"Bring the things with me and I'll convert them for you."

After returning to the dormitory, Victor's first words made the evil mage who was impatient to wait and be amazed.

"Where is the location?" Ke Lin thought about several places, but they were rejected because they were not secret enough.

"My temporary residence, today the mercenaries have gone on missions, and the old house is empty." Since it has become a guardian, it will no longer enter and exit Jingyao Academy as an apprentice in the future, so of course it cannot live in the dormitory. It is time to officially move into the old house located in the slums.

In this dormitory that had been living in for more than half a month, Victor had nothing else to take away except the corpses buried underground.

"What should you do with your body?" Ke Lin didn't know that Victor was now a physical body, and he still thought that the lich was in a phantom form.

"I have my own plans." Pry open the wooden board, dig out the soil, and dig out the frozen Wood. Although the surface of the corpse is well preserved, it is no longer fresh when it was just dead. You can feel that the inner organs are gradually corroding. Puppet magic must have souls in the corpse to make the spell take effect. Lichs cannot destroy the corpse nor let it rot.

At this speed, Wood's body will become a bone frame in less than a year.

After untiing the ice and performing a simple manipulation on the corpse, the soulless corpse sat up straight stiffly. Although he was open, his eyes were dull and he had no focal length at all.

Seeing Victor putting a wolf-headed helmet on his body that symbolized the identity of the Guardian, Ke Lin looked a little surprised and didn't understand the reason for it to do so.

"Go to the haunted old house in the slums and wait for me." The haunted old house is the name of the old house standing by the river in the inner city for more than a hundred years. Since Ke Lin has his own wizard tower in Jingyao, he should naturally know its specific location.

"Why don't you go back to your body? Wouldn't that be more convenient?"

"I have my own plans."

Without giving any unnecessary explanation, Victor insisted that Ke Lin took the body out from the main entrance, and it was still ready to leave the academy through the cemetery. Ke Lin was not angry because he had hit the nail. Anyway, it was Victor's business for how to use his body.

In this way, although Pelo received a small vibration from the magic wall of the cemetery again, and other guardians invisible in the academy rushed to check it out, they did not find any invaders like last time, so they had to temporarily attribute the incident to an apprentice trying to escape from the cemetery. Because they received the report from the doorman, Pelo did not contact the alarm of the wall with Victor, who had just been promoted to the new guardian.

"Alpha, don't let anyone in." In the portrait of Guru's eyes, Victor took Kelin into the basement that it had not had time to set up.

In the musty space, some magic props and simple alchemy tools were placed scattered. Wood stood against the wall. The lich grabbed a bag of special magic powder, first drew a simple protective barrier at the feet of the puppet corpse, and then drew the magic circle needed to convert the undead in the middle of the basement.

Ke Lin also joined the ranks of helping. He was so familiar with this magic circle. He had seen it several times in both the forbidden scriptures and the dark rituals he participated in. He was just worried that the risk of transformation alone was too great, so he had not implemented it.

Turn the two triangles upside down and overlap into the shape of a hexagonal star, each corner represents an element. Place two wooden tubs containing animal blood and plants to the north of the darkness and the south of the symbol of light. When everything is ready, Victor turns his head and looks at Kelin, indicating that he can start at any time.

There are two things in the center of the magic circle, one is an hourglass used for recording time, and the other is a bird cage, with a crisp green bird chirping and disobedient.

"I believe I don't need to say that you know the general purpose of these two things. Because it is hosted by me, the conversion time can be greatly shortened. Taking the current time as an example, it is exactly the stage of the strongest darkness before dawn. If the bird is still alive when the sun rises, it means that your conversion has failed."

"Let's start." Ke Lin closed his eyes after looking down at the heart of the rose in his hand.

"Gods of disease and death, please give them a trial servant to test whether this person is qualified to be a dead soul." A dull voice echoed in the quiet basement. Not long after, the magic circle painted with black magic powder emitted a bright red light like blood.

Soon, Ke Lin felt that the surrounding environment had changed. It was no longer an empty basement. Under the gray mist, he entered a special space made of magic.

The whine sounds from high to low to large, from far to near. When they approached enough, four skeletons holding long swords emerged from the gray fog and surrounded Kelin in four directions.

"Defeat them, if you can't defeat these lowest undeads, you can't complete the transformation. The failure of dark spells usually only means one result, you know." Victor outside the illusion reminds Ke Lin to either win or die.

"Just a few skeletons, it won't hurt me!" The staff embedded with the fire crystal stone was slightly raised, and the wind blade attacked the skeletons in four directions, cutting the undead, known to be slow, into several segments. Knowing that they would stand up again, Ke Lin then cast a small tornado technique, and the rotating wind completely destroyed the skeletons that could not be spliced.

"What I just warmed up. To pass the trial, you have to pass the remaining two undead attacks."

Victor's voice sounded again, without explaining it in detail, Ke Lin also understood that the later the undead will be stronger.

The sound of footsteps moved in the gray fog, and they would stop for a while every few steps. This almost wait-and-see action shows that the undead appeared this time is intelligent.

Ke Lin chanted the protective spell in a low voice, imposed three barriers on himself, and then waited patiently. After a long time, the undead who was walking and stopped revealed his true face, and the number was still four. The half-rotted ghoul and green smoke were not only more terrifying than the skeletons, but also more resistant to defensiveness than the undead with only bones.

This time, Ke Lin did not use wind-type spells, but instead used fire-types. In addition to light, this is the most lethal spell to the undead.

The fire wall, which was taller than the human, immediately spread around with the Red Robe Mage as the center. Taking advantage of the gap where the ghouls dodge, the whistling meteor fire rain turned the second batch of undeads into charred residue.

The third wave of the undead made no sound, but Ke Lin still felt it keenly.

Just when he was wondering what type of undead would be, the call from behind made the human, who was determined to become the most evil undead mage, breathed stagnant.

"Ke Lin..." The gentle female voice was filled with the softness unique to women.

This time, the terrifying undead person who showed himself from the gray fog was no longer the terrifying appearance. The woman with a blonde hair walked slowly forward, staring at Ke Lin in the magic circle with her eyes obsessed with her eyes.

"Kalan..." The woman he loved in the past stood in front of him all of a sudden. Even a stern-hearted evil person like Ke Lin couldn't help but breathe a little unsteadily.

This is an illusion... he kept saying to himself.

"Why don't you come to me?"

Moving to a distance of only two steps from Ke Lin, Ka Lian, with a beautiful face, asked sadly.

"Frank and I have been waiting for you."

Taking a deep breath, the last trace of unbearableness in Ke Lin's eyes faded away. Yu Wang, who had gained power, overwhelmed his emotions. Ke Lin raised his staff and shot out the spell directly hit Ka Lian's face. The golden curly hair was quickly burned, and the flames turned the entire head into a burning fireball.

The screams of pain rang out, and Karen's originally gentle voice became hysterical. She fell to the ground and kept rolling.

The Hongpao Master said coldly: "You are dead, you died thirty years ago. Take off this false appearance and meet me with your true face."

The flesh and blood disappeared, and Karen, who was left with only bones, stood up. The still burning skull opened and opened: "You are still as ruthless as before, Ke Lin."

"The Karen I know is not the canary in the cage, she is a wolf in the wilderness, with beautiful fur and deadly minions. Even when I sacrificed her, I did not compromise. You are not her!"

The skeleton, who could not see the expression, did not answer, but the shape changed again. The bones that had dispersed turned into black gravel and finally condensed into human form. It was Victor who had changed into a wolf-headed helmet.

"What do you mean?" Ke Lin asked dissatisfiedly.

"I said it from the beginning, it just tests whether you are qualified to be a dead soul." Victor used the appearance of Karen himself, whom he had seen in the Tower of Shadow. Although Ke Lin hesitated for a short time, he quickly regained the ruthlessness of the evil, and his feelings of goodness were suppressed again.

The gray mist disappeared, and Ke Lin returned to the basement again. The sunshine representing time could be vaguely seen in the crack of the door that had never been completely closed. Looking at the hourglass of the time beside him, the sand had already leaked out. The short trial in the illusion actually passed half a night in reality. The bird that was originally lively had fallen from the wooden stake, and its feathers were dull.

"Congratulations, Kelin Baier, you are temporarily qualified."

"Temporary?" Ke Lin didn't understand. Since it had been successful, why should we say it was temporary?

"You have only truly given up the feelings that belong to humans, no, they belong to living creatures. The transformation is only half completed. That's why I use temporary descriptions."

"Victor, what I want is a complete transformation!" Ke Lin was furious. Why do you need to ask Victor, who is a priest, for help? He can do it himself.

"I'm only halfway through, why are you anxious?" I had expected Ke Lin to get angry, and Victor explained slowly: "The power of the magic circle has not completely disappeared. How much power can be obtained depends entirely on your performance last night. From now on, you will need to spend at least three days to absorb the power of the magic circle. I can say that it is ahead, leave the house immediately after the transformation is completed, don't add any trouble to me, either go back to your own mage tower, or go outside to hide for a few days. Anyway, the people in the temple will target you and find a way to solve it yourself."

After Victor said this, Ke Lin felt something strange in his body. The blood flow rate slowed down, his heartbeat gradually slowed down, and his body was "dead".

He looked at the lich who could not see his face. The wolf-headed mask was more in line with its identity than the rough silver mask he had worn before. Whether it was divine art or arcane, the wolf was a symbol of mystery and power, and it also represented the meaning of protection.

Close the door leading to the basement, Victor imposed a simple spell on it, and it was impossible for ordinary people who could not open the spell to open the door from outside.

A solid wood table and five chairs have been added to the empty hall. Several large bookcases were placed on the walls on both sides of the door, and some information was scattered. These were useful news that Dunan and Reina had found in mercenary unions or taverns these days. For example, the map of the border towns, the strongholds of the adventure guilds across the country, and some verbal or recorded relics. This cleaned hall looks no different from an ordinary house. Of course, the painting hanging on the wall must be removed.

The three members of the mercenary group actually returned to the old house in the second half of the night. They heard from Alpha that Victor brought a red-robed mage into the basement. The three of them who were worried that they would use evil spells were waiting in the hall until dawn before they arrived at Victor.

"Deputy... Commander?" Hawke felt that it was awkward to call him, but he did not dare to call him the name of the lich directly.

"Just call me Victor, the deputy commander sounds awkward." In fact, not only Hawk felt awkward, but even Victor was the same.

"Victor, why have you changed into a new mask?" Reina's inquiring eyes fell on the wolf's head, a bit like the mask worn by the blessings at a rural gathering, except that there is no holy emblem on her forehead, and it is replaced by a huge crystal. Could it be...

"Oh, you should have noticed it too. This is the Guardian mask, only the symbol of the Temple Guardian or the Austrian Guard." For these three humans, Victor did not intend to conceal the fact that he obtained the Guardian qualification.

"Then your apprentice's identity is not..." Du Nan knew a little about the Guardian, and it seemed that people who became such a special existence must give up all their previous identities.

"The formal notice should be issued in two days, and I was dropped out of school."

Hawke instinctively wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh out loud. He covered his mouth and felt uncomfortable holding it in his mouth.

"Ke Lin is undergoing undead transformation in the basement. You go to the mercenary union to take a random mission and come back in a few days." This matter must be reminded that once the transformation is successful, the newly born undead will absorb nearby lives. These three guys with insufficient self-protection ability will definitely become victims. Victor does not want the shield he spent on his energy and time to cultivate will be consumed like this, and he must find a way to help them go.

"Hey? But there are no tasks suitable for our level in the union..." This is exactly what Hawk is worried about. As the largest base in Jingyao, they are basically tasks with high difficulty. For example, at their current level, basically no one will hang up tasks.

"Then go to a nearby village or town to pick it up, and don't come back within five days. It is not only to save your life, but also to eliminate the suspicion of the mercenary group." After successful transformation, Ke Lin will definitely go outside to absorb his soul. Victor does not want the church and the city defense team to stare at the mercenary group.

The Karen mercenary group, with the dark elves as the leader, lived in a haunted old house. After being spread by the Misilian Blacksmith shop and slum thieves, it is well known in Jingyao.

In order to avoid suspicion, it was planning to let Bailer, who was recovering from his injuries, pretend to be Klein and take Hawke and the others to the nearby villages and towns to take the mission. The city defense force can handle it with Mendel, and the temple will be difficult. Lucien is still in San Vasetis, and the far water cannot save the near fire. When he thinks of what Pelo said, Victor just wants to find a way to solve the breathing and heartbeat as soon as possible. Although it cannot be concealed from everyone, at least, it cannot be too obvious.

By the way, Mithril!
Chapter completed!