Baptiste had indeed forgotten most things, including Beatrice's name and a large part of his own life—in fact, he knew nothing but who he was and the fact that he had to come to Purgatory to find someone.As for the necessary knowledge of being a wizard, it is engraved in the core of magic in his body.Such a wizard who has completely reinvented himself is so difficult to classify him, and Hethanna doesn't even know whether to count him as a human or an undead, an alchemical creature or an elemental creature, or even a real "Baptiste".In a sense, Baptiste died eight centuries ago, when he first transformed his life form, and now all he sees is an alchemy core that the wizard had made before he died, covered with a skin made of ashes and stuffed with an obsession that even he didn't know.Baptiste remains instinctively vigilant to all, and while his memories are now a blank slate, he has not become a safe and harmless honest man, as most stories portray.The wizard knew that he would become a public enemy of humanity when he had a complete memory, so he set up a series of fighting instincts and a suspicious personality of strangers in the core, so that even if he lost his memory, he would not easily fall into the trap of witchers or other enemies.However, these settings are of limited use after all, and he can't escape the attention of everyone here.Duncan and Kassandra approached the wizard and inquired about each other's situation, and the latter replied in a state of confusion - although he was subconsciously resistant to Duncan and Kassandra, after all, the memory loss was not too serious."
He thinks he's an apprentice wizard," Kassandra emphasized in her report to Hethana, "and he has only sporadic memories of his time as a human, which he transforms into ......
Eight centuries of experience have been forgotten after this strange appearance.He didn't even remember what the town of Domir was.He only vaguely remembered that he had followed a witch to learn secret arts, and at the same time he was dependent on that witch for his life. ”"That witch should be Beatrice," Heatherian subconsciously rubbed her eyebrows as she spoke, "It seems that this wizard was only an apprentice when Beatrice fell into purgatory, no wonder he had such a big problem with his immortal transformation, he must have been in a hurry."
What else is asked?
”"Hardly anything, he doesn't remember what he's done," Kassandra shook her head apologetically, "but she seems to know that what he's doing is certainly not good."
I guess there are some sporadic impressions left. ”Hao Ren bent down in front of Baptiste and stared into the other party's eyes: "Do you know what the ritual of summoning the Blood Lord is about?"
”"The Blood King?"
Baptiste repeated the word in confusion, "What's that?"
”Hao Ren smacked his lips in disappointment, and when he just wanted to stand up, he saw Baptiste stretching out his finger in a dazed state, drawing a magic circle on the dirt ground, and chanting while drawing: "Two people need to perform the ritual, use a magic book, and place the teeth and ...... of bats in these corners" Hao Ren glared: "Don't you know?"
”"I don't know what it is," Baptiste frowned, "but this seems to be what you're asking." ”Vivien patted Hao Ren on the shoulder: "He engraved the knowledge of the magic part in himself, so that even if he loses his memory, he can continue to find a way to open the door to purgatory."
But I'm afraid you can't ask how he researched this summoning ritual. ”Hao Ren looked at Baptiste for a moment, then suddenly stood up and exhaled: "Take him to Beatrice's grave." ”Soon, the wizard was escorted by two tribal warriors to the temple inside the Pillars of Eternity.They stopped in front of the cemetery of the saints of the past, and Hao Ren pulled Battiste to Beatrice's burial place, pointing to the inconspicuous pile of stones: "This is the person you are looking for." ”Baptiste slowly bent down in front of the grave, with a confused expression and reached out to caress the unfamiliar words on the stone pillar, he had no real sense at all, because he didn't even know who the name of the person he was looking for and what he looked like, but slowly, he seemed to feel an inexplicable peace of mind emerging from the bottom of his heart, as if a long-ago mission was finally over, and he let out a long sigh.The confused, treacherous, mysterious, elusive wizard sat down in front of the grave, bursts of black flames slowly rising from his body, and the flames engulfed his body as if he were unconscious.Under the gaze of everyone, the wizard was quickly reduced to ashes, and this time, he would never return.With a soft "snap", a hard and ugly obsidian device rolled out of Baptiste's ashes, shaped somewhat like a human heart, and its surface was carved with dense runes and circles.This hard thing is the wizard's heart, and the black flame just now has no temperature, and the obsidian heart is cold, like Beatrice's tombstone.Lily gently tugged on Hao Ren's sleeve and muttered in a low voice, "Is he really dead this time?"
”"It should be," Hao Ren stepped forward to pick up the cold, hard heart, it was hard to imagine that a person could survive on this kind of thing for a full eight centuries, and then he looked at Geisel and Bernia beside him, "It's a bit overstepping—but can I trouble you to put this heart in Beatrice's tomb?"
”Vivien also took the initiative to speak: "That's what I mean, too. ”Geisel immediately bowed to Vivien, "Do your bidding. ”Several tribal warriors stepped forward with Bernia to open Beatrice's tomb.Bernia untied a small bag from her waist and took out some strange green powder from it and threw it into the air, then began to recite a prayer to the undead, and the green powder glowed like fireflies in the prayer, slowly gathering on the stone pillar of the tomb and covering Beatrice's name.After completing this ritual, the tribal warriors worked together to clear the heavy stones - there are established rules for opening the graves of the dead in this world.The tombs in this world are extremely simple, whether they are ordinary clansmen or saints and elders of a clan, their graves are simply a stone bag, so those stones were quickly cleaned up, revealing clean, there were only some messy remnants in the tomb, several tribal warriors threw Baptiste's obsidian heart down after whispering comfort to these remnants, but just as they were about to close the tomb, Vivien suddenly saw something in the tomb out of the corner of her eye."
Wait—there's something there."
Vivien said as she summoned a few small bats, which flew into the tomb and worked together to clear the rocks and bones around something, eventually bringing a strange blood-colored crystal with her.Vivian took the crystal from the little bat's mouth and looked at it carefully, feeling vaguely familiar, while Nangong May next to her asked curiously, "What is this?"
”"It looks like an ornament that the witch wore back then," Bernia whispered, "I've read in ancient books that the witch always carries a red crystal pendant, and she draws her magic from this pendant to heal people - but in the end she can't heal herself." ”"Pendants?
How do I feel that this crystal is a little familiar......"
Vivien frowned and pondered where she had seen something similar, and suddenly sensed a breath from the crystal that was about to dissipate, her eyes lit up, "That's right!
I remember!
There's also such a thing in the little box Paul handed me!
”Paul, one of Vivian's servants hundreds of years ago, kept several items that Vivien had given him before she last fell asleep, including a manuscript of her diary and a strange red crystal that Vivien had left before she fell asleep.However, no one knew what the crystal was used for, and Vivien carried it around for a while without realizing anything special about it, so she simply gave it to Hao Ren - she felt that Hao Ren's personal space was safer than her own.Hao Ren hurriedly took out the crystal and compared it with the crystal in Beatrice's tomb, and found that although the shape and size of the two were different, the material was exactly the same!"
This crystal should be mine......"
Vivien looked at Beatrice's tomb in surprise, "Do I know this witch named Beatrice?"
”(To be continued.) )