For sinister dark wizards, parents, loved ones and friends are never what they need to cherish.

It's just that they complete a more evil magic prop, one of the most important magic materials, very effective and cruel.

Imagine what else would be more evil than using the blood, bones and soul of one's parents, brothers?!

Like old Tom Riddle, Voldemort's father, who only needs him at resurrection, needs his bones.

As a servant of the devil, Arianna sees the lives and souls of others as sacrifices necessary for the coming of the devil. She even devotes her own soul to the soul, and has completely lost her reason, or more precisely her humanity.

She can no longer be counted as a human being, but a demon from Hell.

Evan sighed, how horrible an unrestricted powerful magical force is.

This is just a microcosm of Europe from the Dark Magic Age hundreds of years ago, when blood and evil were happening all the time...

The truth of the facts is far more shocking than what you see and hear in the book.

“I knew I couldn't get away, and she wouldn't let me go. I'm cursed by that demon!” Shuklia continues that a faint voice can evoke a deep fear in a person's heart, "but I cannot allow her to complete that ritual, and I must stop her, otherwise even my soul cannot be calmed after my death. So, before she came to kill me, I turned every soul in the castle into an owl at the cost of my life. ”

If she's not lying, that's why Fort Owl was born.

But Ivan doesn't believe what she's saying is everything. It's probably just part of the truth!

Like Yalianna, Shuklia glorified her sins for noble reasons.

“Is that the whole curse? ”

“It is not a curse, but a protection, and I protect these souls from being devoured by the devil.” Shouklia said excitedly, then calmed down for a moment, "Of course, I do not deny that it is also a protection for myself, and I hide in these souls so that the demon cannot find me. ”

“How did you do it?” Evan asked, looking like smoke in the middle of the sky, “those souls were part of this castle before they were born, should they obey Arianna's orders? ”

No wonder I saw the ghost say before that it could not break an oath that had been made and that it could not reveal everything about that man, which should refer to their oath of allegiance to Arianna, the magic used by this ancient family of pureblood wizards against servants, even centuries after their death.

Speaking of which, ghosts like it are the real poor guys.

They were innocently caught up in the plot, unable to rest, until now they thought the hostess had killed them and had to obey her orders.

“After they became owls, they were no longer intelligent, and naturally they could not hear the devil's command of them, nor could she find which one of the thousands of owl ghosts was me.” Shuklia said, "But as long as we restore the human form, the magic of the past will work and she will reorder them, as you just saw...”

“Well, how did she order them, I didn't see her there! ”

“Except for this place, the entire fortress is under her surveillance. Hundreds of years of struggle have allowed us to know each other and even more than ourselves. I know she got a mirror from the devil, and it's now her body, showing all the sights inside and around the castle.” Shuklia said.

“You mean she can see us?!” Ivan stunned and immediately thought, "So I came here and she knew, too, where this totem is. ”

“Yes, but it doesn't matter!” She already knew about this place, but she just couldn't get in, but it was sooner or later, "Shuklia said. Long ago, my power began to recede, and for centuries, those foolish adventurers who kept breaking into me broke the magic I had left in the castle, and I couldn't hold her back, and she was getting stronger and stronger, even leaving the mirror, contacting her offspring or other greedy wizards to lure them down. ”

Speaking of which, Ivan thought of the Owl Man, that horrible human creature.

“She imparts taboo demonic powers to greedy wizards to convince them that they will become stronger. But that's just part of it, and they all end up as a hybrid of inferior demons and humans, like the Owl Man you're talking about.” Shooklia looked at Ivan for a moment, “I didn't want to lie to you, and I wanted your help, and I could feel that you were very smart, even though you were very young, unlike any of those wizards. I can tell you that when she seduces the wizards who enter the castle, I also speak to them through the forces of nature, hint at them, tell them the wrong magic, make them insane after becoming demons, unable to serve her, become pure monsters, or die directly..."

Indeed, it is insidious that these self-righteous adventurers who have gained everything and become more powerful are merely objects in the hands of two women. But to be honest, Ivan doesn't feel surprised anymore, and what she did in the story before Shoulia shows that it would be a strange thing not to do so.

No wonder Yalianna asked herself for help, and Ivan was probably her new prey.

If Ivan did nothing, he would spill blood and what was in that bottle on this totem, as the other said, and now that terror is long dead, he can no longer die, and Shuklia will not let him go.

“Well, since you've told me everything, what do you want me to do?” Ivan said.

“Save me from this nightmare, stop the demon, destroy the mirror, or else wait for her to regain her strength and bring the true demon to a successful summons, and all will die, and no one will escape, a terrible force beyond imagination.” Shuklia said.

“But it doesn't mean anything to me, we are just outsiders, we will leave Dijon tomorrow, even if she becomes a real demon, that is also what the French Ministry of Magic and the Arrogants need headaches, I have a lot of problems left unresolved, I don't want to cause new trouble!” Ivan said, after a moment of careful consideration, shook his head, "To be honest, after listening to you tell this story, I'm tired of this matter, which is far more complicated than I thought, I'm not very..."