The two women closed their eyes and felt the new power surging in their bodies.
Janice opened her eyes with surprise: "I feel a new power flowing." "
"That's magic," Liu Qian nodded, "Now that you use Valyrian weapons, unless the magic power is completely consumed, you will no longer be bitten back by it." "
Jelena is excellent in martial arts, and only when facing groups of scales and claws or synthetic beasts like purple strange birds, she has no choice but to use magic weapons.
But she is not a sorcerer, and she has no magic in her body.
Mortals forcibly drive magical artifacts at a high cost, just like those who blow the horn of the dragonbinder will die.
Jelena uses the dragonbone bow and Valyrian steel sword armor at the cost of the deepening of the curse of blood magic.
"In addition," Liu Qian added, "you can also cast a kind of magic: resurrect the dead and turn into dragon spirit guards. "
Jelena seemed to receive the message given by the contract in her mind.
She walked over to a long-fallen warrior's corpse, stretched out her hand, and pressed it against his cold chest.
A soft glow lit up from the warrior, the fatal wound healed quickly, and the pale cheeks returned to blood.
Then, the warrior suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of flame flashed from the depths of his pupils.
He stood up stiffly and saluted Liu Qian and Jelena in turn, his voice empty: "My lord, my subordinates obey the orders." "
Jelena looked into the lifeless eyes of the warrior, and a trace of pain flashed across her face.
"The magic that brings the dead back to life must have a price," Liu Qian approached, his voice low, "They can fight with their swords again, but they have lost all humanity and become magical puppets who only know how to obey." "
"But they were once living people! It's my companion! Jerina's voice was choked, "I can't face them like this." "
She couldn't accept that her former comrades had become walking dead.
Liu Qian wanted to persuade him, but in the end he was silent.
Jelena was right, it was too cruel to let a companion become a puppet.
He was not ruthless, but he knew that the ruins of Valyria lurked unknown dangers, and he urgently needed these guards to increase their combat power.
He was also depressed: the system was really weird.
He can turn living people into Flame Knights, but he cannot directly transform the dead into dragon spirit guards, and must be replaced by Flame Knights.
At this time, Janice softly comforted her sister: "Sister, I think we should transform them." As long as we get out alive, we may find magic to restore their consciousness in the future. If they lie here forever, there is really no hope at all. "
Her words hit the nail on the head, and Liu Qian agreed with her heart.
These dragon spirit guards rely on magic to imprison a trace of a broken soul-driven body.
What if with the purity of Liu Qian's bloodline improving, the system can really make up for the incomplete consciousness?
Jelena was silent for a long time, and her sister's words swayed her.
In the end, she nodded with difficulty: "You're right." Take them away first. If it is really impossible to recover in the future, then dissolve the magic and let them rest in peace. "This is the biggest compromise she can make.
The decision has been made.
The two women closed their eyes and opened their hands, the magic in their bodies surged, and the surface of their bodies glowed with a faint red light.
The corpses of the fallen soldiers around them slowly stood up one after another.
The fatal wounds healed, the blood stains were still there, but their eyes were as empty as puppets.
Jelena's face turned slightly pale and she stopped moving.
She transformed about three hundred guards.
Janice continued, and it wasn't until the fifth warrior stood up that she ran out of mana to stop.
Liu Qian was slightly surprised, which showed that Janice had a better magical talent than her sister.
Gathering this silent army of the dead, Liu Qian ordered: "Janice, let your people go to the city to search for survivors." Jelina, let your people collect all the weapons that can still be used, the ones engraved with blood magic runes, and the broken ones are also brought back. "
The Dragon Spirit Guard can independently execute orders without the need for the master's constant command, but it is like the "magic mountain" created by Cobain in the future.
A thought flashed through Liu Qian's mind: he transformed the living into knights, and the knights transformed the dead into guards, which faintly revealed a certain strict level, just like the legendary cold god's strange ghost transforming into a ghoul ghost, or the red-robed monk of Rahlo resurrecting the dead.
Of course, he knew that the Night King in the original book was just the commander-in-chief of the Night Watch, not the smurf who was stabbed to death with a grinning face.
It is also known that there is no conclusion yet whether Jon Snow will be resurrected in the original book.
However, he believed that Melisandre would do it, but the price would not be small, and Jon could not be resurrected in style with just a haircut.
"When I was fighting to the death with that chimera, I found a strange black stone underground," Liu Qian turned to the sisters and decided to explore the mystery, "Let's take advantage of the guard's search." "
They stepped into the Wizard Tower again and descended into the deep, damp underground space.
The suffocating fishy smell immediately envelops it like a substance.
Janice turned pale and resisted the desire to vomit.
Jelena also frowned tightly, and pressed her hand on the hilt of the sword.
In front of him was a terrifying flesh forest covered with the flesh and blood of unknown creatures, the solidified dark red and the rotten pale white intertwined, exuding the breath of death, which made people's stomachs turn upside down.
They held their breath and quickly walked through the hellish scene to the mysterious black stone in the center of the space.
Up close, the stone surface is not completely smooth, but is carved with twisted and eerie patterns, like a record of some kind of crazy ritual.
What's even more bizarre is that the dark red and almost black blood, as if it has life, flows extremely slowly in those notched grooves, as if this stone is breathing.
"This black stone gives me a different feeling than the ones used for the city walls and tower foundations outside," Liu Qian asked in a deep voice, his eyes swept over the stone face sharply, "Do you recognize this thing?" "
Jelena took a closer look, shook her head, and said, "I only know that this kind of black stone is produced in the most dangerous mining area deep in the Fourteen Fire Peaks. The Valyrian ancestors mined them to build the most important fortress core, as it was more difficult to destroy than the hardest granite. But I don't know why this is the case. "
Janice squatted down, her fingers dangling above the stone surface, not daring to touch it, and carefully identified the bloody indentations: "I think I have read a similar description in a book about Valyria's early blood magic rituals." The book says that certain special black stones are directly related to the most esoteric and dangerous blood magic. But what is the specific connection, the book is unclear, I was young at the time, so I only read it as a legend. "
"Is that book still there?" Liu Qian asked.
"It should be in Tria's underground study," Janice nodded, with memories in her eyes, "if you want to see it, I'll ask the guards to get it, and by the way, bring you all the other books in the study that might be useful." There are many records of magic, minerals and ancient rituals. "
"Tria's study?" Liu Qian had a vague impression of this name.
"It was the most prestigious library in Valyria," Janice explained, "and after the apocalypse, the magnificent buildings on the surface were reduced to ashes, along with most of the collection. But the ancestors of Valyria had a habit of backup, they dug huge spaces deep underground in the city, reinforced them with magic, built identical libraries, and collected countless copies and solitary books. "
She saw that Liu Qian still had questions, and added: "But the most important classic, the Blood Wizard, has long been moved to the Wizard Tower." Let people search carefully here, and they may be able to find something. "
Jelena couldn't help but glance at her sister.
After the curse was lifted, Janice seemed to have completely fallen to Liu Qian, wishing she could turn out all of Tria's secrets to him.
Although she herself was loyal, there was still a trace of the pride of the Dragon King in her heart.
"Let's wait for the guards to search for the book," Liu Qian said, "Let's look at other places first." "
With no clue about the origins of the Black Stone, they left the bloody land and continued to explore the Wizard's Tower.