translating_wizard
patreon
Chapter 749: Rejection
🕑 Added 2023-05-09 08:05:16 +0000 UTCFor evil Dark wizards, parents, relatives, and friends had never been something they needed to cherish.
They were just props to achieve increasingly evil magic, some of the important magic materials that were just… effective
Indeed, what else could be more evil than using the blood, bones, and souls of parents and brothers?!!
For example, Voldemort's father Tom Riddle Sr., Voldemort needed him only when he wanted to resurrect. He needed his bones.
As a devil's servant, Ariane regarded the lives and souls of others as the sacrifices needed for the advent of the devil. She even dedicated her own soul to it and completely lost all reason, along with her humanity. She was no longer human, falling into being a hellish demon herself.
Evan sighed; how horrible it was, the thirst for unlimited magical power!
This incident was nothing more than a sample of what took place in Europe in the Dark magic era, hundreds of years ago, when blood and sin were omnipresent...
The truth of what really took place back then was too shocking and horrible to be captured in books about the era.
"I knew I couldn’t run away, she wouldn’t let me go. I was cursed by that demon!" Shukrya continued, her faint voice being almost as frightening as her tale. "But I couldn’t let her complete that ritual, I had to stop her, otherwise even after my death, my soul wouldn’t get any sort of peace. So before she came to kill me, I changed all the souls in the castle into owls at the cost of my life."
If she didn't lie, that was the origin of the Owl Fortress. But Evan didn't believe what she said was all true, maybe it was only part of the truth!
Like Ariane, Shukrya embellished her sins with noble reasons.
"That’s what the curse was all about?"
"It is not a curse, but a kind of protection. I protected these souls from being devoured by demons." Shukrya said with some anger, then immediately calmed down again. "Of course, I do not deny that it was a kind of protection for me, too. I hid among these souls so that the devil could not distinguish me. "
"How did you do that?" Evan asked, looking at Shukrya who was floating in the air like smoke. "Those souls were all part of this castle in their lifetime. They should obey Ariane’s orders, shouldn’t they?"
No wonder the ghost he saw earlier said that he could not go against the vows he once made, and could not disclose anything about his mistress. It should be their vows of allegiance to Ariane. This magic used by the ancient pure-blood wizard family on servants still worked even hundreds of years after their death.
Speaking of them, those ghosts were really unlucky. They were innocently involved in this conspiracy and could not rest. Until now, they thought that the hostess had killed them, but had to obey her orders.
"After becoming owls, they have lost their intelligence. Naturally, they cannot hear the demon's order to them, and she can't find which of the thousands of owl ghosts is me." said Shukrya. "But once their human form is restored, the magic will work, and she will order them again, just like you’ve seen ..."
"Well, how did she order them, I didn't see her there!"
"This place, the entire fortress is under her surveillance. Hundreds of years of fighting have allowed us to know each other, even better than ourselves. I know that she got a mirror from the devil, and now it has become her body, showing all the sights inside and near the castle,” said Shukrya.
"You mean, she can see us?!" Evan froze for a moment, then immediately thought, "So she knows I’m here? Does she know where the totem is?"
"Yes, but it doesn't matter!" said Shukrya. "She has long known about it, but she has no way to come in. In fact, it is a matter of time. My power began to decline long ago. For centuries, those stupid adventurers who kept coming in destroyed the magic I left in the castle. I can no longer hold her back. She is getting stronger and stronger, and can even leave the mirror and contact her descendants or other greedy wizards to induce them to fall."
Mentioning this, Evan thought of the Owl-Woman, the terrible humanoid monster.
"She taught taboo demonic power to the greedy wizards and convinced them that they would become stronger. But that was only part of it, and they ended up becoming a mixture of lower demons and humans, like what you call Owl-Woman.” Shukrya looked at Evan and hesitated for a moment. “I don’t want to lie to you, I want your help. I can feel that although you are young, you are very clever and different from those wizards. I can tell you that when she seduced those wizards who entered the castle to fall, I also spoke to them through the power of nature, hinted to them, told them the wrong magic, and made them lose their minds after becoming demons, unable to serve her, become pure monsters, or die directly ..."
That was really insidious. Those adventurers who thought they had everything and that they had become more powerful were nothing more than playthings in the hands of these two women. But really, Evan was no longer surprised. From what Shukrya had already told him, it would be strange if she didn't do it.
No wonder Ariane would ask for help, and Evan was probably her new prey.
If Evan hadn't been cautious, he would have spilled his blood and the contents of the bottle on the totem as he was told. He would be caught as Ariane’s slave and Shukrya would not let him go.
"Well, now that you’ve told me everything, what do you want me to do?" Evan said.
"Save me from this nightmare, stop the devil and destroy the mirror. Otherwise when she recovers her strength and summons the real devil, everyone will die… no one would escape. That is a terrible power beyond imagination,” said Shukrya.
"But it doesn't make any sense to me. We are just outsiders. We will leave Dijon tomorrow. Even if she becomes a real devil, that would be for the French Ministry of Magic and its Aurors to deal with. I have a lot of trouble left unsolved and don't want to provoke new ones!" said Evan. After thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head. “To be honest, after listening to this story, I'm feeling tired of all of this. It’s far more complicated than I thought, I’m not too...”
