Chapter 36 Dilemma (seeking investment!)

ps: The three views in this chapter are not correct, please watch carefully

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Salomon's wound gradually healed under the dim white light. Positive energy had an excellent effect on the trauma. Within a few seconds, his wound stopped bleeding, and new flesh and blood gradually grew out to form brand new muscles and skin.

"I think, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep the agreement, Mr. Barnabas." Salomon ignored Elizabeth's muzzle and Victoria's threats. He kept kneeling and said to himself, "Unless we let They leave, I can spare them. Aren't you coming out, Mr. Vampire?"

His trump card has been well hidden, and he has not played it until now, so he also has the confidence to threaten the vampire.

That was the winner that could be decided quickly, but because the damage range was too large, he really didn't want to implicate the living people of the Corinth family—they were just helping his own family, and Salomon could fully understand their thoughts.

In their circumstances, he might have gone too far, and Elizabeth has refrained from simply pointing a gun at him instead of shooting him in the head immediately.

Elizabeth was able to hit him before because of a sneak attack. Now that she has stood in the open, Salomon is sure that even if he does not use defensive spells, he will not be hit again.

"Shut up!" Hearing Salomon's threat, Victoria was furious, "You hurt him so badly..."

"Okay, I see." Salomon opened his eyes and uttered a syllable. The next moment, he was surrounded by silver mist again.

"Bang!" Elizabeth shot immediately, but it only splashed a large amount of soil and grass clippings, and Salomon had long since disappeared.

"Where is he?!" Caroline yelled, Victoria and Elizabeth looked around nervously, while David held his pistol in both hands, pointing at the dark bushes - that place really frightened him, he always It felt like something would jump out of there.

He was now glad that he had let Willie leave the manor first, and went to the gate to meet the fire brigade.

A drunken old man is really not suitable to appear in such a dangerous situation, and no one is stupid enough to let him take a gun.

After a while, just when they thought Salomon had left, a circle of orange-red sparks appeared out of thin air on the gray stone road behind them, and Salomon walked out of the circle.

Perhaps the intuition of those with a delicate heart will be a little more accurate. David's intuition is not wrong. Salomon was indeed in the bush before. He opened a portal there and took out an object. At this time, the object was He holds it in his hand.

It was a round copper shield that was slightly golden. The surface of the copper casting vaguely had patterns like snake scales. On this round shield, there was a rhombus pattern on the top, bottom, left, and right sides. In the center of the shield was a copper-cast woman. The head, the snake hair growing from the head with an extremely painful expression extends around the shield.

Elizabeth fired without hesitation, and the metal balls scattered rapidly, but they were all blocked by the shield raised in front of Salomon. The deformed bullets flew around with sparks, and did not make any dents on the copper shield. . She fired again, with the same result, not even the kinetic energy of the shot could make Salomon take a step back.

This is Aegis (Αιγ), the shield of Aegis, the shield of sheepskin, and the shield of Medusa. No matter what alias this shield has or what legends it has, its most powerful lies in Namedus Sha's head - since it was cut off by Perseus and inlaid on the shield by Athena, this shield has extremely powerful power, and anyone who sees this shield will turn into a fossil.

Salomon snapped his fingers, and four bright white balls of light surrounded the shield. He lowered his head and silently recited the spell Athena taught him.

Where he couldn't see, the Medusa's head with a painful expression suddenly opened its closed eyes, and those eyes turned around as if they were still fresh flesh and blood. Fa also broke free from the shackles of the copper shield, flaunted it wantonly, and spit out venom.

He heard screams and voices calling names, Victoria calling for Barnabas, Elizabeth calling for Caroline, and Caroline calling for David, all kinds of voices intertwined. But soon, the shouting stopped. But Salomon still lowered his head unmoved, and after a while, he put down the shield.

Four extremely exquisite stone statues stood in the dark night, with vivid horror and disbelief on their faces. Victoria tried to jump on Salomon, Elizabeth stood in front of her daughter Caroline, who pushed David aside to keep him away.

But no matter what they do, as long as they see Medusa's head on the shield, they will be irreversibly petrified, including their clothes and even guns, all within the scope of petrification.

This is an almost irreversible process.

This is different from petrification. Even with the spell of "dispelling magic", it is difficult to relieve their state. Unless the supreme mage or Athena casts the spell, they will always be stone statues.

This is not so much petrification as it is a curse.

When Salomon took out the shield, he still hesitated for a while—the Corinthian family didn't make a mistake, they just wanted to protect their own family members, is it really appropriate to do so? But in the end he still made up his mind and raised his shield in front of the Collins family, because they were the ones standing in front of his target now.

It's hard to say that Salomon's thoughts were not affected by the memories in the stigmata. While accepting the memories, those cold thoughts also affected and changed him all the time, prompting him to decide something, pulling him from the greenhouse to the On the bloody battlefield.

For example, now, when he was attacked by other members of the Collins family, he abandoned the idea of ​​not implicating them. As long as they blocked his way to his goal, he would also adopt a hostile attitude.

In the past, His Holiness had told him that there was a price to pay for taking this path. At that time, he thought that these costs could be avoided by using spell-casting materials, but now he understood that the so-called costs did not refer to material things, just like the old wizard who saved the girl mentioned by His Holiness, he used life to save lives.

This is still the most simple and rude price. As the object of His Holiness's key education, Salomon will have to give up more things.

So, what is the price I pay? Salomon thought, conscience? Or empathy?

When he wanted to explain it to himself, he found that no matter how he explained it, it was extremely feeble.

You know, his behavior can be interpreted in some circumstances as a magician fighting an evil vampire.

After all, Barnabas did kill innocent people just for blood, and the Collins family was the ones who helped them. But when he said this, he didn't believe it himself—vampires should indeed be punished, this was his attitude from the standpoint of Karma Taj, but the rest of the Collins family were innocent.

David, for example, is still a big, shy kid.

This is a classic moral dilemma.

Salomon used to be able to hold his mobile phone and stand on the dry shore to point and point, but when he was really faced with this situation, Salomon found that this is probably the most difficult thing in the world, because no matter what he chooses is wrong.

To eliminate the vampires, he had to attack the Collins family. Giving up on the elimination of vampires was against his position.

But now that the decision has been made, there is no room for regret. Now, he just wanted to hear His Holiness' opinion on this matter. The Supreme Mage who has lived for thousands of years has definitely encountered this kind of thing more than once. She must be able to give a perfect answer and definitely solve his doubts.

"You did this." A cold voice sounded beside Salomon, "Are they dead?"

Salomon quickly put aside his messy thoughts and turned to the source of the voice. "Yes." He nodded expressionlessly, "I did it all."

"Why!" The vampire, who was trying to maintain his tone at all times, finally couldn't control his anger. Only part of Barnabas's face recovered, his cheeks were still bloody and bloody, and there were some scorched marks in the cold flesh and blood. Salomon's fist with positive energy had caused him great damage before. It even burned Barnabas' eyeballs to death.

Before that, Barnabas almost lost consciousness. He didn't manage to escape from the house that hadn't been affected by the fire until his eyeballs fully regenerated and he heard Victoria's shouts, and appeared here.

Salomon did not answer. But after a few deep breaths, the vampire regained his composure.

"Everything I did was for the Collinses, but you destroyed it," said the vampire, opening his arms, "and now you may destroy me, lift up your shield! Make it your deed! Hang this medal on your chest! I will laugh at you, Salomon, you. Never. Never. Don't. Think. Forget. Remember! Faithless!"

When the firemen followed Old Willie into the manor, there was nothing left but the burning villa.

This chapter is mainly worried about the inconsistency with the readers' three views. But it doesn't matter, you wait for my explanation in Chapter 2.

ps: The shield is a round shield, about as high as a leg, a circle larger than Wonder Woman's shield, about the size of Sparta.