In the church, the funeral hall has been decorated, but what is embarrassing is that, except for a few nobles who have contacts with the St. Clair family, and the dozen or so families last night, no one in the town came to express their condolences.
This makes the image of the St. Clair family very intuitively reflected in front of the church.
Arthur felt that the church would definitely seize this opportunity and ask old Isaac to hand over Roslyn Chapel, but this was not what he had to worry about.
At night, Arthur opened the "Hell Bible" again, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a new magic circle under Baphomet, which was the spirit séance ceremony he saw during the day.
The real purpose of this magic circle is to summon demons and sign contracts with them, and summoning the souls of the dead is just the simplest one.
The only thing that embarrassed Arthur was that he still couldn't understand a single word of the Latin incantation inside.
With his soul wandering, Arthur ran to the church again, where he still didn't see any soul except the cold body of Father Ovie.
He searched inside for another night, but still couldn't find any clues.
The next day, today Father Ove will be buried, and Father Belmont will personally preside over it. However, he also brings his successor, not Pastor Allen, but the new priest Klaus Heike sent by the church.
It seems that old Isaac has made a compromise.
Except for Arthur and Schell, no one from the descendants of the masons who had always been friends with the St. Clair family came to the funeral, which made Arthur feel a little surprised.
After the funeral was completed, Vernon, who had been missing, found Arthur. It turned out that someone reported the crime early in the morning, and Juliano Thornton died miserably in his room.
Vernon trembled and said, "Go and have a look! But let me tell you, it's definitely not murder, it's more like a beast, or..."
He could no longer say the rest.
He has also been unlucky these past few days. The corpses in Knox Lunatic Asylum have not been disposed of yet, and he saw this scene again today.
Xie Er was also stunned for a moment, "That old guy is just a liar. He probably won't really invite anything unclean!"
But Arthur knew that the magic circle of old man Juliano was indeed real.
Arthur and Xie Er rushed to the scene, but they didn't expect that Irene had somehow gotten the news and had to follow her. With Xie Er's support, Arthur could only agree to her request.
In front of Juliano's old house, the descendants of the masons were already standing, and Arthur finally knew why these people did not attend the funeral.
The old man Juliano died miserably. His neck had been scratched to pieces, and a black hole appeared in his chest. However, his heart was not dug out, but was directly smashed into his chest.
On the surface, it does look like the work of a wild beast, but Arthur knows that no wild beast would attack these two places specifically.
He invited Juliano's family. The old man had no sons and lived alone here. Only one daughter was married nearby.
Arthur asked about his daughter again, but she didn't know anything about it, which put Arthur in trouble.
I couldn't help but think of seance, but after asking everyone, they all couldn't do it, and the dead Juliano turned out to be the only sacrifice among them.
Arthur thought for a moment and decided to do it himself. He found the magic circle diagram used by Juliano and called the three people who had participated in the ceremony yesterday.
The three people looked at Arthur blankly, and one of them couldn't help but said: "Sir, magic is not that simple. Elder Iuliano also gained such ability through many years of sacrifice."
Arthur shrugged, "You'll know if you try."
He asked the five people to form a circle, then cut off a section of Juliano's nails and placed them in the oil lamp in the middle.
Everyone, look at me, and I'll look at you.
Sher reminded him kindly at this time: "Should you say something?"
Arthur was a little confused, "What did you say?"
Sher couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "A spell! What's magic without a spell?"
Arthur rubbed his hands awkwardly, and even Irena couldn't help laughing.
Arthur could only bite the bullet, came to the oil lamp, pointed at it, "I order you, Juliano's ghost, to show up quickly."
The five people surrounding them felt speechless for a while.
But at this moment, a dark wind suddenly blew in the room, and then black smoke was seen rising from the oil lamp. As the black smoke gathered and became thicker, it finally turned into a human shape.
It is the ghost of the dead old man Juliano.
Everyone couldn't help but gasped at the same time, and Arthur hurriedly shouted: "Don't let go, you must not let go."
After everyone stabilized, Arthur immediately asked the ghost on the oil lamp: "Juliano, who killed you?"
Arthur probably knows by now that the core of the spell is actually the name.
Sure enough, the ghost on the oil lamp finally made a move and pointed at the wall.
Arthur hurriedly came to the wall. There was nothing on it and it was very flat.
This made Arthur frown, "What on earth does this mean?"
"Iuliano, I command you to speak."
But this time his order had no effect. Juliano's ghost still pointed at the wall.
"There must be something wrong with that wall."
But then Juliano's ghost suddenly disappeared.
At this moment, everyone in the room looked at him in shock, but Arthur ignored them, picked up his cane, and began to knock on the wall.
Finally, he discovered a hollow space. With the help of Sher, he broke the stone skin on it and took out an oilcloth package from the gap.
There was an exquisite sterling silver dagger hidden inside, but it had become oxidized and blackened due to no maintenance for a long time.
When Juliano's daughter saw the dagger, she couldn't help but trembled and said, "I didn't expect this to be real."
Arthur hurriedly asked: "Do you know it?"
Iuliano's daughter said with difficulty: "I once heard that my father's younger brother was possessed by a demon because he studied magic, and was finally killed by my father with this magic dagger. "
Arthur couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable, "So the one who killed your father was your uncle's ghost?"
"That should be it."
Arthur looked at everyone, and it seemed that everyone accepted the answer.
But something strange is that the ghosts that Arthur knows about cannot affect the real world, and today's case did break his cognition.
Arthur couldn't help but look at his hand that hadn't healed yet. Was he going to use his own blood again this time?
