The Truth of Magic

484 The demonic ritual

As the first ray of light of the winter morning shone through the window, the White Dragon Serus, who was already asleep, was awakened. Its frequent and rapid snores last night made it so that no one could sleep well.

This also made Zhao Xu decide that when he went out adventuring in the future, he would definitely lock this White Dragon, who ate a lot and talked a lot, up in a small black room alone, or he would make a custom silence spell set for him.

To Zhao Xu’s surprise, the owner of this house, Frere, came to visit him early in the morning.

at this moment, zhao xu had just finished preparing his spells. vivian and the white dragon had also finished their preparations. According to what Zhao Xu had said, anything could go wrong during their visit to the wizard Association today.

however, most players could play safe and go offline at night. otherwise, when the news came last night, zhao xu might have already been attacked.

“Mr. Zhongxia, I’m afraid there’s been some changes to the plan this morning?” Frere’s expression was a little awkward.

He was wearing a dark orange fur coat to keep out the cold wind and he was holding a cane in his hand. Zhao Xu scanned the cane and didn’t see any signs of magic on it.

As expected, one wouldn’t visit unless there was a reason. Zhao Xu immediately asked, ” what’s wrong? ”

seeing this, frere said with a bit of hesitation, ” because of the aftermath of last night’s attack on the flaming red lips, Aulu city is in a state of martial law today. Ordinary people are not allowed to go out.

“It seems that the higher-ups of the Alliance are also very nervous about this. The intensity of the attack is even greater than a normal attack. In my impression, only the ‘Balor attack’ fifteen years ago could compare to today’s strength.”

“The churches of several main gods in the city have sent their bishops to investigate, and several big shots of the wizard Association are also heading to the scene of the incident. So, Mr. Zhongxia, because the big shots of the branch must be present to verify your identity, you might have to go to the place where the incident happened last night, or you might as well stay in the branch for a few days.”

As Frere spoke, he looked at Zhao Xu with a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

This world naturally wouldn’t be so ridiculous as to not have one but two, and there was no room for change.

Logically speaking, of the two options Zhao Xu had right now, the first option would be to personally visit the fiery red lips sect. This would naturally be a little annoying, as it would seem like he was going to personally stop them.

As for the second method, he could directly go to the branch of the Association and stay there. It was just like when he had arrived in winter city, he had used his identity as a mage of the Association to stay in the accommodation of the mage Association in winter city. It was just that he encountered the “slave trafficking incident” in Starfall town that broke out a few days earlier.

As a fourth-circle mage and the president, he could stay in the branch without any worries. Waiting for the big shots to come back and meet him was the safest way. But if he did that, Zhao Xu would no longer have any reason to stay at Frere’s house, and he would also have one less way to get in touch with him, which was why he looked so conflicted.

But Zhao Xu was a little special.

If he really wanted to stay at the branch, he could have done so last night.

Zhao Xu had a White Dragon and a succubus with him, so he didn’t want to cause too much trouble. She had attracted too much attention, especially the legendary mage Ying ergou, who was curious about Vivian, who was a succubus. It was even more so for Olu city.

The existence of a ninth-circle wizard in Olu city was like a dangerous wall to him. So what if he could take revenge when he had the time? what he had lost could not be recovered.

Bringing ‘Vivian’ with him, even if he had the identity of the ‘president of the Association’, would likely attract attention. This made him suspect that it was a test from lady Wuyue.

as for going to the ruins of the flaming lips that zhao xu had just destroyed last night, that would be no different from those criminal suspects who would watch the scene after committing a crime. it would be a very high level of suicide.

He, who was originally not suspicious, might be linked together by one. Once Lux’s shield lost its effect, Zhao Xu would have to face a ninth-circle wizard and a legendary figure.

Just as he was thinking about the gains and losses, the White Dragon Serus asked while eating the food served by the maid, tearing off a piece of roasted lamb leg and chewing.

what kind of demonic traces are they? they’re so exaggerated.

Frere had received the news a long time ago, so he could look like he was in a difficult position. However, Zhao Xu, who he was paying attention to, didn’t say anything about this. It was as if he didn’t care at all.

Having expressed the wrong feelings, he said with an embarrassed expression, ” “It’s said, it’s only said. I can’t guarantee that it’s real, Mr. Serus. It seems like the name of a devil Lord has appeared in the secret chamber where the underground leader died.”

Then he lowered his voice and said, ” I heard that he was hit by a hundred swords. It’s similar to the ritual that the Lord’s believers use to please him, but it’s a little less popular. Usually, only some nobles who believe in that Lord will do it.

Zhao Xu’s hand that was holding the teacup suddenly stopped moving.

“Isn’t this role the wrong one?” Therus the White Dragon said, ” no matter how I look at it, it should be the kuroze mafia boss who tortured and killed others to perform a ritual to please the devil. Why is he the sacrifice now? ”

As a succubus, Vivian had done a lot of research in this area, but she was listening to the conversation quietly.

However, when she heard the key point, she could feel the sharpness of his gaze even through the helmet.

zhao xu let out a soft sigh of relief.

Although he had paid attention to a lot of knowledge related to Demonic Studies during this period of time, he had limited free time every day. Therefore, he only knew about the most common sacrificial rituals of grazite’s believers to please him. He only had a vague impression of the remaining hundreds.

But last night, time had been extremely tight, and there was a chance that someone could find him at any moment, so Zhao Xu’s execution had been very rushed.

At that time, he had indeed been negligent and did not conduct a detailed knowledge check for various situations.

at this time, he looked at the hot tea in his ceramic cup. although there was a heater in the room, it could not stop the cold air from slowly cooling it down.

Flay’s ” father, ” donder, was a believer of the demon general grazite, whom Antonya had taken seriously.

That was why Zhao Xu wanted to frame donder last night to attract the church’s attention and to stop the Alliance from attacking him.

However, the ritual Flay was performing now was actually a different form of ” ritual to please the devil. in addition, he had left grazite’s name behind, which imperceptibly directed this power to the devil.

Back then, Zhao Xu had nothing to fear because Lux had recovered.

However, the situation now was different.

So that simple ritual was Flay’s ‘unintentional’?

or did she “do it on purpose”?

If Flay was innocent, and if he was to face grazite during the ritual, would he attract grazite’s attention to Flay?

In the beginning, Flay’s protection might be exposed due to this “ritual” due to donder.

“but mr. zhongxia, don’t worry. tonight’s gathering won’t be canceled. the invitation has been sent. You can come with me tonight.” frere continued to show off his connections and power to zhao xu.

after zhao xu and the others finished their breakfast, zhao xu politely declined all of their requests. he said that he needed a quiet environment for the next few hours to study and copy spells.

Frere was used to this kind of common situation among mages. After asking if he needed to provide some materials for copying, he took his leave.

After Zhao Xu told the two of them to stay on guard, he went straight into the study room and locked it.

Zhao Xu then took out the staff that he had bought from the northern Alliance’s Black market.

Now that things had come to this, he had to go and see Flay.

It was not only out of responsibility for their friendship in his previous life, but also because he wanted to know if he had been deceived by the other party.

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As for the level 7 ” advanced teleportation spell, ” it could allow Zhao Xu to teleport to any location in Arthur without any problems, as long as it wasn’t an alternate world.

The only prerequisite was that he had to be familiar with the place.

As for places like the governor’s manor, they would set up a barrier at the key locations, preventing ordinary spell casters from ‘finding out’ what was going on.

It was equivalent to stopping the other party from ‘familiarizing’ the governor’s manor with their ‘magical arts’.

but zhao xu just so happened to have served as a guard in the governor’s manor in his previous life.

In an instant, Zhao Xu started meditating to remember the exact location. At the same time, he waved the staff in his hand and activated the power of teleportation.

The next moment.

His figure reappeared.

“Zhongxia!” An angry voice was heard, with a certain tone.