The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 396: The struggle between the old and new Soul Reavers

It will be dark.

The sky above the royal capital is covered with dark clouds and a cold wind blows.

The cold and violent showers fell without warning.

Even though it is already the beginning of spring, such heavy and rapid rain is very rare. The rain was mixed with an earthy smell that made one feel like corpses, and the sound of rain hitting the buildings was even more disturbing.

Even if something good happened and I was in a happy mood, I think it will become gloomy and irritable because of the sudden rainstorm.

Some people will probably complain that the rain came too suddenly——

This is indeed the case.

Just coming into contact with the rain will make your mood worse...or in other words, it will synchronize your mood to the caster.

——Because this is the signature spell of "Dream Stealer" Denton, the "thoughts are like rain" of the soul-stealing school.

"The most pure psychic..."

The white-haired old man looked at the heavy rain outside and murmured in a low voice.

His ice blue pupils are as calm as water, and you can feel reassured just by looking at him.

Denton is now stroking the wall and staring intently at the wall in front of him. It was like he could see the person outside the palace through the wall.

He is not a hunter, and of course he does not have vision that can penetrate walls.

But for Denton, the heavy rain in this city is his eyes——

If you can look over from the soul state, you can see a sky-like icy blue light above Denton's head, leading straight to the sky.

The dark clouds were penetrated by the beam of light, and it was like opening a pair of cold, emotionless eyes, looking at the earth.

Under the dark clouds, hundreds or thousands of weak silver threads fell straight down with the raindrops, connecting to the heads of the royal guards.

Without receiving any orders, they rushed directly to the side hall where the fourth prince was, holding weapons and fully armed.

Followed by the slightly more remote Transcendent troops.

Then came the hidden troops gathering from all directions.

Those who were exposed to the rain came quickly and silently at the same time.

The bottom layer of their pupils is shining with a faint halo of ice blue.

——This is the trace affected by the gold-level standard soul-stealing spell [Comprehensive Control].

Whether you are a mortal, a ritualist or a supernatural being, as long as you are hit by comprehensive control and fail to pass a Will saving throw, you will directly lose control of your body.

Different from the silver-level [Control Heart] aura, [Comprehensive Control] does not require looking directly into the opponent's eyes... as long as an object or sound is used as a medium, the opponent's will can be taken away out of thin air.

As long as the medium is not interrupted, the status will not be released even if the other party is far away.

Denton can also feel the status of these "zombiees" controlled by him, and can control individuals and movements accurately at any time.

At any time, pull those who are in poor condition to the rear and push those who are still in good health to the front; let the strong ordinary people be responsible for resisting the attacks of evil spirits, and let the extraordinary ones work together from the rear to kill the evil spirits.

Of course they can't see the location of the dead souls.

—But Denton can.

Through the spell of "thoughts like rain", he shared everything he saw with the many puppets whose minds he had taken away. Let them also see the location of those dead souls... and focus their firepower to launch an attack.

Faced with the threat of death, people will be timid, angry, and crazy - but compared to those who can unleash their full potential in the face of a death crisis, the vast majority of people have no command, tactics, and control in the face of a death crisis. There is room for calmness.

However, for a soul-stealing wizard, this is not a problem at all.

Those are not his bodies.

These are not his lives.

What he controls, modifies, and abandons is just "others".

Wizards of the Soul Seizing School have the highest moral standards.

Because for them, "people's hearts" are just something within reach, something that they don't need to care about or pay attention to.

——Just modify it.

The will of others, the feelings of others, the memory of others - in addition to the quick-acting spells used in combat, the Soul Seizing School also has spells that can subtly change the will of others.

It's like a player holding the console password in his hand.

Even if I knew from the beginning that just pressing the tilde button, the fun would be halved... Occasionally, I would be unable to control myself when my anger surges.

The "Pure Spiritual Medium" in front of him is from another direction of the soul-stealing school. The "traditional" soul-stealing wizard known as "Necromancer" in ancient times can control other people's souls at will.

The reason why different extraordinary beings can come together to form a "school" is because they have something in common and have core ideas that can be understood by everyone.

Just like the core idea of ​​the Transformation School, which is "to create something out of nothing"...

——The core and essence of the Soul Seizing School is "everyone for one".

Whether it is manipulating the spirit and will, or manipulating the souls of the living and the dead, it is an act of manipulating others as chess pieces.

But they eventually split.

There is no other reason... Even if the will is forcibly stolen, you can break free at any moment; as long as the will is strong enough, the controlled person can take back control of his body at any time, and the best is to die. .

The Necromancer is different.

The spirit body cannot resist the Necromancer.

They have only two choices: successful control or failed control, and once controlled, they are permanent - enslaved to fight or kill, and used as ritual materials.

Mortals cannot even see spirits. The attack of the spirit body extracted by the necromancer is also irresistible to most living people.

The result is...

Compared to the soul-stealing wizard who can silently change the soul, people are more afraid of and disgusted with the necromancer.

This kind of fear is precisely based on the absolute nature of his "irresistibility".

And wizards who also pursue the core concept of "everyone for one", the living who can grow, learn, and communicate are far better than the dead.

External suppression, internal exclusion, plunder of resources...

As a result, the necromancers became extinct.

The "Pure Psychic" Bernardino Telesio is the last gold-level necromancer of this era. He is also the only one who knows how to summon spirits from corpses that have been dead for more than a hundred years, how to summon spirits from the virtual world, how to pull out the spirits of the living intact, and how to let spirits attach to themselves and be blessed. Necromancer with complete inheritance.

——His death will represent the complete severance of the Necromancer inheritance.

Of course "Dream Stealer" Denton also knew about this.

Not just a "pure psychic medium".

He himself is also a dark wizard excluded from the right path.

Generally speaking, official soul-stealing wizards mainly serve memory operations. They can make others forget certain memories, or allow someone to quickly learn certain skills and spells, they can also simulate a consciousness space capable of infinite death, or they can forcibly interfere with other people's nightmares and break in to rescue them midway.

The Soul Seizing School is a very important wizarding school.

It is precisely because they can easily change the minds of others that they care so much about reputation and morality.

But "Dream Stealer" Denton is different.

He used the excuse of helping others to treat mental illness to quietly steal other people's skills and passion. He soon became a veritable all-rounder, using memories obtained from the minds of others to specifically target the original owner, using different and plural false identities to amass a large amount of wealth and achieve a high status.

So far, his actions have not been noticed.

Perhaps it was acquiesced by the high-level wizards.

The reason why he is wanted is because when he was providing psychological treatment to a royal heir of the United Kingdom... after taking away all his memories ~IndoMTL.com~ he killed him directly and destroyed his body. .

He used the rituals he learned from other people's minds to play two people at the same time - eventually disguising the other person as himself, allowing the "Dream Stealer" to leave the capital, and using this as an opportunity to directly replace him That heir.

In the end, when he was trying to seize the throne to the end, he was personally brought out by Ya Weng who couldn't stand it anymore - no one had doubted him before.

As a result, his act of stealing the country was wanted by the five countries at the same time.

You can say...

"Dream Stealer" and "Pure Psychic Medium" are the representatives of the two paths of soul-stealing wizards.

——They are also two unforgivable examples of using soul-stealing magic for profit.

Because of this...

Even the eyes in the royal capital were focused.

But no one came to stop the fight between them.