Arcane Linguist

Chapter 488 Unknown danger

"Sir Roland, this is where the necromancer was recently discovered.

We have followed your instructions to transport him and restore him to the original state of capture. "

One day later, Roland came to the Dolan Kingdom through the teleportation circle.

The battle mages guarding here received the notification and completed some preliminary preparations. Now, accompanied by senior officials, they are visiting the ruins to inspect the ruins in person.

Roland nodded, recited a spell and performed the "Qi Watching Technique" in front of everyone's attention.

Along with a strange throbbing, the feeling of communicating with the nature of heaven and earth and all living things came up, under the blessing of Tronia's magic circle.

Roland once again entered a state where his soul was out of body and directly resonated with mana.

The difference is that the scale of the mana responding to him is much smaller, and it is not at the same level as when he was promoted last time.

According to Roland's understanding, this state can be called "the unity of nature and man."

This is a vocabulary with a strong Eastern philosophy and cultural flavor, and he is more accustomed to using the Seris language for accurate expression.

However, in the magical world of Atrein, there are also some inheritances of professions such as druids.

They also admire nature and pray through the connection with the nature of heaven and earth to obtain divine magic.

The essence here is actually the same.

Under the blessing of this strange power of interaction with nature, Roland's eyes seemed to be filled with magical aura. Looking around, everything began to show different colors and textures as if separated by a special filter.

These can at least determine the positive and negative attributes of energy, and then distinguish the power of various elements and the properties of light and darkness.

Roland saw what appeared in front of him was a funnel-shaped depression like a black smoke cloud.

It does not look lifeless like the miasma in the mountains. Instead, it seems to have its own soul and consciousness, like a ghost lingering over the ruins of a bombed-out building.

But when Roland looked down along the smoke cloud, he found that the source of everything was the corpse of the killed necromancer.

"The secret should be hidden in his body, not anywhere else."

Roland frowned. He did not directly get the exact answer he wanted.

Fortunately, it's not all true.

At least one thing is certain, that is, it is indeed the people who have the problem and nothing else.

"Have you ever dissected the corpses of those necromancers?"

Roland asked the members of the Mage Legion.

"We've tried that and we haven't found anything out of the ordinary."

The people from the Mage Legion whispered.

Roland pondered for a long time and decided to change the idea of ​​​​investigation.

"This time, try switching to level 7 "Voice of All Things". "

This is a magical spell that "makes everything in the world speak."

Essentially, it uses the natural induction of Mana to spy on the magic fluctuations that have been sensed.

Through a series of decoding and re-encoding, you can hear the mysteries that are not captured by ordinary people.

This kind of magic sounds complicated, but at its core, the principle is similar to that of a phonograph.

If the conditions are right, it may even be possible to perform a spell that can take a photo.

However, it is more inclined to the level 9 "retrospective vision", not just this level 7 spell.

Adding the dimension of "image" will complicate things. This is why Roland only invented the sound of all things and did not repeatedly invent "retrospective vision".

After this spell was cast, Roland listened carefully, and indeed caught bursts of rustling sounds coming from the void, with an unreal texture like an old tape.

"……""Strange."

Roland frowned slightly.

"What's wrong, Your Excellency?"

Others couldn't hear these sounds, so they said with a little doubt.

"This is too 'clean'..."

"clean?"

"I mean, the background noise it leaves behind is so bland.

It's like...it's like someone has wiped away his consciousness! "

Roland had never seen this kind of thing before, and for a moment, it was hard to find the right expression.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he still found a more vivid way of saying it in his impression.

"If I have to describe it, it's like a degaussed tape!"

The "Voice of All Things" did not hear anything from the souls of these dead.

It can only be said that they have been "degaussed".

"Did Ren really do it? Some evil gods have the means to erase their souls, but was this before they started causing trouble everywhere, or after that?
If it were before, what would be the thing that dominated their behavioral consciousness? "

Roland asked many questions one after another, gradually sorting out the clues of the investigation and exploration, and gradually came to the "key factors".

These "key factors" can be deduced and calculated by adding "operations research" models.

Roland temporarily dismissed everyone, and after sitting quietly for a while, he cast his own level 9 spell:
"It's a perfect strategy"!
"~~~......"

He also added the "factors" he had obtained before, and it seemed like thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind, and finally turned into a flash of inspiration.

Inexplicable thoughts came to me.

"I understand, this is a method similar to seizing a body!

Someone has captured the minds of these mages through some means, and then covered them up with intelligent bodies transformed by "intelligence endowment".

In this way, the body that was supposed to be a walking zombie became a necromancer who still looked normal at first glance.

But in fact, these people have already died and turned into someone's puppets.

As for whether it is remotely controlled or exists in the form of other projections or clones, that is no longer important. "

"It really doesn't matter anymore, if it can be confirmed that they are really some kind of puppets...

We must find the source and eliminate it! "

"Such a method is too dangerous!"

"Simply scarier than those mind flayers!"

"What I'm more concerned about now is whether the mastermind behind the scenes has the means to seize memory. If he can seize memory, or control it for a long time and secretly by implanting some kind of program, he will be an extremely terrifying enemy! "

Most of the battle mages have experienced various actual battles and seen all kinds of unpredictable and insidious methods.

This includes but is not limited to various evil powers such as curses, parasitism, and memory tampering.

Among them, the one that can confuse identity recognition and confuse the mage is undoubtedly the most dangerous one.

After all, this world is still a human world, and the relationship between people is the main contradiction.

Roland reported the matter immediately, and then continued to collect relevant clues and pursue it all the way.

(End of this chapter)