Chapter 306: Hobert's Messenger
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"Of course I know!" The knight, whose eyesight wasn't too good, seemed to be putting on a brave face: "What do you need me for?"
Hobert said: "I originally planned to summon an assistant for the battlefield, but you seem to be…"
Seemingly prone to hurting his own people.
"Hmph!" The knight snorted, suddenly charging forward. Hobert quickly dodged, but this fell right into the knight's trap. He suddenly lowered his body, trying to sweep Hobert's legs.
Hobert quickly jumped up, dodging somewhat awkwardly.
The knight, however, was now holding a gleaming white sword, its tip right in front of Hobert's eyes.
The knight sneered: "You're dead."
Hobert, ever adaptable, said: "Sorry, I shouldn't have questioned your professionalism. Let's sign a contract then."
The knight withdrew his sword: "Alright."
Hobert had already prepared the contract, with clauses including not harming the contractor, obeying the contractor's tactical commands, and so on.
The knight naturally demanded to share the spoils of war with Hobert, so Hobert added this clause, but followed it with: if no spoils are gained in battle, the contractor will not provide any compensation for this summoning.
Because the undead was summoned using the 'Spirit Wine Glass' as a medium, the final part of the contract was the honorific name of the underworld itself:
"The home of all death, the hell hidden deep within the spirit world, the witness of the decay of all living things, one that solely belongs to the kingdom of Death."
The underworld would be the 'witness' to this contract, providing it with notarization.
Finally, there was the signature. Hobert signed his name: Hobert Jeffrey.
The knight's long sword disappeared, and he signed his name: Hunter Van Jacob.
The contract emitted a ghastly green light, indicating that the agreement had officially taken effect.
Hobert said: "The simpler the summoning incantation, the better. How about using 'Knight' as the incantation?"
Actually, he wanted to use "Blind Man" more, but he didn't seem to be able to beat the other party, so he'd better not say it randomly.
"Alright." After saying that, Hunter disappeared, as if fading into the air.
The reason Hobert signed the agreement with him so readily was that although the other party's eyes seemed "not too good", he noticed that Hobert was a "Baron of Corruption" as soon as he appeared, so his level shouldn't be too low.
Hunter seemed to be good at close combat. For the second undead, he should summon one skilled in sneak attacks or possessing strange powers.
Hobert also thought: It would be best if it could fly, to control the airspace.
So he gripped the "Spirit Wine Glass" and began his second summoning: "I,
"In my name, I summon:
"A spirit wandering in the underworld, a friendly spirit that can be driven, an undead that can fly and has strange abilities."
Whoosh~
The candles turned ghastly green again, the flames tall and thick. A skeletal pegasus appeared in front of Hobert.
Its skeleton looked very strong and emitted a ghastly white light, clearly not an ordinary product.
Looking at the length of the wing bones on its back, the wingspan should be four or five meters wide when opened, but because it was in the room, the wings were folded.
In its skull, a ball of light flickered, indicating that it had intelligence.
Hobert asked: "You can fly, right?"
The skeleton nodded.
"What strange abilities do you have?"
Hobert looked at the skeleton, and the skeleton's dark eye sockets stared back at Hobert. The room fell into a long silence.
After a long while, Hobert asked: "You can understand my words, but you can only shake your head and nod, right?"
The skeleton nodded.
Hobert felt the urge to cover his face: What have I summoned? A blind man, a mute!
He asked again: "Can I ride on your back and have you fly me in the sky?"
The skeleton nodded.
That was still good. Even if it didn't have too strong Beyonder abilities, just being able to fly himself was pretty good.
So Hobert signed a contract with it as well. The contract was similar to the previous one, but Hobert added a clause: if the contractor needs it, he can ride on the horse's back and take the contractor to fly in the sky.
He still used the honored name of the underworld as a witness, and then signed his name. The pegasus signed its name with a pen in its mouth.
To Hobert's surprise, the pegasus even had a name: Maximilian.
After the pegasus returned to the underworld, Hobert was about to clean up the altar when he suddenly thought that he was already Sequence 6 and could try summoning a messenger.
If he left Backlund, having a messenger would be very convenient. Even if there was no law firm as a base, he could communicate directly with Xio and others using the messenger.
Hobert carefully recalled Klein's summoning of the messenger, and only needed to modify the incantation slightly:
"I,
"In my name, I summon:
"A spirit wandering in the void, a friendly creature that can be driven, a unique existence willing to become my messenger."
Whoosh~
The candle became even taller and thicker than the previous two times. A big guy came out of the candlelight, looking like a wooden box, but it seemed very long.
After it fully appeared, Hobert discovered that it was actually an ancient black coffin. His eyes narrowed. When Mr. Azik took him through the spirit world before, coffins had appeared "on the roadside"!
But immediately afterward, Hobert breathed a sigh of relief. After all, what he summoned was a "friendly creature that could be driven".
The coffin's wood looked very thick and sturdy, and the style was simple and elegant. Judging from its appearance alone, it looked like something that ancient nobles could afford.
He just didn't know if the coffin had "become a spirit"? Or if the person inside the coffin had become a creature that could freely soar in the spirit world?
After the coffin came out of the candlelight horizontally, it stood upright, and a muffled voice came from inside: "Are you summoning me?"
It sounded like a female voice.
Hobert nodded: "Yes, are you willing to sign a contract and become my messenger? Uh…"
"Sorry, I don't mean to offend you, I'm just curious. If I need you to deliver a letter, where should I put the letter?"
After all, coffins don't have hands.
Who knew that the other party would answer: "You can stuff it in through the cracks in the coffin."
"I…" Hobert was immediately a little speechless, feeling like he was doing something disrespectful to the dead.
The other party added: "I can become your messenger, on the condition that the reward for each letter delivered is three donuts."
What a strange reward.
Hobert said: "That's fine, but I'm still curious, how do I give you the donuts?"
Squeak~
A crack opened on the side of the coffin, and a fair and slender hand reached out, with a bracelet on its wrist. It looked like a good thing: "You can give it directly to me."
"Then let's sign a contract."
Hobert took out paper and pen from the drawer and quickly wrote a few clauses, roughly that she must not harm the contractor, must not peek at the letters, must not discard the letters, must deliver the letters as quickly as possible, and so on.
Later, Hobert also added the reward requested by the messenger. As for the honored name that needed to be notarized, Hobert originally planned to use the honored name of the spirit world, but he suddenly realized that he didn't know the honored name of the spirit world.
In the future, he could ask 'The Fool' to be the witness, but it's not possible now. 'The Fool' has very little control over the spirit world.
So he changed it to the honored name of "Red Light" Aiur Moria: "The Inextinguishable Light of the Spirit World,
The Embodiment of infinite knowledge,
The Red who wields authority and will"
When signing the name, the hand in the coffin reached out again and wrote: Beverly Heather Tudor.
Hobert was stunned: Did he summon Christian's old aunt?
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