The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: The Book of the Dead

“Where was I born?” Lothar stared into Karthus’ eyes.

“I don’t know, but the first time I saw you was in Noxus.” Karthus’ tone was very gentle, and he treated Lothar like a kind elder.

“Noxus” Lothar frowned, “Then who are my parents?”

“Don’t you know?” Karthus asked back.

“How would I know?”

“So…” Karthus looked at Lothar playfully, “I thought you were going to come back this time. “5. ;6 Are you ready…”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s nothing.” Karthus said, “Your parents’ identities are complicated, so I can’t disclose them.”

“Why is it inconvenient?”

“Change the question.” Karthus seemed determined not to tell Lothar who his parents were.

“Damn…” Lothar cursed secretly, but he couldn’t force this undead whose strength was unknown, “Why am I in Noxus? I was obviously born in the Freljord.”

“Freljord… so you were sent there, no wonder… no wonder…” Karthus muttered to himself.

Lothar was so angry that he vomited blood. He was obviously asking Karthus a question, but why Karthus was playing charades all the time.

“Oh, I’m sorry.” Karthus noticed Lothar’s displeasure, “You ask, I will answer you whatever I can.”

Lothar thought for a while: “How do you know that my name belongs to Lothar?”

“The first time I saw you, your name is it.”

“You’re lying.” Lothar gritted his teeth. “This name was clearly given to me by a battle mother in the Freljord!”

“I don’t know anything about the Freljord.” Karthus said calmly, “But you did already have the name Lothar when I first met you.”

Lothar asked a few more questions, but all of them were prevaricated by Karthus.

Lothar no longer wanted to ask Karthus about himself, it was a waste of time.

“How do I get back to my body?” Lothar asked.

“Why do you have to go back when you go back?” Karthus said strangely, “Isn’t it good now?”

“I don’t know what you guys think, but I’m not dead yet, I still want to have my own body.”

Karthus shook his head: “Superficial, child, you must know that death is the most eternal and beautiful thing. You are just a fleeting piece of meat while alive, and death is the eternal happiness.”

“What kind of strange philosophy is this…” Lothar started to have a headache. Although Karthus was polite, he didn’t follow Lothar’s wishes at all. “Just tell me how to go back.”

“Sorry, I can’t tell you.” Karthus said resolutely, “You have finally stepped into a happy death, how can you come back from the dead?”

“I’m not dead yet.” Lothar pointed at his body. “My body has very strong life force. Even if my soul leaves my body, I won’t die.”

“Huh…” Karthus’ voice finally revealed a little surprise, “Really, no wonder I keep smelling the stench of life…”

“so……”

“It still doesn’t work.” Karthus interrupted Lothar. “You are still a lost lamb. You don’t know the pain of life or the joy of death. I have an obligation to tell you what to do.”

Lothar was startled because Karthus opened the book.

He looked at the book and uttered a spell.

For some reason, Lothar could understand the incantations Karthus said.

“Only death can separate us…” Karthus said softly.

The body on Lothar’s shoulders suddenly flew out, and a cold magic rune array imprisoned the body in it.

“What are you doing!” Lothar wanted to regain his body, but when the Karthus staff was lightly tapped in front of Lothar, he couldn’t take another half step forward.

“Please forgive me, child. I did this for your own good.” Karthus said in a sad voice. “The existence of the flesh will only cause you pain. Let me help you destroy it.”

“You can’t kill me!” Lothar said angrily, “My body’s life force is endless!”

“Indeed, I can feel that your body is different from ordinary people.” Karthus’ staff poked lightly on the ground, and countless dry ghost hands appeared in the magic circle that trapped Lothar’s body. They grabbed it, Drag it down to the ground, “but the power of Shadow Island will slowly corrode it, and after thousands of years, it will still die after all.”

“You!” Lothar watched his body disappear, but he couldn’t do anything. He was unable to mobilize any magic in his body in the spirit state.

Finally, Lothar’s body was completely pulled into the ground, leaving only his clothes and other things on the ground.

“I understand your anger. Anyone who has something taken away will inevitably be like this.” Karthus put down his fingers and released Lothar’s shackles, “But when you understand the beauty of death, you will be grateful to me. ”

“I can’t wait to kill you now.” Lothar punched Karthus hard, but the fist just passed through his body. “Why are we all spirit bodies? Why can’t I touch you?”

“You haven’t understood the power of death yet.” Karthus’s tone was doting, as if he was talking to someoneA rebellious child said, “It’s okay, I will let you learn slowly.”

“Is it possible to hit you after learning it?”

“You can do much more than hit me.” Karthus put the book in his right hand into Lothar’s arms, “Open it.”

Lothar hesitated to open the book. This book was still the same as the one he saw at first, with words that he couldn’t understand at all.

“Wait!” Lothar looked at the book in surprise, “Why can I understand it now!”

“This is the [Book of the Dead], and some people call it [Dictionary of the Dead] or [Death Words], but I still like the name [Book of the Dead].” Karthus looked at Lothar with a smile, his tone as kind as It’s an old teacher, “It’s recorded in the ‘Ouchen language’, and all the languages ​​​​of the Auchen language are listed on it.”

“Ouchen Language”

“It’s also called the language of the dead, the most beautiful language in the world.” Karthus said obsessively, “The languages ​​of the living are numerous and complicated, and the living who live in two different places can’t even communicate. But the dead are different. All of them can speak Ouchen, just as death has no borders, so the language of death also has no borders.”

“No wonder I could understand her words immediately after my soul was taken out by that little girl…” Lothar flipped through the Book of the Dead, and the content on it was indeed like a dictionary. Why do you need a dictionary?”

“There are many ways to die. Some of the deceased suffered serious mental shocks before death, and after death they will become unconscious and can only speak a few words.”

Lothar thought of the undead he saw along the way. Indeed, most of them would only repeat one sentence or even one word.

“That’s why the Book of the Dead exists.” Karthus said, “Its existence clearly demonstrates a mission, a mission given to the most special messenger.”

“Who are you referring to?”

“You and me.” Karthus put his arms around Lothar’s shoulders and gently led him out of the church, “Look at these dead people in the square, they died sadly, and they can’t enjoy the happiness of death after death. madmen. They are lost sheep, and you and I are their shepherds.”

The night Karthus opened the book in Lothar’s hands: “You will forget to breathe, you will forget to love.”

As soon as Karthus said this, all the dead in the square fell silent.

“What did you do?” Lothar asked.

“The spell just now can make them forget everything in their lives.” Karthus looked at the dead in the square with compassion, “They wailed and cried because the memories of their lives were unbearable. I will help them forget, so that they can Meet a happy death.”

Lothar directly objected: “I have lost my memory, I know how it feels, and it has absolutely nothing to do with happiness.”

“That’s because you are still thinking in the way of the living.” Karthus patted Lothar’s head lightly. “You still have a lot to learn.”

Karthus drifted back to the church: “I’ll keep that book for you for now, read it carefully.”

“Wait!” Lothar caught up with Karthus. “Just let me study and discuss it. I still have a lot of things to do. Return my body first…”

“Shadow Island is very big, you can walk around. As the saying goes, you can travel thousands of miles by reading thousands of books.” Karthus laughed, “I will let that girl be your tour guide, and she will take good care of you.”

“I didn’t agree!” A girl shouted from outside the church.

“She will agree.” Karthus said with a smile.

Lothar was really in a hurry: “I have to go out! If you don’t let me go out, I will do everything possible to get out!”

Karthus sighed: “Why are you so stubborn…Actually, it’s not impossible for you to go out…”

Lothar finally opened Karthus’s mouth: “What way?”

“Soul Eater Night.” Karthus said, “The dead cannot escape from the black mist in the material realm, and every time the black mist accumulates enough, it will expand outward, and then you can leave the Shadow Island to go to other places.” place.”

Lothar was speechless. For a long time, it was like this: “Then I have to come back.”

“certainly.”

Lothar made up his mind, since he can leave Shadow Island during Soul Eater Night, maybe he can go back to Bilgewater to find Syndra and the others, and let them find a way to rescue him: “Okay, next time Soul Eater what time is the night?”

Karthus did the math: “It’s been two years since the last Soul Eater night…about three months later.”

Lothar breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t want to hear that it would take a few years, but three months would be acceptable.

“Okay, I have to continue to point the way to the lost lambs.” Karthus patted Lothar on the shoulder, “I am looking forward to your growth, with the Book of the Dead, you will become a shadow in a short time One of the most powerful existences on the island.”

“One” Lothar noticed Karthus’s words.

Karthus didn’t explain in detail. He floated out of the church and sang a solemn song with the dead in the square.

“Damn it…” Lothar sighed. He walked to the place where his body sank into the ground, peeled off his clothes, and took out the pure white hunting bow.

“It’s a good thing that guy didn’t see the specialness of the pure white hunting bow…” Lothar put the pure white hunting bow on his back, and was about to stand up when he saw something under his clothes.

A copper herring.

It was given to him by Nami, and it was bought by the merman girl from the liar’s fortune-teller, saying that it could help Lothar ward off bad luck and turn bad luck into good fortune.

Lothar naturally doesn’t believe in liars, but every time Nami sees Lothar, he will check whether he has brought the copper herring, and Nami is still on it.Marked with his own face on it so as not to confuse it with other copper herrings.

Thinking of Nami’s good intentions, in order not to make her worry about Lothar, she carried it with her all day.

“Let’s take it with you.” Lothar picked up the copper herring.

He flipped through the book of the dead in his hand, and said that this book was also given to him by Nami, and it was also obtained from that liar fortune teller.

Lothar flipped through it casually. The Book of the Dead did contain a lot of Ou Chen language, as well as a rather large number of incantation systems. Even though he could understand it now, Lothar was still dizzy.

Just as Lothar was about to close the book, he glanced at a note written on the title page.

Lothar – life and death.

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Death is eternal, beautiful, and pure…

—— Karthus