Studies of a Lich

Crynn POV

"You know what, fine! I'll give it a try," V finally said, flapping her arms in the air while her friend is obviously shocked by what she heard. "V, you can't be serious," oh shut up okay, she agreed woman, can't you just give us some slack and say yes as well. I'm actually also well surprised, if I'm on their chairs, I will directly reject.

"At this point, do I look like I care. I have three months left to live, three months. I don't give a f*ck anymore, I'm trying every method known to man here. Whether it's through genuine medicine, ancient Chinese traditional medicine which we know are bunch of quackery, or this roll of paper, I don't care anymore."

"Like I mean, I've not got much longer to live, so why not just try every treatment possible. Right fellas?" She turned to us with a shrug, that's sort of depressing. No wonder she'll even accept the offer, three months left to live is definitely not a very long time left to live. Looks like the supervisor gave a good advice.

"All right, all right, this is your choice, let's see where this brings us to," and Palmer frustratingly walked off, did she just rage quit, she did just rage quit, didn't she. "I apologize for my friend, she's just worried, as you've heard, I have a remaining lifespan of only three months left which brings us here, let's see just what the scroll can do," V sighed and looked at us solemnly.

I turned to eye Calian in which he nodded, let's do this.

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Calian POV

This is all going positive, not yet well, but still positive, we're getting there. Time to open the scroll and so I took it off the table, gently untying the rope binding it together. I inwardly released a breathe of tension, who wouldn't be nervous in this sort of scenario. Next, after finishing the early touches, I began unrolling the scroll with as little power as possible because this looks very fragile.

Oh, well this is bad. The contents is full of Old Latin, drawings and inscriptions, I learned Latin and I can speak Latin fluently enough but not Old Latin. Wait! The letters are deforming and reforming themselves, alphabets flew off the sentences and rejoined differently, into, thank the Gods above, modern English which is very good. Let's see what it the contents are.

[This page is the full study regarding the transportation of souls between realms. After a year of grueling study and restless research, I've finally found the cause in which the soul broke through the barrier between worlds and entered the afterlife below. Upon a person's true death, the soul will discover that the body it's inhabiting is no longer suitable for life.]

[And with a natural reaction to this fact, the soul will exit the host to try and find another host to enter. What the soul did not realize even after eons of evolution is that someone is always waiting outside. This is one of the few contacts I had with a grim reaper, covered in a cloak full of death and screaming souls in pain, it accurately struck the souls of death with its tall sight, directly entrapping it in the confines of its pouch.]

[Yes, it's not the soul that's going through the realms, it's the grim reaper, opening an invisible portal immediately after the entrapping of souls to be brought back to the afterlife. With my scope of death, I managed to collect a tiny bit of space behind the portal. With this space collected, i can directly point towards the afterlife.]

[One more year has passed and I finally succeeded after receiving some unexpected insights and enlightenment of the Far East. Their methods are certainly extraordinary, I never knew someone could cheat death the same as they could. By directly sacrificing the lives of ten sinful bodies and souls, they could transact and exchange, the full sinful lives of ten to extend the life of one.]

[With this information, I directed my studies with more vigor than ever as yes! I found a method to bring back the souls of the afterlife to the living as well as completely rejuvenating and bringing back a dead body to its lively youth to be entered by a soul! With the help of an Enochian ritual, I have achieved in calling upon a portal to the afterlife, communicating directly to the grim reaper in charge of it.]

[The next steps are simple, ready your ten sinful bodies and souls, completely alive and ask for a soul and with the body intended for it, the grim reaper will throw the requested soul into the body while reaping the souls of the sinful ten, burning their mortal bodies in holy fire as the portal closes. The ritual needed for this ceremony is as such :]

I read till there and I looked downwards the paper in which the ritual is recorded clearly, both in what I'm guessing to be the Enochian language and below it, the alphabets to ease Enochian spelling. Okay, we can do this, we just need ten sinful souls and after we collected them, we can conduct the ritual. Turns out the studies of a lich isn't as perverted as I thought, on paper at least.

"So???" I heard V say with an exaggerated tone, I gazed up, to find her waiting on her seat with her fingers impatiently tapping the table's surface. "So, it's good," I started briefly as I placed the scroll on the table, Crynn moved to grab it himself but Jill shot faster and took the scroll right before Crynn could lay a hand at it as he glared at her.

"So, to this treatment, we need 10 men or women with the criteria of them being sinful, very sinful, like murder, kidnapping, raping, anyone with a severe crime and is clearly sinful," I explained as V raised her brow and narrowed her eyes, she looked at everyone and finally sighed again. "Wait here, I'll be back in a sec," she said before standing up and walking away somewhere.

I don't know if this is good or bad.