After Duke Ferdinand fainted due to suffocation, Barnett let go of his hand on the Duke's neck.
He breathed a sigh of relief. The strength that Ferdinand had just exploded was really great. Fortunately, the buff spell he had applied to his body in advance had not dissipated yet.
After confirming that the guards outside had not noticed anything unusual in the bedroom, he began his next move.
The wizard's lips opened and closed rapidly, and he whispered a spell.
After reciting it several times, he gradually felt a strange feeling begin to arise in his stomach.
The strange feeling became stronger and stronger, and slowly turned into a feeling of nausea.
He suddenly covered his mouth, trying not to make any sound.
"Ugh!" He finally couldn't help but vomited, and a lot of filth fell on the ground.
The wizard looked at his vomit, and there was something in it that made him almost vomit again.
The scene in front of me really challenged my vision. There was a squirming creature in the vomit. Its body was in the shape of a thin strip, white, and it was impossible to tell which was the head and which was the tail.
This strange creature kept twisting and struggling, as if being exposed to the air made it extremely painful.
A certain mental manipulation master from Secret Art Society recently successfully experimented with a spell that can quickly control people's minds. This spell has overcome the shortcomings of previous mental spells such as long preparation time, slow effects, and uncertain results.
But there are still flaws. The spell must use a specially cultivated parasite as a medium. This artificially cultivated parasite is called "Brain Worm" by the inventor of the spell. Just like the literal meaning, it will penetrate into the subject's head and act as a spell-casting medium to stimulate the subject's brain.
Brain Worm must absorb nutrients from the subject's head to survive and numb the subject's pain. Because of this, the subject will become increasingly dull, sluggish, and numb, and will basically not live long.
Brain Worm cannot survive in the external environment for a long time. In addition to the brain of the target, it can also survive in special liquids or temporarily survive in the human intestines.
In order to avoid being searched by the guards, Barnett brought 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 great cause of Secret Art Society, Barnett, who was very conscious, finally swallowed the bug whole while suppressing his nausea.
Of course, wizards have their own way to prevent Brain Worm from moving around in their stomachs or drilling into their heads.
Barnett knows that this kind of magic must have made such progress after conducting a large number of "living bodies" experiments, but he doesn't care how many "living bodies" are consumed. It is their honor to contribute to the progress of magic.
The wizard tore off a piece of cloth in the bedroom, picked up the strange and twisting creature, and placed it on Duke Ferdinand's mouth.
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 entire body was inserted.
Without the wizard's suppression, Brain Worm quickly drilled into Duke Ferdinand's brain. Unlike ordinary brain parasites, it was extremely fast.
After a while, the Duke suddenly opened his eyes, revealing an extremely strange look in his eyes.
Barnett knows that this is Brain Worm already "in place".
He made strange gestures with his hands and muttered something.
"Well..." The Duke held his head with both hands as if he had a headache, and his body slipped from the chair and fell to the ground.
Barnett pointed at him and shouted in a low voice, "Silence!"
The Duke immediately closed his mouth, but it could be seen that there was an expression of unwillingness and anger on his face.
The Duke noticed something strange about his body and had a severe headache. He subconsciously obeyed the assassin's order just now. He couldn't help but feel terrified in his heart. What did this guy do to him?
He struggled to fight against another inexplicable consciousness in his mind, covering his head and shaking continuously.
But as the weirdo continued to spit out extremely evil words, his resistance became weaker and weaker.
The Duke slowly became quiet and slumped to the ground with his head lowered.
Barnett Fortunately, his struggle just now did not make too much noise, otherwise it would be bad to alert the guards outside.
He turned to face the Duke, grabbed his hair and lifted it up, so that Ferdinand's eyes were facing him. At this time, the eyes were distracted and dull.
He tried to whisper, "Duke Ferdinand?"
A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in those dull eyes.
"You... you..."
The Duke pointed at Barnett with a trembling finger.
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 knelt down to Dede Barnett and said respectfully, "Master."
The wizard nodded with satisfaction.
"Let me teach you something."
Duke Ferdinand and Barnett returned to the castle hall together one after the other.
Kent Duke, who had been waiting extremely anxiously, immediately stood up and turned his inquiring eyes to Barnett.
The wizard nodded and gave him a confirming look.
Earl Kent breathed a big sigh of relief, and then felt a burst of ecstasy in 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, this would undoubtedly be the fate he faced.
Now that concern was gone and their plan worked.
He glanced at Duke Ferdinand, and Duke seemed no different from usual.
Barnett approached him and whispered, "In order not to arouse suspicion, he, including you, must behave the same as before in front of outsiders."
The three of them sat down again, and Duke Ferdinand said loudly, "Mr. Barnett's medical skills are really superb."
He turned to Earl Kent: "Malz, you did a good job this time, I will reward you heavily."
Earl Kent pretended to be happy for his master and said, "It is my duty to share your worries, Duke."
Dozens of minutes later, the wizard and Maltz Kent walked out of the Duke's Mansion.
"Master Barnett, you are really amazing."
During the conversation just now, he clearly felt that the Duke had a vague awe of the wizard, which was something he didn't have before they entered the bedroom.
The wizard raised his head. "Hmph! No matter how powerful the world is, it can't resist the power of magic. Thousands of years ago, Holy See's magic stick could make the powerful bow their heads by using a tongue to confuse people's hearts. It's even easier for us mages to do this through magic."
Earl Kent couldn't help but secretly feel happy that he was now in a 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 come on stage."
"What help? Is it a pirate?"
"Don't worry, I will tell you the plan in detail when I return to your castle."