆

--Incomplete excerpt from Douban's "Detailed Introduction to Cthulhu Mythos Magic Book", the book in it is not exactly the same as the one above.

Chapter 87 Industrial Evil God (Ten)

On the wall illuminated by the firelight is a human-shaped shadow, and they climb the stairs steadily.

Suddenly! Their heads seem to be pulled by something, becoming longer and flatter!

Finally, their heads turned into dog heads, their bodies stretched forward strangely, and then disappeared into the darkness where the firelight could not find them.

Shadows came in waves.

Finally, they lined up on the stairs, with smiles on their dog faces.

They were ghouls wearing servants' clothes.

--All of them.

How many servants are there in the Viscount's mansion?

Not many, but those who have filled the stairs so far are all ghouls.

His face was burned by the fire, and Lin Xingtao swallowed his saliva, almost pulling the wound on his neck.

He could feel the connection between himself and these ghouls - these ghouls were summoned by him.

But he didn't expect to summon so many! Who can withstand this!

He had used this spell before, and didn't only Ross respond?

Lin Xingtao was confident that he could control one or two summoned ghouls, but so many...

If this kind of summoning and contact spell is successful, there will generally be two results. One is to successfully summon and control the summoned creature, just like Lin Xingtao summoned the big dog Ross before, and Ross showed a pitiful abandoned look after being killed by him. The second is to successfully summon but fail to control the summoned creature, just like Audrey was killed by the summoned Ross.

Lucas, whose body was smoking, noticed the movement behind him. He turned the pages of the book with his half-burnt tongue and kept looking back in horror.

He hissed: "How could it be, it's impossible, how could there be so many!"

Lin Xingtao tried to speak a ghoul language: [Stop.]

So all the ghouls raised their heads.

The ghouls stood on the lower steps, and when they all raised their horrible and disgusting heads and looked at you——

Lin Xingtao felt that his san value dropped sharply.

Especially some ghouls' eyes were still so gentle and loving——

Lin Xingtao must have seen it wrong.

After his words, which were equivalent to an order, some of the ghouls stopped, some stopped immediately, some looked at their companions around them and stopped, and some continued to bump into the ghouls in front of them and climbed up the stairs.

The ghoul in the front was wearing a maid outfit familiar to Lin Xingtao, and it was the maid in the restaurant just now. She said: [Master Louis, kill him quickly.]

She was respectful and looked at Lin Xingtao with a gentle look, but when she looked at Lucas who was shivering on the ground, she was murderous.

She said: [Since I became a ghoul, I have always been looking forward to you, the young master, becoming the final winner.]

[Those cream rolls and roast chicken, do you still like them? There will be better ones in the future.] Her fangs trembled and saliva dripped down.

But she was not the only ghoul who was completely inclined towards Lin Xingtao. Behind her, some ghouls licked their teeth with their long tongues and sizzled as they said, "Alas, I am not a ghoul transformed from a human. I prefer Master Lucas, but Madam prefers Louis.