Chatty Hollywood

When she saw the six-pointed star painted by Cromwell, Charlotte realized what kind of spell Jack the Ripper cast in the East End of London in 1888.

This is the extraction of ley lines!

In fact, he extracted the power of the earth's veins in an area centered on Whitechapel in the East End of London to use it as the energy for him to fuse ancient ghosts.

This kind of spell to extract ley lines is very dangerous.

Because in the process of extracting earth veins, the vitality of living people in a large area nearby will also be extracted.

The degree of this kind of extraction is random. If it is mild, it will only make you more tired for a period of time, while if it is severe, it will be life-threatening.

Although it is not like the ghost tiger Charlotte encountered, which can directly drain a person's life force and cause immediate death, people who have had more life force drained will not survive for long.

——They will soon die from various diseases because they have lost too much vitality.

As for why Charlotte knew so well, it was because there had been similar records in the knowledge that the old ghost had imparted to him.

However, it was a spell called "Dragon Slaying Technique", and it was also aimed at dragons in the earth's veins.

That kind of magic can directly extract the earth veins together with the dragons inside through the method of living sacrifices, and convert them into pure magic energy.

——This spell, as its name suggests, was first invented, and it was actually used to deal with those violent dragons in the earth's veins.

However, later, the casters discovered that this spell would not only cause huge collateral damage, costing the lives of those living near the earth line, but also make the casters themselves half-human, half-ghost, and extremely weak.

After all, how could one slay a dragon without paying the price?

Therefore, later spell casters in China have banned this spell.

——Charlotte didn't even think about this kind of spell when she dealt with the dragon in Malcolm's Sanatorium.

Judging from the explanation given by Cromwell, Jack the Ripper should have used this kind of spell.

——Of course, it may be a variant.

"Could it be that the forbidden dragon-slaying technique was spread abroad?"

Charlotte thought to herself.

This possibility does not exist——

Just like ancient Chinese and Western scientific and technological inventions would slowly spread through Central Asia, magic and even ghosts would also gradually spread.

——If nothing else, isn’t Xu Fu a typical example?

Therefore, Charlotte is not particularly strange.

He was speechless about the obsessive compulsion of Western spellcasters to make a hexagram out of any magic circle.

——If you can, use the five-pointed star!

Although the original forbidden dragon-slaying technique did require six living sacrifices, that actually took the meaning of "Liuhe"...

but--

"If Jack the Ripper was drawing a six-pointed star centered on Whitechapel in East London, why has no one discovered it for so long?"

Charlotte, who didn't know much about the details of Jack the Ripper's case, was a little strange.

You know, although there are never many people who are proficient in magic in this world, people's imagination is still very powerful.

At least, Charlotte felt that historians who used criminal cartography to study the Jack the Ripper case should be aware of the existence of this six-pointed star.

Regarding Charlotte's question, Cromwell smiled sadly,

"The real location of the murder, the six points of the hexagram are - did I say that?"

"I see!"

Charlotte nodded.

Indeed, with the level of forensic science of that era, it was difficult for Scotland Yard police officers to accurately distinguish the scene of the murder from the scene of the removal of the body.

This makes the murder scene known to the world completely different from what Cromwell told Charlotte.

However, this also shows that Cromwell may have been paying attention to Jack the Ripper since 1888...

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In short,

Jack the Ripper should have used this forbidden dragon-slaying technique that came from the East and could extract the power of earth veins. Therefore——

"Was there a dragon lurking beneath Whitechapel in East London at that time?"

Charlotte asked Cromwell.

"It does exist, the dragon you are talking about!"

Cromwell said in a deep voice,

"That was an evil dragon born in the Great Fire of London in 1666. I forcibly sealed it underground in the Whitechapel in East London - that was also the first enemy I faced as a ghost!"

"A fire dragon born from the Great Fire of London?"

Charlotte nodded.

It is actually normal for a fire dragon to be born in a fire of that scale.

——You know, in the Great Fire of London in 1666, 80% of London was burned down, and there were countless casualties.

In that case, a large number of remnant souls of the dead poured into the ley lines. Together with the people's fear of fire at that time, combined with the accumulated ley line power of London as an ancient city, it was enough to give birth to an evil dragon.

——That can even be said to be a sacrifice that happened by coincidence.

"Anyway, Oliver, you subdued the dragon and sealed it underground in Whitechapel, right? Later, Jack the Ripper extracted it in 1888 - that's why you noticed it That guy exists, right?”

"Yes!"

"That is to say, Jack the Ripper not only swallowed an ancient ghost, but also took the opportunity to swallow a fire dragon. This guy is simply more powerful than Xu Fu!"

Charlotte sighed,

"He also swallowed ghosts and transformed into ghosts, so he is not afraid of the power backlash or curse brought by slaying the dragon - he is really shrewd in his calculations!"

"And now, he's planning to do it again, right?"

Charlotte asked Cromwell gloomily.

"If that thing under your castle is really that!"

There was a hint of schadenfreude in Cromwell's words.

This made Alexis on the side a little confused. She looked at Charlotte, who squeezed out a few words between her teeth——

"Francis Farmer!"

"ah!!!"

Alexis suddenly understood——

Although he has been completely separated from the dragon in Malcolm's Sanitarium, Francis Farmer, as a ghost, has undoubtedly very similar characteristics to the dragon.

Especially when she slumbers underground, to the uninitiated – like Cromwell or Jack the Ripper – she appears to be a gestating dragon.

And Jack the Ripper originally obtained his power through the art of slaying dragons. After discovering the new "dragon", he was so happy that he wanted to copy it again, which is reasonable...

"So, Jack the Ripper is actually targeting Ms. Francis!? No wonder this case happened near our "Hogwarts" studio..."

Alexis looked at her director with some worry.

"Charlotte, what should we do?"

"what to do!?"

Charlotte snorted coldly,

"Of course it's to kill the pervert Jack the Ripper! - Oliver, is that the purpose of telling me this?"

Charlotte looked at Cromwell aside.