Chapter 130： Cerebral worm

After Duke Ferdinand passed out from suffocation, Barnett let go of the Duke's neck.

He breathed a sigh of relief, the strength that Ferdinand erupted just now was really great. Fortunately, the buff spell he had put on his body in advance had not dissipated.

After confirming that the guards outside hadn't noticed any changes in the bedroom, he started the next step.

The wizard's lips opened and closed quickly, whispering the incantation.

After reading it a few times, he gradually felt a strange feeling in his stomach.

The strange feeling became more and more intense, and slowly turned into nausea.

He suddenly covered his mouth, trying not to make a sound.

"Uh!" He finally couldn't help vomiting, and a lot of filth fell on the ground.

The wizard looked at his own vomit, and something in it nearly made him vomit again.

The scene in front of me really challenged the vision. There was a wriggling creature in the vomit. Its body was thin and white, and it was hard to tell which was the head and which was the tail.

This weird creature twisted and struggled constantly, as if it was exposed to the air, making it extremely painful.

A certain mental manipulation master of the Arcane Association recently successfully experimented with a spell that can quickly control people's minds. This spell has changed the shortcomings of various previous mental spells, such as long preparation time, slow effect, and uncertain results, and the effect is extremely fast. It can completely control the mind of the target of the spell in a short period of time, turning it into a submissive slave.

However, there are still flaws. The casting of spells must use some kind of specially bred parasite as a medium. This kind of artificially bred parasite is called "brain worm" by the inventor of the spell. Inside the skull of the subject, it acts as a medium for casting spells to stimulate the subject's brain.

Cerebral worms must absorb nutrients from the subject's head to survive and paralyze the subject's sense of pain. Because of this, the subject will become more and more dull, sluggish, and numb, and basically will not live long.

Cerebral worms cannot survive in the external environment for a long time, except for the brain of the subject, it can also survive in a special liquid, or temporarily survive in the human intestine.

In order to avoid the body search of the guards, Barnett brought the brain worm into the Duke's castle, and he chose to temporarily store it in his stomach.

This was a very challenging thing, but for the sake of the great cause of the Arcane Society, Barnett, who was very conscious, finally swallowed the worm whole, suppressing his nausea.

Of course, the wizards have their own way to keep the cerebrum from moving around in their stomachs, and they won't drill into their heads.

Barnett knew that this kind of magic must have undergone a lot of "living body" experiments to achieve such progress, but he didn't care how much "living body" was consumed, it was their glory to contribute to the progress of magic.

The wizard tore off a corner of the cloth in the bedroom, bravely picked up the writhing strange creature, and placed it on Duke Ferdinand's mouth.

The brain worm felt the Duke's weak breath, it suddenly stopped twisting, and inserted one end of its body into the Duke's mouth at an extremely fast speed. In less than a second, its whole body got into it.

Losing the suppression of the wizard, the brain worm quickly drilled into Duke Ferdinand's brain. Unlike those ordinary brain parasites, its speed was extremely fast.

After a while, the Duke suddenly opened his eyes, revealing an extremely strange look.

Barnett knew that the cerebrum was already "in place".

He made strange gestures with his hands and muttered words.

"Hmm..." The Duke hugged his head with both hands as if he had a headache, and his body slid off the chair and fell to the ground.

Barnett pointed at him and shouted in a low voice, "Shut up!"

The Duke immediately closed his mouth, but it could be seen that there was a unwilling and angry expression on his face.

The Duke noticed the abnormality in his body, and he had a terrible headache. Just now, when the assassin gave an order, he subconsciously obeyed. He couldn't help being terrified in his heart, what did this guy do to him.

He struggled against another inexplicable consciousness in his head, covering his head and shaking constantly.

But as the monster continued to spit out extremely evil words, his resistance became weaker and weaker.

The Duke slowly fell silent, and sat down on the ground with his head bowed.

Barnett was thankful that his struggle just now didn't make too much noise, otherwise it would be bad to disturb the guards outside.

He turned to the Duke's front, grabbed his hair and lifted it up so that Ferdinand's eyes, which were now vacant and glazed, met his own.

He tried to whisper, "Duke Ferdinand?"

A gleam of light suddenly appeared in those dull and lifeless eyes.

"you you…"

The Duke frowned, pointing at Barnett with trembling fingers.

The wizard looked cold, and said to the Duke seriously: "I think you should kneel down to me and call me 'Master'."

This time Ferdinand obeyed. He obediently knelt down to Dede Barnett and said respectfully, "Master."

The wizard nodded in satisfaction.

"Let me teach you something."

…

Duke Ferdinand and Barnett returned to the castle hall together one after the other.

The Duke of Kent, who had been waiting anxiously, immediately stood up and turned his inquiring eyes to Barnett.

The wizard nodded and gave him a confirming look.

The Earl of Kent breathed a sigh of relief, and then a burst of ecstasy filled his heart.

Before Barnett and the Duke came back , he was already prepared to be stabbed into a pile of rotten flesh by the guards who rushed into the hall. Once the wizard failed, he would undoubtedly face this fate.

Now that concern is gone and their plan has worked.

He glanced at Duke Ferdinand, His Excellency seemed to be the same as usual.

Barnett approached him and whispered, "In order not to arouse suspicion, he, including you, must behave the same in front of outsiders as before."

The three sat down again, and Duke Ferdinand said aloud: "Mr. Barnett's medical skills are really brilliant."

He turned to the Earl of Kent: "Maltz, you did a good job this time, and I will reward you heavily."

The Earl of Kent pretended to be happy for his lord and said: "It is my duty to share your worries, Your Excellency the Duke."

After dozens of minutes, the wizard and Maltz Kent walked out of the Duke's mansion.

"Mr. Barnett, you are really amazing."

During the conversation just now, he clearly felt that the Duke had a faint awe of wizards, which he didn't have before they entered the bedroom.

The wizard raised his head: "Hmph! No amount of power in the world can resist the power of magic. Thousands of years ago, the magic stick of the Holy See could make the powerful bow their heads with a single tongue. We mages do this through magic. It's even easier."

The Earl of Kent couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he was in the higher-level team.

"Teacher, what should we do next?"

"I found a great boost for us at sea, and it's time for them to appear next."

"What help? Is it a pirate?"

"Don't worry, I will tell you the plan in detail when I get back to your castle."