Dolphin Rolle shivered as if he was burned by the ferocious gaze. He stammered, "Master, I …"
"Bring seven mudbloods over and drain their blood." Lord Voldemort was not interested and did not have the patience to listen to his explanation. "If our 'coins' can't satisfy the devil later, we'll use you to make up for it …"
"Yes, master." Hearing this, Dolphin did not dare to say another word to beg for mercy. He walked into the group of Muggle that were frozen in fear. With his trembling hand and wand, he chose seven male Muggle that looked quite strong. He then shot out a sharp blade and jumped to cut the Muggle's wrists.
The seven Muggle wanted to scream but could not make any sound. They wanted to cover their wrists but could not move at all. Compared to the pain in their wrists, what frightened them the most was that they seemed to be able to feel every drop of their blood flowing out of their wrists. The blood flowed out in waves with their thoughts and their heartbeats, dripping onto the ground ….
The gurgling blood slowly gathered towards the altar in the middle of the room as if it had a life of its own. The red blood that flowed up the altar seemed to be shrouded in a faint silver light, forming a hexagram array in the room similar to the pentagram array that Allen had in the tower. On each corner of the hexagram array, there were six skulls piled up like a pyramid. These white skulls were covered with runes drawn in the Infernal language. The empty eyes, nose, and mouth were facing the center of the array.
"Too slow, Dolphin." Lord Voldemort's slender fingers casually played with his wand, but Dolphin did not dare to be careless. He waved his wand repeatedly, speeding up the blood loss of the injured Muggle.
Clearly sensing the change in speed, an uncontrollable great fear tortured these Muggle. With a thud, a female Muggle fell to the ground first. Not long after, a fat middle-aged Muggle also fell to the ground. With their wrists cut, the Muggle who could not do anything in the face of death fell to the ground one by one. Their widened and gradually dilated pupils looked at the gray stone ceiling above their heads in despair until the world in their eyes completely turned into darkness.
In fact, the ritual only needed the blood of six adults, but Lord Voldemort replaced the number that the devils were superstitious with his own number. This also caused a Muggle's blood to be wasted and flow helplessly under the altar.
Lord Voldemort, who was originally dismissive of summoning magic and illusion magic and only believed in the more direct and simple magic power, changed his attitude towards magic after the battle between the Ministry of Magic and Allen. In addition to asking his men to collect knowledge related to illusion magic for him, he also mobilized his Death Eaters to search for a way to summon demons. He even sent people to track down the Greek wizard who was invited by the Ministry of Magic to summon the demon Bair, but the results still did not satisfy him.
Because the Death Eaters tried their best to find a few Greek wizards who were said to be good at curses turned out to be controlled by the Soul Seizing Curse, so they knew nothing about how to summon a demon like Bair.
The knowledge of summoning demons provided by the Death Eaters was only some records within their family. It was far from the detailed records of Blake's family, and could only be regarded as some legends in the countryside. Only Bellatrix Lestrange personally took a few people to sneak back to the United Kingdom and obtained the knowledge of the Otherworld Binding Curse that Allen provided them from the British Aura's mind. In order to prevent the collar badge worn by the Aura to detect an accident in the wearer's health and inform the other Aura to rush over, exposing the attack and causing them to be unable to bring the relevant knowledge back to Albania, this group of vicious Death Eaters even suppressed their desire to kill. Before they left, they even let Lockhart use the Amnesia Spell that he was good at to finish the job.
But because the Otherworld Binding Curse itself could only summon some low-level otherworld creatures, and when determining the type of summoning, one needed to have a certain understanding of the summoning target's name and habits, so the Aura only had the low-level information provided by Allen in their hands. This situation made this spell useless to Lord Voldemort. In a battle of their level, these low-level creatures could not participate in it.
Of course, with the attitude of making the best use of everything, Lord Voldemort let his men try to learn this spell. Because most of the Death Eaters were generally not related to Order and were all chaotic and evil, the difficulty of the willpower of the summoned hellhounds was much higher than that of the Aura. Therefore, some Death Eaters with low combat strength and insufficient talent were bitten to death by the hellhounds they summoned when using this spell. But in the end, elite members like Lestrange and Lucius were still very reliable in using this summoning spell.
Although the methods of summoning demons in other countries were different, they could not escape from the traditional sacrificial magic used by the traditional wizards.
Compared to the magical knowledge that Bair provided to Allen in the Goblet of Fire competition, this traditional summoning method of the wizards was unusually troublesome from the beginning. Generally, the wizards would provide the demons with rare magical materials or some magical creatures or even a large amount of gold as a sacrifice.
Although the demons themselves were not interested in gold, they found that a lot of mortals were willing to sell their souls for this small thing when they were "doing business." So the cunning demons were now very willing to exchange some things for a large amount of gold as a reserve when doing business.
Of course, some ignorant country bumpkins would recklessly pay with silver coins, which were known as poisonous stings by demons and demons. This was very rude and, of course, very dangerous behavior. Although silver magical weapons would cause extra damage to these creatures of the lower planes, at least a considerable number of such creatures would be hurt. Although ordinary silver items did not have this effect, it was obvious that they would still feel the sting. If you were facing a demon, the demon might let you go because of the demon's greed to complete the transaction, or even kindly explain everything to you and ask you to pay with other coins of equal value. But if you were to do this to a demon who was constantly looking for trouble …
At this time, Lord Voldemort obviously did not have the patience and willingness to use this more troublesome and costly method. He did not want his Death Eaters to waste their family's funds on something that could be replaced with worthless mud. So, the mysterious man who learned of Bair's name and form from the old news of the Goblet of Fire used a method that was consistent with his identity as a black wizard, which was a live sacrifice.
Live sacrifice was a way to sacrifice the life of an intelligent creature in return for the demon or demon. In the era when the ancient gods were not buried together with the crazy magic experiments of Netheril, the evil gods would also ask their believers to perform such rituals regularly. Today, in the traditional sorcerer culture of some Native American sorcerers, there were still remnants of such bloody magic rituals left in the primitive magic. However, these Native American sorcerers sacrificed to their own ancestors. In addition, the United States Congress of Magic, which was a European sorcerer civilization, had long banned these barbaric practices, at least on the surface.
Most demons and demons accepted this method of sacrifice, which meant that some intelligent creatures were killed alive. Generally speaking, the victims were humans, but the dark forces were generally not picky about whether the sacrifice was a giant, a mermaid, or a few succubi.
In many such rituals, blood was seen as a sacred symbol of life. Innocent sacrifices had blood flowing in their veins, and even their souls were treated as part of the sacrifice. In rituals that did not shed blood, such as strangulation or drowning could also be part of the live sacrifice. However, under normal circumstances, the cruel ones preferred to see the blood of the sacrifice, although it was not completely necessary.
Lord Voldemort was obviously the cruelest of these guys. He chose this dark method that could also satisfy his personal addiction. He mobilized the Death Eaters to capture Muggle at the risk of being captured by the Aura all over the world. In order to have the time and place to collect enough Muggle, he used the gold coins of his men to build a secret base in the ungoverned Albania.
Before accumulating enough Muggles, the Death Eaters could only keep the captured Muggle in cages. During this period, many Muggle's physical condition deteriorated rapidly due to lack of care, leading to death. Some even died directly from the abuse of the Death Eaters for fun. Therefore, the Black Sorcerers could only continue to capture Muggle to replenish their numbers.
Therefore, after the altar was built, the mysterious person who had mastered this ritual magic estimated that the number of Muggle's storage was almost enough. He immediately chose to start the ritual.
Compared to the magic circle carved by Lord Voldemort that could be used repeatedly in the prison of Ravenclaw's tower, the magic circle used in this live sacrifice was just a one-time item.
The magic circle built with Muggle's blood was temporary and was far less stable than the one drawn with Mithril, which had good magic conductivity. Not only the material, but the magic patterns presented were also different. The Mithril personally drawn by Roynar Ravenclaw, who had read the Netherese Scroll, was more detailed and complex. The magic contained was also more powerful. However, if it was just a transaction with the Demon Lord, the effect of this magic circle was enough.
When Voldemort saw that the grooves engraved on the magic circle on the ground were no longer willing to absorb any more blood, he clenched his wand tightly with his long and slender fingers. He pointed at the hexagram where the blood was gathering. His lips didn't move at all. A language full of order and evil seemed to be coming out from his two slender nostrils. However, this voice wasn't audible. It affected one's soul.
The Death Eaters in the hall found that a feeling of dizziness and weakness spread all over their bodies. Gidro Lockhart even felt that his whole body began to tremble. His face was pale and his eyes were wide open in horror.
Unlike the wizards who were barely holding on, the Muggle's body had no magic at all. It was more painful for them to face this feeling directly. A violent pulling feeling acted on their souls and bodies, as if their souls were being pulled out from the top of their heads little by little. This severe pain that directly affected the soul made all the Muggle paralyzed in place. They could not even move their eyes.
The young man who was the first to open the door of the iron cage was the first to collapse. He twitched and fell to the ground. After his big feet kicked the huge stone floor a few times, his face was distorted and he stopped breathing. After a while, his body that had lost its soul turned into powder and dissipated into the air of the hall.
Because this blasphemy directly affected the soul, it had nothing to do with the physical strength of the Muggle. Therefore, even if a Muggle looked very strong, if their soul was weak, they would fall to the ground and die before those old and weak women and children with strong souls.
And as Lord Voldemort continued to chant for a long time, every time a Muggle fell to the ground and died and dissipated, a skull filled with Infernal absorbed a soul. As the thirty-six Muggle fell to the ground and lost their lives one after another, the thirty-six skeletons piled up on the hexagram array were ignited by their souls one by one. The soul fire jumped in the empty eye sockets of the skeletons.
In the center of the hexagram array drawn with blood, the huge circular blood pool faintly emitted a flame. The blood that gathered in the blood pool bubbled and rolled. Blood bubbles bulged and burst one after another. The unpleasant and pungent smell of sulfur gradually became stronger, and the hot breath continued to spread in the air.
Suddenly, a goat-like horn emerged from the churning blood pool in the middle of the hexagram array. It rose slowly, the burning and steaming flame mane emitting a threatening aura.
Black venom kept dripping from the monster's mouth. Its burning yellow eyes looked around the hall and fixed on Lord Voldemort who had stopped chanting.
Gradually, the four-meter-tall Archduke Demon's full appearance was revealed in the hall. Its arms were long and powerful. Its left hand held a flaming whip, and its right hand held a long sword filled with lightning. There were bat-like wings on its back. Wailing human skulls were wrapped around its waist, and three silver-white skulls pierced through its tail.
"The Dark Lord, times have changed. Why do you have to summon me in such a wasteful way?" Bair said in a slightly frivolous and exotic tone, half-jokingly and half-complaining. "I'm not a pervert like those in the Bottomless Abyss. To a large extent, the reputation of us demons is ruined by your useless and wasteful ways. Coupled with the brainless behavior of those American noise bands, it makes it harder for us to do business …"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
