Chapter 396 The Struggle Between the Old and the New Reaper of Souls

It will be dark.

The sky above the capital was covered with dark clouds, and the cold wind was blowing.

The icy and violent showers fell without warning.

Even in the beginning of spring, such heavy and urgent rain is very rare. The rain was mixed with an earthy smell that made you feel the smell of corpses, and the sound of rain hitting buildings was even more disturbing.

Even if something good happened, the excited mood would have become gloomy and irritable because of the sudden rainstorm.

There must be some people complaining that the rain came too suddenly——

This is indeed the case.

Just touching that rain will make your mood worse... or in other words, synchronize your mood to the caster.

——Because this is the signature spell of "Dream Stealer" Denton, the "Mind Like Rain" of the Soul Reaper School.

"The Pure Spirit Medium..."

The white-haired old man murmured in a low voice while looking at the heavy rain outside.

His icy blue pupils are as calm as water, and you can feel relieved just by looking at him.

Denton is now stroking the wall, staring intently at the wall in front of him. It's like he can see the person outside the palace through the wall.

He's not a hunter, and certainly doesn't have vision that can penetrate walls.

But for Denton, the heavy rain in this city is his eyes—

If you can look at it in the state of soul, you can see that there is a sky-like ice-blue radiance on Denton's head, straight to the sky.

The dark cloud was penetrated by the beam of light, and it was like opening a pair of cold, emotionless eyes, looking at the earth.

And under the dark clouds, there are hundreds or thousands of faint silver threads falling straight down with the raindrops, connecting on the heads of the royal guards.

Without receiving an order, they directly rushed to the side hall where the fourth prince was, holding their weapons and fully armed.

Followed by the slightly more remote Transcendent troops.

Then there are the hidden troops gathered from all directions.

Those who were exposed to the rain rushed in at the same moment in silence.

At the bottom of their pupils, there was a faint icy blue halo.

——This is the trace of being affected by the standard gold-level incapacitating spell [Comprehensive Control].

Whether it is a mortal, a ritualist or an extraordinary, as long as he is hit by full control and fails the Will save, he will directly lose control over his body.

Unlike the [Manipulating Heart] aura of the silver tier, [Comprehensive Manipulation] does not need to look directly into the eyes of the opponent... As long as an object or sound is used as the medium, the opponent's will can be taken out of thin air.

As long as the medium is not interrupted, even if the other party is far away, the state will not be released.

And Denton can also feel the state of these "zombies" controlled by himself, and can control the precise personal and precise movements at any time.

At any time, pull the poor state to the back, and push the healthy state to the front; let the strong ordinary people be responsible for resisting the attack of the evil spirits, and let the extraordinary people work together to kill the evil spirits in the rear.

Of course they couldn't see where the dead souls were.

— but Denton can.

Through the spell of "mind like rain", he shared everything he saw with many puppets whose minds were taken away by him. Let them see where the ghosts are too...and focus on attacking.

Faced with the threat of death, people will be timid, angry, and crazy - but compared with people who can burst their full potential in the face of death crisis, most people have no command, tactics and calmness in the face of death crisis. leeway.

However, for a soul reaver, this was not a problem at all.

Those were not his bodies.

These are not his lives.

What he manipulates, modifies, and discards is nothing but "others".

The wizards of the Reaper of Souls have the highest moral standards.

Because for them, "people's heart" is nothing but something within reach, something that they don't need to care about or pay attention to.

- Just modify it.

The will of others, the feelings of others, the memories of others—in addition to the quick-acting spells used in battle, the Soul Reaper School also has spells that subtly alter the will of others.

It's like a player with a console password in his hand.

Even if I knew from the beginning that if I pressed that tilde key, my fun would be halved... and occasionally I couldn't control myself when my anger surged.

In front of him, the "Pure Spiritual Medium" is another direction of the Soul Reaper School. A "traditional" soul-reaver, known as a "necromancer" in ancient times, who manipulates the souls of others at will.

The reason why different extraordinary people can gather together to form a "school" is because they have similarities and have core ideas that can be understood by everyone.

Just like the core idea of ​​the transformation school, which is to "create non-existence from existence"...

——The core and essence of the Reaper of Souls School is "everyone for me".

Whether it is manipulating the spirit and will, or manipulating the souls of the living and the dead, it is an act of manipulating others as pawns at will.

But they eventually split.

There is no other reason... Even if the will is forcibly stolen, it can be freed at any time; as long as the will is strong enough, the controlled person can regain control of his body at any time, and at most it will only be dead.

The Necromancer is different.

Spirits cannot resist necromancers.

They have only two options to be successfully controlled or to fail, and once controlled they are permanent - enslaved to fight or kill, used as ritual material.

And mortals can't even see spirits. The attack of the spirit body drawn out by the necromancer is irresistible to most living beings.

The result is……

Compared with the Soul Reaper Wizard who can silently reverse the mind, people are more afraid and hate the Necromancer.

This kind of fear is based on the absoluteness of his "irresistibility".

And the wizard who also pursues the core concept of "everyone for me", the living who can grow, learn, and communicate, are far better than the dead.

External suppression, internal exclusion, plundering of resources...

As a result, the necromancer disappeared.

"The Pure Spiritual Medium" Bernardino Treshaw was the last golden necromancer of this era. It is also the only one who knows how to evoke a spirit body from a corpse that has been dead for more than 100 years, how to summon a spirit body from the virtual world, how to pull out the spirit body of the living intact, and how to attach the spirit body to itself and get blessings. A necromancer of complete heritage.

——His death will represent the complete severance of the Necromancer inheritance.

Of course, "Dream Stealer" Denton also knew about this.

Not just "the purest psychic medium".

He is also a dark wizard who is excluded from the right path.

The official reincarnation wizard usually serves the main purpose of memory operation. They can make others forget a certain memory, or let someone quickly learn a certain skill and spell, they can also simulate a conscious space that can die indefinitely, or forcefully interfere with other people’s nightmares, and break in to rescue them midway.

The Reaper School is a very important school of wizards.

It is precisely because they can easily change the minds of others that they care so much about reputation and morality.

And "Dream Stealer" Denton is different.

He quietly steals other people's skills and ** under the pretext of helping others treat mental illness. He soon became a veritable all-rounder, and used the memories he got from the minds of others to specifically target the original owner, grabbing a lot of wealth and gaining high status under different, plural false identities.

So far, his actions have not been discovered.

Or acquiesced by high-level wizards.

The reason he was wanted was because he was in psychotherapy for one of the royal heirs of the United Kingdom... after taking all his memory, he killed and mutilated him directly.

He used the rituals he had learned from the minds of others to play two people at the same time - and finally disguised the other person as himself, let the "Dream Stealer" leave the capital, and used this as an opportunity to directly replace the one. heirs.

In the end, when he was trying to seize the throne to the end, he was personally corrected by Yaon who really couldn't stand it - no one had doubted him before.

So his act of stealing the country was wanted by the five countries at the same time.

It can be said……

The "Dream Stealer" and the "Pure Spirit Medium" are the spokespersons for the two paths of the Soul Reaper.

——It is also a typical example of two unforgivable sins who use soul-inferior spells for profit.

Therefore……

Even in the capital, all eyes were focused.

But there is no one to stop the battle between them.