85. Searching for the soul (6)
Dead?
Mondra's understatement was frozen in the audience.
Murdoch leaned on crutches with his hands, and his eyes slowly swept over Osdi, who was lying quietly on the bed as if he was sleeping, and his body was trembling almost invisibly.
Glegri was closest to him, subconsciously trying to reach out to hold him, but stopped the moment he was about to touch the corner of his clothes, and then quietly shrank back, as if nothing had happened.
Hayden looked at Frank worriedly.
His face was so calm, as calm as an unconscious statue, and his fragile soul was completely pulled out of his body by the words just now.
Olivia broke the silence and looked at Mondra coldly, her eyes full of doubt, "Why do you say he is dead yet?"
Mondra said: "His soul is no longer here."
Olivia sneered: "Can I make a prediction for what you want to say next? Do you want to say next? Anyway, he is dead and his body is useless, so it's just right to use it as a witch corpse."
Mondra said expressionlessly: "A corpse without souls cannot be a witch corpse."
Olivia put away the sarcasm at the corner of her mouth and frowned: "Are you saying true?"
Rhode pinched his throat and said, "It's true."
Olivia said: "No one has tried this method before, maybe it's principled beyond your understanding. For example, Audis's soul will come back from another world."
Mondra tilted her head and thought for a while, and remained silent in agreement.
Frank seemed to wake up suddenly, breathing rapidly, staggered to Vinson's side, looking at him expectantly, "Please, no, please try it. Try chanting the spell."
Vinson turned his head and looked at Olivia.
Olivia nodded.
"Okay." Vinson took out his magic wand and whispered the spell on the note.
All eyes were staring at Audis, afraid of missing out on his faint reaction after waking up.
But no.
It has been three minutes since Vincent finished reciting the spell.
Audis was still lying on the bed like a corpse, without breathing, no heartbeat, and no reaction.
At Frank's plea, Vincent read it again, but the result was still the same.
"No one has tried this method before, and it is very likely to fail," Vinson said.
The fire of hope gradually dimming in Frank's eyes was extinguished.
Olivia said: "Is there a remedy?"
Vinson smiled bitterly and said, "No one has tried it, but no one has failed. How could anyone think of a solution?"
Frank walked towards Audis in dismay, then squatted beside the bed, stroking his cold face with his fingertips.
Murdoch sighed, walked slowly to him, gently pressed his shoulder and said, "Calm up, child. If Audis saw you like this, he wouldn't be happy either."
Frank bit his lip and tried not to torture the equally sad old man, "I would rather he be unhappy, maybe in this way, he would get up and get angry at me."
Murdoch closed his eyes, "He won't lose his temper at you."
"Every time he is angry, just like now, without saying a word...bad habit, he is such a bastard." Frank couldn't help but tremble, his head buried deep on Audis' shoulder, hoping that the temperature in his memory could wrap around him again. But no matter how long he waited, what was surrounding him would always be loneliness and emptiness.
During this period, Hayden quietly moved behind Mondra and whispered: "Is there a way to summon his soul back?" He did not dare to speak too loudly, so as not to hurt the already heartbroken Frank and Murdoch again.
Mondra lowered her head and pondered for a long time. Obviously, this question was beyond the scope of his common knowledge, which forced him to think seriously, "If his soul is strong enough, maybe it can."
Hayden's eyes lit up, and even Vinson and Olivia, who were standing beside them, looked over.
Mondra said: "But his mental power is exhausted, and his soul's consciousness is very weak."
Hayden said: "So?"
Mondra said: "The weak soul will be eaten."
Murdoch's body shook and turned to look over.
After hearing this, Frank raised his head, stared at him blankly for a long time, suddenly reacted, wiped away his tears randomly, and asked anxiously: "If we find his soul now, can we save him?"
Hayden said: "Where will a soul go after death?"
"The Undead World." said Mondra, "Unless it becomes a witch corpse and a deceased knight, then the soul will remain in this world."
Olivia said: "So the witch corpse and the undead knight still have their souls?"
Mondra nodded and said, "Yes."
Olivia said: "Do they have consciousness?"
Mondra thought for a while and said, "I can only issue orders unilaterally."
Frank rekindled his hope and rushed over excitedly, "If Audis' soul is found, can he be resurrected?"
Mondra said, "I don't know." He judged that Audis died because his soul no longer had this world and could not sense it. But his body had been frozen before and was well preserved. If Vinson's spell was really useful, he might be able to be saved. He was also very curious about this.
Frank asked, "Where is the undead world?"
"You can kill yourself, and then you can go."
Frank was stunned and said, "Do you have to die before you can go?"
"It's the habitat of the dead," said Mondra.
Vinson said with a deep meaning: "Well, I always thought that the undead world was a rumor. If the undead world was real, then the rumor that Mondra had the key to the undead world might be true?"
Frank, frustrated, looked up at Mondra with a bright look.
Mondra did not make any noise.
Hayden put his hands on his shoulder and asked softly, "Isn't it dangerous?"
Mondra said: "The teacher said he couldn't go."
Frank opened his mouth and then closed in disappointment.
Everyone fell silent again.
Although Frank and Murdoch wanted to save Audis, they could not force Mondra to take risks for them. Even if they were embarrassed, Mondra might not listen. As for Vinson, Olivia and Hayden were the three pillars of the empire. Even if they were willing to go, they could not be so selfish.
Frank lowered his head and pinched the hem of his clothes with both hands. He thought things had turned around, but when he thought about it carefully, he was just jumping from one desperate situation to another.
Vinson freezes Audis again, and Murdoch sends people back to the secret room.
The group of people left with their own worries.
On the way to the residence, Rhode solemnly warned: "Don't promise to go to the undead."
Mondra did not make any noise.
Rhodes said: "Even if you bring back Audis' soul, he cannot be resurrected."
Mondra turned her head in surprise, "Why?"
Rhodes said: "The undead world is a gathering place for all kinds of souls. If the soul of Odius is not devoured, it will devour the souls of other people and become a stronger soul. With his original body, it is absolutely unbearable."
Mondra stopped and squinted his eyes and said, "You know a lot."
Rhode sighed, "Your teacher and I once went to the undead world to take a sneak peek, and that caused me a nightmare that I would never forget for the rest of my life."
Mondra said: "Just take a sneak peek?"
Rhode hesitated and said, "In order to make a lich, your teacher came up with a way to peel the soul from the human body first, wait until the body is refined successfully, and then put the soul back. But after the body is refined successfully, we found that the original soul has become too weak to enter the modified body, so your teacher and I thought of finding a suitable soul in the undead world."
Mondra said: "Have you found it?"
Rhode shook his head and said, "Making a lich is not a simple thing. You must always pay attention to the degree of fit between the body and the soul. Many lichs do not cannot bear physical pain, but in fact, their soul growth rate cannot keep up with the speed of physical growth. We originally planned to do another experiment, but unfortunately there was not enough materials. Your teacher happened to meet Casdaron II, who was patrolling everywhere, so he used a summoning scroll to exchange for the emperor's right to collect materials. Your teacher and I stayed in the imperial palace for more than a year before we collected all the materials."
Speaking of this, he stopped, no matter how Mondra urged him, he refused to continue. Looking at Mondra's puzzled gaze, Rhode couldn't help but smile bitterly. How could he have the nerve to tell him that because he was greedy for the glory and wealth of the palace, he secretly left Old Mondra, studied the earth magic, and then took off the robe of the vast undead wizard that hidden all of him, and became a palace magician who could walk openly in the sun and among the powerful.
Even though he betrayed his friendship with Old Mondra, Old Mondra found him and gave him a summoning scroll so as not to be isolated when his identity was exposed. This scroll was useless, and no matter how dangerous it was, he saved it. Until Mondra was sent to the tent by the God of Light - only in this case did he feel that he had not let down the friendship of Old Mondra send him this scroll.
Chapter completed!