I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 242: Seeking the Dragon and Dividing the Gold at Chanshan (Second Update)
The cemetery was surrounded by ancient trees, and the moonlight shone through the treetops onto the winding path. The night breeze was blowing gently, and except for the occasional rustling of leaves in the wind, it was so quiet that Fang Yu felt a little uneasy.

The Belvette family cemetery is at the edge of the Misty Forest, where all direct descendants of the Belvette family are buried.

If George had not inherited the earldom and fiefdom in the future, he would not have been buried here. However, his father, Edward Belvedere, could be buried here because he was the direct descendant of the old earl.

Of course, Edward's mausoleum looks like just a slightly larger tomb, which cannot be compared with the tombs of the earls of past dynasties, which are decorated with exquisite stained glass and complex murals, and even have two stone lions guarding the door.

Now, the soil on the top of the tomb has been completely turned over, revealing a coffin inside that looks somewhat new.

"Edward has been dead for eight months. He shouldn't be able to survive, right?" Claudia asked quietly. Even a succubus would find it hard to accept that she ran to her husband's grave with her adulterer in the middle of the night.

Fang Yu put on a gas mask first. Claudia was surprised to see it, so Fang Yu explained, "It's odor-proof. Do you want one?"

Claudia hesitated and said no, the man has been buried for eight months. When the coffin is opened, the smell will definitely be unpleasant.

After all, it's your husband who is buried in there, and there is some moral pressure if you think he stinks.

You're a succubus, where does your strong sense of morality come from?

In the end, Claudia reached out and took the gas mask and goggles from Fang Yu's hand, and put them on her head like Fang Yu did.

"Lord Gis, isn't the museum open yet?" Claudia couldn't help but urge Fang Yu when she saw that he was still fiddling with something.

"Right away, huh, I finally found it."

Claudia couldn't help but feel a little strange when she saw Fang Yu jumping into the tomb.

He was a druid, so he could just summon some vines to open the sarcophagus, right? Was there any need for him to go down there himself?

But Fang Yu was holding a candle in his hand. He placed it in the southeast corner of the tomb and lit the candle with a flick of his fingers.

Is this... a ritual magic?
Just when Claudia wanted to see what Fang Yu would do next, she saw Fang Yu flying up again.

"According to the tradition in my hometown, if the candle in the southeast corner goes out, it means the tomb owner does not welcome us. We have to close the coffin quickly and leave. Otherwise, bad things will definitely happen, and we may even die here." Fang Yu explained seriously.

What do you do in your hometown? Why is there a tradition of opening coffins?

Fang Yu thought to himself that this was nothing, it was just that I hadn’t learned how to use a compass yet, otherwise I would definitely let you experience how to find dragons, divide gold, and look at the mountains, each layer of mountains is a level of difficulty.

I'll check the tomb later to see if there's anything valuable.

No, the tomb owner’s wife is still here.

What a pity, such a good opportunity to experience the feeling of Hu Bayi was wasted.

However, Hu Bayi went into the tomb so many times, but it seemed that he didn't get anything out.

The only Techen Pearl that was brought up was finally thrown into the bottomless ghost cave.

Fang Yu waved his hand, and a dozen tough vines emerged from under the tomb, tied up the coffin lid, and pulled it to the side.

Boom boom boom~
The sarcophagus was pulled open by vines, and after a light green smoke filled the air, the bones inside were revealed.

The soft tissue of the body, which had been dead for eight months, had basically completely decomposed, leaving only hair and some skin tissue still attached to the bones, while underneath the body was a yellow and black oily substance.

Fang Yu estimated that if he took off his gas mask now, he would vomit immediately.

Huh?
Is there really a dead body?
Fang Yu couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

He originally had a guess that the mastermind behind this might be Edward, and that he was faking his death.

That's why he persuaded Claudia to open Edward's tomb and check it out.

But now it looks like it's someone else.

Forget it, since there is a corpse, I can just ask it directly.

Fang Yu performed a 0-ring magic trick of wind dance in the tomb chamber, expelling the polluted air from the tomb chamber.

The wind blew and the candle went out.

Claudia's eyes narrowed slightly: "Lord Gis, the candle is out, should we..."

Fang Yu snapped his fingers and the candle lit up again. He said casually, "Oh, that's superstition."

Claudia: ...

Fang Yu and Claudia jumped down from the tomb. Fang Yu walked around the coffin and used lime to form a complicated magic circle. The center of the magic circle was a larger circle that encircled the coffin. There were many thin lines radiating outward from the central circle, and these lines were connected to several smaller circles on the periphery.

The edge of the entire magic circle is covered with twisted runes, and at every key node of the magic circle, there is a small pile of lime powder.

After drawing the magic circle, Fang Yu placed a spiritual bottle on Edward's forehead.

Then, Fang Yu placed six black candles on the six small circles of the magic circle, and placed a bowl of blood on each rune. "Spiritus, audi vocem meam!"

After all the arrangements were completed, Fang Yu opened his arms and chanted a spell loudly.

Finally, Fang Yu injected 1 unit of magic power into each of the six black candles.

The candlelight suddenly jumped more than two feet high!

With a "pop", the bottle of spirituality shattered into countless residues. After the spirituality overflowed from the bottle, it was quickly absorbed by six candles. The candlelight suddenly turned bright white, illuminating the entire tomb as bright as day!
At the same time, the bowls of blood made gurgling sounds and looked like they were boiling, but if you look closely, you can see that the blood was boiling and decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

As the blood decreased, a mouth with a tongue and vocal cords slowly grew out from the mouth of Edward's skull in the coffin!
Except for this mouth, everything else is still a pile of bones!
"Ho ho ho~" A meaningless ho ho sound came out of this strange mouth.

Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

The spell worked!
Fang Yu is now performing a second-level ritual spell - "Talking with the Dead".

After casting, this spell can make a corpse that has been dead for less than one year partially active, and obtain a part of spirituality from the astral world that is easy to return, so that the corpse has certain life characteristics, so that it can answer the caster's 3 questions.

After the three questions are answered, regardless of whether the caster is satisfied with the answer or not, the spell effect will end and the corpse will return to its original appearance.

And this spell can only be cast once on a corpse as a target. If it has been cast before, the current casting will fail.

"Communicating with the Dead" was originally a standard third-ring spell, but after having enough spirituality, Fang Yu discovered that he could modify the spell model appropriately, add spirituality as a casting material, and then change the spell from a standard spell to a ritual spell. In this way, he could downgrade it to a second-ring ritual spell.

Since it is a lower-level spell, the effect of the spell will definitely be weakened, and it becomes a question that can be answered by the caster with three answers: "yes" or "no".

Of course, this change doesn't really mean much in the Age of Greater Arcane.

A bottle of spiritual energy is too precious. This bottle of 1000 units of spiritual energy is worth at least magic crystals. How can we waste so much spiritual energy just to downgrade a third-ring spell which is already a low-level spell?

But Fang Yu didn't care. Although spirituality was also very precious to him and this bottle could give him an extra teleportation point, he now wanted to know who was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Please call me Kudo Shinichi from another world.

Kindaichi is also fine.

Although my grandfather passed away before I was born, I have a grandfather.

"Were you killed by Harold Belvitt directly or by someone else ordering you to do so?" Since the answer could only be yes or no, Fang Yu first asked the question that Claudia was most concerned about.

"No..." A word came out of the newly grown mouth vaguely, but it was still understandable that it gave a negative answer.

Claudia, who had already started to cry and kept murmuring her late husband's name when she heard the sound of the corpse, was stunned for a moment.

No? It wasn't Harold Bellwitt who killed him?
Who killed him? Did Edward really die in battle?

From the day Lord Edward died, she firmly believed that Earl Harold must have killed Edward in order to complete the blood sacrifice.

But now, Edward actually said with his own mouth that he was not the one who killed Harold?
No, it must be because Lord Guise's question just now was not rigorous enough. Harold did not kill Edward personally or instruct others to do so, so Edward answered "no".

It must be like this.

"Did you die in a blood sacrifice?" Claudia asked first, but the mouth did not make any response.

"Only I can ask." Fang Yu used a communication spell on Claudia. Now, no matter what he said publicly, the spell would judge it as a question to the dead, and one question would be wasted.

"Did Harold have a motive to kill you?" Fang Yu used a more general question.

"no……"

No motive? Since Harold didn't kill him and he didn't have a motive, it means Harold is not the murderer.

Claudia was completely desperate.

Originally, the power of hatred could support her to keep looking for the truth, but now, she found that she had always hated the wrong person.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Claudia suddenly let out a scream. Fang Yu hurriedly waved his hand and cast a silencing spell above the tomb to prevent Claudia's scream from being heard out.

Otherwise, the cemetery guards will be attracted.

Claudia pulled off her gas mask, stumbled towards the exit of the tomb, and quickly climbed out using her hands and feet.

Is this woman crazy?
Could it be that the succubus actually has true feelings?
This is a bit new.

Fang Yu wanted to chase after her to prevent this woman from causing trouble. Just as he was about to turn around, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
Fang Yu's pupils shrank slightly, he considered his wording, and asked the third question.

"Are you Edward Carlton Bellwitt?"

The strange mouth on the skull opened and uttered a voice that was not human but was completely understandable: "...No..."

(End of this chapter)