As Uriel rushed into the aisle, he bumped into Cecilia. She grabbed the apprentice's wrist fiercely: "I saw that woman! She was going to... from the back window!" Miss Carrot took a deep breath. "I locked her out." Her fingers were cold. "Just a little bit."
Uriel's heart was pounding. "Did you close it?"
"It's all locked."
He thought more: "Was there a spray? Did she sprinkle some potion on you?"
Cecilia shook her head quickly. It seemed that Geneva hadn't thought of this trick yet, so Uriel decided to block the chimney and everything else. Before taking action, he put the ring Soren Gerson on the hand of the waitress. "It is the ring of the messenger, which can freeze alchemical potions."
"What if she burns the house down?"
"Then I'll freeze you." Any questions"
Big problem. "Let's not talk about whether we will freeze to death directly." Uriel couldn't help but point out, "Since you have this method, why don't you freeze her?"
"Do you dare to open the door?"
"I remember you can fly, why don't you go over there... Ouch." The apprentice covered his forehead. When he put his hand down, he found a red mark on his skin. "...We create opportunities for you." He added the second half.
"That's a dead man, Uriel. I guarantee you, she was dead when she first came in," Mr. Ring told him, "That's right. She has communicated with you, and she can still move and get angry, but I can judge the life and death of others, at least I am more confident than you mortals."
Uriel was startled. Although he proposes to enchant Geneva, the underlying purpose is still to restrict, not to kill. "She's dead?" How is this possible! I was still talking to her at the time.
"To tell you the truth, it's impossible for a mortal to withstand the fire potion without preparation! I'm sure she's not an exception. As for why the corpse is so active, you don’t want to know the reason." Sauron mocked, "Do you still dare to open the door now?"
The apprentice found it difficult to answer.
"Forget it." Cecilia reassured both parties, "There is no need to take risks now. We will see when she brings the torch."
"Maybe the patrol knights came earlier."
"Or Eds and Mr. Chester."
"My master also..."
Did he know something like this would happen? I doubt Sauron will tell me the answer. Uriel took a deep breath and stretched out his hand towards Cecilia. Miss Carrot clenched her fists, so he had to break her fingers. After a brief struggle, the apprentice retrieved the ring. "I'll open the door."
They all know that if someone does come, they will probably not be helpers. Knox's Bar is strong, but other houses in Clover City don't have the same conditions. Geneva had a whole bag of potions... Uriel imagined the scene of dead people outside the window and almost fell to the ground. By then, it was too late to think about frozen goals. I had to seize the opportunity.
"Put on the scarf," the waitress said. "Are you okay?"
"Not necessarily. But the scarf can prevent the potion from blowing into the nose, right?" Uriel reluctantly responded.
Cecilia blinked. "No. It prevents frostbite on the skin."
"That's it. See that bottle? Maybe it can save my life."
"That won't happen."
"I hope so much." He felt the ring become slippery with sweat. "Honestly, Sauron, how do you observe your surroundings?"
"Don't worry, she's back now"
Uriel turned his head sharply and found Geneva appearing by the window for no apparent reason. His dull eyes fell on the potion in Cecilia's hand. This is a good thing. I don’t have to look for anyone, and I don’t need to be wary of her resistance. Maybe she won’t notice me at all. "When I finish counting one, two, three, you can fly over."
"let's start"
Cecilia picked up the wine bottle containing the potion and slowly approached the window. She gestured with her eyes. Uriel pressed his hand on the door bolt, his heartbeat vibrating in his eardrums. There's no way I can make a mistake. He imagined himself being touched or even caught by a corpse, and he couldn't help but tremble all over. When the critical moment came, the apprentice blurted out: "Three."
"..."
He really deserves a slap in the face. The mistake was really fatal, but fortunately Mr. Ring remained calm. Uriel had to pretend not to notice: "Two..."
"Back off!" "Don't read it"
The last word was swallowed back in his throat. The apprentice turned around and ran away without thinking. His response was timely. With a click, a pitch-black nail penetrated the door panel and cut the swaying wind chime to the ground.
To mortal eyes, wood seems to be much more reliable than glass, but in fact it is not.
All Uriel's plans came to nothing. He stared at the crack. "I remember Mr. Haynes had just changed the doors."
"That's it. He didn't reinforce it." Cecilia's fingers trembled slightly. "Not like glass."
Well, the result is obvious. "There is another guy outside the door. I'm afraid he is not here to help us." The apprentice told her, "They will come in soon."
Cecilia looked at him, as if she didn't understand the meaning of his words. Maybe she was just too frightened to speak. Even people who grew up in the other world still have no way to deal with mysterious disasters. At this moment, a spike-like nail penetrated the door panel. The sound made them shiver at the same time.
"Has anything like this ever happened to you?" He wanted Eds Haynes to be prepared.
"You met me before the undead, Uriel, which is enough to explain the situation. There can be no undead in Four Leaf City." The waitress said softly, "They are the people of Gavash, and everyone will go there after death." There. Gavash is the outpost of hell! Why are the undead in Four Leaf City?"
Nothing can be done. Uriel stepped back unconsciously, and before they knew it, they had reached the end of the aisle, with the bar behind them. The experienced protagonist of the story would probably have used his brain at this moment to think of a way to escape. Unfortunately, he had difficulty even thinking. Maybe we should go upstairs and escape into the street, but Favrench is clearly not safe. It would be better to hide it in a wine cellar, but they were unprepared, so how long could they hide it?
"Look behind the window" ring reminder. Uriel turned his head and found that the woman in the black dress was gone. "She also came to the door"
"Can you stop them?" Right now, only the messenger's ring is the life-saving straw. Uriel didn't even dare to have high expectations.
"The situation is special, I don't need to scare you," Sauron said, "If there were other ways, I would have used them long ago. Now we can only consider freezing.』
"What's going on with your magic?" The wood continued to break.
"That's my master's magic. Are you asking about experience? Just look at Eds Haynes and you'll understand. He doesn't like wearing scarves. All I can say is that I will try my best to ensure that the probability of your survival is higher than falling into the hands of the undead.』
That doesn't sound good. "Tell me about the effect."
"Completely freeze any target within five yards, but there is only one chance. After inducing the mystery, my stored magic power will be exhausted.』
Uriel understood. Taken together, the magic left to them by the envoy is not "protection" in nature, but "annihilation" for the enemy. It is certainly important to be aware of this, otherwise they will have to pay the price unnecessarily. It's better to let the enemy suffer the consequences of freezing.
The wooden door was crumbling, revealing half of Geneva's face. She threw away the mask, and on her pale face, a pair of gray eyes stared at Cecilia, and her nose was covered with ferocious wrinkles. The apprentice stood in front of Cecilia, who at some point pulled out several table knives and a pair of scissors. Anyway, holding something is better than nothing. In the end, he chose the stool and slowly approached the door with it.
"You won't stick to your original plan"
"They are gathered together." Uriel said, "In this way, there seems to be no difference between one and the other." Being frozen into ice is just as dangerous, but he knows that in front of Sauron, the ring that manipulates magic, he needs to cleverly Bypass such topics. "After solving these two, Lord Garrison and the others will have to face fewer...dead people."
"Even if you say so, I only have one magic," the ring warned, "Other people's lives are their own responsibility and have nothing to do with you." Especially Haynes, he can be regarded as the nemesis of undead creatures, you don’t need to worry about it.」
"You have to try it. Could it be that your trick is not reliable?"
"How dare you treat magic as a trick" Sauron was immediately annoyed, "Since you insist, then I will let you see it."
He has arrived at the door. The cracks are getting bigger and bigger, and the strange sound of wood being planed outside the door is getting louder and louder. When Sauron slipped through the crack, he bumped into the nails that were protruding in. Somehow, the latter got stuck on the door.
Within a few seconds, Uriel felt a chill. This time it was not a delusion caused by panic, but the actual temperature was slowly dropping. He saw frost crawling up the doorframe and the floor covering with a thin layer of ice. His vision gradually blurred, shrouded by the clouds expelled from his violent breathing. Thanks to Cecilia's scarf, otherwise the apprentice would probably have been frozen.
"I froze its head," Ring proudly told him of the result. "Magic killed the ghoul completely"
You should freeze your limbs, especially your lower limbs. Uriel asked uneasily: "Aren't the undead just dead people? I think their bodies are no longer controlled by their heads."
"Then how do you think they move?"
"I don't think anything." Uriel said, "No mortal can know monsters better than you."
Sauron was satisfied. It begins to freeze the monster's limbs as requested by its apprentice. "It's magic that drives them. The undead have no reason before igniting the fire, but by chance, the magic power that controls them will spontaneously communicate with the mystery, and then the soul is born from the body and ignites the fire.』
"Isn't that resurrection?"
"As far as your and my understanding of resurrection are concerned, this bunch of rubbish is still far behind." Ring disagreed. "The reborn souls are completely new individuals. They have no memory of the past. It would be more accurate to say they are reborn." Living people reproduce through pregnancy, corpses infected by magic are mysterious embryos, and undead are newborn babies.』
Uriel found it disgusting to compare human reproduction with the resurrection of the dead. Maybe rune beings like Sauron of the Ring didn't pay attention. "So the undead are all mysterious creatures?"
“In the realm of mystery, the igniter is the mysterious creature. Today's undead are actually the mysterious creations of the Necromancer, the hell outpost Gavash - the accurate name should be Gavash, the 'Plane of Sinking' - she is the country of the dead. Garvash may be able to stop some of the mortal souls before they go to hell. These unfortunates! They will become inhabitants of the populating realm. Necromancers do the same job. But when Garvash does not leave Knox, there is a chance that the unburied corpse will become undead without the control of a necromancer.』
No manipulation required. The connection between magic and mysterious creatures comes to mind in the apprentice's mind. It may not be unreasonable for the messenger to regard mystery as a natural phenomenon. "You said there was a mastermind behind the resurrection of the dead in Yotsuye City?" He extracted the key information.
"Without a doubt," the ring said, "after being killed by the fire potion, these corpses should have been lying there waiting for someone to find them. They couldn't have gone out and wandered around!" Not to mention these guys who spread magic potions. While they are creating undead, they are slowly transforming themselves unconsciously. When the city falls into death, they will all become soldiers of the Necromancer』
"I think you can catch him, right?"
But the apprentice was given a moment of silence. "Two hundred years ago, the sunken plane Gavash was expelled from Nox because of causing massacres everywhere. It was the holy land of the necromancer. Since then, no powerful undead has appeared in Knox.』
Uriel didn't understand: "It turns out there is such a historical origin, but we don't seem to be able to use it."
"You don't understand, Uriel." Cecilia grabbed his hand. "After Gavash left, the Necromancer also disappeared. They had no living environment! But there was trouble in Four Leaf City... maybe Hell Outpost..."
