Chapter 1038 Suspicion of Blood

Joan's proposal was unanimously supported by everyone, urging him to cast a spell as soon as possible to find out whether Arnold is still alive.

Joan touched the pocket of his jacket, took out a white linen handkerchief, and gently wiped the blood-stained "Teleportation Scroll".

To cast the "Message of Blood", some blood samples from the subject of the investigation need to be used as the material for casting the spell. Fresh blood or dried blood can be used.

Joan spread the blood-stained handkerchief on the ground, calmly made a spell-casting gesture, and chanted the spell.

"Message of Blood" is similar to "Dance of Tracks", and it is also a "ritual spell".

This type of spell does not require preparation in advance, but the process of casting the spell is relatively complicated. It took Joan a minute to complete the spell ceremony, and finally ended with a spell that symbolized "blood".

"Serce!"

The blood-stained corner of the handkerchief laying flat on the ground trembled slightly, as if some kind of will was resisting Joan's inquiring of its owner's information through the blood.

Encountering this kind of resistance during the casting process often leads to the failure of the spell ceremony. Joan was not nervous, but secretly relieved. After concentrating on suppressing the will to resist, he raised his head and smiled at his companions who were looking at him eagerly.

"There is good news, Arnold is likely to be alive."

Only the living will consciously resist the "message of blood", but the dead will not resist. This sign shows that the blood master is still alive.

After listening to Joan's explanation, everyone's tense nerves were relaxed, and they expected more good news from his divination.

In fact, Joan didn't say anything to death.

In his usual rigorous style, he only said that Arnold was "probably" still alive, because he was not 100% sure that the blood used in the divination was from Arnold.

If the blood on the scroll was not actually left by Arnold, then the result of the "Message of Blood" divination has nothing to do with Arnold.

In order to rule out this situation, Joan needs to verify whether the blood on the handkerchief came from Arnold.

After successfully casting the "Message of Blood", Joan can learn four pieces of information about the blood owner based on the blood sample:

Who are you (best known name or code name)?

What are you (race, gender, and occupation)?

why are you bleeding

When did you bleed?

...

Looking at the handkerchief, Qiao An silently sent out a thought wave, asking the first question: Who is the owner of the blood?

Driven by magic power, the blood stain on the corner of the linen handkerchief seemed to come alive, like a red earthworm, wriggling slightly, and gradually twisted into a line of letters.

Including Joan himself, all the people in the cave held their breath and stared at the handkerchief without blinking, trying to connect the letters that were scribbled by children into words and spell out the meaning of the words.

Half a minute later, the blood on the handkerchief stopped wriggling, and the strings of red letters lined up against the pure white linen looked particularly dazzling.

"Arnold Laval! That's right, it's Arnold's name!" Angel read out the name displayed on the handkerchief first, with excitement on his face.

"Unless there is another Laval of the same name, who smears his blood on the scroll, our unfortunate friend must still be alive."

Holden casually made a joke.

Of course, everyone knew that the extreme special case he proposed was just to enliven the atmosphere, and it was impossible to happen in reality, so they were relieved.

Now that Arnold is still alive, the next step is to inquire about his situation.

Arnold, have you escaped Claudia?

If unfortunately captured, have they been tortured?

Was the injury serious? Was he tied up and locked up?

Where is it held, and how many guards are in charge of guarding it?

...

Before the rescue operation is officially launched, it is best to clarify these issues so that a rescue plan can be formulated accordingly.

The companions had a lively discussion, but Joan did not participate, and the follow-up process of "Message of Blood" has not been completed yet.

In fact, he also knew that the two most critical points in casting the "Message of Blood", one was to test whether there was a will to resist, and the other was to confirm who the blood came from.

Now that these two questions have been answered, based on this premise, a conclusion can be synthesized: Arnold is still alive.

That being the case, Joan's goal of using the "Message of Blood" has been achieved. As for the next three questions, the answers are all obvious, and there is no need to ask at all.

But for an "obsessive-compulsive disorder" like Joan, closing the spell ceremony halfway will make him feel bad all over, and he has to start well and finish well to get over it.

With a routine mentality, Joan established a spiritual connection with the blood sample on the handkerchief, and casually asked the second question.

what do you?

The bloody letters on the handkerchief squirmed again, rearranging and combining to form a string of new words.

The answer to the second question needs to answer more complicated questions ranging from "species" to "gender" to "occupational identity". More letters are used, so the font generated by blood is obviously larger than when Arnold's name was displayed just now. One size smaller, it is harder to distinguish in a dark cave.

Joan leaned over to the handkerchief, squinted his eyes and carefully observed the blood-colored characters as small as grains of wheat. He only saw the first two letters, and he guessed that the blood was showing "human beings", and he was not interested in the subsequent characters.

He was about to look away and rest his eyes, when he inadvertently noticed that the fluctuation of magic power around the handkerchief suddenly intensified.

The squirming bloody text on the handkerchief suddenly stopped, as if it had been impacted by an unexpected change, and was watching something.

Joan couldn't help holding his breath.

The abnormal signs in front of him made him faintly have a bad premonition.

Just as his nerves were gradually tightening, the blood on the handkerchief seemed to be awakened again, and it began to squirm slowly again, first canceling the two letters that were arranged before, and then recombining them into a new word.

Joan originally thought that the second question was the most boring.

After all, he has known Arnold for a long time. Does he still need spells to verify that Arnold Laval is a young human male who is an 8th-level "Arcane Knight" studying at the Knight Academy of Midgard University?

This is simply a joke!

However, the line of bloody text on the handkerchief showed that he was wrong, outrageously wrong!

If it's just a joke?

Undoubtedly the most malicious joke!

Joan rubbed his eyes vigorously to make sure he read correctly.

Since this is not an illusion, could it be that the spell was disturbed by the outside world, so that an error occurred?

If this is a mistake, it would be too "dramatic" to make people feel unexpected at first, but when you think about it carefully, it is reasonable.

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