Chapter 89

"I'm crazy."

"I know. The crazy one is me. I have become a monster..."

"Monika is right. The Soul Seed changed the plague, and also changed the villagers and me. It twisted our souls, making me and the villagers unable to realize our own death, making us ghosts. And the plague controlled our bodies. No, or rather, this is the essence of the terrible magic of the Soul Seed."

"The Soul Seed is a magic parasite. Every spell is a parasite. It parasitizes the subject for a long time, constantly influencing and transforming the subject's mind and body, making it more suitable for its own survival."

"Under its influence, we will automatically rationalize some abnormalities, ignore those warnings, and even actively destroy the things that warn us. Our consciousness has been reversed by it."

"This magic shouldn't have appeared, it should be destroyed. I no longer sympathize with my ancestors. This sinful bloodline should be cut off."

"Now, this parasite has a more terrible tool, it controls the plague. Because of my arrogant thoughts when I was dying, I used the Soul Seed on myself. It merged with the plague to prevent me from being killed by the plague, and controlled them."

"Now it can be spread through the plague. It has become the most terrible curse."

"I should be glad that I built the wall early and opened the barrier. Now this village has been closed, no one can easily come in, and it is impossible for anyone to go out. I should be glad that even when I was at my craziest, I didn't try to open the barrier."

"That might be the last bit of reason warning me."

"But my reason won't last long."

"Monika's death woke me up, I can't let her sacrifice in vain, I must find a way to change all this..."

"Maybe I should destroy my Soul Seed."

"Imposing two contradictory Soul Seed spells on one person will destroy their brain and make them a schizophrenic lunatic. But I am already dead, and the villagers are already dead. Destroying the Soul Seed will simultaneously shatter the things that condense our souls. I should perhaps use this method to let everyone rest in peace..."

"For Monika..."

"Monika?"

"For a moment, I couldn't remember why Monika died."

"Who killed her?"

"... The pain is weakening... I am forgetting Monika's death..."

"January 1st. Another new day!"

"January 2nd. I am trying hard to cure my villagers."

"January 4th. Everyone is very happy."

"January 9th. I started to miss Monika, is she doing well at school?"

"I should stop the spread of the plague!"

"We should be destroyed..."

"January 1st, another new day."

The diary behind is chaotic and has been repeating, it seems Joachim's memory is constantly looping.

In some places, many symbols and messy, meaningless characters were drawn.

Selica looked at the diary in her hand, feeling an indescribable chill in her heart, the horror of which was even worse than the darkness in front of her.

The Soul Seed is too terrifying!

She packed up the diary. Although the diary was clearly not the "Horcrux" Murphy mentioned, it at least recorded the method of destroying the barrier, and it could also warn Murphy of the terrible nature of the Soul Seed.

She was just about to leave this terrible place to find clues about the Horcrux elsewhere, but when she looked up, she saw the wall covered with ghost symbols again.

The things written on the wall were very similar to what she saw at the back of the diary. She suddenly realized that it was a spell.

"Notamservitutis (Slave Brand)".

This wouldn't be... Soul Seed?

But at this moment, a loud "Boom!" sound came, and a lot of dust fell from above the cellar, as if a big explosion had occurred outside.

Selica didn't dare to stay any longer, wrote down the spell, and hurriedly ran out of the cellar.

However, the scene outside startled her.

The original cabin had been blown up, leaving only a small half. Two figures were flying across each other in the air, and the flashes of spells were constantly exploding in the air.

A large number of villagers were holding various weapons, surging toward the location of the cabin.

Some even used flintlock guns they got from somewhere to shoot at Murphy in the sky. Although there was no accuracy, it still made Selica's heart jump.

Murphy's state was quite bad. Continuous use of Apparition and flying consumed his magic power greatly. At the same time, he had to deal with every attack of Joachim's ghost with all his strength, but the opponent didn't need to consider the problem of defense at all, only needing to output continuously, which brought him great defensive pressure.

"Flying Sand and Stones!"

Murphy blocked it with a Shield Charm, but the latter's next attack arrived immediately.

"Vadiwasi!"

The rubble in Murphy's flight path was hit by Joachim with a spell.

There was not much magic power left for high-frequency Apparition. Murphy turned in a hurry, but was still hit by a few stones. One of the sharp stones scratched his forehead, leaving a deep wound.

Blood flowed into his eyes, making him close his right eye involuntarily. Therefore, he didn't see a zombie with a rotten scalp and skull exposed, wearing medals on his chest, pulling the trigger on the top of a two-story building on the right.

"Bang!"

A sharp pain in his abdomen caused Murphy, who was already struggling to support himself, to suddenly lose speed and fall from the sky.

"Murphy!" Selica watched Murphy smash into a small building, anxious, and hurriedly ran over.

Joachim's ghost also landed on the ground, waved his wand, pushed aside the debris, and revealed Murphy lying on the ground.

Although the latter used a Shield Charm at the moment of landing to offset the impact, he still suffered not small injuries. At this moment, looking at the ghost pressing in, he struggled to climb up.

Magic power was almost exhausted, and there was no means to truly cause damage to the enemy, but Murphy was unexpectedly not afraid.

Now that things have come to this, thinking more is useless.

Fight!

He raised his wand.

"Flying Sand and Stones!"

"Protego!"

Joachim's ghost still occupied the advantage. He used seven or eight spells in a row. Murphy was inconvenient to move and could only block it just right with a Shield Charm every time.

Joachim kept disappearing and appearing around Murphy, just to distract Murphy and disrupt his rhythm.

Gradually, several more ghosts appeared from somewhere and joined the scene. Although they couldn't cause any damage to Murphy, they could confuse his sight. Several zombies even started target practice on Murphy with muskets and other things.

Shield Charm, Shield Charm, Shield Charm...

Now the only spell that can help him is this one.

But defense has a limit. A projectile hit Murphy's shoulder in the gap between two Shield Charms.

He didn't even have the energy to shout pain, used a Shield Charm again, and blocked Joachim's another attack.

He was already in a desperate situation.

However, he was still calmly calculating in his mind.

Nothing, this is just another practice of spells.

Forget everything else, focus on the task at hand.

Then just defeat him.

A conviction that didn't know where it came from made him stand straight.

He estimated the direction of Joachim's next appearance and the time of his attack, estimated, verified, corrected, re-estimated, re-verified, re-corrected...

The frequency of attacks from Joachim and the villagers was getting higher and higher, and he was dealing with it more and more laboriously, but in his heart, he was getting calmer and calmer.

Suddenly, Joachim disappeared from his right field of vision again.

Murphy's eyes condensed. Joachim had repeated the same attack method three times. Murphy was 90% sure that the opponent would appear behind him to the left.

He suddenly turned around, his wand pointed in that direction, and the moment the opponent appeared through Apparition, he chanted the spell: "Expelliarmus!"

The moment Joachim appeared, his wand was knocked away.

Almost at the same time, another voice sounded outside the field: "Slave Brand!"

(End of chapter)