Chapter 1654: Skull and Demon Curse

"Are you sure?"

Xia De almost stood up to ask this question. Fratricide and human sacrifice represent many things in ritual studies. And such cruel behavior also confirmed the worries that Megan and Audrey had always had—their ancestors definitely had no good intentions for all their descendants.

"This... but why?"

Ordinary person Professor Manning couldn't understand.

"She doesn't know either. She didn't know when she was alive or when she died. I can feel that she is also afraid of that place and wants to escape from there. She was not old when she died, and the memories of her life made the soul that lost its humanity instinctively afraid."

"Besides these, what else does she know?"

Xia De asked again, and Drout Gilles nodded:

"At first, she only repeated very simple sentences, asking me to collect some strange things. I originally thought those were items that could restore her soul to normal, but after collecting them, those materials just turned into a useless key."

He unbuttoned his buttons, took off the pendant hanging around his neck, and handed it to Xia De.

It was a white crystal key, and its size and the shape of the key pillar were very close to the two keys Megan had already obtained. The front and back of the key handle were sapphire and obsidian, respectively. Facing the light, one could see a phantom of a little girl swinging.

"The hardest material to find was white crystal with natural black spots. I spent a lot of effort to find out that someone in the black market of Tobesk had this material, so for this material, I traveled thousands of miles from Willowdale to rely on my distant relative, Viscount Chris Randall. I should call him uncle, but because of the curse from grave robbery, I have always been poor, so I didn't frequently trouble my distant relative."

He saw the interested expression Xia De showed towards the key:

"Sir, if you need it, it belongs to you. This thing has no effect on us. However, after the key was made, Last's intelligence and humanity recovered significantly faster."

Xia De nodded. If his guess was correct, the angel-level relic 【Soul Storybook】 that controlled all souls on the island, then after fulfilling the duties assigned by that book, the souls on the island could "continue to walk" and the souls that left the island stayed behind.

Thus, he let Professor Manning, who was on the side, act as a witness, and exchanged this key for Xia De's promise not to report the other party and to plead with the Edwards descendants.

The last thing Xia De wanted to know was naturally about the skeleton of the Angel of Death. Drout Gilles still remembered the two finger bones and the plain bone fragment, but he didn't know what it was, and there were no more clues about the skeleton.

However, when he tried to ask the girl's soul who was playing with his hair, the girl actually gave the answer:

"Gilles, Gilles, father still has half a skull! Don't touch that skull, you will be sent away!"

This definitely doesn't mean that the Thirteen-Ring sorcerer only has half a skull left.

Xia De, who got unexpected information, finally showed a satisfied smile. And Professor Manning saw that Xia De had basically finished asking, and said to him:

"Mr. Watson, I will act as a witness to ensure that he will not continue to rob graves in the future, but honestly be a teacher in Tobesk. Look, whether you have a way to... the curse on him..."

Hearing the professor's request, Drout Gilles, who was entangled by the soul, showed a complex expression on his face. He knew that he had done something wrong to end up in this situation, but he didn't expect this old man to value him so much.

Xia De naturally agreed, but he also had conditions:

"I respect Professor Manning, but it doesn't mean I completely trust you, a guy who robs graves. If I cure you, I want you to sign a contract with me to ensure that you will never rob graves again."

He had finally almost finished reading the first pass of 【The Book of Malphas】 recently and learned some new skills. Unlike the knowledge in 【The Pink Book】 and 【The Secret of Immortality】 which can be practiced at any time, the knowledge in the Book of Demons is difficult to find application scenarios, but this time it is very good.

"Thank you for being willing to give me a chance. After this incident, I also understand. I plan to live in Tobesk for a long time and face my life properly."

Drout Gilles said, and the soul repeated his words while clapping her hands beside him. Xia De nodded and made the invitation to shake hands again.

The two hands were held together, and it took a long time for Xia De to hear "her" reply:

【Just shaking hands cannot judge the nature and source. You need to go further...】

"No no, I have no interest in further contact with him."

Xia De said in his heart, and then let go of the other party's hand:

"It's three-thirty now. At five o'clock, go to the first floor of the Three Cats Hotel next to Anthem Square and wait for me. I'll go find a curse expert."

This refers to the doctor. Among all the people Xia De knows, he and Luweiya are both good at power related to curses. It's just that Luweiya has been busy with stargazing recently, so Xia De intends to trouble the doctor.

"Okay."

Drout nodded immediately, and Xia De looked at Professor Manning again:

"Professor, I troubled you this time too."

"You are really polite, this is nothing. I just don't want to see young people go astray and keep falling. Drout did something wrong, and he will find a way to repay it."

Afterwards, Xia De left Professor Manning's house and took a carriage directly to the east of the city to find Dr. Schneider. At that time, the doctor had just finished the last patient scheduled for the afternoon. Seeing Xia De rushing over without saying hello, he thought something had happened. Hearing that he wanted to find him to help treat a cursed person, he was relieved:

"You really scared me. Three Cats Hotel, right? No problem, let's go now. Honestly, every time I see you rushing in with a serious face, my heart will skip a beat."

"Doctor, is this also a kind of mental illness?"

"No no, strictly speaking, it's just a kind of stress disorder. If you are interested, I can tell you on the way. In the field of psychology, this is a very cutting-edge research direction recently."

The drizzle that started at noon had long since stopped, but the water stains on the ground had not completely evaporated. In the Anthem Square at dusk, although it was not to the point of being covered in silt, looking at the smiles on the faces of the shoe-shining boys on the edge of the square, it was known that it was not easy to walk here.

Drout Gilles had arrived early. When Xia De and the doctor entered the door, he was sitting alone at a table against the wall reading a book. Last Edwards' soul was sitting on the table, waving her hands desperately, trying to attract his attention.

Dr. Schneider twitched his nose, and then signaled Xia De to exit the hotel with him.

The two bypassed the remote alley where the side of the hotel was located and stood above the sewer entrance.

"There is a very familiar smell in this curse, I didn't expect it to be this kind of thing again."

The doctor was half excited and half helpless:

"Demon curse. The stench that tries to corrode the soul, I smelled it as soon as I entered the door. There is no doubt that he was cursed by a demon. There must be a real evil demon on the island you mentioned."

Xia De was stunned:

"Ah? Is it really a demon? That island is called 'Island of Demons', it's actually true... but my 【Demon Vision】 didn't see any traces of demon power."

"Very normal, it's not that the demon gave him power to make him a demon man like the Stone Osenfurt you mentioned, but the demon cursed him. This is a very hidden curse. If you want to see it, unless you extract his soul and look at his soul. However, I can't confirm what kind of evil demon it is. This curse is not unique, many guys can... I can too."

The doctor said casually, frowning and thinking about what it was this time.

Xia De knew the seriousness of the problem:

"In this way, the trouble on the central island of Green Lake is not just a Thirteen-Ring Diviner and an angel-level relic that manipulates souls. Besides evil cultists and other illegal ring-sorcerer groups, there is an unknown demon? What exactly did he plan?"

"Is the situation so complicated this time?"

The doctor raised his eyebrows, but was not nervous because of this:

"I won't meet the cursed person inside. His curse is not complicated. I will go back and prepare a potion, and send it directly to the Three Cats Hotel on the weekend, and let him go get it himself. As for that demon... although I don't know what you are going to do in Green Lake, but according to your description, the other party is your enemy?"

"Yes, some tricky enemies. Judging from the current situation, Thirteen-Ring, demon, angel-level relic, should not be all I have to deal with."

"Relax, which time your enemies are not tricky?"

The doctor patted Xia De on the shoulder:

"You go investigate more specific information about that demon, or obtain items sufficient to prove its identity. I will prepare and see if I can find a new way to move across space, or I will buy a train ticket myself. Fortunately, Green Lake is not far from us, at least not as far as Randall Valley."

He shook his head:

"If you need help in the Green Lake area, I can also play some effect. Last time in Randall Valley, I said I would help you, but in the end, I just went sightseeing. Oh, also, that demon looks very good at curse ability. I know your curse resistance is very high, but you should also be careful."

"No problem, doctor, leave the investigation to me."

After speaking, Xia De thought of another thing:

"【Mirror Association】 has already appeared in the Green Lake area. I not only met the 【Mirror Hider】, but also met a pair of twin brothers who each blinded one eye, and they were both Eight-Ring."

The doctor thought for a while, and knew that Xia De had connected them with his own experience when he was young:

"You mean, that pair of brothers I met when I solved other demons more than ten years ago? They really didn't cure their eyes."

The doctor smiled:

"If I can meet them in Green Lake, it's a good thing. The grudge from many years ago, this time maybe there is a chance to solve it together." ===== CHAPTER 1655 =====