The story of the black silk female knight

"Anyone can be reborn in the radiance of the Sun Goddess if they turn over a new leaf! If we can stop Dr. Karen before he makes a grave mistake, he will still have a chance to start anew."

"If you'd like, Senior LeFresh... I can ask a friend at church to help you visit Dr. Karen during her labor of repentance."

"...Then I'll have to trouble Valensa, please do your best to stop Dr. Karen."

Leffre gritted her teeth again and finally made up her mind:

"That was a few days ago... Ever since I had my check-up with Dr. Karen, I've made an appointment with him to come for psychotherapy every day."

That one day, however, he refused me, saying he had something important to do... and his expression was very gentle, like a little boy falling in love for the first time.

You know how much I care about Dr. Karen… so I was really bothered by him and secretly followed him, but he still found out in the end.”

"Where did he go?" Valensa asked hastily.

"In a cemetery about 2000 meters northwest of the college."

Leffe smiled wryly:

"Dr. Karen said that his deceased wife was buried there, and he went there to mourn her... I was so preoccupied with the fact that he had been married that I came back in a daze and didn't pay attention to anything else."

Thinking about it now... that cemetery was quite large, yet it only buried one person..."

"This means that's very likely where he secretly studied necromancy!" x2

Valensa and Tia spoke in unison, then exchanged another glance:

"Go, stop him!" x2

. . . . .

Underneath that cemetery was indeed a small laboratory.

Karen stumbled in, her injuries only given basic treatment, and she was limping along while blood dripped from her wounds.

But he paid no attention to any of that. Instead, he stared wide-eyed, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the innermost part of the room, carefully examining the culmination of his years of hard work.

It was a white jade round platform about half a meter high, with an intricately carved magic circle composed of multiple rings on it. Many of the nodes of the patterns were inlaid with expensive magic gems or magical materials.

At the center of the magic circle lay a naked girl with her eyes closed and no signs of life.

Karen's eyes only softened when she looked at that young girl.

“My dear… wait a little longer, my dear… we’ll be reunited soon.”

As he spoke, he pulled out a ritual dagger, pierced the blood vessels in his arm, and injected a large amount of blood into the outer layer of the magic circle to carry out the final preparations for activation.

This was an action he had simulated countless times in his mind. Everything went smoothly, and soon his blood filled the outer ring. All he needed to do next was inject magic power to activate the magic circle.

But Karen hesitated at this moment.

Because this is an extremely forbidden spell, with very few successful records, and he still has many theories and parameters that he hasn't been able to fully verify... If possible, he would like to wait a little longer.

But he couldn't wait any longer.

Because this was a necromancy spell performed in secret, he would be doomed if the church discovered it... and he had just revealed his identity as a necromancer to a paladin.

"Damn it... of all times... and of all times she found out!"

Karen muttered to herself, feeling both unwilling and helpless.

He had no choice.

Rather than having my dream shattered completely after being discovered by the church, I'd rather give it my all one last time.

Even if his final fate is still to be forced into labor to repent, he still wants to see his beloved again, even if it's only for a few minutes.

Fight!

Karen eventually activated the magic circle.

Karen was indeed secretly researching necromancy, and he was the one who anonymously purchased prohibited materials, but he had no connection with any cult... He simply wanted to resurrect his deceased wife.

As magic was infused, the magic circle quickly shone brightly.

According to the principles of this forbidden technique, the magic circle should then connect to the realm of the dead, bring back the soul of Karen's deceased wife, and infuse that soul into the female body within the magic circle, which is made of various high-grade materials.

...That's how it should be.

"How is that possible? What do you mean by 'the realm of the dead has no trace of this soul'?"

Karen let out an incredulous roar, followed by a gasp:

"Oops!"

His meticulously prepared magic circle was extremely reliable, but precisely because it was so reliable, it automatically switched to the second plan after the main plan failed:

It absorbs the soul most intimate with the female body within the formation and then injects it into the female body...

Chapter 102 Now it's completely irreversible!

When designing this resurrection magic circle, Karen had considered what to do if his beloved wife's soul was not in the realm of the dead.

After all, there are many factors that can cause the departed souls to linger in the mortal world and become undead creatures.

Therefore, Karen added an alternative to the magic circle's transfer function—if the summoning of her beloved wife's soul to the realm of the dead fails, the target of this soul summoning function will switch to the mortal world, summoning the soul closest to her wife's body.

In most cases, the soul that is closest to the body should be the body's original owner.

But when the alternative plan of the magic circle actually started to work, Karen was horrified to discover that his own soul was being pulled outwards.

If he is in good condition and has sufficient magic power, he certainly has a way to resist this soul absorption, after all, this is a magic circle that he designed and drew himself.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing.

Injured by Valensa and hastily activating the magic circle by overdrawing her magic power, Karen couldn't withstand the soul absorption for more than a few seconds before being forced to separate her soul from her body in a dizzying spin.

When she finally regained consciousness, she felt the jade stone on her back was very cold, and some parts of her body felt empty, while others felt heavy.

Not far in front of her was a man with an anxious and incredulous expression. She recognized him... because that was her original body.

I've become my wife?

Karen's mind went blank for a moment, then she immediately shook her head to stay awake.

No, it's just a minor accident, nothing serious... As long as the magic circle is reversed, my soul can return.

Bang!

Just as Karen was thinking this, she heard the door to her laboratory being kicked open, and the female paladin who infuriated her rushed in, sword and shield in hand...

. . . . .

After learning from Lovely that Karen might be hiding, Valensa and Tia immediately decided to split up and stop Karen.

Valensa, who possesses the strongest combat power and survival skills, will rush into the laboratory first to try to rescue the girl who is most likely being used as a sacrifice.

Tia kept watch near the cemetery, alerting Karen to any possible cult accomplices, while also guiding the paladins who were on their way.

Leffre ran to the principal's office to ask the bald man to come out of retirement... If there really is a dangerous cult behind Karen, Valensa rushing in would only buy her some time; a truly powerful person would have to step in.

After breaking open the door to the laboratory hidden in the cemetery, Valensa quickly saw Karen, the magic circle on the jade platform, and the girl inside the magic circle.

The girl was very beautiful, with a tall and well-proportioned figure and skin as smooth as a baby's, looking like a noble young lady.

The girl looked terrified, her lips trembling... and not far in front of her was Karen, who had her back to Valensa.

Surely this isn't another misunderstanding?

A cold glint flashed in Valensa's eyes:

"Cultists, die!"

Her magical knowledge was insufficient to discern the state of the magic circle before her, but she knew that no matter how sophisticated the spell, killing the caster could stop it.

So Valensa showed no mercy, stabbing Karen in the heart from behind and then beheading her... all to stop Karen from casting her spell and save the poor girl trapped in the magic circle.

"Ok?"

Normally, a piercing of the heart and a severed head would be fatal, but Valensa discovered that the magic circle on the jade platform was still glowing, and the girl inside looked even more terrified, almost dumbfounded.

Valensa immediately realized that many necromancers liked to refine their own bodies into undead, so that they would have no physical weaknesses and could survive even if they were beheaded or pierced through the heart.

Could Karen really be like this?

Valensa didn't dare to be careless. She quickly struck Karen's corpse several more times, then summoned holy light and used a divine spell she hadn't used since she mastered it.

"Divine Art: Holy Flame!"

Golden flames ignited in Valensa's palm, and with a press of her hand, they enveloped Karen's entire body.

This is a flame transformed from holy light. It has little effect on living targets, but it is very effective and fast when killing dead spirits and burning corpses.

Valensa prioritized learning this divine spell from the Paladin's Handbook to deal with the undead creatures that were likely to appear during the investigation mission, and now it has come in handy.

Karen's body didn't even last 10 seconds under the holy flames before it completely vanished.

Valensa breathed a sigh of relief and smiled as she reached out her hand to the girl in the magic circle:

"Don't worry, I've eliminated the cultists, you're saved."

"you……!"

Unexpectedly, the girl's expression became even more grief-stricken, and she even fainted.

Valensa still didn't think too much about it, assuming it was just that the victim was too scared.

Seeing that the magic circle was still lit, she was afraid of something going wrong and didn't dare to move it. She called Tia, who was keeping watch outside the laboratory, into the laboratory and took out Fran's little bat clone.

Tia is well-read and has a broad knowledge of all kinds of magic. Fran, being a vampire, knows a great deal about dark and necromancy.

The man and the bat circled the jade platform a few times and quickly figured out the general purpose of the magic circle.

"This... doesn't seem to be a sacrificial array. It's more like it's summoning something to be injected into the person at the center of the array... This girl shouldn't be a victim, but a beneficiary."

Tia first gave her initial conclusions.

"what?"

Valensa couldn't help but open her mouth.

No way... really another misunderstanding? Then Dr. Karen died for nothing?

"This is a magic circle that summons and merges souls."

Fortunately, Fran's voice put Valensa at ease again:

“I recognize this spell… It’s a forbidden black magic technique, and it’s a forbidden technique that many black magicians use in their later years to survive… They will choose a young person to kill, and then use this technique to take over the young person’s body.”

Therefore, this spell has been strictly forbidden from use and research by the Church for a long time. Once the caster is discovered, they can be unconditionally purified on the spot… Valensa, you just said you've already purified Karen? Where is she?”

"here."

Valensa quickly pointed out to the little bat the place where she had killed Karen and burned her body.

The little bat flapped its wings and flew around that spot a few times before flying back into Valensa's palm.

"How is it?" Valensa asked hurriedly.

"...I didn't find the scent of a purified soul there. The Karen you killed earlier was probably just an empty shell."

Fran's voice was serious, and the little bat turned its head toward the unconscious girl in the magic circle:

"His soul may have forcibly taken over the body of this poor girl."

Chapter 103 You're awake? The magic was a success; you're a beautiful girl now.

"The term 'occupy' might not be quite appropriate."

While Fran recognized the magic circle, Tia also made a new discovery.

She kept carefully observing the girl in the magic circle, and every now and then she would reach out and poke and pinch her baby-like skin, injecting magic to explore it.

The conclusion is now reached:

"This girl... well, let's just call her a girl for now. She may not be the victim we imagine, but rather someone Dr. Karen created herself."

This is a secret technique in forbidden alchemy known as human transmutation. I've seen it before in the Sage's Tower... It was a spare body created for himself by a puppeteer among the sages.

"You mean...she's a cyborg?"

Valensa and Fran were both somewhat surprised by the discovery.

The little bat flew directly onto the girl and gently bit her with its small mouth.