Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 355 Seems to be an old friend

Zi Zai Chuan Shang said: All encounters are reunions after a long absence.

On the way Xia Houyan led the team to leave Yanxi City and return to the territory all the way south, he made an unexpected discovery during the chat:

That is the young man named John Summerning, who is actually an old acquaintance!
After the "ominous incident in Rock Creek City" that night, John Summerning, like other survivors in the tower at that time, was quickly taken back to the ground by the rescue team sent by the noble coalition forces and received emergency treatment;
However, as of that night, John Samonen had been tied to the stone pillar by Bartholomew de Hashi for three days and three nights as a "ceremonial sacrifice". Dying due to intense hunger, fatigue, and damage from rituals.

As a comparison, Alice Comstock was also stunned in the tower, but the female swordsman only lay on the hospital bed for half a day before she came back to life and played with the lord until the sky was dark every day;
And the unlucky John Samonen was in a coma for two full days in the Thorn Hospital in Rock Creek City before waking up slowly, and rested for five or six days under the careful care of church priests and healers before he was able to get out of bed and walk. And some limp.

When Xia Houyan graciously invited his "Rainbow Six" teammates to join the territory, he also extended an olive branch to John Samonen who had just woken up.

Although the details of this little Mr. Johann Summeren are still unclear for the time being, Xia Houyan really wanted to ask him about Bartholomew de Hashi and find out the ins and outs of this incident. Secondly, after all, the eldest brother Yan Wangye has appointed this kid as "maybe useful"...

Now that Shuangfengling is rich, how can he be short of a bowl of rice from this kid?

But what didn't surprise you was that John Samonen, who looked like a gentleman, frowned and thought about the invitation from the dignified Duke of Frost Maple Ridge for a long time, but in the end he didn't agree directly. down.

John Samonen's reply to the lord was that he was willing to follow Frost Maple Ridge's convoy across the Lion Heart River all the way south, and go to Frost Maple Ridge, the land of broken souls, to stay for a while. As for whether to join Frost Maple Ridge, He also has to make a decision based on what he has seen and heard at the time, and after careful consideration.

Is there anyone in the world who can refuse the Lord Lord's invitation? !For a moment, the bums in Shuangfengling exclaimed in amazement——

——The Igor family seems to be a rising political star in the southern border of the empire. John Samonen, who looks inconspicuous and young, why is he so attractive?

However, they soon found out embarrassingly that Ya did seem to have the capital to pull:
Because the lord was shocked to find out during the chat that John Samonen was actually the champion of last year's "St. Augustus Festival" mage competition!

Last fall, the "St. Augustus Festival" mage contest was held hastily after the failed hunt in the Kemal Manor. At that time, the lord himself was in the imperial capital!

Xia Houyan still clearly remembers that Lina Leslie, who was sent by Shuangfengling to participate in the Mage Contest, was unfortunately defeated, and the one who finally won the title of the Mage Contest was a young summoning mage who had no territory to belong to!
God is sorry, the lord only realized at this time that this John Summeren, who dared to love, was the new magic star who snatched the long-coveted crown of Shuangfengling back then!
The young John Samonen was an orphan who grew up in the Sanshuiwan Orphanage. Innate magical talent and elemental affinity.

Without hesitation, the old mage immediately took John Samonen away from the orphanage and adopted him as his adopted son and apprentice.

And this old mage was one of the "Phoenix Three Heroes" of the "School City" back then. When he was young, he was an intermediate magister of the Summoning Department, Master Arthur Samonen, who was as famous as Victor Laurie.

Little John, who inherited the surname of Master Arthur Samonen, also inherited the master's attainments in summoning magic through his own hard work. John Samonen, who is one year younger than the lord, is already a Summoner this year. High-level magicians are best at summoning low-level monsters from the wilderness to crush enemies.

At the beginning of last year, Master Arthur Samonen, who had been excluded from the mainstream magic circle for a long time because of his practice of summoning, a partial school of magic, finally died of old age and depression;

As the only disciple of Master Arthur Samonen, Little John immediately made up his mind to go to the imperial capital in autumn to represent Master Samonen and win the emerald laurel crown in the "St. Augustus Festival" mage competition!

And in this Mage Contest, which was clouded by the death of Master Mephisto, John Samonen did not live up to his teacher's expectations during his lifetime, and entered the finals in one fell swoop and won the championship with his own magic beast summoning skills;
In the final arena, John Samonen not only summoned more than a dozen low-level monsters, but also used the agility that was completely inconsistent with his status as a magician to dodge countless flaming arrows shot by his opponent. He can be called a player in the real world A live-action Touhou Project player of the bullet hell shooting game.

——Master Arthur Summerning's magic concept has always been a bit strange. Under his training, John Summering not only needs to rely on meditation to practice elemental skills, but even practice the skill of dodging spells every day:
The reason is that Master Samonen despises bulky magic shields, and believes that a hero can only avoid the opponent's curse with his body...

In the end, John Samonen became famous in the Master Contest, and he also justified the name of his teacher's summoning magic.After the contest ended, he categorically rejected the olive branches thrown by countless territories, and left the imperial capital without looking back:
After all, the reason why John Summeren came to participate in the Mage Contest was only to fulfill his teacher's wish. As for the vulgar power, fame and wealth, it was completely out of the consideration of this young genius——

After winning the championship, John Samonen's only wish is to return to the old mage's tower where Master Samonen is located in Sanshui Bay, and dedicate the rest of his life to exploring the mysteries of elements at a higher level.

The story of John Summeren should have ended here.

This young prodigy who stood at the peak of the empire's magic as soon as he came out of the mountain should have disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people, like a fleeting lightning, across the historical sky of the empire's magic world.

However, like all the legendary mages for thousands of years, John Summeren was not easily let go by the goddess of fate who loves drama.

That earth-shattering final of the mage contest had changed the trajectory of his life forever.

While His Majesty Basil personally wore the emerald laurel crown symbolizing the champion, John Samonen also received an exclusive prize for the winner of the Mage Contest—that is, the legendary necromancer Simon Adrian's final manuscript left in the Citadel.

After receiving this dangerous gift, the champion of the contest, John Samonen, did not rashly read the manuscript about forbidden magic as Xiahouyan had expected, but put it on the shelf as a souvenir;
However, although John Salmonen was able to keep Simon Adrian's manuscripts at a respectful distance, there are others who are extremely concerned about these thin sheets of paper——

His name was Bartholomew de Hash.

Shortly after Little John returned to the former residence of Sanshuiwan, he received a letter from a person signed "Black Priest".

In the letter, Bartholomew de Hashi claimed to be an old friend of Arthur Summeren, claiming that he had some relics of summoning spells left by Master Arthur Summeren on his side, and Invite John to come to Rock Creek City where he is a guest;
In the letter, Bartholomew de Hash also hoped that John could bring the emerald laurel crown and the prize he won in the Master Contest, so that as an old friend of Master Arthur Summernen, he could appreciate the disciple of the old man The honor won, condolences to Master Samonin.

Facing the invitation of the "Black Priest", John did not hesitate much, and embarked on a journey south to Rock Creek City.

First of all, John really couldn’t miss the relics of his mentor mentioned by Bartholomew de Hash—the ultimate mystery of summoning magic may be hidden in these things, and he couldn’t let the relics of his mentor drift outside;
Secondly, the magic imprint left by Bartholomew de Hash at the end of the letter with his high-level magister-level skills made Little John even more envious—he could get face-to-face guidance from a high-level magister , this is an opportunity that any elemental power user cannot miss.

The naive Johann Summeren stepped into Bartholomew de Hashi's trap without vigilance.

After coming to Rock Creek City, John was almost immediately put under house arrest by the "Black Priest" who had replaced the Grand Duke of Houston and was in charge of the Grand Duchy;

Meanwhile, Bartholomew de Hashi also snatched his real goal:

The necromancer manuscripts belonging to Simon Adrian that John Summeren brought with him.

At that time, Bartholomew de Hashi had passed surveys and determined that part of the remnant of Death was buried at the foot of the Castle of Rock Creek;
The "black priest" who mistakenly thought that the god of death was recovering also began to set up a magic circle, preparing to liberate the remnant of the god of death underground from the seal of the holy god, and help the gods he believed in to reappear in the world-but intuitively, he just wanted to Teleport that Reaper's Leg from a rune-sealed subterranean cavern to the surface.

But to accomplish this goal, there are two difficulties.

The first difficulty is that to recall the remnant of the Reaper to the surface, first of all, it must rely on the extremely powerful magic power of the Reaper to form a magical rhythmic resonance with the remnant of the Reaper underground.

Bartholomew de Hash has spent more than three months continuously infusing magic power into the blood-red magic circle in the castle tower, basically solving the problem of mana supply required for the ceremony, but with his ability , is still not enough to drive the ritual circle to capture the magic rhythm left by a majestic god——

——The only one who can do this is the eternal pinnacle and legend of the Necromancer School, the Necromancer Archmage 800 years ago, Simon Adrian.

That is to say, the specific method of capturing the rhythm of the god of death's remnant mana is recorded in the manuscripts of the few pages of Simon Adrian that were used as prizes in the competition by the Academy City.

That's why Bartholomew de Hashi went to such lengths to lure John to Rock Creek.

With these few pages of manuscript snatched from John Samonen, Bartholomew de Hash's blood-red circle finally got his wish and established contact with the underground Death's Leg.

At that time, the second difficulty faced by Bartholomew de Hash in the ceremony was that the "Reaper's Advent Ritual" he was going to perform was essentially a summoning ceremony to summon the remnants of the Reaper to the surface;

As a practitioner of necromantic magic, the "black priest" himself is not good at summoning, and the structure of the magic circle had many flaws in the early stage of arrangement.

——This problem was also solved by John Samonen, who practiced summoning magic.

After snatching John's manuscript, Bartholomew de Hashi squeezed the last remaining value of this young genius, forcing him to help him perfect the summoning function of the blood-red circle.

After the magic circle was completed, Bartholomew de Hashi even retaliated by tying John Samonen and the Grand Duke of Houston to Shizhuzi Mountain as sacrifices to provide flesh and blood materials for the "Death Advent Ceremony"...

…until the "Rainbow Six" team formed by Frost Maple Ridge broke into the castle tower of Rock Creek City that night.

After hearing the narration of the unlucky young magician John Samonen, Xia Houyan could only sigh:

Because in a sense, Little John’s tragic experience was actually caused by Big Brother Hades who deliberately misled Bartholomew de Hash...

Of course, it is impossible for the ignorant John Samonen to know the black hand behind the whole thing.

After he recovered from the hospital in Rock Creek City, he originally planned to return to his hometown of Sanshuiwan to continue living in seclusion according to the original plan, and completely forget about this nightmare in Rock Creek City.

However, Lord Duke of Shuangfengling's gracious invitation to join Shuangfengling made him waver again.

Johann Summeren was not an ungrateful man.

He knew very well that if it wasn't for the young and promising Duke of Frost Maple Ridge, he would have died in Bartholomew de Hashi's ceremony at this moment—even, the whole world would be in misery because of the resurrection of the god of death.

John Summeren felt that he should repay the respected Lord Duke of Frost Maple Ridge.

Before the Frost Maple Ridge convoy left Rock Creek City, John specially took Eldridge, who had just recovered from his injury, back to the ruins of the tower of Rock Creek Castle. Hash snatched Adrian's manuscript, and presented it to Xiahou Daguan.

According to Johann Summeren, the actions of Bartholomew de Hash have demonstrated just how dangerous these manuscripts can be.

Realizing that he was unable to protect such dangerous goods, John made a formal request to the lord, hoping that Shuangfengling could replace him and seal up these dangerous manuscripts forever, and he must never read them.

Xia Houyan, of course, put the manuscript in his bosom, while agreeing to John's request.

After all, John Summerning was still too young to see the sinister light in the eyes of Master Victor Laurie and the other Frost Maple Ridge boys behind the lord at all.

After handing over Simon Adrian's manuscript, John Samonen also agreed not to return to Sanshuiwan, but to go south with the Igor family's convoy and live in Shuangfengling for a period of time.

Although it is not necessary to join the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" in the end, John Summerning believes that his summoning magic can indeed bring some benefits to this wasteland territory, and it can be regarded as repaying the Duke for saving his life.

John Summerning would never have imagined that it was this seemingly inconspicuous decision at this time that made his name forever occupy a place in the history of magic in Haven Continent.

(End of this chapter)