Chapter 512 Curse
The farmers below had no idea what was happening; they looked up and waited for the verdict.
Herman: [Master, is Little Claude really not dead? But why would he show up for those who keep trying to kill him? ]
Thor was not in a hurry, "Because these people are not alive."
Hermann still didn't understand.
But before Hermann continued to ask questions, the village chief Claude, who was standing closest, sighed.
A sigh fell, and the other villagers froze for a moment.
It was as if time had stopped for everyone except Thor and the village chief.
"You are the first wizard who saw the truth right from the start. But no matter how you look at it, you are only at level one. Are you hiding your strength?"
The man behind the scenes finally showed up.
Thor crouched down and looked down at Claude.
In his eyes, the tall, red-haired middle-aged man was covered with scars.
The skin on his face was full of pits, as if it had been rolled in boiling water; there was a circle of scars on his neck, as if it had been cut off by a knife; the fingertips of both hands were severely worn, with no visible nails, as if he had scratched something hard.
And there must be more terrible wounds on other parts of Claude's body covered by his clothes.
This wizard Claude looked like he had been killed dozens or hundreds of times.
"It doesn't matter how strong I am." Thor said slowly, "What matters is that if you continue like this, you will be transformed."
Claude was not surprised, and it was obvious that he was also well aware of his physical condition.
"Now that you have solved the dilemma of this village, leave as soon as possible. In a while, the rules here will be reset."
"We already know the basic formula. No matter how the situation changes, we will not deviate from its principle." Thor said with a smile, "But you, are you willing to collapse in this chaotic cycle?"
"I never thought that such a kind person would come to the Land of No Man's Land."
"I'm not a good person," Thor denied, "I just like equal exchange."
Claude smiled, and when he pulled the corners of his mouth, his mouth not only split up and down, but also split left and right.
"I think I know what you want, but why do you think you can afford the price?"
"Just for this."
A translucent tentacle swung out from Thor's palm and suddenly wrapped up the little girl who was immobilized.
Claude glanced at them but didn't move. "You can't destroy them."
He thought Thor was going to threaten him with the villagers, but Thor let go of the little girl the next second.
The little girl, who had originally revealed a strange smile, regained her calm demeanor, closed her eyes and lay on the ground as if she was asleep.
Claude changed his nonchalant look and rushed straight to the little girl to check her condition.
Then he looked up in shock, "You were able to remove the pollution from her body and preserve her body without causing serious harm?"
It's like dropping a drop of ink into clean water, and then removing the ink without destroying the shape of the water.
Claude had a way to remove the ink from clean water, but he had no way to remove the pollution from the spirit.
He put the little girl down and gently smoothed her bangs.
Morton: [It seems that he doesn't care about these villagers as much as he seems to.]
Agu: [On the contrary, he values these villagers very much. Even though they are already a group of...living dead.]
An: [Master is amazing. He saw through Claude's true thoughts at a glance.]
Herman: [Huh?]
In fact, Thor was a little surprised to see that Claude cared so much about the little girl. He used soul fishing on the villagers, but it only sucked away a lot of pollution from them.
In addition to testing Claude's attitude, the main purpose is to make the other party realize that he can remove the pollution in his spirit.
But unexpectedly, Claude paid more attention to the pollution on the villagers and did not even think of the first time that this method of eliminating pollution could be used on himself.
After putting the little girl down and standing up again, Claude no longer had the cold expression he had just had.
"What is the price of learning your method of removing pollution?"
"You can't learn it." Thor jumped down from the roof. "But you can use the principle of the formation of this village rule as a price in exchange for my help."
"So this is what you want?" Claude was slightly stunned. He obviously misjudged Thor's needs.
He looked down at the little girl, then made a decision, "As to why the rules were formed. All I can say is... I don't know."
Thor frowned, but he saw that Claude had more to say, so he didn't interrupt.
"I can see that you have just entered the Borderlands, otherwise you wouldn't ask this question. In the outside world, whether it is Stater or the other two continents, the formation of pollution always has its own regularity. Only the Borderlands is different. Here, pollution always comes inexplicably. Sometimes you are still studying as usual, and the next second the potion in your hand suddenly pounces on your face and tries to get into your body. Even a part of your body may suddenly become diseased."
When Claude said this, several villagers suddenly moved.
He took out a milky white shell wind chime from his arms, picked it up and shook it gently twice.
The other villagers who had shown signs of waking up were once again fixed in place.
"This village suddenly had a rule of 'killing means death' one day. This phenomenon is not uncommon in the Borderlands, but no one knows why, at least not yet."
"However, although I don't know the reason, I can tell you everything that happened here. Maybe one day, you can figure out the reason yourself."
"Tell me about it." Thor did not make a promise immediately.
"This is the village where I was born." Claude lowered his eyes. "Originally it was a slightly larger village than this one. One day when I was fetching water from the river, a wizard suddenly appeared in front of me and said that I was qualified to be his apprentice."
"He could control the fish in the river to jump onto the shore by themselves, and he could also make the birds in the sky carry buckets for me. I thought it was very magical, so I agreed. But when I took him back to see my brother, my brother refused to agree. He even took out all the coins in the house, hoping that the wizard would let me go."
"I was only ten years old at the time and didn't understand what my brother meant. I thought he was afraid that if I left, there would be one less person to do the work at home, and he would be very unhappy. So when the wizard asked me for the second time in front of my brother whether I wanted to be his apprentice, I still said yes. And then..."
"Then the wizard killed my brother."
Sol held his chin in his hand, "That's to be expected."
"I didn't react at all at the time. I only started crying after I was taken away. The wizard wanted to teach me runes, but I was so sad and scared that I couldn't learn it. He asked me if I thought he was a bad person. Although I didn't dare to admit it, I did think so in my heart. Then he took me back to the village."
"But he didn't do that to send me back. He wanted me to know that there are no good people in this village either."
Hearing this, Thor looked at the villagers on the ground with strange expressions and suddenly guessed something.
Claude continued, "He told me that killing is actually a very common thing. I didn't believe it, so he took me to fly into the air. Then I saw with my own eyes that the usually kind farmer would hide a corpse in the haystack and bring it home every day when he went out. The originally honest peasant woman would also take other men into the room when the farmer was away. Some of these men left, and some went into the stove. My favorite little sister at the time was stuffed into a tree hole by her mother, and her mother still called her home for dinner as usual every day..."
"After seeing all this, my fear turned into numbness, and I followed the wizard back to study obediently. It was not until I became a third-level apprentice that I suddenly understood. The village where I was born suddenly became so strange. In fact, it was because of a curse cast by the wizard."
(End of this chapter)
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