🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

-- I was almost eaten by rats in that pit, and my body was covered in "red spots"... Well, I did talk, yes. I asked questions. But a year has passed. A year. I don't know where you studied, but I took a tactics course. Let's say we've been cursed. We are now weak and not entirely controllable allies of the knight – why would he need that? It's illogical. Let's say he can finish us off at any moment. But we don't bring him any benefit or harm – so why bother? From a tactical and strategic point of view, this leads nowhere. And about your "loss of control"... I didn't experience that. Maybe you were just too nervous and acted erratically, right?
In reality, there were too many current problems for Ushumgall to also deal with events from a year ago. Although his intuition suggested that the knight appeared to so many people for a reason, his mind refused to believe it and clung to logical fallacies with the tenacity of a drowning man. This cannot be, because...
"I don't like this."
"It's meaningless."

—Fortunately, I wasn't in that pit, but the symptoms are the same. I believe a year is the maximum duration of the curse. The increased frequency of nightmares and visions of impending doom only confirms this. —The guy's tactical reasoning made the erudite think for a moment. —Having preserved places for one's soul, which may also remember the surrounding information through the eyes and ears of the victim, is already a useful ability in itself. Why us, yesterday's schoolchildren? I cannot answer this question. Such a powerful ability must have its limits; perhaps it's related to them. I couldn't figure it out. And otherwise... I have a feeling that he wants to meet us. Even though he is a perverted undead being, he is still a knight. And he may very well have his own hidden motives. As for the loss of control, you can ask those around you who else has experienced this. I am a weak-willed person, that is true, but their words should mean more than mine here.

- I read about the obelisks in the library; there are only nine of them, scattered throughout Anush. - Tell me more about how you found out and what the ritual is.

—We found out through a detector that reacts to the presence of the Black Knight's energy through the pendant contained within it. I traveled around Asuguh twice to mark all the places where he supposedly performed his magic. —He demonstrates an updated map. —This is what the ritual pentagram around our country looks like, with the Obelisk of Fire in the center. This can't mean anything good.