Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1410 1382. 'Summoning the Devil'

Lan ignored the spirit's complaints.

Introducing Geralt and Lincoln: "Comicus, the sorcerer of the Great Swamp."

As he spoke, Lan En tapped his chest with his thumb in a rather smug manner: "Didn't I tell you? I've made quite a few friends in all my travels."

"Hello." The sorcerer's voice was old and slow. "Oh my, it's really rare to see two living people who haven't turned into zombies."

Comicus' spirit moved around casually, but Lincoln and Geralt keenly discovered that the other party's movement status and range seemed to have nothing to do with the parchment.

The original characters on the parchment had disappeared without a trace, as if they had been consumed.

"This is my friend." Lan stood beside the old sorcerer, using subtle posture and body movements to increase the spirit's trust in Lincoln and Geralt.

"He taught me the [Spells] he mastered, so we can be considered as an apprentice and master relationship."

"Are you ready?" When Lan En introduced him, the old sorcerer seemed a little impatient. "Call me when the war really starts. I'm still sorting out the spell books now."

"After your apprentice left, we found a lot of lost good things on the way from the Deep Cathedral to Irithyll. I would like to take this opportunity to leave you a combined spell book."

"Ah." The sorcerer sighed like an old crow, and looked at Lan En beside him with his bandaged eyes, "It's really troublesome for apprentices who don't study with their teachers and teachers who don't have students around them."

"If this happened in Onuma, people would say I'm a self-proclaimed teacher with no students."

"But now, even Onuma should be dead, right? In that case, it might be a good thing that your hometown is so remote that there are still two living people."

"Don't say such unlucky words."

Lan En pouted and complained, and nodded at Komikus, indicating that he could dismiss this soul.

Then, after another low hum of spiritual power, the translucent spirit body emitting a faint white light gradually faded and finally disappeared.

It was not until the soul disappeared for a long time that Lincoln raised his hand holding a stack of parchment in front of his eyes with some uncertainty and took a good look at it.

The sound of clothing rubbing against rough parchment was soothing.

"Gulp." He swallowed, "Sir, these, all of them?"

He looked at Lan tentatively, and received an affirmative nod in response.

"All of them are marks that can summon souls. They are all friends I met before. I have also confirmed through Komicus that everyone has nothing to do during this period. As long as they are summoned, they can come."

"You just saw how to summon it. This thing is called [White Mark Wax Stone]."

Lan threw the special angular stone wrapped in white cloth in his hand to Lincoln. The young clerk hurriedly caught it and held it in his arms.

"You can use this thing to draw a summoning symbol. Everyone's symbol over there is different. But I have written it on parchment with ink first, and then you can copy it with the white marker wax stone."

"oh oh!"

Lincoln nodded blankly. He felt that he didn't understand, but since the adults had already arranged it, there would be no problem for him to do as they said.

But after nodding, he came to his senses, lowered his head and counted how many sheets of parchment were there in the pile of parchment in his arms.

"But sir, there seem to be only eight in total?"

Lincoln looked up at Lan, but didn't see any surprise on his face.

"That's enough, Lincoln." The young witcher said calmly, as if he was saying something very simple and clear. "Absolutely and completely, that's enough."

"In fact, I think these eight cards may not be used up."

Lan En tilted his head and spread his hands indifferently: "Anyway, when the time comes, when White Rose attacks, you can just summon them out and start fighting."

"Do what you can do, and wait and see what happens next."

In other words, are these so-called "friends" by adults all capable of being worth a hundred?

Lincoln came to his senses in his heart and hugged the parchment and white wax stone in his arms even tighter.

Embers Knight should continue to grow stronger.

The clerk thought deeply in his heart, but Geralt frowned and spoke at this time.

"Pulling the soul from the celestial intersection is not a difficult technique in itself, but in nature, it is considered 'summoning a demon'. Do you understand, Lan En?"

Geralt looked at the other person seriously.

In this magical medieval world, people who have achieved extraordinary powers are basically familiar with the phenomenon of the celestial spheres intersecting across the world.

After all, the current state of the world is the result of the intersection and mutual influence of the celestial spheres.

The technology to cross the world is not as advanced as people think. What is really difficult is the technology and process of exploration and positioning.

In the Middle Ages, when people were no strangers to cross-world exchanges, the word "demon" had a unique concept, that is, something that came here from outside the world.

Calling monsters like the Deer-Headed Demon and the Goat-Horned Demon "Demons" is more like a colloquialism that has nothing to do with scientific names. If we follow the proper naming rules, the Mist Nest Master Tyrannosaurus that was rampaging in the Pontar River Valley was undoubtedly also a "demon". It was a "demon invasion incident".

Lan En's summons just now, as well as these pieces of parchment, were an act of "assisting the demons to enter this world", which was in other words - "assisting the demons to invade".

When the warlocks of the northern humans first established a management organization, they set the rules.

Warlocks are researchers and pioneers. Their research must of course be avant-garde and pioneering, but even so, there are still areas of violation that cannot be touched.

Among these areas of violation, the casting of [Necromancer] and the spell of 'Assisting Demonic Invasion' are the most famous ones.

[Necromancy], Lan En had learned about it during his first meeting with the Lady of the Lake. Once this spell was cast, it would disrupt the balance of life and death in the entire area, and the consequences would be like nuclear pollution.

As for 'assisting the demon invasion', it was because even those first generation warlocks who could easily move mountains and fill the sea really didn't know what kind of outrageous things they could summon from outside the world.

Therefore, they are directly prohibited from management.

Although Lan En's 'summoning spell' did not contain the fluctuations of chaotic magic, so the traces left were very small, the nature of this matter remained unchanged.

If this matter were to get out, then the upcoming Warlock Summit in Aretuza would have one more item on the agenda -

The consequences of illegally casting the 'Summon Demon' spell.

"Moreover," Geralt's serious face showed deep thought and concentration, "the so-called old sorcerer..."

He spoke in a low voice with a unique hoarse voice, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent as if he was telling a horror story.

"Lan En, I've seen a lot of dead people, even some people who have collapsed, are in despair, and would rather die than live. Even two years ago, we went to the war zone in Cintra together, to the hell on earth."

"But that old sorcerer," Geralt took a deep breath, "what's with that lifeless look on his face?"

"The decadence that seeped out from my bones was like I had witnessed the end of the world!"

No one who had just come off a battlefield would have such a lifeless feeling.

What's even more terrifying is that Comicus seems to have gotten used to it completely!
Geralt looked at Lan seriously and said, "You are not really going to summon some weird thing, are you?"

"Heh." Lan En laughed softly at first. "How can it be considered a violation if we are not caught in the act? Didn't the group of White Rose Knights also want to conceal their identities and evade the Holy Temple Council? Isn't that the same idea?"

"Look, I summoned a spirit right in front of you, and our pendant is motionless. Even a wizard can't find any trace."

Lan first responded to Geralt's first question.

After a moment of silence, he answered the second question.

"As for what happened to him, it's a long and complicated story, but you are right about one thing, he really did witness the end of the world."

“It is natural and inevitable that people who have this kind of experience will have some unique qualities.”

“Is it really that bad?” Geralt didn’t expect that what he said casually was true. “He’s actually used to it?!”

"Get used to it? What if you're not used to it?" Lan En shook his head and sighed, "The end of the world is not like a 'bang' where our world explodes and everyone dies and disappears at the same time in the blink of an eye. It's not a painless and straightforward process."

"It is a process of decaying little by little, and rotting hopelessly."

"Even despair itself will be completely wiped out in the face of decay."

Since the conversation had come to this point, Lan En shook his head and said a little more to his old friend.

"But if you move the tree, the dead will die, and if you move the people, the living will live. In this world where there are few people left, I can't bear to watch a group of friends die there."

"So this time, I also thought that I would take the initiative to owe them a favor. When I come back and ask for help, it will be a way for me and them to give an explanation."

Owing favors and asking for favors are both difficult things to grasp in interpersonal interactions.

If you are not careful, both sides may develop grudges.

Geralt looked at Lan carefully for a long time before looking away.

"Since this is your decision and you are my friend, I have no reason to blame you."

In fact, he just wanted to see if Lan En showed any signs of being controlled, parasitized, or replaced.

The reason why the "demon" is so scary is that people in this world have no idea what will come in from outside the world.

What kind of living habits do they follow and what kind of abilities do they have.

Among the demon hunters, there are some who can parasitize on the human mind and feed on the guilt of intelligent life.

There are also those that can control intelligent creatures and eat their hosts from the inside out.

And the 'demons' that have not been contacted and recorded by the small group of demon hunters must be more numerous and more bizarre.

The fact that Geralt did not immediately suspect whether Lan was being controlled showed that he had great trust in Lan's abilities.

(End of this chapter)