Chapter 20: Black Magic!
“That butler is simply too despicable!”
“If he wanted to live, he should have explained everything clearly!”
“He actually wanted to frame Mr. James! How despicable!”
Elise spoke angrily when she heard the process of this incident.
“Hehe, if he had explained things clearly, his identity would have been exposed.”
“I reckon that he wants to continue hiding in Saint Laurent City. After all, he will be protected by the Empire that way.”
James didn’t feel angry when he saw the enraged girl.
After he finished speaking, he looked at the young girl, who was still curled up into a ball, and felt a little puzzled.
“Is this book that scary?”
Earlier, James had discovered that Elise seemed to be especially sensitive to things that possessed extraordinary powers.
No matter which sacrificial array it was from.
Furthermore, the young girl seemed to recognise most of the extraordinary things they had seen in the dense Kubak forest.
James suddenly felt a little curious when he recalled the girl’s silence about her village.
“Elise, do you recognize the words on this book?”
Elise hesitated at James’s question. Then, she nodded.
“Yes, this is the Qil language. It’s an ancient language used specifically for sacrifices!”
“Oh, sacrifices. So the contents of this book are related to sacrifices?”
James asked curiously.
“I think so, Mr. James.”
“Since that is the case, can you take a look at the contents of this book?”
As he spoke, James walked over to Elise and placed the book with ominous power in front of her.
As the book got closer to the young girl, her body instinctively flinched.
In the end, she mustered up her courage and flipped open a page.
This book was very thin and didn’t have much content. Thus, Elise finished reading it quickly.
After she finished reading the book, the young girl instantly ran to the other side of the room and said to James, “This is indeed a book about sacrifices, but it doesn’t contain content about it!”
At this point, the girl suddenly paused as if she was organizing her words.
“This is a book about black magic!”
“Black magic?!”
James’s pupils contracted when he heard these two words.
Since the Empire had a Guild of Magic, there would naturally be mages.
Furthermore, all the techniques that mages used were magic.
But the magic they used was proper magic. Meanwhile, black magic was naturally indecent.
However, this wasn’t because of the effects of black magic.
It was because of the effects of using black magic.
Normal magic came at the cost of a mage’s magic power, while black magic usually came at the cost of something special.
For example, it would come at the price of blood, eyeballs, and some strange things.
These things did not necessarily have to be from the mages. They could belong to someone else as well.
In other words, to use a powerful spell, a black magician would kill thousands of people and collect their blood to activate black magic.
Later on, the definition of black magic evolved to include anything that was not recorded in the magic records in the Guild of Magic.
Thus, the term “black magic” had changed from representing the terrifying to a neutral term.
However, black magic was forbidden by the laws of the Empire.
There was only one place James could use black magic without punishment.
That was the Land of Chaos.
“I see!” James nodded in understanding.
Then, he looked at Ellis with a strange look. “Elise, do you also know how to use black magic?”
After a moment of hesitation, Elise finally nodded.
“Yes, I seem to have been born with some knowledge of black magic. Everyone in the village says that this is the blessing of the Evil God!”
“Therefore, I learned some knowledge from the Great Prophet in the village!”
“This includes the Qil language. Thus, I can understand this book!”
James nodded. Then, he asked her, “So, can you teach me this Qil language?”
“As the Evil God, don’t you know the Qil language? I heard from the Great Prophet that the Qil language seems to have been created by the Evil God.”
James was dismayed to hear the girl’s teasing.
“That’s why I said I’m not the Evil God!”
“Are you going to teach me or not?”
Elise couldn’t help but laugh as she watched James acting like a child.
He was a person with such great strength, but he often threw tantrums.
“The Great Prophet said that under normal circumstances, it shouldn’t be spread…”
When Elise saw James’s disappointed expression, she secretly laughed and added on.
“But if it’s Mr. James, then there’s no other way.”
Upon hearing this, James was dumbfounded. He looked at the young girl in disbelief.
“Do you mean you’ll teach me?”
Elise smiled and nodded.
“That’s great, Elise. You’re really the most beautiful girl in the world!”
After loudly compliment complementing Elise, James began to learn the Qil language.
Elise started with the basics.
She placed the book on black magic in front of James.
“This book is called ‘Heartbreaking Black Magic’. It seems to be written by a black magician from the ancient era.”
“The words used on it are in the Qil language!”
“The Qil language is one of the languages used in ancient sacrifices. At that time, almost all books with ominous powers were written in the Qil language.”
“Reciting the words in the book will help you understand Qil language more quickly!”
“I’ll read it first. Then, read this text with me while looking at the words.”
It was already late at night. The young girl held the book in both hands and read it out beside the warm stove.
“Cyril… Fraszi… Kakal… Hill…”
Unknown words were recited one after another by the young girl.
James listened to her by the side and carefully stared at the words on “Heartbreaking Black Magic”.
Then, he read the characters on the book along with Elise.
At first, he didn’t feel anything.
However, as time passed, he recited more and more words, and a strange feeling gradually emerged in his heart.
In the empty hut, his voice seemed to penetrate the void and float towards an unknown place!
Outside their house, the moon gradually began to sink and the sky gradually brightened.
Suddenly…
A golden halo rose from afar.
That was the sun!
The next day was here.
Inside the small house…
James stretched his sore arms and groaned happily.
“We’re finally done reading!”
Over the course of the night, James had recited the entire “Heartbreaking Black Arts”, led by Elise.
He did not know whether it was because of the eggs from the Giant Chaos Wolf, but James found that he understood the Qil language very quickly.
After all, the Qil language itself was just a language.
After a night of reciting, he could already feel that…
If he were to follow the rate of progress he had made tonight, he would soon be able to fully grasp the Qil language.
But it was better to sleep for now.