Whispering Verse

"I feel the whispers!"

the priest shouted to Shade.

"I feel it too."

And this time it is stronger. The source of the element traces is still the corpse instead of the dagger, and this phenomenon can already explain some problems.

"Padre, we can't hurt him any more, it will only make him stronger."

"Of course, I understand. Is there a way to temporarily control it? It only takes a few seconds!"

"Of course, priest, lead it under the tree!"

Shade responded, and the priest began to run forward, attracting the corpse.

"Chains of Sin!"

Amidst the clattering sound, dark chains stretched out from Shade's sleeves. While Priest Augustus turned his head with a surprised look on his face, the chain climbed up the tree trunk, wrapped twice around the thickest branch, fell down, formed a circle on the ground, and tied the buckle.

The dagger-wielding corpse followed the priest to the tree. The priest's feet stepped into the circles in the chains on the ground, and nothing happened. And when the corpse stepped into the trap surrounded by chains, with a sudden pull from Shade, the corpse was directly hung upside down.

"Look at me."

The priest immediately turned around and faced him. He used his hand to push away the dagger that was being swung by the hanging corpse. Then he stretched out his hand and pressed it between the eyebrows of the corpse:

"Ah!"

The old man drank in a low voice, and with the rapid rotation of the life ring behind him, in the steam mist that spewed out, the white holy light shone in all directions. That moment of light even made Shade feel that he was in contact with the most powerful person in the world. The power of purity.

But what is very strange is that when using this power, the spiritual runes behind Priest Augustus did not light up.

Those holy white lights gradually gathered on the priest's fingertips. Shade, who squinted his eyes, even saw several white feather shadows swaying down behind the priest in the process.

This is not something that really exists. It is a strange phenomenon that can only be seen by outsiders with sensitive souls.

The white light gathered at the priest's fingertips was finally pressed between the corpse's eyebrows. There was no abnormal phenomenon such as the body exploding. It trembled twice and then completely stopped.

The panting priest took a step back. If it weren't for Shade's support, he might have sat down directly on the ground.

Shade felt that the priest's back was soaked.

"After all, he is not a young man anymore."

The old man gasped and shivered in the night wind. It took him a while to let go of Shade's arm and stand upright.

The body was still hanging upside down under the tree by Shade, and the black dagger had fallen off his hand and was stuck on the ground.

"Meow~"

The cat on the shoulder was curious about this scene, but very consciously did not leave Shade's shoulder.

"What should we do now? Send this body directly to the church?"

Shade asked.

"No, it's too far from the church. If this thing loses control and runs away in the city, we will all be sinners."

said the priest.

"But what is this? Why are there whispering elements on the corpse? Is it some kind of relic that controls the corpse?"

"No, no, I think the relic is right in front of us. Detective, I've read some horrific information about what a crazy ringman would do. I sincerely hope my guess is wrong, but we still have to ask. It’s the soul that matters.”

Shade nodded and looked at the body up and down:

"This corpse shouldn't be the peasant woman's deceased husband and the original owner of the tomb, Musir Naim, right?"

He said suspiciously, although it was wrong to judge a book by its appearance, this corpse with its clothes burned off did not look like an ordinary farmer who had lived here all year round. His skin is not rough, and there are no marks on his palms left by years of hard work. Instead, there are calluses left by years of holding pens while doing paperwork.

Not to mention, although the appearance of the corpse was not as handsome as Shade's current appearance, it did not look like a middle-aged man who would stay in a small village outside the city.

"This should be the scholar who helped the peasant woman arrange the funeral. He buried himself in the ground, so the soul of Mr. Mushir Neem who was not buried complained to his wife in her dreams."

The priest also agreed with Shade:

"I guess this is a very ancient ritual that uses resurrection after death to gain power. It's evil, very evil, and there are ritual contents that I can't understand."

After hearing what Priest August said, Shade went to check the coffin, and then he found traces of the ritual matrix and ancient writings on the inside of the coffin.

Judging from the headache that comes from just looking at them, those words are extremely old, but it is not difficult for Shade to decipher them. Only a single rune could be identified, but what purpose the ritual was intended to achieve, Shade couldn't tell clearly.

"Do you want to channel his soul? I happen to have the ability to channel, and the completeness of this corpse also meets the requirements."

Shade was eager to give it a try.

"No, no, I'll do it. Your thaumaturgy can only communicate with soul fragments, but I can summon the complete soul. Detective, put it down first and let it lie flat on the grass."

The priest said, and the [Soul] spirit rune on the life ring behind him shone slightly.

After Shade placed the body smoothly, the priest took out a wooden pipe from his pocket and sprinkled the black powder inside along the edge of the body. He asked Shade to hold the cat and retreat, and told him not to let the cat jump over the head of the corpse. Then, place the relatively bright lantern in front of the corpse's head, and recite the incantation.

Translating those ancient words into the common language of Delarian, the general meaning is "the return of the soul."

In the cemetery, where there was only a weak night breeze, a violent wind suddenly blew. The wind howled, and the sound even sounded like a ghost wailing.

Mia stood on Shade's shoulders, her body pressed against the side of Shade's face, while Shade carefully observed the priest's ceremony.

Priest August suddenly opened his eyes wide, bent down, and then slapped the corpse in the face:

"Come back!"

The old man's angry eyes and roar really made Shade want to laugh.

But this was very effective, because Shade saw a miserable green shadow that was slapped out by the priest from the corpse... He was very interested in this psychic magic.

The appearance of the soul was exactly the same as the corpse lying on the ground. After he appeared, he was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't realize the current situation, and then he recognized where the cemetery was under the night.

Looking around again, he saw his body on the ground, as well as Shade and Priest August.

"Are you... impatient with life?"

His expression suddenly turned ferocious, giving Shade and Priest August no chance to talk to him.

Behind the soul, the five-ring warlock's life ring emerged. But Shade and the priest were not panicked at all. Ring Warlock is not a pure soul profession. Only the unity of body and soul can control the power of this mysticism. Because of this, the face of Shade's body will gradually move closer to the face of his soul.

Even if a five-ring warlock loses his body and appears as a pure soul, the power he can exert will inevitably be reduced. If the opponent is a high-level opponent, Shade and the priest will turn around and run away at this time, but with only a fifth-level opponent, they can still deal with it.

The life ring behind the soul probably appears as a phantom due to the state of the controller. Several shadowy spiritual runes shone with a gloomy green light, and as the cold wind blew in, unusual sounds came from the surrounding land.

"Damn it, this guy wants to desecrate the corpse and revive the undead!"

Priest August cursed in a tone that was very unbecoming of a clergyman, lifted up his robe and stamped his right foot on the ground. A life ring also appears behind the priest. He is proficient in the power of [soul] and [corpse] and is trying his best to prevent the undead from resurrecting.

Of course, Shade was not idle either. He swung an arc of moonlight with his right hand at the ring warlock's soul. While the opponent used the convenience of the spirit body to dodge, Shade stepped forward and appeared behind the opponent.

But this sneak attack was unsuccessful. The soul actually disappeared when Shade thrust out the sword in his hand. This was a special way of moving the soul body.

The soul appeared directly above the corpse.

"You are such fools!"

He laughed and was about to get into his body, and then saw Shade rushing over with the cat in his arms.

"You can't touch the soul, oh!"

Shade threw Mia over, and the orange cat flew over the corpse's face. Obviously the soul has not yet entered the corpse, but the corpse actually opened its eyes on its own.

It is transforming from a corpse sealed by Priest August into an undead creature.

"Do you think there's nothing I can do about this?"

The life ring behind the soul flickered again, comforting the corpse trying to get up. When Shade saw that Priest August was still trying his best to prevent the riot of corpses in the entire cemetery, he casually grabbed the chain on his cuff and threw the chain forward.

"Um?"

His original intention was to force the other person to leave the body and then use the chains to imprison him. Unexpectedly, the soul turned around and raised his hand to block it, and the dark rune chain composed of "Gluttony" and "Greed" actually penetrated the spirit body's arm, and then easily penetrated the entire soul from the front of the soul.

"What's this?"

Soul looked at Shade in surprise, and Shade was equally surprised. He thought the chain had no attack power.

The chains not only penetrated the soul, but dense black traces actually spread along the wounds of the soul towards the entire spirit body.

This soul channeled by Priest Augustus didn't even have time to scold Shade before his whole body turned black and quickly changed color like ink.

The life ring behind it was deteriorating like metal rusting, and the densely packed spiritual runes representing "Gluttony" and "Greed" were like worms squirming on the dark spirit body and the rusty life ring.

Soul raised his hand and pointed at Shade, as if to curse him. But just as he raised his hand, his soul swelled as if out of control. The humanoid spirit body squirmed and deformed, and the intelligent color in its eyes gradually faded.

"He's losing control!"

The priest shouted, and the surprised Shade came back to his senses and knew that he could not let this situation continue.

Holding the sword in both hands, Shade took a step forward and came to the opponent, holding the moonlight sword high at his feet:

"Praise the moon!"

He shouted, raised his sword and lowered it. As the arc of the silver moon fell, the distorted spirit body was split open, and then turned into black ash and dissipated little by little in front of Sha De.

The chains fell on the corpse with a clatter, and the ashes transformed into souls carried a foul smell and disappeared little by little with the night wind. This was the first time that Shade saw a soul turned into powder in this way. This was the most terrifying scene so far tonight.